A Year in the Life of President George W. Bush

By iUniverse

For Christmas 2005, my eldest son gave me a blogsite http:thoughthead.blogspot.com as a gift. He is responsible for the pen name Thought Head, for the blogsite itself and for the first blog. I am to blame for everything else.

This book is a compilation of blogs throughout the first year. My son's objective perhaps was to cure me from being so opinionated. Instead he has made me worse. I decided on the title 'A Year In The Life Of President George W. Bush' as that is indeed what the book is about. It is also an expression of my respect for George W. Bush as a person of principle in difficult times. I forgive him for sometimes behaving like a Liberal as he tries to gain even fleeting cooperation from Liberals who are engulfing us.

Thought Head was born in England and came to the US as the land of opportunity to escape the tyranny of left thinking. Thought Head has lived in Boston for over 10 years and believes that Liberals are destroying America. His blog site is dedicated to patriots who believe the Kennedy's are beneath reproach and that the best place for the Boston Globe and New York Times is the Boston Harbor. (These are my sons words and he is right).

Thought Head believes the leadership of George W. Bush is that of another Churchill.

This book chronicles the destruction of our traditional Christian values and the moral decline of the USA.

It gives an insight into the developing world and the failure of the USA to sustain world leadership. At this juncture how history will view the USA is questionable. How history will view President George W. Bush is clear. The reader can decide what I mean.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Dec 13, 2006
• ISBN: 9781475910827

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A Year in the Life of President George W. Bush

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Saturday, December 24, 2005

Our Marines protecting our rights—Semper Fi

As our first posting, a friend emailed me this great story:

The Marines: 1) Keep their priorities in order and 2) Know when to act without hesitation.

A MARINE was attending some college courses between assignments. He had completed missions in Iraq and Afghanistan. One of the courses had a professor who was an avowed atheist and a member of the ACLU. One day he shocked the class when he came in, looked to the ceiling, and flatly stated, God, if you are real, then I want you to knock me off this platform. I’ll give you exactly 15 minutes. The lecture room fell silent. You could hear a pin drop.

Ten minutes went by and the professor proclaimed, Here I am God. I’m still waiting. It got down to the last couple of minutes when the MARINE got out of his chair, went up to the professor, and cold-cocked him; knocking him off the platform. The professor was out cold. The MARINE went back to his seat and sat there, silently. The other students were shocked and stunned and sat there looking on in silence. The professor eventually came to, noticeably shaken, looked at the MARINE and asked, What the hell is the matter with you? Why did you do that? The MARINE calmly replied, God was too busy today taking care of America’s soldiers who are protecting your right to say stupid shit and act like an asshole. So He sent me.

posted by Thought Head @ 10:42 AM

3 Comments:

At 10:50 AM, Anonymous said…

Great story. Did it happen?

At 2:25 PM, Anonymous said.

Your MARINE should be arrested for assault. Our AMERICAN laws don’t allow that type of burtality. You hould read the New York Times to keep up on your Constitutional rights.

At 2:51 PM, Anonymous said…

In a class, the professor was trying to proof that God did not exist. The marine a believer in God did the right thing, to show in that God heard and was answer the call. I disagree with the second response because the professor drew a line in the sand and like most liberals is upset that what he wished for came true. It is alarming anyone would be upset with the marine. They should be upset with the professor for encouraging such behavior. The professor asked to be "knock me off this platform.

The second response is quite sad for a liberal. Here is the problem with liberalism in America there true believes are defined by what they want at that moment. To explain in this case of the marine, the marine may be delusional and beleived he was God, in which case he was doing exactly what the professor wished. So a caring liberal in his heart would want to get the marine help to rehabilatate the marine.

Another explanation, the marine is expressing his constitution rights of freedom of expression and doings God’s work, which should ne defended by a true liberal. Except there are nn true liberals and no are truely concerned about the constitution. For example, how do liberal defend Roe vs. Wade as constitional and in the same breathe want to ban guns. The last time I checked, guns were allowed in the constitution and there was no mention about abortion.

Merry Christmas,

God save our country.

December 26, 2005

United the USA does not stand

The United Nations would have us believe that we should all live as one happy family by talking throughour differences. The historical reality is that one superpower has always been the world’s policeman. In 1940, the baton was passed from Britain to a reluctant USA. Before then, Britain had ruled the world for several centuries and had stood alone against Hitler after French resistance collapsed in WW2. There were many Nazi sympathizers in the USA, notably the late Joe Kennedy, but Roosevelt eventually steered the USA into the war and from that time to the present became leader and defender of the Free World.

Since then, the USA has performed this role with extraordinary success and is the first superpower to have done so selflessly. Firstly Fascism was defeated and US money channeled to rebuild Germany and Japan. Socialism and Communism have been defeated. Terrorism will be defeated even though the conflict will be long against an invisible, amorphous enemy that attacks the innocent and most vulnerable and will stop at nothing.

The real challenge is to defeat Liberals. Our real enemy is within our borders. However vile, everything that the rest of the world says about the USA and its leaders has been said by our own citizens first. Would US Liberals please explain why they try to divide instead of standing united? Do they understand that it is difficult to win, if Liberals pull in the other direction? Should you not support our President until the next election? Give our democracy the opportunity to work

Perhaps Europe will help by not parroting US Liberals and by relinquishing its politics of envy as it tries to establish a meaningful identity in to-day’s world. This editorial appeared in Die Welt in Germany. Occasionally a voice of reason is heard in the clamor of European liberal and moral decadence.

