Eco Terrorist Going Down For The Big Count

Jurors begin deliberation today on case of eco-terrorist. I hope they get her. More on her later.

Party Time

This is an important article in the Oregonian on the current state of the Republican Party. Check it out. My own two cents is that we need to stick to conservative ideas and we will win, and that it is our flirtation with, and capitulation to, liberal ideas that gets us in trouble. That and we really need to buckle down and concentrate on voter registration and getting people to vote.

Here is an audio clip from the Laura Ingraham show interviewing Jordan Lawrence of the Alliance Defense Fund. Jordan talks about the case of the New Mexico couple who are being hauled before the state's "human rights" commission for refusing to take pictures of a lesbian "couple." Stalin would be pleased, don't you think? If you want to be sure to avoid menacing knocks on the door in the middle of the night by people who hate Christians and Jews and have the power of the state to come after you, you better stand up and be counted now...

What Every Teenager And College Age Person Needs To Know

Check this article out...I haven't seen anything that sums it up better. You should send a copy of it to every teenager and college age person you know.

Costa Rica Jumps Rails, Recognizes Terrorist PLO State

Well, folks, here is a new place to cross off your list of possible tourist destinations. Costa Rica has recognized Israel's implacable enemies. Stay tuned for contact info for the Costa Rican Embassy and Tourism Ministries, so you can tell them you won't be going to their country any time soon. We'll "de-recognize" Costa Rica. And here is the contact info for the Costa Rican Consulate in San Francisco, which deals with matters in the state of Oregon:

P. O. Box 7643
Fremont, CA 94537
Tel.: (510) 790-0785 (only from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon)
Fax: (510) 792-5249
Email: consulsfo@hotmail.com

Let me know how your conversations with them go.

New Mexico Government Prosecutes Photographer Who Refused To Take Picture Of Lesbian Couple

You heard right, people. Think it can't happen here? Think the assault on the Constitutionally guaranteed freedoms of belief, speech and assembly only happen in Arab countries or Europe? Think your religious freedoms are safe and the state will never come after you for adhering to the laws of the Five Books Of Moses? Think again, Bunky. A road stop inquisition tour is rolling into your town soon, and it has its beginnings in New Mexico. If you got beliefs, you better start speakin' up for 'em loud and clear while you still can, because in New Mexico it seems to be against the law.

Homeschoolers On The March: The Revolution Continues

The other shoe drops...the number of home schoolers and their role in society continues to expand dramatically with each passing year, while enrollment in many public schools plummets for all except those who come from the most disadvantaged backgrounds.

This is, perhaps, the next step in the popular revolution I was describing in my last post. Like the patriots of old in colonial days, we can simply refuse to cater to the Crown, not buy what they are selling and go our own way instead.

This is the not so secret truth of what is happening across the nation: As schools have become increasinging hostile to, and intolerant of, people of faith, more and more are choosing to go to private school or home school. The result, ofcourse, is that the school districts lose more and more enrollment and more and more state and federal money.

All they have to do to reverse this trend is to make the schools a friendly, fair place for people of faith and tone down, considerably, the hostile anti-American and anti-religious rhetoric that we find in too many classrooms. If they strive for a classroom environment that is fair and welcoming to all, that strives only to teach as opposed to indoctrinate, they'll keep more students and more money and we'll all be happier.

But don't hold your breath.

Just stay tuned for more.

A Call To Revolutionary Arms

It is all about economics in the end. The people who poison our society will continue to do so no matter how many laws we pass or how many people we elect as long as they believe they can make money by doing it. They feel they stand to make more money by doing what they are doing than they will lose by alienating us. When they get the message...hard, and painfully...in the pocket book, they will change. When we make them believe they will lose more money by alienating us than they will gain by pedaling their filth, they will change their tune. Because at the end of the day, the people who threaten everything we hold dear care more about making money than they do about anything else.

You see, you vote at more than the ballot box. You vote every time you purchase a good or service. You vote every time you go to a movie starring people who hate their country and give their earnings to causes we revile and things we don't believe in. You vote every time you watch a TV show whose producers, directors and writers write huge checks to candidates who oppose everything we hold sacred and dear. You vote every time you buy a good or a service that is advertised in one of these movies or TV shows. You vote every time you watch a rerun of their shows on TV because they get royalties and residual payments based on ratings and demand. And you vote every time you go in to Hollywood or Blockbuster Video which more boldly parade on their shelves products that promote behaviors and attitudes that eat away at the core of our society.

