The answer has to be ‘No.’ A resounding, ‘No,’ for that matter.  People who say they can are probably people you don’t want to have anything to do with.  And if you let them try, you’re asking for trouble, more often then not.  That would be commonsense, but we’ve run into a short supply of that, especially when people look to other people, other groups to ‘make them happy.’

We’ve run into a problem in the world, and most definitely, the Western world, and that has to do with the fact that some groups say they can be every thing for everybody, it just depends on what you want to ‘give up.’  Making people happy is part of a barter system.

Giving things up, isn’t just meant for dieting we’re to understand, because groups are just relegated to personal aesthetics here, though the way we are to see ourselves is a problem all its own, considering the constant barrage that comes from films, internet and TV of how we should look, and TV more so, because 90% of the country has at least one or two, and more for some.  The number of televisions is not the problem.  It’s the watching.

The one cure is turning the TV off, not that we haven’t heard this before.

But still it’s so simple, you can just push the button never see the TV program ever again, and be no worse for wear.  Yes, TV, the 24/7 beaming of imagery, is powerful and selective, but who has the control—who wants to be happy, but it’s difficult.  Those who ‘produce’ television have a good and scientific idea of who watches and when they watch, and when it comes to kids that many parents function in absentia.

This concern regarding the ‘entertainment media’ portion of TV can be traced back to the Golden Age of radio.  Game shows, Westerns, detective programs, gossip formats, music and more, it was all there and the complaints were there, and the same concerns, and threats from parents where there, ‘Behave or no radio’.  Complaints of the negative influences were there.  Actually, complaints about entertainment can be taken back to the pre-radio days.  Books for pure entertainment were looked down on.

So, we know that entertainment television can’t make everyone happy.   What do you give up to watch TV?  Time.  The more you watch the more time is gone, and time is the most valuable investment anyone has.  Maybe just for the sake of time, people should just turn away from the machine.  Get a hobby.  It’s amazing how many people don’t have hobbies.

What else do we know about TV?  Besides the ‘entertainment’ produced, which doesn’t make everyone happy. We know the news, or what many would say is passed off as news.  Because what has to be understood is ‘news’ is its own entertainment format and discussion and we all know, that the news media doesn’t make everyone happy either.  We all recognize the fact that car crashes, plagues, floods, natural disasters and human conflict be it a war or the vandalism of someone else’s property, is not entertainment and anyone who revels in the misery of others is, well, questionable for any number of moral, ethical, and political reasons.

But news makes people unhappy—considering the imagery would anyone be surprised?  But, again, along with the imagery are the words issued from the mouths of everyone who’s image is flashed across the screen.

How many times have we been faced with words uttered as if they were fact, and then they become lost in the continual flow of images and more words?   But ‘news’ as it is called has always been suspect:

"Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers."  --G. K. Chesterton

G. K. puts it in a nutshell, and he considered himself a journalist, among other things, and he saw it, the production of ‘news’ firsthand, and what I just quoted by Chesterton was written in 1923. 

So, the speed of light and of words and seemly short memory, other manipulation of memory, or re-writing, some would say, of the news by the producers appears to facilitate the appearance of what can be call a fallacy of fact, and fallacy of fact seems to have a longer life than fact, and happiness is one of the casualties.

But everyone wants to be happy?  Well, I can’t say that TV is a route to that particular destination, and I will go so far as to say any group, which does use TV as a platform for rallying for the happiness of others, should be studied, if not with total suspicion, with a wary eye.  Preferably, both eyes.

Groups could be any kind, secular and non-secular, and most assuredly political.  And the list can go on.  A special attention percolates from the television especially on the subject of religion, specifically Christianity.  The news media is always seeking some way to showcase that particular faith.  Usually in a bad negative light, being that if ‘it bleeds it leads’ mentality, but bearing in mind how the ‘news’ was dealt with in the previous paragraphs, we’ll leave the news media out.

We’re dealing with happiness here, and religions can provide route through life, which can be lined with gifts of happiness.   Of course, this does have something to do with a belief in something beyond the material world. God comes to mind.  And there is a variety of religions in the world.  Much good—and happiness can be found in religion, in particular religions. Of course, atheists, militant ones in particular, have issues with organized religion, particularly Christianity, interestingly enough, while there are religions, such as Christianity, which have no issues with atheists at all.  An interesting conundrum there.

So, when it comes to religion, and a religious group says we know the way to happiness, and then offers the way and their leadership, one needs to be watchful, using ‘both eyes’ as previously mentioned.

We should be familiar with the fact that organizations, private, and political—most political, do this all the time, and we have seen this in the most materialistic and secular of ways.   Frequently, we are asked to vote for ‘happiness,’ something which will be at some later date ‘done for us’ or ‘provided as a service.’  And we know the human species is a gullible lot, because so many believers believe that this kind of ‘happiness’ is free.