EUROPE—THY NAME IS COWARDICE (Commentary by Mathias Dapfner CEO, Axel Springer, AG) Henry Broder wrote in Welt am Sonntag, Europe—your family name is appeasement. It’s a phrase you can’t get out of your head because it’s so terribly true. Appeasement cost millions of Jews and non-Jews their lives as England and France, allies at the time, negotiated and hesitated too long before they noticed that Hitler had to be fought, not bound to toothless agreements. Appeasement legitimized and stabilized Communism in the Soviet Union, then East Germany, then all the rest of Eastern Europe where for decades, inhuman suppressive, murderous governments were glorified as the ideologically correct alternative to all other possibilities. Appeasement crippled Europe when genocide ran rampant in Kosovo, and even though we had absolute proof of ongoing mass-murder, we Europeans debated and debated and debated, and were still debating when finally the Americans had to come from halfway around the world, into Europe yet again, and do our work for us. Rather than protecting democracy in the Middle East, European appeasement, camouflaged behind the fuzzy word equidistance, now countenances suicide bombings in Israel by fundamentalist Palestinians. Appeasement generates a mentality that allows Europe to ignore nearly 500,000 victims of Saddam’s torture and murder machinery and, motivated by the self-righteousness of the peace-movement, has the gall to issue bad grades to George Bush … Even as it is uncovered that the loudest critics of the American action in Iraq made illicit billions, no, TENS of billions, in the corrupt U.N. Oil-for-Food program. And now we are faced with a particularly grotesque form of appeasement. How is Germany reacting to the escalating violence by Islamic fundamentalists in Holland and elsewhere? By suggesting that we really should have a Muslim Holiday in Germany? I wish I were joking, but I am not. A substantial fraction of our (German) Government, and if the polls are to be believed, the German people, actually believe that creating an Official State Muslim Holiday will somehow spare us from the wrath of the fanatical Islamists. One cannot help but recall Britain’s Neville Chamberlain waving the laughable treaty signed by Adolph Hitler, and declaring European Peace in our time. What else has to happen before the European public and its political leadership get it? There is a sort of crusade underway, an especially perfidious crusade consisting of systematic attacks by fanatic Muslims, focused on civilians, directed against our free, open Western societies, and intent upon Western Civilization’s utter destruction. It is a conflict that will most likely last longer than any of the great military conflicts of the last century—a conflict conducted by an enemy that cannot be tamed by tolerance and accommodation but is actually spurred on by such gestures, which have proven to be, and will always be taken by the Islamists for signs of weakness. Only two recent American Presidents had the courage needed for anti-appeasement: Reagan and Bush. His American critics may quibble over the details, but we Europeans know the truth. We saw it first hand: Ronald Reagan ended the Cold War, freeing half of the German people from nearly 50 years of terror and virtual slavery. And Bush, supported only by the Social Democrat Blair, acting on moral conviction, recognized the danger in the Islamic War against democracy. His place in history will have to be evaluated after a number of years have passed. In the meantime, Europe sits back with charismatic self-confidence in the multicultural corner, instead of defending liberal society’s values and being an attractive center of power on the same playing field as the true great powers, America and China. On the contrary—we Europeans present ourselves, in contrast to those arrogant Americans, as the World Champions of tolerance, which even (Germany’s Interior Minister) Otto Schily justifiably criticizes. Why? Because we’re so moral? I fear it’s more because we’re so materialistic so devoid of a moral compass. For his policies, Bush risks the fall of the dollar, huge amounts of additional national debt, and a massive and persistent burdenon the American economy—because unlike almost all of Europe, Bush realizes what is at stake—literally everything. While we criticize the capitalistic robber barons" of America because they seem too sure of their priorities, we timidly defend our Social Welfare systems. Stay out of it! It could get expensive! We’d rather discuss reducing our 35-hour workweek or our dental coverage, or our 4 weeks of paid vacation … Or listen to TV pastors preach about the need to reach out to terrorists. To understand and forgive. These days, Europe reminds me of an old woman who, with shaking hands, frantically hides her last pieces of jewelry when she notices a robber breaking into a neighbor’s house.

posted by Thought Head @ 8:46 AM

21 Comments:

At 9:25 AM, Anonymous said…

My only question to you, is why do even the conservatives feel the need to apologize for the actions of the USby claiming that our actions have been selfless. What is wrong with policing the world in our own self-interest. Most of the greatest accomplishments of mankind have been made in the name of the self-interest of the (usually) one person who has been responsible for them.

At 10:21 AM, Anonymous said.

I stumbled upon this pile of rubbish while searching Google for the highly incendiary article written by that fascist Mathias Dapfner (I was looking for a copy of the artcile to send to my moderate and forward thinking French colleagues at a large Franch insurance concern). I find your post poorly informed and weak on facts. In the interest of full disclosure I will state that I am a French male who fought in Algeria and understand the difficulties created by an overbearing colonial regime. It is a surprise to me that Americans, despite 40 years of evidence, think that colonizing the middle east is a sensible strategy. Your commentary also fails to note the role that the French played in post-war Europe. As I am sure you would agree, the French fought gloriously against the fascists in the great war and the efforts of the Canadians, British and Americans would have been unsuccesful without the French resistance. We were also instrumental in founding the United Nations, the single institution that has successfully policed the world. Through the efforts of our current leadership (especially de Villepin) we have defeated American imperialistic efforts. This is great for everyone in this world who isn’t American. Thought head (?, try Crack head), your views are out of touch with the current world reality. Vive la France et vive L’United Nations. We live in a glorious world where we are defended by the great instition called the United Nations.

At 11:26 AM, Anonymous said.

It is good to read a well written account of Europe. I believe there is one very important point left out. Europe which takes its lead from France and Germany, and I will not include Great Britian in the definition of Europe, wants to profit from tyrannical leaders like Saddam. They do not have a moral compass they are amoral. To suggest they should be considered as leaders of the World is laughable.

The United Nations is an extension of the moraless Europe. How an institution can stand by as millions of people are systimaticly murdered and the leaders profit is very concerning. The best thing would be eliminate the UN.

Thank God the US lead by W is welling to help rid the World of Tyrannical leaders and promote democracy. I agree with the second responder; however, he is missing the truth the UN is standing by like an old lady grasping here pearl neckless.

The best thing for all of the world would be to treat the European leaders of France and Germany as habitual durg users, and try to get them help but do not trust or involve them in major decissions. They have clearly shown an inability to make just and moral decissions.

At 11:52 AM, French Resistance said…

Crack head—let’s also not forget the role that de Gaulle played modernizing Europe (and Canada) following the end of the war. If not for De Gaulle, Britain would now be a third world country (like their uncivilized people—les rosbifs!).

