<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9618798</id><updated>2011-12-14T21:41:05.531-05:00</updated><category term='immigration reform'/><title type='text'>The Insighter</title><subtitle type='html'>Welcome to the Temple of Knowledge!</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theinsighter.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9618798/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theinsighter.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9618798/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>Edward J S</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14909539549067783347</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>136</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9618798.post-2007493515544841143</id><published>2007-06-14T06:40:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-14T07:43:42.848-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='immigration reform'/><title type='text'>The Real Number of Illegal Aliens</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;The number of undocumented aliens in the country is not as many as all those "hide-the-women-and-children", "don't shoot till you see the whites of their eyes" fear mongers claim it is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's not 20 million. Not 12 to 13 million.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's the truth and the real number:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;298,000,000 illegal aliens!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yup, that's the real number.&lt;br /&gt;And why so high, you ask?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's the number left over after you &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;subtract the native American, Hawaiian and Eskimo populations from the census figures.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The truth is simple: what laws did the European-descended Americans break?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I cut a break for African-Americans because their ancestors were brought here as slaves and thus against their will.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If it weren't so serious, I'd have to laugh.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Here we have the anti-immigrant forces crying about people breaking the laws when their European ancestors had little or no regard for any treaty they signed with the Indians (i.e., native Americans).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;When did the native Americans give permission for Europeans to steal their land?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;Or kill the buffalo herds in massive numbers and destroy their environment?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Or how about the massacre of hundreds of thousands of native Americans?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;It's funny how the conservatives cry about obedience to the law when their forefathers had no regard for the people they practically pushed off the continent.&lt;/span&gt; And only when they won the continent - they have a museum in St Louis called the "Museum of Western Expansion" - did they ever care to make - and had - reservations about making these reservations for the people they displaced.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Yes, what a lie - Western Expansion! Let's call it what it really was: empire building.&lt;/span&gt; This is a classic Orwellian double-speak.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Now that others - Spanish-speaking people and others - are doing the same to them, suddenly, they demand that these others follow laws that European ancestors never had any intentions of complying with.&lt;/span&gt; What a bunch of hypocrites!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Point is simple: immigration reform and related laws have no moral justification for their existence. And when you lose the moral high ground, you lose.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's why you get what you're getting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;God never had any immigration policy. I didn't see anywhere in the Bible where it says that North America is reserved for white, European people.&lt;/span&gt; And with an estimated 12 to 20 million so-called illegals", America and North America is getting what it deserves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;God must have a sense of humor. HE certainly has a sense of justice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's what we're seeing here - slowly but surely.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So let's dissect this latest - stupid piece of legislation about immigration.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The conservatives - once who had some semblance of belief in a free America - are so anal about this bill - calling it "amnesty".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What a crock.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Provisions: pay fines and $5000 - who among these poor people have THAT kind of money to be able to pay and stay?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another: go back to your country and wait - maybe 5 to 8 years? Who's going to be patient enough? The bill's crafters knew this and put it, hoping that much of the problem would go away. In this emotional environment, even this wasn't good enough to merely "nudge-and-wink" away.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Let's call these two provisions what they really are: deportation by stealth!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They say that immigration law is a mess. Yes, it should be abolished altogether. It's immoral and unjust and the reason they are being broken is that it has no moral justification whatsoever.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some people will call my stance unreasonable and let's be realistic. OK - by that they mean that these laws are enforced by brute force. We're right because we can beat you up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yup, that's very moral high ground, I tell ya.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's as moral high ground as massacring the native population and stealing their land.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The historical apologists will point to treaties and say the "injuns" signed them. Only one problem: it's the very legal term employed in English common law that European descent Americans employ: duress - agreement under force.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let's see what else passes for discourse in this immigration reform:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Consrvatives want Gestapo-like checkpoints, national ID cards AND a wall to keep people out. Yes - all in the name of freedom! Where do I sign up?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And those minutemen patrolling the border: citizens misguided by warped notions. Beware, boys, that you take matters into your own hands. God doesn't like people who have only a pretense of justice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The same people who like to crow about a free America - the conservatives - are the biggest fascists of them all - and they don't realize just stupidly downhill they've gone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Suddenly, the same ones who were against Big Government are all for it when it suits their purpose. And when I've pointed this out - and other points I've made here - they can't answer me. They can't and won't - because they know they're in the wrong.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And that wall - some 700 miles long. Now how long is the border?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With Mexico - some 2,500 miles long.&lt;br /&gt;With Canada - some 4,000 miles, and not including the one with Alaska.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yea, that'll work fine!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The illegal immigrants of European ancestors are making laws against others to keep them out while they broke every law they preach to others to follow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yessirree! the truth comes out now:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);font-size:130%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;298 million illegal aliens!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9618798-2007493515544841143?l=theinsighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theinsighter.blogspot.com/feeds/2007493515544841143/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9618798&amp;postID=2007493515544841143' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9618798/posts/default/2007493515544841143'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9618798/posts/default/2007493515544841143'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theinsighter.blogspot.com/2007/06/real-number-of-illegal-aliens.html' title='The Real Number of Illegal Aliens'/><author><name>Edward J S</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14909539549067783347</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9618798.post-113876014241892948</id><published>2006-01-31T20:32:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-31T21:15:42.466-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Hamas Electoral Win Is A Reality Check</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;Well, I wonder what the world is going to do now.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;Now that Hamas has clearly won the Philistine elections, what will the world do about it?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;Now that it is clear that the Arabs are the bully, how is the Gentile world going to try to justify cheering for the bully to justify its hidden antiSemitism, and try to pretend that they are bastion of morality?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes, tough job it is, and they can no longer hide the truth. They expected the Jews to commit suicide. &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"&gt;Now the Gentiles will have to build the gas chambers all over again if they want to kill Jews!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; I call them the Philistine elections because THAT is what they were – because the word “Palestine” is Latin for “Philistine” – a race of giants that the Israelites defeated many centuries ago to establish their kingdom.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; We already have many leaders on record as saying that they won’t deal with Hamas, and even the EU has branded Hamas as a terrorist group. Now that terrorists are elected, we know the true intentions of Islam.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt; What straws will the delusionists for peace will grab at? &lt;/span&gt;Be sure that the Hamas group will throw them a few. Somehow, the idiots for peace in the Middle Peace will try to find some plausible way to deny that there’s an 800-pound gorilla in the living room.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Hamas winning an election is just too obvious to ignore and defies any type of spin. It has totally shattered the delusional view that peace can be possible. The margin of Hamas’ victory is so great that there is no other conclusion that the peace process has been exposed as a fraud, and rightly so.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);"&gt; Anybody who now tries to spin this development in a positive way will be looked upon as a fool. Hamas received a greater margin of victory than Hitler ever did. They have an outright majority and will not need to be in partnership with anybody.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Greater implications still: acting PM Olmert of Israel is going to find it impossible to justify any further unilateral disengagements.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Another implication: Kadima, the new party formed by the dying Ariel Sharon, is basically finished. Its entire reason for existence is based upon a delusion of peace being a possibility and thus further disengagements are necessary.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; In fact, what made this Hamas victory possible was the unilateral disengagement from Gaza and Northern Shomron. They clearly believe that they are in the right. They believe that they hold the moral high ground. When one concedes the moral high ground, you might as well concede defeat because you are then the enemy.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And Hamas has already declared that they will form an army and they will not talk unless it is in their interests. It is also clear from their talk that they are not interested in peace.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; So what happens to the all the billions of aid promised to the Philistine Authority?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The Bush Administration says that they will negate it unless there are advances for peace.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; They are wishing in vain. So far, the entire world has seen that there indeed IS an 800 pound gorilla in the living room, but they are trying hard to imagine a 50 pound monkey with a tail.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt; More reality will set in.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; It is my fondest hope that the foolish Gentiles begin to realize that the truth that there is no way out of this reality.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; But wishful thinking dies hard, and they will try to find a way to blame Israel if they falter from a stupid Bush Road Map To Peace.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt; The truth is that the Bush Road Map is dead. It is as dead as the Oslo Accords before it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And the truth is that the Disengagement enabled the victory of Hamas in the first place in the Philistine Elections and thus forced the world to confront their own anti-Semitic prejudice before their very eyes.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And a further truth is that the previous Oslo Accords signed by the foolish Israeli Prime Minister Barak back when Clinton was the U.S. President – signed before the events of September 11, 2001 – enabled those same events to take place. You see, that was a historic “peace” agreement that conceded the existence of a Philistine State within the State of Israel on “so-called Occupied Lands” – the same territory that was won by Israel in a defensive war in 1967 whom the enemies of Israel were determined to wipe Israel off the map.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;No suicide bombers ever existed in Israel before the Oslo Accords were signed. In fact, the border between the pre-1967 borders and the so-called occupied lands were guarded by a reserve IDF with a simple piece of rope!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; What happened since then to change it all to have Merkava tanks and Apache helicopters to guard the same areas before? Simple: &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;the moral high ground changed.&lt;/span&gt; Israel used to demand that the Holy Land was theirs and theirs alone. With the signing of the Oslo Accords, they conceded territory and thus moral high ground. It gave credence to Arab claims that the entire Holy Land was the Philistine land to which they lay claim. And since they lay claim to 100% - and not 20% of this land – this means that effectively, the Hamas election victory means a legitimate claim to ALL the land and not just a 20% stake. They will not be satisfied with just 20%.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;They want it all!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Still, the Western nations of Gentiles wish to see the monkey instead of the gorilla that they know for sure is in the living room.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt; There can be NO denial of the truth.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Yet the only reason that the denial persists is because it is hard for the wishful thinkers for peace to realize that IT IS OVER, and that ISRAEL WAS RIGHT ALL ALONG and will always be right.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt; And secretly, I think that the wishful thinkers know that since they have been proven wrong, it also deprives them of the moral high ground – and this means that all of which Western civilization stands for is also wrong.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt; Let’s face it: when somebody is morally invested and emotionally invested in delusional wishful thinking and that same somebody sees it explode in their faces so blatantly, it’s hard to accept that you are wrong because it challenges ALL your basic thought processes and your world view!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The Western paradigm as it pertains to Israel is WRONG!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And it isn’t just 20% wrong. Nope, it’s not even 50% wrong. It is all wrong!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And what’s worse, the entire peace process has been in effect wrong since 1967 when Israel defeated the enemies who sought its entire destruction. That’s a full 38 years and then some months to this point in time.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; It’s hard for the delusional, wishful thinkers to accept defeat and that their peace paradigm is false.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-size:130%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; But it shouldn’t be a surprise to any person who has power to think!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;LET ME TELL YOU WHY:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);"&gt; Most of you who will read this blog probably weren’t even born in 1967, or else were too young to remember the truth. But I’ll tell you right now, since I was 15 at the time of the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, or the 6-Day War as they call it, I will set you straight as to the truth.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt; Fact #1&lt;/span&gt; is this: the Arab states of Egypt, Jordan and Syria all started the provocation in the first place by a blockade of the Gulf of Aqaba – the arm of the Red Sea that is on the right side of the Sinai Peninsula. This is where the Israeli port of Eilat is situated, and where they got many of their goods by shipping.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Fact #2&lt;/span&gt; is this: the armies of Egypt, Jordan and Syria all amassed their armies in an attempt to eliminate Israel from the map. Never was there ever any talk of “peace” before 1967, or any deals of “land for peace”.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Fact #3&lt;/span&gt; is this : &lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 255);"&gt;Yasser Arafat established and founded the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) in the year 1964. But isn’t it funny that Israel never controlled the Gaza Strip, Golan Heights or the West Bank – all territories won during the 6-Day War – until 1967? &lt;/span&gt;Say what?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;So the question becomes this: f&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;rom whom was Arafat trying to liberate this so-called Palestine from? It couldn’t be Israel, because they didn’t run those territories until after they defeated 3 hostile Arab nations who were trying to eliminate it off the map.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;      &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; So then what was the purpose of establishing the PLO? Were there any liberation groups within the Gaza Strip or the West Bank to free them from domination by Egypt (who owned the Gaza Strip?) or from Jordan (who controlled the West Bank pre-1967)? It’s funny, but I don’t seem to recall from my memory any such resistance! &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"&gt;The only purpose for the establishment of the PLO could only be the erasure of Israel from the world map. Only a fool could try to argue otherwise.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Fact #4&lt;/span&gt; is this: when the Romans invaded Israel when they were an empire, they renamed the Holy Land “Palestine” to rub it into the faces of the defeated, legitimate inhabitants, the Jews. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;The word “Palestine” means “Philistine” in Latin. It is the equivalent of the word “nigger” today.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Fact #5&lt;/span&gt; is this: when the Arab nations of Egypt, Syria and Jordan lost badly in the 1967 6-Day War, peace was never even mentioned when they lost. In fact, the entire Arabd world was in unison for Israel to remove themselves off the “occupied lands”. Never was there ever a call of peace with Israel.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Fact #6&lt;/span&gt; is this: The U.S.S.R. (now a lesser Russia) threatened to start a nuclear war because they sponsored the Arab states while the U.S.A. sponsored Israel, but then suddenly, there was this miraculous “Land for Peace” initiative that was sponsored to appease the USSR from going nuclear.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Fact #7&lt;/span&gt; is this: &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;Since when in history has a nation that had to defend itself from 3 hostile neighboring nations who were also numerically superior, also had to be forced to give up lands that it legitimately conquered, had legitimate ancient, historical and religious claims thereto – and all in the name of a “promise” of peace? The answer is none.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; In fact, reduce the qualifications of the above even further, and you’ll find that &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"&gt;no nation has ever been demanded to give back territory that they won in war even if they were totally wrong. Why are Gentiles so insistent that Israel be denied what other nations who win wars are not even questioned about? Are Jews the plantation slaves, the “N-word”?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;The Days of Reckoning have begun. Remember the last verses of Malachi:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 102);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; “Lo, I will send the prophet Elijah to you before the coming of the awesome, fearful day of the Lord.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 102);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; “He will reconcile parents with children and children with parents, so that, when I come, I do not strike the whole land with utter destruction.”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);font-size:180%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9618798-113876014241892948?l=theinsighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theinsighter.blogspot.com/feeds/113876014241892948/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9618798&amp;postID=113876014241892948' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9618798/posts/default/113876014241892948'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9618798/posts/default/113876014241892948'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theinsighter.blogspot.com/2006/01/hamas-electoral-win-is-reality-check.html' title='Hamas Electoral Win Is A Reality Check'/><author><name>Edward J S</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14909539549067783347</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9618798.post-113653369941546287</id><published>2006-01-06T02:50:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-06T02:48:19.443-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ariel Sharon - A Stroke of Good Luck</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;Today, I am observing all the news regarding the apparently poor health of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; It appears that the second stroke that he’s suffered means that his life in politics is over.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Now normally while it’s considered in bad taste to attack a man while he’s down, I waive that social nicety because it should be reserved for people who truly deserve it.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And Ariel Sharon doesn’t deserve it. He was a good man who turned evil and he is getting what he truly deserves right now.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The rabbis, other religious leaders and some politicians of stature are praying and urging prayers.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; But prayers shouldn’t be for a recovery. It should be to thank G-d for striking down such an evil man who became a traitor to his own people.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Yes, prayers should be offered to G-d to thank Him for squelching this scum of a man who wanted to betray Israel in the name of fictitious and fraudulent peace process.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; I deliver my own eulogy to this evil man.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Sharon was called a man who wanted peace through strength.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; What garbage!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Nothing so clearly illustrates the delusional mindset that permeates its stench across the world and acts to paint Israel as the bad guy, when in fact, the Jews are the real natives of the Holy Land and deserve to be there – without any Arabs whatsoever.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The only true peace through strength is by force of arms by the winning side.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Ariel Sharon’s Disengagement Plan from the Gaza Strip was intended as a goodwill gesture to the Arabs to come to the peace table.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; That’s funny. I don’t recall that Article 15 of the PLO Charter was ever rescinded. That clause calls for the destruction of Israel. I don’t hear any of the Gentile nations demanding its removal. You’ll not hear any such talk either. Here is the exact clause, Article 15, of the PLO Charter:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;“The Liberation of Palestine, from an Arab viewpoint, is a national (qawmi) duty and it attempts to repel the Zionist and imperialist aggression against the Arab homeland, and aims at &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;the liquidation of the Zionist presence in Palestine.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Absolute responsibility for this falls upon the Arab Nation – peoples and governments – with the Arab people in Palestine in the vanguard. Accordingly, the Arab nation must mobilize all its military, human, moral and spiritual capabilities to participate actively with the Palestinian people in the liberation of Palestine.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; It must, particularly in the phase of the armed Palestinian revolution, offer and furnish the Palestinian people with all possible help, and material and human support, and make available to them the means and opportunities that will enable them to continue to carry out their leading role in the armed revolution, until they liberate their homeland.”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; I also don’t recall any of the numerous articles relating to the Hamas Charter relating to the destruction of Israel being rescinded either. It’s not likely because the entire charter would then be meaningless. Hamas wouldn’t have a reason to exist.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; It is against this backdrop that we have a peace process, which is in effect, a mockery of diplomacy and of justice.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"&gt; Like the old Ginsu Knives infomercial, “But wait! There’s more!”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Since Disengagement, the PA and Hamas have never even made any moves toward peace. They are using it as an excuse to smuggle even more arms and weapons into Gaza and hit Jewish cities and targets even further inland. This has validated the fears of those who said that disengagement would result in exactly that.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"&gt; But wait, there’s more!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Apparently, this hasn’t dampened the enthusiasm of wishful thinkers for the failed Oslo Accords to be further implemented and for the Bush Road Map to go forward. Both are effectively dead. If they are implemented and brought back to life, it will be Jews who will be dead instead.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And what concessions have the Arabs offered toward this goodwill gesture?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Nothing.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; They just sat back and watched while their enemy imploded and got land for free without wasting any bullets.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; What’s more, the Arabs are receiving and being promised financial aid from America and Europe – when they haven’t even been able to demonstrate that they’re using what they are already getting, wisely.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"&gt; But wait, there’s even more!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The greenhouses in the Gaza Strip left forcibly behind by expelled Jewish families of farmers who worked so hard to make this desert bloom with bug-free crops, were taken over by Arabs (at least the ones not looted or destroyed by Arab thugs) and they couldn’t replicate the success of bug-free crops, except for strawberries.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; These Gaza farmland crops accounted for 11% of Israeli agricultural exports. What does Israel do to make up for this?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"&gt; But wait, there’s even more!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; This is the first time in history that I know of that citizens of a democratic nation have been forcibly expelled from their legitimate homes. This is the legacy of Ariel Sharon.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Is that the act of a good man who advocates “peace through strength”? Do you forcibly remove citizens of a democratic nation in the name of peace? Who was it that allowed them to settle there in Gaza in the first place? Why, Ariel Sharon had a hand in it.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"&gt; But wait, there’s more!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Why surely, the settlers have been compensated fairly, right? That’s what the naïve world seems to think – at least those who haven’t bothered to find out the facts.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The settlers have been treated badly even after their forcible removal from Gaza and Northern Shomron. They are basically refugees in the very land they live in – no permanent homes, no towns, and no stability of any kind.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And the promised payments have either been slow in coming, smaller than promised or not even received.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And we are talking about people who were proudly self-employed and self-reliant, who know have to depend on government programs like welfare and unemployment insurance where once they worked before and were not a social burden.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; This is also the doing, the legacy of Ariel Sharon, and it is clear that he wanted the disengagement to succeed without ever giving any thought or afterthought to the plight of the displaced settlers.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"&gt; But wait, there’s even more!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; According to Channel 10 in Israel, and reported by Arutz-7 in Israel, Ariel Sharon is the recipient of a $3,000,000 bribe from an Austrian millionaire. This is an investigation that has been ongoing for 3 years.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; This is in addition to the Greek Island Affair, where Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his son, Omri, are linked to a corrupt fundraising scandal.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; In fact, the latter scandal is one suspected reason why Ariel Sharon turned his back on the election promises he was elected upon not to surrender any more Jewish land. He was rumored to be about to lose office because of this scandal.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Because of this, he invented the Disengagement Plan and immediately became the darling of the left-tilting and left-dominated mainstream news media, who hate the settlers even more than they previously hated Ariel Sharon.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The coverage of the Greek Island affair mysteriously dropped from the headlines and Ariel Sharon became a celebrity, a hero of the Left.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"&gt; But wait, there’s even more!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; It appears that the Sharon family will have a large financial stake in gambling casinos being planned for the Arabs in the Gaza Strip and other “disengaged” Jewish lands, and they will rake in millions while betraying their own Jewish kinsmen!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Yes, you’ve got to love these men of peace. So free of moral blemish are they! SO righteous and free of corruption are they!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"&gt; But wait, there’s more!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Ariel Sharon had managed to turn the Likud Party into his own personal fiefdom and threatened to turn the Prime Minister’s Office into a dictatorship. It was the shrewd actions of the largest faction in the Likud – Manhigut Yehudit – that managed to stymie his efforts and draw attention to his shenanigans.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Because of this, I suspect, he deserted to Likud to form his own political party, Kadima.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; He once said while he was still in Likud: “It’s either me or Feiglin”.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; (Rabbi Moshe Feiglin is the Mahigut Yehudit leader and as a Likud candidate for leader, finished second to Binyamin Netanyahu.)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; But now the future of the new party Sharon founded, Kadima, is in serious doubt, because it is widely perceived that Kadima is basically a one-man show. That one man is Ariel Sharon, who now lies in medically-induced coma after his second stroke, and who now is basically out of politics whether he likes it or not.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);"&gt; This is a time for prayer, folks – a prayer of thanks and gratitude!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Ariel Sharon embraced the modern-day equivalent of the Ba’al worshipers of ancient Israel in the form of the leftists who hate Israel as much as a capitalist America and who cling stubbornly to the peace process as one of its false gods.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt; Consider Ariel Sharon as a modern-day King Ahab. How appropriate that one of his sons is named Omri, the name of one of King Ahab’s sons! It certainly is evident that Ariel and Omri Sharon are going the same way as their ancient counterparts.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And that is how you should view this man Ariel Sharon: as an evil king who is getting exactly what he deserves, and so too will his son Omri.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And if there are any of you who dislike the idea of attacking a man when he’s down, just remember that such social niceties are reserved for people who deserve them, and not for Ariel Sharon or his ilk.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; If you are going to take issue with me over this, then it shows how warped, distorted and perversely upside-down your moral structure is.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And it shows how badly the world truly needs a real Israel true to the Torah and true to its destiny to be a light unto all nations.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9618798-113653369941546287?l=theinsighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theinsighter.blogspot.com/feeds/113653369941546287/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9618798&amp;postID=113653369941546287' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9618798/posts/default/113653369941546287'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9618798/posts/default/113653369941546287'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theinsighter.blogspot.com/2006/01/ariel-sharon-stroke-of-good-luck.html' title='Ariel Sharon - A Stroke of Good Luck'/><author><name>Edward J S</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14909539549067783347</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9618798.post-113416755900629986</id><published>2005-12-20T17:54:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-20T17:53:46.930-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Clinton and Kyoto</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:blue;"&gt;Oh, I couldn’t resist commenting on this former hillbilly President Clinton and his new attempt to create a historic legacy. As usual, my political commentary will be in the color you see now while the article content will be in black ink.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:blue;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; I promise that everything I say will be what they call in media circles a “money quote”!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:blue;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Here goes:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h1&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:14;"&gt;Clinton Says Bush Is 'Flat Wrong' on Kyoto&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;Former President Clinton told a global audience of diplomats, environmentalists and others Friday that the Bush administration is "flat wrong" in claiming that reducing greenhouse-gas emissions to fight global warming would damage the U.S. economy.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;With a "serious disciplined effort" to develop energy-saving technology, he said, "we could meet and surpass the Kyoto targets in a way that would strengthen and not weaken our economies."&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;Clinton, a champion of the Kyoto Protocol, the existing emissions-controls agreement opposed by the Bush administration, spoke in the final hours of a two-week U.N. climate conference at which Washington has come under heavy criticism for its stand.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h1&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;font-size:12;color:blue;"  &gt;Hillbilly former President Clinton wants desperately NOT to be known as the elected bozo who will be known in history for getting blowjobs from the slut Monica Lewinsky (White House intern) while he knew that he could have done something about 9/11 beforehand from information already available to him.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;  &lt;h1&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;font-size:12;color:blue;"  &gt;Clinton knows that History will judge him more harshly than the groupie press corps who are trying desperately to make a great historic legacy for this “first Black president”, and try to deceive a public who knows the real truth and he sure must know about all the jokes about him going around.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;  &lt;h1&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;font-size:12;color:blue;"  &gt;Hey, you got a blazing economy growing at a red-hot 6% - unheard of in a developed, mature economy such as the U.S., times are looking good too – so why do you need to deal with a problem just to muck it all up?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:blue;"&gt;But anyways, if Clinton was such a champion of the Kyoto Protocols, why couldn’t he twist enough arms around in the Senate to ratify it? After all, didn’t his former WH Security chief – Craig Livingstone – have FBI files on 900 Republicans in his possession with information they might try to blackmail GOP votes with?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:blue;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The Senate vote, I recall, was 98-0 against the Kyoto Accords. Apparently, Democrats weren’t afraid of Clinton either.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoBodyText"&gt;&lt;span style="color:blue;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;/span&gt;"There's no longer any serious doubt that climate change is real, accelerating and caused by human activities," said Clinton, whose address was interrupted repeatedly by enthusiastic applause. "We are uncertain about how deep and the time of arrival of the consequences, but we are quite clear they will not be good."&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:blue;"&gt;No serious doubt that climate change is caused by human activity?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:blue;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Oh, this one I can’t leave alone. I feel like a kid in a candy store!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:blue;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; So suddenly the hillbilly president is now an expert on the subject? I love the challenge.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:blue;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; I once dared somebody to tell me – in virtually an all-liberal email group – to show me the authentically validated, scientific proof, the undisputed study of not only global warming phenomenon, but of acid rain, ozone layer destruction and any other so-called environmental catastrophes floating around today.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:blue;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; I made an open, standing challenge to anyone there to show me the indisputable evidence, the irrefutable study and so on – of any environmental catastrophe being claimed – and to show me the name of the institution, the leader of the research team, where it was conducted and in what year this so-called irrefutable study was done.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:blue;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; There were no takers!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:blue;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Nobody dared to answer, because there are none!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:blue;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; In fact, I will take this opportunity to again make the challenge and I confidently repeat:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoBodyText2"&gt;&lt;span style="color:blue;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;Show me the year of the irrefutable study, who conducted it, what year it was conducted, what environmental catastrophe is being confirmed and which research institution did the research to confirm it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color:blue;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="color:blue;"&gt;I will predict right now that there will be no takers because environmentalism is a fraud!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:blue;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And I was on that mostly-liberal email group for 3 ½ years from about April 2001 until about October 2004 until they couldn’t handle the truth I kept dispensing for them to gag upon until I was asked to leave – without any takers on my dare!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:blue;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;Canadian officials said the U.S. delegation was displeased with the last-minute scheduling of the Clinton speech.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Efforts by host-country Canada and others to draw the United States into the process were failing.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;span style="color:blue;"&gt;Ah yes, Canada. Let’s rename that country to “Cannot do”!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:blue;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;Here’s a “host country” to this summit of talking heads who apparently has nothing better to do than preach to America about a phony environmental catastrophe.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:blue;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; How about this, you Canadian cowards? Why not try defending your own borders instead of having to depend upon peace with the U.S.? Ingrate!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:blue;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Yea, I mean all several thousands of miles of coastlines – Arctic, Pacific and Atlantic Oceans – and the 4,000 miles of land border between you and America. How much would it cost you if you had to defend your borders yourself without American help? Would you still be able to afford all those welfare programs you cherish so deeply as your right?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:blue;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; You bunch of deadbeat Canadians!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:blue;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Who do you think you are to preach to US,  eh?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:blue;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Why don’t you pay your share of the freight? If ever we demanded it, you wouldn’t be talking so high and mighty.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:blue;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And you wouldn’t have all those welfare programs you can now say you afford because you aren’t paying your fair share of defense. Cowards!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:blue;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And I know what I’m talking about. You see, Canadians distrust other people but they trust their governments. In the U.S., it’s the other way around. People trust other people but not their governments. It’s why Canadians are some of the most heavily-taxed people in the Western, developed countries.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;Clinton's vice president, Al Gore, was instrumental in final negotiations on the 1997 treaty protocol that was initialed in the Japanese city of Kyoto and mandates cutbacks in 35 industrialized nations of emissions of carbon dioxide and five other gases by 2012.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;A broad scientific consensus agrees that these gases accumulating in the atmosphere, byproducts of automobile engines, power plants and other fossil fuel-burning industries, contributed significantly to the past century's global temperature rise of 1 degree Fahrenheit. Continued warming is expected to disrupt the global climate.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;In the late 1990s the U.S. Senate balked at ratifying Kyoto, and the incoming President Bush in 2001 formally renounced the accord, saying it would harm the U.S. economy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoBodyText3"&gt;Broad, scientific consensus exists? Where? This “news” article never quotes this “study of scientific consensus” they so freely claims that exists. Apparently, this article is nothing more than a disguised editorial masquerading itself as “news”.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:blue;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; But the good news is that they at least reported that the U.S. Senate “balked” at ratifying the Kyoto Protocol. But they don’t mention that the vote was unanimous, a 98-0 vote!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:blue;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Here we have a liberal bastion of the mainstream news media trying to manipulate the news and trying to influence you, the supposed newsreader, into changing your mind.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:blue;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Fortunately, you have me on your side to expose the fraud.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;The Montreal meeting, attended by almost 10,000 delegates, environmentalists, business representatives and others, was the first annual U.N. climate conference since Kyoto took effect in February.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;The protocol's language requires its member nations to begin talks now on emissions controls after 2012, when the Kyoto regime expires. The Canadians and others also saw Montreal as an opportunity to draw the outsider United States into the emission-controls regime, through discussions under the broader 1992 U.N. climate treaty.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;But the Americans have repeatedly rejected the idea of rejoining future negotiations to set post-2012 emissions controls. The Canadians continued to press for agreement early Friday, offering the U.S. delegation vague, noncommittal language by which Washington would join only in "exploring" "approaches" to cooperative action.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;While rejecting mandatory targets, the Bush administration points to $3 billion-a-year U.S. government spending on research and development of energy-saving technologies as a demonstration of U.S. efforts to combat climate change.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoBodyText3"&gt;Translation time!&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:blue;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; This means that the propaganda machine is trying too hard to convince you of the environmentalist fraud and fairy tales – as if there were a consensus, and that reasonable people must surely come to an agreement and oh how things will be so “groovy” if the Americans just went along with the rest of those superiorly-informed world citizens of dangers to our globe!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:blue;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;Maybe we can all have a group hug and sing Koom-Bah-Yah!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:blue;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Don’t Bogart that joint, my friend!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:blue;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;Oh, by the way – to anybody reading this who is under the age of 50 – that last sentence refers to a 1960s’ saying about hogging a marijuana joint to yourself for a long puff to get stoned on the weed of the times.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:blue;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; One last piece of advice to the Generation Xers and younger who might be reading this:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:blue;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Don’t believe your elder relative who is about 40 to 50 or older and says he or she never tried drugs, or didn’t inhale.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:blue;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; They are embarrassed that drug-taking in any form are now laughed at by the likes of you. So they’ll try to claim it was somebody else – not them – that did so.