Common Sense

I'm still around!

2005-10-26T23:19:00.000-05:00

Been moving and had issues with the old internet thingie. I could not get on.

Hey, I hear the liberals think the White House was trying to destroy the career of Joe Wilson and that is why the alleged leak happened (I say alleged because everyone knows she was not covert and she had already been outed by her husband and several others in 2003 - the others were not Republicans). Let me ask you something. Why would the WH try to destroy the career of an out of work ambassador? Am I missing something? Hey, get a career and we can talk to you about destroying it!

Why isn't Joe Wilson under indictment? He leaked information that was classified in his op-ed piece. He also referred directly to classified documents in his testimony before Congress - documents he was not cleared to have ever seen. It was an amusing note to see Senators asking him if he wanted to change his testimony since he was referring to classified documents. I wonder who was feeding him those documents, Hmmmm?

22 months for a Grand Jury to get Republicans. Seems kind of over the top considering Sandy Berger got a slap on the wrist for absconding with classified documents in his socks and underwear.

I say the Republicans start fighting back. The last time they started to fight back was when they started answering Kerry's cronies during the 2004 campaign. What was funny about the whole situation was that Kerry was trying to smear with false accusations (forged documents, anyone?) and the conservatives used the truth against Kerry. "I voted FOR the 87 billion, before I voted against it!"). Even the liberal media finally came out and said that was one of the most baffling statements they had ever heard.

Oh, well, we will see.

Things have been a little crazy for me....

2005-09-27T22:12:00.000-05:00

the last week or so, so no post from me. It has been crazy in a good way, but it still has kept me from making posts and browsing others' sites as much as I would like.

There have been a few things of note, though. (I won't have any links, but I do have some comments - but brief ones).

1. Charles Rangel (D) rep of NY (from the Bronx) - called President Bush "Our Bull Connor". Maybe the honorable Mr. Rangel does not realize that Bull Connor? Oh, he was a DEMOCRAT. Poll taxes? Put in by DEMOCRATS. The KKK - Southern DEMOCRATS. Slavery? Abolished by REPUBLICANS. Civil Rights? Opposed by DEMOCRATS. And a lot of that stuff is not that distant of history. Robert Byrd (D) Senator of West Virginia probably witnessed most of that with his own eyes when he was Grand Kleagle of whatever Klan he was from.

2. The rest of black politicians? AGREED with Rangel. Pathetic.

3. Bill Maher compared Laura Bush to Hitler's Dog. But, as usual with liberals he had to "explain" it didn't mean what every person who uses common sense could see it really did mean. Oh well, Democrats and liberals are good at backing off of scummy statements after people call them on it. They are cowards when it comes to backing up what they say.

4. Hillary Clinton denounced Georgia's use of "paid for by the state" voting ID cards. Why are they against voting ID cards that are paid for by the government? What are they trying to hide? That illegal aliens are voting for them? Or that people are voting more than once? Which leads me to my next bullet point. Additionally, Hillary was FOR a national ID card for her health plan in the 90s. You didn't get that card, you didn't get healthcare. The card would have also had a computer chip in it with all of your medical data. So, tell me again, why she is now saying that ID cards are unacceptable?

5. New Jersey has tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of people registered in their state and another state. They also have a lot of dead people on the voting registers that are still managing to make it out of the grave to vote for, you guessed it, Democrats. When asked to investigate it, the NJ politicians (pretty much all of them Democrats) replied, "This was brought up by Republicans, so it is probably not true". I don't think this needs any more explanation.

6. Dan Rather was on CNN within the last couple of days and he is still living in denial about the forged documents scandal. He keeps saying that people made the focus the forged documents and not the content of the documents. Let us be real clear on this. The information in those documents were never proven BECAUSE the documents putting the info out in public were forged! You lose all credibility when you use forged documents and then stand by them and try to make the argument about yourself and not the documents! The forgeries were part and parcel of the argument because they were the only hard copy of anything that supposedly proved these things happened! No other proof was out there except some Demo hack who had it in for Bush and his statements reeked of hypocrisy, hate, and bias. Jesus, if this is the best the Democrats can do when trying to tear down Republican political figures, it is no wonder they aren't in control of any branch of the federal government. Regardless, of what you think of Republicans policies, they are virtual geniuses when compared to Democrats when it comes to politics, if this is the best the Democrats can do. Sad. The Democrats of today are political lightweights when compared to Truman, Roosevelt, Kennedy (John), and even Tip O'Neill for that matter. These last few years have been like watching Muhammad Ali just beat the living hell out of Joe Frazier in Manila. They just keep coming in, and they just keep on being used as punching bags.

Food for thought, people, food for thought. I could have went on but don't really have the time to do so. I could have went to 12 points or more. These were some of the more important ones.

Pics and Pans

2005-09-19T17:32:00.000-05:00

I always liked that phrase. I am using it for my short update.

