Happy New Year

During the final hours of 2007, I would like to thank all my readers, regular and new, for your support during 2007. In the upcoming year; 2008, I will continue to give my unbiased analysis and comments on the news as it is written and/or reported by the various media outlets. I wish every one of you the very best for 2008. May you live and prosper under GOD's heavens and in his physical universe.

Will The Real Muslims Please Stand Up

The recent events in the Sudan, should be a warning to every liberal that believes Islam is another benign peaceful religion. If the behavior we in the West are seeing is not characteristic of true Muslims, "Will the real Muslims please stand up." And I'm not talking about Muslims living in Western Democracies. These people are Muslims in name and custom only.

For those of you that missed it, the following is a recap of the Associated Press article.

Gillian Gibbons, a British teacher, is being threatened with execution and 40 lashes for allowing her students to bestow the name Muhammad on a class teddy bear.

Several thousand Sudanese protested in central Khartoum on Friday against the teacher. Banners demanded "Punishment, Punishment, Punishment," as protesters chanted, "Kill her! Kill her by firing squad!" Gibbons, who was sentenced on Thursday (November 29, 2007) to 15 days in jail and deportation, was taken from her prison to a secret location to ensure her safety.

A Gathering Of "Fools"

On September 30, 2007, a large convention of atheist gathered in Virginia to proclaim their eagerness that GOD does not exist. What a gathering of fools. It never ceases to amaze me how so many well educated and intelligent people can so easily become "FOOLS". For it is written: "The fool says in his heart, there is no GOD. They are corrupt, their deeds are vile; there is no one who does good." Psa 14:1 (NIV)


Personally, I don't need to add my comments, "Biblical Scriptures" say it much more emphatically and forcefully than I ever could when it comes to this perverse generation. Because it is also written: "The wrath of GOD is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about GOD is plain to them."

"For since the creation of the world GOD's invisible qualities - his eternal power and divine nature - have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse. For although they knew GOD, they neither glorified him as GOD nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened."

"Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal GOD for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. Therefore GOD gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another."

"They exchanged the truth of GOD for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator - who is forever praised. Amen. Because of this, GOD gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exhanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion."

"Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of GOD, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, GOD-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless."

"Although they know GOD's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them." Rom 1:18-32 (NIV)

The 14,000 DowThe Death Knell For America's Economic System

"Fund Managers", "Stock Brokers" and "Wall Street Bankers" have been toying with the idea of pushing the "Dow Jones Industrial Average" above the 14,000 mark. These people obviously don't realize the world has entered a new Socio-Economic Era that can not support manufactured money for long.

The Federal Reserve needs to pull the plug on this wild speculation before it damages the economy and sends the entire "Western World" into an economic tailspin that it might not recover from for decades.

"Global Socio-Economic Interaction" is much more volatile and unpredictable than most "Economist", "Fund Managers", "Stock Brokers" and "Wall Street Bankers" realize. This intentional effort to keep inflating the price of already overpriced stocks and mutual funds will drive our economy and our nation into economic disaster.

America does not have enough internal industrial capacity to support a Dow Jones over 10,000, let alone 14,000 and relying on foreigners to support our irrational and irresponsible economic behavior is sheer madness. This country has been surviving for 20 years on borrowed time, low birth rates, borrowed money and by stealing money from the public in the form of billions of dollars in hidden taxes and fees.

Unlike the "Great Depression", the room for future economic growth and expansion will not be there. The world today is much more competitive and despite all the diplomatic pleasantries, Western and Eastern Europe, Great Britain, the Arabs, the Japanese, all of South America, Canada and the rest of the industrialized world no longer trust this country. The Russians definitely don't trust us and the Jihadist can't stand us. The Chinese are simply using us because our short-sighted and money-hungry corporate and government leaders have shown them we; as a nation, no longer have credible values, morals or ethics.

Our citizenry is more decadent, backward and functionally illiterate than during the "Cold War". The Democrats and the "Liberal Left" are a frightening bunch of socialist and the Republicans are greedy, self-centered unilateralist. The world will not let us plunder their resources like we have been doing since the end of World War II. The vast majority of the nations on this planet have largely recovered from the devastation of that war and competition for available natural resources and technological advantages will be immense.

The war against "Islamic Extremist" is costing us billions in borrowed money and even as big as America's economy is, there is a limit to the amount of money we can borrow. These debts must be repaid. If this country defaults on its debts, and it will, the rest of the industrialized world will feel the impact. Because the average American is a mindless consumer, when these millions of Americans can no longer "shop til they drop", major economies around the world will go into economic decline. The "European Common Market" will recover, but America won't.

Since more and more nations are capable of looking out for themselves, more countries will opt to invest in "Common Market" countries than in America. America's only edge right now is our superiority in weapons technology. At the rate the Chinese are growing and developing, we won't have this advantage for long. Heaven forbid, if they should ever decide to flex their economic muscle and demand payment on some of their loans.

Therefore, "Fund Managers", "Stock Brokers" and "Wall Street Bankers" should be very cautious about bidding up the price of stocks and mutual funds so they can line their pockets with the people's money. The worst thing our politicians ever did, was to allow the "Barons of Greed" to get their hands on the people's hard earned retirement money. Well..that's "par for the course" isn't it? Afterall, we do have the best group of political scoundrels money can buy.

Over Eating

There is little doubt that many Americans are over weight. The weight loss industry rakes in billions annually on programs and products that work for the few and not the many. Perhaps what most Americans need to do is turn off the television. A recent study done by Dr. Alan Hirsch found a connection between watching televsion and people's eating habits.

According to Dr. Hirsch, in an article written by Jennifer Kwan for Reuters, "people eat more when they are glued to the television." The more entertaining the program, the more they eat. "It seems that distracted brains do not notice what the mouth is doing", said Dr. Alan Hirsch, neurological director of the Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago.

Hirsch explored the impact of smell, taste and eating behaviors while watching TV by measuring potato chip consumption.

Forty-five volunteers ate as many chips as they wanted during five-minute intervals over three-week periods while they watched monologues by late-night talk show hosts David Letterman and Jay Leno.

They also were given chips to eat when the television was off.

Hirsch found people ate an average of 44 percent more chips while watching Letterman and 42 percent more while viewing Leno, than when they did not watch TV.

"If you can concentrate on how the food tastes, you'll eat less because you'll feel full faster," Hirsch said in an interview at the Endocrine Society's annual meeting in Toronto, Canada.

"So if that's the case, let's look at the opposite. What if you're distracted? If you're distracted, in theory, then you'd eat more."

Through his research at the foundation, Hirsch has helped people overcome the loss of sense and taste sensation, which typically results in weight gain because the brain does not know when it should stop eating.