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Many people are ‘concerned’, about the end of the world or, at least, fascinated by the idea.  Books, movies, and television programs flood popular culture on a regular basis.  Think 2012, the Mayan calendar film, which was a science fiction film, where the Mayans were so much smarter that we are now, and so much smarter than the Europeans, now and those far in the past.  Because, as a side note, ancient man starting with the Sixties was always considered stupid, and required space aliens to do everything for them.  Of course now, that has changed some.  Ancient man wasn’t stupid.  Especially, when modern man, grudgingly, figured out that, modern man, which includes women here, has overrated himself—a lot.

Murderous secular ideologies, like Marxism, have succeed to slaughter more people than religions have, and have done it far more efficiently, but has yet to destroy the world, but the secular world has come closer to perpetrating total destruction than God has.  I’m not even going to mention nuclear weapons or biological or chemical devices, I’ll just say, Malaria, which has killed millions in Africa, but can be stopped by a simple and useful chemical called DDT.  J. Gordon Edwards, Ph.D. and advocate for the use of DDT—would eat DDT to show how safe it was, and he died at age 84 while mountain climbing.  The DDT ban is a fraud; so is the radical environmental movement, being that most environmental movements are radical leftist/Marxist/progressive charlatans, and apparently, want to enforce the ban on DDT, and could be considered  partners in mass murder. 

Murder?

I always keep in mind Stalin, one of the great leftist totalitarians, by his order manufactured a famine in the Ukraine which killed millions.  So, yes, murder.

Now, back to popular culture’s fascination with the ‘End of the World.’

G. K. Chesterton is quoted often by many, and by me, and here is one highly relevant quote:

The first effect of not believing in God is to believe in anything.

People are like that.  In the secular West, many have ‘kicked out’ God, and replaced Him with all sorts of theories, beliefs and hates—especially, hate.  Hating the Christian faith is very popular.  Why?  I think it all has to do with sex, really. 

Sex and sexuality dominate the media and of course, the minds of people.  And of course, we want fun of all kinds without consequences.  The birth control industry is a billion dollar business which the Democrats never seem to find fault with, and add to that abortion, which we can easily call Big Abortion.  There’s a lot of money in abortion and a good portion of it comes from the pockets of the American taxpayer.  Again, it’s all about sex.

But getting back to hate.  Hating is easy.  Hating takes no work.  People hate all the time everyday and not necessarily like it, but hating is easy.   It’s also easy to hate a faith which says, you shouldn’t do that, whatever the action maybe, because every action has consequences, and that is why there are billions of dollars dumped into prophylactic ads and a multitude of other ads, so ‘you can do ‘it’ and not have to worry.  Which of course, we all know innately is a lie, or there wouldn’t be Big Abortion. 

Think about it now, we are fascinated with the end of the world, death coming in many forms.  The secular world is actually facilitating own end, or own Armageddon.  No Mayan apocalypse is needed.  We will just stop begetting.  Stop begetting and the end will come soon enough. 

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The Democrat bucket brigade has run out of the liquid dollar and now trying to put out a raging fiscal disaster with air.  Yes, they were called back to Washington to pass another spending bill for cash which just does not exist. 

Spending money you don’t have is bad.  It creates debt…, and debt is bad.

What about this don’t Democrats, especially, the president, don’t understand?  It’s simply economics and it also angers people, voters, who you need to vote for you. 

But, this is what the people voted for.  I can’t forget that.  “Hope and Change” was the mantra, which easily transmuted into “Spend and Debt.” 

But remember, George Bush was a horrible man.  

Why? 

Well, I do recall the he allowed the late Ted Kennedy wrote the most expensive i.e. costly education bill in American history, and the Left didn’t love George for that.  Even though he was a big spender when he signed it, but no matter, George was and still is horrible.  Just name something, even if the Democrats did agree with him at the time. 

Right now, though, the Democrats and the President are in trouble for spending, and spending, and spending.  Sadly, only now, have Americans begun to understand the economic mess which is growing by leap and spending bounds. 

The massive authoritarian structure which is being built up in the Federal structure—if it can be taken down will require decades of serious and dedicated effort.  But politicians being politicians are weak.

How did this all happen?   Greed and jealousy, of the common voter:  “What you have I want, even if I propose to steal it through legal means, but if I can’t have it I want it taken from you.”  Whoever the ‘you’ is.  Be it big business or anyone’s business.  Or the neighbor with the nicer house.  Or the color of someone’s skin for redress of historical wrongs they had nothing to do with.

Greed and jealousy.  And there is always someone, a politician will to say, “Vote for me.  I’ll satisfy your every selfish thought. 

The Democrats are now trying to put out a fire—the selfish, unquenchable fire of insatiable voters, while trying to hold on to power, to fulfill their own greedy and jealous desires.

Some fires can’t be extinguished.  And some fires destroy everything.

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The U.S. can’t continue to drive the global economy is what the President Barack Obama and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said, more or less.  Or rather, as many Americans probably think, knowing the history of these two men, and that is, they don’t want the U.S. to be the engine, which seems more accurate.  Their statement appears to be part of the reshaping of the US economy, and the retardation of that economic growth as well.  I say this because, in general, that is what government does, when run by the Left.  And I am not a fan of big business, but of small business, owned and worked by individuals who, by the very nature of being local, know better about how business works and how to work with customers.   