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:blue;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; As somebody who is 53 at the time of this writing, it is an outright lie. They never thought it wouldn’t be groovy to take drugs!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;      &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:blue;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; So if you are a younger person, and your uncle, aunt or “other” relative says in answer to your question of whether they experimented with drugs – just tell them this:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt; &lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:blue;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-size:20;color:blue;"  &gt;GROOVY!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:blue;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:blue;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Watch their reaction. And then start laughing, smiling or smirking – because you know that you just caught them in a lie!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:blue;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And you can say that I told you so – give them this web site to say so.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:blue;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; In fact, I’ll back you up. You do this, and I’ll give you more ammo to use against your relative who thinks he or she knows it all!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:blue;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Just respond to this post, and I’ll gladly expose that person for who he or she is.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:blue;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And don’t be betrayed by a false sense of familial loyalty.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:blue;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; What would you rather have? A family member who wants to keep himself trapped in delusional lies or one who is brave and courageous enough to face the truth and make a change for the better?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:blue;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; More than likely, if you’ve exposed your relative, they’ll go into denial and act surprised that you even know the word “groovy”.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:blue;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; There will bean awkward moment of silence, followed by an excuse by the Baby Boomer about something or other, and you can smile that you one-upped your elder.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:blue;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; So this is an open invitation to anybody in their 20s to come forward and tell me your experience if you do this, and I will give you more ammo if you need it!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:blue;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9618798-113416755900629986?l=theinsighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theinsighter.blogspot.com/feeds/113416755900629986/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9618798&amp;postID=113416755900629986' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9618798/posts/default/113416755900629986'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9618798/posts/default/113416755900629986'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theinsighter.blogspot.com/2005/12/clinton-and-kyoto.html' title='Clinton and Kyoto'/><author><name>Edward J S</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14909539549067783347</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9618798.post-113414196573936424</id><published>2005-12-09T10:26:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-09T10:26:36.136-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Time Travel: The Ultimate "DO OVER"</title><content type='html'>&lt;p face="arial" class="MsoNormal"&gt;I’m sure that all of us have wondered if we could do things all over again, we’d do it “X” instead of "Y", when looking back in our memories of the past.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Well, I too have had such thoughts and after giving considerable thought, have come out against the idea – assuming that a technology exists that allow us to do so.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Apparently there is such a technology, and it can be found browsing an interesting site I heard about on the “Coast to Coast AM” radio program called:&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.johntitor.com/"&gt;http://www.johntitor.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Now first for some background information: It is about a guy calling himself “John Titor”, and he claimed to have come here from the year 2036.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; “Titor” is thought not to be a real name, but an abbreviation of TImeTravelOR”. (Note the capitalized portion reads “titor”).&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; He apparently went back to 1975 to retrieve an IBM 5100 series computer that has the ability to read several computer languages, and it can be tweaked to read UNIX. In 2038, there is apparently a problem with a “time out error” that renders problems with UNIX far greater than the Y2K problem, and no IBM 5100 series computer could be found in his future – thus the time travel trip here.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Regardless of whether you believe the above or not, I found that my understanding of time as a dimension has changed and it is closer to being complete than before.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Time is a very weird dimension.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; It is never at the same pace even in the same universe, let alone others.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Time is like a river, because it flows one direction. Thus it is easier to go forward than backward, which would require more energy. This fact is one of many that the above site insists is true.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; It also insists (actually the alleged time traveler does) that all timelines are not the same length, so time could end without warning.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; As a result of the above-cited hyperlink, I have accepted that time is really a multiple dimension filled with many, if not infinite timelines, or “worldlines”, as John Titor called them in his terminology.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Because of this multiple-timeline reality, then the grandfather paradox – i.e., that you can go back in time and kill your grandfather and shouldn’t exist – is impossible.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; There were other things as well, that I’ve accepted as quite plausible and I gave considerable weight to them.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;He said that the divergence between timelines was about 2% (2.5% in his machine). This means that all timelines may be similar, but outcomes will vary. This implies that even with a 2% divergence, future events will tend to diverge as well.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Also, the time traveler of this site said that yes, you could meet the other “you” there and actually have a conversation. With multiple timelines, the universe wouldn’t experience some sort of quantum flux or distortion. It is quite possible to see the other you, have a conversation and so on.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; But this is digressing too far.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153); font-family: arial;" class="MsoBodyText"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; I will rephrase the question not, “If I had it to do all over again, would you?” to “Should you do it all over again, if you could?”&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Here’s why:&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Let’s say that you could build a time machine based on what you saw and copied from that website above and get to function properly.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Here again is a problem – getting it to function properly. You may wind up somewhere that you didn’t expect with no way to get back.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; What if your time machine broke down on the way to your proposed “do-over”?&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Would you be able to fix it? And where would you go for help when that happens without people thinking you’re crazy? This is something to think about before you embark upon such a journey.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And don’t carry any money with you from your present time. What good would $1000 be in Year 2005 money if you’re going back to 1985?&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204); font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; So what would you use as money? After, you’re going to need something to buy things with. You can’t go anywhere without spending – be it a different place in space OR in time either.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204); font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; I thought about this. The answer is gold. Use gold as your currency. Convert some of your present cash in your present timeline into gold. That will enable you use gold as a currency – for it would be universally accepted anywhere, if you’ll pardon the pun about the word “universally”. Just make sure there is no time stamp on any of the gold ingots.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; (Note: is there anybody out there that can tell me whether time-stamping gold ingots is a common practice? And thus you’d have to melt them down and recast them without evidence of your origin?)&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Note also that gold would be heavier than paper money and thus require more energy expended for your trip. Take this into account in the planning of your trip.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Then there are other operational problems.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; It might be useful to expand my personal thoughts on how far back I wished to go to explain this hypothetical (or not so) time travel trip.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; I once wished to return to the year 1984 – 21 years ago. I was dabbling in stock market speculation and made many costly errors as well as some stunning successes. It is the errors I wished to correct in order to make me rich, and not the collapse of fortune that I suffered instead. It is the idea that knowing what I know now would aid me in going back in time and rewriting history, as it were.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; But there’s a major problem. You will encounter the past “you” in that slightly divergent timeline. How are you going to assume your past “you’s” identity? Remember that you are going to have to establish a bona fide identity of your own.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153); font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; What would you do if a time-traveling “you” came up to you and tried to convince you to trade places? Wouldn’t you be suspicious as to why?&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153); font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Why would you want to switch places with your you from the future? If it were so great in the future, why is this other you so eager to switch with you?&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And then recall that I would be hard-pressed to explain why I am now 53 years old and not the 32-year-old – 21 years ago. How do you explain THAT to your family?&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Assuming that the other you was willing to trade places, make sure he gets the key to your residence and your bank account information and phone numbers and some background information on all the people you know in your time, or else he’d be lost in your time.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Worse still, assuming he accepted such a trading places and he takes your time machine and goes forward to your place, he may not reach your exact timeline and then have to convince another you to switch places, right?&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; So that’s the way to approach this possibility: what would you do if another you from another timeline came here from the future and wanted to switch with you?&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; This isn’t a theoretical question –any more. You’d have to be prepared for such a possibility because a switch to another timeline wouldn’t in your best interest. But we can agree that a switch by the time traveling you WOULD definitely be in HIS best interest.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; But there is another problem too. I currently weigh much more than I did back then, and my weight has ballooned up and down over the years. Assuming you could safely pass as the different you on the target timeline, how do you explain your extra bulk? I do recall that I was in shape back then, and the same problem in reverse would happen for the you that might entertain switching places with you.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Problem again: how would you deal with talking to another “you”, regardless of whether you are the time traveler or the target person in the divergent timeline?&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Also, consider your purpose for the time travel. You are assuming that there is only one timeline – zero divergence – and that armed with whatever information you now have, that you could profit handsomely.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; NOT SO FAST!&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Remember what I said about divergent timelines – even 2% different?&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; How do you know that same result will happen in the target timeline?&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; For example, let’s take the recent Super Bowl win by New England Patriots in early 2005 in which the result was a 3-point win.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; If your purpose for the time travel was betting on sports outcomes and you took sports reference books or papers with you, how do you know that they would still be valid with a 2% divergence?&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; If there is a 2% or 2½% divergence – or if your time machine missed your target and wound up farther than a 2% divergence, you may be in trouble.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; We already know that betting is based upon point spreads. If the outcome of the Super Bowl was slightly different, say New England wins by 6 points, and you took Philadelphia Eagles plus 3 points, you’d lose!&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Good advice: don’t bet it all on one horse.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Also, say you could be successful in a new timeline, assuming that you convinced the other “you” to switch places. Since timelines aren’t the same length, and time could end without warning, how do you know how long you have to enjoy a success that you cheated somebody else from?&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And how do you explain this to God when Judgment Day comes?&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Suppose that you do get unearned success by cheating, traveling back in time and utilizing historical data that come true in the target timeline as well as your original timeline.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; What control do you have over other events? What if local time unfolds differently around you? An accidental probability (and I mean an “accident” in the true sense of the word) that wouldn’t otherwise have happened before could now happen.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; There are lots of ways I could go with this, but your future is fundamentally changed, even though general events might not.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;You assume that things would be better if you changed timelines. You don’t know that for sure. If the divergence is 2% (or more), then everything that depends on outcomes at the margin – i.e., stock market speculation – would be wrong!&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204); font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Just think of things that could go wrong and what Murphy’s Law has to say. You’d be all alone in a new timeline 20 years older than the “you” that you replaced. Say you messed up on speculative bets on stocks, bonds, commodities, sports scores or whatever.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204); font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Now you’re worse off than if you’d never had left your original timeline!&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Then what do you do?&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; All the sports reference data or future outcomes you brought with you on the time travel trip are useless now because they happened in a different timeline. &lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204); font-weight: bold;"&gt;Now you’ll have to actually work to succeed on your own merits.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204); font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And isn’t that what you ought to be doing (or would have been doing) in your own timeline – earning your keep?&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204); font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Is the easy way – greed – worth the risk? I don’t think so.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; This has made me think carefully again about “do-over” – if I could.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; They say that everything happens for a reason. Read this entire post carefully should you ever wish to attempt to “do-over”.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; I think that there really ARE multiple timelines in order for paradoxes NOT to happen.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; God knew what He was doing when he made the universe(s?) and time itself.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9618798-113414196573936424?l=theinsighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theinsighter.blogspot.com/feeds/113414196573936424/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9618798&amp;postID=113414196573936424' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9618798/posts/default/113414196573936424'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9618798/posts/default/113414196573936424'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theinsighter.blogspot.com/2005/12/time-travel-ultimate-do-over.html' title='Time Travel: The Ultimate &quot;DO OVER&quot;'/><author><name>Edward J S</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14909539549067783347</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9618798.post-112795989358010795</id><published>2005-09-30T20:48:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-09-30T08:47:16.286-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Dirty Democrat Deeds Done Dirt Cheap</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:maroon;"&gt;Dirty deeds are being done dirt cheap because the Left can’t win elections any more, but eventually, the truth will come out.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:maroon;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; This is nothing more than a political vendetta against a conservative by a frustrated left in the form of an increasingly left-leaning Democrat Party controlled by the kook fringe.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;h1&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:12;"  &gt;Indictment of Republican Tom DeLay a serious blow for Bush agenda &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;BETH GORHAM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;WASHINGTON (CP) - In a serious blow for President George W. Bush, powerful Republican Tom DeLay was forced to step down Wednesday as House majority leader to face a conspiracy charge in a Texas campaign finance scheme.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;Bush, who relied on DeLay's tough style to push policy, is already having a tough time dealing with a party beleaguered by the weak response to hurricane Katrina and divided over how to pay for a massive rebuilding project.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;Now DeLay's indictment after years of pushing ethical boundaries provides an opportunity for Democrats to pound Republicans on corruption issues in the run-up to next year's congressional elections.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:navy;"&gt;Why should he have ever stepped down in the first place? Apparently, the Right doesn’t seem to realize that the other side – the loony Left – is in all-out battle for their survival and they will try to hole their enemy to the rules while bending, flexing and falsifying the rules to their own benefit.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And what ethical boundaries did Tom DeLay push?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoBodyText"&gt;&lt;span style="color:navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;Is this what it has come down to? The “Demon-crats” can’t win elections so they have to start to play dirty to try and bring down ethical people just to try to hope that those stupid electorate voters see things their way. YUP! That’s what they think of you – the voting public – that you are stupid for not voting for them!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;DeLay, know as "the Hammer" on Capitol Hill, came out swinging and proclaimed his innocence after word broke that a Texas grand jury charged him and two associates with violating a law banning corporate contributions to state candidates.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;The charge came after a long investigation by Democratic district attorney Ronald Earle that DeLay has always portrayed as a political witch hunt.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;"I have done nothing wrong," said DeLay, calling Earle a "rogue prosecutor" and a "partisan fanatic."&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;"I am innocent," he said. "This is one of the weakest, most baseless indictments in American history. It's a sham."&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;Said Earle: "My job is to prosecute felonies. I'm doing my job."&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;Republicans expressed support for DeLay as they selected Roy Blunt from Missouri, the current party whip in the House, to fill in temporarily.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:green;"&gt;Nowhere in this part of the story does it mention that the charges brought forth were from Travis County – a Democrat Party haven – from where the “forged” memos about G W Bush’s absence of Air National Guard Service originated.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:green;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Were the mainstream media ever curious about this? No, they weren’t, because their whole agenda and template is to get the sitting president and people surrounding him who are conservative, and the devil take the hindquarter, right or wrong. Their ultimate aim to take down this democratically-elected leader no matter the cost.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:green;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; I warned many people long ago that the Left, in its desperate bid to stay relevant – would pull out all the stops to try to take down its opposition.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:green;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And no expense would be spared in doing so.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:green;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; It wouldn’t surprise me if the leftists tried to assassinate an opponent. They haven’t yet done so, but the time when it does get attempted is shortening because the Left is desperate and will try anything. They will eventually shoot first and ask questions later, after they first remove the trigger locks that they enacted through gun-control legislation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;The White House also stuck by DeLay, calling him "a good ally, a leader who we have worked closely with to get things done for the American people."&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;"I think the president's view is that we need to let the legal process work," said press secretary Scott McClellan.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;DeLay, who will keep his seat representing Houston suburbs, vowed he'll be back, saying Democrats won't be able to disrupt the party's agenda.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;But some analysts don't see it that way, especially since Republicans have other high-profile ethical concerns.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is facing questions about the timing of a stock sale in a family-owned business.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;Karl Rove, White House chief of staff, has been embroiled in controversy over the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;And a top federal procurement officer appointed by Bush was arrested this month on charges that he made false statements and obstructed a federal investigation into a golfing junket arranged by lobbyist Jack Abramoff.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;DeLay, 58, has long been at the centre of controversy. He was admonished three times last year by the House ethics committee for his conduct on three separate issues.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;Now a Senate panel is pursuing his ties to Abramoff and questions about who paid the bills for DeLay's expensive overseas travel. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;"The Republicans can't focus right now," said Charles Cushman, a politics professor at George Washington University. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;"You've got this swirling set of accusations about greed, corruption and graft. This is going to follow them right up to the 2008 election. It's going to hurt a lot."&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:blue;"&gt;Now here is more proof positive that the Left is desperate to try to hold onto power by attacking those who were duly elected or appointed by those who were.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:blue;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;I had not even read the rest of the article to this point yet I was able to figure the stupidity of the Liberal, Leftist mindset.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:blue;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; For them to have to go to court and try to unseat duly elected and duly appointed officials speaks dramatically of their desperation and their own corruption. If they were so worthy of high office, then why didn’t the voters elect them instead?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:blue;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; For that reason, all this will come and fall on deaf ears. Then will come the attempts at assassination by those on the Left.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;Democrat Nancy Pelosi, House minority leader, was quick off the mark Wednesday. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;"The criminal indictment . . . is the latest example that Republicans in Congress are plagued by a culture of corruption at the expense of the American people," she said in a statement.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:purple;"&gt;AHA! It’s Democrat Nancy Pelosi (a.k.a. “Nazi Peloser”) who is quick off the mark. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:purple;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; I wonder why.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:purple;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Could it be that she doesn’t want any attention to the rampant and blatant corruption within her own fascist-wannabe party?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:purple;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Or could it be that “Nazi Peloser” doesn’t want it to be too scrutinized that her own Demoncrat Party has no ideas whatsoever, and they haven’t for years?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:purple;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And could it be that all the Demoncrats can do is criticize, criticize, criticize …&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:purple;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; …. without ever having to offer a solution of their own … because they have NONE?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:purple;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; AND THAT THEY ARE AFRAID OF THEIR OWN CHANCES OR SURVIVAL?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:purple;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; So that THEY GO ON THE ATTACK, HOPING THAT NOBODY NOTICES THEIR OWN FALSE PREMISES, AND THEIR OWN RESPONSIBILITY IN ALL OF THIS?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:purple;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9618798-112795989358010795?l=theinsighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theinsighter.blogspot.com/feeds/112795989358010795/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9618798&amp;postID=112795989358010795' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9618798/posts/default/112795989358010795'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9618798/posts/default/112795989358010795'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theinsighter.blogspot.com/2005/09/dirty-democrat-deeds-done-dirt-cheap.html' title='Dirty Democrat Deeds Done Dirt Cheap'/><author><name>Edward J S</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14909539549067783347</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9618798.post-112717617486267301</id><published>2005-09-23T22:22:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-09-23T10:22:07.710-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Big Government's Days Are Coming To An End</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;The future of big government and its days of reckoning the world over is almost upon us.&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;All of you should be alarmed. Don’t be complacent. You can’t afford to be any longer.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Don’t wish for some magical way out. I’m not buying the “don’t worry, be happy” line I’m hearing around the DC Beltway.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; It doesn’t matter who is power in D.C. The GOP is presently in power and yet they have come to enjoy power and are spending tax money just as the Democrats did before them. I doubt that anything will be any different if the Libertarians get control because big government power is too alluring – the way it is presently set up. It’s corruptive.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Taken as a total, unfounded, future government obligations amount to an astounding total of over $46 trillion. Yes, you read that right. And with each passing year where a “good” year for Social Security (one where pay-in money exceeds payouts) is replaced with a “bad” year (the opposite), this amount of future obligations will grow worse.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Over a 20, even 30 year span of longer, there is just no way that the economy can grow out of this mess. At present, we have an $11 trillion dollar economy. To fully fund over $46 trillion in future obligations, the economy will have to grow to a size of $72 trillion in at least 30 years. To get there, a domestic economy will have to grow at a rate of 6.75% per year for the next 30 years.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; That will be clearly impossible. Even during the late Clinton Administration years, the economy could only sustain a 6% growth rate for barely half a year.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; There is no way anybody can sustain that kind of white-hot economic growth for 30 years unless the nation is a 3&lt;sup&gt;rd&lt;/sup&gt; World, developing nation. Certainly a developed, Western nation with a mature economy can’t do it.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; That means that Big Government will have to renege on its promises and obligations. It will first apply band-aid fixes to programs like Social Security where the retirement age gets higher and payouts get smaller. It will then get to the point where the Feds will just wash their hands of it and say, “Sorry, we don’t have your money”.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The Welfare State politics’ heyday is over. It found ways to spend more and more. It found ways to borrow more to spend even more. The problem is that they forgot that borrowed money has to be paid back sometime.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; At this amount of debt in the tens of trillions, expect that default will happen.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The above calculations assume that future obligations will stay at $46 trillion and not increase. They will not remain steady or fall. Even if you adjust figures and assume a higher debt load as a percentage of the economy to 100%, you still cannot grow your way out of spending in a welfare state. The propensity of a welfare state is to spend even money they don’t have or can’t collect through increased taxes.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; This spells trouble for the future. Big Government will not go away even when the writing is on the wall and is obvious for all to see. They will fight tooth and nail to survive and they will not be deterred by bloodshed.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; If they can’t find a way to make excuses to spend money and tax the public, they will not be above violence to exist. And I mean violence against their own subjects – uh, I meant citizens – or will there be such a term in the future?&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; What good will paper currency be in the future? Already the world is awash in dollars. There will come a time when our foreign creditors will not accept dollars for payment and stop buying government bonds. If they do that, future government growth will halt very quickly when liquidity dries up. They will demand real, hard assets for payment instead of paper.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And this is starting to happen. China recently put in an all-cash bid for the Unocal Oil Company. This startled Congress that the Chinese was targeting Unocal and even Maytag for acquisition. They relented, but that was a mistake on both parties.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The next time you see China make a bid for a well-known American company and our currency is in serious decline, they will be successful because they will threaten not to buy government bonds in a depreciating currency. If this 40% supply of buyers dries up, how will government manage to sell its bonds which finance the ever-growing deficit?&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And how do you protect yourself from a greedy government that will find a way to try and deplete your wallet of your savings – that is, if you have any?&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Don’t expect to hoard gold or other precious metals as an inflation hedge and hope that the government won’t know. The ways and means that they have to get your money if you have any, are greater than at any time in history. In fact, (unconstitutional) laws are still on the books that give Congress the power to seize gold from private citizens. It was never repealed.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And if you think this is paranoia, then consider the eminent domain case just this year of &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Kelo v. City of New London&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;. For the first time ever, this process of eminent domain was used to take away properties of private citizens to give to another private citizen, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals – and all because the original private owners weren’t paying enough in property taxes! That’s what it boiled down to.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The U.S. Supreme Court sided with government in direct violation of the 5&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; Amendment “takings” clause. A taking was intended to be private land for public use – not because the future prospective property owner, another private but corporate citizen could bring in more tax revenue for local government to spend.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And consider also that recently, the nation of Israel – a democracy, they say – forcibly expelled its own citizens from the Gaza Strip from land they legitimately bought at fair market prices and transformed from desert into blooming land and had 11% of all Israeli agricultural exports therefrom. This is the first time that citizens of a democracy were forced from their homes ever!&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; This trend of desperate governments is worldwide. Don’t think it can’t happen here.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; There will be blood in the streets. Governments will fight dirty. Paper currency will fail every time its value is no longer tied to a hard asset like gold or silver, as it has in the past histories of paper currency. If you have gold, silver, platinum or other similar hard assets, get them to safety in a tax haven like Switzerland or else risk its forfeiture to a greedy government desperate to keep alive.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; There might even be an attempt to charge a per-head tax – which is a lump sum that each individual would pay per year. It is regressive because it would hurt the poor most.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Or there may be a renewed attempt to attack those with wealth and new ways to confiscate and/or redistribute it in the name of fairness – translation: it will go to government and not poor people.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Of course, none of this will bother the leftists. They look upon Big Government as their god in their political “theology”. The bigger the government, the better and the more likely that the biggest government will be the leftists’ chief deity. Today, it is the United Nations – because their former god – the Soviet Union is dead.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The Left isn’t deterred by bloodshed. In fact, they have avidly and happily supported and made excuses for all manner of dictators in the past century and today. Like a ditzy gun moll babe attracted to gangsters, so too are the leftists attracted to dictatorships and the power they wield because basically, powerful governments are their false gods.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And their delusion will not be shattered until their false gods – big governments – come tumbling down and every leftist is rightfully executed and/or brought to justice for THEIR crimes against humanity.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; My guess is that the Leftists will die hard, and I hope they do bring everything down upon themselves. I will not be disappointed, because they cling to a delusional worldview despite all truth pointing the way in the opposite direction.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; There will be no reform movement within the Left because there simply isn’t a structure within the leftist realm of politics worth saving. There are no new ideas, no new leaders and no brilliant thinkers remaining in the leftist realm of politics.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The Leftist record is all too well documented to be refuted or denied, so hence the Left has gone into a state of denial as well. &lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And if the Left, or agents of Big Government still exist, they will try to survive and exist by ANY means necessary – and that means that they will not be afraid to desperate things – like killing innocent civilian population inhabitants – and making excuses for its continued existence.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Trust me: the Big Left, to the extent that it will exist, will fight dirty and drop all pretenses as to moral superiority. And they will try to fly that trial balloon for anybody foolish enough to believe it.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; When you create a monster as big as a huge bureaucracy like that in government, they won’t roll over and die. They will be forced to and try to blame others for their own mistakes known as “policy”.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; It will be like a siren song like that of the Greek Myths and Ulysses and his voyage. Don’t let yourself listen to the siren song or else you’ll go down with them too.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The Left, unfortunately, also knows that their time is at an end. They crazily hope for some strange miracle to save them from extinction/execution that they rightfully deserve.&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;But even they are not so delusional as to not see the things that are happening that are so detrimental to their existence. Because of this, don’t be surprised when they resort to bloodshed. It never deterred them before when Stalin was in power, or any manner of totalitarian dictator since then.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Whatever they say, consider it a siren song of deceit, and by the way:&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Make sure you have guns and lots of ammunition – and don’t be afraid to use it. They will slander you anyway if you use them. So kill the police or other law enforcement agencies if they come for you in the name of left-wing theology, because they’ll kill you anyways.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; I guarantee that they will.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; They are playing this game for keeps. That much the Left understands, no matter how warped the rest of their worldview is, they still understand survival and existence.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; I wouldn’t even be surprised if they used your own family members as hostages against you just to justify their own survival and existence. But don’t give in because if they resort to that low level, your relatives, your loved ones are finished anyway. That’s what Saddam Hussein did – and the Left WILL do too, because they worship Big Government and the power it brings.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Does this sound paranoid?&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Laugh if you will, but the time is coming – sooner than you think – when all this can become a reality. You’d better be prepared to fight dirty with dirty, because when it comes down to survival, the Left WILL go the low road.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;b&gt;But there is good news too.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Even dictators claim to act on behalf of the people and need their support.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;/b&gt;But even Stalin never had enough law enforcement Gestapo to carry out his wishes. Neither did Hitler have enough and neither do any dictators anywhere now or in the foreseeable future. The masses always outnumber the small power elite, and if the masses have simply had enough, there is no way that the repressionist regimes have enough ammunition to kill you all. Even if they did, what would they have left to rule?&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The regimes that use repression are counting upon your fear, and if you laugh at them and don’t fear them, they are powerless – despite the attempts by them in the controlled media to fix the way the reality is viewed in their nations.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; It is up to you – the people – to have the destiny you desire.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; You alone can defeat an evil leader and have him replaced.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Even if the means isn’t available domestically to depose an evil leader, enough international outrage will be generated to depose evil, as happened in the case of Iraq, and will succeed despite the dictator-worshiping leftists who camouflage themselves as objective journalists, when all they really do is promote their own hatred of a duly-elected American president twice and their sanction of dictatorship as the effeminate gun molls that they really are.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;  &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;The recent hurricane disaster – Katrina – that has devastated New Orleans and is now projected to cost the feds an additional $200 billion in recovery spending puts another nail in the coffin to the concept of Big Government.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Where will they come up with the money to pay for the reconstruction?&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And as of the time of this writing, Hurricane Rita also threatens to do even further damage to areas of Texas/Louisiana. How many more billions of dollars will this add? And where will the money come from to pay for this?&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And then the next hurricane-damaged areas? The season isn’t even over yet.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Ironically, these natural disasters stand to prop up government, if the money to pay for the cleanup comes from taking spending away from a slew of pork-barrel projects currently approved in Congressional bills. If this is the road taken by Big Government, it will be a step in the right direction.&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;Either way, the days when Big Government could spend whatever amount whenever it wanted to, are coming to an end. It has seemingly took a natural disaster to force Big Government’s focus on its profligate ways.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; color: black;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt; The bottom line is that TRUTH will always come to the forefront. &lt;/p&gt;      &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; NOW is the time and age that it WILL happen.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9618798-112717617486267301?l=theinsighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theinsighter.blogspot.com/feeds/112717617486267301/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9618798&amp;postID=112717617486267301' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9618798/posts/default/112717617486267301'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9618798/posts/default/112717617486267301'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theinsighter.blogspot.com/2005/09/big-governments-days-are-coming-to-end.html' title='Big Government&apos;s Days Are Coming To An End'/><author><name>Edward J S</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14909539549067783347</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9618798.post-112718006035451035</id><published>2005-09-21T04:50:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-09-21T04:49:46.466-04:00</updated><title type='text'>More Leftist Stupidity</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Just below is a further example of the Leftist stupidity:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(As usual, my “color commentary” is in different color type!)&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;h1&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16;"&gt;Protesters draw link between Katrina and Iraq war&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;President George W. Bush's faltering performance after Hurricane Katrina, like his decision to invade Iraq, show his priorities are at odds with actions needed to keep Americans safe, anti-war protesters said on Monday.&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:maroon;"&gt;Faltering performance? I don’t think so. In the questions I’ve seen in polls, the way it is presented, the polls are so worded as to not give the respondent the option of saying even more action is required, as opposed to less action like, say, a total troop withdrawal from Iraq altogether.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:maroon;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And there’s a reason: because if it can be shown that Americans want the government to stop pussyfooting around and take out the terrorists once and for all, then the entire premise for the poll – that of removing our troops from Iraq in the leftists’ desires – becomes a result that shows that the news media is totally biased and their perspective 100% wrong!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:maroon;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; That’s why they will never phrase a poll question in that way because they are out to get President Bush, any way they can.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;"One of the bogus reasons that George Bush gives for this invasion (and) occupation of Iraq is to make America safer -- and Katrina exposed that clearly he has made America more vulnerable through his policies in Iraq," anti-war activist and bereaved mother Cindy Sheehan told a morning news conference.&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;U.S. troops fighting an unexpectedly stubborn insurgency in Iraq should come home to help face domestic challenges like the unprecedented humanitarian relief and recovery effort on the Gulf Coast, said the activists, who will stage a march on Washington this weekend.&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);" class="MsoBodyText"&gt;This is the same Cindy Sheehan who proudly said an anti-Semitic remark, and whose son defied her liberal views. Bereaved mother? I don’t think so. She is a total wacko and a tool of the leftists to try to unseat a duly elected president of the United States.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:maroon;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;/span&gt;When Sheehan later spoke in Manhattan's Union Square to a group of about 200 anti-war protesters, New York police broke up the rally and arrested a man over a dispute about whether their permit allowed amplified sound.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);" class="MsoBodyText2"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; 200 protestors? Is that all this wacko, bereaved mother can get in New York City, where over 8 million people live? Where is the groundswell of support that the news media likes to try to portray that this wacko bereaved mother has? Only 200? That’s the leftist, liberal propaganda machine for you!&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And this is supposedly responsible for the negative numbers for GW Bush’s Iraq policy?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Something is not right here, and I’ll bet it’s the leftist’s portrayal of events/reality!