Zipper problems- or, The Case for Armed Girlfriends

Well, Tiger Woods now has the shine rubbed off of him, officially. I do not need to rehash the revelations coming out in the news regarding what he got up to and who he got up to it with. If anyone wants to, point and click. Suffice to say, you have a fellow with the net worth of several large banks, who is quite handsome, and who could get most any woman he wanted make a total mess of his life because of his indiscretions. In fact, he did get every woman he wanted, I think.

I called Bill Clinton Vlad the Inhaler because of his activities, and I am coining Tiger Jack the Zipper for his. Sorry, Tiger. You have no excuse.

Any man who has been around knows how hard it is to get one good girl to love you, or do other things. Tiger truly had everything. He still probably does. Put another way, if you gave me or most others a measly five million-- and he is/was worth far more, we would probably have it made. It is scary, though, to imagine just how feloniously dumb the guy was to get himself in this situation. And I wonder-- if he was afraid his wife would beat the shit out of him or worse, would he have done it?

I have gone on the record before in reference to domestic violence suggesting that some persons might be able to use some. Not death, or serious bodily injury, even-- but the natural consequence of committing adultery on your spouse used to be an ass whipping; if only by the jilted girl's family, brother, or father. If the screwer-arounder was the woman, well... usually it was in-house. Once upon a time, there was a real fear of messing around with other persons you were not married to. There was social shame as well as the real possibility of physical negative consequences. And that did, like it or not, cause some people to think twice.

Now, today the shit-beaters-out-of would be surrounded by a SWAT team and charged with enough stuff to keep them wrapped in a rubber room till at least next Christmas. Judges and prosecutors and police work overtime to drive home the idea that domestic violence is NEVER justified. The problem is, history teaches us that it once was, and for what were regarded as sound reasons by learned men and women. Only in the current era, where you don't do one at a time but six or seven, did they think otherwise.

A letter from a historian concerning our times

I got a letter this morning from a good friend in my Inbox, and wanted to immediately share it with all of you. It is written by one Mr. David Kaiser. As far as I know, it is not copyrighted.

The bio on Mr. Kaiser is very impressive. He has published many books. He grew up the son of a diplomat, and graduated from Harvard; finally with a PH.D in history. He has taught at the U.S. Naval War College, and has served in the military himself. I am putting his letter in, as I received it, with some commentary I am injecting in the letter. The letter he wrote is in Italics, with my commentary in normal text.

I am a student of history. Professionally, I have written 15 books on history that have been published in six languages, and I have studied history all my life. I have come to think there is something monumentally large afoot, and I do not believe it is simply a banking crisis, or a mortgage crisis, or a credit crisis. Yes these exist, but they are merely single facets on a very large gemstone that is only now coming into a sharper focus.

Something of historic proportions is happening. I can sense it because I know how it feels, smells, what it looks like, and how people react to it. Yes, a perfect storm may be brewing, but there is something happening within our country that has been evolving for about ten to fifteen years. The pace has dramatically quickened in the past two.We demand and then codify into law the requirement that our banks make massive loans to people we know they can never pay back? Why?

We learned just days ago that the Federal Reserve, which has little or no real oversight by anyone, has "loaned" two trillion dollars (that is $2,000,000,000,000) over the past few months, but will not tell us to whom or why or disclose the terms. That is our money. Yours and mine. And that is three times the $700 billion we all argued about so strenuously just this past September. Who has this money? Why do they have it? Why are the terms unavailable to us? Who asked for it? Who authorized it? I thought this was a government of "we the people," who loaned our powers to our elected leaders.

Alas, we ceased to be that long ago. The Federal Reserve has been wheeling and dealing for years, and the reality is that the US is now an economically rooted command bureaucracy; not the Republic it was supposed to be, and stay. Not only are the upper reaches different, but the lower reaches have progressively less interest in fulfilling the duties of citizenship. The fish, therefore, rots from the tail up as well as the head down.

Apparently not. We have spent two or more decades intentionally de-industrializing our economy.. Why?We have intentionally dumbed down our schools, ignored our history, and no longer teach our founding documents, why we are exceptional, and why we are worth preserving. Students by and large cannot write, think critically, read, or articulate. Parents are not revolting, teachers are not picketing, school boards continue to back mediocrity.. Why?