Let me ask you something, folks. Remember when President Bush was raked over the coals for his inauguration ball (cost of 40 million)? Remember how people said, "He should give that money to the Tsunami victims". Remember how liberals made such a fuss?

Why aren't they asking Hollywood why they threw such an extravagant and lavish "party" last night instead of giving that money to the NO flood relief effort? Aren't some of Hollywood's glamorous people also some of Bush's harshest critics? Why are they not being held to the fire like President Bush was? The emmys are nothing more than a rich man's display of "Look at me! Here I am", while people suffer in New Orleans.

But, hypocrisy never stopped them before, why should it now?

This guy is an asshole. He always has been and always will be. He is a complete and utter liar and that has been proven on many occasions. And yet the MSM gives him a forum whenever he requests it. Hmmmmm. Let me just say one thing directly to you, Former President Clinton. You are an utter asshole. You are a liar. You are a felon. You should be in jail for about 20 felonies or more. You have no moral authority to say anything about the appropriateness of the response to Katrina. Your actions directly led to Osama Bin Laden to think we are ripe for attack and by extension the WTC disaster. Your ignorance and missteps cost us from getting Bin Laden three times in the 1990s when your administration fumbled and bumbled through one crisis after another. You never got to a crisis first regardless of criticism unless you call storming Waco and then blaming Reno for it as "getting to a crisis early". You constantly lie about your record. You never "rebuilt" the military. You cut the military. That is a proven fact. And yet you claim you rebuilt it. You never thwarted numerous terrorist attacks. And yet you claim it. You even had Sandy Berger abscond with classified documents to cover your's and his failures. You let North Korea build nukes under your noses (And Bush you had better learn a lesson from that because you are getting close to letting it happen to you).

So, now I have to listen to how you, Ex President Clinton, would have done a better job and how tax cuts are basically responsible. You had 8 years in office, Predient Clinton, and New Orleans had those poor and pverty stricken people the whole time. WHAT DID YOU DO FOR THEM WHILE IN OFFICE? Nothing. you did not do a damn thing. Your false sympathy now is a sham.

Pretty much like your whole career.

And yet again, another Katrina update! Probably my last on Katrina...

2005-09-12T17:46:00.000-05:00

because the Roberts confirmation has started and high hilarity will ensue. Some has already started but all in good time.

Let's go back to Katrina for a reminiscence. Remember how everyone on one side of the aisle (I will leave it to you to figure out which side) claimed that the federal response was too slow? Well, I got news for you, this was the fastest in about the last 6! Yes! We responded faster than 5 other hurricanes!! I cannot claim credit for the find of this story - I saw it on a blog called Mike's America. You should check his site out. He does a lot more research than I do and does a very good job tying it together. Here is the story he foxhounded out. Jason van Steenwyk is a Florida Army National Guardsman who has been mobilized six times for hurricane relief. This story in detail describes how the response to Katrina was better than the responses to Hugo, Andrew, Iniki, Francine, and Jeanne. This is first hand proof that the crap coming from one side of the aisle (again - figure it out for yourself) is nothing more than that: crap.

Also, some of the most despicable race card playing has been used again. Will the Democrats ever stoop lower than trying to say aid was slow (it wasn't) because it was black people suffering? I am not sure there is a level lower than they have stooped to recently. I also saw several other rumors bandied about trying to smear Bush. 1. The blacks were so hungry they started eating the dead (retracted - eventually). 2. Bush used explosives on the levee because he hates black people. (never retracted). 3. Bush caused Pangaea to break apart (ok, I reused that from the many times before). 4. Global warming caused this and we should sign the Kyoto Treaty (global warming did not cause this and Kyoto has been debunked).

Even Jesse Jackson got into the race card business. I think Martin Luther King, Jr. would be embarrassed to see the direction the civil rights movement has taken since his death. Where was the Reverend in the years BEFORE the hurricane? Making yuk-yuks with the likes of Hugo Chavez, Saddam Hussein, and other dictators. But, now he has another cause. Rah-Rah for him. Jesse, why don't you show more sympathy with your brothers before a tragedy happens when it is just them suffering from years of local democratic rule instead of taking up for thugs causing riots in Decatur, Illinois? Do a google search of Jesse Jackson and the brawl in Decatur, Illinois. His movement has lost all direction and no one wants him around. I have a dream that no thug should go to jail - indeed.

Back to Katrina. Why do we need an investigation of it? We didn't have an investigation (that I know of) in Chicago in 1995. Low estimates claim that 739 people died in the Chicago heat wave of '95. Was there no investigation because Bush was not the President? I can only guess that that is the case. Where was the federal help? Where was the outcry that proportionately more blacks died than whites? Is it because Clinton is considered the first "black" President? I would like any liberal explain to me where the federal help was while people died in Chicago.

