Nuclear secrets?

Wow, ladies and gentlemen, children of all ages. Have I got a surprise for you. It is shocking, inconceivable, unbelievable and contrary to the edicts of the New Messiah. What could it be you ask? Who would go against the greatest leader of our time, the only hope for our future, the atomic agent of change, the last great option for our dying world?

According to IAEA Iran may not be telling the truth. I know, who'da thunk it?

Iran may be withholding information needed to establish whether it tried to make nuclear arms, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Monday in an unusually strongly worded report.
The tone of the language suggesting Tehran continues to stonewall the U.N. nuclear monitor revealed a glimpse of the frustration felt by agency investigators stymied in their attempts to gain full answers to suspicious aspects of Iran's past nuclear activities.

Unlike;
2006
2007

"When North Korea announced a nuclear weapons test at the beginning of October 2006, Iran publicly condemned it. Iran policy analyst at the Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Carah Ong, noted in her blog that the response of Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini on state-run television said:

'Iran’s position is clear and Iran on principle believes in a world free of nuclear weapons. Iran is hopeful that negotiations on North Korea’s nuclear activities can go ahead in the interest of both North Korea and the international community.' "

— Mohammad Ali Hosseini, October 2006, Iran Responds to North Korea’s Nuclear Weapon Test, quoted by Carah Ong,
October 10, 2006

1950's thru to the present

While other more civilized, sane countries have decamped from the nuclear weapon bandwagon, rogue states like North Korea and Iran have continued to develop technologies which if left unchecked may kill us all.

During the cold war nuclear weapons were an essential part of defensive technology. As long as there was someone out there ready and willing to use those kinds of weapons to eradicate their enemies, the threat of equal or worse damage being visited upon their own country and peoples kept them in line. Saner heads have for the most part prevailed and now we have the village idiots from 3rd world cess pools rattling their sabers or in reality their camel bones at the rest of the world pretending they are actual players in world events. North Korea and Iran remind one of adolescents who must make noise and call attention to themselves due to their feelings of inadequacy.

Most people pass this stage in human development and come to the knowledge that while every life is important, all life is transient. It is apparent that in at least these two countries the leadership will never grow up. They will continue to act as if their lives and the lives of their people is the pre-eminent reason for the existence of this planet. They will attempt to blackmail, bribe, bully and intimidate the rest of the world as long as they believe the rest of the world is too weak, selfish, naive and ignorant to do anything about it.

My guess is that it will take either a nuclear accident like Chernobyl or worse to wake up those who refuse to believe or understand that appeasement never works with megalomaniacs or children. The leaders in these 3rd world circus' are one or the other. My opinion is that their emotional growth was stunted at the same time they should have been taught that there were other people in the world and that they were not the only one's that matter.

Parenting, it always comes down to parenting. My advice. Someone needs to give them a spanking, not a time out, not grounding, a spanking, hard enough for them to remember it for a long, long time. 

Somewhat like Reagan's response to Libya's bombing of a German night club. It wasn't the isolated incident that he was addressing, it was the idea that there would be no consequences to uncivilized behavior. Mr. Kadafi didn't come out of his bunker for a very long time after that. That is the real secret of peace. We must make it much more preferable to what ever those who seek power can ever achieve.

It's a shame that the current crop of political kindergardeners haven't achieved that level of expertise.

Hey Michele

I have had it.  I have only one thing to say to Michele Obama.  Either Cowgirl up or shut up.  

I know, how dare I?  Someone who believes in the Constitution.  Someone who believes in the First Amendment.  Someone who's father, grandfather, uncles, husband and now son are veterans who were willing, if asked, to die for this country.  Someone who believes in personal choice and the freedom to believe in whatever one chooses to believe in.

I dare because with personal choice and freedom come responsibility.  There are intended and unintended consequences of our words and actions.  When one makes public statements they are then responsible for the personal consequences of those statements.  Ones race, gender, age, occupation or intelligence (or lack thereof) should have no impact on those consequences. It would be racist in the extreme to ignore the anti-American statements made by the wife of someone who claims to want to be president of the entire US, not just of those with African ethnicity.  Should Ms. Obamas remarks be forgiven because she is black or because she's "just" his wife.  If Mr. Clinton or Ms. McCain had offered the same assessment would there be the hue and cry over people taking exception to them. Somehow I think not. 

This to me is racism in it's worse form.  Mr Obama can't win on ideals or plans.  We HAVE to vote for him, because otherwise we're bigoted racist, xenophobes.  What a novel way to elect the best and brightest.  What a way to choose a leader.