All salient questions. The loss of critical thinking ability is probably the most chilling. Such persons are easily manipulated, and a mass of such people can be led to do almost anything.

We have now established the precedent of protesting every close election (violently in California over a proposition that is so controversial that it simply wants marriage to remain defined as between one man and one woman. Did you ever think such a thing possible just a decade ago?) We have corrupted our sacred political process by allowing unelected judges to write laws that radically change our way of life, and then mainstream Marxist groups like ACORN and others to turn our voting system into a banana republic. To what purpose?

Now our mortgage industry is collapsing, housing prices are in free fall, major industries are failing, our banking system is on the verge of collapse, social security is nearly bankrupt, as is Medicare and our entire government. Our education system is worse than a joke (I teach college and I know precisely what I am talking about) - the list is staggering in its length, breadth, and depth. It is potentially 1929 x ten...and we are at war with an enemy we cannot even name for fear of offending people of the same religion, who, in turn, cannot wait to slit the throats of your children if they have the opportunity to do so.

And finally, we have elected a man that no one really knows anything about, who has never run so much as a Dairy Queen, let alone a town as big as Warsilla , Alaska . All of his associations and alliances are with real radicals in their chosen fields of employment, and everything we learn about him, drip by drip, is unsettling if not downright scary (Surely you have heard him speak about his idea to create and fund a mandatory civilian defense force stronger than our military for use inside our borders? No? Oh, of course. The media would never play that for you over and over and then demand he answer it. Sarah Palin's pregnant daughter and $150,000 wardrobe are more important.)

Yes, indeed. What is our modern news media worth? Very little. They are treasonous activists that should have flunked out of junior high.

Mr. Obama's winning platform can be boiled down to one word: CHANGE. Why? I have never been so afraid for my country and for my children as I am now. This man campaigned on bringing people together, something he has never, ever done in his professional life In my assessment, Obama will divide us along philosophical lines, push us apart, and then try to realign the pieces into a new and different power structure. Change is indeed coming. And when it comes, you will never see the same nation againAnd that is only the beginning..As a serious student of history, I thought I would never come to experience what the ordinary, moral German must have felt in the mid-1930s.

In those times, the "savior" was a former smooth-talking rabble-rouser from the streets, about whom the average German knew next to nothing. What they should have known was that he was associated with groups that shouted, shoved, and pushed around people with whom they disagreed; he edged his way onto the political stage through great oratory Conservative "losers" read it right now.

And there were the promises. Economic times were tough, people were losing jobs, and he was a great speaker. And he smiled and frowned and waved a lot. And people, even newspapers, were afraid to speak out for fear that his "brown shirts" would bully and beat them into submission. Which they did - regularly. And then, he was duly elected to office, while a full-throttled economic crisis bloomed at hand - the Great Depression. Slowly, but surely he seized the controls of government power, person by person, department by department, bureaucracy by bureaucracy.

The children of German citizens were at first, encouraged to join a Youth Movement in his name where they were taught exactly what to think. Later, they were required to do so. No Jews of course, How did he get people on his side? He did it by promising jobs to the jobless, money to the money-less, and rewards for the military-industrial complex. He did it by indoctrinating the children, advocating gun control, health care for all, better wages, better jobs, and promising to re-instill pride once again in the country, across Europe , and across the world. He did it with a compliant media - did you know that? And he did this all in the name of justice and . . . CHANGE. And the people surely got what they voted for. If you think I am exaggerating, look it up. It's all there in the history books.

So read your history books. Many people of conscience objected in 1933 and were shouted down, called names, laughed at, and ridiculed. When Winston Churchill pointed out the obvious in the late 1930s while seated in the House of Lords in England (he was not yet Prime Minister), he was booed into his seat and called a crazy troublemaker. He was right, though. And the world came to regret that he was not listened to.

I must disagree to an extent with the direction this is heading. Barack Hussein Obama is no Adolf Hitler. For one, he lacks the intelligence and focus, and is a blundering incompetent. The late German dictator did know how to manipulate people much more effectively than the Manchild In Chief has shown to be able to do. And many more people-- our allies overseas, as well as people at home, are having enough of him. We have also not seen the equivalent of the Brownshirts/SA movement, the SS, or the Hitler Youth over here. Partly because, Obama's fellow travelers are too lazy to go storm-trooping, in my opinion.

