Experience? Whose got what.

I was watching the news today and it struck me again , Obama supporters, who are whining about governor Palen's so called lack of experience and only a "heartbeat away" of being president if something should happen to senator McCain, are supporting a man with no real resume to be a chief executive. When I heard it for the second or third time from different individuals throughout one morning I started to laugh. Why, you might ask. The republicans are accused of placing an unqualified person a heartbeat away from the presidency and if you look at the facts, the democrats are trying to place an unqualified person in the White House. Not a heartbeat away but actually in the White House as president. Can anyone explain to me what Senator Obama's qualifications are for being president other than the fact that he's good looking, he's young, and he can make speeches very well as long as he has a teleprompter. Oh yes, I forgot, he was a "community organizer" whatever that is. The qualifications that I've heard so far are one, he was a community organizer, two, he held a senate seat in the state of Illinois for a very short time and three he is the junior senator from the state of Illinois has been in office for less than two years. So which of these three things that he is an qualifies him to be president? No one has shown me where Senator Obama since he has been in the US Senate has initiated any type of legislation. Yes he did push some things through in the Illinois Senate, but no one has been able to show me so far any legislation that Senator Obama has authored that has reached across party lines. Nor has he worked hand in hand with republicans and independents to form any type of coalition or bi-partisan group to work and any type of legislation. If you want to look at his leadership in the senate, he is the chairman of a senate committee that has never met since he became the chairman. Obama has demonstrated no leadership in any of his endeavors. As a "community organizer he associated with Reverend Wright and William Ayers around, following their lead and their advice and how to advance politically. So in total Senator Obama has been a legislator for approximately 10 years and has the most liberal voting record in the United States Senate and has never reached a crossed party lines for any reason. Prior to that as stated before, he was a "community organizer". He has no years of executive experience. Now let's look at Sarah Palen's experience. In 1992 She was elected as a member of the town council (legislative experience) and again in 1996. As a council member she worked to do what was best for the people of her city. She then ran for and was elected mayor (executive experience) in 1996 and was very successful again doing what was right rather than what was expedient or politically correct to do. She took the lead in reducing wasteful spending. She was elected a second time by a wider margin and continued her work on reforms. Term limits stopped her from running for a third term as mayor. Between the time she left her job a mayor ,she took on a corrupt members of her own party and they were forced to retire after an investigation found they were guilty. In 1996 Sarah then took on the incumbent governor beat him in the primary and she went on to win a race for governor in her home state of Alaska. While in office over the last two years she has continually cut wasteful spending, reached across party lines to again do what was right for the people of Alaska rather than what was politically correct for her party. Her popularity with the voters has ranged from 82-93%. Sarah Palen has ten years of executive experience between her time as a Mayor and her time as governor of Alaska. She has experience of being a legislator by being a member of her town council. While she may not have a lot of stamps on her passport it simply means she hasn't been touring Europe and Asia on the taxpayers tab like many members of congress. She's stayed at work doing her job governing a city and a state. Submitting and managing budgets. Working as commander in chief of the Alaska National Guard. There is a lot more that I've left out. You can find it by simply looking it up on the Internet like I did. So all in all if you compare the two candidates to the one who wants to be president from the democratic party has no executive experience, no experience in reaching across the aisle to work with members of the other parties to get things done, he has no experience in writing legislation, he has no experience in fighting corruption, and he has done nothing during his time in either Illinois or in the US Senate to introduce change to anything. Yet the democratic party believes that he is qualified to be president. Sarah Palen on the other hand who is running for the office of vice-president as the second person on a ticket with a very experienced a leader at the top, has experience as a chief executive for both the city and the state fighting for change and making changes. She has experience as a legislator being a member of her town council introducing change. She has experience in reaching across the aisles to gain the support of members of the other parties to do what is right for the people. She has cut spending in her state. And she has taken on big government corruption and she won. You tell me which one of these two is qualified to be president of the United States, the democrat who wants to be president with no executive experience and no bi-partisan legislation bearing his name, or the republican with 10 years of executive experience, legislative experience, has been an agent for change throughout her political and public career who wants to be vice president and a heartbeat away from being the president? 