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Morrigan Phillips, spokeswoman for the Bring Them Home Now Tour, which has been stopping in towns across America on its way to the march in Washington, said the arrest was the first since the group began its campaign earlier this summer.&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;Leaders of the coalition organizing the September 24-26 protest in Washington include Sheehan, who gained international fame by camping out for weeks outside Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas.&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;The anti-war group United for Peace and Justice, spearheading the march on Washington, said National Guard troops and materiel deployed in Iraq were needed to respond to the tragedy in and around New Orleans.&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;Sheehan is the star attraction for the three-day protest, which will include nonviolent acts of civil disobedience at the White House and an interfaith religious service, organizers said.&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;After her soldier son Casey was killed in Iraq, Sheehan demanded to meet with Bush while he vacationed in Texas so he could explain why U.S. troops were not being withdrawn from Iraq.&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;Bush, who had met briefly with Sheehan on a previous occasion, has declined to meet with her again.&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;"We were alarmed to hear the first company to get a contract in the rebuilding of New Orleans was Halliburton, another nonbid contract," said Leslie Cagan of United for Peace and Justice, which bills itself as the largest anti-war coalition in the United States.&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:navy;"&gt;Aha! The plot thickens. SO let’s take a look at this “United For Peace And Justice” anti-war group. I Googled the name and came up with their web site and took a look at their “member groups”, and lo and behold, I found “ANSWER”, and many other leftist wacko groups a part of it all.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoBodyText2"&gt;&lt;span style="color:navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;These are the ones who hate Israel and who either knowingly or unknowingly, support the genocide of Jews within Israel – the only true, documented and provable REAL natives to that land which the Romans bastardized into the name “Palestine”, which is better known as “Philistine”, a race of giants which the Israelites defeated centuries ago, and the Romans sought to rub it into the face of the Jews because of their rebellion against them.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;"We were alarmed to hear the first company to get a contract in the rebuilding of New Orleans was Halliburton, another nonbid contract," said Leslie Cagan of United for Peace and Justice, which bills itself as the largest anti-war coalition in the United States.&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;The largest U.S. contractor in Iraq, Halliburton Co.'s subsidiary Kellogg Brown and Root has been given a $29.8 million contract to rebuild Navy bases along the Katrina-battered Gulf Coast.&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;Vice President Dick Cheney is a former head of Halliburton, whose subsidiary secured no-bid contracts in Iraq after the United States toppled Saddam Hussein. &lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:navy;"&gt;So what? All politicians place and business interests into a “blind trust” so they can’t take advantage of their position in a conflict of interest. But that fact is conveniently forgotten to be mentioned in the article.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; By the way: what other competitors exist to Halliburton that could do the job? Was there ever any mention of any here in this article? What efforts were made by the writer and editors of this trashy article to see if there were, or were not? Or did they just go by a preconceived notion of hatred toward the present presidential administration?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; We’ll not know for sure, but if the research on this topic within this article is as sloppy as the rest of this pathetic piece of journalist drivel, then you may be assured that I asked a good question and you may be pleased that I exposed you to truth for a change.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Oh, by the way again: about those no-bid contracts.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;They were for the rebuilding of infrastructure that the enemy destroyed – and very often under enemy fire – and they are the only company that has a division that does what they do, and has done since at least World War 2. That is why they get a no-bid contract. There is simply nobody else around to do the job but Halliburton.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Imagine having to rebuild a bridge across a river that the enemy destroyed to despoil your troops’ advance. And further imagine that while your rebuild that bridge, the enemy is firing upon you. THAT is what Halliburton does. And they are the only one who does what they do.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Just imagine how much you have to pay civil engineers to work under those conditions when they know that their lives are on the line. Apparently, the leftists can’t, and they certainly don’t have compassion for the widows and orphans who could be left behind should any of these brave individuals die in the heat of combat.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; As for New Orleans, what better company could you have but Halliburton, who could rebuild necessary infrastructure in a region devastated by a natural disaster, except for one that has been battle-tested under far more adverse conditions?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9618798-112718006035451035?l=theinsighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theinsighter.blogspot.com/feeds/112718006035451035/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9618798&amp;postID=112718006035451035' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9618798/posts/default/112718006035451035'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9618798/posts/default/112718006035451035'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theinsighter.blogspot.com/2005/09/more-leftist-stupidity.html' title='More Leftist Stupidity'/><author><name>Edward J S</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14909539549067783347</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9618798.post-112652410435972368</id><published>2005-09-14T00:51:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-09-15T00:52:00.770-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Louisiana Governor Is A Mass Murderer</title><content type='html'>&lt;h1 style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;font-size:100%;" &gt;Sometimes, mass murderers sit in elected office.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;   &lt;h1&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;font-size:12;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);font-size:100%;" &gt;(My “color” commentary follows, as usual, to show you truth. Be courageous enough to accept truth when you see it.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;   &lt;h1&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Governor Defends Louisiana's 'Exit Plan'&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Louisiana had a "well thought-out exit plan" in the days before Hurricane Katrina, and many more lives would have been lost without it, Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco said Sunday.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;"There was not a single individual taking a slow step in our state," Blanco said at the Reliant Center, where more than 2,000 evacuees are living after fleeing the devastation in New Orleans.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;City, state and federal governments have been criticized for delays in evacuations and delivery of supplies, widespread communication difficulties, and law enforcement breakdowns in New Orleans that led to looting and violence.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Blanco insisted the state had an evacuation-and-rescue effort that prevented thousands more deaths.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:maroon;"&gt;This is an outright, bald-faced lie by an elected official who was one of several in Louisiana who NEVER executed their “well-thought-out” evacuation plan.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:maroon;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; This is merely a “covering your ass” approach by the governor responsible for making the hurricane deaths possible.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:maroon;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; It was her State Homeland Security Office that prevented Red Cross truckloads of food and water from entering New Orleans because they didn’t want this to act as magnet for more people to come in. They wanted evacuation instead.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:maroon;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; So they allowed thousands to starve and dehydrate instead!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:maroon;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Sadly, this same story is being told by other private relief agencies as well.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;City, state and federal governments have been criticized for delays in evacuations and delivery of supplies, widespread communication difficulties, and law enforcement breakdowns in New Orleans that led to looting and violence.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;Blanco insisted the state had an evacuation-and-rescue effort that prevented thousands more deaths.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;"Were there lessons learned? You bet," she said in a tense 14-minute explanation after being asked to elaborate on Louisiana's storm plans.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;"We did a massive evacuation, and if we hadn't we would have had thousands of deaths. Right now, the numbers are minimal when you consider the amount of damage."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="MsoBodyText"&gt;Cover-your-ass mode is the de facto response in the Louisiana Governor’s Office right now. They made a deliberate, calculated decision to stop relief supplies getting into New Orleans, and it backfired in their faces.&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"  &gt;As she has before, Blanco, a Democrat, refused to blame President Bush, a Republican.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"  &gt;"Help in those critical moments was slow in coming, not through any fault of the president," she said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:teal;"&gt;Of course she can’t blame the president. Her fingerprints are all over the cookie jar. She is afraid of the truth coming out, as soon it will, that the State of Louisiana is the prime culprit for the deaths of the Hurricane Katrina flood victims.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:teal;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The truth will also come out that the State diverted the money given them from levee improvements for other spending programs – money that the Democrats claim was cut 40% for levee improvements.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;span style="color:navy;"&gt;And during all the rush of the mainstream press to blame the President, it has since come out that it wasn’t the levee that broke, but the sea wall – which isn’t on any list for construction improvements. So it wouldn’t have mattered had the money to improve levees been used for that purpose instead of being diverted to other spending programs.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;  &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:navy;"&gt;I live in a state where hurricanes have a history of making landfall on a regular basis. Yet there seems to be no problem with FEMA over here. They are already on the spot as the newest – Hurricane Ophelia is making landfall.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;So why is Louisiana having such problems when North Carolina isn’t?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;font-size:12;color:navy;"   &gt;&lt;/span&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoBodyText"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"&gt;SO THERE you have it: the Governor of Louisiana allowed those people to die. If a private citizen killed that many people, he or she would be called a mass murderer.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Governor Kathleen Blanco: do the right thing now and resign.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:navy;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9618798-112652410435972368?l=theinsighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theinsighter.blogspot.com/feeds/112652410435972368/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9618798&amp;postID=112652410435972368' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9618798/posts/default/112652410435972368'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9618798/posts/default/112652410435972368'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theinsighter.blogspot.com/2005/09/louisiana-governor-is-mass-murderer.html' title='Louisiana Governor Is A Mass Murderer'/><author><name>Edward J S</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14909539549067783347</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9618798.post-112652161500434145</id><published>2005-09-12T06:39:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-09-12T06:54:09.133-04:00</updated><title type='text'>You Want THESE Guys Running Things?</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;I don’t recall anything like this happening when Israel ran the Gaza Strip. It seems only to have happened right after the forced eviction of Jews from the legitimate settlements in land that they bought and paid for at market prices.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And the world wants THESE guys to run the place?&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Do they look like somebody you can trust to make peace with Israel?&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; They can’t even be in harmony with themselves, let alone their declared mortal enemy, Israel. So where is this idyllic love, peace and harmony and “grooviness” that I heard tell once the Israelis pulled out of Gaza?&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; So on with the AP story (and my commentary in color type translates):&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;h1&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;Abbas to Hunt Security Chief's Killers&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;   &lt;h1&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;By IBRAHIM BARZAK, Associated Press Writer (Sep 7, 2005)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas vowed to hunt down the killers of a powerful former security chief whose gangland-style slaying Wednesday laid bare Gaza's raging power struggles just days before Israel hands over control of the coastal territory.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;In a brazen challenge to Abbas, a shadowy militant group claimed responsibility for killing Moussa Arafat, cousin of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, in a burst of gunfire.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;Adding to the tension, the Israeli military said the vital Rafah crossing point between Gaza and Egypt would be closed Thursday until further notice as part of Israel's Gaza pullout, which could be completed as early as Monday.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;About 100 masked militants stormed Moussa Arafat's heavily guarded home in an upscale Gaza City neighborhood early Wednesday, sparking a 30-minute gunbattle with dozens of his bodyguards. The assailants burst into the home, dragged out Arafat in his pajamas and gunned him down in the dusty street.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;Arafat's oldest son, Manhal, a senior security commander, was kidnapped by the gunmen. Officials said negotiations, brokered by Egyptian security officials, were under way to secure his release.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);" class="MsoBodyText"&gt;Isn’t life groovy in the Gaza Strip now that the Israelis have forced those 10,000 evil settlers out of supposedly Arab land? Aren’t those supposed Palestinians holding hands and singing “Kumbaya”?&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoBodyText"&gt;&lt;span style="color:maroon;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;I don’t recall any political assassination happening before when Israel was in control. Maybe it was all a mistake to unilaterally disengage from Gaza. There was at least law and order when Jews ran the place.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoBodyText"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;color:#000000;"   &gt;The killing raised new questions about the Palestinian Authority's ability to take control of Gaza after Israel completes its pullout next week.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;It occurred a block from the headquarters of the Palestinian Preventive Security Service, which failed to respond, and 400 yards from Abbas' Gaza residence, where he was spending the night.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;Palestinian officials said they viewed the killing as an attack on the government. "This is a very dangerous act," said Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;Abbas met with top security officials, placed his forces on high alert and said he would track down the killers. "This crime does not stop his efforts to maintain law and order," said a statement issued by Abbas' office.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoBodyText"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);"&gt;New questions? No, these were questions that should have been asked well before the unilateral disengagement took place. What the world had as a model was the way that the PLO ran the West Bank when control was given the PA. When Arafat’s thugs tool over, they ran the economy into the ground – dropping domestic GDP by 90% within a year while Arafat went about looting his own people to enrich himself and this band of thugs.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:maroon;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; This was entirely foreseeable had the wishful thinkers of the world – those anti-Semitic types that hate Israel and think that they are the cause for lack of peace – taken off their rose-colored glasses and saw things as they really were, and not the way they wished.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;With his security forces severely weakened after years of fighting with Israel, Abbas faces a formidable task. Armed gangs roam freely in many parts of Gaza, and rival militant groups are engaged in a bitter power struggle with Abbas' ruling Fatah movement ahead of the Israeli pullout.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:maroon;"&gt;No. Abbas wasn’t weakened by Israel. He was weak right from the start, and what happened to Abbas, he did to himself. He was never a popular man even when Yasser Arafat was alive.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;Years of corruption in Fatah's ranks during the reign of Yasser Arafat, who died last year, have further weakened Abbas' standing.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;The Popular Resistance Committees, a group made up largely of disaffected Fatah members, claimed responsibility for the killing. The group said it killed Arafat, a prominent Fatah member, to punish him for alleged corruption.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;"We have implemented God's law," said a spokesman, Mohammed Abdel Al, adding that Arafat "was responsible for killing, stealing and blackmail." He said his group would resist arrest or any attempt to be disarmed.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;Moussa Arafat had many enemies and was the target of frequent corruption allegations. Abbas fired him as Gaza security chief several months ago, demoting him to a symbolic position of military adviser.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoBodyText"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;This act is just a foretaste of what is to come. Old scores and enmities are being settled. That’s what this is all about. I wonder how rose-colored-glasses-wearing peaceniks will do to try to blame this on Israel. You know somehow they will try. The only trouble is, there is no Israeli there to use as a convenient scapegoat!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;Israel has long called on Abbas to disarm Palestinian militant groups. Israeli officials said the killing provided a test for Abbas, and said future peace talks would depend on the Palestinian leader's ability to rein in militants.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;"There is no taboo after this assassination and no one of the Palestinian leaders has immunity anymore," said Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom. "It shows once again the necessity to collect the illegal weapons and to dismantle the infrastructure of terrorist organizations."&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;Vice Premier Shimon Peres, a longtime peace advocate, warned that if Abbas' forces cannot bring Gaza under control, "it will be very difficult to continue with the peace process."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoBodyText"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;Ah yes, Shimon Peres, one of the leaders of the Israeli leftists, has decided to speak up and try to act like he’s so Moderate and reasonable, like the Leftists are “above the fray” and somehow the voice of reason.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:maroon;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The truth is, they are none of the sort. The failed Oslo Accords are proof of that because the recognition of legitimacy to Arab claims to rightful Jewish land was a surrender of morality that precipitated the intifada and started the suicide bombers – which never happened prior to a concession of land for a “Palestinian state”.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:maroon;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Besides, there was no way before that weapons were being stopped. Now, with an open airport and a new seaport being constructed, there will be a virtually unstoppable pipeline of terror about to start upon Israel.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:maroon;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; I say “virtually unstoppable” because the only thing that stops it is the act of war and a strong reclamation of Israel to ALL the Holy Land to take back the moral authority which the foolish leftists ceded in the name of peace.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoBodyText2"&gt;&lt;span style="color:maroon;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Abbas has avoided confrontation with the militants and instead tried to co-opt them through offers of political participation and jobs in the security forces. At nightfall Wednesday, there were no indications his forces would move against the Popular Resistance Committees.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; This is further proof that Abbas was never strong in the first place. He had to look strong by parroting the official PLO party line that it wants a “liquidation of the Zionist presence” and a land “from the (Jordan) river to the (Mediterranean) Sea”.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;span style="color:maroon;"&gt;All Abbas (a.k.a. Abu Mazen) could do before is to appease the hardliners – who in fact represent the mainstream thinking of the population – so that he could retain power as the U.S.- and world-anointed “moderate”, or in other words, a “nice terrorist”, with whom the world could do business with!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:maroon;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Awww, ain’t that cute? Abbas is a “nice” terrorist. Doesn’t that make you feel all warm and cuddly inside? Too bad that warmth is coming from the oozing of your own blood as the Islamofascists see the Western moderates and leftists as useful idiots and suckers.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;Amid the violence, Israeli officials said the Cabinet would vote Sunday to authorize the withdrawal of the final troops remaining in Gaza. Officials said the withdrawal could be complete as early as Monday — days ahead of a Sept. 15 target. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;In preparation for the speeded-up timetable, the Israeli military said the Rafah crossing would be closed Thursday until further notice, just as Cabinet ministers proposed arrangements that could include foreign observers instead of Israeli officers when it is reopened. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;The crossing is the only Palestinian land link from Gaza to the outside world without crossing Israel. Israel insists on maintaining control over the flow of cargo and people in and out of Gaza for security reasons, while the Palestinians demand open access to revive Gaza's economy. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:maroon;"&gt;Revive Gaza’s economy? There was really not that much wrong with it before, until the control passed to the PA/PLO, who made a wreck of things to begin with.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:maroon;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The only reason that the PLO doesn’t want Israeli eyes to watch is because they don’t people to see how many arms they are smuggling into the tentative new terrorist state being planned in Gaza. They don’t anybody looking over their shoulders.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:maroon;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Well, what is it they’ve done that deserves the trust of the world? What concessions have THEY made, while Israel was coerced and cajoled into making further concessions in the name of a fraudulent peace?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:maroon;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Does Article 15 of the PLO Charter still exist? Yes. Nobody seems to have pressured the Arabs into renouncing it. SO why should they unilaterally do so, when the mortal enemy, Israel, is doing all the work of practically giving them land without firing a shot and making zero concessions?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:maroon;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Yet with this great, heavy-handed advantage of the peace-wishful, anti-Semitic world smiling upon the PLO and Hamas, what do they do?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:maroon;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; They fight among themselves!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:maroon;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; What excuse will the world make to blame Jews for THIS assassination?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;The latest Israeli proposal raises the possibility that Israel would eventually agree to free movement of Palestinians across the border under the supervision of foreign inspectors, without an Israeli presence. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;However, officials said the plan would involve closing the Rafah crossing for at least six months. During that time, Israel would retain control of Gaza's access points. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;The plan still needs approval by the Israeli Cabinet on Sunday, and defense officials said there would be two days of intensive negotiations with the Palestinians before that.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoBodyText"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;The rest of the article in the 3 paragraphs just above is totally irrelevant. What does this have to do with the assassination of Yasser Arafat’s cousin, Moussa? Nothing.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:maroon;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; It just shows you how foolish and stupid the news media of today are. They don’t get it now, and they will the last to get it – after everybody else has scooped them. They are a bunch of biased leftists that are desperately trying to be relevant in age where they are now useless dinosaurs on their way to extinction.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:maroon;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; You almost have to pity them, but I don’t. I laugh at them. They hate that.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9618798-112652161500434145?l=theinsighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theinsighter.blogspot.com/feeds/112652161500434145/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9618798&amp;postID=112652161500434145' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9618798/posts/default/112652161500434145'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9618798/posts/default/112652161500434145'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theinsighter.blogspot.com/2005/09/you-want-these-guys-running-things.html' title='You Want THESE Guys Running Things?'/><author><name>Edward J S</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14909539549067783347</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9618798.post-112567099552280986</id><published>2005-09-05T07:17:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-09-05T07:17:23.663-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Disgraceful Whining</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Normally, all whining is disgraceful, but none more so than what is going on about the higher gasoline prices.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; I attribute some of it to the built-in resentment of Big Oil companies, fueled in part by leftist propaganda that enables this hatred.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; You can’t blame oil companies for an almost-Category 5 hurricane that smashes into the oil refinery base around southern Louisiana. The problem as of now is supply-based. The hurricane has damaged pipelines and refinery capacity that supplies 30% of domestic oil and fuel needs.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; I hear accusations of price gouging, and none of the sort is happening. It is like a sports fan complaining of ticket-scalping prices. This is if of course another issue where whiners love to complain, yet nobody forced a gun to the guy’s head to pay the scalper’s price. That was a clear legal contract that the whiner can easily walk away from. Thus the laws that govern scalping are foolish and derived to protect the fan from his stupidity.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Meanwhile, there is no price gouging going on for gasoline. Prices are higher because of hurricane-related supply disruption. I am simply amazed at the level of economics’ ignorance in the country and of how things work. It is fertile ground for opportunistic politicians of the left who are as ignorant as the public is. They are eager to expand government and thus their power.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Ignorance works in the politicians’ favor. They love uninformed people, and it amazing to witness how quickly public ignorance translates into more government control. All this will have far greater long-term consequences. We are now at the point of having to pay those long-term consequences while having accepted short-term expediency.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Get used to paying higher prices at the gasoline pump for years to come.&lt;/p&gt;       &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; There are five reasons why: &lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"&gt; &lt;li class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;Greater      global energy demands&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;Lesser      global petroleum supplies&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;Poor      American energy policy decisions&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;Limited      transportation infrastructure&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;Limited      refinery capacity&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Let’s start with the last point first. There has been zero new refinery capacity built in the U.S. in the last 15 years. Credit the environmentalists for that one. SO it is irrelevant if you can ship all the oil you need if you can’t refine it quickly enough into useable fuel.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And continuing backwards on the above points, consider the limited transportation bottlenecks. Back when oil prices were much, much lower, the merchant marine oil tanker fleet merely allowed older vessels to decay, retired them and decommissioned them from service. They now have to replace these vessels and there are a considerable number of them to be built. However, to restore the tanker fleet will take ten years of building at the dry docks before there can be enough to remove all the transportation bottlenecks.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; So even if there were enough oil refinery capacity, it does no good if there aren’t enough tankers to deliver the petroleum to the intended markets. Every link in the supply chain has to be well coordinated of else price increases happen.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The finally there are demand and supply issues. Let’s start with the demand problem.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; All of this I have discussed at length in a previous article on this blog. I have also reprinted the article that explained it once more. But it bears repeating yet again.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; New developments and information are available. The situation is even worse than I thought – and this will impact your wallet for years to come.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; First, China, India and even Brazil are rapidly developing nations. All of them, but particularly India and China, have rapidly increased energy needs. India alone has doubled its energy requirements in 10 years. India is projected to double its energy needs yet again in 10 years – and THAT’S a conservative estimate.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; China and India both have populations in excess of 1 billion each. That’s over one third of the world’s population. Now neither of them has an automobile economy the size of America. At present, there are 350,000,000 motor vehicles the size of cars or larger in the world today. At per capita rates of car ownership in the U.S., this spells higher global fuel prices. If the same rate of vehicle ownership existed in China and India today, that would mean 1,000,000,000 (one billion) vehicles – TRIPLE what exists today!&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Just where is the gasoline, diesel or other fuel from petroleum that’s going to power them, come from?&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And what will such increased demand mean for petroleum product prices? Even an economic ignoramus could tell you that gasoline prices should triple. SO if we were paying $2 a gallon before, it would be $6 a gallon. Imagine paying $120 to fill a 20-gallon tank in your vehicle.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And that doesn’t even tell the whole story. China and India are rapidly industrializing. Yet Chinese factories aren’t going 24/7 yet. The bottleneck is energy supply. Many Chinese factories have to shut down for lack of electricity because there isn’t enough supply of it. If the Chinese could secure a dependable oil supply and other energy sources, the prices of most goods they produce for consumption in the West would be cheaper still.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And what is China doing about it? China and India are doing far more than America is doing. While politicians here debate an energy policy and talk of conservation, the Chinese and Indians are racing around the globe, courting energy-producing nations and signing long-term energy deals with them. China signed a deal with Canada for oil from its tar sands. The American reaction was: the Canadians backstabbed us!&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; When you include all the other lesser-populated nations that are rapidly developing as well, this adds up to a permanent increase in the demand for petroleum. That means only one thing: higher fuel prices for years to come!&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Things Aren’t THAT Bad – They’re Worse!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Now we get to the supply problem. Some new developments have arisen that should really concern the economically ignorant among you – probably about 60% or more, which accounts for the disgraceful whining I hear about price gouging.&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;Indonesia is a member of OPEC, the cartel of oil-producing nations formed years ago to boost the price of oil. Since this nation of well over 150 million is also growing and they have energy demands as well, they are no longer exporting oil. They are using what they pump out of the ground for internal consumption. This means that soon Indonesia will no longer be an OPEC member.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And how about the British and the Norwegians and their North Sea oil? Production from that source is drastically down. It has dropped 10% in the last year. Don’t count on any new oil finds any time soon.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; How about Mexico? It’s the same story here again. In 10 years, Mexico will also be importing oil – if there’s any to be had!&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Alaska’s Prudhoe Bay production has long since declined from its peak years ago.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; There hasn’t been any new, global, major oil discovery in years. And there’s not likely to be any new source any time soon. What sources are available domestically is bottled up due to foolish American energy policies – more on that in a minute.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;But the really bad news comes from Saudi Arabia – long considered the “central bank” of oil in the world. It’s even worse than I thought.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; First, Saudi Arabia made the unusually candid public admission that OPEC won’t be able to meet oil demands and needs within 10 to 15 years. And if this is the “official” public policy line, what is the real story? How really bad is it? Will it be shorter than 10 years? I suspect a yes answer.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; How bad is it again? How about this? The Saudis recently hired 5 drilling rigs for underwater oil drilling. Those rigs are currently in the Gulf of Mexico under contract. Saudi Arabia had to have outbid somebody else to get them. This has happened at a time when oilrig rental rates are at rates 50% higher than a few years back – and going higher!&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; My question is this: if Saudi Arabia has such cheap oil so plentiful in the ground, why are they going to the trouble of drilling for far-more-expensive, offshore, underwater oil? &lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Could it be that maybe they just haven’t told us everything about how really short of oil supply that they are? If you answered anything but yes, you’d need your head examined.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And it explains something, for your information. Since the Saudis fund massive amounts of terrorism, it explains why they are desperately sending more cash to import terror into Iraq in the central front on the War Against Terror. They are running out of time because they are running out of oil. And soon the terrorists will have run out of cash to finance their war OF terror. This makes sense since it has the look of desperation.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Finally, there is a poor domestic oil and energy policy within the U.S.A.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Buried deep within the U.S. 1,724 page Energy Policy Act of 2005 is a provision to add to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Now at 700 million barrels of oil, the plan is to increase this to 1 billion barrels. Since we have two oilmen as President and Vice President in the administration, they certainly must know far more the public does about the true state of oil supply. Otherwise, why would you add to the SPR at prices now at $70 a barrel if there is no problem?&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The situation is far more serious than we can imagine. And it means higher fuel prices.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Another bad energy policy decision is that of the shale oil in Colorado and nearby areas. Most of this oil source is on federally owned land.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Environmentalists have so far bottled up this potential energy source due to environmental concerns. Part of this may be justified, but how longer will they rule the day when gasoline prices come to hover around $6 a gallon? I’ll bet not much longer.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; At a price of $38 per barrel, shale oil is economically viable. As technology comes on stream, this cost per barrel will drop lower, as did the Canadian tar sands technology that no extracts that oil at a cost of under $10 a barrel.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Yet environmentalists have also succeeded in preventing not only shale oil from being prospected for, but all offshore drilling in places off the Alaskan, Californian and Florida coasts. This is happening at a time when oil prices are skyrocketing. The politicians are listening to the wrong people, but I’ll wager not for much longer.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And what policy is being touted today? It’s conservation. It is not even a short-term solution. As heard on a national radio talk show, an auto executive remarked that even if all of America could be forced to drive hybrid vehicles, we’d be back at the same point we are today in just 6 years.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; But there is a near-term solution to cheaper fuel prices. The trouble is that you’ll never hear the politicians advocate it. And why? It’s because it is too great a cash cow for the government coffers at both the federal and state levels.&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;It’s the excise taxes on a gallon of gas. If this were eliminated, the price of gasoline would drop by almost $1 a gallon at today’s high prices.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And how do I know this? The truth was revealed on one day 9 years back I lived in upstate New York.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; At the time, the New York state government was trying to tax gasoline and tobacco on the Indian reservations – in direct violation of longstanding tax treaties that treat native American reservation land as sovereign territory.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; I used to drive to the reservation to fill up with gasoline and the price difference was considerable. The difference was because the Indian reservation was exempt from federal and state excise taxes on gasoline, tobacco and other products.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The situation about taxing Native Americans drew some national attention and eventually, New York State was forced to back down in disgrace. But not before the local domestic gas dealerships had a demonstration of their own.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The gas station owners publicly displayed the actual price of a gallon of gas without both federal and state excise taxes. It was truly an eye-opener. Almost one third of the price of a gallon of gas is made up of these federal and state excise taxes.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; While people are now blaming others for price gouging, they neglect the price gouging that their own governments have been doing to them for years and not a peep of protest was uttered.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; I suspect that this public disclosure of what the feds and the states were taking in on a gallon of gas was the real reason that the State of New York backed down on its plans to tax the Indian reservations for its products available on the reservations.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; After all, what did the federal or state government do to demand a higher “profit margin” on a gallon of gas than the oil companies and the gasoline dealerships? Nothing. They didn’t drill for oil, didn’t prospect for it, didn’t transport it or refine oil. Yet they have been gouging the consumer all these years in what can only be described as a shakedown of those so-called “greedy” oil companies.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And not only were they getting a bigger cut than the oil companies on a gallon of gas. In true busybody fashion, they were also telling them through environmental regulations in what proportions to blend gasoline and so on, further driving the cost of fuel up through compliance with standards that really didn’t need to be in place in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; So, for all you disgraceful whiners out there, blame the right parties for your higher fuel prices where it belongs – your governments that are supposedly there for your interests and instead are in it for their own interests.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;  &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Governments today are only in it for the power, no matter which party happens to be in command. And furthermore, the decentralization process threatens their very existence as a big societal entity, and they will fight tooth and nail to exist in the form they are today.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Decentralization is acting to force all societal entities to become smaller. The last remaining bastion of bigness is in government. They are fiercely resisting this trend. It looks like they won’t go down without a fight. They will fight dirty when the time comes and to hell with any propaganda about how they’re needed. It’s going to get real ugly at some point in time in the future.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And of course, a scapegoat will HAVE to be found, because government will NEVER admit that they are the problem. More discussion on this will follow at a later date, but I can promise you that you are dreaming if you think government won’t step anybody’s toes just to exist – and those toes (or other bodily appendages) could well be – and will be yours. Make sure you squirrel away some gold far from the reaches of the desperate governments because the paper they call money will be worthless – as is the fate of all paper currency at all times in history.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; But meanwhile …..&lt;/p&gt;       &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Expect to pay high prices for fuel for a long time to come.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And stop your whining.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9618798-112567099552280986?l=theinsighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theinsighter.blogspot.com/feeds/112567099552280986/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9618798&amp;postID=112567099552280986' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9618798/posts/default/112567099552280986'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9618798/posts/default/112567099552280986'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theinsighter.blogspot.com/2005/09/disgraceful-whining.html' title='Disgraceful Whining'/><author><name>Edward J S</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14909539549067783347</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9618798.post-112492930683468373</id><published>2005-09-02T20:21:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-09-02T10:14:58.656-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Disengagement Dictator Ariel Sharon is in Trouble</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:maroon;"&gt;Disengagement from the Gaza Strip and Northern Shomron, even though a tactical success is still a failure – and it will cost Sharon his job as Prime Minister that he transformed into his own personal little dictatorship.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:maroon;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Disengagement is bound to fail either way whether it is successful in implementation or whether it might not have been successful.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:maroon;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; I quote a very recent Reuters article below and add commentary as appropriate:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;h1&gt;Sharon faces political fallout after quitting Gaza &lt;/h1&gt;   &lt;p&gt;By Jeffrey Heller&lt;em&gt;Wed Aug 24, 5:46 AM ET&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;Now that Jewish settlers have been pulled out of the occupied Gaza Strip, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon could face a "disengagement" of his own.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;Sharon, branded a traitor by settlers he once championed and under fire from right-wingers who support them, looks increasingly like a man without a party as Israel gears up for elections due late next year.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;An opinion poll published in the Haaretz daily on Wednesday, a day after Israel completed the evacuation of 9,000 settlers in the Gaza Strip and a corner of the West Bank under Sharon's "Disengagement Plan," showed him in deep political trouble.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:maroon;"&gt;No kidding there, mainstream media – last-to-get-it-media? If you in the mainstream media would pull your heads out of your rectums for just one second smell the real atmosphere, you’d find that the world doesn’t revolve your stupid leftist theology and unreal mindset that you’ve delusionally come to believe as social progress.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoBodyText"&gt;&lt;span style="color:maroon;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;For one thing, if any of you had done your homework, Ariel Sharon was elected as PM for the Likud party because Israel’s public detests the land-for-peace propaganda that has been going on as a leftover legacy from the days when there used to be a superpower rivalry – but now there IS no Soviet Union to try to appease and not start a nuclear war.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:maroon;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Yes, you stupid leftists, your original Supreme God of your leftist theology is dead, and its successor god, the chief deity you call the UN (United Nations) is as rife with corruption, evil and incompetence as the Soviet Union was – and as any super-sized, McDonaldesque metaphor, government that you worship as a false god.