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Palin's Announcement Happy Surprise

Posted by Mike on Friday, July 03, 2009 7:05:49 PM
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Sarah Palin's announcement that she will be stepping down as Alaska governor brings her back into the field as a serious presidential contender, which had been previously jeopardized by her husband's association with a secessionist group in the state.

Being on the political speaking circuit and doing political ads will be far more lucrative than her compensation for holding public office. These opportunities will not last forever. In addition, she now has the chance to buck the Republican establishment as Ronald Reagan was able to do in 1980.

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Dèjá Vu All Over Again?

Posted by Mike on Thursday, July 02, 2009 8:22:23 PM
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As the Jackson saga continues to unfold, it is beginning to look like maybe the doctor and the nurse cooked up the idea of providing children so as to be able, in addition to bilking him out of money for needless and destructive plastic surgery, to then fraudulently assert after his death that the nurse was in fact the biological mother and that DNA tests will prove this to be the case. It will then come down to a question à la Anna Nicole Smith of whether the biological parent is entitled to custody, giving access to some control over the sizable inheritance as happened with Larry Birkhead. Can we expect many of the same cast of characters including lawyers Stacy Phillips and Debra Opri in this ongoing soap opera drama?

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Surrogacy, In-Vitro, Stem Cells, Cloning. . .What Next?

Posted by Mike on Thursday, July 02, 2009 3:37:03 PM
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The problems raised by Michael Jackson's estate bring to the fore the complete lack of foresight bringing about chaos through liberal ideology. The three children in question were all apparently conceived in vitro, the first two carried to term by Jackson's ex-wife Deborah Rowe, as a surrogate or "breeder", the third having been carried to term by an unknown surrogate. The legality of all of this is highly questionable. If a couple or individual can pay a "fertility clinic" to manufacture embryos and/or implant preexisting embryos into the womb of the contracting spouse or individual, or another surrogate unrelated to the contracting parties, what is there to prevent women from getting pregnant as "surrogates" for others with no intention whatsoever of raising their offspring in a healthy environment? Is this not the equivalent of slavery? The very acts of in vitro fertilization and implantation cause injury and harm to the child to be conceived and born by depriving that child of a God-given right to be conceived through a loving marital act. This is not a right devised by man, and it cannot be abrogated by man. The participants also harm themselves, particularly the man who provides the seed for conception through a deliberate act contrary to his own male nature.

Since these children are harmed from the gate, should we allow any of the contracting parties to have custody of the children? The children have already been exploited as a means to an end by the adults involved including doctors and fertility clinic operators. Should we now add insult to injury by giving custody to one or more adults who are in pari delicto and who have caused this injury? We see the results of taking this approach in the way Jackson treated the youngest boy by dangling him over a balcony in a Berlin hotel with face covered, and the child being then given the derogatory nickname "Blanket" which will probably stick for the end of his life.

In order to stop these terrible practices, our courts will have to rethink the entire notion of "reproductive rights", including the question of whether prospective rights exist for all human beings which precede conception and are above the state and man-made law. Only then will we be able to protect these rights for everyone.

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Tribute to Michael Jacksom

Posted by Mike on Friday, June 26, 2009 12:50:52 PM
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I once caught a glimpse of Michael Jackson. Having gone outside of the Sheraton Universal Hotel at Universal City for a breath of fresh air and a cup of coffee, I walked around to one side of the building away from everyone. Then several men came out of a side door across the lane from where I was standing and I noticed that one of them was Michael Jackson looking a bit inquisitive. I don't know whether the others were his brothers, or chauffeur and bodyguards. They got into a parked car and drove away, that was it.

About that time, I had been listening to one of his recordings in my car cassette player. I guess that was before CDs. I had grown up listening to the Jackson Five on the radio. I always knew that there was something special about Michael's talent as a performer and video artist. He received praise from such diverse world figures as Gene Kelly, Jackie Kennedy and Vaclav Havel.

I believe Michael underwent the surgical change of skin pigmentation because of self-hatred engendered by the centuries of discrimination and abuse suffered by his ancestors. After the prosecution for child abuse, he was a disheartened, broken man living in Las Vegas. Something just didn't add up. Why would anyone married to Lisa Marie Presley want to molest children?

There is something in the culture that causes some parents to try to exploit their children by making up stories about famous celebrities in order to get money from court settlements. I think this is what happened with Michael Jackson. Then we have vindictive cops and stupid overzealous deputy DAs in Santa Barbara County who could not resist the opportunity of another high profile lynching. Could that have been motivated by jealousy?
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Anti-Life, Porno Culture a Hard Sell

Posted by Mike on Thursday, June 25, 2009 12:55:55 PM
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The Mousavi supporters are simply expressing sour grapes over the turn of the Iran election. In any election of that magnitude there is bound to be some fraud. Unlike the 2000 US presidential election, the Iran election was not even close.

Of course the US should be speaking out forcefully showing solidarity with the opposition in Iran. Much of this will ring hollow because of the American culture's lack of clearly defined moral standards. Even the Shah's regime had trouble convincing the Iranian people that Westernization was a good thing.

