Huckabee

The rumors of my early demise are not true my friends. I have just been very busy. And now, back to work.

Recently, my man Huckabee has been attacked for a comment made several years ago, during the worst fears during the AIDS Epidemic's early years.

Well, sorry to say that I am not going to attack him. Instead, I am going to defend him.

Sorry guys, but I fear Chuck Norris and support Huckabee.

Anyways, lets look at the way epidemics have been treated since day one. One word, Quarantine. Though we have not always understood the reason for it, we have always understood that some type of contact is necessary to spread it. STD's are unique, in that they require a very specific type of contact to transmit. However, this was not always widely known. Up until late in the 90's, no one was entirely sure how it was transmitted., and so many theories existed.

During this time, Mike Huckabee advocated physical isolation from healthy people. Given the lack of knowledge at the time, I have trouble blaming him for this comment.

Now, the thing is, that I do still agree with it. This will cause some flak, so please hear me out. The reason I do, is because AIDS is a devastating disease that cannot be completely blocked. Sorry Trojan, but you are only 67% effective against AIDS.

So, should we quarantine those who carry this plague? Yes, after all, it is a public health issue, not a civil rights issue. The thing is that while it was primarily a Gay disease at first, due to the contamination of the blood supply, it is a scare for everybody, and we need to understand this.

Thanksgiving: The true story of a Political Holiday

The Indians of Plymouth are annoyed with us for celebrating the holiday of Thanksgiving to God for the harvest. Why? It make no sense in my book.

Despite what many would have you to believe, Thanksgiving is not some holiday in which the White Man celebrates the Oppression of the Red Man. Instead, Thanksgiving is a celebration of the harvest. A day in which the people come together and thank the lord for the food, planted that spring, and gathered for the winter.

The history of this holiday, and the colonization is what this post is about though, not what the Holiday means.

First, lets have a history of the Americas, or rather, of the East Coast of the US.

Before the colonization of the Americas by the European Powers, the East Coast was what I like to describe as "Organized Anarchy." Here, tribes warred against each other yearly, fighting over the hunting grounds and female members of the other tribes. Sexual Slavery was rampant, as was warfare. The concept of the Noble Savage is not a very real one, as the only group that could even come close to the concept of Nobility where the Five Civilized Tribes of the Southeast, and this was due more to the influence of Spanish controlled Central America than anything else. Another similar concept is the Iroquois, who evolved culturally along the same lines as the Vikings, due to the early contacts with the Norse Traders.

Now, as the French and Spanish began to trade with the natives, conflicts would occur. Though some would adapt to the more Technologically advanced Europeans, others would strike out at them, after they had gotten what they wanted for free. The best example of this comes from the people of the Indian we now know as Squanto.

In 1614, he had been captured and taken to Spain, before finding his way to England. There, he was eventually able to board a ship and go home. However, he found that his entire tribe was dead. The PC/Conventional version has them falling dead due to an epidemic given to them by French Traders, all of whom made their way back to Europe.

WRONG!

Those French traders where massacred, like many before them, and a single one survived. Remember the above reference to Sexual Slavery? Well, how do you think that virus got around? Squanto was lucky my friends, other wise he would have caught the same virus.

So, when the Puritans arrived, Squanto had his own thing to be thankful for, as he was actually able to survive now.

When the first Thanksgiving festival was held, it was a Three Day Party. The men of the two groups went out hunting and fishing, and chatted about how to best do so. The women compared home keeping and child rearing. And every one was joyful, as harvest festivals where parts of both Wampanoag and English traditions.

Later, as the two groups began to have friction with each other, and both did have real complaints against the other, remember the above.

Now, those who are being "Oppressed!" use the history of this great nation as a cry of shame, though the history is far from what they claim.

The only place where the Noble Savage existed was i parts of Utah and the North-Western Midwest, as there where not enough Indians/sq foot for them to need to go to war against each other for hunting and farming lands. Now women on the other hand...

On Poverty

Recently, the rising numbers of veterans who are stuck living out in the street has gained national headlines. These heroes come home to find that they have no home, and thus no way to get a job, which is necessary to get a home.

Thus, I propose the following suggestion.

Worker's Homes.
Companies should provide homes or apartments to be available for their workers to live in. These would not have to be too fancy, but a bare minimum should be enforced. The rent for these homes would be taken out of the employee's paychecks.

This would create a further set of competition in the job market, as companies try to provide the nicest rentable apartments for the lowest prices. These companies would allow their people to live near the company's buildings, with the possibility of Mass Transit between the apartment complexes and the building.

Now, while problems similar to those faced by the Coal Companies are possible, they are unlikely, as the employees would have more options in terms of housing and food living in a big city.

District of Columbia v. Heller

Boy howdy, there is one doozy of a supreme court case coming down the pipe, and no one on either side of the issue is sure as to how the Justices will rule, after all, the issue hasn't been up to the court for almost 70 years.