Do not forget that Germany was the most educated, the most cultured country in Europe . It was full of music, art, museums, hospitals, laboratories, and universities. And yet, in less than six years (a shorter time span than just two terms of the U. S. presidency) it was rounding up its own citizens, killing others, abrogating its laws, turning children against parents, and neighbors against neighbors.. All with the best of intentions, of course. The road to Hell is paved with them.

To this point, we have shown no ability to round up, much less kill, those that do pose a genuine threat to our nation, not to mention illegal immigrants. I will not say it could not happen, but we are a ways from this. An extensive campaign to "demonize" the target group would need to be had, and as it pertains to normal people in the States, that group numbers in the millions with all of them having tons of weaponry.

As a practical thinker, one not overly prone to emotional decisions, I have a choice: I can either believe what the objective pieces of evidence tell me (even if they make me cringe with disgust); I can believe what history is shouting to me from across the chasm of seven decades; or I can hope I am wrong by closing my eyes, having another latte, and ignoring what is transpiring around me..I choose to believe the evidence. No doubt some people will scoff at me, others laugh, or think I am foolish, naive, or both. To some degree, perhaps I am. But I have never been afraid to look people in the eye and tell them exactly what I believe-and why I believe it.I pray I am wrong. I do not think I am. Perhaps the only hope is our vote in the next elections.

David Kaiser
Jamestown , Rhode Island
United States

An excellent and thought provoking letter. What everyone should bear in mind is that this is written by a historian and professor that has far more credentials than yours truly, I must admit, and he is not some wild-eyed extremist who goes looking for secret military bases underneath the Rocky Mountains. And his alarm at the state of our country, and where it might be going, should give us all pause. Our nation will not, if it collapses, track exactly down the same path as Weimar Germany, but we need to learn the lessons we can from history.

Climategate-- Scientists working to falsify global warming data

This is another one of those stories that is so important that we shoved everything aside, all for the sake of adding to the chorus of blogs getting the word out to everyone.

Back on July 28th of this year, we were proud to blow the whistle on a story then making the rounds on the Internet-- that three scientists had concluded global warming was not man-made.

Now, another important event-- "Climategate"-- is upon us. Evidence has now been uncovered that scientists at at Britain's University of East Anglia's climate research unit have been fixing data to make it appear the planet is warming up when in fact the undoctored evidence shows that it is not. A hacker got into their system and put a great deal of data and E-Mails out on the Internet for all to see. The reading is grim. I suggest readers begin at Real Clear Politics, with an appropriately titled article, "The Fix is In". Predictably, the mainstream media-- except for Fox News-- are either downplaying or ignoring this story. And see this other article from the same author-- detailing more of the sins. And lastly, in the American Spectator, this article describes how the Competitive Enterprise Institute is now filing suit against NASA over failure to provide information under the FIA on climate data-- possibly due to a deliberate effort to hide the actual facts.

The ugly truth is that in too many quarters of our "scientific" community, activism and liberalism long ago trumped rigorous science. Various sociologists and psychologists have given us tons of interesting ideas for raising children and punishing criminals, for instance, or for keeping men and women happy together. See our record rates of delinquency, recidivism, and divorce for the results. The "global warming" bandwagon has been a vehicle of ill-conceived nonsense for a long time-- but now, the pilots of the wagon have been caught with their britches down admitting-- yes, admitting! that they have been cooking the data.

Consider this next to the neo-Marxist pathology of Paul Ehrlich, the author of The Population Bomb; another pseudo-scientific piece of garbage that claimed we were all going to die of overpopulation. Now, the world's birth rates are plunging-- to the detriment of the human species. But Ehrlich has been still officially quoted as standing by his beliefs. As far as I know, he hasn't admitted to cooking his data. I dislike unrepentant leftists enough, but I can have some respect for those who genuinely believe, no matter how deluded, that they are right; however, what can you say about a liar?

The bottom line is, science has become so politicized that one dares not accept anything "scientific" at face value. Science is supposed to be about the proven facts-- not opinions or hopes, and definitely not about politics. It is not asking too much for our scientists to stick to science.