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:maroon;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; You’d know – if you did your homework – that Ariel Sharon promised to do just the exact opposite of what he delivered – not giving up any more territory, because the Oslo Accords were exposed as the sham they were.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:maroon;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; But in the delusional Western mindset where two enemy states can live in harmony with each other and where everything is supposed to be groovy, it isn’t happening.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:maroon;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; If you love those terrorist bastards, then why don’t you insist on taking them all into your own countries as an act of good faith to the Israelis – as refugees if you think Islam is such a religion of peace?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;In a face-off for the leadership of their Likud party, Sharon's most powerful political rival, Benjamin Netanyahu, would take 47 percent of the vote to 30.5 percent for the prime minister if the contest were held now, the survey showed.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;Netanyahu, who resigned as finance minister in what he called a protest against the evacuation of 21 settlements in Gaza and four in the West Bank, has been hammering home his view that Sharon has defrauded voters who elected him.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="MsoBodyText"&gt;Yes, Netanyahu resigned, but so did an even greater Sharon Cabinet figure – former Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky – and well before the disengagement was almost upon Netanyahu before he opportunistically decided to state his opposition to disengagement.&lt;/p&gt;         &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:maroon;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The article doesn’t mention what the results would be if Sharanksy had been included as a preference of voters or poll respondents, but I’ll bet that the tally for Sharansky would be even larger than an almost 18% point lead.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By the way – you who are reading this – Netanyahu isn’t running in the Likud primaries due next month. Whoever wins those primaries automatically is the next Prime Minister of Israel. Netanyahu so far has not declared and isn’t on the ballot.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:maroon;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; There are only 2 names on the ballot – Ariel Sharon and Rabbi Moshe Feiglin of Manhigut Yehudit – largest faction within the Likud party that Sharon tried so hard to get rid of, cajole, coax, threaten or absorb into a plush Cabinet job.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:maroon;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; That deserves some consideration, because this shows that the Rabbi Feiglin is a man of principle and character – and it shows that the movement which he originally founded as “Zo Artzeinu” (This is our land), is a movement devoted to principled leadership.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:maroon;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The mainstream press, part of the delusional Left, will never say anything good about whom it considers a threat to their theology – in the same way that Pepsi will never have anything nice to say about Coca-Cola.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:maroon;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;"Sharon's situation is bad -- very bad," wrote Haaretz political commentator Yossi Verter.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoBodyText2"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;If even the leftist media in Israel can’t sugarcoat Sharon’s position any better than this, then it must truly be disastrous! Or else, one may say that the biased media is now in a position to be forced to be honest for a change and preserve its credibility. Conventional wisdom in Israel says much will depend on whether Palestinian militants in Gaza and the West Bank renew attacks they largely stopped some seven months ago -- violence which they said forced Sharon to retreat from occupied land.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoBodyText2"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;Sharon has said he wanted to disengage from conflict with the Palestinians and quit areas he believes Israel has no chance of keeping in a future peace treaty.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;"If quiet is maintained, Sharon will be the big winner, in every way," wrote Attila Somfalvi, political correspondent of the Israeli YNet news Web site. "Yet, if that doesn't happen, Sharon will be the one to pay the price."&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;Sharon also says Israel will keep much larger West Bank settlements, which Palestinians fear would strip them of land central to their goal of a viable state. Further West Bank settlement growth, Palestinians say, could reignite violence.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:purple;"&gt;The entire premise of these paragraphs is wrong. There is no working moral philosophy except that of the left of land-for-peace, and not winning the public relations war that Israel is truly the real native population and exposing the Arab claim as a fraud.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoBodyText3"&gt;&lt;span style="color:purple;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;But that is just part of the answer. Jews indeed have a greater destiny on this Earth as the Chosen Ones of the Supreme Deity – one whom can be easily and scientifically demonstrated to exist, and of whom I already proved exists by merely proving the impossibility of evolution through statistical analysis and common sense – in an article on this same blog called “Evolution is Wrong.” Consult the archives for further information on this topic.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoBodyText3"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;color:maroon;"   &gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;Israel has no chance of keeping certain lands? WHAT? Is America going to bomb Israel with nukes and out of oblivion? Is that what’s going to happen? Not likely.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:purple;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; So what will happen if Israel refuses to go along with the Bush Road Map and proves its point about land-for-peace being a failure and exposes the falsity of the Oslo Accord cultists? The big bad American wolf will huff and puff and go away when more Western targets who were sympathetic to Islam get bombed by the terrorists who observe the so-called religion of peace!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:purple;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;"If quiet is maintained, Sharon will be the big winner, in every way," wrote Attila Somfalvi, political correspondent of the Israeli YNet news Web site. "Yet, if that doesn't happen, Sharon will be the one to pay the price."&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; WHAT quiet? Abbas has already gone on record as saying that the Gaza Strip will become a base of operations a terror state to “liberate Palestine”, and never ever was there a revocation of Article 15 of the PLO Charter which reads as follows:&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;span style="color:red;"&gt;The Liberation of Palestine, from an Arab viewpoint, is a national (qawmi) duty and it attempts to repel the Zionist and imperialist aggression against the Arab homeland, and aims at &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;the liquidation of the Zionist presence in Palestine.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoBodyText"&gt;&lt;span style="color:red;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Absolute responsibility for this falls upon the Arab Nation – peoples and governments – with the Arab people in Palestine in the vanguard. Accordingly, the Arab nation must mobilize all its military, human, moral and spiritual capabilities to participate actively with the Palestinian people in the liberation of Palestine.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:red;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; It must, particularly in the phase of the armed Palestinian revolution, offer and furnish the Palestinian people with all possible help, and material and human support, and make available to them the means and opportunities that will enable them to continue to carry out their leading role in the armed revolution, until they liberate their homeland.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:red;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:navy;"&gt;That article above still stands uncontested and the wishes for a two-state solution and a groovy peace rests with Mahmoud Abbas, successor to Yasser Arafat, who stood by his side for decades as a willing accomplice in terror.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 102);"&gt;And promised hundreds of millions of money in foreign aid without having to sign one piece of paper for peace! Hitler had at least to sign a piece of paper with British PM Neville Chamberlain to be able to do his dirty work.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;At a weekly "ranch forum" of advisers at Sharon's homestead in southern Israel, opinion has split over whether he should do battle in the Likud or create a new party for the election, said a political source familiar with the deliberations.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;Another option -- retirement -- is not currently on the cards, a Sharon confidant said, adding: "But that could change if polls get worse and a wave of terror erupts."&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;Sharon, 77, has pledged publicly to seek a third term as prime minister. But the political source said Sharon has yet to decide whether to try to do so on the Likud ticket.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;No date has been set for a party primary election. Past bids by Israeli leaders to vie for votes in breakaway factions, most famously in 1965 by founding father David Ben-Gurion, have been largely unsuccessful.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;His political future clouded at home, Sharon plans an outing next month to the U.N. General Assembly where accolades from world leaders over the pullout could give him a domestic boost.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;Government officials said Sharon was trying to arrange meetings at the United Nations with Arab leaders following Israel's first scrapping of settlements from occupied land Palestinians want for a state.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;"Sharon hopes the U.N. will bolster him," a political source said about an organization Israel has long regarded as hostile.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:purple;"&gt;The last sentence tells you all you need to know. The UN as an organization has indeed been hostile to Israel. 3rd World crackpot dictators who would love to see an Israel to blame to deflect attention away from their own domestic political failures have dominated it. Sharon’s appeal will be seen as a further betrayal of Israel by its “believing” public (the majority) and the tin pot, 3&lt;sup&gt;rd&lt;/sup&gt;-World dictators will find a way to screw Sharon over some way and reflect their true anti-Semitic hatred.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoBodyText2"&gt;&lt;span style="color:purple;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;Side note: Rabbi Moshe Feiglin – the only other declared candidate for the leadership of the Likud primaries and then the next Israeli Prime Minister - stated that the rightist parties get elected because of the no-territory compromise, but they ultimately fail because they have no driving belief and fall into the foolishness of the Left.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; How true have we seen this happen! Disengagement may have been tactically successful, but it will backfire upon Ariel Sharon. If it doesn’t do so, Israel’s actual long-term existence is in question.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;In the meantime, it's been gloves-off on the always-heated Israeli political scene. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;"We won't touch you physically, but we will send you in disgrace to the political Muqata of (your) ranch," ultra nationalist legislator Effi Eitam told Sharon at a recent parliamentary committee meeting. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;The Muqata was the compound in the Israeli-surrounded West Bank city of Ramallah where Sharon kept the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat penned in almost 3 years. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:navy;"&gt;The ultra nationalist was being kind. Far greater disgrace awaits Ariel Sharon should he lose the Likud primaries. And lose them he should, and must – if Israel is to survive.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The legacy of “Land-for-Peace” has been a failure ever since it was implemented because it was based on false premises that Arabs had a right to live there based on an ancient homeland – which has been proven NEVER to have ever existed. And this proof is not hard to find if you have the courage to look for truth. Many times I found all the proof I needed on the first page, if not the first result of my Google search. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Since when does the world demand of a conquering nation who acted in self-defense in 1967 to return lands to the aggressor nations who started the trouble in the first place, and back then – and still now – demand the destruction of the same nation that acted in self-defense? What is up with that?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Exactly what kind of message do you send to the guys that were the troublemakers in the first place?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; I’ll tell you if you are a leftist moron reading this: that terror pays.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9618798-112492930683468373?l=theinsighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theinsighter.blogspot.com/feeds/112492930683468373/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9618798&amp;postID=112492930683468373' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9618798/posts/default/112492930683468373'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9618798/posts/default/112492930683468373'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theinsighter.blogspot.com/2005/09/disengagement-dictator-ariel-sharon-is.html' title='Disengagement Dictator Ariel Sharon is in Trouble'/><author><name>Edward J S</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14909539549067783347</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9618798.post-112406613789641218</id><published>2005-08-14T20:36:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-08-14T20:35:37.913-04:00</updated><title type='text'>What Does Tisha B'Av Mean to Me?</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;What does Tisha B’Av – the Jewish holiday that commemorates the anniversaries destruction of the first and second Temples to God in Jerusalem – mean to me?&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The oral tradition says that the Temple was so far in disrepair that it deserved to be destroyed because the Chosen Ones of the Almighty neglected its upkeep and forgot what it all meant to have one there in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;The  oral tradition is correct.&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Since the Chosen Ones are still forgetful – but are making greater strides in remembering why – it is the reason that a new Temple is still not there today.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And in this anniversary – today in 2005 it is mourned upon August 13 – now we have the specter of an illegal expulsion of Jews from settlements that these rightful natives have made in the Gaza Strip and in 4 settlements in Northern Shomron. This dictatorial action by Ariel Sharon comes in the wake of Tisha B’Av – the day that the loss of the great Temples is being mourned.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; How ironic this is. This is what it means to me.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And yet more.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; This is called “disengagement” – yet it should be called by its rightful name: expulsion.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Here we have an example of the first time of the history of a democratic nation where some of its citizens are being forcefully expelled from land that they have legitimately bought on the open market, made the desert bloom and now are forced to abandon to a government of thugs who will return the land back into a desert.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; This is supposedly done in the name of “peace” – with another dictator of the PLO who has never called revoked Article 15 of the PLO Charter and never called to account for it and still promised hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign aid.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Israel is giving up this small piece of territory with nothing to show for it in return. The Arab terrorists are celebrating in the streets and passing out candies to the children and they are learning that terror pays.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; All the while, terror in Britain is now being dealt with swiftly there as in the days after 9/11/2001 in the United States.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; But no! Israel cannot defend itself the same way, yet has the equivalent of a London subway bombing every week or a 9/11 almost every week.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Is a Jewish life worth less than a Gentile one?&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Despite the fact that terrorists cannot be trusted, British PM Tony Blair figures he can crack down on the terror in his own backyard, but he still insists on a 2-state solution elsewhere – as does President George W Bush.&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;I guess terror is OK in Israel, but not in THEIR back yard because you see, all Jews are degenerate pigs because they didn’t accept Jesus Christ into their lives as fulfillment of prophecy, so they must die.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; THIS is what Tisha B’Av means to me.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Never mind that Christians STOLE all their moral ideas from Jews.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Never mind that when Jews started to do what the early Christians did and started to preach and proselytize for new believers – the Christians demanded that they stop it!&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; DO as I say, not as I do, I guess. That is also what Tisha B’Av means to me.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; I have more thoughts for the stupid among you – and there are plenty enough of you thoughtless robots who follow a programmed script of “modern societal thinking” and are afraid to think for themselves and examine all things for truth.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; You are afraid because you care more to be popular and have people like you than to do the right thing. Beware such a “path of least resistance” because not only does it show that you are gutless cowards, but that there are few people among you have any real leadership potential.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Leadership doesn’t come from following the status quo and the fashionable thoughts of the times. It requires real thought and a willingness to expect hatred, laughter and the spite from those among the established order that have the most to lose from real reform.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Thomas Jefferson said once: “one man with courage is a majority”.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; That is also what Tisha B’Av means to me.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; One man with courage is a majority because ideas are very powerful – indeed so powerful that a ruling order has to use whatever means at its disposal to silence all those who dissent. If what the establishment believes is so correct, they wouldn’t be forcing legitimate settlers from their homes in a democracy where it shouldn’t be happening in the first place – and certainly not in the only nation in the Middle East that nominally practices democracy.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; This also I have learned today from this day of mourning – Tisha B’Av.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And the great idea that threatens the establishment within modern Israel today is that they don’t like the settlements and would rather give them to the enemy and rule over a pile of dust, become “museum Jews” with Indian reservations as is currently the state of the native Americans within America.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; I have heard that the Leftists want a pile of rubble to rule. Disengagement will make that pile into a reality. But I think that the Almighty wants something different.&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;For the Gentiles are still so guilty about the Holocaust, but still anti-Semitic, that they can’t dare rebuild the concentration camps and gas chambers to finish the job.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; They want the Jews to finish the job themselves – by committing a slow suicide called the peace process – which is the biggest diplomatic fraud that ever existed.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; If Jews self-destruct, then the Gentiles won’t be forced to make excuses to rebuild the concentration camps and gas chambers that Hitler started and they wouldn’t be forced to complete. That would put them in an awful bind.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; You see, O Israel, the Gentiles are very touchy about the subject of genocide.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The Gentiles are so touchy about genocide that they will invent all manner of language to try to dissuade you from listening to my words of truth that they can’t touch!&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; In fact, I’ll tell you right now that they will call me an extremist to try to discredit me – if ever I get the opportunity to really persuade you that what I say is true – AND IT IS!&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; They will bemoan thusly: “How can desecrate the memory of the Holocaust so casually with your words?” The translation that you, O Israel, should be concerned about is this:&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; “How can you, the author of this blog, dare to remind us so blatantly of our moral responsibility when our hands were caught so far down inside the cookie jars as children that our guilt was never in question?”&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; This is also what Tisha B’Av means to me – whose grandfather was a Jew in Hitler’s Germany – and whose name I honor today even though I never met him personally. He had to change his last name so he wouldn’t go to the concentration camps like his fellow Jews and he had to change his last name to a more “German-sounding” surname. &lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And you know what? When I bring up the subject of the holocaust – especially to the libertarians – they complain about me accusing them of anti-Semitism. Well, yes it is! And what’s YOUR point? That it’s not?&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; I have declared and demanded proudly about where in history was there ever ANY “Palestinian State”, when was it established, who was its first king and where was its capital – and these same idiotic libertarians can’t come up with an answer!&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Want to know why? It’s because there is none! The Palestinian State that they like to espouse a 2-state solution NEVER existed except in the propaganda of the Arabs.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The Libertarian idiots decry the influence of religion just as much as the Leftist morons who are rapidly becoming obsolete. Yet what has the man-made peace process brought so far to the Middle East? Nothing but war!&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; I have already explained clearly why there IS a Supreme Entity of the Universe and shown how Evolution as it stands is a total falsehood. Libertarians place too much faith in the ability of mankind. Well? Where is the peace? You’ve had since 1948 to have it.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And what would Islam do with libertarians, leftists and liberals if they ever came to dominate the world? They would all die – horribly because they too are unbelievers!&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;This I have learned before but got reminded of today on 9 Av – Tisha B’Av.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Today we have a fluke of history that is being corrected out of existence – but not without resistance from those who still believe the falsehoods as truth and know no other way throughout history – because they mistakenly believe that what they do is called in the modern times as “progress”.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;Some progress this is!&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The western society of today has a +50% divorce rate, children without fathers and mothers forced to fend for themselves. And the statistics tell us that children without a father have emotional, relational and other problems. They become society’s problems – and all to the heartbreak of their mothers who did the best they could!&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; I recently met a woman who had a divorce and is incarcerated. I don’t know her whole story – but I don’t need to. Perhaps some of it is her fault but society also has more than its share of blame.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; What happens when an individual does something wrong? He or she pays a price.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; But what happens when the society that this individual depends upon a society who has promised a framework for success, then reneges on its rules and changes them in midstream, leaving that individual holding the bag?&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Nothing!&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The individual is still to blame, has to “get over it”, and somehow survive and prosper.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;But that collective entity known as society in the modern world somehow escapes blame.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; That is the nature of “society”: it’s a collection of individuals who get together and evade and diffuse blame and responsibility for its mistakes and social experimentation and it’s NEVER THEIR FAULT!&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The individual to whom I write this – I will not name her – but I want her to show this to her evil oppressors and demand that they also accept their share of blame for the situation that she finds herself in.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Now tell me: is calling a collection of individuals who would have to face severe consequences for actions that they did as individuals, wrong, that they can avoid by calling themselves a “society” – and is this not “EVIL”?&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; That is the main problem in America today.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; It has lost its moral base and all the people who have depended upon that moral base of action from the society that abandoned it are left high and dry to fend for themselves.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; This is also what I have learned from this day where I have fasted in concern for my brothers and sisters in Gush Katif – no however imperfect that I kept the observance of Tisha B’Av today. I will get better once I get really serious about Orthodox Jewish conversion – and I believe that this will happen sooner than I think.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; There are many more things that I have opportunity to learn while my stomach grumbled about how much was not getting there. But that will have to wait until next year.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; This blog article I write especially to you, “C” – you know who you are – and I am writing this just for you because you have given me a special meaning to this day of mourning for me – Tisha B’Av – the date of the destruction of God’s Holy Temples in Jerusalem – and I know now that there is a purpose for my life here in America before I depart to the Holy Land.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; My thoughts and prayers go out to you, and to my oppressed brothers and sisters in the faraway land – Israel – that one day I must go to.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; I hope that you too remember me..&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; This is all that I can say for now what Tisha B’Av means to me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9618798-112406613789641218?l=theinsighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theinsighter.blogspot.com/feeds/112406613789641218/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9618798&amp;postID=112406613789641218' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9618798/posts/default/112406613789641218'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9618798/posts/default/112406613789641218'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theinsighter.blogspot.com/2005/08/what-does-tisha-bav-mean-to-me.html' title='What Does Tisha B&apos;Av Mean to Me?'/><author><name>Edward J S</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14909539549067783347</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9618798.post-112257118303862350</id><published>2005-07-28T13:19:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-07-28T13:19:43.050-04:00</updated><title type='text'>7/7/2005: You Got What You Deserved</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Are you going to wake up now?&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The London bombings should be your wake-up call.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; I am talking of the idiotic Left, the indifferent masses and uninformed out there who still believe that there should be a two-state Palestine solution and that Islam is a religion of peace.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The Left will not change its mind because they have too much invested in their lies that they have to keep repeating the lies they’ve already told. They’ve dug a hole so deep that credibility issues will destroy them now no matter what.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The uninformed and indifferent are a different story. When a British radio show interviewed the brother of one of the subway train bombers of 7/7/2005, the Pakistani guy spoke with a clear Yorkshire accent. So does his brother the terrorist. These bombers were 2&lt;sup&gt;nd&lt;/sup&gt;-generation Pakistanis who embraced Islamofascism. Of course, Britons were in a state of shock.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Why how could anybody embrace such a terrorist ideology, having grown up in a civilized and tolerant society such as what the West has? Westerners everywhere are asking that question as if in a state of disbelief, and I think there will be some defense mechanism that arises from the woodwork to somehow blame Israel and British support for the War on Terror currently being conducted at the central front in Iraq.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; I’ll tell you how someone could embrace such an ideology of terror – because western society today is in a state of relative decline and isn’t a proselytizing influence. Its morality has been corrupted and morality in general has assumed too many gray areas.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Liberalism has disconnected punishment from crime in the name of compassion. It has also disconnected right from wrong, good from evil and turned the entire morality upon its head – totally backwards from where it ought to be.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; When wishful thinkers insist upon a two-state solution in Israel where there never was ever a Palestinian state, you are rewarding falsehood and this is the price you pay for embracing Islam. When you give credence to lies, the perpetrators will be back for more – just like the schoolyard bully who won’t be satisfied with shaking down only one defenseless kid for his lunch money. He will be emboldened and empowered to keep doing it and being more outrageous each time – until somebody stands up to the bully.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And when you demand zero concessions from the Arabs for a promise of peace and all the while make all sorts of demands from the real natives of the Holy Land – the Jews – how do you expect the terrorists to act? That they are losing? And that they are being promised hundreds of billions because of Mahmoud Abbas and the promise of peace, when his acts of the past show no such inclination?&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Remember Madrid and the 192 dead in the train bombs and the fraidy-cat election of the leftist candidate days later who announced the Spanish troops’ pullout from Iraq.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; What exactly did you in the West teach the terrorists by that? You taught them terror pays. You will now get more – not less – terror. And the terror that ensues will be even bolder than before. You have given them moral sanctuary for their ideology that it never deserved in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And what about George “sorry-ass” Soros, the billionaire Jew who sinks millions of dollars into interfering with the elections of countries about the world, trying to influence the outcome? The Arab propagandists of Islamofascism claim that a worldwide cabal of Jews are controlling the whole world. Isn’t what Soros is doing only reinforcing this false stereotype and giving credence to the Arabist propaganda? Just how likely will it be that terror will not happen in retribution for what Soros is doing? What signal is he sending for his irresponsible behavior – entirely for the purpose of enriching himself?&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Exactly what signal is London’s mayor Ken Livingstone sending when he embraces a terrorist-style Islam imam who calls for Islam to dominate the world, trashes Israel and the Mayor of London embraces him publicly? The terrorists now believe even more strongly that they are in the right.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; When the Leftists openly are hostile to the legitimate war on terror toi the point of giving aid and comfort to the enemy, how does this NOT empower the foreign terrorists that are fighting in Iraq?&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And what signal is being given when you call these thugs only “insurgents” and the killers that they truly are? Do the leftists think Arabs can’t read and consult a dictionary and see that they have just had legitimacy endorsed for their activities?&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; When the Left cheers and worships dictators around the world, what signal does that send to the terrorists? Is not the left being used as useful idiots? They certainly are.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; So why should anybody be surprised when the terror strikes close to home? &lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Why is it suddenly a big deal when Gentile innocent civilians get murdered when it happens in Israel to Jews almost every week? Is a Jew’s life less valuable than a Gentile life? It is any wonder why any believing Jew thinks that the West is anti-Semitic? Do not the actions of the West enable more anti-Semitism?&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; What do you think the terrorists are thinking when Jewish settlers are going to be forced in an unlawful expulsion from the Gaza Strip and Northern Shomron? This proposed act of forced expulsion has never happened in a democratic nation. Yet that is exactly what is being proposed. Will the terrorists consider this a defeat or a victory for them? I’ve basically answered the question for you already. For you to make something else out of it must mean that you are trying hard to make a fool of yourself more than you already are.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; It’s funny if it weren’t so serious how the Left embraces Islam the religion instead of Christianity or Judaism. Islam is the strictest religion in the world and would destroy the liberals once they had no further use for them. Yet apparently, liberals and the leftists would rather fight the devils they know than the devils they don’t. Somehow, they cling preciously to the delusion that somehow, the Left is “above the fray” and that there is somewhere a moderate Arab Messiah to prove them right.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The Left has chosen self-delusion over facing the fraud of their claims. Does the Left think that the Arabs and other Islamofascists don’t see this either?&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The PLO has never been called on the carpet for retaining Article 15 of their Charter calling for the “liquidation of the Zionist presence” by any means possible. Just how does this promote the peace process? In fact, this makes the peace process a fraud that has been ongoing for the last 43 years – since 1967. Does the Western world think that the thug terrorists don’t notice this little detail?&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And this fraud cannot last, now that truth is finally coming to the forefront. The days when lies exist, thrive and build themselves a throne – are over.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Does the West think that being terrorists called “insurgents”, isn’t going to get noticed by the terrorist thugs either?&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; What happened in London on 7/7/2005 destroyed the wishful thinking of peace and harmony with Islam. Yet foolishly, many people of the West will look to place blame upon Israel and Jews for what happened. My, oh my, those subhuman Jews seem to cause so much trouble for the world.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; What defense mechanism will the Gentile world try to employ to avoid the awful truth that has been exposed? No matter what it will be, there will be even more outrageous acts of terror that will happen to force the West to deal with terror once and for all or else look totally ridiculous trying to make excuses.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Reviewing all that I’ve cited above, isn’t it more correct to assume that London got what it deserved on 7/7/2005, just for cheering for the bully?&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; How many more times will people get kicked in the head by Big Terror before they wake up and address the real problem of terror – that Islam wants to dominate the world?&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Like the old oil filter commercial says: “You can pay me now, or you can pay me later”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9618798-112257118303862350?l=theinsighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theinsighter.blogspot.com/feeds/112257118303862350/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9618798&amp;postID=112257118303862350' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9618798/posts/default/112257118303862350'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9618798/posts/default/112257118303862350'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theinsighter.blogspot.com/2005/07/772005-you-got-what-you-deserved.html' title='7/7/2005: You Got What You Deserved'/><author><name>Edward J S</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14909539549067783347</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9618798.post-112051360219111131</id><published>2005-07-05T18:46:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-07-05T06:46:35.503-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Global Warming is NOT Man-Made</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:navy;"&gt;Back on or about April 2002, I made an open challenge to anybody to supply proof that there is any substance to any environmentalist wacko scare story about the environment.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; My challenge is simply this:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Show me the undisputed study on any environmental catastrophe, the year it was published, who did the research and in what institution this proof was conducted.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; So far, I have had NO TAKERS!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Why? It’s because there is no proof that there has ever been global warming because of man-made activity, no acid rain caused because of man-made activity, no greenhouse effect, no ozone depletion because of man-made activity –&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;and no man-made activity has ever been responsible for any environmental crisis – if ever there were such a crisis.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;font-size:12;color:navy;"   &gt;I now give you my commentary on the stupidity below that passes for news. You really need to go through such stories with a fine-toothed comb to analyze the real truth because the mainstream liberal press only sees what it wants to see.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;  &lt;/p&gt; &lt;h1&gt;Global Warming Makes Sea Less Salty &lt;/h1&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/space/sc_space/byline/globalwarmingmakessealesssalty/15628298/SIG=11m3qoaug/*http://www.space.com/php/contactus/feedback.php?r=ms"&gt;Michael Schirber&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LiveScience Staff Writer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/space/sc_space/byline/globalwarmingmakessealesssalty/15628298/SIG=10sog4vj6/*http://www.livescience.com"&gt;LiveScience.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;Wed Jun 29, 2:00 PM ET&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;You won't want to drink water straight from the ocean anytime soon. But the salt content is on the decline, a sign of potentially worrisome consequences that scientists can't accurately predict. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;Since the late 1960s, much of the North Atlantic Ocean has become less salty, in part due to increases in fresh water runoff induced by global warming, scientists say. Now for the first time researchers have quantified this fresh water influx, allowing them to predict the long-term effects on a "conveyor belt" of ocean currents.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;color:black;"   &gt;Climate changes in the Northern Hemisphere have melted glaciers and brought more rain, dumping more fresh water into the oceans, according to the analysis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:navy;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The writing is certainly cleverly worded to make the average, intellectually lazy person reading this article to infer that the cause for climate change is man-made. That is the danger presented by such articles – they are worded in such a way as to imply that global warming is man-made. Yet little or no consideration has been given to the possibility that climactic change is due to natural processes that have nothing to do with mankind. In fact, it is true that we are in an interglacial period.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Before we start sinking money into a problem, we’d best make sure that there is a problem that needs fixing. I highly doubt it. Mankind couldn’t create enough pollutants to raise the level of greenhouse gases to cause a global warming.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And in any case, such activity would cause the exponential growth of trees and their related forests, thus taking out carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and locking it into the carbon that makes up timber. This is a self-correcting mechanism.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;The sea itself is also a remarkable cleansing agent, also soaking up excess carbon dioxide. So there really isn’t anything to worry about.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;What's going on &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;Curry and Cecilie Mauritzen of the Norwegian Meteorological Institute calculated that an extra 19,000 cubic kilometers of water flowed into and diluted the northern seas between 1965 and 1995.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;For comparison, the Mississippi River releases about 500 cubic kilometers of freshwater into the Gulf of Mexico each year, while the Amazon, the Earth's largest river, discharges roughly 5,000 cubic kilometers annually. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;Because water with lower salinity is less dense, adding fresh water may affect ocean flows like the conveyor belt – a system of Atlantic currents that exchanges cold water in the Arctic region for warm water from the tropics. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;The top part of this conveyor is made of warm ocean currents, like the Gulf Stream, flowing northward along the surface. At high latitudes, this water cools and sinks – releasing its heat to the atmosphere and making for moderate winter climates in places like England. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;Deep, cold currents return some of the water to the south.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;Slight changes in the currents -- both seasonal and longer-term variations -- affect everything from hurricane formation to droughts and heat waves.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;color:black;"   &gt;Future uncertain&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;No significant change in the conveyor belt has yet been observed, however. Curry and Mauritzen estimate that it would take another century to slow the ocean exchanges if the current rate of fresh water inflow continues.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:maroon;"&gt;Oh, now the writer takes it all back, sort of.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="font-family: arial;" class="MsoBodyText"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Scientists disagree over whether the planet is warming and how much humans might be contributing. But most climate experts see a clear warming trend that they expect will continue for at least a century.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;span style="color:green;"&gt;Then what is the point of this article is there is no consensus? The writer claims that most climate experts see a warming trend, but he offers no proof that this is the case. If there is no consensus, there is no conclusive proof.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;"Given the projected 21st Century rise in greenhouse gas concentrations and increased fresh water input to the high-latitude ocean, we cannot rule out a significant slowing of the Atlantic conveyor in the next 100 years," Curry said.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;She emphasized, however, that effects will be gradual.  "We are not suggesting that the Gulf Stream will shut down," she said.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;A study last year concluded that an altered conveyor belt could actually plunge the planet into a global cooling event. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;color:black;"   &gt;The new research was published in the June 17 issue of the journal Science.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);"&gt;This is another neat trick that a writer who wants to bias you into believing his line does: the truth is buried toward the end of the article, hoping that you don’t read to the end, thus hoping to plant a seed of doubt in your mind the next time the subject of any environmental crisis or disaster comes up – same treatment, same spin, same tactics.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:green;"&gt; &lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;font-size:12;color:green;"   &gt;Note also how the possibility that this climactic change could be a natural phenomenon wasn’t even brought up for consideration. The writer preferred to set up a straw man argument – another favorite tactic by those who want to influence the ignorant and lazy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;font-size:12;color:black;"   &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;And now, a related story regarding the Kyoto Protocols – one of the biggest frauds ever perpetrated by anti-capitalist, environmentalists upon the world:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;h1&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:18;"&gt;Kyoto protocol: waste of cash or green lifeline? &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;   &lt;p&gt;By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent &lt;em&gt;Thu Jun 30, 9:02 AM ET&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;A waste of more than $1,300 a year for every American, undermining economic growth and jobs? Or a lifeline for the planet costing just an annual $20 for each European?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;The U.N.'s Kyoto protocol on curbing global warming looks utterly different when viewed from Washington, which opposes the 150-nation pact, or from its main backers in the European Union, Japan or Canada.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;The United States says the EU got off lightly in its targets for cutting use of fossil fuels and shifting to cleaner energies such as solar and wind power under Kyoto.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;"The reductions (in greenhouse gases) the EU have to make were modest compared to what might be required by the United States," said U.S. Senior Climate Negotiator Harlan Watson.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;color:black;"   &gt;Supporters of Kyoto, which entered into force on Feb. 16, see it as a tiny first step to avert what could be far higher costs of more storms, droughts, heat waves and rising sea levels that could drive thousands of species to extinction by 2100.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;font-size:12;color:navy;"   &gt;The last sentence is pure speculation. Who says so? What proof is there? What proof was ever offered in this article or elsewhere? None. If one had to offer proof, that would get in the way of a good story!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;The EU Commission reckons Kyoto will cut the EU's annual gross domestic product (GDP) by 0.06 percent by 2010 when it has full effect, Runge-Metzger said. That would work out roughly at $20 for each EU citizen in 2010 alone.