Ok, what's with the Democrats?

Are they simply incapable of holding still on one issue for more than a two year period of time? Is there some Star Trek plot line that has been woven into our own space-time continuum? Perhaps somewhere out in space the ashes (or spirit or karma or ki) of Mr. Roddenberry are bouncing around with the energy of bosons, quarks and gluons forming the words ’Now why didn’t I think of that?’

We have John Kerry, Democrat extraordinaire of Massachusetts mind you, supporting the war in Iraq 'back in the day.' Also, in addition to the aforementioned support , he held unswerving loyalty to the use of force under Mr. Bill J. C. of Arkansas, then 'leader of the free world.' Currently our haughty French looking presidential aspirer has been making the local rounds of morning political talking heads declaring he was 'suckered in and brow beaten into submission for this quagmire.'

Now we have another Democrat (A Rep. Rangel of New York apparently) who was against military action in Iraq (to liberate the people from Mr Hussein) but is for military action in Haiti (to keep the people oppressed by Mr. Aristide).

Mind you that in the intervening time from Messr. Aristides red-eye flight to Central Africa and the arrival of the US Marine Corps there was nary a call for the Haiti 'crisis' to repeat the time consuming and burdensome multilateral, UN approved, coalition building, finger up the arse-hole dawdling that invariably led up to the Iraqi war. Instead France and the UN called America for immediate military support in 'helping' the 40,000 some odd French citizens living on said island.

Perhaps the neighbors to the South are more in need of American help, in the eyes of the UN and France, then the world neighbors just a little bit more East.

Ladies and gentleman, the party and President of the future!!

Hypocrites.

I have not received any more comments on my previous topics so I will consider the matter closed and chalk a victory up on my side of the tablet. Of course this could be due to the fact that some of the procrastinating bloggers are taking exams. So it may just be in recess for the moment.

I believe that, except for some previous postings, this is my longest one in some time. So beware!

On the emails I have received, heck who would have thought people actually emailed me, I have a blurb about myself or more accurately my goals!

For the record, yes I do attend college. It is part time and distance education through Old Dominion in Norfolk, Va. It is worth it, I believe, it's paid for by the Navy and it is an excellent school. 

Strange if only a few years ago you would have asked me what I would be studying, if attending college at all, I would probably have said ‘history’ or ‘law’ or some such thing. Now I'm turning into a bloody engineer... I blame this on my Phd I received from my carefree days in San Diego as a student.

Thats "Public highschool diploma" for the rest of you.

I have not resigned my self to the fate of being an electronics engineer all my life though. On the contrary I have decided on a rather ambitious educational plan. Firstly completing my BS in General Engineering Technology with Electromechanical Systems Option from Old Dominion.

Second transferring to Rensselaer Polytechnic for an M.Eng Industrial and Management Engineering or to California Polytechnic- San Luis Obispo for an MBA/MS in Engineering Management.

I have it figured that if I complete both of these degrees before I am 30 years old I will take a chance at one more degree and apply to University San Diego to earn a degree in History. Keep in mind that I have to earn my degrees while being a full time active duty sailor in the Navy. Also, I have to continue to apply myself to learning my rate in the Navy and advancing through the ranks. Oh, and also making deployments and supporting and loving my wife!

To say the least one day I will earn my commission. After that who knows.

What a year this will be. Thank goodness that in New York they had sense to start charging public officials for illegally filing and performing marriage services for homosexuals. At least one state has a justice system that is not so corrupted as to be unable to serve the public good.

Note: Muslim terrorists utilize only Western goods in committing acts of terror and in their operation. This says two things:

1. Muslim nations in the Middle East are incapable of sustaining industry beyond oil having no natural resources of any great note.

2. Western goods are superior in application, reliability and use.

Now let’s be serious for a moment on the above. Plastic explosives, automatic weapons, grenades, cell phones, 4WD vehicles, laptop computers, Swiss banks, airlines and airplanes, video cameras, satellites, global broadcasting, etc. are superior quality and manufactured or originated in the West.

I am hard press to find beyond crude oil, modern numerals, the Koran (as a historical artifact), stylish architecture from three centuries past or several abstract mathematical formulae to see anything of any note or importance come from Muslim Middle East industry or intelect.

Oh. I forgot to mention terrorism.