The ventromedial nucleus in the hypothalamus, where the so-called satiety center is located, tells the body whether it is hungry or full. If it is inhibited or tricked, the result can be changes in eating patterns, he said.

"People who cook spaghetti all day don't feel like eating spaghetti at the end of the day," said Hirsch. "By being exposed to a smell all day long it's tricking the hypothalamus."

At each session, volunteers were asked to concentrate on the sensory characteristics of the food such as taste and smell. Researchers say these sensory clues, in addition to internal body changes, signal satiety.

But when distracted, a person does not pay attention to either the body's sensations of feeling full, or to the sensory characteristics of the food.

Many studies have linked obesity to watching television and that link is likely due to inactivity, Hirsch said. But perhaps entertaining shows are also contributing. Dr. Hirsch concluded, "if you want to lose weight, turn off the television or watch something boring".

President Bush, Now Is The Time To Be A Leader

Many in the media, the political and radical left, the ultra and moderate right; as well as President Bush's most vocal detractors have accused him of "Failed Leadership". From where I sit, President Bush has not led this nation since he was elected.

Bill Clinton wasn't a leader and neither is Hillary. Well, you say..Bill Clinton is still very popular...so was Adolf Hitler. In fact, only one of the current group of presidential candidates, has shown any real leadership ability..and that's Rudy Giuliani.

These 3 actualities are very obvious:

1. Managing government is a failed strategy.
2. The President's advisors and political cronies have failed him.
3. His standing in public opinion polls has no where to go but up.

Therefore, the timing is right for President Bush to become our national leader by words, deeds, actions and activities. He must take charge of every aspect of his administration and become the point man on all the major issues confronting America.

Before we can begin to understand why managing government is not leadership, it will be necessary to define what is meant by lead. Lead means to show the way, by going along with or in front of, or to guide. From this definition, we can deduce that a leader is someone who has taken the responsibility to show us the way or to guide us. Management is simply organizing and monitoring activity. Leadership is directing activity.

George W. Bush was elected President by a democratic process. Therefore, he has a duty, an obligation and a responsibility to lead America, not manage government. Underlings can do that. Leadership requires courage and instinct, and by it's very nature must be in some direction or toward the accomplishment of something. That something America is being led toward must be clearly defined and simply stated because this becomes the goal to be reached, the objective to be accomplished or the destination we are suppose to arrive at.

Once the goal has been defined and stated, President Bush, as our leader, must decide on a plan of action or set a course or direction that will reach the goal, accomplish the desired objective or get us to our destination. If it is determined that a course of action has failed or is failing to reach a desired objective, as America's leader, the President must be ready to change course and personnel if needed. Misguided loyalties can be devastating.

Now that we understand the nature of leadership, we can ask ourselves some questions: Where has President Bush's past and present management taken us? What has he really accomplished with it?...and if he has not accomplished anything, we need to know why? In addition, what has been the result of his administration's management philosophy? Is America better off, the same or worse?

It is time for President Bush to take the helm of the ship of state. It is obvious his captains can not read the political charts. When management fails, it is time to lead.

Are America's Government Leaders Mentally Fit To Serve?

A widely accepted definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Political polarization has never worked at any time in world history.

When the political process becomes polarized, gridlock results and the legislative process becomes stagnant and ineffective. Differences as to methods, policies, priorities and procedural implementation are acceptable among any sane and rational group of people.

However, when differences in the essential elements of the legislative process paralyzes, inhibits or prohibits government to act in the best interest of it's citizens, then those elected representatives are no longer acting with reason or rationality. Whenever elected representatives can not compromise or engage in open and honest debate concerning the needs of a nation, these people are exhibiting characteristics of mental illness, not mental fitness.

If an individual or a group of individuals put politics above citizenship or their personal interest above the national interest, we are looking at people that are not fit to hold public office. These people should be voted out of office or thrown out of office at the earliest opportunity.

The Next Level Of Municipal Leadership

The world's collective political and socio-economic experience is still firmly rooted in Western ideologies that began their evolution during the 14th Century and has continued until the present day. I believe the Modern Industrial Era will also conclude with economic decline and deadly diseases that will ravish the human population.

The emergence of Global Economic Interaction and high tech industrial capacity have rendered current political and socio-economic problem solving strategies obsolete. Any political or economic strategy that does not incorporate Global Economic interaction as its guiding principle is doomed to fail.

Past economic transitions were primarily single staged or dual staged, national or continental in their impact and scope. This new transition is multi-staged and global. Therefore, little or no empirical data exist that can accurately measure its effect on socio-economic or political systems. A global socio-economic transition of this magnitude has never occurred before in world history. Therefore, theorems must be discovered and developed, before they can be taught to others.

Political leaders and socio-economic planners who do not understand or realize the implications of Global Economic Interaction, could be promoting solution concepts and strategies that might have devastating long term consequences if they were enacted.

Major psychological and philosophical changes must be made in order to incorporate this new socio-economic development into our reality systems. Monumental intellectual adjustments must take place similar to one that had to occur when science proved the world is round; instead of flat.

"Flat Earth" conceptualizations immediately became obsolete. The same is true for socio-economic concepts developed during the Modern Industrial Era. The evidence is overwhelming that most municipal leaders are trying to solve multi-dimensional problems with antique solution strategies.

These strategies and concepts are based on the accumulated knowledge and experience of the past 600 years. They are hopelessly inadequate and powerless to deal with 21st Century socio-economic reality. Many municipal leaders do not realize 21st Century problems can not be solved with 19th or 20th Century strategies.

These problems require the development of a much more advanced socio-economic solution concept that is based on 21st Century Global Economic Interaction. Any attempt to ignore or diminish the importance of Global Economic Interaction will lead to disaster.

Therefore, in order to avoid certain catastrophy, municipal leaders must reach the next level of leadership; which is governing in the Age of Global Economic Interaction. This kind of interaction creates multi-dimensional problems that will defy traditional problem solving approaches and solution concepts. Integrated solutions are required to solve multi-dimensional problems.

Before integrated solution concepts can be developed and implemented, a transition must be made from passive, dictatorial or intrusive government to activist or cooperative government. This is the only way obsolete linear solution strategies can be replaced with multi-dimensional program solutions.

Different data gathering techniques must be used to accumulate more relevant information for problem solving purposes. Too many lives are at stake to do otherwise. Our cities and towns are on the verge of becoming battle grounds because most municipal leaders do not realize the traditional relationship between government, the people and the environment has changed.

Millions of dollars are currently being wasted on out dated program concepts that will not effect long term solutions. In fact, using obsolete concepts will actually aggravate socio-economic problems. In order to develop permanent cost effective solution concepts, municipal leaders must plug the entire community into the decision making process. Greater community involvement and participation is the most effective way to develop integrated or holistic solution strategies.

