Father's Day 2011

Why don't we just outlaw Volcanoes????

Professor Ian Plimer could not have said it better!

Okay, here's the bombshell. The volcanic eruption in Iceland, since its first spewing of volcanic ash has, in just FOUR DAYS, NEGATED EVERY SINGLE EFFORT you have made in the past five years to control CO2 emissions on ourplanet - all of you.

Of course you know about this evil carbon dioxide that we are trying tosuppress - it’s that vital chemical compound that every plant requires to live and grow and to synthesize into oxygen for us humans and all animal life.

I know, it's very disheartening to realize that all of the carbon emission savings you have accomplished while suffering the inconvenience and expense of: driving Prius hybrids, buying fabric grocery bags, sitting up till midnight to finish your kid's "The Green Revolution" science project,throwing out all of your non-green cleaning supplies, using only two squares of toilet paper, putting a brick in your toilet tank reservoir, selling your SUV and speedboat, vacationing at home instead of abroad, nearly getting hit every day on your bicycle, replacing all of your 50 cents light bulbs with $10.00 mercury filled light bulbs ...well, all of those things you have done have all gone down the tubes in just four days. The volcanic ash emitted into the Earth's atmosphere in just four days - yes- FOUR DAYS ONLY by that volcano in Iceland, has totally erased every single effort you have made to reduce the evil beast, carbon. And there are around 200 active volcanoes on the planet spewing out this crud at any one time -EVERY DAY.

I don't really want to rain on your parade too much, but I should mention that when the volcano Mt Pinatubo erupted in the Philippines in 1991, it spewed out more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than the entire human race had emitted in all its years on earth. Yes folks, Mt Pinatubo was active for over one year - think about it.

Of course I shouldn't spoil this touchy-feely tree-hugging moment and mention the effect of solar and cosmic activity and the well-recognized 800-year global heating and cooling cycle, which keep happening, despite our completely insignificant efforts to affect climate change. And I do wish I had a silver lining to this volcanic ash cloud but the fact of the matter is that the bush fire season across the western USA andAustralia this year alone will negate your efforts to reduce carbon in our world for the next two to three years. And it happens every year. Just remember that your government just tried to impose a whopping carbon tax on you on the basis of the bogus “human-caused” climate change scenario.

Isn’t it interesting how they don’t mention “Global Warming” anymore, but just “Climate Change”- you know why? It’s because the planet has COOLED by 0.7 degrees in the past century and these global warming bull s..t artists got caught with their pants down. And just keep in mind that you might yet have an Emissions Trading Scheme -that whopping new tax - imposed on you, that will achieve absolutely nothing except make you poorer. It won’t stop any volcanoes from erupting, that’s for sure. But hey, relax, give the world a hug and have a nice day!

Citizen versus Senator

Alan Simpson, a former Senator from Wyoming, and life-long career politician, now Co-Chair of Obama’s deficit commission, calls senior citizens the Greediest Generation as he compared “Social Security” to a Milk Cow with 310 million teats. August, 2010.

Here’s a response in a letter from an unknown fellow in Montana ...I think he is a little ticked off! I agree with the fellow absolutely.

”Hey Alan, let’s get a few things straight..

1. As a career politician, you have been on the public dole for FIFTY YEARS.
2. I have been paying Social Security taxes for 48 YEARS (since I was 15 years old. I am now 63).
3. My Social Security payments, and those of millions of other Americans, were safely tucked away in an interest bearing account for decades until you political pukes decided to raid the account and give OUR money to a bunch of zero ambition losers in return for votes, thus bankrupting the system and turning Social Security into a Ponzi scheme that would have made Bernie Madoff proud.
4. Recently, just like Lucy & Charlie Brown, you and your ilk pulled the proverbial football away from millions of American seniors nearing retirement and moved the goalposts for full retirement from age 65 to age 67. NOW, you and your shill commission are proposing to move the goalposts YET AGAIN.
5. I, and millions of other Americans, have been paying into Medicare from Day One, and now you morons propose to change the rules of the game. Why? Because you idiots mismanaged other parts of the economy to such an extent that you need to steal money from Medicare to pay the bills.
6. I, and millions of other Americans, have been paying income taxes our entire lives, and now you propose to increase our taxes yet again. Why? Because you incompetent bastards spent our money so profligately that you just kept on spending even after you ran out of money. Now, you come to the American taxpayers and say you need more to pay off YOUR debt.

To add insult to injury, you label us “greedy” for calling “bullshit” on your incompetence?

Well, Captain Bullshit, I have a few questions for YOU.
1. How much money have you earned from the American taxpayers during your pathetic 50-year political career?
2. At what age did you retire from your pathetic political career, and how much are you receiving in annual retirement benefits from the American taxpayers?
3. How much do you pay for YOUR government provided health insurance?
4. What cuts in YOUR retirement and healthcare benefits are you proposing in your disgusting deficit reduction proposal, or, as usual, have you exempted yourself and your political cronies?

It is you, Captain Bullshit, and your political co- conspirators called Congress who are the “greedy” ones. It is you and your fellow nutcases who have bankrupted America and stolen the American dream from millions of loyal, patriotic taxpayers. And for what? Votes. That’s right, sir. You and yours have bankrupted America for the sole purpose of advancing your pathetic political careers. You know it, we know it, and you know that we know it. And you can take that to the bank, you miserable son of a bitch.

Let the poor eat well too!

A receipt found in a grocery store parking lot.

Interesting contrast in 2 Presidents

2 Key paragraphs in 2 Presidents' speeches
... It's a very stark contrast to the egos of each.

George W. Bush speech after capture of Saddam:
The success of yesterday's mission is a tribute to our men and women now serving in Iraq. The operation was based on the superb work of intelligence analysts who found the dictator's footprints in a vast country. The operation was carried out with skill and precision by a brave fighting force. Our servicemen and women and our coalition allies have faced many dangers in the hunt for members of the fallen regime, and in their effort to bring hope and freedom to the Iraqi people. Their work continues, and so do the risks. Today, on behalf of the nation, I thank the members of our Armed Forces and I congratulate 'em.