Considering the source of the comment, it is not surprising, nor should it surprise anyone.  What should also be kept in mind is, being that one of the men is the administration, and the other is part of the administration, is that these two men turn on the tap at the sink in the morning, but they don’t even know where the water comes from.  These men, and people like them, don’t think there is a need for them to know.  That is a problem, a very serious one.

Keep in mind that this administration is peopled with individuals educated at the highest levels of education, that Ivy League altitude.  Also, keep in mind that the higher one goes in the atmosphere, the less oxygen there is, so I can be pretty sure that they don’t know how to do anything.  I’m speaking of the basics of daily life, the things, which the middle class does like, mow lawns and replace broken mower blades.  Basic things. 

Granted, in urban areas, lawns are at a premium, so I’ll substitute any other task, which makes the household function, and can be done by the common man or woman with ease, and there is nothing wrong with being common.  Being common is being common as dirt and without dirt where would the species be? 

When the political class distances themselves from the people to the point where they then instruct those same people about putting air into their tires to save on gasoline, well, those political creatures, and that is what they are, creatures, illustrate that they have lost, or maybe never had, that common experience which connections them to the common people.

These two men, President Obama and Treasury Secretary Geithner, like many, or all of those present in the administration, have never built anything in their lives.  They are not creators, they only make restrictions, and play with and lose other peoples’ money.  Trillions of dollars for that matter. 

What can we think when we are governed by people who look out over the land to see something they need to change, for whatever perverse reason that maybe?   And their reason must be perverse, because out in that land, where half the country lives and are rather happy.  Those ‘out there,’ the common folk, mow their lawns, replace the blades, and look at political creatures who are paid well and make decisions the common folk didn’t give permission to be made. 

American will not be able to drive the world economy, Obama and Geithner said, but there is an irony in that statement, and that is, Americans never planned to be the engine, which drove the world economy.  It just happened that way. 

I suppose that is the problem with the Ivy League educated:  They never really think about anything either.   If they did, they would’ve realized that Americans of the past never made the decision to power world economic growth. 

What is disturbing is that it takes a conscience effort by political creatures, now mutated in political monsters, to hobble the American economy.  They have perverse ideas of social justice, and will pursue the goal of installing a socialist scheme, which will invariably impoverish the common American. 

Had the common folk had the time to consider what the political monsters were up to, they would rather not be involved, and they don’t, if the polls have anything to say about it. 

The only thing to consider is, is this hobbling going to be permanent?  Is the heel of that great thoroughbred known as the American economy going to be nicked by an unscrupulous stable boy, so a gangster can fix a race?   Or is someone like Lady Liberty going to show up just in time to pop the deceitful stable boy on the brain box with a riding crop, thwart the gangster’s insidious plot and send them both packing?

We’ve been told that America won’t be the engine, which drives the global economy.  Says, who?  One executively inexperienced president and a first-time administration seat warmer.  But I suspect the common folk will put their trust in the founding fathers who were accomplished men. 

America in many, many ways, even considering all her faults, is very heroic.  Heroes are Heroes by accident.  The American economy, when finally left to honest people, will be nurtured, and again become strong, vibrant and flourishing.  God willing.

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Because of Barak Obama and Nancy Pelosi, the word ‘agnostic’ has now entered the national political discourse, and I’m sure I don’t like what I think they’re saying.

Back in February of this year, the president in response tax increases for those with household incomes of less $250,000, he said:

… he is “agnostic” about raising taxes on households making less than $250,000 as part of a broad effort to rein in the budget deficit.

Other than scratching their heads did anyone, anywhere in the Media, even try to divine what he meant?  How is anyone ‘agnostic’ about a subject like taxes?

Now, Pelosi, off another of her religious benders, this one on energy and the environment, said “She was “agnostic,” she said, about how to go about reducing dependence on foreign oil and fossil fuel use, but was intent on achieving those ends.”

Again, the use of the word ‘agnostic’ and the context is odd, if not plain weird.

But what do they really mean? 

In the 1800’s, a fellow by the name of Thomas H. Huxley, an English biologist, is credited with coining and defining ‘agnosticism’ which:

… is not a creed but a method, the essence of which lies in the vigorous application of a single principle... Positively the principle may be expressed as in matters of intellect, do not pretend conclusions are certain that are not demonstrated or demonstrable.

If you read what Huxley wrote and apply it to what Obama and Pelosi said, well, you can see how we’re in big trouble, mainly because we’re dealing with the Democrat Left.  Their actions, having to do with anything, from social welfare to national defense, never work out.  All that matters is the ‘act.’  Think of LBJ’s Great Society and nothing more should have to be stated. 

If Democrats, or anyone, actually considered any action from an ‘agnostic’ point, Obamacare never would’ve passed.  Why?  Because the intended result is not ‘demonstrable.’

So, the next time you hear Obama or Pelosi or anyone from the Left using the word ‘agnostic,’ you know they really don’t mean it. 

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The big deal made by the Democrat party is where did this guy get the money?  That $10,000 dollars register fee.

My big question is why does Alvin or anyone else need to come up with $10,000 dollars to register to begin with?   