At least we can both agree that de Gaulle isa great leader similar to Churchill. Had Chrchill not had de Gaulle by his side, the UK probably would have folded in 1943.

At 12:00 PM, Anonymous said.

I find Froggy’s comments to be interesting—what an idiot!

1)  the French Resistance barely made up for the pathetic performance of the rest of the French. If the French had any backbone in the first place, the war would have ended in a year. By the way, not the first time the French have failed to stand up.

2)  De Gualle is nothing more than a criminal. Churchill saved the world with the US, the Frogs we absent and obstructive

3)  the UN is a failing institution that was created by the French—one great accomplishment—hah hah

At 12:09 PM, French Resistance said…

Monsieur anonymous,

I presume that you, like most Americans, learned history at your local McDonalds and reading the USA Today. I would rather respond to Thought Head—while he is totally uninformed, at least he has a more global perspective. You are a typical, ignorant American. Pas mal. :(

At 12:23 PM, Anonymous said.

French Resistance, I agree with you on the Ignorance of the American above. But I am not at all convinced that the French have been as instrumental in the success of Europe as you say. It is pretty clear that the only nation at the moment capable of making much of a difference in the quite non-glorious and ugly world in which we live today is the US. Providing the leadership by which other people may learn to determine their own futures and to be free from the evils of tyrants and terrorists is the only noble pursuit I have seen in the world today. Surely you would have to give the Americans the honors in that department, not the French.

At 12:29 PM, Anonymous said.

Froggy. Thanks for you comments on my education. The reality is that at least I have an education. You are living in the world of science fiction. In your sci-fi world, the French (plural) stood up to Hitler. The reality is quite different. Similarly, when today we need to show a united front, the French are being total appeasers and obstructionists. WELL DONE!!!

At 12:42 PM, Anonymous said.

From an Outraged British Colonel—

I agree that the French are overbearing and created a disastrous situation in Algeria. You can be assured that the US and the UK have learned from the French and will not attempt to colonize Iraq.

If you knew French History, you would know that the French soldiers mutinied against their officers in the Great War. Then Clemenceau reneged on his promises to Germany to persuade them to cease hostilities and that led directly to WW2.

The French inferiority complex is a consequence of their defeat at Waterloo in 1815 and their irrelevancy in the world since except as spoilers.

The French army to-day has been described as ten thousand Frenchmen with their hands in the air. It is not known how many Frenchmen would be needed to defend Paris as they have never done it.

Your comment that France not only created the so called European Union but also the so called United Nations, explains a great deal, starting with the corruption of both, of which the oil for food program is but one example. Chirac was not only Saddam Hussein’s friend but is also his rival in corruption. The French knew that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction as they supplied them.

I agree that Churchill was a great leader as was Reagan and Thatcher. We are fortunate that Tony Blair has taken Thatcher’s mantle. De Gaulle does not even rate except as another over-sized French ego.

At 12:43 PM, French Resistance said…

Monsieus Anonomous,

You probably studied to be a plumber—and for that, I congratulate you. As for me, I studied at Etudes Politiques. I don’t obliged to respond directly to your second post given it remains highly il-informerd. As stated previously (and confirmed by another ‘poster’, you are an ignorant American . like most Americans). As for the other post stating that the US is the only country capable of making much of a difference in the quite non-glorious and ugly world in which we live today. While I cannot disagree with this comment, I feel it is critical for the US to carefully manage that role—a job that has been poorly done so far (in a poorly measured manner). As the situation in Iraq demonstrated in 2003, France still has the capability of controlling the world the great institution of the UN. Americans seem to hate it when their masculinity is challenged—this might be the same reason that Americans are terrible lovers, unlike les francais. Bon chance:)

At 12:50 PM, Anonymous said.

Froggy. I guess that your great education at the Etudes

Politiques is also the kind of brillant education that recently lead to the riots in France. Was De Villepin educated at the same merdi instituation? It is about time you lose your arrogance and listen to the plumbers around the world, including in France. Idiot!!

At 12:56 PM, French Resistance said…

Outraged British Colonol—thank you for the weak and irrelevant history lesson. I didn’t know that the British still had a military—I know it has been tough for the British since 1945, but at leaset you’ve successfully become the lap dog of the United States. Speak about reasons for you to be outraged— why don’t you just enlist with the US Marines.

At 1:46 PM, Anonymous said.

Intellectual American

I do not know of any great leaders or innovative thought that has come from Etudes Politiques. More likely, and gauging from the reponse of French resistance, it is an institution for developing elarged french egos. France has played forth fiddle for the last 300 years. They are a footnote on the world scene. France choose to put greed above human lives. They did this with Hitler and Saddam. It is time to stop listening to the Frogs, they are completely irrelevent.

At 7:55 AM, French Resistance said.

Intellectual American—isn’t that an oxymoron? Does Alexis de Tocqueville qualify in your mind as an innovative thinker? He is, after all, the person who once observed that it is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth. Too bad this wasn’t the case for GWBush when he laid out the case to invade Iraq. As de Tocqueville stated, When America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great. Have we reached that point today?

At 8:11 AM, Anonymous said.

I think Froggy is onto something. Instead of puffing out his French arrogant chest he is now focus on the right question.

America is seeking to be good by giving people around the world the opportunity to live without tyranny. As an example, in Iraq, nobody could agrue that Sadaam deserved to remain in power—he butchered 200,000+ people, invaded two neighbors and used chemical weapons. We are lucky that America eventually said enough. If you don’t support America, what do you say the the parents of the children who were killed and raped by him?

What does France stand for? What do you say to the butchered people of Rha- wanda, who were killed as the French stood by? I am not sure that promoting freedom is a goal of France, but maybe it should be.

At 9:28 AM, French Resistance said…

What do YOU say to the butchered people of Rwanda? How does America determine when to intervene? Might American intervention be directed by self-interest as opposed to the desire to promote freedom? Where was America when it came to other Africa problems—Sudan, Congo?.)? How about American support of the Suharto government in Indonesia during its ruthless and brutal rule of East Timor (100,000-250,000 people killed of a population of 600,000—those numbers make Sadam look reasonable)? What does our Outraged British Colonol think about Mugabe and Rhodesia? Why haven’t the great allies of America and Britain intervened there?

