October 24, 2005

Think something like this isn't happening?
Scary. It is happening as you read this.....we all know someone who has come to this country with good intent, but, for every one of those with good intent, there are thousands with no intent! Read On!

8 WAYS TO DESTROY AMERICA

We know Dick Lamm as the former Governor of Colorado. In that  context his thoughts are particularly poignant. Last week there was an  immigration overpopulation conference in Washington, DC, filled to capacity by many of American's finest minds and leaders. A brilliant college  professor by the name of Victor Hansen Davis talked about his latest book, Mexifornia," explaining how immigration - both legal and illegal - was destroying the entire state of California. He said it would march across   the country until it destroyed all vestiges of The American Dream

Moments later, former Colorado Governor Richard D. Lamm stood up and gave a stunning speech on how to destroy America. The audience sat spellbound as he described eight methods for the destruction of the United States. He said, "If you believe that America is too smug, too self-satisfied, too rich, then let's destroy America It is not that  hard to do. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time Arnold Toynbee observed that all great civilizations rise and fall and that 'An autopsy of history would show that all great nations commit suicide.' "

Here is how they do it," Lamm said: "First, to destroy America, turn America into a bilingual or multi-lingual and bicultural country." History shows that no nation can survive the tension, conflict, and antagonism of two or more competing  languages and cultures. It is a blessing for an individual to be  bilingual; however, it is a curse for a society to be bilingual. The historical scholar, Seymour Lipset, put it this way: "The histories of bilingual and bi-cultural societies that do not assimilate are histories of turmoil, tension, and tragedy."  Canada, Belgium, Malaysia, and Lebanon all face crises of national existence in which minorities press for autonomy, if not independence. Pakistan and Cyprus have divided. Nigeria suppressed  an ethnic rebellion. France faces difficulties with Basques,
Bretons, and Corsicans.".

Lamm went on: Second, to destroy America, "Invent 'multiculturalism' and encourage immigrants to maintain their culture.  I would make it an article of belief that all cultures are equal. That there are no cultural differences. I would make it an article of faith that the Black and Hispanic dropout rates are due solely to prejudice and discrimination by the majority. Every other explanation is out of
bounds."

Third, "We could make the United States an 'Hispanic Quebec' without much effort. The key is to celebrate diversity rather than unity. As Benjamin Schwarz said in the Atlantic Monthly recently: "The apparent success of our own multiethnic and multicultural
experiment might have been achieved not by tolerance but by hegemony. Without the dominance that once dictated ethnocentricity and what it meant to be an American, we are left with only tolerance and pluralism to hold us together." Lamm said, "I would encourage all immigrants to keep their own language and culture. I would replace the melting pot metaphor with the salad bowl metaphor. It is important to ensure that we have various cultural subgroups living in America enforcing their differences rather than as Americans,
emphasizing their similarities."

"Fourth, I would make our fastest growing demographic group  the least educated. I would add a second underclass, unassimilated, undereducated, and antagonistic to our population. I would have this second underclass have a 50% dropout rate from high school"

"My fifth point for destroying America would be to get big foundations and business to give these efforts lots of money. I would invest in ethnic identity, and I would establish the cult of 'Victimology.' I would get all minorities to think that their lack of success was the fault of the majority I would start a grievance industry blaming all minority failure on the majority population."

"My sixth plan for America's downfall would include dual citizenship, and promote divided loyalties. I would celebrate diversity over unity. I would stress differences rather than similarities. Diverse people worldwide are mostly engaged in hating each other - that is, when they are not killing each other. A diverse, peaceful, or stable society is against most historical precedent. People undervalue the unity it takes to keep a nation together. Look at the ancient Greeks. The Greeks believed that they belonged to the same race; they possessed a common language and literature; and they worshipped the same gods. All Greece took part  the Olympic games. A common enemy, Persia, threatened their liberty. Yet all these bonds were not strong enough to overcome two factors: local patriotism and geographical conditions that nurtured political  divisions. Greece fell. "E. Pluribus Unum" -- From many, one. In that historical reality, if we put the emphasis on the 'pluribus' instead of the 'Unum,' we will balkanize America as surely as Kosovo."

"Next to last, I would place all subjects off limits; make it taboo to talk about anything against the cult of 'diversity.' I would find a word similar to 'heretic' in the 16th century - that stopped discussion and paralyzed thinking. Words like 'racist' or xenophobe' halt discussion and debate. Having made America a bilingual/bicultural country, having established multi-culturism, having the large foundations fund
the doctrine of 'Victimology,' I would next make it impossible to enforce our  immigration laws. I would develop a mantra: That because
immigration has been good for America, it must always be good. I would make every individual immigrant symmetric and ignore the cumulative impact of millions of them."

