Happy Earth Day

I was watching a replay of comedian George Carlin last week and during one of his clever rants he exclaimed "the Earth doesn't need our help, she'll shake us off like a wet dog trying to dry itself". In this humor lies a lot of truth, the real genesis of "Earth Day" is the fear of us humans that the Earth may not be as human-friendly a place as OUR impact takes its toll.

In short, the Earth will do just fine it is we humans who are in peril.

Here are a few other threats that may deserve their own "Special Day"! Although giving a world-wide peril issue a "special day" is like being on the Titanic and snapping a picture of the Iceberg and saying,.."isn't that pretty".

We minimize the danger by wrapping ourselves around a camp side fire called a special day.

Anyway back to the dangers at hand;

Genetics Day;

The Pope today called on the world to treat all stages of life with respect! Meanwhile the bio-tech stock holders rush head first into the unknown by messing with Gods' soup. I suspect as we head down this arrogant path, God will choose an appropriate time to assert himself and remind us that we aren't God, but rather a cheap copy borne of his image.

Energy Dependence Day;

As we seem impotent to move any meaningful effort or resources toward a non-petroleum based energy source, we march mindlessly into a virtual cornucopia of perils. None the least of which is WWIII. This war will involve the USA, India and China (who now holds over 60% of our debt). India and China are in the fledgling stages of their industrial revolution. Imagine what their need for oil will be given the 1.1 and 1.3 billion citizens (only 2% of whom own cars today).

This conflict will make WWII in the Pacific look like a sporting event.

When we go to war with India who will take our tech support calls for help?

Roe Appreciation Day; This will piss a few people off....

Our celebration of a women's "right" to terminate pregnancies has resulted in an annualized abortion rate of 1 million each year (USA) . I find it tradgically ironic that now we must turn a blind eye to illegal immigration as our work force is aging. We need more able and willing employees to do manual labor. It is estimated that we have over 15 million illegal immigrants in the USA and get this; we estimate sucessful illegal border crossings a a rate of 1 million per year (where did I see that 1 million number before?).

Perhaps, back when Roe v. Wade was decided, had we not opted to unleash the unmitigated abortion genie, maybe we'd have enough young workers today. If these workers were American Citizens as opposed to the less politically empowered illegal aliens, we may have entry-level wages that don't subjugate an entire class of people to impoverishment.

The consequence of the current dynamic is the largest rift between the haves from the have nots since the roaring twenties...and we know how that movie ended (The Great Depression).

Oh, by the way, don't look now but that Social Security Check that you are counting on in about 2022,..may not be there. The work force v. retiree ratio has been turned upside down by rising average ages and lower birth rates reduced further by abortion on demand.

God does have a sense of humor,..he just delivers the punch line on a different timetable.

The sins of the father are visited upon the son...or so it seems!

V-I Day March 20th 2003 or June 1st 2007?

Victory in Iraq is ours...

Of course the Victory was won in March of 2003!

Now, we should simply say;

We toppled a ruthless dictator, we provided 4 years for the country to come together and create it's own sense of self. We find ourselves in the middle of a civil conflict for national identity and we have no role in that debate.

However, we do have an obligation and a self-interest in allowing the "national debate" to be between those who are solely part of the national citizenship.

Therefore, from June 1st 2007 until the last group standing as the "voice for the people of Iraq" comes to call on our various encampments we will deploy our forces to insure the integrity of the Iraqi's borders. We will insure no more Saudis, Syrians' Iranian's, Turks or even Kuwaiti's cross the national borders of Irai without the permission of the Iraqi government.

Our deployment will be design to easily vanquish any would be attackers be they from Iraqi metro centers or border incursions. Who knows, Ahmadinejad may even lose that grin and have to check his shorts as the 101st air borne deploys on the Iraqi/Iranian border :)

Did Imus Something?

Napalm, Nukes and Empty Headed Nags

I really don't post this as a defense of Imus. Frankly, watching the woeful fourth estate devour their own is an entertaining sport.
It looks and feels a lot like those nature shows that film a shark "feeding-frenzy" and then one of the sharks gets nicked up and a little blood spurts out and that shark becomes part of the feeding frenzy entree' .
As an eternal optimist I think I have stumbled upon a way to make positive use of our newest American Industry...Nagging! We have a virtual cornucopia of Naggers of the first water. Napalm didn't work in Vietnam and Nukes are too clumsy a tool to deploy, but we have some laser-guided naggers who could be unleashed on our enemies around the world.
Save the Marines, Navy Seals, Army Rangers and Green Berets for really important stuff. Let's draft the first brigade of the U.S.S.N.F.(United States Strategic Nagging Force). Looking across the American landscape we can draft;

Al Sharpton (Excels in Victimizing the Victim Post-Event)
Gloria Alred (The PC Ambulance Chaser)
Rush Limbaugh (Excellence in "Bragging on Himself" Broadcasting)
Jesse Jackson (The Not So Right Reverend)
Janet Murguia (President of La Raza)
Michael Savage (Shock Jock of the Savage Nation)
Kate Michelson (Energizer Bunny of Feminist)etc.
Rosie O'Donnell (More Nagging Pounds to deploy...the Daisy-Cutter Nag Bomb)

Of course, we will have to test the viability of this fighting force. Hence I suggest;First, lets paratroop this Naggy Brigade into Iran armed only with megaphones and mirrors (to keep their self-esteem and morale high). They can unleach their nuke tipped nag attack against the ruling clerics. Nag at them about their views of womens rights and intolerance of religious minorities and secularly centered. If the Naggers prevail we score a victory and it's off to North Korea. However, if (as I suspect) they get their throats cut for spewing such anti-Islamic rhetoric we still win. The domestic landscape will be more at peace. We will be exposed to a few less opportunistic icons whose singular talent is exploiting what divides us and our nation for their own personal attention and wealth.