America's role in the world is to bring about peace. This we cannot do when our own nation is being held hostage and Americans are constantly subjected to cultural garbage from within. Before America can reach our goal as peacemaker, we must first deal with the powerful obstructionists at home.

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Survival of the Fittest

Posted by Mike on Wednesday, June 24, 2009 12:32:38 PM
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Governor Mark Sanford's recent junket Argentina is another example of the principles of social Darwinism within the Republican Party. He now joins the list of potential candidates in 2012 including Palin, Jindal, Ensign, Gingrich and Huntsman, who may have become extinct in the presidential political environment through gaffes.

The real issue is America's smallness as a nation. Those in the Republican Party who do not adhere to a code of honor should be thrown out of office. This essentially clears the field leaving not the ones who are most qualified by human standards, but the ones who are among the elect in God's judgment. This is why the Republican Party produces the best presidents from Abraham Lincoln to Teddy Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan.

Darwin was correct in the idea of evolution. Darwinism is a fallacy that rejects creation, believing in life coming into existence by chance. God's Kingdom is outside the realm of scientific exploration.

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Wealth Inequality Affecting Social Policy in America

Posted by Mike on Tuesday, June 16, 2009 8:30:17 PM
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Several decades ago, Ferdinand Lundberg completed a monumental study of the rich and the super-rich. He identified the primary dynastic families at that time as being Du Pont, Mellon, Rockefeller, Ford, and to a lesser extent Pew. Since that time, new wealth has been amassed by other families including those of Walton, Buffett and Gates.

What effect does exorbitant wealth have on the formation of social policy?

The super-rich exert tremendous control over the media and the government, which has the effect of slowing down the process of democratization in society whether at home or abroad. Capitalism is basically a given at this stage of history. Most social injustices are caused by the wealthy wanting to keep control. Wealthy family foundations fund anti-life, anti-family programs such as Planned Parenthood, and are large contributors to liberal candidates for government offices, judgeships, and causes. Of course there are exceptions such as Richard Scaife a scion of the Mellon Dynasty, and the Pew Research Center which conducts research into religious strengths and weaknesses.

Capitalism obviously is not going to go away overnight. It is therefore the duty of responsible citizens to work for justice within these limitations.
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America Needs Less Government

Posted by Mike on Monday, June 15, 2009 5:55:21 PM
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In an advanced capitalist society like the US, the ruling elite maintains control by insuring that those who are appointed to high government office, and those who decide what is allowed through communications media, are not part of mainstream America. To a large extent, money controls both politics and the media. This means that the American people are not getting their just due. The system is basically rigged so that key appointments are given to those unworthy to serve, but who are sycophants or "boot lickers" of the wealthy elite.

The United States is a small country. The standard by which our judges make decisions is not based upon principles of justice, but rather upon conformity with past legal precedent. Judges are in effect bean counters, doling out penalties utilizing an elaborate schedule based upon what is most irritating to the powers that be.

Today, we have on our Supreme Court one justice who is a son of Italian immigrants, one who is African-American, and one who is a Jewish woman. We are about to see another woman on the court who happens to be Puerto Rican. Each are outside the traditional mainstream of the legal profession. There is nothing wrong with them being outside the mainstream. It is simply the case that these appointments all have one thing in common, that is to perpetuate control by wealthy capitalists over the mainstream majority of Americans. These dynastic elitists believe that they are ordained to control society by virtue of their birth into wealth and privilege. They are good at exploiting those outside the mainstream by offering them a "ticket" to advancement, this being to take the places of those in the mainstream who would otherwise replace the elitists, namely the majority of white males but also many white females and others in America who are part of the mainstream, through such means as racial and gender preferences and affirmative action.

The debate about health care, for example, according to one liberal Senator from Vermont, is not about whether the government will dictate health care decisions, but whether doctors will dictate health care decisions, including life and death, as they are already doing in many managed health care programs. Of course, government will always set the standards by which the doctors are allowed to dictate. It is assumed by the liberal elite that the majority of people have no right to make their own health care decisions. To the globalist elite, the people of America are just pawns.
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It's not about Fairness, Folks!

Posted by Mike on Saturday, June 13, 2009 12:40:31 PM
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Back in the days of the Reagan Revolution, there used to be an inside joke among the intellectual elite of Los Angeles mostly comprised of ex-drunks, that if you want "fair", go to Pomona, which is in reference to an annual event held every year on the far east side of the County. Regardless of the saying's dubious origin, there is a lot of wisdom and truth in that statement.

Today in America, the Affirmative Action Kid Barry H. Obama has appointed the Affirmative Action poster baby Sonia Sotomayor to a position on the US Supreme Court.

America has legalized abortion and affirmative action basically as a way to keep the Rockefeller and Bush dynasties and their greedy elite ilk in power. A couple of centuries ago, many had to endure the indignities of slavery for the same reason. This is also the reason for a barrage of dumbed down, coarse and degrading jokes on our broadcast networks. As unjust as it may be, we don't get "fair" in this life except once a year in places sponsored by the 4H clubs of America.

