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“Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future.”
-- Bourke Cockran



On This Day In History
October 11th

1899 - Boer War Begins In South Africa
The South African Boer War begins between the British Empire and the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State. The Boers, also known as Afrikaners, were the descendants of the original Dutch settlers of southern Africa. Britain took possession of the Dutch Cape colony in 1806 during the Napoleonic wars, sparking resistance from the independence-minded Boers, who resented the Anglicization of South Africa and Britain’s anti-slavery policies. In 1833, the Boers began an exodus into African tribal territory, where they founded the republics of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State. The two new republics lived peaceably with their British neighbors until 1867, when the discovery of diamonds and gold in the region made conflict between the Boer states and Britain inevitable. Minor fighting with Britain began in the 1890s, and in October 1899 full-scale war ensued. By mid June 1900, British forces had captured most major Boer cities and formally annexed their territories, but the Boers launched a guerrilla war that frustrated the British occupiers. Beginning in 1901, the British began a strategy of systematically searching out and destroying these guerrilla units, while herding the families of the Boer soldiers into concentration camps. By 1902, the British had crushed the Boer resistance, and on May 31 of that year the Peace of Vereeniging was signed, ending hostilities. The treaty recognized the British military administration over Transvaal and the Orange Free State and authorized a general amnesty for Boer forces. In 1910, the autonomous Union of South Africa was established by the British. It included Transvaal, the Orange Free State, the Cape of Good Hope, and Natal as provinces.

1939 - A letter from Albert Einstein was delivered to President Franklin D. Roosevelt concerning the possibility of atomic weapons.

1968 - The first staffed Apollo mission, Apollo 7, was launched with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Fulton Eisele, and R. Walter Cunningham aboard.

1984 - Space shuttle Challenger astronaut, Kathryn Sullivan, became the first American woman to walk in space.



Today’s Birthdays

Eleanor Roosevelt, (1884–1962), American humanitarian, wife of FDR
Jerome Robbins, (1918–98), American choreographer and dancer

Thanks to The Quotations Page - The History Channel - InfoPlease.


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 10/11/2004 at 01:45 AM   
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Putting The Left In Perspective:
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BMEWS Member - Joe R.
(Illegitimi Non Carborundum)

One of the toughest goals to achieve in political discourse, I believe, is to remain focused on the facts and not to be trapped in ideology. When one becomes trapped in ideology, one’s views, no matter how factually supported, can be seen as one those of a “Kool-Aid drinker” - you know, all those Clintonista-types that gave their smooth-talking charlatan/messiah a pass on everything, and who now chant the “anybody but Bush” mantra echoed by the Hollywood elites and other neo-Bolsheviks on the left.  And, to be fair, there are those who think that President Bush and the Republican party are the answer to everything. Both positions are not desirable for a critical, independent thinker ....

My position is simple:  I love America, and I despise, no, I HATE the left - period.  The left will tell you that they love America, too, but I have found that their idea of “America” is drastically different than mine.  Many leftists feel that America should resemble more of Canada or Western Europe in its domestic and foreign policy; even the other day I heard one remark that the founding fathers were, “liberals, not stupid conservatives.” So, armed with misinformation and revisionist history, they have embarked on a mission for the last 75 years to restructure this nation’s values in a utopian image of what it could be, based not, however, on its traditional values, but (I’ll say it because few others will) on the “values” presented by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and Nietzsche (many of whose ideas were incorporated by the former two).

As in any movement, there are the architects, those with the actual design, or plan, and the followers of the movement to whom that movement’s ideas are meant to appeal.  Any anti-establishment movement must, by design, either possess or create a class of victims, disenfranchised (even if only through perception) by the status quo.  That is the root of leftist philosophy - class struggle leading to class warfare leading to redistribution of wealth and property (exempting, of course, the ruling class).  Specifically, Lenin knew this as he saw communism drift across the waters to the USA and thusly referred to the American Left as “useful idiots.” He and other communists here and abroad, immediately realized that America’s rights of free speech could be used against itself by those who sought to exploit those rights to the furthering of a given agenda.  They realized in time that a communist invasion of the military kind was increasingly unlikely, so they sought to change minds and hearts, by infecting the body politic, the body academic, and the body civic gradually, over the course of many generations.  Once enough people are “re-educated” and they significantly displace the rest of us, the job is over, the battle is won with hardly a shot fired.  So, with Noam Chomsky (Minister of “Truth") leading the academic wing, Michael Moore (Minister of Propaganda) and the other Hollywood idiots leading the propaganda wing, and the ACLU (Ministry of Justice) leading the civic/legal wing, the enemy seeks to promote it’s political wing to the White House.

