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White People Are Evil

Friday, July 24th, 2009

That is what a person would almost surely have to think if they agree with Gates in this whole fiasco with him being arrested by Officer Crowley.

Lets speculate for a moment. If no one ever check on Gate’s house after the woman called the police he would probably be just as outraged that the while rouge cop cared so little that he wouldn’t check up on a potential burglary. The police are damned if they do and damned if they don’t.

What we have here is just another race hustler. The facts are being completely ignored and no one is discussing the inappropriate comments made by Gates. Even the president, acknowledgeing he doesn’t know the facts, is discgracefully throwing the Cambridge police department under the bus.

All Gates, Obama, and his unwavering followers seem to be are eternal victims. People aren’t buying this load of BS put forth by these race hustlers and that is why Obama is now backpedaling as fast as he can.

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The Barack Obama Presidency

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

First, cogratulations to Barack Obama.

I have read a lot of stuff since the election has eneded and I have come to a few conclusions.

1.  Barack Obama will fail as president.  Not because anything he will do, although it is possible, but it will be because Mr Hussein is not black.  He is half black.

Now that, in the eyes of a majority of Americans, a Black man has been elected president, black people cannot be victims any longer, at least until Barry fails to deliver on his promises.  Look at Obama’s history.  He never had a father, was raised by his grandparents, moved around a great deal; his upbringing seems like a stereotypical black community upbringing, at least from this typical white person’s point of view.

So what went right?  Here is your seemingly average black guy with a rough childhood, drug use and everything, went to Columbia in New York, was a successful community organizer, went to Harvard where he was editor of the Law Review  and graduated Magnu Cum Laude, and the rest is history.  Barry is truly a guy who pulled himself up out of the slums and is now the most powerful man in the free world.  There was no affirmative action here, he is just a smart guy who made the right decisions in the right places at the right time with the right people.

So what is holding all the other black people back?  With Obama’s example, why do we need affirmative action that aknowledes blacks are inferior and need a leg up? We don’t.   Black people are holding black people back.  

Maybe it is because Barry is half white, and that is why he succeded? 

Look at what alot of blacks are saying in the news.  They beleive the Mr. Hussein is going to fill their gas tanks, pay their mortgages, pay their bills and overall take care of them.  When Barry doesn’t deliver what are they going to say?

The next time a black person tries to be a victim and says “whitey is keeping me down” all we have to do is point a finger at Barry and say, “Umm, no we aren’t, look at Obama.”  We will be able to do this for the rest of America’s recorded history.

Now then, the Black’s victim status isn’t going to go away overnight.  As soon as their victim plea fails they are going to grasp at straws trying to still play the victim.  What is going to redeem them (in their minds at least)?  Obama is half white.

Once Obama fails to deliver on his promises and now that the evil race hustlers Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are out of a job and won’t be able to blame all their problems on white people, they will turn on Barry and decry him for being half white.  That is my perspecitve.

 

2.  Lets stick a knife in the current Republican Party.

I think Jesus himself could have run as a Republican and lost.  The Republican party moved to the left starting in around 2004 and with this election and the ‘06 election they paid for it.  More people voted against George Bush in this election than they did for Barack Obama.  That was Barry’s campaign theme, not another 4 years of failed republican policies.  When all the opposing party has to do is point out your failures and spends almost no time running on their mertis and wins the election you are doing something terribly wrong.

We have 4 years to fix it.  We have to put true consercatives in place of the filty neo-con rats.  Hopefully we can find some by 2010, because I think a lot of Americans are going to be hungry for change after the Hammer and Cycle are flying above the white house and all they have left in their pockets is change.

3.  Obama supporters are stupid.

In a discussion with one guy I was called a nazi and he couldn’t wait for Obama to take my guns away.  I was stunned and the incongruity of that statement.  Obama supporters aren’t going to happy with what they got.

 

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Why I Don’t Post Anything

Monday, September 1st, 2008

Originally this blog was started to defend America’s efforts in Iraq and our leaders who started everything over there.  Despite what exteme leftists might say, things are going great in Iraq and every day grows closer and closer to a time when a large force of troops isn’t needed there.  The war is drawing to a close.

Also, Democrat leaders conceded a great deal of talking points in the whole “Bush lied” meme.  The Rockefeller report outlines all of the “Bush lied to get us into war” statements and concludes what everyone already knew: That the intelligence at the time reflected what Bush was telling congress and the American people.