Dynamic Citizenship is necessary in order to build an organizational structure entire communities can work within effectively. It is virtually impossible to create, implement and manage integrated solution strategies without effective community organization. Initiating this process will create an active municipal government that is far more responsive and sensitive to community needs.

Mastering this process is the key that unlocks the door to the next level of municipal leadership. Integrated Socio-economics is a concept that best describes the cooperative relationhip between government, private enterprise and the community. In the Age of Global Economic Interaction and high tech industrial capacity, this holistic approach to solving municipal problems is the only long term solution strategy that will work.

By using holistic or integrated problem solving strategies, municipal leaders can establish the means by which more people can take advantage of wealth creation systems, increase overall productivity, stimulate their local economy, increase income for minority or impoverished residents, and develop cyclic revenue systems. With these strategies, individuals either alone, or collectively in groups, can acquire or create new businesses and opportunities where none currently exist.

Recycling revenue; combined with, cooperation from citizens, non government institutions, community action groups, associations, labor unions, the state legislature and the business community can dramatically reduce the need for Federal programs and/or subsidies.

Since this relationship is not static, it will be much more dynamic and effective. Once the unemployment problem has been addressed, the same coalition can tackle much more complicated social issues. Such problems as health care cost, crime prevention, substance abuse, infrastructure deterioration and reducing welfare expeditures can be handled far more efficiently and cost effectively through local coalitions than by cumbersome Federal bureaucracies.

Businesses, government and the community working together in harmony is the cornerstone of Integrated Socio-economics. Residents in America's towns and cities must stop looking to the Federal government to solve their municipal problems. In many instances, the human resource potential in each municipality has yet to be tapped. Through effective human resource utilization and management, people with limited or no business or marketing skills can be shown how to earn money, position income producing enterprises and use wealth creation strategies.

Integrated Socio-economics offers the best possible concept for resurrecting impoverished minority communities. Many of the nation's leading economist and financial experts are still bogged down in obsolete economic policies and concepts; which are hopelessly inadequate to deal with Global Economic Interaction. There is nothing in their backgrounds or education that could have prepared them for the Global Economic Age.

The institutions they have been apart of for years are slowly disintegrating before their eyes and they are having difficulty preventing further decline. Most economist do not yet understand the nature of the problems society is facing. Federal policies designed to stimulate the economy out of recession will have little or no impact in small to mid-sized towns and cities.

Pork barrel politicking at the state and/or national level, diverts available financial resources into areas and localities that benefit a small select group of people. Communites needing help the most, may never see any real financial aid. Well entrenched special interest can suck millions of dollars out of treasuries to benefit narrowly defined interests.

These interests may have nothing to do with real municipal needs. Many legislators do not have the political will to end PAC influence. Pleading to them is a waste of time. A small group of people can now manipulate world security markets and currency markets. Traditional economic indicators are no longer reliable. Economic decline is much worse than we imagine.

Therefore, community wide cyclic wealth creating systems must be developed. Most ethnic and racial groups have grown impatient with waiting for economic parity and equal opportunity in America's municipalities. There is no way to address this issue with out restructuring wealth creation and educating miniority communities.

In order to correct this problem, more citizens must get involved and participate in the solution seeking process. Coming together and working together is the only way we; as citizens, can save our communities and salvage a future for our children. Community involvement and participation is the essence of the next level citizenship.

Other basic community issues like education, crime prevention, unemployment, reducing the welfare roles and increasing individually and collectively overall community wealth, can all be addressed; if and when, the citizenry sincerely desires a solution.

The ultimate goal of Integrated Socioeconomics is to empower and encourage ordinary people to develop plans and methods to solve common community problems. It is the only solution concept that will involve the entire community.

Alternative strategies and concepts must be utilized and organized into a comprehensive systematic approach. Integrated Socio-economics combined with Dynamic Citizenship is the next level of community development.

Just as governing in a Global Economic environment is the next level of government leadership, living and working in a Global Economic environment is the next level of community development.

As citizens, we must hold ourselves and those we select and elect to lead us accountable for their actions or lack of action. We can not relinquish our responsibilities to our communities and our fellow citizens. We are each other's keeper. Therefore, in order to reclaim our communities and our children, we must embark, take bold action and break new ground in an old area, community development.

Illegal Immigrants Causing Major U.S. Hospital Crisis

One border state alone spent $700 million last year to medically treat illegal immigrants and a high-ranking hospital official says the toll is causing a meltdown of the state’s healthcare system. U.S. taxpayers have for years financed the exorbitant cost of medically treating illegal immigrants.

In the last few years, it has transformed into a crisis that has forced many hospitals in borders states to actually close.

This week, outraged California lawmakers provided details illustrating the situation’s severity as they fought a congressional proposal that would drastically cut federal reimbursement for the healthcare of illegal immigrants in their state.

The mostly Democratic group said almost half of California hospitals are operating in the red and provided specific documentation of how the state’s 430 facilities spent $700 million to treat illegal immigrants in 2006. The burden is deeply affecting Americans who may need emergency or urgent medical care and must travel further to find it.

Even though federal law mandates that hospitals must provide emergency medical treatment to illegal immigrants, the government only partially reimburses them. California only got $73 million to cover that astronomical $700 million bill last year and now the House Appropriations Committee, which is responsible for the federal budget, wants to further cut the reimbursement rate.


Many other states are in the same predicament and bipartisan lawmakers are aggressively fighting the new budget proposals that would further diminish the government’s reimbursement for providing free medical care to illegal immigrants.

Is Imus The Victim Of A Double Standard?

Whenever a media personality is canned for his/her remarks or views, the old arguments resurface. You know the routine. Haul out the usual suspects and unfurl the banners. In Imus' case the usual culprits are his free speech, his personal freedom, accusations of racism, political insensitivity, morality and our decadent culture.

Just like Imus has the privilege to speak his mind and select his language, other people have the privilege not to listen or criticize him for his remarks. The problem with the vast majority is that few, if any, people on earth really understand what freedom means. Far too many have this infantile notion and opinion that freedom means doing or saying anything one pleases. This is not freedom. This is arrogance, anarchy, chaos, ignorance, license and stupidity of the most vile, corrupt and dangerous kind.

Freedom carries with it awesome responsibilities, the likes of which few are even capable of understanding. That's precisely why no one on the planet is free. No modern government will ever allow true freedom to flourish because there are too many educated fools and far too many idiots to contend with.

