What drives the Democrats

LEGISLATION passed by congressional Democrats last week would force US troops to abandon Iraq beginning Oct. 1. Though a veto was foreordained, the vote was great news for the jihadis in Iraq, their second such morale boost in a week. On April 19, Senate majority leader Harry Reid had run up a white flag, declaring that "this war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything" -- music to the ears of Al Qaeda and its allies .

Why is the Democratic Party so wedded to defeat in Iraq? What drives its determination to see this war end in American failure?

The most generous explanation is that Democrats genuinely believe that Iraq will be better off with the Americans gone -- that removing US troops will eliminate the catalyst of Al Qaeda 's butchery.

But as Connecticut's Joseph Lieberman pointed out on Thursday, this is sheer fantasy. US troops have retreated from Iraqi cities and regions a number of times, yet "in each of these places where US forces pulled back, Al Qaeda rushed in. Rather than becoming islands of peace, they became . . . islands of fear and violence."

Lieberman quoted the grim forecast of Sheik Abdul Sattar, a Sunni tribal leader in Anbar province: "If the American forces leave right now, there will be civil war and the area will fall into total chaos." The most recent National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq agrees. An American withdrawal in the near future "almost certainly would lead to a significant increase in the scale and scope of sectarian conflict in Iraq," it concludes. "Massive civilian casualties and forced population displacement would be probable."

Some Democrats are clearly motivated by ideological conviction. There may be some on the party's leftmost fringe who would welcome a US defeat on the grounds that the only good superpower is a humbled superpower. There are certainly Democrats in Congress, such as Ted Kennedy and Dennis Kucinich, who almost always oppose any use of military force on principle.

And then there are those who cannot bring themselves to acknowledge the magnitude of the stakes in Iraq or in the larger conflict against radical jihadism. The reality of this struggle -- that we are in an existential war with a totalitarian enemy that celebrates death and cannot be appeased -- is too bleak and hopeless. They would rather escape into an alternate reality, one in which Americans can choose to end the war by quitting the battlefield.

But in the end there is no escaping that for many Democrats, this is all about politics. Both President Bush and the war in Iraq are unpopular, and the Democratic leadership hopes to capitalize by opposing both of them.

"We are going to pick up Senate seats as a result of this war," Reid said candidly at an April 12 press conference. "Senator Schumer has shown me numbers that are compelling and astounding." To which Schumer, chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, added: "The war in Iraq is a lead weight attached to their ankle. . . . They are looking extinction in the eye." He spoke those words, Congressional Quarterly observed, "making no attempt to hide his glee."

That glee is very telling. It would be one thing for lawmakers to conclude regretfully that America's campaign in Iraq has failed and that bringing the troops home is the least bad option left. Were that the case, voting to pull the plug would be a sad and painful duty, one no member of Congress would carry out with "glee."

Yet when the House of Representatives voted last month to force a withdrawal from Iraq, Democrats were jubilant.

"Many House Democrats stayed on the floor, reveling in their victory," reported The Hill on March 23. "House Appropriations Committee Chairman Dave Obey and Representative John Murtha hugged each other while a smiling [majority leader Steny] Hoyer shook every hand he could find. . . . [majority whip James] Clyburn joked with members as [Speaker Nancy] Pelosi kissed and hugged her colleagues."

The New York Times noted that in conversations with "dozens" of Democrats, Pelosi's argument for the bill was overtly political: "Did they want a headline saying, 'Congress is standing up to President Bush,' or 'Congress gives President Bush free rein?' "

Senator John McCain, adamantly supporting the current "surge" in Iraq says he would rather lose a presidential campaign than a war. Democrats, all smiles, prefer to lose the war and win the campaign. They're not alone. In Iraq, Al Qaeda is smiling, too.

Kucinich’s Constitution, Minus Second Amendment

I will never understand some people's thinking. They of course get to live in walled estates and when they call the police things go to happening. They are prepared to leave us defenceless, both from criminals and tyrants. I'm not sure all are "thinking down the road" to a time when we would be easier to control being unarmed, but it is to be sure some are. this is the latest........



Kucinich’s Constitution, Minus Second Amendment

It was an eminently forgettable event at South Carolina State University. “No runs, no hits, no errors,” joked Democratic consultant Erik Smith about the “debate” between Democrat presidential hopefuls. “Nobody made any significant mistake, but nobody distinguished themselves.”