We can stop this. We can persuade them otherwise. Like the participants in the Boston Tea Party, we can teach these modern day cultural heirs of the Crown a lesson by throwing their poison brew over the side. If we stop buying their trash, if we have leaders who will lead and people who will be diligent and disciplined, we will hurt them in the pocket, in the stock price and in the corporate board room and they will listen and adjust what they are doing because they care about money more than anything else.

In the time of the American Revolution, when Britain imposed a series of increasingly harsh and heavy taxes on the colonies, the people harkened to their leaders and refused to buy virtually any item from the British that was not absolutely necessary for physical survival. In the heart of devastating winters, in the face of brutal privation and uncommon sacrifice, the people of America simply stopped buying what the British were selling. It caused chaos and havoc in the British economy, prompting huge swathes of the British merchant class to beat up on Parliament and petition the King to drastically modify their tax policies towards the colonies. And it worked.

You are being asked to do much less. But if we have leaders who will lead, followers who will follow and persevere, we can, and will, be similarly successful.

If you can throw that TV set over the side along with the tea, good for you. If you can't, then start out by fixing one or two days a week as mass media blackout days, on which you don't go near a TV screen or a movie theatre. And when you have decided to boycott a TV show or a movie or an actor or a product, most important of all, take the time to pick up the phone and call them and let them know you are not using their product or watching their show because you don't like their values and their attitudes. In person is even more devastating and effective, as many national corporate sponsors have local commercial outlets and affiliates.

So let me hear from you. Do you have one tenth the fortitude and devotion of those who made this country possible...or are you the sort to just sink deeper into your overstuffed easy chair and lend your passive support and active dollars to those who "entertain" you so they can use them to destroy everything you really care about?

University of Oregon MECHA Talks About Bad Europeans Occupying The Mexican Homeland

Uh-oh update...hmmm, check this out people. Note the lines that talk about foreign Europeans and no room for capricious boundaries in the Bronze Nation. At the end of the paragraph it says in Spanish, "For The Race, Everything. For Anyone Else, Nothing." I really like things that encourage students to do better and engage in positive behavior. But orgs that refer to America as an occupying power, and make racial distinctions, all with the passive support and approval of our school system...I don't think that's healthy. do you?

Is There A Problem With A Hispanic Group Operating In Portland Public Schools?

Is there a problem at Centennial High School in Portland, Oregon? Hispanic oriented club MECHA seems to be working wonders in terms of motivating under achieving students to do better in class. And to these kids, MECHA may well be nothing more than a positive, encouraging organization that inspires them to do better. But is there something more sinister about the organization nationally that needs to be investigated? Something more ominous that even these kids may not be aware of? You check it out. time to do some digging here...

"If You Make Yourselves sheep..."

"If you make yourselves sheep, you will be eaten by wolves."

-Benjamin Franklin

Meaning: Don't roll over for the people who are in the wrong just to make nice. When Benjamin Franklin tried to do that with the British during his tenure as colonial representative in London, he came awfully close to ending up on the wrong side of a hangman's noose. Hence, the quote.

Middle School Play Postponed Over Objectionable Content

This is an interesting article and it speaks to the power of individuals to influence and impact what their kids are exposed to in the public schools. Check out this link and also click on the title. I, myself, am somewhat ambilvalent about the idea of using the school system as a platform for social engineering, however noble the idea may be in principle. Molding childrens' attitudes is a task best left to parents. And for the latest update on this situation, the play has been cancelled. And that is good news, in my opinion. As I said, the state should be involved as little as possible in molding student attitudes. And this drives home the point once again that a few determined people who speak up can affect how the future generation that will run our world will be educated in our schools.

Canadian Invasion? Stay tuned!

Say Cheese! Illegal aliens among us. Check out the article via the hyperlinked title. Normally, I detest the Willamette Week. Actually, I always detest it. Any paper that has to give itself away because no one will pay good money for it, and for which the majority of the income is derived from selling ad space to porno web sites, can't be taken too seriously. But this article needs to be read. And this guy needs to be found, arrested and deported. So who is going to call the police and their elected reps and pick up the ball on this one? More later...