And what about this? We keep being told what a monster Bush is for letting so many people die. Hell, we are letting people die like dogs in the streets in New Orleans. This would never happen in a great socialist country like say..... France. Or would it? Does anyone remember this heatwave in Paris? How could this happen in such a great socialist country? I thought socialism was for the people to make sure all the people were cared for. "Capitalism blows. Socialism is fair and equal ground for all." I recently saw a liberal state that. I guess it fell apart this time and was like that despicable capitalism.

I am just wondering if there is any liberal out there who can discuss this issue without going into their patented "I blame Bush for everything" mode. Especially when they have been proven wrong over and over and over. One of these days they might just realize that the blame game only backfires.

2000 and 2004 proved that pretty convincingly.

I'll be brief and let the jackassery speak for itself...

2005-09-07T17:59:00.000-05:00

Reid and Pelosi.

Congressman Moran. Why can I not google his diatribe on the relief efforts in which he called the situation "institutional racism". And why can I not find the article about him assaulting an 8 year old black boy because he thought the 8 year old boy was stealing his car? And why can I not find the article where he states that the Jews pushed us into the War in Iraq? Media Bias indeed. I don't remember any of the MSM reporting on any of his stories. Probably the first because every time a Democrat speaks like that, they further marginalize themselves and thereby create a situation where they are less and less relevant. The other two portray a Democrat in a bad light so we could not have that, but yet we all hear constantly about Pat Robertson or Barbara Bush or other stories not even close to this guy's nonsense.

Kanye West and the NFL. The NFL needs to dump this guy and fast. Can you imagine a white guy saying about black people what West said about whites and President Bush? Oh, we don't have to imagine it, we can just remember the feeding frenzy when Al Kampanis made his comments, or Jimmy the Greek, or Howard Cosell. What West said was as bad or worse as every one of them. Remember the uproar that the NFL caved to when Rush made his comments about Donovan McNabb? Where is the outrage now, NFL???????????

More Democrats.

This crap is getting ridiculous. You want to know why this country is divided? Because the Democrats never fail to see an opportunity to attack President Bush for anything they can. They make all excuses they can for the Mayor of New Orleans and the Governor of Louisiana and throw every blame at Bush.

Why does the MSM concentrate on what Barbara Bush says but ignores what RFK, Jr. says? I am glad the MSM is dying out and the U.S. public will raise a shout of joy the world has never heard before when the last of the MSM turns out the lights. This is the reason the Democrats lost the last election. And will keep losing elections. The U.S. public is sick and f-ing tired of the Democrats blaming every damn thing on President Bush and giving the other two involved a pass.

The published emergency policy was not even followed people!!! Written in the freaking policy is basically the message, "If you go to the Superdome, you are on your own. Bring your own food, and anything else you need. It will not be provided for you." But you don't hear that on the news. All you get is Senator Leahy gumming out, "Why didn't we send water, why didn't we send food, why didn't we send ice?" Because the people in charge who just happen to be Democrats screwed up - so much that you have nothing to say other than blame anyone else but the people responsible!!!!!!!!!

Wake me up when the Democrats are relevant again and not speaking out of their ass. I bet I beat Rip Van Winkle's record.

Name change

2005-09-05T09:57:00.000-05:00

When I started, I just picked whatever popped into my mind, but a nugget of thought has been growing about where I really wanted to go with my blog and also what I wanted it to be.

Hence, I have changed the name to Common Sense. I believe that common sense, logic, and reason can be applied to any situation and bring forth solutions, if possible and available, or if not that, then at least understanding. I am huge into applying common sense to anything and everything I do and so this seemed to be a good name to use.

I realize it was also the name of the articles written by Thomas Paine. I can only hope I can come close to his genius in the written word, but I make no assumptions that I will - only that I will try.

W.F.

Katrina, Race, and Politics

2005-09-05T07:19:00.001-05:00

I didn't really think I would posting again so soon about Katrina, but events dictate it so here I go.

I just watched a clip from a Katrina relief show and a several actors were discussing the situation in New Orleans. Michael Myers (Wayne's World, Austin Powers) was discussing how the landscape had changed and that there was a lot of suffering going on in New Orleans. The person with him Kanye West (have no idea what he has been in, and I don't really care to see him in anything either) launched into an emotional dialogue about how we have been turning away from New Orleans and he kept saying "The black people there". Kanye West is a black man. This topic of the speech could easily be seen to make Myers slightly nervous and was directly different than his calm approach. Kanye then said that the troops had been given the authority to shoot the black looters and that the white looters were being described as just "looking for what they needed to survive". Myers took up the microphone again and spoke again about the devastation and then it went back to Kanye West who had one line: "George Bush is trying to kill black people". They then cut away to Chris Tucker (Rush Hour 1 and 2) who was really taken back by this comment and it had also made Myers look really surprised and nervous.