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;"We think this is affordable, in fact it disappears in the noise of the statistics," Runge-Metzger said. Japan and Canada also see costs as manageable.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;In the past, U.S. officials have estimated Kyoto could mean a brake in U.S. economic output of up to $400 billion by 2010 in the worst case, or 4.2 percent of GDP. That would mean more than $1,300 for each American that year.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;color:black;"   &gt;Bush pulled the United States, the world's biggest polluter, out of Kyoto in 2001, branding it too costly and unfair because it omits developing nations from a first round of cuts until 2012.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 102);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The problem with this article is that it puts things in terms of economics instead of dealing with any possibility that greenhouse gas emissions have no scientific basis in fact&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;font-size:12;"  &gt; as causing any global warming.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;font-size:12;color:red;"   &gt;Also, the fact that China and India – both rapidly industrializing nations with millions of laborers ready to build ever more factories and adding more pollution – makes the entire Kyoto Protocol Treaty unenforceable even if it could be proven that such pollution leads to any climactic change. So why bother tying the developed world’s hands while leaving the developing world’s hands unfettered? That was why the U.S. Senate rejected the Kyoto treaty 98-0 in the first place, and they show no signs of changing their vote.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Summary:    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The fact that there is a lively debate over whether there is a global warming and whether man has any responsibility in it has been ignored by a mainstream liberal news media willing to aid and abet a cause where no problem even exists.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; So my challenge still stands for any liberal idiot who wishes to take it up:&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 102);"&gt;SHOW ME THE STUDY – THAT CONCLUSIVELY PROVES BEYOND DOUBT THAT ANY ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS EXISTS AND THAT IT IS PROVEN BEYOND DOUBT THAT MANKIND IS THE CULPRIT, NAME ME THE YEAR OF THE STUDY AND RESEARCH, THE INSTITUTION THAT CONDUCTED THE RESEARCH, WHO HEADED THE STUDY AND WHAT HIS OR HER CREDENTIALS ARE FOR MAKING THE CLAIM, AND SHOW IT FOR ANY OF THE ENVIRONMENTALIST SCARE STORIES, BE IT ACID RAIN, OZONE LAYER DEPLETION OR GLOBAL WARMING.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 102);"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;font-size:12;"  &gt;Go ahead – make my day. I will spare you the trouble – because no such studies exist.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9618798-112051360219111131?l=theinsighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theinsighter.blogspot.com/feeds/112051360219111131/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9618798&amp;postID=112051360219111131' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9618798/posts/default/112051360219111131'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9618798/posts/default/112051360219111131'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theinsighter.blogspot.com/2005/07/global-warming-is-not-man-made.html' title='Global Warming is NOT Man-Made'/><author><name>Edward J S</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14909539549067783347</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9618798.post-111993304885678375</id><published>2005-06-28T00:30:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-06-28T00:30:48.873-04:00</updated><title type='text'>More on the Upcoming Big News Story of 2005</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="MsoBodyText"&gt;This is further commentary on the impending news story of 2005, projected to begin about the late summer, and it concerns the Gaza Strip disengagement – and why this expulsion of Jews from settlements will be a colossal failure.&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;h1&gt;Rice Urges Cooperation on Gaza Withdrawal &lt;/h1&gt;   &lt;p&gt;By ANNE GEARAN, AP Diplomatic Writer&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met on Saturday with Palestinians leaders after saying they must plan together with Israeli officials for this summer's withdrawal of Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;"There needs to be clarity about what to expect," Rice told reporters Friday, en route to Jerusalem. "That, I think, will lead to less confusion on what is likely to be, under the best of circumstances, a pretty complicated day."&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;Both sides are afraid that without coordination, militants and looters would fill the vacuum Israel leaves behind after 38 years.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoBodyText2"&gt;What? Even WITH coordination, the militants and looters will have free run of the Gaza Strip, as Mahmoud Abbas made clear to his Syrian President host at a recent meeting in Damascus that he intends for the Gaza Strip to be a major base of terror operations. The entire Middle East U.S. policy, as it pertains to Israel is based on wishful thinking that will certainly disappoint, to say it mildly and charitably. All the concessions and good will exist on only the Israeli side, and nothing is being demanded of the Arabs in return.&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;Rice was holding talks Saturday with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and members of the Cabinet, including Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia, Foreign Minister Nasser Al-Kidwa and Interior Minister Nasser Yousef.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;"I'm certainly going to talk with President Abbas about the need ... for the Palestinians to play a critical role in providing a secure environment in which the Gaza disengagement can take place," Rice said during her trip from Washington.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;"Obviously, that means that the calm that he has discussed with the various Palestinian factions is going to have to hold," she said, adding that he must be tough with the militant group Hamas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;       &lt;p class="MsoBodyText3"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;The relative “calm” that is apparent is only because there in the Middle East, diplomacy is merely another approach to warfare. While this “calm” is in effect, the terrorist forces are rearming through smuggling of heavy weapons and the like while Egypt endorses and cooperates with the Palestinian thugs. If the Gaza disengagement is successful, no city on Israel will likely be safe from terror attack and artillery fire.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;In southern Gaza on Saturday, Palestinian militants attacked a settlement, leading to a gun fight that killed one of the attackers and wounded a second, the army said. No soldiers or residents were injured.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoBodyText2"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Let’s look at this not as an isolated incident, but as a sign that the terrorists believe that the disengagement plan is a victory for them, and they are eager and empowered by what they consider the weakening will of the “Zionist enemy” – and not have to do anything to grab more land that was never theirs to have in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;Rice planned to meet on Sunday with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in Jerusalem. It was part of her weeklong trip to the Middle East and Europe.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;Israel's planned August withdrawal from all 21 Jewish settlements on Gaza and four of the 120 in the West Bank is a major benchmark of progress toward an eventual peace deal.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;"What they are doing is moving thousands of people with their effects, and families, and it's going to be complicated," Rice said before the talks with the Palestinian leaders.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: green;"&gt;Let’s see if you the reader make sense of this: &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;Thousands of law-abiding citizens in a democracy are being expelled to appease millions of non-democratic people for the sake of peace. These citizens within the Gaza Strip and Northern Shomron bought their land for settlement with their own money at fair market value, transformed the desert into a bountiful agricultural oasis that accounts for 11% of all Israeli agricultural exports.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Furthermore, we are witnessing the forced expulsion of citizens of a democracy! This has never happened within any democracy! How is this supposed to help the cause of peace? What signal does it send to the enemy? He is laughing his head off because the naïve, idealists are giving them credit for goodwill that these So-called moderates never deserved in the first place and have had to make zero concessions.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; This peace deal is a surrender and Jewish blood will be spilled to make the point.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoBodyText3"&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;The U.S. is taking a mostly hands-off approach to the peace process.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;This is a “hands-off approach to the peace process”? Are you kidding me? The U.S. is leading it, has got its nose deep into the anal cavity of this stinking sellout. But soon the defecation will begin, and somebody is going to come out smelling bad.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;Rice warned Israel not to complicate the path to peace through new Jewish settlements just as the Gaza pullout date nears.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;"We don't intend that the Israelis try to create facts on the ground," Rice said during the flight from Washington. "They simply cannot engage in activities that are supposed to prejudge," the final terms of a peace settlement.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;Palestinians charge that Israel has tried to force territorial concessions by building settlements and outposts on land that would presumably one day belong to a separate Palestinian homeland. The two sides are arguing now over whether Israel will build more than 3,000 new homes near Jerusalem.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;The U.S. long has supported the idea of two democratic states for Israelis and Palestinians. But it has not always been clear about the details. Recently, however, the Bush administration has made the no-new-settlements issue very plain.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);" class="MsoBodyText"&gt;Look very carefully and scrutinize the entire tone and theme of this last quote from the news article.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" class="MsoBodyText"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;b&gt;It is making clear that Jews are the foreign invaders and occupiers, when in fact the Jews are the natives to this land and the Arabs are squatters and illegal residents.&lt;/b&gt; America is doing to Israel what they did to the North American Indians – taking their land away from them. Only this time, they’re not taking it for themselves but surrendering it to thugs, murderers, bullies and beast donning the cloak of respectability.&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;With Abbas at his side at a White House meeting last month, President Bush made clear his support for a Palestinian state within the rough outlines of the current West Bank and Gaza territories.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;He warned Israel not to complicate matters through settlements or other actions that make it physically difficult to construct viable Palestinian borders. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);" class="MsoBodyText2"&gt;Again, here we have a clear-cut case that Jews are regarded not as the legitimate natives of their own land, but that Arabs are – fact #1 is true and proven throughout history and fact #2 isn’t.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoBodyText3"&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;International concern about the Gaza plans centers on whether Israeli settlers will put up a fight and whether militants opposed to peace might try to disrupt the departure with violence.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Two points to make here:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; One – international concern is only about dead Jews than living ones and the other nations of the West are more concerned about their oil supply than the safety of Israel.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Two – and this will not be reported until after the fact when the disengagement plan collapses on its face. The settlers aren’t making plans to leave. They are in fact right now planting their crops in full anticipation of staying right there in the Gaza Strip as if nothing is going to happen! Doesn’t that seem strange, idiotic or crazy to you?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Why would they be planting crops just as the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is selling out their land to the enemy? Could it be that they know something that the rest of the world knows?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; I think so. The Israeli public is on the side of the settlers and the issue has not been put to a referendum vote by Sharon. And for good reason – he knows he will lose.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;In addition, there is the question of whether the Palestinians can sustain a working government and keep a lid on violence once the Israelis leave. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;Rice gave a cautious endorsement of Palestinian progress to organize and train an effective security force. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;"In terms of the Palestinians' apparent determination to streamline their security forces into a manageable number of forces that can then be trained and act professionally, I think they are making progress on that," she said. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;"In terms of their ability to fight terror and what they do on a day-to-day basis, frankly I do think more could be done," she said. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoBodyText2"&gt;The Arab thugs have no intention of keeping a lid on violence. In fact, known killers and terrorist are being integrated into the Palestinian forces with the full knowledge and cooperation of Abu Mazen – in a process known as “streamlining”. It is these recruits that are expected to “keep a lid on violence”. Talk about the fox guarding the henhouse!&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoBodyText2"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Even the Arabs working under Israeli farms and factories there prefer the Jews to the PLO thugs. They vent privately for fear of being retaliated against by the PLO. These Arabs will either have no jobs to go to once disengagement takes place, or their jobs will go to PLO cronies in a thug patronage system.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoBodyText2"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;But good news is coming. The world will be in shock when massive demonstrations throughout Israeli city streets take place, taking up all the police and army manpower to restrain possible violence, when massive amounts of policemen and army personnel refuse to obey the disengagement plan of Dictator Sharon.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoBodyText2"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; What the general public isn’t aware of is that even a dictator doesn’t have enough personnel of his own to force his unpopular polices against an unwilling public. If enough people take to the streets, there will be no way the disengagement takes place. The settlers will refuse to leave and the army will stop and say that this is a political matter.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoBodyText2"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And then in September when the Likud leadership convention takes place, Ariel Sharon will be dismissed with the massive failure of the Gaza Strip disengagement staring him in the face.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoBodyText2"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9618798-111993304885678375?l=theinsighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theinsighter.blogspot.com/feeds/111993304885678375/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9618798&amp;postID=111993304885678375' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9618798/posts/default/111993304885678375'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9618798/posts/default/111993304885678375'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theinsighter.blogspot.com/2005/06/more-on-upcoming-big-news-story-of.html' title='More on the Upcoming Big News Story of 2005'/><author><name>Edward J S</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14909539549067783347</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9618798.post-111863353189459578</id><published>2005-06-24T07:31:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-06-24T07:31:23.720-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The Way The World Really Works</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Pardon me in advance for being abrasive, blunt and brutal in my assessment of the way the world really is and where it will go in the near future, but I have no choice.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; If any of you ever hope to learn reality, your paradigms, belief systems, religions and ideologies will be challenged here today. You will need to have the courage to fact the truth about your worldviews.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The reason you need courage to abandon your worldview is that you face pressures to conform to present thinking that predominates the “modern” and “postmodern” society, or whatever they call themselves today – and these present-day intellectuals are NOT “enlightened” as they would try to have you believe. You’d best abandon the current mode of thinking of these times if you are ever to achieve true knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;As a result, I expect a lot of hate email from this article from the mental midgets who will curiously troll this web site and find something very offensive to their cherished little world of delusional security.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Furthermore, I issue a challenge to anybody who can refute my views, because I think NOBODY can. Spare me any ad hominem attacks because your pathetic tirades will indicate that you lack any measurable intelligence.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt; This is a standing offer to anybody: I challenge anyone to refute my views on how the world really works and operates. I expect no takers, and I will keep a running tab on who did accept the offer, and how many really did make a bona fide attempt at trying to discredit me, and publish the results here in the blog.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; As things presently stand, the political Left is disintegrating. The accumulated facts and data from that past century has proven that leftism is a fraud that only achieved any stature at all because of the existence of Big Government. The rationalization for its very existence was invented. Even today around the world, countries that formerly embraced communism and socialism are rejecting it outright.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The Leftists are crying and are depressed that the great false God of their ideology – which is actually is a religion, a theology – the Soviet Union, is dead. All we are treated to from the Left nowadays is an overriding theme of hatred, and “against-ism”. They have nothing to offer the world any longer. Even their new chief Deity – the United Nations – has proven to be as corrupt, useless and evil as the Soviet Union.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; You would think that the Christian Right would see an opportunity to seize the moment and spread itself around. Nothing of the sort is happening. There’s a reason why.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Christianity can’t seize the moment. In fact, the very reason for the existence of liberalism is Christianity itself!&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; You see, I was recently privileged to witness and rediscover why I abandoned the very same Christianity of my youth in the first place for liberalism. I have come full circle to believe in a Supreme Being that created the Universe, but I have not subsequently embraced any sort of Christianity.&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;I witnessed firsthand and rediscovered the hypocrisy and failings of the Christian Right that drove me away in the first place to explore other thinking. Christianity hahad a golden opportunity to advance itself. But it won’t go far because it doesn’t have the flexibility to do so.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; It is stuck in archaic thinking due to the mistakes of Biblical translation that give rise to the inflexible dogma that drives many mainstream Protestant sects.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; For example, dinosaurs ARE mentioned in the Bible. So too are extraterrestrials mentioned in the Bible – many times! Yet the existence of ETs seems to threaten the conventional Christian establishment. But if they’d just get an accurate translation of the Bible, they’d have nothing to fear.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Meanwhile, during my stay at various email discussion groups, I encountered many liberals. They actually were sympathetic to the words of Jesus, and tended to be far less hospitable - if not downright hostile - toward the God of the Old Testament.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; This proves to me that the Left derived its origins from Christianity. They secularized some main points of Christianity, omitting reference to any Supreme Deity. The liberals seized upon the concept of mercy and expanded it to the point of perversion. They abandoned any idea of justice and punishment and illogically extended the idea of mercy to the “humane treatment” of any and all criminals.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; As a result, there has been a total disconnect between wrongful acts and punishment. The whole world has been turned upside-down, backwards and inside out. This state of affairs cannot last because it breeds instability and chaos. The end result is a wrold that is totally disincentive and which rewards all the wrong behaviors. That is why the current turmoil exists today and why the very existence of liberalism is now in question.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; My assessment is that liberalism and all other forms of left wing politics will not survive the coming Great Correction. It will come in full force in the year 2012.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The religion of Left Wing Politics has now become as inflexible as the Christianity that preceded it and gave birth to it.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Left-wingers have nothing to offer but hate. They have no new ideas and stubbornly cling to antiquated ideas that have long been discredited by the data throughout the last century and a half.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Furthermore, the forces of tribalism, decentralization and fundamentalism ensure that the politics of left wing theology will be thoroughly discredited and they will soon take their place upon the ash-heap of history.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Christianity should take advantage of this turmoil among the leftists, but they will be unable to do so.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Focus now on libertarians: they too will fail. Although they have a sound basis and grounding on economic theory, they too will fail because they abandoned the idea of a Supreme Being that guides the affairs of mankind in a benevolent way. They sound articulate, but in fact, their prescriptions for the ails of mankind rely upon humna solutions rather than a Divine presence who knew all along what the real prescriprion was.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Without the concept of an undeniable Supreme Being that created the Universe, no human thought process would prevail for long. And anybody with any sense can figure out for himself that there is indeed a God, if they had power to think and know where to look.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Fortunately, you don’t have to look very far. Consult the archive article in this blog for an article entitled “Evolution is Impossible” for proof of a bona fide existence of a Supreme Entity that guides the Universe.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Also, don’t forget to look up for a fast read what happened to our solar system in another article herein entitled, “When Worlds Collided”.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; I warn you in advance that these articles may contain more truth than you are willing to accept, and once you read them, your worldview will be forever changed. It will do you no good whatsoever to go into full-blown denial after you’ve read them, or else you will fall into the trap of ad hominem attacks against me and make a fool of yourself in the process – for all to see how stupid you really are.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; So you have been warned.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; As for Islam, well let’s just say that it isn’t a “religion of peace” that the stupid leftists in the media try to portray it. Islam has been involved and still is involved in 98% of all conflicts in the world today. Islam is a “me-too” religion. The Arabs saw their world being overwhelmed by the Christians and Jews of their early days and they had to invent an organized religion of their own.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; So why are they gaining adherents?&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; It is being made possible because of the crusading mentality of this faith. It also rejects the “mercy” concept of the Left and primarily focuses upon punishment to an unreasonable extreme. It is a welcome relief to those sick of the compassion fascists of the Left and the dreamy romanticism of Christianity that also emphasizes mercy, albeit to a lesser degree than liberalism.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The Islamic prescriptions for punishments against crime are sure and swift. There is no room for doubt at all. For a crime-weary society, Islam offers instant answers to crime.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; But there is a problem with Islam too: there is little room for mercy. Islam and Christianity emphasize opposite concepts of mercy and punishment. I have found, so far, that the mother of both religions – Judaism – offers the right balance in the first place. But the daughters of Judaism, both Christians and Moslems – both hate their mother and fight among themselves while the delusional granddaughter, the Leftists hate its mother called Christianity and consider an unholy alliance with its aunt Islam against all the rest.&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Here is where there exists another reason why the Left will die the death it truly deserves. It is making nice with Islam – a religion that is diametrically opposed to all that the Left holds dear. It is an alliance of convenience. It is a prime example of the ancient Middle East warfare principle of “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”.&lt;/p&gt;      &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; If Islam were to take over the world, whom would they kill first? It would be the liberals. After they are of no further use to Islam, the liberals would be executed.&lt;br /&gt;I raised this question to liberals where I used to post email in a political discussion group – and they never could give me a satisfactory answer. I exposed their stupid strategy for the wishful thinking of some moderate leader to sway the populace toward leftism that it was.&lt;/p&gt;      &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;Why did leftists enter into an unholy alliance with such people who were so "diametrically opposed to them" ideological group such as Islam? It’s because there’s recognition that the left is no longer a powerful force to be reckoned with in politics! But they will never admit that they are weak. They will continue to delude themselves until their last breath because they can’t stomach that they are out of power.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;The Left can't stand the fact that they have little influence and are weaklings in the arena of politcal thought - or any thought of any kind whatsoever.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;      &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Granted, the Left still has institutions under its control to try to influence naïve millions of voters toward their failed thinking, but this state of affairs won’t last either. The press and the mainstream educational institutions may exist longer to try to perpetuate their existence further, but there is a new media born that exposes truth and offers an alternative to the mainstream press today – bloggers, internet news, talk radio and the like. The mainstream press now dominated by liberals can no longer control what makes news any longer.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And what is left of the Left to control? It is the activist judges that used to be appointed by liberal-minded presidents and Social Security. BOTH of these are under attack by the current President – George W Bush. THAT is why they are fighting so hard to filibuster and obstruct his judicial appointees, and why these private Social Security accounts. Both of these attack their base political strongholds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;And millions are being exposed to the truth that judges are now completely arbitrary in their decisions lately. If there ever were a revolt by the people or a brave governor of any state within the United States to declare unliaterally that he is invoking his state's 10th Amendment rights, and act accordingly, what could the judicial system do? Nothing!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;      &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; During this last century, the Left and idiots like President Wilson expanded control of the federal government at the expense of the states and ignored the Constitution and took over power, dictated the terms of World War One, and dictated the terms of peace.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; It is because of Woodrow Wilson that we had the Holocaust in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The creation of the Federal Reserve System – a central bank – allowed the creation of new credit that expanded American power and allowed a European war - World War One - to exist far beyond what it should have and dragged many other nations into.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The war (that would have been over by Christmas in 1914) lasted 4 years and millions of lives. In the process, it gave rise and credibility to the Treaty of Versailles in which the Germans would have to sign a humiliating surrender and give Hitler a reason to rise to power and kill 6,000,000 Jews.&lt;/p&gt;        &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The genocide of 6,000,000 Jews is thus blood on the hands of Woodrow Wilson - the delusional man that thought he had a right to "make the world safe for democracy. I now introduce the term for it as it is rightly and fairly applied for our times: "DEMOCRAZY".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And also in the process, Wilson enabled World War Two that cost the world even more millions of human lives.&lt;/p&gt;          &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The British Empire collapsed and America filled the void as the next hegemonic power. And what has America done with this newfound power?&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Again, some good and bad things were done. Communism has collapsed and so too has socialism. But as it was sowing the seeds of destruction among these leftist institutions, it has also absorbed leftist thinking in the form of the Welfare State.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;It got contaminated with leftist dogma while destroying the most extreme forms.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The Welfare State cannot stand. Flush with success at WW2, the generation that survived the Great Depression, and starved for lack of plenty, got prosperity that it never imagined and forgot the moral underpinnings that made wealth possible. Children were born from the WW2 Generation that never knew hunger or suffering and yet grew up to believe that they were sufferers and oppressed people, and that the capitalist system was to blame.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; These same spoiled brats who never knew real adversity began to invent suffering. They became the Baby Boomers.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; But the problem with the Baby Boomers is that the succeeding generations will never be able to be as generous with tax money to fund their own retirement as they were to funds the WW2 generation. There will never be enough without cutting all manner of social programs, so retirement as a concept will be a thing of the past – except for the wealthy, the healthy, the “connected”, and the elected. Retirement for the masses will be a major casualty, among many, of the coming Great Correction.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Retirement is one of those ideas that got born during this 150 Year Fluke of History. Nowhere ever in history was retirement a guaranteed thing.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Since we live in a fluke of history, and since this fluke will be corrected, you can kiss retirement goodbye. All the Baby Boomers who aren’t rich will have to work for the rest of their natural lives at various degrees until they die.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; But anyways, I am digressing too far from my main point.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; I rejected Islam, Christianity, liberalism and leftist politics.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; What is there left?&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; I remain sympathetic to Judaism. And it’s not contemporary Reform Judaism, but real Orthodox Judaism.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;Reform Judaism is nothing more than a nonobservant Jew (impatient with waiting for the Moshiach to change things) contorting his or her religion to conform to his or her liberalism than to letting the religion shape his or her political beliefs.&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;You cannot be a Jew and a liberal at the same time. Choose your deity. It’s that simple.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; As for Jesus, I reject this man’s claim that he is a Son of God. He is no more a child of God than any one of us is.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; It is blasphemy to the extreme. His ploy was to get Gentiles closer to God. But Gentiles have little idea of a concept of justice and have to be lead by those who are truly spiritually inclined.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; It was the Jews who introduced the concept of an objective sense of right and wrong to the world. For this, they are hated. And they are hated when they abandon the natural role of being the spiritual conscience of humanity. Gentiles know instinctively that Jews are supposed to be “holy”. That’s why the Gentile political leaders secretly thank the Israelis for beating the Arabs in the 6-Day War of 1967 while publicly saying the exact opposite.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And oh yes, that’s true!&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; By the way, we will meet extraterrestrials in the near future, and sooner than many mental midgets who might be reading this and begin to scoff and write nasty hate mail.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; It is the Jews who are the Chosen Ones here on Earth, and there will be “Holy Ones” on other planets in solar systems where there is intelligent life who do acknowledge the existence of a Supreme Being that created the Universe.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; That is why Christians need not fear the existence of extraterrestrials. It is only the atheists who scoff loudly and denigrate my views because they fear too much that I am right about this topic, and it blows all their cherished theories out of the water about some imaginary, independent life that formed by chance in some evolutionary, mystic way.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Pity the atheists, for they are fools of the lowest order.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Christians are not much better, and neither is Islam. While they will be busy fighting themselves, deluding the atheistic among secular society that it’s about Jews, it really isn’t. It is all about world domination for them because Islam has already stated that Israel is the “Lesser Satan”, and that America, as the dominant representative of the Western World which rules the globe, is the “Great Satan”, and they view the ascension of the West to prominence as a mistake of history to be corrected.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And here we have the Left in an unholy alliance with the very same people who would target them for death as soon as they are no longer useful for their purpose of world domination! The Left has blinded themselves with their own hatred of G W Bush that they are forced into convenient alliances with those equally weak to try to defeat others with no greater an ideology than they themselves!&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And then to top it off, the Left likes to delusionally think of themselves “as above the fray”, as if somehow, they think they have a moral superiority to rule – a notion that has long since been dispelled by the truth, yet those who once had the spotlight to themselves without challenge are now being challenged and they don’t know how to deal with it, except to try to destroy the reputation of those who challenge their false beliefs!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; So much for their moral superiority! They never had any to begin with.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Yet, in keeping with their delusions, they look for “moderate Arabs” who are certain to endorse their views. Hey, the enemy who seeks to destroy you will tell you anything you want to hear, so long as you are useful to them. After which, when you no longer become useful to them, you will be stabbed in the back or beheaded just like Nick Berg was.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;I enjoy kicking liberalism when it’s down because it deserves a death that ought to be celebrated to the Max Q! It is a faggotized, effeminate theology disguised as a political ideology and the liberals hate me for exposing the truth about them. And they doubly hate me because I was once a former liberal. And nothing is more evil to the liberal's way of thinking than a former liberal turning on them and seemingly taking the other side. It is heresy to them, and they treat heresy worse than criminal murderers. That is how low on the moral scale that they have gone - losing all perspective of justice!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The liberals I used to know are afraid to debate me. That’s totally in line with their cowardly nature to pick on people that can’t fight back – like fetuses, children and bedridden patients like Terri Schiavo!&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; In any case, I issue this challenge to anybody out there who has power to think, or has the guts to challenge ANYTHING I’ve written here – today, in the past, or will do so in the future – to prove me wrong!&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; WHICH ONE OF YOU LIMP-WRISTED, FAGGOTIZED LOSERS OR DELUSIONAL SO-CALLED “SCHOLARS” WILL STEP FORWARD?&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; OPEN CHALLENGE TO ANYBODY – ALL TAKERS ACCEPTED.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; BRING IT ON, LIMP-WRISTERS.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9618798-111863353189459578?l=theinsighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theinsighter.blogspot.com/feeds/111863353189459578/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9618798&amp;postID=111863353189459578' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9618798/posts/default/111863353189459578'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9618798/posts/default/111863353189459578'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theinsighter.blogspot.com/2005/06/way-world-really-works.html' title='The Way The World Really Works'/><author><name>Edward J S</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14909539549067783347</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9618798.post-111906217492986136</id><published>2005-06-23T06:52:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-06-23T06:51:37.876-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Resolution 1441: Liberals, Read and Weep</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);"&gt;OK, you limp-wristed, effeminate, liberals!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;Here is the text of Resolution 1441 presented below, and you show me anywhere in there where "weapons of Mass Destruction" was the main reason why we went to war in Iraq.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;The real reason was a "material breach" of the provisions that Saddam Hussein had to comply with, and that had been going on for 12 years.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;The Left tried to switch the focus of the debate to WMD. To some extent, they succeeded, but the truth will come out in blogs like these and your attempts at indoctrination will fail and your credibility and existemce will suffer as a result.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;The Left only switched the debate to WMD existence because they were afraid that George W Bush would be successful in prosecuting the War on Terror - the agents of radical Islam of whom the Left are engaged with an unholy alliance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;U.N. Resolution 1441:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;United Nations&lt;br /&gt;New York, New York&lt;br /&gt;November 8, 2002 &lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and United States of America: draft resolution&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[Adopted as Resolution 1441 at Security Council meeting 4644, 8 November 2002] &lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Security Council&lt;/i&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Recalling all its previous relevant resolutions, in particular its resolutions 661 (1990) of 6 August 1990, 678 (1990) of 29 November 1990, 686 (1991) of 2 March 1991, 687 (1991) of 3 April 1991, 688 (1991) of 5 April 1991, 707 (1991) of 15 August 1991, 715 (1991) of 11 October 1991, 986 (1995) of 14 April 1995, and 1284 (1999) of 17 December 1999, and all the relevant statements of its President, &lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Recalling also&lt;/i&gt; its resolution 1382 (2001) of 29 November 2001 and its intention to implement it fully, &lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Recognizing&lt;/i&gt; the threat Iraq’s non-compliance with Council resolutions and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and long-range missiles poses to international peace and security, &lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Recalling&lt;/i&gt; that its resolution 678 (1990) authorized Member States to use all necessary means to uphold and implement its resolution 660 (1990) of 2 August 1990 and all relevant resolutions subsequent to resolution 660 (1990) and to restore international peace and security in the area, &lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Further recalling&lt;/i&gt; that its resolution 687 (1991) imposed obligations on Iraq as a necessary step for achievement of its stated objective of restoring international peace and security in the area, &lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deploring&lt;/i&gt; the fact that Iraq has not provided an accurate, full, final, and complete disclosure, as required by resolution 687 (1991), of all aspects of its programmes to develop weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles with a range greater than one hundred and fifty kilometres, and of all holdings of such weapons, their components and production facilities and locations, as well as all other nuclear programmes, including any which it claims are for purposes not related to nuclear-weapons-usable material, &lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deploring further that Iraq repeatedly obstructed immediate, unconditional, and unrestricted access to sites designated by the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), failed to cooperate fully and unconditionally with UNSCOM and IAEA weapons inspectors, as required by resolution 687 (1991), and ultimately ceased all cooperation with UNSCOM and the IAEA in 1998,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deploring&lt;/i&gt; the absence, since December 1998, in Iraq of international monitoring, inspection, and verification, as required by relevant resolutions, of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles, in spite of the Council’s repeated demands that Iraq provide immediate, unconditional, and unrestricted access to the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC), established in resolution 1284 (1999) as the successor organization to UNSCOM, and the IAEA, and regretting the consequent prolonging of the crisis in the region and the suffering of the Iraqi people, &lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deploring&lt;/i&gt; also that the Government of Iraq has failed to comply with its commitments pursuant to resolution 687 (1991) with regard to terrorism, pursuant to resolution 688 (1991) to end repression of its civilian population and to provide access by international humanitarian organizations to all those in need of assistance in Iraq, and pursuant to resolutions 686 (1991), 687 (1991), and 1284 (1999) to return or cooperate in accounting for Kuwaiti and third country nationals wrongfully detained by Iraq, or to return Kuwaiti property wrongfully seized by Iraq, &lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Recalling&lt;/i&gt; that in its resolution 687 (1991) the Council declared that a ceasefire would be based on acceptance by Iraq of the provisions of that resolution, including the obligations on Iraq contained therein, &lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Determined&lt;/i&gt; to ensure full and immediate compliance by Iraq without conditions or restrictions with its obligations under resolution 687 (1991) and other relevant resolutions and recalling that the resolutions of the Council constitute the governing standard of Iraqi compliance, &lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Recalling&lt;/i&gt; that the effective operation of UNMOVIC, as the successor organization to the Special Commission, and the IAEA is essential for the implementation of resolution 687 (1991) and other relevant resolutions, &lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Noting&lt;/i&gt; the letter dated 16 September 2002 from the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iraq addressed to the Secretary-General is a necessary first step toward rectifying Iraq’s continued failure to comply with relevant Council resolutions,&lt;!