At 12:01 PM, Anonymous said.

I beleive that eliminating tyranny should be the guiding principal for the US. You are right that in the past, on several occasions, the US has failed that test.

This is the key question that needs to be debated. We can do more in Africa by holding their leaders accountable for their actions than all of the aid in the world will do!

We should view ourselves as the protector of the individual. The method of prosecution needs to be tailored to the specific case. Mugabe should be forcefully removed. Other African leaders should be procecuted for war crimes and should be arrested when they travel to the west.

England (backed by the views of several Frenchmen—eg Voltaire) invested in creating the better world that we live in today. This investment was made over the last 500 years. The US needs to be less focused on the next 3 months and make an investment for the next 500 years. I beleive that GW Bush is focused on making such investments. The impact of Iraq can only be assessed in 30 years.

At 6:10 PM, British Historian said.

Re the comments posted by the Frenchmen, far from the French fighting gloriously in the Great War (ie 1914-1918) their main army mutinied in 1917 and played little further part in the main fighting.

In the 39-45 replay, the French Resistance was rather muted until the result of the war became obvious. Vichy France fought the British (the whole length of Madagascar, for example), they refused to sail their fleet over to join us as the Dutch and Danes had done, or to neutralise it in a neutral port, and so we had to sink it at Oran. The French killed more British soldiers in that war than did the Italians, but to try and hold the French Communists at bay, Churchill allowed De Gaulle to lead the parade into Paris and later, in conflict with all the facts, to pose as one of the four victorious powers and have a seat on the Security Council (which they have repeatedly used to frustrate US and UK interests).

Their role in re-building Europe concentrated on creating a structure which subordinated everyone else’s interests to those of La France so that they have netted huge financial benefits, largely at German, and, later, British expense from the EU.

At 6:43 PM, British Colonel said…

I agree with the comment of French Resistance that the United Nations should have intervened in all the cases he mentions. The UK and USA have only intervened militarily when a lack of action by the UN left no choice in critical situations. The truth is that the UN will always prevaricate and do nothing. Should the UK go it alone in Zimbabwe and once again be castigated by France and Germany? the answer is Yes! It is disgusting that Mugabe, a brutal, corrupt dictator who denies honest elections, eliminates his rivals and even the poor who oppose him, has destroyed the bread basket of Africa toan extent that the citizens of Zimbabwe starve, while the UK does nothing and France fetes Mugabe in Paris. We have forgotten that Rhodesia as part of the British Empire alone stood with us against Nazi Germany in 1940.

At 10:34 AM, Another ignorant American said.

Our French friends would seem to have once again hoisted the white flag.

At 6:41 PM, Anonymous said.

Intellectual American

It seems French resistance has gotten the point. France has no moral compass and is devoid of principle. The real interesting point is that France is who Marx was concerned about, unbridled capitalism with no morality. Lets face the fact that the US, the founder of capitalism, is setting the moral bar which France and Germany are unable to reach.

Tuesday, December 27, 2005

Separation of Atheism and State

When the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution, they wanted to separate Church and State. As orthodox churches strive to be politically correct and become increasingly inclusive with cafeteria beliefs, they have become increasingly irrelevant. In their place, the choice increasingly is between evangelical churches and atheism. This struggle has lead to proponents of Intelligent Design being castigated bythe Courts for trying to make the statement in science curricula that Darwin’s Theory of Evolution does not preclude the existence of God. This simple statement does not advocate any particular religion and surely no thinking person, even atheists, could logically disagree. The rejection of this statement shows that our Constitution is now being used to support atheism. Is that what our Founding Fathers intended?

Amost important event in the Christian calendar, on Christmas Day, is the celebration of Mass at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, the site of Christ’s birth. The celebration this year required the agreement of Hamas, a terrorist organization which now controls Bethlehem, before this celebration could go ahead. Contrast that with the fact that only Muslims can even visit the holy sites of Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia. Their fanaticism contrasts with the indifference of our increasingly atheist, Liberal society.

Thought Head

posted by Thought Head @ 8:16 AM

4 Comments:

At 7:05 PM, Visitor from Britain said…

Have you read

Intelligent decision

(Boston Globe, 12/21/05)

FEDERAL JUDGE John E. Jones III restored faith both in rational thinking and in the independent judiciary yesterday when he struck down a Pennsylvania school board’s requirement that intelligent design be taught in public school science classes as ‘‘breathtaking inanity."

I wonder how much longer ‘In God We Trust’ will be used on US currency.

I am currently visiting from the UK. If you think things are bad here, you should take a trip over the Atlantic. Churches are being closed everywhere in Britain and even still it is difficult to have a church service with more than twenty or so people. The response of the Church of England is to be even more permissive in an attempt to be appealing and inclusive to a broader assortment of people. True believers have left this Liberal, secularized Church in disgust.

Meanwhile Islam has no such problem and Muslims are seeking permission to build a mosque to seat 40,000 people in London.

At 7:48 AM, Marie Antoinette said…

Clearly the church is being marginalized in the lives of people today. But it is not because the state refuses to recognize intelligent design as a form of science. The church is losing parishoners because the church is no longer able to inspire them. Part of that, of course, is due to the destructive effects of political correctness. Christians in the world today apparently cannot be proud of who they are. People who practice moderate forms of Christianity find more inspiration in the material and people who practice more extreme versions are considered freaks.

But all those tragedies aside, I still can’t see any way one could suggest that intelligent design should be taught along side of Biology as a scientifically viable theory. It is, perhaps, an interesting thought that a teacher might be willing to entertain in class ie; with all this complexity, could it be possible that a creator and not just random chance has produced what we see around us. It is a terrible shame that the politically correct world of today has lost it’s ability to touch on such subjects as a matter of intellectual musing or common sense. I think it a more noble fight to open up our society to those who like to speak common sense. Liberal tyranny that stifles any form of free intellectual thought, whether it be political or religious, is the great ill of our society today. But, there is a place to learn spiritual concepts and a place to learn science. The public schools are for science. Intelligent design, while an extremely compelling thought, is not science.