Is it to keep out nuts and undesirables?  As far as the Democrats in North Carolina are concerned it didn’t work. 

But what’s truly distressing, is the need to purchase access, or rather register, which keeps the average American citizen, with no political machine, out of the running.

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Are the founding documents of the United States that revolutionary?  I say, “Yes,” because what these documents state is fact, which it is the individual is before the state, and not the other way around.

Second, I add the Marxists, socialists, and communists, in all their stripes and symbols:  swastikas, hammer and sickles, clenched fists and Nazi salutes, are the known purveyors and promoters of the prison state.   And the founding documents are the siege machines which through down imprisoning walls or attempts to build them. 

When a publishing company placing a warning label on the Constitution, that says something about the company and about how this business doesn’t business, while taking advantage of a free market system, which the Constitution most wholly possible.

We live in strange—and wonderful times, when documents stating freedoms at that all mankind have—by God and nature, are considered in some way dangerous, I know which side I want to be on.

True revolution is born in the heart of the individual and, by its very nature; the individual is in totally opposition to statist government.  Statist government encompassing any government bureaucracy, which demeans it necessary to dictate arbitrary rules of conduct that are in direct conflict with the moral, ethical and natural world which all truly free people live. 

The founding documents should have a warning label stating that violating the life, liberty and pursuit of the individual are done at peril and at a price.

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I spent my Memorial Holiday away from the computer and the internet, and after watching twenty minutes of news last night and logging in today, I’ve learned that not a great deal has changed, but a few critical events did, one being the continuing flow of oil out of the BP borehole, which, for every gallon issuing from the ocean floor is really a gallon of political blood being spilled from the Obama Whitehouse, and that blood will continue to flow until August.  The administration’s assault on BP—with the possibility of investigations—civil or criminal—can’t hide that same administration’s incompetence when it comes to the total mishandling of the accident beginning with day one.

When a presidential candidate gives the impression he can ‘fix all things’ and then can’t when put in to a position of authority, deserves everything coming to him.

The second is an Israel acting in its own defense by boarding blockade runners heading for Gaze, people with Hamas minders and carrying an unknown cargo.  These ‘activists’ insert terrorists if you care to, are going to try it again.  I don’t see Israel going easier on them.   Do you? 

I must mention North Korea, because South Korea wants to increase penalties against its northern neighbor.  What penalties can they be?  What is left in the north to take away?  

We’re just waiting for the next shot. 

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South Korea Seeks Support for U.N. Action Against North

“South Korea increased its efforts today to penalize North Korea through the U.N. Security Council for allegedly torpedoing one of Seoul's warships, Agence France-Presse reported (see GSN, May 28).”

Sestak: Brother Collaborating With White House

 â€œOn Thursday, Congressman Joe Sestak took the centuries old position of all children in trouble: my brother did it.”

A Long Memorial Day

 â€œIt was a bad morning for me today. I awakened feeling terribly ill, desperate, sad and fearful. But amazingly, after some Tazo tea and some breakfast, I felt a lot better”

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On March 26 sank the South Korean gunboat, Cheonan in the Yellow Sea sank off the west coast of the Korean Peninsula.  An international team of investigators conclude a North Korean submarine fired the torpedo which makes this incident one of South Korea's worst military disaster since the Korean War, 1950-53.

The sinking of the Cheonan is an act of war which the North Korean government denies, and then goes so far as to state that any act of retaliation on the part of South Korea is an act of war.  I posted on thispreviously, and I will go so far as to . . . ruminate over and state that anything South Korea does will be seen as a provocation—even the cutting of trade.

A starving, totalitarian nation with stability issues and an inferiority complex can only grow more restive as another life line is cut, but I will go back to my original assertion that the North Korean government is only seek an excuse.  I want to be wrong, but totalitarian governments, who’ve toyed with nuclear weapons, and can only oppress and repress, has to its south, the beautiful, prosperous sister, which is a target of a hateful jealousy.  

Now, the real questions are, Does China have any influence in this matter?  Does China want a war next door?  Does China know this won’t get out of hand? 

Will anyone ask publically?  All we know is the President of United States is telling U.S. forces along the DMZ and those at sea to beprepared. 

All I can say is, “they have been, for fifty-seven years.  The troops are always ready, question is, “Is the president?”

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Arizona goes International

The president and the president of Mexico are unhappy with the little ‘ol state of Arizona.  The irony here is that Arizona is a state run better than most of the nations in the world.  It has an international border, and therefore, international problems it is trying to deal with when the Federal Government, the Democrats and republican, and the president are in absent.   The Mexican president doesn’t have an answer either, just ire.

Mexico has problems, and I am not be derisive.  That nation south of the border is on the edge of disaster and, I for one, don’t want to see it go down the road of total dissolution, and that can happen.  Along with its ethic problems, the indigenous population is poor and unhappy; the drug traffickers are organized and dangerous.  We know this for a fact.  Marxist elements in Mexico would have no problem with massive social disorder. 