In the last minute of his speech, Governor Lamm wiped his brow. Profound silence followed. Finally he said,. "Lastly, I would censor Victor Hanson Davis's book Mexifornia. His book is dangerous. It exposes the plan to destroy America. If you feel America deserves to be destroyed, don't read that book.".

There was no applause. A chilling fear quietly rose like an ominous  cloud above every attendee at the conference. Every American in that  room knew that everything Lamm enumerated was proceeding methodically,quietly, darkly, yet pervasively across the United States today. Discussion is being suppressed. Over 100 languages are ripping the foundation of our  educational system and national cohesiveness. Barbaric cultures that  practice female genital mutilation are growing as we celebrate 'diversity.' American jobs are vanishing into the Third World as corporations create a Third World in. America - take note of California and other states -  to date, ten million illegal aliens and growing fast. It is reminiscent of George Orwell's book "1984." In that story, three slogans are engraved in the Ministry of Truth building: "War is peace," "Freedom is slavery," and "Ignorance is strength."

Governor Lamm walked back to his seat. It dawned on everyone at the conference that our nation and the future of this great democracy is deeply in trouble and worsening fast. If we don't get this immigration monster stopped within three years, it will rage like a California wildfire and destroy everything in its path, especially The American Dream.

July 20,2005

The Softer side of Sue.  At some point in her life, a woman comes to realize that a manicure only costs about $15.  That's about what you pay for dinner in a restaurant.  While dinner out is really no fun by yourself, a manicure is the perfect thing to do alone.  The trick is to find a real manicurist - someone who won't grind your fingers off with a Dremel tool and who has a fair-to-midlin' grasp of the English language.  It takes some shopping around but even in the research and discovery phase of manicuring, you end up with nicely polished nails.  How nice!

April 29, 2004

Here's some useful "Down Home" advice for ya -

++++++++++++An Old Farmer's Advice:  

* Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight and bull-strong.  

* Life ain't about how fast you run, or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.  

* Keep skunks and bankers and lawyers at a distance.

 * Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.

 * A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor.

 * Words that soak into your ears are whispered...not yelled.

 * Meanness don't jes' happen overnight.

 * Forgive your enemies. It messes up their heads.

 * Do not corner something that you know is meaner than you.  

* It don't take a very big person to carry a grudge.

 * You cannot unsay a cruel word.  

* Every path has a few puddles.  

* When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty.  

* The best sermons are lived, not preached.  

* Most of the stuff people worry about ain't never gonna happen anyway.

 * Don't judge folks by their relatives.

 * Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.

 * Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll enjoy it a second time.

 * Don't interfere with somethin' that ain't botherin' you none.

 * Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.

* The easiest way to eat crow is while it's still warm, 'cause the colder it gets, the harder it is to swaller.

 * If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop diggin'.

 * It don't take a genius to spot a goat in a flock of sheep.

 * Sometimes you get, and sometimes you get got.

* The biggest troublemaker you'll probably ever have to deal with, watches you from the mirror every mornin'.

 * Always drink upstream from the herd.

* Good judgment comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from bad judgment.

 * Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier than puttin' it back in.

 * If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try orderin' somebody else's dog around.

 * Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God.

...................and watch out where you're steppin.

April 20, 2005

I recieved the following in an email, recently.  I have to agree.

Here is some good news from Iraq:

Subject: Letter from a medic in the Iowa Army National Guard

  Can you circulate this? This is a letter from Ray Reynolds, a medic in  the Iowa Army National Guard, serving in Iraq:

      As I head off to Baghdad for the final weeks of my stay in Iraq, I  wanted to say thanks to all of you who did not believe the media. They  have  done a very poor job of covering everything that has happened. I am sorry
that I have not been able to visit all of you during my two week leave   back home. And just so you can rest at night knowing something is happening in  Iraq that is noteworthy, I thought I would pass this on to you. This is   the
list of things that has happened in Iraq recently: (Please share it with   your friends and compare it to the version that your paper is producing.)

     * Over 400,000 kids have up-to-date immunizations
      * School attendance is up 80% from levels before the war.

      * Over 1,500 schools have been renovated and rid of the weapons  stored there so education can occur.

      * The port of Uhm Qasar was renovated so grain can be off-loaded from ships faster.

      * The country had its first 2 billion barrel export of oil in
August.

      * Over 4.5 million people have clean drinking water for the first time ever in Iraq.

      * The country now receives 2 times the electrical power it did before the war.

      * 100% of the hospitals are open and fully staffed, compared to  35%  before the war.