GOD (YHVH) grants rights. What we mistakenly call freedoms and rights are only privileges granted by the society in which we find ourselves living. Some societies have more, some have less and some have whatever their dictatorial government allows. Whenever a society's granted privileges are abused, the violator should have his/her privileges revoked. This brings me to the reason for this article.

Everywhere we look and turn there are double standards and a double standard has Imus in its grips. Imus can now claim victim status. What happened to Imus never should have happened. If we are going to hold him to a standard, then Rappers, MTV, Satellite Radio, Cable, HBO and the other "Shock Jocks" should be held to the same standard. This also includes the companies that harbor and support these known abusers.

The most popular Rappers in the African American community are far more abusive of African American women than Don Imus ever was. However, hauling "Black Folk" on to the carpet for their societal and moral indiscretions is unthinkable. Hauling "Latinos" on to the carpet for violating our national sovereignty by entering our country illegally is also unthinkable. The reason: These issues are too politically sensitive for politicians and political parties to touch. Holding these communities to the same standards as every other ethnic group in America is synonymous to committing political suicide.

Imus should have been canned years ago. However, in Don's defense, he was an equal opportunity "Shock Jock". At least he distributed his poison equally. Through his callous eyes and to his acid ladened tongue, every group was fair game. No group escaped his scathing barbs. Even Howard Dean was charcoal broiled, toasted and roasted on his talk show. What triggered this backlash was the Rutgers basketball team was a beloved underdog that lost to the Goliath of NCAA women's basketball - Tennessee. America's sentiment is always with the little Davids in any battle against a Goliath.

Imus failed to understand the atmosphere that his remarks entered into. This was his first mistake. His second mistake was failing to realize the 2008 election is already in high gear. It's unfortunate, but he was a convenient icon for the "Politically Correct" far left wing of the Democratic Party to throw under the bus as a symbol of their belief in social values. Since Imus' wounds were self inflicted, there is no need to rally around him or feel guilty about his sudden demise.

The "Liberal Left" had to bite the bullet and let one of their own be the sacrificial lamb. If the far left is going to have any hope of winning the 2008 Presidential election and firmly entrenching themselves in government, they had to demonstrate some conservative value in a tangible way. Imus simply gave them the rope and the gallows to hang himself...and they took advantage of it. Every other abuser is off the table and off the hook for now.

Imus' remarks were far from racist. Insensitive perhaps, but not racist. Outlandish maybe, but not racist. So, how did this man who is not a known racist end up being the catalyst for a new dialog on racism? The media. Will such a dialog follow? Hardly. Why? There are bigger fish to fry and a new discussion about America's racial attitudes is not on the agenda.

The War in Iraqi, "Radical Islam" and the eventual socialization of America are far more important issues. However, I could be wrong. The far left is full of deception and deceit. Playing to the masses, lies and treachery have been their calling card for years. To further their cause and agenda, there is no telling what these people might do or when they might do it.

GOD Vs Western Culture

This article is a response to an email I received from one of my readers. In her email, she accused me of being biased against Western Culture. I am not biased against Western Culture.

I am just not into propaganda, not even America's. It's a sad bunch of folks that believe their own lies or historical renditions.

In addition, if any student of history is genuinely interested in historical accuracy; rather than propaganda, he/she will discover everything I will state in this article is absolutely true and can be proven by anyone.

GOD (YHVH) is the real power in the universe, and he is the real mover and shaker on planet earth, not us. Western Culture benefited from the influence of Judeo-Christianity not because we were better or more advanced than any other, we benefited by default because the ancient Asians, Africans and the people in the Middle East basically rejected Judeo-Christianity. Under Judeo-Christian influence Western Civilization was able to advance in all the areas that really mattered.

Let's not forget, Christianity and Judaism survived, despite all the attempts by ancient rulers to wipe them out. Let's also not overlook the fact that the "Black Plague" wiped out over 1/3 of Europe's population. No major world power attacked Europe after the "Plague" was over to finish the job the plague started. So many had died, until Europe's population would not have been able to engage in or sustain a major war. Even during the great wars, the hand of providence was working on behalf of Western Civilization.

People keep forgetting, during World I, the Allies were being decimated by the Ottoman-Turks and the Germans. A freak accident showed the Allies how the Germans were mounting machine guns on airplanes that could shoot through the spinning blades. We have also forgotten, the anti-war movement that almost succeeded in keeping America out of World War I.

During World War II, what saved us from the Germans and the Japanese were their political philosophies, ideologies and the Russian winter, not our armaments or fighting spirit. All Hitler needed to do was quell his anti-semitism for awhile and wait. If he had done this, the Germans would have had the A-Bomb, the Jet, A much larger submarine fleet, buzz bombs, V-2 rockets to deliver A-bombs to America and long range heavy bombers. Plus, he would been able to largely exterminate Europe's Jewish population in his concentration and death camps.

We keep forgetting, it was Hitler that rushed to war against the advice of his senior military planners. Even the code breakers during World War II can not tell you how they managed to break the codes and quietly admit, it had to be the handiwork of GOD.

If the Japanese had not attacked Pearl Harbor, there is strong evidence President Roosevelt and our congressional leaders would have delayed America's entry into the war. In addition, if the Japanese had stayed in the area instead of retreating, they would have dealt a stinging blow to America's war effort in the Pacific.

Let's not forget, the Japanese were tenacious fighters. If Japanese leaders had modernized their fleet, aircraft and weapons, we might still be fighting World War II and the ending might be entirely different from what we are living today.

We keep forgetting, if Germany had not attacked Russia, England's war effort would have been severely compromised. This does not include the other improbable blunders the Germans, the Japanese and the Italians made throughout War II. I could go on, but this is enough. Our thanks belong to GOD for working through men and women and not to Western Culture.

Smoker's Rights

"Smoker's Rights" like "Civil Rights", "Abortion Rights", "Women Rights", "Animal Rights" and host of other political concoctions is a myth. Human beings have no rights except life, liberty and the peaceful and intelligent pursuit of happiness.

The key words are peaceful and intelligent. The "Founding Fathers" got it partially right. The reason for peaceful and intelligent is because there are sadistic and barbaric people that have no concept of peaceful and intelligent and must be educated to this fact.

Our human rights are inalienable rights granted by GOD (YHVH) not man. For those of you that have a problem with GOD, put a universe in place, then I'll consider your point of view. Anything and everything beyond these rights are privileges granted by society.

First, let's deal with this issue of rights. GOD grants rights, human society grants privileges. My rights stop where my neighbor's begins. Whenever a government, by whatever means that government was instituted within a population group, infringes upon these rights, the affected people have a legitimate reason and cause to overthrow that government by whatever means possible.