Barack Obama speech after killing of bin Laden:

And so shortly after taking office, I directed Leon Panetta, the director of the CIA, to make the killing or capture of bin Laden the top priority of our war against al Qaeda, even as we continued our broader efforts to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat his network. Then, last August, after years of painstaking work by our intelligence community, I was briefed on a possible lead to bin Laden. It was far from certain, and it took many months to run this thread to ground. I met repeatedly with my national security team as we developed more information about the possibility that we had located bin Laden hiding within a compound deep inside of Pakistan. And finally, last week, I determined that we had enough intelligence to take action, and I authorized an operation to get Osama bin Laden and bring him to justice. Today, at my direction, the United States launched a targeted operation against that compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

Osama Bin Laden RIH

In light of the events of the past 24 hours, I am re-posting an entry made over a year ago. There will be many of my bleeding-heart liberal friends who will somehow decry the blatant use of military force to go in and kill Bin Laden yesterday. The Navy Seals who carried out the mission were instructed clearly to kill him and not to try and capture him. Poor Soul. He was denied his day in court? I think NOT. Osama Bin Laden . . . RIH . . .Rest in Hell. Today . ."you swim with the fishes".

The Right to give up your Rights.

Since my posting last night I have had the chance to hear from some of my more liberally oriented friends about the absolute necessity now of protecting the rights of the accused. And how foundational this is to the constitutional freedoms we enjoy as Americans. (Side note: The terrorist in question is not an American) It is always amusing to me to hear from these friends and to engage them in debate. Because in the face of reason and logic their bleeding hearts begin to coagulate.

I tell my Bill-Maher-tree-hugging-whale-saving-friends the following illustration: Assume for the moment, I'm asleep in my bed in my home in the middle of the night. An intruder breaks into my home. I hear the door being busted open. I arise and take my two friends Mr. Smith and Mr. Wesson with me to greet my "visitor". And there in the living room, I encounter Mr. John Wannatakemylife with my Bose Stereo system in his arms and a 9mm Glock in the waist band of his shorts that are hanging down off his butt. Small problem though for John. I have come into the room under the assumptions that 1. if this intruder was bold enough to break in while I was in the house, that 2. he's probably carrying a fire arm. I also assume 3. that if he might be carrying a fire arm that I should 4. probably confront him with mine pointed straight at his chest (note: the chest being a larger target to aim for than the bridge of a nose). John on the other hand, is a bit intellectually challenged at the moment. Because he is more interested in looting my property than having the sense to protect himself by having his weapon in one hand and the loot in the other.

Now. With the light turned on John can see that something is wrong (for him) with this picture. I have my long barrel 44 magnum pointed at him and he has a Bose speaker pointed at me. He might be saying to himself that he has nothing to fear because he was born with certain unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of his happiness in being a thief and bottom-feeding-scum-sucking-break-in-my-house-lazy-fool? He might also think that I have no right to shoot him, because he is entitled to a trial by a jury of his peers to determine whether or not he is actually committing armed robbery? But whatever he thinks of himself or his predicament, John is faced with a great moral dilemma at the moment? He must ask himself exactly how much that Bose stereo is worth to him and is it worth his life? And then he has to decide if he can drop the stereo and run to freedom, or drop the stereo and grab his gun and raise it and shoot me, . . . .faster than I can pull the trigger of my already-cocked-and-loaded gun? MMMMMMMMMM? Not a difficult choice for a person of average intelligence. But then again, John doesn't have average intelligence or he wouldn't have broken into my home with the possibility that I might be either 1. armed, or 2. more heavily armed than himself? (Note: He might have average intelligence if he lived in Washington D.C. since he would believe that as a law abiding citizen I was not allowed to have a gun . . but this is Missouri)

Personally, I have already answered . . in my mind . . these questions for him. He believed the decision was worth his life. Just as I have realized by seeing the 9mm Glock in his about-to-fall-down pants that he believed the Bose system is also worth my life to him?

Now at this point, exactly what rights does John actually have? The answer is None. He left ALL his rights on my front porch at the moment he burst into my home. EMPHASIS ALL.

You see, at this moment, John is not entitled to a trial, he is not entitled to the pursuit of happiness, and he is not entitled to my Bose system. He is not entitled to a jury trial. He is not entitled to evaluation? He is not even entitled to his life. And (damn the bad luck) he is not even going to be entitled to his choice of his last meal. And . . .though he may have thought so a few moments before . . . he is certainly not entitled to my life.

As I stand there confronting him, I am not wondering what great wrongs society might have done to John to influence him toward this life of criminal behavior. I am not feeling any guilt that perhaps life is not fair and that I have more than John. I am not wondering if perhaps he should have my stereo so that my wealth might be redistributed among him and his crackwhore girlfriend. All I am wondering is how stupid John really is and whether or not he is going to drop the stereo and reach for his gun?

I have already made in mind all of the decisions that need to be made. I realize that John came into my house and has made a decision that he is willing for one of us to die. He of course . . . incorrectly . . .has assumed that it would be me. Poor John.

John is having to make a decision about how fast or lucky he might be. I am not having to wonder.

And then finally, when he makes the decision to drop the Bose and reach for the gun, the entire matter is settled in the flash of a barrel. John should have kept his rights and left my front porch with them. John did not choose wisely when he broke into my home. And the last decision of his life was the most foolish.

Now, John was granted a fair and speedy trial. Except in this case, since he had given up all his rights when he broke in, I . . . . his victim . . .was granted the right to be his jury, his judge, and his executioner. He granted me these rights the exact same moment as he surrendered all of his.

With a terrorist, the same is true. When Abdul Mutallab made his decision to get on the Detroit-bound plane with the Modern Binary Explosives to blow up the plane and send the passengers hurtling toward their death, he gave up any rights that he had. Actually he gave up all his rights the moment he entered the airport with even just the intention to board the plane. He did not give up his rights when he made his bumbled attempt to blow it up. He gave it up the moment he made the decision to try and carry it out. Just as John gave up his rights when he came in my front door.

Mr. Mutallab had no rights from that point on. He is not a soldier in a war against other soldiers in a war between nations and protected by the Geneva convention. He's certainly not protected by the Constitution of the United States of America. He was not pitted in battle against another enemy under orders from his commander. Mr. Muttallab was a man on a mission to kill innocent men, women, and children. He was not on the plane to steal their stereo system. He was there to steal their very lives.