I won't vote for someone because of the color of his skin, nor will I not vote for someone for the same reason.  It's not someone's time, nor is it their turn.  We're voting for the leader of the free world here, maybe we should stop the shallow pontificating and find out exactly what this man plans and who is he going to tap to help him do the job.  

They'd better be the best, the most qualified leaders or there won't be any freedom to worry about. 

Trans-gendered kids?

Ladies and gentlemen, someone, anyone educate me on how a 7 year old can be confused about his gender.

A 7 year old has no idea what a man or woman "feels" like, they don't have any deep understanding of the differences between males and females. Hormones such as they are have not yet begun to make them crazy, cranky and somewhat costly.

Now I know that I am just a simple woman. I don't have a PhD nor do I have a 6 figure job. I am not a psychiatrist or doctor but lets look at this logically. If you have never tasted broccoli how do you know you won't like it? If you've never seen the vegetable do you even know what broccoli is? One wonders who is counseling these children, do their doctors and parents have Dr. Ruth on speed dial, are they spending too much time in front of Will and Grace or Queer Eye for the Straight Guy?  Isn't this akin to child abuse?  If not why?

Once one is an adult if they chose to delude themselves into the homosexual scam, well there is not much one should or could do about it. The basic fact is that a person is born either male or female (with some few examples). No matter how the "feel" they are what they are. It is what one does with the trials and difficulties in life that shows the stature of the soul.

At least for those who believe in a soul. We are apparently becoming an endangered species.

What did Shakespear say?

A friend sent me this in an email. It is no wonder this country is in the mess that it's in. Many lawyers while a necessary evil are an evil none the less.

As Mr. Shakespeare said in Henry VI, "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."

Over and over again we have seen shyster ambulance chasers attempt to circumvent the legal system not for the good of their clients, not for the good of the community but to line their own pockets and those of their handlers.

This was reported in an  article at CNN "

"In California, a 2000 voter referendum banned same-sex marriage, but state lawmakers have made two efforts to allow gay and lesbian couples to wed. Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed both bills."

Now with activist, constructionist judges there is no perversion too vile, no crime too heinous, no group too violent that they can't champion them. People like Ayers, Reverend Wright, John Edwards, and apparently the Supreme Court of California are bent on destroying the fabric of our society from the inside out.

Lest anyone think I am a sexual bigot, I personally don't care what people do in the confines of their homes/ apartments. I don't want to know your sexual orientation. Since I am married and have been for 30+ years I'm REALLY not interested. 

No matter how many studies you do, how many diversity training videos I have to watch, or what new revelation about this writer, poet, musician, famous individual or that, I still know that homosexuality is an aberration. While it does occur in nature, the consequences which naturally occur ( all of the genes are removed from the gene pool) are effective and unbiased. It is not normal behavior. Roughly less than 4% of the population is gay according to this report.

Now I'm the first one to say that most folks have an agenda about this but the facts are that if you put two homosexuals together (without some serious intervention) they will never spontaneously produce offspring. Those genes will be deleted from the pool.   The most damaging part of the California Supreme Court issue is not the homosexual agenda per se.  It is the fact that radical judges are setting aside the will of the people in order to pander to special interest groups who have no understanding of the basic tenants of democracy.   

"We the people of the United states, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic tranquility.....".  NOT we the Supreme Court, not we the President, not we the Gay and Lesbian Alliance.  We the people, the voters, the citizens are supposed to be in charge. 

Like the media, lawyers seem to think it is their job to "save us", to "educate us" to "beat us into submission" if necessary.   They are taught that attitude by professors who spend their time in the hallowed halls of academia.   The arrogance factor of these people is overwhelming. They are unable to understand the concepts of personal liberty, freedom and self governance.

E.B. White opined;

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.

This my fellow citizens is the elitist nonsense we have to battle. Now, then, everyday in every way the battle continues to rage.  "Never give up, never surrender.

Savior?

Well here it is ladies and gentlemen, the beginning of the end of the Republican Party.

What does John McCain stand for? He's soft on illegal immigration, he's soft on abortion, he's soft on global warming as a scam and a multitude of other issues. He has partnered with some of the most liberal senators in the country to co-author legislation that drop by drop allows our freedoms to simply be leached away. On one hand he says he wants the help the military and on the other he seeks to abort their mission and allow our enemies to win the war. Mr. McCain has now jumped on the Global Warming bandwagon as it careens out of control due mainly to the lack of common sense inherent in it's devotees.

While I am uncomfortable with Juan, I am truly frightened of the alternative. They are beholden to those who wish nothing more than the destruction of America and the seduction of her people to a life where their is no choice, no freedom and no liberty.

