If I Were the King of the Forest...

When I'm King, I'll make some changes.

Here's how I would do it:

Congress will only be able to pass one item at a time. There will be no unrelated attachments to any bill. In other words, "pork" is disallowed.

I would propose a constitutional amendment reducing Congressional salaries to the average income of a family of four within the state/territory/district that they respectively represent.
(see post titled "One Simple Solution", my very first post on this blog)

I would hire economists (is that a word?) to fix the budget.

We would do whatever it took to get those british sailors and marines back.

We would concentrate our military in Iraq on oil field security, and gas would be about $1.20 a gallon, because we would own it all.

Anyway, you get the picture.

Now, enough fantasy. Here is what we can do:

We really can get Congress to repeal NAFTA. We just need to get organized and raise hell.

We really can get the border secured. We just need to get organized and raise hell.

We really can get rid of crooked politicians. All we have to do is vote them out consistently. Eventually they would take the hint. If we got organized and raised hell they would get the message quicker.

Are you catching the recurring theme here?

Honest, hard working men and women in this country need to unite. If you don't think that we can make a difference, then they have us where they want us.

Look at America's Gay population. They got organized, I mean really organized in the late Seventies. They got a lobby together, they started pulling strings and greasing palms, and now they have a powerful voice in this country. Only 7% of the population claims to be gay.

All they did was get organized and raise hell.

More on New Orleans

Here are some facts about New Orleans. I have tried to make comparisons between Pre and Post katrina New Orleans where I could find facts. If you wish to verify my figures, look it up (that's what I did).

Population

Pre Katrina: 484,674 in city limits, greater metropolitan area: 1,337,726

Post Katrina: Estimated 200,000 in city limits, greater metropolitan area: 760,000

Schools

76 schools remain closed

Infrastructure

Public Transit remains stagnant, with only 30% of all public transportation in operation.

No additional hospitals have been opened for four months, leaving 50% of hospital and medical facilities closed

While six new child-care centers opened in Feb2007, two closed due to higher pay for child-care workers in relation to high housing costs

Police and Fire Departments are still working out of FEMA trailers

Housing

There are currently over 13,000 homes for sale in New Orleans

Pre Katrina: 4,732 homes were for sale

Recovery Costs

Estimated Recovery Costs: $135 Billion

Charitable Donations; $3.5 billion

Federal Funding: Less than $20 Billion

State Funding: Approximately $3 Billion

Totals: $26.5 Billion spent, $ 108.5 Billion needed

Regardless of your opinion on New Orleans, these people are Americans, and should be treated as such...

The Shame of Our Nation...

We give money to Mexico. We give money to Ecuador. We have spent billions on new construction and repairs in Iraq. A city in our own country is devastated, and they get about a third of the money we give to all of these foreign countries.

New Orleans is a very important city. We control the Gulf of Mexico because of New Orleans. The ports and refineries are invaluable assets.

We got the ports going. Refineries are back up to speed.

Neighborhoods, not so much.

Sure, there are criminals running wild in the streets. Who is going to stop them?
Not us. We don't care. We have made that abundantly clear.

We don't care that there are only five large grocery stores open in New Orleans. We don't care that every single property owner took a shafting from one insurance company or another. We don't care that we have rebuilt more schools in Baghdad than in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina. We don't care that the police force in New Orleans is at about 30% of pre-Katrina strength. We don't care that some neighborhoods are still completely unlivable. We don't care that 30,000 people had to move away from their homes.

I had planned to go on and on about this, but I don't think I will. I only have one more thing to say.

We should be ashamed for abandoning our fellow countrymen in their time of need.

Coming Soon...

I am working on a post about US Attorney Johnny Sutton (the Devil). Damn that Lou Dobbs, scooping me like that!

I am also working (still) on my Katrina post. I've almost got it right.

I have a friend that will be joining us soon (or late, no pressure) with a bit of an education on several matters.

Just to occupy my inbox, why don't you guys come up with a creative caption for the photo above...

British Sailors Captured by Iran

A number of British sailors were taken by Iranian Soldiers from their boat in the Persian Gulf yesterday. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinijad has announced on Iranian National Radio that these British sailors were caught in Iranian waters (a lie), and that they have been detained by the Iranian government as foreign spies.

