TRAIN WRECK 2
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
The Guilt of Silence
The Guilt of Silence
On April 11th 1944, U.S. troops liberated a German concentration camp called Buchenwald. Four days later, our troops gathered over a thousand local German citizens to tour the camp. The people of Buchenwald held handkerchiefs to their faces as they marched past piles of rotting corpses, rows of inhuman bunkhouses, and ovens.
Similar human extermination camps were discovered with names like Auschwitz Birkenau, Belzec, Chelmno, Janowska, Majdanek, Sobibor, Treblinka. When the war came to an end, over six million Jews, gypsies, and other defenseless people were slaughtered. The frightening thing is that most of this killing occurred under the nose of ordinary people like you and me. That is why our troops had to foresight to force the local citizens to view the results of their total indifference to the massacre of the defenseless. We don’t usually think of history as being shaped by silence, but, as English philosopher Edmund Burke said, ‘The only thing necessary for the triumph [of evil] is for good men to do nothing.’
Some people may say that it was cruel to force the citizens of that community to see the horrors of these camps. I say it was the best in humanity to force us to look inside ourselves in an effort to determine why we ignored the signs of evil.
Here is a look inside the extermination ovens in our country. From 1973 through 2005, more than 45 million legal abortions occurred. The vast majority of these abortions were conducted as a form of birth control. We are systematically exterminating the most innocent and defenseless among us. The remains of our young are going up in smoke rising from furnaces designed to destroy medical waste. When our Supreme Court validated the destruction of our young in 1973 case of Roe v. Wade, our mindset began to change. Today, some people believe it is alright to kill a baby moments before a normal birth. Certain politicians even resist measures to protect children who happen to live through the abortion process.
To make it seem OK, the Nazis painted the Jews as inhuman. Citizens who saw the atrocities and did nothing, took refuge from their guilt by believing the deception to be truth. Today, we attempt to assuage our consciences by calling a baby, a “fetus” or an “embryo,” avoiding the term “baby.”
Enough! The time has come to march by our holocaust. Let us examine the guilt of silence within our hearts and minds, and for the sake of us all, let’s stop the killing.
Saturday, August 23, 2008
What does the Economy, Baseball and the Death Penalty have in common?
By taking a couple of courses in economic theory, we could immunize ourselves from nonsense spouted by politicians and pundits, but in the meantime check out Professor John R. Lott's "Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works."
His first chapter is "Are You Being Ripped Off?" It addresses myths about predation where it's sometimes alleged that corporations will charge below-cost prices to bankrupt their rivals and then charge unconscionable prices. There's little or no evidence that corporations would choose predation as strategy; there are too many pitfalls. A major one is that in order to recoup losses from charging low prices to bankrupt rivals, the predator would later have to charge higher-than-normal prices. That would attract new rivals who might have purchased the bankrupt assets of the predator's prey and be able to undercut the predator's prices.
A far more successful means to monopoly wealth is for businesses to enlist the aid of congressmen to form a collusion. Classic examples are the dairy industry, which uses the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Federal Milk Marketing Orders to set statutory minimum prices, or the Gasoline Retailers Association using state law to do the same or the sugar industry using Congress to establish quotas on foreign sugar imports.
Professor Lott's chapter "Government as Nirvana" highlights examples of government predation. When the U.S. Postal Service raised the price of first-class mail in 1999, it reduced its price for domestic overnight express mail from $15 to $13.70, even though it was losing money at $15. The Postal Service was facing stiff competition from FedEx and UPS overnight services and wanted to keep its market share.
During the 1980s, private meteorology firms saw a chance to make money by selling television stations specialized forecasts that weren't provided by the National Weather Service. The National Weather Service started providing television stations the same services for free, thus driving private forecasting companies out of business.
Predation is observed in higher education. UCLA is both Lott's and my alma mater. It spends $40,000 per student but charges $6,522 tuition for in-state students. Such below-cost pricing gives public universities a significant competitive advantage over private universities. State universities have acquired many formerly private universities after driving, or threatening to drive, them out of business. Lott gives examples of George Mason University School of Law, University of Buffalo, University of Houston and University of Pittsburgh. In the case of University of Buffalo, the State University of New York reportedly threatened to open a public university across the street unless the University of Buffalo joined the state system.
The U.S. Department of Justice would go after a private business using similar predatory practices of intimidating its rivals and selling goods and services below cost. The U.S. Department of Commerce sanctions foreign companies accused of selling goods in the U.S. below cost with anti-dumping duties. If selling goods below cost is seen as unfair in the international arena, why is it not when it's done by government entities?
