WHO ARE WE - THE WELL-OFF AND THE WELL-FED - TO POINT FINGERS?

Since my retirement, I have been doing volunteer work - four years with a police agaency, then eight years at a big zoo, and now more than two years at a nature center. Needless to say, the paid staff and most of the volunteer workers at the zoo and at the nature center are environmentalists.

I too support the protection of our environment. I belong to The Nature Conservancy, which has been judged best of all the environmental groups. Unlike many organizations, such as the Sierra Club, with their obnoxious monthly petitions and solicitations, The Nature Conservancy goes about quietly buying up land for preservation, both in this country and abroad. I also belong to several wildlife organizations.

Last week, some of the volunteers at the nature center were rather upset over all the tree cutting that takes place just to produce paper products. That led to a discussion of the deforestization that goes on all over the world. While I would personally like to see every tree preserved, I asked the other volunteers, "Who are we to point fingers?" Then I went on to explain why I raised the question.

I have made eight extended trips to the Amazon. Over the years, I have spent time in the Amazonian territories of Venezuela (twice), Peru (four times), Ecuador, Columbia and Brazil. I love the beauty and peacefulness of the rain forest. I really enjoyed hiking through and camping in the jungle. I was always fascinated by leaf cutter ants and could sit and watch them for hours at a time. At night, the sky is full of bright stars. Because the only way of getting around is by foot or boat, there is no pollution from gasoline or diesel engine emissions. (Some of the "half-civilized" Indians have outfitted their dugouts with outboard motors.) By visiting their villages, I learned a lot about the Indians who live in the Amazon.

The people who live within or at the edge of jungles in Latin America, Africa and Asia are extremely poor. They probably earn less than the equivalent of $100 a year. They hunt all types of wildlife for food, including rodents, monkeys and other primates. They cut down trees to clear land for growing crops and to build their dwellings. Some of the more primitive Amazon tribes keep having to relocate their villages to accomodate rainy and dry season topographical changes, thus causing more trees to be cut. Those who live in poverty, with their daily struggle to survive, cannot afford the luxury of being environmentally friendly.

I truly love wild animals. I hate to see them slaughtered for any reason. While at the zoo, I worked in its primate section. I especially loved our orangutans and our lone gorilla. It never really bothered me when the orangutans would splatter me with spit, as they often did. What bothers me is the killing for bush meat of orangutans, gorillas and other primates in the wild. And it really bothers me that deforestization, for whatever reason, is shrinking the natural habitats of orangutans and gorillas, thereby threatening their survival and that of other wildlife species. But, the tree cutting and the primate slaughter play a major role in a primitive people's desperate attempts to survive.

I doubt if we really understand the plight of the impoverished peoples of Latin America, Africa and Asia. Those who are poverty stricken in the industrialized West - especially in the U.S. - are wealthy compared to the third world's poor who are barely getting by. When a magnificent elephant is slaughtered for its ivory, the poacher's impoverished village will end up enjoying a better life. Thanks to the illegal drug trade, the cultivation of opium poppies in Afghanistan and the cultivation of coca leaves in the Andes enables impoverished farmers there to earn a better income. Because we are so well-off, it is easy for us to condemn the poor for their role in the trafficking of ivory and illegal drugs.

I have personally observed some logging activities in the Peruvian Amazon. I have also observed a number of oil rigs being drilled or operating in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Did these activities mess up the beautiful jungle? Yes, they sure did! But, the logging companies and the oil companies pay the Indians for the right to cut trees and to drill for oil. And, I've seen the oil companies construct modern school buildings for the Indians. I've also seen them build comfortable tourist lodges in the jungle. Those lodges are then owned and run by the Indians, providing them with a steady source of income.

Granted, the logging and oil companies do not pay the Amazon Indians anywhere near the royalties they pay landowners in the United States. And, the drilling for oil in the jungles is done without many of the environmental protection measures required for drilling in the Western World. But, who are we - the well-off - to point fingers at others and condemn environmentally damaging activities that improve the lives of impoverished people in other parts of the world? And who are we - the well-fed - to point fingers at and condemn those who hunt Orangutans, Gorillas and other primates in order to provide their hungry families with meat to eat?

AN ENDORSEMENT OF JOHN McCAIN

While I think this unknown writer's endorsement of John McCain is quite a bit over the top, I could not resist the urge to reproduce it in this blog.


"After long and serious thought, I have decided to endorse Senator John McCain for President.

I have always voted for the person and have not voted for anyone because some political party was telling me who I should vote for.

We all know the choices by now and, that said, I do believe that the process of selecting a chief executive is deeply flawed. The words 'money' and 'special intersts' come to mind, among many others.

Here's the way I see it: (The writer then goes on to state at great length why he would not vote for either Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton.)

Which leaves us with Senator John McCain.

John, you are a flawed man. You are a bit old, a bit looney, and you have a notoriously bad temper. This perfectly qualifies you, in my humble opinion, to lead us for the next eight years. I want your trembling hand on the nuclear button.

Think about it.

We have Kim Jong IL, Chavez and Ahmadenijad all running around like lunatics, threatening America and threatening to plunge the world into nuclear Armageddon. We have Putin and the Chinese blustering and rattling their sabres at us. I want John McCain in the Oval Office and I want him to be really pissed off at all these other nut jobs around the planet.

John, once you are elected, I want you to go into the Oval Office and throw one of your perfect tantrums. Jump up and down and throw something through a plate glass window. Rip the drapes down and foam at the mouth a bit. And I want the whole thing on camera so that Ahmadinejad can see it. I want all of these 'world leaders' to lay awake at night and to break out in a cold sweat every time they think of messing with the United States of America.

I want the nuclear button sitting right next to the alarm clock on your night stand. I want pictures of this to be sent to Iran, Russia, China, Venezuela, Cuba, Libya, Syria, Pakistan, and those other assholes in the sheets, the Saudis.

On the domestic front, poor John did try and reach across the aisle to the opposition in a desperate effort to compromise and to get the Congress to do something. You may not agree with his efforts, but at least he tried. For all his efforts, all he got handed to him was his head in a basket. The liberals are pissed at him and the conservatives are pissed at him. Just my kinda guy.

I predict that John will select Senator Joe Lieberman as his running mate. Good choice. I want a Jew whose memory of the Holocaust is still fresh in his mind and who is royally pissed off at all of these towel-headed morons in the Middle East to be the next in line if something should happen to John. Shalom, Vice President Joe. One heartbeat from the Oval Office.

Finally. John McCain knows on a most personal level what it is to suffer horrible torture for years and to see others die, right in front of you, for their love of America. When you ask him about it, he will tell you that what he did was 'nothing special.' Even more incredibly, he states that any American who truly loves his country would do exactly the same as he did in that situation. You and I will have a hard time believing that, but the real point is that John McCain believes that about the 'average American,' and that, dear friends and neighbors, is why I will cast my one poor ballot for on election day for John McCain -- warts and all."

AN AMERICAN HERO'S MESSAGE

I know that Col. Repya's message has been floating around the internet for the past year or so, but it is so compelling that I am reproducing it in this blog.


Lt. Col. Joe Repya’s "I’m tired" message expressing disappointment with public support for the U.S. military mission in Iraq.

"I’m Tired"

Two weeks ago, as I was starting my sixth month of duty in Iraq, I was forced to return to the USA for surgery for an injury I sustained prior to my deployment. With luck, I’ll return to Iraq to finish my tour. I left Baghdad and a war that has every indication that we are winning, to return to a demoralized country much like the one I returned to in 1971 after my tour in Vietnam. Maybe it’s because I’ll turn 60 years old in just four months, but I’m tired:

I’m tired of spineless politicians, both Democrat and Republican who lack the courage, fortitude, and character to see these difficult tasks through.

I’m tired of the hypocrisy of politicians who want to rewrite history when the going gets tough.

I’m tired of the disingenuous clamor from those that claim they ‘Support the Troops’ by wanting them to ‘Cut and Run’ before victory is achieved.

I’m tired of a mainstream media that can only focus on car bombs and casualty reports because they are too afraid to leave the safety of their hotels to report on the courage and success our brave men and women are having on the battlefield.

I’m tired that so many Americans think you can rebuild a dictatorship into a democracy over night.

I’m tired that so many ignore the bravery of the Iraqi people to go to the voting booth and freely elect a Constitution and soon a permanent Parliament.

I’m tired of the so called ‘Elite Left’ that prolongs this war by giving aid and comfort to our enemy, just as they did during the Vietnam War.

I’m tired of antiwar protesters showing up at the funerals of our fallen soldiers. A family who’s loved ones gave their life in a just and noble cause, only to be cruelly tormented on the funeral day by cowardly protesters is beyond shameful.

I’m tired that my generation, the Baby Boom-Vietnam generation, have such a weak backbone that they can’t stomach seeing the difficult tasks through to victory.

I’m tired that some are more concerned about the treatment of captives than they are the slaughter and beheading of our citizens and allies. I’m tired that when we find mass graves it is seldom reported by thepress, but mistreat a prisoner and it is front page news.

Mostly, I’m tired that the people of this great nation didn’t learn from history that there is no substitute for Victory.

Sincerely,

Joe Repya,
Lieutenant Colonel, U. S. Army
101st Airborne Division

WORLD COURT AND THE PRESIDENT REBUFFED

Good for the U.S. Supreme Court. Last month, the court ruled 6-3 that the President had no right to order the States to abide by a ruling of the International Court of Justice (World Court) which required the retrial of 51 Mexican nationals who had been sentenced to death in our courts without having been advised of their right to seek and obtain assistance from the Mexican consulate.

