Sunday - October 03, 2004

DO YOU KNOW WHAT LOSING WILL MEAN?

The following was written by someone whose identity I wish I knew so I could credit him/her.  It’s long but helps explain what we are doing and why we need to keep doing it.

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To get out of a difficulty, one usually must go through it. Our country is now facing the most serious threat to its existence, as we know it, that we have faced in your lifetime and mine (which includes WWII).

The deadly seriousness is greatly compounded by the fact that there are very few of us who think we can possibly lose this war and even fewer who realize what losing really means.

First, let’s examine a few basics:

1. When did the threat to us start?  Many will say September 11th, 2001.  The answer as far as the United States is concerned is 1979, 22 years prior to September 2001, with the following attacks on us:  Iran Embassy Hostages, 1979; Beirut, Lebanon Embassy 1983; Beirut, Lebanon Marine Barracks 1983; Lockerbie, Scotland Pan-Am flight to New York 1988; First New York World Trade Center attack 1993; Dhahran, Saudi Arabia Khobar Towers Military complex 1996; Nairobi, Kenya US Embassy 1998; Dar es Salaam, Tanzania US Embassy 1998; Aden, Yemen USS Cole 2000; New York World Trade Center 2001; Pentagon 2001.  (Note that during the period from 1981 to 2001 there were 7,581 terrorist attacks worldwide).

2. Why were we attacked? Envy of our position, our success, and our freedoms.  The attacks happened during the administrations of Presidents Carter, Reagan, Bush 1, Clinton and Bush 2.  We cannot fault either the Republicans or Democrats as there were no provocations by any of the presidents or their immediate predecessors, Presidents Ford or Carter.

3. Who were the attackers?  In each case, the attacks on the US were carried out by Muslims.

4. What is the Muslim population of the World? 25%

5. Isn’t the Muslim Religion peaceful?  Hopefully, but that is really not material.  There is no doubt that the predominately Christian population of Germany was peaceful, but under the dictatorial leadership of Hitler (who was also Christian), that made no difference.  You either went along with the administration or you were eliminated.  There were 5 to 6 million Christians killed by the Nazis for political reasons (including 7,000 Polish priests). (see here) Thus, almost the same number of Christians were killed by the Nazis, as the 6 million holocaust Jews who were killed by them, and we seldom heard of anything other than the Jewish atrocities.  Although Hitler kept the world focused on the Jews, he had no hesitancy about killing anyone who got in his way of exterminating the Jews or of taking over the world - German, Christian or any others.  Same with the Muslim terrorists.  They focus the world on the US, but kill all in the way - their own people or the Spanish, French or anyone else..  The point here is that just like the peaceful Germans were of no protection to anyone from the Nazis, no matter how many peaceful Muslims there may be, they are no protection for us from the terrorist Muslim leaders and what they are fanatically bent on doing - by their own pronouncements - killing all of us “infidels”.  I don’t blame the peaceful Muslims.  What would you do if the choice was shut up or die?

6. So who are we at war with?  There is no way we can honestly respond that it is anyone other than the Muslim terrorists.  Trying to be politically correct and avoid verbalizing this conclusion can well be fatal.  There is no way to win if you don’t clearly recognize and articulate who you are fighting.

So with that background, now to the two major questions: 

1. Can we lose this war?
2. What does losing really mean?

If we are to win, we must clearly answer these two pivotal questions.

We can definitely lose this war, and as anomalous as it may sound, the major reason we can lose is that so many of us simply do not fathom the answer to the second question - What does losing mean? It would appear that a great many of us think that losing the war means hanging our heads, bringing the troops home and going on about our business, like post Vietnam. This is as far from the truth as one can get. What losing really means is:

We would no longer be the premier country in the world. The attacks will not subside, but rather will steadily increase. Remember, they want us dead, not just quiet.  If they had just wanted us quiet, they would not have produced an increasing series of attacks against us over the past 18 years. The plan was clearly to terrorist attack us until we were neutered and submissive to them.

We would of course have no future support from other nations for fear of reprisals and for the reason that they would see we are impotent and cannot help them.

They will pick off the other non-Muslim nations, one at a time. It will be increasingly easier for them.  They already hold Spain hostage. It doesn’t matter whether it was right or wrong for Spain to withdraw its troops from Iraq. Spain did it because the Muslim terrorists bombed their train and told them to withdraw the troops. Anything else they want Spain to do, will be done. Spain is finished.

The next will probably be France. Our one hope on France is that they might see the light and realize that if we don’t win, they are finished too, in that they can’t resist the Muslim terrorists without us. However, it may already be too late for France. France is already 20% Muslim and fading fast.