Whenever another individual's pursuit of life, liberty and happiness infringes upon the rights of another to enjoy or experience the same, the affected party has a legitimate reason and cause to end that intrusion, suppression or oppression. By this definition abortion is criminal act because it infringes on the unborn's right to pursue life, liberty and the intelligent pursuit of happiness.

When it comes to privileges, like smoking, civil accommodations, our care for animals, bearing arms, etc., these are privileges granted by society to the members of that society. When these privileges are granted, it is incumbent upon every person enjoying privileges, to respect the rights (life, liberty, happiness) and privileges of others. Failing to do so, should mean the revocation of that particular privilege.

Smokers can smoke, but do not smoke around people that are impacted directly or indirectly by your habit or pleasure. If you fail to respect another's right (life, liberty, happiness) and privilege not to smoke, or to be around smokers, you have infringed upon the rights (life, liberty, happiness) and privileges of another human being. For years, smokers paid little or no attention to the rights (life, liberty, happiness) and privileges of others while we (I smoke too) indulged ourselves.

For over 25 years, I have never smoked around anyone that did not appreciate my smoke in their air space. Even at home, I smoke in a well ventilated room, and only smoke in that room. I do not smoke anywhere that does not have adequate ventilation. In short, I learned to govern myself because I respected the rights (life, liberty, happiness) and privileges of others.

If we, as smokers, fail to police ourselves, and this includes properly disposing of cigarette butts or cigar stubs, then somebody or an elected group has no choice but to police us, since we failed to do it ourselves. Government has a duly and an obligation to protect the rights (life, liberty, happiness) and privileges of all citizens. If that means protecting the innocent from abusive smokers, then for once, government is taking a needed and necessary action.

Will America Win The Hearts And Minds Of Muslims?

America will never win the hearts and minds of Muslims. In fact, no western democracy will.

Even though the reasons for this are many and varied, there are 3 major reasons why this will never happen. These reasons are philosophical, historical and fundamental.

The philosophical differences between Judaism, Christianity and Islam run deep and are rarely recognized. It seems very few people have ever ask themselves this question: Why didn't the people of North Africa and the area of the planet commonly referred to as the Middle East, embrace Judaism or Christianity? Why did they embrace Islam so readily? Once analyzed, it becomes painfully clear that the roots of Christianity and Islam can be traced back to Judaism and neither one has credibility or can exist without it.

Over the centuries the basic tenets of Christianity have managed to co-exist peacefully with Judaism and Islam. Islam on the other hand, has not and will not co-exist with Christianity or Judaism because it is the philosophical antithesis of both. Since modern Western Democracies and their inherent philosophies are deeply rooted in Judaism, it is virtually impossible for true Muslims to accept rule or peaceful co-existence with anything that is of the Christian or Judaic West or East.

The historical reasons why we will never win the hearts and minds of Muslims goes back thousands of years. The interaction between Muslims, Christians and Jews has been violent and bloody for centuries. To fully understand the roots of this animosity will require an intense historical analysis that goes all the way back to the Sons of Abraham, Ishmael and Israel. In the last 100 years, all you really need to do is fast forward to the end of World War I, which can be easily researched and documented.

When the French and British governments decided to carve up the Ottoman-Turk Empire after World War I, their diplomats paid little attention to the ethnic hostilities that were rampant in the region at the time. They were more concerned about economic advantages, political expediency and subduing the ethnic populations. The animosities Muslims harbor against the West can be traced back to the treachery and brutal suppression they experienced at the hands of their colonial masters.

Don't lose your bearing because of the "so-called" Palestinian Issue. The Balfour Declaration called for a Jewish and Palestinian State. It was the Arabs that reneged on the Agreement. Muslim hostility toward America has nothing to do with this issue. It is a recent addition, just like our invasion of Iraq.

America became the target of Muslim animosity by default because of the following reason, America is the military arsenal of the Western Powers; i.e, France, Britain, Italy, Germany, Spain, etc., and the only remaining super military force on earth. Don't be deceived. America's military capacity, if unrestrained, can destroy any nation on this planet.

Even though Russia and China are formidable military powerhouses, they are no match for America unleashed. Europe's military industrial complex was dismantled after World War II and the task of defending Europe was literally given to America. Therefore, Muslims sincerely believe, and rightly so, that if America is destroyed, Europe and England will fall.

Finally, there are fundamental differences between Islam, Judaism and Judeo-Christianity that can never be bridged. If Islam changed any of it's tenets, it would no longer be Islam. There are many in North and South America, Europe, England and the Far East that are naive when it comes to this fact. Islam is a religion of brotherly love for Muslims only. The rest of us are infidels and are to be converted, persecuted or destroyed.

Don't be misled by Muslims living in non Muslim countries. These Muslims are largely apostates and are not living by all the tenets of the faith because of economic, political, social, safety or for whatever reason/s that are advantageous and/or beneficial to them. If they are true Muslims, their duty as Muslims is to convert, persecute or destroy all non Muslims. If you don't believe this, find yourself a real Muslim scholar so he/she can explain this to you.

Empowerment Through Self Discovery

Self discovery is the process by which human beings educated themselves, understand themselves, grow spiritually and intellectually and empower themselves.

Why is this so vitally important? It is vitally important because unless an individual knows who he/she really is, he/she is a stranger to himself/herself.

Unless a person knows his/her talents and abilities, he/she is forever crippled as a human being and subject to the whims and dictates of others.

Self discovery is a process that begins and ends with you. This process, in its simplest form, is the means by which you grow and develop intellectually and spiritually. The physical you grows on its own. All you basically have to do is feed it and properly and take of it. The manner, means and method by which the physical aspect of our being grows is normally beyond our conscious control.

Consequently, the only aspects of your being over which you can exercise control is your spiritual and intellectual self. Self discovery will help you identify, characterize, organize and effectively utilize what you have learned and will continue to learn about yourself. This is the essence and the foundation of personal growth and development and it is the only means by which you can rise to higher levels of conscious awareness.

Empowerment like everything else on our planet is a process. It begins by acquiring knowledge that grows into understanding and matures into wisdom. Wisdom is the practical application and use of knowledge and understanding in ways that benefit the individual and others.

It has been said, "knowledge is power". If this is true, then the more knowledge an individual has or acquires, the more powerful that individual becomes relative to others in his/her immediate environment and the more confidence that individual will have in himself/herself. Having confidence in yourself encourages others to have confidence in you and your abilities.

Self discovery and self empowerment are important for other reasons as well. The most important being having the ability to examine your mindset on an ongoing basis. The reason why so many people are crippled psychologically is because they never examined the knowledge they carry around in their heads or how they got that knowledge.

Millions have never initiated the self discovery process that will help them live more productively. If you don't have the right mindset, it is much more difficult, if not impossible, to live productively and successfully with boundless joy and happiness.