In my blog, INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSICE MEDDLES IN OUR DOMESTIC AFFAIRS (10-19-07), I was very critical of the World Court's interference in our criminal justice system. When we signed the 1963 Vienna Convention, which requires the U.S. to abide by the World Court's decisions, we never foresaw the possibility of that court injecting itself into any of our domestic issues.

The case before the Supreme Court involved the death sentence of Jose Medellin, a Mexican national, who had been convicted of the 1993 brutal rape-murder of two Houston teenaged girls. At the time of his arrest, Medellin was not advised of his right to contact the Mexican Consulate as required by the Vienna Convention.

In 2003, Mexico went to the World Court on behalf of Medellin and 50 other Mexican citizens who had been sentenced to death in the U.S. without having been advised of their right to seek consular assistance. Although their guilt was never in question, the court ruled in Mexico's favor and ordered that the 51 Mexican death row inmates be retried because they had not been advised of that right.

In response to the World Court's decision, President Bush ordered the States to hold new sentencing hearings for the condemned Mexicans. It was the Medellin case which the State of Texas chose for its appeal of the President's order. Texas was joined before the Supreme Court by 28 other States. Mexico filed a brief before the Court and was joined by 12 other Latin American countries as well as by most European nations.

The majority of the Supreme Court ruled that the President was wrong in ordering the States to hold new sentencing hearings because the World Court had no right to impose its will on the sovereignty of the United States. Justice David Souter and the court's most liberal justices, Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg dissented.

There are those who claim this decision will harm Americans arrested outside of the United States because other countries may retaliate by denying our citizens the right of seeking U.S. consular assistance. I believe that claim is nothing but a red herring. There are already a number of countries which do not extend that right to our citizens or to citizens of any other country for that matter. I doubt they will be joined by others, and that includes Mexico.

In effect, the Supreme Court has told the World Court to butt out of our domestic affairs. The real reason Mexico was joined by other Latin American countries and by the Europeans is that, over many years, all of them have condemned us for imposing the death penalty. But that is our business and not any of their damn business!!!

BRITISH AIRWAYS CREW DEALS WITH RACISM

Here is a story of swift justice for all which a friend recently sent me and which I found well worth repeating in my blog.


What small steps are taken to achieve freedom for us all. This is a true account of a scene that took place on a British Airways flight between Johannesburg, South Africa and London.

A white woman, about 50 years old , was seated next to a black man. Very disturbed by this, she called the flight attendant. 'You obviously do not see it then?' she asked. 'You placed me next to a black man. I did not agree to sit next to someone from such a repugnant group. Give me an alternative seat.' 'Be calm please,' the attendant replied. 'Almost all the places on this flight are taken. I will go to see if another place is available.'

The attendant went away and then came back a few minutes later. 'Madam,' she said, 'just as I thought, there are no other available seats in Economy Class. I spoke to the captain and he informed me that there is also no seat in Business Class. All the same, we still have one place in First Class.' Before the woman could say anything, the attendant continued. 'It is unusual for our company to permit someone from Economy Class to sit in First Class. However, given the circumstances, the captain feels that it would be scandalous to make someone sit next to someone so disgusting.'

She turned to the black guy and said, 'Therefore, Sir, if you would like to, please collect your hand luggage, a seat awaits you in First Class.'

At that moment, the other passengers, who'd been shocked by what they had just witnessed, stood up and applauded.


That was a shrewd flight attendant. She and the airliner's Captain sure did British Airways proud.

UNDER SNIPER FIRE

In my blog, NO, NOT GOD BLESS AMERICA, GOD DAMN AMERICA! (3-18-08), I put it bluntly - "Barack Obama is a liar!" In order to be evenhanded, I will now be just as blunt about Obama's Democratic rival for the presidency - Hillary Clinton is a liar!! Here are just two examples of her lies.

Clinton's main campaign theme has been her claim that she has had years of foreign policy experience and that she is prepared to respond immediately should our nation be threatened or attacked by an enemy. In a speech last week, Clinton recalled her trip to Tuzla, Bosnia in 1996. She went there, accompanied by daughter Chelsa, to visit U.S. troops enforcing the 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement. Here is what she had to say about the trip:

"I certainly do remember that trip to Bosnia and ... there was a saying around the White House that if a place was too small, too poor, or too dangerous, the president couldn't go, so send the first lady. That's where we went. I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base."

Unfortunately for Hillary, news video and the recollection of accompanying reporters tell a far different tale. Instead of sniper fire, Hillary and Chelsea were greeted on the airfield's tarmac by dignitaries and a group of children. The only time Hillary had to put her head down was to accept a kiss on the cheek from a little girl.

The media accused Clinton of "embellishing" her experience. Embellishing, my ass! Why can't the media call it what it is? - a lie! Only after the media had revealed the truth, Clinton admitted she "misspoke," blaming her description of the event on sleep deprivation. A lie on top of a lie!! On at least two prior occasions, she told campaign audiences the same story, that she had landed in Bosnia under sniper fire.

Hillary also claims to have played a crucial role in bringing about peace in Northern Ireland. Here is an example of what she has said during the campaign: "I remember a meeting that I pulled together in Belfast, in the town hall there, bringing together for the first time Catholics and Protestants from both traditions, having them sitting in a room where they had never been before with each other..."

Those in the know at the time found Hillary's assertion "laughable." This is how author and columnist Lindy McDowell, who attended that meeting, responded to Clinton's claim in a recent Belfast Telegraph column: "I remember the visit to the cafe (town hall) well. It was what's known in the business as a photo opportunity. Something to keep the presidential spouse occupied while the actual office bearer was getting down to business. It was a short, staged event 'pulled together' by local organisers. Amid all the secuirty men and press photographers it was hardly conducive to real business."

The participants at that meeting were all women. They often held such meetings, contratry to Clinton's statement that she had brought them together for the first time. And it was local organizers who pulled the meeting together, not Hillary. Just a couple more Clinton lies, that's all. And how crucial was this meeting? It was merely a photo-op for the first lady while her husband was busy elsewhere trying to broker a peace.

Here is another example of "Hillary the Liar." Clinton takes credit for her "successful effort to create" the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Actually, her name rarely appeared in news accounts about the SCHIP negotiations, which lasted for several months back in 1997. And she never testified before Congress or held a news conference on the bill.

When Senator Orrin Hatch, the lead GOP negotiator on the bill, heard that Hillary was claiming to be SCHIP's main advocate, he told reporters, "I had to blink a few times." Hatch could not recall a single conversation with Clinton about SCHIP, nor even the mention of her name. "If she was involved, I didn't know about it," he said. And Senator Jay Rockefeller, one of the Democrats pushing the bill, joked "You know how she (Clinton) says, 'I started SCHIP'? Well, so did I."

So, here you have a prominent Democratic senator joking about Hillary's obvious lie and a highly respected Republican senator, who often cosponsors legislation with Democrats, challenging her false claim. Once again, let me put it bluntly - Hillary Clinton, like Barack Obama, is a liar!! However, in fairness to both it must be concluded that Obama is a better liar, while Clinton is a much bigger liar.

BRILLIANT EXPLANATIONS

Every so often, someone sends me a priceless story or joke. This past week, I received two which are worthy of inclusion in my blog.


THERMODYNAMICS

The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington chemistry mid term.

The answer by one student was so 'profound' that the professor shared it with colleagues.

Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)?

Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law (gas cools when it expands and heats when it is compressed) or some variant.

One student, however, wrote the following:

First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate at which souls are moving into Hell and the rate at which they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for how many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the different religions that exist in the world today.

Most of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there is more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand proportionately as souls are added.

This gives two possibilities:

1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.

2. If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.

So which is it?

If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa during my Freshman year that, 'It will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you,' and take into account the fact that I slept with her last night, then number two must be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and has already frozen over. The corollary of this theory is that since Hell has frozen over, it follows that it is not accepting any more souls and is therefore, extinct . . . leaving only Heaven, thereby proving the existence of a divine being which explains why, last night, Teresa kept shouting 'Oh my God.'

(This student received an A+.)


POLITICS

A little boy goes to his dad and asks, "What is Politics?"

Dad says, "Well son, let me try to explain it this way:

I am the head of the family, so call me The President.

Your mother is the administrator of the money, so we call her the Government.

We are here to take care of your needs, so we will call you the People.

The nanny, we will consider her the Working Class.

And your baby brother, we will call him the Future.

Now think about that and see if it makes sense."

So the little boy goes off to bed thinking about what Dad has said.

Later that night, he hears his baby brother crying, so he gets up to check on him.

He finds that the baby has severely soiled his diaper.

So the little boy goes to his parent's room and finds his mother asleep.

Not wanting to wake her, he goes to the nanny's room. Finding the door locked, he peeks in the keyhole and sees his father in bed with the nanny.

He gives up and goes back to bed.

The next morning, the little boy say's to his father, "Dad , I think I understand the concept of politics now."

The father says, "Good, son, tell me in your own words what you think politics is all about."

The little boy replies, "The President is screwing the Working Class while the Government is sound asleep. The People are being ignored and the Future is in deep SHIT.

PALESTININAN POLL REFLECTS VOW TO DESTROY THE JEWISH STATE

As everyone knows, ever since Israel withdrew from the Gaza stirp two years ago, it has been subjected to daily rocket attacks by Hamas and Islamic Jihad. There have been more than 7,000 rockets launched from the Gaza strip. Recently a Palesinian shot eight young Israeli students to death at a religious seminary in Jerusalem.

Following the slaughter of the Israeli students, the Palestinian Center for Policy and Research conducted a survey which revealed that (1) 64 percent of all Palestinians support the rocket attacks on Israeli towns and (2) 84 percent approved of the deadly shooting of the young Israeli students.

