Comments on my comments – The whole AC/end-of-the-world thing continued…

In response to my post about Obama being the Anti-Christ, I received a comment, posted below, from Doughlasjk Stambler, in the which he called me a racist.  Well, maybe he didn’t call me an outright rasicst, but he said my comments were not ‘Christian-like’ and that they were ‘racially motivated’.

I have posted those comments and my comments to them below, and have also included comments from another reader of my blog.  All of these can be found on my ‘about‘ page.  They were posted there originally for some reason, so I brought them here since they’re interesting food for thought.  They may be silly and sensational, but they’re thought provoking and entertaining nevertheless.

There is one last thing I’d like to add to this post.  It’s a comment to a post made at a blog about the possibility of Obama being the Anti-Christ.  It was referenced yesterday on time.com and cnn.com and there have been a lot of comments and traffic driven there since.  One person had some very interesting things to say and I wanted to add them here as well.

Ypsilon said…

Thank you from Europe for your good and interesting blog. May I add some of my thoughts on the subject?

I was brought up in Chirstian faith and know the book of Revelation and the varied interpretations of it concerning the Antichrist, though I have been an agnostic for many years. Indeed I did some intense research about the subject a few years ago when I was planning to write a sf short story, though I never thought the Antichrist could be real. I had problems to conclusively invent a person, beloved by all the different denominations on earth.

Obama fits everything.

When all this suddenly came to my mind some night I was really bewilderd and scared. When I heard and saw Obama on TV there was a feeling in my mind: “He reminds me of somebody, but I do not know of whom”. One night I woke up scared and knew: He has reminded me of the Antichrist.

Today I am no more sure whether the Antichrist exists or not. So I did Google search and found your blog, completely shocked that this idea (which I still considered my own craziness) ist shared by so many people.

To those who suggest, Bush being more evil and killing Iraqi children and the like … it is not (in the beginning!) about being evil but about being universally beloved, it is about a political leader who acts and is accepted like a cult leader or even a god. Bush (and other politicians) of course do have their voters and supporters, but they aren’t comparable to religious believers and either they are despised outside their own country or just not of any interest. All of this is different with Obama.

Additionally “Rome” is not mentioned in the Bible, people only thought it should be Rome because of the seven hills. But Honolulu is a city built on seven hills too. And it is in the middle of the Sea.

Obama fits everything so perfectly that I am absolutely sure it is not coincidence. Either he is the Antichrist or he performs to be the Antichrist for some reason.

Have you ever considered the second possibility?

He knows people think he is the Antichrist and he does not do anything to refute this notion, i.e. urging his followers not to hail him like a god. And McCain knows as well and jumps on the game as is proven by this ad. Maybe there is a web of deceit much larger than we can think.

Thank you again for your site.

Why aren’t Iowans blaming the Bush administration?

It’s a question that could lead to some pretty interesting discussion.  Some people only know how to be victims and some know how to be self sufficient and responsible.  What’s the difference?  Is it the culture?  Geography?  The nature of the disaster?

Talk is cheap – The politics of appeasement

President Bush finally said something I am proud of. It seems that in his past eight years of public speaking he has done little more than build a legacy of providing material to late night talk show hosts. Well, this week he finally spoke as a true leader of nations to the Knesset concerning the appeasement of terrorists.

“Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along. We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: ‘Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of this might have been avoided.’ We have an obligation to call this what it is –- the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.”

This really pissed off Senator Barry O’ and the democrats, who are the absolute pinnacles of talky talk, appeasement and symbolism over substance.

“It is sad that President Bush would use a speech to the Knesset on the 6Oth anniversary of Israel’s independence to launch a false political attack. It is time to turn the page on eight years of policies that have strengthened Iran and failed to secure America or our ally Israel. Instead of tough talk and no action, we need to do what Kennedy, Nixon and Reagan did and use all elements of American power — including tough, principled, and direct diplomacy – to pressure countries like Iran and Syria. George Bush knows that I have never supported engagement with terrorists, and the President’s extraordinary politicization of foreign policy and the politics of fear do nothing to secure the American people or our stalwart ally Israel.”

It really saddens me that the man who expects to be President can actually believe that fighting the greatest threat to America’s liberty has strengthened Iran and failed to secure America and Israel. The democrats are so blinded by their lust for power that they will twist the obvious truth and play partisan politics to the point where they deny that fighting terrorism is the only way to stop it.

