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Posted at 6:18pm on Apr. 20, 2007 Gambit of Guilt

By GHC

I think I may have finally figured out what the real agenda of the Left in this country is. I decided to put in the "War" category because this is what we face day in and day out and it must be fought hammer and tongs. I came to the following realization after listening to Rush on Thursday.

He started going through all the things that had happened after the terrorist attack that took place at Virginia Tech. (I don't know how it could be called anything else due to the calculating way the attack was carried out). Rush was talking about how we were almost immediately fed the story of "You made me do it" from this college kid. It made me stop and think. Who are the people who are constantly telling us we are destroying this or that? Who are the people who are constantly telling us how bad Wal-Mart is or how we don't do enough to help those who can't do it on their own? Who is it that is always saying that we deserved to be attacked on 9-11-01. Who is it that has brought us abortion to the tune of 1.4 million a year yet thinks convicted murderers should not be put to death? Who is it that wants to rehabilitate convicted child molesters so they can return to society? Who is it that will show us a Murderer's manifesto days after his mass murder and yet will not show us the tapes of the most brutal attack on our country since Pearl Harbor five years later because it is too soon? Who is pouring sex and violence into our homes every night on the television?

The answer to everyone of these questions in case you don't know is The Left.

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Posted at 12:29pm on Dec. 10, 2006 Humanitarian with a guillotine

By GHC

My mom sent me this piece. I thought you all might enjoy it.

The Humanitarian with the Guillotine
Published in The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty - September 1955
by Isabel Paterson

Reprinted from The God of the Machine
by Isabel Paterson, published in 1943.

Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends. This is demonstrably true; nor could it occur otherwise. The percentage of positively malignant, vicious, or depraved persons is necessarily small, for no species could survive if its members were habitually and consciously bent upon injuring one another. Destruction is so easy that even a minority of persistently evil intent could shortly exterminate the unsuspecting majority of well-disposed persons. Murder, theft, rapine, and destruction are easily within the power of every individual at any time. If it is presumed that they are restrained only by fear or force, what is it they fear, or who would turn the force against them if all men were of like mind? Certainly if the harm done by willful criminals were to be computed, the number of murders, the extent of damage and loss, would be found negligible in the sum total of death and devastation wrought upon human beings by their kind. Therefore it is obvious that in periods when millions are slaughtered, when torture is practiced, starvation enforced, oppression made a policy, as at present over a large part of the world, and as it has often been in the past, it must be at the behest of very many good people, and even by their direct action, for what they consider a worthy object. When they are not the immediate executants, they are on record as giving approval, elaborating justifications, or else cloaking facts with silence, and discountenancing discussion.

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Posted at 8:40pm on Aug. 22, 2006 Trade Off

By GHC

Would you care if gas was $4.00 per gallon if Iran was no longer a threat?

Lets say we nuked Iran, and they no longer were a contributer to the world oil market. How would the world react and how long would it be before they could recover and start pumping oil again? Do you think the Russians and the Chinese would touch them if they had no cpacity to to generate cash? Arms for rugs, anyone?

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Posted at 10:22pm on May 4, 2006 What our country needs.

By GHC

We need a leader.

Whoever you are I am talking to you.

This is a call to a leader of great skill. a man of great charisma, a man who will tell it llike it is, a man who will gather up all the political correctness and parisan politics and throw it down a well. I want a man who doesn't want power, and yet is courageous enough to use the full force of it.  I want a man who knows the truth and speaks it plainly and unabashedly. If the truth hurts, then so be it. I want a man who will expose the left for who they are. I want a man who will take the Islamists by the teeth and rip every single molar from its root. I want a man who will cause people to retrieve their lost dignity and self respect, and help them to learn to love themselves and their country again. (Don't deny, those on the left, that this is what you have lost) I want a man who prosecutes the law with a fist of steel. I want a man who expects everyone of us to take care of ourselves and inspires us all to rise above our beginings. I want a man who says, "We will win."

Most of all I want a leader who is not affraid to be who he is and will not bend in the winds.

You are out there, I know it. This is a call to you.

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Posted at 1:25am on Oct. 3, 2005 Two Dogs

By GHC

This past Summer I spent a lovely week in Rhode Island. We stayed with my dad and his wife at their house in E. Greenwich as my brother was getting married and I was in the wedding. While we were there my stepsister and her husband who have one son, and were expecting another child were in the process of moving and needed a place where their two dogs could stay while the move was taking place. So my stepmather offered to watch these dogs. And her daughter and son-in-law took up the offer.

After a week the move was completed and they were getting settled nicely and everything was going fine untill my stepsister started whining about having to take the dogs back over to her new place. "I don't have time for them, my husband's alergic to them." These dogs are Japanese or Chinese Chins( I can't remeber which). They are pretty much easy to take care of because they are lap dogs and they have each other to keep each other company, so they are not really that much of a hassle, until the older of the two dogs starts doing its business in the middle of the night on the floor of the basement, where my dad's office is.

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Posted at 11:33pm on Aug. 26, 2005 50 Terrorists Dead!

By GHC

Today I heard a one report out of the 24 news reports on the local radio station that occur every day. It said that at least fifty "insurgents" were killed today when Iraqi citizens notified U.S. Troops of a safe house where the men were gathering. According to the story, Navy Hornets were called in and they leveled the building.