The Israelis and the Palestinians share a commonality - they hate each other. Jews and Palestinians share another commonality - nobody wants them.

The Palestinians hate the Israelis because in their minds Jews occupy land that was taken from them. They ignore the fact that much of Palestine (that part of Israel before 1967) was already occupied by Jews prior to their 1948 war of independence. Fueling that hatred is an incessant hateful depiction of Jews in the Arab press and schools. Harsh security measures taken by Israel in response to years of Palestinian attacks against its civilians have made life difficult for many Palestinians, thus adding to their hatred of Jews.

Israeli hatred of Palestinians stems from (1) five wars with Arab states - 1948-49, 1956, 1967, 1973-74 and 1982 - in which the Jews had to fight for the survival of their tiny homeland, (2) a long history of deadly Palestinian attacks against Israeli civilians, (3) the Palestinian rocket attacks on civilians by Hamas and Islamic Jihad, and (4) the fighting with Hezbollah, the powerful Lebanese Islamic militia.

In 1948, when Israel had to fight off invading Arab armies, it did force some Palestinians off of land inside the new State of Israel. However, the overwhelming majority of Palestinians who fled did so at the behest of the Arab states. The Arabs were determined to prevent the establishment of a Jewish State and did not want the Palestinian civilian population to get in the way of the fighting. Most fled to Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, none of which wanted them in their midst. Instead of assimilating the Palestinians, which they easily could have done, their fellow Arabs forced them to live in squalid refugee camps.

Jews are not wanted in many parts of the world. There is a long history of Jews having been persecuted in Muslim countries and in pre-WWII countries of Eastern Europe - Poland, the former Soviet Republics, Latvia, Hungary, Romania, etc.. Today, they are still suffering from discrimination in Eastern Europe. The people in those countries eagerly helped the Nazis round up Jews for extermination, as did many people in France and Austria. The Arabs loudly applauded Hitler's attmpt to wipe out the Jews of Europe. Jews continue to be persecuted in the Muslim world. Thus, Israel is the only place of refuge for Jews who are not wanted in other parts of the world.

With all that mutual hatred between them, it is hard to see how the Israelis and Palestininas can achieve a real and lasting peace, especially since the Palestinians and other Arabs have vowed to destroy the Zionist entity, no matter how long it takes. When the Arabs talk about occupied land, they are not talking about the West Bank - they are talking about all of Israel itself.

When Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas talks of peace to the Western World he does so in English. However, when addressing the Arab World, his speeches in Arabic always reflect the Palestinian vow to destroy the Jewish State. And that vow is also reflected in the poll showing that 64 percent of Palestininas support the rocket attacks on Israeli civilians and 84 percent approved of killing the eight young Israeli students.

BE VERY CAREFUL HOW YOU VOTE IN 2008

Remember the old fable about the ant and the grasshopper? There are now two versions - the original and an updated one. Be sure and read both of them.


ORIGINAL VERSION:

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!


UPDATED VERSION:

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving.

CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?

Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green.'

Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the TV stations film the group singing, 'We shall overcome.' Jesse then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake.

Al Sharpton, not to be outdone, stages his own demonstration accompanied by the shivering grasshopper. Al leads his group in shouting 'no justice, no peace' in front of the video cameras set up by the TV stations.

Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.

Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity and Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer! The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government.

Hillary Clinton gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper in a defamation suit against the ant, and the case is tried before a panel of federal judges that Bill Clinton appointed from a list of single-parent welfare recipients. The ant loses the case.

The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around him because he doesn't maintain it.

The ant has disappeared in the snow.

The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Be very careful how you vote in 2008!!

NO, NOT GOD BLESS AMERICA, GOD DAMN AMERICA !

"No, no, no, not God bless America, God damn America!" I'm sure by now you have heard those words over and over again, either on TV or on the radio. So, why am I repeating these hateful words by Reverend Jeremiah Wright from just one of his many inflammatory sermons? Because they relate to Barack Obama's character, or lack thereof.

For many years, Rev. Wright has been well known in the Chicago area for delivering many sermons from the pulpit which expressed a virulent hatred for whites and for the United States of America. Obama considers Wright a close friend. He credits Wright for leading him to Jesus Christ. Wright has been his pastor and spiritual adviser for nearly 20 years. He married the Obamas and baptized their children. Their's has been far more than just a casual pastor-parishioner relationship.

I can understand why blacks have been angry over the discrimination and injustices they have suffered at the hands of a white majority. While discrimination against minorities continues to exist, an awful lot has changed since Dr. Martin Luther King gave his "I Have a Dream" speech so that our past history does not justify Rev. Wright's current hatred of whites and his outrageous charges against our government.

Wright claims there is a government conspiracy to imprison black youths. He accuses the government of supplying young blacks with illegal drugs. He refers to our country as the "U.S. of KKK A." There is his demented accusation that the governmnt created the HIV virus "as a means of genocide against people of color." And then there is Wright's preposterous pronouncement that because, among other wrongs, our government supported state (Israeli) terrorism against the Palestinians, the United States was to blame for the 9/11 attacks on New York and the Pentagon - "the chickens coming home to roost," as he phrased it.

While Obama has denounced Wright's words in a forceful and unequivable way, he waited until this past week to do so. He claimed he never heard Wright deliver any hateful sermons on those days when he attended church services. He made the incredulous statement that he had not been aware of Wright's hateful sermons until he saw them played on TV recently. If you believe that, I'll sell you some beach front property in Arizona. If unaware of Wright's inflammatory sermons, then why did Obama disinvite his pastor from giving the invocation at the cremony announcing his run for the presidency?

In my blog, JOHN McCAIN IS MY FAVORITE CANDIDATE (12-10-07), I wrote: "Obama's inexperience is no big deal since he would almost certainly appoint well-qualified men and women to be his aides and cabinet members. He has tripped over his tongue on several foreign policy statements. But it's his sucking up to Jessee Jackson and Al Sharpton that makes it hard for me to vote for him." Well that was last December and this is now.

Obama's excuse for waiting until now to denounce Wright's sermons is just plain disingenuous. It sure looked like Michelle Obama has been influenced by those sermons when she told a campaign audience that "For the first time in my adult lifetime I'm proud of my country" and when, in a magazine article, she said America is "just downright mean." All this leads me to belive that - let me put it bluntly - Barack Obama is a liar! Unless he's been living under a rock, Obama had to be aware of the hatred espoused by Wright throughout their 20 year relationship.

I am personally incensed by Wright's references to Israel as a terrorist state. He has called for a divestment campaign against Israel for the "injustice and racism under which the Palestinians have lived because of Zionism." His website and church publications have contained articles condemning Israel and Zionism in the strongest ot terms. In the "Pastor's Page" section of his church bulletin there was a two page article by Mousa Abu Marzook, a Hamas terrorist wanted by the FBI, which included the Hamas Manifesto, a document that denies Israel's right to exist and defends attacks against Israeli civilians.

Wright has engaged in anti-Semitic rhetoric, as have those other rabble-rousing reverends, Jessee "Hymietown" Jackson and Al Sharpton. Wright, Obama's close friend and spiritual adviser, has warmly embraced that rabid racist hate-mongering Louis Farrakhan who calls Jews "bloodsuckers" and says "Judaism is a gutter religion."

It offends me that Obama continues to court Jackson, who has made many anti-Semitic remarks, and Sharpton, who fanned the flames of the 1991 riot by blacks against Jews in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn. Obama has not had to distance himself from Jackson and Sharpton because the media has had an enduring love affair with those charlatans, something Rev. Wright has not enjoyed.

Furthermore, Obama's foreign policy advisers have taken strong pro-Palestinian positions. One of his closest aides has been caught assuring a Canadian government official that Obama's position on changing NAFTA is merely political rhetoric. Before she resigned from his staff, Samantha Power told the BBC not to worry about Obama's stated Iraq policy because it too was just political rhetoric.

Last December, there was a slight possibility that I could have been persuaded to vote for Obama. Because of what I have learned about the man since then, the chances of my voting for Obama have evolved from SLIM TO NONE. Today's speech in Philadelphia, where he did an about face and finally admitted he was present in church when Wright made "remarks" he (Obama) characterized as "controversial," was a dollar short and a day late.

APPLICANT ANGER

A friend wrote "It seems that the good old USA is not the only place this foolishness happens. Could it be our British heritage, or that idiocy knows no boundaries?" when he sent me this copy of a letter mailed to the minister in charge of passports by an exasperated Australian. This was too good not to be included in my blog.


Dear Mr. Minister,

I'm in the process of renewing my passport, and still cannot believe this.

How is it that Dick Smith has my address and telephone number and knows that I bought a TV cable from them back in 1997, and yet, the Federal Government is still asking me where I was born and on what date?

For Christ sakes, do you guys do this by hand?

You have my birth date on my social security card, and it is on all the income tax forms I've filed for the past 30 years. It's on my health insurance card, my driver's license, on the last eight bloody passports I've had, on all those stupid customs declaration forms I've had to fill out before being allowed off the planes over the last 30 years, and all those insufferable census forms that are done at election times.

Would somebody please take note, once and for all, that my mother's name is Maryanne, my father's name is Robert, and I'd be absolutely astounded if that ever changed between now and when I die!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I apologize, Mr. Minister. I'm really pis*sed off this morning. Between you an' me, I've had enough of this bulls*hit! You mail the application to my house, then you ask me for my fuckin' address. What is going on? You have a gang of Neanderthal assholes workin' there? Look at my damn picture. Do I look like Bin Laden? I don't want to dig up Yasser Arafat, for sh*it sakes. I just want to go and park my ass on a sandy beach. And would someone please tell me, why would you give a sh*it whether I plan on visiting a farm in the next 15 days? If I ever got the urge to do something weird to a chicken or a goat, believe you me, I'd sure as hell not want to tell anyone!