Dennis Kucinich “distinguished” himself, however, when he pulled out a pocket Constitution and called for the impeachment of Dick Cheney. Of course, this was a less than meaningless gesture, as Kucinich picks and chooses what sections of the document he favors. Kucinich is “drafting legislation to ban civilian ownership of handguns,” according to Sabrina Eaton, a direct affront to the Constitution. Naturally, the commoners shall not be allowed to defend themselves, even though Dennis “kept a pistol in his house after police learned of a Mafia plot to kill him during his tumultous stint as Cleveland’s mayor during the 1970s.”

“I have friends who both hunt and shoot. These are good people, they are not criminals, and they lock up their guns when not using them. I support their right to their hobbies, and I support the right to bear arms,” declares the politico from Cleveland on his web page. “By helping to develop a society which does not look to violence as a method of solving problems, my proposed Department of Peace will play a key role in this. Conflict resolution and alternatives to violence will constitute major areas of responsibility within this new Department, so that we can begin to lead by examples as well as by words.”

Let us dissect this nonsense. First and foremost, the Second Amendment was not drafted to protect the rights of duck hunters or tin can plinkers. It was included because the framers understood well enough that an unarmed and defenseless populace are chumps for tyranny. “No freeman shall ever be debarred the use of arms,” wrote Thomas Jefferson in draft of the Virginia Constitution in 1776. The Constitution, James Madison noted in the Federalist Papers, provides “the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation,” other nations where “governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.” As Kucinich understands, the protection afforded by firearms not only makes tyrannical government think twice, it also makes Mafia hit men reconsider as well. Dennis was not thinking about target practice or hunting when he packed a piece back in the 70s.

Is it possible Dennis’ “Department of Peace” will be on hand when a thug attempts a home invasion or, more pertinently, the next time an armed mental case enters a classroom? Unfortunately, violence, or rather self-defense, is the only way to solve problems in certain situations. Dennis may naively believe his Peace Department will “lead by examples as well as by words,” never mind the criminals and predators among us, ready and able to take advantage of a disarmed public. Criminals love this sort of touchy-feely nonsense, as they prefer unarmed and defenseless fawns waving peace signs to men and women versed in the use firearms and willing to do so should the situation arise.

Regardless of all the idle chatter on impeachment and his apparent willingness to consider a re-investigation of the events surrounding September 11, 2001, Dennis Kucinich should not be trusted, as he is obviously just another neolib angling for the White House, albeit with a unique game plan to set him apart from the field crowded with other despicable one-worlders, such as Clinton, Obama, Edwards, Biden, Dodd, Richardson, and Gravel (who?).

Turn them upside down, they’re all gun-grabbers.

How Lame You Really Are

On his 1968 album's liner notes Frank Zappa wrote "If your children ever find out
how lame you really are, they'll probably murder you in your sleep".
Unfortunately we have seen some of that in our society since the '60's, but today
we got to witness just how lame we have become. The political posturings of the Democratic Party was on full display at passing the bills to withdraw from the Iraqi conflict.
I say conflict because this has long since passed the practical idea of war. We are policing
streets of Iraq until the citizens of that country can perform that task for themselves.
Are American solders dying there still, yes, do policemen and firemen die here in the US
in the performance of their duties, yes.
We went into Iraq for a number of reasons, some correct, some incorrect. We are there
now, we have removed their security and government, rightly or wrongly and we owe those people to put back to right that which we have changed. We now owe them the time to gain their footing and an understanding of how to function as a free people.
For thirty years someone else has told them how they will behave and how they will be treated
and how to vote, what to say and not say, and they have had no say in any of the functions of government.
The Democrat's would turn their back on these people and allow them to return to a
life they themselves would not accept or tolerate, but as we have seen the Democrats always look past those in real need, unless helping them will garner votes.
All this overlooks the whole, Muslim/Great Satan conflict, course the lameness of these people
would give you nothing else, there are no votes here, move on..........
Tonight I will pray that the President will in fact do what need to be done, veto these bills.
And if necessary may God grant him the ability to find one of Ronald Regan's pens, that perhaps by holding it he will find the balls to stand up to these people for once.........


WP

Animalization of Americans

Linda Kimball is one of my favorite writers. She shares vast insight into the thinking of the liberal mind and lays bare their maneuverings and agendas. This piece outlines how not only are there factions who just hate America but they also hate the human race.

snippets......