Honesty in speaking

Yeah, I know. I haven't posted anything in a LONG time. It's down to less than 50 days before the election so it's time to start putting on the pressure. Not that this little blog can exert any but you as a voter can.

I see a lot of rhetoric about how John McCain picked an unqualified individual for his running mate. Well, lets look at Obama's running mate. We saw a clip of Sarah quoting President Lincoln before her church. Now it was edited out but when you look at the whole thing in context it's clear what she was doing. Now lets look at Joe Biden. The excerpt below is from The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing. their website is http://nutsandbolts.washcoll.edu/plagiarism.html

Scientists and scholars build on the ideas and research of others. Such collaboration, as Isaac Newton observed, is part of the common culture of science. But originality is just as important in science, as reflected in the harsh academic code of publish or perish. Thus scientists and academics of all stripes are sticklers about drawing a clear line between what is original in one's work, and what is not. And since academics are the watchdogs and graders of student writing, it is critically important for students to learn what plagiarism is and why it's so dangerous.

Plagiarism can have catastrophic consequences for one's career as a student and even later on in life—and the higher one's ambition takes one, the higher the stakes. In 1987, for instance, Senator Joe Biden, who was seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, was accused of plagiarizing passages in speeches and interviews from the oratory of a British politician, Neil Kinnock. Here are some of the passages in question:

Kinnock Original :

Why am I the first Kinnock in a thousand generations to be able to get to university? Why is Glenys the first woman in her family in a thousand generations to be able to get to university?

Was it because our predecessors were thick? Does anybody really think that they didn't get what we had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment? Of course not. It was because there was no platform upon which they could stand.

Biden Speech:

I started thinking as I was coming over here, why is it that Joe Biden is the first in his family ever to go to a university? Why is it that my wife who is sitting out there in the audience is the first in her family to ever go to college?

Is it because our fathers and mothers were not bright? . . . No, it's not because they weren't as smart. It's not because they didn't work as hard. It's because they didn't have a platform upon which to stand . . .

It turned out Biden had also borrowed passages from old campaign speeches by Robert Kennedy and had inflated his academic record. But oratory has a long tradition of borrowing and even "heavy lifting," as speechwriters call it, so Biden stayed alive in the presidential race. The last straw, however, came when it turned out that twenty years earlier Biden had received a failing grade in a law school course for plagiarizing a legal article (he'd given a single footnote while lifting five full pages from the article). Biden said he'd been unaware of the appropriate standards for legal briefs, but the public was unimpressed. His campaign collapsed and he withdrew from the race.The lesson: be afraid of plagiarism. It creates paper-trail timebombs that can destroy a career you've spent decades building—especially today, when teachers routinely keep copies of papers and the Internet makes it a snap to compare texts and locate sources

Doesn't sound like Sen. Biden was being very honest now does it? If my students did the same thing they would suffer the consequences including failure of the paper/speech, failure of the class and academic probation unless it was anything other than a first offense. If it is the second offense they are removed from school. Sen Biden apparently has done this more than once.

I'll post more about "Qualifications" or the lack there of by others in the race. And a little about being "patriotic" by paying more taxes.

Keep searching for the truth. As the poster in Fox Mulder's office said "The truth is out there"

Workplace Religious Freedom Act

We earnestly seek your prayers in advance of Congress’s hearing on the Workplace Religious Freedom Act on February 12. And not only prayers, but we urgently need your letters. Your letters are the ammunition we need in the battle for religious liberty. Too many Sabbath keepers are being fired for no crime other than obeying God. This is our chance to stand up for them. Please use the voice God has entrusted to you to speak up for your brothers and sisters in the faith by sending your letter now.

Click on the attached link and find out how you can help secure the religious rights of you and your friends in the workplace. This is vitally important. The constitution of the United States guarantees freedom of Religion it's about time the workplace realized people of faith (any faith) have rights that must be observed without fear of being punished, hindered in promotion or fired for their beliefs. This bill will go a long way in securing those rights we should already have.

