Generally Speaking (Again)

And I thought the last election seemed to last forever...this one seems to have lasted longer and it's just starting. And look at our choices; a one term Senator with no practical experience , a non record in the Senate and a stated socialist agenda that promises to drive even more US companies overseas (whether east or west). An X first lady who has been elected in a extremely liberal State more for her sufferage as the most cheated on wife in modern times than anything she has actually accomplished...her stated agenda is more socialist than his. And the Republican is an Ex prisoner of war with a long and strong record (in the earlier years) that in the recent past has veered left to a point that has joined his name with many of the most socialist liberals in the Senate. This will leave us with a poor choice at best for our leader this next four years.
Where are the great Americans? Where is a Washington or a Lincoln or a JFK or a Regan? I see nothing now but professional politicans with their own personal power and advancment at heart. How many 20+ year Senators do we have? Who is the last Senator you can remember that left office other than due to to retirement or disgrace? And either way they receive more money than almost any other American. The House record is a little better...very little.
Another interesting aspect of our modern policital scene is the sheer amount in dollars that are spent on elections...billions (much of it tax money) invested in positions that earn only hundreds of thousands. Try to think of a business (outside our Government) that spends far more on its existance than it can ever hope to earn from it ...and how long that business could survive. Go figure. JT

Generally Speaking 8-26-07

The doomsayers are out in greater numbers than ever...and from every area in the news.
The troop surge is working in Iraq BUT the political side is failing so it doesn't matter, they say. They said just the opposite when the military side wasn't doing so well but the political side was running smoothly.
The sky is falling on the stock market they say. The market shot up over a thousand points in what, a little over a month? Has it ever rocketed up and not "corrected" soon afterward in a big way?
The housing market is crashing due to abhorrent misuse of the sub prime mortgage lenders. This one they are correct about except that the boom was created by the same factor.
Have you noticed how all broadcast news love a disaster...be it financial, a hurricane, flooding , fire, murder (big or small) and lately mine cave ins. Did you know if we reported on mine deaths (cave in or accident) in China it would be daily news and in greater numbers than we have seen in the past few years. It is far safer to be a policeman or a stunt man in China than a coal miner. Oh, and our biggest trading partner still uses slave labor in many industries...the government rents them out...just like the Nazis. Of course, with Americas materialism if the Nazis were still around, and had the lowest prices, we'd buy from them. If you doubt any of this wander around just about any store and find something made in the U.S.A. It's getting pretty scary. My political science teacher in high school said we would know when the U.S. was failing if we were importing most of our food. Are we there yet?

Generally Speaking

In my opinion the citizens of our country have lost their minds, their memory and their moral direction, not necessarily in that order. Actually, I guess any order will do. You cannot lose any of these three 'M's without adversely effecting the others. And it's not enough just to lose them, we as a Nation have chosen to deny them, to deny that Judeo-Christian moral law had anything to do with our strength and success over these last few centuries. Certainly to deny that it is the foundation upon which we built our country.
With the loss of a moral foundation (abortion on demand, legalized sexual deviants, removing God from our schools) we are now floundering in a sea of uncertainty simply because we are told there is NO ABSOLUTE truths. All truth is subject to the variables of time, place and individual interpretation and therefore there can be no absolute truth. Ever. The scary thing is, if you apply their interruptive truth theory to history then maybe the Nazi's weren’t so wrong and maybe the murder and mayhem that was the dark ages wasn't so hideous. The diversity chant that rocks across our country has destroyed a number of Empires through history. Maybe it's just our turn.
Have you seen the new dollar coin? Try to find "In God we trust" on it.

J.B. Thompson

Generally Speaking (still)

Are the American people really listening to what some of these Presidential candidates are actually saying. Do they realize what kind of Government these people are proposing when they refer "shared prosperity", to policies to redistribute the wealth and income of the American people...to end the Government of the few, for the few, by the few? Do they remember that communism failed because, for all of its talk of equality for all, it gave more equality to some than others and that bureaucrats gain power and wealth through subversion rather than ability...that only in a free economy are all people given the opportunity to gain wealth according to their ability, drive and creativity. Socialistic and communistic Governments have historically been more corrupt and far more brutal than capitalistic ones...even the ones initiated by revolutionaries seeking to free their people from subjugation. It never takes long for the power seekers to gain control of a nation and it's wealth. Bureaucrats all eventually seek their own security regardless of whatever noble intentions led them to their positions.
Hillary wants to be Queen, but I have seen how mercilessly she handles her personal problems and want no part of a ruler who can't even handle her own husband.

James Thompson

Generally Speaking

Since I am working in Bandon all week, and get very little in the way of Global news there, I make it a point to catch up on the week ends. It amazes me how often one of the things I pick up during this week end study is some inane, stupid or anti-American statement by Jimmy "the cracker" Carter.
Why does this guy get such massive coverage? Think about it...he was a one term President who single handedly drove the U.S. into double digit inflation while embarrassing us internationally with his poor handling of the Iran hostage crisis. He was a babbling buffoon then and is an older one now. He is given honors in those European countries who hate America for its successes because he denigrates our country, and is patted on his gray head like an old pet.
Look at it this way, try to think of another president that is referred to in the familiar way that Jimmy Carter is. Even Bill Clinton is not referred to as Billy Clinton, nor Johnny Kennedy, nor Dicky Nixon. This harmful old dog needs to be muzzled or caged or, even better, his quotes moved into the entertainment section of the paper along with the wisdom of Britney or Paris.

Politicians & Voters (Dumb & Dumber?)

How is it going?
Are you as amazed by the complacency and overall stupidity of the American people (as defined by media polls) as I am. I understand that most politicians are (eventually) power and money hungry nihilist seeking only to perpetuate their own position, but the people have to vote to keep them there...and they do! Pelosi, Feinstien, Reid, Kennedy, Kerry...over and over they vote to keep these self serving demi-gods in power. Regardless of what outrageous thing they do or say..regardless of how they trash our own country internationally and seek to blame us because an envious world hates us, we re-elect them.
Pelosi dances over to the middle east and announces that Israel and some Arab countries made it clear they want to negotiate more closely, and the next day those countries deny her statement publicly...a babbling American babe who suffers visions of personal grandeur. You have Feinstien constantly talking integrity as she sets on her sub committee directing millions of dollars of contracts to her husbands company, Reid and his land dealings, Kennedy and his drunken speeches, and Kerry the war hero. Is that a bunch of vote getters or what.
And now you have Gore, Academy award in hand, out spewing his nonsense to an adoring public who actually believe his tripe that we are heating up the planet by being BAD PEOPLE. Scientist say Mars and Mercury are also warming so there must be SUV's there too! Or maybe it's the solar activity that is increasing like the REAL scientist are alluding to. No...then they couldn't blame us nasty Americans for destroying our planet. Have you seen the movie? Only an idiot would believe that Saint Gore wanders through airports in early morning to catch red-eye flights to give his little talks to a caring world. The last time he carried his own bag through an airport without an entourage was he was in college. That is only one of many lies in the movie. He fails to mention in the segment with the ships rusting atop dry land that the lake is drying up because the feeding water sources are being diverted for irrigation in a failed plan, or that the polar bear bit was years in the making. Everyone has heard about his personal energy use (overuse) and the fact that it's his own company he buys his "offsets" from. And now there is talk of him running for President again. The American people in their stupor just might elect him. Go figure. JT