The murderous secular humanist religions of Communism and Nazism were spawned by the anti-God/utopian tradition of Revolutionary France. The Black Book of Communism, an 800-page compendium of the crimes of Communist regimes worldwide, graphically details the terror, torture, man-made famine, mass deportations, starvation, and massacres undertaken on behalf of revolutionary utopian ideals. The reality of Communism, which claimed to be an emissary of the Enlightenment, of universal brotherhood, and of happiness for all as envisioned by Gracchus Babeuf, turned out to be not only a sadistic engine for unimaginable evil but also the creator of hells on earth.

“Human beings, as a species, have no more value than slugs.”

(Earth First! Journal editor, John Daily)

“To feed a starving child is to exacerbate the world population problem.”

(Yale professor Lamont Cole)

Biocentrism and its morally-warped system of philosophy and morality thrive right here in America. Communism (multiculturalism/Cultural Marxism) and its diabolical mother, Secular Humanism, plus its twisted sisters, Postmodernism and Cosmic Humanism (New Age global warming crowd) are now the predominant way of thinking in most of America’s power centers. At the heart of each of these systems beats the black heart of Darwinian biocentrism.

more........................

www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_16572.shtml

Iraq

“If the war in Iraq is such an unnecessary and futile expenditure of blood and treasure as Pelosi et al. have been saying, why not put an end to it? But to do that would mean taking responsibility for the consequences—and those consequences would be disastrous and lasting. They would probably still be lasting when the 2008 elections come around. The Democrats cannot risk that.” —Thomas Sowell

Insight like this is what the President needs to be able to dig in his heels, cross his arms, look them in the eyes and just say .............NO!
Bush has not been exactly what I had hoped after the '04 mandate, but on this issue he is correct and this is the course of action he must take, because if people think that this was brought on by radical Muslims alone..........they need to take a closer look at Middle East conflicts since Israel became a country...................there's a big brown Bear in the shadows somewhere.............


WP

Pacifism

“The main problem with pacifism is that it doesn’t work in all situations. The main problem with pacifists is that they’re convinced it does.” —Burt Prelutsky

Rosie Canned from ABC

Is nothing sacred?? Can't an overweight, gay, angry white woman get paid????????? Not if Baba Wawa says no.............. Rosie would have you believe that ABC didn't offer her enough......(the rating went up considerably when she opened her mouth) don't believe it. ABC will pay for what ever they want to pay for.................or should we say whatever Baba wants them to pay for. Walters was probably tired of having to clean up the messes The Mouth left laying around (probably like the other bitch in Rosie's life). Anyway as Curly Bill said in Tombstone........"bye".

WP

Springtime in Texas

Look a Democrat

The Test

This test only has one question, but it's a very important one. By
giving an honest answer, you will discover where you stand morally. The
test features an unlikely, completely fictional situation in which you
will have to make a decision. Remember that your answer needs to be honest,
yet spontaneous.


THE SITUATION:
You are in Florida, Miami to be specific. There is chaos all around you
caused by a hurricane with severe flooding. This is a flood of biblical
proportions. You are a photojournalist working for a major newspaper, and
you're caught in the middle of this epic disaster. The situation is
nearly hopeless. You're trying to shoot career-making photos. There are
houses and people swirling around you, some disappearing under the water. Nature is
unleashing all of its destructive fury.

THE TEST:
Suddenly you see a woman in the water. She is fighting for her life,
trying not to be taken down with the debris. You move closer. Somehow
the woman looks familiar. You suddenly realize who it is. It's Hillary
Clinton ! At the same time you notice that the raging waters are about
to take her under forever.

You have two options: You can save the life of Hillary Clinton or you
can shoot a dramatic Pulitzer Prize winning photo documenting the death
of one of the world's most powerful women (in her mind, at least).



NOW THE QUESTION:

Here's the question, and please give an honest answer.......

Would you select high contrast color film, or would you go with the classic
simplicity of black and white?

History Lesson

Sixty-three years ago, Nazi Germany had overrun almost all of Europe and hammered England to the verge of bankruptcy and defeat. The Nazis had sunk more than 400 British ships in their convoys between England and America taking food and war materials .

At that time the US was in an isolationist, pacifist mood, and most Americans wanted nothing to do with the European or the Asian war .