For more information and a link to your representatives in the Senate and House of Representatives http://www.religiousliberty.info/blog/?p=65

Thank you,
T.O.P.

It's been a while

It's been a while since I've posted here, but with the political season full upon us I think I'll probably be posting more as the race progresses.

Today is the Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Day. I remember the civil rights movement of the 60's and Dr. King's marches and speeches. He was a great man with a great vision. He believed people should not be judged by the color of their skin or the country of origin. It's too bad today many don't remember what he and those pioneers were working toward. Today I heard on the news there are protests against the monument being built in his honor. The main thrust of the protest is the man who has been commissioned to do the statue of Dr. King. He is Chinese. The protests range from the artist should not be from China because of that country's human rights abuses, to the artist should be an American to the artist should be black/African-American.

I wondered what would Dr. King think of this protest. My guess is he would be outraged. He wanted all men to be judged on their abilities not on skin color or national origin. He believed all men are created equal. Something many American's have forgotten.

Does it really matter if the artist is from China or Taiwan or Brazil or Kenya or Mississippi? What should matter is how good is the artist and is the work going to be a credit to Dr. King's memory. It's too bad we allow our own petty differences and prejudices to get in the way of common sense and in this case getting in the way of Dr. King's real vision and legacy.

The other sad commentary on today's "Holiday" is it for many has just become another three day weekend. For many it's just another paid day off nothing more. Kind of like veteran's day and labor day two other holidays that have lost their meaning as well.

On another front. It's been 10 years since the Monica Lewinsky episode of American History. It doesn't seem that long ago but I guess it was. I heard one radio talk show mention it and one local news show. You would think that something as important in our nations history as an impeachment and a new way we are looking looking at and receiving our news each day would rate a little more notice.

The Drudge report started it all. Since then more and more people look to the internet for their news than they do from the 6 o'clock evening news. It was a turning point in how we look at the news. It was historical because it was only the second time in history there was a vote to decide if the president would be impeached. It all started 10 years ago today.

For all you Patriot and Giant's fans congratulations on your teams making it to Superbowl XLII. I look forward to an outstanding game. It will probably have fewer low blows, hard hits and sacks than the Democratic and Republican Primaries.

Enjoy both games.

The Old Prospector

EMedicine - Toxicity, Chlorine Gas : Article by Eli Segal, MD

http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic851.htm If you wonder what it's like to be exposed to chlorine gas like that used in Iraq recently, check out this link. If it's all too technical for you. The bottom line is the chlorine gas causes your lungs to fill with fluid and the individual drowns in their own fluids. The Old Prospector

Suicide Chlorine Bombing Kills 27

Anyone who does not believe terrorist will use chemical, biological and nuclear weapons when they have access to them are either naive and burying their heads in the sand or just plain stupid, my personal guess is the latter.
This article from the Washington Post clearly demonstrates what many of us have been saying for a long time, that if available terrorist will use weapons of mass destruction.

If these groups are willing to use chlorine gas to kill soldiers and civilians on two separate occasions in Iraq what makes people here in the US so hesitant to believe these terrorists will do it again over there and here in the US?

By the way, why hasn't this been front page news here? Nothing on the retro media (those who are trying to go back to their power of the late 60's and early 70's) and nothing on the cable news agencies. Why, well maybe because it validates what the military and the executive branch of the government has been telling us and worst of all, it would prove President Bush is right and the media certainly can't have that now can they?

What we as citizens tolerate will happen. If we tolerate selective news reporting for political purposes then we have nobody to blame but ourselves when news like this is purposely ignored.

A washingtonpost.com article from: chris.chriswilliams@gmail.com

Message from sender: Those who do not believe terrorists will used either chemical or nuclear weapons if and when they have them need to read this article. We also need to ask why this has not been highlighted on any of the major networks

Suicide Chlorine Bombing Kills 27

By STEVEN R. HURST

BAGHDAD -- A suspected al-Qaida in Iraq suicide bomber smashed a truck loaded with TNT and toxic chlorine gas into a police checkpoint in Ramadi on Friday, killing at least 27 people _ the ninth such attack since the group's first known use of a chemical weapon in January.

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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