If these men were Israelis, there would already be missiles in the air. As they are British, we shall see.

I am curious about the way that Britain will handle this. If it were our guys, Bush would be all about sending in the Teams (at a minimum) to rescue them. The Brits may or may not have the stomach for this situation at the moment.

From a soldier's standpoint, I feel for the British sailors. I hope that they are retrieved unharmed by whatever means necessary. I hope that the US military will help in any way possible.

You see, loyalty is a rare thing in government these days. I know that my guys would break some rules (and teeth) to try to rescue me. The reason that they would have to do this is that my government would probably "take the high road" and work on a diplomatic solution. Remember those soldiers who were captured in Bosnia a few years back? Jessie Jackson had to get those guys back. If I am a prisoner of war and they let Jessie freakin Jackson work out my release, I will crawl from Arkansas to DC on my hands and knees to tell the SecDef to kiss my brown ...well, you get the picture.

As a soldier, I will do things that I may disagree with, meaning that I will follow all of my lawful orders even if I do not agree with the politics behind the action. I will slog through mud, go without bathing, suffer as I must in order to accomplish the mission at hand. I will fight to my dying breath, if I must, because that is my job. My country owes me the training and equipment to do the job. And some support. If I am captured, I will do what I can to escape, withhold information, etc. I would ask, as a personal favor (and a show of respect for soldiers everywhere) that my government actually do something to come find me, time and resources permitting.

I would hate to be an infidel in Muslim hands, waiting for diplomacy to prevail...

Well, Its Not How I Would Do It, But OK...

The Democrats are expected to pass a bill this week that will provide funding for the next year or so in Iraq...

Say what?!?

Yup. The Dems have got every angle covered this time. They have attached to this bill funding for Katrina Relief (about time), Drought Relief, Spinach Farmer relief (huh?), and lots of other stuff that has already been proposed but the Republicans couldn't pass.

How would you like to be the senator from Louisiana that voted no on Katrina money because you were against the war? How about the rabid anti-spinach guy who happens to be a Republican (I know, but I got nothing tonight)?

This is how the group of people that we elected to run our nation does business. Everybody gets what they want, but they gotta sell themselves out to do it. Would you let these people be around your kids?

I'm not saying that I disagree with passing any of these items. I would think that taking care of the citizenry of this nation would be, well, the actual job that we pay these people to do. Instead, they have to be manipulated, almost blackmailed, into actually doing anything at all.

I say we fire their butts next election. Every one of them. I say we vote out every incumbent across the nation for the next ten years. Just to flex our muscle.

But for now we gotta figure out how to manipulate them into securing the border and repealing NAFTA.

Four Simple Things

"If shit was worth anything, poor people would be born without assholes..."-Eddie Murphy, 48 Hours


We all want the same things (more beer!, more meth!, more crack!, more money!).

No seriously, we all want the same four things.

1. We want to be able to earn a living for ourselves and our families.

2. We want to live in a safe place.

3. We want our children to get the best education possible.

4. We want to some day be able to rest and enjoy what we have earned.

This is what should be uniting us as a people. Instead we get distracted by skin color, or religion, even geographic location. We get distracted by "non-issues" that have more to do with personal religion than politics. We get wound up about silly nonsense that won't really make a difference in five years.

But Bulldog, what are you talking about?

Well here's an example off the top of my head. Abortion. A moral issue, yes. A legal issue (and therefore poltical), no. Got legalized back in the seventies. But I still know people on both sides of the issue that choose candidates based solely on the candidate's stance on abortion.

If you are a Christian, then you know that sin will be judged in the end. Muslim, Jew, same thing. If you think that a politician is going to put an end to abortion, you have been suckered by the system. Unless all of the people in this country who are against abortion actually get together, create a unified lobby, and push all the right buttons and grease all the right palms, abortion will remain legal.

In other words, people have been distracted by a non-issue for thirty some-odd years without ever noticing that nothing has been done.

People are so busy proclaiming their African-American, or Hispanic-American, or whatever-American heritage that they have failed to see that the real discrimination is on an economic level. People are so busy spewing their religion at each other that they haven't quite picked up on the fact that the most immoral group of people on the planet are running our country.

Its all because we are lazy. There can be no liberty or justice without responsibility. There can be no American Dream without responsibility. We are responsible for what our government does (its in the fine print). If you don't believe that, take a look at who pays the bills around here.