Lott's "Crime and Punishment" chapter has a lot of interesting tidbits. It starts off stating a fundamental principle of economics: the higher the cost of something, the less people will do of it. To demonstrate the generality of this principle, Lott says that when the number of referees were increased from two to three in the Atlantic Coast Basketball Conference, fouls fell by 34 percent; fouling became more costly. The American League has more hit batsmen than the National League, but the difference only appeared after 1973 when the American League removed its pitchers from the batting lineup in favor of designated hitters. Not being afraid of being hit themselves, American League pitchers threw more bean balls; bean balls became cheaper. The same principle applies to the U.S. crime rate that fell after the death penalty was reinstated, more prisons were built and concealed-weapon carry laws were enacted. The higher the cost of a crime, the less people will do of it.
That's my Rant from behind the Iron Curtain Kaliforniastan.... And B.O./J.B. will make sure the REST of the U.S. is just like my "Blue" State... should be "red"... Another Media attempt to dull the senses of the masses.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Excellent Reasons to Vote for McCain
A lengthy e-mail endorsing John McCain for president is now commonly attributed to Thomas Sowell, but it was not written by him. (Mr. Sowell has penned several "Random Thoughts" columns over the last year, but none of them was an endorsement of John McCain, and none of them was nearly as long as the item cited here.) This e-mail is an item of unknown authorship which was originally simply credited as the work of "Anonymous" or "A Concerned American" before someone tacked on a preface that mistakenly attributed it to Thomas Sowell. - snopes.com
Thanks Kirk for the catch... only "progressives" would attribute good points to famous people to give it credibility. I think the points are valid and stand on their own and don't need endorsements. Apparently someone thought that it needed the endorsement of a black columnist. I hope to be colorblind on this issue and don't need black, white, purple or green opinions, only intellect and common sense.... I believe that is what Dr. Martin Luther King sermons were all about.

The article below was written by syndicated columnist, Thomas Sowell, a black man. He wrote it in a humorous way this past week in a column titled 'Random Thoughts' and published it in newspapers nationally, so maybe you've already seen it. If not, be my guest:
Senator John McCain could never convince me to vote for him. Only Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama can cause me to vote for McCain. 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 interests' come to mind, among many others.
Here's the way I see it:
Barack Obama, you are a fine public speaker. You are also an extremely liberal Senator from the State of Illinois, which has a long and rich history of political corruption of the first magnitude. You are indeed a child of that system.
You have finally insulted my intelligence far beyond my capacity to tolerate your insults. It has nothing at all to do with your skin color. As a matter of fact, it would be so COOL to finally have an African-American for President. What a great statement that would be to the entire world that we are indeed the greatest country on earth!
But, unfortunately, General Colin Powell is not running, and YOU are NOT the man for this job !
Barack baby, you want me to believe that you have never heard the sermons of your own pastor, the Right Reverend 'God Damn America' Jeremiah Wright. It is a matter of record that this has been your church for over 20 years. It is a matter of record that you were married there by this very pastor, and that your children were baptized there.
The good Reverend saw fit to visit Khadafy in Libya with you and to give a lifetime achievement award to Louis Farrakhan, of all people.
We have all now seen excerpts of his sermons all over the airwaves by now. And you have publicly stated that this man IS your 'spiritual mentor.'
BUT, your pastor is NOT the reason I am NOT voting for you. His words were disturbing enough, but it is your own HUGE church congregation, seen jumping, hooting and howling to his words in the background that disturb me the most. And please don't tell me you attended church there and never once heard a 'discouraging word' in the 20 years you attended there. Don't tell me, that in addition to the good reverend, that you are now not having anything to do with all those other people seen hooting and howling out in the audience in the background of his fiery tirades. Even Oprah Winfrey got disgusted and walked out on your campaign. I am no Oprah fan, but still she did the right thing.
Now you look me in the eye and ask me to believe that you never heard such language in all the years you attended there! This is like me telling you that I attended dozens of Klan rallies and never once heard the 'N' word. Yep. And Bill Clinton 'did not inhale'.
Yes, Mr. Obama, we all have friends who have said stupid things that embarrassed us, but NOW you have asked me to believe something that is so incredibly stupid that you are telling me that I am just stupid enough to believe you. THAT is the main reason that I will never vote for you.
