eagle’s Neighborhood

Hmm... Apparently the line up for Republican convention is set.

The convention line-up, which will be held in St. Paul, Minn., from Sept. 1-4, features Connecticut Independent Democratic Sen. Joe Lieberman on the first night; former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge and Alaska Gov. Sara Palin on the second night; former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal on the third night; and Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty and Florida Gov. Charlie Crist on the last night.

The third night is the night the vice presidential nominee will give his acceptance speech. Other speakers that night include Cindy McCain, former eBay CEO Meg Whitman and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina.

I don't know what this means (if anything at all) for Palin.  But one has to wonder if it is Romney.

Brigitte Gabriel 3

 It is amazing that a representative of the MSM would attempt to vilify the character of Brigitte Gabriel. That is exactly what an interviewer for the New York Times did.

Act For America sent this email out to their list to rally Gabriel supporters to make their voice known to the NYT.

JRH 8/20/08

"John McCain can talk all he wants about Paris and Brittney, but I don't have time for that mess..."

Until just then?!?

Hey Bobo, Paris called... she wants to know if you'd like to be her Vice President*?

All this is enough to make one wonder who's the oddest ball in the Bobo clan?

John McCain knew what he was up against as a prisoner in North Vietnam, but he never met anyone like Bobo.

*Not to be confused with an actual Vice President

"John McCain doesn't know what he's up against!?!"

Thus spake Bobo Obo yesterday

Was it only yesterday that I said he was acting like a 7-year-old?

So is he regressing, or did I only think he was seven because he'd been the editor of the Harvard Law Review?

Pardon me, sir, is that elevator going down?

Aides say that McCain would be scared... if he knew what he was up against.

And it would seem that McCain isn't the only one who doesn't know what he's up against...

Bobo - to know him is to blow him - off.

Chinese Agression and Taiwan

America’s failure to back Georgia with nothing more than fancy diplomatic words might inspire China to invade Taiwan. Old Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist Chinese fled Mao’s Red Chinese forces in 1949 to Taiwan. At the time the U.N. did not recognize Mao’s control of the Mainland China as the government of the Chinese people. Chiang’s little demoralized army fled to Taiwan under American protection.

America forced the U.N. to maintain the myth that Chiang represented Chinese sovereignty from little Taiwan.  America pulled it off because of Red China’s inferior technological military. The days, they are a chang’in.

Red China eventually became recognized as THE China relegating the Nationalist Chinese to inhabitants of the Island of Taiwan. The Red Chinese deal is that Taiwan was under Mainland sovereignty before the Nationalist fled in defeat; ergo Taiwan still is under Mainland sovereignty (There is a legitimate dispute to the Red Chinese claim).

The threat of an American Military is the only thing that has kept the Taiwanese (combined Chinese and Taiwanese natives) people to develop a free democratic nation.

Georgia is an American ally. Russia invaded Georgia with impunity. America has done nothing except to say there will be consequences. Hmm … I am fairly certain Russia is still looking for those consequences as Georgia has been raped of its infrastructure and Russian tanks in sight of the Georgian Capital of Tbilisi.

America, Russia is laughing in your face.

America, will Communist China laugh in your face as it forcibly occupies Taiwan?

JRH 8/20/08

It occurred to me that whether or not Bobo becomes President, he's inspired a series of children's books that may be long-running/ Barack could be the new Babar... or maybe even take over for the old one like the way they do it for James Bond.

Anyway, the point of all this is, I don't want to miss out on an opportunity, so I'm pitching my own idea. What do you think about a swan who turns into an ugly duck?

Maybe because he swam through an oil slick?

Or because he spent twenty years being tutored by an anti-swan minister?

Your input is welcome. Your claim on royalties isn't.

OK, I should preface this with the following.  I am a liberal.   I am a democrat.  However, I am relatively moderate.  The individuals that I am referring to are the FAR left wing.  It is my opinion that they are just as dangerous to the future of America as the far-right wing.

This past week, I took a most wonderfully relaxing trip to the Upper Peninsula.  I absolutely adore camping up there because just across the Big Mac Bridge, I find myself a little piece of heaven on earth.  I don't have a TV up there so I find myself sheltered from the goings-on of our little nation and planet.   Its just me and the kids.

HOWEVER, this time my peace was intruded upon by two instances of the modern American political machine.  First off, was the unavoidable Kwame Kilpatrick debacle.  We were still in Michigan and the Detroit papers were outside of the bathrooms/showers.  He managed to get himself on the front page everyday.  What an embarassment - but he is something I could ignore.

The second issue happened in the most odd way.  We were camped in between a really sweet family and a really NASTY far-left liberal.  The sweet family came up from Midland, Michigan in their F-250.  The back end was loaded with camping gear, TWO canoes, fishing stuff, etc.  They were clearly ready for their two week getaway in the upper peninsula.  The kids were sweet.  the Dad helped me split some kindling off my logs for a fire.   They were really nice.  I have no clue what political affiliation they were - I just know that at the back end of their truck they had a bumper sticker about gas prices sucking.