It just seems to be common sense to assume that since people like me are going to be held accountable for our government's actions, then we should do what it takes to keep our thumb on them. A little blogging and internet research can go a long way toward educating yourself about the actions of your government.

How many of you went to the link labeled "unconstitutional" at the top? What about the link to the right labeled "You Must Read This!!"? Why not? Because you come here for some entertainment. Sure, some folks like my ideas, but most of you are resigned to the fact that things will stay as they are. You are wrong. They will get worse, and keep getting worse until the whole thing goes into the crapper.

I've seen the crapper, baby. Just look at Beruit, or Baghdad, or Matamoros.

That isn't what we want for our future.

Dream a Bigger Dream

I have stood on a dormant volcano in Guatemala, the only place in the world where you can see the Atlantic and the Pacific at the same time.

I have seen the Pyramids and the Sphinx in Egypt.

I have patrolled the villages and city streets of Iraq.

I have visited sixteen countries, some for the Army, some on my own, and I have seen incredible things. Still nothing compares to my home.

We have something here that can be found nowhere else on Earth. Call it pride, or spirit, or freedom. We are quick to jump into a discussion of right and wrong. We are quick to rebel against injustice. Even those who would not pick up a gun for this country will raise their voices in anger or defiance if they feel that they are being wronged.

I love this country. Its not the woods or mountains or praries. It isn't the grand landmarks or the beautiful views. I love the people of these United States.

There are problems here, and they must be addressed. Not by politicians, but by the people. So address them here. Here you have an open forum to complain or argue any and every point that could possibly be of any importance to the People of the United States of America. Maybe the President doesn't care what you have to say. Bill Richardson certainly doesn't. There may be few (if any) Congressmen left that care to hear what you have to say. I care. Tell me your side of it. Explain to me what it means to be an American in your bubble. Post what you think are the most important problems facing the next Administration. Post solutions to problems. I'll respond when I want to argue, or maybe just to clarify a point. I have an idea that the powers that be are about to start paying attention to little forums like this.

Fw: Great E-mail!

I didn't write this, it was e-mailed to me. I cannot find the author, but this is fantastic.

Sixty-three years ago, Nazi Germany had overrun almost all of Europe and hammered England to the verge of bankruptcy and defeat, and had sunk more than four hundred British ships in their convoys between England and America for food and war materials.

At that time the U.S. was in an isolationist, pacifist mood, and most Americans wanted nothing to do with the European or the Asian war. Then along came Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and in outraged Congress unanimously declared war on Japan, and the following day on Germany, which had not yet attacked us.

It was a dicey thing.

We had few allies.

France was not an ally, as the Vichy government of France quickly aligned itself with its German occupiers. Germany was certainly not an ally, as Hitler was intent on setting up a Thousand Year Reich in Europe. Japan was not an ally, as it was well on its way to owning and controlling all of Asia.

Together, Japan and Germany had long-range plans of invading Canada and Mexico, as launching pads to get into the United States over our northern and southern borders, after they finished gaining control of Asia and Europe. America's only allies then were England, Ireland, Scotland, Canada, Australia, and Russia. That was about it.

All of Europe, from Norway to Italy, except Russia in the East, was
already under the Nazi heel.

America was certainly not prepared for war. America had drastically downgraded most of its military forces after W.W.I and throughout the depression, so that at the outbreak of WW2, army units were training with broomsticks because they didn't have guns, and cars with "tank" painted on the doors because they didn't have real tanks.

And a huge chunk of our navy had just been sunk or damaged at Pearl
Harbor.

Britain had already gone bankrupt, saved only by the donation of $600 million in gold bullion in the Bank of England, which was actually the property of Belgium, given by Belgium to England to carry on the war when Belgium was overrun by Hitler (a little known fact).

Actually, Belgium surrendered on one day, because it was unable to oppose the German invasion, and the Germans bombed Brussels into rubble the next day just to prove they could. Britain had already been holding out for two years in the face of staggering losses and the near decimation of its air force in the Battle of Britain, and was saved from being overrun by Germany only because Hitler made the mistake of thinking the Brits were a relatively minor threat that could be dealt with later, and first turning his attention to Russia, at a time when England was on the verge of collapse, in the late summer of 1940.

