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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