The law is never as clear cut as some would expect. There are those particularly in the media who find it incredible that two different judges would reach different conclusions, both following the same laws, because of racial or ethnic differences. These are the utopioans who think that legal problems are the same as mathematical equations in which there is only one right answer. Sadly for them, life is not so simple. If that were the case, there would be no need for judges. Everything could be done by computer.

Then there are those, usually among minorities and others who have chosen to live on the outskirts of civil society, who are obsessed with predictability in legal decisions. Included here are the lawyers and judges who uphold precedent above common sense. They want to know in advance what the outcome will be so that they can work the system by exploiting the inevitable crises having no loyalty to anyone but themselves.

The Christian ideal is to accept government in whatever imperfect form it may take, and work to bring about justice. We never arrive at this goal however in this world.

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FCC Should Suspend Sleaze, Liar Letterman

Posted by Mike on Friday, June 12, 2009 12:26:42 PM
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It has been said that there is no shortage of coarseness in America. Obviously David Letterman's crude comments about Sarah Palin and her family are beyond the pale of ordinary decency.

In the past, the FCC has levied fines against the network operators who allow profanity on the airwaves. In Letterman's case, this will not solve the problem. Letterman has shown no remorse for his wrongdoing. Instead, he joked about it on his late night show.

Sports figures are usually fined and suspended for violations such as steroid use. The FCC should suspend Letterman from appearing on television or radio for at least one year.

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Should Publicly Funded Memorials Be Shut Down?

Posted by Mike on Thursday, June 11, 2009 2:59:45 PM
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The tragic killing of the security guard yesterday at the DC Memorial Museum should generate a review of whether tax dollars are being foolishly squandered unnecessarily. This Museum is not representative of our national heritage. Before the shooting incident, a labor union official presumably from AFSCME representing government workers requested that security personnel in the building be provided with bullet proof vests. This request was denied.

There are plenty of worthy military memorials such as Arlington National Cemetery funded with tax dollars. The Museum was closed for one day today. While Americans are being asked by government to cut back, why do we continue to spend our money for government health care and pension benefits and other costs of operation for these excessively pork barrel projects?

Keep the Museum closed for good.
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Misplaced Generosity

Posted by Mike on Wednesday, June 10, 2009 11:54:25 PM
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The murder of a security guard inside a Washington DC memorial museum is indeed reprehensible. The question arises, should it be the business of our government to be involved in funding and maintaining a museum with taxpayer dollars which highlights the sufferings and depredations of a people?

If we are doing it for the Jews, then why not for the Armenians, Iraqis, Iroquois, or Palestinians, each of whom have suffered great losses at the hands of oppressive regimes? The list goes on and on. Why do we Americans always end up bearing the brunt of historical mishaps? Doesn't this kind of promotion actually encourage hatred and killing of innocent people?

There is something truly grotesque about a nation that feels obligated to showcase past abuses of torture and death, while allowing the indiscriminate killing of millions of its own young.

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Bringing America Back to Life

Posted by Mike on Wednesday, June 10, 2009 9:21:07 PM
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It is no mystery that the thousands of immigrants here illegally who bolster the Democratic Party each year are the cause of America's loss of stature in the world. In 1910 a punitive expedition was sent across the border to deal with Mexican lawlessness.  Today when a Mexican bandit trespesses on American soil to sell illegal drugs and is reminded by the arrows of justice which the eagle holds on our national seal, our corrupt justice system puts the border patrol guards behind bars.  A distant relation of mine helped to lead that expedition.  He is pictured above, standing fourth from left.

How much more injustice can we expect now that our government has overturned the Mexico City Policy which prevented the use of our money to kill babies overseas?

Another distant relation with the same Polish ancestry, grandfather of the Brigadier General, published a Polish language newspaper.  He had the audacity to suggest in print that the grandchildren of Polish immigrants should henceforth become Yankees.

Each of us regardless of our heritage has something to bring to the table in America.  It is unconscionable for government leaders to exploit our differences to keep themselves in power by killing our young and mortgaging the future of our country.
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From the Heartland

Posted by Mike on Monday, June 08, 2009 10:13:21 AM
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Manitowoc on Lake Michigan in Wisconsin is more of a place in an enchanted wonderland like Oz.  It is where a piece of debris from Sputnik IV landed in 1963, still commemorated by a ring set in concrete.

It is the hometown of Paige Morgan in "The Prince and Me" motion picture, story of a small town farm girl who meets a Danish prince while both are at the University.

You really have to see it to believe it.

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Obama Visit Brings Hope to Europe

Posted by Mike on Sunday, June 07, 2009 2:12:21 PM
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President Obama's stopovers in Germany and France will do much to heal the acrimony of war and religious persecution, calling to mind President Kennedy's Berlin speech in 1963. Germany is key to the revitalization of Europe. Obama's visits to Buchenwald and Dresden are helpful to Germany in overcoming the guilt associated with past mistakes. Obama is himself partly German, being descended on his mother's side from a 17th century mayor of a town in Baden-Württemberg. This may also explain his authoritarian style of government as an inherited trait.

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