Then along came Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 , and in outrage Congress unanimously declared war on Japan , and the following day on Germany , who had not yet attacked us . It was a dicey thing . We had few allies .

France was not an ally, as the Vichy government of France quickly aligned itself with its German occupiers . Germany was certainly not an ally, as Hitler was intent on setting up a Thousand Year Reich in Europe. Japan was not an ally, as it was well on its way to owning and controlling all of Asia.

Together, Japan and Germany had long-range plans of invading Canada and Mexico , as launching pads to get into the United States over our northern and southern borders, after they finished gaining control of Asia and Europe.

America 's only allies then were England , Ireland , Scotland , Canada , Australia, and Russia . That was about it All of Europe, from Norway to Italy (except Russia in the East) was already under the Nazi heel .

The US was certainly not prepared for war. The US had drastically downgraded most of its military forces after WW I because of the depression, so that at the outbreak of WW II, Army units were training with broomsticks because they didn't have guns, and cars with "tank" painted on the doors because they didn't have real tanks A huge chunk of our Navy had just been sunk or damaged at Pearl Harbor.

Britain had already gone bankrupt, saved only by the donation of $600 million in gold bullion in the Bank of England (that was actually the property of Belgium ) given by Belgium to England to carry on the war when Belgium was overrun by Hitler (a little known fact).

Actually, Belgium surrendered on one day, because it was unable to oppose the German invasion, and the Germans bombed Brussels into rubble the next day just to prove they could .

Britain had already been holding out for two years in the face of staggering losses and the near decimation of its Royal Air Force in the Battle of Britain, and was saved from being overrun by Germany only because Hitler made the mistake of thinking the Brits were a relatively minor threat that could be dealt with later. Hitler, first turned his attention to Russia, in the late summer of 1940 at a time when England was on the verge of collapse.

Ironically, Russia saved America 's butt by putting up a desperate fight for two years, until the US got geared up to begin hammering away at Germany .

Russia lost something like 24,000,000 people in the sieges of Stalingrad and Moscow alone . . . 90% of them from cold and starvation, mostly civilians, but also more than a 1,000,000 soldiers

Had Russia surrendered, Hitler would have been able to focus his entire war effort against the Brits, then America. If that had happened, the Nazis could possibly have won the war .

All of this has been brought out to illustrate that turning points in history are often dicey things. Now, we find ourselves at another one of those key moments in history.

There is a very dangerous minority in Islam that either has, or wants, and may soon have, the ability to deliver small nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons, almost anywhere in the world .

The Jihadis, the militant Muslims, are basically Nazis in Kaffiyahs -- they believe that Islam, a radically conservative form of Wahhabi Islam, should own and control the Middle East first, then Europe, then the world. To them, all who do not bow to their will of thinking should be killed, enslaved, or subjugated . They want to finish the Holocaust, destroy Israel , and purge the world of Jews . This is their mantra . (goal)

There is also a civil war raging in the Middle East -- for the most part not a hot war, but a war of ideas. Islam is having its Inquisition and its Reformation, but it is not yet known which side will win -- the Inquisitors, or the Reformationists.

If the Inquisition wins, then the Wahhabis, the Jihadis, will control the Middle East, the OPEC oil, and the US , European, and Asian economies.

The techno-industrial economies will be at the mercy of OPEC -- not an OPEC dominated by the educated, rational Saudis of today, but an OPEC dominated by the Jihadis. Do you want gas in your car? Do you want heating oil next winter? Do you want the dollar to be worth anything? You had better hope the Jihad, the Muslim Inquisition, loses, and the Islamic Reformation wins.

If the Reformation movement wins, that is, the moderate Muslims who believe that Islam can respect and tolerate other religions, live in peace with the rest of the world, and move out of the 10th century into the 21st, then the troubles in the Middle East will eventually fade away. A moderate and prosperous Middle East will emerge.

We have to help the Reformation win, and to do that we have to fight the Inquisition, i.e., the Wahhabi movement, the Jihad, Al Qaeda and the Islamic terrorist movements. We have to do it somewhere. We can't do it everywhere at once. We have created a focal point for the battle at a time and place of our choosing . . . . . . . . in Iraq . Not in New York , not in London , or Paris or Berlin , but in Iraq, where we are doing two important things.

