Conserve Your Mind

What is a conservative mind set? Is the United States indeed the model of freedom for the rest of the world? Are liberals un-patriotic? Could liberals live in the world they propose? These and other political and philosophical ideas are explored here by me and select others.

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Freedom is probably the most over-used, misunderstood words of our time. It is not the so-called freedom sought by the adolescent who wishes to wear a t-shirt with a four-letter word across it to school. This display is not the essence of freedom at all. John Locke himself made a distinction between patently offensive acts that in and of themselves actually degrade true freedom by creating societal disharmony and hostility. This I will explore more extensively later. I primarily have an interest in testing the ideas and assertions of todays politicians, pundits and pseudo intellectuals. Please come along and see if freedom and truth can be preserved.

Tuesday, September 05, 2006

Kerry's Loss Kills Liberals

Days after the 2004 Presidental election a 26 old man killed himself in NYC at the WTC site. As the media reported, "because he was despondent over the win of George Bush." It is funny I do not remember any other election where people killed themselves because a certain candidate won or lost. At Kerry's concession speech, it was at first entertaining and then disturbing to see the so many young Kerry supporters balling over his loss. By this scene you would conclude the world was coming to an end. Then followed reports of Kerry supporters not eating for days, staying in bed for days, walking around like zombies and finally looking into moving toCanada. A multitude of "man on the street" interviews by local and national media outlets of urbanites professing their DISGUST and HORROR that people in this country would vote for Bush. But in this election the Dem's have run a shameful campaign filled with hatred and intolerance. They seemed to have pinned their hope for success to the naivety of the youth and other impressionistic political virgins, or morons. These"children" do not seem know that the Dem's ran virtually all of government for over 40 years. Furthermore, they are not nearly old enough or well enough informed to know real political history; The constant threat of nuclear war and the march of the most intolerant, the Communist killing machine. Many are not even old enough to have a cogent memory of the fall of the Berlin wall. This is why they think the greatest "civil rights" struggle is national healthcare and the the right for gays to marry. They certainly will never learn in the public schools that only a determined Ronald Regan, who was called a dangerous lunatic by the left, would bring down Soviet Communism. So today these "children" of excess and prosperity, fear and complain that their county might ask them to do something to defend themselves while they should do nothing but expect their government to "give" them health care and "more rights". It is readily apparent that the Dem's do not mind running on fear and hatred as a platform. They have a narrow view of "their world" with little regard for the rest of us. Shame, shame, shame on them!

Homeland Security Money Buys a Garbage Truck

Hope you all are feeling safer because of the infinite wisdom of our National representatives. Here are just two examples of how the "Homeland Security"money is being spend: 1. A 40' fire boat for Perth Amboy, NJ. http://www.thnt.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051221/NEWS01/512210393/1005/NEWS01 2. New garbage trucks for Newark, NJ http://www.ci.newark.nj.us/Public_Information/Press_Releases.asp?id=297 Rest assured that the terrorist will not be able toset the Raritan Bay on fire and they will not be able to hide behind piles of garbage in Newark. Remember, with this enhancement to our security, there is no reason the President should have to listen in on international telephone calls or track terrorist's financial transactions!

NPR Misrepresents Again

Recently on our local NPR station, (yes, I listen to NPR quite frequently) the newscaster said "...The Gold Star Mothers Club (a group ofmothers of U.S. soldiers who have lost their sons & daughters in combat) had prohibited a women who lost her son in combat from joining the group because she was born in the Philippines". As you may know, entrance to the organization was restricted on the basis of her not being a citizen, NOT because she was born in the Philippines. The point of the story was that the organization voted yesterday to lift the citizenship restriction, which the newscaster never said, rather she said that they had voted to change their admission policy. But that was not imparted, instead she took a solid shot at the group by implying it was racist for not letting a Filipino join. Last week the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the funding arm of PBS/NPR, decried Congressional cuts to their budget saying they were lauded by others forbeing so neutral in their news reporting. And yes, I must say that they blame the U.S.A. just as much as they blame other "conservative" governments and countries with capitalist economies for a myriad of problems in the world. I have always found convenient omissions and flagrant misrepresentations in their news. I guess this is what we can call entertainment; since it is far from news.

Tolerance Kills 3 Children

Camden, NJ June 2005- A horrible death befalls three boys ages5-11. The three were found dead from suffocation intrunk of abandoned car on an empty lot 3 days after they went missing. As a matter of background, Camden New Jersey is the poorest city in New Jersey and has had the highest murder rate in recent times. I can remember when old refrigerators with locking doors would trap a child playing inside and he would be discovered by someone after it was too late. Today the new urban menace is the abandoned car which isprevalent in poor areas. The most disturbing feature of this story is that NOBODY checked this car even though it was exactly where the children were last seen playing and it was just across the street from their home. Where should the blame of incompetencebe started? The next question that must be asked is whose car is this and why was it abandoned in an empty lot? Could this be a stolen car that the police never got around to checking on? Was it a neighbors car who could not afford to repair it? In some neighborhoods anything goes, while in others the police will tow an unregistered car right out of the owners driveway. This is just another example of our modern sense of tolerance which calls for a non-judgmental position in regard to quality of life issues. However, the tolerance of this simple quality of life issue most certainly had a hand in killing these three children.