I am deeply sorry, that in a country teeming with enormously talented African Americans who would make a good President, that the political system has chosen YOU. You are a pathetic and plastic excuse for an American, who will not even salute the Flag during the Pledge of Allegiance. God forbid you ever get near the Oval Office.
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 sabers at us. I want John McCain in the Oval Office and I want him to be really ticked 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 FITS. 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 dopes 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 ticked at him and the conservatives are ticked 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 ticked 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.'
Blessed are those who give without remembering....and receive without forgetting.
Friday, August 15, 2008
Obama - Change you can believe in!!!

The reasons listed in BO's response for calling Dr. Corsi a bigot is as follows:
Dr. Corsi attacks the Catholics and the Pope
Dr. Corsi attacks Islam
Dr. Corsi attacks Kerry
Dr. Corsi attacks Clinton...

Monday, August 11, 2008
The Russian Bear is Back (and He's No Teddy Bear!)

Yet another reason I will be voting for John McCain. He realizes the threat posed by a resurgent, militaristic Russia. Check out the article by George Will at:
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=303342827629035
The editorial cartoon by Michael Ramirez says it all. By the way, he's a double Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist who lives in south Orange County and graduated from Capo Valley High and then UC Irvine.
P.S. Jeff, thanks for letting me post to your blog!
Saturday, August 9, 2008
Homeschooling Dodges a big bullet!!!
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=71831
What I find disturbing in this development, however, is that a court of law can come up with two totally opposite findings from the same case. I believe this court was swayed by the public outcry caused by their first ruling. As a "finder of fact", shouldn't a court and it's judges be impartial and impervious to public opinion? The leftist's who have co-opted our courts figured out that they've tightened the screws a little too much in this case and had to back it off. To use another analogy, they turned up the heat too fast and the frog jumped out of the pot. The left has had an agenda for my entire life and they have always remained vigilant to opportunities to tilt the scales of justice. The conservatives, on the other hand, are mostly a faithful bunch. Having faith in their GOD, faith in their family and faith in their Government. We conservatives must adopt a new faith now. Faith that evil will corrupt. We must remain vigilant and we must "squeak" louder than the left.
Even as a young boy growing up in the hills of southern Ohio, I heard the rumors of those crazy Californians. What I never dreamed was that the LORD would lead me to this bastion of crazies and that I would have to face the challenge of living and raising my children in the Socialist Republic of Kalifornia. It's ironic that the entire nation is held hostage and are being denied a vote on the current energy crisis by one congresswoman from a district that is undoubtedly the most evil and corrupt district in the entire nation. San Francisco. This district has on the local ballot an initiative that will effectively make prostitution legal in defiance of STATE law. The initiative would cut the local police budget to $0 to prosecute, investigate, pursue, etc... anything to do with the illegal sex trade. It would still be "illegal", but all consequences would be removed. They also have a mayor that, in defiance of State Law (before it was overturned) married homosexuals. Also, in defiance of State and Federal laws, has declared San Francisco a "sanctuary city", meaning people who willingly and knowingly break our laws are exempt.
We must raise our voices. Jesus said, in response to taxes, “Give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.” Our Government was established as a government of the people, by the people and for the people, which means WE are Caesar and have a RESPONSIBILITY to make sure our representives are held accountable and speak for US. These districts within the U.S. who decide they know better than the people must also be held accountable. By ignoring the law, they are breaking the law. By denying our Rights as outlined in the constitution, they are guilty of Treason. By the same token, twisting the Constitution to deny the rights of infants, they are murderers. By weakening our military and pulling funding for intellegence, they are removing the responsibility of our FEDERAL government to protect our sovereinty, which ORIGINALLY was the Federal Governments sole responsibility. We are now at the most precarious point in our history and the Press has Totally failed us. It is our responsibility to spread the word. Conservatives sent a message last election... not about the war, but about responsibility. We have to take our government BACK and hope Republicans have learned the lesson sent in 2006.
Here is the REAL Barak... Spread the word....
Student of Saul Alinsky (as was Hillary Clinton) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Alinsky
Alinsky wrote "Rules for Radicals" - interesting -
http://www.junkfoodforthought.com/long/RulesForRadicals.htm
"Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins -- or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom -- Lucifer. - Saul D. Alinsky
Obama SUPPORTS POST BIRTH ABORTIONS.... I dunno how it can be an abortion "Post" birth, but in State Senate Obama's position was that EVEN if the baby lives through a late term abortion, the mother has a right to KILL it...