And we're not even through the first year yet!

Okay, I got super-slack once again about posting. It doesn't happen very often.

And not usually in such a time as we are now in. Once again I am compelled to blog again about you-know-who, because he has once again served up a mountain of screw-ups bigger than a stack of buttermilk pancakes at IHOP. And no, that's not a slam on IHOP. I love their food.

First off, the Manchild In Chief went over to China, and all he got was this lousy T-Shirt; nothing happened, much to the chagrin of dissidents who were hoping he would speak to their plight or address the country in substance. Not that he has much to say-- except, perhaps, "Thanks for underwriting all of our new debt", which the Chinese have indeed done. The spin of the hour is that the groundwork for more was being laid this time out. Right. How much was the jet fuel bill, again?

Not to be under-done, his execrable attorney general Eric Holder is now preparing to try Khalid Shiekh Muhammad, the mastermind of 9-11, in-- where else? New York City, which was of course the major crime scene location of 9-11. It apparently will be one again, as it is very likely that due to Holder and Obama's hideous incompetence at dealing with terrorism, the man just might go free on all charges. At the minimum, this city will have a bulls-eye painted onto it while a legal circus that will make the OJ Simpson trial look like a day in the court of the Hanging Judge Isaac Parker unfolds over weeks and weeks.

Interestingly, Holder is already saying the man will be convicted. An interesting position, given the jury thing that will have to be resolved amidst the matter. The people that will really be on trial, of course, will be everyone outside of the defendant's chair. The Bush administration, the CIA, the US military, the Justice Department, Club Gitmo.. the bandicoots will have a field day during discovery alone in exposing US intelligence gathering techniques and the intelligence outright; which was had by "torture", remember? Holder himself said so, and wanted to put CIA agents on trial for doing it.

How Holder thinks he will get a conviction on a man that has been tortured during the time he was detained is beyond me-- after all, virtually all of the evidence will be thrown out. Come Hell or highwater, this is going to be a mess-- a mess borne of a Gang that Can't Shoot Straight treating an enemy of the United States to all of the rights of an American, and making a mockery not only of our antiterrorist efforts, but of the very concept of our rule of law-- which is supposed to be for Americans. Not everyone else. So, expect this fiasco to be the Gift that Keeps on Giving, right through most if not all of 2010. Al Qaeda has apparently not heard about the global war on terror being called off, and continues to call out the US on various Hate America websites. And we thought there was a truce!

And, we're still going. We have a "health care reform" bill, passed by the US House, and now awaiting action by the Senate, that stands to cost over 800 billion dollars to implement-- and, by the way-- once it passes, if you don't buy health insurance, you get taxed. If you don't pay the tax, you can be put in prison. If this bill passes, I will tell you all that the America that many of us pledged allegiance to and treasured is dead. I will proclaim, stick a fork in it because it is done-- we will have passed a massive new entitlement that will force us to buy what we do not want or need, and will take our money and freedom away. Some of that will be handed off to illegal immigrants, who will be milking this system as well. Make no mistake about it-- the illegals are getting every other Federal goodie. Why not this one too?

The disturbing thing is, most conservatives are of the mind that this is all the work of some liberal cabals that are far outside of the mainstream, and if only we could get up there and get the message out, everything would straighten. I beg to differ. We have a substantial contingent of mindless crybabies as citizens. Well over one-third of the bunch. That is why the socialists keep getting elected, and how over half of the House just passed a socialist health care bill. Too many others just don't care anymore. Whether they will start to care in time is up to us, and them as well. But time is running out, and we must realize that the problems that are occurring are precisely because of the state of too many citizens in the "mainstream", who are about as helpless as newborn puppies and easily as naive and incapable of rational thought.

Situation Report-- 11/10/09

WorldNet Daily is helping us keep up with things very well today.

First, the US economy. It sucks. The real unemployment rate? They are calling it at twenty-two percent. An article in the Motley Fool yesterday stated that further downturns in the economy are coming. This has not stopped the House of Representatives from passing a national health care bill that is going to cost trillions of dollars-- and that now heads to the US Senate for action. We can only hope the monstrosity can be derailed at that level. The American Thinker correctly says that this measure, if passed, may be the final nail in the coffin of America, the republic-- and give birth to America, the welfare state. Which some of us, I point out, never swore allegiance to. Meanwhile, more and more home owners are getting out of the business of home ownership, as they simply cannot afford the homes and are defaulting on their mortgages and letting the banks have the thing. Slowly but surely, the American practice of buying things you cannot afford is ceasing to be possible.

