I Have a crush on Laura Ingram

I AM SICK OF TALK RADIO!

2009-08-21T21:33:00.000-07:00

I use to love listening to the likes of Glenn Beck , Laura Ingram, and maybe a little Rush but, they all say the same thing. Let me explain. I consider myself an independent conservative living deep in the heart of Texas. I got to say I will never listen to them again. Ever since Obama got elected, no matter what he does, they all go the opposite way. He could announce he likes ice cream and the would cry that ice cream is the work of the devil. Where is the independent analysis?
I use to enjoy listening to their point of view. Now they are so predictable. I can't believe people still listen to them. How can you not change the dial when they always offer the same point of view? If I wanted to listen to the same thing over and over again, I would tape Sean Hannity and play it over and over again!
I am not saying that I agree with President Obama on everything but I do have a mind of my own and try to use it. Talk radio needs to do the same!

The Mental Pugilist

Pelosi, you got some esplaning to do!!!!!

2009-05-08T15:24:00.000-07:00

A funny thing happened on the way to the torture debate! House Speaker Nancy Pelosi new all about it and never raised any objections. Right after 9/11, she was a ranking member of the house intelligence committee. In that role, she was briefed on specific enhanced interrogation methods being used by the CIA and the DOD. If she had any objections, why did she not raise them? Congress's role is to have oversight over the CIA.
Years later , the torture techniques where made public. Then she decided to speak out. What a political hack! Now she is claiming ignorance saying she had no idea the CIA was going to use these techniques. Either she was incompetent in her role of oversight or more likely, she changes her tune depending on which way the political wind is blowing. She and the president better be careful because they seem to be playing politics with our national security. Which might come back to bite them, if we are ever hit again! Lets pray to god it is not the later!
The Mental Pugilist!

Rush, GOP, you have no credibility!! By The Mental Pugilist

2009-03-10T15:03:00.000-07:00

Sometimes in life, you hear things that just make you want to laugh uncontrollable. Rush and the GOP have been making longtime conservatives like me double over in laughter! It is really funny to here, especially Rush, Them rant on how Obama is turning America into a Socialist country. How about when the cry about so many earmarks in the Omnibus bill. I just want to know one thing, Is Rush really a conservative?
I want to know where was he when George Bush began the largest government expansion in U.S. history. It wasn't Barack Obama. George Bush and Henry Paulson were the ones who started buying stakes in banks not Obama. The banks were bailed out by the so called conservatives of the Reublican party, not President Obama. The earmarks in the omnibus bill, fourty percent were from republicans!!! Hello rush!!
A note to Michael Steele. If you ever want to win again, you really need to grow a spine and stand up to people like Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter. Not because conservativism is dead but because true conservatives, like me, can see through the flat out double speak when the supported GW for the last eight years and then turn around and say they hope Obama fails when he is only continuing what your boy has done for the last eight years!!! It might fool some uneducated people who don't pay attention but , it won't fool people who believe in small government and live deep in the heart of Texas. I often hear these so called conservatives decrie the massive governmnet spending the new administration is pruposing. Well genious, what about spending 28 billion per month on empire building in Iraq and Afganistan.
I promise you this Mr. Steele, people can see through this as a sham on conservativism and a sham to the Republican party. If your party is the same as the democrats, then just say so. You will never win another election if you let Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh slam policies of Barack Obama when George Bush started the ball rolling. If you don't correct them and acknowledge that the republican party started all this then you are doomed to fail. The conservative message is still a strong one but it rings hollow comming from Hannity and Limbaugh!!! Any idiot with a pulse can see that. The only chance in hell you have is not turn to the dark side but turn to the right side , RON PAUL!!

Finally a bailout we can all agree on!! By The Mental Pugilist

2009-01-16T12:11:00.000-08:00

I just wanted to say wow, what a miraculous piece of flying! Captain Chelsey B Sullenberger should get the Congressional Medal of Honor. On a day that President Bush gave a speech on the last eight years of a disasterous presidency, This accident is something every American can be proud of. With all the bailouts being pushed on the American people, everyone can agree this bailout was spectacular! Imagine only having seconds to decide the fate of one hundered and fifty five people, with no engines and no place to land with out killing scores of people on the ground.
It was amazing how this heroic pilot and crew acted in such a way they did. The miracle was that the pilot was able to do something that has never happened in comerical aviation history. Land a plane ,intacked, in the middle of the Hudson River. Hats off to all the fairy boat drivers as well. We all should be proud of this bailout in the age of the federal reserve and their bailouts that pin millions of dollars on the backs of generations of Americans!

Blagojevich, Obama's secret weapon! By The Mental Pugilist

2008-12-17T21:32:00.000-08:00

Now the Blagojevich story makes sense. For the last few weeks, I have been troubled by the news that the Illinois Governor was trying to run a pay to play scheme for Barack Obama's vacant senate seat. I have been trying to wrap my head around the implications it might have on our new incoming president. I have found the answers to my questions surrounding the sordid affair. My questions where as fallows.
1. It is given that Rahm Emanuel talked to Blago about the senate seat but , coming from the Chicago inbred cesspool, did he offer anything for Valerie Jarrett?
2. Why did Valerie Jarrett suddenly drop her name for the senate seat?
3. What is the meaning of Jesse Jackson Junior being named senate candidate five?
4. What are the implications for Obama?

All the answers can found with one person , Jesse Jackson Jr! Take a look. The Chicago Sun times is reporting that he has been an informant to Patrick Fitzgerald's FBI investigation into Blagojevich. It was reported that he has been doing this for seven years. He contacted the FBI after Blagojevich shaked him down for a $25, 000 campaign contribution after he was elected for governor in 2002. In return, Jackson's wife would have been named Illinois lottery commissioner. When Jackson didn't play ball, his wife did not get the job. In turn he went to Fitzgerald's office. You might say so what? What does this have to do with Obama?
Jesse Jackson Jr was national Co-Chair for President elect Obama's campaign. That means that he was a informant long before the campaign. When I first heard the Blagojevich scandal I thought, wow Obama dodged the largest proverbial bullet every shot! But know , it makes sense. I am sure that long before the Obama camp contacted Blagojevich about the senate seat, Jackson Jr. informed Obama of the ongoing investigation into the governor and warned him that he would want a pay to play scheme and not to fall for it! No wonder Valerie Jarret suspiciously dropped out the race! Jesse must have warned them. Know wonder Hard nosed Rahm Emanuel didn't offer anything, Jesse Jackson Jr.
Lets hope there are no more bullets and the Governor is shooting blanks! For the sake of our country!

Pakistan may not exist by the end of Obama's first term!

2008-12-02T21:37:00.000-08:00

Over the Thanksgiving weekend, terrorist struck the Indian City of Mumbai. Now the attacks are over, we must ask ourselves what does this mean for Pakistan, U.S. and India? I predict that Pakistan has a good chance of night being around by the end of Barack Obama's first term. Pakistan and India are both Nuclear powers who have fought three wars in the last twenty years. India is already pointing the finger at actors inside Pakistan, specifically Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Let me tell you something you might not know. No one will argue that Lashkar-e-Taiba was created by the ISI to fight in Kashmir. What is even more disturbing is the CIA funded and created the ISI during the Russian war with Afghanistan. What does this all mean? Barack Obama has openly stated that Pakistan is his number one target. Osama Bin Laden is supposedly held up in the tribal areas. It is widely excepted that a majority of terrorist operations originate in Pakistan. Pakistan's civilian government does not control the country. The army and the ISI do! If India can prove the involvement of Lashkar-e-Taiba to the U.S., then look out. Opportunity is the mother of all inventions.
Barack Obama's campaign theme has been to be more diplomatic with these rogue states. Don't be fooled! Look no farther than his chief of staff Rom Emanuel. He is a American born Jew who volunteered and went back to Israel to fight! In the coming weeks, Look for India and Pakistan to ratchet up their war rhetoric. I can see a scenario where India, along with the U.S. decide once and for all to separate the Pakistan military and the ISI from their control of the country. Can you say mini nukes!!

Sanjaya Palin!!!!

2008-11-06T21:53:00.001-08:00

Well sometimes the truth will set you free! Now that the election is over, Fox News's Carol Cameron can report on what every American already new, Sanjaya Palin had no business being a Vice Presidential candidate!! The latest is that she did not know Africa was a continent, nor who was in NAFTA. This only re-enforces ,to me, that I voted for the right candidate, President elect Barack Obama!!
This was the first time I have ever voted for a Democratic candidate for the highest office in the land. That says a lot considering I am a conservative living in Texas.
Below I will offer some suggestions ,to the conservative movement, if they want to regain their supporters ;so listen up!

1. Don't tell me you stand for small government , limited spending; then turn around and oversee eight years of the largest government expansion in U.S. history!
2. Don't tell me that you belief in limited spending when you turn around and run up the largest deficit in U.S. History!
3. Don't tell me that Barack Obama is a socialist then turn around and pass a 7 billion dollar bailout to wall street!!
4. Don't tell me that Barack Obama believes in redistribution of wealth then elect a vice president that participates in Alaska's redistribution of wealth from oil companies to its citizens!
5. Don't tell me your candidate has the experience to be president ; then turn around and nominate Sanjaya Palin!
6. Don't tell me Barack Obama's spending programs will bankrupt the economy when you spend 12 billion a month in a country (Iraq) that had nothing to do with 911!
7. Don't let all the right wing radio hosts , day in and day out, hammer Barack Obama and not look at their own party in the face!! You just look silly and stupid!! In other words you got nothing!!

People like Sean Hanity can take full credit for the implosion of the conservative movement! You are becoming more irrelevant by each passing day!! If you really want to resurrect a movement I hold dear, You would rally around true conservatives like Ron Paul!! Not John Mccain and Sanjaya Palin!!

"I wonder how it feels to be on the wrong side of history?" By The Mental Pugilist!

2008-10-24T12:53:00.000-07:00

I am a big fan of talk radio. I love listening to the likes of Glen Beck, Michael Savage, and yes Bill O'reilly. But some, like the ones pictured above, I often want to ask to my radio, "hey buddy, how does it feel to be on the wrong side of history"? Let me explain. Most talk shows like Savage and O'reilly talk about different topics from the economy to the election. They often talk about both McCain and Obama. They cover both sides equally and give credit and criticism to each candidate. It makes their shows lively and interesting to listen too.
I can not listen to the people above anymore. Their whole show is spent talking negatively about Barack Obama!! My god it is like the movie "Ground hog Day" staring Bill Murray. Every morning I wake up listening to the same song on the radio over ad over again. I want to jump of my roof! I am a conservative and enjoy talk radio. How can the producers meet with these on air personalities and go over what are the going to talk about? "What are you going to talk out today?" "Obama" , "Obama"!! Yes but you talked about that Monday?? How do they get any type of ratings?? Its like listening to the same thing everyday. Who can stand listening to the same topics and the same view every day? I can't!
My hats are off to Beck , O'reilly, and Savage. The cover a wide range of topics and from different angles. I have an idea, the Special Forces and the CIA should use the recordings ,of the above people, and play them to the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. Talk about enhanced interrogation techniques!!!!

"Obama will be tested, first month" Can you say Iran!! By the Mental Pugilist

2008-10-21T15:11:00.000-07:00

Wow , have you been following what people, in high places, are saying about Barack Obama's first month in office? Let me put it together for you. Collin Powell went on Meet The Press and announced his endorsement of Barack for President. What you might not have caught was at about two minutes into the interview, he stated that there would be an international crisis within the first thirty days in office. Ex Secretary of State ,Madelin Albreight echoed what Collin Powell stated. It doesn't end there. Joe Bidden said "there will be a manufactured incident to test him".
I was left scratching my head. Was there something I missed? Where there is smoke , there usually is fire. Have these people been briefed on an upcoming international incident? Do they have inside information from being ex top officials in government? Why talk about some fictitious event now? Then I read the updated intelligence estimate of Iran's nuclear weapons program. Guess when they are predicting they will be able to build there first bomb? January, 2009!!!!!!!!
The Pentagon has already briefed the two candidates on relevant intelligence matters in the event they are elected President. These whispers seem to point out that maybe we are planing a strike in January, 2009 on Iran. Think about it, Bush has no political capital to launch any strikes. Imagine Barack, the first black President announcing we are going into Iran. I think America would be rallied around his historic election and would overwhelmingly support him. I can think of no better time , politically , for a first strike! What better way to prepair the U.S. people for an Iran strike than for surrogates of Obama, the likely winner, too go public with vague warnings of a future crisis in his first month, and how we need to support the historic candidate! D-day Iran: update, January 2009!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Yes Congressman we do understand this bill" Ya Jackass!!