It was a simple matter when the plane arrived of there being 300 witnesses to the event and to Mr. Mutallab's evil intentions. Nothing more needed to be said. He could have been removed from the plane and executed immediately as a terrorist. Of course though a better plan would be to have interrogated him first to find out what rocks his other terrorist co-conspirators were hiding under. And then he could be executed.

For those who think that now justice must take its course, and Mr. Muttallab is entitled to a trial and due process of the law, I must ask, would you 1. feel the same social compassion for this murderer as you were free-falling from 35,000 feet after he had blown up the plane you were flying on and 2. Would you feel the same if John were standing in your living room and about to point a gun at you and kill you?

It is easy for liberals to be liberals from a distance. They can always recite beatitudes and beautiful and flowery excuses for protecting the rights of the accused. And I am the first to agree that rights are to be protected and defended. But this is not the case with Muttalab. When reasoned through, it is simple logic to see that he gave all his rights up on the day he went to the airport.

So please spare me your left-leaning-liberal-whinings and tell me that a man with a gun in your living room about to kill you has the right to do so. And then tell me that if by chance he accidentally misses your heart and you live, that you want to be sure that he has a trial so a jury can decide if he really shot you or not, when you know that he did. Does a man in the passenger seat next to you with his jockeyshorts full of explosives,

I once told a group of high school boys who were sitting in my living room with my daughters that I had no problem at all with having seen a father go free after having shot . . . at point blank range . . . the man who had raped his 8 year old daughter. The high school boys were aghast and said that the father was wrong too because he had murdered the rapist. I simply explained to them that I had no problem with it, because it was not murder. They tried to tell me that it certainly was because many people saw him just walk up to the man and kill him. I told them that I would certainly do the same if someone hurt one of my daughters. And that it would not be murder. It would be an execution. Plain and simple. The boys were silent. (And I assume thoughtfully intent on how not to hurt my daughters).

When Muttalab, entered the airport with his jockey shorts full of explosives, he made a decision for himself that day. He gave up all his rights, and said to the world. I will kill you or I am willing for you to kill me.

He failed in his attempt. We should not fail in ours. For those who say that executing Mr. No-Rights-Today Muttalab would not be a deterent to other terrorists and murderers (though I disagree), I say . . . fine . . ."maybe you're right". Executing him though would be a definate, and permanent deterent to Mr. Muttalab killing or attempting to kill anyone else. And certainly the number of terrorists is not infinite. In time, if they were all simply executed, their reign of terror would stop too.

Somehow I don't imagine that my liberal friends hearts will bleed so freely, if they were the ones to find themselves freefalling from 35,000 feet?

B. McElhaney
December 30, 2009

(note: it is interesting to me that most or all of the family survivors of the victims of 9/11 were from the New York city and surrounding areas. And that most of the people who live in that geographic area would proclaim themselves as liberals. And yet, in the outcry from liberals for the shut down of Guantanamo we did not hear any calls for mercy from the 9/11 families? Could it be that they are only liberals when it is someone else who's blood is bleeding?)

a few truisms

1. Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.
2. We could learn a lot from crayons. Some are sharp, some are pretty and some are dull. Some have weird names and all are different colors, but they all have to live in the same box
3. Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
4. Drive carefully... It's not only cars that can be recalled by their Maker..
5. If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague
6. If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.
7. Never buy a car you can't push.
8. Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
9. Since it's the early worm that gets eaten by the bird, sleep late.
10. The second mouse gets the cheese.
11. Birthdays are good for you. The more you have, the longer you live.
12. A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.

Bob Howard . . The Real Rambo . . RIP

This man is the epitome of bravery and service above and beyond the call of duty. A man few have heard of, but who gave more than any other. He was, and will probably remain, the most highly decorated soldier to have served the United States of America. Bob Howard. Thank you. Click here for video

Trivia

If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on the right side of your mouth. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on the left side of your mouth.

To make half a kilo of honey, bees must collect nectar from over 2 million individual flowers

Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!

People in nudist colonies play volleyball more than any other sport.

Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.

Astronauts can't belch - there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.

The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. In the Renaissance era, it was fashion to shave them off!

Gold is the only metal that doesn't rust, even if it's buried in the ground for thousands of years

Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end

If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. When a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.

Zero is the only number that cannot be represented by Roman numerals

Drinking water after eating reduces the acid in your mouth by 61 percent

Peanut oil is used for cooking in submarines because it doesn't smoke unless it's heated above 450 F

The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.

Nine out of every 10 living things live in the ocean

The banana cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man

Airports at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density

The tooth is the only part of the human body that cannot heal itself.

Warner Communications paid $28 million for the copyright to the song Happy Birthday.

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

The Swine Flu vaccine in 1976 caused more death and illness than the disease it was intended to prevent

Caffeine increases the power of aspirin and other painkillers, that is why it is found in some medicines.

If you get into the bottom of a well or a tall chimney and look up, you can see stars, even in the middle of the day.

When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go. The first sense lost is sight

Strawberries are the only fruits whose seeds grow on the outside

Avocados have the highest calories of any fruit at 167 calories per hundred grams

The moon moves about two inches away from the Earth each year

The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust

Soldiers do not march in step when going across bridges because they could set up a vibration which could be sufficient to knock the bridge down

Everything weighs one percent less at the equator

For every extra kilogram carried on a space flight, 530 kg of excess fuel are needed at lift-off

The letter J does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of the elements.

Words of Political Wisdom

Resume of Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was a very remarkable man who started learning very early in life and never stopped.

At 5, began studying under his cousin’s tutor.

At 9, studied Latin, Greek and French.

At 14, studied classical literature and additional languages.

At 16, entered the College of William and Mary.

At 19, studied Law for 5 years starting under George Wythe.

At 23, started his own law practice.

At 25, was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses.

At 31, wrote the widely circulated "Summary View of the Rights of British America" and retired from his law practice.

At 32, was a Delegate to the Second Continental Congress.

At 33, wrote the Declaration of Independence

At 33, took three years to revise Virginias legal code and wrote a Public Education bill and a statute for Religious Freedom.

At 36, was elected the second Governor of Virginia succeeding Patrick Henry.

At 40, served in Congress for two years.

At 41, was the American minister to France and negotiated commercial treaties with European nations along with Ben Franklin and John Adams.