GOP Calls For Teacher Investigation

Stay tuned. We'll be weighing in on this one before the night is through.

Motor Mouth Michelle Messes Up Obama

Could this be the gaff that hands Texas, Ohio and Pennsylvania to Hillary? Michelle Obama, on tape and in print, saying today that "for the first time, I am proud of America." Oh, really? My. That will play well with blue collar workers and their families in the industrial heartland and the bread basket states. Seems Michelle doesn't think much of the sacrifice American men and women in uniform are making in Iraq and Afghanistan up until now, or of the fact that we drove Saddam Hussein from power and liberated Afghanistan from the Taliban. McCain and Clinton will get big mileage out of the commercials they're going to spin out of this one! Stay tuned!

What Is The Difference Between The Great White Shark In Jaws and Bank Of America?

Well, friends, that's a tough question, but I think I know the answer. The Great White Shark is going to take a big whomping chunk out of your ass and gobble you up for lunch because that is what it has to do to survive. Bank of America will take a great big whomping chunk out of your ass when it comes to what you are being charged for interest on your credit cards because 1) they're stupid (they got burned in the subprime mortgage mess) and 2) they're greedy as Hell and profits are down. Good Bank of America credit card customers who are always on time and have never been late are now getting notices from Shark...I mean, Bank of America, that their interest rate is going up from an average of 13% interest to 24% interest. In Al Capone's days on the south side of Chicago, only guys with pin stripe suits and machine guns walked around charging those kinds of rates. In Samuel Adam's day just before the American Revolution, people charging those kinds of rates on behalf of King George the III promptly found themselves measured for a tar and feather suit.

So avoid Bank of America and dump 'em if you already got 'em. And cue that scary music score from Jaws, because you can expect more credit card companies to follow Bank of America's lead on this. Tar and feathers, anyone? Just remember to pay cash for them.

Day One Of Oregon Held Hostage

Another day with no real palpable or appreciable support for conservative students in the public school system. And we are once again left to ask: What is the state Republican Party doing about this? Maybe you should ask them. While you're waiting to hear back, you might want to check out this transcript of a social studies teacher whose recorded diatribe against, well, anything that doesn't involve flag burning, made it onto the Rush Limbaugh show.

Transcript of Classroom Indoctrination

Colorado H.S. Teacher Jay Bennish Compares President Bush to Hitler
PSAF--03/28/06

Bennish: [tape begins with class already underway. Bennish completing an unintelligble statement about Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez.]

Why do we have troops in Colombia fighting in their civil war for over 30 years. Most Americans don't even know this. For over 30 years, America has had soldiers fighting in Colombia in a civil war. Why are we fumigating coca crops in Bolivia and Peru if we're not trying to control other parts of the world. Who buys cocaine? Not Bolivians. Not Peruvians. Americans! Ok. Why are we destroying the farmers' lives when we're the ones that consume that good.

Can you imagine? What is the world's number one single cause of death by a drug? What drug is responsible for the most deaths in the world? Cigarettes! Who is the world's largest producer of cigarettes and tobacco? The United States!

What part of our country grows all our tobacco? Anyone know what states in particular? Mostly what's called North Carolina. Alright. That's where all the cigarette capitals are. That's where a lot of them are located from. Now if we have the right to fly to Bolivia or Peru and drop chemical weapons on top of farmers' fields because we're afraid they might be growing coca and that could be turned into cocaine and sold to us, well then don't the Peruvians and the Iranians and the Chinese have the right to invade America and drop chemical weapons over North Carolina to destroy the tobacco plants that are killing millions and millions of people in their countries every year and causing them billions of dollars in health care costs?

Make sure you get these definitions down.

Capitalism: If you don't understand the economic system of capitalism, you don't understand the world in which we live. Ok. Economic system in which all or most of the means of production, etc., are owned privately and operated in a somewhat competitive environment for the purpose of producing PROFIT! Of course, you can shorten these definitions down. Make sure you get the gist of it. Do you see how when, you know, when you're looking at this definition, where does it say anything about capitalism is an economic system that will provide everyone in the world with the basic needs that they need? Is that a part of this system? Do you see how this economic system is at odds with humanity? At odds with caring and compassion? It's at odds with human rights.