At 8:05 AM, Arkansas Preacher said.

I was reading the web this morning to look for stories on intelligent design. I grew up in New York and moved to Arkansas after I graduated from divinity school. I think Intelligent Design is a absurd. ID is simply a way to teach some religion in a discrete fashion. This reminds me of the persecution of protestants in Europe. Instead of doing this in a discrete fashion, we should be able to celebrate religion directly, by organizing religious classes in school (non-compulsary). This country was setup to provide religious freedom not to eliminate religion.

In my county in Arkasas, we are actively suing the government toget our religious freedom back. Wish me luck.

At 10:51 AM, Scientist and Christian said…

Good comments by Marie and the Arkansas Preacher and good luck to the Arkansas Preacher. I agree that it was a mistake by the religous right to raise Intelligent Design as a subject for scientific debate, since the essential difference is faith versus scientific theory. Also they open the door for the ACLU and their Liberal coherts to insist on equal treatmnet for all religions. It is only a matter of time before Festivus is widely observed. Even still it is the lack of perspective from the Left which as always, is disturbing. The four paragraphs inserted at the start of classwork on Darwin reminded me of a disclaimer that accomplishes all comments about publicly traded companies, to be careful of forward looking statements. That is all it was. I only hope that the mother who fronted this legal procedure for the Liberals, is equally or more concerned about all the real threats that her children face as school children in our decadent society.

Wednesday, December 28, 2005

Terrorism

Greenway in the Boston Globe states that in Vietnam, there really was a communist threat, while in Iraq, Islamic extremism was not a problem before we got there nor did Saddam Hussein possess the means to harm us.(H.D.S. Greenway, December 27, 2005 Boston Globe).

The Boston Globe is out of touch with reality! Saddam Hussein invaded two neighboring countries, murdered many hundreds of thousands and used chemical weapons against both the Iranians and Kurds. He was trying to develop nuclear weapons to use against Israel and the USA.

Saddam Hussein did enormous harm in the Gulf War and was intent on directly harming the USA.

Potential Islamic extremism is everywhere. Literally millions of fundamental Islamists worldwide are willing to become suicide bombers to kill infidels as their clerics direct them so that they might enter paradise. Extremism knows no borders. Saudis were a majority of those that perpetrated the atrocities of 9/11. Islam itself is fundamentally extreme as the potential civil war in Iraq between Sunnis, Shi’ites and Kurds shows. The President of Iran wants to destroy Israel. Until recently, this wish was shared by the entire Arab world. Is that not extremism? The suggestion that the US presence caused this extremism in Iraq is irresponsible nonsense. Saddam Hussein ensured by brutal dictatorship that all terrorism but his own was completely repressed, but that is not an acceptable solution except to Boston Globe Liberals.

Terrorists tried to attack London eight times between 9/11/01 and their successful attack on 7/7/05. They have tried twice more since (AP). The terrorist suicide bombers in London were home grown. The USA is similarly vulnerable.

And yet we do no want wiretapping to adversely affect civil liberties. Covert wiretapping without obtaining warrants is a necessity since time in minutes not days is critical to thwart terrorist attacks. Even still, according to MSNBC, 75% of people in the USA are not prepared to compromise their privacy as a protection against a terrorist attack. This view will regrettably only change after the next terrorist attack on US soil is still fresh in US minds.

posted by Thought Head @ 11:04 AM

4 Comments:

At 1:16 PM, butts said…

this is rubbish

At 10:29 AM, Brain Wave said.

Butts—you have to think with your head. If you can make this adjustment perhaps you could enlighten us all on what is rubbish and what goes on between your ears in the way of alternative thinking.

At 1:10 PM, butts said.

Get your head out of your . Fanatacism is not the issue so much as the muslims have found a particularily effective form of diplomacy and it is all just another form of power politics.

At 1:14 PM, butts said…

I am happy to have found somebody at my intellectual level.

Thursday, December 29, 2005

Social Justice

The Boston Globe loves to trumpet that without social justice democracy will not have much of a future in countries where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. They do not say why they think as they do. They probably know that the self righteous Boston Liberals accept this statement as gospel without explanation.

Since they also tell us that this situation exists in the USA, they presumably are telling us that democracy will not have much of a future in the USA. To be replaced by what?

The rich are getting richer throughout the world but are the poor really getting poorer? Everyone has increasing expectations leading to more that they would like to buy. Longer lives, better medicine and a corresponding increase in heath care costs are a case in point.

Social Justice is Boston Globe Code to extol taxing the rich even more to give to the poor (so that the rich pay their fair share). The only problem is that the rich minority already pays a disproportionate amount of taxes and there is not much left to be squeezed other than Liberal Rhetoric.

So what is Social Justice other than something to make Limousine Liberals feel less guilty because they are on the side of the exploited under dog. The Communists advocated that everyone should give according to their capacity and take according to their need. Who could argue with that except that it does not work with flawed humans? The response of Soviet workers was that the hierarchy pretends to pay us and we pretend to work. Communism failed because there was no incentive to do much of anything.

It is no accident that US style capitalism is the best system. It is not possible to give every child an equal opportunity but every generation should be able to do better than the one before if everyone takes personal responsibility. Free handouts have to be a last resort otherwise they are self defeating. Regrettably, we will always have the poor with us whatever we do, but the best defense is the traditional family and traditional values. The worst poverty is where traditional family and values have broken down most badly. Another false doctrine from the Boston Globe is that Sex abstinence is a flawed Victorian paradigm. Social Justice might be served by us once again embracing the Ten Commandments.

Bolivian reality check

(Boston Globe, 12/26/05)

He has called himself ‘‘Washington’s nightmare," but it would be a mistake for the Bush administration to assume hostile relations are inevitable with Bolivia’s newly elected populist president, Evo Morales. Bush would be making a fateful mistake if he fails to recognize that, without social justice, democracy will not have much of a future in countries where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

posted by Thought Head @8:40 AM

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At 12:05 PM, Anonymous said…

Your comment is further supported by a recent Wall Steet Journal editorial entitled the Great American Dream Machine. Several facts demonstate that with the exception of the poorest 2-3%, everybody is getting significantly wealthier:

—The % of families with a real income over $75,000 has grown from 7% in 1970 to 25% today

—The % of families with a real income less than $50,000 has declined from 70% in 1970 to 55% today

—The median household wealth has doubled over the last 20 years.

