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Do We Need a National ID Card?

Does it look like we are finally going to have a national ID card?

It is about time we come up with some real ID, let”s say, something like my Green card, half plastic and half digital, hard to counterfeit and easy to scan for detailed identification data. Sure, teenagers and Illegal immigrants are not going to be happy about it; no more underage drinking on a fake ID for our partying kids! No more of anything from driver licenses to voting for illegal aliens! Well, unless the ACLU and liberals have their way of course!

Gee! What a concept! Only legit citizens will be entitled to what they pay for, at least a spark of common sense from our elected officials in DC!

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Thoughts on the Path to 9/11

ABC’s so-called docudrama “The Path to 9/11″ is a grim reminder of the events that shocked this nation five years ago. Instead of re-establishing the unity against a common enemy it has been a catalyst for acrimonious political debate. A movie, a “docudrama”, has also been the conduit to illustrate the hollow and malevolent characteristics of liberalism.

The movie sparked a conversation with a devout Stalinite liberal over the weekend. He attempted to dismiss the movie by saying, “this is a poor subject to use as docudrama”. If this does not demonstrate the hollowness of liberalism, nothing does. The most vicious attack sustained on American soil in our history causing the death of 3000 fellow innocent Americans, is a poor subject to use for a docudrama? So how would liberals compare the docudramas about the events of 9/11 with the docudramas about “Gettysburg”, or “The Longest Day” (D-Day, WWII), or “Midway”, “13 Days” (the Cubin Missile Crisis), the JFK assassination, “Watergate” and of course Pearl Harbor? Were those real events poor subjects to use for docudramas? [Read more…]

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Where Are the Moderate Muslims?

Yesterday I saw a cute but so realistic cartoon in our local fish wrapping grade Democratic newspaper.

Anyways, in the Forum part of the phone book like Sunday edition, among tons of paper spam, was a little cartoon showing an old lady, sitting in an airplane next to a Middle Eastern man in a Turban (without profiling, I would have never guessed that the unshaved person on a turban and a robe was posing as a Middle Eastern traveler! J). Candidly, she was asking him if he was part of the silent world majority of the peace-loving Muslims or if he was a terrorist ready to blow her to pieces.

Five years almost to the day after September 11, Madrid and London, the War on Terror, we are still waiting for moderate Islam to come forward and take a side, denounce the one that blow us up or try when they don’t kill fellow Arabs. [Read more…]

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WAR!!!

“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 ~ (1868)

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Don’t Confuse Hatred With No Respect Part 2

In the 06/13/06 blog “Don’t Confuse Hatred With No Respect“ the idea offered was that liberals view the world through a prism of hatred and project that view on anyone that does not agree with their view. Significant examples were given to support this idea. In part II this concept is additionally explored.

First, let’s define some terms. Hatred is hard to define and the dictionary does not do it justice. Webster defines hatred as the passion of hate and hate is defined as an intensely hostile aversion, compounded of anger and fear and centered on a real or supposed cause of injury. In practice the word suggest an intensity that definition does not sufficiently reflect. Webster defines respect as the special esteem or consideration in which one holds another person or thing. So, no respect would be lacking these characteristics.

The most interesting definition was that of liberalism. It was quite extensive and for the sake of brevity a partial definition by Webster will be given. It is an early 19th Century philosophy that has taken varying forms at different times in different places. It is characterized by progressive attitudes, critical of institutions and places its faith in the goodness of man and rationality. It often expresses demands for freedom of expression and equal opportunity. Economic liberalism was a phenomenon of the commercial or industrial classes, favoring free trade and the fixing of wages and prices by competition and opposing state intervention. However, in Britain it was adapted to provide welfare services and social security in conjunction with limited state intervention. [Read more…]

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Terror Naïveté?

In today’s news, I read that TSA employees will take over from contract employees to check IDs at airports and that they will all attend a training in “psychological profiling”. What the heck is that? Profiling right now should be based on race and religion only, until more newly converted white Caucasian join the terrorist cause for some twisted murderous reason. No more random selection for the extra search should be made by the computers that manage the ticketing!

 

Political correctness is literally killing us! We need more spies infiltrating the mosques, more devices monitoring radical imams, more control of our borders, more background investigations, more scrutiny, and more common sense! [Read more…]

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The Liberal Media War Against Bush & America

This quote has been used to explain the various alliances in Middle East conflicts. A review of history will find these alliances are fluid, depend on who is the enemy, the degree of hatred and what is the desired final outcome. The recent conflict between Israel and Hezbollah is a prime example of this fluidity. The Arabs have not allied with their old enemy Persia in this battle against Jews. Arabs see Iran as the bigger threat. Then there is the union between the Hezbollah and Iran with liberals and the liberal media.

 

Let’s examine this unholy alliance. President Bush, capitalism and Christianity is the common enemy. The degree of hatred is extreme. The desired outcome is the destruction of President Bush and establishment of power or control of government. For their part, liberals and the liberal media have employed misinformation, lies and propaganda as the primary strategy to achieve their goal.

This strategy is evident in the reporting on the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict. Liberals attempt to legitimize Hezbollah by referring to them as guerrilla fighters and militia instead of terrorist. They only mention that Hezbollah started the war, has launched over 3,000 Katyusha rockets against Israel, fail to emphasize these rockets have been converted to kill civilians and minimize the killing of innocent Israelis civilians. [Read more…]

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Educated Ignorance: Does It Threaten Our Future?

“It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance” Thomas Sowell

Since the advent of the industrial age and transference to the information age education of our youth is essential in ensuring our nation’s ability to compete in the global economy. Yet, assessments of our education system are frightening. In comparison to other industrial nations the American youth score in the bottom half on the basic subjects and science, but score at the top in self esteem.

Thomas Sowell noted, “One of the many failings of our educational system is that it sends out into the world people who cannot tell rhetoric from reality. They have learned no systematic way to analyze ideas, derive their implications and test those implications against hard facts.” He added, “These educated people will have developed no ability to analyze opposing sides of issues… and learning only how to label, dismiss and demonize ideas that differ from what they have been led to believe. Their educated ignorance is a danger to the future of this country.” [Read more…]

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Treason Pure and Simple

Treason, it seems like this issue will not go away. The issue was addressed in articles posted in the Vonfrederick blog on Nov 13, 2005, “Treason or Politics?” and again on Apr. 8, 2006, “Who is Committed to Victory?” Now with the recent article published by the New York Times that exposed a secret and legal government program to track terrorist funding, this word has once again been attributed to the liberal contribution to the nation’s War on Terrorism.

Webster defines treason as the act or attempted act of working for the enemies of the state; betrayal of trust, disloyalty to a cause. Treason is defined in the U.S. Constitution,

Article III, section 3, 1.Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. It’s pretty simple and straight forward.

Now consider extensive examples of liberal politician conduct and public statements in the liberal media that betray the trust of the American people and U.S. military fighting the terrorist; repetitive statements disloyal to the U.S. cause and adhering to the enemy cause. It would be excusable if rare “slips of the tongue”, but they are not. It is consistent and continual behavior and comments that harm the security of Americans at home and abroad. [Read more…]