The Quiet Conservative January 31, 2009
Random Thoughts on Future Columns.
There are more topics popping up for columns than there is time to write them. The volume of
"change" is outstripping the "hope" that reason will survive the first hundred days of the new American
reality. Here are a few random thoughts on what could be covered in depth:
1. Is dissent still patriotic? Remember the mantra of the left for the past eight years? They constantly
stated they supported the troops but not the mission? It was quite obnoxious. Remember all the protests
on anything and everything the Bush Administration did? Remember Reid giving speeches that the
surge had failed before it even began, and Nancy Pelosi traveling to Syria to show the world liberals
had a different foreign policy? Opposing the President publicly was a full time job.
Now the standard seems to have changed. The very same progressive leaders are now saying
"bipartisan" and "patriotism" means doing things the Democrat way, President Obama's way. They say
the Republicans should stop listening to Rush Limbaugh and they should submit to the progressives
agenda. They are 'rebuilding America's reputation' and 'rebuilding America's standing in the world.'
This is the way things get done...according to the left.
In fact, the Democrats have started a petition they are pushing in an online campaign to express
their, and your, outrage at Rush Limbaugh. They are furious over his statements he hopes Obama fails
to institute Socialism. Apparently dissent is no longer patriotic now that the Democrats are in
charge. Now if you oppose their agenda you are divisive, obstructive, disloyal, do not have the best
interests of the nation at heart, and are engaged in the same old tired politics as usual. "Putting politics
aside" means giving in and rolling over.
No, I think we will stay with what the Democrats taught us over the last eight years. Dissent is
patriotic. So, while I support our new president, I repudiate all his programs and everything he stands
for. Just to be patriotic, of course. No on abortion. No on the gutting of the military. No on the return
to the pre 9/11 mentality of diplomacy at all costs and eliminating fighting back. No on redefining the
war on terror so we don't acknowledge it exists. No on extending the rights of American citizens to
foreign terrorists trying to kill us. No on the redistribution of wealth. No on promoting homosexuality
and criminalizing Christianity. No on the vampire economy. No on the corruption of Chicago and the
DNC becoming the standard of ethics. No on the attack on the coal industry. No on repealing the
Bush tax cuts. No on the abandonment of the missile shield in Europe. No on the Global Poverty Act.
No on the Union card check. No on the bailout. No on giving ACORN billions. Just No all around.
There, I feel more patriotic already.
2. There is a line going around the Internet called "The Gore Effect." It is the observation that every
time the former Vice President goes somewhere to promote the looming disaster of global warming, the
area is hit with record low temperatures or ice and snow. At first it was possible to laugh this off, but
there might be something to this. Vice President Gore's appearance before Congress to talk about the
dangers of global warming was almost postponed due to snow in Washington D.C.
Speaking of religion, and by that I mean the myth of man made climate change, President Obama
has made this Pagan cult a priority of his new administration. He has been quoted, as has Nancy Pelosi
and James Hanson, about the need to "save the planet." I was unaware it was in peril.
Science recognizes five major life extinction events over the history of the planet. You might have
seen the one about how the dinosaurs were wiped out. There is a good chance you have seen the
pictures of dinosaurs, seen a dinosaur in the movies, or have had your kid draw one that you stuck on
the fridge for a while.
Think about it for a minute. The whole world and the oceans were about wiped clean by life five
times, yet here we are. I typed this, you are reading this. Doesn't that put the whole thing in
perspective? You can't kill the planet. It isn't alive. It swings around the sun like Mercury, Venus,
Mars, Jupiter, Saturn Uranus, Neptune, and poor demoted Pluto. The Earth has no more value than
any other planet, other than it hosts us as a life form. If we go, planet Earth will cease to be
important. It won't even have a name anymore because "Earth" is what we call this third rock from the
sun. If all life was wiped out by the sixth extinction event, and aliens landed in some hazy future
thousands of years from now, they can call it "Planet Bob" and it would be no more responsive to that
name than to "Earth." So let's stop with the Pagan dirt worship, shall we?
There is no consensus that people are affecting climate change. Climate change happens whether we
like it or not. The sun controls the climate along with the shifting continents, volcanoes, weather, and
the oceans. Man is full of hubris and unmatched stupidity if he believes a Lincoln Navigator is killing
the planet and a Toyota Prius saves it. James Hanson's former boss at NASA has called global
warming a hoax. The founder of the Weather Channel has called it a scam. People who look at the
global warming data are pointing out massive holes in the way the data is collected and analyzed, even
faked. The end result is the only consensus is that global warming-now "man made climate change"- is
a complete and utter lie.
3. A point on economic theory. Does this example make sense to you? Say, you are hit with an
unexpected medical bill that runs into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Do you run out and apply
for as many credit cards as possible and max them out as a way to prosperity? Probably not. Try this
example: If growing government and taking over large segments of the economy is kick starting the
economy, if massive deficit spending and suppression of the private sector through increased taxes and
regulations is the answer, if raising trade barriers and controlling the health sector is the answer, then
why isn't the Soviet Union still around and East Germany the crown jewel of Western Civilization?
Whether you call it Communism, Socialism, The Great Society, Liberalism, or a stimulus bill, it has
always failed. It will continue to fail. One hundred years of failure are not going to be reversed
because the press and the liberals in this country want it to. We are taking a recession in response to
liberal meddling in the housing market, and using that condition to destroy capitalism and our nation's
prosperity. Like sitting in the back seat of a car going over a cliff, I can see it, but can't do anything
about it.
4. The Obama Administration, according to Fox News, is seeking to cut the Pentagon budget
by ten percent. The stupidity of this knows no bounds. Meanwhile, the State Department is seeking
to draft a letter to Iran to beg for relations. Iran is laughing and telling the US to grovel. Ahmadinejad
has gone on their TV saying America will have to apologize for all their past "crimes" and then they
might, just might, give consideration to the state department overtures. From the Breitbart.com site as
linked by Drudge: "US President Barack Obama's offer to talk to Iran shows that America's policy of
"domination" has failed, the government spokesman said on Saturday.
"This request means Western ideology has become passive, that capitalist thought and the system
of domination have failed," Gholam Hossein Elham was quoted as saying by the Mehr news agency.
No surprise there. It is amateur hour again in Washington as the clueless are back in charge. I wonder
what form the apology will take.
North Korea has scrapped all treaties with South Korea which is either a preliminary to war or,
more likely, the realization that the US will once again open up the checkbooks and subsidize their
regime to any extent possible to avoid confrontation. While only last year on the campaign trail the
Democrats were expressing outrage that they might even remotely be referred to as weak or appeasers,
they now are busy dressing up in their 1930's costumes for the "Neville Chamberlin Appease a Despot
Night" at the Capitol.
5. Everything else. The gay lobby is in full court press to destroy the institution of marriage. The
unions are intent on destroying corporations. And Congress, who has the track record of getting
absolutely nothing right has decided they have the wisdom and the ability to tell Wall Street and the
auto industry how to run their businesses. The list of topics go on and on. America's standing in the
world is once again of the clumsy giant who only wants to be liked by the cool kids. From energy
policy incoherence to social policy experiments, the hope and change America voted for, and is now
going to get, is going to make it an interesting four years.
According the famous blasphemous grace of sailors about to take the broadside of an enemy ship's
guns "For what we are about to receive, may we be truly thankful." There will be much opportunity
for these columns in the future. Let's hope we can return the offering in kind.