Raped or Represented: An Open Letter to Black Americans

Bishop Harry Jackson is steel on target in this open letter. Like Larry Elder, Bishop Jackson is a rising star in the world of political commentary. They both reject victimization and take a proactive stand toward change in our nation. Their radio shows and columns are worth the time to listen and to read. Take time to do both you won't regret it.

T.O.P.

Rangel wants to reinstate draft

If memory serves me correctly back in the 2004 election Charlie Rangle and the rest of the democrats were warning if you elect Bush and the republicans they are going to reinstate the draft. The republicans denied it and stated they believed the all volunteer force was the way to go. But Charlie and the others of his party kept repeating it and unfortunatley many believed it.

NOW, the dems won the midterm election and when you check the following link you'll find out what is one of the first things out of Charlie Rangle's mouth. We need to reinstate the draft! We tolerated Charlie and the other Dems tellin lies back in 04. Now is the time we need to confront folks like Rep. Rangle with their '04 rhetoric. Bush won, no draft, Dems win they want a draft. Please remember this iin 08 when the dems tell you sosomething about the republicans you can bet it what they are going to do.

This reminds me of the Goldwater Johnson election. Everything Goldwater said he would do and johnson said he wouldn't do. Johnson ended up doing. Folks like charlie rangle will say what every they believe will get them the most votes and get their liberal base motivated then after the election they do what they originally planned. Remember Charlie Rangle next election.
I spent time in the military during both the time of the draft during Vietnam and during the all volunteer force. Trust me, the all volunteer force is the way to go.

T.O.P.

Give Them Back.com

Give Them Back.com


This is something that was tolerated in New Orleans after the Hurricane. It should not have been tolerated then and it must never be tolerated again. Check out ALL of the videos at Give Them Back you'll be glad you did.

Is Kerry REALLY apologizing?

According to news sources John Kerry apologized for his remarks regarding those serving in the military. This is what thepress said "Sen. John Kerry bowed to bipartisan pressure yesterday and apologized for insulting U.S. troops earlier this week when he suggested that a lack of wits and poor academic performance had landed them on the front lines of Iraq."

But did Kerry really apologize for his remarks. Lets take a look. Here is what he said: "I sincerely regret that my words were misinterpreted to wrongly imply anything negative about those in uniform, and I personally apologize to any service member, family member, or American who was offended,"

If you break it down he is NOT apologizing for what he said. He is apologizing for what people like you and I THOUGHT he said. It is aparently our fault that we "misinterpreted" his words. I know I didn't "misinterpret" what he said and I'm sure you didn't either.

We need an apology from Sen. Kerry where he takes responsibility for what he said not apolgizing for our "misinterpreted" version. He needs to just come out and say. "I'm sorry for what I said." Not I'm sorry your too stupid to understand what I meant to say.

As far as I'm concerned Mr Kerry has not apologized and still owes one to all of the men and women who have served and are serving their country in the military.

Apologize for real Mr Kerry. We're not going to tolerate your lawyer's parsing of words. Apologize!

T.O.P.

14 Year Old Assyrian Boy Decapitated By Muslim Group

14 Year Old Assyrian Boy Decapitated By Muslim Group

Where is the press outrage about this beheading? We've tolerated our press complaining about the treatment the terrorist prisoners have allegedly received at GTMO and a few terrorist prisoners humiliated by their military guards at AbuGrab prison. Why aren't they outraged by this torture? Maybe it's because the victim is a Christian?

It's time our press started doing their job, report the news. Don't filter it, don't editorialize, just report what's happening without bias or spin. I'm sorry to say we've toerlated them doing this for so long they will probably never change unless we refuse to tolerate their behavior.

T.O.P.

A message for Senator Kerry from our troops.

Our troops in Iraq are sending John Kerry a message. Please enjoy this photo taken today by our brave soldiers in Iraq! Feel free to email this your friends and family. NewsMax.Com How long do we tolerate liberals bad mouthing our military men and women?  Sen. Kerry has been doing it since the 70's and still is not really held accountable. His buddies like Hillary and others have called on him to apologize but not because they disagree with him but because of the political repercussions they are feeling.      I spent 30 years with military men and women.  I have served with them and supervised them.  Let me telly you,  they are very bright, well educated, hard working dedicated professionals. They can get a job anywhere. I personally know many who have turned down jobs that paid more than what they were making in the military and they turned the jobs down flat.  They are there because they want to be not because, as the senator believes, they have no other choice.   Telly ya what,  I have taught military members and civilians,  I'll take the military member every single time.    T.O.P.

