Gee, We Sure Are Sorry….

An apology by someone who wasn’t involved in what is being apologized for is worthless.  “We need closure!”  If I tell you I’m sorry my great great grandfather did something bad to your great great grandfather, what the hell good is that?  How is that closure? 

We regret that certain things happened, and if it was possible to go back in time and undo it many of us would.  That’s pretty much as good as you’re gonna get without a flux capacitor.  If an “official apology” by completely uninvolved people makes you happy, you’re as shallow as you are unrealistic. 

The problem is not that your ancestors were abused.  That WAS the problem.  Some incredible people fought for the freedom that they regretably didn’t have, and they won.  They won.  Everyone in America today gets the same tools for success that white people get.  That is your victory, and it’s huge.  So why is the success still so unbalanced?  THAT, my non-white friend, is the problem today.  And I think I have the answer.  I’ve pondered and debated it with people a lot lately, and the conclusion I’ve come to is this.  The Black community in America, in general, sees success as a white thing.  And there is so much resentment and even hatred towards Whites that Black America doesn’t want to appear to be “acting white”.  But what Black America is missing is that the opportunity to be successful here is what was fought so hard for during the Civil Rights Movement.  You won the race but you’ve rejected the prize.  By not taking advantage of school and earning a high school diploma, by not waiting to make babies until you’re financially stable, by not staying out of trouble with the law, you are slapping Dr. King in the face.  You are making pointless everything he and many others went through.  If you aren’t willing to be responsible and do what is necessary to live a decent life, that’s on you.  You can’t blame my ancestors for your current situation, because your ancestors have already fixed it.  All you have to do is take advantage of what they couldn’t.

And apologizing for history is just stupid.

Why Aren’t We Winning in Iraq?

You would think that removing a dictator and setting them up with democracy would be something they would embrace.  So why are so many of them still fighting it? 

Well, Dubya made a huge tactical error.  Islam (by the way, the word islam translates literally to “submission”, not “peace”) cannot work in conjunction with democracy.  They oppose each other.  But you can’t make 3 billion people just give up their religion.  And that’s what it would take to make democracy work there.

The Civil War

Hey, here’s an interesting bit of info:  the Civil War wasn’t about slavery!  It was about states’ rights!

Let me give you a quote.  (I love good quote)  This is from Jefferson Davis, the President of the Confederacy, during his inaugural address on February 18, 1861.

“Our present political position has been achieved in a manner unprecedented in the history of nations.  It illustrates the American idea that goverments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them at will whenever they become destructive of the ends for which they were established.”

Did you know they had that right?  They did.  Know what else?  We still do. 

Make A Noise

I received an email from my local congressman’s office in response to an email I sent objecting to a bit of legislation.  Here’s what his office wrote:

Thank you for your recent correspondence in opposition of the lobbying reform amendments included in House Resolution 6.   As written, this resolution would negatively limit grass roots lobbying, but would not regulate other forms of lobbying and special interests.  Because of this unfairness, I opposed this bill, which unfortunately passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 232-200.    
Had this legislation been sent through the normal committee process, as opposed to being thrown into an agenda to be quickly passed through the House, these ‘loopholes’ would have been acknowledged.  The Senate, which allowed amendments, defeated the provision pertaining to grass roots lobbying.  I believe through a bipartisan effort we could have produced meaningful legislation that would affect all areas of lobbying and not only attempt to regulate the voices of the heart of America. 

Okay, now here’s what I have a problem with.  We REALLY need to stop the practice of throwing legislation “into an agenda to be quickly passed through the House”.  That should be illegal.  Nothing should be able to be sneaked in and passed before anyone has an opportunity to voice opposition.  It’s completely inapporpriate for a Congressman to misuse the trust given to him by his constituents.  Like I said recently in a comment on another blog site; we put you in office, we can take your ass out.

Do you guys realize what it will take to fix this situation if we don’t reign in these maniacs soon?  Revolution.  An uprising of the citizens against their government.  I don’t believe the people of this country have the backbone to do something like that, so we’re screwed, but that is what it will take in the not-so-distant future.  In our lifetime.

Write to your congressmen when they do things you don’t agree with.  Make a noise, otherwise you won’t be heard.  It’s not that hard, doesn’t take that much time, and it works if enough of us do it.  Stop letting yourselves be told what to think.

Can we count on our courts?

There’s a story in the news today about the “Flying Imams” who were removed from a US Airways flight last year.  Looks like they might be able to sue the passengers who complained about them. 

 Here is my opinion on this.  If they are successful in lawsuits against the passengers, it will be a sure sign that our government and justice system can no longer be counted on.  When that happens, it is time for citizens to take matters into their own hands. 

That’s right.

UPDATE:  Congress passed a bill called H.R. 1640 that makes it illegal for someone to be sued for calling out suspicious terroristish behavior.  They actually did it right!  But predictably, over a hundred democrats voted against it.

Another Misleading AP Headline

Yep, it’s all America’s fault.  The headline reads “Hill: N. Korea hurt by U.S. restrictions“.  You see, North Korea has a bad reputation in the finance world because of their propensity for money laundering and counterfeiting, which they have to do because of mean old America’s financial restrictions on them.  This is a country that is having financial problems because of America.  How do we get blamed for everything wrong in the world? 

Here is a look at what life is like for the average North Korean.   Here, let me put some lotion on that ruptured spleen

Here is a look at what life is like for the leader of North Korea.   Kim Hangin 10

You do the math.

Miserable Creatures

Here are a couple quotes that everyone should read.  The first sums up how Europe can so easily be overtaken by the surge of islamic immigrants.  By the same token, it sums up how it will be so easy for them to overtake America.  It’s by a Dutch author named Oscar Van Den Boogaard.  (I wonder if he got teased about that as a kid)

“I am not a warrior, but who is?  I have never learned to fight for my freedom.  I was only good at enjoying it.”

The second quote is from John Stuart Mill, who was a British political economist in the 1800s.  This quote sheds light on the standard American liberal, and is as valid today as it was 160 years ago.

“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things.  The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing is worth war, is worse.  A man who has nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.”

What’s the Current Situation?

 This is a companion commentary to my Gore rant.

The media can continue to only show us what they want us to see, but enough of us know that’s what they’re doing.  They can praise Gore’s little fictional chicken little story and throw awards at it and try to convince us that his opinions are shared by all the thinking people of the world, but enough of us know what they’re up to.  It might not look that way at the moment, what with the Republican party losing both houses recently, but that wasn’t America siding with the Democrats.  That was America sending a message to our leaders that we want our Republican party back.  We’ve seen too much of our government not doing what it’s supposed to be doing, not doing what it is paid VERY WELL for, not doing what we elected them to do, and we have fired them for it.  This is proof that our system of government works.  It’s not perfect, if it was there would have been another realistic option besides the Democratic party.  But we proved that if you screw around too much and don’t produce what we hired you to produce, just like in any business, you’re gonna be replaced. 

Now comes the scary part.  The Democrats are clearly trying to convert us into a socialist society.  This is proof that the Democrats are really really stupid.  But our Republican party has gone so far away from what they’re supposed to be that we (as a country) decided to replace them with the Anti-Democratic Socialist Wannabe Party.  They have a couple years of control before we can rend it back from them, and we have to hope they don’t screw it up too badly during that time.  But more importantly, we have only two years to whip our party back into shape.  The same old crap isn’t going to get re-elected.  It’s not a pretty picture.  I’m not seeing anyone who really fills me with confidence.  I hope I’m not forced to once again choose the lesser of evils.

So how do we fix our party?  The real question is how do we fix our country?  Let’s start by keeping it simple until we have a plan of action. 

• What is wrong with America?  What isn’t working?
• Why isn’t it working?
• What can we change to make it work better?
• What do we need to do away with, and what do we replace it with?
• Who supports what’s not working?  And why?
• What’s important now, as opposed to what’s not really important for a few decades?
• Are we worrying about things that aren’t really that important?  Are we not worrying about things that are?

We have a lot of work to do, and we have some very strong forces that are going to fight us every step of the way.  Do we have the stomach for this?  Do we have the balls?  Or shall we give up and elect Hillary? 

The Gorey Truth

Here is a news flash.  Al Gore lost the presidential election fair and square.  Bush won it legally, without cheating, without “stealing” any votes.  I know it’s a painful truth for some people to accept, but no amount of whining, throwing tantrums and making jokes about it on big extravagant television shows will change the facts.  Gore lost.  It was a valiant effort, he came close to pulling it off, but in the end he just didn’t do well enough.  And if he runs again, he’ll lose again.  And do you know why?  Because enough of us don’t buy his crap science and scare tactics.  Enough of us see his (and the rest of the left elite’s) hypocrisy for what it is.  Enough of us don’t trust him, don’t like him, and would vote for almost anyone else (except John Kerry) to keep him from having the power to finish what the Democratic party has started.  The demise of the United States of America. 

An Analogy

Suppose you and I drive the same kind of car.  Let’s say it’s a ‘72 Mustang.  And let’s suppose you and I race and you win.  So I go home and I tinker with my car a bit, then the next week we race again, and you win again.  After the race I ask you what you did to your car to make it faster than mine.  You say, “I put this new defribulator on and adjusted the johnson rod and the intake cuppler.”  And then you show me how you did it.  It would be pretty stupid of me to not do what you did, since it clearly works better than what I’ve been doing.  If I take the attitude that I don’t want to look like I’m trying to be like you, I’ll continue to lose and you’ll continue to win and I’ll have nobody to blame but myself.

 I’m just sayin.