Unlike professional athletes and entertainers that can survive on their honed skills and natural talents, and the world will pay a premium to be entertained by them, The rest of us need to have the correct mindset and continually improve the way we think, what we think, how we think and our decision-making process. Using your mind properly is the only known method to achieving your personal goals, whatever they may be.

Do you know what your mind-set is? Do you know what is the absolute best mind-set to have? Personal discovery will lead you to these answers and every answer you seek in any and all your endeavors.

Who Is Responsible For Terrorism?

Asking the question: Who is responsible for terrorism?... is more proof the intellectual left is on the precipice of intellectual madness. Even discussing it adds credibility to the argument that the tenets of "Political Correctness" have gone far beyond tolerance.

Could it be, that in their misguided attempt to be "Politically Correct", the intellectually astute have distorted their own actuality and reality and have diminished their ability to think clearly on any subject?

There is absolutely nothing to decide or ponder. The terrorist are responsible for their acts of terrorism. The answer to this question now opens the door to debate as to why they are committing these unspeakable acts of brutality against innocent men, women and children. In this discussion arena, any reason is as good as any other. Such is the nature of intellectual madness.

A brutal killer can now be excused for his/her dastardly deeds because of what happened in his/her childhood. Madmen, masquerading as religious, spiritual or political leaders, can now be excused for their heinous crimes because they have suffered political, economic and/or social persecution. The fact of the matter is we are responsible for what we do or do not, not our mothers, fathers, the government or self-styled dictators and their supporters.

Human society is what it is because of the ideologies, concepts and precepts human beings are willing to accept as true. It rarely matters whether this ideology comes from GOD or madmen like Hitler, Stalin, Caligula, Mussolini or the late Saddam Hussein. Human beings make their own decisions and then dutifully seek ways, means and/or methods to isolate themselves from their actions, activities and their own decision making process.

They artfully and skillfully transfer their responsibility to others. We casually call this the blame game, but in war and politics this is a high stakes game played for real..in real time...and with real consequences. These modern barbarians instinctively know that somewhere out there on planet earth are idiots and educated fools that will believe them.

How is this done? They blame others and then ask the question. The question becomes a political, religious, spiritual, economic or social statement that has sympathetic appeal. Now, instead of hauling these barbaric individuals off to the gallows and executing them for their crimes against humanity, a "so-called" "self styled" intellectual now takes up the cause and begins blaming American foreign policy or some other situation, circumstance or event as the reason for terrorism and the acts of terrorist.

This insidious madness goes even further, these butchers are now hailed as heroes by their own people. Some are even transformed into icons for public consumption and actually considered as martyrs for the cause.

This unthinkable act, sucks even more unsuspecting men and women into this murderous and detestable lifestyle. It matters little that the acts of these "so called" martyrs are immoral and senseless acts of human butchery. How does this happen so easily and with so little effort? It can be traced directly and indirectly right back to ideologies, concepts and precepts they accepted as being true.

What Makes A Nation

Whenever I hear the excuses some "Liberals" and many "Latinos" use to defend corrupt and ineffective leadership that is proliferating throughout South America, I have to remind them of Japan, South Korea and Israel. All of these countries were poor when compared to major world powers.

Japan: Japan is a nation of few natural resources. The Japanese people have always been afraid of poverty, so afraid in fact, they developed a work ethic that is so intense and remarkable that it has propelled them from a poverty stricken nation to a world power. They were a world power in World I and World War II and they are an economic power today.

What international agency helped them? What UN mandate? What foreign agency loaned them money during their rise from poverty to riches? How many of them are illegal immigrants anywhere in the world? The answers are few or none. The Japanese have earned everything they have.

Even in America, few Japanese; if any, have ever been convicted of a major crime. Few. if any, Japanese are on subsidy programs they didn't earn. Even though they were horribly discriminated against in this country, they went to war as Americans and fought and died with honor. They are and always will be one of the greatest nation of people on this planet.

South Korea: Let's turn to the South Koreans, another great nation of people. South Korea was virtually decimated during the communist incursion into southeast Asia. Yet in less than 30 years, using natural and human resources, they raised themselves from the bottom to an economic powerhouse. To date, there are few, if any, South Koreans in American prisons, on undeserved government subsidies or can be called an illegal immigrant.

What did these third world nations, that are now first world, have that many nations around the world lack? The answer in 3 words is honest, dedicated, leadership. Their governments were not engrossed in corruption, ineffective and/or self-serving. Their people were committed to each other. They worked together as a nation. All for one and one for all.

What makes America great is not our natural resources, its our people. What makes any country great is its people. If natural resources were the key to greatness, Russia would be the greatest and most powerful nation on this earth and they are not.

Finally there is Israel: Israel is a tiny nation that is no more than a strip of land. It is surrounded by millions of hostile Arabs. Yet this nation of people whose ethnicity has caused them to be butchered by the millions is one of the most successful nations on earth. The Israeli Defense Forces are among the world's elite and their air force rivals our own. They took a barren wasteland and turned it into an oasis.

I could talk about 50 countries or more where people are struggling and dying rather than coming together as a nation. The answer is always the same. What makes a nation great..the people and those they choose to govern them and lead them.

Violence In The Middle East And The Sykes-Picot Agreement

Practically all the modern states of the Middle East were influenced by the Sykes-Picot Agreement. This Agreement has caused more death and destruction than any other Middle East Document.

The Sykes-Picot Agreement has literally been the cornerstone of Europe's and England's Middle East policy since its acceptance and enactment in May of 1916. The agreement was originally a secret document that was initiated by Mark Sykes - a Briton and Francois Georges-Picot - a Frechman. It's purpose was to establish territorial control and spheres of influence in what is now the Middle East and other areas that belonged to the Ottoman-Turks.

The various policy positions of the French and British governments on the Palestinian and Jewish issues during the 1920s, 30s, during and After World War II can be traced to Skyes-Picot and its subsequent agreements and the Balfour Declarations of 1917 and 1926. (See: Sykes-Picot)

When the French and British governments decided to carve up the Ottoman-Turk Empire after World War I, their diplomats paid little attention to the ethnic hostilities that were rampant in the region at the time. They were more concerned about economic advantages, political expediency and subduing the ethnic populations.

Consequently, the Kurds (almost 30 million today) were denied a homeland (Kurdistan). Sunni, Shi'ite and Kurds were lumped together in Iraq and a huge segment of Kurdistan was given to the Turks. Even today, Turkish government leaders do not want an independent Kurdistan on their border. Persians and Medes; along with a huge Shi'ite population were thrown together in Iran.

