Suppose there was a massive, violent typhoon that hit an uninhabited area of some Eastern nations coastline and flattened every tree, followed by a huge earthquake that flattened all the mountains. It would be quite a sight, afterward. People would marvel.

Now let’s inhabit the area with people who breed like rabbits since sex is about their only real form of recreation, and toss in a typhoon, (Burma) and an earthquake, (China).

In China and Burma, the death toll is the product of the overpopulation and the severity of the violence and will very likely top 200,000 deaths. The point here is that natural disasters always occur. There are always earthquakes and violent storms and some areas are far more prone to these things than others. We know where these areas are but we live there anyway because we’ve bred ourselves out of space elsewhere.

The Pill is really cheap and works really well, and until these people start taking responsibility for their population levels, the only sympathy I have is for the children. Once they grow old enough to start porking each other and do it without contraceptives of some sort, there my sympathy ends because these “Nature Adjustments” will just keep right on happening and the hundreds of thousands will keep right on being swept to their deaths.

It’s not lack of foresight, it’s lack of responsibility. Whether it’s some corrupt, despotic government or simply individual choice, these disasters aren’t caused by Mother Nature but by Human nature. With our wonderful imaginations we find it too easy to create false realities to calm our fears, and to replace what we would rather not think about with imagined assurances. “Well, there won’t be a storm.” “Another earthquake won’t hit here in my lifetime.” Isn’t it amazing how we know the future that way, without the slightest evidence? Aren’t we all shocked and surprised when we’re wrong?

Massive human death is caused by massive human birth.

The massive starvation that is now beginning to spread out on the planet is caused by massive human birth.

The soaring price of oil, food, everything, is caused by massive human birth.

If we actually are causing global warming, it’s because of massive human birth.

If human life is as sacred as the right-to-life fruitcakes would have us believe, then why do we kill each other in wars? Why don’t these natural disasters have all our priests out there moaning “Why God why”? Nobody cares. People just like to get up on self-righteous soap boxes and cause problems where there were none.

Anything that reduces the number of people on this planet has my blessing as long as it doesn’t wipe out habitat. We need to reduce our numbers back down to about a tenth of what they are now. Then there will be plenty of cheap oil and cheap food for everyone, habitat can be restored, many animals on the brink of extinction can thrive again and continue to enrich the Earth and the lives of us miserable, selfish, stupid humans. There will be lots of room for everyone, people will have less reason to make wars and more reasons not to.

Eventually there’ll be another Ice Age, no doubt not too far off, either, if the timing of the cycles stays true to past performance. This will drive much of humanity to coastal areas just as it did the last time. It’s hard to make a living on an ice sheet. Our population is going to dwindle tremendously, to the level I quoted or less, and it couldn’t happen to a better planet.

Not very long ago John Edwards, former Democratic presidential candidate, said he’d withhold endorsing anyone until after the people had voted. He said it would be aganst the principles of democracy to do otherwise.So when West Virginia voted overwhelmingly for Hillary Clinton, and the trouncing of Obama was at the top of all the news, Edwards quickly leaped to the defense of his democratic principles by loudly announcing his endorsement of Black Osambo, thereby sucking all the wind out of Mrs. Clintons freshly billowed sails.

John Edwards is a lying, weaseling, two-faced sack of crap and I couldn’t be happier that this scumbag failed in his attempt to be yet another disastrous leader of my nation. I wonder how much he was paid to sell out his non-existent democratic principles.

I read what bloggers over in the UK have to say about their own corrupt, self-serving political masters and it’s all the same. Every last one is is a dirtbag, is greedy, a liar, and has no concern whatever for the people each supposedly represents. Certain careers attract certain types. Diesel mechanics, male nurses, nannies, steel workers. Politicians are different. It takes a certain ugly character warp for someone to want power over the rest of us, that you never find in other occupations.

This is the plain truth of politics and politicians. When we vote for these turds, we do so not out of conviction but out of hope, and every single time, decade after decade and generation after generation, we’re disappointed. Why do we keep doing it? Because it’s the only system we have and we just cannot bring ourselves to believe that every one of those excretions is lying to us when we never lie like that to each other. But they are.

It’s almost humorous to listen to the media describe as racist the overwhelming White vote for Clinton, yet not one of them used the “racist” word as 91% of Blacks voted for Osambo simply because he’s black.

