Archive for June, 2008
The Promise of Change
Barrack Obama is running his campaign on the slogan of change and I do have to say that it is a tempting slogan.
Since 9/11 and the war in Iraq, a constant drumbeat of negativity towards the current administration has basically worn out most Americans to the point that “change” is so attractive we really don’t care who changes things as long as they do.
 Basically supporters of Obama want the following changes:
- To be safe from terrorism but not to take any steps on foreign soil to secure that safety.
- To have cheap and plentiful supplies of gasoline but to not take any steps domestically to lessen our dependence on cheap oil.
- For everyone to have guaranteed health-care but to let the government pay for it.
- To “talk” to our enemies without a strong military to back us up.
These are just a few things that a large segment of America seems to want, the real question is what will we have to give up for these things?
Tags: change, Cuban Missile Crisis, socialized medicine
A Short Time Out for Thunderstorms
Last night at about 10:30pm Central time the area I live in (Northwest and west central Arkansas) was hit by a huge storm with straight line winds hail and a lot of rain.
 You can see the effect it had with this aluminum shutter.
I lost power for about 21 hours, however some areas are still without any.
It’s been a stormy season this year with rain saturating the gound to the point that some trees roots can no longer withstand high wind gusts.
I took a drive through my neighnorhood and found a lot of damage caused by old growth trees either falling on houses, vehicles or other property.
Â
Tags: Arkansas, Arkansas storm, damaging winds, storm damage
The Last Word on WTC 7
I got this from Screw Loose Change.
OK troofers, got it?
Now STFU.
(thanks c0intelpr0)
Tags: troofers are morons, WTC7
Do we live in a Tin-hat Nation?
Apparently while perusing my.barackobama.com, the guys at Little Green Footballs found a post on the community blogs entitled “The Israeli Connection to 9/11″. The original url returns an ERROR: invalid page requested, meaning most likely it was removed.
However the google cache page can be found here. (hurry before it too disappears)
The article reads in part:
U.S. investigators and the controlled media have ignored a preponderance of evidence pointing to Israel’s intelligence agency, the Mossad, being involved in the terror attacks of 9/11.
From the very morning aircraft smashed into the World Trade Center (WTC) and the Pentagon, news reports have indicated Israeli intelligence being involved in the events of 9/11 ? and the planting of “false flags” to blame Arab terrorists and mold public opinion to support the pre-planned “war on terror.”
Shortly after the destruction of the twin towers, radio news reports described five “Middle Eastern men” being arrested in New Jersey after having been seen videotaping and celebrating the explosive “collapses” of the WTC.
These men, from a phony moving company in Weehawken, N.J., turned out to be agents of Israeli military intelligence, Mossad. Furthermore, their “moving van” tested positive for explosives.
Yadda, yadda….the same paranoid 9/11 fantasy that has been repeated ad nauseum by brain dead troofers all over the net for years. Now of course it’s hardly fair to say that Barack Obama supports the troofers because of a couple of blog posts, but it is indicative of something else. The widespread and insipid acceptance of any and all paranoid tin-hat ideas that anyone with a computer and internet connection can put forward into the ether, and these accusations don’t all come from the left.
Tags: paranoid, tinhat nation, troofers
Pearl Harbor not a National Monument?
AZTeacher pointed to this article on the OutCast forum:
Bush Mulls Making Pearl Harbor a National Monument
HONOLULU  — President Bush has asked his defense and interior secretaries to look into designating Pearl Harbor and other historic World War II sites in the Pacific a national monument.
A May 29 presidential memo to Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne said such status could offer the sites additional protection.
“These objects of historical and scientific interest may tell the broader story of the war, the sacrifices made by America and its allies, and the heroism and determination that laid the groundwork for victory in the Pacific and triumph in World War II,” Bush said.
The letter, posted on the White House Web site, doesn’t say what specific places Bush has in mind aside from Pearl Harbor.
Parts of the naval base are already under some form of protection or have historic designation.
I already thought it was. Maybe it’s time we all put a call in to the White House and our representatives urging them to give this harbor the historic designation it deserves.
As AZTeacher says:
It would be a fitting, if somewhat belated, tribute to Bush I and to men like my step-father and Herp’s dad and all the other WWII vets dying at over 1,000/day.
Â
Â
Tags: Pearl Harbor
