I’ve been waiting for it. Finally, where Senator Obama is concerned, someone called bull! It happens to be Ben Shapiro who has a penchant for calling it on most issues. I had expected Mike Adams to do it, but he’s usually too busy waving the bull flag on the femi-fascists, gay-fascists, gun-fascists and pc police on America’s campuses (and clearly someone has to do that). So Ben stepped into the breach.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BenShapiro/2008/02/20/barack_obama_is_a_fake

Some talk show hosts and columnists have hinted at it, but no one has outright called it. They seem almost afraid to do it. It’s like that Seinfeld episode where Elaine wasn’t sure if the man she was dating was black or not. While discussing the possibility, George pipes up and says “I don’t think we should be talking about this!” 

And why doesn’t anyone want to talk about it? Could it be that it’s because he’s Ahem! BLACK?

Eeek!

Had he gone the direction of conservatism his name would not even be a blip on the screen save to be maligned by the black community as has Justice Clarence Thomas. Here’s a man who truly lived the black experience and can certainly be counted among the American success stories. Yet he’s dismissed as an Uncle Tom or a “Brother lite” as Bill Cosby has called him because “he’s done little to further the cause of black people.” Other than being a shining example of the rewards of hard work and determination that is. Few in the black community even know the extent of Dr. Condoleeza Rice’s accomplishments, but can probably recite Dr. Dre’s life in minute detail. I’m pretty sure only one of them has a PHD.  The differences and contrasts between Dr. Rice and Justice Thomas’ upbringing as compared to Senator Obama’s are stark indeed.

So at least someone has waved the bull flag nice and high. Hopefully a trend will develop once Mr. Magic snags the Dem nomination. 

Here’s an interesting column by Walter Williams.  He’s one of my favorite conservative columnists and his is on the short list of columns I read weekly. 

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2008/02/13/theyre_coming_after_you

I’ve been saying this for years.  Once you turn control of one aspect of your life to the government it is virtually impossible to wrestle it from their death grip.  Not only that, but it gives them license to take control over more aspects of your life.  The fact that people (mostly liberals) don’t get this, considering the historical precedents readily available for study, is astounding to me.  It makes me lose faith in my fellow human’s ability to reason logically. 

Which is why I truly do not get the popularity of Obama and Clinton.  To accept the fact that there’s any chance, however remote, of either of these two gaining the Presidency is to acknowledge that the vast majority of the population are clueless, moronic sheep.  I don’t know why I have such a problem with that concept since they prove it time and again.  I read Norman Mailer once stating that 51 percent of the country were morons.  He, being the liberal he is, was referring to the majority of Americans who voted for George Bush.  The comment angered me not because I voted for Bush, but because it is an inherently elitist and snobbish comment.  Problem is, I have to concede the point, but to the opposite of the political spectrum. 

Here’s the thing about elitist intellectuals.  They always know what’s best for the rest of us.  They are, after all, so much smarter.  And they will take care of you don’t you worry about a thing!

Here’s my problem. Who the hell asked them?  My second problem is I’m sure they’re going to require more of my hard earned dollar to do it.  As Ronald Reagan used to say, the scariest words of the English language are “I’m with the government and I’m here to help”.

Just this morning our hard earned tax dollars are paying Congressman to browbeat Roger Clemens into admitting he used steroids.  Some say he used it, Roger steadfastly denies it.  And yet they continue to ask “In light of this statement and may I remind you, you’re under oath, have you ever…blah blah blah.”  This is the political equivalent of waterboarding for crying out loud!  The man was asked, he said no.  Prove him wrong or shut up and dismiss him.  As this is not a judicial proceeding who cares really?  Oh but our representatives are going to protect us by cleaning up baseball.  How wonderful!

I stopped watching baseball years ago when those pampered millionaires (players AND owners) couldn’t come to an agreement and punished the very people who paid their huge salaries.  My philosophical disagreements with professional baseball (astronomical salaries, steroids, designated hitter rule) are resolved by simply not watching them play. My choice.  If enough people did this, baseball would change.  This is why you don’t hear about any scandals in professional badmington.  Not enough people care enough to watch it.  In other words, let the market resolve it.