This blog isn’t a news resource for Amarillo or any kind of revenue generating entity.  Since 2004 nothing has happened in Amarillo than anyone outside of it cares about and sitting around here waiting for stuff to happen is boring.  In other words, I have better stuff to worry about than coving a potential news event.

This blog has primarily been about my opinion, cataloging it, and sharing it.  I refence this place as my knowledge base to rebut liberal buffoons constantly.

The only thing left to post about is the upcoming election and other stuff that happens that I care about.  Right now all I care about is shooting, hunting, and earning enough money to be able to thoughroughly enjoy my time off of work.   As such, I post very little.  Politics concerns me little, especially after the Heller decision, and with Palin as McCain’s pick for VP, I doubt BO is going to get very far, especially after the unscripted debates when Johnny tears BO’s stuttering self a new asshole.

I will be there to gloat on November 5th to gloat or, to blog anew making sure every Democrat hears constantly about Biden’s 5 deferrments and talking extensively about any slip up BO makes to make him look stupid, doing to them what they have done to us.  Yes, very shallow I agree, but I am not above it.  As I have said elsewhere, someone must be willing to play in the mud with the filth if good is to triumpth.

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Would You Ever Vote for a Democrat?

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

On a discussion board I frequent the question was asked, “If the Democrats were not about gun control would you still vote Republican? In other words if the Democratic party blackballed all of their gun control advocates and publicly humiliate them would you vote Democrat?”

I can’t vote democrat every because of the blatant intelectual dishonesty a majority of their leaders display. Stuff like Howard Dean wanting to do away with the electoral college.

One thing that pisses me off about Dem talking points to no end is the “tax cuts for the rich” canard. Yes, the rich did get tax cuts, but no democrat I have heard will ever say why that is bad and will definatlely never tell you what the result of the tax cuts were. The whole thing is to drum up support among ignorant or stupid poor people who think the rich keep them down.

“The rich” pay 90+% off all income taxes and as a result of the Bush tax cuts tax revenues are higher than they would have been under previous tax law. Those facts are completely lost on Democrats and is representative of a larger issue. Unscrupulous pandering with extreme disregard for the facts is what turns me off, and that happens on far more issues than the one above.

I got into a discussion with a local Democrat about why he wanted universal healthcare. His position was that healthcare was a right and should be provided to everyone. I didn’t chastize him for his position, but pointed out the negative effects, such as Walter Reed and VA hospitals and other shortcoming and dangers such a the government having an interest in keeping people healthy and the slippery slope of banning smoking and trans fats. All of that stuff was completely lost on him and he doesn’t care as long as everyone receives healthcare.

Now, I am not saying all democrats are like that, but that really isn’t the point I am making. The point is that Democrat’s positions are have shaky foundations.

A don’t think I am being an apologist for republicans. This current crop is contemptable and I loathe a great deal of their actions, from the top down.

Also, I apply this thinking to National level politics.  At the local level there are probably a great deal of outstanding democrats.  Abe Lopez, a local judge, comes to mind who was very good at what he did.

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Two Face

Friday, June 27th, 2008

One of my favorie movies growing up was the original Batman film with Michael Keaton.  In this particular incantation of the Batman franchise the character Harvey Dent is played by Billy Dee Williams, famous for his role as Lando Calrissian.

In all of the fictional series Harvey Dent is Gotham City’s district attorney.  Afte being burned by acid Harvey has a physchotic breakdown and is criminal known as Two Face.

Yesterday the Supreme court affirmed DC vs Heller, a monumentous decision that solidifies the individual right to bear arms.  Given the election year Obama and McCain offered their thoughts.

What does Two Face have to do with this?  Well, after I watched the following video, I couldn’t help but be reminded of the fictional character in his Billy Dee William’s portrayed form, a prominent attorney turned evil.

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Honesty is the Best Policy

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

The general election has started, finally.  My hopes were met now that Hillary Clinton has lost and the Clinton hegemony is permanently a thing of the past and will soon be followed by the Kennedy hegemony.