At 46, served as the first Secretary of State under George Washington.

At 53, served as Vice President and was elected president of the American Philosophical Society.

At 55, drafted the Kentucky Resolutions and became the active head of Republican Party.

At 57, was elected the third president of the United States.

At 60, obtained the Louisiana Purchase doubling the nation's size.

At 61, was elected to a second term as President.

At 65, retired to Monticello.

At 80, helped President Monroe shape the Monroe Doctrine.

At 81, almost single-handedly created the University of Virginia and served as its first president.

At 83, died on the 50th anniversary of the Signing of the Declaration of Independence along with John Adams

Thomas Jefferson knew because he himself studied the previous failed attempts at government. He understood actual history, the nature of God, his laws and the nature of man. That happens to be way more than what most understand today. Jefferson really knew his stuff. A voice from the past to lead us in the future:

John F. Kennedy held a dinner in the white House for a group of the brightest minds in the nation at that time. He made this statement: "This is perhaps the assembly of the most intelligence ever to gather at one time in the White House with the exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe,
Thomas Jefferson

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
Thomas Jefferson

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
Thomas Jefferson

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Thomas Jefferson

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
Thomas Jefferson

No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
Thomas Jefferson

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
Thomas Jefferson

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson

To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson said in 1802:
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property - until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.

How to Argue with a Liberal

How to talk to a Liberal . . if you really must.

How to Understand the Liberal Elite

Liberalism will all make perfect sense. Someday. They just need more time for their theories to be "proven". In the meantime, we're supposed to just trust them to make the right decisions for everyone else? NOT!

CLICK HERE FOR A CUTE EXPLANATION OF THE SENSELESSNESS OF IT ALL.

An Obituary

An Obituary printed in the London Times - Interesting and true.

Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape.

He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as:

- Knowing when to come in out of the rain;

- Why the early bird gets the worm;

- Life isn't always fair;

- and maybe it was my fault.

Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend more than you can earn) and reliable strategies (adults, not children, are in charge).

His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a 6-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition.

Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job that they themselves had failed to do in disciplining their unruly children.

It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer sun lotion or an aspirin to a student; but could not inform parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.

Common Sense lost the will to live as the churches became businesses; and criminals received better treatment than their victims.

Common Sense took a beating when you couldn't defend yourself from a burglar in your own home and the burglar could sue you for assault.

Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement.

Common Sense was preceded in death, by his parents, Truth and Trust, by his wife, Discretion, by his daughter, Responsibility, and by his son, Reason.

He is survived by his 4 stepbrothers;

1. I Know My Rights

2. I Want It Now

3. Someone Else Is To Blame

4. I'm A Victim

Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone. If you still remember him, pass this on. If not, join the majority and do nothing.

The Philosophy of Ambiguity

FOR THOSE WHO LOVE THE PHILOSOPHY OF AMBIGUITY, AS WELL AS THE IDIOSYNCRASIES OF ENGLISH

1. DON'T SWEAT THE PETTY THINGS AND DON'T PET THE SWEATY THINGS

2. ONE TEQUILA, TWO TEQUILA, THREE TEQUILA, FLOOR

3. ATHEISM IS A NON-PROPHET ORGANIZATION

4. IF MAN EVOLVED FROM MONKEYS AND APES, WHY DO WE STILL HAVE MONKEYS AND APES?

5. CAN AN ATHEIST GET INSURANCE AGAINST ACTS OF GOD ?

6. I WENT TO A BOOKSTORE AND ASKED THE SALESWOMAN, "WHERE'S THE SELF- HELP SECTION?" SHE SAID IF SHE TOLD ME, IT WOULD DEFEAT THE PURPOSE.