The Balfour Declarations supported an independent Palestine and an independent Israel. The Palestinians were denied a homeland, not by the Jews, America, Britian or France. The Arabs denied them a homeland. Arab governments made the decision that a Palestinian state would not be in territories they controlled. If Palestine were going to exist, it would be in the land allocated to the Jews.

There was little or no justification for the Arab position because there was never an autonomous Palestine within the Ottoman-Turk Empire. Palestine existed in name only as a former Roman Province. In 140 AD, Hadrian changed the name of Israel to Palestine. Therefore, if the Palestinians wanted an antonomous homeland they had to take it from its legitimate owners, the Jews. Arab governments have supported this position since that time.

The animosities Muslims harbor against the West can be traced back to the brutal suppression they experienced at the hands of their colonial masters. Prior to World I, the vast majority of Americans had little or no interest in European politics. As a nation, we did not want to enter World I or World II, even though we were quietly supporting the Allies in both Wars. Pearl Harbor and Hitler's Declaration of War changed all that during World War II.

America is involved in this Middle East quagmire for the following reasons:

1. We are basically the military arsenal of the Western Powers; i.e, France, Britian, Italy, Germany, Spain, etc. and the only remaining super power on the planet.

2. The Soviet Union, now Russia, has been sympathetic toward Middle Eastern foreign policy positions since the 1950s. During World War II, "Radical Islamic" groups had their own SS divisions, courtesy of Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich.

3. Europe's military industrial complex was largely dismantled after World War II and the task of defending Europe was literally given to America. Therefore, "Islamic Radicals" believe, and rightly so, that if America is destroyed, Europe and England will eventually fall.

As you can see, this long standing hatred of the West, because of poor diplomacy, has been transferred to America by default. Over the past 50 years, Western Europe has become much more sympathetic to Arab policies and has huge Muslim populations. Hence, "Islamic Radicals" truly believe that the only obstacle to their eventual conquest of Europe and the world is America.

Even though President Bush was literally dragged into this conflict because of 9/11, I firmly believe he is one of the few American Presidents that truly understands the dangers of an all out war with Muslim extremist. Even President Nixon believed a war with "Radical Islamic" groups was inevitable. It was reported that Nixon also believed America and the West would lose, and the best strategy to adopt was to delay the war as long as possible.

Unfortunately, "Radical Islamic" groups struck first in the 1980s overseas, again in the 90s overseas, and finally America on 9/11/2001. President Bush believes we can win this war. I believe we can win it also as long as we keep "Liberals" and their warped philosophical views out of power. Once, they are entrenched, "Liberals" and their supporters will eventually try to appease "Radical Islam" and create absolute disaster.

President Bush and Donald Rumsfeld's only miscalculation was fighting "Radical Islam" in Iraq with too small an Army. Our intelligence failed us again. We would have been much better off pursuing Osama Bin Laden , the remnants of Al-Qaida and the Taliban into Pakistan. The violence in the Middle East and this war are going to last for a long, long time.

Situational Ethics And Illegal Immigration

Any criminal can reform and become an outstanding citizen. All Germans weren't Gestapo agents, members of the dreaded SS, brutal and barbaric to conquered peoples, or responsible for the horror of the Holocaust. However, do we conclude just because one German or a few were good, decent and humane that their crimes as a nation should be excused and ignored?

Do we ignore and pardon the crimes of those who were actually guilty of these atrocities? No..we do not and should not. Situational ethics is a dangerous intellectual game. Either you enforce our laws or repeal them. Once the law has been adhered to, then we can discuss in an intelligent and forthright manner any extenuating circumstances. Not before.

This is the essence of true justice. If illegal aliens were sincere in their intentions, they would confess their crime of illegal entry and throw themselves on the mercy and justice of the American people. I'm certain they would find sympathizers. Such acts would demonstrate sincerity of purpose and a willingness to honor our laws and respect our institutions. In the absence of contrition, regardless of how innocent an undocumented individual's actions and activities may be, we must conclude that they willfully and knowingly choose to ignore our laws and thus disrespect us all.

How can an undocumented individual enter our home (country) uninvited, violate our trust, trample the very essence of our sovereignty and then expect us a nation to ignore their abuses and call them friends? Trust must be earned not given, therefore, how can we ever trust them without just and verifiable acts?

If undocumented aliens sincerely wanted our trust and friendship, they would have done the right thing. Even the 9/11 hijackers did that. In addition, before 9/11/2001 not one hijacker committed a crime, major or minor and entered our country legally.

According published reports. we have 8-12 million people within our borders that are very capable of helping us, hurting us or killing us and we have no idea who they are. Undocumented aliens not only hurt our economy, institutions and services, they also hurt themselves by being outside of our legal system. They rob themselves and their children of respectability.

If earning money is our only criteria for citizenship and legality, then every cut throat, thief, murderer, con artist drug lord, crime boss, corrupt politician and drug smuggler is a model citizen. Surely, you nor I want this level of depravity for ourselves, our nation, our society, or for our children.

Undocumented individuals must do the right thing by coming forward, leaving voluntarily or we must find them and deport them because we can not play that dangerous game of situational ethics.

Immigration Reform

Meaningful immigration reform has nothing to do with departmental changes that may be necessary in a time of crisis such as 9/11/2001 and creating the Department of Homeland Security. If we have able, competent and intelligent leadership in these areas, departmental confusion will end at some future time. After all, we were attacked and change is often a slow and painful process.

As far as immigration reform is concerned, the first thing we need to do is create a government program to hire legitimate citizens that are unemployed and get busy rounding up every illegal immigrant in our country.

Amnesty and guest worker programs at this point in time would be a recipe for disaster. What you are invariably doing is sanctioning a criminal activity. No reforms should be discussed until our current laws are enforced, our borders secure and these people are out of our country. Then and only then should we re-examine our immigration policies. This action needs to be taken for the following reasons.

1. By definition and legal statutes, undocumented aliens or illegal immigrants are criminals. A criminal, as defined by Webster, is anyone who has broken a law. A statute is a law passed by a legislative body. The Federal government deemed years ago that entering America, through other than legal and lawful channels (refugees are legal)is illegal. Therefore, if you are in America with stolen identities, false identities, and/or without proper documentation, you are a criminal. Creating safe havens and employing these individuals, under the law, is aiding and abetting a felon.

2. Currently, assuming all the reported statistical data is true, We have over 12,000,000 felons running loose in our communities. We, as a nation, are encouraging lawlessness and contempt for the rule of law. These people have no allegiance to our country, no respect for our values or us. Why should they? The dangers of unrestricted immigration are too numerous to mention. There are the health risks; such as AIDS, Bird Flu, Tuberculosis, Hepatitis, Small Pox, Venereal Diseases and the list goes on.