I do not know how to put into words how reprehensible this kind of talk is. "President Bush is trying to kill black people". This statement is so ridiculous that one must ask if Kanye West is completely in control of his faculties or is he some raving lunatic who should have never been given a chance to voice such irresponsible and, I hate to say it, but downright stupid thoughts. If George Bush wanted to kill black people, I think he could come up with a better way than waiting for a Hurricane to hit New Orlaeans and then just kill the ones there.

Which brings me to another point. New Orleans is 2/3 black race. This is a fact. The majority of people suffering are going to be black people. The news shows mostly black people on their shows. It also means the majority of looters will be black people as well. This notion that the news channels are only showing black people as looters because of some racial bias is just nonsense. This notion that many have that the aid was late (I'll get into that more in a minute) because it is black people (I literally heard people like Wynton Marsalis say if it were white people the aid would get there quicker) is just bullshit (pardon my french). I have heard several black people say this on T.V. Even some of the black caucaus (Elijah Cummings) played the race card and basically said the aid was late because it was black people suffering.

FEMA had the aid ready to go into New Orleans as soon as the hurricane moved on. They did NOT foresee (maybe they should have since it had been reported as such for many years that this would likely happen) that New Orleans would be under 20-25 feet of water. They were not prepared for that eventuality. This was why the aid was late. Not because of some racial bias. Black people need to lose THEIR racism that makes THEM believe this kind of bullshit. I hate to have to put it like that, but in my opinion it is racist of them to make this assertion. It will only hurt race relations (something they always say we need to do better at) and will cause anger and deep distrust on both sides.

Recently, I made the comment that Guliani would have done a better job than those two buffoons the NO mayor and the LA governor. I was told "Don't bring politics into this". Well, excuse me, I didn't even know they were Democrats. I was told later they were and the people informing implied that I DID know. Well, sorry to burst your bubble, there, compadre. I was comparing somone who was competent during a crisis, Guiliani, to two people who have been incompetent, the mayor and the governor in the recent tragedy. It is not my fault that it split along political lines. And if we really want to take politics out of this, why doesn't someone tell Robert Kennedy, Jr. to keep his mouth shut on global warming just one or two days after Katrina hit.

One final issue. I keep hearing this phrase on the news. "The poor did not have the resources to evacuate so that is why they were stuck in NO". This is a copout explanation. The mayor called for a mandatory evacuation. I got into a discussion with someone who said that NO did not provide a way for those people to evacuate. I disagreed even though I did not know for sure. But, my position was, "He would not call for a mandatory evacuation without giving the poor and destitute a means to get out". So, I went back and looked at the news article in which it was reported he was calling for that mandatory evacuation. In it he says that buses will be provided at checkpoints throughout the city and that, if necessary, vehicles could and would be comandeered to evacuate the poor. So, if they were caught in NO then they can really only blame themselves because they DID have the means to get out. They just did not take advantage of that means provided to them. Assessing blame should start at this salient point.

That is all I have to say at this point. No witty last remark just the plain hard facts as related above.

Katrina... or "Why Bush was to blame for this, too!"

2005-08-31T20:15:00.000-05:00

Katrina was the big one. No not the one Fred Sanford was clutching his heart for in every episode of Sanford and Son. The big hurricane. The mother of all devastations. The King Kong of hurricanes.

Picture this. A category 5 (the highest category there is) is bearing down on New Orleans. We are in trouble, folks. Call out the National Guard, call out the FBI, call out the military. And the New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin calls for a MANDATORY EVACUATION! So, people stayed anyway. In Mississippi and Alabama, too. And a lot died and a lot are homeless and many are refugees along the roads in Louisiana. And the anger is starting to come out in them. "Why don't we have water, why don't we have food, why aren't we being evacuated". Well, that is because you ignored a mandatory evacuation and now they cannot help you. It is impossible for them to get aid to you fast enough.

And you know whose fault it is? George Bush. Yes, people, that's right. The liberals are already blaming him. I never thought I would see the day, but I guess nothing should surprise me anymore. They pull out some bill where he cut funding for those levees in New Orleans by 20%. As if 20% funding would have stopped a category 5 hurricane. Let me tell you, folks, from personal experience with the ocean and the sea, anything man made, no matter how strong, can be destroyed by mother nature using the ocean as her tool.

The Germans and some liberals even went so far as to say that we deserved it because of global warming. "Katrina should be a warning to the US about global warming". Thanks, guys, we knew we could count on you to make some wild ass statement about global warming. I wonder if global warming also caused this numbing disaster? That's right. Well, maybe we could go back in H.G.Wells' time machine and stop the industrial revolution and see if that helped anything. I doubt it. The Kyoto Treaty and Accord were based on false assumptions. Both have been debunked. The data supporting each was erroneous.

