Where are their Morals??

I just finished watching an interview of a Marines Father that was recently killed in Afghanistan. The Father is upset, as would I, that the glorious Fifth estate published pictures of his wounded son against the his wishes and the Secretary of Defense’s explicit request.

Put aside the war, I don’t care what the political opinion is. What has happened to common decency and respect for others? And the AP and its minions wonder why their readerships are plummeting? Its quite clear from were I sit.

Just another example of the fractured morality of this nation. This Marine is a hero, as is his Father, who also seized the opportunity to question the rules of engagements, which in his opinion killed his son  and other brave military members, is too. They should be treated as such. Instead this nation elevates the despicable likes of Paris Hilton to near god-like levels, and forget real heroes like this.

Its almost to much too handle…..

What the Craig?

Latest word is that Idaho Senator Craig is possibly gearing up for a fight over his arrest in June. According to the Section 1 of the Constitution he has legal ground to have the charge overturned. Congressmen can't be arrested for other than treason, or a felony charge when en route to Congress. A "wide stance" in the restroom hardly qualifies.

I could really care less if Craig stays or goes. I would lean to him going, since he has already signaled that he would. I am sure that the sentiment is shared with Republican Leaders and most of the party in general. It's a mute point, because I am sure the good people of Idaho will dispense with Mr. Craig in 2008.

The sad fact is the long legs that this story has gotten and the relative muted coverage the Hsu campaign allegations have gotten. Who by the way turned himself in and was released on bond, so that you guessed it, he could skip town again. How stupid is our legal system. This clown is probably sitting in Hong Kong safe from the prying eyes of the MSM. The judge that released him on bond should be slapped. This guy was on the lamb since 1991, why on earth would you provide him a chance to run again, this time to a location where he isn't easily retrievable. Way to go, Your Honor.

Nugent

I wish people would get off Nugent. Yes his statements were rude, and crude, and some might say over the top. So What! It is just Nugent. This country has turned into the biggest bunch of sissy people I have ever seen. What ever happened to "sticks and stones, may break my bones, but words will never hurt me"?

Granted Ted was crass, but its Ted Nugent for heaven's sake. We aren't talking about Arlen Spectre here. Nugent is an outspoken proponent of the 2nd amendment and an accomplished hunter to be offended by him waving a gun around and ranting would be like getting offended at your dog for barking. Its going to happen and shouldn't be surprising.

I find it almost hilarious that the left will attack Nugent for his statements, yet remain oddly silent when left wing celebs like Alex Baldwin, Sean Penn and Danny Glover spew their nonsense. Ah but that is different they are attacking that tyrant Bush after all.

What is good for the goose is good for the gander. Don't go after Ted unless you are prepared to go after the dozens of nuts on the left that are saying and doing worse. I think if we were to check the balance sheet their are more entries in the left column than the right.

Glimpse of Tommorrow

The MSM presses and air waves are buzzing concerning the joint military exercise between the Russians and Chinese. They wasted no time parading out their military experts expressing their gloom and doom over how the Iraq War has degraded our abilities to counter a Chi-Russian threat. And predictably, how George Bush has ignored other threats in the world.

People if you think that our intelligence miss either of these military forces could moving that amount of manpower and equipment, you need to lay off the Kool-aid. I find it laughable that the media would suppose that we were caught flat footed by this military exercise. It seems that if our intelligence community is that negligent, the liberals really don't have much to fear with the government tapping phones, there probably won't be anyone listening.

This exercise is no surprise, I have always felt the Russians are not trustworthy. They are like a wounded Bear, the conversion to a capitalist society has not gone well for them. They have continually bullied their former Warsaw-Pact ally states with energy embargoes. And Putin is seizing more power daily. He has re-instituted long-range bomber flights for the first time since the end of the cold war, and now this.

As for the Chinese, I don't believe they have any interest in allying themselves with the Russians. It is advantageous for them to keep the them close. That has been Bejings strategy for years. But I see no real threat coming from the Chinese towards the United States. Unless they expect their military to feed the burgeoning growth of their economy, the still need US dollars for that. However, as time advances I do see the relations between the Chinese and ourselves growing cold. Especially, if outrage over tainted products continues.

The gloom and doomer's have also forgotten a very important deterrent that we possess. Our nuclear capability isn't their to give the liberal kooks something to protest. Its there to remind nation threats like a regressed Mother Russia that yes, you might be able to win a force on force conflict with us, but it won't advance your position if you have no home to return to. As theirs serves to remind us of the same.