If we lose the war, our production, income, exports and way of life will all vanish as we know it. After losing, who would trade or deal with us if they were threatened by the Muslims. If we can’t stop the Muslims, how could anyone else? The Muslims fully know what is riding on this war and therefore are completely committed to winning at any cost. We better know it too and be likewise committed to winning at any cost.

Why do I go on at such lengths about the results of losing? Simple. Until we recognize the costs of losing, we cannot unite and really put 100% of our thoughts and efforts into winning.  And it is going to take that 100% effort to win.

So, how can we lose the war? Again, the answer is simple. We can lose the war by imploding. That is, defeating ourselves by refusing to recognize the enemy and their purpose and really digging in and lending full support to the war effort. If we are united, there is no way that we can lose.  If we continue to be divided, there is no way that we can win.

Let me give you a few examples of how we simply don’t comprehend the life and death seriousness of this situation.

- President Bush selects Norman Mineta as Secretary of Transportation. Although all of the terrorist attacks were committed by Muslim men between 17 and 40 years of age, Secretary Mineta refuses to allow profiling. Does that sound like we are taking this thing seriously? This is war. For the duration we are going to have to give up some of the civil rights we have become accustomed to. We had better be prepared to lose some of our civil rights temporarily or we will most certainly lose all of them permanently.

And don’t worry that it is a slippery slope. We gave up plenty of civil rights during WWII and immediately restored them after the victory and in fact added many more since then. Do I blame President Bush or President Clinton before him? No, I blame us for blithely assuming we can maintain all of our Political Correctness and all of our civil rights during this conflict and have a clean, lawful, honorable war. None of those words apply to war. Get them out of your head.

- Some have gone so far in their criticism of the war and/or the Administration that it almost seems they would literally like to see us lose. I hasten to add that this isn’t because they are disloyal. It is because they just don’t recognize what losing means. Nevertheless, that conduct gives the impression to the enemy that we are divided and weakening, it concerns our friends, and it does great damage to our cause.

- Of more recent vintage, the uproar fueled by the politicians and media regarding the treatment of some prisoners of war perhaps exemplifies best what I am saying. We have recently had an issue involving the treatment of a few Muslim prisoners of war by a small group of our military police. These are the type prisoners who just a few months ago were throwing their own people off buildings, cutting off their hands, cutting out their tongues and otherwise murdering their own people just for disagreeing with Saddam Hussein. And just a few years ago these same type prisoners chemically killed 400,000 of their own people for the same reason. They are also the same type enemy fighters who recently were burning Americans and dragging their charred corpses through the streets of Iraq. And still more recently the same type enemy that was and is providing videos to all news sources internationally, of the beheading of American prisoners they held. Compare this with some of our press and politicians who for several days have thought and talked about nothing else but the “humiliating” of some Muslim prisoners - not burning them, not dragging their charred corpses through the streets, not beheading them, but “humiliating” them. Can this be for real? The politicians and pundits have even talked of impeachment of the Secretary of Defense. If this doesn’t show the complete lack of comprehension and understanding of the seriousness of the enemy we are fighting, the life and death struggle we are in and the disastrous results of losing this war, nothing can. To bring our country to a virtual political standstill over this prisoner issue makes us look like Nero playing his fiddle as Rome burned - totally oblivious to what is going on in the real world.  Neither we, nor any other country, can survive this internal strife.

Again I say, this does not mean that some of our politicians or media people are disloyal.  It simply means that they absolutely oblivious to the magnitude of the situation we are in and into which the Muslim terrorists have been pushing us for many years.  Remember, the Muslim terrorists stated goal is to kill all infidels!  That translates into all non-Muslims - not just in the United States, but throughout the world.  We are the last bastion of defense.

- We have been criticized for many years as being ‘arrogant’. That charge is valid in at least one respect.  We are arrogant in that we believe that we are so good, powerful and smart, that we can win the hearts and minds of all those who attack us, and that with both hands tied behind our back, we can defeat anything bad in the world. 

We can’t. If we don’t recognize this, our nation as we know it will not survive, and no other free country in the World will survive if we are defeated.  And finally, name any Muslim countries throughout the world that allow freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom of religion, freedom of the Press, equal rights for anyone - let alone everyone, equal status or any status for women, or that have been productive in one single way that contributes to the good of the world.

This has been a long way of saying that we must be united on this war or we will be equated in the history books to the self-inflicted fall of the Roman Empire.  If, that is, the Muslim leaders will allow history books to be written or read.