Iwo Jima, If Covered By Media Today

Iwo Jima, If Covered By Media Today

We've tolerated the media imposing their views on the news and what news we receive. We see it daily in the war on terror. Zell Miller wrote a great article on what would have happened at Iwo Jima if it were covered by today's activist media. This was written a while ago but brought to my attention again when I was reviewing all my old bookmarks. It got my juices flowing again.

I Vietnam we started allowing the media to do more than just report the news. They have evolved into activists for their own personal political agenda. That's not what they are supposed to do. Yes they still have the same rights as everyone else but they need to remember their job is to report the news not interpret it. If they want to interpret the news that's what editorials are for. Their job is Who, what, when, where, why, how, that's it. They can give their personal views of the news on an op-ed page not on the nightly news.

Activist journalists of today would have cost us WWII just as they cost us Vietnam. They are as bad as activist judges in the courts. One tries to change things by manipulating public opinion the other tries to change society to their "ideal" by legislating from the bench.

Neither is doing their job. Reporters should report the news as it occurs not as they want it to have occurred. Judges should interpret the laws as written not as they would like it to be.

We've tolerated both and now we are suffering the consequences.

The importance of independent verification to science.

For a long time I have questioned the accuracy and the veracity of studies done by environmentalists. For me this started back when scientists were claiming that we were heading to a new ice age and put forward the notion of "global cooling" Then we went to the other extreme that we have today "global warming". Dr. Michael Crichton wrote a book a couple years ago called "State of Fear" I read and enjoyed the book, as I have done so often with other Crichton books, What stuck me a different about this particular book is his personal perspective at the end of the book. I read it and guess what it made sense. For years we have tolerated "scientists" who not only decide what they will research (or the people they work for decide), they do the research, analyze the data themselves and then publish their findings themselves (most often coming to the same conclusion as their employers want. Data is skewed, left out or ignored to come to the conclusions they wanted to find or they will word their report in a way that isn't exactly a lie but it's not exactly the truth either. Much of this is based on $$. If you don't produce the results the agency who hired you wants you won't get any more grants to do more studies.

Medical studies are done in a different method and Dr. Crichton suggested in his book and to congress in 2005 a better way to do these enironmental and all scientific studies. See his testimony before the US Senate at his website http://www.crichton-official.com/speeches/index.html

The suggestion in his book is simply that scientists not know who is funding their research and that they turn the data over to a third party who will analyze it and write the report.

This makes sense to me. We have tolerated those with particular agenda either for or against global cooling, global warming, the plight of the snail darter etc to not only fund but do the reasearch and then analze their own data and come up with the answer they wanted to start with. It's not really science.

We've tolerated it for way too long. Global warming is man's fault, at least that's what we've been told but if that is true, why is the temperature on Mars, Jupiter and the other planets going up at the same speed our planet is? Yeah, I know I've harped on this before. But if we had real disinterested scientific collection and analysis of the data maybe the answers would be significantly different.

We should not tolerate either end of the political spectrum to determine what is scientifically accurate and what is not. I don't mean to imply that all scientists are intellectually dishonest and out for the money but like with so much of this world today many do fall into that catagory. A double blind scientific study, as Dr. Crichton recommends in his book and alludes to in his testimony to the senate, is the only way to come up with data and analysis that we can really trust. We've tolerated money and politics determining the outcome of scientific studies for long enough and now we have data and studies that we cannot trust to make an unbiased decision. We tolerated this and it happened. Now we need to find a better way. The truth is out there if we will only search for it.

Mars and Pluto Climates Warming, Al Gore Scours for Extraterrestrial SUVs

Mars and Pluto Climates Warming, Al Gore Scours for Extraterrestrial SUVs

Bad news again for the Greenies. Why have we tolerated their misinformation for so long? The truth is out there but you really have to dig for it. State of Fear:by Michael Crichton does a great job of exposing the Global warming environmental crowd throughout the book with verifiable references. His conclusions at the end of the book and references are great Now we have NASA and the California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Laboratory saying the science shows it may not be man's fault. We've tolerated the lies of the radical environmentalists like Al "I invented the internet" Gore for long enough and we are paying the price. It's time to stop tolerating their lies and actually looking at the REAL data.

T.O.P.

Larry Elder

Larry Elder

Larry Elder's column is steel on target except its not just blacks that need to know the true history of the Democratic Party everyone does.

