Remember Where It Started...

As reports are being released and the quality of the intelligence that led us to war in Iraq is coming under fire, it is important for us to remember a few important things.

Most notably, despite what our libby friends would like us to believe, President Bush did not undertake the gathering of intelligence himself, nor did he misinterpret the intelligence. Though we may all be in agreement that the intelligence was bad, it was not the President’s fault that he received bad intelligence.

The President was right to rely on the intelligence provided to him from the CIA, intelligence from the world community, and yes, even intelligence from the UN.

Also, it is important to remember that despite what the liberal media is trying to throw at us everyday, many elements of the intelligence were, in fact, quite true. Also, it is important to remember that the US policy prior to President Bush coming into office was one of containment when it came to Saddam Hussein.

The problem with just holding him at bay was that he was in the midst of beefing up his long-range missile development program and developing long-range missiles with chemical and possibly nuclear warheads. The only thing keeping the Iraqi regime from being nuclear capable was purchasing the material at a time when Pakistan was selling nuclear material left and right.

These were missiles that could have hit Turkey, Israel, Greece, Saudi Arabia and other Mediterranean and Middle Eastern nations. Intelligence on the missile program came from the UN, so this is not a Bush-led conspiracy, folks.

Another key point to remember as the Democrats in Congress moan about the quality of intelligence that came from the CIA is that it was many of those very same Democrats that supported the Clinton administration and it was the Clinton administration that cut back military and intelligence spending.

It was the Clinton administration who continually robbed the CIA of the hands-on intelligence gathering methods of the Cold War that kept us safe. It was the Clinton administration that put us in a position where we were relying on satellite passes instead of boots on the ground.

And lastly, we still cannot ever forget that it was the Clinton administration that sat back in 1993 and in 1997 and in 1998 when U.S. targets at home and abroad were attacked by Al-Qaeda terrorists.

Michael Moore will point out that the Taliban sent an envoy to the U.S. that was welcomed in Texas, even though they were harboring Osama Bin Laden, but he doesn’t mention that his buddy Willy Jeff refused time and time again to capture or kill Bin Laden himself when the CIA had him in their sights.

Michael Moore will even go as far as to claim that he’s not pro-Democrat, too, but rather an independent, trying to show both sides of the story. Instead of calling our President a liar over botched intelligence, people like Michael Moore should be looking into why the intelligence sucked in the first place...the military cutbacks that liberals demanded.

Constitutional Crisis in 1876

If you think the presidential election of 2000 was ugly, you should have been around for the election of 1876.

Waged against the backdrop of Reconstruction, the race pitted Democrat Samuel J. Tilden, a reform-minded New York governor, against Republican Rutherford B. Hayes, a three-term governor of Ohio.

Amid vote-buying, intimidation and political skullduggery of the most blatant sort, three states, Florida, Louisiana, and South Carolina, submitted two sets of electoral votes, one for Hayes and one for Tilden.

A constitutional crisis ensued, and Congress appointed a special election commission to sort out the disputed votes.

Then, in a backroom deal, the Republican-controlled commission asked Southern Democrats to award all 19 disputed votes to Hayes, and in return, once president, Hayes would withdraw all federal troops from the South.

The bribe was accepted by the Democrats and Hayes ended up with 185 electoral votes to Tilden’s 184. For the next four years, bitter Democrats called the new president “Rutherfraud” and Tilden “President Tilden.” Tilden called the debacle “the greatest political crime of our history.”

Let's Blame Correctly...

We are none of us perfect, but I believe one of the greatest strengths of a man is to know himself.

To know himself, what he is capable of and what his weaknesses are and to ensure that on every occasion throughout the course of his life, he does whatever is necessary to ensure that his weaknesses do not result in harm to others.

This is why, ultimately, I do not like Willy Jeff Clinton.

I think he should have known that he was unfit to lead this nation because of his lack of character in a very specific area, but the glowing prize was too valuable to him to have the foresight to see the damage he would do to this nation and the disappointment it would bring to people like myself who at one point in our lives, supported him.

We are today, a nation divided.

Reagan brought this country together like never before. George 41 didn’t split it and despite the fact that our libby friends will blame it on George 43, I believe the rift that sent so many people either to the far left or the far right was created during term #2 of ol’ #42, Willy “Moist Cigar” Clinton.

The greatest insight into the mentality of the man and his character can most clearly bee seen in his final explanation that he did all of this simply because he knew he could get away with it because he was the President.

Unchecked Liberal School Administrators

Well, here we go again with school...Look folks, I’ll stop bad-mouthing school, teachers and administrators once they stop giving me fuel for the fire, but we all know that’s never going to happen.

Shiba Pillai-Diaz is a middle school teacher in New Jersey. She decided to decorate her classroom’s bulletin board with an American theme. So, she put up an American flag, a poster of the Declaration of Independence and portraits of several U.S. Presidents. Wanna hear why she had to take the bulletin board down?

There were enough stupid moron parents and weak, spineless school administrators who listened to those morons, that’s why!

What was their complaint? Well, one of the pictures of the U.S. Presidents was George W. Bush, the current sitting President, and whiny parents said that if this teacher was going to have a picture of George W. Bush up, she should have a picture of John Kerry up too, to be fair.

She was given a choice...put John Kerry up on the bulletin board, or take the whole thing down. OK, ya frickin’ idiots, so does that mean that she needs to get up a picture of Al Gore, too? How about Bob Dole and Ross Perot? They weren’t Presidents, but they ran for office, right?