While we are in the "treason" department: Secondly, the "accused" (hell, he was caught literally red-handed) Fort Hood shooter Major Hassan de Foil Pinkston the Worst and the First? Well, the news media can stop their already feeble chatter about what his real motives were-- he has been found out to have been contacting Al Qaeda and to have been attending a mosque that preaches violent jihad. Yes, indeedy-- this fellow was a US Army major!! Think of all of the damage he could have done-- and may have done-- using his US military rank as a cover! Among other things, he could travel to other nations under the US flag; anywhere we have a military installation, and commit or coordinate mayhem therein. To my readers outside of the US: Your nations' security apparatuses should not assume, if they do, that even high-ranking US military officers are above scrutiny. We had a jihadist get to field grade rank in this case; and we seem to be expecting more of our own to become terrorists; what with the new version of "Call of Duty" allowing you to play one.

In a related story (of taking down jihadists) convicted "DC Sniper" John Allen Muhammed is going to see the dripman soon in Virginia for his 2002 shooting spree, as the Extreme Court of the United States has declined to hear his appeal. I would tip the needles with bacon grease or have a greased pig run around the execution chamber. We recall the great difficulty that investigating police chief Charles Moose had corralling the suspects, partly because he didn't want to believe, apparently, that they were black. Political correctness, you see, has been killing our people for a very long time-- way before Fort Hood.

Going back to the treason department-- the Extreme Court is wrestling (we get nervous) with the question of life without parole for juvenile criminals. Given that the juvenile justice system of the United States is an abject joke, and recalls the "World's Worst Hunting Dog" photo of the racoon buggering the clueless hound, we are gritting our teeth any time this bunch decides on anything. They have already made it impossible to execute juvenile offenders, no matter how aware of their crimes or vicious they are-- and had the insolence to suggest that the many courts and juries that visited the issue before them were morally flawed. We wanted to revisit having the ones that signed onto that one continuing as Supreme Court justices-- they needed impeaching.

All of the news is not bad today, though. The South Korean Navy punked down a North Korean incursion today, heavily damaging one of the rustbuckets that Chairworm Kim Bong Suck sent forth against the capitalistrunningdogs. See, Glorious Leader-- our shells actually have good fuses in them.

And we were pleasantly surprised to see that Wanyi, aka. Potatomus Maximus, is back blogging again. She hadn't blogged for months, and I knew it wasn't likely because she didn't want to. I was fearful some miscreant had stolen all of her handbags and she was off on some visionquest to slay the thief and recover all of the items. Welcome back, dear.

The Fort Hood Massacre: This was jihad

Hopefully by now everyone has heard the initial news reports-- a major in the United States Army went on a shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas; killing 13 soldiers and personnel and wounding 30 others. What has been harder to dig out from the conventional news sources has been the fact that there are clear signs the shooting spree was an act of jihad by a Moslem against "infidels".

Confirmed Moslem Major Nidal Malik Hassan was heard, by one witness, to yell "Allahu Ackbar", before opening fire in the attack. One of Hassan's former superior officers, Colonel Terry Lee was interviewed by Fox News after the shooting and related how Hassan had said, in reference to Iraq, "Moslems should stand up to.. rise up against... the aggressor", which he took to mean the US forces within the context of various other comments Hassan made. It got to the point that Lee had to tell Hassan to "lock it up" and keep his opinions to himself, as he was dancing on the threshold of improper conduct as an officer in the US Army during one conference they were attending. Hassan also was against the Iraq War and was expressing sentiments that President Obama should pull our forces out. See the video from Fox News below:



Jihad Watch reports that Major Hassan was seen handing out Korans in the morning before he launched his attack. This other story reports the same, from a Killeen, Texas newspaper (right outside Fort Hood) and also reports he was donating his furniture away at that time. Ditto with CBS News. Despite this clear evidence of preparation for the attack-- more specifically, to die in it-- we are still being made to suffer ridiculous stories that Hassan "snapped" due to some disgust with the military or stress related to his pending deployment overseas. His actions were clearly calculated.