More humor is in the Republican spotlight on Hussein as the presumed November adversary, pushing Clinton to the side, while the Democrats do exactly the same thing, pushing him to the fore and obscuring Clinton. The Republicans know that McCain can beat Obama handily, all the polls say so. Hussein simply has way too much baggage. The polls also say that Clinton can wipe her feet on McCain. Naturally the GOP wants to sideline her.

Too many controlling Dems are too far to the left, which is why they love a black Marxist-Leftist like Obama and promote him over their best candidate and best chance of gaining the presidency, which is Hillary Clinton. I do note, however, that over 200 super-delegates remain uncommitted with only a few weeks left of state primaries, and it’s a fact that this will be decided by the super-delegates. All the black ones have long since signed on with Osambo, meaning that the rest are White. I don’t think the polls are lost on them, nor the fact that the majority of White voters favor Clinton.

Hillary is a brilliant woman with brilliant advisors. I doubt that any of the media’s self-appointed pundits has nearly the insight or inside knowledge of what’s going on with the super-delegates as the Clinton camp, and she may well yet be handed the nomination by her party.

To me, the bottom line of all this is, will we have a president, McCain, who will maintain our disastrous economic course, or will we have Clinton as president, who will bring our economy back on track? Osambo will wreck us and has no chance of being elected anyway. If he gets the nomination, McCain will be president. If Clinton gets it, Clinton will be president. That’s just how it is.

None of them will fix our problems with illegals until we the people rise up the way we did against that nightmare in Vietnam. None of them will deal with the Arabs or the steady invasion of Islamization. Under McCain, our nation’s infrastructure and economy will continue to degrade and disintegrate. Under Clinton, they will be restored. We all know it. It’s the economy and the choice is simple. I don’t care how much she lies her ass off or commits evil deeds, I don’t care if she gets head in the Lincoln room. Our economy is Number One. Nothing else can get fixed until that does.

PHOENIX (AP) — Fifty-three illegal immigrants (Aliens! Please!) found Sunday had been held against their will in a fortified home by suspected smugglers demanding more money, authorities said.

The group of rescued immigrants included two 13-year-old girls, three women and a mentally disabled man. The rest were men, Department of Public Safety spokesman Harold Sanders said.

Retarded guys aren’t men? Is this because they’re here illegally? Why would a retarded person even come here? Do we now have a Hire Mentally Defective Illegal Aliens program?

I love Freudian slips. The writer of this story clearly considered retarded guys to be less than men and by now the flak is coming at him or her from all directions, without a doubt. It sure is a good thing I don’t get paid for this or I’d be out on my ass for my insensitive lack of Political Correctness. Then I’d have to go out there and compete with the mentally defective Mexican illegal invaders for my daily taco and chili rellenos.

Mexican president Calderon claimed, not long ago, that all of Mexico’s best and brightest workers were coming here and we should be glad over poor Mexico’s loss. If that houseful of criminals, and I don’t mean just the kidnappers, is representative of poor Mexico’s loss, it’s no wonder Mexico wants to get rid of them. In the meantime, the drug wars have moved north to Mexico from Columbia and the Mexican cops are getting murdered left and right. The drug gangs have moved into MY country now and are engaging in similar violence.

Bill Richardson, New Mexico governor and self-described Mexican-in-disguise, promotes this influx of sub-grade specimens entirely because they vote for him. Talk about your selfish, traitorous bastards. He could care less about MY country as long as he gets to keep his cushy job.

This is why our government is so set against private militias such as spring up in Montana and Wyoming from time to time, and goes after them with hordes of Federal agents, kills most of them and imprisons the survivors. Because these militias always arise with the same purpose: to take out the traitorous bastards among us like Bill Richardson. They’re never successful because they usually lack the will and they always seem to pick up at least one snitch as a member.

Deleting the Bill Richardsons of the country is an impossible job anyway, there’s just too many of them, from all the Bush’s on down. That’s why America is in so much trouble. We don’t have leaders anymore, all we have is a bunch of Enron executives in disguise, every one out only for himself and devil take the hindmost. You just can’t run a country that way.

The rise of drug gang violence here and in Mexico is the direct result of the flooding of the U.S. with all those wetbacks. It’s the money that’s being poured out of MY country into Mexico by all the wetbacks sending it there, without anything coming back to us to maintain our economic balance. Does anyone think that only Americans are snorting coke and crank? How many wetbacks do you suppose are coming here as drug addicts? Hmmm? Do you think that might have anything to do with all the increase in violent crimes by them? Do you see why I call panderers of these criminals, like Bill Richardson, traitors?