If this ruling goes the way I fear it does, our first amendment rights, no to mention our rights to property, and security within our household are gone. If this case goes the way I fear it does, then the United States of America will turn into England, and I will be forced to secret away my "Self-Defense Mechanisms" or go for something a little more antiquated.

What the hell am I talking about?

Well, glad you asked, because the Supreme Court is hearing a case to determine whether or not we have a constitutional right to own and use firearms.

If they rule the way I fear they will, I will just have to resort to walking around with a bow and arrow when I turn 21, and not the Colt .45 Revolver I was planning on buying. Of course, I will probably have to get a different permit for that...

For those wondering why I fear a loss of Gun Ownership Rights, let me refer you to a post I made on Facebook a while ago.

In it, I talked about the situation England is currently facing. Following their banning of Legal Firearm usage, violent crimes skyrocketed.


Please, take this into consideration. After all, as crimes increase, disarming the populace is one of the stupidest things you can do. After all, it just makes them into victims.

How does THIS make sense!?

Okay, in a country where you cannot even get an asprin from the school nurse without a parent's permission, how in the world does it make sense for a school to hand out The Pill, and not only not tell the parents, but not tell the state?


Okay, a little primer on current federal laws on sex. If a child comes in for the pill, it must be reported. Why? Because if a child is on the pill, they are more than likely having sex. And all persons under the age of 18 who have sex must be reported. Second, like I said above, it is against the law for a student to receive an aspirin without parental consent, so thus, this should be illegal.

So, here is what I think. If you want to authorize your child to start having sex in middle school, and thus scar them emotionally later on as they give away more and more of themselves, then fine. But if you have your child's best interest at heart, and want to keep them from emotional trouble later on, then prevent this permission from being given out, and protect your child.

Once again, Harry Potter is in the news

Before I begin, no, I will not be talking about the latest revelation from J.K. Rowling. This is about Censorship.

Apparently, a Catholic School in Massachusetts has decided that to protect the "Weak-Minded," the principal is going to remove the books from the school library.

Well, I would not be shocked by this. "Banned in Boston" is a common selling point on books, and now, it can be added to the Harry Potter series as well.

Now, while I applaud the Rev. Ron Barker for trying to keep witchcraft out of the hands of the children, most of those reading these books are sixth graders, and are old enough to know that it is not real. If he would really like to make a difference, make An Exorcist Tells His Story and An Exorcist: More Stories part of the required reading list. Both are by Fr. Gabrielle Amorth, and are well written.

Please, do not ban the books, there are better ways to protect the children.

Oklahoma City vs. New York City

There have been two terrorist events that have been seared into the minds of the populous of our nation, the events that took place at the Federal Building in Oklahoma City and the events that caused the collapse of the World Trade Center. But which one would cause the larger ripple in the modern world?

In my opinion, I would have to say that a second Oklahoma City would cause the most psychological damage. This might not make sense, after all, OKC had a smaller death rate, and did not cause a total collapse of the building. On the other hand, 9/11 resulted in thousands of death, the collapse of several buildings, and changed the mind-scape of the country.

So why did I say that a second OKC would cause more damage? Because we are talking about a small attack deep in the heartland of the US of A.

Think about it like this, in the United States, those who live on the coast know that they are vulnerable to an attack, maybe not on the conscious level, but they do still know. However, most of the people who live in the Midwest have a feeling of safety. Why? Because they are in the center of our country, and they do not get the same feeling of insecurity.

So what else is there to target? Many things. For one is the Sears Building, one of the tallest buildings in the world, and a center for economic activity in this nation. Secondly, there is the Chicago Board of Trade. For those of you who do not read the business page of the paper every day, the Chicago Board of Trade is the center of commodities trading in our country. Should it be targeted, the price of food would skyrocket.

So, if any government employees happen to be reading this, please look into the protection of the Board of Trade, after all, Hamas and Islamic Jihad both have cells in Chicago that are STILL on the loose.

SCHIP and the lack of Honesty

Senator McCaskill, wake up

You and the rest of your overpaid, over-fed pompous bloviators can no longer pull the wool over our eyes. And this SCHIP fiasco on your part is the final straw. The SCHIP bull-S**t that you have peddled on our un-educated dumb masses needs to end.

What the president proposed, that we require 95% of the Poor class to be insured before we even think about luring the currently insured away from the system that is serving us well.

McCaskill, you spoke of uninsured families having to take their kids to the Emergency Room, though this will not change with the expansion that you proposed. Why? Easy, because all you are going to see will be those currently benefiting from private insurance moving over to the government for their healthcare coverage, and we will see Hospitals turning into the freaking DMV for those of us who actually have the means to pay for ourselves.