We have tolerated the Jessie Jackson's and Al Sharpton's telling everyone how the republican party is only for whites men, that republicans are racist and the only ones who care about any other race or gender is the democratic party. So now their lies have become the truth for many americans. It's time we stopped tolerating lies from men like these and look at the real truth. Maybe it's not too late. I pray it's not too late.

Thank you Larry Elder this is a great article. Loved your book as well.

Townhall.com::It's time for America to leave the UN::By Matt Towery

Townhall.com::It's time for America to leave the UN::By Matt Towery

Could not have put it better myself.

Townhall.com::Islamofascists to Pope Benedict XVI: "Apolgize -- or else"::By Larry Elder

Townhall.com::Islamofascists to Pope Benedict XVI: "Apolgize -- or else"::By Larry Elder

Larry is steel on target with this article and as usual the NY and LA Times are not (as usual).

Muslim anger spreads to South Asia - World - insider.washingtontimes.com

Muslim anger spreads to South Asia - World - insider.washingtontimes.com

Why do we in the west and the rest of the world tolerate this type of behavior? Muslim leaders throughout the world can say whatever they want about Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, or any other belief and nothing happens. However if anyone says anything against Islam or Muhammad, Muslims riot, burn churches etc.

We have been and are tolerating this barbaric behavior. If we continue to tolerate these activities then they will only get worse. The civilized countries of the world need to stand up and let the radical Islamic world know "We're mad as hell and we're not going to take it any more!" and for a change actually mean what we say and back it up with actions. If the radical Islamic extremists want respect then they need to treat the rest of the world and the rest of the world's religions with respect.

If it is expected that we tolerate Muslim leaders to call for the end of Israel and the extermination of all Jews or the execution of the Pope or anyone else who speaks against Islam then they must tolerate some criticism of their faith.

We must not continue to tolerate the Muslim extremists continuation of this barbaric behavior without them realizing there are consequences for their words and actions.

It's time for the UN to get of their collective asses to actually stand up to these intolerant clerics and actually do something for a change. The UN action in these matters is as worthless as a mother who knows her child is torturing and killing the neighborhood cats and scolds him by saying " Now now little Johnny that really isn't very nice. You shouldn't do that anymore. Why don't you come inside and have a cookie." The UN tolerates this abominable behavior with rhetoric while the Muslim extremists just thumb their nose at the rest of the world and go on doing as they damn well please.

We as human beings and the leaders of the world have tolerated this and continue to tolerate this behavior. What has happened? It's only become worse. The longer we tolerate it the worse it will become because "What you tolerate, will happen"

The Old Prospector

The Center For Individual Freedom

From the Center for Individual Freedom

"The next time you hear a Member of Congress speak about so-called "comprehensive immigration reform," remember the story of Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean.
Ramos and Compean are U.S. Border Patrol agents who are facing 20 years in prison for attempting to apprehend an illegal alien -- who was also smuggling drugs -- at the border.
Hard to believe, but it's true! Consider this account of the incident from the Internet magazine WorldNetDaily.com:
"When Border Patrol Agent Ignacio Ramos pulled the trigger last February, all he knew was that his partner was lying on the ground behind him -- bloodied from a struggle with a fleeing suspect -- shots had been fired and now, it appeared, the drug smuggler he was pursuing had turned toward him with what looked to be a gun in his hand... "Ramos, 37, is an eight-year veteran of the U.S. Naval Reserve and a former nominee for Border Patrol Agent of the Year. "On February 17, he responded to a request for back up from agent Jose Alonso Compean, 28, who noticed a suspicious van near the levee road along the Rio Grande River near the Texas town of Fabens, about 40 miles east of El Paso... "Behind the wheel of the van was an illegal alien, Osbaldo Aldrete-Davila of Mexico. Unknown to the growing number of Border Patrol agents converging on Fabens, Aldrete-Davila's van was carrying 800 pounds of marijuana. "Unable to outrun Ramos and the third agent, Aldrete-Davila stopped the van on the levee, jumped out and started running toward the river. When he reached the other side of the levee, he was met by Compean who had anticipated the smuggler's attempt to get back to Mexico. "'We both yelled out for him to stop, but he wouldn't stop, and he just kept running,' Ramos told California's Inland Valley Daily Bulletin. Aldrete-Davila crossed a canal. "'At some point during the time where I'm crossing the canal, I hear shots being fired,' Ramos said. 'Later, I see Compean on the ground, but I keep running after the smuggler.' "At that point, Ramos said, Aldrete-Davila turned toward him, pointing what looked like a gun. "'I shot,' Ramos said. 'But I didn't think he was hit, because he kept running into the brush and then disappeared into it. Later, we all watched as he jumped into a van waiting for him. He seemed fine. It didn't look like he had been hit at all.'"
But that wasn't the end of the story! Two weeks later, a Border Patrol Agent received a call from the drug smuggler's mother-in-law in Mexico who claimed that Ramos had actually shot the drug smuggler in the buttocks.
And our own government filed charges against Ramos and Compean for violating the civil rights of this illegal aliens and felon.
In the words of U.S. Assistant District Attorney Debra Kanof, "The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled it is a violation of someone's Fourth Amendment rights to shoot them in the back while fleeing if you don't know who they are and/or if you don't know they have a weapon."
That's not all. Not only did our government give immunity to this drug smuggler to obtain his testimony at the trial, but this illegal alien and drug smuggler is now suing Ramos for $5 million dollars.