I hear that some manufacturer in India has started making a $2500 car called the Tata. Cute little thing, looks like you could probably stuff 4 Bangladeshis into it but I wouldn’t try that with Wal-Mart customers, and it gets 50 miles to the gallon. It has 4 wheels and 4 doors. I don’t see how they can do that even if they only pay their workers one meal a day of yellow rice and curry. Hell, you can’t buy a good Honda generator for $2500. One thing’s for sure, the oil companies ain’t gonna like it.

Clean air is getting so costly in terms of the high fuel consumption of reduced-emission engines that standards are bound to start being reversed. Back in the 50’s and 60’s, your average Chevy or Chrysler V-8 auto did about 23 miles per gallon and straight sixes got close to 30. Then came smog controls which wrecked the engines and turned them into oil burning smoggers by feeding all that exhaust back into the intake manifold. Now we’re faced with suddenly very high and still rapidly escalating oil prices and fuel economy is becoming vital. The first environmental restrictions I expect to see thrown out are those on nuclear power plants and the burning of coal.

So why is the price of oil rising so fast? Two reasons. The first is the increasing rise from poverty of many of the worlds nations along with their increasing populations, which is putting greater and greater demand on an oil supply that is maxed out now. The other reason is that the world is still pegged to the dollar as the monetary standard, and the war in Iraq has greatly deflated the dollars value. This is because the war has been incredibly costly and the money has to come from somewhere. We don’t have it, plain and simple, so we get the Fed to print more of it to buy what we need to keep fighting the war. The Arabs aren’t stupid, they see us paying them with inflated dollars, so they increase the cost of their product accordingly.

This is how Adolf Hitler financed his war, by printing money. At wars end, the money was so inflated that it literally took a wheelbarrow full to buy a loaf of bread. People used it for wallpaper. It was worthless. I have stamps in my collection from when I was a kid that show this progression of devaluation, where the value starts at a few pfennigs (pennies) and ends up at several million Marks, to mail the same letter. Now we’re doing it. Postage is going up on Monday to 42 cents. It was 3 cents for over 100 years but it’s on a roll now.

Bush tells us, Yeah, we’re in a “slowdown”, um hum. No. We’re going into a depression. A depression is when nobody has any money to buy anything. I remember the last one, the tail end of it anyway, the last of the dust bowl stragglers driving old Model A pickups loaded with mattresses and stuff, driving into town. When things start costing more than people can afford, and unemployment goes up because people get put out of work because other people can’t afford to buy anything and create jobs for them, that’s a depression. Then add millions of wetbacks to the problem, who not only take what jobs there are at low wages but then send all the money back to Mexico instead of spending it here and giving a boost back to our economy.

It’s a mess, boys and girls. And I don’t see a way out of it.

“They’re rioting in Africa, they’re starving in Spain, there’s hurricanes in Florida and Texas needs rain.” A snippet out of a Kingston Trio song, true then, true now. A typhoon has killed off at least 100,000 of us according to the latest estimates. It wasn’t all that long ago that one that hit Bangladesh took the lives of over 200,000. The world paid little attention to the losses among that mass of teeming, terribly impoverished humanity then and is paying almost the same attention to this one. The numbers are too big and it’s too far away. We don’t want to think about it.

What we do notice, however, is a breakout in fighting in Lebanon and what that may mean to the price of oil. Of course, we also notice the price of oil. We notice it a lot, actually, and many of us are pretty scared about it because our wages aren’t keeping pace and the cost of oil is driving up the cost of literally everything else except our rent. And that’s coming, we know it is.

We pay closer attention to an Arab of African and American parents who is trying to take up the power seat of the worlds most powerful nation, than we pay to the deaths of 100,000 humans in one awful storm. We don’t pay any attention at all to this mans racist minister, this mans racist wife, this mans underworld and terrorist friends. We pay no attention at all to this mans stream of lies. That he’s an inveterate liar and storyteller matters much less than that he can orate well. Because he can, many people say they admire his “wisdom”.

What I admire is the incredible stupidity of my fellow man. I admire the shallowness of us. I deeply admire our false caring, our utter and total incapacity to admit being wrong or in error. I wallow in the luxurious ecstasy of pain suffered by those who are forced to actually apologize. I shudder with violent paroxysms of glee as we rise with one voice in our denial of any possibility outside of our own narrow, cretinously opinionated view.