So, we all understand that global warming is happening, but the wacko left thinks that car pollution is the major cause. I guess if we had data going back more than 100 years (you do know the world was created 4.5 or so billion years ago! The Big Bang theory says it was even longer at 15 billion years ago!), we might know if this were true. But, since the data was erroneous and has been debunked and the historical data only goes back 100 years, I tend to think they do not know enough about it yet and to completely remake our economy for something they are not sure about is complete folly.

Add to that a new study came out that in about 50% of all experiments, scientists make false assumptions and come to false conclusions, and all of a sudden you are venturing into the Wild Ass Guess arena, commonly known as WAG.

Robert Kennedy, Jr. weighed in on the topic. He claims that God may have punished Missisippi because Haley Barbour wrote a memo to George Bush that seemingly changed George Bush's mind about global warming. "Perhaps it was Barbour's memo that caused Katrina, at the last moment, to spare New Orleans and save its worst flailings for the Mississippi Coast". Robert Kennedy, Jr. should realize that no Kennedy should make jokes about water killing people. Just as Teddy should never give swimming lessons to anyone. Robert Kennedy, Jr. also said "The science is clear" about global warming. No, Bobby, the only thing clear is that the Kennedys are still bumbling around the political stage making any ridiculous statement they can to try and smear Bush and Republicans.

I guess at this point it would be in bad taste to say that all the deaths in the Kennedy family were God's punishment on them for Joe selling his soul to the devil to put John F. in the President's chair.

Mountain Dew - The Curse of Me. The Death of Me.

2005-08-27T21:06:00.000-05:00

The U.S. has a problem. Now, don't get me wrong, I am not one of these people screaming that fast food companies should be sued and should put all kinds of warnings on their boxes of McWhoppers. Free choice. You have a choice not to eat that burger. You have a choice not to drink that Mountain Dew.

I freely admit I love Mountain Dew. I have been known to drink the equivalent of 2 liters (at least) in one day. I am either physcially addicted to them or psychologically addicted to them. This does not mean I have a disease. I just have poor will power. I do not really think I am physically addicted to them. If I did, I really would have some disease. This past week, I put it to the test. I stopped drinking them (mostly). I had one from Monday through Friday. I broke down on Wednesday. Every time else I drank something, it was water. I didn't buy any junk food either. I did have two donuts at work, though, because there is no willpower in the world to keep me from having a donut, if the box is sitting on a table as I walk by 5-6 times a day to get water. I was amazed at how GOOD!!! I felt. I was not tired during the day. I didn't HAVE to take a nap at lunch (although I did anyway, habits are hard to break). I did NOT have to take one Zantac a day for stomach acid. I felt like a million bucks. I slept better, obviously, although I have only once in my life had trouble sleeping - right after my Dad had died.

Anyway, I did make a conscious decision to have or have not junk.

It was free choice. And I am not alone. The numbers vary, but it seems we are a growing population - as in waistline growing fast!! Gone are the days of the dust bowl and the Great Depression when you grew your own vegetables and you drank water from the well. (My grandmother went through that). I grew up very poor. My Dad had money but we never saw it through the results of a divorce. Please, no sympathy, that is not why I mention it. I mention it because getting food was an exercise in patience. There was usually no food in the refrigerator. We went out to fast food about 4 times a year. I will be honest and say that in the 6th and 7th grade, I shoplifted. That was the only way I would get candy. I am not proud of it, it just happened.

So, when I finally got out on my own and had money, I went "hogwild". I was in great shape as I left home. I could do 500 pushups a day 150 situps and could run 5 miles. Mountain Dew and the "good" life has done me in. But not totally. I still have willpower and free choice. And maybe that is what I should have titled the thread.

As we as a country have become prosperous, our waistlines have bulged. Does this give us a right to sue fast food places and soft drink manufacturers? I don't believe that for one minute.

Should a doctor be allowed to tell you that you that you have failed in the exercise of your food choices when you have truly made a bad choice?

Doctor Tells Patient, "You are obese". Patient reports him to the Medical Review board.

This doctor did and paid a price for it. Even if he does not in the long run have anything detrimental put on his record, he gets the nice bonus of having to pay for a $300/ hour lawyer. He said he knows of many doctors that will not tell patients they are obese and will not tell people that their children are obese for fear of this very thing happening. The problem is not the doctors telling you that you are fat, people. The problem is that you let yourself go to that place in the first place.

The first McDonald's lawsuit from a person who was obese was thrown out. I do not doubt that one day some retarded judge will allow a lawsuit to be tried. I doubt I ever will be on that jury, though, because I know what I would say when questioned in the jury pool. The question would be something like this: "Do you think you could be objective in determining whether a fast food restaurant has liability for serving high fat content products?" My reply would be something like this:

"Hell, no, I can't be objective. I have the same options this tard has every day and when I make the wrong choice, I still realize that it was MY choice and MINE alone."