I am elated that, one way or another, America is heading for a new frontier.  For example, scinece is getting better and better every day.  I particularly like statistics myself.  Studies such as this:

Is it OK to cheat on your taxes? A total of 57 percent of those who described themselves as “very liberal” said yes in response to the World Values Survey, compared with only 20 percent of those who are “very conservative.” When Pew Research asked whether it was “morally wrong” to cheat Uncle Sam, 86 percent of conservatives agreed, compared with only 68 percent of liberals.

Ponder this scenario, offered by the National Cultural Values Survey: “You lose your job. Your friend’s company is looking for someone to do temporary work. They are willing to pay the person in cash to avoid taxes and allow the person to still collect unemployment. What would you do?”

Almost half, or 49 percent, of self-described progressives would go along with the scheme, but only 21 percent of conservatives said they would.

When the World Values Survey asked a similar question, the results were largely the same: Those who were very liberal were much more likely to say it was all right to get welfare benefits you didn’t deserve.

The World Values Survey found that those on the left were also much more likely to say it is OK to buy goods that you know are stolen. Studies have also found that those on the left were more likely to say it was OK to drink a can of soda in a store without paying for it and to avoid the truth while negotiating the price of a car.

Another survey by Barna Research found that political liberals were two and a half times more likely to say that they illegally download or trade music for free on the Internet.

A study by professors published in the American Taxation Association’s Journal of Legal Tax Research found conservative students took the issue of accounting scandals and tax evasion more seriously than their fellow liberal students. Those with a “liberal outlook” who “reject the idea of absolute truth” were more accepting of cheating at school, according to another study, involving 291 students and published in the Journal of Education for Business.

A study in the Journal of Business Ethics involving 392 college students found that stronger beliefs toward “conservatism” translated into “higher levels of ethical values.” And academics concluded in the Journal of Psychology that there was a link between “political liberalism” and “lying in your own self-interest,” based on a study involving 156 adults.

Liberals were more willing to “let others take the blame” for their own ethical lapses, “copy a published article” and pass it off as their own, and were more accepting of “cheating on an exam,” according to still another study in the Journal of Business Ethics.

To me, science like that makes me feel all warm inside.

The Obommunists are celebrating wildly now that Obama has secured the nomination.  I am have previously been torn on this situation for two reasons.  One is, I don’t like McCain very much.  The second reason is that the abomination of an Obama presidency combined with a Democrat congress will handily ensure a 1984 come 2012.  I must admit that prospect is very tempting, but I find any harm to my fellow Americans for political gain very loathsome.  If the second reason comes to pass then I will be very sad, but my conscience will be clean in knowing that I had no hand in ushering in an era of increased and damaging social policies.

I realize that leftists could say the same about me supporting Bush’s policies for the past 8 years and I will probably concede to a lot of their critisicms.  However, we as a nation must realize that the fruits of our labor during the Bush administration may not come to pass for quite a while.  That is not to say that everything Bush has done has been for the better, far from it, but the opposite is false as well.

Change is inevitable.  I will continue in another post.

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Death By Blogging?

Monday, April 7th, 2008

Is blogging hazardous to your health?  According to a recent article in the New York Times entitled In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop, the answer is yes.  Matt Richtel, the author of the article, cites the following examples:

Two weeks ago in North Lauderdale, Fla., funeral services were held for Russell Shaw, a prolific blogger on technology subjects who died at 60 of a heart attack. In December, another tech blogger, Marc Orchant, died at 50 of a massive coronary. A third, Om Malik, 41, survived a heart attack in December.

Other bloggers complain of weight loss or gain, sleep disorders, exhaustion and other maladies born of the nonstop strain of producing for a news and information cycle that is as always-on as the Internet.

The article concentrates on professional bloggers, some of whom get paid as little as $10 a post.  For people who try to eak out an existence in the blogosphere by staying one step ahead of the competition, I’m sure the pressure is enormous.

But I think that amateurs like myself can also suffer as a result of overblogging.  For me, the stress is two-fold: 

1)  Editing, re-editing, and re-re-editing my work.   Wanting to put out a letter-perfect product, I spend much more time than I should agonizing over le mot juste.  Maybe it’s my academic and paralegal background, but for me, attention to detail is not only a virtue, it’s an absolute necessity.  I envy people who can blog as fast as their typing speed will allow and then hit the publish button without remorse,  but if I don’t dwell on whether I’ve put in too many (or too few) commas or whether I should use a semicolon or a period, I feel I’m doing my readers a disservice.  For example, I’m still not sure whether it’s “eak out” or “eake out” – and that’s still driving me nuts!