Ironically, Russia saved America's butt by putting up a desperate fight for two years, until the US got geared up to begin hammering away at Germany.

Russia lost something like 24 million people in the sieges of Stalingrad and Moscow alone... 90% of them from cold and starvation, mostly civilians, but also more than a 1,000,000 soldiers.

Had Russia surrendered, Hitler would have been able to focus his entire war effort against the Brits, then America, and the Nazis could possibly have won the war.

All of this is to illustrate that turning points in history are often dicey things. And now, we find ourselves at another one of those key moments in history !

There is a very dangerous minority in Islam that either has, or wants and may soon have, the ability to deliver small nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons, almost anywhere in the world.

The Jihadis, the militant Muslims, are basically Nazis in Kaffiyahs -- they believe that Islam, a radically conservative form of Wahhabi Islam, should own and control the Middle East first, then Europe, then the world. And that all who do not bow to their will of thinking should be killed, enslaved, or subjugated. They want to finish the Holocaust, destroy Israel, and purge the world of Jews.

This is their mantra.

There is also a civil war raging in the Middle East -- for the most part not a hot war, but a war of ideas. Islam is having its Inquisition and its Reformation, but it is not known yet which will win -- the Inquisitors, or the Reformationists.

If the Inquisition wins, then the Wahhabis, the Jihadis, will control the Middle East, the OPEC oil, and the US, European, and Asian economies.

The techno-industrial economies will be at the mercy of OPEC -- not an OPEC dominated by the educated, rational Saudis of today, but an OPEC dominated by the Jihadis. You want gas in your car? You want heating oil next winter? You want the dollar to be worth anything? You better hope the Jihad, the Muslim Inquisition, loses, and the Islamic Reformation wins.

If the Reformation movement wins, that is, the moderate Muslims who believe that Islam can respect and tolerate other religions, and live in peace with the rest of the world, and move out of the 10th century into the 21st, then the troubles in the Middle East will eventually fade away, and a moderate and prosperous Middle East will emerge.

(The rational mind of today says this).

We have to help the Reformation win, and to do that we have to fight the Inquisition, i.e. the Wahhabi movement, the Jihad, Al Qaeda and the Islamic terrorist movements.

We have to do it somewhere. And we can't do it everywhere at once. We have created a focal point for the battle at a time and place of our choosing........in Iraq. Not in New York, not in London, or Paris or Berlin, but in Iraq, where we are doing two important things:

(1) We deposed Saddam Hussein. Whether Saddam Hussein was directly involved in 9/11 or not, it is undisputed that Saddam has been actively supporting the terrorist movement for decades. Saddam is a terrorist. Saddam is, or was, a weapon of mass destruction, who is responsible for the deaths of probably more than a million Iraqis and two million Iranians.


(2) We created a battle, a confrontation, a flash point, with Islamic terrorism in Iraq. We have focused the battle. We are killing bad people, and the ones we get there we won't have to get here. We also have a good shot at creating a democratic, peaceful Iraq, which will be a catalyst for democratic change in the rest of the Middle East, and an outpost for a stabilizing American military presence in the Middle East for as long as it is needed.

World War II, the war with the German and Japanese Nazis, really began with a "whimper" in 1928. It did not begin with Pearl Harbor. It began with the Japanese invasion of China. It was a war for fourteen years before America joined it. It officially ended in 1945 -- a 17 year war -- and was followed by another decade of US occupation in Germany and Japan to get those countries reconstructed and running on their own again .. a 27 year war.

World War II cost the United States an amount equal to approximately a full year's GDP -- adjusted for inflation, equal to about $12 trillion dollars.

W.W.II cost America more than 400,000 killed in action, and nearly 100,000 still missing in action.

The Iraq war has, so far, cost the US about $160 billion, which is roughly what 9/11 cost New York. It has also cost about 3,100 American lives, which is roughly the same amount of lives that the Jihad snuffed on 9/11. But the cost of not fighting and winning WWII would have been unimaginably greater -- a world dominated by German and Japanese Nazism.

This is not 60 minutes TV shows, and 2 hour movies in which everything comes out okay. The real world is not like that. It is messy, uncertain, and sometimes bloody and ugly.

Always has been, and probably always will be.

The bottom line is that we will have to deal with Islamic terrorism until we defeat it, whenever that is.

It will not go away if we ignore it.

If the US can create a reasonably democratic and stable Iraq, then we have an "England" in the Middle East, a platform, from which we can work to help modernize and moderate the Middle East. The history of the world is the clash between the forces of relative civility and civilization, and the barbarians clamoring at the gates. The Iraq war is merely another battle in this ancient and never ending war. And now, for the first time ever, the barbarians are about to get nuclear weapons. Unless somebody prevents them.


We have four options:

1. We can defeat the Jihad now, before it gets nuclear weapons.

2. We can fight the Jihad later, after it gets nuclear weapons (which may be as early as next year, if Iran's progress on nuclear weapons is what Iran claims it is)

3. We can surrender to the Jihad and accept its dominance in the Middle East, now, in Europe in the next few years or decades, and ultimately in America.

4. Or, we can stand down now, and pick up the fight later when the Jihad is more widespread and better armed, perhaps after the Jihad has dominated France and Germany and maybe most of the rest of Europe. It will, of course, be more dangerous, more expensive, and much bloodier.

If you oppose this war, I hope you like the idea that your children, or grandchildren, may live in an Islamic America under the Mullahs and the Sharia (Islamic law), an America that resembles Iran today.

The history of the world is the history of civilizational clashes, cultural clashes. All wars are about ideas, ideas about what society and civilization should be like, and the most determined always win. Those who are willing to be the most ruthless always win. The pacifists always lose, because the anti-pacifists kill them.

Remember, perspective is every thing, and America's schools teach too little history for perspective to be clear, especially in the young American mind.

The Cold war lasted from about 1947 at least until the Berlin Wall
came down in 1989. Forty-two years. Europe spent the first half of the
19th century fighting Napoleon, and from 1870 to 1945 fighting
Germany

World War II began in 1928, lasted 17 years, plus a ten year occupation, and the US still has troops in Germany and Japan. World War II resulted in the death of more than 50 million people, maybe more than 100 million people, depending on which estimates you accept.

The US has taken more than 3,000 killed in action in Iraq.

The US took more than 4,000 killed in action on ONE morning of June 6, 1944, the first day of the Normandy Invasion to rid Europe of Nazi Imperialism.

In W.W.II the US averaged 2,000 KIA a week -- for four years.

Most of the individual battles of WWII cost more Americans than the entire Iraq war has done so far.

But the stakes are at least as high ... A world dominated by representative governments with civil rights, human rights, and personal freedoms .. or a world dominated by a radical Islamic Wahhabi movement, by the Jihad, under the Mullahs and the Sharia (Islamic law).

Please send this to anyone who did not experience WW-II......and, ALSO, consider sending to those who did!

Kristul Mef

What is Chrystal Meth made of?

I'm no expert, but I did watch someone cook a batch once. (Purely scientific curiosity on my part, I can assure you). They used "Heet"( that stuff that keeps Diesel from gelling in extreme cold conditions), Ether, Cold Medicine, and other stuff I don't remember.

I hear you can make it with Phosphorus fertilizer, Anhydrous Ammonia, Lithium (from batteries), and even Benzyne, all of which are highly flammable and poisonous to the human body.

Tell your kids.

How can you tell if someone is on it?

Common short-term signs include paranoia, inability to eat or sleep, and "Tweaking". Tweakers like to organize things, clean things, hunt for arrowheads, take stuff apart (like motorcycles and VCRs), and collect crap that no one else wants.

Long-term signs include premature aging, especially around the jawline and eyes (we call it Meth Face), bad teeth (Meth Mouth), and bizarre behavior commonly associated with mental disorders. The most common Psychiatric misdiagnosis in America of late has been the diagnosis of schizophrenia in Meth users. Meth users have a tendency to be delusional, and may even have psychotic episodes. Long-term Meth users have a tendency to have a rather large porn collection, much of it home made (males), or figurine collections, like glass unicorns and butterflies (females). This doesn't mean that Aunt Georgia is a tweaker because she has a shelf full of cat statues. The collection will usually reach bizarre proportions in a short amount of time, and will seem like an obsession.

How do we stop it?

Nobody wants to hear this one...We can't stop it. Its too easy to make and very addictive (a fact that only meth heads dispute).

So what can we do about it?

We can drive it back underground. Start pointing and laughing at tweakers in WalMart. I do this all the time myself. If they are hanging around in a public place, start asking lots of questions about law-enforcement activities and such. When you see someone exhibiting signs of use, or just really bizarre behavior, call the law. This last one is tricky.

You see, if We, the People don't get involved, nothing happens. Police are overloaded with BS calls all of the time. Most cops are to the poin of letting the bad neighborhoods stay bad. If no one in an area complains, they just kind of assume that most residents are OK with the deterioration of their neighborhood. So they focus on the areas where people still care. Have you ever noticed that cops work harder in nicer residential districts? That's because the people in those areas call the cops. If you are going to complain about crime, you gotta be willing to complain to the cops. If you are afraid, that's certainly understandable. Being brave doesn't mean you are unafraid, it means you do things even when you are afraid, because those things just have to be done.

I couldn't count the number of times recently that I was positive that I was about to receive a beating, but I stand up to dope fiends and dealers anyway, because this is my country, my neighborhood, etc. Paranoia makes a person a coward, remember that.

If you have a relative/friend who you believe is a user, confront them. Try to get them help. If they won't, well, at least you tried. Keep your stuff locked up if they know where you live.

Maybe no one will read this, and maybe no one will act on it, I don't know. There are "experts" who will dispute some of my facts. I know Meth, I've seen it destroy people very close to me. Since I have adopted my more aggressive approach, I can say that they at least avoid being around me, and they have stopped stealing my lawn-mower gas...

Teddy or Me

"I want to know about the firefight at the border that is being kept so damn quiet. So tell me, what do you think really went on there? I would say it was a test to see if we really had the guts for a fight and it just proved that we did not. Thanks for putting the handcuffs on!! I understand that you may not want a bunch of loose cannons running around the border with automatic weapons but you had better start thinking about what you need to do. This was a test and we failed. BUT, let's make sure to give them boys a medal or two to
a) make sure they keep quiet about what really went on.
and b) to make all the other boys down there know what they need to do to protect the political bullshit that comes along with protecting our border. "-Anonymous Comment on my blog directed to Gov Bill richardson and Gov Tom Vilsack ( both presidential candidates at the time of the post, both potentially good candidates, and both too cowardly to respond to the questions posed by my readers...)

At least the T-shirt company was bold enough to talk directly to me. Richardson and Vilsack both just stopped responding to my e-mails.

Do you want a President who is afraid to respond to your tough questions? We need a president with balls that clank. That leaves you only two options. Me, or we dig up Teddy Roosevelt.

Reasons I'm better than Teddy Roosevelt:

1. I'm alive, he's not. Its unfair, but still an advantage.

2. well, #1 is really the only one I got.

Let's try a different approach.

Reasons I'm better than any politician running (arrogant, aren't I?):

1. I help to run a household, so I am already better at economics than anyone in the House or Senate.

2. I believe in screwing everyone else to take care of my people. The current (and past) administration(s) have a similar policy, which is to say they will screw everyone, including their own, to take care of their interests.

3. I don't believe in doing anything half-assed (that includes planning).

4. I like puppies.

5. I believe in helping neighbors.

6. I believe that the measure of a man should be more about work ethic and fatherhood than anything else.

7. I believe that war is ugly, and so should be fought and won with quick, decisive action. This leaves less room for political mucking, and also just gets the job done.

8. I believe that prison should suck worse than the Army.

9. I believe that the Army should suck worse than teaching at a public school.

10. I believe that Jerry Falwell is a sexual deviant and a moron.

11. I believe that I can make the world a better place for my children to live in.

12. I believe that we could grow enough corn in North America to end our dependence on foreign oil.

13. I'm funny (sometimes).

14. The anonymous comment above is just about my favorite comment on the entire illegal immigration situation. Whoever said that should e-mail me and let me know who to give proper credit.

So you see, I am the obvious choice. Not because I am a breath of fresh air, or new and shiny, but because I am a lot like you (only funny)...

Tell your friends.

Dear General Pelosi,

Congress proposed a forced withdrawl from Iraq beginning in March of '08. Money is approved but redirected towards fighting the Taliban and Al Qaida in Afghanistan. Nancy Pelosi and other Dems are aimed at forcing Bush's policy toward their own agendas. Bush hasn't done a great job, but I'm not sure that Pelosi is the person we want in charge of military policy in the Middle East (or anywhere).