Take responsibility people. If you do, you might just find you are making better choices.

The mainstream media

2005-08-26T17:58:00.000-05:00

Why is there so little common sense in modern times? I know of many people who are highly educated (although having a college degree is not as highly educated as it once was for various reasons) but have absolutely no common sense.

When I apply common sense to the mainstream media I come up with one conclusion: They are biased. There is no question in my mind. I can provide proof to you doubting Thomases.

1. I think the case could begin and end with Rather's report on George Bush's ANG service. When everyone in the U.S. was saying, "Well, those documents look forged", Rather was claiming, "No, no, no, we have checked these documents out thoroughly and they are genuine". Then someone had the brilliant idea of matching it with a word document and what did we have? An identical document. And yet Rather still protested that they were real and not fake. Later, he finally admitted that maybe the CBS people had not done their homework on the papers. He went on to say he still thought they were real, but the public had concentrated unfairly on whether they were forged or not.

Dan, let me tell you something. This was not just a mistake. It was going against the very foundation and principles you should have learned when you were getting your education and not something you would have learned as an afterthought. Oh and I knew some liberals who gave him "the benefit of the doubt" and still believed the story was true. Go figure.

2. The war in Iraq. Have any of you ever wondered why the mainstream media has portrayed the war in Iraq (and Afghanistan, for that matter) as resounding failures and they do not challenge Democrats when they say the same thing, and yet, about 99.4% of all soldiers who have served over there say we are winning? I'll answer that one. The liberals don't ever wonder that. They "know" Iraq is a failure. The conservatives have wondered and some have even contacted news agencies about it. Part of the reason the polls are so bad (other than the fact that the people running the polls usually word them carefully to get the answer they want) are because the mainstream media drum over and over how bad Iraq is. Recently, Matt Lauer was rebuked by a soldier on live T.V. because instead of speaking about what was the planned topic (Operation Teddy Drop), Lauer launched into a harangue about how morale must be bad and the soldier replied,

"Well, if I read the American newspapers every day I'd feel bad, too, but what's in there isn't true,"

This rebuke rattled Lauer who could only reply, "What's wrong with it? What's wrong with it? What's wrong with it?" I think we all know what is wrong with it. What's wrong with the reporting of the story is that it has gotten on our shoe and no amount of scraping can get it off.

3. The economy. Has anyone read or heard a story about the economy lately? Right. You haven't. Why? Because it is too damn good for them to report it. Unemployment briefly dropped below the lowest it was ever in the Clinton regime (you remember how all the liberals bragged what unemployment was like under Clinton "rule"). Inflation extremely low, interest rates extremely low. Nothing to report! Deficit shrinking fast. Economy is growing at around 3%. Well, gas is high. That is the only thing they can attack him on right now, but it isn't like he can stop the demand in China for oil. Even after a few months of a great economy (brought about mostly because of the tax cuts that the liberals hated), we had to listen to the talking heads still talking about an economy in the tank. At least they finally realized how idiotic they looked making statements like that when the economy was doing better than when Clinton was in office.

4. Pat Robertson. Pat shouldn't have made his comments. It is just not something you do in public no matter what you think or how true it might be. But, where was the uproar when Clinton advisors were talking about assasinating Hussein? Talking about assassinating anyone should be off limits (at least in public) but it was quite all right by the media when Clinton was in office. Double standard? You betcha.

There are numerous other examples such as the frenzy over allegations of Bush senior's infidelity and the refusal by all to report Lewinsky until Drudge made them all look like they were bumbling idiots. Rather still refused to report on that even after it broke.

And the footnote to this is how the liberals hate Fox News. Not one liberal can articulate one incident of bias at Fox, but they still call it a conservative mouthpiece. The only thing I have noticed about Fox is a decidedly pro U.S. stance. The horror! It is a sad day when being pro U.S. is considered being biased to conservatives. Someone has completely lost touch with reality and objectivity. Fox can't hold a candle to the rest in bias.

The rest wrote the book.... collaboratively.

And now! For my next trick, I'll make a Senator speak!

2005-08-22T18:51:00.000-05:00

or "How I threw my hat into the ring for 2008 and made an ass of myself doing it".

Chuck Hagel has become the new talking dog for the Democrats. Buh, bye, Cindy. Well, let's be honest. There is more than enough room for two talking dogs on this stage. We won't be saying "Bye" to Cindy for a long time considering the kind of money the special interest groups have backing her. Hell, she might even run for Congress. Who knows? She is the perfect candidate for the Democrats. She could be the next Paul Hackett, who misrepresented himself on his commercials and acted like he LIKED George Bush. Amazing what Democrats will do trying to be competitive.

Enter Chuck Hagel after Cindy left for CalEEfornia (It's the place you wanna be!) and Hackett couldn't "hack it".