I've contended for years that the cold war has never ended. The only thing that has changed is the names of the participants and the number of nations involved. The old politics of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) and peace through superior firepower is as viable today as it was 30 years ago. We need not ignore it.

Where is John Wayne?

The response of the Utah Governor and media in the wake of the collapse that killed three of the rescuers is very disheartening. It also depicts vividly the lack of integrity that we as a society have if the rescue work is permanently halted. 50 years ago it would have been unthinkable to stop a rescue operation before it was finished, no matter what the danger.

I know it seems logical and right to limit the losses, but this is a rescue operation. It can't be looked upon as anything else. If a fireman gives his life attempting to save a life do we stop fighting the fire and abandon those trapped? No! This is America not France.

Americans have always been a people that will do whatever it takes where ever it is needed to save people from harm, or at least we used to be. Has this disease of relativism, which has crept into the national psyche, impacted us so that now we are willing to give up before the end is seen?

Is this narcissistic contemporary view blinding us? What has happened to "there is nothing greater than to give ones life for his brother"? Is it just an archaic Christian concept that has no place in our modern "enlightened" society? If so, Lord Jesus have mercy upon our souls.

When good is reduced to what is good for yourself. When welfare of others is replaced by the welfare of yourself. When pessimists are plentiful and optimists are few. Then it is understandable that our society will quietly allow a travesty like this to take place. And not even view as such.

While the powers to be investigate and procrastinate six miners could possibly be alive in that mine waiting, hoping and praying. We used to be nation of doers, a nation filled with men like John Wayne, God fearing people. Now what are we? Certainly not God fearing, for if were every time something this happened we would be running into danger, not away from it. It should not take a major catastrophe to bring our people up to this task. Terrible things happen everyday.

There is a community in Utah that believes today is their 9/11.

Brainless, Godless, and Plain Wrong

I don't know why I continually submit myself to the barrage of vile rhetoric on display at blog site like the DailyKos? I guess I just love to hear the unceasing vitriol of how conservatives are close-minded, war-mongering, insensitive, uncaring, gun loving, Nazis. How we have destroyed this country with our religious beliefs, civil liberties with our War on Terrorism, and the environment with our gas guzzling SUV's. I guess we conservatives are just "Bad" people. Think I go hang me head and cry.

I have always contended that its not a matter of close mindedness that causes my opposition to the liberal views, its the fact that I have made up my mind. A stance alien to the relativistic minds of the left. To them all options must remain open, even ones that have never worked or will ever work. And its that component of the liberal mind that frightens me the most. Their naivety.

Barrack Obama and his insightful comments toward Pakistan for example. I'm sure that he factored in the anti-America factions he has incited against Pervez Musharraf who's government is already in a tenuous position. Is this the type of foreign policy genius that we need running the country? Hollywood liberals seem to to think it is, given their support for Obama.

And speaking of Hollywood liberals, Sean Penn. Penn is visiting Hugo Chavez on a journalistic mission. What exactly does a high school dropout know about journalism? He's a fairly decent actor and should stick to that. These adolescent displays of misuse of his celebrity only confirm his overt hatred of President Bush. A hatred that has become a mental disease in his case. Visiting with a vocal anti-American dictator like Chavez only marginalizes his opinions.

And opinions on Daily Kos are rampant. Anti-Semitic, Anti-military, and Anti-America are common themes. Yet every major Democratic candidate felt compelled to attend this yearly convention. Some of the statements made by them would never be uttered outside this progressive forum, especially Hillary Clinton's. I can't see how you can make statements to one group of your supporters that wouldn't dare speak to others. But that is the liberal mind, everything said is relative. In my opinion that is just plain wrong.

Didn't Take Long

In the wake of the 35W bridge collapse it didn't take long for the liberal nutroots to start playing the blame game. And it only took a day for democrat politician to join the fray. The Iraq War and of course the President are cited as the chief conspirators.

It is sad that even before the recovery operation can be completed you have self serving individual capitalizing on this tragedy. The notion that the Iraq War is contributing to the decline of infrastructure is the worst fabrication yet.

How can a federal action be responsible for a state problem. True federal oversights and money factor into the maintenance of our highways and bridges, but the bulk of the responsibility rests with individual state government.

If this tragedy shows anything, it is the level of ineptitude that exists not just in federal bureaucracy but also on the state and local levels. Minnesota has a 2.1 billion dollar budget "surplus"! As most, not all, but most states do. Here in Indiana we are running a 600 million dollar surplus, yet residents of Aboite Township in Allen County just saw their property taxes increase 57% after a recent annexation into the City of Fort Wayne.