Well, I have to go now, 'cause I have to go to the other end of the city and get another fuc*kin' copy of my birth certificate, to the tune of $60! Would it be so complicated to have all the services in the same spot to assist in the issuance of a new passport the same day? But nooooo, that'd be too damn easy and maybe make sense. You'd rather have us running all over the fuc*kin' place like chickens with our heads cut off, then find some asshole to confirm that it's really me on the goddamn picture -- you know, the one where we're not allowed to smile in?! Fuckin' morons!

Hey, you know why we can't smile? 'Cause we're totally pissed off!

Signed - An Irate Fuc*kin' Australian Citizen.

P.S. Remember what I said above about the picture and getting someone to confirm that it's me? Well, my family has been in this country since 1770 when one of my forefathers took up arms against the Pommies.

I have served in the military for something over 30 years and have had security clearances up the yingyang. I was aide de camp to the Lieutenant Governor of our State for ten years, and I have been doing volunteer work for the CMF for about five years. However, I have to get someone "important" to verify who I am -- you know, someone like my doctor WHO WAS BORN AND RAISED IN COMMUNIST FUCKIN' CHINA!!!

David

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COLLATERAL DAMAGE IN THE WAR ON DRUGS

What goes around comes around. Eliot Spitzer, Governor of New York and former take-no-prisoner crime and corruption fighting zealot, got zapped doing business repeatedly with a high-priced call-girl operation. As New York's Attorney General, he attempted to besmirch the private lives of those he targeted for prosecution on white collar crimes. Now the seamy side of Spitzer's own private life has been publicly exposed, humiliating his wife and three daughters in the process, and forcing him to resign from office.

How did Spitzer's exposure come about. You may be surprised to learn that the Governor's fall from grace was the result of collateral damage in the war on drugs. In order to give law enforcement a powerful new weapon to fight that war, Congress in 1970 passed the Bank Security Act (BSA). This law was designed to detect and stop money laundering by big-time drug dealers and to uncover unknown traffickers.

BSA requires all banks to submit reports of certain money transactions to the Internal Revenue Service. The Currency Transaction Report (CTR) is required for any currency transactions in excess of $10,000. The Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) is required for transactions of at least $5,000 if a bank knows or suspects the money was derived from illegal activities.

SARs submitted by a bank led the IRS to track down a number of money transfers which revealed that Gov. Spitzer was one of several clients doing business with Emperor's Club VIP, a high-priced international prostitution service with day ("dawn to dawn") rates starting at $10,000 and with call-girls charging up to $5,500 an hour. Wiretaps on the service indicated that Spitzer, designated by the IRS as "Client 9," had been doing business with Emperor's Club for several years. (Client 6 is reported to be the Duke of Westminster, one of England's wealthiest men.) It is estimated that Spitzer may have spent as much as $80,000 on Emperor's Club call-girls.

A federal affidavit stated that Client 9 wanted a call-girl going by the name "Kristen" to take the 5:39 P.M. train from New York to Washington, D.C. on February 13. She was to check into a separate room at the Mayflower Hotel which he had paid for under another name. Client 9 would pay for the train ticket, cab fares, room service, and the minibar. When asked by Kristen's boss if he would make his payment to the same business as usual, he was heard to reply over the wiretap, "Yup, same as in the past. No question about it."

Apparently, Spitzer had sex with Kristen and numerous other Emperor's Club prostitutes over a period of years because he had to ask its agent to remind him of exactly what Kristen looked like. He agreed to pay Kristen $4,300 for a two-hour tryst at the Mayflower.

Not only did Spitzer knowingly and willingly do business with a criminal enterprise, but he really blew it when he paid for Kristen to travel from New York to Washington. He committed a federal felony by violating the White-Slave Traffic Act (Mann Act) of 1910, a law which forbids the transportation of women from one state to another for immoral purposes. It remains to be seen if the federal government will indict him for violating the Mann Act.

With this currency transaction investigation, the war on drugs snared a really big fish. But, it was not a big-time drug dealer who became a casualty - it was the holier-than-thou Governor of New York. Unfortunately for Spitzer, he was felled by heavy collateral damage in the war on durgs.

CRAPOLA FILLS MY BULK MAIL BOX

I'm 81 years old. My plumbing no longer works and seems to be beyond repair. Spammers must have gotten ahold of my profile. Daily, my bulk mail box gets filled with come-ons promising to cure my erectile dysfunciton or promising to endow me with the secret weapon of male porno stars. Yeah, right. Let me give you just a few examples of this crapola.

"Imagine how your girl will be happy to see this large love gun!"

"Get the best shape of your babymaker!"

"Millions of men over the world already tested THIS and ARE making their girlfri..."

"Bring more joy to your life, get a bluepill!"

"3 extra inches in 3 weeks!"

"Only the best blue-pills here!"

"Women will not tell you what really works, but we do. BLuepill works. Always."

"We can tell what really works!"

"GLobal potence ensurer!"

"Feel all the benefits of magic blue colored-tabs!"

"Hot chixs. Ponetnce. Blue-colored-tab." (Ponetnce??? Must be a misspelling of potence.)

"Want to be called Macho?"

"Get a secret weapon of xxx-stars!"

"Bluepill will make your hard stone even harder!"

"Can't make your girl groan from pleasure? Bluepill will save you!"

"Try this, and stimulate even the deepest of her love spots!"

Anyway, you get the idea. You've probably gotten many of these come-ons yourself, your age notwithstanding. I, for one, never click on any of this crapola. I'm sure that I am beyond getting a hard stone and I never could come anywhere close to the endurance of a porno star. I suspect that the only groans I would hear from a girl would be groans of disgust, not pleasure.

To top things off, today I was one of a long list of recipients, who found this letter from some poor Malaysian wench in my inbox.

"Hello There,
How are you doing today? I just hope all is good and ok with you and i am glad to hear from you..I am Harriet and 32 years of age and living in Malaysia..I do have my degree in Accounting and currently not working as its hard finding a job over here..I have not been married before and don't have children as well..I am seriously looking for a serious soul mate with whom i can be with and spend the rest of my life with..Someone who is caring,loving,sweet and hard working as well and is also willing to spend his rest of his life with me...Below are some pictures of me and hope you do like them...Can you send me some pictures of yourself and telling me about yourself as well..

Have a good day and Take care
Harriet"

Now if I were single, in my 30s, and had some of those magic blue colored-tabs to give me a large love gun, I might be tempted to compete for Harriet's attention. Then if we ended up together, my harder hard stone babymaker would make Harriet groan with pleasure as I stimulated the deepest of her love spots. But since I am no longer capable of experiencing what is now just a pipe dream, I didn't bother to look at her pictures before clicking on the delete box. Oh yes, I've gotta go now and gulp down my daily dose of stool softeners. Have a good day and take care.

HOW WOULD WE REACT?

Suppose Mexicans launched deadly rockets at our border towns on a daily basis. How would we react? What if the Belgians did the same to France? How would the French react? How would Germany react to daily rocket attacks from Denmark? And how would any other members of the United Nations react to such attacks by a neighboring country? You can bet all would resort to swift and deadly military force, even if the rocket launchers were located in the midst of civilian neighborhoods.

For months, Israel has been subjected to daily rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip. The rockets have been launched by militants from Hamas and Islamic Jihad. The militants try to protect their launch sites from Israeli attacks by deliberately placing them within civilian neighborhoods, thereby using innocent people as shields. And if that strategy fails, they will yet have gained a victory of sorts, knowing that Muslims all over the globe, in concert with the Europeans and the United Nations, will scream about the loss of innocent lives at the hands of the Israelis.

Until the end of February, Israel's response to the attacks had been somewhat restrained. The Israeli Air Force used pin-point attacks in trying to take out the launch sites. Civilian casualties were quite low. Unfortunately for Israel, the rocket attacks continued unabated. So, on top of the air strikes, the Israeli army struck back with a ground incursion into Gaza. The combined attacks resulted in several hundred civilian casualties.

As expected, the attacks drew the wrath of the Palestinians and other Arabs. Palestinan President Mahmoud Abbas even had the audacity to proclaim that the Israelis were perpetrating a holocaust against his people. How dare he make that analogy! While several hundred unintended civlian casualties are unfortunate, they can in no way whatsoever be compared to the Holocaust with its extermination of six million Jews by Nazi Germany.

And as usual, the European Union and the United Nations used the strongest terms to condemn Israel's attacks on civilian neighborhoods. Thus Israel is in a no-win situation - damned if it does and damned if it doesn't. If it shows the utmost restraint, the rocket attacks will continue. If Israel's Air Force resorts to using deadlier bombs, there will be many civilian casualties and if the Israeli army strikes into Gaza, there will be even more civilians killed and wounded. Then the world will condemn the Jewish State for its slaughter of innocent civilians.

While meeting with Abbas, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice chided Israel for its Gaza attack, saying "innocent people" living among the rocket launchers "should not be subject to injury and death." This brings me back to my very first question.

What would happen if Mexicans launched daily rocket attacks against San Diego County from within the crowded neighborhoods of Tijuana? We would strike back swiftly with our Air Force and military ground units. While the rocket launch sites would be wiped out quickly, there would be heavy civilian casualties. The Europeans and the United Nations would condemn us. Then, in her official capacity, Condi would tell them to "go fuck yourselves."

APOLOGY NOT CALLED FOR

"She is a monster too ... she is stooping to anything. You just look at her and think: ergh. But if you are poor and she is telling you some story about how Obama is going to take your job away, maybe it will be more effective. The amount of deceit she has put forward is really unattractive."

Who is that monster? According to Samantha Power, one of Barack Obama's foreign policy advisers, it is none other than Hillary Clinton. Power made those remarks during an interview in London with the Scottish newspaper, The Scotsman, during which she said Clinton would stop at nothing in her zeal to seize the lead from Obama.

Soon after her remarks were published, Power, as well as Obama, issued an apology. Following demands by the Clinton campaign that she be fired, Power resigned from Obama's staff. But, did Power's remarks really call for an apology and her resigantion? Political expediency ruled the day. Personally however, I believe neither an apology nor the resignation was called for.

Maybe the term "monster" was a little strong, but everything Power said about Hillary was true. The relationship between Obama and Antoin "Tony" Rezko serves as a good example of Clinton's deceit. Rezko is a shady Chicago real estate investor who is now on trial in federal court for taking millions of dollars in kickbacks and for trying to shake down a Hollywood producer for campaign contributions.

Rezko has been a hefty contributer to Obama's campaigns and, some years ago, Barack also received a sweetheart land deal from him. In the week before the Ohio and Texas primaries, Clinton continually trashed Obama over his relationship with Rezko. Nevermind the shady Arkansas land deals, known as Whitewater, which she herself had made. Nevermind the dubious campaign contributions she has accepted over the years. Hillary is the kettle calling the pot black.

Clinton keeps complaining that Obama has been attacking her instead of talking about the issues. Nevermind the slash and burn strategy she has been waging against Obama throughout the campaign. She has perfected the art of trashing anyone she considers a threat. Hillary excoriated Gennifer Flowers, Paula Jones and other women with a vengence when they revealed sexual improprieties by hubby Bill. And now, after Obama promised to give her hell, Clinton is comparing him to Ken Starr, the much maligned (by the Clintons and their allies) former Whitewater special prosecutor.

Speaking of deceit, NAFTA has been a cornerstone of Bill Clinton's legacy, but while campaigning in Ohio which has lost thousands of jobs to that agreement, she joined in the criticism of NAFTA and promised voters she would change it if elected. And what about the Samantha Power flap? Was Hillary really offended by the monster characterization? Of course not! She loved it because it afforded her campaign the opportunity to divert attention away from Obama's message.

So when you look at "Hatchet Job" Hillary's past history and add to that her trashing of Obama - all talk, no substance; not ready to be commander-in-chief; less qualified than McCain - she does come across as a deceitful monster who will stoop to any level in order to destroy anyone who gets in her way. That is why I believe Power and Obama did not owe Hillary Clinton an apology. On the upside though, with the departure of Samantha Power there is one less anti-Israel adviser on Obama's foreign policy team.

QUESTIONING JOHN McCAIN'S ELIGIBILITY TO BE PRESIDENT

Sooner or later it was bound to happen. Some of his enemies are questioning John McCain's eligibility to become President because he was born outside the continental United States. McCain was born in the Panama Canal Zone. According to Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution, only a "natural born citizen" can hold the nation's highest office.

Constitutional scholars and legal experts have long held that anyone born in a U.S. territory qualifies as a natuaral born citizen. At the time of McCain's birth, the Panama Canal Zone was a territory of the United States. Some constitutional interpreters even hold that a child born to parents who are U.S. citizens meets the "natural born" requirement, no matter the place of birth.

When the Constitution was drawn up, many of those living in the thirteen colonies considered themselves "loyalists" who favored remaining under the yolk of the British monarchy. Being a small new nation, our founding fathers wanted to ensure that the Presidency would remain in the hands of someone dedicated to our independence - hence the "natural born citizen" provision. But that was then and this is now. It is absurd to imagine that a foreign born president might threaten our hard-won independence.

If you've been reading my blogs, you already know that I have long favored amending the Constitution to remove the natrual born citizen requirement (LET'S AMEND ARTICLE II, SECTION 1 OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, December 24,2006). The U.S. is a nation of immigrants, many having made outstanding contributions in the arts, science, medicine, education, industry, military service and public service. Many naturalized citizens are highly qualified to serve as our President.

Like him or not, Henry Kissinger dedicated many years of his life to serving in our government. But, because he was not born in this country, he was not eligible to become our President. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a movie star with mediocre acting talent, has been highly regarded in his elected position as Governor of California. Yet, having been born outside the U.S., he is also not eligible to become our President. That just doesn't make any sense.

John McCain served his country as a naval aviator. He was seriously injured when he was shot down over North Vietnam while on his 23rd combat mission. He received little medical attention for his injuries. Instead, his North Vietnamese captors kept him in solitary confinement and tortured him on and off during the six years he was a POW. He is a genuine American hero. He has long served our country with distinction as a member of Congress. And now, some of his enemies question McCain's eligibility to be President because he was born in the Panama Canal Zone while his father was stationed there by the U.S. Navy.

It's high time we put a stop to this nonsense once and for all. The Constituiton should be amended so that a foreign born citizen who has lived in this country for at least 14 years can become President of the United States of America. There is no reason whatsoever to deny Kissinger, Schwarzenegger, and other outstanding foreign born U.S. citizens the opportunity to hold our land's highest office.

OBAMA WILL BE A DISASTER FOR ISRAEL

If you've been reading my blogs, you know that I am a strong hard-line supporter of Israel, crediting President Bush with having been the best friend Israel has had since Harry Truman and Ronald Reagan. You also know that I have been an ardent supporter of Sen. John McCain.

Both Democratic candidates have pledged their support for Israel. But I believe that if Hillary Clinton becomes President, she will never be a true friend of Israel. Why? Here is just one of several reasons. In 1999, during a State visit to Ramallah, Hillary sat by Suha Arafat while Yasser's wife gave a speech in which she falsely charged the Israeli army with gassing Palestinian women and children and with poisoning their drinking water. At the end of the speech, Hillary jumped up to hug and kiss Mrs. Arafat.

There is a great divide between Obama's pro-Israel speeches to Jewish groups and the anti-Israel posistions expressed by his foreign policy advisers. If he becomes President and follows the advise of his foreign policy team, Barack Obama will be a disaster for the Jewish State. The following Jerusalem Post article reveals that Obama has surrounded himself with advisers hostile to Israel and that he has a history of associating with black anti-Semites.


Obama and the Jews
by Marc Zell
THE JERUSALEM POST, Feb. 21, 2008

Less than two weeks before the critical primary elections in Ohio and Texas, Democratic voters have made it very clear: Barack Hussein Obama is for real.

Leading in the popular votes cast, delegates pledged and total delegates (meaning principally the back-room machers euphemistically referred to as "superdelegates"), Obama has a decent chance to become the 2008 Democratic candidate for President of the United States. Obama has become a rallying point for millions of disgruntled voters who yearn for a new style of politics in the world's greatest democracy.

Since the Republican race is all but over and Senator John McCain will likely win the nomination of his party in Minneapolis in early September, it is not idle speculation to consider an Obama-McCain contest in the November general election. Such a contest has potentially enormous consequences for Israel and the Jews.

It is no secret that Obama's candidacy has been supported financially and politically by many prominent members of the American Jewish community. Even previously outspoken Clinton-supporting spokespersons for Democrats Abroad here in Israel have been hedging their bets recently in articles and interviews, suggesting that an Obama Administration would augur well for Israel. Incredibly, citing unenthusiastic, canned pro-Israel campaign statements, these dyed-in-the-wool Democratic sycophants would urge Jewish voters to cast their fate and Israel's with Obama rather than with the Republican candidate, McCain.

With all due deference to the Obama celebrity supporters like Steven Spielberg and George Soros, can Jews herein Israel and in America and other friends of Israel risk a vote for Obama in November? A quick look at the facts should switch on a big red light in most peoples' minds.

First and foremost among the considerations that should trouble friends of Israel is the foreign policy team Obama has selected to advise him. The composition of a candidate's advisory panel is usually a very good indicator of where the candidate will come out on the issues if elected.

This was the test this writer applied to George W. Bush in 2000 at a time when most pundits in Israel and in the Jewish community predicted that his Middle East policy would be a carbon copy of his father's, meaning trouble for Israel. But Bush, the son, had selected a blue-ribbon team of pragmatic and conservative advisors whose views on the Middle East were markedly pro-Israel and pro-democracy. Subsequently, the W. Bush Era became among the closest allies of Israel in her 60-year history.

The opposite is the case with the Obama team. Headed up by Jimmy ("Israel is an apartheid state") Carter's national security advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Obama's team includes such problematic figures as Anthony Lake, Robert O. Malley and Susan Rice.

One commentator, citing an article by the staunchly left-wing Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, has noted that an Obama presidency including a foreign policy team that included the foregoing and their ideological soul-mates, "would likely have an approach towards Israel radically at odds with those of previous Presidents (both Republican and Democrat)" and is the candidate apt to be "least supportive" of Israel.

Brzezinski has been disseminating vitriol about Israel for three decades and recently publicly defended the Walt-Mearsheimer study which concluded that US policy towards Israel was the result of Jewish pressure and inconsistent with American interests. More recently Brzezinski called for the US to initiate dialogue with Hamas, described Israel's action in the Second Lebanon War as a killing campaign against civilian hostages and earlier this month made a trip to confer with Syria's President Assad, ostensibly unbeknownst to the Obama campaign.

Robert O. Malley, another former Carter Administration diplomat and President Clinton's special advisor on Arab-Israeli affairs, is an unabashed advocate for the Palestinians, co-authoring a spate of anti-Israel propaganda with former Arafat advisor, Hussein Agha, including a tract that blames Israel for the failure of the 2000 Camp David talks and another piece which blames the Bush Administration for continuing Israeli-Palestinian strife.

And then there is Susan Rice, foreign policy advisor to the ill-fated John Kerry presidential campaign in 2004, where she concocted the idea of solving the Middle East problem by appointing none other than Jimmy Carter and James Baker as negotiators, an idea which was later repudiated by her own boss as being unbalanced against Israel. Nor are these the only "bad apples" in Obama's foreign policy bin…

Another problematic indicator is candidate's close association with Jeremiah Wright, Jr., pastor of the Trinity United Community Church (a member of the United Church for Christ, which itself has been rebuked for anti-Israel bias), who is well known for his virulent anti-Israel remarks, including a call for a divestment campaign against Israel for the "injustice and the racism under which the Palestinians have lived because of Zionism."

Nor should bring much solace to Jewish voters and friends of Israel that Reverend Wright counts among his closest friends, the nefarious anti-Semite, Louis Farrakhan for whom Judaism is a "gutter religion" and Jews are "bloodsuckers." Obama could have picked any one of hundreds of churches in Chicago's South Side; he picked Jeremiah Wright's parsonage, which awarded Farrakhan with the Jeremiah Wright Lifetime Achievement Trumpeteer Award in 2007. And Wright's church is the single largest beneficiary of Obama's charitable giving. Even Jewish columnist Richard Cohen of the Washington Post felt compelled to ask Obama to clarify his relationship with these anti-Jewish and anti-Israel community leaders, questioning why Obama has stayed steadfast in his allegiance to Pastor Wright over the years.

Obama is only a first-term senator and has therefore only participated in a handful of votes that bear upon Israel and the Middle East. He also has a penchant for missing controversial votes where he would have to put his personal policies in the public record. However, his public statements on a variety of issues present a number of troubling issues for Jews and friends of Israel. Here are a few samples:

1)Obama openly advocates outreach toward and diplomatic engagement of Iran even though Iran has recently referred to Israel as a "filthy bacteria" and has repeatedly called for the annihilation of the Jewish State, including recent hints that this will be accomplished by a nuclear attack.

2) "Nobody has suffered more than the Palestinian people."

3)"[T]he creation of a wall [referring to Israel's security fence] dividing the two nations is yet another example of the neglect of this [the Bush] Administration in brokering peace… ."

4)"I am opposed to the cynical attempt by Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz and other armchair, weekend warriors in the administration to shove their ideological agenda down our throat." [note that only Jews are singled out despite the fact that the policies in question were promoted by the entire Administration]

5)"Reverend [Al] Sharpton is a voice for the voiceless, and a voice for the dispossessed. What [Reverend Sharpton's] National Action Network has done is so important to change America, and it must be changed from the bottom up." [National Action lead a protest against the Jewish owner of Freddy's Fashion Mart in New York in which picketers, sometimes joined by Sharpton himself, repeatedly screamed epithets about "bloodsucking Jews" and "Jew bastards."]

Obama was the only Democratic candidate who said the onus was on Israel to change its policies vis-à-vis the Palestinians in order to achieve peace.

Barack's problematic and unrecanted public statements and associations raise enough serious questions that should cause Jewish voters and friends of Israel to think twice about supporting him in November.

But there is one other troublesome factor that voters in the Democratic primaries have thus far failed to credit seriously, viz.: Obama aspires to become president of the greatest democracy and still the only remaining superpower on the planet, having held a senate seat for less than five years and having had no previous administrative or national experience.

While it may have suited Democratic voters to cast their votes for Obama during the primaries as a protest against the Democratic political establishment (much as they did in 2006 to deny (now Independent) Senator Joseph Lieberman the nomination of his party for the Senate seat from Connecticut), one would like to think that the American electorate will again demonstrate its maturity and seriousness during the General Elections in November 2008, when their votes really count.

The Presidency in this day and age is no place for a neophyte, however charismatic. Those of us Americans who live in the Jewish State clearly understand what is at stake and what kind of risk Obama poses to the region and the world. There is every reason to hope that our compatriots in the United States and friends of Israel and freedom generally would agree.


Professor Topkat's Note: If Obama does become President, or Hillary Clinton for that matter, Israel will have to confront the United States with a strong leader who has the backbone to withstand any pressure on the Jewish State to capitulate to the demands of the Palestinians and the Saudis. Ehud Olmert, its idiot of a Prime Minister, is definitely not that man. Israel badly needs the resolute leadership of Benjamin Netanyahu!

HOIYAH, HOIYAH, HOIYAH, HOIYAH

While campaigning for the presidency, Hillary Clinton scheduled a visit to an Indian reservation. Addressing an audience of about 200 in the Tribal Council chambers, Hillary presented her standard campaign theme of health care, education and jobs.

"I know that you have been leading hard lives. When I am President, I promise to make life better for you." A couple of Indians responded by shouting "Hoiyah."

"I promise that all of you will be provided with good health care. I will have the government build a modern health clinic on this reservation." Now there were more shouts of "Hoiyah, Hoiyah."

"I promise to build a new school on this reservation so that all your children will get a good education." Most of the Indians then shouted "Hoiyah, Hoiyah, Hoiyah."

Thrilled with the enthusiastic response she was receiving, Hillary went on. "I promise to get everyone of you a job by building a casino on this reservation." All of the audience stood up and shouted "Hoiyah, Hoiyah, Hoiyah, Hoiyah."

Upon completion of her speech, Hillary was invited to take a tour of the reservation. She gladly accepted. When they entered the barnyard, her Indian guide warned Hillary, "Watch it, don't step in the Hoiyah."

IRAQ THROUGH THE EYES OF A U.S. MARINE

EDITOR'S NOTE: In the last few years, I've read a lot of stuff on our situation in Iraq, both pro and con. Most remarkable are the following observations of Iraq outside Baghdad as experienced by a U.S. Marine Corps officer who preferred to remain anonymous for obvious reasons. I am grateful to friends in San Francisco for sending me his notes.


The following notes are, and should be understood to be, my own personal opinions and observations, and do not represent the opinions of my command or the Marine Corps in any way. Moreover, they are based on my own personal experiences over one month, a very small amount of time, in a very small part of Iraq that may or may not be representative of other parts of the country or the country as a whole.

It's easy to understand now why the Iraqi Problem seemed so schizophrenic and baffling from back home. Republicans trumpet the success of the surge, the reductions in violence, the advances in security, the high-tech wizardry available to our troops. Democrats bemoan the abysmal political quagmire, the incompetence of the Iraqi Security Forces, and the difficulties faced by service members in their everyday life.

Well, it's all true. Like a John Edwards campaign speech gone Koranic - there are two Iraqs, and we're stuck right in the middle of them.

The first Iraq is a pretty nice place to spend a few months of my life. I go on early morning patrols and watch the day break over idyllic hand-plowed fields, well-kempt orchards, a picture-postcard palm grove framed against the sanguine Euphrates. Jefferson would be proud. Throughout the day I wander through little villages, making nice with cute little kids who pester me for chocolate and pencils and try valiantly to pronounce my name. Their parents offer me chai. Sometimes they feed my men, but never ever accept payment in return.

In this Iraq, the City Council meets every Wednesday, the electricity and water works, the market is open six days a week, and there are 400 Iraqi Police on the rolls.

But the devil is in the details my friends, and there are a whole lot of missing details in the second Iraq.

The second Iraq is blanketed in garbage. Pervasive, omnipresent, unchecked filth. There are no garbage cans anywhere, because when something is no longer needed, it is simply dropped on the ground, anytime, any place. The landscape is littered with car hulks, boat hulks, abandoned houses, rusted motors. Outside of the four corners of the inside of their homes, Iraqis could care less about their physical surroundings. Broken windows are a status symbol - they mean you're wealthy enough to buy glass. Rudy Giuliani would lose his mind here.

Those cute little villages are filled with children who have never seen a toothbrush a single day in their lives, men who won't work, women who can't read. What little work does get done, almost entirely subsistence agriculture, is done by the women, who carry bales of hay on their backs while their little ones play in the dirt around their feet. There are no gynecologists because women hardly go to school and God forbid a Muslim man see a Muslim woman naked. Health care is next to nonexistent.

The roads are abysmal, and it takes twice as long to get anywhere because every mile there's another serpentine barrier in front of another Iraqi Police checkpoint. The checkpoints get shot at almost every night.

The city council? It was simply invented by the unit that came before us, so they could have somebody, anybody to work with. As such, it's a collection of the richest, most morally malleable charlatans, sycophants and rogues the town has to offer. It is common knowledge that the most powerful man in the town got that way by murdering his competition. But since he's such a go-getter, now he's one of our go-to guys. The normal agenda of the weekly meeting is to squabble over who's nephew will get which contract that the Marine Corps has to offer this week. Without American contracts, I do not see what economy would exist in this place.

Those 400 Iraqi Police? They're mostly former Al Qaeda, a fact that everyone politely ignores. You might wonder how a town of 20,000 subsistence farmers can afford a police force of 400. The easy answer is that they simply don't get paid. You might ask why a man would work for a year with no pay. The easy answer is that there simply are no other jobs to be found.

And you can hardly call it work, anyway. At night they sleep on their post. They have one rifle for every 10 men. They have no gas to run their generators and light up their checkpoints, unless we give them gas, and unless I send my mechanic to their station to fix their generator. Even then, they siphon most of the gas off and sell it onthe black market. And how does a former-insurgent-turned-policeman live for a year with no salary? Extortion. Kidnapping. Bribes. The usual.

The police chief tells me that they can't get paid because they can't afford the $300 a head bribe it requires to get on the Ministry of the Interior's roster.

And the electricity is wonderful, at least when it's turned on. With a little luck, on a good day, that can be as many as four hours. No electricity means no water. No water means... well, I already mentioned the whole toothbrush thing.