But most of all, I adore, yes, adore, how really marvellously stupid we are. We who are so very clever at making gadgets, we are the master toolmakers. After millions of years of evolving, we have finally outdone the web spider in creativity while we still have the same mindset as the spider. We don’t care what we kill as long as we eat for another day.

Henry David Thoreau once remarked that if you read a newspaper once, you never needed to read another because the news never changed. The very few of you who stop in and read my rants will have noticed that my rants are coming fewer and farther between. I think it’s because I’ve said all I can say on the subjects I chose as the blog’s mainstay. If another war starts, all it is, is just another war.

Right now, you know, I’m just worn out on stupidity. I don’t say things here that stupid humanity is at all interested in reading. You can have your blog popularity contests and that’s fine, I just wanted to reach people, which is proof of my own stupidity.

Imagine, if you will, the repeatedly re-lit Olympic  torch finally entering the Olympic stadium built by the horribly oppressive and  genocidal Chinese, who have murdered over 38 million of their own people, who have supported 6 years of murders and rapes in Darfur with the blood of over 400,000 dead on their hands, who are still practicing genocide in Tibet with the blood of over 1,000,000 dead on their hands…

The torch that has been attacked by virtually every country it’s passed through, whose flame has been repeatedly snuffed out in protest of Chinas gross violation of the spirit of the Olympics, which is to bring people together in peace, not to destroy their cultures and peoples….

Imagine, if you will, this repeatedly re-lit torch finally reaching the Chinese stadiums Olympic Flame Font and setting it ablaze and…

Hundreds of athletes rush to the Olympic Flame, and surround it,

and urinate on it.

A few of the many blogs following this subject:

Pub Philosopher,
A Tangled Web,
Operation Free Viet

In 17th century Europe, wealth was in gold and silver coins. As ones wealth increased, this became a load to carry around, so, the jewelers being the ones with the strongest safes, wealthy people began leaving their coinage with them for a small fee. The jeweler would in turn give them a receipt for their money. These receipts soon became useful as a form of money in large transactions. In other words, the jewelers were printing the worlds first paper money.

Over time, the jewelers noticed that only about 10% of the coins stored with them were ever actually taken back. That is, at any given time they always had $9 on deposit for every $1 taken back out and it occurred to them to start making loans based on the average amount of money which remained. They started loaning out other peoples money without consent, only they didn’t just loan the coins, they also wrote receipts of credit that represented the coins.

If you have $10,000 that doesn’t belong to you and you loan out $9000 of it , and you still have a large portion of that in coins, you now have people indebted to YOU for $9000, plus interest. You have printed $1000’s in paper money and created $9000 of indebtedness to you without owning anything more than the safe the money is kept in.

Since the interest rate back then was 20%, in one year you will have collected $1,800 in interest on other peoples money. If everyone pays you back all that you loaned at the end of the year, then you also have back all the paper money you issued, often in the form of paper issued by other jewelers.

Then the jeweler-bankers took the next logical step, which was to loan out 10 times more money than they actually had, in the form of paper receipts redeemable for other paper receipts but backed 10% by coinage. In other words, they created wealth out of thin air simply by printing it. In this way the jewelers created massive wealth for themselves almost overnight.

This is called Fractional Banking and is still how banking is done today. Making loans covered by only a fraction in actual assets, that the bank doesn’t own anyway, of the amounts loaned.

Sometimes, economic crises occurred, a war or famine, and people would rush to the bank to withdraw their money. This is what caused banks to go bankrupt, because they never had as much money as had been placed with them. This resulted in the creation of account insurance by the Federal Reserve. Accounts are now automatically insured, so if the bank collapses, the Fed will print up enough paper to pay off the accounts. Why not? All it costs them is the paper.

The Federal Reserve is not Federal. It’s a group of nine of the worlds largest banks. They print all our money. Look on any bill at the top. It says “Federal Reserve Note”. Our government mints coins only. These banks print our money and sell it to us, pretty much at cost, plus face value. So if the Fed prints up an extra 200 billion dollars, they have just made themselves 200 billion dollars at no cost to them. The owners of these banks are creating vast wealth for themselves by printing money.

Last year they inflated our money supply by about 11% because Bush needed money to finance the war in Iraq. He borrowed from China, Mexico and Saudi Arabia, and has to pay it back. Who knows how much they’ll increase inflation by, this year? Depends on how much more money we need out of thin air to pay back more debt. Our national debt is over 9.4 trillion dollars now and is climbing at the rate of over 1 trillion per year.