If we don’t win this war right now, keep a close eye on how the Muslims take over France in the next 5 years or less.  They will continue to increase the Muslim population of France and continue to encroach little by ! little on the established French traditions. The French will be fighting among themselves over what should or should not be done, which will continue to weaken them and keep them from any united resolve. Doesn’t that sound eerily familiar?

Democracies don’t have their freedoms taken away from them by some external military force. Instead, they give their freedoms away, politically correct piece by politically correct piece. And they are giving those freedoms away to those who have shown, worldwide, that they abhor freedom and will not apply it to you or even to themselves, once they are in power. They have universally shown that when they have taken over, they then start brutally killing each other over who will be the few who control the masses. Will we ever stop hearing from the politically correct, about the “peaceful Muslims”?

I close on a hopeful note, by repeating what I said above. If we are united, there is no way that we can lose. I believe that after the election, the factions in our country will begin to focus on the critical situation we are in and will unite to save our country. It is your future we are talking about. Do whatever you can to preserve it.

Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler     on 10/03/2004 at 05:54 AM   
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On A Serious Note

Here are three posts on one of my favorite topics---education.

We start with a something many teachers probably have felt like doing.  After all, they say that teaching is a shitty job, right?  Well, they were not kidding.

If you ever held out any hope that universities might be leaning jusat a bit to the right, allow me to dispel those pipe dreams.

Check out the HUGE imbalance between university professors donating to the Dems as opposed to those donating to the Republicans.

Of course, it does not help me temper my feelings that universoity professors are elitist snobs when I read this:

“Does it surprise me that smart people should be supporting Kerry?” Appel (a science prodessor) said. “No.”

Black community “leaders” and many democratic senators and congressmen will not allow Washington D.C. schools to use vouchers so that poor Black kids can get a shot at a better education.  Every time it comes up for a vote, the NEA speaks up and exerts pressure on these shitbags posing as “defenders of the poor, minorities, and underprivileged.”

That’s a fact.  Take it to the bank.

Want to know another fact? Twenty five percent of public school teachers in D.C. and Baltimore send their kids to private schools.

Must be a link somewhere. Ya’ think?!?!?!?!

Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler     on 10/03/2004 at 05:46 AM   
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Reminder

Just a reminder that Allan is still AWOL and for all intents and purposes, in an hour or so, I will be, too.

So if you are bored today with little to read on the site, try some of these activities to stay busy.

Apply for a Unicorn Hunting License.
Boil ice cream.
Build a pyramid.
Bury your father’s Nissan.
Call strangers and ask for advice.
Call strangers and give advice.
Carve your girl/boyfriends initials...in a marshmallow.
Challenge the neighbor kid to duel.
Change your name...daily.
Climb a sidewalk.
Collect dust.
Confess to a crime that you didn’t commit.
Count ants.
Dial 911...breath heavily.
Dress like your favorite Heavy Metal group...surprise your grandmother.
Drive the speed limit...in your garage.
Give your cat a mohawk.
Go for a walk...in the attic.
Have your car painted plaid.
Join Hell’s Angels by mail.
Learn to type...with your toes.
Mow your carpet.
Paint your home...day-glo orange.
Pay off the national debt...with a bad check.
Pinstripe your driveway.
Put legwarmers on all your furniture.
Rearrange all the produce at the salad bar.
Rearrange political campaign signs.
Subscribe other people to magazines.
Take your sofa for a walk.
Talk to homeless people.
Test thin ice...with a pogo stick. 

Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler     on 10/03/2004 at 05:42 AM   
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Not Really “NEW” News………….

Sorry, Cubcake fans.  Maybe “next” year.  Or “next” or “next” or “next” or “next” or “next” or........  (you get the picture.)

But, what the hell, we all expected it, eh?

Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler     on 10/03/2004 at 05:40 AM   
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An Oldie But Goodie

Imagine a scenario where Fuckface gets elected.

Now imagine the probablities of this occuring:

AMERICANS WITH NO ABILITIES ACT PASSES CONGRESS----May 23, 2005

WASHINGTON, DC (AP) - Congress approved sweeping legislation,which provides new benefits for many Americans. The Americans With no Abilities Act (AWNAA), signed into law by President John Kerry shortly after its passage, is being hailed as a major victory by advocates of the millions of Americans who lack any real skills or ambition.

“Roughly 50 percent of Americans do not possess the competence and drive necessary to carve out a meaningful role for themselves in society,” said Kerry, a longtime AWNAA supporter.

“This is why many of them voted for me. We can no longer stand by and allow People of Inability to be ridiculed and passed over.  With this legislation, employers will no longer be able to grant special favors to a small group of workers, simply because they do a better job, or have some idea of what they are doing”, said Kerry.