This may sound like I digressed a bit but I really didn’t.  My point being how much control people are allowing the government to exert in their lives.  You want universal health care?  Then get ready for the Gubmint to tell you how to live, what to eat, whether you can smoke, what medical procedures are allowed, when you can get it and yes, how much its going to cost you because you’re gonna pay for it one way or another chuckles.  Ah but don’t you worry cause in the end, it’s for your own good.

Four legs good, two legs baaaaaad!

Here’s a second letter from Sgt. Seth Conner, a Marine combat veteran of Iraq.  I read his first open letter to America and this new one underscores how he has matured since his tour of duty. You can link to the first letter from the link below.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SgtSethConner/2008/02/11/my_choice?page=1

I’ve been criticized for my steadfast defense of our Masterful Forces.  Hell, I’ve been criticized for using that term to describe them.  I make no apologies for it.  Not only am I intricately aware of the masterful task they have accomplished and continue to accomplish every single day their boots pound the desert sand, I’ve had the distinct pleasure of meeting them face to face.  I’ve seen the look of pride in their eyes as they talk about life-altering experiences.  Like I’ve said before, I’ve yet to meet a single one who did not know what they were doing there and the sense of satisfaction they feel at being the tip of the spear protecting our country, while making life better for millions of others.  Theirs is not the pointless, narcissistic diatribe of the “peace movement”.  They are actually accomplishing something tangible and concrete.

It has always puzzled me how the peaceniks of the world view reality.  I actually wonder what the color of the sky is in their world.  Their message of “make love not war” is in itself contradictory.  A peace loving friend of mine once said that she doesn’t participate in most peace rallies because their participants always seem the angriest and filled with hate.  How ironic is that?  But even her own theories of “all we need is luv” are of themselves contradictory.  Let’s face it, some pretty heinous acts have actually been committed in the name of “love”.  The line between love and hate is often blurred and can be crossed in the blink of an eye.  A simple act of rejection can turn the most powerful of “loves” into the blind rage of its polar opposite; sheer hatred.

I’ve heard the tired arguments of religion being the catalyst of some of the most violent of wars and genocidal acts in history.  They point to the Crusades and the Catholic Inquisition as examples, conveniently ignoring, of course the violent encroachment of Islam on the medieval world.  Also conveniently ignoring the fact that Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great, and Hitler, all secularists are responsible individually for more genocide than any “Holy War” combined (with the possible exception of Islam’s Jihad). 

The point they are missing is that it is not “religion” in of itself the cause.  How can it be when Christianity, for example, preaches to love thy neighbor as thyself?  Religion is an intangible.  It’s not like it’s an actual entity that sneaks up on people and whispers “Kill him!” in their ears.  The answer is that it is human nature of course.  If John Lennon’s “Imaginary” world were to become a reality and there were no countries or religions, believe you me, we’d still find a reason to fight.  Why?  Human nature.  Or more accurately, human’s sinful nature.  The last human with no sinful nature whatsoever is responsible for the greatest act of love in all of history.  And yet, those who believe in the “make love not war” philosophy are the first to trivialize this sacrifice as mere fable.  They, of course know better.  The rest of us are simpletons.

I don’t claim to have all the answers.  I’m sure when I’m dead and gone the answers will be provided to me by God when I come face to face with Him.  If you don’t believe that, you have to at least concede that my death will certainly settle the question, as there will be no more for me to worry about anyways. 

Here’s the thing, I don’t need ALL the answers.  Mine is a simple thought process.  I’m not as nuanced and clever as some of you.  Simply put, I love my family, my country and my way of life.  I make no apologies for its successes and am acutely aware of its defects.  Regardless, and trite as it sounds, I will defend it to the death.  I respect all others, disagree with them or not, but all the arguments and discussion are overtaken by events when you fly airplanes into buildings and indiscriminately take the lives of my countrymen.  None of my relatives (at least not my blood relatives) were in any of those buildings, but the way I figure it, they very well could have been.  The next attack could take their lives as well.  I don’t want to wait for that to happen.  I want my Commander in Chief to take the fight to them.  If I can’t carry a weapon into the fray I’ll contribute my meager talents as best I can.

More importantly, I thank God every day for people like Sgt Conner and all the Sgt Conner’s I’ve met.  I DO support the troops and their mission.  You really can’t separate the two, no matter what the clueless bray.