If President Felipe Calderon wants help he’d be better off going to the Governor of Arizona, she is proactive, while President Obama is an indecisive rabble rouse—argue with me if you wish—and will off no help, because, in the U.S., there is a demarcation between the states and the federal government.   If the President of the United States does not understand that, maybe President Calderon should and say, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, “Let’s talk.”  That’s simply common sense. 

Obama ramps up criticism of Ariz. immigration law

North Korea says War

Is it possible, maybe, that North Korea wants a war, a limited one, but one in which it can say, “You started it!”  One of the advantages of being a totalitarian country is lying.  Everyone knows you’re lying, but no one say, “You’re lying,’ because it doesn’t mean anything.  The totalitarian just says, “You’re lying,” then the oppressor gets what he wants anyway.  Also, there are a number of dictatorships and authoritarian cesspools around the world, which would lie in NK defense.

So, North Korea may want a war, fight the war, and then when the last shot is fired and the last call for a human peace is made by North Korea, which the UN and every other panderer with second, and third, North Korea will then demand that South Korea cough up the goodies like land, cash, coastal rights, even occupation. 

Not possible?    Is it impossible?

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The president was born.  That’s normal.  All people are unless you want to be medically technically by saying, “Caesarian section isn’t?”  Fine, but Caesarian section isn’t relevant to this particular issue.

Now, the birth certificate issue has become an issue for the Left and Right.  The Left because they don’t want to hear about it anymore, and they try and do that by saying those who are interested in just a little piece of paper are just ridiculous, petty, or even crazy.   We’ll stick with the word ‘crazy.’   These ‘Birthers’ are ‘crazy.’  Okay, fine, but the Left calling people names about annoying or uncomfortable subjects is normal.  It is what they do:  Call names.

On the Right, there are those who want the birth certificate subject to go away, because they don’t like being lumped in with the group, the Birthers, and being called crazy.   Here I want to take a stab at this.

Two points:  One, the whole birth certificate discuss, to an extent is an exercise in rhetoric.   Two, the certificate won’t appear.  Who really expects it to? 

Those wanting to see a BC are being called crazy and are even seen as being nuts.  Now, in ten, twenty, thirty, forties years, this issue will still be alive in the minds of some somewhere in America, in the world, and do we wants a bunch of historians and future Americans saying, “Why didn’t someone ask?”   These would be the same people who will wonder how certain politicians were elected, and how the ‘MSM got away with it.’   At some point, there must be absolution for those living now, future Americans must know that someone tried, and that is important and necessary.

Again, the issue will go unresolved, but if someone didn’t ask the question, well then, when would the time come when other questions become ‘inconvenient’ to ask.  To an extent it is a moral and ethical issue.  What is wrong with asking, because you may be called crazy?   Every time a progressive questions or name calls anyone that should make us wonder—and then question.  We have progressives and elected-Democrats lying, and voting for things they haven’t read.  What do we do when questioning that is called ‘being crazy?’  Oh, that’s extreme?  It wouldn’t happen?

‘Crazy’ people have resolved important issues by, at the very least, asking a question. 

Is being called ‘crazy’ the most horrible thing in the world now?    Asking questions is a risky business.  Let us not forget, the Soviets locked dissidents up because they were ‘crazy.’

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After decades of Seti, (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) listening to space, and Voyager with its gold record leaving the solar system, we have the word and that is,“Don’t talk to aliens, warns Stephen Hawking.” 

“He concludes that trying to make contact with alien races is “a little too risky”. He said: “If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn’t turn out very well for the Native Americans.”

Worse than that the aliens may be like the French—think of Haiti!  The atmosphere of the Earth is the largest open border we’ve got, and since the Federal government can’t handle the U.S.  Mexican border and the president defunded as well as altered the mission of NASA, and then changed his mind.  The lack of presidential decisiveness, which is one of the hallmark marks of this administration, makes one wonder about the possibility of any productive efforts regarding space exploration for the next three years or for eight altogether, and thinking about a space ‘visitation,’ and if the aliens do show up, will we ready, either to resist, or at least, provide a guest room for a short stay.

We always assume we will meet them on a common ground, or in ‘common’ space for that matter, or will those beings being more sophisticated than we, simply help us toward our own extinction.   The possibility of nasty visitors from outer space isn’t new.  We have H.G. Wells’s War of the Worlds.  He appreciated the possibility of not-so-nice-visitors from Mars, better than the U.S. government does of those criminal types (read drug gangs) coming across the Rio Grand.   This is not a criticism solely of the Democrats, but also of the Republicans, at the Federal level.

If some star faring species happens across a sluggishly gliding-along vintage 1970’s Voyager Tinker Toy, and gets Earth’s address conveniently inscribed on the gold plate on the side, what would happen next is anyone’s guess.  We could simply be ignored, which isn’t a bad outcome.  Or they could just drop on by, for a nosh and a chat, and that is where the possibilities and problems begin.

The Twilight Zone episode:  To Serve Man, easily springs to mind.  Then again, they may prefer to dine out, and supply their own doggy bag.   The TV series V has been remade and is predicated on the whole idea. 