A picture is worth 12 million illegals

President Bush acknowledged the value of a border fence today

Oil, the Border and Greasy Palms

The Presidential Candidate that identifies and speaks to our true challenges will earn my vote. Our Nation's Health and Safety is at risk, not from Al Qeada but from the border below and our economic dependence on oil.

It's time for a Teddy Roosevelt Trust-Busting Patriot to assert him/herself on to the national stage.


In the meantime, while we wait out the Elite-Serving, Big Business Cronyism of President Bush's Administration to end...

Here's a protest that may have an impact with out inconveniencing you too much;

In May DON'T BUY FROM EXXON
In June DON'T BUY FROM CHEVRON
In July DON'T BUY FROM SHELL
In August DON'T BUY FROM ARCO
In September DON'T BUY FROM CITGO

It won't mean much unless about 50 million of us do exactly this, but it sure would mess with their cash flow and drive the bean counters nuts while demonstrating to everyone that the consumer still has power.

Pre-Depression Era Looked Like Gold Too

The evening when the Titanic was hit by the infamous Iceberg those aboard (at least above the steerage level) where sipping champagne and dining in luxuary. Then reality struck and all aboard struggled to survive. The good ship SS America is plowing through the same dark, dangerous and all too hidden waters.

We have a capable and to my mind clear headed watchman in the top mast perch warning us of the pending iceberg "dead ahead"...Lou Dobbs. Admittedly, I have not been a big CNN fan and have only recently tuned into his show, read his book and watched his testimony before Congress. His message is as rare in it's candor as it is in it's clarity. He speaks for the silent majority who shake their heads at the Ramos and Capien matter, the borderless elite-centric policies of President Bush, unfair trade policies that have decimated key industries and reckless deficit spending.

Below is an article from Mr. Dobbs that reminds us that the ever widening gap between rich and poor, and rich and the median household income is not in ANYONE's best interest. This bifurcation of the status of the haves' and have nots' is at a level not seen since the pre-depression heyday or whatwas called the "roaring twenties". On occassion, you wil hear the President brag about the strength of our economy. He is as in touch with the plight of the average American about as deep as was Herbert Hoover.

The remainder of this post is Lou Dobbs article....

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/03/Dobbs.Oct4/index.html

By Lou DobbsCNN
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Editor's note: Lou Dobbs' commentary appears every Wednesday on CNN.com
NEW YORK (CNN) -- The Dow Jones Industrial Average has hit an all-time high and Wall Street firms are posting some of their best earnings ever. For the first time in our nation's history, the Forbes list of the 400 wealthiest Americans includes only billionaires. In fact, having only a billion dollars means you're not on the list. As a group, the Forbes 400 has a collective net worth of $1.25 trillion.
So the rich are doing well. But how about the middle class?
More Americans than ever are living in poverty, living without health care, paying more for housing and for the costs of our public education. And real wages are falling.
Real median earnings of full-time working males fell nearly 2 percent last year, according to the Census Bureau, while the real wages of working women fell by 1.3 percent. Despite that, real median household income did manage to rise slightly last year, though that small gain was the first increase in household income since 1999.
So what has been keeping our middle class afloat in the face of rapidly rising costs? American families have been living on, as well as in, their homes. More than one-third of homeowners are spending more than 30 percent of their income on the cost of housing, a level that pushes the edge of affordability. Nationwide median home values from 2000-2005 jumped 32 percent, and homeowners have been pulling equity out of their houses in order to keep up with escalating tuition bills, health care costs and energy costs.
But not everyone is so lucky. The number of Americans without health coverage rose by 1.3 million last year, up to 46.6 million, according to the Census Bureau. What's worse, more than one in 10 American children are now uninsured. Fewer employers than ever are providing health care to their employees and those who are still lucky enough to receive employer-provided coverage are paying a much larger share: The Kaiser family foundation says the cost of family health insurance, in fact, is up 87 percent since 2000.
The same holds true at the pharmacy. Prices for the most popular brand-name prescription drugs this year rose substantially higher than the annual inflation rate, as has been the case every year this decade. The AARP concluded prices for the top 193 drugs climbed 6.3 percent over the last 12 months ending in June 2006, while inflation went up 3.8 percent. Generic drugs, however, rose 0.4 percent over that period of time.
The costs of higher education are also hurting middle-class families like never before. In this increasingly credentialed society, the total cost of tuition, fees, room and board at four-year public colleges and universities has ballooned 44 percent over the past four years. And the proportion of family income it takes to pay for college is growing for families everywhere. The biggest jump, according to the National Center for Higher Education, is in Ohio, where college costs now take 42 percent of the average family budget, up from 28 percent in the early 1990s.
Our dependency on foreign oil is also hamstringing working men and women. Gasoline prices are back on the decline (for now), but many Americans this summer were shelling out double what they used to pay to drive their cars. And gas prices now, while lower than at their peak in August, are still about 60 percent higher than in January 2001.
Perhaps one of our nation's leading business magazines would like to create something called a Forbes or Fortune 250 Million list, which would reveal the dire financial pressures that our public policies have produced for working men and women and their families. It's time for all of us to focus on that deep chasm we have allowed to open between the wealthiest Americans and the middle class and those who aspire to it.
Otherwise, there will be 250 million casualties in what has become nothing less than class warfare.

*******************************my conclusion****************************************
Perhaps, Lou Dobbs as an Independent Candidate for President