I wish I could spread the word and convince other like minded folks that WE are the Republican Party. We make the rules. We drive the debate. Those seats lost in Texas were lost because we don't believe in our leaders any more. They have "tossed us under the bus", they have "thrown us from the train", they have sentenced us to sit in the back of the bus. How one might ask? By abdicating their responsibilities, by jettisoning our principles and beliefs, by allowing those who oppose us to systematically strip us of our rights and by not standing firm. Instead they bow like wheat before a turgid wind, bending so far over as to touch the ground in the face of vapid science, vitriolic rhetoric and downright deception and lies. I want my party to stand firm, to represent me and my beliefs which haven't changed in the last 3 decades.

I want representatives with spines, backbones, and brains. I want people who are not beholden to special interest groups or lobbyists. I want clear thinking, freedom loving, individuals who are in the job to serve not make it so everyone serves them. I want someone more interested in WE the people then in THEY the politician.

There is quote in one of the most popular movies of my generation, that describes this mind set. After being told by his student "I can't believe it", a small pointy eared masters says " that is why you fail".

That ladies and gentlemen is why we lose.

The Hookerization of America

Being the mother of four girls I have watched over the years as clothes, especially for girls, have become more and more slutty, slovenly, and dare I say it more Hooker-lite. I would say this is due mainly to the explosion of Wal Mart as one of the major retailers in this country, but that would be a lie. Many other more up scale stores are just as bad or even worse.

Many I'm sure defend this trend with the "Children are just little adults, they should be able to dress as they like " mantra. That's one of the main reason childhood obesity and diabetes is on the rise, galloping away, as it were, with the childhood of our posterity. The PARENT is responsible for the feeding, clothing and education ( yes, you are responsible) of their children. You decide what they eat, when, how much and where. You decide what they wear.  They are looking to YOU to make the right decisions for them. I am talking about children here, not adolescents and teenagers. If you have taught them correctly by the time they reach adolescence they will make good choices at least as often as adults do,(not always a good thing but human) and they need to practice making some decisions so they are better at it by the time they are out on their own.

If you allow young girls to dress like this why would they dress differently when they are teenagers. What is cute (I have a hard time thinking this is cute) on a 4 year old could be dangerous on a 14 year old. 

It may be unfair but the fact is people judge you by your appearance. They won't swim through the nonsense to get to know you, they'll just assume you are what you present yourself as. If you present yourself as "fast, loose, slutty, or skanky" that is how people will see you. We don't have the time or energy today to sift through the miasma to find the "real" you, because we are reasonably sure we'll find what we see.

Unfair, maybe but the fact is while you can't judge a book by it's cover, you can reasonably judge a person by their appearance.  There's an old adage "if you're not selling don't advertise." It seems to be to be common sense, which of course went out of style sometime in the late 1950's.

Tornados

(don't forget to go to the link at the end-it might just save your life)


Tornados,
tornados
and
tornados.

Here in Fly-Over country we have a great deal of experience with Twisters. They have been and are a major weather events not just spring but throughout the year. Tornados can happen anywhere, at anytime and during any season. Some of us who live with the knowledge that these deadly funnels of destruction can drop from the sky at a moments notice take them very seriously. Others do not.

There are several ways to deal with the weather here in the Tornado Belt. One is to ignore it. These are the, "It can't happen to me people." You find them everywhere today. No one is going to steal their car, break into their homes, kidnap their child, they are never involved in accidents or will they be victims or crime or identity theft. They never prepare because they have so many other more important things to do, like play golf or tennis, go to the gym or run their kids to soccer, gymnastics, or a church youth activity. They never or hardly ever look at the sky much the weather nor do they listen to the radio news. They have more important things to think about.

Another way of course is to be prepared. In the spring my home page is NOAA (the specific page for my city). I have a weather radio, which is tested every week on Wednesday and on the first Monday of the month.  I watch the sky.  I notice the kinds and amounts of clouds in the sky and their color. We live in a house with a basement and while I know that in some parts of the country a house can't have a basement, there are storm shelters available for purchase. We also have tornado supplies and have them in the places they will be most helpful. Most important of all we are educated and flexible. If the weather is likely to develop into dangerous weather we STAY HOME.  Sometimes this causes problems but most often it does not.

Here are facts everyone should be aware of.  I for one live by the adage,  "If ye are prepared, ye shall not fear."

Mother's Day

I have issues with Mother's Day.

It's not that I don't revere mothers. It's not that I don't think a day to honor them is appropriate. It's not even the super-hype attached to the whole "gotta buy Mom the perfect gift thing".

No, the problem I have with Mother's Day is that it gives people an excuse to ignore, abuse, trash, and otherwise disrespect mothers the other 363 days a year. Because we spend one day extolling the virtues of motherhood doesn't mean for the rest of the year we can debase, degrade and deplete respect for the calling and job of mother.

We hear from all sides that a woman can't possibly be content to be "just a mother". We hear the siren call of "if you aren't ready for motherhood we can take care of it." Last but not least is the fallacy of "you can have it all."

Here's a little secret from the trenches. You can't have it all. Something's got to give. Even if you're a stay at home mom there are sacrifices you have to make, things that you have to give up. It is the nature of the beast.

Here's another dirty little secret. There are bad moms. Yes indeed. Some work at it, some are bad by accident and some are just too ignorant to know any better. Here's the thing though, your mom is your mom. For most of us that means that she fed us, washed us, powdered our little behinds and taught us right from wrong. Maybe she's opinionated, maybe she's outrageous, maybe she's crazy ( or she just drives the bus) but she is still your mother. She actually gave birth to you as apposed to aborting. So no matter how bad she is, she still deserves some gratitude and respect on that point alone, and not just one day everyday.

There are those of us who when we are asked to use one word to describe our mothers have to answer "dead." We can tell you that as much as we fought (and we did), as much as we cried ( and we did), as we drove each other crazy ( and we did), we would do it all over again just to have her here with us. My own mother only got to see one of her six grandchildren. She didn't live to see them in school programs programs or graduate from high school or to see me graduate from college or to see her great-grandchildren.

So....If you have a mom, call her, send her flowers, buy her groceries, or take her to the doctor. Not just tomorrow, often.

A mother is a terrible thing to waste.

Technology does it again

This my friends is why we own Mac's. Their best slogan and the one they should have kept at the forefront of their advertising campaign is "The Computer for the rest of us".

Of course the fact that the hubby is a graphic artist/photojournalist had a little to do with the choice as well.

Yes he's conservative, he's very conservative. Ronald Reagan is his hero along with the founding fathers, Oliver North and the average American military member. Unbelievably there are conservatives in the media, but they fight an up hill battle and are outnumbered by a lot. I keep telling him that he's fighting the good fight but occasionally he gets tired. Swimming in a morass of intolerant-tolerance can be very wearing.

That is the price of a FREE press.

By their fruits.....

Well, I've always said that he was in charge of the demoncrats but I never thought they would prove it for me.

Seriously, I HOPE they are content. After all once you're his there's not much chance for CHANGE.

Don't forget the sunscreen. You're gonna need it.

Former Gitmo detainees explode on the international scene

Thanks to the Radio characters at Walton and Johnson I was apprised of this interesting situation.

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According to their crack research team at least 30 detainees have been involved in either blowing things up or shooting our military.

I must admit I agree with the Radio Guys, I think the Gitmo detainees should be released.... but we should expand their destination from Tim Robbins an Susan Sarandon's guest room, to the custody of the City of Hollywood and the City of Berekly. Since these folks are so sure these poor souls are simply unfortunate, victims of US aggression the citizens of these two cities especially should be thrilled to assist them in their return to civilization (of course it would be helpful if these detainees had ever lived in civilization or been civilized in any way but.....)

Animals are animals are animals. It's not surprising that people who elevate animals over people would not be able to see the danger of opening the cages. It just seems appropriate that they should be the ones living in the zoo.

Eco-disaster?

Where are they? Where are the eco-warriors, the environmentalists, the evironmental whackos, the tree huggers and Code Pink? This my friends is the height of eco- hypocrisy. Now lest you think this a partisan rant, where is John McCain?

Why, he's speaking to La Rasa (the Race). Of course the best way to fix the illegal problem is to invite everyone to come and then no one will be illegal. They will turn this country into the cess pool they just left (which is already happening in California, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas et al) but hey that's our children's problem not ours and he can't get elected without the hispanic vote. They are the fastest growing portion of the population, you know.

Here's the deal. These people trashed their own country. They made it what it is today. No one wanted to fight for freedom there, no one wanted to make the hard decisions and choices, no one was willing to fight for their rights. Instead they just sat on their hands while criminals took over the government and drug cartels became the shadow government.

Now they have decided to do the same thing here. The lack of respect they show for the laws of this country are directly proportionate to the lack of respect they show for our resources and our property. Why does anyone think these people are going to become good citizens after coming here illegally? What's to keep them from breaking other laws and plunging our country into chaos? They only obey the laws they like and the rest they ignore, just like they ignore the sanctity of our border. Hence illegal, undocumented, incompetent drivers who kill and maim on our nations highways.