7. WHAT IF THERE WERE NO HYPOTHETICAL QUESTIONS?

8. IF A DEAF CHILD SIGNS SWEAR WORDS, DOES HIS MOTHER WASH HIS HANDS WITH SOAP?

9. IF YOU SPIN AN ORIENTAL PERSON IN A CIRCLE THREE TIMES, DO THEY BECOME DISORIENTED?

10. IS THERE ANOTHER WORD FOR SYNONYM?

11. WHERE DO FOREST RANGERS GO TO "GET AWAY FROM IT ALL?"

12. WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOU SEE AN ENDANGERED ANIMAL EATING AN ENDANGERED PLANT?

13. IF A PARSLEY FARMER IS SUED, CAN THEY GARNISH HIS WAGES?

14. WOULD A FLY WITHOUT WINGS BE CALLED A WALK?

15. WHY DO THEY LOCK GAS STATION BATHROOMS? ARE THEY AFRAID SOMEONE WILL CLEAN THEM?

16. IF A TURTLE DOESN'T HAVE A SHELL, IS HE HOMELESS OR NAKED?

17. CAN VEGETARIANS EAT ANIMAL CRACKERS?

18. IF THE POLICE ARREST A MIME, DO THEY TELL HIM HE HAS THE RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT?

19. WHY DO THEY PUT BRAILLE ON THE DRIVE-THROUGH BANK MACHINES?

20. HOW DO THEY GET DEER TO CROSS THE ROAD ONLY AT THOSE YELLOW ROAD SIGNS?

21. WHAT WAS THE BEST THING BEFORE SLICED BREAD?

22. ONE NICE THING ABOUT EGOTISTS: THEY DON'T TALK ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE.

23. DOES THE LITTLE MERMAID WEAR AN ALGEBRA?

24. WHY DO DOCTORS CALL WHAT THEY DO FOR A LIVING, THEIR PRACTICE?

25. HOW IS IT POSSIBLE TO HAVE A CIVIL WAR?

26. IF ONE SYNCHRONIZED SWIMMER DROWNS, DO THE REST DROWN TOO?

27. IF YOU ATE BOTH PASTA AND ANTIPASTO, WOULD YOU STILL BE HUNGRY?

28. IF YOU TRY TO FAIL, AND SUCCEED, WHICH HAVE YOU DONE?

29. WHOSE CRUEL IDEA WAS IT FOR THE WORD 'LISP' TO HAVE 'S' IN IT?

30. WHY ARE HEMORRHOIDS CALLED "HEMORRHOIDS" INSTEAD OF "ASSTEROIDS"?

31. WHY IS IT CALLED TOURIST SEASON IF WE CAN'T SHOOT AT THEM?

32. WHY IS THERE AN EXPIRATION DATE ON SOUR CREAM?

33. IF YOU SAY TO ME "LET ME BE HONEST WITH YOU", DOES THAT MEAN THAT YOU'RE LYING TO ME THE OTHER TIMES?

34. WHAT HAPPENS TO SOMEONE IF THEY ARE SCARED HALF TO DEATH, TWO TIMES?

DR. BERNANKE GETS A PHONE CALL

Zhou Xiaochuan is the Governor of the People's Bank ofChina. Imagine that the following phone call were to takeplace.
Zhou: Hello. Dr. Bernanke?
Bernanke: Yes.
Zhou: I wanted to let you know about the decision that ourboard has taken, after consulting with the Premier and thePolitburo's Standing Committee. We hope you are sittingdown.
Bernanke: I get it. A little Oriental humor.
Zhou: You could say that.
Bernakne: What can I do for you?
Zhou: You can abandon your plan to purchase $600 billion ofTreasury bonds.
Bernanke: The Federal Open Market Committee voted ten to 1for this policy. I cannot change it now.
Zhou: We think it is an unwise policy. It will lower thevalue of the dollar. Americans will then buy fewer goodsfrom China.
Bernanke: That is not how we see it. We think the policyis required to put Americans back to work. They will buymore goods from China and everywhere else when they areonce again working.
Zhou: You will increase the supply of dollars, which willlower the dollar's price internationally. Imported goodswill cost Americans more. An increased supply of dollarswill mean a lower price for dollars. It's supply anddemand.
Bernanke: That is the old economics. That is the logic ofAdam Smith and Milton Friedman and those kooks from Vienna.We are committed to the new economics.
Zhou: Who teaches it? Where?
Bernanke: I taught it for years at Princeton.
Zhou: Where Paul Krugman also teaches?Bernanke: Yes.
Zhou: We see it differently here. We prefer the oldereconomics.
Bernanke: Adam Smith's economics?
Zhou: No, even older.
Bernanke: Mercantilism?
Zhou: That is what you call it. We call it the export-driven Asian miracle.
Bernanke: But mercantilist governments wanted to hoardgold. Your nation does not hoard gold. Your bank holdsU.S. Treasury debt.
Zhou: That is the purpose of my call. Bernanke: Gold?
Zhou: No. U.S. Treasury debt.Bernanke: What about it?
Zhou: There is too much of it.
Bernanke: You sound like Ron Paul.
Zhou: Ah, yes. Congressman Paul. I understand that he islikely to be the next chairman of the Monetary Policy Subcommittee. You and he should have some interesting discussions.
Bernanke: I prefer to talk about Treasury debt.
Zhou: We have determined that an increase of $600 billionin your purchases of Treasury debt will lower the rate of interest on the debt.
Bernanke: That is our thought, too.
Zhou: We hold almost $1 trillion in Treasury debt.
Bernanke: You ought to buy more.
Zhou: We will be losing money on our holdings if ratesfall.
Bernanke: You ought to buy more.
Zhou: The value of the dollar will fall. That will lowerthe value of our holdings.
Bernanke: Nevertheless, you ought to buy more.
Zhou: We have decided to own less.
Bernanke: How much less?
Zhou: $600 billion less.
Bernanke:
Zhou: Dr. Bernanke?
Bernanke:
Zhou: Are you still there?
Bernanke: I am still here.
Zhou: We have decided that every time the Federal Reservepurchases its monthly total of $75 billion, we will sell $75 billion.
Bernanke: Are you serious?
Zhou: You sound like Nancy Pelosi.
Bernanke: But that would raise interest rates on Treasurydebt.
Zhou: That is our conclusion, too. But remember: we own lots of Treasury debt. We could use a better rate of return.
Bernanke: But higher rates might cause a recession in theUnited States.
Zhou: That is our conclusion, too.
Bernanke: But that will mean fewer imports from China.
Zhou: We think it will mean more bankrupt manufacturingfacilities in the United States. Then Americans will comeback to our manufacturers.
Bernanke: But this could cause unemployment in China if youare wrong.
Zhou: We are willing to risk that.
Bernanke: That is a big risk on your part.
Zhou: No bigger than the risk on your part by inflating themonetary base by 30%. That could raise prices in the United States.
Bernanke: We don't think so.
Zhou: Why not?
Bernanke: Because our bankers are so frightened of recession in 2011 that they are not lending. They just turn the money over to the FED.
Zhou: Then you do not expect inflation?
Bernanke: Only a little. Maybe 2% to 3%.
Zhou: You sound like Milton Friedman.
Bernanke: Around here, we say, "Better 2% inflation than 9.6% unemployment."
Zhou: We think it is better for us not to hold onto Treasury debt that cannot be paid off.
Bernanke. Don't worry. We owe it to ourselves.
Zhou: On the contrary, you owe it to us.
Bernanke: It's only a figure of speech.
Zhou: We can figure. We are going to be left holding thebag, as you say. All we have is a pile of IOUs.
Bernanke: They're as good as gold.
Zhou: Since they pay zero interest, we think gold isbetter.
Bernanke: It's only a figure of speech.
Zhou: We can figure. Gold is over $1,350 an ounce. The dollar has been falling. We think the older mercantilism was right. We want to own more gold.
Bernanke: You can't eat gold!
Zhou: We can't eat T-bonds, either.
Bernanke: But if you sell dollars, their price will fall.
Zhou: Why?
Bernanke: It's supply and demand.
Zhou: Gotcha!
Bernanke: You speak English very well.
Zhou: You see, I was educated in your country at UCRA.
Bernanke: Really?
Zhou: Not really. But I love those old Richard Loo World War II movies. He made a great Japanese officer.
Bernanke: But if you sell Treasury debt, that could start afire sale. Central banks all over the world might startselling T-bonds.
Zhou: That is a possibility.
Bernanke: But that would make your holdings worth evenless.
Zhou: That is true. So, if Japan starts selling, we will dump all of our holdings in one shot. We might as well get out before the rush.
Bernanke: But that could crash the dollar!
Zhou: That is a possibility.
Bernanke: You're bluffing!
Zhou: That is a possibility.
Bernanke: But this is not the way that central banks operate.
Zhou: How do they operate?
Bernanke: They inflate.
Zhou: Always?
Bernanke: Of course always. That is the only policy tool we have.
Zhou: You could deflate.
Bernanke: Are you serious?
Zhou: You really have Nancy Pelosi down pat.
Bernanke: There is no way we can deflate.
Zhou: What about your exit strategy? That is deflation.
Bernanke: In theory, yes. But we don't intend to executeit.
Zhou: That is not what you told Congress. You told Congress you have an exit strategy. Several, in fact.
Bernanke: We do have them. We just don't intend to implement them.
Zhou: Do you think you can fool Congress?
: Are you serious? Congress doesn't know horseapples from apple butter.
Zhou: You mistake Barney Frank for Ron Paul. You will now have to deal with Ron Paul.
Berrnanke:
Zhou: Hello.
Bernanke:
Zhou: Are you still there?
Bernanke: Yes, I'm still here.
Zhou: We are not asking you to deflate. We are asking younot to inflate.
Bernanke: But we must inflate.
Zhou: Why?
Bernanke: Because we have 9.6% unemployment.
Zhou: What has that got to do with your decision toinflate?
Bernanke: We must lower interest rates.
Zhou: For Treasury bonds.
Bernanke: Yes.
Zhou: What does that have to do with unemployment?
Bernanke: When mid-term rates are lower, businesses will start new projects and hire people.
Zhou: Mid-maturity T-bond interest rates are the lowest ever since what you call the Great Depression and what we call the old normal.
Bernanke: You can never have low enough T-bond rates.
Zhou: But, as Treasury bond investors, we don't like lowrates. We like high rates. We hold lots of T-bonds. If we get very low rates, we might as well own gold.
Bernanke: But you will like all that increased demand for made-in-China goods when all those unemployed Americans go back to work.
Zhou: But rates are lower than they have been in 80 years. You still have 9.6% unemployment.
Bernanke: But if the 10-year T-bond rate goes from 2.6% to1%, American businessmen will hire millions of workers.
Zhou: Do you have evidence for this in one of those dozen Federal Reserve bank monthly bulletins? Or maybe in the"Federal Reserve Bulletin"?
Barnanke: Not really. But it's the thought that counts.
Zhou: I don't think we are getting anywhere. So, just to remind you. We will sell enough Treasury debt each monthto match any net increase in the amount you buy.Bernanke: Dollar for dollar?
Zhou: Dollar for dollar. But, I'll tell you what. Buy them from us, and we'll give you a discount for volume purchases.
Bernanke: You guys never miss a trick, do you?
Zhou: We're really not inscrutable. We just offer discounts for volume purchases.
Bernanke: I will discuss this with the FOMC.
Zhou: Do that. Shalom!
Bernanke: That's my middle name.
Zhou: You Americans have a saying for everything.
Bernanke: No. I mean it. That really is my middle name.
Zhou: If you start buying Treasury debt, you'll have an honorary middle name over here.
Bernanke: What's that?
Zhou: Paper Tiger.