Obama "says" that the 2nd amendment to Keep and Bear arms is an individual right, yet he supported Washington DC's total ban on handguns and the DC law that made it illegal to have a gun in an operative state EVEN in your own home.
Obama totally supports redistribution of wealth (straight out of Saul Alinsky's mouth). Not just to poor Americans, but to the world. He essentially supports a GLOBAL tax to "end poverty".
Obama has flipped so many times on so many issues, we can only wonder what his true stance will be, but a man who is afraid to let people know what his positions probably has a position that is AGAINST the people!!!!
SOMETHING SMELLS FUNNY... Watch the DNC in Denver carefully. I personally don't think Obama is electable. I would not be surprised at all if the world will be reeling after the DNC convention if Hillary comes out on top... Either because the Superdelegates have switched, or maybe it's revealed that Obama is not eligible constitutionally to be president. If that happens, the "middle" folks and even those on the right might even breathe a sigh of relief. All the books and all the truth that leaked out over the past months about Obama will be for naught and someone just as dangerous would hold the reigns, Hillary. In the short course of Hillary's supposed resignation to B.O., the heat has been off her and if I've learned anything over the course of the last 16 years, the Clintons will NEVER, EVER give up.... kinda like the terminator!!!
End Rant - For now!!!
Saturday, August 2, 2008
Pelosi's Politburo
Our "Representative" Government has been hijacked.
I didn't see it on CBS news. ABC doesn't mention it. MSNBC, to their credit, at least mentioned it. My Favorite, the bane of "progressive's" everywhere, Fox News has it as their top news in the political section. CNN must be seeing the light also, because they ran the story, or at least their tired of coming in second to Fox.
Nancy Pelosi's house of representitives have been denied a voice. The majority leader, who set's the agenda for what used to be OUR house of representatives, has for weeks denied even the chance to vote on opening up areas for drilling. Knowing that she would lose, she opted instead to silence the majority who would vote in favor of relieving the burden of high gas prices by allowing offshore drilling, tapping ANWR and allowing the U.S. to become less dependant on foreign oil. Your Representative.... YOUR VOICE was not even allowed to CAST A VOTE!!! How is this American? Nancy's Answer? Well it doesn't have anything to do with "being american", because she say's she is "SAVING THE PLANET". Yesterday, the GOP insisted that the House stay in session until they resolve the issue of energy, instead, Nancy decided everyone should go on a 5 week vacation. What does she care? The Pelosi family has a net worth of over $25 million. She can afford to fly around in her fancy jet... oh wait, we pay for that!!! She can afford to be driven around in a gas guzzling limo.... oh wait, we pay for that too!!! But I digress... The GOP stuck around to speak on the issue, as they had scheduled BEFORE Nancy took her party home, but Nancy turned out the lights, turned off the camera's and shut off the microphones. For a time, or GOP representives were speaking in DARK room before someone found out how to turn on the lights, only by guessing at the pass codes on the computer. They searched for a megaphone, but couldn't find one. They finally invited the public from the gallery down to the floor so they could hear.
So.... NANCY... Enjoy your vacation... ON ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By the way, if Obama is elected and NANCY and HARRY remain in power, they already have plans to institute the "fairness doctrine" which will kill conservative talk radio by making it ILLEGAL to speak about these issues without giving equal time to some lying, no rating, absurd liberal HACK like Al Franken who tried talk radio and completely bombed. In fact, AIR AMERICA couldn't keep afloat because they featured such liberal radio. So, if someone wanted to air Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity, that radio station would have to give the same amount of time to zero ratings, which would make it unprofitable to even air talk radio. Most radio stations would then switch to music or some other format. How's that for FREE SPEECH. My blood pressure is up.... I'll continue this Rant later.....
Jeff
Friday, August 1, 2008
It MUST be a disease
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=71117
"When the Muslims came here they never found any standing building or any culture still alive, so they never threatened any standing building," said the Waqf director. "We are not going to entertain theories about buildings that may or may not have been here before."
Always a fount of contradiction, the Muslim officials later negated their own claims that the Temple Mount was empty in A.D. 600 with their stories of Muhammad's midnight visit to the Al Aksa Mosque that today towers over the southern end of the raised compound.
Satan cannot be happy that these people are such bad liars... on the other hand, he's going to have eternity to teach them....
2Th 2:12 and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness