Friday, April 13, 2007

Random Rants

One of the things I like about NOT writing for the Dannevirke News is that I
don't have to try to explain to Kiwi's why they should care about what's
happening, say, anywhere else in the world. You know, I catch a fair amount
of flak from people from other countries about what they call "Planet
America". While I admit that many Americans don't know much about the rest
of the world, that does not justify someone coming here from another country
and being rude. Last time I heard, it wasn't nice to go in someone's house
and be rude. But it seems that if you're an American, you can do no right,
and if you're from anywhere else, you can do no wrong. Sorry, international
folks, but I've met enough of you coming here on a vacation to form an
opinion. Most are great, just basic folks, but others are unforgivably rude.
Even while overseas I was sometimes treated horribly. By supposedly
enlightened, supposedly open-minded island folks.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi really pulled a Jane Fonda going to Syria last
week. What she did was directly contradict the official stand of the US
government. The idea, I think, is to try to make the Executive Branch
irrelevant, and to garner votes for next time. What she did was legitimize a
murderous regime... even as political prisoners were being tortured. Did she
address that? No. Even Amnesty International condemns the Syrian regime. But
Pelosi doesn't have a problem with it. Liberals are so bent on revenge for
losing power for so long that the only thing they care about getting that
power back, They can't form a coherent strategy for the war in Iraq. They
continue to insist that Iraq is in chaos and just getting worse (ignoring
the improvements happening every day), and yet, think that the smartest
thing we can do is pull out. Set a timeline. A date to tell the enemy when
they can take over. Some qualify it by saying we'll just 'redeploy'. Pull
back, and come back in just if we have to. Tell me, which is smarter?
Staying around to put out a fire, or pulling out and waiting for it to
overwhelm the country before we come back in. They like to compare Iraq to
Vietnam, assuming that the American public is stupid and short-sighted
enough to just think that means a quagmire that we can't win. But the fact
is that we were winning in Vietnam until the liberal press joined the chorus
of pot-smoking hippies and California lefties to condemn the war, and spread
propoganda that said we were losing, that we couldn't win, and that our
troops over there were nothing but baby killers. The liberals took over the
war, and subverted the will of the country to fight. We pulled out, allowing
a murderous regime to take over. So yes, in that sense, Iraq is, so far, a
great deal like Vietnam. And they'd like it to be more. Now, I'd like to
think that they honestly believe the manure they're shovelling. Because then
they don't stand a chance of getting elected, and at least we don't have the
antichrist number 3 in line for the White House. Better to have an idiot
than the antichrist. But only just.

Hey, all you people out there, I'd like to know what you think about illegal
immigration. Because I just saw something on the news that blew my mind. The
IRS knows that it deals with illegals. What does it say? It says it is not
its job to identify or deal with illegals. All they do is collect money. I
think the idiot they spoke to (and let me just apologize quickly to all the
normal hard working idiots out there. Don't be offended because I grouped
you in with an IRS scuzz) said something about there being no bleeding over
of information between the IRS and Homeland Security. Let me just repeat
this, in case all the IRS agents didn't get it. HOMELAND SECURITY. We are
failing to connect the dots. CONNECT THE DOTS. Sound familiar?? How stupid
and short sighted can a government employee be? That's a great question.
This idiot (again, apologies to all of you hard working honest idiots out
there) doesn't care that he could be dealing with Osama Bin Laden. He just
wants his cut. So the thought here is that greed... the almighty dollar is
still more important than anything else. Even HOMELAND SECURITY. And just in
case you think we don't have to worry about people taking advantage of the
open borders we have to north and south, think on this. Hitler tried to get
Mexico to help him invade the US. And Google "Jafar the Pilot". I'm not a
racist. Hell no. I know that we've let the problem go on for so long that
we're stuck with an estimated twelve million illegals. But can we not at
least use just a pinch of common sense here? Maybe compare notes? I don't
care where an illegal comes from. I don't want them here. I don't want them
to get amnesty. I don't even want their tax money. I want them out! But
since they've hijacked our economy, we have to at least keep track of them.
Know who they are, and keep an eye on their border crossings. Don't like it,
illegal? Get out. Want to stay? Follow the rules.

More next time.

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