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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