Anytime you have a system that is designed to procure profit, when profit is the bottom motive -- money -- that means money is going to become more important potentially than what? Safety, human lives, etc.

Why did we invade Iraq?! How do we know that the invasion of Iraq for weapons of mass destruction-- even if weapons had been found, how would you have known, how could you prove--that that was not a real reason for us to go there.

There are dozens upon dozens of countries that have weapons of mass destruction. Iraq is one of dozens. There are plenty of countries that are controlled by dictators, where people have no freedom, where they have weapons of mass destruction and they could be potentially threatening to America. We're not invading any of those countries!

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[Pause.]

I'll give you guys another minute or two to get some of these [definitions] down. I agree with Joey. Try to condense these a little bit. I took these straight out of the dictionary.

Anyone in here watch any of Mr. Bush's [State of the Union] speech last night? I'm gonna talk a little about some of things he had to say.

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...One of things that I'll bring up now, since some of you are still writing, is, you know, Condoleezza Rice said this the other day and George Bush reiterated it last night. And the implication was that the solution to the violence in the Middle East is democratization. And the implication through his language was that democracies don't go to war. Democracies aren't violent. Democracies won't want weapons of mass destruction. This is called blind, naive faith in democracy!

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Who is probably the single most violent nation on planet Earth?!

Unidentified brainwashed student interjects: We are.

The United States of America! And we're a democracy. Quote-unquote.

Who has the most weapons of mass destruction in the world? The United States.

Who's continuing to develop new weapons of mass destruction as we speak?!
The United States.

So, why does Mr. Bush think that other countries that are democracies won't wanna be like us? Why does he think they'll just wanna be at peace with each other?! What makes him think that when the Palestinians get their own state that they won't wanna preemptively invade Israel to eliminate a potential threat to their security just like we supposedly did in Iraq?! Do you see the dangerous precedent that we have set by illegally invading another country and violating their sovereignty in the name of protecting us against a potential future--sorry--attack? [Unintelligible.]

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Why doesn't Mexico invade Guatemala? Maybe they're scared of being attacked. Ok. Why doesn't North Korea invade South Korea?! They might be afraid of being attacked. Or maybe Iran and North Korea and Saudi Arabia and what else did he add to the list last night - and Zimbabwe - maybe they're all gonna team up and try and invade us because they're afraid we might invade them. I mean, where does this cycle of violence end? You know?

This whole "do as I say, not as I do" thing. That doesn't work. What was so important about President Bush's speech last night--and it doesn't matter if it was President Clinton still it would just as important) is that it's not just a speech to America. But who? The whole world! It's very obvious that if you listen to his language, if you listen to his body language, and if you paid attention to what he was saying, he wasn't always just talking to us. He was talking to the whole planet. Addressing the whole planet!

He started off his speech talking about how America should be the country that dominates the world. That we have been blessed essentially by God to have the most civilized, most advanced, best system and that it is our duty as Americans to use the military to go out into the world and make the whole world like us.

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Sounds a lot like the things that Adolf Hitler use to say.

We're the only ones who are right. Everyone else is backwards. And it's our job to conquer the world and make sure they live just like we want them to.

Now, I'm not saying that Bush and Hitler are exactly the same. Obviously, they are not. Ok. But there are some eerie similarities to the tones that they use. Very, very "ethnocentric." We're right. You're all wrong.

I just keep waiting. You know, at some point I think America and Mexico might go to war again. You know. Anytime Mexico plays the USA in a soccer match. What can be heard chanting all game long?

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Do all Mexicans dislike the United States? No. Do all Americans dislike Mexico? No. But there's a lot of resentment--not just in Mexico, but across the whole world--towards America right now.

We told--Condoleezza Rice said--that now that Hamas got elected to lead the Palestianians that they have to renounce their desire to eliminate Israel. And then Condoleezza Rice also went on to say that you can't be for peace and support armed struggle at the same time. You can't do that. Either you're for peace or war. But you can't be for both.