      * Elections are taking place in every major city, and city
councils  are in place.

      * Sewer and water lines are installed in every major city.

      * Over 60,000 police are patrolling the streets.

      * Over 100,000 Iraqi civil defense police are securing the
country.

      * Over 80,000 Iraqi soldiers are patrolling the streets side by side  with US soldiers.

      * Over 400,000 people have telephones for the first time ever.

      * Students are taught field sanitation and hand washing techniques  to prevent the spread of germs.

      * An interim constitution has been signed.

      * Girls are allowed to attend school.

      * Textbooks that don't mention Saddam are in the schools for the  first time in 30 years.

      Don't believe for one second that these people do not want us   there.  I have met many, many people from Iraq that want us there, and in a bad  way. They say they will never see the freedoms we talk about but they  hope
their children will. We are doing a good job in Iraq and I challenge  anyone, anywhere to dispute me on these facts. If you are like me and  very  disgusted with how this period of rebuilding has been portrayed, email this  to a friend and let them know there are good things  happening.

      Ray Reynolds, SFC Iowa Army National Guard
     234th Signal Battalion.

October 19, 2004

Here's something a little lighter than the rest of this page:  Have you noticed that clothing sizes have changed??  Women's certainly have.  I am currently the same weight and measurements  (except for a couple of extra inches on my waist) that I was in high school.  At that time, I wore a size 11 or 12.  Today, I consider myself lucky if I can find a size 6 that isn't too big!! What's up with that?  I think that this has happened just over the last two years or so.  Are we trying to make fat people feel good, or what?!  I went shopping the other day, ready to pay whatever I had to, to get a pair of jeans that fit right, were good heavy denim and didn't look like I'd pulled them out of the Goodwill bag.  Well, I found a $60 pair of size 4's that were loose on me!  Ridiculous!  But, I wasn't able to find any "good" (read that"expensive") jeans with a natural waistline unless they had elastic in them.  I finally found a pair at (shudder) Wall Mart!  Go figure.  Size 6, no elastic, natural waist, medium weight denim and not artificially dirty - for $10 a pair.

October 14, 2004

I received the following in my email today.  Please feel free to copy and send it to others:

RE: World War III

You have to read the catalogue of events in this brief piece. Then, ask yourself how anyone can take the position that all we have to do is bring our troops home from Iraq, sit back, reset the snooze alarm, go back to sleep, and no one will ever bother us again. In case you missed it, World War III began in November 1979... that alarm has been ringing for years.

US Navy Captain Ouimette is the Executive Officer at Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida. Here is a copy of the speech he gave last month It is an accurate account of why we are in so much trouble today and why this action is so necessary.

AMERICA NEEDS TO WAKE UP! 
That's what we think we heard on the 11th of September, 2001   (When more than 3,000 Americans were killed -AD) and maybe it was, but I think it should have been "Get Out of Bed!" In fact, I think the alarm clock has been buzzing since 1979 and we have continued to hit the snooze button and roll over for a few more minutes of peaceful sleep since then.

It was a cool fall day in November 1979 in a country going through a religious and political upheaval when a group of Iranian students attacked and seized the American Embassy in Tehran. This seizure was an outright attack on American soil; it was an attack that held the world's most powerful country hostage and paralyzed a Presidency. The attack on this sovereign U.S. embassy set the stage for events to follow for the next 25 years.

America was still reeling from the aftermath of the Vietnam experience and had a serious threat from the Soviet Union when then, President Carter, had to do something. He chose to conduct a clandestine raid in the desert. The ill-fated mission ended in ruin, but stood as a symbol of America's inability to deal with terrorism.

America's military had been decimated and down sized/right sized since the end of the Vietnam War. A poorly trained, poorly equipped and poorly organized military was called on to execute a complex mission that was doomed from the start.

Shortly after the Tehran experience, Americans began to be kidnapped and killed throughout the Middle East America could do little to protect her citizens living and working abroad. The attacks against US soil continued.

In April of 1983 a large vehicle packed with high explosives was driven into the US Embassy compound in Beirut When it explodes, it kills 63 people. The alarm went off again and America hit the Snooze Button once more.

Then just six short months later a large truck heavily laden down with over 2500 pounds of TNT smashed through the main gate of the US Marine Corps headquarters in Beirut and 241 US servicemen are killed. America mourns her dead and hit the Snooze Button once more.

Two months later in December 1983, another truck loaded with explosives is driven into the US Embassy in Kuwait, and America continues her slumber.

The following year, in September 1984, another van was driven into the gate of the US Embassy in Beirut and America slept.