Are you telling me that the President of the United States is directly responsible for inspecting and repairing every piece of infrastructure in this country? If so I guess I have been calling the wrong person concerning the potholes on my drive to work. You'd think that is the case listening to the media and reading the comments from the left-o-sphere. Of course, I shouldn't be surprised they, after all, do believe that the government should handle everything.

It is just sad that an event that should bring this nation together are used as a partisan issue to divide. And using it further a political agenda is an absolute travesty. Unfortunately the current political climate we live in has no morality to prevent it.

Times Poll Conundrum

The New York Times is in a tizzy. According to their polls the support for invading Iraq initially has raised from 35% to 42% over the last month. This can't be! Further, the opinion that the war in Iraq is going better rose 10%. The Times is beside itself. Why, this could be construed as good news!

It amazes me how the left wing institutions treat polling data as news. Like it is the Gospel according to the Times. Unless they show something "counter intuitive", as Jane Elder of the Times, put it. Then its marginalized and basically ignored.

Personally, I have about as much faith in opinion polls as I do the weather forecast. They have a lot in common though. Both are guesses at best and usually only about 10% accurate.

Old Media.... Phooey

I just read a post on Hot Air about the LA Times article alleging that Fred Thompson represented a pro-abortion group during his lobbyist days in 1991. I read the article yesterday and now I see what the hub bub is. The article has changed since I read it and there is no corrections or changes referenced.

Hot Air article: http://hotair.com/archives/2007/07/09/facts-disappearing-without-a-trace-from-lat-bombshell-on-freds-abortion-lobbying/

I don't know what happened, and I just don't care. I don't know if the LAT is engaged in a smear attempt on Thompson, it doesn't matter. To me its just another example of why the old media is not were I get my news. I just don't feel they are unbiased, especially when the President is involved and especially on the issue of Iraq.

There are journalists in the field like Michael Yon who are doing a yeoman's job. He is covering the story like the old media should. But if they did it wouldn't be the same drumbeat "we have to get out, we have to get out." Yon's reporting is much different he reports on the atrocities these Islamic nuts are committing and how the Iraqi people are trying, even if their useless government is not..... Sounds almost like the relationship between we Americans and our government.

My Man Mike

Mike Pence (R) my Congressman, introduced legislation in the house today that would block funding for any attempt to revive the old fairness doctrine. It passed 310 to 15, the majority of dissenting votes being the House leadership.

Although this is somewhat a ceremonial piece of legal work it is nonetheless significant given the huge margin that it passed by. Additionally it has been reported that he has 100 cosponsors for a bill that would block any future Administration or Congress from bringing it back.

Personally, I think there is little chance the Fairness Doctrine will be instituted, if they try the result will be the same as the Grahamnesty Doctrine..... it will go down in flames.

Hush Rush

Sure, why not? The liberals have a firm grasp on America's Colleges and the Old Media, why not AM Radio too? Boo Hoo .... Rush Limbaugh and his ilk control the AM airwaves and its not fair..... And revisiting the Fairness Doctrine is? Puhlease!

Its not conservative radios fault that Air America the heavily liberal subsidized enterprise tanked. And considering that the vast majority of people that listen to talk radio are conservatives why would you want to but a liberal radio show on it in the first place. Because it is not fair......boo hoo.

I wonder if this fairness doctrine if instituted will allow a New York Times headline that is not bent on destroying this administration, or will NBC allow Michael Savage to give editorials on the evening news? Something tells me no they won't. After all the main objective is to silence the dissenting voices, not promoting fairness.

Crickets Chirping.....

For nearly three days I have been waiting for more than a 30 second sound bite from our glorious media on the offensive operations currently ongoing in Iraq. I for one have lost faith in the major networks and CNN to be balanced over the last few years regarding Iraq. I find myself compelled to follow the news solely on FOX and by checking Matt Drudge daily.

From my perspective it is clear that the anti-War opinion is not only prevalent in the dinosaur networks but fomented. And when recent statistics that reveal among 144 journalists donations to political campaigns were 9 to 1 in favor of liberal candidates I am hardly dissuaded from that point of view.

It angers me that the single most influential institution in our nation is perceptually biased. But not as angry as I get when I see American opinions swayed by these forces without so much as a thought of were what they are hearing is true. And in this day and age there is little excuse for it.

The Internet is the single greatest source of information ever available in the history of man. To take the word of some talking head on a video screen as gospel without questioning or researching the opposing views is nothing short of apathy. A disease that is running crazy in our nation.

Never before have so many had so much access to so much information. It is the 21st century and because the tools we have available there is no excuse for not verifying the reliability of what read, see and hear. Even when it seems to be the prevailing opinion......