President Kerry pointed to the success of the US Postal Service, which has a long-standing policy of providing opportunity without regard to performance. Approximately 80 percent of postal employees lack job skills, making this agency the single largest US employer of Persons of Inability.

Private sector industries with good records of nondiscrimination against the Inept include retail sales (72%), the airline industry (68%),and home improvement “warehouse” stores (65%).

President Kerry has also set an example, personally selecting hundreds of Nonabled people for top government positions, including many cabinet-level jobs.

Under the Americans With No Abilities Act, more than 25 million “middle man” positions will be created, with important-sounding titles but little real responsibility, thus providing an illusory sense of purpose and performance.

Mandatory non-performance-based raises and promotions will be given, to guarantee upward mobility for even the most unremarkable employees. The legislation provides substantial tax breaks to corporations which maintain a significant level of Persons of Inability in top positions, and gives a tax credit to small and medium businesses that agree to hire one clueless worker for every two talented hires.

Finally, the AWNAA contains tough new measures to make it more difficult to discriminate against the Nonabled, banning discriminatory interview questions such as “Do you have any goals for the future?” or “Do you have any skills or experience which relate to this job?” and “Are you awake?”

“As a Nonabled person, I can’t be expected to keep up with people who have something going for them,” said Mary Lou Gertz, who lost her position as a lug-nut twister at the GM plant in Flint, MI due to her lack of notable job skills.

“This new law should really help people like me.”

With the passage of this bill, Gertz and millions of other untalented citizens can finally see a light at the end of the tunnel.

Said Kerry, “It is our duty as lawmakers to provide each and every American citizen, regardless of his or her adequacy, with some sort of space to take up in this great nation.”

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The Daily Dose

Quote Of The Day

“ A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. ”
-- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

1990—East and West Germany reunite after 45 years

Less than one year after the destruction of the Berlin Wall, East and West Germany come together on what is known as “Unity Day.” Since 1945, when Soviet forces occupied eastern Germany, and the United States and other Allied forces occupied the western half of the nation at the close of World War II, divided Germany had come to serve as one of the most enduring symbols of the Cold War. Some of the most dramatic episodes of the Cold War took place there. The Berlin Blockade (June 1948-May 1949), during which the Soviet Union blocked all ground travel into West Berlin, and the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 were perhaps the most famous. With the gradual waning of Soviet power in the late 1980s, the Communist Party in East Germany began to lose its grip on power. Tens of thousands of East Germans began to flee the nation, and by late 1989 the Berlin Wall started to come down. Shortly thereafter, talks between East and West German officials, joined by officials from the United States, Great Britain, France, and the USSR, began to explore the possibility of reunification. Two months following reunification, all-German elections took place and Helmut Kohl became the first chancellor of the reunified Germany. Although this action came more than a year before the dissolution of the Soviet Union, for many observers the reunification of Germany effectively marked the end of the Cold War.

Today’s Birthdays

Thomas Wolfe, (1900), American Novelist
Emily Price Post, (1873), Authority In Etiquette
Gore Vidal, (1929), Writer
Dave Winfield, (1951), Baseball Player

_{Thanks to The Quotations Page - The History Channel - InfoPlease.}

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   Saturday - October 02, 2004

I Could Not Have Said It Better!!!!!

A direct quote from Lillian Carter (Jimmy “Peanut” Carter’s mother):

“When I look at my children, sometimes I wish I remained a virgin.”

Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler     on 10/02/2004 at 06:06 AM   
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Neither Rain, Nor Sleet….

But hell, a hail of bullets? I would not deliver letters there either.

Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler     on 10/02/2004 at 05:59 AM   
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FLASH!!! NEWS UPDATE!!!

Cubcakes choke!!!  Championship hopes going down in flames!!

(ooooh, nevermind, just been told that’s nothing new.  Sorry.  Stale news.  Forgot it happens every year.  Same ole, same ole, ya’ know!)

BWAH HA HA HA HA

Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler     on 10/02/2004 at 05:54 AM   
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Feeling Bold

I’m walking out on a limb here but hurricane forecasters have come out to say that Florida should be in the clear insofar as further hurricame activity goes this year.

In light of that, I thought it appropriate that I should post this, contributed by Ric, which helps define whether or not you might be a Floridian.

Let’s hope the “hurricane gods” don’t think I’m being too flip and throw another one our way.... (squats in front of ceremonial firepit, makes offerings of Cubs and Cards memorobilia, mumbles chants, dances deliriously, yells, “GO YANKEES!!!!!”...........then faints)

You exhibit a slight twitch when introduced to anyone with the first names of Charley, Frances, Ivan or Jeanne.