So, what does this have to do with the election of 2004?  Everything.  This, my friends, is the last gasp of hope we have as traditional Americans.  Not because President Bush is such an outstanding president who understands these things - I don’t think he does or cares as he has a war to prosecute against an elusive yet very real enemy.  But John Kerry knows these things.  He was and is still a part of the communist movement in the USA.  He is the Manchurian candidate if there ever was one.  He spoke out against the war in Vietnam prior to going over there with a political agenda to work the system:  Write oneself up for commendations based on questionable circumstances at best (I am being nice here); leave the scene as quickly as possible; then come back home (subsequently going to Paris to meet with NVA officials while on his first honeymoon) and commit treason and perjury while still an active duty officer in the US Navy.

Here are some post-war activities the Senator and some of his pals engaged in.

For analysts like Bill O’Reilly to refer to Kerry as a “patriot” is a slap in the face to every man and woman, living or dead, who has served our nation honorably and proudly; and it will not get O’Reilly that interview he so desperately wants with the Senator.  To give Kerry a pass on his seditious acts as a result of “youth” is shameful.  Sorry, Bill, but at Sen. Kerry’s age then, I was a United States Marine serving in Somalia, fully responsible for my actions.  Oh, let us not forget, either, Kerry’s trip to Nicaragua with Sen.

Tom Harkin in the early 80’s when he met with Daniel Ortega, returned to the senate, and voted against funding for the Contras.  At almost the same time the bill was shot down, Ortega got on a plane to Moscow to collect $20 million to fund his war.

Read it here.

My friends, the choice should be overwhelmingly clear next month.  Take a look at who is funding and backing Kerry, then at Bush.  Who do you identify with more?  Even if you believe in the “extreme right-wing Christian conspiracy” or a “war for Haliburton” behind the President, do they scare you more than an internationalist-socialist with an anti-American past and present?  If so, please move to Canada where they have every cradle-to-grave government entitlement you seek for this nation, and leave us here to struggle to preserve our American traditions and destroy the Islamic scum that threaten our very way of life.

Do I sound like I am slipping into ideology?  Perhaps; but that does not negate the facts.  It only makes it tougher for those on the other side to accept. Noam Chomsky and I might agree on many “facts,” but our respective interpretaion of those same facts lead us to drastically differing conclusions.

Chomsky would call me a jingoistic, right-wing imperialist.  I would call him a comfortably tenured and insulated, anti-American academic with little (if any) real-world experience outside the classroom at MIT.  I don’t wish him any ill will; only that he puts his money where his mouth is and leave the country with the rest of his cancerous, left wing polyps.

This nation barely survived the radical communist movement of the 1930’s, then the 60’s (during which Chomsky was a vocal anti-American rabble rouser in the streets), but has continued to slip slowly to the left since then.  Consider the following, written by Professor Alexander Tyler while the thirteen original colonies were still a part of the British Empire, regarding the fall of the Athenian Republic:

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship.”

“The average age of the world’s great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage.”

We stand on a precipice now.  Jumping off the cliff with a vote for Kerry will place us so far to the left that the only recovery, I fear, will be the rise of a true dictator and another civil war in the next 20 to 50 years.  Or, you can hold your ground at the cliff’s edge and stand up for our America, not some perversion of America resembling a quasi-socialist welfare society.  Do not let these people win at the ballot box that which they could not win in the streets during the 1960’s (and are still trying to win today in the courts by judicial fiat).  They may be a bit older, but they are still the same.  They may have turned in their protest signs for law degrees, but they are still the same.

They may have burned their tattered bluejeans for Armani suits, but they are still the same.  They are communists who will stop at nothing to destroy the fabric of this country.  Will you let them?

Joe

“Let me remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; And let me also remind you that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.”
-- Senator Barry Goldwater


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Posted by Illegitimi Non Carborundum   United States  on 10/10/2004 at 03:34 PM   
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A Hat-Trick For President Bush

Another one from Steel that talks about unemployment numbers.  Steel’s the busy little beaver out mining other blogs for gems.  Thanks, man!

This first one goes into the labor statistics related to various presidents.  It shows the changes in the numbers during election years starting with Eisenhower.  I must admit, I thought some of the periods look cherry picked so I went here to get the raw data (click on unemployment rates) and if you review the missing numbers from Jayson’s site you’ll understand they added no significance to his findings based on history (assassination of Kennedy, resignation of Nixon, futility of Agnew and Ford, etc.)