If the Boston Globe wants to analyze a failed system they should look at Germany and France (and compare both the the UK). In France and Germany, there is more equility because everybody has done poorly over the last 25 years. This is particualrly the case in comparision to the UK, where overall wealth has increased dramatically.

I further suspect that France and Germany will fair poorly over the next 25 years. Is that the system the Boston Globe is advocating?

Friday, December 30, 2005

Cheap Oil to-day and perhaps cheap Cocaine to-morrow

The Kennedy clan has conspired with Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela to undermine US policy and interests in South America. Chavez is to provide cheap heating oil for poor citizens of Massachusetts at the expense of even poorer citizens of Venezuela. The object of both Chavez and the Kennedy clan is to embarrass the President of the USA. The oil will flow through Joe Kennedy’s non-profit Citizens Energy which on the face of it would seem to be another good deed by Citizen Joe as the Faithful in Massachusetts call him.

But not so fast—A non-profit simply means that Citizens Energy does not report profits and does not pay taxes. It does not mean that the Kennedy clan is not enriched. Even several years ago, before the big spike in CEO pay, Joe was paying himself $500,000 per year—for doing what? Advertisements show him delivering oil to grateful low income people. In reality what he does is to parcel out subsidies from a Government Agency, which is a business to be conducted on a lap top as a weekend activity.

South America now has another populist President—Evo Morales of Bolivia. He intends to restore the coca crops for lawful uses (?). Not a problem says the Boston Globe. Let’s hope the Kennedy clan does not assist the cocaine traffic into the USA also.

As is well known, Massachusetts has two Liberal senators in Washington-Ted Kennedy and John Kerry. Additionally all 10 members of the House of Representatives are Liberal Democrats and include Jim McGovern, who counts Fidel Castro as a friend, and William Delahunt, who helped the Kennedy clan make the deal for heating oil with Chavez. Now for a little good news—Taxachusetts is losing residents because it is unfriendly to business people and businesses and will probably lose a seat in the House of Representatives after the next census.

Bolivian reality check (Boston Globe, 12/26/05)

Morales has indicated that, while allowing lawful uses of coca, he wants to ‘‘truly" fight drug trafficking.

posted by Thought Head @ 1:48 AM

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At 7:17 AM, Butts said…

Very interesting. To clarify, how does the oil program work. The implication of your blog is that the poor will not receive oil directly from Chavez, but continue to buy oil as they currently do. Instead, they will receive a cash subsidy. Is that correct?

Is there scope for a second Oil-for-Food scandal staring the Kennedy’s, Chavez and the Boston Globe? Could the Russians, French and George Galloway also into the action?

Lets remember that the Kennedy’s have always had a fondness for supporting foreign dictators. Joe’s Grandfather (Joe sr.) was a big supporter of Adolf Hitler!

Friday, December 30, 2005

Hate in Politics

Cathy Young of Reason Magazine, writing in the Boston Globe, states that hate is common on the left and the right of our political spectrum. What she fails to acknowledge is that the real damage occurs when that hate is directed against our President. The Liberals’ hatred is so strong that they are seemingly indifferent to the consequences of portraying our elected Leader as a half wit. They are telling the world that we are all stupidin electing him and that he should betreatedwith contempt. Their hatred is based on lies about George Bush’s IQ, integrity, character, oratory and beliefs. They insult not only George Bush, but more importantly the USA, since we chose him through our democratic processes. By so doing, they threaten the security and well being of all of us. The world community feels that they can treat us with contempt.

A contributor to the Boston Globe wrote that his 17 year old daughter thought that a recent major Bush speech was the opening skit of Saturday Night Live. That remark says more about the Boston Globe, their contributors, their daughters and our culture than it does about George Bush. Their abuse of our freedoms would have brought swift retribution in Iraq under Saddam Hussein. Their comments though are mild. Late night comedians take cheap shots at our President every night. Much worse are frequent hate comments.

Blatant hate comments have been made by—

Cindy Sheehan, who denounced President Bush as an ‘‘evil maniac and ‘‘Fuhrer and said his administration—’’the biggest terrorist outfit in the world—is committing ‘‘blatant genocide in Iraq.

Syndicated cartoonist Pat Oliphant depicted Bush as imploring a cosmetic surgeon to make him ‘‘look like a leader that the ‘‘herd will ‘‘follow blindly and without question." The surgeon transforms him into a Hitler look-alike.

Senator Jim Jeffords of Vermont accused the Bush family of planning to ‘‘start another war … next year, probably in Iran in order ‘‘to get their son—Florida Governor Jeb Bush—’’elected president" in the next election.

Harry Belafonte described black members of the Bush administration as ‘‘black tyrants—and added ‘‘Hitler had a lot of Jews high up in the hierarchy of the Third Reich.

Not all the hate is directed at George Bush—

‘‘Black Democratic leaders in Maryland say that racially tinged attacks against Lt. Gov. Michael Steele, who is also black, are fair because he is a conservative Republican, The Washington Times reported. ‘‘Such attacks include pelting him with Oreo cookies during a campaign appearance, calling him an ‘Uncle Tom,’ and depicting him as a black faced minstrel.

University of Michigan historian Juan Cole, frequently on TV talk shows, asserted falsely that Middle East scholar Daniel Pipes ‘‘has fond visions of rounding up Muslim Americans and putting them in concentration camps."

Rabbi Eric Yoffie of the Union for Reformed Judaism compares Conservatives to Nazis. Just as the religious right today opposes same-sex marriage, Yoffie said last month, ‘‘we cannot forget that when Hitler came to power in 1933, one of the first things that he did was ban gay organizations."