2008-10-05T21:35:00.000-07:00

Do we really deserve the leadership we have in congress? Last week , after the House Of Representatives did the will of the people and killed the Wall Street bailout bill , the senate went at it again. They took a 700 billion dollar bill and porked it up to a tune of 860 billion!! All you hear coming out of the hill was "the American people don't understand this bill, it is not a bailout but a rescue". Bull butter!!!
Let me tell you Barnie Frank. Let me tell you Harry Reid. Let me tell you Nancy Pelosi. We the people do understand and we the people will vote you out in November!! Do you understand that? Let me inform some people on what was passed. First of all, the argument was that we have to pass this so banks will be able to lend to people or else the sky will fall. If you are trying to create financial confidence in the market , you do not go on TV and tell everyone the economy is going to implode. You do not say we must bailout Wall Street or no one will be able to get credit. This only causes fear , panic, and silent bank runs! The morons on Capital Hill believe their bill will insure the credit markets will flow freely with liquidity on the backs of the tax payers. Not true!! If financial and banking institutes sell their worthless paper to the treasury, this does not mean they will turn around and lend it to you and me!! No where in the bill does it force institutions to extend credit. Most likely in this environment, Banks will constrict their lending and hold on to the tax payers money.
They want us to believe that there is strong oversight written into this bill. Not so!! I read the whole bill and the oversight committee is made up of a five person panel including Bernanke and Paulson. Let me get this straight. We the tax payers fork over 700 billion to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson; He intern, turns around and buys all his buddies on bad paper. He and Bernanke get to oversee his own work!! That's some oversight.
I am an accountant and a auditor for a large public CPA firm. The first tenant in auditing and Sarbanes Oxley is independence. That is you should never audit your own work!!! You will see , this move will sink the dollar and plunge us farther into a depression, mark my words. Didn't you find it funny that every idiot was shouting , they day after the bill was killed that the stock market went down 777 points; But did anyone mention, one day later, that DJIA went up 435 points? NOPE!! Pretty funny how that works! Or what about on Friday , when the bill passed, the DJIA went down almost 300 points. Wait a minute this was suppose to inspire confidence. It inspired that we are headed to the Amero and the bankrupting of our great nation. So go ahead and jump you idiots in Congress and Wall Street. Maybe Barnie Frank will start dating Henry Paulson and sink the whole ship!!!!!!!!!!!

Finally, Congess does the will of the people!! : By The Mental Pugilist

2008-09-29T18:49:00.000-07:00

I spent the weekend emailing the people in congress who represent me. I explained to them that the should not vote yes to bailout Wall street! When I heard the news that the bill was defeated , I jumped for joy. This was the first time ,I can remember, that I was proud of congress sided with the people. You will hear ,for the next couple of weeks, how they have to do something or else we the people will not be able to get credit at our local banks. BS!! I asked my friends and family if they know of anybody who has been denied a loan or could not make payroll and they all said no! Don't buy into the politics of fear. Henry Paulson wanted congress to give him 700 billion dollars along with the most sweeping change of power in American history. Then he was to turn around and give the taxpayers money too the same people who took enormous risks and bankrupted their own companies.
What a fraud. We live in a society where Free markets determine who rises and who falls. Why would anyone support socialising the losses of Wall street! Why would you let people take financial risk without suffering the consequences. There are many solutions to help our financial crises that does not involve taxpayer money. Keep in mind, we will have a new president in 36 days , who will appoint a new Secretary of the Treasury and Federal Reserve. Why not wait until these new people are in place to make a decision. Why give Paulson the candy store when he won't be here to implement the new deal. One thing the new president should do is appoint Ron Paul as the Secretary of the Treasury. Then maybe we will address the real problem and not the symptom. The real problem of the Federal Reserve artificially manipulating our money supply!!!!!!

Who is going to bail out Uncle Sam?? :By The Mental Pugilist

2008-09-18T19:43:00.000-07:00

Did everybody hear the news that America has officially changed its name? The senate passed the bill renaming America by an overwhelming margin. The new name is The U.S.S.A.! The United Socialist States of America! On the heals of the Lehman Brother's collapse, The Federal Reserve has decided to bail out AIG insurance. American citizens are know the proud owners of one of the worlds largest insurance companies. We are footing the bill for an 850 billion dollar bailout.
We are now entering the phase in American history that socialism is the rule! The Government now owns large American companies and vice verse. Today, congress has announced they are going to set up a trust for large companies to give away all there bad debt and we the people must bear the burden.
I want to know how much more in debt can we make our country until foreigners refuse to by our U.S. Treasury? How much longer before the world switches from the dollar as the worlds currency reserve? Not much longer!
What I want to know is who is going to bail out Uncle Sam!! All these government handouts are going to make our paper virtually worthless, then what? I have read a lot, the comparison between the 1930's stock market crash and what is going on today. I remember growing up hearing stories , from old timers , about the great depression. One type of story that always stuck with me was the stories of rich guys throwing themselves out the windows of ten story buildings. Today the story is a little different. The rich people are safe and protected by government bailouts while we the people are being thrown out the window!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Is the U.S. one step away from Enron

2008-09-10T19:09:00.000-07:00

Is America turning into Enron? This week the government has announced that it will bail out Fannie and Freddie. Overnight , our debt has doubled! This is only the beginning. next in line is the Detroit auto makers followed by Lehman brothers. What are we doing? Free markets are suppose to decide what businesses fail and what businesses continue! You might ask, why should I care or aren't they two big to fail?
You better care because the Federal Reserve is going to print out billions of dollars t cover all the bailouts and we the tax payers are going to pay for it! If I owned a business ,in the private sector ,and I ran the company into trillions of dollars debt and took grave risks, I would be thrown in jail!! Our government is sending a terrible signal to corporate America that they can take unimaginable risks without suffering from the consequences! They could care less because they know "they are too big to fall". When other countries look at our balance sheet and they way we print money out of thin air, they are going to think twice about investing in America. The U.S. dollar is going to be worth pennies on the dollar when Detroit is done with us.
The big problem is the heads of The Treasury and Federal Reserve are all ex CEO's of these large investment firms. They can do what they want because their buddies will bail them out.

Why is our losses becoming socialized? Why is our economy turning into an Enron house of cards? Make no mistake, we didn't bailout regular folks, we bailed out people like China and Middle East countries who bought all of our bad debt!!

"Palin" The straight talk express might just have had a blowout" : By The Mental Pugilist

2008-09-01T15:43:00.000-07:00

John McCain has only meet this women once in his life and know she could be one heart beat away from the presidency! What on God's green earth was he thinking? I am convinced that like economics, he did not do very well in math either! On the surface, it looked to me that he was trying to steal the thunder from Obama and court disgruntled Hillary supporters.
Let me help Senator McCain out. Your campaign should be geared toward the overall outcome and not the trend of the day. In November , no one is going to remember who Hillary Clinton is! Why pick a running mate who is ripe for the picking for scandal? Let me explain. She is the governor of a state that is even more corrupt than Louisiana!! Contrary to popular belief, In her run for the governorship of Alaska, she did support the bridge to nowhere. Governor Palin also put pressure on the state police to fire a trooper, who had recently divorced her sister. As far as McCain's math, lets say you have a pool of 200 million voters, why would you target such a thin slice of voters, such as women who are Democrats??
The argument goes, she is a person who has all the conservative values such as family values, small government, and reform. Think about that? That might be the dumbest argument of them all. If I described the VP as I did above and substituted the picture of Romney or an number of republican contenders, you would have the same person. The only difference would be that they have been vetted! Karl Rove better get on the phone with his skywalker "Steve Schmidt" and right the ship. My prediction, this is only the beginning of stories of scandal you will hear about Sarah Palin. Can you say Ted Stevens! Mccain should have said Ron Paul!!

DNC "Is Journalm Dead? " By The Mental Pugilist

2008-08-25T14:46:00.000-07:00

"Are you ready to rumble" The DNC should get Michael Buffer to kick of their convention with his trademark call. I am sitting here flipping between Fox, CNN , and MSNBC's coverage and would like to offer my observations. Is Journalism dead? I can not remember ,a time in my life, when watching the news you had to be so cognoscente of what media outlet is telling the story in order to decide the slant of the news. The fact is so magnetised watching the DNC coverage that its a sad joke! Its is really funny to watch.

I have been watching the DNC coverage. Here is an experiment, Watch CNN for twenty minutes and then watch Fox for twenty minutes. Look for what guests they have on. Look for what type of followup questions each anchor asks. Below is what I found.
CNN: (1) All Anchors never challenge pro-Obama guests but tend to agree. (2) There guest tend to be pro-Obama, and the guests who are anti-Obama are challenged by anchors at every turn. (3) You will never see Jerome Corsi on CNN!

FOX: (1) Their anchors look like fish out of water. They might give equal airtime to guests , but every time a pro-Obama guest praises him , they interject McCain back into the conversation and praise him or let people on set praise him. (2) More airtime to guests who are Anti-Obama! Prime example, "Bill Eyebrow surgery Hemmer" interviews the author of "the case against Barack Obama" He lets him go on and on about his research and only asks one follow question to challenge him. Do you think this author will be showing up on CNN anytime soon? NOT!

What they both should do is just stick to reporting the convention and the back stories going on in Denver. Lord knows there are tones of these juicy angles when the Clintons are involved!! Another thing I noticed is that when any male Clinton supporter or delegate are interviewed, they are all characteristically Afeminine!! Why? Another great exercise you should do is in about a week, go to the store and by a fox and CNN sticker. Once the DNC starts, put the Fox sticker over the CNN label on TV when watching CNN and when watching Fox, put the CNN sticker on the Fox label on TV. There coverage will be exact opposite of this in a week!! Makes me laugh!!

"Short List" Just not mine!! By The Mental Pugilist!

2008-08-22T22:02:00.000-07:00

This weekend, Barack Obama took another step toward becoming the next President of the United States, He did not choose Scary Hillary Clinton to be his Vice President! I am tickled pink at the aspect of watching a Democratic National Covention with a women scorned and all her followers trying to wreck havoic on the convention. Not to mention her husband, in recent weeks who could not bring himself, on national television, to say he believed Obama was ready to be president, is going to be a key note speaker.
There is even more juicy news that Hillary Clinton didn't even get a veeting! How funny!! My sources tell me that from day one , Michelle Obama , nixed the idea of Hillary or Bill ever being on the ticket.
For all the pundets out there that have been saying that Hillary would be a great choice, let me explain something. You really need to read some polling data. Hillary negatives, (Negatives= out of the people polled, they would not vote for this person under any cirumstances) where above fifty percent!! That means , if you choose her, you would already eliminate half of America from voting for you. Why would you do this to satisfy 10 percent of the blue hairs in the Democratic party? I would worry more about independence and Republicans who might vote for you instead of the Blue hairs living in Florida.
Joe Biden is a perfect pic for Obama. Senator Biden can thank Russia for his VP Pic! Joe Biden is an independent thinker and will bolster Obama's foreign policy and experience chops.
Grab you popcorn and get ready for the sparks to fly in Denver!! I can't wait to see Bill's bonny fingure or the hords of old women and effeminate males trying to out yell Obama Supporters and demanding That Hillary have a vote on the floor. Whats the over and under on what day will Bill Clinton have a blow up with the media? I say day 1!!

"I looked into his eyes and saw a stone cold killer" :By The Mental Pugilist!

2008-08-14T21:39:00.000-07:00

By now, everyone in America has herd that Georgia has been invaded! No I don't mean Georgia the land of confederate flags and Copenhagen. I am talking about The Republic of Georgia, which is a strategic Baltic country located on the border of Russia. First things first, how did this whole mess start? It is been widely reported that Georgia went in to South Ossetia and started the war. While this fact is true, one that seems not to get much play in the media is that for weeks before the incursion, Georgia proper was being shelled constantly by Russians in South Ossetia.
Now let me ask you, Imagine you lived in Texas. For weeks on end, a group of Mexicans in Dallas have been planting bombs in buildings in Austin. Finally, The Texas Department of Public Safety and The Texas Rangers moved into Dallas and stopped the Mexican nationals. Would you be ok with the Mexican army arriving in Dallas claiming to be protecting its citizens. This is what is occurring in Georgia in a nutshell.
Russia's rise back to a supper power can be directly linked to its abundance of oil and natural gas. Europe relies on a Russian natural gas pipeline to supply the whole of Europe. They are notorious for using their energy monopoly to influence Europe and other Baltic states. America is a close ally of Georgia. They have helped them build a strategic natural gas and oil pipeline that would deny Russia's monopoly. You always hear that various wars are about oil, this one definitely is!
This is what shocks me. American defense officials had said that they where surprised by the swiftness of Russia's offensive. What? This doesn't make sense. For the past several years we have had military advisers and contract workers inside Georgia training their army. Also, for those of you who are unaware, The CIA has a large station inside The Republic of Georgia! Therefore , it is unfathomable to believe we where unaware of Russia massing troops on the border or that Georgia was going to go into South Ossetia. it appears this is a complicated game of chess between Russia and America where one of the rooks in this game might be Iran.

Operation Brimstone was just completed about a week ago. This was a joint exercise between America , France , and Germany. The exercise was a practice run at a naval blockade. Can you say Iran? Last week, The U.S. sent another two battle groups toward the Persian Gulf. They should have be arriving as we speak. This makes five strike groups, the largest naval armada since WWII! Do you think the breakout of hostilities in Georgia is just a coincidence?

I wonder if President Bush would like to take back his statements made about looking into Putin's eyes? Lets call a spade a spade. Putin is or was the head of the KGB. That alone makes him a stone cold killer. This is what makes me nervous. America is sending military troops into Georgia for "humanitarian purposes". This means two nuclear super powers will be swapping spit in a pond called The Black Sea! This should make everybody nervous! Remember , in the game of chess, you are willing to sacrifice some pawns in order to checkmate the Queen! I wonder who is the better chess player Bush or Putin?