Is your mind blown yet? Did you know that our money is literally based on nothing? It’s a credit system and the banks hold all the credit cards. They create wealth out of nothing. When you go to the bank for a mortgage loan, say for $100,000, the banker makes an entry in a ledger that says you now have $100,000. That’s it. The banker has created $100,000 out of thin air. All the other banks accept this, so you get your house, the seller gets the money either as another ledger notation or as pieces of printed paper, and so on down the line until it all trickles away.

As you pay back the banker, his wealth increases for having used a pen.

We have long been off the gold standard that used to back up our money. There was a time when we had a dollars worth of gold for every dollar in paper. No longer. Now it’s all based on credit. Even Silver Certificates that used to say “redeemable in silver” all disappeared at the same time our silver money was sucked up by the banks in 1964. Now we get greasy-feeling clad coins that aren’t worth a 20th of what the silver ones are, and the banks made another killing off the silver.

The Fed, that private group of banks, is steadily creating more and more money. Their greed is expanding, which is expanding inflation. When there’s $2 where there used to be just one, then each dollar buys half what it did before. That’s simple economics. It’s the same as if you have 10 apples but only 5 people want an apple. The price of apples drops a lot.

This means that permanent assets like real estate and precious metals are going to continue to rise in price to keep up with inflation. These constitute real wealth and will also rise in value with population increases. Commodities, stuff we use every day like oil, will also of course rise in price, but being consumables, take away from our wealth. In the meantime, wages don’t rise as fast as inflation. Wages always lag way behind.

This means that the faster inflation increases, the harder it is to make a decent living, and the more poverty spreads among the population. Inflation is exactly the same as taking a weekly pay cut, every week.

There’s many conspiracy theories out there but as usual, the theories are always outdone by the facts. This isn’t a banking conspiracy created by secret money moguls, this is simply the actual monetary system that has developed. These people do conspire, constantly, to manipulate governments in ways that will constantly increase their wealth, and they do buy up massive influence in national governments. What keeps reducing their fortunes, mostly, is wars. Wars destroy everything and that includes the accumulated wealth of these non-producing leeches.

The way out of this trap is to nationalize the monetary system. Start printing our own money and giving the sole authority to do this to our government only, with strict limitations on the quantity and a strict setting of the value based on precious metals such as gold. The amount of gold available has been almost constant now for about 2000 years. The money cannot be redeemable in gold or all our gold would quickly leave the vaults. The money simply has to be pegged to gold by law and only a certain amount allowed to be in circulation.

We are only allowed to take a small amount of cash out of the country now. This should be further limited to countries with which we have a trade balance or surplus, so that the cash flow is at least equal both ways. None of our money should go to any country in which trade swings to the deficit side. Trade should then cease.

We should repudiate all national and foreign bank debts just as many countries have done with us, and refuse to do business with any nation that will not do equal business with us. We should no longer borrow money from any foreign nation for any purpose. These may seem extreme measures but remember that the debts we owe were created out of thin air to begin with, and there is no actual loss. Like a pyramid scheme, and all such schemes must eventually collapse.

I expect to see blue pigs flying around before any of this happens, of course. But in the meantime, do everything you can to prepare yourself as food, fuel and all commodity prices are going to increase, and faster than you may think, even though your wages will not.

Kudos to Jordon for bringing documentation on this to my attention.
It’s always nice to be noticed. Midnight Sun has a corresponding article including excerpts from this one.

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s prime minister vowed Thursday to fight “until the end” against Shiite militias in Basra despite protests by tens of thousands of followers of a radical cleric, Muqtadi al Sadr, in Baghdad and deadly clashes across the capital and the oil-rich south.

The Iraqi leader made his pledge to tribal leaders in the Basra area as military operations continued for a fourth day with stiff resistance. Mounting anger focused on Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who is personally overseeing operations against the militias dominated by Muqtada al-Sadr’s supporters amid a violent power struggle in Basra, Iraq’s southern oil hub.

“We have made up our minds to enter this battle and we will continue until the end. No retreat,” he said in a speech broadcast on Iraqi state TV.”

Blah blah blah. We all, and I do mean EVERYBODY, knew that this guy was going to be a big problem even when he was still small potatoes, and that he should have been shot or imprisoned a long time ago. Instead, our hired idiot al Maliki, whom we made president of that festering abscess of a nation, played politics thinking Sadder would be of use to him. Now he’s the one who’s sadder along with our soldiers who are stuck with having to deal with this screwup at the peril of their lives.