It was horrendously disturbing to see-- and to continue to see-- news outlets, politicians, and people who ought to know better attempt to say that they don't have all of the facts in on this matter or aren't sure what the motives of the shooter were. It is a flagrant and cowardly attempt to gloss over or ignore the fact that this high-ranking member of the US military was a jihadist. Of course, you know what the Manchild-In-Chief said by now: We shouldn't jump to any conclusions. The American Thinker hilariously skewers his remarks by comparison to the time the police hemmed up his buddy Henry Louis Gates. Yeah, there wasn't much problem jumping to conclusions on that one. Of course, this is instructive. In both cases, there are strong political reasons for his tack.

If a Christian went on a shooting spree like this against members of another religion, not only would every news network have a five-page special ready on the subject already, but all of the news commentators would be saying, "see, we told you those Christians were no good. Be Satanists like us." If an NRA member went on a shooting spree like this, not only would the 101st Airborne be on the way to NRA headquarters, but about fifteen new gun bills would be introduced in Congress before the sun set the next day.

The mainstream media backlash against any who would put two-and-two together with Hassan's religious and political beliefs and his acts is already underway. To see the obvious in front of you here and call a spade a spade is racism or worse. This is by design. The liberals who dominate the news media, and now our government, either hate our nation and people as the jihadists do or they are so preoccupied with their pet beliefs about showing tolerance that they ignore the glaring-- and deadly-- evidence that showing tolerance to jihadists is tantamount to opening yourself to attack from them.

Problem, Mr. and Mrs. America. It is your ass-- and those of your loved ones and children again, that is the safety cushion for this experiment that is being conducted on a national scale.

The scope of what has already happened is savage horror. The shooter was a high-ranking member of the US military, who was allowed to remain in uniform, and who may have had unprecedented and damaging access to the military infrastructure, despite well documented and alarming behavior indicating he was not only a marginal officer, but an outright threat to our country and the men and women serving it. There is no sign that the US government is willing to come to terms with this gross leadership failure.

No child should go to this school

Ladies and gentlemen. I would like for all of you to take a moment, and examine this news story. It is video shot at North Forest High School in Houston, Texas. What you have here is students engaging in wild brawls during class hours, with no teachers or police intervening. It does not help that many of the kids that go to this school are gang members.

People think that I am jumping the gun to say that the nation is going to collapse. But I say that when your schools that are supposed to take a child and make a citizen out of them; from their natural pre-state of an illiterate savage, are going on like this, then the rest of the nation's descent into Sheol cannot be far behind. We could kid ourselves, and say that most of the kids aren't like this, or that perhaps they are trained better at home. And, there may indeed be a few out there. But I ask, why the optimism? Why are we arguing with the obvious-- that the country is slipping into chaos bit by bit?

Not so long ago, when I was growing up, this simply did not happen. The teachers controlled the school-- forcibly, if need be-- and the parents backed them up. Not any more. The pathetic response of the woman in the video to the situation is that they are going to add more monitors and police-- police!! to the school. Yes, this school district, like most others now, has it's own police force. First off, what will the monitors do? Get you better fight footage? And I am sure the "alternative school" makes a real difference. The kids are simply learning not to be afraid of the police; the cops and the paltry juvenile justice system can't do a thing to straighten out the situation. Stop kidding around; Teach-- you have lost control of your school and you aren't getting it back. Not at this rate.

I had one indolent woman try to tell me once that this was George Bush's fault for passing the "No Child Left Behind" act. Maybe that was part of it. But you can't tell me Hillary's Village or Slick Willie would have done better. Although, the sex education program might have improved.

Here is a revolutionary idea: You fuck up like these kids are doing at school, you get kicked out of there never to return. No more. You have now earned the right to experience life without education, Junior. Ditches need to be dug, and for the ladies-- nightclubs need strippers. Go for it. But you have no right-- none at all-- to go to school on the public dole and commit crimes and be disorderly.

Of course, our Supreme Court and other knights of the public good (pronounced ka-nigg-ots) have already said otherwise. Therefore, we say again-- the fish rots from the head down, as well as from the bottom up. Americans, get control of your country. It may already be too late.