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You may be asking yourself, what does Ramos and Compean's sad tale have to do with so-called "comprehensive immigration reform?"
The answer is EVERYTHING!
Simply put, such a travesty of justice could only occur in an environment of ambiguity -- and that is exactly what "comprehensive immigration reform" -- as the Senate calls it -- creates.
The lack of a strong, no-nonsense immigration policy sends those who flout our laws the wrong message.
Ambiguous laws and immigration policies effectively tell the would-be illegal alien and those whose job it is to enforce our immigration laws that the United States has no resolve when it comes to securing our borders.
Perhaps Andy Ramirez of the nonprofit group Friends of the Border Patrol said it best when commenting on the Ramos-Compean story:
"This drug smuggler has fully contributed to the destruction of two brave agents and their families and has sent a very loud message to the other Border Patrol agents: If you confront a smuggler, this is what will happen to you."
If we -- as a nation -- are really serious about fixing the problem of illegal immigration, we MUST send a clear and unmistakable message that America's borders are indeed secure and that crossing those borders illegally will not be tolerated -- PERIOD!
You cannot speak of tough enforcement and programs that give amnesty and pathways to citizenship in the same breath. It's ridiculous beyond reason. But that's exactly what our politicians in Washington want to do!
And that's why we MUST continue to send our own message to our elected leaders. The American people want secure borders and tough enforcement, AND NO AMNESTY -- END OF SENTENCE!"

This is outrageous. We cannot tolerate this behavior by our government against one of our distinguished law enforcement officials. If we do, it will happen again.

Israeli raid aims to cut off arms resupply�-�World�-�insider.washingtontimes.com

Israeli raid aims to cut off arms resupply�-�World�-�insider.washingtontimes.com

Israel learned what you tolerate will happen. For years they tolerated the UN not enforcing the ban on weapons and failure to remove Hezbollah from Lebanon and they saw that it is happening again. So when they found Syria and Iran attempting to rearm Hezbollah with more arms, they attempted to stop the arms transfer. What happens? Lebanon and UN get in their face saying this is a violation of the cease fire. Sorry but I disagree. It is enforcement of 1701.

Here is what Fox News said "Lebanon threatened to halt deployment of its soldiers in the south of the country, and Prime Minister Fuad Siniora denounced Israel's operation as a "flagrant violation" of the cease-fire. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan discussed the operation by phone with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, and later called it a "violation by the Israeli side of the cessation of hostilities as laid out in Security Council Resolution 1701." U.N. Middle East envoy Terje Roed-Larsen said in Beirut that reports on the Israeli strike indicated it constituted a violation of the U.N. Security Council resolution that established a truce early last week after more than a month of fighting. Israel said the raid did not violate the cease-fire, and Washington appeared to agree with that claim. An Israeli army spokesman said the goal of the operation was achieved in full, and that the military would continue to prevent Hezbollah from getting weapons shipments from Iran and Syria. The operation exposed the first major dispute over implementation of Resolution 1701, which helped end fighting in Lebanon earlier last week. Concerned that the cease-fire will enable Hezbollah to rearm, Israel is demanding that the Lebanese army and international peacekeepers enforce the arms embargo against the militia called for by the cease-fire resolution. "

Big deal they Lebanese may not deploy their forces. They didn't do any good before the war broke out what makes anyone think they will do anything to stop Hezbollah now? This UN farce, no I didn't spell it wrong farce is exactly what I meant, will be worthless at best as so many other UN peacekeeping forces have been over the years. France has already stated that they are not going to disarm Hezbollah. Well then what good is this force?

"Israel will not tolerate Hezbollah exploiting the cease-fire to rearm, and to re-equip with strategic weapons from Iran and Syria. Then we're back to square one," Mr. Regev said.