Al Sadr’s picked men, “Sadrist” lawmakers, were installed in the Iraqi government and are now fighting against reforms from within. Good job, all you who are involved. By just worrying about your own power bases instead of all those people around you, the tortures, the mutilations, the murders, the slaughters, the explosions, the flying body parts of infants in the market place, will all continue unabated. Well done.

What wonderful people, so gentle and kind with their Religion of Love. Let’s build a mosque near you, so you can share in the love. Just imagine it, the call to prayer blaring from giant loudspeakers atop tall picturesque minarets five times a day, bearded men threatening you with knives, your little 10 year old daughter getting gang raped…

When the Founders of this country declared its independence in 1776, nearly 232 years ago, most people here had some sort of firearm and knew how to use it. It was those armed men who decided that this was a free new nation and not the property of Spain, England or France.

Because being and staying free obviously required a well-armed populace, an Amendment was added to our Constitution which says “a well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed”.

All these years, no one has doubted the meaning of those words, that we as individuals have the right to keep and bear arms. Individual states have tried to usurp those rights, particularly in the case of those who’ve been convicted of crimes. Some states take away the right to bear arms forever, while others restore it entirely on completion of a persons sentence. Montana does this. Regardless of state intrusion on this basic right, the Federal right remains as stated in our Constitution.

Yet now our Supreme Court is batting the old ball around again over whether it only means “state-run militias only” or whether the 2nd Amendment covers all of us, in spite of over 200 years of tradition. While it now appears that the Supreme Court is leaning toward the right of all of us, that really isn’t the point.

This should not even be being discussed. After 200 plus years of knowing how things are in this country, some things become givens and the Right To Bear Arms is one of them. Just like Freedom of Assembly and Free Speech, yet both of those have been whittled away at over the years as well by those who don’t like us rabble having too much power.

The Supreme Court is not my God. Don’t let it be yours.

We all know the Chinese are hosting the 2008 Olympics and The Bush Jerk is bleating that The Olympics Are Not Political so we shouldn’t boycott the China Olympics. Yeah right. Not political.

Come on. They’ve ALWAYS been political. Remember when Reagan enforced a boycott of the Russian Olympics over the diplomatic piss-up when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan? It’s national pride against national pride. What else could it possibly be but political?

Well, here we have the Chinese sending us poisoned pet food and seafood contaminated with just plain old filth, rufie (date rape drug) toys for babies, lead in their toys, and so on, and calling the Dalai Lama a terrorist in the most outrageous propaganda any nation has fed the world since the Nazis, and we shouldn’t boycott the Olympics? Oh, right on, Bush Baby. Is that in the same genre as “Mission accomplished”?

Forget Bush, this is about China, an evil and oppressive regime that openly enslaves its citizens and anyone else it can dominate, such as the poor Tibetans. The Chinese government has been oppressing them for decades with the clear goal of forcing an end to their practice of Buddhism and the annihilation of their ancient culture. The Chinese government wants all their slaves to think the same, dress the same and act the same and as long as the Dalai Lama lives and the Tibetan people believe in an incarnate Buddha, this will never happen.

What the Ant-King mentality of that government refuses to recognize is that not only is the Tibetan culture a beautiful thing that should be protected instead of destroyed, but that the harder the Chinese try to wreck it, the deeper becomes the resistance of the people. Now the Chinese are in a debacle of their own making as sentiment at home is rising against the government simultaneously with anti-Chinese feeling abroad. Curiously, the brainwashed, Big Brother-loving proles fear that the Tibetans will fight back and the whole thing will get really bloody, and that “we will never win their hearts”, this latter being a big loss of face for their government. Whatever it takes to get them to back off is good.

The British are already talking about boycotting the Olympics if the Chinese don’t back off and I very much fault George W. Bush for doing the opposite. Ever the Corporate Stooge. Chinese products come first, you know.

Fortunately, most Americans don’t listen to George anymore. Boycott the Olympics! Absolutely! I do feel honestly very sorry for the athletes who have worked so hard, but I lay the blame squarely on the Olympic Committee for accepting China to be the host. We all know what kind of country China is. What could they have been thinking?

We should do again what Ronald Reagan did before with the Soviet Union, and BOYCOTT THE OLYMPICS. How can we hope for freedom in the world if we won’t stand up for it?