Why is it, that you are trying to carry on this so-called War on the Individual. For some reason, the Democratic Leadership has decided to classify Individualism among Racism and Intolerance.
For a reason I have yet to fathom, the Democrats have decided to toe the Facist line, and remove the Individual in favor of the Many.

"When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man." -Henry David Thoreau

More on this topic tomorrow when I cool down to provide a less angry look at Senator Kennedy's "War on the Individual."

How the "Righteous" have fallen

In the immortal words of Ricky Ricardo, "Hillary, you got some splanin' to do"

Just what is she in trouble for this time? It would seem that she has been spying on her rivals to the throne since 1992.

In the recent book, Her Way, two Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalists for the New York Times, Don Van Natta Jr. and Jeff Gerth where quoted as saying the following.

“Hillary’s defense activities ranged from the inspirational to the microscopic to the down and dirty. She received memos about the status of various press inquiries; she vetted senior campaign aides; and she listened to a secretly recorded audiotape of a phone conversation of Clinton critics plotting their next attack.

“The tape contained discussions of another woman who might surface with allegations about an affair with Bill,” Gerth and Van Natta wrote in reference to Clinton’s husband, former President Bill Clinton. “Bill’s supporters monitored frequencies used by cell phones, and the tape was made during one of those monitoring sessions.”

However, it gets better and better.

Gerth told The Hill that he learned of the incident in 2006 when he interviewed a former campaign aide present at the tape playing. He has not revealed the aide’s identity. Clinton’s campaign has not disputed any facts reported in the final version of his book, which became public this spring, he said.

“It hasn’t been challenged,” said Gerth. “There hasn’t been one fact in the book that’s been challenged.”

And, as if you didn't already know this, the reporting paper says that it was illegal to intercept cell phones in 1992. That is going to get filed in the "Duh" category.

Oh, the hits keep coming and it just keeps getting better and better.

Clinton’s chief political strategist, Mark Penn, became embroiled recently in a controversy over intercepted electronic communications. Mitchell Markel, a former vice president at Penn’s firm, Penn, Schoen & Berland, filed a lawsuit against Penn accusing him of intercepting e-mail. Markel claimed that the firm illegally monitored messages sent from his BlackBerry after he joined another company.

Goodbye Hillary, please don't let the door miss you on the way out.

Bias in the Media

Who do you consider the least biased in this country. CNN, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, L.A. Times, MSNBC? Well, if you consider MSNBC the most moderate, than you my friend, are probably a Prior and a Cool-Aid drinker, and I have to ask, "Why are you reading my blog in the first place?"

Now, the University of California in Los Angeles posted a story about Media Bias, and found that out of 20 outlets, 18 of them where Left of Center. Only the "Special Report with Brit Hume" and The Washington Times were right of center. In fact, in order of Most Biased on the Left from the most to fourth was the Wall Street Journal News Page, CBS Evening News, New York Times, and the L.A. Times.

Very interesting.

The most centrist was the "NewsHour with Jim Leher," target of the popular Half-Hour News Hour, followed by "NewsNight With Aaron Brown," and "Good Morning America."

The Fourth most centrist was "Special Report with Brit Hume." Interesting, very interesting....

Who's the REAL Racist here?

Well, my friends, once again the National Council of The Race has expressed outrage at what they view as unfair treatment by a minority of the population.

No, this is not some White Supremacist Organisation, though some Neos have joined the counter organization for their own reasons, it is a major Hispanic "Rights" organization, that is better known as La Raza, the organization that removed its application to hold their application in Kansas City in 2009. And, as a former citizen of the KC Metro Area, I have to say Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish.

Yes, thats right, I am supporting the Mayor for his refusal to remove Ms. Semler from her position on the Parks board. And the same to the now warped organization that was once known as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, or as it is better known now, the National Association for the Advancement of Liberal Colored People and the Slander of Conservative ones, which has also removed its application to hold a national convention here.

Now, why are they so mad at Ms. Semler, the head of the Parks Board?

Because she is an opponent of Illegal Immigration.

That is right, because she supports, actively in fact, the enforcement of the Federal immigration Laws, these groups have refused to come to KC, calling her a racist and a bigot.

So, what am I missing? When did Immigration become a matter of race?

Probably about the time that the major Illegal Immigration Group decided to name itself "The Race."

If you ask a Minute Man, the member of the organization to which Ms. Semler is a member, why they are there, most will respond with something along the lines of, "I believe in the need to enforce our own borders," or "We need to know who is coming in, because the person to fear is the guy with one Nuke, not a hundred."

In fact, so far, there have been no cases that have gotten into court against the Minute Men. In fact, the only law breakers on the border are the Illegals and the guys who observe the Minute Men to keep them in line.

When they see a person climbing the fence, they will hold them there under Citizen's Arrest, and alert Immigration and Customs Enforcement to take over.