Your freezer never has more than $20 worth of food in it any given time.

You’re looking at paint swatches for the plywood on your windows, to accent the house color

You think of your hall closet/safe room as “cozy”

Your pool is more accurately described as “framed in” than “screened in”

Your freezer in the garage now only has homemade ice in it

You no longer worry about relatives visiting during the summer months

You, too, haven’t heard back from the insurance adjuster

You now understand what that little “2% hurricane deductible” phrase really means, ( If your lucky enough to still have the 2%, which mysteriously went to 5% )

You’re putting a collage together on your driveway of roof shingles from your neighborhood

You were once proud of your 16” electric chain saw

Your Street has more than 3 “NO WAKE” signs posted

You now own 5 large ice chests

Your parrot can now say” hammered, pounded and hunker down”

You recognize people in line at the free ice, gas and plywood locations

You stop what you’re doing and clap and wave when you see a convoy of power company trucks come down your street

You’re depressed when they don’t stop

You have the personal cell phone numbers of the managers for: plywood, roofing supplies and generators at Home Depot on your speed dialer

You’ve spent more than $20 on “Tall white kitchen bags” to make your own sand bags

You’re considering upgrading your 16” to a 20” chainsaw

You know what “Bar chain oil” is

You’re thinking of getting your wife the hard hat with the ear protector and face shield for Christmas

You now think the $6000 whole house generator seems reasonable

You look forward to discussions about the merits of “cubed, block and dry ice”

Your therapist refers to your condition as “generator envy”

You fight the urge to put on your winter coat and wool cap and parade around in front of your picture window, when you finally get power and your neighbor across the street, with the noisy generator, doesn’t get electric

You ask your sister up north to start saving the Sunday Real Estate classifieds!

Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler     on 10/02/2004 at 05:45 AM   
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A Slow Day

Things will be a bit slow at BMEWS this weekend.  Allan went south to stay with family and I will be out with my sister and her husband who came down from New England to visit us.

I will try and post stuff early AM and late PM depending on activities scheduled.

Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler     on 10/02/2004 at 05:42 AM   
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The Daily Dose

Quote Of The Day

“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.” —John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)

1780 - British spy executed in Arnold affair

During the American War for Independence, British Major John Andre is hanged as a spy by U.S. military forces in Tappan, New York.

Ten days before, Andre had been apprehended by three highwaymen sympathetic to the Patriot cause, and they turned him over to U.S. authorities after finding intelligence information hidden in his boot. The intelligence papers revealed that Andre was returning from a secret meeting with U.S. General Benedict Arnold, who, as the commander of West Point, had offered to surrender the strategic Hudson River fort for a bribe of 20,000 pounds sterling. With the plot uncovered, Arnold fled to the British warship Vulture and joined the British in their fight against his country. Benedict Arnold had been a hero of the Patriot cause, distinguishing himself in a number of battles, but henceforth his name became synonymous with the word “traitor” in American speech. He died in London in 1801.

1836 Darwin returns to England

The British naturalist Charles Darwin returns to Falmouth, England, aboard the HMS Beagle, ending a five-year surveying expedition of the southern Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Visiting such diverse places as Brazil, the Galapagos Islands, and New Zealand, Darwin acquired an intimate knowledge of the flora, fauna, and geology of many lands. This information proved invaluable in the development of his theory of evolution, first put forth in his groundbreaking scientific work of 1859, The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.

Darwin’s theory argued that organisms gradually evolve through a process he called “natural selection.” In natural selection, organisms with genetic variations that suit their environment tend to propagate more descendants than organisms of the same species that lack the variation, thus influencing the overall genetic makeup of the species. His Origin of Species, the first significant work on the theory of evolution, was greeted with great interest in the scientific world but was attacked by religious leaders for its contradiction of the biblical account of creation.

Today’s Birthdays

Nat Turner (1800) Civil Rights Leader
Groucho Marx (1890) Comedian
Donna Karan (1948) Fashion Designer
Sting (1951) Musician

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   Friday - October 01, 2004

Go Ahead, Laugh Out Loud

What a way to start the weekend. That “Gaddafi Duck” in Libya just cracks me up to no end. Go read his latest joke. Don’t hurt yourself laughing like I just did. Ouch!
 

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A Simple Test

In keeping with Vilmar’s earlier post about testing before allowing people to vote, here is a simple test for undecided voters .... examine the picture below, taken during the debate Thursday night .... can you see the difference between the two men? Look real close ....

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