Based on his conclusions and with the unemployment rate for earlier this year being over 6% and now down to 5.4%, Bush SHOULD win re-election.

Jayson’s second post deals with discouraged worker numbers related to unemployment. Another slam dunk for Bush.

Even more damning is Chris’s post about GDP growth, unemployment, home prices and inflation rates.

In almost every case, the numbers reflect tremendously on President Bush and what he’s done for the economy.  He gets a hat trick with these.

See for yourself.

This Jayson guy is now a MUST READ for me every day.

You’d do well to check them all out to include the links he provides.


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Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler   United States  on 10/10/2004 at 09:18 AM   
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THE PLAN

Thanks to Steel for this post.  I wish I had thought to do the same thing with Kerry’s monologues/responses.

Kerry is a man full of plans---but no substance.  Here’s a small example of his “plans.” Try finding some substance in it or any indication of how he plans to pay for any of it. 


I have a plan to put people back to work

I’ve proposed a plan that can capture it and contain it and clean it within four years

You can pull it off of the Internet. And you’ll find a tort reform plan

I have a plan to lower the cost of health care for you

I have a plan to cover all children

I have a plan to let you buy into the same health care senators and congressmen give themselves

The only people affected by my plan are the top income earners of America

We’ve got to create the products of the future. That’s why I have a plan for energy independence within 10 years

I have a plan that will help us go out and kill and find the terrorists

I have a plan to provide for our schools

I have a plan to protect the environment

Now go to Chris’s site and read the rest.


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Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler   United States  on 10/10/2004 at 08:54 AM   
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Funny Stuff

Got this from my friend, Joanny.  It’s from the Jib/Jab guys who brought you the hilarious “this land is your land.”

This new one is probably even better. Well worth the download wait (if you’re like me and too cheap to get cable!)


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Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler   United States  on 10/10/2004 at 07:09 AM   
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Anyone Follow Golf?

Do you ever sit back and wonder, “gee, what the hell is wrong with Tiger Woods?  He used to win all the championships and now it seems like he can barely get the ball in the cup?”

Well, bucko, take a gander at these and then you’ll know a “cup” is the last thing he’s interested in getting his balls into. (golf balls, that is!)

HEY, get your mind out of the gutter!!!  NOW!!!

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Tip o’ the hat to Alan S.


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Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler   United States  on 10/10/2004 at 06:54 AM   
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How To Tell If Your Computer Is Pissed Off At You

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Hat tip to Joanny!


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Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler   United States  on 10/10/2004 at 06:49 AM   
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Daily Dose

Quote Of The Day

“The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.”
-- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)



On This Day In History
October 10th

732 - Battle Of Tours, Muslims Defeated In Europe - By French, No Less
At the Battle of Tours near Poitiers, France, Frankish leader Charles Martel, a Christian, defeats a large army of Spanish Moors, halting the Muslim advance into Western Europe. Abd-ar-Rahman, the Muslim governor of Cordoba, was killed in the fighting, and the Moors retreated from Gaul, never to return in such force. Charles was the illegitimate son of Pepin, the powerful mayor of the palace of Austrasia and effective ruler of the Frankish kingdom. After Pepin died in 714 (with no surviving legitimate sons), Charles beat out Pepin’s three grandsons in a power struggle and became mayor of the Franks. He expanded the Frankish territory under his control and in 732 repulsed an onslaught by the Muslims. Victory at Tours ensured the ruling dynasty of Martel’s family, the Carolingians. His son Pepin became the first Carolingian king of the Franks, and his grandson Charlemagne carved out a vast empire that stretched across Europe.

1845 - The U.S. Naval Academy opened in Annapolis, Md.

1886 - The tuxedo dinner jacket made its debut at a ball in Tuxedo Park, N.Y.

1935 - George Gershwin’s opera Porgy and Bess debuted on Broadway.

1943 - Chiang Kai-shek took the oath of office as president of China.

1970 - Fiji gained its independence from Great Britain.

1973 - Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned after being charged with tax evasion.

1985 - Actor and director Orson Welles died in Hollywood at age 70.



Today’s Birthdays

James Clavell, (1924–1994), (Charles Edmund DuMaresq de Clavelle), screenwriter, director, producer, novelist
Helen Hayes, (1900-1993), Actress
Thelonious Monk, (1917-1982), Jazz pianist, composer, arranger
Brett Favre, (1969- ), Football quarterback

Thanks to The Quotations Page - The History Channel - InfoPlease.


