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.