appreciating small things

I remember in the movie "The Castaway" with Tom Hanks, the scene where he had been forced to live for weeks, maybe months, and only eating raw fish because he had no fire. He struggled and struggled rubbing sticks together to try and make his own fire. Failure after failure. And then on one effort he finally got some smoke. He puffed on it and puffed on it and added some grass and "Poof!" He had fire! It was so funny to see him all alone on the island that night having a celebration all by himself over his achievement. I remember him standing there on the beach with the fire blazing and beating his chest and loudly proclaiming "I HAVE FIRE! I HAVE FIRE!" It was, in fact, a very great achievement, and one which cavemen must have celebrated in the same way many years ago. But today something so simple as fire, is taken for granted by myself and everyone else I know. It's just a pack of matches or a click-your-bic away.

In the past year I've had my own challenges. Though nothing at all to compare with being stranded alone on a remote Pacific island? But challenges just the same. And though very difficult to work through, it has given me a hundred or more opportunities to appreciate many things that I've taken for granted all of my life.

There's a quote of mine on the side of the blog here that says a man's life is not measured by the things he has, but by the things he has chosen sacrifice and to live without. Henry David Thoreau moved out to the woods at Walden Pond and lived in a cabin with a table and two chairs and a bed. He wanted to make his life as simple as possible. He wanted to spend his time at Walden focusing on life and not on "stuff". I have found my own Walden here in West Texas. Perhaps not by choice, but a place of quietness and solitude and "aloneliness" just the same. (And there is a big difference in "aloneliness" and "loneliness".)

A few months ago, after making 1500 miles trips every ten days, from West Texas back to Missouri, I decided to just move out here. I had taken over a business from a failed partnership, that needed a lot of time and attention. As Machiavelli said in The Prince, to the young ruler "if you want to possess a city, go and live in it". That advice has a lot of meaning and implication beyond just ruling. I took it to also be wisdom for my business. That is . .If I wanted to turn this oil and gas business around and make it profitable again, I just needed to move here and live here and immerse myself in it.

It has been a struggle since the beginning. I inherited a business situation after my partners decided to let me have it all. Of course that meant me also getting all of the bills and liabilities and not just the assets. And there were nearly $100,000.00 of bills to be paid, not to mention $800,000.00 in bank debt. The sum of it all seemed, at times, to be staggering. However, as the chinese philosopher once said, "the journey of a thousand miles, begins with just one step". And that's what I did. I got here and took the steps that I could take. Each day I awoke and chose to do whatever I could do, and did not focus on the tasks I could not do.

I had very little in the way of money. No excess unless I would choose to pay myself before I chose to pay my creditors. I came to town and rented a small store front here on main street. I needed an office and a place to sleep both. The store front is simple but functional. And it's cheap. But it had no hot water and no bath tub or shower. Only a plain and small bathroom with toilet and sink and running cold water.