--[if gte vml 1]&gt;&lt;v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75" coordsize="21600,21600" spt="75" preferrelative="t" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" filled="f" stroked="f"&gt; 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the Secretary-General and members of the League of Arab States and its Secretary-General for their efforts in this regard, &lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Determined&lt;/i&gt; to secure full compliance with its decisions, &lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Acting&lt;/i&gt; under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. &lt;i&gt;Decides &lt;/i&gt;that Iraq has been and remains in material breach of its obligations under relevant resolutions, including resolution 687 (1991), in particular through Iraq’s failure to cooperate with United Nations inspectors and the IAEA, and to complete the actions required under paragraphs 8 to 13 of resolution 687 (1991);&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. &lt;i&gt;Decides&lt;/i&gt;, while acknowledging paragraph 1 above, to afford Iraq, by this resolution, a final opportunity to comply with its disarmament obligations under relevant resolutions of the Council; and accordingly decides to set up an enhanced inspection regime with the aim of bringing to full and verified completion the disarmament process established by resolution 687 (1991) and subsequent resolutions of the Council;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. &lt;i&gt;Decides&lt;/i&gt; that, in order to begin to comply with its disarmament obligations, in addition to submitting the required biannual declarations, the Government of Iraq shall provide to UNMOVIC, the IAEA, and the Council, not later than 30 days from the date of this resolution, a currently accurate, full, and complete declaration of all aspects of its programmes to develop chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, and other delivery systems such as unmanned aerial vehicles and dispersal systems designed for use on aircraft, including any holdings and precise locations of such weapons, components, sub-components, stocks of agents, and related material and equipment, the locations and work of its research, development and production facilities, as well as all other chemical, biological, and nuclear programmes, including any which it claims are for purposes not related to weapon production or material;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. &lt;i&gt;Decides&lt;/i&gt; that false statements or omissions in the declarations submitted by Iraq pursuant to this resolution and failure by Iraq at any time to comply with, and cooperate fully in the implementation of, this resolution shall constitute a further material breach of Iraq’s obligations and will be reported to the Council for assessment in accordance with paragraphs 11 and 12 below;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. &lt;i&gt;Decides&lt;/i&gt; that Iraq shall provide UNMOVIC and the IAEA immediate, unimpeded, unconditional, and unrestricted access to any and all, including underground, areas, facilities, buildings, equipment, records, and means of transport which they wish to inspect, as well as immediate, unimpeded, unrestricted, and private access to all officials and other persons whom UNMOVIC or the IAEA wish to interview in the mode or location of UNMOVIC’s or the IAEA’s choice pursuant to any aspect of their mandates; further decides that UNMOVIC and the IAEA may at their discretion conduct interviews inside or outside of Iraq, may facilitate the travel of those interviewed and family members outside of Iraq, and that, at the sole discretion of UNMOVIC and the IAEA, such interviews may occur without the presence of observers from the Iraqi Government; and instructs UNMOVIC and requests the IAEA to resume inspections no later than 45 days following adoption of this resolution and to update the Council 60 days thereafter;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. &lt;i&gt;Endorses&lt;/i&gt; the 8 October 2002 letter from the Executive Chairman of UNMOVIC and the Director-General of the IAEA to General Al-Saadi of the Government of Iraq, which is annexed hereto, and decides that the contents of the letter shall be binding upon Iraq;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7. &lt;i&gt;Decides&lt;/i&gt; further that, in view of the prolonged interruption by Iraq of the presence of UNMOVIC and the IAEA and in order for them to accomplish the tasks set forth in this resolution and all previous relevant resolutions and notwithstanding prior understandings, the Council hereby establishes the following revised or additional authorities, which shall be binding upon Iraq, to facilitate their work in Iraq:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;– UNMOVIC and the IAEA shall determine the composition of their inspection teams and ensure that these teams are composed of the most qualified and experienced experts available;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;– All UNMOVIC and IAEA personnel shall enjoy the privileges and immunities, corresponding to those of experts on mission, provided in the Convention on Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations and the Agreement on the Privileges and Immunities of the IAEA;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;– UNMOVIC and the IAEA shall have unrestricted rights of entry into and out of Iraq, the right to free, unrestricted, and immediate movement to and from inspection sites, and the right to inspect any sites and buildings, including immediate, unimpeded, unconditional, and unrestricted access to Presidential Sites equal to that at other sites, notwithstanding the provisions of resolution 1154 (1998);&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;– UNMOVIC and the IAEA shall have the right to be provided by Iraq the names of all personnel currently and formerly associated with Iraq’s chemical, biological, nuclear, and ballistic missile programmes and the associated research, development, and production facilities;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;– Security of UNMOVIC and IAEA facilities shall be ensured by sufficient United Nations security guards;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;– UNMOVIC and the IAEA shall have the right to declare, for the purposes of freezing a site to be inspected, exclusion zones, including surrounding areas and transit corridors, in which Iraq will suspend ground and aerial movement so that nothing is changed in or taken out of a site being inspected;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;– UNMOVIC and the IAEA shall have the free and unrestricted use and landing of fixed- and rotary-winged aircraft, including manned and unmanned reconnaissance vehicles;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;– UNMOVIC and the IAEA shall have the right at their sole discretion verifiably to remove, destroy, or render harmless all prohibited weapons, subsystems, components, records, materials, and other related items, and the right to impound or close any facilities or equipment for the production thereof; and&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;– UNMOVIC and the IAEA shall have the right to free import and use of equipment or materials for inspections and to seize and export any equipment, materials, or documents taken during inspections, without search of UNMOVIC or IAEA personnel or official or personal baggage;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8. &lt;i&gt;Decides&lt;/i&gt; further that Iraq shall not take or threaten hostile acts directed against any representative or personnel of the United Nations or the IAEA or of any Member State taking action to uphold any Council resolution;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9. &lt;i&gt;Requests&lt;/i&gt; the Secretary-General immediately to notify Iraq of this resolution, which is binding on Iraq; demands that Iraq confirm within seven days of that notification its intention to comply fully with this resolution; and demands further that Iraq cooperate immediately, unconditionally, and actively with UNMOVIC and the IAEA;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10. &lt;i&gt;Requests&lt;/i&gt; all Member States to give full support to UNMOVIC and the IAEA in the discharge of their mandates, including by providing any information related to prohibited programmes or other aspects of their mandates, including on Iraqi attempts since 1998 to acquire prohibited items, and by recommending sites to be inspected, persons to be interviewed, conditions of such interviews, and data to be collected, the results of which shall be reported to the Council by UNMOVIC and the IAEA;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;11. &lt;i&gt;Directs&lt;/i&gt; the Executive Chairman of UNMOVIC and the Director-General of the IAEA to report immediately to the Council any interference by Iraq with inspection activities, as well as any failure by Iraq to comply with its disarmament obligations, including its obligations regarding inspections under this resolution;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;12. &lt;i&gt;Decides&lt;/i&gt; to convene immediately upon receipt of a report in accordance with paragraphs 4 or 11 above, in order to consider the situation and the need for full compliance with all of the relevant Council resolutions in order to secure international peace and security;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;13. &lt;i&gt;Recalls&lt;/i&gt;, in that context, that the Council has repeatedly warned Iraq that it will face serious consequences as a result of its continued violations of its obligations;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;14. &lt;i&gt;Decides&lt;/i&gt; to remain seized of the matter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9618798-111906217492986136?l=theinsighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theinsighter.blogspot.com/feeds/111906217492986136/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9618798&amp;postID=111906217492986136' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9618798/posts/default/111906217492986136'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9618798/posts/default/111906217492986136'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theinsighter.blogspot.com/2005/06/resolution-1441-liberals-read-and-weep.html' title='Resolution 1441: Liberals, Read and Weep'/><author><name>Edward J S</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14909539549067783347</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9618798.post-111926280261442487</id><published>2005-06-22T07:10:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-06-22T07:09:21.893-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Disengagement Will Be A Failure</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);" class="MsoBodyText"&gt;This is further commentary on the impending news story of 2005, projected to begin about the late summer, and it concerns the Gaza Strip disengagement – and why this expulsion of Jews from settlements will be a colossal failure.&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;h1&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Rice Urges Cooperation on Gaza Withdrawal&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/h1&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;By ANNE GEARAN, AP Diplomatic Writer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met on Saturday with Palestinians leaders after saying they must plan together with Israeli officials for this summer's withdrawal of Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;"There needs to be clarity about what to expect," Rice told reporters Friday, en route to Jerusalem. "That, I think, will lead to less confusion on what is likely to be, under the best of circumstances, a pretty complicated day."&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;Both sides are afraid that without coordination, militants and looters would fill the vacuum Israel leaves behind after 38 years.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="MsoBodyText2"&gt;What? Even WITH coordination, the militants and looters will have free run of the Gaza Strip, as Mahmoud Abbas made clear to his Syrian President host at a recent meeting in Damascus that he intends for the Gaza Strip to be a major base of terror operations. The entire Middle East U.S. policy, as it pertains to Israel is based on wishful thinking that will certainly disappoint, to say it mildly and charitably. All the concessions and good will exist on only the Israeli side, and nothing is being demanded of the Arabs in return.&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;Rice was holding talks Saturday with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and members of the Cabinet, including Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia, Foreign Minister Nasser Al-Kidwa and Interior Minister Nasser Yousef.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;"I'm certainly going to talk with President Abbas about the need ... for the Palestinians to play a critical role in providing a secure environment in which the Gaza disengagement can take place," Rice said during her trip from Washington.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;"Obviously, that means that the calm that he has discussed with the various Palestinian factions is going to have to hold," she said, adding that he must be tough with the militant group Hamas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;       &lt;p class="MsoBodyText3"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;The relative “calm” that is apparent is only because there in the Middle East, diplomacy is merely another approach to warfare. While this “calm” is in effect, the terrorist forces are rearming through smuggling of heavy weapons and the like while Egypt endorses and cooperates with the Palestinian thugs. If the Gaza disengagement is successful, no city on Israel will likely be safe from terror attack and artillery fire.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;In southern Gaza on Saturday, Palestinian militants attacked a settlement, leading to a gun fight that killed one of the attackers and wounded a second, the army said. No soldiers or residents were injured.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoBodyText2"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Let’s look at this not as an isolated incident, but as a sign that the terrorists believe that the disengagement plan is a victory for them, and they are eager and empowered by what they consider the weakening will of the “Zionist enemy” – and not have to do anything to grab more land that was never theirs to have in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;Rice planned to meet on Sunday with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in Jerusalem. It was part of her weeklong trip to the Middle East and Europe.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;Israel's planned August withdrawal from all 21 Jewish settlements on Gaza and four of the 120 in the West Bank is a major benchmark of progress toward an eventual peace deal.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;"What they are doing is moving thousands of people with their effects, and families, and it's going to be complicated," Rice said before the talks with the Palestinian leaders.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color:green;"&gt;Let’s see if you the reader make sense of this: &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:navy;"&gt;Thousands of law-abiding citizens in a democracy are being expelled to appease millions of non-democratic people for the sake of peace. These citizens within the Gaza Strip and Northern Shomron bought their land for settlement with their own money at fair market value, transformed the desert into a bountiful agricultural oasis that accounts for 11% of all Israeli agricultural exports.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Furthermore, we are witnessing the forced expulsion of citizens of a democracy! This has never happened within any democracy! How is this supposed to help the cause of peace? What signal does it send to the enemy? He is laughing his head off because the naïve, idealists are giving them credit for goodwill that these So-called moderates never deserved in the first place and have had to make zero concessions.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; This peace deal is a surrender and Jewish blood will be spilled to make the point.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoBodyText3"&gt;&lt;span style="color:navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;The U.S. is taking a mostly hands-off approach to the peace process.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;span style="color:blue;"&gt;This is a “hands-off approach to the peace process”? Are you kidding me? The U.S. is leading it, has got its nose deep into the anal cavity of this stinking sellout. But soon the defecation will begin, and somebody is going to come out smelling bad.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;Rice warned Israel not to complicate the path to peace through new Jewish settlements just as the Gaza pullout date nears.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;"We don't intend that the Israelis try to create facts on the ground," Rice said during the flight from Washington. "They simply cannot engage in activities that are supposed to prejudge," the final terms of a peace settlement.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;Palestinians charge that Israel has tried to force territorial concessions by building settlements and outposts on land that would presumably one day belong to a separate Palestinian homeland. The two sides are arguing now over whether Israel will build more than 3,000 new homes near Jerusalem.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;The U.S. long has supported the idea of two democratic states for Israelis and Palestinians. But it has not always been clear about the details. Recently, however, the Bush administration has made the no-new-settlements issue very plain.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoBodyText"&gt;Look very carefully and scrutinize the entire tone and theme of this last quote from the news article.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoBodyText"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;b&gt;It is making clear that Jews are the foreign invaders and occupiers, when in fact the Jews are the natives to this land and the Arabs are squatters and illegal residents.&lt;/b&gt; America is doing to Israel what they did to the North American Indians – taking their land away from them. Only this time, they’re not taking it for themselves but surrendering it to thugs, murderers, bullies and beast donning the cloak of respectability.&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;With Abbas at his side at a White House meeting last month, President Bush made clear his support for a Palestinian state within the rough outlines of the current West Bank and Gaza territories.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;He warned Israel not to complicate matters through settlements or other actions that make it physically difficult to construct viable Palestinian borders. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoBodyText2"&gt;Again, here we have a clear-cut case that Jews are regarded not as the legitimate natives of their own land, but that Arabs are – fact #1 is true and proven throughout history and fact #2 isn’t.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoBodyText3"&gt;&lt;span style="color:navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" &gt;International concern about the Gaza plans centers on whether Israeli settlers will put up a fight and whether militants opposed to peace might try to disrupt the departure with violence.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:navy;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Two points to make here:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; One – international concern is only about dead Jews than living ones and the other nations of the West are more concerned about their oil supply than the safety of Israel.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Two – and this will not be reported until after the fact when the disengagement plan collapses on its face. The settlers aren’t making plans to leave. They are in fact right now planting their crops in full anticipation of staying right there in the Gaza Strip as if nothing is going to happen! Doesn’t that seem strange, idiotic or crazy to you?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Why would they be planting crops just as the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is selling out their land to the enemy? Could it be that they know something that the rest of the world knows?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; I think so. The Israeli public is on the side of the settlers and the issue has not been put to a referendum vote by Sharon. And for good reason – he knows he will lose.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;In addition, there is the question of whether the Palestinians can sustain a working government and keep a lid on violence once the Israelis leave. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;Rice gave a cautious endorsement of Palestinian progress to organize and train an effective security force. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;"In terms of the Palestinians' apparent determination to streamline their security forces into a manageable number of forces that can then be trained and act professionally, I think they are making progress on that," she said. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;"In terms of their ability to fight terror and what they do on a day-to-day basis, frankly I do think more could be done," she said. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoBodyText2"&gt;The Arab thugs have no intention of keeping a lid on violence. In fact, known killers and terrorist are being integrated into the Palestinian forces with the full knowledge and cooperation of Abu Mazen – in a process known as “streamlining”. It is these recruits that are expected to “keep a lid on violence”. Talk about the fox guarding the henhouse!&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" class="MsoBodyText2"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Even the Arabs working under Israeli farms and factories there prefer the Jews to the PLO thugs. They vent privately for fear of being retaliated against by the PLO. These Arabs will either have no jobs to go to once disengagement takes place, or their jobs will go to PLO cronies in a thug patronage system.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoBodyText2"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;span style="color:teal;"&gt;But good news is coming. The world will be in shock when massive demonstrations throughout Israeli city streets take place, taking up all the police and army manpower to restrain possible violence, when massive amounts of policemen and army personnel refuse to obey the disengagement plan of Dictator Sharon.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoBodyText2"&gt;&lt;span style="color:teal;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; What the general public isn’t aware of is that even a dictator doesn’t have enough personnel of his own to force his unpopular polices against an unwilling public. If enough people take to the streets, there will be no way the disengagement takes place. The settlers will refuse to leave and the army will stop and say that this is a political matter.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoBodyText2"&gt;&lt;span style="color:teal;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And then in September when the Likud leadership convention takes place, Ariel Sharon will be dismissed with the massive failure of the Gaza Strip disengagement staring him in the face.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoBodyText2"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:teal;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9618798-111926280261442487?l=theinsighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theinsighter.blogspot.com/feeds/111926280261442487/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9618798&amp;postID=111926280261442487' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9618798/posts/default/111926280261442487'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9618798/posts/default/111926280261442487'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theinsighter.blogspot.com/2005/06/disengagement-will-be-failure.html' title='Disengagement Will Be A Failure'/><author><name>Edward J S</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14909539549067783347</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9618798.post-111741640030484477</id><published>2005-06-20T06:20:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-06-20T06:20:55.003-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Reprint Classic: Red Mercury</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:purple;"&gt;When I talk about&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:red;"&gt;red mercury&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:purple;"&gt;, I don’t mean some strange atmospheric phenomenon that makes the planet Mercury look red in the sky. I will explain this horror that threatens ALL of Western civilization. But meanwhile:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:purple;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Here is another puff piece from the mainstream media news: glorifying, building up and trying to legitimize a known, life-long terrorist named Mahmoud Abbas of the PLO.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:purple;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; I will translate it for you and read between the lines to expose the lies and remind people of the truth. This peace process is the most egregious of the Middle East peace plans, as it is the most fraudulent one. It is built upon a lie and will go the way of the Oslo Accords and others that were supposed to deliver.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:purple;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Yet the wishful thinkers still hope and Jewish lives still get taken to pay for the mistake of peace with killers.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;h1&gt;Abbas Threatens Force Against Militants &lt;/h1&gt;   &lt;p&gt;By JOSEF FEDERMAN, Associated Press Writer&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas threatened to use force against anyone who violates a cease-fire with Israel, his toughest warning against Palestinian militants since taking office in January.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;In a speech to Palestinian police, Abbas also pledged to maintain quiet during the Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip this summer.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;"We have to give them a calm departure," he said, according to a summary of the speech published Thursday by the Palestinian news agency Wafa.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;Abbas has been under heavy pressure from Israel and the United States to rein in Palestinian militants, who had a relatively free hand under Abbas' predecessor, the late Yasser Arafat. But so far, Abbas has preferred to negotiate with the armed groups.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoBodyText"&gt;That last sentence should tell you all you need and you ought to be able to safely ignore the previous three paragraphs. Even then, the attempt at fact-finding is half-hearted. Abbas made a big show a few weeks ago, arresting some terrorists in front of the TV cameras and radio microphones, only to release the same Gaza Strip troublemakers out the back door when the news media TV and radio people shut off their cameras and mikes and went home, cheerfully reporting how much better than Arafat was this new man and how we must build him up as a hope for peace.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;span style="color:maroon;"&gt;It was only by pressure from others that Abbas did anything at all.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:maroon;"&gt;This too, shall be proven by future events to be false, empty gestures.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;Most of the militants have signed on to a cease-fire agreement with Israel. While there has been a sharp drop in violence, militants have fired several rockets at Jewish settlements in Gaza and an Israeli border town in recent days. One salvo landed near a large gathering of Israeli demonstrators in a Gaza settlement on Wednesday, lightly wounding one soldier.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;Abbas told police officers such violence cannot be tolerated.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;"Whoever wants to sabotage (the truce) with rocket fire or shooting must be stopped by us, even if that requires using force," Abbas said. "There is a national consensus regarding the calm, and whoever departs from this consensus will be struck by an iron fist."&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;Abbas did not single out any specific militant group.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:navy;"&gt;He dare not single out any specific group of thugs because he will be singled out himself as a target. Such is the way in a cutthroat environment as is the case there.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Most militant groups WOULD sign on to a truce, as it means a unilateral withdrawal without having to fight for territory. Why ruin the chance for an easy transfer of territory from those hated, dirty Jews – their enemy, they call them?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;No one has claimed responsibility for the recent rocket attacks, although a tiny group, the Popular Resistance Committees, has said it opposes the cease-fire and is suspected by Israel of being behind some of the violence.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;The biggest militant groups, Hamas and Islamic Jihad, have largely honored the truce. Hamas appears to be focusing its efforts on Palestinian legislative elections scheduled in July.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;Hamas spokesman Mushir al-Masri said Thursday that Hamas remains committed to a cease-fire but accused Israeli of breaking its promises.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoBodyText2"&gt;Commitment to a ceasefire is relatively easy when you get territory practically handed to you by the enemy who fights among itself over the issue, is threatening to break out in civil war and the Western Nations are promising a few hundred million in more dollar aid that you can mismanage and use to buy weapons with which to terrorize your enemy the Jews – and all you have to do to get it is “talk” of peace and smile a phony smile, accuse the Jews of breaking promises without a media seriously scrutinizing anything you say and a blind world who wishes for peace with a built-in anti-Semitic prejudice.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoBodyText3"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; They must feel like a child in a candy store and an American Express card with no preset spending limits!&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; But let’s set the record straight for all the Arab apologists and Western peacemongers deluded with wishful thinking:&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; How do you have a society where children are being recruited in shahada – ritual suicide terrorism, or those who throw rocks at Israelis? Where are the parents of these children? What values are they instilling among them? I’ll tell you – they are the ones encouraging such a behavior, just as you as a parent will discover that the parents of a schoolyard bully are just as pathetic as the bully, and have equally a lack of morality as the bully.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Oil money is being spent – or should I say, squandered – from Saudi Arabia and Iran and elsewhere to promote violent Islamicism and terror with the goal of global conquest. The Muslims believe that the ascension of the West to supremacy in the world was a mistake.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Well, they’re half-right – it was a fluke of sorts. The real target is the West in general and the United States in particular. Israel is only the lesser Satan. If you cave in and sacrifice Israel, you Gentiles, you will definitely be next. The means to destroy your societies as you know it &lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Hundreds of suitcase nukes and red mercury neutron bombs built by the former Soviet Union remain unaccounted for. One account by a Colonel Lunev who defected from the Soviet Union several years back related to a late-night talk show that 84 neutron bombs have been smuggled inside the U.S.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Let me tell you exactly what “red mercury” is and why Iran and islamofascists are sporting penile erections over the idea of having it.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:red;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;This is the term given to the neutron bomb – first development upon which began in 1979. The U.S. under the Carter Administration was in fact developing the neutron bomb back then but stopped development because of perceived morality issues. But the Soviets never stopped their development programs for the neutron bomb.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt; A neutron bomb does relatively little property damage to buildings and infrastructure, as do atomic and hydrogen bombs. What they do is kill all living things with intense neutron radiation instead.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The term &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:red;"&gt;“red mercury”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt; comes from the name of the chemical trigger that sets off the bomb materiel. &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;The Soviets used antimony-mercury oxide as the triggering agent. The neutrons come from either deuterium or tritium – both hydrogen isotopes with extra neutrons in the hydrogen atom’s nucleus. Deuterium has an extra neutron while tritium has 2 neutrons in the hydrogen nucleus. A hydrogen molecule typically has no neutrons at all in its nucleus – just a single proton. Naturally, a tritium-loaded neutron bomb would be more powerful than one with deuterium since there are far more neutrons.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);"&gt; This process of neutron bombardment kills all living things AND disrupts anything that has EMP – electromagnetic pulsation – in effect all electromagnetic radiation. Since the human body depends on bioelectricity to live, it kills people.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Electromagnetic radiation includes X-rays, gamma rays, television, radio and radar signals. All would be affected and rendered inoperable. A neutron bomb attack would mean that every TV, radio station and radar in a 30-mile diameter of the strike would be useless. There would be no stations on the air at all. All communications would be disrupted. Of course, all life within that area would be dead and it would not be safe to enter that area until three weeks after the attack after the neutron radiation had dissipated.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt; The very first neutron bomb was the size of a conventional battlefield nuclear weapon. It weighed 500 lbs and was very bulky. Since 1979, the Soviets achieved a 100-fold decrease in both size and weight, until now a red-mercury, neutron bomb weighs only 5 pounds and is the size of a baseball!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And it contains twice the explosive potential of a battlefield nuclear weapon as well.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt; This would be the perfect terrorist weapon. The 84 neutron bombs allegedly smuggled into the U.S. would have been transported in diplomatic attaché cases, since a diplomat is not subject to search at borders by international treaty. The terrorists could do the same.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt; And there is no way that they could be detected, so far as we presently know how. A neutron bomb of a heavy hydrogen isotope could not be detected as other atomic weapons because it gives off no radioactive emissions. Radioactivity is not a property of neutron bombs.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Even if one of these could be launched with a missile, there’s no way to stop it with a Patriot anti-missile defense, because enough neutron radiation could be emitted before explosion to disrupt the electromagnetic guidance system that determines the suborbital trajectory of a Patriot missile.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt; You can’t detect it before it arrives and you can’t stop it once it gets here. It is small enough to be hidden within a suitcase and this is why the terrorists would love to gets their hands on just such a weapon. If the Islamofascists get a hold of this weapon and in enough numbers, all of Western society is doomed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The oil-financed terrorists have no moral problems or compunction toward sanctity of human life, giving it total disregard. We have the makings of a nightmare scenario about to unfold upon the West.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And what is equally appalling and irrational is the support of Leftists for islamofascists who are both about as radically and ideologically different as you can imagine. The only thing that united them is their hatred for the Rightists and conservatives and Christians.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt; The Left has been in freefall ever since the Soviet Union – their mighty champion – fell and broke up, along with communist nations who decided to embrace capitalism and abandon failed leftist economics. The Left has been looking for a hero ever since.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; If this sounds alarmist, yes then it is. But you have every reason to be alarmed and with 100% justification. Deep within the interiors of the U.S. government, they are working feverishly to find these “missing” neutron bombs that would destroy 84 American cities or metropolitan areas.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);"&gt; The only way you can prevent this from happening is by standing up for Israel. Jewish terrorists have never threatened you, as a Gentile. What does it matter to you if they get to own their own 10,000 square mile area as envisioned by the prophet Ezekiel?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;The Arabs have or control 74,000,000 square miles of land. They have enough, and they have managed to make much of it into deserts.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; If you are so worried about oil supply, go with your armies and TAKE it from them. They don’t deserve to have it, and everything so far proves that such people are unworthy of living, since they intend to destroy you.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt; If you don’t destroy them, then they will surely destroy you. And they mean it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9618798-111741640030484477?l=theinsighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theinsighter.blogspot.com/feeds/111741640030484477/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9618798&amp;postID=111741640030484477' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9618798/posts/default/111741640030484477'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9618798/posts/default/111741640030484477'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theinsighter.blogspot.com/2005/06/reprint-classic-red-mercury.html' title='Reprint Classic: Red Mercury'/><author><name>Edward J S</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14909539549067783347</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9618798.post-111863668987546571</id><published>2005-06-14T00:00:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-06-13T23:59:48.096-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Immortals Among Us</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Are there immortals among us?&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Is that a stupid question?&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; To most of you, it is, and yet, I am not so sure that it IS a stupid question. I’m not sure of anything that I grew up believing – actually, what I was being attempted into being indoctrinated into believing – until I broke free of the foolishness that passed for modern, post-modern and conventional wisdom and started to think for myself instead.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; It isn’t hard to break free of conventional thinking. What stops most men is that they’ll be thought of as crazy, and they’ll not attract any mates to propagate their own seed among the population, or not be able to score sexually, because in this weird day and age, too many men are hostages to the “power of the pussy”!&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; They’ll sell out their friends, family or associates just to get laid – and they have stupidly bought into the lax, sexual mores of the last few decades. Notice that “decades”, which is really a way to describe 10 years, also coincidently sounds like decadence as well.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; But right now, most of you mental midgets who might be reading this need to set aside your preconceived notions and think “outside the box” – outside of this 150 Year Window of History that is the Biggest Fluke – and get your sights set on reality. This is the only way you will ever grasp a true understanding on history AND life.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Apologies are in order to those of you who are NOT mental midgets. You know who you are, and I know you read this blog regularly and truly DO get it, even if some of you don’t know how I arrive at these conclusions because I skip a lot of steps that the yokels don’t understand and that are oblivious to higher-order-thinking types like you and I.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; ARE YOU READY? LET”S Go!&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; First of all, let’s discuss the question of immortal humans upon the Earth.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Genesis never said that Enoch died at age 365 years. It said God took him away, and the passage in Hebrews 11:5 also said “Enoch did not die”. Titus’s book quotes directly from a known source of the “Book of Enoch”.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; This is a fantastic discovery. But to conventional Christians who have allowed ancient Catholic hierarchy to disallow certain books as part of Holy Scripture, they have been denied an opportunity to discern for themselves what exactly went on.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The problem is this: if Enoch didn’t die, and if to the Christians, the way to Heaven is through Christ, then how did Enoch get a free pass to Heaven if he didn’t need salvation through Christ?&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And there is a further problem too.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; In Malachi – the last book of the Jewish Tanakh – Old Testament to the Christians – the very last verses speak of God sending his prophet Elijah before the awesome and fearful “Day of the Lord”. &lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The Christians seem to want to let this scriptural passage slip by without scrutiny, but you know me by now – I won’t let it get by.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; If this refers to an “End Times”, and if it refers to an actual prophet of ancient Israelite history that God is going to send down to mankind, then Elijah must never have died either – just as Enoch did not die.&lt;/p&gt;         &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; So that makes already TWO humans that have become immortal WITHOUT Jesus Christ’s salvation. How do the Christians square that with Jesus being the “Son of God” and all people needing salvation? Why didn’t Enoch and Elijah need Jesus to get into Heaven? Does your name have to start with the letter “E”? In that case, I’m home free, because my first name starts with capital “E” too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Apparently, this is a question that makes most Christians squirm and nobody so far inb the laity has ventured a satisfactory answer. They fear to answer because it challenges their beliefs and they look upon it as blasphemy.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; But it isn’t blasphemy at all. &lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; It is a fair question to ask – why shouldn’t you ask tough questions and get tough answers or seek to dig deeper into your own spirituality?&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Is your spirituality gone because you asked a few deep questions? NO.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Doesn’t your strength of belief become stronger because you faced possible adversity from those who would seek to deny your religion and refuted them with facts?&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Then why are these Bible-Belt Christians being so defensive? They needn’t be.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; If they’d scrutinize scripture more carefully, they’d not need to have to defend a theology that didn’t have sound basis in science or a careful reading and proper translation of the scriptures. Apparently, that’s too much to ask of Methodists, Baptists and many other Christian sects too.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; With that in mind, I accept the possibility that Jesus Christ arose from the dead in a resurrection to become the 3&lt;sup&gt;rd&lt;/sup&gt; immortal to live upon the Earth.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; I say a THIRD Immortal because there is ample evidence of a 4&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; one as well.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; His name is the Comte de Sainte Germaine – the Count St Germaine.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And this fellow had a lot to say about a lot of things, having lived during the 1700s, and well, must have been well before and thereafter – if what has been quoted by him by their personal accounts – is in fact true, and I believe that they are indeed true.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;The Count de St Germain said that he lived during the Council of Nicea and knew Caesar Nero and knew Jesus when he was alive too – according to accounts of his tales from all the European noblemen that knew him.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; If he knew who Jesus was and met him, then his observations of him at the time must also carry weight, for he described “Jesus” as a “romantic, but thoughtless fellow”.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Now I know that you Christians must be seething right now, but hear me out and then vent your rage, OK?&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Phenomena like a Count St Germain don’t just exist in a vacuum. There had to be a basis in truth for what he said. After all, his very existence IS an enigma that has yet to be adequately explained, as well his birth and so-called “death” and no records of either ever existed for this individual – and I am inclined to accept that this man is very well an immortal whose life was as mysterious as his disappearance.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; I say, “disappearance” because it was never proven that he actually died.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And it was never really conclusively proved when he was born either.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And he had his days of relevance during the times when France actually meant something in the world’s scheme of things. But he said some things accredited to him – prophecies about the imminent future of France – which he told to Marie Antoinette, she of bust size 44”, that he said would rive him out of France for at least 100 years, and that he was unable to stop because powers greater than him were making the changes.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Now what exactly did he mean by that? It means that he, although immortal, was aware of guiding forces far beyond his control, and that all he prophesied came true – when he said that even French nobility wouldn’t be spared. I think he was so enamored by Marie Antoinette’s breasts that he wanted her to escape her own beheading that later happened.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; But what struck me most was the comment attributed to Count St Germaine that he said about Jesus. He called him a “romantic, but thoughtless fellow”.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; This suggests to me that for the Count to be able to make such a statement, that he must have lived long enough to be able make such a qualitative judgment on another human being. He lived far longer than Jesus ever did, and he probably still lives today, I hope he reads this blog if he does exist today and knows that some mortal like me has figured it all out, or at least close to it! I figure that I’m about 77% of the way to the truth.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; But I digress here.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; I want to change the subject somewhat because I want to explore the possibility of any immortals living among us.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; What would they do? How would they live?&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Would such an immortal advertise and make public his identity?&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; I doubt it – and not in THIS day and age of scientific discovery. After thinking about it, I think that would the worst thing that they could do by making themselves public. They would truly be a prisoner for the rest of their existence, subjected to innumerous tests and tissue samples and it would be a life of hell.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; So no, going public would never be the way to go.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; So what if they are immortal? What would they be like?&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Well, they certainly would have had time to study and learn the universe. Their IQ would be well above the norm because they have time on their side. They would discover secret knowledge of some sort, and the wealth they would accumulate would have to be self-made and immune to seizure from the prevailing political powers that be. A man that could live a long time would eventually solve and derive a unified field theory of physics and be able to make use of such knowledge to be able to avoid being captured by mortals who would be in power.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And all this makes sense with what I’ve learned about the Compte de Saint Germaine. The local French police couldn’t find him after he confronted the fool that was about to destroy France, and who trashed him. I wonder why!&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And his ability to make jewels and knowledge of alchemistry is intriguing, for he had no known source of wealth that was verifiable. Yet major nobility of all European nations would welcome him as a long-lost friend and abandon their wives, mistresses, consorts and concubines just to spend all night long with him listening to his tales. Why?&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Why would nobility of all nations stop what they were doing just to give him audience?&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; What is the common denominator, if not the Count St Germaine’s immortality?&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And that’s not all.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The Count was at least smart enough – when he had opportunity&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;to tell his tale to mental midgets whom he knew existed in any time period he lived in – to only t4ll them what their limited capacity to understand would allow.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; For example, if the Count were to tell a mental midget about Marie Antionette’s death, he would have described the scenery around; things verifiable through history, but never about his prophecies before, or they’d say “you’re freakin’ me out, man”!&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;But anyways, the point about bringing all of this up is that there are immortals upon the Earth and they may even be here still, but they are hidden.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Furthermore, all these immortals’ existence didn’t need Jesus to be “born again” and “saved” either.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; No wonder the Count de St Germaine called Jesus Christ a “romantic, but thoughtless fellow”.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; That makes sense to me. That’s too much truth for the Christians to bear!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9618798-111863668987546571?l=theinsighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theinsighter.blogspot.com/feeds/111863668987546571/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9618798&amp;postID=111863668987546571' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9618798/posts/default/111863668987546571'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9618798/posts/default/111863668987546571'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theinsighter.blogspot.com/2005/06/immortals-among-us.html' title='Immortals Among Us'/><author><name>Edward J S</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14909539549067783347</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9618798.post-111846711954055470</id><published>2005-06-13T00:26:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-06-13T00:39:20.540-04:00</updated><title type='text'>"Anonymous": I KNOW Who You Are!</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Normally, I wouldn’t even bother to respond to a comment on one of my posts, but I think it’s instructional for any of you who will embark upon any type of discourse to get your views across and view this type of mental midget for whom he or she really is.