Hillary, why are you so bitter? : By The Mental Pugilist

2008-08-08T02:15:00.000-07:00

With the DNC just three weeks away, Bill and Hillary Clinton are at it again! Her defeat in the Democratic primary seems to be a pill she is still having a hard time swallowing. Bill was recently interviewed on a trip in Africa. He was asked if he thought Obama was ready to be president? His response was Luke warm to say the least. He said "no one is really prepared to become president". He added he was not a racist! Thanks for telling us that.
Hillary Clinton can not help but show her true colors. She had a recent rally with her supporters that has made it to you tube. When she was asked about having a vote for her at the convention, she remarked " I think it makes us stronger if all our voices are herd". What a crock! Don't believe all the unity talk that Bill an Hillary are saying. If Hillary wanted to unite behind Obama wouldn't she answer " no no, that is not necessary. We all need to go to the convention and back Obama".
Its interesting to note the timing of their comments. One of the agreements worked out at the end of the primary was Obama would help Hillary pay off her debt. So far she is still waiting for the majority of the money from Barrack. She decides to speak up only after it is clear that there is no chance of her as the Vice President. Make no mistake, she could care less about party unity. She is in it for herself. Hillary is salivating at the chance to sink the U.S.S. Obama. Her gaze is firmly fixed on 2012. If Obama losses, she would love to say "see I told you he couldn't win". Isn't the world suppose to end in 2012? I guess it would if Hillary Clinton is elected president!

Orwellian Olympics! : By The Mental Pugilist

2008-08-06T22:32:00.000-07:00

With the Olympics just two days away, I find myself thinking about the people of China and how it will effect them. As I sit in Dallas freely typing on my computer with my sharpi dog "rehab" sound asleep under my desk, I wonder how free will the media by to express themselves at the Olympics. As I sit hear enjoying the 100 degree summer of Texas in relevant peace, I wonder how many people have been rounded up in Beijing and sent out of the city. People ranging from activist, cripples to street beggars. All in the name of cleaning up the streets. Reading all the news reports I can't help but imagine what an Orwellian Olympics we are going to witness.
George Bush did his best in Thailand to speak out against human rights violations and freedoms that the communist party deny to the Chinese people. It is a sad sad world when America is left limp wristed when it comes to influencing China and its human rights policy. America and its multi milion dollar sponsors have giving tacit approval to China's coming out party! George Bush plans to attend the Olympic ceremonies. What message is that sending.
You might wonder why we can do very little to effect Chinese policy. The true reason is because, on paper China owns use, literally! The paper I speak of are Federal Reserve notes! China is the single country that owns the most amounts of our Treasury notes. In other words the are financing our debt and sustaining America's cult of consumerism. We rely on China to finance one third of are debt. Many suggest the reason we do not take a harder line is that they could turn in all there reserve notes and wreck our economy. That's bull. China needs our country because we are their largest consumer of their cheap lead filled products that keep their economy growing by leaps and bounds.
China knows that they have us by the shorts and could care less about what we think of Tibet and other issues. It always amazes me how the Bush administration's cornerstone policy is the spreading of democracy and freedom. Yet we are hunky dory with allies like Egypt , Saudi Arabia, and any of the Emirates who are ruled by monarchies or dictators. They are not exactly democratic! When you watch Michael Phelps win is eight gold medals in a grand new swimming arena, You should wonder how many poor families were left homeless in order to construct it!

Iraq! GIVE ME OIL NOW! :By The Mental Pugilist

2008-08-05T21:16:00.000-07:00

With the Presidential election looming just three months away, the nightly news coverage has been dominated by the various issues that America faces and the candidates stances on them. Energy is a huge problem that every American feels with four dollar a gallon gasoline. The economy and the U.S. dollar are second to none in importance to what we must overcome. One issue that effects all of the above topics that most politicians do not talk about is how much money we have spent in Iraq and how it contributes to the gutting of the U.S. dollar.

Let me tell you a little secret, You might think that all the wallstreet bailouts, government programs, or stimulus packages contribute the most to our national debt and the erosion of the dollar but you would be wrong! politicians can talk all day long about taxing oil companies on windfall profits or giving out more stimulus checks as a remedy to our economy. Do not listen, this all B.S. The single biggest drain on our economy is not the home mortgage mess either! The biggest drain is how much we have been spending for a war in Iraq! Ask your friends this questions and I bet no one would say the war.
We have been in Iraq for nearly fives years. The tax payers are spending 12.3 billion dollars a month to help the Iraq's construct and rebuild their country. One could argue the necessity of the invasion and spending for the future security of America. But, one can not argue with the newly released U.S. government Audit of Iraq's revenue!

Currently Iraq is racking in more oil revenue than you can shake a stick at! They are estimated to have an 80 billion dollar surplus! Whats that? We are footing the bill while they are swimming in a surplus of money. Whats that? We are reconstituting their economy for free while we at home pay $4 per gallon gasoline. Whats that? Inflation is on the rise in my country because we are growing our national debt while Iraq has been swimming in petro dollars! Is there something wrong here?
After reading the audit report , I think it is time to introduce a real energy plan. Candidates, feel free to use my plan. This plan would help solve many problems on many fronts and this plan does not involve inflating tires or drilling of the coast of California. America should demand that Iraq repay roughly one third of our monthly expenditures with barrels of oil. This would alleviate high energy prices that are killing the middle class. Dumping these barrels of oil into the U.S. market would dramatically reduce the price of gas in the short term. Why has no Presidential candidate talked about the reason we are paying another country to rebuild when they have government surpluses? It is Insane!

This is a great idea that we should implement for our cost of being in Iraq for five years! Besides wasn't it Ryan Crocker who said "Iraq's oil revenue will pay for rebuilding"!

Obama, Why hasn't he hit a walk off homer yet? : By The Mental Pugilist

2008-08-03T19:46:00.000-07:00

Well, the whirlwind world tour has finally come to an end. The oversees trip saw Barrack Obama in the middle east as well as stops in Germany and France. All leave the talking heads to dissect what he did and did not do right. One thing that stuck out to me was while I watched him on stage and meeting with different leaders, he really looked very presidential! Every time he speaks he reminds me of old footage of John F Kennedy. That said, why has he not translated his stardom to a double digit lead against the old war horse? With the Republican name in the toilet, he should be crossing home plate after hitting a grand slam homer to win it in the ninth!

Recent Gallop and Wall street journal polls only have him with a five or six point lead. So what is the reason for this? John McCain hasn't exactly ran a brilliant campaign. I think there are many factors to consider. First of all, one of the worst things a presidential candidate can talk about during an economic down turn is raising taxes. No matter what your strip is politically, no one likes to here talk about raising taxes across the board. Obama has stated the need to raise taxes which many think will stifle growth. His friends in congress are not giving him any help. Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have continually blocked a vote in the senate on off shore drilling. The problem with this is most Americans favor drilling and some kind of plan for relieving high gas prices. Only the leaders of the Democratic party could manage to blow such a sure win in the White House. Did you notice how crappy Nancy Pelosi's new book is doing on Amazon? I think one book ahead of hers is "why Samone Spawn"! That should give you a clue.

If I where Barrack Obama, I would distance myself from the leaders of the Democratic party. I would make and effort to sharpen the substance of my views on relevant issues. Every American loves the idea of a candidate of change but, the message of change can only carry you so long. Especially a campaign that is almost two years long.
This Sunday I herd Lindsey Graham on the Fox news Sunday show. He was going on and on about how Barrack Obama is using the race card from the bottom of the deck. He talked about the comment Obama made about how the Republicans would tell you that his name was funny in order to scare you. Mr. Graham commented that no of these things where happening. I wonder if Lindsey has been living on earth for the last few months. Every right wing radio show I listen to from Laura Ingram, Glenn Beck on down the line have called the candidate Barrack Hussein Obama at every turn. It is funny to listen to these guys because you can hear it in their voices, the frustration setting in that they are not going to be able to stop Obama and that their candidate sucks. With so much going on in the world, it amazes me that every one of them, every day, talk of the same subject, Barrack Obama!! It gets old! I am a big fan of the above mentioned hosts but it, is getting really repetitive and stupid.
I voted for Barrack Obama in my states primary. I love his message of hope and like the Idea of new blood in the White House. I just wish he wasn't so liberal! One prediction that you can take to the bank and cash it in for Euros is that Obama will win in a landslide. Like Ben Stein said " many white voters will end up voting for Obama because of liberal white guilt. Guilt for the sins of our fathers". I wish the Republicans had a better alternative but Their candidate John SYDNEY McCain has been in congress for 100 years and has done nothing. He is part of the reason where are in a mess today.

Terrorist threat? Fact or Fiction? By The Mental Pugilist

2008-08-02T18:30:00.000-07:00

For the past several months, the media has been speculating about an attack on Iran and its nuclear installations. In these conversations they have also mentioned the various surrogate terrorist organizations that they sponsor throughout the middle east. I recently read the book "Atomic Iran" by Jerome Corsi. It is a great book if you are interested in the history of Iran and its relationship to the U.S. All of this got me to thinking how big of a threat are terrorist to strike the United States.

I took a practical approach to the problem by looking at the rhetoric coming out of our government and compared it to the actions taken to see if they matched the threat. What I found was disturbing! All will use a scenario to demonstrate what I mean. Lets say I own a donut shop in south Dallas. In the last year my shop has been burglarized several times and my clerks have been robbed at gunpoint. One was even murdered on a night shift while closing up shop. Dallas police have beefed up patrols and I have installed security cameras and an alarm. Every night when I leave work I wave to the patrolman who drives by. I close the front doors and lock them up. Then I turn on the cameras and set the alarm. When I walk out the back door I leave it open until I return the next day!

Does this make sense? This is what we are doing right know with our borders. Something does not ad up! Why on god's green earth would you develop homeland security, wiretaps, and renditions all in the name of terrorism and not secure the border? It makes no sense. If I were a Terrorist and wanted to get a cell into the U.S. , wouldn't the easiest way to accomplish this would be to cross our southern border. This is what thousands of illegals do every year. So what really is going on.

I remember right after 9/11 , they announced Bin Laden as the chief suspect. I remember thinking I had never herd of this guy until know. Recently, I looked uped Osama Bin Laden on the FBI's most wanted list. Under the description of what he was wanted for, there is no mention of 911!!! Then, this last week I read about Seymour Hersh and how he reported that Cheney and Bush had a brainstorming meeting about what to do about Iran. One of the suggestions was to dress up navy seals in an Iranian fast boats and attack American war ships in the straits of Hormuz! Why hasn't the main stream media reported this? Mr. Hersh is not a wack job. He is a highly respected semi famous journalist.

I voted for President Bush twice but this all feels like a manipulation to me. Do you every feel as an American citizen, there is another agenda the congress and the President are following? They seem to do or not do things because they are servants to someone or something else and not the American People! It makes me question 9/11 and the whole terror threat. Then I ask myself, what motivation would people in government have to perform false flag operations that killed 3,000 Americans. The only conclusion i come up with is The Rise OF The Fourth Reich!

Something to research! Did yo know that World Trade Center 7 housed The Security and Exchange Commission. It admitted that on 9/11 more than seven thousand prosecution files where lost. It is rumored that Prescott Bush's 1942 prosecution transcript for his connection with the Nazi's was lost!!!!!!

CAN YOU SAY AMERO!!! By The Mental Pugilist.

2008-07-25T02:12:00.000-07:00

Why has not one politician , running for the President of the United States, ever talk about the value of the U.S. dollar? Why does the hedge fund market have very little regulation? Why where the majority of the risky home mortgage loans, that are currently killing our financial markets , packaged as securities backed by these loans , sold threw these hedge funds? Why Where banks able to loan people extravagant amounts of money with very little or no income verification? Why Is the Federal Reserve able to print money out of thin air and manipulate the amount of currency in circulation when it is a privately owned company? Why does the Federal Reserve keep lowering interest rates , in the name of helping out with home loans, but never mention that they are creating a run away from the investment in the U.S. dollar?
WHY WHY WHY? Why won't anyone ever talk about these issues in the main stream media?
Most people watching news about the state of our economy are hopelessly blind to the real threat that is developing into a perfect storm. The crash of the U.S. Dollar! Forget about the media's reports on Fannie May and Freddie mac. Forget about how the talking heads on TV tell you how we cant let these institutions fail. These things are all nonsense and lies!! These reports are misleading and half truths because they will never tell you what it means to the American dollar and us as citizens, so I will tell you. Bailing out Fannie and Freddie will double are national debt! This has ramifications because as our debt increases , more foreign investors will invest in other countries? With the interest rates so low, you will see more investors running away and looking for more lucrative returns in Europe and elsewhere. Are credit rating will suffer because of the doubling of debt. In the last four years, our dollar has lost sixty percent of its value! As far as we can let the people who where greety loose their homes, or investment firms ,who didn't manage risk , go under, B.S. What the hell is a Capital market for???

Lets pause reality for a second. Lets say you wanted to create a North American Union, a merger between the U.S. , Mexico, and Canada. Would it be possible if one of these countries was the only supper power??? NO!! So how to make your conspiracy dreams come true? Well lets see. I would first want to bring the super power to its needs and have them beg for a new currency backed by gold. How to go about that? Let the mortgage banks and hedge fund managers( Goldman Sachs) play fast and loose with home loans. Play on peoples greed and have them buy houses they can't afford. This creates the housing crisis and allows you to manipulate the money supply to bring down the U.S. dollar to virtually worthless! Someone would notice right! Wrong ! People are to focused on bailouts and government stimulus checks to even fathom what it means to the value of the U.S. dollar!
I hope we wake up soon! Oh wait , This is just a crazy conspiracy! or is it?

Israel's Red Line! By The Mental Pugilist

2008-07-15T02:44:00.000-07:00

Sometimes ,in this day and age, its is hard to distinguish between rhetoric and truth. Especially dealing with the back and forth that between Iran, Israel, and the U.S. . So how do you distinguish saber rattling from a possible strike on Iran? I will give you some keys to look for.
I would watch , in the upcoming months, how Iran reacts to the IAEA's nuclear inspectors. What I mean is this, There is a big myth that weapons grade uranium enrichment is hard to detect and easy to hide. This is not exactly true. If a country decides to enrich uranium for a nuclear bomb, a tell tale sign is on the floor of the facility. Nuclear inspectors would be able to see signs of this on the facilities floors. The only problem the inspectors would have is at sights that they do not have access too. Clandestine facilities in the country out of reach of the inspectors. In the coming months, if you see Iran kick out the inspectors, this would be a tell tale sign that a strike on Iran , from Israel, is imminent! Israel will not allow Iran to obtain nuclear weapons period.
There is a little discussed fact about the IAEA that you will never here. In the history of the organization, they have never once made a finding that a country as diverted uranium for military purposes! Think about that. Hundreds of countries they have inspected, not one!
If you seek the signs , they will show you the future.