What is the problem with her saying this? That's the same thing we say. That is exactly the same thing this current administration says. We're gonna make the world safe by invading and killing and making war. So, if we can be for peace and for war, well, why can't the Palestinians be for peace and for war?!

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*Student Sean Allen, who is taping Bennish's rant, speaks up:*

Allen: Isn't there a difference of, of, having Hamas being like, we wanna attack Israelis because they're Israelis, and having us say we want to attack people who are known terrorists? Isn't there a difference between saying we're going to attack innocents and we're going to attack people who are not innocent?

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Bennish: I think that's a good point. But you have to remember who's doing the defining of a terrorist. And what is a terrorist?

Allen: Well, when people attack us on our own soil and are actually attempting to take American lives and want to take American lives, whereas, Israelies in this situation, aren't saying we want to blow up Palestine...

Bennish: How did Israel and the modern Israeli state even come into existence in the first place?

Allen: We gave it to them.

Bennish: Sort of. Why? After the Israel-Zionist movement conducted what? Terrorist acts. They assassinated the British prime minster in Palestine. They blew up buildings. They stole military equipment. Assassinated hundreds of people. Car bombings, you name it. That's how the modern state of Israel was made. Was through violence and terrorism. Eventually we did allow them to have the land. Why? Not because we really care, but because we wanted a strategic ally. We saw a way to us to get a hook into the Middle East.

If we create a modern nation of Israel, then, and we make them dependent on us for military aid and financial aid, then we can control a part of the Middle East. We will have a country in the Middle East that will be indebted to us.

Allen: But is it ok to say it's just to attack Israel? If it's ok to attack known terrorists, it's ok to attack Israel?

Bennish: If you were Palestinians, who are the real terrorists? The Israelis, who fire missiles that they purchased from the United States government into Palestinian neighborhoods and refugees and maybe kill a terrorist, but also kill innocent women and children. And when you shoot a missile into Pakistan to quote-unquote kill a known terrorist, and we just killed 75 people that have nothing to do with al Qaeda, as far as they're concerned, we're the terrorists. We've attacked them on their soil with the intention of killing their innocent people.

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Allen: But we did not have the intention of killing innocent people. We had the intention of killing an al Qaeda terrorist.

Bennish: Do you know that?

Allen: So, you're saying the United States has intentions to kill innocent people?

Bennish: I don't know the answer to that question.

Allen: But what gain do we get from killing innocent people in the Middle East? What gain does that pose to us?

Bennish: Let me ask you this. During the 1980s, Iran and Iraq were involved in an 8-year-long war. The United States sold missiles, tanks, guns, planes, to which side?

Unidentified student: Iraq?

Bennish: Both. The answer is both. Why would we send armaments to two sides that are fighting each other. That seems to be self-defeating. Don't we want one side to win? Not always! Sometimes you just want there to be conflict!

The British -- this is one of the grand strategies of the British imperial system--was to play local animosities off each other. To prevent them is to divide and conquer.

Do we really want the Middle East to unite as one cohesive political and cultural body?

No! Because then they could what? Threaten our supremacy.

We want to keep the world divided. Do we really want to kill innocent people? I don't know. I don't know the answer to that.

I know there are some Americans who do. People who work in the CIA. People who have to think like that. Those kind of dirty minds, dirty tricks. That's how the intelligence world works. Sometimes you do want to kill people just for the sake of killing them. Right?

Listen, between the years 1960 and 1962, the United States through the CIA conducted over 7,000 terrorist sabotage attacks against the small island nation of Cuba. Over 7,000 terrorist attacks were waged against just one little country called Cuba in a two year period, intentionally, let me rephrase that, intentionally blowing up medical supplies, intentionally burning down crops that feed their country, thereby creating starvation, right? Intentionally trying to make that system collapse. And we're willing to expend however many thousands of people died because we just want to get rid of Castro. And the sad reality is that there are some policy planners who are willing to let people die in order to achieve their objectives.

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Now, do I think President Bush says 'I'd like to go kill some innocent Palestianians?' I don't think he thinks like that. But I also know that he's not the only one making decisions. I also know that after September 11, President Bush got on TV and he said, 'You will feel our wrath. You will feel the full force of the United States military. There will be paybacks.' He said it again last night. He said, 'We've killed a lot of top-ranking al Qaeda members. And for those who aren't killed yet, you're day will come!' Right? That kind of language to me is very obvious.