Every single Iraqi I've talked to wants me to pay them to let someone else solve their problem. The police want us to give them a "bonus." The people want us to fix their irrigation, fix their schools, pave their roads, build them soccer fields. There's always an angle.Everyone wants something for nothing.

I would talk about the challenges we face as Marines, but I don't want to go into opsec territory. Suffice it to say, that few things are as good as they're cracked up to be - and that things left sitting inIraq for years at a time tend to crack up, a lot.

It is incontrovertibly true that the security situation here in Iraq has dramatically improved over the last year. Credit the sheikhs. Credit the surge. Credit dumb luck. Who cares. The point is that the security situation here is better than manageable - it's good. That sounds like a good thing, but it may not be. The pressure is off of the government to clean up this mess. Everyone knows that if the police actually quit on Friday, like they keep on telling me they're going to, the Marines will just pick up their slack. We prop up their security, we prop up their economy, we prop up their government.

As long as we prop it all up, there is no incentive to do anything other than take the system for a ride for all it's worth. And that's exactly what every politician in this country in their right mind is doing, from the city council member on up.

But if we left them right now, this whole house of cards would come crashing down just as fast as Al Qaida came crashing back in.

So the devil's in the dilemma - should we prop up this fragile,welfare-state status quo, indefinitely, in the name of security and peace - or should we give the Iraqis some tough medicine, knowing that their failure would be seen as our failure too?

Hey, you tell me. I just work here. At least I get paid.

ABCD - YOUR DAY IS COMING

When I found this pathetic message, it occurred to me that this was going to happen to a lot of people, and that such important information needed to be passed along in this blog.


"Recently, I was diagnosed with ABCD - Aging Brain Cells Dysfunction. Let me illustrate what can happen when you suffer from ABCD:

I decide to water my garden. As I turn on the hose by the driveway, I see my car in the garage and decide it needs washing. As I start toward the garage, I notice that there is mail on the porch table that I brought up from the mailbox earlier. I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car.

I lay my car keys down on the table, put the junk mail in the garbage can under the table, and notice that the can is full. So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and take out the garbage first. But then I think since I'm going to be near the mailbox when I take out the garbage anyway, I may as well pay the bills first.

I take my checkbook off the table, and see that there is only one check left. My extra checks are in my desk back in the study, so I go inside the house to my desk where I find the can of Coke that I had been drinking earlier. It was still half full.

I'm going to look for my checks, but first I need to push the Coke aside so that I don't accidentally knock it over. I see that the Coke is getting warm, and I decide I should put it in the refrigerator to keep it cold. As I head toward the kitchen with the Coke, a vase of flowers on the counter catches my eye and I notice the flowers need to be watered.

I set the Coke down on the counter where I discover my reading glasses that I've been searching for all morning. I decide I better put them back on my desk, but first I'm going to water the flowers. I set my reading glasses back down on the counter and fill a container with water. Suddenly, I spot the TV remote control. Someone had left it on the kitchen table.

I realize that tonight when we go to watch TV, I will be looking for the remote, but I won't remember that it's on the kitchen table. So, I decide to put it back in the den where it belongs, but first I'll water the flowers.

I pour some water in the flower vase, but quite a bit of it spills on the floor. So, I set the remote back down on the table, get some towels, and wipe up the spill. Then I head down the hallway trying to remember what I was planning to do.

At the end of the day, the car isn't washed, the bills aren't paid, there is a warm half-full can of Coke sitting on the counter, the flowers don't have enough water, there is still only one check left in my checkbook, I can't find the remote, I can't find my reading glasses, and I don't remember what I did with the car keys.

Then, when I try to figure out why nothing got done today, I'm really baffled because I know I was busy all day long, and I'm really tired.

I realize I have a serious problem with ABCD and I'll try to get some help for it. But first I'll e-mail all my correspondents and notify them of my problem. Oh, oh - please do me a favor, will you? Forward this message to everyone you know because I can't remember who to send it to. AND DON'T LAUGH - IF THIS ISN'T YOU YET, YOUR DAY IS COMING!"

HILLARY HOPES YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN

The following recollections were sent to me by a good friend in England. In relying on my memory, I believe most of them are fairly factual. Since I detest Hillary Cinton and her draft-dodger husband, I am passing them on in this blog.


Hillary Clinton has been telling America that she is the most qualified candidate for president based on her "record," which she says includes her eight years in the White House as First Lady - or "co-president" - and her seven years in the Senate. Here is a reminder of what that record includes:

- As First Lady, Hillary assumed authority over Health Care Reform, a process that cost the taxpayers over $13 million. She told both Bill Bradley and Pat Moynahan, key votes needed to pass her legislation, that she would "demonize "anyone who opposed it. But it was opposed; she couldn't even get it to a vote in a Congress controlled by her own party. (And in the next election, her party lost control of both the House and Senate.)

- Hillary assumed authority over selecting a female Attorney General. Her first two recommendations (Zoe Baird and Kimba Wood) were forced to withdraw their names from consideration, and then she chose Janet Reno. Janet Reno has since been described by Bill himself as "my worst mistake."

- Hillary recommended Lani Guanier for head of the Civil Rights Commission. When Guanier's radical views became known, her name had to be withdrawn.

- Hillary recommended her former law partners, Web Hubbell, Vince Foster, and William Kennedy for positions in the Justice Department, White House staff, and the Treasury, respectively. Hubbell was later imprisoned, Foster committed suicide, and Kennedy was forced to resign.

- Hillary also recommended a close friend of the Clintons, Craig Livingstone, for the position of director of White House security. When Livingstone was investigated for the improper access of up to 900 FBI files of Clinton enemies (Filegate) and the widespread use of drugs by White House staff, both Hillary and her husband denied knowing him. (FBI agent Dennis Sculimbrene Confirmed in a Senate Judiciary Committee in 1996 both the drug use and Hillary's involvement in hiring Livingstone. After that, the FBI closed its White House Liaison Office, after serving seven presidents for over thirty years.)

- In order to open "slots" in the White House for her friends the Harry Thomasons (to whom millions of dollars in travel contracts could be awarded), Hillary had the entire staff of the White House Travel Office fired; they were reported to the FBI for "gross mismanagement" and their reputations ruined. After a thirty-month investigation, only one, Billy Dale, was charged with a crime - mixing personal money with White House funds when he cashed checks. The jury acquitted him in less than two hours.

- Another of Hillary's assumed duties was directing the "bimbo eruption squad" and scandal defense: ---- She urged her husband not to settle the Paula Jones lawsuit. ---- She refused to release the Whitewater documents, which led to the appointment of Ken Starr as Special Prosecutor After $80 million dollars of taxpayer money was spent, Starr's investigation led to Monica Lewinsky, which led to Bill lying about and later admitting his affairs.

---- Then they had to settle with Paula Jones after all.
---- And Bill lost his law license for lying to the grand jury.
---- And Bill was impeached by the House.
---- And Hillary almost got herself indicted for perjury and obstruction of justice (she avoided it mostly because she repeated, "I do not recall," "I have no recollection," and "I don't know" 56 times under oath).
---And don't forget her part in Vince Foster's "suicide".
--- Hillary wrote "It Takes a Village," demonstrating her Socialist viewpoint.

- Hillary decided to seek election to the Senate in a state she had never lived in. Her husband pardoned FALN terrorists in order to get Latino support and the New Square Hassidim to get Jewish support. Hillary also had Bill pardon her brother's clients, for a small fee, to get financial support.

- Then Hillary left the White House, but later had to return $200,000 in White House furniture, china, and artwork she had stolen.

- In the campaign for the Senate, Hillary played the "woman card" by portraying her opponent (Lazio) as a bully picking on her.

- Hillary's husband further protected her by asking the National Archives to withhold from the public until 2012 many records of their time in the White House, including much of Hillary's correspondence and her calendars. (There are ongoing lawsuits to force the release of those records.)

- As the junior Senator from New York, Hillary has passed no major legislation. She has deferred to the senior Senator (Schumer) to tend to the needs of New Yorkers, even on the hot issue of medical problems of workers involved in the cleanup of Ground Zero after 9/11.

- Hillary's one notable vote, supporting the plan to invade Iraq, she has since disavowed.

Quite a resume, isn't it? Sounds more like an organized crime family.

LET'S BE REASONABLE WITH THE REGISTRATION OF SEX OFFENDERS

Neal Peirce, a syndicated columnist (nrp@citistates.com), recently wrote an op-ed piece concerning the effect of state registration laws ("Megan's Law" and "Jessica's Law") which were designed to protect children from sexual predators. Peirce claimed that these laws were doing more harm than good. And we now have a new federal law ("Adam Walsh Act") which mandates a national registry to include, in addition to adults, all juvenile sex offenders. (All three laws were named in memory of children abducted and murdered by sexual predators.)

The other day, I had a spirited discussion with a good friend about the residence restrictions encountered by sex offenders upon their release from prison. My friend is a well-educated retired professional, not some redneck jerk. He was most emphatic that all sex offenders, no matter what their crime, should never be released from prison. He preferred they be "taken out and shot!"

Let me make myself perfectly clear. I have no sympathy whatsoever for sexual predators. Shooting is to good for those who sexually molest infants, toddlers and pre-teens. They deserve the death penalty. At the very least, they should serve the rest of their lives confined behind bars, never seeing the light of day outside of prison walls. None of this crap about an abusive childhood or a diminished mental capacity. Those who forcibly rape older juveniles and adults deserve a harsh prison term and, if released, should be required to register as sex offenders.