Bush's Nightmare! By the Mental Pugilist.

2008-07-13T00:06:00.000-07:00

For the past four years we have heard the constant drum beats of war with Iran. Weather the beats are coming from Tel Aviv or Washington, They seem to be getting louder every week. Why, in this point in time , have the calls to attack Iran's nuclear installations accelerated? The reasons the media throws out are all B.S. . For the most part you can ignore them.
Let me inform you the real reasons why a possible strike on Iran is almost a certainty by the end of the year. Iran's influence on Iraq! Why is this so important to the current regime in the U.S. ? There are many reasons. The greatest fear inside the beltway is seeing an Iranian crescent stretch from Baghdad to Syria. Bush I , said , during the first gulf war, that he could not allow a dictator like Saddam to control so much oil , when he invaded Kuwait. Recent estimates have stated that Iraq holds the second largest oil reserves in the world. Do you really think Bush II is going to allow this to happen? Let a theocracy hell bent on the destruction of Israel, to control so much oil? You might say , how can this happen with all our troops in Iraq? Have you seen the latest SFOA? One of our goals ,not stated, as to why we went into Iraq was to build permanent military bases on Iraq soil in order to blunt Iranian influence. Nouri Maliki has completely rejected the U.S. having permanent bases! In June, the Iraq president assured Tehran that he would not allow permanent bases and they would not allow any attack on Iran from any bases inside Iraq.
Looks like the wheels are coming of the strategy we hoped to employ in the middle east. Our hope was that our presents would stabilize the middle east. These new developments leads me to believe that we are closer than ever to a dangerous war. In fact, the U.K. times just had an article today stating Bush has given his blessing to Israel to strike Iran. Not because they are so close to an Islamic bomb, but because things going down in Iraq!

"Everyone wants to go to Baghdad. Real men want to go to Tehran" The Mental Pugilist

2008-07-09T23:16:00.000-07:00

Did you notice what happened in Israel, last week, involving the U.S. navy? For those of you asleep at the wheel, let me inform you. Chairmen of The Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Michael Mullen paid a visit to our buddies in Israel. Why is this significant? In the last ten years , no U.S. Joint Chief of Staff has made such a visit! Is this a sign to come? Are we closer to war in the middle east than ever before? Look at the signs, there are so many. Vice-Admiral Kevin Cosgriff, head of the fifth fleet, stated last week that The U.S. wont allow Iran to block the straight of Hormuz. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert made a trip to the U.S. in May. He left stating that him and President Bush see eye to eye on Iran.
If you pay attention and look around you can see the build up that will eventually lead to war in the Middle east. By the end of the Year! People from the likes of John Bolton to Pat Buchanan have weight in on the likely hood of confrontation.
Oh, Did you her last month what Dr. No (Ron Paul) has said in regards to our congress and their view of the upcoming confrontation with Iran. He has publicly spoke out that we our on a dangerous course in the United states. He stated something big is about to happen. He also stated that congress is already in the bag on attacking Iran! Very disturbing.
Did you catch Israel's last war game over Greece? The exercise and the range was an exact replica of what would take to attack Iran. Yesterday, Iran had its own war games in which they demonstrated missiles that are capable of reaching Tel Aviv. And another sign. Condi Rice was in the Czech Republic yesterday, where she signed the missile shield agreement. Russia intern, stated the missile shield would be met with a military response!! wow.
All these signs seem to peaking into a perfect storm that is predicted in the bible. What does this all mean?

My Analysis:
First of all, the threat posed from Iran , that the main stream media seems to gloss over, is not them getting the Islam bomb and nuking Israel. They are to close regionally and both would be practically destroyed. The real threat is Iran proliferateing these nukes to terrorist and we wake up one day with a couple of cities gone! I believe President Bush will not leave office without attacking Iran. All the chest peaces are in Place. We have all the hard assets in place in Iraq to go into Iran. I am afraid it won't be a cake walk gentlemen. Do you remember Israel's last war with Hammas? They sunk an Israeli war ship with a Iranian silk worm missile. Like I said real men go to Tehran!

Funny! he is right!,

2008-06-02T03:17:00.000-07:00

The last week has brought Barack Obama another pastor problem, Michael Pfleger. He was a guest preacher at Trinity United church. I think the new church name should be Trinity Divided! Everyone has weighed in on the political implications of what the Catholic preacher has said but I have heard little talk about the content of his sermon.
When I listened to the speech over the weekend I thought to myself, he is right. He only said what every American has been thinking in regards to the Clintons. Hillary went from the prolific political name with an ex president as her husband to a has been in less than two years. She has had her hat handed to her by a relative unknown junior senator from Illinois. The Clintons words and actions have demonstrated how they viewed themselves as Democratic gold and the nomination was entitled to her. Can you image , in private how pissed the Clinton machine must be. Oh to be a fly on the wall. How she must look at herself in the mirror and cry about how did I get beat by this mother bleeper!
I can see Hillary's conversations in private and to super delegates go almost exactly the same as the Reverend laid it out. Don't be so quick to get mad at Trinity United again. The preacher was only saying what the Clintons are probably thinking! If you close your eyes and imagine how the conversation goes between Bill and Hillary after they loose the nomination, you could use the sermon as a transcript! I can see the title for Hillary's next book, A funny thing happened on the way to the White House, Barack Obama!!

Hey Hillary's cry babies, blame yourself! By The Mental Pugilist

2008-06-02T02:47:00.000-07:00

This weekend the DNC held a rules committee meeting and decided the outcome of the Florida and Michigan primary delegates. Lost in all the arguing is why , in the first place, where bot denied their primary delegates! Over the weekend, all you saw where Hillary supporters protesting outside the meeting demanding to count all the votes. Harold Ickes was seen on the rules committee espousing idiotic rhetoric about this is no way to unite the party.
First of all, these old ladies protesting the meeting on behalf of their hero Hillary need a reality check. Instead of blaming the rules committee , the need to look no further than their own states DNC for blame! Who are the idiots that caused this mess. The states democratic party officials who decided to hold their primaries at an earlier date. They where promptly penalized for trying to move the primaries to an earlier date. If every state where allowed to do this, you would have a long line of states jumping in front of each other to hold their primaries. You would never have a definitive start and end to the process. I get sick and tired of hearing these goofballs go on TV and complain because Hillary is getting beat by a relative unknown. Lets quit talking about who should get what amount of delegates. The cry babies need to blame themselves! Next time hold your primary on the correct date and shut up!

Scott McClellan, Pinhead or Patriot? By The Mental Pugilist

2008-05-29T22:53:00.000-07:00

The media world has been a buzz this week over former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan's Scathing book of the current administration. What was surprising was that such a book would come out from a Bush loyalist while the President was still in office! So what gives? Scott McClellan was responsible for putting forward the Bush administration's public stance during the build up to the Iraq war. He is a Texan who goes back to the President's days as the governor of Texas. The book itself does not seem to reveal anything new about the white house stance and why we invaded Iraq. It seems to verify what many people suspected about the manipulation of intelligence that lead up to the invasion. I remember right before the war started , I wonder why we where going into Iraq? A more appropriate target seemed to be Iran, which is the greatest proliferater of terrorism in the middle east! Strategy suggest if you have three targets (Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan) you go after soft targets before you hit the hard target.
This might have been the case. I am an avid listener of talk radio and have herd various analysis from O'reilly, Gallagher to Ingram postulating why he wrote the book. They speculated on his motivation ranging from money to being a disgruntled employee. It was funny the tactic they used against Scott McClellan. They all attacked his credibility and his reputation instead of his argument. They made jokes about his physical characteristics and why he had not said anything about his misgivings while at The White house. This is a technique often used to persuade you about the fitness of the author. Attack the messenger not the message!
I never herd anyone utter that maybe the reason he spoke out was because he had a crisis of conscious. Funny the never mention that! It is interesting to not as late as 2007, McClellan was on Bill Mahr defending the Iraq war. What changed in less than a year? I don't buy the argument of money being the motive or his editor made him change the book to a spicier version. He is from a rich Texas family!
So do we consider Scott McClellan as a patriot or an opportunist? I say that if we had more Patriots inside the White House and the CIA who had spoken out before the invasion, things might have been different. The idea of creating two democracies on each side of Iran in the hopes it will spread is a noble endeavor but is it worth the blood and treasure we have spent? In the end history will be the judge. I just wish the White House would have been more honest to the American people about the motives to invade Iraq. Then again they wouldn't have been able to sell the war! Anyone who speaks the truth is a patriot!

MEMORIAL DAY! ALWAYS REMEBER! By The Mental Pugilist

2008-05-27T02:46:00.000-07:00

This day is a day that our country takes a pause to remember those who have answered the call of duty , past and present, and have payed the ultimate sacrifice for our country. The day carries extra significance when our country is at war. I never had the opportunity to meet my two grandfathers in person. Both had died during WWII and the Korean war. Both are buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Growing up, I have vivid memories of honoring memorial day and how my father , who's dad was killed in Korea , would always break down and cry. I wasn't old enough to understand why he would always break down. Know that I am older, I have had the opportunity to research my grandfather and the circumstances surrounding his death and his ultimate sacrifice.
Growing up, I only herd of him in passing and with little detail. I researched him and found out he was a Sargent in the 32nd Infantry 7th Infantry Division. He was a tank commander. It struck me because he was only 26 when he was killed in action. I often think what bravery it must have taken to fight on foreign lands ,at such and young age, in honor of America and are way of life. I often think of what was I doing at 25-26? worrying about graduating college, or my final exams. Where I was going to have my next beer!
All the things I was worried about and my worries today seem really selfish compared to our soldiers of yesterday and the ones who fight and die today! It is true to say ones sacrifice for the greater good of ones country than for ones self is truly special! It represents something greater than I can describe in this blog. I hope on this memorial day all of use remember those men and women who serve and their sacrifices are remembered no matter what your political leanings are. To my grandfather, who I never meet, Second lieutenant Melvin Mahar , I pause to remember you today! He was wounded at Inchon landing and six months later returned to Korea where he payed the ultimate sacrifice! God bless the troops and God bless America!

Bush "Appeasment", Well where in the world is Bin Laden?

2008-05-20T22:58:00.001-07:00

During President Bush's recent visit to Israel, he made a speech in front of the Kisnet. The Kisnet is Israel's equivalent to our congress. During the speech he said " some people act as if we can talk to rogue leaders and make a cleaver argument that would change their minds" He evoked the images of Hitler's tanks rolling into Poland and a American congressman who stated that if he only had a chance to talk to Hitler, war could have been avoided. Bush later went one to tell the Kisnet that historically appeasement has never worked. The media picked up on his statements as referring to Barack Obama's admission that he would talk to the president of Iran directly. The following week ensued and I watched the various political talking heads debate the meaning of Bush's statements and the positives and negatives of Obama's approach to direct talks with our enemies compared to the current approach of little or no talk. On Sunday morning, I saw Richard Angle interview Bush about his statements in Israel. Angle asked him about his comments and if they where directed at Obama? President Bush responded by stating that his views haven't changed but, the political season has! He went on to explain that we need to fight terrorism aggressively an bring them to justice. He leaned forward and told Angle that the people who killed 3,000 Americans on 911 could not be reasoned with. I thought about it for a moment and have these questions for my fellow Americans to ponder, especially in light of the war in Iraq and the upcoming election.
Where do we stand right know since 911? Are we any closer to defeating this so called Al Qaida? Are we any closer to capturing or killing OBL? Did Osama Bin Laden die in 2001 as Benizer Bhutto claimed in an interview with David frost just before her assassination. If so, why are there still tapes of him coming out threatening America? Who benefits from keeping him alive? What does Iraq have to do with the people who brought the most devastating terrorist attack ,in our nations history, to our shores? Why does the current Administration say in the same breath that we must continue the fight and bring these people to justice but are so nonchalant with the hunt for OBL? Who is making these OBL tapes? Why? Are we as Americans to believe that the most sophisticated army ever none to man can not capture one Person because of his location in a remote third world country. Are we to believe that the worlds most advanced military is being held back by a third world country from going into there land and bringing out OBL because of political sensitivities? Are we that stupid?

So what in the world is going on? No one seems to want to answer the above questions. When I hear Bush , who I voted for twice, pop off about there is no way we can negotiate with these rogue regimes, I want to yell at my TV " your way sure has not worked!" We are at the same spot as we where on September 12th, 2001!!!! No trials! No one has been brought to justice!
What I do like to hear from Barack Obama is that if we have actionable intelligence on the where abouts of OBL, he would not hesitate to send our troops in to Pakistan or any other country he is hiding in and bring him out.
Upon reflection, It makes me think that someone inside our government is using The Boogie man and the threat of terrorism to drain our country of treasury and blood! For what purpose?
I am not sure! If we where truly trying to defeat terrorism we would have invaded Iran not Iraq! Hint: watch the BBC documentary "The Power of Nightmares"!