Poisoned politics

By Cathy Young | December 26, 2005 Boston Globe

posted by Thought Head @ 2:35 AM

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At 7:34 AM, Butts said…

One of the great things about this county is our right to say what we want regardless of how stupid the comment. These idiots are just exercising that right—God Bless America!

Some abroad may see these comments as confirmation that Bush is an idiot or Americans are idiots. Who cares! These international onlookers miss the real point: it is true economic and political freedom that has made America greater than their pathetic countries. These ridiculous comments from the liberals are simply a by-product of the fundamental strength of the American system (Read Milton Freedman).

At 7:35 AM, Butts said.

Correction: Milton Friedman.

At 8:53 AM, Anonymous said.

Intellectual American

The fundamental issue is that a lot of americans are idiots who are led through life. The social structure, which the liberals find so great, has made many people unable to function. This was clear in the aftermath of Katrina. How is it that millions of people can be devastated by a tsunami and come together to help each other, and in the US a few thousand can not help each other? It is clear that the social system has made many people robotrons with the only function of voting for moronic liberals.

These robotrons listen to the trash from the liberals which are filled with hatred and misguided mission. The interesting thing is most Americans find their absurd rhetoric disgraceful and truly unamerican, as was clear in the last election where the liberals were soundly beaten.

It is time that the liberal media come together with the rest of america and stop dividing our great country.

Saturday, December 31, 2005

Privacy

Andrea Mitchell of NBC News (December 30th, 2005) states that ‘In the world of national security, 2005 has been the year of the spy: revelations about government snooping without court warrants, controversial CIA interrogation practices, renditions of suspected terrorists into secret prisons and, of course, the continuing investigation into the CIA leak. With each successive disclosure, Americans have had to confront fundamental questions about how much privacy they are willing to sacrifice in a post-9/11 world. Does there have to be a trade-off between national security and personal freedom? The administration’s answer this year has been a resounding yes. Critics disagree.’

These concerns are misplaced. We are all facing a much bigger threat. Spyware and Adware viruses have rapidly become the number one threat to your computer with over 90% of computers already infected. These include Trojans, Web Bugs, Advertiser Software, Monitoring Software and more. They allow intruders to snoop on your browsing activity, see what you purchase and send pop-up ads. Worse, they can slow down computers, cause them to crash and record credit card numbers and other personal information. If you’re like most Internet users, chances are you’re probably infected with these files. Simply surfing the Internet, reading email, downloading music or other files can infect your PC without you knowing it.

The perpetrators are sometimes the very people who sell Spyware and Adware virus removal tools. They will change your Home Page on Internet Explorer and then their blurb comes up endorsing their Spyware tools when attempts are made to uninstall. Once attacked, it is very difficult to disinfect Internet Explorer without paying this modern day protection money. I have recently had such an experience with Spy Fighter and Spy Sheriff from the website www.pcadprotector.cc

I am much more concerned about this type of snooping in my computer with the rapidly increasing potential for criminals to steal my identity than I am about our

Government checking up on me. You should be too. Why is it that there is indifference to criminal activity, including terrorism while outrage is expressed by Liberals as our Government uses the same tools to protect us?

posted by Thought Head @ 3:41 AM

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At 7:16 PM, International Traveler said…

As an international traveler I was relieved to find that our Government was doing more to track terrorist activities than airport screening. My observation as I wait in line to be screened is that 95% of the passengers are clearly not terrorists, whereas the people doing the screening look as if they might be.

On one occasion recently I was suddenly surrounded by armed men as I was going through passport control at an international airport. They could not speak English and it took two hours before they were convinced that I was not a terrorist. I eventually found out that a terrorist on their watch list had assumed my identity. It would have been much better for me if there had been a comprehensive system of identity verification with data encrypted on to plastic cards, shared internationally with government entities. Those of us who have nothing to hide would be much better off if there was complete transparency as to who we are. In other words zero privacy would give maximum security and safety.

What is everyone afraid of? I can only assume that most people have more to hide than do I. Is my life too dull and am I missing something?

At 8:09 PM, A grateful patriot said.

In the Wall Street Journal of December 31st, Homeland Security reported that the US has disrupted at least ten serious Al-Quaeda terrorist plots since 9/ 11/01, of which three would have taken place inside the USA.

The CIA is once again protecting us after being dismantled and discredited by and during the Clinton administration, leading to faulty intelligence and the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Well done George Bush! The Homeland is once again much safer! Thank you!

Sunday, January 01, 2006

Rise of Islam

The winner will be Islam as the world’s religion unless Christianity returns to its traditional roots and teachings. Terrorism and the fanaticism which spawns it are what stand in the way of this dominance. All protestant Christian religions in Europe in particular are on their last legs. Martin Luther and John Calvin would not have believed this decline. Roman Catholicism is the only form of Christianity that still has relevance as the Pope still follows the teachings of the New Testament.

The 80 million Anglican community worldwide has been dealt what could be its final blow when the 2 million members remaining in the USA (it is hard to believe that this was the religion of our founding fathers) were tricked by the New Hampshire/Massachusetts Liberals into electing a practicing homosexual bishop against the rules of the Church. These ugly Americans then rammed it down the throats of the vibrant African/Asian Anglicans, who still practice what Saint Paul preached. Now schism and continuing defections/irrelevancy are inevitable.

That leaves the Roman Catholics, the Evangelicals and the other minor Protestant denominations to carry the Christian banner. The Roman Catholic Church in the USA is plagued with its own scandals and is in poor shape. Jews are a minority and are largely secular in their outlook. Islam is struggling with internal conflict, which if resolved would allow it to become the dominant religion worldwide including in Europe. They could achieve all without any blood being spilt in contrast to religious conflict over the centuries. First they have to start agreeing amongst themselves. The key is for them to abandon suicide bombing as the Liberal decadent West has given them a clear path to dominance.

Abdurrahman Wahid wrote about Right Islam vs. Wrong Islam in the Wall Street Journal on Friday, December 30th. He is a former President of Indonesia and is patron and senior advisor to the LibForAllFoundation (www.libforall.org), an Indonesian and US-based nonprofit that works to reduce religious extremism and discredit the use of terrorism.