I just did a quick scan through the few new agencies I have bookmarked and there doesn't seem to be anything written about it. Has anyone out there heard anything on this story?

I would love to hear more about it. If it is true, it is goor to know the people of Iraq are standing up for what is right.

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Posted at 11:58pm on Aug. 19, 2005 Thanks for calling my take.

By GHC

I have been listening to the talk radio guys now for more than two weeks, pretty much from when Rush comes on at ten( here in Boise) untill around four thirty when I get home and shut down the radio and it seems to me that one thing is clear. The war is about one thing and that is our way of life. And when I say, "our way of life", I mean freedom. Since the days when The United States of America first began to the presant day, one thing has remained consant and that is the idea that we are all born free. Free to do as we please as long as we didn't trespass upon the freedoms of others. Free to love our god, free to say what we thought was wrong and free to become the best we could be, and we are free because we have people who are willing to do what is necessary to guard that freedom. I guarded it in the 90's, between wars, and I always knew that what I was doing was for everyone of my countrymen, and I got paid to do it. I was free to make that choice.

I see that our country seems to be in some turmoil over this war, but according to Will Durant over the course of the world's recorded history only about ten percent of the time has there been no war, so it doesn't seem that it is out of the ordinary in that context. However, as some would have us believe this is just another sick attempt by The Unied States to gain more control over the World. It may be, but I would rather have a free republic controlling things than some sick dictator. The turmoil comes from a decidedly socialist media, who is concerned more with emotion than what is true or real. I guess at the moment emotion is still selling well enough to be justified. What is great about listening to talk shows all day is you get the local news bursts from national sources at the top and bottom of the hour, and if a guy listens long enough he can hear the contempt for all of us little people almost every half hour.

Here is my question to all of you out there in blog land. We know that the news is dedicated to sponsors and that sponsors spend their money where they will reach the most audience per dollar, and pretty soon most everyone is going to stop listening to the stories of the BTK killer and Shehan and the guy that molested his retarded step daughter, and all the little things they throw in there about bad Bush and how Clinton didn't have a legal leg to stand on to get Ben Ladin and simply hit the play button on their  iPods, and forget about the news. Will the MSM ever wake up and realize that a vast majority of their audience has gone away, and will they be able to get them back by changing the way they report to reflect truth and fairness or wiol they stand by their liberal bias as their business goes down the drain?

Thanks for letting me rant. I know thie wasn't a very coherent blog, but I just needed to spew.

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Posted at 9:54pm on Jun. 13, 2005 What has been missing.

By GHC

What has been missing in the national dialogue is a statement of basic philosophy, and it seems, any follow through on a basic philosophy. The Dems say they are for the common man, of which I am one, and what have they really done for the common man. The GOP says they are for smaller government and less spending, and what have they done to reduce the govenrment intake or out lay of cash.

The Dems want to subject us all to be taken care of by the government like we are children. We aren't smart enough to take care of ourselves, you know. Whatever!

The GOP seems to want to let us do our own thing yet they keep spending money. That's not very conservative.

Am I the only one who feels this way? Our politicians seem to have lost sight of what is really important. A strict philosophy and the discipline to live by that philosphy, what ever that philosophy may be.

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Posted at 10:11pm on May 5, 2005 Two Kinds of LIerals

By GHC

I have been thinking about this of a while and although it is just a thought and I have no real evidence, nor the time to dig any up, that there are two kinds of liberals.

The first is the one who does not want to be seen as someone who believes particularly  in anything. Not god, morals, judging anyone or anything, and least of all the sanctity of performance or ability, They do however believe that because they cannot be equal monetarily, academically, physically or otherwise, that somone must make them equal so they have a chance in life. This kind of liberal is the kind who thinks that the world is a place where they must grab all they can from whomever they can in order to survive. To this kind of liberal the world is full of danger and doom and gloom and offensive speech and outrage and crisis. It is as if this type of person feeds on all of this and uses it to bolster a point of view of pessimism.This liberal also feels they are owed something and that the government should force the rest of us to give it to them. Liberals of this caliber  provide fuel for the second kind of liberal.

The second kind of liberal is about the power they gain by feeding off the misery of the first. They take this power gladly and use it to prove to themselves how great they are. The power hungry kind of liberal is constanly looking for the parade to lead or the band wagon to on which to jump.  The power hungry liberal will call for something to be done about poverty or healthcare all in the name of helping his fellow man, but in reality care little for them. They only want the power. I doubt those behind the tobacco lawsuits cared for actual smokers. If they did they would have outlawed tobacco. It wasn't a health issue, it was a money issue. This type is the worst kind because they are educated usually and know better. They have made many promises and kept few in the name of noble causes, and ususally it served only to make more of the the first kind of liberal. Until it was reformed the Welfare system did just that.

The liberals on sees in the media spotlight are this kind; the one's who know better but use the ignorant liberals to further an agenda of power.

This is just an observation and it may or may not be true. It it is those witht the time and resources could, if they were so inclined attempt to enlighten ignorant liberal and expose  the power hungry of the species.

"The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it."

- H.L. Mencken

GHC

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