Soon the terrorism spreads to Europe. In April 1985 a bomb explodes in a restaurant frequented by US soldiers in Madrid.

Then in August a Volkswagen loaded with explosives is driven into the main gate of the US Air Force Base at Rhein-Main, 22 are killed and the snooze alarm is buzzing louder and louder as US interests are continually attacked.

Fifty-nine days later a cruise ship, the Achille Lauro is hijacked and we watched as an American in a wheelchair is singled out of the passenger list and executed.

The terrorists then shift their tactics to bombing civilian airliners when they bomb TWA Flight 840 in April of 1986 that killed 4 and the most tragic bombing, Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988 killing 259. 

Clinton treated these terrorist acts as crimes; in fact we are still trying to bring these people to trial. These are acts of war.

The wake up alarm is getting louder and louder.

The terrorists decide to bring the fight to America. In January 1993, two CIA agents are shot and killed as they enter CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia
The following month, February 1993, a group of terrorists are arrested after a rented van packed with explosives is driven into the underground parking garage of the World Trade Center in New York City. Six people are killed and over 1000 are injured. Still this is a crime and not an act of war? The Snooze alarm is depressed again.

Then in November 1995 a car bomb explodes at a US military complex in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia killing seven service men and women.

A few months later in June of 1996, another truck bomb explodes only 35 yards from the US military compound in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. It destroys the Khobar Towers, a US Air Force barracks, killing 19 and injuring over 500. The terrorists are getting braver and smarter as they see that America does not respond decisively.

They move to coordinate their attacks in a simultaneous attack on two US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.. These attacks were planned with precision. They kill 224. America responds with cruise missile attacks and goes back to sleep.

The USS Cole was docked in the port of Aden, Yemen for refueling on 12 October 2000, when a small craft pulled along side the ship and exploded killing 17 US Navy Sailors. Attacking a US War Ship is an act of war, but we sent the FBI to investigate the crime and went back to sleep.

And of course you know the events of 11 September 2001. Most Americans think this was the first attack against US soil or in America. How wrong they are. America has been under a constant attack since 1979 and we chose to hit the snooze alarm and roll over and go back to sleep.

In the news lately we have seen lots of finger pointing from every high officials in government over what they knew and what they didn't know. But if you've read the papers and paid a little attention I think you can see exactly what they knew. You don't have to be in the FBI or CIA or on the National Security Council to see the pattern that has been developing since 1979.

The President is right on when he says we are engaged in a war. I think we have been in a war for the past 25 years and it will continue until we as a people decide enough is enough. America needs to "Get out of Bed" and act decisively now. America has been changed forever.. We have to be ready to pay the price and make the sacrifice to ensure our way of life continues. We cannot afford to keep hitting the snooze button again and again and roll over and go back to sleep.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Admiral Yamamoto said "... it seems all we have done is awakened a sleeping giant." This is the message we need to disseminate to terrorists around the world.

Support Our Troops and support President Bush for having the courage, political or militarily, to address what so many who preceded him didn't have the backbone to do both Democrat and Republican. This is not a political thing to be hashed over in an election year this is an AMERICAN thing. This is about our Freedom and the Freedom of our children in years to come.

If you believe in this please forward it to as many people as you can especially to the young people and all those who dozed off in history class and who seem so quick to protest such a necessary military action. If you don't believe it, just delete it and go back to sleep.

July 24, 2004

Do you ever get just a little miffed when you walk into a convenience store, or a motel lobby, or step into a taxi - realizing that "foreigners" are everywhere??  How come Pakistanis and Koreans  seem to do so well, while people who were born here may not?!  Well the answer to that is that they have learned to use the system............ correctly.

These days, sometimes, it seems as though the American Dream is to "retire" on welfare or disability payments.  We forget that the American Dream is success and it can be achieved by anyone who is willing to work for it.  We tend to take for granted the fact that we have the right to work. We can succeed at any sort of job or business we choose!!  That's a BIG DEAL!  You can't do that in other countries.

I want to address, now, the One World-ers out there.  You'd like to have the entire global population  lumped together into "one big, happy family".  How nice.  But whose family??  Do you really think that you can join all of the world's governments together and maintain the freedoms you have now?  Dream on, folks.  Not happening.  You complain about your civil rights being violated when someone doesn't like what you say or do.  Remember that it is their civil right to dislike your words and actions.  Lump the world population together and you'll end up with no civil rights.  Stop complaining about how some people are poor and some are not.  When you tax the rich to give to the poor, you have socialism and no one has the right to succeed.  Anyone who chooses to get off the couch and work in this country CAN SUCCEED.  Sound simple?  It is.  Just takes some personal responsibility and willingness to work.