The question must be asked:  Where did the notion come from that extraterrestrials would be nice, let alone benevolent?   Is it based on the idea that the smarter, the more advance you are, the nicer you’ll be?  

Sounds confused.  Sounds like the political Left.  If I’m off target, by all means let me know.   Historically we all know that the advanced culture takes over every time, and there are numerous examples where the result wasn’t pretty.  Just laying out the reality of the situation.  No apologizes are to be found here.  For those who are unprepared, well, you get what you get.

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Some say Earth Day is today.  For me, I consider what I do everyday when it comes to Terra Firma, but, then again, I don’t think there is any reason to ‘celebrate’ the Earth either.  For one reason, the Earth doesn’t care. 

The Earth has been in existence in some form or another for many, many moons.   The human species is a late comer.  While other species have come and gone before the first human ancestor put his footprint in the mud.

Now, why do we have this 21th centery planet worship?  I suspect that when materialist atheism kicked and the secular world grabs whole, and when God is ignored, being that God can’t be negated (that’s what I believe so that’s that.), the material world must be worship and revered instead.  G. K. Chesterton said it best:  “When people stop believing in God, they don't believe in nothing— they believe in anything.”

Earth is there proverbial Golden Calf, and as all know the planet has been assigned its open sex, being female.  A designation from earlier times, I won’t say primitive because in many ways modern societies, Western or Eastern are still primitive in their own particular ways.   In the East I blame secular Western colonialism. In the West, I blame Marxism and the assorted ‘isms’ it gave rise to. 

Face it.  Marxism is a very materialist political/economic system, which makes Capitalism seem almost pauper-ish.

But back to Earth Day, I say take time to pray to God.  Being a religious man that is my bias, and a vise I can live with, for one reason, no corporation or politician can make money off promoting my belief. 

Secularism has a weakness, and that is, everything it offers is transitory.  Even the Earth won’t last forever.

The Burqa Bomb

On April 17, a refugee camp at Kohat in Pakistan was struck by two suicide bombers that disguised themselves with burqas, the full-body veil worn by some Muslim women to make sure none of their skin is exposed. The attacks, which killed 41 people and injured 62, are sure to heighten the debate in Europe about whether wearing burqas and niqabs in public should be banned.

Afghanistan’s “Dancing Boys”

[…] a brave Frontline documentary about the “Bacha Bazi,” the underage “dancing boys” of Afghanistan. These children are sex slaves to older, powerful Afghan men–in this instance, former Northern Alliance warlords, who have purchased them from their impoverished families or, as orphans, simply taken them off the street. When they try to escape, they are found and punished—or they are murdered.

Selected articles from the previous two days

Hitler Parody Disappearing From YouTube

If you missed the recent wave of Hitler “Downfall” parody videos, you may be out of luck.

My comment:  Yes, you will be out of luck.  They’re hilarious. 

American Anti-Catholicism

During Lent and Easter this year, America’s anti-Catholics were out in force spreading misinformation and distortions in the hopes of toppling the pope and crippling the hierarchy of the Church.

The President Who Won't Grow Up

Everything I need to know about Barack Obama I learned as a Cub Scout den leader.

Take the Painkiller and Go Home

“The message from the President to America's sickest and most vulnerable should be the theme for Election 2010, and the message the American people will now send to Washington's ruling Democrats: Take the Painkiller and Go Home.”

Poland From Afar

President Obama didn't make it to Krakow the other day for the funeral of Polish President Lech Kaczynski. And so passed my one chance to have something in common with our president.

Sedition and the End of America's First Political Party

Over the past few days, several commentators have raised concerns about the tone of opposition to the Obama administration and the Democratic leadership in Congress.

Quayle Takes Flight

The 2000s were a quiet decade politically for former Vice President Dan Quayle. After flaming out early in his bid for the 2000 GOP presidential nomination the oft-ridiculed former veep repaired to a lucrative private business career and generally stayed out of the political limelight.

Phoebe and Neda: Bullying From South Hadley to Iran

Phoebe Prince.

Neda Agha-Soltan.

Two young women a world apart. The first, 15, lived in South Hadley, Massachusetts. The second, 27, lived in Tehran, Iran.

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The West’s concern about the dietary habits of the Chinese when it comes to diabetes is something which struck me as odd and interesting, odd, because the West has its own problems, which are numerous and interesting because dietary issues come with economic success. 

Oh, for a point of order, there is nothing wrong with economic success as long as the possibility of success is accessible to all, and not metered out by the government.  As G. K. Chesterton wrote:  “Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists,” because as far as history shows, communism, socialism and the mother of all the despair, Marxism, do not work.  They kill.  History and current experiments illustrate that point.  Those who think otherwise are delusional, academics, students or, to put it colloquially, control freaks, i.e. government ‘officials’ who are authoritarians.

China will be free one day when every man and women has no fear of being struck by a baton for protesting their government’s actions and incompetence, and can buy they food they want because they worked for and earned the money for that purchase without some obnoxious goody-goody, probably a closet Leftist, telling people how to live.

The average Chinese is, no doubt, and intelligent being, who deserves the right to be respected as and individual as each Chinese individual has a reasonability to treat every fellow Chinese with the same due respect as a human being.

Now, what does this have to do with the West’s interest in the diet in China?  Well, to be thoroughly honest, it is none of the West’s business.   The Chinese can figure it out for themselves. 

God Bless China, and may liberty—not government mandated ‘equality’—burn in the heart of that nation.

The Fortas Filibuster and the Stevens Seat

"A major effort to prevent President Johnson from appointing a successor to Earl Warren as Chief Justice of the United States appeared to be shaping up today in the Senate."
-- New York Times
June 22, 1968

Senate Republicans didn't just say no in 1968.

In distinctively senatorial fashion they said "hell no!"  More

The Curious Incident at the New York Times

Europe and America have been rocked in recent weeks by the scandal of a Roman Catholic priest in Germany who molested children several decades ago and escaped serious punishment. But one detail has been missing.   More

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No matter what the US government does and doesn’t do, I still live in the greatest country in the world.  Don’t get me wrong great nations have fallen.  Empires have been lost.  Countries have lost their history to the vile pens of those who’ve rewritten and lie about the past.  Great nations have lost their Christian roots and have fallen into socialistic doom. 

Great nations are not great because they wheeled power.  Great nations are made up of giving individuals, people who work hard, understand hard work; succeed at that hard work and give, even when they know sacrifices will be great. 

For America it was World War I and II and every other conflict where the nation has given because what America has to offer was great:  the individual right to succeed and fail and to try again.  In how many others nation does the individual have that opportunity?

In every nation’s existence there is crisis.  America is suffering a crisis economically, politically, and morally.

In a nation such as the United States all three of this elements:  economy, politics and morality are individual concerns, individual responsibilities.  As long as we, Americans understand our responsibility as individuals who want to succeed, no tyrannical government can succeed.

Articles of the Day

What Civilizes Us?

“The word “civilization” means, roughly, the capacity to live in the city while freely and intelligently participating in its order. The city is the “this-worldly” locus wherein all the potentialities of mortal man, both those for good and for evil, can and usually do come forth. Civilizing distinguishes, in this living order, what is good from what is evil. Civilizing defines and accounts for what is noble through laws, customs, artifacts, and our self-articulation.” More

Leftist Race Baiting in Virginia

“The Left's unconscionable and shameful race baiting continues, and for rankly partisan political purposes.”  More

The End of History and the Last Pope

“Post-Enlightenment liberalism has long regarded the Catholic Church as the last obstacle to its final triumph. The Enlightenment-era French dilettante Denis Diderot spoke of strangling the last priest with the "guts of the last king."”  More

Obama's new tax on...Rainwater!?

“Would President Obama's Environmental Protection Agency really force Americans to pay a tax on "rainwater runoff" from homes and small businesses?

You bet they would.  In fact, the EPA, under radical environmentalist Lisa Jackson, is proposing regulations to do just that.”  More

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Due to holiday circumstances I have been unable to post even a small bit.  Being in a situation where I can read and write about the world at large, I will begin by stating, “I celebrated Easter, and I enjoyed these Holy Days.”  For those of you who do as well, I hope the same.

I’ve also missed the news.  Well, not really.  Reading about the stupidity and evil which run ramped through the world is always disheartening, but sooner or later, I catch up with what is going on.

I’m catching up on this:

US warship attacked by Somali pirates

Comment:  The best news is the kind you just can’t make up—now, I don’t mean lie, I mean make up. 

Pope names Mexican-born Gomez to take over in LA

Comment:  The new and conservative Archbishop Jose Gomez succeeded to the archbishop of Los Angeles.  The operative word here is conservative.  Archbishop Gomez was archbishop of Opus Dei, the conservative movement favored by the Vatican.  So, his job and was well as the information coming out of LA is going to be very interesting, and very soon.

An article of interest:

Obama Regime Seeks to Create Permanent American Underclass

“…what's going on is the creation of a permanent underclass that has no upward mobility whatsoever.  That way they never leave the throes of the Democrat Party, never.”

Today’s article picks

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

"As literary feuds go it has all the hallmarks of a classic. In one corner, the journalist and polemicist Christopher Hitchens. In the other, America's great man of letters, Gore Vidal. The latest salvo is in this month's Vanity Fair...."

-The Independent, February 7, 2010

There's nothing quite like a bitchy little food for-thought-fight to liven up a dull literary winter … more

Obamacare and the Bishops

The American bishops had some tough going during the Obamacare debate. They caught lots of flak from media moguls on the left, congressional leaders, and renegade Catholics because they dared to inform their flocks that portions of the health care proposal violate Church teachings on the sanctity of human life … more 

Black conservative tea party backers take heat

“They've been called Oreos, traitors and Uncle Toms, and are used to having to defend their values. Now black conservatives are really taking heat for their involvement in the mostly white tea party movement—and for having the audacity to oppose the policies of the nation's first black president…. more

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Che in his own words:

"My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood...Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while slaughtering any surrendered enemy that falls in my hands! With the deaths of my enemies I prepare my being for the sacred fight and join the triumphant proletariat with a bestial howl!" (From Che's own diaries, later immortalized as The Motorcycles Diaries, though we note that executive producer Robert Redford "overlooked" this unquestionably dramatic citation for his movie.)