Israel learned what you tolerate will happen and they "will not tolerate Hezbollah exploiting the cease-fire"

At least someone learned something. Too bad we here in the US didn't. We have tolerated antisemetic actions by the UN, failure to enforce it's own resolutions, and pure corruption by the UN and yet we still go to them thinking they will actually do something. We have larned NOTHING. We tolerate the UN's failures and guess what, they happen again and again and again. When will the US wake up and not tolerate the behavior and failure of the UN?

The UN Kofi Annan, Hezbollah and Hamas

06-31 Brief

Of all the people in the world I thought I would not agree with it is Alan Dershowitz, but for a change I must agree with him regarding the UN and their stance in the War between Hezbollah/Hamas and Israel in His article in the Patriot Post under "Culture".

For too long we in the United States and much of the "civilized" world have tolerated the UN's anti-semetic attitudes and their ineffectiveness when it comes to anything other than whining about everything the US or Israel does. Allen gets it right in this article. Who have tolerated the UN's enticements and Anti-American, pro-terrorist activities. And guess what it's happened. The UN's hostility and prejudice toward Israel shows up on nearly every vote and almost every word from Kofi Annan's mouth. He blames them for all of the unrest in Gaza and Lebanon. His accusation that Israel targeted the UN "force" in Lebanon is ridiculous.

Secretery General Annan ignores the fact that one of the Canadian soldiers assigned to the UN force killed in the bombing, told his superiors, via email, that the terrorist were firing rockets 3 meters from their position. Not the "hundreds" of meters reported by the UN envoy in the area who wasn't even there.

Israel has done everything they can to reduce or eliminate "collateral" damage by warning civilians well in advance to leave the area. Hezbollah on the other hand fires unguided missiles coated with buckshot designed to maximize casualties among civilians.

Who does Kofi and the usual suspects side with? Hezbollah! No big surprise. We have tolerated this is the past and it is happening so now it's coming up again to bite both Israel and the US in the butt.

It's time stop tolerating this behavior by the UN, we take matters again in our own hands and solve the problem even if that offends the Kofi and the other half of the problem in Lebanon.

I'm not even going to get into the fact that this UN force has been there for years and had done NOTHING and aren't even allowed to carry arms, yet the UN has spent $100,000,000 per year. Another UN boondoggle that has done nothing to secure the peace while costing us (and the rest of the UN members) over the years litterly billions of dollars.

What we tolerated, happened. We need to stop tolerating this poor behavior and poor judgment on the part of the UN.

Killing Frivolous Lawsuits Not Once, But Twice ... And Counting

Killing Frivolous Lawsuits Not Once, But Twice ... And Counting

One of the things we as americans have tolerated over the years have been these frivolous lawsuits that are filed by lawyers costing business and ultimately us the customer a hell of a lot of money. We tolerated it and it happend. However, the people of California got tired of it and passed proposition 64 which made the lawyers actually produce an individual who has been harmed. 17200 lawsuit were on file. That was supposed to kill those lawsuits and now the California Supreme court has agreed with the people and stopped all those lawsuits until they lawyer can actually find someone who was harmed.

Thank you California Supreme Court. The people of California stopped tolerating these law suits and hopefull now they are stopped. Proving what whe don't tolerate doesn't happen!

What you tolerate.

This is my first entry into the world of political blogging. I am neither republican or democrat. My only concern is what is right correct for our nation and our people. Sometimes I'm sure I'll sound quite conservative probably sometimes to the right of either Rush or Hannity but at other times I'm sure some will think I'm somewhere to the left of Ed Asner and Al Franken. Hopefully most will be somewhere in the middle.

Years ago when I was in the USAF, a Colonel once said that "What you tolerate will happen." At the time I just kind of blew it off as just one of those throwdown lines you hear bigwigs use. But after thinking about it for a while, I thought, you know, he's right. What you tolerate will happen. If you have a dog and you let him urinate on the floor and you don't do anything about it, he will do it again. If you don't do anything about it the second time, he will do it again and the cycle repeats itself.

The same is true with domestic and foreign politics, the media, our jobs, and just about everything else in life including our spouse, children, our churches, `poor service in resturants and the list goes on and on. If you tolerate something, it will happen. It's not a matter of if it will happen it's a matter of when it will happen.

As stated in the description of this Blog, I will discuss those things we have tolerated in our lives and what the result of that tolerance has been.

Oh you may wonder why I chose The Old Prospector as my name. Well I used to prospect for gold back in my youth. Now I dig around and prospect for the truth. Trust me gold was easier to find than the truth.

The Old Prospector