Perhaps another century or two will pass before they too enjoy free democracy and elections, womens suffrage, religious equality, freedom of nonstate controlled press and an industrial revolution. Of course I'm not holding my breath.

Next topic, please!

I think I will start recommending books on a biweekly basis. I will put out between five and six titles and I encourage you all to read them.

I recommend the following books:

1. An Autumn of War

2. Carnage and Culture

3. Ripples of Battle

All three of the above are by Victor Davis Hanson. Find a copy of these books and read them for yourself.

Also recommended:

4. Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlen

5. The Forever War by Joe Haldeman

Moving on…

For the record:

We are at 5.6% unemployment. This after entering a recession begun in the waning months of the Clinton era and then suffering the horrific 9/11 attacks which further plummeted the market. If you are CNN though spin the reporting to get the reaction. Note that the ‘total employment’ range is 4%-5.5% for our economy is considered normal and that a figure below 3.87% is for all practical purposes ‘impossible.’

We have made SEC auditing and punishment of corporations and corporate officers more stringent following the Enron and WorldCom collapses. This only after their inflated buildup during the Dot-Com era of the 1990s and subsequent collapse soon after.

We have toppled the Ba’athist regime in Iraq and installed THE ONLY true Democracy in the Muslim Middle East bloc. Incidentally, as Muslim terrorists believe this to be a crusade against another Muslim nation by infidels they have concentrated their attacks on American military troops and interests in the region, not on American civilians domestically. Note, this was made only possible by direct American and British military action, NOT by UN debating while civilians suffered under the former regime.

We have captured the Butchers from Baghdad. Of note only 12 of the original 52 most wanted Ba’athists are left in the deck.

We have toppled the Taliban government in Afghanistan and, with international as well as American funding, begun reconstructing that country. Much as the Empire of Rome did in its expansion to conquer the known world we first must build roads! Note, this was made only possible by direct American and British military action, NOT by UN debating while civilians suffered under the former regime.

We have disrupted communications and aid to Al-Qaeda, forcing the leadership to be constantly moving and unable to setup a permanent base as they had done in Afghanistan. This has deteriorated their communications, control, information and logistics in coordinating complex terrorist attacks in North America and Europe.

We have suffered the lowest military casualties in defeating and occupying a nation in history. This is attributed to technology, leadership training and morale of the common soldier.

We have had no ‘mass or directed attacks against civil liberties’ since the Patriot Act was enacted. We have had no mass detentions of American citizens by ‘Big Brother.’ We have had no infringements of any kind upon the Basic Rights of American citizens during this war on terrorism. This despite the fear mongering on the Left of the evils of the Patriot Act, the horrors of John Ashcroft and the imminent attacks on our civil liberties.

We are being told to vote for a man who thinks the UN and law enforcement agencies are the best solution to combating terrorism. Despite the failures the Clinton administration had in using just such a strategy! A man who cannot decide if he is for or against a war. Who flip flops on issues. A man who has proven himself and his wife to be hypocrites. And a man who uses the Vietnam War as an issue against a sitting president while decrying it’s use against another.

Perhaps Mr. John Kerry of Massachusetts fell for a political genius’ adage:

Well some people think it all about love.

Currently, under the Law, homosexuals cannot marry but apparently they are doing it anyway! What is to stop someone from going down to City Hall and requesting a marriage license for them and Spike? Can you really tell someone who is in love with their pet "No. Dogs have no rights! Thats unfair for you to say that you human lover!"

 It is all about love! 

As for minors they can perfectly well enter into a contract with parental consent. In fact there is a law in California as in most states that requires parental consent.

But what do you do if some activist judge says "Ok it's allright for minors to marry without parental consent!"

Will you protest NAMBLA showing its love for young boys? Will you resist the urge for grown adults to show their love and marry young boys and girls? I guess if it should be ok for homosexuals to marry we can allow a 9 year old girl to marry and enjoy sexual experiences with a 44 year old man!

Now that an activist judge has opened that cna of worms what about child pornograhpy? If a married couple can enjoy sexual freedom 'without government interference in the bedroom' why not those that just want to 'date young boys and girls?'

I'm sure your tolerance would drop if you saw a 44 year old homosexual man trying to marry his 10 year old 'partner.' 

Do you begin to see the problem with activist judges?

So where do you draw the line? If you grant the rights to one group of people, as you have argued before, you must be consistent and grant them to all.

So yes we will have people who will come down asking to marry animals, children or multiple men and women. And the onyl thing that homosexual marriage supporters can do is support it or be proven the hypocrites that they are.

because in the end it is not about love, it is all about the agenda.

And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.

                                                                       --George Orwell, 1984

An accurate quote on the further infringement by the Courts on States Rights. If no one opposes the illgeal acts by the courts they simply become recorded history and, eventually, customs of the court. How will the American citizen feel that if in 20 years time his States Rights were simply pretty poetry on a crumbling parchment and that the Courts have assumed the new Rights?

I suppose people would make more of a furor if the encroachment on peoples Rights were in the realm of 'abortion' or some such. Alas... the left may be correct, we will have an American Empire but we will all be subjects and serfs to our Imperial Court.

On the other hand:

For those supportive of 'homosexual marriage'  I wonder at your support for the following subjects. After all it's just about love.

1. Marriage between a man and animal (beastiality)?

2. Marriage between a woman and animal?

3. Marriage between man and minor (pedophilia)?

4. Marriage between woman and minor?

5. Marriage between man/men and woman/women (polygamy)?

6. Marriage between homosexual polygamists?

7. Marriage between mother/father and son/daughter (incest)?

I suspect tolerance only goes so far when it comes to 'people in love.'

In other news... summaries and excerpts from Court decisions on the matter of Constitutional law and practice and states rights are as follows:

The Constitution is a written instrument. As such, its meaning does not alter. That which it meant when it was adopted, it means now. — South Carolina v. United States, 199 U.S. 437, 448 (1905).

Constitutional provisions for the security of person and property should be liberally construed. It is the duty of the courts to be watchful of constitutional rights against any stealthy encroachments thereon. — Boyd v. U.S., 116 U.S. 635.

It cannot be assumed that the framers of the constitution and the people who adopted it, did not intend that which is the plain import of the language used. When the language of the constitution is positive and free of all ambiguity, all courts are not at liberty, by a resort to the refinements of legal learning, to restrict its obvious meaning to avoid the hardships of particular cases. We must accept the constitution as it reads when its language is unambiguous, for it is the mandate of the sovereign power. — Cook vs. Iverson, 122, N.M. 251.

Disobedience or evasion of a constitutional mandate may not be tolerated, even though such disobedience may, at least temporarily, promote in some respects the best interests of the public. — State v. Board of Examiners, 274 N.Y. 367; 9 NE 2d 12; 112 ALR 660.

When any court violates the clean and unambiguous language of the Constitution, a fraud is perpetrated and no one is bound to obey it. — (See 16 Ma. Jur. 2d 177, 178) State v. Sutton, 63 Minn. 147, 65 NW 262, 30 L.R.A. 630 Am. St. 459.

In the United States, Sovereignty resides in the people, who act through the organs established by the Constitution. — Chisholm v. Georgia, 2 Dall 419, 471; Penhallow v. Doane's Administrators, 3 Dall 54, 93; McCullock v. Maryland, 4 Wheat 316, 404, 405; Yick Yo Hopkins, 118 U.S. 356, 370.

The Constitution was written to be understood by the voters; its words and phrases were used in their normal and ordinary, as distinguished from technical meaning; where the intention is clear, there is no room for construction, and no excuse for interpolation or addition. — Martin v. Hunter's Lessee, 1 Wheat 304; Gibbons v. Ogden, 9 Wheat 419; Brown v. Maryland, 12 Wheat 419; Craig v. Missouri, 4 Pet 10; Tennessee v. Whitworth, 117 U.S. 139; Lake County v. Rollins, 130 U.S. 662; Hodges v. United States, 203 U.S. 1; Edwards v. Cuba R. Co., 268 U.S. 628; The Pocket Veto Case, 279 U.S. 655; (Justice) Story on the Constitution, 5th ed., Sec 451; Cooley's Constitutional Limitations, 2nd ed., p. 61, 70.

This idea shamelessly taken from CannibalCrowley.

Countries I have visited, though some I did not enjoy.

States I have visited or lived in.

I suspect before my enlistment and/or career in the Navy is over with I will have visited even more countries. I know for sure that I will be headed for an impromptu 'extended vacation' to Qatar, the UAE, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, China, South Korea, Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Brazil and England again.

Joy.