"Hatred as the central element of our struggle!...Hatred that is intransigent....Hatred so violent that it propels a human being beyond his natural limitations, making him violent and cold- blooded killing machine...We reject any peaceful approach. Violence is inevitable. To establish Socialism rivers of blood must flow!... The imperialist enemy must feel like a hunted animal wherever he moves. Thus we'll destroy him! These hyenas (Americans) are fit only for extermination. We must keep our hatred alive and fan it to paroxysm! The victory of Socialism is well worth millions of atomic victims!" (thus spake the icon of flower-children)

"Don't Shoot! I'm Che! I'm worth to you more alive than dead!"  The plea was whimpered with a Eddie Haskell-in-front-of June Cleaver-esque smile on Oct. 8th 1967 in Quebrada de Yuro, Bolivia, as Che dropped his fully-loaded weapons.  At the time, Che, dragging along his guerrilla charge Willi, was trying to slink away from a firefight when confronted by two Bolivian soldiers.

That's exactly two flunky Communist guerrillas facing two Bolivian soldiers, by the way.  But then, Che's bloodthirsty bluster (see above) always had a habit of evaporating when facing men (or boys) capable of defending themselves. His stock-in-trade was blasting their skulls apart from five feet while they were bound and gagged. (Amazingly, Steven Soderbergh and Benicio del Toro overlooked any depictions of such guaranteed drama in their recent movie.)

"The Negro is indolent and spends his money on frivolities and booze, whereas the European is forward-looking, organized and intelligent."

"What will our Revolution would do for blacks?--why, we'll do for blacks exactly what blacks did for the Cuban revolution. By which I mean: nothing!"

"The negro has maintained his racial purity by his well known habit of avoiding baths" (as if Che had room to talk)

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"The solutions to the world's problems lie behind the Iron Curtain.....If the nuclear missiles had remained we would have fired them against the heart of the U.S. including New York City. The victory of socialism is well worth millions of atomic victims." (look for Che t-shirts and any and all "Peace" demonstrations.)

"Mexicans are a rabble of illiterate Indians." (Note the numerous Che T-shirts and banners at May Day demonstrations by Mexican immigrants)

"Bolivian campesinos are simply Animalitos"  (Note Bolivian President Evo Morales' frequent genuflections to the ghost of Che Guevara and to his puppeteer, Fidel Castro.)

"Youth must refrain from ungrateful questioning of governmental mandates. Instead they must dedicate themselves to study, work and military service. The very spirit of rebellion is reprehensible.

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People don’t think.  But people, especially when they are young are told, “You have to go to college. You need a degree.”  

But the truth is, you don’t need an education to learn how to think.   I state this because there are many days I wonder, why I bothered getting degrees.

Many successful and creative people had what, by ‘modern’ standards, would be considered a substandard education or no formal education at all?

First, I won’t even mention Thomas Edison, but I choose Hemingway, and yes, I know his socialist sympathies are an issue, but what post-secondary education did he have? Besides none? 

I’m not saying education be damned you’ll be a success, but why, to be a journalist, does anyone have to spend four years and X dollars to get a degree in writing to work for any news sources.  Without a degree, that doesn’t mean you can’t get a Nobel Prize.  Al Gore, failed presidential candidate has a journalism degree and a science fiction, or rather a ‘science’ slideshow under his belt.   Also, being in the right place at the right time, and accomplishing nothing, you can get one just for ‘being.’

Fields exist were an advanced education is necessary.  Astrophysics comes to mind, as does economics, but education?  Remove the Education Department, a political and multicultural issues, and focus on Education and Theory Department, and money, time and minds will be saved.

Is thinking that hard?  When people cut out the noise, and I don’t been just the TV, I mean everything, what is left is the silence, which can be filled with one’s own thoughts, not the opinions vomited out by some electronic device or hardcopy publication.

The problem is:  do people have their own thoughts anymore?  Or is it just ‘my teams against your team,’ ‘pull the lever,’ ‘click on the screen,’ ‘fire off nasty names,’ because on the internet, being anonymous makes being vile easy and safe. 

How many people have actually thought about what they ‘think’ about, their beliefs?  It shouldn’t take a philosophy course or four years in any educational institution to “stop, look and listen.”

Independent thinking is a divine right, and not some extension of natural selection.  One’s thoughts may evolve over time and they should, but the change should be the result of careful consideration, and not group think indoctrination.

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 This bit, The Al Gore Comedy Hour by Roger Kimball, and other pieces are inspired by the reappears of Al Gore and his editorial in the NYTs.

Anthropomorphic Global Warming/Climate Change is a lie.  This has always been a fact, but the reality of this fact has finally come to light for many, many more people. 

So, let me repeat:   Anthropomorphic Global Warming/Climate Change is a lie

Now, there is nothing wrong with being fooled.  It happens, but there is a moment when those who were fooled must face reality and point the finger of guilt at the lairs, the flimflammers, and strip them of their masks and duck-walk them before the world.

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