"We're past that stage now because now we are locked into a bogged-down problem not unsimilar (is that a word? It's Like unfunny, I guess), dissimilar to where we were in Vietnam," said Hagel.

The Vietnam card. I can't believe a Republican played the Vietnam card. Democrats have been doing it since Iraq was a glimmer in George Bush's eye. So, now I have to listen to every single Democrat interviewed say exactly the same thing (Charlie McCarthy oughta be proud- "My name is Daniel O'Day" - remember those? I had one. Little did I know others did, too, and each one of them ran as Democrats to Congress), "Even a Republican is breaking ranks with the President".

Let me just run this by you folks. The number of men who have died in Iraq are about 2000. The number of men who died in Vietnam was 58,000. I don't think any of us (except Democrats) are unable to do the math here. 2,0000 in 3 years equals 78 years to make it into Vietnam. Thanks Chuck, we really needed you to make that statement. You really are positioning yourself for the "moderates" in '08, but you will lose when you don't get the Republican vote. Here is a hint for you, Chuck. Think before you speak. It does wonders.

There are similarities, though. The Democrats are sabotaging the war effort again. It's sad to see, but it is true. Power means more to them than the safety of the U.S. But, you gotta give 'em credit, though. They act SOOOOO outraged when you state the facts.

No one wants to be in a war. I know I don't. But, this constant naysaying when there is no proof of what you claim is damaging and, dare I say it, criminal. And now we have Chuck helping them out. Thanks a bunch!

Harry Reid has had a stroke.

2005-08-19T23:40:00.000-05:00

It was minor so it is not that huge of a concern. But, it indicates he may have a problem later if not sooner.

This puts me in mind of a similar situation recently and I shall recount it for you. I recently read a gay man's description of the deaths at the Boy Scout Jamboree. His post was "God says ZZZtttttt, another dead scout, ZZZtttttt, maybe you will be more accepting". I thought, "Wow, what a nice sentiment. People don't agree with your lifestyle so you exult when they die."

I happened to know some people at that Boy Scout Jamboree and they said that at least one of the man's children was watching their father as he died. They were placing a tent pole and somehow or other it touched an electrical wire and the electricity jumped through and (I am no expert on electricity) I think grounded and then jumped back up and hit 4 men. I guess the exact details are beside the point. But, let's make fun of their deaths and to hell with the children.

Anyway, if I were as open minded as these open minded gays like him, I might say the same thing about Harry Reid or something similar. "Oh well, God gave it to him to teach him a lesson. God made Madonna drop off her horse as a lesson not to go back to being a lesbian. Change your ways!"

But, you see, I am not going to do that. I am going to wish Madonna and Harry Reid all the best and hope they get well. Oh, and I'll definitely pray for them. I am still allowed to do that.

W.F.

What is a blog?

2005-08-17T16:16:00.000-05:00

When I started this, I was full of vigor and zest to put "wrongs to right". I was going to run down and tackle every single liar I have observed over the last 5 years. I was going to take to task every zealot who was blinded by their zealotry for thier causes.

I still may do that. I have only been at this for a week or less. I have already decided to rise above the name calling, the ad hominem attacks, the verbal abuse, etc. They do it, but does that mean I should? Not really. I can rise above their pettiness. I can rise above the name calling which even some of our most noted leaders like Harry Reid, Joe Biden, Pat Leahy, Charlie Schumer, Maxine Waters, and the like have indulged in. Our dignity demands we do not stoop to that level.

Does this mean I cannot point out some action they have taken that is poorly thought out? No. Does it mean if they begin speaking as if they left their one brain cell at home that I cannot make light of their comments? Surely no.

It is a sad commetary, though, that me as an anonymous (mostly) blogger feel more responsibility to not indulge in name calling and personal attacks than some of our highest elected leaders.

Israel

2005-08-16T22:15:00.000-05:00

There is not much I can say or do for Israel except hope and pray for the best for them. After enduring years of abuse, bias, and attacks from every corner of the wrold, they have decided to withdraw from Gaza. Gaza is land they won during the six day war. Many of their detractors say that Israel attacked first, but six Arab nations massed troops on their border. This is akin to placing a loaded gun to the temple of a man. Can that man honestly trust that the trigger of the gun won't be pulled?

So, now, the Israelis have decided to withdraw from land won fairly against enemies. Hamas, one of the most misguided organizations of all time, claim it is because of their terrorist attacks that Israel is withdrawing. This reminds me of a truce that was broken because Hamas attacked some Israeli civilians and Israel retaliated. The official response from Hamas was: "Since you retaliated to our attacks, the truce is broken". The implication being Israel broke the truce with retaliation and not Hamas with the unprovoked attack.