3. Besides the risk of epidemics, there is also the potential risk of thousands of potential mass murders, thieves, drug traffickers, smugglers, rapist and pedophiles all masquerading as farm workers, maids, construction workers or common laborers. We have no knowledge of who these people are, where they come from or their political beliefs and/or affiliations.

4. We may be allowing thousands of Al-Qaida sleeper cells into our country all plotting to commit mass murder at some future time. Radical or militant Islam is real, suicide bombers are real and cold blooded killers are real.

These matters should not be taken lightly, nor should we make decisions based on purely humanitarian considerations. We could be nursing vipers in our midst that our children and grandchildren will have to deal with in the future, all because of our stupidity and lack of resolve.

I Receive A Bone For Every Steak You Eat

To Newt Gingrich and his supporters. Elections in America are no longer choices between two futures, they are choices between two political parties and the ideologies of the men and/or women that have the power to impose their beliefs on others.

The tidbits or rewards we receive as common men and women are the bones that are thrown to us after the steak is eaten.

These tidbits or rewards are the bills that manage to be enacted into law. If we examined every law passed by both houses of congress, we will discover that someone benefited at the expense of someone else. This is Linear Thinking at its worst and is a recipe for eventual political failure.

Every time we elect a politician to office and grant him/her authority over us or appoint a judge, we are risking our future, not securing it. Why is this so? The primary reason is because the vast majority of political figures, advocates of every kind and sort, and even the political parties themselves are populated with Linear Thinkers. A Linear Thinker is any person that reasons or arrives at decisions based on his/her objective or subjective understanding of opposing forces or factors.

Let's take this example: In the jargon of the political right, "Radical Secularist are replacing 219 years of American religious freedom and political liberty with a revisionist version of American history. " The 2 most important questions we need to ask are:

(1) Who are these "Radical Secularist"?

(2) How have they risen or how did they rise to positions of power and authority that would allow them to usurp our political process to implement their agenda?

The political right has often stated: "The Supreme Court has seen fit to rule against God in the American public square time and again, even as they sit inside of a building surrounded by religious imagery. Most prominent among them are a depiction of Moses and an engraving of the Ten Commandments over the chair of the Chief Justice, each affirming our Judeo-Christian roots."

Since I have been living, I have never seen, read or heard of the Supreme Court calling a press conference to announce they are going to change a law. The courts have made every ruling based on their interpretation and understanding of the Law and the Constitution as it applies to the case/s presented to them.

In Newt's own words; I quote: "In case after case brought by radical secularists, activist judges have virtually made God into an outlaw. The Court has ruled against school prayers and Bible studies, and even prohibited voluntary prayer before football games. Most recently, a California court reaffirmed the Ninth Circuit Court ruling that the phrase 'one nation, under God' was unconstitutional."

WHY? If these justices are usurping the law and/or going beyond their constitutional authority they should be impeached and imprisoned. This is obviously not the case. So who is to blame and who is accountable? The answer is: We the People and Our Elected Representatives.

Let's examine other statements from leading conservatives; I quote: "They are using the courts to meet their political objectives. But why should we accept appointed lawyers’ edicts on how faith can be expressed in the public square? If you sit out an election, you are choosing their desire for enforced secularism." These statements should have been reviewed because they are inherently misleading and no more than political propaganda.

The reason why we accept appointed lawyers and judges is because our political system and institutions allow these appointments. This is not an enforcement of secularism. This is a manifestation of a legitimate process. If this process is not functioning as it should, who is to blame and who is accountable? The answer is: We the People and Our Elected Representatives.

Newt Gingrich has also stated, and I quote: "Their only hope is to keep you from voting." I have never seen, read, or heard of any "Radical Secularist" calling a press conference urging people not to vote or issuing threats to intimidate people into not voting. This is not a true statement.

As you can see, the political right and Republicans, the political left and leaders within the Democratic Party are all victims of the same 'Linear Thinking' process that doomed every civilization since human history began. These miscues are harmless. However, they do serve to rally the weak minded to the polls to vote. By doing so, more politicians and their bankers will continue eating steaks, while we, the people, nibble on the bones or crumbs.

The real problem is not the Radical Secularist. To my knowledge, these people have not broken any laws. The real problem is "We the People and Our Elected Representatives."Therefore, we need a better political model that encourages people to vote for the right reasons rather than cheap political propaganda. I'm tired of nibbling on bones.

The Truth About Safelists

The secret to making money on the net is no secret at all. It doesn't involve scams, pyramids, schemes, porn, casinos or auctions and it doesn't require you to be a programming wizard.

Anyone with a few hours a day can generate a substantial income in a reasonable period of time.

Fact: 97% of online marketers earn less then ten dollars per day online.

Fact: 82% of online marketers spend over 6 hours a day peddling their wares.

Fact: 4.6% of online marketers believe they can become millionaires overnight.

Most online marketers use safelists and the safelist industry has become a huge "File 13". 99.99% of your email ads are filtered to bulk folders and are rarely seen by the intended recipient. Then, if you spam the mailbox, like so many online ingrates, you are blacklisted and put out of business... and you should be.

The vast majority of email boxholders rarely read safelist mail. And.. I bet that probably includes you.

The future of online marketing is in list building. A professional list builder uses a huge database of opt-in requests to advertise to. These databases are filled with literally millions of people worldwide that have requested information regarding a particular subject, product or service.

The overall best strategy is to compile your own lists. You can accomplish this objective in a number of ways.

1. Use features and benefits in your ad copy. Example, Feature: "Last Longer", The Benefit: "Save More Time", Feature: "Never Seen Before", Benefit: "Little or no competition".

2. Use a little humor in your ad copy. It could be the little extra motive you need to close a sale. People are usually persuaded easier if they're in a good mood.

3. Ask your visitors questions that induce thoughts, feelings, memories and emotions that will influence them to buy.

4. Use blue, underlined text links. People have been branded that blue, underlined text are links. You do not want to lose visitors by using a different color.

5. Use professional web design, graphics, content, customer service, etc.

6. Offer something for FREE. Such as.....

• Downloadable Software - Allow your visitors to download software that's similar to or compliments their main purchase.
• Online Utility - Give visitors a web utility that will make their life easier. It can be a calculator, graphic creator, web site submitter, etc.
• E-books, Information Sheets, Booklets, Guides, Outlines, Special Reports, etc.
• Online Video - Allow visitors to download or view a related how-to video or informative seminar right over the Internet.
• Online Audio - Allow visitors to download and listen to a recording of an expert that is being interviewed right over the Internet.

Don't be fooled by low cost opt-in lists. A lot can be told about a program simply by looking at the site that is offering it. Keep in mind that if it sounds too good to be true that it probably is.