I've been here for over two months now and just been trying to survive and build my business back up and "make do" with what I have. And it's been a time of spiritual and character building for me too. In many ways. I have been . . in times past . . happy with much. And in the past year, I have learned to be happy and content with little in the way of material goods. I have, in my owns words, chosen to "live without" a lot of things that in years gone by I took for granted. I have had no hot water to shave with. And no hot water to shower with. But worse, I have not even had a indoor shower. I have had to adapt and "make do" with what things I did have. And to my great joy and surprise, I have learned to be content with whatever state I have found myself in. I have found another way to take a shower outside for this time. And I've discovered that you if you put the shaving cream on your face and let it sit for two minutes, that a cold shave will work just fine if you do it VERY SLOWLY.

One day I was complaining to myself about taking a shower with my neighbor's water hose outside in the dark. And . . to be frank . . I was grumbling to God. The next day I felt so bad, that . . in my own act of contrition and penance, at the end of the day . . I took my bar of soap out to the edge of town and stripped down and waded into the shallow waters of the Brazos river and took my "bath". It was not the most refreshing experience in the world. And on the way back, I came to appreciate more the fact that I did at least have clean water at my home to rinse myself with, even if it was not hot and even if it came from a water hose. I was grateful for what I had, rather than resenting what I didn't have. It was an epiphany for me.

But yesterday I received a BIG blessing. I had been saving the money for two months and finally got a shower and hot water heater installed. And this morning, I litterally jumped out of bed at 5 a.m. and was so excited to know that I was going to take a hot shower and have a shave with hot water. It's probably a good thing that no one else lives downtown on this one block of main street. Because at 5:15 this morning anyone within a block of where I call home would have heard the sound of what probably sounded like a cave man yelling at the top of my lungs while I showered:

I HAVE HOT WATER! I HAVE A SHOWER!
I HAVE HOT WATER! I HAVE A SHOWER!

Life is great. God is Great. And time marches on.

The Chile Well and American Exceptionalism

While many may not believe in American exceptionalism anymore, there's a whole lot of people in Chile who do. Regarding that mine rescue, did you know:

The guy that designed the rescue module was a NASA Engineer?
The drill was made by Schramm, Inc. of Pennsylvania.
The drill bits were made by Center Rock, Inc. located in Berlin,
Pennsylvania.
The lead driller, Jeff Hart, and his team are from Denver, Colorado.
They are on loan from the U.S. Military in Afghanistan where they are
drilling water wells for our Forward Operating Bases.

Jeff spent 33 days on his feet, operating the drill that finally provided a way out Saturday for 33 trapped miners. "You have to feel through your feet what the drill is doing; it's a vibration you get so that you know what's happening," explained Hart. Hart was called in from Afghanistan, "simply because he's the best" at drilling larger holes with the T130's wide-diameter drill bits.

Standing before the levers, pressure meters, and gauges on the T130's control panel, Hart and the rest of the team faced many challenges in drilling the shaft. At one point, the drill struck a metal support beam in the poorly mapped mine, shattering its hammers. Fresh equipment had to be flown in from the United States, and progress was delayed for days as powerful magnets were lowered to pull out the
pieces.

The mine's veins of gold and copper ran through quartzite with a high level of abrasive silica, rock so tough that it took all their expertise to keep the drill's hammers from curving off in unwanted directions. "It was horrible," said Center Rock President Brandon Fisher, exhausted after limited sleep throughout the effort. Hart
called it the most difficult hole they had ever drilled, because of the lives at stake.

"If you're drilling for oil and you lose the hole, it's different. This time there's people down below. We ruined some bits, worked through the problems as a team, and broke through," Hart said. "I'm very happy now."

Miners' relatives crowded around Hart on Saturday, hugging and posing for pictures with him as he walked down from the rescue operation into the tent camp where families had anxiously followed his work. "He's become the hero of the day," said Dayana Olivares, whose friend, Carlos Bugueno, was one of the miners stuck below.

In a different day and age, Jeff Hart would be the most famous American in our country right now. He would be honored at the White House. Schoolchildren would learn of his skill and heroism. But because Jeff Hart works in an industry currently being demonized by (insert name for the clowns currently running our country) more people in Chile will celebrate this symbol of American greatness than America itself.

A History Lesson

Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.
John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.

Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.
John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960..

Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.
Both wives lost their children while living in the White House.

Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.
Both Presidents were shot in the head.

Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy.
Kennedy's Secretary was named Lincoln.

Both were assassinated by Southerners.
Both were succeeded by Southerners named Johnson.

Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808.
Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.

John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born in 1839
Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939.


Both assassins were known by their three names.
Both names are composed of fifteen letters.

Lincoln was shot at the theatre named 'Ford'.
Kennedy was shot in a car called 'Lincoln' made by 'Ford'.

Lincoln was shot in a theatre and his assassin ran and hid in a warehouse.
Kennedy was shot from a warehouse and his assassin ran and hid in a theatre.

Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials.

Where have all the Negroes Gone

By Dr. James David Manning
A Negro Pastor in New York City's Harlem neighborhood



I grew up watching the great rivalry between the Boston Celtics and the LA Lakers. The competition between Larry Bird and Magic Johnson was classic.

Perhaps the most magnificent truth between Blacks and Whites in America can be found in the history of that rivalry. I also grew up at the close of the greatest period of Black or Negro accomplishments in the history of the planet. I am delighted to acknowledge the building of great schools for Negroes like Howard University, Morehouse College, Tuskegee Institute and Fisk University. During this period Negro churches flourished as the moral and religious gathering ground for community and national development. Small businesses owned by Negroes prospered from the small but stable incomes of a fully employed Negro community.

My generation, The Negro Generation was in full agreement and acknowledged the Holy Bible as truth; and Jesus as the most color blind loving friend my mother ever knew. She would quote Jesus, an alleged White only Saviour with a trust that I dare not tread upon. While we were a monolithic Christian community with no mixture of Islam, the second religion of my generation was education, education, education.

There was a sense that we were in competition with White America. Not a malice fed rivalry, but we were about the business of building a great society of Negroes who respected White accomplishments.

The Larry Bird, Magic Johnson rivalry existed as a mascot for the integrity of Negro youth and the fights between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling was the same for Negro men.

It was the golden age of Negro men and their unprecedented fatherhood. The Negro man and Joe Louis taught the Negro boys how to intellectually and confidently compete for financial success and to honor the Negro woman with hard won victories.

The Negro communities were full of Negro men, who ran small businesses with humble White customers. The churches were filled with Negro deacons. One out of every four teachers in the segregated schools was a Negro man.