In to-day’s Washington Post, Craig Whitlock writes that ‘Converts take on a lager role in militant Islam’. He writes about a former French Roman Catholic.

The decline of the Christian West is tied to the abandonment of family and traditional family values and the embrace of Liberalism in such matters as free sex and homosexuality. Roman Catholics and Muslims still promote sexual abstinence outside traditional marriage and homosexuality in line with their teachings. Liberal Anglicans now attempt to ignore Saint Paul’s teachings in particular and to reinterpret the New Testament to reflect what fits their view of their new world. As a consequence they are theologically irrelevant.

Homosexuality is a deviation/disease. On this point honest medical opinion, Darwin and Intelligent Design advocates would be in agreement. That does not mean that Homosexuals should not be welcomed into the Christian church. Loving relationships and acceptance of each other are the core of Christ’s teaching. What is not acceptable is buggery. Even though male homosexual behavior has led to the Aid’s epidemic worldwide, it is now accepted as normal, tolerable Liberal behavior.

Homosexual males are typically extremely promiscuous and prefer younger men and boys in early puberty for their sexual perversions. In Africa many tribal practices involve bisexual behavior and men are deflowering girls as young as possible in the belief that it will cure their Aids. This disease originated in Africa and was brought to America by a homosexual male airline steward who had been indulging in bizarre sexual behavior in primitive tribal circumstances in Africa.

Aids is no longer a relatively quick death sentence in the West as a consequence of the extremely high tax money spent on research in contrast to much smaller amounts spent on cancer and heart disease. As a result, very expensive drug cocktails have made Aids a chronic disease instead of a death sentence in the West. Again the crippling cost paid by tax dollars is totally unaffordable in poor countries such as Africa where as many as one person in five is now infected. Since practicing homosexual males comprise only a few (very low) percent of humans, they have exacted an incredible cost, including the lives of an extraordinary number of people, worldwide all in the name of our inclusive, decadent, politically correct, Liberal society. The disease/deviation of male homosexuals compels them to bizarre and dangerous sexual behavior. Since Liberal society now accepts this behavior as normal and castigates those who oppose it as homophobes, the former Christian world continues to spin increasingly out of control.

posted by Thought Head @ 8:43 AM

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At 9:29 AM, David Furnish said…

Open Letter to Thought head (thoughthead.blogspot.com)

From David Furnish

As you are probably aware Elton and I were recently married in a civil service in Britain. I am now writing this from Venice where we are enjoying our honeymoon. What made this possible was a change in the law in the House of Commons, a piece of legislation that I fought hard to get enacted.

As I read your editorial, you seem I lump all bad behavior together under one banner. This would be equivalent to saying that all heterosexual behavior is bad because some people engage in prostitution. As I suspect that you are aware, Elton and I have been living together as a monogamous couple for many years. Furthermore, we don’t differentiate between gay and straight couples if they are built on love between two people.

The basis of my life is to create greater understanding between people. As such, I am asking you to think through your message and to help spread compassion though the world.

Also, Elton and I would like to thank all of our friends worldwide, who have sent messages of congratulation. I won’t give you the details of our honeymoon, but it is safe to say that we are enjoying ourselves (and have not left the bedroom in over a day).

Peace.

David Furnish

At 10:06 AM, Joan of Arc said.

You opinion is a bit confused. On the one hand you are asking the religions to get along and not shed blood for the sake of their beliefs and on the other hand you are asking them to feel their beliefs more deeply by following the rules of their religion more genuinely. True belief in something, especially in religious matters, necessarily breeds the thought that others who don’t believe are wrong! And when they are wrong, they either need to be converted, ignored or fought. A world of stronger Christian associations will not lead to a more peaceful world—it will lead to more difference, and more conflict ultimately. Having said that, those of us who have stronger beliefs will be the better for it in our personal lives. And maybe that benefit is worth the cost of strife between us.

At 10:11 AM, Arkansas Preacher said…

Leviticus 18:22—You [masculine] shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.

Leviticus 20:13—If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall be put to death; their blood is upon them.

At 10:14 AM, David Furnish said.

Arkansas Preacher: you are mis-reading the bible. The bible doesn’t prohibit loving gay love!

At 10:19 AM, Arkansas Preacher said.

David: as a man of God, I will give you one other reference from the New Testament:

Romans 1:26-27: For this reason God gave them up to degrading passions. Their women exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural, and in the same way also the men, giving up natural intercourse with women, were consumed with passion for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in their own persons the due penalty for their error.

God loves all of his creatures. He asks, however, for us to have faith in him and to ask for forgiveness from sin. You and Elton should ask him to forgive you for your sins. Then, you should try to live an honest life.

At 10:23 AM, Anonymous said.

Trojan Executive

David we would like to sponsor you honeymom.

At 10:24 AM, David Furnish said…

Bugger off, Arkansas Preacher.

At 10:26 AM, Arkansas Preacher said.

David: Don’t ask me to commit a sin!

Repent sinner.

At 12:59 PM, Butts said.

preacher: you may want to add the following from the bible.

CORINTHIANS 6:9-10:

Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither the immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexual offenders, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor robbers will inherit the kingdom of God.

David: have a good honeymoon.

At 7:21 PM, An advocate of marriage for procreation said.

Thought Head is right. The problem with liberal freedoms and the attitude that everything is alright in private between consenting adults is that there still needs to be limits. A man was recently killed on the West Coast when a horse penetrated his colon during anal sex and yesterday a British woman married a female dolphin in Israel.

At 7:55 PM, Anonymous said.

Jerry Pennicoli

I learned the hard way that things were not ment to be placed in ones rectum. Mother nature did not intend for the anus to be used as entrance way. She molded the vigina for that purpose.

I wronged the mouse. Do not follow the same perverse path.

At 8:06 AM, Keep it secret said…

Jerry, it would have been fine had the rodent not gotten stuck. If it had been able to evacuate the shaft, you would never have gotten caught—which is the point—is it not!

At 5:38 PM, Anonymous said.

Have you read: It’s the demography stupid by Mark Steyn? Clearly, in many ways a fellow traveler see: