10/10/07  8:l8 a.m.

On reading captainsquarters.com post of this date "....S-chip debate..."

My comment:
Would you someday, if time ever permits, list those "right" conservative blogs that lost their minds over this?  Seriously, the blogs I read do not do this...yes, some commentators do, but those are not bloggers.  You are but one of many I hear use the term "right" conservatives when an issue is fought over fiercely.  I honestly would like to know where I go to read the "right" conservatives mentioned.  The difference, I think and believe, is that usually the majority of voices that rise up to are the liberals and those tinfoil hatted leftist loons for which "reason of the mind" simply does not exist to spew hate, dishonesty and smears against the right of whatever makeup it is.  This is their m.o. and it works beautifully and has for decades.  Scream at the top of your lungs that so and so is racist, xenophobic, homophobic or chauvinistic pig, and the world follows you...

   From sciencedaily.com the beginning of the article is of interest:

    " Negativity Is Contagious, Study Finds (October 7, 2007) -- Though we may not care to admit it, what other people think about something can affect what we think about it. This is how critics become influential and why our parents' opinions about our life choices continue to matter, long after we've moved out. But what kind of opinions have the most effect? A new study reveals that negative opinions cause the greatest attitude shifts, not just from good to bad, but also from bad to worse. ... >"

The left has been negative for literally the entire history of this country and over time they have discovered that people who are not "properly" informed, will listen and ultimately believe the lies and dishonesty.

09/25/2007  12:51 pst

     An apology is due to anyone out there that may read this blog from time to time.  I started it with the full intention to blog at least several times a week if not daily.  And I have come to admire anyone who has the depth of commitment and the time to do it well.  Every single one of the blogs that I visit daily with a particular emphasis on a few, take up quite a bit of early morning time.  In fact, I have found it unnecessary to even listen to the news on a daily basis.  Unless, of course, I want to know, locally, who got killed, where and why or perhaps something local.  Otherwise, I have come to find that the news is not simply news any more.  The anchors feels it is incumbent upon them to personalize their comments or vent their particular bias to the audience.    So, I get my news from my blogs, their links and so I am saved a couple of hours of television viewing.  Even the weather and traffic can be more immediate on the web.  I can well see that in a decade or so, television news will go the way the print media is headed: oblivion.
     I have, come to some conclusions about blogs, their proprietors, guests and commentators.  There are indepth blogs such as Captains Quarters, Patterico's Pontifications,  No Left Turns, Polipundit and many more.  Any article I wish to read can usually be read at the writers website or blog.  Discussions can be a  variety  of subjects, or focused in on on issue.  Some blog sites I visit daily point me in directions I might not have found on my own.  But as a general rule, I do not read print media on the internet specifically.  I do, however, read some print in doctor and dentist offices which I frequent this time of year because of the grandchildren.  There are occasions when I wish I could have the rag or magazine at home to finish, but very, very rarely.  For home subscriptions, I read Archaeology, Scientific American and through them other links of interest to me personally.   In addition, I receive roughly 24 emails from sites of interest:  Wall Street Journal,
Front Page, Slashdot,  The Heritage Foundation, The David all Group...to name just a few.  Each have great information most of the time so I spend another chunk of time.  So, by the time I get frustrated sufficiently to think about posting, I have run out of time. 
      It occurs to me that there is so much out there that maybe I should focus more.  I can't.  Oh, I do make the calls to Senators and Representatives, email the President, deans of colleges and others to complain or praise for it is necessary to do both.  But, simply put, I would have to be without any responsibilities of any kind to post more than I have.  It then occurs to me that if I can read the sites mentioned, then others I know do by the tens of thousands so what I write can only be another view.  Is another view necessary with so many views out there?   Yes and No.  If I cannot find a view similar to mine then I will post, or if I comment on a blog that I think might make sense to you all, I'll post that.  In a nutshell I will post differently than the sites I visit daily and hope that I can be of service.

August 9, 2007

My granddaughter saw her doctor last week.  We try to keep on top of things hopefully doing what we can
to prevent rather than trying to deal with the results later.  So, in that regard, blood tests were ordered for her.  The doctor asked how old she was I told her and she said, are you ready?

     "Oh, then by law I can still talk to you about her results...." 

Huh?  She's ten for goodness sake.  But, California passed a law...who knows when, that once a child reaches that "grown up age of 12" medical personnel in California can no longer discuss certain ahem...."medical conditions with the parents".  The doctor did say that they encourage the youngster to talk to their parents so that the doctors can talk to the parents too. 

I asked the doctor if my daughter had a COURT ORDER allowing us to get information when she reached that ripe old age of 12, would the doctor talk to us?  SHE DIDN'T KNOW, because, you see, she doesn't know exactly what the law says.  I can't blame her, she is a doctor.  But you can see what the tinfoil hatted leftist loons here in the great Nanny State on the Left Coast of America:  California have done:  taken over complete care and responsibility for our children in the state and the parents can't do a thing about it.   Except, pay for the upbringing of the child.   Welcome to the future of America if any DEMOCRAT becomes the next President. 

And, if you think this is bad, the hatred that the LEFT carries with it has gone so beyond the pale that there is nothing they won't do in the House of Representatives to get their own way EVEN IF THE VOTE IS AGAINST THEM!  Why, they just erase the vote and call it a win for their side.  FOLKS...we must change this or this country is doomed!! 

And, while I am at it, New Jersey's towns are in horrible trouble...apparently drugs have so overtaken Newark that no one can do anything about the criminal mess there.  Where is the Democratic Governor?
Why he is driven around without a seat belt at high rates of speed!  If he doesn't follow his states laws, why should the gangsters and druggies.

08/08/07

     I had been in just about every facet of the housing industry for over forty years.  My daughter for nearly 20.  I watched the destruction of the savings and loan business (which hurt the housing industry) from the inside by "government agencies".  I watched as companies were forced to be taken over and then sold for pennies to "friends".  They use the consequences of disintermediation but it accomplished the destruction of a business that helped people buy homes with strict credit guideline, low rates 4.5%, 30 year fixed mortgages, assumable without qualification.  But, it kept most people out of homes

   

     I watched as the 90's almost obliterated the housing business again.  Lots and lots of money from the world over.  I personally dealt with people from countries all over the world trying to buy up property cheap and willing to do whatever was necessary to get it.  I watched as agents and brokers involved themselves in very questionable bidding wars.  I watched acreage worth, at best, $500 per acre, inflate to over $40,000 per acre within 48 hours.

      I remember the "Gang of Forty Thieves" operating out of West Los Angeles as they used family, friends and clients to inflate property values.  They made out like bandits and two to three buyers later everyone lost their investment from a few thousand dollars to millions overnight.  People all over the world suffered, the housing market went to hell, again!

      I've watched and listened as the investors of the past 10-15 years have bought up ANYTHING the lenders handed them from brokers doing whatever they could to get a client into a home, or refinance or the piranhas flipping and brokers taking advantage of uneducated people throughout the country.   Not until a couple of years ago were there signs that someone(?) had decided that enough money was involved to want their hands on it and the subprime market was whacked to its knees and now is at the moment when its head will be sliced from its body.

 

    The harm that has been done by the investors in the past 18 months is just now being filtered all the way down to the street level.  Investors on Wall Street with investors from all over the globe.  Homes that cannot be sold will put sellers in danger. Companies that depend on housing will start to go under, buyers will help increase the rental prices because they can't buy homes and now must rent.  Construction, furniture, clothes and every single type of business that depends on people spending are beginning to hurt. Things will go from bad, now to worse in just a few months and then, you will see what happens.  They will be watching also, because in the zeal to "clean up" the housing market, someone forget the basics and forgot what this country has gone through  at least twice before when the housing industry is hurt badly.

 

     Watch: FNMA will be empowered by our government to buy up subprime loans rejected out of hand without reason at a huge loss to the lenders. Maybe even the "Democratic" congress will dole out billions again.  The market will take a couple of years to stabilize and we will see a complete remake of the housing finance market, again!  Is this the time when the small broker business will  go out of business.  Is this the time when the AE's will have to settle for lousy jobs paying a pittance?  Tens of thousands have been, are and shortly will be out of jobs, folks.  Think about everything each of these people

use, need buy every day, month and year and then project that onto the landscape called

America and when we seriously start to hurt, the countries from around the world will also hurt because they depend on the engine that is America to keep them afloat also.  Even China selling off large chunks of our treasuries will have little affect because they too are dependent on, wait for it:    You guessed it, America! 

 

Who has wrought what? And why?  I wonder, for the third time in my life, at least.

07/30/07

     LET US, PLEASE, GIVE IT UP!!!   We are beginning to sound like the KosKids...or posters and commentators of Huffpo, DU, MyDD, Astrois....etc., etc.  We need to get real real and begin to do what is necessary if we are going to try and take over one or both of the houses...I really don't think we stand a chance with the White House, because, I think the fix is in.  All the rest is window dressing.
     HOWEVER, having said that, let take over the Congress.  With its approval ratings in the teens...almost half of what the President's are, I say we stand a good chance.  But, that means, if we win, we all need to stay involved on a daily basis.  We need to keep informed and let them know via email, phone, fax and whatever what we want.  Otherwise, prepare yourselves to herded down that road called SOCIALISM harder and faster until it won't any difference who is in power in this country.
     We must remember that mankind...make that homo sapiens, are best known for getting what's easy...sure some of us fought to get where we are today, but, for verification purposes, check out the state of the rest of the world!!  Except for the EU, and that's changing at a rapid pace towards totalitarian by Muslim extremists and their own birth rates, every else you see people being herded here there everywhere.  Oh, sorry, I forgot about Australia, maybe Japan...but, that's about it.  Homo sapiens don't want to grow to be human beings, they want the easy road.  Socialism appeals to the majority of them:  let the government do it!  Wait until there are no more rich people interested in you, the lowly peon.  They'll be living life large and there won't even be leavings for you from their table.  They're doing it now.  Watch the "celebrities", the "politicians",   the Gores of this world.  Are any of them truly giving up their private jets; their red mean; their real furs; their huge houses; their 'help"? 
     We need the debate between our candidates because we need to establish that we conservatives or traditionalists are different (I think better, but...)we're  up on what's real, on what's happening now, we face our truths everyday.  I know and trust that we can put questions together that are smart, real and vitally necessary!!!  Let us go for it.  What say you?

07/25/07

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A claim that grabbed our attention was Richardson's assertion that "Medicare – 33 percent of it is diabetes." But that surprisingly high figure turns out to be reasonably accurate. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services has said that, "about 18 percent of Medicare beneficiaries have diabetes, yet they account for 32 percent of Medicare spending." To be strictly accurate Richardson should have said that diabetics account for the large share of Medicare spending, not diabetes. The disease is usually accompanied by a variety of other ailments that also require treatment. 


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Biden: First of all, change the tax structure. We are giving people tax breaks who don't need it. The top 1 percent got an $85 billion a year tax break. It is not needed.

Actually, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, the most affluent 1 percent of taxpayers will get about a $67 billion tax break this year, compared with what they would have paid without the Bush tax cuts. But the total is getting bigger each year as incomes grow. The estimated breaks for the top 1 percent will reach $76 billion in 2008 and $95 billion in 2010.

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Clinton: First of all, I have proposed a strategic energy fund that I would fund by taking away the tax break for the oil companies, which have gotten much greater under Bush and Cheney.

Actually, the highly publicized energy bill the president signed in 2005 raised taxes slightly on the oil industry as a whole, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service:
Congressional Research Service: The Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPACT05, P.L. 109-58) included several oil and gas tax incentives, providing about $2.6 billion of tax cuts for the oil and gas industry. In addition, EPACT05 provided for $2.9 billion of tax increases on the oil and gas industry, for a net tax increase on the industry of nearly $300 million over 11 years.

Tip of the hat to FactCheck.org....check them out, sign up, help to keep them honest and read the rest!!

07/06/07

Muslim suicide bombing...has a lot to do with sex, or, in this case, the absence of sex.

What distinguishes Islam from other major religions is that it tolerates polygyny. By allowing some men to monopolize all women and altogether excluding many men from reproductive opportunities, polygyny creates shortages of available women. If 50 percent of men have two wives each, then the other 50 percent don't get any wives at all.

So polygyny increases competitive pressure on men, especially young men of low status. It therefore increases the likelihood that young men resort to violent means to gain access to mates. By doing so, they have little to lose and much to gain compared with men who already have wives. Across all societies, polygyny makes men violent, increasing crimes such as murder and rape, even after controlling for such obvious factors as economic development, economic inequality, population density, the level of democracy, and political factors in the region.
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The other key ingredient is the promise of 72 virgins waiting in heaven for any martyr in Islam. The prospect of exclusive access to virgins may not be so appealing to anyone who has even one mate on earth, which strict monogamy virtually guarantees. However, the prospect is quite appealing to anyone who faces the bleak reality on earth of being a complete reproductive loser.