Thailand is notorious for its child prostitutes, many of them being 12 years old or even younger. While we can't do anything about sleazy European heterosexual or homosexual creeps going there to have sex with little children, American assholes who travel to Bankok for that purpose should simply be prohibited from returning to the United States. I wish it were possible for Congress to enact a law barring the return of these scum bags that would not violate their rights under our Constitution.

Peirce calls attention to the consequences of sex offender registration laws for those who were convicted of lesser offenses than those that I have just described. A "weenie waver" is a sex offender while some jerk taking a leak in public is not. Yet, when the guy taking a piss is convicted of indecent exposure, he is required to register as a sex offender. When a 20 year-old is convicted of having consensual sex with a 17 year-old, he is also required to register.

And now, going from the sublime to the ridiculous, the new federal Adam Walsh Act even mandates that any male juvenile who had consensual sex with a female juvenile must be included in the national sex offender registry, a requirement that is strongly opposed by many prosecutors and by most probation and social service officials.

School teachers who have sex with a student should be fired, have their teaching credentials permanently revoked, and be punished by the law. But, should a female teacher be required to register as a sex offender for fulfilling every red-blooded young schoolboy's dream? I think not! Male teachers who engage in sex with their students, and female teachers who have lesbian affairs with female students, subject themselves to sexual predator laws. But a female teacher, who has one of her ecstatic male students "get lucky" with her, hardly seems to be a sexual predator in the strictest sense of the term.

Registration laws require that sex offenders be identified on government internet websites which are accessible to anyone with a computer. While parents should have the right to know they have a sexual predator living in their midst, these websites have led to harassment and vigilantism. There have been a number of cases in which registrants' residences were damaged or destroyed and/or in which they were physically attacked and seriously injured. When sex offenders are released from prison, society has an obligation to see that they are not subjected to harassment or vigilantism.

Sex offenders are required to register with the police agency having jurisdiction over their place of residency and they must notify the appropriate agencies whenever they move. Registration laws prohibit sex offenders from living within a specified distance of any school, day care center, park or any other place where children might gather. Miami has some of the toughest sex offender restrictions in the nation. Sex offenders in that city are prohibited from residing within 2,500 feet of any place where children might gather.

Miami has thus made it impossible for sex offenders to reside anywhere within that city. Its restrictions have the effect of making sex offenders homeless. Miami has an ordinance prohibiting the homeless from taking up residence under bridges. However, the probation department was forced to place some sex offenders underneath one of the bridges because there was no other place for them to live. They were ordered to register with the police as residing under that bridge and they are visited there nightly by a probation officer.

There is no question that child molesters, notorious as repeat offenders, should be required to register as sex offenders. So should those who commit forcible rapes. So should adult men who have consensual sex with juveniles. And so should "weenie wavers" when they expose themselves to children. However, not those who have consensual sex with someone only two or three years younger. And certainly not the guy who takes a leak in public. And most cetainly not the 15 year old boy who has sex with his 14 year old girlfriend.

Sexual predator registration laws should be more reasonable than they are now. Those convicted of minor sex-related crimes, who are most unlikely to molest children or commit other serious types of sexual assaults, should not be required to register as sex offenders. And no matter how despicable their crime may have been, if sexual predators are to be released from prison they must be given the chance to lead lawful normal and productive lives. Prohibiting them from living within 1,000 feet or more of any place where children might gather does not give them any chance to do so.

HILLARY SPEAKS HER MIND

Hillary Clinton, possibly our next president, speaks her mind. And they say John McCain is ill-tempered. These quotes are too good to pass up, so here we go.


"Where is the G-dam f***ing flag ? I want the G-dam f***ing flag up every f***ing morning at f***ing sunrise." --From the book "Inside The White House" by Ronald Kessler, p. 244 - (Hillary to the staff at the Arkansas Governor's mansion on Labor Day, 1991)
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"You sold out, you m***er f***er! You sold out!" -From the book "Inside" by Joseph Califano, p. 213 - (Hillary yelling at a Democrat lawyer.)
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"F*** off! It's enough that I have to see you sh**-kickers every day, I'm not going to talk to you too!! Just do your G*dam job and keep your mouth shut." -From the book "American Evita" by Christopher Anderson, p. 90 - (Hillary to her State Trooper bodyguards after one of them greeted her with "Good Morning.")
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"You f** *ing idiot" -From the book "Crossfire" p. 84 - (Hillary to a State Trooper who was driving her to an event.)
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"If you want to remain on this detail, get your f***ing ass over here and grab those bags!" --From the book "The First Partner" p. 259 - (Hillary to a Secret Service Agent who was reluctant to carry her luggage because he wanted to keep his hands free in case of an incident.)
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"Get f***ed! Get the f*** out of my way!!! Get out of my face!!!" --From the book "Hillary's Scheme" p. 89 - (Hillary's various comments to her Secret Service detail agents.)
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"Stay the f*** ba ck, stay the f*** away from me! Don't come within ten yards of me, or else! Just f***ing do as I say, Okay!!!?" -From the book "Unlimited Access", by Clinton FBI Agent in Charge, Gary Aldrige, p. 139 - (Hillary screaming at her Secret Service detail)
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"Where's the miserable c**k sucker?" -From the book "The Truth About Hillary" by Edward Klein, p. 5 - (Hillary shouting at a Secret Service officer)
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"Put this on the ground! I left my sunglasses in the limo. I need those sunglasses. We need to go back!" -From the book "Dereliction of Duty" p. 71-72 - (Hillary to Marine One helicopter pilot to turn back while en route to Air Force One.)
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"Son of a bitch." -From the book "American Evita" by Christopher Anderson, p. 259 - (Hillary's opinion of President George W. Bush when she found out he secretly visited Iraq just days before her highly publicized trip to Iraq )
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"What are you doing inviting these people into my home? These people are our enemies! They are trying to destroy us!" -From the book "The Survivor" by John Harris, p. 99 - (Hillary screaming to an aide, when she found out that some Republicans had been invited to the Clinton White House)
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"Come on Bill, put your d**k up! You can't f*** her here!!" -From the book "Inside The White House" by Ronald Kessler, p. 243 - (Hillary to Gov. Clinton when she spots him talking with an attractive female at an Arkansas political rally.)
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" You know, I'm going to start thanking the woman who cleans the restroom in the building I work in. I'm going to start thinking of her as a human being" --- Hillary Clinton -From the book "The Case Against Hillary Clinton" by Peggy Noonan, p. 55
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"We just can't trust the American people to make those types of choices.... Government has to make those choices for people " -From the book "I've Always Been A Yankee Fan" by Thomas D. Kuiper, p. 20 - (Hillary to Rep. Dennis Hasert in 1993 discussing her expensive, disastrous taxpayer-funded health care plan.)
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"I am a fan of the social policies that you find in Europe" ---Hillary in 1996" -From the book "I've Always Been A Yankee Fan" by Thomas D. Kuiper, p.6
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This ill-tempered, violent, foul- mouthed, hateful, abusive, beastly woman wants to be your president and have total control, as your Commander-in-chief of our Military, the very Military for which she has shown incredible contempt & disdain throughout her public life. Surely we the people of the The United States can easily do better than this.

The references given for these quotes have been confirmed by Snopes (http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/hildabeast.asp), but the publications do not always give the source of the quotes.


NOTE: The above comments about the ill-tempered Hillary's candidacy are someone else's, not mine. Actually, I'm somewhat inclined to admire her foul language. Hey, she can go moth-to-mouth with any sailor. And with that foul mouth she can hold her own with any of the big boys.

What does bother me is Hillary's reprehensible behavior toward Secret Service agents and others, an obvious character defect which has earned her that title of "The Bitch." Could that account for hubby Bill's long history of extramarital intimacies with other women?

POOR OLD WILLIE'S POTTED BRAIN

Despite his long history of alcohol and drug abuse, Willie Nelson has always been one of my favorite entertainers. He has composed and written some nifty country-western songs, done some fairly good motion picture acting, and involved himself in various causes, some of which I certainly did not agree with. I cannot get enough of him singing "On the Road Again."

It is no secret that Willie, to this date, continues to smoke that funny tobacco. It appears the weed has finally potted poor old Willie's brain. He has suddenly weighed in on the side of the nuts who are convinced that the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and on the Pentagon were carried out as part of a devious conspiracy by our own government.

This past week Willie was a guest on Alex Jones' nationally syndicated radio show. When Jones asked him if he questioned our government's version of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York City, Willie replied, "I certainly do." He went on to say, "I saw those towers fall and I've seen an implosion in Las Vegas; there's too much similarities between the two. And I saw the building fall that didn't get hit by nothing. So, how naive are we, you know? What do they (our government) think we'll go for?"

Willie, Willie, Willie, tsk, tsk, tsk, ........ looks like all that grass you've toked up on over the years has potted some of your brain cells. I too have seen a number of building implosions in Las Vegas and other cities while watching television news broadcasts. And while the Twin Towers collapse did look exactly like those implosions, you cannot just ignore the fact that two airliners full of jet fuel crashed into those buildings.

The collapse of the Twin Towers was investigated by some of the best structural engineers in the world. Willie, all you had to do, or anyone else for that matter, was to Google up "Collapse of the Twin Towers" and you would have learned what those engineers found. The fire from the ignited jet fuel instantly covered an entire floor. As the weakened floors began to collapse, they crashed into the floors below. With the weight of the plunging floors accelerating, the external walls buckled causing all the floors to collapse and pancake. Sorry Willie, but there were no government-set implosions.

As for all you marijuana lovers, let poor old Willie's example serve as a warning to you. If you don't want your brains to become addled, stop smoking those joints. You'd be better off switching to Marlboros despite health warnings to the contrary. And as for you Willie, how about belting out a few more songs of "On the Road Again."