I was going to wait until tomorrow to put up a post now that I’m back, but seeing this in the news, I knew it couldn’t wait: PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A Philadelphia agency has ruled that English-only signs at a famous cheesesteak shop are not discriminatory. The Commission on Human Relations says in its Wednesday ruling that the sign at Geno’s Steaks does not violate the city’s Fair Practices Ordinance. Joe Vento posted the signs at his shop in October 2005. They read “This is AMERICA: WHEN ORDERING ‘PLEASE SPEAK ENGLISH.’”

Oh yeah? Well, I have a Patagonian tree frog that doesn’t speak a word of English. How do you think little Ribbit feels, seeing signs like that? I can tell you, it sure stops his chirruping dead.

The only solution here, to keep from offending those who come here expecting to see signs in Aarrdvarkian or whatever the Hell, is to OUTLAW SIGNS! You want to know something, you gotta ASK, and if you don’t ask in ENGLISH, then good luck to you in finding your lost child, the next plane to Denver or in getting served dead flies on a stick instead of those lamb chops and veggies you actually wanted.

One new porch pic as promised. You can go back to sleep now.

Howdy, it’s good to be home again, though it was an interesting and fun time out in the hills, too. The porch and deck are built now, the solar system is charging away at the pair of deep-cycle batteries that power a few small appliances, and the Mosque outhouse survived the winter in fine shape.

Tomorrow I’ll get a pic up of the current outside appearance of the cabin. Right now I’m relaxing from the 500 mile drive home.

Tomorrow….

Today’s a better day, neckwise. The strain pain is gone so now I’ll try to make up for yesterdays lack of scintillating repartee.

Found an article this morning about an Irish bar owner who declared March a “No Danny Boy” month, being sick and tired of drunk patrons singing this dirge-like lament, which reminded me of some of my own past mischief. A friend and I frequented a German-style bar where the band would play faster and faster as the night wore on, thereby inducing their customers to drink faster and faster. So this one evening we carefully chose a small table in the back, in the shadows and behind a pillar, and after things were rolling rapidly along, they began taking requests, which they always did after the crowd was half-looped.

So I sidled up and requested “Danny Boy” and quickly slipped back to our hidden table. Since the poor fool had uttered the name into his microphone, he was stuck with it. He tried to find the dirty rat who’d requested it, and coerce said rat into having to sing it, but I was well hidden. So the band played it and sang it, the drinking in the place virtually halted as everyone stared deeply into their beer mugs and it took them a good half-hour to get things going again even close to what it was before.

Years later I’m still laughing.

Florida and Michigan are in the deep fat now over the silencing of 5,163,271 American votes in their primaries, because their Dem. parties violated the rules by holding their caucuses too early. The real question here is can the National Dem. Committee deny voting rights to over 5 million U.S. citizens? Politics aside, this action seems basically unconstitutional and the governors of both states jointly stated “It is intolerable that the national political parties have denied the citizens of Michigan and Florida their votes and voices at their respective national conventions”.

If my vote had been rendered worthless by some over-penalizing party bureaucrats, I’d want them to pay for my time and the gasoline it took. Multiply that by 5 million. By nullifying all those votes, they went too far in their idea of enforcing party rules. They forgot about all those who voted.

Since the McCain issue is settled, now it’s all about Clinton vs. Obama and the latter is showing his whiny side, crying over her “kitchen-sink strategy” in winning three of the four states primaries that were just held. Ummm, I think it’s called “politics”. Obama is a great speaker, full of lofty rhetoric that pours out of him apparently without effort, but every time he’s asked a hard question he equivocates. His experience really is lacking, he’s a junior senator who has done almost nothing during his short time in Congress, and there’s still the matter of that Blacks-only church of his.

Here’s some info about him and his church: Obama said “We were always playing on the white man’s court — by the white man’s rules. If the principal, or the coach, or a teacher wanted to spit in your face, he could, because he had the power and you didn’t. The only thing you could choose was withdrawal into a smaller and smaller coil of rage.”
Obama’s once described the white race as “that ghostly figure that haunted black dreams.”
“That hate hadn’t gone away,” he wrote, blaming “white people — some cruel, some ignorant, sometimes a single face, sometimes just a faceless image of a system claiming power over our lives.”

In 1983, during college, Obama disapproved of what he called other “half-breeds” who gravitated toward whites instead of blacks. And yet after college, he once fell in love with a white woman, only to push her away when he concluded he would have to assimilate into her world, not the other way around. He later married a black woman.