While some have been known members of White Supremacist groups, or have formed splinter groups after being kicked out of the Minute Men. Yes, that is right, White Supremacists are being kicked out of the Minute Men.

Why?

Because the Minute Men are a group interested in the enforcement of the law, not in keeping out everybody but white guys. Contrary to what people such as La Raza and our very own Ms. Sanchez would have you believe, it is not just Hispanics that cross the border, but people from all over, such as Russians, Germans, Indonesians, Chinese, Africans, and people from Jolly Old England.

The issue is not one of race, no matter how much people such as Ms. Sanchez or the most well known racist in our own city, Mr. Duiguid of the Kansas City Star's Editorial Board, would have us believe.

For more on the practical defense purposes to close off the border, go to my Defense/Military Blog, Arming Liberty, where I discuss the growing bond between Hezbollah, the most widely spread Terror Group in the United States, and the President of Venezuela.

Get you hair straighteners out, that post is going to make you hair curl until you look like Marie Antoinette.

Meet the New Boss?

Well my friends, it seems like we might have a new Attorney General. The new top-pick, expected to be announced sometime by the end of the day, is a New York judge by the name of Michael Mukasey, and, though nominated by Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY), I have no problems with this guy so far.

The Honorable Judge Mukasey was the judge who oversaw the case of Abdullah al-Muhajir, better known to the public as Jose Padilla, and was responsible for upholding the ruling that Jose Padilla was an Unlawful Enemy Combatant, and is well known in New York for his role as the presider during the case of the "Blind Sheik" Omar Abdel-Rahman and the 11 men who attempted to bring down the World Trade Center back in 1993.

In 2003, he was also the judge responsible for a preliminary injunction against the Motion Picture Association of America, due to its enforcement of a ban on the distribution of earlier screening versions of films during the awards season, which he rightly declared was a violation of the freedom to conduct interstate commerce, and a hit on Independent Film Maker's rights of Free speech. So far, I have no problems with the guy, and see him as the traditional small government law-and-order conservative.

Now, it is time to see what time will bring up from the fog of history.

The FairTax

Forget your problems with the PATRIOT ACT you Liberals, there is another Unconstitutional organization that needs to be striken. That is the IRS.

That is right, the IRS. All they have to do is arbitrarily decide that you are withholding taxes, and you can kiss you constitutional rights good bye. Once the IRS decides, decides, that you have broken the law, whether there is any evidence at all, they dive in and you have no more secrets.

There are no warrants, just the investigation. And if you refuse to let them look through it without a warrant? Welcome to prison my friend. Tax Evasion is a common charge against gangsters in which they cannot prove anything else. They got Al Capone on Tax Evasion after putting him away for Obstruction of Justice.

There is a better way, a more constitutional way. That is the FiarTax.

For those who don't know, the FiarTax is designed to replace all of the Income Taxes with a single Sales Tax. Not only that, but all families will get what is known as a Prebate, based on the Poverty Rate, which gives each family money at the beginning of the month for the month's neccessities.

The biggest benefit of the FairTax is that it is revenue neutral. It doesn't matter if you get you money via the "White Market," "Grey Market," or "Black Market."

Yes, thats right, this is going to tax illegal activities. If someone sells contraband for a living, then when they go to the store, they will be taxed.

Also, Tax Evasion, and the sheer amount of cash and man-hours spent on Tax Compliance disappears. That is right, the drain of Tax Evasion Investigations are gone. No longer would the government have to spend millions on investigations and audits.

Also, all of the money being spent with tax compliance go to you. Thats right, you no longer have to lose money because of time spent on complying with the current taxation regulations. And, even better, the taxes currently being sent to the government before you even get your paycheck goes to you right away.

And, even better, this reduces the amount of taxes you have to pay, while increasing revenue. That's right, less taxes and more revenue. Why? Because there is a certain area where a decrease in taxes increases revenue by boosting the economy. In fact, the FairTax would generate $2.586 trillion, $358 billion more than what the government is generating under the Income Tax.

La Raza

La Raza

The name sends shivers through my body. The very name of it, meaning The Race in Spanish, conjures to mind the white power group of the Klu Klux Klan, or the black supremacist Black Panthers. Know, a new organization has taken over, this one is the organization of La Raza, which takes to the streets proclaiming "Chicano Power" and "Brown is Beautiful."

Now, while I have no disagreement with that last comment, can you imagine what the reaction would be if I were to walk down the streets wearing a sign that said "White is Beautiful?"

If I could survive long enough, I would probably be run in on a Hate Crime.

Why? Because I am white?

That is one of the largest pieces of go-se I have ever read.

The organization of La Raza should be barred from the Kansas City area, and the loss of their convention should be celebrated. Thank you, Mayor Funkhouser, for preventing this racist organization from setting up roots in our great City. And if the corrupt and Racist NAACP decides to leave, good riddance to them as well.