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; This comment came by in response to my May 9&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; blog titled “Rant Against Lip Service Christians”. It was signed “Anonymous”, so I have no way of knowing whether the respondent is male or female, but judging by the tone, I can suspect that a woman wrote it because at least a man would identify himself in most cases.&lt;/p&gt;       &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Here is the reply I got in email: &lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;table style="width: 100%;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"&gt;   &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;   &lt;td style="padding: 0in;" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;"&gt;From:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td style="padding: 0in;"&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;"&gt;"Anonymous"   &lt;anonymous-comment com=""&gt;  &lt;a href="javascript:document.frmAddAddrs.submit()"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte vml 1]&gt;&lt;v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75" coordsize="21600,21600" spt="75" preferrelative="t" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" filled="f" stroked="f"&gt;    &lt;v:stroke joinstyle="miter"&gt;    &lt;v:formulas&gt;     &lt;v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"&gt;     &lt;v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"&gt;     &lt;v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"&gt;     &lt;v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"&gt;     &lt;v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"&gt;     &lt;v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"&gt;     &lt;v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1"&gt;     &lt;v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2"&gt;     &lt;v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"&gt;     &lt;v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"&gt;     &lt;v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"&gt;     &lt;v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"&gt;    &lt;/v:formulas&gt;    &lt;v:path extrusionok="f" gradientshapeok="t" connecttype="rect"&gt;    &lt;o:lock ext="edit" aspectratio="t"&gt;   &lt;/v:shapetype&gt;&lt;v:shape id="_x0000_i1025" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="Add to Address Book" href="javascript:document.frmAddAddrs.submit()" style="'width:12pt;height:12pt;" button="t"&gt;    &lt;v:imagedata src="file:///C:/DOCUME~1/Edward/LOCALS~1/Temp/msoclip1/01/clip_image001.gif" href="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/pim/el/abook_add_1.gif"&gt;   &lt;/v:shape&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if !vml]--&gt;&lt;img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Edward/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msoclip1/01/clip_image001.gif" alt="Add to Address Book" shapes="_x0000_i1025" align="top" border="0" height="16" hspace="2" width="16" /&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Add   to Address Book&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/anonymous-comment&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr&gt;   &lt;td style="padding: 0in;" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;"&gt;To:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td style="padding: 0in;"&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;"&gt;rainball19@yahoo.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr&gt;   &lt;td style="padding: 0in;" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;"&gt;Subject:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td style="padding: 0in;"&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;"&gt;[The   Insighter] 6/7/2005 03:48:23 PM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr&gt;   &lt;td style="padding: 0in;" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;"&gt;Date:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td style="padding: 0in;"&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;"&gt;Tue,   7 Jun 2005 12:48:27 -0700 (PDT)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/tbody&gt; &lt;/table&gt;   &lt;form&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;"&gt;&lt;input name="fn" value="Anonymous" type="hidden"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;"&gt;&lt;input name="ln" type="hidden"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;"&gt;&lt;input name="e" value="anonymous-comment@blogger.com" type="hidden"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;"&gt;&lt;input name=".done" value="http://us.f520.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter?MsgId=8329_7633657_177566_1328_534_0_8178_-1_0&amp;order=up&amp;amp;inc=&amp;sort=date&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;view=a&amp;head=b&amp;amp;box=old+mail&amp;YY=88426" type="hidden"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/form&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;"&gt;You are a blathering buffoon who is obviously in love with the sound of your own voice. You're no more an expert on any of the topics you write about than the two apes that made you. Good bye, good riddance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;font-size:10;color:gray;"  &gt;Posted by Anonymous to &lt;a href="http://theinsighter.blogspot.com/2005/05/rant-against-lip-service-christians.html" target="_blank"&gt;The Insighter&lt;/a&gt; at 6/7/2005 03:48:23 PM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Let’s psychoanalyze this “piece” and the author to expose this individual for whom he or she really is.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Note how the author starts out with a personal attack. If you start off a reply to something you don’t like to hear, it means you never had any substance to begin with. Otherwise if you did have substance, you’d have led off with it.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And it also discredits anything else you have to say thereafter.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; But I also highlight an important part of that blog article to which this individual responded to, where I mentioned that all the Methodists I ever met were assholes and the woman I knew who chickened out after siding with me, was also a Methodist. And then I added that apparently, she decided to become an asshole too. My point was that every Methodist I have met has shown their true colors by being an asshole eventually.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Like the old Ginsu Knives infomercial, I say, “But wait! There’s more!”&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Scrutinize the above for the insults laid out, hidden under an anonymous reply, and it is likely that the respondent is a woman, because a man who has an argument with you will come straight to your face. If this isn’t a woman, then it’s an effeminate liberal man.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; But wait, there’s more!&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; I want to psychoanalyze this mental midget even more.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; We already know that the respondent doesn’t have the courage to identify herself or himself and that alones discredits the reply.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; It’s probably a woman AND a Methodist too, and therefore this respondent IS an asshole as well. Yes, there really are assholes who are women, but many men are too chicken to call a woman an asshole because they are too worried that they won’t be able to score sexually if they called them that.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; But you know, there’s even more.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; It’s quite obvious to me or anybody else who’s read any of my posts that this respondent is either incapable of Higher Order Thinking (H.O.T., or short) or unwilling to accept that their cherished views could even be challenged.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; What was the point of this reply? Was it to get me angry? I laughed when I saw this post, and I look upon this reply as an opportunity to dress down this mental midget, unfair as I might consider it, but I like to engage such a stupid enemy.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; You see, I always lay a trap in my writings on this blog. What I do is make a point that infuriates a reader. Then the reader gets angry for having his cherished beliefs put in question, and then he or she acts in such a way as to prove my point for me!&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; I chuckle, chortle, gloat and smile because I have been able to force a person to confront directly a challenge to his cherished belief system.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; They will go into denial, start swearing a blue streak or not respond at all.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;There is a reason for this. Most people are prisoners of the times they live in. They are trapped within the predominant mindset of the times they live in. The times we live in have existed for 150 years, and nobody else I know has lived long enough to know anything else but the present times.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Obviously, this mental midget is a prisoner of the current times we all live in, and the thinking apparently shows through quite clearly. I must certainly hit a raw nerve for her to lash out as she did.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Also quite obvious is that when I said we live in a 150 Year Fluke of History, this statement is true. This respondent lives in the current times and can’t break free and reach a real understanding of reality. It’s why the remarks she made are so vicious.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Apparently the respondent can’t be capable of Higher Order Thinking or else she wouldn’t have even posted such a pathetic reply, and I wouldn’t have anything to write about for this blog.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; I would like to define “Higher Order Thinking” now for you all.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; It simply means that for you to have a better understanding of life and reality, you need to look past the times you live in and understand what really works. All my articles on this blog are devoted to looking at history beyond the current 150 Year History Fluke because whatever happened before is relevant too, as human nature has NEVER changed.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And if human nature has never changed, then it is relevant too.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; That’s why I dismiss the orgasmic fawning of the mainstream news media of the 150 Year Fluke of History’s Huntington and his “Clash of Civilizations” – because he ignores the other known 5,000 years of human history before Islam. When you ignore human history, you also ignore human nature, and Huntington did just that – he ignored ancient history to fit the facts to his preconceived conclusions!&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Read all about it in my blog. Look it up; I haven’t got the patience to point you in the right direction because there’s so much you have to learn before you get up to speed before you catch up to MY level of understanding.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Pity the stupid, mental midget who wrote that highlighted reply above. I hope he or she has refinanced his or her house at interest-only terms – just in time for the housing market to crash because of higher interest rates.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Oh, I didn’t tell you about that? Yea, the real estate market is in a speculative bubble here in the U.S. Already in Britain, there is a backlog of unsold houses and the price of housing has peaked. They’re calling it a lull, but I say it’s the top of the bubble and real estate prices will come crashing down. America and other Anglo-Saxon countries also indulged in the real estate bubble, and their markets will follow soon enough.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Aha! It will just in time for the Great Correction that is coming and end the Welfare State as we know it – perhaps end it once and for all time.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; I hope you speculative folks like renting accommodations from your new owners – the Chinese, Japanese and Indians!&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And why?&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; They are the ones who are holding the U.S. Treasury bonds that the Feds, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the like are borrowing the money from, so that you yokels can refinance your homes, cash out, spend more money than you earn, go deeper into debt, and think you are so fabulously rich while all the real jobs go offshore because the rest of the world’s labor force unleashed by the fall of communism can work for 1/10&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; what YOU earn at the same productivity.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And yes, all good things MUST come to an end because house prices can’t keep going up forever to the point where nobody can afford them. And that’s where they are headed right now – in California. What comes true for them will eventually catch for all of us, and oh what a price we’ll pay!&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; THEN what are you going to do? Cry to the government for debt relief? And which government welfare state program will you cut to save your own ass to bail you out of a problem you should never have gotten yourself in the first place? Well?&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Raise taxes on the rich? I doubt it. The rich people – however you define them – already have money transferred out of the country to havens out of reach of the money-hungry authorities who have put themselves in a hole that they should have never gotten themselves into, and even these rich folks are practicing their Chinese, Japanese, Hindi, Malay or whatever other language where the tax refuges are.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Whatever working-class-hero Bullshit some leftists want to spew, they’ll be able to nationalize nothing but a reformatted hard drive with nothing on it!&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; What are you going to do? Are you going to exact trade sanctions like tariffs or quotas? Good luck, because America isn’t the only ball game in town that offers high-tech any more, and other 3&lt;sup&gt;rd&lt;/sup&gt; World nations can buy machine tools elsewhere for a fraction of the cost it needs to buy and produce it at far below what the Developed World can make it.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Welcome to the 21&lt;sup&gt;st&lt;/sup&gt; Century, where the entire world will become a level playing field. All the overpaid, unionized wages of the 20&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; Century will become a thing of the past. And the playing field will become level by lowering the wages of overpaid Western World workers – so sorry!&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And it is in this vein where we find “Anonymous”. This probable female respondent will be slutting around to make ends meet to feed her family as her precious world comes crashing down upon her, all the while hoping to find her “white knight” – never mind that the skin color may not be what she would have preferred – and she comes with baggage of her own – her children. What newly-rich Asian would want a used, damaged-goods slut as a wife, who would try to use her American attorneys to sue him for half of what he’s got after the marriage failed, for money she never deserved in the first place?&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; BY the way, I said I wouldn’t ever name names of the story, but I think that the respondent is in fact somebody I know, and is in fact a Methodist. I think it is “M”, and maybe not “S” herself.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; But I wouldn’t put it past “S” to have made that reply either. If it is “S” herself, then I already know she is a Southern Baptist, and they too need a major shift in THEIR thinking theology, because no way at all was the Earth EVER created in 6 Days, unless you count time from the start of the Universe, but they aren’t flexible that way.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; So therefore, I must be compelled to say that Jesus is a fraud.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; In fact, there is more than one person who is human AND immortal, and who never needed Christ’s salvation to live forever.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; More on that in the next post! Stay tuned – it will be WELL worthwhile.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And you too there, “Anonymous” – I know you are still there, lurking in the background, expecting a reply, because I can see into your soul, and you know it too.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And you will be checking your email or your blog update to see what it has to say. I will convert you. Your mind to my mind: the Vulcan mind meld. You cannot resist.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; She’ll be back, or if “it” is a male liberal, then this effeminate type will be back to be corrected into reality.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9618798-111846711954055470?l=theinsighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theinsighter.blogspot.com/feeds/111846711954055470/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9618798&amp;postID=111846711954055470' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9618798/posts/default/111846711954055470'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9618798/posts/default/111846711954055470'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theinsighter.blogspot.com/2005/06/anonymous-i-know-who-you-are.html' title='&quot;Anonymous&quot;: I KNOW Who You Are!'/><author><name>Edward J S</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14909539549067783347</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9618798.post-111742008970151835</id><published>2005-06-03T06:51:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-06-03T06:57:14.800-04:00</updated><title type='text'>OIL: $100 a Barrel IS Possible</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Don’t be fooled by the recent trend down in oil and gasoline prices. This is nothing more than a temporary blip down on a long-term bull market for oil and other commodities.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; We WILL see a price of $100 per barrel of oil sometime soon.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And we will see it because the fundamentals of the global market have changed. The Arab-dominated OPEC cartel can’t drive down the price any more like they used to turning up the spigots and letting more oil flow. There have been a few new and recent developments since those old days.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; For one thing, demand is permanently higher. The United States isn’t the only major consumer of energy any more. Japan, China, India and Brazil are also major players in the global oil demand market. While Japan may be more or less industrialized now and hence modernized and their demand thus stabilized, the same cannot be said for China, India OR Brazil.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; These multi-hundred million population nations are still industrializing and modernizing and have yet to reach their peak demand point of oil consumption. Demand has permanently gone higher for not only oil, but almost all other commodities as well. There has basically been a change in demand for the worse at the expense of America.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Russia is also industrializing and modernizing, but since they have their own natural oil supplies, I don’t count them in this mix because they can secure their own oil and energy supplies domestically.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Supply is therefore constrained, but with a couple of provisos.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Much depends on what happens – strangely enough – in Canada, where they have tar sands that are loaded with oil – some sure 300 billion barrels or proven oil reserves, given the current extraction technology. At $50 a barrel, these oil companies are extremely profitable. When current new technology comes onstream that reduces extraction costs to $9 a barrel from the present $10.67, they will be more profitable still.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And these tar sands represent a dilemma because there should be no oil there in the first place according to conventional geological thinking. I will discuss this more later.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; But here’s a second reason why oil will stay high and gravitate toward $100 a barrel.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Even if OPEC could turn up the oil well spigots and crank out oil at full productive capacity, there just isn’t the merchant marine fleet of oil tankers available to deliver all production at the wellhead to the intended markets!&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; During the last decade and before, merchant marine fleets allowed old oil tankers to deteriorate and decommissioned them and they didn’t replace them. That means that fewer delivery mechanisms are available to send supply to the consumer – unless it is pipeline over land. And how are you going to do that from the OPEC nations across the sea to the eager markets?&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; It will require several years – probably a decade before enough tankers are rebuilt – to restore the transportation infrastructure that existed before. Meanwhile, the price of oil will stay high. This is another reason not to expect relief anytime soon.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Also, there is a third roadblock to lower prices. In the Western nations, environmental movements have successfully stalled, delayed or prevented any new refinery capacity from being built to be able to process the oil cargo that has a limited transportation infrastructure to deliver it in the first place and a questionable ability of the wellhead producers to pump out all that they are not exactly willing to do.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; So this means that higher oil prices will be the normal state of affairs.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Oil prices used to move lower and OPEC did just that (by ramping up production) when they thought that alternative technologies like shale oil, tar sands and the like might be similarly competitive if the oil price stayed high. Oil prices are staying and staying up there long enough now to give new technology a fighting chance to lessen oil dependency upon volatile Middle East OPEC producer nations. This may be our only hope.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Oil is really about energy demand. There is new technology out there to change the energy picture, but sustained higher oil prices need to be in effect for it to happen.&lt;/p&gt;       &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Alternative energy technology may very well be given a boost by sustained higher oil prices. The OPEC nations cannot – for reasons I have already enunciated – control the prices of oil to be able to keep these new technologies from coming to market. At the very least, their ability to control oil prices is nowhere near what they used to be.&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;I also add another provision to this concept of new technology. This is a thought I wanted to develop and expand upon earlier, so here is the time to do it.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; It is wrong to think that oil is a fossil fuel. Dr Gold, professor emeritus of Cornell has submitted a USGS (United States Geological Survey) Professional Paper # 1570 for consideration. It is a highly interesting but difficult paper to read, so you may have to read it twice quite carefully to fully understand what it says.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Do a Google Search to find this paper. I can’t reprint it here because it is 31 pages long.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;But basically, it says that oil and natural gas are natural byproducts of Earth activity, and it is not a fossil fuel. The decaying organic matter seeped down and contaminated the oil and natural gas being created by the Earth’ mantle as it was rising to the surface. And Dr. Gold’s theory is the only one that explains why there is helium associated with most oil fields as well.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; SO basically, my point is that oil is NOT a depleting resource but a renewable one. It only LOOKS like a depleting resource because we are using the oil faster than the Earth can replace it with new oil.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And if this is the case, then we need to re-examine all our ideas about oil and where we can find it to lessen our dependence upon foreign sources. While oil is now hovering at about $50 a barrel, this would be a good time to rethink oil-prospecting technology as well. If we don’t, then OPEC can hold us hostage and use oil as a political weapon and we will not be free to conduct foreign policy based upon right or wrong, but upon our energy needs.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And guess who pays the price for sacrificing principle for convenience if the West capitulates to the oil-money-sponsored terrorism? Why, it is good old Israel and its Jewish blood.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; DO you Gentiles really care about justice? Or are those lofty-sounding words just talk?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);"&gt;Here is your chance to free yourselves from the bondage coming your way - that is, of course, if you have the courage to do the right thing.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9618798-111742008970151835?l=theinsighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theinsighter.blogspot.com/feeds/111742008970151835/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9618798&amp;postID=111742008970151835' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9618798/posts/default/111742008970151835'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9618798/posts/default/111742008970151835'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theinsighter.blogspot.com/2005/06/oil-100-barrel-is-possible.html' title='OIL: $100 a Barrel IS Possible'/><author><name>Edward J S</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14909539549067783347</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9618798.post-111771084210741761</id><published>2005-06-02T07:15:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-06-02T07:14:02.120-04:00</updated><title type='text'>And Now .... The Dutch Say NO!</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;The EU has just suffered another stinging rebuke toward its proposed constitution when Wednesday, the Dutch voted overwhelmingly and in record turnout to say “No”.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; This follows after France’s voters also rejected the EU Constitution in Sunday’s vote. This is all the more serious now that two founding countries’ voting populations have basically upset the apple cart.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;h1&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;Dutch Voters Reject EU Constitution&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;By ARTHUR MAX, Associated Press Writer&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;Dutch voters overwhelmingly rejected the European Union constitution Wednesday, the prime minister said, in what could be a knockout blow for the charter roundly defeated just days ago by France.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;Less than an hour after the polls closed, Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende conceded defeat in his campaign to ratify the constitution and said the government would respect the results of the overwhelmingly "no" vote on the referendum.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;"Naturally, I'm very disappointed," he said in a televised statement.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;An exit poll broadcast by state-financed NOS television said the constitution failed by a vote of 63 percent to 37 percent, an even worse defeat than the 55 percent "no" vote in France's referendum Sunday.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;Turnout was 62 percent, far exceeding even the most optimistic expectations and a reflection of the heated debate in recent days over an issue that has polarized Europeans. Dutch liberals worried a more united EU could weaken liberal social policies, while conservatives feared losing control of immigration.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;Although the referendum was consultative, the high turnout and the decisive margin left no room for the Dutch parliament to turn its back on the people's verdict. The parliament meets Thursday to discuss the results.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;The sad fact is that the European Union elitists who drafted the constitution have no backup plan, no “Plan B”. That is precisely what to call the drafters of this monstrous, 400-page document that is hard to read and complicated. The elitists who thought they knew better, the Eurocrats in Brussels and those thinking they could dictate the outcome got a well-deserved slap in the face with these two “NO” votes.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; There’s no getting around this no vote because of the high margin of victory for the no side and the extremely high voter turnout. The Dutch government has no choice but to follow the wishes of the voters.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoBodyText"&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;/span&gt;And what’s the great deal about a constitution anyway? Since Wilson became president back in 1912, he and other presidents felt free to run roughshod over the American Constitution with the likes of the Sedition Act, etc, and shifting balance of power over to the Feds at the expense of the states and the people. Then too, the Supreme Court stymied things until FDR got the brilliant idea of packing the judicial system with his own handpicked ideologues to deliver whatever rulings favored him.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; We’ve had ideologues misinterpreting the Constitution, ignoring or just plain refusing to act in accordance with the plain meaning of specific provisions and amendments.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;Opponents said they feared the Netherlands, a nation of 16 million people, would be overwhelmed by a European superstate even though the Dutch pay more per capita than any other country into the collective EU kitty.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;Nicolas Ilaria, an immigrant from Suriname, said he was voting no. "In principle, I'm against bureaucracy and I don't believe everything is working well now," he said as he read a newspaper at an Amsterdam cafe.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;Like many others, Ilaria voiced an underlying mistrust of Dutch politicians. "The government is not telling the truth about what is in the treaty," he said.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;Others were concerned a strengthened Europe could force the liberal Dutch to scrap policies such as tolerating marijuana use, prostitution and euthanasia. Some felt cheated by price increases after they traded in their guilders for the EU's common currency, the euro, in 2002. Conservatives worried that the EU would take over control of immigration policies.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;"Things are going too fast," said Maarten Pijnenburg, in the "no" camp. "There's not enough control over the power of European politicians" under the new constitution.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoBodyText"&gt;Basically, this just reinforces the idea that the politicians were trying to ram this thing down the throats of the people and force things too quickly.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; There is a general mistrust of politics and politicians not only in the U.S., but apparently elsewhere in the world as well. The unrest has been given an avenue from which to vent.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; But there is more yet. We have seen tribalism strongly emerge during this European vote and it is working to force politicians back into line against a unified world where people are supposed to consider themselves citizens of the world – a thought held by the out-of-touch politicians still beholden to a paradigm that no longer holds true, if it ever did.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Tribalism has also worked against this European constitution because of the fears of the developed, Western European nations fearing an overrun of poorer Eastern European labor and cutting into their high wages and benefits.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; I thought that this might happen because the Eastern European labor force was held in check and unavailable under communist regimes – due to the fact that nobody wanted to buy inferior goods. Now that these countries are no longer communist, their labor forces are ready to compete with the world and they are offering their services at a much lower rate than any services in Western Europe.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; This apparently didn’t sit well with France, and now apparently the Netherlands. In particular France, everyone is guaranteed 6 weeks vacation, fixed and short work hours and a host of labor restrictions that make for a nice trade monopoly. And if you need a plumber, you can’t get one. Enter the “Polish plumber” who from Eastern Europe has no such restrictions, works for less and does a better job – undercutting the western European counterpart in the process.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; So the “NO” vote was in a sense, a way for western Europeans to vote to save their anti-competitive policies, welfare state and cozy arrangements.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Some may disagree with my assessment of tribalism as a force here and point to the fact that nine other European nations voted “YES” on the same constitution, including Germany, another founding EU member. Not so fast. We seem to have forgotten that once there were two Germanys – the eastern part of five provinces once communist, and subject to the same labor market conditions I described in earlier paragraphs. Yet somehow, Germany has adjusted to it and voted yes on the constitution.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Even so, the German Chancellor just suffered an electoral defeat in a by-election for his stand on European unification and the constitution. And the fact that Germany reunited into one country is direct evidence of the dynamism of tribalism.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoBodyText2"&gt;&lt;span style="color: navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);"&gt;But now having witnessed the rejection of the European Constitution by tow founding member states, the EU has found itself with a problem because they have no backup plan. It is even more troublesome since the rejection by France and the Netherlands was undeniable due to the high voter turnout and the margin of victory for the “NO” side.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color: green;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; There has long been resentment at the Brussels bureaucrats of the EU (European Union) at how they merely draft up complicated laws and impose dicta from above in a supranational bureaucracy from far away and more removed from the average European, wherever he may live.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoBodyText3"&gt;&lt;span style="color: green;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;More importantly, this is a major blow to the political Left and their theology. That’s right. You see me say theology instead of ideology, because that’s what their politics have become to them – a theology with Big Government as their chief deity.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color: maroon;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The leftists delude themselves with their talk of world citizenry. The forces that are now shaping the world and are gathering even more momentum cannot be stopped and runs contrary to everything the Left stands for. These forces are decentralization, tribalism and fundamentalism. I have on numerous occasions elicited for you how this will affect all of us in the coming years, decades and even the next century in several articles in this blog.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color: maroon;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; If you can reread them in a search of my archives, you’ll be in a better position to understand why the world is what it is right now and gain a better sense of history in the process. Times are changing fast and your survival may be at stake.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;       &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color: maroon;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; As it pertains to Europe today, this vote seems to be a reactionary impulse by developed nations resisting the forces beyond their control to dismantle their cozy, anti-competitive economic policies.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt; &lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color: maroon;"&gt;To maintain a welfare-type state as in France and other western European nations will mean a very huge cost. Already in France, the unemployment rate is over 10%. This is one of the costs of high wages and benefits – not everybody can get them. Those who can get them are in a fortunate position, but those who can’t, will be unemployed for a very long time. And when eastern European laborers come in and compete with established quasi-monopolies created by government decree, this upsets the whole arrangement.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color: maroon;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; There will be a further cost yet. As the rest of the world modernizes and adapts to the changing realities of deflation in the world labor markets, the anti-competitive nations trying to maintain their cozy, restrictive practices will find that their goods are too expensive for the world markets.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color: maroon;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And that means not 10% unemployment, but 15% and even 20% or even more. A level of unemployment above 15% will create political chaos and force change whether the welfare state nations like it or not.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;       &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color: maroon;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And they won’t like it. They will be force to change to not become like Mozambique – a 3&lt;sup&gt;rd&lt;/sup&gt; World country where economic depression led not to recovery but destitution.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9618798-111771084210741761?l=theinsighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theinsighter.blogspot.com/feeds/111771084210741761/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9618798&amp;postID=111771084210741761' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9618798/posts/default/111771084210741761'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9618798/posts/default/111771084210741761'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theinsighter.blogspot.com/2005/06/and-now-dutch-say-no.html' title='And Now .... The Dutch Say NO!'/><author><name>Edward J S</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14909539549067783347</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9618798.post-111741589865973291</id><published>2005-06-01T07:08:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-06-01T07:07:47.690-04:00</updated><title type='text'>More on the 150 Year Fluke of History</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;During my recent articles contained within this blog, I have several times made reference to the concept of the 100-Year Fluke of history. I now expand this to the 150-Year Fluke of History – and I use this term to refer to the so-called “Modern Age”.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;The significance of the 150 Year Fluke seems to have been either lost, misunderstood or just plain denied by others. That will soon be to your detriment as events in the world transpire and unfold to prove me right – and the rest of you who don’t get it – wrong.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);" class="MsoBodyText"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The problem of misunderstanding comes from the delusional notion that somehow modern society is so much superior to that which existed in the past. Somehow, this mindset has become entrenched in our way of thinking. It has become so much so to the point that we don’t know anything else and have taken things for granted, much as a fish takes his watery oceanic world for granted and thinks that this is all there is.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Modern society thinks of itself as so superior to the past and therefore ignores what went on in the past. Well, this superiority is only superficial in many respects. While we have had technological progress that produced many labor-saving devices and improved economic productivity, many other aspects of society have deteriorated. With all this extra time for leisure on our hands, what have we done to improve otherwise?&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Very little has improved – if one looks at the crime statistics, divorce statistics and so on. While technological growth has dramatically improved economic conditions and life expectancy, morality and spiritual growth has not only been neglected, but has atrophied.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The quest for material growth has become a lust with little purpose except for the successful material goods acquirer to brag that he has not only kept up with the Joneses, but surpassed them – only for the purpose of stroking his ego and pride.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoBodyText2"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; When I speak of spiritual growth or morality, I also mean one’s own “personal growth” as a human being, and these terms are interchangeable. When one uses the term “morality” and “spiritual growth”, one finds that these terms automatically become a lightning rod and an incendiary tool to impose one’s religion upon others. It isn’t.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; This is particularly true of the liberals and leftists in general and anybody who possesses a secular mindset. But these are examples of groups of people who were basically born in, or came into prominence during the period of the 150-Year Fluke of History – which others call the “Modern Age”.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And since I refer to this period as a “fluke”, this means that sooner or later, events will occur – unstoppable – that will correct this fluke and return things to normal. And this implies that anything that rose to prominence – no matter what it is – is also a fluke that will be corrected. &lt;span style="color:red;"&gt;We are now on the verge of seeing the Great Correction happen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And the developments that occurred during this 150-Year Fluke would be a very long list of things that have been established – only to be uprooted or drastically modified when the Great Correction comes – and come it will.&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Should you disbelieve the idea that the Modern Era is not a fluke, let me dispel that notion for you right now.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Human Nature has never changed. It has been remarkably consistent ever since the model first came out. Since this is true, then what happened in history – including ancient history – is relevant and important. Yet due to the modern society’s arrogant superiority complex, it ignores the truth of human nature to be found in ancient history in one of the biggest defense mechanism syndrome that I have ever seen.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoBodyText3"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; In fact, everything in modern society today can be reasonably argued to be both 100% upside-down and backwards from it should be.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The reason for this is that in the realm of politics in the Western world, liberty has been abused. It has mistaken freedom for license and today there exists this mindset that although people may practice freedom, no consequences should accrue to them for acting in a free manner for questionable – even abominable acts – or that others should bear the costs thereto. The political thought responsible for this unfortunate turn of events is none other than liberalism. It will be the main casualty of the coming Great Correction.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Exactly where this Great Correction will go and how it will unfold is at present unpredictable because it all depends upon who will exert the greatest force for change. There are a few players right now but their roles are not yet defined.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; But one thing is for certain: a correction will come. We will return to a traditional values set that existed prior to 150 years ago. If Christendom cannot or will not bring about this return, then Islam certainly will.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;I am slightly amused at the unholy alliance between the extreme Left and Islamofascists. On the one hand, leftists detest the conservatives for being Christian and fundamentalist. &lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Meanwhile, on the other hand, the leftists in their hate-obsesses world heartily embrace Islam as a “religion of peace”, make alliance with them against their enemies, accept without question any spurious claims to holiness and holy places that the Islam extremists make. Yet if Islam wins world domination, who will be the first to go? It will be liberals and the rest of the leftists. Islam has nothing to do with moderation at all. Yet stupidly and filled with wishful thinking, the left willingly embraces the enemy that would stab them in the back when they are no longer needed. Now why should I embrace a political movement that can’t see that it is being manipulated by its hatred?&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; That is why the leftists in general and liberals in particular will become extinct. They are a walking contradiction and the time for truth to be exposed is here. There will be a Great Correction and a Great Reckoning very soon. Liberalism will certainly not withstand the forces that are about to overwhelm it.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Liberals can be likened to a battered wife who continually returns to her battering husband wishfully hoping for better days. Instead of confronting the blatant truth, the Left has not reacted properly but emotionally and irrationally. It has gone into denial. Gone are the days when they used to have a pretense or moral superiority and some semblance of intellectual energy. They have no new ideas and what ides and concepts they have, they are being discredited fully and undeniably.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Yet what is it that the Left does today? They go into denial. They attack anybody who doesn’t believe as they do. They have no intellectual energy and compete in a truly open forum of ideas. They resort to the politics of personal destruction instead. They try to destroy the careers, personal reputation and good name of any articulate person who dares to challenge their precious ideology – which in effect is their surrogate religion.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Things are not going to be less polarized. They will become more so. Truth will be so blatantly undeniable that all sorts of evil will come from the left in order to survive. That’s why the Left will not survive. It will be too exposed as a fraud that it actually is.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Leftist politics can be rightfully considered as a religion in its own right. That’s why there is the reaction when one challenges their mistaken beliefs. Governments of any kind are their gods, and the United Nations (UN) is their principal deity. So when you attack the UN, you are actually attacking their chief god. Leftist ideology is really a theology.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The left worships the UN and they themselves consider themselves to be “citizens of the world”. Hence they have no real loyalty to any tribe or nation. This will be yet another reason why the Left will fall. It is the fact of tribalism. This phenomenon is gaining strength throughout the world and flies directly contrary to the “citizen of the world” view that the Left has of itself. Tribalism will make sure that liberalism dies.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The reason that tribalism is so strong a force and will continue to be so is because the technology of today empowers not only smaller companies, but smaller countries as well. Decentralized technology empowers tribal affiliations to the detriment of bigger ones. And since technology is empowering individuals and forcing change upon bigger entities to shrink, this means that the leftist thinking will not prevail.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; So what reaction do the remaining big institutions in the world have to these developments? Well, for starters, the federal governments around the world who do not decentralize in order to become viable to exist, are engaging in more spending and are trying to resist the trend firmly in place. Entrenched interests will fall, and they know this, but they delude themselves by thinking that what’s happening is only temporary. These governments that resort to fascist measures to retain their power at all costs only do damage to the nation they represent. The longer that they hold onto power and resist the trend of correction, the greater the correction will be in that nation and all at the expense of the native population therein.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And if that isn’t enough, such drastic measures will be futile because capital has become more mobile today. Long before any government gets its hands on others’ money – that means rich people’s money – the rich and the entrepreneurial talent will have safely transferred their wealth elsewhere to safe tax havens. When you observe capital flight, take note that the end is near for that country and hard times will certainly follow.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Even the United States is not immune to these forces or to capital flight. If the federal government there refuses to downsize, it will go bankrupt. America has the capacity to adjust as painless as is possible yet so far has not done so. State governments can assume many of the federal responsibilities and with lesser bureaucracy. But entrenched interests refuse to let it happen and the taxpayer will ultimately bear the cost. The longer that federal governments everywhere delay the inevitable days of reckoning and the Great Correction, the worse it will be. We will once again experience an economic depression – the likes of which the world has never seen.