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 10/10/2004 at 12:39 AM   
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calendar   Saturday - October 09, 2004

This Is Too Rich

Surely you’ve all heard about how Halloween mask sales are a predictor of success in the Presidential races, right?

If not, click here and here.

But what has me rolling on the floor laughing with the irony of it all is a recent news report which said Bush was in the lead but only because there were so few Kerry masks available.  The news puke then goes on to say the situation will be ameliorated soon with the recent arrival of new Kerry masks and the continued manufacture of same.........................by a FRENCH company!!!

PLEASE. PLEASE, PLEASE!!  Does anyone have a link to verify this?  Please feel free to comment on this irony as you see fit!


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Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler   United States  on 10/09/2004 at 11:24 AM   
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Barking Moonbat Of The Week Award

What is it with the wives of Democrat politicians? It seems that every damned one of them feels the need to suddenly become a political activist in her own right when hubby runs for office. Most of these bimbos have absolutely no experience in politics but they feel the need to join hubby bashing his opponents as if they might have a clue what they are talking about. First we had to contend with Hillary .... now we have the “Ketchup Queen” giving us the benefit of her political knowledge ("Bush=BAD; Kerry=GOOD; Vote correctly, peasants!"). Here she is, shown below demonstrating the Vulcan Nerve Pinch that she plans to apply to President Bush if her husband loses ....

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Awarded To:
Teresa Heinz Kerry



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Bill And Hillary At The World Series

Bill and Hillary are at the Yankee’s World Series Game 6; sitting in the first row, with the Secret Service people directly behind them.

One of the Secret Service guys leans forward and says something to Bill.

First, Clinton stares at the guy, looks at Hillary, looks back at the agent, and shakes his head violently no.

The agent then said, “Mr. President, it was an unanimous request from the owner of the team to the bat boy.”

What really gets Bill going is when the agent tells him the fans would love it!

So Bill just shrugs his shoulders and says, “If that is what the people want.”

Bill gets up, grabs Hillary by her collar and the seat of her pants, and drops her right over the wall into the field.

She gets up kicking, swearing, screaming, and the crowd goes wild.

They’re cheering, applauding, and high-fiving.

Bill is bowing and smiling, and leans over to the agent and says, “You were right, I would have never believed that!”

Then noticing the agent has gone totally pale, he asks what is wrong.

The agent replies, “Sir, I said, they want you to throw out the first PITCH!”

(-- thanks to Renee)


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 10/09/2004 at 09:12 AM   
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Don’t Forget!!!

Yesterday I posted this entry dealing with one of our younger readers, Jen, who is in basic training (not “boot camp” which is for Marines and Navy guys) and will be celebrating her birthday on the 12th.

Click on the link above, send her a comment or better yet, grab her address and send her a card.

Basic training can be a lonely place and I am sure she’ll appreciate hearing from the folks who frequent this site!


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Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler   United States  on 10/09/2004 at 08:37 AM   
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How Do You Score?

Go ahead.  Take the test. Please be honest while doing so and answer the questions with your true convictions.

Then come back and tell us what you got!

We’ll let you know our scores later but won’t do so know so as to not give you any “perforamnce anxiety.” bwah ha ha ha!

(thanks to Steel for the link!)


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Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler   United States  on 10/09/2004 at 07:15 AM   
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On The Light Side

Thanks to Dick for this!


A young boy went up to his father and asked him, “Dad, what is the difference between potentially and realistically?”

The father thought for a moment, then answered, “Go ask your mother if she would sleep with Brad Pitt for a million dollars.”

“Then ask your sister if she would sleep with Brad Pitt for a million dollars, and then, ask your brother if he’d sleep with Brad Pitt for a million dollars. Come back and tell me what you learn from that.”

So the boy went to his mother and asked, “Would you sleep with Brad Pitt for a million dollars? 

“The mother replied, “Of course I would! We could really use that money to fix up the house and send you kids to a great University!”

The boy then went to his sister and asked, “Would you sleep with Brad Pitt for a million dollars?”

The girl replied, “Oh my God! I LOVE Brad Pitt. I would sleep with him in a heartbeat, are you nuts?!?!?”

The boy then went to his brother and asked, “Would you sleep with Brad Pitt for a million dollars?”

“Of course,” the brother replied. “Do you know how much a million bucks would buy?”

The boy pondered the answers for a few days, then went back to his dad. His father asked him, “Did you find out the difference between potentially and realistically?”

The boy replied,

“Yes… Potentially, you and I are sitting on Three Million Dollars..............

but Realistically,......... we’re living with two Sluts and a Queer.


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Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler   United States  on 10/09/2004 at 07:10 AM   
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