Gang Visits Nature at Itasca

The gang at the lake loaded into the vehicle and motored to Itasca State Park in Minnesota Saturday. The leaves were in the same mixed up mode that North Dakota leaves seem to be in. But; so what? Nature was at its most beautiful and certainly spectacular. Some of those rare lavender leaves were spotted, among a lot of bright yellows and rare reds.

While some areas were faded green, others were nearly down. The conditions reflected a normal year last week, combined with next weekend and the weekend after that. Explanations abound: early fall, bad winter ahead, dry spring, early fronts. Attempts to blame it on Bill or Hillary Clinton were amazingly discounted, though the gang usually believes these and passes them on. But attempts to politicize a journey into Nature’s handiwork failed. Love the trees. Adore the lake. Do not forget the wild rice soup at the lodge.

Withdraw from Failed War on Poverty Now!

Is it time to call for a withdrawal of troops and a pullout in the War on Poverty? Begun in the 1960s by then President Lyndon Johnson, this ill conceived move by the Democrats has had a near 40 year record of failure without notable success. Poverty still exits, and in some places like Appalachia, various reservations, and in sections of major cities; it is still endemic and severe.

If 40 years of Federal policy and spending failure has not brought sparkling success and solution to this problem, isn’t it time to try a fresh direction to these policies?

Its policies have failed to bring education as a goal worthy of support in major poverty prone populations of the United States. Its policies have failed to stem drug use from coast to coast among disadvantaged populations. Its policies have promoted divorce among disadvantaged populations and broken up families.

The Democrat thrust to buy votes among the poor has simply failed. It has bought those votes, but is that a reason to continue failed policies? It has had 40 years and not met Johnson’s broad goals. 40 years! America cannot stand to fund the welfare and related systems in light of such a record. Forty years is enough.

The Persecution of Christians in America

A recent ad in U.S. News & World Report stressed the persecution of Christians in today’s world. Seemingly out of place in a nation where Christianity dominates, it sadly is a very real aspect of the liberal left’s drive to rebuild society based on a sense of freedom based upon license rather than liberty.

Christianity, with its stands on traditional morals, is in the way of liberalism’s drive to rationalize every practice as worthy of protection and approval, except those that subscribe to a sense of decency that limits others. To be moral is vilified as setting limits, and to ask for any sense of decency is to deny liberty in expression.

While driving toward license, or total freedom, this liberal thrust is odd and contradictory in that it is accompanied by an equal thrust toward political correctness that emphasizes freedom from offense and control by any group in society that limits actions of another group. For the correct” to advance, the world of the others must change. Freedom to some, the favored because their actions and desires are the opposite of traditional American values, brings persecution to others who support those values.

This, the Christian is persecuted in America. The Christian, as the typical American of history, recognized the importance of control and order, of decency as a societal value. He/She saw the importance of this because liberty has always involved some sense of responsibility while license does not.

The problem is that you cannot expand a society toward a rampant free for all without damaging the world of those who know such change is a pathway toward doom. Once Christian society is weakened in America, postmodern America has shown itself impotent to replace old values as a unifying factor. Never since revolutionary times has America been so divided without any thing to grasp for unity. You cannot even make a claim that the basic rules of the system hold us together when a majority has started to see those rules as working against them. A social glue based on everyone doing whatever they feel like offers a weak gluey paste of the school child in a society needing solid poxy to hold itself together.

Predicted as Present

Rudy Giuliani seems to have a very positive set of proposals as outlined in the September 10, 2007 [p24] issue of U.S. News and World Report. He notes that the Democrats might already be having a negative impact on U.S. investment in the United States because the threat of tax increases by the party likely to win can currently be taken as real. He points out that a business can go to much lower taxed places and hear a better pitch for the business. France has lower taxes than us and is preparing to cut. He notes that only Japan has higher taxes on business than the United States. Businesses are already looking outside the United States. They have long term views that do not allow them to wait and see if the predicted is true. The giant Democrat tax hike is reality when you look at a reasonable future, and business is acting now to adjust.

At the lake, the same is true. Investments are anticipating a tax increase following a Democrat victory in 2008. Like Amy Klobuchar [D Senator] of Minnesota, they talk its impact starting at $200,000 or more; but gee it never starts that high. Protective investment is the goal now.

The positive impact of the Bush tax cuts is clear. Guiliani makes a nice case backed by the figures. The hope is that the Democrat, liberal tendency to favor redistribution does not end up moving even more jobs to India, France, Ireland, and the rest.

Been Laying Low

It is time for the gang at the lake to come out of that winter shell they get into, and start to join the fray. It was brought to our attention that the ND Democrats have a link to us, and we feel some need to provide them with the opionions they need to see the light and approach the new world with optimisim. We are, of course, listed among the rightist blogs. The obvious spot for a blog with a note about Barry Goldwater in its possession.

What the Democrats and nearly the whole Wordl need now is to see the impact of America pulling back into its shell. We should not only begin our pullout from Iraq, a view stated with continuing support for President Bush, following our near-term blast at the enemy; but we should follow that by a pullout from every where except Afghanistan; Frankfurt, Germany; and Okinawa, Japan. Darfur? Why should we help Islamic people who only will hate us solve their problems. The next spot? Why should we respond? Let Europe do it. Maybe the Islamic countries with their big voices can show some sense of reality. If the world cannot function without us, it will learn that lesson really fast given the multitude of problems out there that could use our help. We need to make a full withdrawl and resist any and all efforts to involve our tropps in any place but the United States and our lands.

The world will pay big, big time; and they will understand the pain of their error. Tough olove, but fully required in times like these.

America First. Our Motto!!!

The Ease of Voting

The gang at the lake does not understand all the hassles that people have voting. I showed up and went immediately to the table for my ward. No line at all. Even before I could get my wallet fully out Jean, at the table, told me they wouldn't need that. She has known me for years. She pojnted out to the woman next at the table that this was Paul and his wife Sue had voted earlier. Our names were now both checked in the books and I was told to go around an older woman they were helping get registered. I was given my ballot and its folder. I picked among the six or seven open polling tables. I voted and took the ballot over to the machine. I placed it in the electronic reader. I guy standing here told me to wait until the number appeared. It instantly appeared and I was on my way. No lines. No hassles. Maybe all thos other folk having troubles need to look at where they live.

Remember the Nukes

I think the world should take note of the fact that the American military is not going any where beyond where it is. It has no ability to engage in further combat. Let that idiot in North Korea know that if pushed the American military that is coming is a nuclear headed warhead. Since the world thinks we are barbarians, maybe they should realize that we cannot be pushed in the corner forever. Even the most docile pet barks and bites back when severely pushed. Good Bye North Korea, see you a a hunfdred years..