(1) We deposed Saddam Hussein. Whether Saddam Hussein was directly involved in the 9/11 terrorist attack or not, it is undisputed that Saddam has been actively supporting the terrorist movement for decades Saddam is a terrorist! Saddam is, or was, a weapon of mass destruction, responsible for the deaths of probably more than a 1,000,000 Iraqis and 2,000,000 Iranians .

(2) We created a battle, a confrontation, a flash point, with Islamic terrorism in Iraq. We have focused the battle. We are killing bad people, and the ones we get there we won't have to get here. We also have a good shot at creating a democratic, peaceful Iraq, which will be a catalyst for democratic change in the rest of the Middle East, and an outpost for a stabilizing American military presence in the Middle East for as long as it is needed .

WW II, the war with the Japanese and German Nazis, really began with a "whimper" in 1928. It did not begin with Pearl Harbor. It began with the Japanese invasion of China. It was a war for fourteen years before the US joined it. It officially ended in 1945 -- a 17 year war -- and was followed by another decade of US occupation in Germany and Japan to get those countries reconstructed and running on their own a gain . . . a 27 year war.

WW II cost the United States an amount equal to approximately a full year's GDP -- adjusted for inflation, equal to about $12 trillion dollars. WW II cost America more than 400,000 soldiers killed in action, and nearly 100,000 still missing in action.

The Iraq war has, so far, cost the United States about $160,000,000,000, which is roughly what the 9/11 terrorist attack cost New York. It has also cost about 3,000 American lives, which is roughly equivilant to lives that the Jihad killed (within the United States) in the 9/11 terrorist attack .

The cost of not fighting and winning WW II would have been unimaginably greater -- a world dominated by Japanese Imperialism and German Nazism .

This is not a 60-Minutes TV show, or a 2-hour movie in which everything comes out okay . The real world is not like that. It is messy, uncertain, and sometimes bloody and ugly. It always has been, and probably always will be .

The bottom line is that we will have to deal with Islamic terrorism until we defeat it, whenever that is. It will not go away if we ignore it .

If the US can create a reasonably democratic and stable Iraq, then we have an ally, like England , in the Middle East, a platform, from which we can work to help modernize and moderate the Middle East. The history of the world is the clash between the forces of relative civility and civilization, and the barbarians clamoring at the gates to conquer the world.

The Iraq War is merely another battle in this ancient and never ending war. Now, for the first time ever, the barbarians are about to get nuclear weapons. Unless some body prevents them from getting them.

We have four options:

1 . We can defeat the Jihad now, before it gets nuclear weapons.

2 . We can fight the Jihad later, after it gets nuclear weapons (which may be as early as next year, if Iran 's progress on nuclear weapons is what Iran claims it is).

3 . We can surrender to the Jihad and accept its dominance in the Middle East now; in Europe in the next few years or decades, and ultimately in America.

OR

4 . We can stand down now, and pick up the fight later when the Jihad is more widespread and better armed, perhaps after the Jihad has dominated France and Germany and possibly most of the rest of Europe. It will, of course, be more dangerous, more expensive, and much bloodier.

If you oppose this war, I hope you like the idea that your children, or grandchildren, may live in an Islamic America under the Mullahs and the Sharia, an America that resembles Iran today.

The history of the world is the history of civilization clashes, cultural clashes. All wars are about ideas, ideas about what society and civilization should be like, and the most determined always win.

Those who are willing to be the most ruthless always win . The pacifists always lose, because the anti-pacifists kill them .

Remember, perspective is every thing, and America 's schools teach too little history for perspective to be clear, especially in the young American mind.

The Cold War lasted from about 1947 at least until the Berlin Wall came down in 1989; forty-two years!

Europe spent the first half of the 19th century fighting Napoleon, and from 1870 to 1945 fighting Germany !

World War II began in 1928, lasted 17 years, plus a ten year occupation, and the US still has troops in Germany and Japan . World War II resulted in the death of more than 50,000,000 people, maybe more than 100,000,000 people, depending on which estimates you accept.

The US has taken more than 3,000 killed in action in Iraq.. The US took more than 4,000 killed in action on the morning of June 6, 1944 , the first day of the Normandy Invasion to rid Europe of Nazi Imperialism.

In WW II the US averaged 2,000 KIA a week -- for four years. Most of the individual battles of WW II lost more Americans than the entire Iraq war has done so far .