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And when economic depression happens, all manner of change will be made possible. As threats, accusations, blame-shifting, scape-goating and defense mechanisms thrive in a chaotic atmosphere of economic despair, real change has an actual chance of occurring. And it is a pity because all this pain and suffering will be needless. What is about to take place is easily foreseeable to anybody who has the power to think clearly.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Yet nothing is done until a real crisis occurs.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Nothing gets done until a crisis because entrenched interests work to keep their power and use every trick in the book to maintain the status quo. It the fact that if something bad happens, those in charge – the entrenched establishment – will be blamed. To retain power, the entrenched interests have to either fix it or search for somebody else to blame while they hold onto power at all costs. This is precisely what is happening with the Left.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The welfare state power structure of federal politicians, lawyers, journalists and bureaucrats has failed to deliver the prosperity and security that they promised in that infamous phrase – from the cradle to the grave. The welfare state is the counterpart to the old-style communism that fell so dramatically over 10 years ago. The welfare state is the other shoe to drop, Governments cannot keep adding to spending and go deeper in debt without explanation and impunity. While they increase spending in defiance of current permanent trends in place, they delay the days of reckoning and provide short-term relief at an increasingly higher risk of general system failure – and that means depression!&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; So federal governments will ultimately be another casualty of the Great Correction. The longer they refuse to downsize, the greater will be the economic hardships that follow.&lt;/p&gt;       &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt; All that has achieved respectability during this 150 Year Great Fluke of history will be at great risk of extinction. This includes, but is not limited to the following: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"&gt; &lt;li class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;Homosexual      rights&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;General      promiscuity&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;Freedom      From Slavery&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;Women’s      Rights&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;Psychiatry      and Psychology&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;Liberalism&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;Big      Governments&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;Big      Unions&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;Big      Corporations&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;Anything      that is “Big”&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The sad fact is that much of this can be prevented but won’t be because those in charge and the people who elect officials to represent them are too shortsighted to see the problem ominously looming ahead of them. Those who could change things to make the transitions during the Great Correction do not have to capacity to make change possible. In fact, they are doing everything in their power to stop it and in the process, will fail and take down everybody else with them unless real revolutionaries step up and take power.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; That’s what we need – revolutionaries whom people can rally around and force the necessary changes that need to be undertaken or else we may all be taken care of by the undertakers themselves.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9618798-111741589865973291?l=theinsighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theinsighter.blogspot.com/feeds/111741589865973291/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9618798&amp;postID=111741589865973291' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9618798/posts/default/111741589865973291'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9618798/posts/default/111741589865973291'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theinsighter.blogspot.com/2005/06/more-on-150-year-fluke-of-history.html' title='More on the 150 Year Fluke of History'/><author><name>Edward J S</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14909539549067783347</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9618798.post-111742238274252573</id><published>2005-05-31T07:00:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-31T07:00:14.056-04:00</updated><title type='text'>French Vote Against EU Treaty! OO-LA-LA!</title><content type='html'>&lt;h1&gt;&lt;span style=";font-size:12;color:teal;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Imagine that! The French people actually did something right for a change!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;   &lt;h1&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;font-size:100%;color:teal;"  &gt;And Saddam Hussein’s old buddy, Jacques Chirac, the French Prime Minister and leader of the country, got a clear slap in the face. Maybe the French aren’t so bad after all!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;font-size:12;" &gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;   &lt;h1&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:18;"  &gt;French Voters Reject First EU Constitution &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;By JOHN LEICESTER, Associated Press Writer&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;French voters rejected the European Union's first constitution Sunday, a stinging repudiation of President Jacques Chirac's leadership and the ambitious, decades-long effort to further unite the continent.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;Chirac, who had urged voters to approve the charter in the bitterly contested referendum, announced the result in a brief, televised address. He said the process of ratifying the treaty would continue in other EU countries.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;"It is your sovereign decision, and I take note," Chirac said. "Make no mistake, France's decision inevitably creates a difficult context for the defense of our interests in Europe."&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;With votes counted in all of France and its overseas territories, the "no" camp had 54.87 percent, with only 45.13 percent voting "yes," the Interior Ministry said.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;The treaty's rejection in France — the architect of the European project — could set the continent's plans back by years and amounts to a personal humiliation for the veteran French leader.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;Although Chirac argued that the constitution would streamline EU decision-making and make the bloc more accessible to its 450 million citizens, opponents feared it would strip France of its sovereignty and generous social system and trigger an influx of cheap labor.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoBodyText"&gt;The French always used to pride themselves in how they ran Europe under the ECC or the European Economic Community and oh how those liberal types bowed down to the EU bureaucrats in Brussels, Belgium as their ultimate god! What a tremendous slap in the face to Chirac! And nobody else but him deserved it more!&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;"I think that the constitution will destroy our political structure. It's just about economic interests," said Anne Le Moel, a "no" voter and 42-year-old professor of philosophy, repeating what had become a battle cry among the charter's opponents.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;All 25 EU members must ratify the text for it to take effect as planned by Nov. 1, 2006. Nine already have done so: Austria, Hungary, Italy, Germany, Greece, Lithuania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;Treaty opponents chanting "We won!" gathered at Paris' Place de la Bastille, a symbol of rebellion where angry crowds in 1789 stormed the prison and sparked the French Revolution. Cars blared their horns and "no" campaigners thrust their arms into the air.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;"This is a great victory," said Fabrice Savel, 38, from the working-class suburb of Aubervilliers. He was distributing posters that read: "No to a free-market Europe."&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;EU leaders in Brussels, Belgium, vowed to continue their effort to have the constitution approved.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;"I am not a doctor, but the treaty is not dead," said Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, whose country holds the rotating EU presidency. "This ratification process will continue."&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;The Dutch vote Wednesday, with polls showing opposition to the constitution there running at about 60 percent. On Friday, the constitution's main architect, former French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, said countries that reject the treaty will be asked to vote again.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;France was the first "no" — even though it was a founder member of what over 50 years has grown into the EU.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;"There is no more constitution," said Philippe de Villiers, a leading opponent. "It is necessary to reconstruct Europe on other foundations that don't currently exist."&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;De Villiers called on Chirac to resign — something the French leader had said he would not do — and called for parliament to be dissolved.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoBodyText"&gt;What we have here is a prime example of tribalism as a dominant force to determine world affairs. What I didn’t expect was that the opposition would come from France – of all nations – yet, that’s the way the cookie crumbles.&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;Jean-Marie Le Pen, the extreme-right leader who campaigned vigorously for the constitution's defeat, also called for Chirac's resignation.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;Chirac "wanted to gamble ... and he has lost," Le Pen said. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;The French vote came three days before the charter faces another hostile reception in the Netherlands. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;Chirac and European leaders have said there was no fallback plan in the event of a French rejection. But many French voters did not believe that. Many, especially on the left, hoped their "no" vote would force the EU back to the drawing board and improve the 448-clause document. In the meantime, "no" voters expected the EU to continue functioning under existing treaties. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;"I voted 'no' because the text is very difficult to understand. Also, I'm afraid for democracy. The way the EU functions is very opaque. Many people there are not directly elected," said Emmanuel Zelez, 32, a film editor. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;The outcome caused immediate disarray, with political leaders outside France divided on the significance of the French vote. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said "the result raises profound questions for all of us about the future direction of Europe." &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;But the European Union's industry commissioner, Guenther Verheugen, said the vote was not a catastrophe and that the situation should not be over dramatized, but he acknowledged that things did not look good for the vote on the charter in the Netherlands on Wednesday. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;"It would be a very bitter experience if two founding members of the union, who had always pushed for it, were to vote 'no,'" he said. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;Chirac had waged an all-out campaign to persuade nearly 42 million sharply divided voters to approve the charter. But the electorate was in rebellious mood, with unemployment running at 10 percent and wide unease about immigration, Eurocrats and free-market capitalism.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:navy;"&gt;OH! So blame right-wingers for a defeat of a multinational organization like the EU which the leftists worship as a surrogate god! What hogwash!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoBodyText"&gt;&lt;span style="color:navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;Yes, the spin is on the try to salvage a damaging defeat to the Left who only worships false gods of man-made origin, I guess it will take another defeat in the Netherlands to drive home the point.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; But yet the liberal news media spin to this article also tris to blame xenophobis and tries to influence the public as to how stupid the elitist media think they are to vote against such a “great idea” as a supranational EU where all people can become “citizens of the world” and take on some undefined paradise or Shangri-La that the foolish Left themselves fantasize about where everything will be so groovy!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;Turnout was close to 70 percent — testifying to the passions that the treaty and the debate surrounding it aroused. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;Nicolas Sarkozy, the head of Chirac's ruling Union for a Popular Movement and a leading campaigner for the "yes" camp, called Sunday's defeat "a major political event."&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoBodyText"&gt;Yup – hard to spin that 70% voter turnout as voter apathy! That’s why the liberal news media had to resort to xenophobia and hatred of the right as their favorite enemy! They tried to insinuate nazism, since Jean-Marie Le Pen is a fascist, but they couldn’t try to portray the swastikas because the media would have really pushed their credibility!&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;Looking ahead to France's next general elections in 2007, Sarkozy said: "We must decide on an innovative, courageous and ambitious plan of action." &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;Chirac's popularity ratings have plummeted in recent weeks, and in his television address, the president said he would announce "my decisions concerning the government and its priorities" in coming days. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;Nine nations — Austria, Hungary, Italy, Germany, Greece, Lithuania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain — already have ratified the constitution. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;A "yes," coupled with another by the Dutch, could have given the constitution potentially unstoppable momentum. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;In the end, though, the French — torn between wanting to remain one of the engines of an increasingly competitive Europe yet fiercely protective of the generous social welfare benefits they enjoy — stuck with their perceptions that the charter posed another threat to their cherished way of life. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;"If you look at every sentence, every turn of phrase, practically every article has a mention of (financial) markets," Anne-Marie Latremoliere, a 57-year-old graphic designer, said after casting a "no" ballot at a polling station near the Bastille. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  &gt;"We want Europe to be a beautiful place," she said, "and this is certainly not it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);" class="MsoBodyText"&gt;All the rest of this little blurb is the typical “rent-an-expert” ploy that the liberal news media uses – keep digging until you find somebody who agrees with your viewpoint, no matter what their true credentials are and no matter how unrealistic an expert they are.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:maroon;"&gt;Aren’t you glad you have somebody like me here to tell you the truth?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color:navy;"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;/span&gt; &lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9618798-111742238274252573?l=theinsighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theinsighter.blogspot.com/feeds/111742238274252573/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9618798&amp;postID=111742238274252573' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9618798/posts/default/111742238274252573'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9618798/posts/default/111742238274252573'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theinsighter.blogspot.com/2005/05/french-vote-against-eu-treaty-oo-la-la.html' title='French Vote Against EU Treaty! OO-LA-LA!'/><author><name>Edward J S</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14909539549067783347</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9618798.post-111741533527414673</id><published>2005-05-30T08:09:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-30T08:09:28.806-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Where's Annika, Danica and Alexis?</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;I couldn’t help but laugh so loud when I got a reply from this pathetic woman who sent me a reply to my blog article about Groin Kicks.&lt;/p&gt;           &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; In that article, I noted how some people thought it was funny when a man gets a groin kick, but oh boy, when a woman gets a groin kick, how funny would that be? That was the entire point of the blog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In typical, irrational, female response she sent this response:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;pre&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;"&gt;&gt; --- alexis &lt;&lt;a href="http://us.f520.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=anonymous-comment@blogger.com&amp;YY=73455&amp;amp;order=up&amp;sort=date&amp;amp;pos=0&amp;view=a&amp;amp;head=b"&gt;anonymous-comment@blogger.com&lt;/a&gt;&gt; wrote:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; &lt;pre&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;"&gt;&gt; ---------------------------------&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; &lt;pre&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;"&gt;&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;lolz...&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; &lt;pre&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;"&gt;&gt; why cant both genders be treated the same? because&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; &lt;pre&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;"&gt;&gt; they are not the same =P&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; &lt;pre&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;"&gt;&gt; and yoouuuuu deserve a nice big kick in the balls&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; &lt;pre&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;"&gt;&gt; just&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; &lt;pre&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;"&gt;&gt; for writing that article ;)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; &lt;pre&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;"&gt;&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Could she have shown more stupidity to make my point for me?&lt;/p&gt;       &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Here is the mail delivery failure notice I got from this mental midget when I attempted to respond to her drivel: &lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;table style="width: 100%;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"&gt;   &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;   &lt;td style="padding: 0in;" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Date:&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td style="padding: 0in;"&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;30 May 2005 00:10:46 -0000&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr&gt;   &lt;td style="padding: 0in;" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;From:&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td style="padding: 0in;"&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;MAILER-DAEMON@yahoo.com  &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr&gt;   &lt;td style="padding: 0in;" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;To:&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td style="padding: 0in;"&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr&gt;   &lt;td style="padding: 0in;" nowrap="nowrap"&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Subject:&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;/td&gt;   &lt;td style="padding: 0in;"&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;failure notice&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/tbody&gt; &lt;/table&gt;   &lt;form&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;"&gt;&lt;input name="fn" type="hidden"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;"&gt;&lt;input name="ln" type="hidden"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;"&gt;&lt;input name="e" value="mailer-daemon@yahoo.com" type="hidden"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;"&gt;&lt;input name=".done" value="http://us.f520.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter?MsgId=1846_8086263_3875_1071_2552_0_8014_4962_1202966155&amp;order=up&amp;amp;inc=&amp;sort=date&amp;amp;amp;view=a&amp;head=b&amp;amp;box=Inbox&amp;YY=73455" type="hidden"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/form&gt;   &lt;pre&gt;&lt;tt&gt;Hi. This is the qmail-send program at yahoo.com.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; &lt;pre&gt;&lt;tt&gt;I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;addresses.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; &lt;pre&gt;&lt;tt&gt;This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; &lt;pre&gt;&lt;tt&gt; &lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; &lt;pre&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;&lt;a href="http://us.f520.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=anonymous-comment@blogger.com&amp;YY=73455&amp;amp;order=up&amp;sort=date&amp;amp;pos=0&amp;view=a&amp;amp;head=b"&gt;anonymous-comment@blogger.com&lt;/a&gt;&gt;:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; &lt;pre&gt;&lt;tt&gt;&lt;span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;"&gt;66.102.15.85 does not like recipient.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; &lt;pre&gt;&lt;tt&gt;Remote host said: 554 &lt;&lt;a href="http://us.f520.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=anonymous-comment@blogger.com&amp;YY=73455&amp;amp;order=up&amp;sort=date&amp;amp;pos=0&amp;view=a&amp;amp;head=b"&gt;anonymous-comment@blogger.com&lt;/a&gt;&gt;: Recipient &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; &lt;pre&gt;&lt;tt&gt;address rejected: Access denied&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; &lt;pre&gt;&lt;tt&gt;Giving up on 66.102.15.85.&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Note in the yellow highlighted portion her reason. That is the reason for my laughter. You know you are dealing with a mental midget when you don’t get an intelligent reply.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;span style="color:maroon;"&gt;I don’t know what kind of world this Alexis lives in, but it certainly isn’t the real world!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; This is a typical hit-and-run piece tactic of mental midgets who have nothing of substance to contribute to society or to anything that suggests a prerequisite of high order thinking that only a few such as myself possess.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" class="MsoBodyText2"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And speaking of laughter, I happened to look up the Men’s PGA Golf Money Earners and I was looking for Annika Sorenstam’s name. Isn’t it funny? I couldn’t find her name anywhere! Why is that?&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;Could it be that she couldn’t make the grade on the men’s tour?&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; I recall the big media attention she got and the ecstatic, orgasmic, collective ga-ga that the liberal news media gave her about how she was going to make her presnce felt on the men’s PGA Tour and how the liberal social agenda of sexual gender equality was about to be realized.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; What a disappointment when poor Annika didn’t make the cut, and she finished in the bottom 12% of the field!&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And the truly ironic and funny thing was that the tournament she competed in was the Colonial – the 2&lt;sup&gt;nd&lt;/sup&gt; easiest tournament on the PGA Tour! The fairways were long and wide and built to help Annika’s chances since she can drive a golf ball far – even though she had to tee off from the men’s tee and not the women’s tee.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Yet still Annika couldn’t make the cut! Laughter galore from me!&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);" class="MsoBodyText3"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; So much for the delusion of gender equality that the liberal morons try to foist upon the public as part of their stupid agenda!&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And what was the response from people when I brought up this subject? There were some tut-tuts and some angry, defensive comments from foolish women who delude themselves with the propaganda of the liberals – and all when clearly shown that gender equality is a false concept!&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Finally, I come to the last example – that which I’ll comment upon today – the Indianapolis 500 race held this Sunday, May 29, 2005. Danica Patrick finished 4&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; and yet the news media is portraying this as a win!&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Earth to liberals: if you don’t finish FIRST, you lost!&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; All the hype and publicity about Danica Patrick after she had the best qualifying time was for nothing. The liberal news media were so eager to see this woman win in a sport dominated by males that they again – just as with Annika Sorenstam – had a collective orgasm over this Danica.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; But before you all go bananas and read too much into her so-callecd impressive 4&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt;-place finish, let’s do a little fact checking first.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The Indy 500 is one of many races in the IRL – the Indy Racing League. This organization had a falling out with NASCAR long ago and the IRL and thus the Indy 500 is not the race it once was.&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;All the better racecar drivers are tending toward NASCAR – which has a much greater following by far than the IRL. The IRL has basically become nothing more than a glorified farm system in racing.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Also, consider the Indy-type racecar. It is not street legal and doesn’t even look like a car that you could race on the streets. The NASCAR racecars DO like something you could race in on the streets today. It has more of closer identity with the driving and race fans’ public in general.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The Indy-type car is basically a far lighter vehicle than those of NASCAR. In effect, it is really a glorified go-cart. As such, Danica Patrick as a woman has a clearly decided, unfair weight advantage of about 100 pounds to any male driver. This would be highly significant in an Indy-type racecar. This accounts for some of the speed advantage that she had. Maybe she has driving ability, but it seems clear that she also has a clear and unfair weight advantage over the men – much the same as in horse racing where you never see a 200-lb jockey riding a racehorse.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The same cannot be said in the NASCAR-type racecars. Since they are just modified stock cars specialized to run professional races, the cars are far heavier and thus slower than the Indy-type racecars. Danica Patrick wouldn’t have much of an advantage in weight over men in this league – if at all – if she entered into and competed in NASCAR, now would she?&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; She’d also be facing far better quality drivers. The courses are tougher, the cars more tougher to handle and the drivers are far better. Danica Patrick would be far outclassed in the NASCAR league. She would be broke by the end of the season.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Summary:&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; This is the whole point of this blog article – the issue of pretended gender equality and the idea that women can compete with men in many professional sports.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Let’s see the first female defensive lineman or offensive lineman in the NFL and we’ll see whether this theory of gender equality is for real or not.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Why mess around with piddling, has-been, male-dominated sports leagues when you can really make a mark by getting a female offensive linewoman in the NFL? It won’t happen. And you know why? It won’t because some male, 300-lb defensive lineman would take down a 280-lb female offensive line woman by her tits and throw her down to the ground while sacking the opposing quarterback.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Life gets real dirty in the line trenches in football. There are no women up to the task and there never will be.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The only way you can get women into most male-dominated professional sports is to somehow disadvantage the men. You will have to lower the quality of play and standards to let the women in after that, you can forget about the fan base paying good money to see an inferior product.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);" class="MsoBodyText"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; This entire hype about women in professional sports leagues dominated by men is driven by a delusional notion of gender equality, and a coincident feminization and faggotization of Western males.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);" class="MsoBodyText"&gt;And before any of you out there go spewing forth emotioanl and irrational rhetoric and something about pop-psychology and how repressed that you think I am:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);" class="MsoBodyText"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;Remember this: that response is just a pathetic personal attack designed to discredit the truth of what I am saying that you're unable and unwilling to face, so the problem is with you - YOU need the psychiatric help!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; That’s all it REALLY is about.&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9618798-111741533527414673?l=theinsighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theinsighter.blogspot.com/feeds/111741533527414673/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9618798&amp;postID=111741533527414673' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9618798/posts/default/111741533527414673'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9618798/posts/default/111741533527414673'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theinsighter.blogspot.com/2005/05/wheres-annika-danica-and-alexis.html' title='Where&apos;s Annika, Danica and Alexis?'/><author><name>Edward J S</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14909539549067783347</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9618798.post-111633014541169950</id><published>2005-05-20T04:30:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-20T04:29:43.080-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Reprint Classic: ETs in the Bible</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Although this is slightly off the topic of politics, it still bears discussing because all God-fearing people will someday have to confront the issue. I’ll even venture to say that all nonbelievers will also have to face this issue as well.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);" class="MsoBodyText3"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; For while atheists will concede that other, nonhuman life will be encountered by humanity as we eventually reach the stars, they are extremely reluctant to concede that some extraterrestrials have already been here and influenced life on Earth.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; I am talking about the possibility of extraterrestrials. In fact, it’s more than a possibility. Read what Deuteronomy 4:19 (New JPS Translation) has to say:&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoBodyText"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 102);"&gt;“And when you look up to the sky and behold the sun and the moon and the stars, the whole heavenly host, you must not be lured into bowing down to them or serving them. These the Lord your God allotted to other peoples everywhere under heaven;”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Already during the time of the Israelites, the Bible makes mention of extraterrestrials. There is no other possible or plausible alternative meaning to this. Scripture.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And just in case there is any doubt, consider what Numbers 13:28, 31-33 (New JPS Translation) also says, from the report that the scouts sent into Canaan said:&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoBodyText"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 102);"&gt;“… the people who inhabit the country are powerful, and the cities are fortified and very large; moreover we saw the Anakites there.”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoBodyText"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 102);"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; “But the men who had gone up with him said, ‘We cannot attack that people, for it is stronger than we.’ Thus they spread calumnies among the Israelites about the land they had scouted, saying, ‘The country that we traversed and scouted is one that devours its settlers. All the people that we saw in it are men of great size; we saw Nephilim there – the Anakites are part of the Nephilim – and we looked like grasshoppers to ourselves, and so we must have looked to them’ ”.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Who were these “Nephilim”? That word in Hebrew means “those who came down”. That is a clear reference to extraterrestrial visitors who “came down” from “up there” – like perhaps, “outer space”?&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Although the Israelites scouts were fearful and afraid, it didn’t seem to concern God too much, as Deuteronomy 1:28-29 (New JPS Translation) makes quite clear:&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 102);"&gt;“What kind of place are we going to? Our kinsmen have taken the heart out of us, saying, ‘We saw there a people stronger and taller than we, large cities with walls sky-high, and even Anakites.’”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoBodyText2"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 102);"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;/span&gt;“I said to you, ‘Have no dread or fear of them. None other than the LORD your God, who goes before you, will fight for you, just as He did for you in Egypt before your very eyes,”&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The name “Anakites”, or “sons of Anak” is the Hebrew reference to the Sumerian “Annunaki”, translated as “those who from the heavens to the Earth came”. In other words, the earlier Semitic root language is referring to the Nephilim. This subject has been covered intensely by Zecharia Sitchin and I couldn’t do justice to the subject that this man has devoted 40 years to.&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;But apparently, the Israelites, having to take possession of the land of Canaan as their own, somehow managed to defeat these extraterrestrials and drive them out of the land that was to become Israel!&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Imagine that: a primitive people drove out these extraterrestrials, which were worshiped by the pagan tribes as if they were gods.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; They would have been giants in form if Zecharia Sitchin is correct in describing the planet of their origin as 4 times the size of the Earth, the approximate size of either Uranus or Neptune. The greater gravity of such a planet would have required a sentient, intelligent life form to be much taller than would a human on Earth.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; So, yes, it is understandable why the Israelites scouts would have feared such a race of space beings. And since the Israelites had only been in the desert a little less than 40 years at this point, they, Egyptians, Babylonians and others were also certainly aware of the existence of the Nephilim, the Sons of Anak – and of what technological prowess they would have possessed. They would have had every reason to fear.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt; &lt;span style="color:navy;"&gt;But in looking at all ancient myths, never has there been an instance where a primitive tribe of humans defeated these “sons of Anak” or Nephilim in the field of battle. The only exception was that of Israel. To be able to do this, there indeed would have to be a Supreme Being, a real God for whom the Israelites were the Chosen Ones.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Apparently, since there did exist an ancient Israel, these “giants” were dispossessed of the Canaanites land.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Apparently also the case is that we see no evidence of the whereabouts of Nephilim, sons of Anak anywhere here on the Earth. Presumably, the Supreme Being that created the universe and all within it told them to leave the planet. The influential role of these “giants” in human history was apparently over for the time being.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; But there are other questions I have. Since they apparently left the Earth for whatever reason, and since they were also driven from the land intended for Israel, they must have certainly believed in a real God as well.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; That the Nephilim or the sons of Anak existed is proved by the fact that God told the Israelites that they were not to be worshiped.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; What is particularly striking is the rendering of Deuteronomy 4:19, that other stars and places under Heaven were allotted to other “peoples”.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; That clearly means that other intelligent life exists elsewhere than on Earth.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; I found myself asking a few philosophical questions about what such other peoples allotted other planets would discuss.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; They certainly would have the same questions and debates about life and the existence of God as well.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; These extraterrestrials would also have talked about evolution too.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; These peoples would also have their own Holy Writings and Chosen Ones in all probability as well. They would have their own religions and their science and their technology as well.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; In short, life as they know it would be similar to life here on Earth.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; I also will dare to venture another thought: that the existence of extraterrestrials will damage the credibility of atheists and evolutionists far more than it would anybody who believes in God.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; It would do so because as I’ve demonstrated, The Tanakh, the Bible already mention these extraterrestrial beings long before the evolutionists and atheists permeated the conventional academic atmosphere.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The funny thing is that atheists are willing to concede that we will find other intelligent life in the future, but NO – it couldn’t have already happened here on Earth!&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The atheists think that way because the existence of extraterrestrials on Earth in ancient times would give rise to a very real possibility that humans could have been genetically engineered from a lower human species and implanted with alien genetic material.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; What we as God-believing people must understand is that this possibility threatens the very theory of evolution and thus the atheists’ credibility as well. That is the only reason that evolutionists and atheists try their hardest to discredit any possible evidence of any extraterrestrial existence and thus any influence upon mankind’s affairs.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Yes, that’s right: early extraterrestrial visits to ancient Earth directly threaten the credibility of atheists and evolutionists. That directly challenges their belief systems!&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; It is something that is based upon scientific possibilities, and now the evolutionists and atheists have a real threat to them because the fight is being taken to them on their own playing ground.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The atheists and evolutionists can no longer claim that objections to their belief systems and theories are based upon ignorance, myths, legends and superstitions – which is how they view the religious-based arguments against evolution.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; It does not, however, threaten Jews, Christians or Muslims or their belief systems because the holy scriptures say that extraterrestrials were here in ancient times.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; In fact, Genesis 6:4 is quite clear what it means:&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);" class="MsoBodyText2"&gt;“It was then, and later too, that the Nephilim appeared on earth – when the divine beings cohabited with the daughters of men, who bore them offspring. They were the heroes of old, the men of renown.”&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Other versions of this passage refer to “before and after the Deluge”, in place of “than and later too”. The time frame referred to above is before the Deluge. The passage above also notes that the Nephilim existed after the Deluge.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; My question: how did they survive the global Deluge, if they existed thereafter, because there is mention of them boarding the Ark with Noah?&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The answer is that they escaped the destruction by fleeing in their space ships and stayed in orbit until it was safe to land back on Earth.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; What is also intriguing was one verse in Genesis 4:26 which also has direct relevance to the idea of extraterrestrials and their purpose on Earth, although it is not readily apparent unless one does some detective work and asks the right questions:&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);" class="MsoBodyText2"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; “And to Seth, in turn, a son was born, and he named him Enosh. It was then that men began to invoke the Lord by name.”&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Question: if men took this long to invoke the Lord by name, why did it take this long?&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Could it possibly be that the early humans didn’t know of a Supreme God and didn’t know his name? If so, then who told them?&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And if so, that it took until Adam’s grandson Enosh to invoke the Almighty, then it stands to reason that Adam didn’t know that there was a Supreme Being, and neither did any other human like Abel, Cain, Seth or anybody else.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And if so, then who was it that talked to the humans before? It had to be the Nephilim.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; In fact, the earlier passages of Genesis shift from singular to plural forms of “el” and ”elohim” and the creation of the Adam preceded this invoking of Yahweh by name.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; “El” and “elohim” mean “lofty one(s)” in Sumerian, according to Zecharia Sitchin, who has studied the ancient Sumerian, Assyrian, Babylonian and Akkadian texts for 40 years.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Could it be then that it was the Elohim, the Annunaki (Anak), the Nephilim who scientifically, genetically-engineered mankind by imprinting alien genes upon a primitive Homo Erectus ape-man to form a slave race?&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; And then, according to plan, the Supreme Being Yahweh decided to take an interest in the affairs of mankind not long afterward?&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; If somebody can come up with a better alternative theory, I’d like to hear it.&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;This is definitely something that the evolutionists and atheists DON’T want to accept. And they refuse to accept and try to ridicule with their best efforts any attempt to challenge them on a scientific basis.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;But the facts are clear. They are there for anybody with enough scrutiny and willingness to dig for alternatives to find.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;In fact, the Sumerian King Lists denote reigns of divine, semi-divine and human kings - the former two categories whose reigns number in the thousands of years, not decades! Maybe perhaps the Sumerians were telling the truth.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Extraterrestrials do exist, have existed here on Earth, and we will one day meet them again.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; It will be that God-believers will be more eager to welcome them than will the atheists.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9618798-111633014541169950?l=theinsighter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theinsighter.blogspot.com/feeds/111633014541169950/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=9618798&amp;postID=111633014541169950' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9618798/posts/default/111633014541169950'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9618798/posts/default/111633014541169950'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theinsighter.blogspot.com/2005/05/reprint-classic-ets-in-bible.html' title='Reprint Classic: ETs in the Bible'/><author><name>Edward J S</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14909539549067783347</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9618798.post-111632888836561552</id><published>2005-05-19T04:18:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2005-05-19T04:18:13.843-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Reprint Classic: Geneva Convention Is Practically Obsolete</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Today the leftists worship at the altar of the Geneva Convention and complain about the “abuses” at the Abu Graib prison in Iraq.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Meanwhile, the so-called insurgents mock and violate every clause of the same Geneva Convention that the coalition forces are held to as a standard of behavior.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Let’s list the various abuses that these so-called insurgents are guilty of.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; A surrendering army presents itself for surrender and doesn’t shed its uniforms to blend in with the civilian population, as did Saddam Hussein’s army.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The so-called insurgents, who are really a combination of Saddam Hussein’s Baa’thist loyalists and imported terrorists from outside Iraq, have resorted to hit-and-run guerilla tactics.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; They have terrorized the civilian public by kidnapping and beheading innocent civilians.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; In direct violation of the Geneva Convention, they continue the fight within prohibited buildings such as religious sites, hospitals and schools.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; They have used women, children, the sick and the elderly as human shields to hide behind while they conduct warfare that has little support from the civilian population.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; They have also stored weapons in such locations in direct violation of the Geneva Convention on warfare.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Their treatment of prisoners of war is brutal. There is no humane treatment.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt; Where is the Left when all this is going on? Where is their denunciation of the so-called insurgents? Apparently, little has been from the leftists, if anything at all. They aren’t even willing to recognize the nature of the enemy. The left-leaning media insist on referring to the enemy of thugs as insurgents&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; The Left is too busy ignoring the UN peacekeeping troops in the Congo who are forcing refugee women into prostitution and pornography. It is within the blogosphere that I found this news. The liberal bias of the mainstream prevents negative coverage of the UN because it is an institution that liberals the world over worship.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; When an enemy refuses to abide by the rules of the Geneva Convention on warfare, the enemy deserves no respect and even less sympathetic media coverage. None of this has apparently dawned on the political leftists.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; Their hatred for George W Bush trumps all other considerations. While they may voice superficial disagreements with the terrorists’ and Saddam loyalists’ methods, in actual fact the leftists effectively support enemies of George W Bush.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt; This is so because in the Middle East, the rule is this: “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”. The net effect is the same as if the leftists had openly declared treason and actively supported Saddam Hussein and his thugs. The leftists 