...nearly all suicide bombers are single.

h/t ace.mu.nu    via Psychology Today

07/06/07

Psychology Today runs a top ten politically incorrect truths about human behavior. A lot of this seems pretty damn bullpucky  to me, as does, well, all of psychology.  h/t ace.mu.nu

You just have to read these to see what you think...I haven't read through all of them, but, seems to me that they're pretty much on the right tack...what do you think?

07/14/07

I wish I could be 15 again!  Why?  Because I would work so hard to go to college.  When I was 15, there were no ways to attend college unless you had a great academic career...I didn't!  Today there are, especially for girls, so many ways to get help that I would have done everything I could to get there.  Again, why?  Read Normal Geras, and marvel at his writing ability.  It is deep and I have only copied a small portion of the essay.  He justs puts it so well as a Jew, as a European and ex African and a fully committed Socialist.  Socialist the way it was, not what our American and World Left have turned it into:  hatred for any but their own ideology! 

06/17/07

I have just finished Chaim Potok's , In the Beginning.  Like the "Chosen" and "I am Asher Lev", the story of the Jews continues to run through my psyche...the "why" I have crying out in my soul  for decades.  I am not a Jew.  But, I don't believe that it is necessary to be Jew to experience the hate that they have, and do on a daily basis.   And, therein lies the dilemma:  why are the Jews so hated in Western Culture?  It is an answer I have thought to discover and reading Potok is certainly worth the while on this.  He never says "why", but if you understand the life of Jews, it might give you an indication.  He is such a good writer, or should I say was?  He left us in 2002, only 73, so young.  He has a particular way with the details and emotions in the world he depicts so well, his characters exude themselves onto the page and into your soul if you are a human,
     Not only is childhood a very tough period to go through just as a regular kid, but, add to that smallness, or being slight, maybe not so good looking, or, uncomfortable with yourself or others, maybe too smart, or brash.  Why just about any behavior will draw attention.   Now, add to that being Jewish and all that entails, and I am amazed that they turn out so many smart adults (not all, by a long shot), and more amazing still that they could keep their humanity when everyone else has lost theirs.  And still, they keep on keeping on.  Again, not all of them, but enough of them,  They have done so much for Western Civilization.  Unlike any other group of people except our very own Founding Fathers.  It is remarkable and maybe understandable why the population of Earth wishes them dead!  They will not give up and are an easy target.  How brave of the rest of us!  But, how blind so many of them are.  One blog I read is by a Jew, lives in California is a screenwriter.  Great blog and I have posed my question, why?    This blog writer is smart, open, reasonable and is a traditionalist.   He has no answer.  But I keep asking and looking. 

06/17/07

    
     I often wonder if the world's hatred towards America isn't  twofold:  first, we have no true aristocracy and second we have achieved so much without the "aristocracy" whether it is based on birth, race, religion or wealth.  Now, of course, we can see the result of  hatred from religious fanatics of all ilk that has been under the rocks we call Islam that surrounds our Western Society.  That hate that has festered under the rocks is slimy and oozes a vile, poisonous substance that is very much like tar.  Makes it almost impossible to remove.  We didn't pay much attention to the rabid anti-semitism these past decades.  After what the Nazi's were capable of, the "gentle" world felt that nothing like it could rear it's ugly head again.  Or, maybe it was just waiting for tinfoil hatted leftist loons to rise up.  But all it did was crawl under the rocks everywhere is wasn't allowed free reign or in places where it was considered normal and bred and bred and bred until today, there is not one country in this world that doesn't hate Jews and America.  But like normal little homo sapiens, while they may hate us and do everything they can to bring us down, they love our money, our material things our country and can't get here in enough numbers to use and abuse the system their countries are incapable of reproducing.  Unlike past immigrants, they come here today without any respect for their hosts, our institutions or our needs.  They have been told lies about us and how can we not look foolish when our own countrymen, fueled by that hatred coming from under the rocks, spew hatred in print, audio and visual every day and lie, lie and lie and are never held accountable for the destruction they are setting in place.  You see, they have their money, their gated estates and their bodyguards so they can hold off the hordes longer and more effectively than us....just ask Edwards or Kennedy about their compounds.  Or may Barbara Streisand, Rosie O'Donnell or their ilk. 
     You and I will do the best we can do the slow or stop or prevent more despicable acts from the tinfoil hatted leftist loons and their supporters.  After all, what else is there to do.  This is our country too!