According to this site, Mr. Obama is 50% Caucasian from his mother’s side. He is 43.75% Arabic, and 6.25% African Negro from his father’s side. Why does his father have an Arabic name? Why does every ancestor on his father’s side have an Arabic name?” The answer is obvious: They have Arabic names because his father’s side of the family tree is Arabic. Hussein Obama isn’t black, he’s half Arab, which explains why all the Arab and all the Islamic organizations including Louis Farrakhan support him. Yet he claims to be black. He’s not.

He’s coming across more and more as a very thin-skinned guy, while with Clinton I sense a certain amount of desparation. Both of them are under tremendous pressure, and one of them may end up doing a Dean Scream yet that will decide which one gets their parties nomination. It’s fascinating to watch, anyway, while they pant and suffer.

Something I’ve never understood is why anyone would want that job so passionately. Bush, with Big Oil behind him, now that makes sense. But just because they want to be King of the Mountain? Mitt Romney spent a chunk of his personal fortune, millions, on a losing campaign and Clinton has tossed in $5 million of hers.

Usually, by the time your term ends, everyone hates you anyway. I just don’t get it.

The latest in a series of Israeli airstrikes left at least 20 Palestinians dead Thursday, as Israel considers a new invasion of Gaza to confront Hamas. Israel’s deadly attacks on Gaza came the same day that Palestinian militants launched a barrage of long-range rockets at the city of Ashkelon.

The BBC reports that Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai went so far as to warn Palestinians that continued rocket attacks would bring about a “bigger holocaust”, a word seldom used in Israel outside discussions of the Nazi genocide during World War II.

We may soon see a full-on invasion of Gaza once again.

Israel is a strange nation, populated by people who would love to just be happy, complacent sheep but are forced to be fighting rams instead by the malevolent forces that surround them. They stand as proof for the rest of us that, even when ringed by enemies, a determined people can hold them at bay. Considering the rise of anti-American feeling in the world, their example may be of real value to us in the future.

That’s because we’re in the process once again of selecting our leader for the next four no doubt very eventful years, and as usual we don’t seem to be choosing very carefully.

One of the Democratic candidates has been a member for 20 years of an all black, very Afro-centric and racist, “unashamedly black” church that openly supports anti-semitism and honors Americas worst Jew-hater, muslim Louis Farrakhan. While he says he denounces his pastors close ties with this muslim fanatic, he continues to maintain his membership in this church and refers to Farrakhan as “Minister Farrakhan” instead of saying it like it is.

You can’t judge a book by it’s cover, and a bold title can mask a bad narrative.

I think Barack Hussein Obama is a wolf in sheeps clothing. If he’d left that church and really spoken out about its practices long before being prodded to say something, it would have been believable. Not now, it’s too late. Ahh, but sheep don’t think. That’s why they’re sheep.

They’re all in a flap over at the EPA because Administrator Stephen Johnson has turned down California’s request to reduce vehicle greenhouse gas emissions. Johnson denied the waiver request in December, blocking California and at least 16 other states from implementing the reductions and now some high-ranking career staffers would like to see him resign.

The EPA makes decisions based on corporate wants instead of environmental needs, so why it’s called the Environmental Protection agency is anyones guess. Now, California and no doubt those 16 other states generate a lot of vehicle exhaust. Maybe the Californians are only concerned about the “greenhouse gas”, which is plain old carbon dioxide, but shouldn’t we be less concerned about that then all the other noxious, actually poisonous fumes belching out of all those tailpipes? If you reduce the CO2, all the other fumes decrease too.

I live in the North where the winters are cold. Global warming is my friend. I like it. Breathing is nice, too, if the air is clean.

Cough, cough.

A new survey has revealed that many Americans are leaving organized religion, sometimes for another faith but mostly for “unaffiliated”.

“The nation is still predominantly — 78 percent — Christian, but 5 percent are now adherents of other faiths and 16 percent are unaffiliated” and fully half of Americans have changed from one form of Christianity to another, mostly from Catholicism to Protestant and evangelical Protestant churches.

This is a good sign that a small part of the herd mentality is smartening up. The movement away from the Catholic Church is reasonable considering that it’s been revealed as a haven for homosexual child molesters. Certainly their scandals and massive legal problems and lawsuits can’t be expected to keep their members coming, and the church has been too inflexible anyway in the face of changing mores for many of its members.

The constant stream of scandals in Protestant/Evangelical churches hasn’t helped their cause either, as ministers are caught having sex in public bathrooms, getting rich from donations intended for good works, and so on.

Any sign that the American public can act in a thoughtful manner is a good sign. We used to be a nation of thinkers, with reasoned and considered opinions. Good to know we’re not completely hypnotized yet.