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And when you go trying to kill one particular type of person, you know that you're gonna kill other people, too. And let me ask you this...

Allen: Later in that, he stated that he's [Osama bin Laden] trying to kill innocents...

Bennish: I understand that, but hold on, you have to understand something, that when al Qaeda attacked America on September 11, in their view, they're not attacking innocent people. Ok. The CIA has an office at the World Trade Center. The Pentagon is a military target. The White House was a military target. Congress is a military target. The World Trade Center is the economic center of our entire economy.

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The FBI, who tracks down terrorists and so on and so forth around the world, has offices in the World Trade Center. Some of the companies that work in the World Trade Center are these huge multinational corporations that are directly involved in the military-industrial complex in supporting corrupt dictatorships in the Middle East.

And so in the minds of al Qaeda, they're not attacking innocent people. They're attacking legitimate targets. People who have blood on their hands as far as they're concerned!

We portray them as innocent because they're our friends and neighbors, family, loved ones. One of my best friends from high school, elementary school, and birth, lives in lower Manhattan. You know, he was right there, he was four blocks away from it. So, anytime it comes close to home, you begin to see things differently.

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In no way am I implying, I don't know, you got to figure this stuff out for yourself, but I want you to think about these things--you know, think about this right here. [Apparently pointing to American flag.] Here's the real homeland security. Fighting terrorism since 1492! Ok. I mean, to many Native Americans, that flag is no different than the Nazi flag or the Confederate flag. It represents the people that came and stole their land, lied, brought disease, rape, pillage, destruction, etc. So it all depends upon varying people's perspectives
varying. And of course, we're going to see ourselves as being in the right , at least the majority of us, because that's us.

Allen: But we were the ones that were attacked first. On September 11, 2001,
we were the ones that were attacked. We were not attacking anybody until that point. Then we said ok, we're going into Afghanistan. Then we said ok, the Iraqi government has ties with al Qaeda. We're going to go into Iraq. We were the ones that were attacked.

Bennish: In actuality, if you remember back to my first day, the Sept. 11 attacks were, according to bin Laden, a direct response to our 1) support of the nation of Israel, which they consider to be a terrorist regime that does not have the right to control the land that the Palestinians lived on for over 1,500 years, and they also did it because of what George Clinton did--Bill Clinton, not George Clinton, they had a little documentary on him on PBS last night I was watching--Bill Clinton, when he launched the missile attacks into Afghanistan and Sudan and killed thousands of innocent Africans and Afghanistan people - Afghanis - that had nothing to do with al Qaeda or anything. In fact, in sudan, he blew up the country's largest pharmaceutical plant, which was producing medicines, alright, um, you know, that's as far as, in their eyes, that was retaliation for those attacks.

And so this whole idea of who attacked who first, how far back in time do you wanna go!? This is the whole thing with the Arab-Israeli conflict. Well, who was there first? Well, if you believe the Bible, you say, well, God gave the land of Canaan to the Israelites. But who was in that land when they got there? The Canaanites, who some archeologists would argue are the ancient descendants of the Palestinians. You know.

Other archeologists say the Hebrews didn't really come from Egypt. They were actually a group of Canaanites who decided they didn't like the other Canaanites and developed this story afterward to justify how they killed all their neighbors
and took over the land.

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Alright, and so this becomes very, very muddled. And I'm not in any way implying that you should agree with me. I don't even know if I'm necessarily taking a position. But what I'm trying to get you to do is to think, right, about these issues more in-depth, you know, and not just take things from the surface. And I'm glad you asked all your questions, because they're very good, legitimate questions. And hopefully that allows other people to begin to think about some of those things, too.

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I know some of you are incredulous about my claims of how serious our situation is. Do yourselves a favor by reading some of the stories from Students For Academic Freedom, hold your teddy tight, pull the covers up to your nose and start giving some serious thought to those things that are out there going bump in the night because they are coming to your neighborhood, and your kids' school, soon.