O'Reilly doens't get Hillary's racism tactic! By The Mental Pugilist

2008-05-12T22:04:00.000-07:00

Bill O'Reilly, the wiley late night talk show pundit, does not seem to get the not so subtle ploy Hillary Clinton is using to ensure her nominee as the Democratic race heats up. Over the weekend, she stated that she has more support from the working class white voters than Barack. This statement was analyzed by many pundits over the weekend including Mr. O'Reilly.
First off, let me say I am a fan of O'Reilly and regularly watch his show. This one he got wrong! His argument was that Hillary was only stating a mere fact. How can a statement of fact be considered racism? Mr. O'Reilly is right that this statement might be a fact but, he fails to realize you need to look at the context in which this and other statements have been made.
Barack Obama won by double digits in North Carolina which sealed Hillary's fate. Mathematically she can not catch him in the delegate count. The only way she can win is to convince super delegates that she is more electable than Barack in the general election. Now take her remarks in this context above. Why would she mention "whites" in her statements? The AP article didn't. They characteristics of her supporters have no bearing on the public who are voting in the primaries because mathematically it is already over. So who where these statements for? The super delegates! She sees , in her demented mind, that the only path to her nomination is to plant a seed of doubt in the super delegates minds that in the general election working class whites will not vote for Barack. While she doesn't come out and say why, you get the inference. It is because he is black. Hillary is probably not a racist but, is using this fear to try to win the nomination. It is well documented that she will stop at nothing in order to have her pointy shoes in the white house. It is pretty shameful tactic that all Americans should be mad about. She is willing to fracture the Democratic party in half to ensure her pants suit lives on.
Mr. O'Reilly keeps saying he doesn't think quoting and AP story or stating a fact can be considered racism. Bill Clinton tried the same tactic in South Carolina reminding voters that Jessie Jackson won the state years ago. While his statement might be true, it has underlying effect of diminishing Barack's win in the state and plants doubts about Barack Obama's electability to the super delegates.
Mr. O'Reilly let me help you out. If you where a coach and you had a choice to pick one of two teams to coach in a tournament. You knew nothing about each team. The tournament organizer informed you that team B consisted of all black players and team A did not. Would that be a racist statement? It might be a fact but the back handed implication is that the team with all the black players where better players. They would have a better chance at winning! Its the same thing. Why would the tournament organizer even have to mention race? Its the same tactic the Clintons are using.
You really shoudn't be suprised coming from Hillary Clinton. Ask the people in upstate New York!

When will the pants suit sing!! By The Mental Pugilist

2008-05-08T22:10:00.000-07:00

Last Tuesday's primaries in Indiana and North Carolina proved that Hillary has no traction! The primaries where held after she claimed a resounding victory in Pennsylvania. Not so much! Hillary proclaimed that her campaign was resurrected and vowed to fight on. Barack summarily discarded Hillary in North Carolina with a thirteen point victory. In Indiana, she narrowly held on to the victory. Barack Obama now holds a delegate lead that any saine person can see is insurmountable but, then again we are dealing with the Clinton's! I prayed for Barack to win both states in order for me to be spared the images of Bill putting his leg up on a bench and lecturing us on how great the nineties where. Or having to see Hillary read a top ten list on the Letterman show with her fake joker smile. Or seeing Chelsea at another gay bar being swooned by buff boys in assless chaps!! But the race goes on.
When will Hillary hang up her pants suit? I think you might have to order the jaws of life to pry her and Bill away from the power grab they seek. They are willing to burn every bridge down in order to secure the nomination that is rightfully theirs! Right! The big reason she is staying in is that if she dropped out know , she would be personally responsible for all her campaign debt. She won't stand for that! She will hold on until the convention in order for the Democratic party to pick up the bill for her lackluster campaign.
Hillary's strategy is one that will not work and will divide the party even more. She keeps whispering in the ears of super delegates "Obama is unelectable because he is black!" Hillary says it in the delicate wording of how well she does with middle to lower class whites! This strategy will not only fail but, will make people in the Democratic party wish Hillary and Bill where just a bad dream. The Democrats will pray the two headed monster won't raise its ugly head for the 2012 Presidential race.
One thing I have learned from the campaign is that Hillary Clinton and George Bush have one thing in common. They both do not have an exit strategy!!!

Rev. Wright, Out of Context! What Context!!! By The Mental Pugilist

2008-04-25T16:48:00.001-07:00

Please, for the love of God, can someone give Obama a whack hammer so he can put the jack in the box back in the box! The jack in the box , I am referring to, is his Pastor Jeremiah Wright. With the issue of him and his offensive remarks slowly dying down, Reverend Jeremiah Wright is back doing the elephant walk with the media. He is scheduled to appear on PBS tonight with Bill Moyers. In defense of his comments, the Democratic pundits keep saying " the comments where taken totally out of context. The media keeps playing five minute sound bites and that is not fair. " First of all, What the hell is the context then? I have never herd anyone explain that! In what possible context could you blame America for 9-11? What context could you say the U.S. government injected black people with the Aids virus? What context could you say God dam America?
Lets look at the context of Reverend Jeremiah Wright himself. He is a former U.S. Marine who is the product of the sixties and the civil rights movements. He grew up in a time when racism was rampant. On the surface, it seams his comments reflect that of his past experiences. But compare what he preaches in the church with how he lives today and it tells a different story. Rev. Wright is known to preach black values and too rise up against the evil white man! That's funny when you consider his church is building him a 1.4 million dollar home. Attached to this his home is a ten million dollar line of credit! Where would you think is new home is located? Maybe in the south side of Chicago among his flock. Maybe an affluent black neighborhood. Nope! Its is currently being constructed in a predominantly white neighborhood on an exclusive golf course!
I listened to the Moyers interview and he was asked about how he took the Obama speech about race in Philadelphia. He said " Barack is a Politician, he speaks to different people. I am a preacher and I speak to different people. He says what he has to say. " I think that maybe Reverend Wright needs to adjust his analogy. He seems more like a politician, Saying one thing in public and doing the opposite in his private life!!

PENNSYLVANIA GERIATRICS! By The Mental Pugilist

2008-04-23T17:32:00.001-07:00

The Pennsylvania primary is finally over! Hillary Clinton walked out of the state with a ten point victory. The win Breathed life into a dying campaign for the first time since her Texas and Ohio wins. Still she has no chance! How did she end up winning with Obama's money and almost celebrity status. One word , Geriatrics! The state played a huge role in her win. Pennsylvania is a closed primary, which only allows registered Democrats to vote. There is only one state that has an older voting population , Florida. In other words, old white people! You will hear that these people are loyal supporters of Clinton because the feel more comfortable with a familiar face, and they fear change. BS! These are code words. The real reason is because Barack is black and the likelihood of a white senior citizen in Pennsylvania to vote for him is slim.
Pennsylvania registered a record number of Democratic voters for the primary. Many of these where young people who where inspired to get involved because of Obama. But the majority of the new registered voters are something you would have never guessed. "operation Chaos"! This is a movement spearheaded by Rush Limbaugh and his millions of viewers. He pushed them hard in Ohio, Texas, and especially in Pennsylvania to register ,as a Democrat, and vote for Hillary. He is trying to keep Hillary in the race as long as possible so they will destroy each other. So far it has worked.

Don't be fooled by Hillary's win. If the super delegates decide to hand it to her instead of Barack, there will be riots in the street from their base of African American voters. One good thing is as the race drags on, we will get to hear Billy boy put his foot in his mouth again and again eroding their legacy. Watch as more time passes her negative ratings will go up more and more with every month. Bill Clinton will have more time to point his bony finger at the people and lie more and more forever sinking the Democratic party and their chances in the general election.

ABC News Presidential Debate, What a Joke!, By The Mental Pugililst

2008-04-18T14:07:00.000-07:00

Last Wednesday, ABC News hosted the last Democratic Presidential debate before the Pennsylvania primary. It was going to be one filled with drama and fireworks. With Hillary barley hanging on, I thought I would see high drama from the two candidates. Surprisingly, the drama wasn't from the candidates but the Moderators! One moderator in particular, George Stephanopoulos. While the talking heads of TV land continue to debate the relevancy and fairness of the questions, the real question should be, how could ABC even let Stephanopoulos be a moderator in the first place? For the record, the argument that ABC waisted the first forty five minutes with trivial questions about the flag pin, William Ayers, and Bosniagate is false. The candidates character and honesty plays an important role in the minds of Americans in who they vote for. The Amazing , seemingly overlooked aspect of the debate, was how many character questions Obama got compared to Clinton.
One needs to look no further than Stephanopoulos and the wisdom to include him in the debate. Debates are suppose to be unbiased and presented by moderators who do not have a dog in the fight. You may be asking , "what are you taking about"? Let me explain. Are little buddy George Stephanopoulos was Bill Clinton's Comunications director for his 1992 Presidential campaign. He was described as the utility infielder, with the broadest power of the campaign. He later served in Bill's White House staff. The only reason he even has an ABC job was because of the Clintons! Fast forward to the debate. When I looked up to see Stephanopoulos as one of the moderators, I knew the Clinton Machine had struck again! Stephanopoulos did not disappoint. At the beginning , a gave him the benefit of the doubt. I waited to see the line of questioning and how balanced they where toward both of the candidates. The principle character subjects where directed at Obama and only one hard question to Clinton's Character, Bosnia! One issue was Obama's relationship to William Ayers. Ayers was part of The Weather Underground terrorist group who bombed the Pentagon in the sixties. Obama gave a great ender by pointing out Bill pardoned two of them in his last days of his presidency. Why didn't ABC ask Hillary about her terrorist ties?
Hillary has more direct ties to terrorist than Obama, but ABC choose to ignore it. In the late 80's , she was Chairman of The New world Foundation. This was a radical left wing group that gave funding and grants to organizations. She oversaw a $15,000 grant to an organization called Grassroots International. They funded two groups who had close ties with the PLO! Muslim activist Abdurahman Alamoudi gave money and had fundraisers on behalf of Hillary's 2000 senate campaign. When he openly said "we all support Hamas" she tried to distance herself! Stephanopoulos seemed hell bent on asking about Ayers but no word about Clinton. This is only one example of how someone who has a close ties with a participant can steer the theme of the debate. How could you expect Stephanopoulos to be fair and balanced? What was ABC thinking putting that little hobbit even on the debate?
I want everyone to close there eyes and think of this scenario. Two unknown candidates are going to be on a Democratic debate airing on ABC. It might be the last debate and its very important that both candidates come out looking good. Slowly open your eyes as the lights in the studio began to turn on showing the candidates standing behind their podiums. The camera pans to the moderators. You see on one side , the nightly news anchor Charles Gibson with his glasses hanging low on his nose. The camera panes left and you see the other moderator, KARL ROVE with his notes in front of him! Would this fly!!! Nether should this! ABC should fire Stephanopoulos or have him as a beat writer for that American soccer league, not as a objective journalist!!!! What a joke!!!!

Obama, Why are you so bitter? By The Mental Pugilist

2008-04-16T12:03:00.001-07:00

Ahh politics, it can be a funny animal! The last week of the Democratic primary , in Pennsylvania, has provided many laughs, twist and turns. For those of you living in a cave in Tora Bora, Obama was tape recorded , during a San Francisco fundraiser, talking about the people in Pennsylvania clinging to guns and religion because of their economic situation. The uproar from the media has been loud ,but hasn't hurt Obama in the polls. The new debate is who is and elitist , Barrack or Hillary? That's like asking who took more steroids, Mark Aguirre or Barry Bonds? They both are elitist. What was really funny was seeing Hillary Clinton try to whack Obama on the head by constantly talking about his remarks on the campaign trail. Its really weird watching her , of all people, calling someone out for an elitist attitude towards Americans. Talk about calling the kettle black! I laughed when she even took it a step farther. Hillary was seen at a local Pennsylvania bar taking shots of whisky and drinking bear! I did a double take! How funny was that to see. Oh ya, she is know a chick who gets up at the break of dawn, puts on her toboggan cap and crawls into her duck blind to do some morning hunting. She said she is and avid hunter who loves chewing tobacco and ridding in her dually pickup truck!!
One thing for sure is that It is going to take the jaws of life to pry Hillary Clinton from the race. Pennsylvania might be her Alamo. Stay tuned for tonight's debate. It should be no holds bar. While Hillary and Barrack duke it out in the bloodsport of politics, The thing that really seems to come through is this. By calling each other elitist just re-enforces America's view of the Democratic party. Being one of the Elite! All this media coverage has McCain laughing all the way to the White House! I have an inside tip on tonight's debate! Barack Obama will take a hit from a bong , in order to one up Hillary's shot taking and beer drinking episode. This is to be done to show he is truly the common man!!!

Bill Clinton linked to Chinese secret police: By The Mental Puglist!

2008-04-13T21:42:00.000-07:00

Last week, Hillary Clinton called on the President of The United States to take a stand and boycott the opening ceremonies of the 2008 Olympics. She has taken a strong public stance against China and how it treats its people. China has been undertaking a brutal crackdown in Tibet , to try to stop the unrest in that region. China has a well known record of human rights violations and censorship. According to the World Press Freedom Organization, China has jailed 81 yahoo customers and dissidents for speaking out online against China. On the face of it, Hillary seems to have great cause in calling for a boycott. What she won't tell you is this.
Her public statement contradicts Bill's relationship with the company that has a key role in arresting people who speak out against the Chinese state. In 2005, Internet company Alibaba took over Yahoo China's operations. Alibaba works hand in hand with the Chinese police in identifying people who use Yahoo services to speak out. WPFO says " we know no yahoo works regularly and efficiently with the Chinese police. This is only the tip of the iceberg. " Bill Clinton was the key note speaker to a group of Internet executives in Hangzhou China. The event took place in September of 2005. Instead of taking his usual $100,000 - $600-000 fee, Alibaba agreed to private an undisclosed donation to his foundation. The William Jefferson Clinton Foundation has raised over 500 million dollars. Questions have arisen because the foundation continuously refuses to release who has donated and the various amounts. The Foundation has relied heavily on Influential foreign donors from the Middle east to China.
The lack of transparency is really disturbing because Hillary has repeatedly said she would use him as a roving ambassador! Can you see the conflict of interest that might arrive if he was to play an active role in the administration? This is exactly why you here the media make so much noise about candidates releasing there tax information. Specifically for this type of information. You do not want to elect someone who might be influenced by a foreign nation who has given them money and contributions of various sorts.
This is a great example of why it is important for the Clintons to provide prompt and complete disclosure of their sources of income! Not just their personal sources but, the Foundation as well! The Foundation has received millions of dollars from the Saudi royal family and different sheiks from the middle east. Sheiks from Qatar, Kuwait, United Emirates, and the governments of Taiwan and Brunei have made signifigant donations.
The donation from Alibabi undermines what his wife says in public about boycotting China. One reason I am glad that the Presidential race has been so long is that it has given the American people enough time to see the lies and character of the Hillary Rodham Clinton! She is two faced. She says one thing in public but does another in private that completely undermines what she is saying. Hillary tells blatant lies and only recants when caught. Does it ever end with them! Every week we learn more and more about the depth and depravity the will go to keep power!! The Clintons moral compass must face due south!! With each passing month, the clay mask of Hillary Clinton begins to crack showing us more and more. Each crack reveals a clearer picture. An ugly picture that shows a power hungry couple who will stop at nothing to run the White House again. Don't be fooled , do some research and take off the mask of Hillary! Maybe the next time Hillary calls for a boycott it shouldn't be against China, It should be against Bill!

BILL CLINTON, Burning down the house!!

2008-04-12T00:11:00.000-07:00

In Indiana on Thursday, Bill Clinton added more fuel to a flame that had been extinguished. His wife's well known tale of being under sniper fire while on a 1996 trip to Bosnia. The media had all but forgot the story until his remarks in Indiana. Bill Clinton said " She took a terrible beating in the press for a few days," he said, per ABC News' Sarah Amos, "because she was exhausted at 11 o'clock at night and she started talking about Bosnia and she misstated the circumstances under which she landed in Bosnia." The real amusing thing is that Bill lied after the extensive media coverage on the circumstances of the trip and the number of times she told the story. Bill heaped on more inaccuracies than he dispelled! Hillary did not mention Bosnia just once , late at night, as he would like you to believe. She said it three times including prepared remarks on her foreign policy! The speech was given early morning on March 17th. It took one week for Hillary to respond to the story. She never apologized. She said she misspoke!
Watching the two Clinton, it reminds of watching some Saturday Night Live sketch where Darrell Hammond tries to cover for his wife's lies. In the sketch , it makes the audience laugh because he tries to cover up her lie by telling more! That is why the audience is laughing. What is hilarious , about the sketch , (Bill and Hillary) is Hammond doesn't know he is piling on!
The Clinton campaign was grateful to put the story behind them. They where looking forward to resurrecting her campaign in Pensylvania! Attention Fire & Rescue, we have a five alarm house fire on 600 Hillary Clinton Campaign lane! Don't send Bill, he's the known arsonist , who restarted the fire. Approach house with caution , known excellerant used was "the bonny finger"!!!

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2008-04-11T06:13:00.001-07:00

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TO BOYCOTT or NOT TO BOYCOTT? By The Mental Pugilist

2008-04-10T19:40:00.000-07:00

The Olympic Torch played hide and seek today in a city known for its population of rebel rousers and ass less chaps wearing protesters . San Francisco was the Torch's only American stop on its way to Beijing and the 2008 Olympics. Wall to wall protesters lined the streets hoping to get a glimpse of the torch. Unfortunately, the stealthy torch was re-routed several times to avoid the massive crowds. The TV showed the torch surrounded by two rings of storm troopers running along beside it. They prevented anyone from getting close. The relay was cut short for security reasons. My sources tell me the real reason was because the cops, wearing fifty pounds of riot gear, where winded after mile marker two! The treatment of Tibet and China's human rights record was the focus the demonstration.
Many countries have called for various boycotts of the Olympics. With the Political season raging in America, all the candidates have weighed in. The first shot was fired by The Speaker of The House Nancy Pelosi. She called for President Bush to boycott the opening ceremonies. Next was Hillary Clinton. She said , on Fox News , that we should boycott the opening ceremonies.
John McCain and Barack Obama have made similar appeals. Its funny to watch these politicians try to be the first one to get ahead of the issue. They try to show "Presidential Leadership" and call for boycotts. The question to you is should we boycott the Olympics and how effective would this be?

One has to wonder how interested these leaders would be in stirring up the water if it wasn't an election year? Have you ever herd them take a stand on China and the Tibet issue? Before this year, has any of them introduced trade sanctions or laws that would persuade China to clean up its human rights record? They haven't!
I was a Member of the 1988 Junior Olympic Gymnastics team. I remember having the privilege of training at the Olympic training center in Colorado Springs , Colorado. I met many athletes who where preparing for the Olympics. I witnessed , first hand, how much time and dedication it took these athletes to reach the Olympic level. I know from personal experience how damaging a boycott can be. My Coach , Wally Miller , was a member of the 1980 men's gymnastics team. I heard him repeatedly tell me his story of being denied Olympic glory because of the U.S. boycott of the 1980 Soviet Olympics! He trained all his life and was denied his Olympic dream. Instead of America knowing who Wally Miller is they know of Mitch Gaylord! He never had his day on the Wheaties box!
One of the main reasons we have no leverage against China is because the own all our debt. We walk on egg shells because the hold a financial atomic bomb. Imagine if they sold all their T-bills on the open market? The dollar would collapse! Boycotts would not persuade China one bit. Therefore, we will go to the Olympics quietly and not upset the mighty dragon! It is amusing to hear Barack Obama call for a boycott on China! One hand he wants to boycott China and on the other , he practically has already made his Holiday Inn reservations to Tehran! Go figure?

Obama the modern day Neville Chamberlain? By The Mental Pugilist

2008-04-08T23:58:00.000-07:00

This morning I awoke , with dookie in my eyes, to watch General Petraeus testify in congress about the ongoing war in Iraq. I was interested because the three Presidential candidates where siting on both committees that would be questioning him. I sat and watched patiently for any insight into the ongoing struggle. I was hoping to witness tough questions and solid answers. Not to my surprise, the hearings where very uneventful except for the protester who interrupted the hearing. That was kind of funny. One theme that stuck out to me was the constant referral to Iran and its constant interference with Iraq! They are training and funding the Mahdi army as well as providing rockets that are constantly hitting the green zone. Throughout the hearing, Senator Obama insisted he would sit down and talk to Amadinajab , the Iranian leader. On the face of it, I found nothing wrong with his statement. He has repeatedly said on the campaign trail that he would have direct talks with tirents like Amadinajab. I couldn't help think of how much Obama reminded me of one historic figure, Neville Chamberlain! I wasn't born yet, but studying history can give you lessons to learn and hopefully not repeat the same mistakes.

Lets look at the parallels. Neville Chamberlain was the British Prime Minister from 1937 to 194o. Can you think of another historic tyrant on the loose during this time? Adolf Hitler! At the time, Hitler was making overtures about invading Czechoslovakia. He had already orchestrated the annexation of Austria into the German empire. On May 28, 1938 Hitler told his Generals " It is my unshakable will that Czechoslovakia will be wiped of the map" Sound familiar? Amadinajab has been quoted as saying he would wipe Israel of the map. Britain and France where Leary about intervening. WWI was still a fresh wound for both countries. They did little to intervene as Germany began to militarise. Back then, the League of Nations acted in the same capacity as the UN does today. Maxim Litvinoff, The Soviet Union's foreign Minister addressed the League of Nations. He accused Britain and France of avoiding a problematic war today for a larger war later! Sound familiar? We invade a weaker country (Iraq) and ignore the greatest proliferater of terrorist support ,Iran. Or kind of like the weak UN sanctions imposed on Iran for their nuclear program! Neville Chamberlain flew to Germany to "talk" with Hitler. He returned home waiving a peace of paper declaring peace in our time. The paper was an agreement reached between Germany and Britain never to go to war! This agreement was meet with world wide praise because a peaceful diplomatic solution was reached. I can see Phil Donahue on CNN praising Obama for his diplomatic skills with Iran! Sounds like the arguments the Obamites are making about Iran! Shortly after, Hitler took over Czechoslovakia and Poland. The war for Europe was on!!

It is eerie how many similarities you can see between the run up to WWII and what is happening know in the Middle East. Many of the same arguments where being made then as they are know. Except the world has the Persian Hitler instead of the one of German ilk!! These are tough and tricky decisions that are hard to make. I hope Obama knows his history and won't make the same mistake of appeasement that Chamberlain made!!!!

D-Day Iran: By The Mental Pugilist

2008-04-07T23:29:00.000-07:00

President Bush has roughly nine months left in office. Will he leave Iran to the next President?
Recent developments might indicate that war with Iran might be closer than the average American thinks! They key is to decipher sabre rattling from true intentions when reading stories coming out of the Middle East. Secretary Rice , President Bush, and Darth Vader (Chaney) have recently made trips to key allies in the region. Saturday , Secretary of Defense Robert Gates payed a visit to Oman. Oman is the site for many U.S. military bases. They would play a major role in any attack on Iran! Israel is on full alert expecting something to happen. This week, they are having public drills for missile and chemical attacks. The mourning period for Imad Mugniyah, hesbollah chief terrorist is over as well. After Darth Vader's trip ,last week to Saudi Arabia, their news services reported to their public to be prepared for the effects of any nuclear fallout. Similar reports where coming out of Egypt. General Petraeus is scheduled to testify this week in front of congress. He has blamed Iran for supplying the Mahdi Army in Basra. They are also supplying IEDs that are killing American Soldiers every day! Hezbollah, Lebanon, and Syria are on full alert and are expecting a conflict with Israel. President Bush meet with NATO allies and Russian President Putin last week. Surely Iran was discussed. Shall I go on? Last but not least, The U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln departed its Washington port on March thirteenth. It is headed to the Persian Gulf.

All these facts seem to be coming to a crescendo point! What does the above mean? I firmly believe that there is no way Bush would leave office without doing something about Iran. He has said repeatedly on TV that he would not let Iran get the nuclear bomb! The recent surge has pored thousands of more troops into Iraq. Interesting isn't it that Petraeus is going to recommend a pause in troop reduction. Is this really to keep the number of troops in country for a necessary operation with Iran? These extra troops would allow the necessary strength to counter any attack from Iran inside Iraq. the rockets hitting the green zone are also blamed on Iran. One has to wonder , how long are military leaders are going let Iran kill American troops without answering for it? Washington's greatest fear is the crescent moon of Iran, rising over the whole region where there is over half of the worlds oil supply comes from! Put this fear together with the two Democratic Presidential nominees, Who might win the Presidency, who vow to pull the troops out. Troop pull out ,in the current administration minds, sees Iran taking control of the region. This is precisely why Bush and Vader will not let Iran go untouched while they are in office! People you got nine months!!!!!! Wake Up!!

NO MORE BOOMERS!! By The Mental Pugilist

2008-04-05T20:34:00.001-07:00

The Democratic Presidential race has its eyes squarely set on the state of Pennsylvania. Obama is looking for the knock out blow in a state dominated by the white hard hat wearing voters! I don't know of any other sport , than bowling , that would cater to the lunch pale caring crowd. I wonder if Barack goes to Texas will he play some soccer with the day laborers, or in Arizona a game of golf?

Hillary ,on the other hand , was at it again. She was caught in another lie. Hillary Clinton has been telling ,on the campaign trail, about a pregnant woman in Ohio that supposedly died because she was refused care at a hospital due to being uninsured. The hospital has came out and refuted the story. Whoops! Does it ever end with her?
Having taken in the ups and downs of the primary season, one thought has really stuck with me. No more baby boomers for President. How can anyone want sixteen more years of a Clinton or a Bush in the White house!! I can hear the collective barf bags opening if one of these boomers makes it to our nations highest office. America needs a new generation of leaders. I believe I found the root cause in the behavior of these power hungry politicians who refuse the changing of the guard. They all grew of age in the sixties!! What was happening that shaped them so? Drugs! Drugs! Drugs! They suffer from taking to many hits of acid and LSD while holding a complete strangers hand singing combia!! Have you ever thought Ted Kennedy , John Kerry , Bill and Hillary are kind of wacky? Look no further than the age of free love and mind altering experiences. They where all products of this generation. Maybe that is what is wrong with this country! We got a bunch of leaders that shouldn't have taken that last hit!!!!!