The people on the other side of us showed up in a hybrid Escape towing a trailer with ski-doos and a topper on the top of their vehicle.  After setting up their camp, they came over to talk to me about where the  best place to buy wood was in St Ignace.   I told them where to buy it  and at that moment - the F-250 neighbors had loaded the kids in the car to go to the store.   The man noticed their bumper sticker and started to make horrible comments about "rednecks" that kill the environment and then whine about the cost of their "murder" of Earth.  I pointed out that the man had a right to complain about the gas prices because they WERE high ($4.25 for economy in the UP of Michigan).  The man echoed sentiments that I've heard on Vox and elsewhere.  HE started to point out how the people witht he truck could have rented a smaller vehicle and also that there was no reason to own that vehicle.  The man actually had the nerve to equate owning an F-250 with being a Bush loving, war-mongering bigot!

What the hell?!?!?  I had talked to the family later that night while the kids were at the beach and I found out that the man owned a landscaping company.  It had hit hard times so a part of their downsizing was selling the family truck (an F-150).  Apparently the man needed the F-250 to haul his landscaping stuff to jobs - so the couldn't sell that.  Renting a smaller vehicle was pointless because they still needed to be able to haul their camping stuff.  ALSO, paying $50 a day to rent a small SUV eliminated any cost savings that they may have gotten in gas prices.

You know, it really irks me when people have to be completely unaccepting that they refuse to hear the other side of the story.  The far left wing is just like the far-christian right, they refuse to accept any lifestyle and moral code beyond their own. Whether its accepting a religious belief or a scientific one - people need to allow for a difference of opinion. 

Mo and Aisha

I am on Act For America’s email list in which I gratefully receive news pertaining to the exposé of Islamist, Jihadist and sometimes mere Islamic agendas that are anti-American (ergo anti-Western).

In an August 18 email Act For America writes about the United Nations Human Rights Council mandating globally that ANY criticism about Islam’s Sharia Law and fatwas will not be tolerated.

Of Course the United Nations Human Rights Council is a joke. Most of the member nations are Islamic or dictatorial nations in which human rights violations are a way of life. This is another reason America should first of all try to form a world body that represents democratic interests and principles and abandon the U.N. to its Leftist and/or Islamic designs. The new democratic world body could form an economic, civil rights and military set of international rules based on democracy and freedom to counter the obvious exploitation that nations like Russia and China might take advantage of on a U.N. Security Council minus the U.S.A.

(Act For America attributes the Leslie J. Sacks blog as the source for the U.N. story.)

But that is another story and post.

The Act For America email goes on to post a Times Online (UK) article by Mick Hume that decries publishing house Random House abandoning the publication of a book entitled “The Jewel of Medina” by Sherry Jones. Evidently the book portrays Mohammed’s child wife Aisha as a willing sexual pedophilic partner who enjoys the soft porn bliss relationship with the prophet of Allah.

Random House claims the book was abandoned because of the notification of possible terrorist focus on Random House and its employees. Thus Islamofascist (one might even say because of the UNHRC Islamic) terrorism has effectively squashed Freedom of Speech in America.

Critics of Random House’s lack of a Liberty back bone claim that an Associate Professor from the University of Texas at Austin (Denise A. Spellberg) contacted Islamists about the imminent publication which shortly followed the threatening posture Random House reported. She denies the contact; however she very publicly decries the book manuscript is soft porn and therefore would be offensive to Muslims.

Indeed one of my favorite anti-Islamist scholars Robert Spencer decries the manuscript is more fiction than non-fiction in accuracy; however it is a novel (a bad novel but still a novel). Spencer agrees with Professor Spellberg’s summation of the inaccuracies in the book; however Spencer also decries Random House for allowing Muslim intimidation to hamper First Amendment rights of Free Speech in America.

The potential Islamic outrage and the willingness of Western publishing houses to acquiesce to Muslim demands smacks of dhimmitude. The publishing houses do not fear reprisals for publishing anti-Christian novels such as the Da Vinci Code nor does the UNHRC find it intolerable that nations like Russia and China for human rights violations. In China’s case Christians are specifically targeted that are not registered by the government. Nor does the UNHRC find intolerable Muslim nations (and aspiring nations such as Palestine) continuously allow publication and video media that portrays Christians and Jews as the evolved from apes and pigs.

I am here to tell you the Islamic outrage concerning is based on Islamic Supremacism which views insulting other faiths or democratic values as NOT insulting incitement. And America and the West have become so ingrained in Politically Correct thinking we are willing to absorb the Islamic accusation of racism and Islamic boohoo of “I am a victim.”

It is time to wake-up and reassert Western (and in my case – Christian) values even if intolerant Mohammedans are offended.

JRH 8/19/08