OK, we're all sick of Iraq. We would love for the US to be able to get out of Iraq. We want to stop blowing money, end world hunger, and stop violence in the Middle East. It would also be cool if I could get my six-year-old a unicorn for her birthday. It ain't gonna happen.

How do you justify being a liberal pacifist on one hand and then sentencing thousands more Iraqis to their death on the other? When we pull out of Iraq, total civil war breaks out, Al Qaida moves into their new home (including Bin Laden, if he's still alive), and we once again let a group of people who eat dirt and live in filth kick our asses.

I'm tired of saying that we need to win. I'm tired of hearing all of these "alternative" plans. We are fighting the war on terror in Iraq. Hell, we brought it to Iraq (which may not have been right, but Baghdad ain't New York, so screw 'em).

I will speak the Inconvenient Truth right here-

If we leave Iraq under any conditions other than an absolute resolution of violence, Al Qaida and all other Jihadists will view our leaving as a defeat of the United States. This will prolong the "War on Terror" and create a surge in new terrorist activities across the globe.

We do need to revamp strategies. We do need to initiate talks between warring factions. We do need to change our approach to Iraq.

But we cannot afford to leave these people believing that we can be defeated...

T-shirts are Too Respectable for Me...

Let's talk about free speech in America.

I had an account with this T-Shirt company. I received an e-mail from them today declaring my blog "inappropriate and insensitive to Muslim culture, and racially agressive toward Hispanics"...

My Associate account has been cancelled, and my T-shirts will no longer be available for sale on their website. OK, we're talking about T-shirts here. The T-shirt has long been a forum for unpopular and inappropriate ideas and slogans. I used to own a T-shirt that delared "Assholes are People, Too". I was warned by my mother not to wear it or she would skin me, but I did anyway. Maybe I was expressing myself in an "inappropriate" manner. At least I wasn't strapping TNT to my torso and walking into a mini-mall.

This blog is all about my constitutional right to free speech. Nobody has to agree with me, and I even encourage those who don't agree with me to post comments. If you find me offensive, don't do business with me, that's OK. But I find it hard to believe that my blog is more offensive than anything available at an internet T-shirt site that allows people to design their own product lines.

Anyway, I'm still running for president. Somebody find me a T-shirt company willing to do business with me....

Reasons to Vote for Me

When I'm King, I mean President, I will solve many of America's problems in the first year. Some of my solutions will seem harsh, but that is just because they are harsh.

NAFTA and CAFTA will be repealed. All US owned corporate entities will have 18 months to bring their assets back inside the United States. The first ten companies to reestablish US plants will get a 50% tax break for 4 years. All foreign-owned companies that wish to build manufacturing plants in the US will be given a 40% tax break for ten years.

Iraq- I'm tired of fooling with it. In order to avoid a non-binding resolution ( which is disapproval on paper, and a waste of time ), we will pull out of Iraq. Half of the troops in Iraq will be moved to Afghanistan, and the other half will be moved to the border between the United States and Mexico. The United States Air Force will begin strategic air strikes in Syria and Iran as punishment for their involvement in Iraq. In Afghanistan, all factions of Al Qaida and the Taliban will be hunted down and destroyed. I will allow raids into Pakistan under certain conditions.

The Army will use engineer assets to build a wall (where possible) along the border. Seasoned combat troops will patrol the more difficult terrain to prevent illegal border-crossings. The Border Patrol will be set up in 100 man teams and will go from city to city collecting illegal immigrants (with focus on drug dealers and gangs) and sending them back to Mexico. Mexico will be denied any foreign aid money until they have a workable plan for a public education system and a plan for industrialization. All US law-enforcement officials currently incarcerated for "civil rights violations" against illegal immigrants will be released, reimbursed for lost wages, and reinstated.

All Muslims who openly support jihadism will be deported from the US and sent to Syria and Iran. Any criminal act deemed an act of terrorism by a jury of US citizens will be punished by death. The only exception to this will be for terrorists who are willing to name no less than five other terrorists, and this information must lead to five arrests and convictions.

Convicted pedophiles will be deported to Iran and Syria.