2)  Comments.  I welcome thoughtful critiques of what I’ve written, but nothing raises my blood pressure more than a comment that’s poorly thought out, abusive, or ad hominem in nature.  I’ve always been of the opinion that people can disagree without being disagreeable.  But when tempers flare, it’s probably best to agree to disagree and end the thread.  My biggest problem is that I assume that if I just couch my argument another way, use another approach or find better examples, the other person will finally see my point of view.  I guess I’m just a cockeyed optimist in that regard.  Too many people (myself included sometimes) don’t want to engage in the pulling and hauling that lead to what Hegel calls thesis, antithesis and ultimately the synthesis of a new point of view.  I don’t mind people politely declining to engage, but if they call me names or fabricate things about me out of whole cloth, that really gets up my ire.

Given the monetary compensation I get for blogging ($0.00 to date), you’d think I’d cut way back and find another hobby that’s less stressful.  I guess it must be my ego; there’s something exhilirating about seeing your own words in print for the whole world to see.  Unfortunately, there are more than enough people who don’t share that enthusiasm and have no qualms about telling me so in no uncertain terms.

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“Who do you say I am?”

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

Last week, I received an email from an acquaintance of mine.  The subject line was simply “Oprah,” and the body of the email began with the following:

Jesus Christ being reinvented, redefined, and blasphemed and, this false New-Age Christ teaching is about to make huge inroads into the world, with the help of the queen of television talk shows, Oprah Winfrey.

This piqued my interest, so I read on:

Oprah Winfrey, beginning January 1, 2008, on her daily radio program will offer a year-long course on the New Age Christ, in a lesson a day and completely cover the 365 lessons from the Course in Miracles “Workbook.”

I usually take emails like this with a grain of salt, lumping them together with urban legends like poisoned soda cans and Madalyn Murray O’Hair petitioning the FCC to outlaw relgious broadcasting.  Add to that the facts that the the email had been forwarded several times, was about Oprah (who had been the brunt of other hoaxes in the past), and referred to January 1, 2008 in the future tense, and my skepticism was raised a notch or two.

But the topic of “A Course in Miracles” was just too intriguing for me to dismiss outright.  I was first exposed to this New Age treatise about 20 years ago, while living in California.  For the uninitiated, “A Course in Miracles” was allegedly “channeled” through Helen Schucman, Ph.D., a clinical and research psychologist, between 1965 and 1972 through a process of “inner dictation.”  The source of this material was said to be “Jesus.”

But in one section of the book entitled “About the Author,” the following is written:

Helpers are given you in many forms, although upon the altar they are one. Beyond each one there is a Thought of God, and this will never change. But they have names which differ for a time, for time needs symbols, being itself unreal.  Their names are legion, but we will not go beyond the names the course itself employs. [Emphasis added.]

Compare this to the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5, verses 6 – 9:

When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and fell on his knees in front of him. He shouted at the top of his voice, “What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? Swear to God that you won’t torture me!” For Jesus had said to him, “Come out of this man, you evil spirit!”

Then Jesus asked him, “What is your name?”

“My name is Legion,” he replied, “for we are many.” [Emphasis added.]

This so struck me that I sat down at my old 8088 computer, prepare a half-page commentary on this, printed it out on my dot matrix printer, and placed it inside every copy of “A Course in Miracles” that I could get my hands on.

There are many other quotes from “A Course in Miracles” that are antithetical to the historical Jesus of the New Testament.  For example:  “There is no sin…”; A “slain Christ has no meaning”; “The journey to the cross should be the last ‘useless journey.’”; etc., etc., ad naseum.

Fast forward to 2008:  After a little research, I discovered that Oprah Winfrey has in fact been presenting “A Course in Miracles on her XM radio show.  Here’s a link to the web page with links to the arhived workbook pages.  If you want to dig deeper, here’s a link to the searchable “Urtext” (the original version) of “A Course in Miracles.”

In the sixteenth chapter of Matthew (verses 13 – 16), Jesus asked His disciples the question of the ages:

When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say the Son of Man is?”

They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”

 ”But what about you?” he asked. “Who do you say I am?”

 Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

When Barack Obama, exclaims, “I pray to Jesus every night,” as he did in recently in Nelsonville, Ohio, I have to take him at his word.  But in the back of my mind, especially in light of the beliefs of his friend Oprah Winfrey (I won’t get into the teachings of Trinity United Church of Christ; that’s a topic for a whole other post), I can’t help but hear the voice of the Savior asking him, ”Who do you say I am?”

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My Opinon on The Current Policial Climate, SuperFat Tuesday 2008

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

I have obstained from posting for a number of reasons, mainly my heart hasn’t been in it, but recently I find myself energized as the election draw nearer.  My mind wanders down many paths as I ponder the direction of the nation in coming years.  What has been on my mind the most is the vast divisiveness that is befowling mainstream conservatives.

I don’t turn to the pundits to get my knowledge on the different candidates, I seek it out through many sources, collect that knowledge and review.  However, I do include the various pundits out there in my research because I am curious what they are thinking about different candidates and issues and how they came to their conclusions.  Recently all I hear from the mainstream conservatives is denouncing Huckabee and McCain and backing Mitt Romney.  I am not upset they would back Romney, but I am upset that they would vote for a democrat before they would vote for McCain.  Huckabee, unfortunately, seems to be a non-issue, although I would be elated if that changed today.

All this talk about McCain got me thinking what was so terrible about him, so I looked some stuff up about him and listed to what all the pundits had to say.  I came to the conclusion that McCain isn’t that bad a guy (he certainly isn’t conservative) and that if the people select him as the republican nominee then so be it, I will vote for him.

Michael Medved has made some very good points about McCain.  A caller called into his show and said something along the lines, “Well McCain voted against the Bush tax cuts.”  That is a line that alot of the other pundits have used to denounce McCain, but none of them elaborate on the issue.  Medved retorts, “Well, true he did do that, but did you bother to see why?” usually the response is stuttering, but Medved continues, “McCain said that he voted against the tax cuts because they weren’t coupled with cuts in spending.  Furthermore, if you are so worried about what happen 6 years ago, why are you not denouncing Romney for 6 years ago being Pro-Abortion, Anti-gun, and endorsing nationalized health care?”

Medved also has a great response about McCain shortcomings on the Illegal-Immigration issues.  A caller will say they can’t support McCain because of “Amnesty” and the Medved will ask the caller if they supported Ronald Raegan.  The caller will reply “of course” and then Medved will slam them with the fact that Raegan granted amnesty to millions of illegals in ‘86.  The calle shuts up pretty quick.

Now then, my point isn’t to go issue by issue and expound on why one candidate is betther than the other and why you should vote for X over Y because of Z.  My point is that a lot of people out there aren’t seeking the facts about the issues and they are reacting very rashly to McCain by saying they won’t vote for him.

If they don’t want to vote for him in the primary, that is great, I hope they vote for Huckabee.  I can’t vote for Romney because he will sign another assault weapons ban and given that I still have other choices I will vote for Huckabee in the primary in March if he is still in it and McCain over Romney if not.

But what if the general election comes down to McCain VS Obama or Hllary?  Alot of conservatives out there have said they would vote for democrats before they voted for McCain.  To think that any rational thinking person would put their party before they put America is sickening.

If the conservatives wanted a better candidate, why weren’t they talking up Fred Thompson a whole hell of a lot more?  George W Bush has done a great number of un-conservative things for the past 7 years, McCain would surely be more of the same with a few differences, but mainstream conservatives wait till now to get pissed about not having a candidate that represents their ideology?  Get real!

My solution, unfortunately, suck it up and vote for McCain.  Given the possibility that some supreme court judges could retire I would rather have the judges that McCain picks over the ones that Hillary or Obama picks.  Those picks could shape the nation for 20 years or more and we would best be served by a greater chance of having conservatives judges up there.

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My Prediction – March 4, 2007

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

A little over 10 months ago, I made a prediction about the Surge.  At the time, I was cautiously optimistic, but I still didn’t know how it would work out.  But my prediction did come at least partially true:

One gauge of progress will be this: If the mainstream media continues to dwell on Britney Spears and who gets the estate of Anna Nicole Smith, I’d say the Surge is probably working.

Well, I’ll admit I was wrong about the estate of Anna Nicole Smith, but I was dead on about Britney Spears.  The media will report absolutely anything except the good news coming out of Iraq.

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