John Titor (shown below); Fact or Fiction: By The Mental Pugilist

2008-04-04T03:52:00.000-07:00

Many of you have probably herd of the Internet legend John Titor, the time traveler. If you haven't , let me fill you in. John Titor started posting online in 1999 and left in 2001. He claimed to be a time traveler from the future. Whats interesting is that he made many predictions that seem to be coming true. This is how I first herd of John Titor. It is a strange story so bear with me.
Back in 2003, I was on my way to Kroger, my local grocery store, to find a book to read. I was bored and wasn't looking for anything in particular. I settled on a book from the left behind series. I purchased the book and was on my way to my car. I was thumbing threw the book and a little peace of paper was stuck inside. I pulled out the paper and opened it up to read it. It only contained a typed two word message: "John Titor". I thought John Titor?, who is that? I crumbled the peace of paper up and threw it out. I didn't think twice about the weird message in my book until about a week later. I was driving home late one night. I just happened to tune into Coast To Coast AM with George Noorie. He said " Up Next we will have so and so on to discuss John Titor the time traveler. Instantly I recognized the name from my book. "What the hell?" I thought , first the book , know on the radio! So I listened and became aware of who John Titor was. How Strange! I went home and researched John Titor online. I learned of all his predictions and how he vanished in 2001 never to post another prediction again.
Fast forward to 2008. What is interesting is to look at some of his predictions and compare them to what is happening in the world today. Here are my thoughts. One of his predictions was 2008 Olympics in China will never happen. Last week , Nancy Pelosy has called for the U.S. boycott the opening ceremonies of the Olympics. Other world leaders are starting to call on a boycott because of Tibet and China's lack of human rights. Another prediction was that there would be race riots and civil unrest in 2008 that would lead to all out civil war in the U.S. . Lets see, I can see the roots off race riots being set by this years Democratic Presidential race. If Barack wins the popular vote and the super delegates come in and give it to Hillary, denying the first black president the nomination, what would happen? Open riots!! Throw in the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Issue and Immigration; I can see this prediction coming true. John Titor also famously predicted that 2004 election would be the last. Well, President Bush this year signed an executive order that allowed him to suspend elections in the case of a terrorist attack or a national emergency! When I herd that, it gave me goosebumps!
The whole way I found out about John Titor and all that has unfolded makes think,,,,
Hmmm Maybe I should be wearing a tin foil hat!!!

THE FED IN CHARGE OF THE HEN HOUSE! By The Menal Pugilist

2008-04-02T21:27:00.000-07:00

The power grab has begun! This week the Treasury Secretary ,Henry Paulson, laid out plans to give The Federal reserves unprecedented power of the U.S. financial markets. The changes in regulating powers would be the greatest since The Great Depression of the 1930's. What many people don't realize is the problem is not in the regulation of the financial markets, its the money supply.
Who is in charge of the printing and circulating the U.S. dollar? None other than The Federal Reserve! It is unbelievable that so many Americans are so ill informed about the dollar and The Federal Reserve!! The problem in are economy and the artificial bubbles it creates (housing, dotcom) and then collapses is directly linked to the manipulation of how many dollars are in circulation.
Have you seen how much our dollar is worth? forty cents = 1 Euro!!! With every interest rate cut , the dollar weakens. You will never here the media or a Presidential politician talk about the tanking U.S. dollar. Recently I was watching C-span. Janet Perino, the Presidents Media Secretary, was giving a press briefing on the U.S. economy. One reporter asked about the devaluation of the U.S. dollar vs the Euro. She paused a moment , and said I cant answer that or I will be fired. I nearly dropped my fork!! Did she really just say that!! She did!

The Federal reserve has the ability to print money out of thin air ,creates enormous inflation, and devalues the greenback. The Fed has no oversight from any federal agency. It is privately owned. Yet we let the manipulation of are currency continue. It is like it is purposely being done. The purpose to destroy America and bring in the Amero!
The cherry on top is all these companies that are getting bailed out (Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers) on behest of the Treasury and The Federal Reserve, has one of their own at the top. The Treasury Secretary is Henry Paulson! He is an Ex.Goldman Sachs CEO!!!!. Its like the Mafia! You put your key lieutenants in strategic places!
Every time the government bails out a company, the fed prints more money out of thin air. This puts more money in circulation which cause the dollar to loose value!

Next time McCain , Barack or Hillary visit your city for a town meeting quietly raise your hand.
Politely ask " how do you feel about how we let a private company print money out of thin air which causes the collapse of our dollar with no government oversight what so ever. How do you feel that are U.S. dollar is only worth forty cents to the Euro and who , in your opinion is to blame for the collapsing dollar ?" Don't be surprised if you are promptly grabbed ,by the arm, and led out by the secret service for asking such a question. TRY IT, I DARE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

INSANE IN THE MEMBRANE!!!! Howard Dean

2008-04-01T21:28:00.000-07:00

Howard Howard Howard, what are we going to do with you? The DNC leader did not disappoint in his latest comments on Senator John McCain. He accused the Senator as a blatant opportunist for his get to no him tour that was launched this week. WHAT!!! John McCain is using his Vietnam war experience , which included five years of captivity, and exploiting it to benefit his Presidential aspirations?? Hummm, Lets see ,, wasn't it Howy ,who in 2004, said of John Kerry "Who would you rather have in charge of the defense of the United States of America, a group of people who never served a day overseas
in their life, or a guy who served his country honorably and has three Purple Hearts and a Silver Star on the battlefields of Vietnam?" What an Idiot!! Sometimes I really wonder if the Democratic party purposely wants to loose the upcoming presidential race. If you are often left scratching your head on some strange things the Democratic party does, look no further than there cartoonish leader. Everybody remembers the infamous scream. But, he has one upped himself on this one!! No matter what you think of John McCain, His story is one of true American Hero!! His story is at the heart at what it is to be a American, Duty , Honor, Self sacrifice for ones country!!!!! His story is one that truly can be appreciated by the left and right. I often think, what was I doing at 22?? drinking , partying, picking up girls, worrying when my next exam is going to be!! Mr. McCain was in the Hanoi Hilton refusing to leave his fellow P.O.W's because of his fathers status. His sacrifice and Bravery should be honored, just like the young marines who are serving so bravely in Iraq and Afghanistan. No matter if you agree or disagree with the war, Sacrificing ones own self for a greater good (especially your country) is truly inspiring!
The difference in John Kerry and John McCain is how they treated their fellow service men when the returned the U.S. !!

Someone needs to put Howard Dean in the Hanoi Hilton!!!
P.S. If not, please please Howard keep on talking for the love of all Republicans!!!!!

The Mental Pugilist!

The Vew: Obama, Great answer!! Behar, Not so much!! By The Mental Pugilist

2008-03-31T20:50:00.001-07:00

Before the weekend , Barack Obama was busy making the local rounds of various talk shows. His appearances where on the heals of the media outing his racist American hating pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright. All Christians should be so proud! One show he appeared on was The View. I would describe the show as one catering to the left leaning forty something live at home fraw. The issue of Rev. Wright and race was sure to come up, boy did it ever!
Barack was the usual smooth talking likable guy. He was asked about his relationship with his Rev. and his answer was genius. He said " Listen my whole idea of dealing with people is not to distant myself from people who have views that I don't agree with, but try to get them together with people of opposing views and work together in order to find common ground"! Wow , what a great strategy! Think about it, He couched his answer by framing it in terms of its not bad to work with people with terrible racist views. Its better to try to bring them together. Kind of like bringing a Klansman and a Black panther to lunch over beer and a basket of fried catfish. Very interesting! This serves a great purpose. It settles down the suspicious lunch pale white voters and deflects the real issue, his judgment.
The only person ,who was not too busy admiring his sexiness, to ask the tough question that got to the heart of the matter was Elizabeth. Good for her! On the other hand , I literally woke up my dog with my laugh out loud laughter from Joy Behar's discussion on race. She was relating a story of her in college and her sociology class. She said she was taught ,by the professor , that racism is institutional and no oppressed minority could be racist. ( insert laugh out loud) Joy can't be that dumb, well maybe she can! Being a member of an "oppressed" minority I can say without hesitations that many minorities are just as racist as the next rebel flag wearing guy. What a idiotic statement from Mrs. Behar. The hatred of someone , because of the pigment in ones skin, is not limited to the great white hope! Racism comes from all walks of life including brown blacks and yellows! I guess she thinks the class system that is still found in the Hispanic community, One that says you are a first second or third class citizen depending on if your a European; South American; or Mexican Hispanic, is just a myth. Its not. Its a form of racism just as much as Rev. wrights gospel of hating whitey is racism. Racism is racism period!!
Someone needs to tell Joy , quit hanging around Rosie, she is getting loonier by the day!!!

Texas Rangers: My Baseball weenie is going crazy!! By The Mental Pugilist

2008-03-31T05:16:00.001-07:00

Today is my favorite day of the year. Opening Day!
The Rangers are in first place. Hurrah! The still haven't plaid a game. Darn! My beloved Rangers open the season tonight in Seattle against the mariners. I have been a life long fan ever since I moved to Arlington Texas in 1986. Since then, they have only made the playoffs once. They promptly one one game against the Yankees, thats it!
Still, I can't help rubbing my hands together and wondering what it would be like to see them win the world series! Despite a yearly problem of lack of pitching, Tom Hicks treating the payroll like we where in Milwaukee even though we are in the fifth largest market, and having every pitcher in the MLB who is coming of arm surgery in our rotation, I am still excited! Nolan Ryan has been added to the front office for credibility. We will see how that effects our pitching effort. One prediction for you to book. Don't be surprised if you hear a lot about the surprising Texas Rangers this summer!!
The Mental Pugilist..

Why Hillary has the hispanic vote!! : By The Mental Pugilist

2008-03-30T03:46:00.000-07:00

An interesting thing happened to me over the Easter weekend. I was in San Antonio visiting family. We mostly sat around visited with each other and kicked around hot topics of the last couple of weeks. The presidential race between Barack and Hillary was of particular interest.
The talk focused on different aspects of the campaign and the different negative issues that seem to stick to each candidate. Rev. Jeremiah Wright , and the relationship he has with Barack Obama , was on the top of the list. I said "I couldn't believe how racist and anti American the church was and what did that say about Barack. One of my mom's friends brought up a very interesting point on the whole race issue and how it relates to the campaign. I often wondered why Hillary always seemed to get most of the Hispanic votes instead of Barack. Why is that? She has done nothing of particular interest to champion the Hispanic vote. What is it that allowes a sixty year old white women , from and elitist background, to carry so much weight with the Latino? I got my answer. My mom's friend had just returned from a trip to Miami where she was born and raised. She is a forty something Cuban who has lived there all her life. Her parents immigrated from Cuba. Over her trip to Miami, she saw lots of friends and family. The discussed the presidential race. She asked me "why do you think many Hispanics will not vote for Barack, not matter what"? I don't know I replied. She informed me that there is a great proportion of the Hispanic population , that is never talked about, that hate blacks!
Being Hispanic myself, this didn't suprise me. Let me make it clear this is not my view! Growing up , I remember hearing racial slurs from my older Hispanic relatives. I have also herd this in various places as well. I am not sure why this is. Maybe its a culture difference.
Maybe the real race debate shouldn't center around blacks and whites but Hispanics and blacks. Why does the media and various news outlets ignore this. They constantly focus on black and white. Maybe they should focus on brown and black! I know this is one of the reasons, rarely whispered by political pundits , why Hillary carries the brown vote. Look what happened in Texas! Enough said!

WRITEDOWNS, THE NAME GAME THE MEDIA PLAYS. By The Mental Pugilist

2008-03-29T18:49:00.001-07:00

Over the past couple of months, many Americans have sat down ,with there families, to watch their favorite nightly news program. The most prominent story reported on is the U.S. financial meltdown ,due to the housing market. Following one of these headlines, there is a story of some big bank or financial institution , having too "WRITEDOWN" billions of dollars worth of bad commercial paper. Why does the media refuse to use the proper accounting term? Instead the use the ambiguous term "WRITEDOWN" ! Is this a clever play on words that the media uses to pull the wool over the eyes of the public?
As an accountant and a auditor at a large CPA firm, I often am amused by the way the media reports on financial matters, especially if the news is bad. With somone with experience in examining financial statements , I will shed some light on the issue. The definition of a writedown is when a company has a asset on its balance sheet and the particular asset looses value . It is written down to the market value. What the media doesn't tell you is how it is reported on the companies Income Statement! What does a writedown mean for the company?
The real term that should be used is it is a LOSSS!!!! When you here Bear Sterns or Citigroup has written down 40 billion dollars, what really is happening is those companies have lost 40 billion dollars!!!!!! You will never here a news anchor utter the words loss with any of these stories!
One has to wonder why? Is it to protect us from the panic it might cause? If for the last 8 months , the nightly news anchors took to the airwaves using the proper term loss, which most Americans would understand a lot better than writedown, how would we react? Who are they protecting from the release of the real meaning of the billions of billions of dollars of LOSSES these companies are sustaining because of risky mortgage backed securities?
I guess its like the U.S. dollar. The media always reports on the FED and interest rate cuts and how the market reacts positively. Or the great news about the stimulus package that will put money in our pockets. Let me let you in on a little secret! Every time the feds unleashes the above, it destroys the value of the U.S. Dollar!!!! The best asset protection plan for any country is a strong monetary policy, the above undermines it.
How come no politician wll ever talk about the U.S. dollar. They only talk of more spending and interest rate cuts. Does this make you feel better? It shouldn't, You destroy the dollar you destroy the middle class. Ever wonder why oil is at such a high price? Don't be fooled by the media's BS on supply shortage or refinery capacity, Its the dollar stupid! 1$=1.56Euro

Oh ya I forgot, move along people nothing to see here, just some "WRITEDOWNS"!!

To Bad Dr. No won't be president!!!!!