My generation had a Negro father snoring in every home at night and a two-tone Ford in every garage.

The Negro man was a strong protector of his daughters and a defender of Jesus. Indeed, the competition in the boxing ring was a release for the unspoken competition economically and morally between the races. Every time Willie Mays, Jackie Robinson or Joe Louis won, they won one for the Negro people, but when they lost, no riots occurred, just acceptance and planning for the next contest.

This was the age of your father's after shave lotion. Every Negro home had a father in the bedroom at night, and a strong smelling after shave on the dresser.

All of a sudden, things changed. A violent war was declared between the races. The sports arenas were abandoned as the venue for competition between the races, and riots broke out in ghettos all over America as a form of political dissent by The Black Man. In what is still an unexplained phenomena the sons of former business men began to rob and pulverize their own people, and the Negro and the smell of the after shave fragrance was replaced by the smell of heroin cooking in the bathrooms.

Shortly thereafter I heard a Black Muslim say Jesus was a blue-eyed devil and that all White men were devils.

Up until that announcement we, the Negro people were winning. We were not seeking to overthrow America, but to grow America. We had problems with some Whites, but respect for America and all White people was the order of the day for Negroes, but not for the Black man.

Then things began to fall apart. The age of the Black Muslims and Black Panthers were like watching your best friend die as these groups were born. I asked my father, "Why Cassius Clay was refusing to go into the army." I also asked my father, "Why did Cassius Clay want to be called Muhammad Ali." I did not like that name Muhammad, it seemed barbaric. My father never answered. In one of a very few rare moments, my father, a Christian and a Negro never answered.

Once when Floyd Patterson was fighting during the Friday Night Gillette Cavalcade of Sports, my father accidentally hit me with a left hook trying to imitate Floyd Patterson. With the advent of Muhammad Ali, for the first time in my life my father was not excited by a Negro boxer, who denounced both Negro and Christianity.

I knew something was wrong when my father stop watching Muhammad Ali, but I didn't know how wrong things had gone, nor could I ever have imagined that one day two of the most famous names on the planet would be Muslims names, Osama and Obama.

A few weeks ago I asked Jesus if Muhammad Ali's debilitating sickness is a curse or punishment for his support of Islam and abandonment of Christianity; Jesus never answered.

Many if not all of the Negro businesses are gone now. In Harlem,(now Atlah) the world's most famous Black community, only 3% of the businesses are owned by African Americans, who were once The Black People, who were once Negroes. Pride in the Negro schools is now replaced with rap music and metal detectors. In one of Harlem's most celebrated high schools, Frederick Douglass High, gang members and drug dealing are more visible than basketball. The Negro father, provider and nurturer,is as rare as Aqua Velva in most Negro homes today.

This absence of the Negro father, provider, and business man occurred shortly after the rise of Muhammad Ali and the acceptance of Islam; when the birth of The Black Man was the death of the Negro father. Indeed, the Negro father disappeared in the catastrophic polemic of changing the Negro from being Negro, to being Black. One day I looked up and the most famous men of my hue were no longer Negroes but Black men; Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, and Elijah Muhammad. I still remember hearing the chants; the most well-known man on the planet is Muhammad Ali.

This social change was extremely difficult and brutal for Dr. Martin Luther King. The master of social change would not stop using the word Negro in his speeches; and many called him an Uncle Tom for not making the transition. The Negro was gone and the Black man had arrived, "Houston, The Buzzard Has Landed." The Christian allegiance was gone and the Muslim faith was a better fit for The New Black Man. It seemed only Negroes remained Christian in those days and The Black Man became Bolshevik and Muslim.

Now you need to know the word Negro and Black are one and the same in definition, except Negro has a Latin root and Black has an English root meaning, yet the preferred word Black, empowered a segment of our society with the opportunity to display their hatred for White Americans. Indeed, to speak the juggernaut differences between the two people. The social identity of Black was, we are in your face Whitey, we be Black, you be White. When Smokin' Joe Frazier knocked Muhammad Ali on his jack-ass, I thought to myself; #1. There is the classic battle between Christianity and Islam; and #2. The answer that my father never gave me came from the right hook of Joe Frazier, Jesus kicked Muhammad's butt.

With even more death and destruction on the horizon; Paul Robeson, Josephine Baker, and James Baldwin all became Bolsheviks, Marxists, and Socialists; while Islam and Pan-Africanism swept the ghettos like a hotel maid.

Rapidly the Negro schools and colleges died, and young Black men, the sons of former Negroes began to rob and burglarize the Negro communities. The Negro school teacher and scout leader was replaced by Black drug dealers and pimps. The Negro family fell apart and Black prison population rose like a fourth of July firecracker rocket.

The Negro turned in his lunch bucket for a welfare check, all in the name of his new Black whore, The New Black Woman.

The White counterpart also turned to Marxism. They did not abandon their great schools, but rather took over the anti-Black pro-Negro media, and turned it into an anti-Negro pro-Black spring board.

The pro-Islamic Marxist media loved Muhammad Ali, for the billions he generated in ad revenues. When Smokin' Joe won the title they hardly even acknowledged it. He was just a dumb Negro caught in an Uncle Tom nightmare. Sadly as Dr. King was challenging this new Black Bolsheviks/Socialist Movement, many accused him of being funded by the Communist. The celebrated leadership of The New Black Man scorned Dr. King and claimed he was holding the Black man down, and leading dumb Negroes to trust a White Jesus and let the blue-eyed devil White man slap both sides of his face.

Even more sadly is the liberal socialist media chose to support The New Black Man and began to marginalize and shut out the voices of the disciples of Booker T. Washington, Jesus, and my father.

Now, if you look very carefully you can see that we are reaping the bitter harvest of the influence of The New Black man, The Marxist/ Socialist, The Islamic and Liberal White ideas all spawn in the period of the death of the Negro.

Barack Hussein (The Long Legged Mack Daddy) Obama is the sum total product of this movement that got started a generation ago by both Blacks and Whites. This is their hour; they are in charge of government, business, education, religion, and media. Where will we go from here?

Truth in Advertising

This commercial is a great example of honesty and truth in advertising. But I sure would not want to go back to this guy later and be asking for a refund because I wasn't satisfied. (grinning)