The stakes are at least as high . . A world dominated by representative governments with civil rights, human rights, and personal freedoms . . or a world dominated by a radical Islamic Wahhabi movement, by the Jihad, under the Mullahs and the Sharia (Islamic law) .

It's difficult to understand why the average American does not grasp this. They favor human rights, civil rights, liberty and freedom, but evidently not for Iraqis.

"Peace Activists" always seem to demonstrate here in America , where it's safe.

Why don't we see Peace Activist demonstrating in Iran , Syria , Iraq , Sudan , North Korea , in the places that really need peace activism the most? I'll tell you why! They would be killed!

The liberal mentality is supposed to favor human rights, civil rights, democracy, multiculturalism, diversity, etc . , but if the Jihad wins, wherever the Jihad wins, it is the end of civil rights, human rights, democracy, multiculturalism, diversity, etc.

Americans who oppose the liberation of Iraq are coming down on the side of their own worst enemy!

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Raymond S . Kraft is a writer living in Northern California that has studied the Middle Eastern culture and religion

What is Putin Up To................................

Over at American Thinker they have some great opinion pieces.

This one has a disturbing stat though, "A recent poll found only 16 percent of Russians surveyed want to see Western-style democracy remain in their country. Predictability is perhaps the greatest comfort to the average Russian."

The Awakening Russian Bear

The fearsome Russian Bear appears to be coming out of a 16-year hibernation. President Vladimir Putin says he wants to regain Russia's prominence in the world community, and his actions are backing up his words. Unencumbered by Marxist dogma, he is attempting to regain Russia's superpower status by the old Soviet method of intimidation.

Putin has directed the seizure of assets of the oil giant Yukos, and restricted oil supplies to Eastern Europe. But if he can decree such gross confiscation of property, then there is no rule of law and Russia's reforms mean nothing. Moreover, Moscow has drastically raised energy prices and threatened an oil cutoff in former client nations that have had the dared to pursue economic and political independence apart from Russia.

Putin sees Russia's vast petroleum reserves as more than a means to economic growth, but as an avenue to superpower status once again. Last year, Russia was the second-highest oil producer in the world after Saudi Arabia. Their GDP has grown at an average rate of 5.5% since 2000, largely by energy exports.

Now that world oil prices are high, and rising, his strategy is working. But if they fall, Russia will be in trouble, as was the USSR following the price collapse of oil in the 1980s.

Russians wearily remember the early days of democracy following the collapse of the USSR. That was a time when an erratic, and perhaps alcoholic President Yeltsin governed the country. It was a time when their money became worthless, and crime ran wild.

Most Russians would rather have a strong and secure nation than one that guarantees personal freedoms. This sentiment, and the growing economy, is the basis for Putin's broad popularity. A recent poll found only 16 percent of Russians surveyed want to see Western-style democracy remain in their country. Predictability is perhaps the greatest comfort to the average Russian.

Demographically, however, Russia is a nation that is slowly dying. The country has dwindling birthrates, and amazingly, declining life expectancy. That portends a bleak economic outlook unless they can leverage their energy resources to attain higher growth rates. This is Putin's strategy.....................more

America Divided

Ever notice how many great quotes our forefathers gave us? I mean real words to live by"give me liberty.......", "I regret I have but one life to give..........", words that stir feelings and patriotism.
All we get today are "I didn't inhale".

One quote that had an ominous ring then, has begun to have an ominous ring now, "A house divided against itself cannot stand".
Pretty Boy John said in '04, "there are two America's". What he meant was there one America that get's to live in houses that use up too much energy, and the rest of us live in the other kind...........

There is another division out there though, one that has been growing quietly now for sometime.
We find our self inching closer to a civil war, not necessarily one with guns (at least not yet), but one that will have a profound and lasting effect on our sovereignty, our lifestyle, our freedoms.
There are those that would have us believe that America is evil, that the foot print that it leaves on peoples lives is one that needs to be changed. That the traditions and values that founded this land are no longer valid, and are too restrictive and oppressive for us to continue to hold them up as a measuring stick for our actions as we move through out daily lives.

Who are these people that are selling the end of American sovereignty and why?

Years ago Karl Marx and friends fleshed out a plan for mankind, mostly because they didn't really want to work themselves, but they might want to enjoy the finer things in life. You know, the car's not running right, I'll pick up another one on the way home....................(I'm always wary of people who sit around in dark closets and plan everyone elses life for them).
Anyway those ideas seem so much easier and so much fairer......... course we're gonna need a group that understands the program to be sort of a central "guides"(government leaders) to direct things until everyone can navigate the program...................and who gets to be that group..............?