With Israel occupied with this national tragedy, Iran is boring ahead with nuclear weapon plans. It was only 15-20 years ago news like this would have had Israeli planes in the air and there would be no more talk of a middle eastern country acquiring or building nuclear weapons.

A weakened Israel for whatever reason endangers the middle east and by extension the world.

A quick add on to Cindy Sheehan

2005-08-16T21:54:00.000-05:00

I have heard more about her. Here are some of the things she has said in the last few days.

1. "I am not going to pay taxes for 2004. If you bring back my son, I'll pay my taxes." Good luck with that. Hello, IRS.

2. "The Secret Service is going to kill us at night out here in Crawford."

3. "George Bush attacked Afghanistan and Iraq for oil and to make his buddies rich."

4. "The U.S. is not worth fighting for and definitely not worth dying for and the U.S. is secretly in league with the Israelis to imperialize the MiddleEast."

5. "George Bush caused Pangaea to break in two and caused The Black Death."

Ok, so I added the last one, but seriously folks, can we go ahead and reserve the room in Bellevue now? Someone made a really good point today. When she was just a grieving mother she was untouchable, but when she thrust herself into the politics of the day, then she opened herself up not to attacks on her but to rebuttals (you cannot call refuting her nonsensical rantings "attacks") of her logic.

The Thorazine is in the left cabinet. Take ALL you need. That would be Chlorpromazine for all you people who are covered by HMOs.

Name change

2005-08-16T21:51:00.000-05:00

I changed my name from Guadalupe to W.F. I wasn't sold on the old and the new is a tribute to my Dad, who passed away 10/21/1996.

And also at this time would like to salute all of my grandparents as well. All of them are unfortunately deceased. All of you went way too early and I wish you were here with me now.

"The sky is green, it's green, it's green!!"

2005-08-15T22:12:00.000-05:00

"It's brown in some places you know."

I just had a few words with an ideologue and if there was ever a reason to take the opposite side it would be someone like this. Ignore any facts but the ones that agree with your beliefs.

It's like watching "The Day After Tomorrow". A 2 hour commercial explaining to us how bad we are for "causing" something we have little to no control over. You can't argue with it, you can't reason with it, it's the Terminator Liberal!

I am more of a Liberatarian, but that's beside the point. Things are so black and white with this crowd that if you don't believe them you are drooling over your little red, white, and blue and screaming King George the 1st! Forever!!

This could be a good time to go into global warming, but I'll leave it until another time except to say the world was cooling off and warming up long before Henry put the first Ford on the rutted road. And it will be cooling off and warming up long after we are dead and gone and people are living in ecopods.

Well, well, well...

2005-08-15T18:07:00.000-05:00

I wanted to update every 2-3 days and then promptly forgot my login but remembered it today.

Cindy Sheehan. Let's talk about her for awhile. Everyone rushes to say we are sympathetic with her position. And we are. There is no one who garners more emotional capital than a person who loses a family member in the military. Or if they died in the attacks on 9/11/2001.

But, let's be serious here. I am not sure she really cares she has become the political tool of the anti-war crowd. If the T.V. cameras were not in Crawford, TX. she would find herself very much alone. Her new found friends would not find any time for her. She would be the lone voice crying in the wilderness. But, such is the magic of a modern liberal media. How far we can fall so fast if we allow ourselves to be used. And that is what is happening. Sad to see. Kind of pathetic. She is using the memory of her son for the gain of the Bush haters. Maybe one day she will see that and be remorseful.

So, she wants George Bush to meet with her. Let me ask all of you something. If you had someone call you names on national television, would you meet with that person? Would you be able to say anything at all to change their mind? Doubtful. I wouldn't meet with her and that would be that. I would come out and say it. "I met with you once. You had your chance and unless you have changed your position, then there is nothing left to say". Finit.

And the guy shooting off the gun was classic. This has indeed become a circus and Cindy Sheehan is the ringmaster. Step right up, folks. Sad. I want to feel sorry for her but she has squandered my sympathy. If her son were here he would ask her to stop.

The 9/11 Commission.

2005-08-12T18:33:00.000-05:00

Does anyone believe that the 9/11 commission happened to forget being told about Able Danger? I count myself in the corner of not believing them. A commission formed to "connect-the-dots" postmortem now has been shown to not even have included some of the dots.

Able Danger informed them that they tried to inform officials that they had id'ed Mohammed Atta in 1999 and 2000, but the 9/11 commission dismissed it because his travels plans did not coincide with what their information said his travel plans had been. This is insane. Have they not heard of using fake IDs? Who did they tell this information to and why was it not followed up?

It is quite obvious to anyone that the 9/11 terrorists were in and out of the U.S. in 1999 and 2000 casing the WTC. Why the 9/11 commission deemed it unnecessary to include it in their report (or even publish a short addendum) is beyond my comprehension. And we are supposed to implement every one of their reccomendations.

Forgive me if I just say "No!"