Why? Because they don't need no stinking drivers licenses. They don't need no stinking insurance. They don't need to obey the law. They didn't have to obey the law when they came here, they didn't have to obey the law when they enrolled their children in school or got a job or got federal or state assistance.

This IS a national disaster.

What now Al?

Ok Mr. Gore, fix this. You're all het up over greenhouse gasses. You're the Savior of the planet. You and your army of eco-terrorists are fighting the good fight. FIX IT.

Every year one volcano spews more junk into the atmosphere than we have since the beginning of the industrial revolution*. How are you going to fix that. Tax the volcano, sanction it, maybe mount protests.

"So far, Chaiten has emitted only a few thousand tons of sulfur dioxide, "which is very small," said Simon Carn, a University of Maryland-Baltimore volcanologist who uses satellites to measure volcanic gases.
In general, a volcano must spew at least 1 million tons of sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere to have a global effect on climate, said Alan Robock, a Rutgers University professor who co-authored a book on the subject.
After eruptions of unusual size, sulfur dioxide, converted into sulfuric acid, can form a thin white cloud in the atmosphere that reflects sunlight away from Earth.
The Philippines' Mount Pinatubo produced a brief cooling of the climate after spewing 20 million tons of sulfur dioxide in 1991."

Only a few tons in a five day eruption, why do I find that hard to believe? Could it be that I don't trust the media, scientist or volcanos? Could be.


*"Scientists estimated that Pinatubo’s eruption added more aerosols (light gases and particles) than all human-caused ‘greenhouse gases’ since the industrial revolution. A reduction of up to 1°C in the Earth’s average temperature was recorded by NASA satellites within a year of the main eruption. This cooling effect persisted for about two years, temporarily more than offsetting any global warming effect." - site

John, John, John

Well, I hate to say I told you so. But I did. 26% voted AGAINST him. Gee wonder why? Could it be for his Illegal Immigrant stance or his willingness to cozy up to the most liberal senators in town or for his inability to keep his temper and watch his language?

To be fair he did get over 70% of the vote in both states but people were still voting for the Huckster and Paul the Putrid. Even more voted for the real winner of this election cycle Mr. None of the Above.

We are in deep trouble folks.

Oh and by the by, if you believe this, you'll believe anything. I have some land south of Pensacola I just know you'll love, water access, no neighbors. Seriously, it's a steal.

Casinos vs recession

Gee, casinos are not recession proof . What a shocker! When people can't afford to use their cars, feed their families, or pay their mortgages they stop throwing their money away. Really? They don't continue to support the lifestyles of the rich and famous, they don't continue to put money into something that no matter how much they spend will never recoup what they lose. It's amazing, astounding, mind boggling. Next thing you know there will be a report that movie attendance is down.

What a catastrophe. People may have to go back to watching TV or even worse spending time with their families, should they have one, which is another whole moldy loaf of bread.

Protesters

Well, here's an interesting conundrum. This however is the most interesting claim, at least to me:

"The media's focus on the war then began a steady decline. In February, only 3 percent of print, television and online coverage was dedicated to Iraq, according to the Project for Excellence in Journalism, or PEJ, a Washington-based organization. That's down from 22 percent a year before."

I wonder what percent of the 22% contained stories about the positive things happening in Iraq. Stories on our soldiers and the difference they're making in the lives of the average Iraqi. Of course those of us on the right hand side of the isle know roughly what percent that would be, less than 1% and only due to papers like The Wall Street Journal.

So protesters are frustrated by apathy, the rest of us are frustrated by stupidity, treason and the terminally short sighted. Get used to it, we've had to.

Oh John, not again.

If John McCain loses the Presidency this will be why.

The Race is a racist organization that promotes the welfare of hispanics over that of everyone else in this country. They are interested in only what benefits their members and castigate any who have the temerity to point that out, as hate mongers. They are no different than the KKK, the Black Panthers, or White Separatists.

This is the United States of America. If you think the hispanic culture is so highly evolved than please go back to a country where it is flourishing. Oh that's right, what with the poverty, crime, graft, corruption, pollution and immorality it's not safe to live there.

My bad, I forgot.

Greenies?

Here for you approval is one of the best articles on the hypocriscy of the "green movement" . Don't forget to read the comments. They are almost as much fun as reading the article.

The one thing you have to give the Brits, they are willing to call a scam a scam.