Monday, July 31, 2006

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.

Friday, July 28, 2006

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!

Tuesday, July 25, 2006

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