So, when we put up pictures of the Presidents of the United States of America, do we now need to include the current Presidential Candidates as well?

According to these moron parents and this teacher’s bosses, we do. So, is this where we are at in America? Our teachers cannot put up a picture of a sitting President during his re-election without putting up pictures of the people running against him?

Now, hold on a second...understand what you just read? I said “people,” didn’t I? Yes, there is more than one person running against George W. Bush in this election, but there was only an outcry for John Kerry’s picture, not an outcry for pictures of each of the Presidential Candidates. What do we call that, boys and girls? We call that Libby Hypocrisy.

Parents claimed it was unfair for the teacher to put up just Bush’s picture and whined for Kerry’s picture. They did not, however, whine for pictures of all of the candidates...just their candidate. Why did they want Kerry up on the bulletin board? They said it was to be fair, but I must call them on the fact that it is just because it’s their candidate, not because they are looking for something to be fair.

Do you want to know why I vote Republican? Do you want to know why with each passing day I become less and less compassionate for my fellow Americans on the other side of the political spectrum? It is because of the idiotic, ass-backwards little hypocritical incidents like this that I keep reading about more and more often.

How can these liberal hypocrites bar a middle school teacher from putting a picture of the President of the United States of America up in her classroom then be surprised when I don’t ever want to hear them out on their side of anything?

“Damn Right I’m Paranoid!”

At times, I have been accused of being paranoid. Maybe it is because I love to watch documentaries on crime so that I can stay informed of the criminal mind that is constantly working against us, the people who work for a living.

If always keeping in mind that there are dangerous people out there and being wary of placing myself in situations where they can get at me and my loved ones is paranoia, then I welcome being called paranoid.

Did you grow up in a neighborhood where gunfire broke the night silence at least once a week? I did. It may sound like an after-school special, or a sub-plot from Boyz N' The Hood, but by the time I graduated from high school, I’d been to five funerals of murder victims that I had known personally...and I grew up in Orange County, California.

Maybe that’s why I have an understanding that there are people and places in the country that are dangerous. Why, just last Friday, there was a shooting in Newport Beach and the suspect fled down the 73 South, the same toll road Teresa and I use everyday. Did I see the suspect? No, but I did almost get hit by a Newport Beach Patrol Car that passed me on Pacific Park in the bike lane, racing to catch up with the chase without his siren or lights on.

This guy’s sworn duty is to protect me and he almost killed me with his pursuit-induced bad driving, so can you image the capability of doing damage of someone who is intending to hurt me?

Now, I am not endorsing that we all live in fear, and I do not consider how I live living in fear, but it cannot hurt to be cautious of our surroundings and to watch for warning signs.

Last Friday, in Kansas City...why is it that when a meat-packing plant worker has walked into the plant and murdered 5 people, it seems like everyone saw it coming, but did nothing about it other than to stand around afterwards and say, “I knew it was going to happen.” Were they afraid of being accused of paranoia?

We live in an America where you can be at work and have a co-worker standing in front of you, gun in hand, and literally passing judgement by saying, “You haven’t done anything to me, so you can go,” then moving on to the next co-worker.

You’d better hope you didn’t accidentally spill coffee on this guy yesterday, or have taken too long in the bathroom when he needed to use it, because today is the day that he is going to walk in and end your life for it.

Oh, but I’m paranoid. I’m a crack-pot nut-ball when I don’t want to drive to certain cities and down certain streets at night, even in Orange County...

Where’s My American-American Scholarship?...

Who is more of a racist? Someone who thinks college acceptance should be based solely on scholastic merit and should have nothing to do with the color of your skin, or someone who admits a dark-skinned kid over a light-skinned kid with the same scholastic ability based on the color of that student’s skin?

Are we still talking about how ridiculous the schools in America have gotten? Good, ‘cause there’s a whole lot of ridiculous out there to tell you about.

An Omaha high school gives out an annual “Distinguished African-American Student Award.” The nominees are nominated by their fellow students. Four Omaha high school students were suspended for using posters to nominate Trevor Richards and were called “insensitive” by the morons that make their living at the Omaha high school.

Trevor was born in South Africa and is now living and going to school in America. He is an African-American just like someone born in France and who lives in America is called a French-American, regardless of skin color.

The school’s problem with Trevor being nominated for the Distinguished African-American Student Award? He’s white. Like I always say, when I’m hanging out with a bunch of Hispanics, we’re a minority group, but as soon as I hang out with a bunch of white people, we a racist gaggle of Nazis.

How come I can go out and get a scholarship that is restricted to solely Hispanic applicants, but a scholarship restricted solely to white applicants is racist? Want proof? A student group in Rhode Island is offering a scholarship that restricts its applicants to those of white descent and they are coming under heavy fire.

Why on God’s green Earth is a white kid born in Africa who is now living in America not allowed to be considered African-American because he is not dark-skinned...the same reason that when I am driving a Volkswagen, my skin is dark enough that I get marked on a speeding ticket as a Hispanic and that same very skin shade gets me marked as White on my speeding tickets when I’m driving a Mercedes. I’ve got the tickets to prove it, folks...all in Orange County and while I owned both a Volkswagen and a Mercedes simultaneously.

So, I was born in America, my mom was born in America, my grandmother was born in America, my great-grandmother was born in America...so, I guess that makes me an American-American, so where the hell are my American-American awards and scholarships?