The bottom line is that this form of governing has been shown to be a miserable failure (unless you get to hold the reins) yet they keep running it at us year, after year, after year.......
They seemed to have dumbed down the populous so they don't recognize what's happening, they just think "it's not gonna cost me anything................." here comes social program after social program.

Our European brethren have many a social program....... plus 50% + taxes for everyone, unions, and 10-20% unemployment.................but you get a month off with pay and you never have to pay for a Dr............you get to wait in long lines, but you don't have to pay.

This seems to be the real 2 America's we're headed for..............one that carries on American traditions and one with their hand out.

I heard a good idea today on the radio, if your on welfare, you don't get to vote. Sounds a little harsh but after all if you don't pay taxes, why do you get to decide how taxes are spent.

Who will vote for the Dem's then??

The Call For Disarming America

Ten years ago, I was closing up a local fast food restaurant when out of the shadows a man came asking "where the money was". He was after the night deposit. The company policy was that those deposits were made the next morning, so all he got was what cash I had on me. Yes he had a gun, which strangely was probably good because of the way he had set things up. Had he not been carrying a pistol he would have probably hit me in the head with something heavy enough to do damage, serious damage.
It took the police 55min to arrive on the scene after they were called, no blood, no hurry.
The point is that the moment of truth you have no one there to help you but you. You must be willing to call up the spirit of wanting to live, to be able to draw another breath. Acts like this happen so fast that you do not have time to call someone, run away, or lock yourself in the car and drive off etc.
My grandfather, gone now 19yrs after living to be 91, used to tell me stories of having to pull a gun in self defense. Not that he ever shot someone, but the need was there, and having a weapon with him save his life. I don't remember in any of the stories him saying that the other party was threatening him with a gun, but the situations were dangerous enough just the same.
Wake up in the middle of the night and witness someone coming in your bedroom window, I'll bet they get to you before the police get to them.
Our jails are over crowded....... any idea why?.......................lots of bad people maybe?
I really think that some that cry for gun control never have seen the dark side of humanity. They are surrounded by yes people and high walls, none of which the rest of us get to enjoy.
They have never been alone in a situation that requires them to defend themselves, and believe me,"I have a phone and I'm calling the police" won't work.
Statistics tell us that a woman is raped in this country every 3-6 min, one happen while you were reading this, think any of these victims might have benefited from the presence of a firearm?
Guns are tools no better or worse than their owners, the amusing thing is that those that would round up all the guns think that outlaws will just turn theirs in also..............(why do you think they are called outlaws??)
The major thing is that those who would disarm us, say they will protect us..........the problem is......................we don't trust you..........have a nice day.

WP

ps The only form of gun control I support is that as stated by "the NUGE" "Gun control, the ability to put 2 bullets in the same hole" wp

VT

I just love this man's insight and comments, plain spoken and common sense...........rare today

"At least forty-eight rounds. At least 21 minutes. What if just one of those professors or students had themselves been armed?"

Harry aka "the Chicken" Reid

............"This war is lost"..................

What is this man thinking? One thing he was thinking was that nobody can walk up to him and whip his ass. The more I reflect on his words the worse it gets.
Nobody likes war, even though what American troops are doing now goes way past war. I mean when you think of a war, you think in term of massive troop movements, bombs dropping from the sky, objectives being taken, what we have here is a policing/reconstruction action.......Harry...
There are casualties still and of course the Pres. (the one the Demos hate) wants to up the troop commitment to flush out and end all this remote bombing. God forbid that anything Bush does ends up being the right thing to do.............
Anyway, we have troops in harms way and these type of comments have no place coming out of the mouths of elected officials, no matter how they feel about this conflict.
These comments go past a genuine feeling for America, they are directed to a block of voters that the Demo's hope will push them back into the driver seat in '08. I see it and I hope others will too.
By the way if this "war is lost".......Harry.....................prove it............

WP

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Sometimes you want to have a place where your own voice can be heard above the din of others. Where your rants can be fleshed out without the proverbial editing and adherence to the PC culture of other forums. This is that place.
The Pig Sty is a place where you can get down in the mud and track it all over, no one will yell if you get your feet on the cushions and there's a water hose outside........if we run out of mud.
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