Schools For Scandal And The Sin Of Conservative Indifference

Pay attention, class. The question is, to what? The answer is, the simple fact that the Democratic Party owns the public school system and uses it like a triple AAA farm club to groom, develop and indoctrinate talent for future liberal campaigns and activism. It is not at all uncommon for a fair number of teachers to use their classes as platforms for promoting their own partisan political views. If we ever meet face to face, I'll share some serious horror stories with you. But I'm not writing right now to excorciate the dems for trying to take control of our kids. For one, I'm not a whiner. For two, their control is pretty seriously entrenched and not likely to be shaken loose any time soon, or, put another way, you and what army? And three, rather than complain about the other guy, I like to think I am more intensely focused on what we should be doing and not on what the other guy did. That just leads to, well, open ended whining. Please see one again.

My suggestion is simple: That people start asking the state party what they are doing in terms of putting money and man power into encouraging the formation of republican and conservative clubs on high school campuses across the state. Mind you, requests for clubs should come from the kids, that is how it should be. But if the party and its members and supporters were to encourage their kids to start forming these clubs, that would be a good idea. Speaking of which, the party has definitely been doing a better job of supporting college republicans. But we need to lower our sights, so to speak, to include a younger high school age group.

If we want these kids to have a shot at getting even a scintilla of objectivity and the opportunity to hear a different point of view, and if we want our kids to be something else besides fodder for liberal propaganda, the state party needs to make this a major focus and stop staring blankly into space every time the question is raised.

This is an excellent piece on the gradually accelerating defections from the Clinton ranks among the Super Delegates. Most noteworthy: The two most recent defections to the Obama camp are senior members of the Congressional Black Leadership Caucus in the House. Bad news for Hillary indeed! But you know, they can do the math. They know their overwhelmingly black districts voted heavily for Obama. And they don't want to have to come back for the next election cycle being known as the people Who Stopped The First Black President From Taking Office Because They Voted For Hillary At A Log Jammed National Party Convention. That would be a sure ticket to an unemployment line. As it is, it seems to me the Democrats are headed for a bloody show down at the national convention. Neither candidate has a clear hands down advantage, and Hillary would simply have to crush Obama in every single contest from here on out in order to win the nomination. And that won't happen for three reasons: 1) There aren't enough primaries and caucuses left. 2) Delegates are awarded on a proportional basis, which means Hillary can still win a state but Obama might possibly scoop up 40% or so of the vote. 3) The delegate allocation process in many places favors areas of high population concentration and density, which gives an edge to urban centers in Texas, Ohio and Pennsylvania with large black communities.

In the end, black and white legislators with majority or large minority black districts are going to look over their shoulder and ask themselves what the smart move is for them. Then they'll ask, what is in the best interest of the party and how will what happens now affect the dynamic between the black community and the rest of the democratic party in the future. Conclusion: Backing Hillary could lead to a multi-generational train wreck for the party. Stay tuned. The fun is just beginning.

Its eight months before the election. Do you know where YOUR kids are?

Do you have kids who are old enough to vote and aren't registered yet, or who are registered but are going to school out of state and haven't bothered to ask for an absentee ballot? Please be sure to get after your kids to vote and make sure they get an absentee ballot. Its important!

Man On The Run and Read, White And Blue Are Baaacccckkk....

Hi, team. Watch this spot for further developments. For now, I want to take a moment to share a little good news with you. Yesterday, I registered two new Republican voters. This coming week, I'll register two more. I have about another five Republicans on my list to register in coming weeks. And before this week, I had registered about another ten.

You see, we can go back and forth on the issues and debate philosophy and this, that and the other thing, but it all comes down to the bottom line:Registering as many new voters as we can, searching every nook and cranny in order to find them, getting them to vote and making sure they vote the right way. Period. This needs to be our main focus. We have lots of new Republicans moving to our state all the time, and we need to find them, get them on board, and register them. I want to talk here especially about a potential achilles heel for us: people who are registered to vote in one place in the state but move somewhere else in the state and forget to change their voter registration. This is, I believe, a much bigger problem than anybody realizes.

So my challenge to all of you is to commit to signing up ten new Republican voters before the general election deadline. Have a voter reg drive at your church, volunteer to set up a voter reg table at fairs, trade shows and public events.

More soon. Very soon.