CHELSEA, YOUR NOT THAT GOOD LOOKING! BY THE MENTAL PUGILIST

2008-03-28T20:11:00.001-07:00

Wow , Unbelievable: these where some of the words that came to my mind when I recently herd of Chelsea Clinton's comments to a Butler University student. She has been on the campaign trail for Senator Clinton. Chelsea has been touring college campuses all around the country in support of the democratic presidential nominee.
Evan Strange, a Butler University student, attended the rally. He had the the audacity to ask her a question about Monica Lewinsky and if had hurt her mother's credibility! The Young Clintonian replied, " wow, I have been to seventy campuses and never been asked that question, and its none of your business".
How arrogant can you be! Here answer stunk of a spoiled little rich kid who has the elitist and self richest attitude of her parents. What an ego on this one! What do you make of this?
She volunteers to go into the public arena and campaign for her mommy. She goes city to city but refuses to do any interviews with reporters , but she lends her voice to the campaign.
She refuses an interview with a fourteen year old reporter , telling her " I don't do interviews with reporters" !
Let me be the first one to say, Chelsea , your not that great! Nether are your parents! The sense of entitlement must reside in the Clinton gene pool. Is She is so out of touch with the real world? She doesn't even know how ridiculous she looks. If she is arrogant enough to come to my city and spew her mom's party views, she should be cocky enough to handle questions that directly address Hillary Clinton's credibility or lack there of!
Evan Strange was in fact a Clinton supporter. I guess it is true , the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. And by the way , Chelsea, your not that good looking.
The Mental Pugilist!!!!!

PINOCCHIO FOR PRESIDENT!!! By The Mental Pugilist

2008-03-28T01:18:00.000-07:00

Hey did you here that Pinocchio is in a heated contest for the Democratic nominee for President? No its not Barack Obama its Hillary Clinton. In recent days Bosniagate has been an embarrassing lie in which Hillary claimed to have landed in Bosnia under a hail of bullets with here daughter by her side. When she got of the plane, she was seen running to here car while shooting an M-16 in the air to draw the sniper fire in order for Chelsea to escape safely!! To bad this is not true , but a tall tale showing her own insecurities. We could except that she misspoke , as she claims, but she commented on the same story three times! She only admitted to misspeaking when she was caught in a lie. The lie was exposed by the airing of the video showing a different story. One misstatement I could except , but this is not the first time the first lady has lied. examine the record.

A week after 9/11, she told the morning show Chelsea just missed being in harms way of the twin towers by ducking into a coffee shop while jogging around the WTCs. total lie, Chelsea later told talk magazine she was asleep at a friends apartment. When she got a call to turn on the TV to watch what was unfolding. Then there is the story of her high school soccer team. Hillary was at a forum on race relations when she recounted a story of knowing what discrimination was like. she said a goalie ,from an apposing team, said she hated her. she asked " why , you don't know me". To bad when she attended the school, they did not have a women's soccer team. And finally , my favorite. She explained to reporters that she was named for the famous Sir Edmund Hillary, who climbed Mt. Everest. To bad he didn't do this until two years after she was born. Can you say pattern!

What does this say about her character? Why does she tell so many little white lies? Why is she so insecure? How can anyone trust her? Instead of holding out a bony finger and lying directly two us , she just uses a straight face , and lies. Whats more scarier!

OBAMA, THE INTELLECTUAL JESSE JACKSON STARTER KIT!! By The Mental Pugilist

2008-03-24T23:05:00.000-07:00

I will not waste your time going into dissecting Barack's speech on race or his relationship with his charming pastor. There are analysis of this all over the net these days. This weekend , I had time to ingest the issue and all the talking heads that have chimed in on it. What struck me was how much he reminded me of Jesse Jackson with a masters degree. His speech was brilliant and really seamed to cater to the intellectual elite and not the common man. He points out the complexity of the race issue in America and how it relates to his own unique upbringing. Barack really has defined his candidacy as a new politician who is true uniter. His background (white mom, black dad) is the backdrop that is used to highlight his ability to bring all Americans together for the common good of The United States. But, I think the common man out there still has a problem digesting what is up with him. On one hand he gives great speeches about being a new kind of politician but, at the same time, he attends a church the seems to be sending disturbing messages to there congregation. If you ever wondered why so many young black Americans are so angry at "whitey" look no further than the church.
One has two wonder what type of influence it has on you sitting through twenty years of sermons that are so Anti -American and has a you against us mentality. Or what type of judgment does Barack have for never leaving the church. Before you dismiss me as a typical white blogger who "doesn't understand" , I am not white. I am a proud son of an immigrant mom and a white dad.
I couldn't shake the feeling how much Obama reminded me of a Intellectual Jesse Jackson starter kit! He obviously used the church in the south side of Chicago to reaffirm his blackness and I am sure it helped him win his Illinois senate seat. It feels like in the media he is distancing himself from Rev. Wright to ,appease the white vote, while sitting in church , winking at his pastor and congregates, holding up his right hand saying "right on Brother"! Just like Jesse has exploited the race card for his own personal gain. The difference is Jesse uses street tactics and Barack uses liberal white guilt and the wink wink of an eye to the south side of Chicago.

Did Rev. Jeremiah Wright Sink The U.S.S. Obama?

2008-03-17T00:11:00.000-07:00

By now everyone has seen or heard of the crazy sermons from the crazy Rev. Jeremiah Wright. The more important question to ponder is has this man doomed this nations first black presidential candidate 's chances? I have pondered this question over the weekend and it is interesting how Barack and the media have handled it. The story was broke on Bill O'rielly 's show, with more to come from ABC's Bryan Ross , On the fallowing evening news cast. I watched the videos and was sad to see a man of the cloth having so much hatred toward America. Rev. Jeremiah Wright has been Obama's pastor for more than twenty years and credits his book title to one of his speeches. Barack quickly condemned his remarks and said they where not his beliefs. Fair enough, I give him the benefit of the doubt, until you examine how this effects his belief system and his political aspirations. His campaign message has been one of unity and the coming together of every American from all walks of life. There in lies the problem. The sermons show how bad of an American hater Rev. Jeremiah Wright really is. The reverends comments are fine by me. The are the business of the Rev and his flock, but one of his flock is Barack! I use to think Barack was really a unit er and a different politician. One who I saw as representing a changing of the guard from theses boomer idiots, who smoked to much weed in the sixties, to one of my generation who is sick and tired of left and right labels and the people who make money off of it (books , talkradio) throwing bombs at each other! Its hard to believe Obama never new how Rev. Jeremiah Wright felt about America. He brought him to Christ, married him and Michelle, and baptised there kids. If I had herd those sermons in church, I would have had a hard time sitting in the pews or being a member. Maybe he didn't know or he has never herd these sermons. You will have to be the judge on how that weights on his presidential credentials. I think asking these questions about his relationship with his pastor are legitimate ones to ask.
Its really funny to watch , over the weekend , how every Democratic operative on every media outlet spun this one!! People don't be fooled. I heard all of them reference pastor Hage and John Mcain's relationshp, or George Bush making a speech at a college who once excluded black people. This method is called a redirect. It attempts to take focus of the issue and direct it onto someone else. It Makes these pinheads look like complete idiots.
What should Barack do? So far he has handled it correctly but is it enough? He should have really gotten ahead of this at the beginning of his campaign before it snowballed!

I really makes me wonder how he really feels. Is he a typical politician spinning to cover his tracks or did he trully not know ? Are these sermons abberations that he never herd? You will have to judge. But, It makes my wonder because what his wife has said that she was only recently proud of America! On the other and it makes me think he has never herd these remarks because surly the people in his campaign would not have let Rev. Jeremiah Wright be part of the campaign!
Barack Obama could easily end this controversy by doing one thing. He should appear on Fox's Bill Oreilly's show. This would provide two things. one , it would show the middle and right voters that these beliefs truly are not his, because his comments on loony left media outlets like MSNBC ABC, or CNN are just not believable. They have obvious biases and is just not enough for typical Americans to belief from the likes of Oberman and Anderson cooper. Two, It would make it impossible for Hilary to capitalize on it because she would have to come on "The No Spin Zone" and answer here own questions on here refusal to release taxes and her sealed record as first lady that she sow heavily relies on for her stupid unbelievable claim of 35 years of experience!!!!!!!!

The U.S. ECONOMY: Would you give a cocaine addict a line of cocaine the night before rehab, so he could make it throught the night?

2008-01-22T14:54:00.000-08:00

How come none of the presidential candidates ,nor the media , talk about the most important underlying economic crisis facing America today. The crash of the U.S. dollar. How come no one is addressing this? Every time the economic crisis is discussed , all you hear is abut the economic stimulus package that offers $500 to $600 dollar rebates yada yada!! When the real crisis is how we let the Federal Reserve create money out of thin air, loan it to the our government and attach interest to every dollar that we as tax payers have to pay back. This represents our enormous debt. These so called stimulus packages are feeding into the bad spending and lending practices of citizens. Why in the hell should anyone who has bought a house they couldn't afford be bailed out? Right know , 1$ = 1.46Euro! That is terrible.
Instead of talking about stimulus packages, we need to talk about cutting spending and not these short term lines of coke! The government needs rehab! Are my fellow Americans that stupid to see the dollar crash or are they an addict. We need to reign in spending and shore up our dollar by eliminating the federal reserve and going back to the gold standard. Every time the Feds cuts interest rates it causes the dollar to loose even more value. How come no seems to talk about that? Every time the Feds print money, there is more circulation, which gives rise to inflation. Every time the interest rates are slashed, people have this warm and fuzzy feeling. What cutting the rate does is it makes foreign investors invest in other countries because of their higher interest rates!!! wake up people. Look at the big picture. This crap of economic stimulus packages is only delaying rehab!!!!!!!!

1/21/2008 CNN debate. Obama, turn it up! bring the noise!!!

2008-01-21T21:23:00.000-08:00

I have a theory on why the race for the white house is getting so much attention. The writers strike has left the average American without their favorite TV shows to watch. Like most, the lack of programming has left me examining the presidential race closely. I have researched, examined and watched all of the candidates, republicans and democrats, on the debates and in various media outlets. One Person has truly inspired me. The Obamanator! know for some disclosure. I am a 26 year old Auditor who is a conservative Republican. I voted for GW twice! With that said , Barack is the only candidate who has truly inspired me about the future of America. I remember after he won the Iowa caucus, I was watching his victory speech. I thought to myself, how historic it was that I was witnessing a black man win a caucus for the first time in our nations history. As he ended his speech they panned to a shot of him , his wife, and two daughters on stage. I paused and said wow!
what a JFK picturesque moment! I wasn't even born when JFK was president, but that's the image I got, the feeling that I was watching history, seeing the changing of the guard right before my eyes. Just like JFK represented. From that day on I have followed his battle with Hilary. I found myself very frustrated by all the false things Hillary was saying and no one challenged her on any of her B.S. I have just finished watching the Black caucus debate. Barack, Follow my advice bellow and I promise you will beat Hilary.

Debate aftermath: Tips for Barack, CHALLENGE HILARY ,AMERICA IS CRYING OUT!!

Points:
1. Senator Obama looked great on the CNN debate. here are points that Americans wanted you to hold Hillary's pointy shoes to the fire.

from the debate
A. (Clinton) " I have thirty five years of experience"
Thementalpugilist: Barack, why do you let her keep saying that ! She is only a junior senator. She has never managed or run anything. Not a Business or a government. Being a activist and a lawyer hardly qualifies you to wear the mantel of "35 years of experience" Experience in what? If that were the case my saintly mother ,who is a lawyer and an activist, Would be president. Even though I love her to death, I hardly think she is qualified to be president. Where is the media to challenge her on this. The average Joe American only hears "35 Years" but doesn't realize she has only been a senator for 5 years. Challenge her , it is so frustrating hearing the free pass every night!

B. (Clinton) "I am the real change agent , look at my record verses rhetoric"
Thementalpugilist: Barack please speak out on this issue , regular Americans need to be informed, if they where then they would support you more! Lets look at her public record. She was the first lady from 1993 to 2000. Here is the problem ( Will please someone call her on this. BARACK!) She is running on all this experience<>Newsweek, 10/29/07).

Barack she keeps trying to hammer you on lack of experience and brags about hers but Bill Clinton sealed her experience , with a letter until 2012. Please Obama she is so misleading . Confront her on this issue.

Another example: She has so much experience, Please Barack don't let her have a free pass in these debates. you are doing yourself a disservice. another example below.

“Clinton’s Calendars, Appointment Logs And Memos Are Stored At Her Husband’s Presidential Library, In The Custody Of Federal Archivists Who Do Not Expect Them To Be Released Until After The 2008 Presidential Election.” (Peter Nicholas, “Clinton’s First Lady Records Locked Up,” Los Angeles Times, 8/14/07)

It Could Be “Years” Before Hillary’s Records Are Made Available To The Public. “Asked how long it might be before Hillary Clinton’s records are released, the library’s chief archivist said it could take years.” (Peter Nicholas, “Clinton’s First Lady Records Locked Up,” Los Angeles Times, 8/14/07)

Please Obamanater, I am going to be sick if someone doesn't confront her. Ask her, if she is so experienced , then why not release the records before the elections!!

From the mentalpugiilist to Senator Obama: Senator Obama , after watching the debate I just can't believe you can let her say the things she does about herself and get away with it. I was left with a puzzled feeling on why you or Wolf never challenged here on these claims. The average American only remembers her saying 35years ..... experience........ and they think she has been a sitting senator since the Eisenhower era . I promise you this Senator Obama , If you point these things out on the next debate and not let her get away with these half truths , you would be hands down the Democratic nominee!! I hope these suggestions have helped . I know If I was thinking about these issues than millions of ordinary voting Americans where also pondering these thoughts as well. Like I said I am practically Bill Oreilly's MiniME, But I truly admire your transparency and your message of unity and not division. Remember, united we stand, divided we fall!!!
Barack: Please check back for more suggestions ,from the mental pugilist Aftermath of the debate. Barack, I will watch the political news unfold and post tips to help you on each issue. More to come. Thementalpugilist

MORE OBSERVATIONS ON THE CNN DEBATE TO COME