Did Jimmy Carter’s peace efforts in the middle east do anything to stop Arafat? No, it did not. Did Bill Clinton’s finger wagging do anything to stop the escalation of terrorism against the USA around the world and within our own borders? No, it did not.  In fact, it emboldened the terrorists and brought us 9/11.

Did President Reagan’s ass whupping on Kadafi do anything to stop him? Hell yes it did. Did Reagan’s perceived development of the Star Wars initiative do anything to topple communism and the Soviet regime? Hell yes it did. Has George Bush’s proactive offenses on terrorist nations and regimes done anything to protect us within the borders of the United States and our embassies across the world? Hell yes it has.

History will tell the truth and the democrat party will fail once again this election year, then they will be sent scrambling back to the drawing board full of anger and venom against the policies that will continue to protect our freedom and liberty.

What the huck, Mike?

I like Mike Huckabee, he’s not a bad guy. I don’t want him to ever be our president. I think he has the ability to lead and the ability to do what is right but I don’t think he has the ability to tactfully follow through with the voice of the people. He has said some pretty kooky things during the campaign and he just keeps trumping himself with something more inflammatory and border-line nutty.

Remember when he asked a reporter if Mormons believe that Satan and Jesus are brothers? It was spun as him just asking a harmless question, not knowing much about the LDS religion. The thing is, he was a Baptist preacher and we Mormons know that the Baptists believe we’re all going to hell because we have a different understanding of Christ and the Godhead than they do. When talking to a Baptist it’s essentially “I’m right and you’re wrong so you’re going to hell”. The Huckster’s innocent question was a jab at Mormonism and he knows it. But it’s all fair, I don’t take offense. I just see what he was doing and it kind of cracked me up how he played it off as “Huh? I didn’t know, I was just asking”.

So last week he made the following comment:

“One of the great challenges facing us is that we do not commit the same
mistakes with our growing Hispanic population that we did with African
Americans 150 years ago and beyond. We’re still paying the price for the
pathetic manner in which this country handled that… I think, frankly, the
Lord is giving us a second chance to do better than we did before.”

According to the Huckster, God is giving us a second chance to make up for the horrors of slavery? How does he put these things together in his mind let alone allow them to come flying out of his pie hole into the world wide media? First of all, the slaves were kidnapped, beaten, forced into slavery and treated like wild beasts. The illegals immigrating from Mexico are coming here of their own free will, finding jobs, living freely, are given countless benefits that the slaves would never have dreamed of receiving.

What’s next? Will he draw parallels between the attacks of 9/11 and mad cow disease, or global warming and the price of gold? What a goofy bastard.

But that’s not all. Look what he said last night in the Republican debate when asked about the Iranian fast boats approaching US Navy vessels and his opinion on how the matter was handled.

“Be prepared, first, to put your sights on the American vessel. And then be prepared that the next thing you see will be the gates of Hell, because that is exactly what you will see after that.”

Now, the truth is that I wish more presidents would speak in these terms when it comes to standing up to our aggressors, but they need to be the president, not some candidate. Good ol’ Huckabee is showing himself to be an off-the-cuff wierdo. What kind of diplomatic progress would a guy like this be able to make if in the debates he has already told Iran that “if you piss me off I’m sending you to hell”?

In a way I do like it but that’s not the right way to get into office, telling someone they’ll be shown the gates of hell. Especially a bunch of Muslim fanatics who think that if they blow themselves up that their next move is to bone down on 72 virgins. The Huckster might be a good advisor, VP or cabinet member but I hope to God he never gets the Republican nod.

Please, all you evangelicals who support the Huckster, take a good look and remember that this wingnut has his eye on the destruction of the wicked and the rapture. That’s no way to function in the DC political environment and no way to manage the office of President. Those things are up to God, not Mike Huckabee. This is my opinion of Mike Huckabee. I believe his Baptist preacher roots are too deep to remove him from the spectacle of hell fire and brimstone to be the diplomat he needs to be. Huckabee is kooky! Mommy, hold me!

The Israeli occupation?

This week George Bush said, “There should be an end to the occupation that began in 1967. The agreement must establish a Palestine as a homeland for the Palestinian people just as Israel is a homeland for the Jewish people.”

First of all, there is no “Palestinian people”. If anything, the Palestinian people are made up of Arabs and Jews together. The Palestinian people are those people who occupy the Palestinian territories. They are not a race and they are not a nation.

After all of the Jewish concessions to the Arabs over the last couple of hundred years, not to mention the last couple of thousand years, I don’t understand how any educated person can call the Jewish existence in Palestine an occupation. The bottom line is that the Arabs will never be happy until the Jews are eradicated from Palestine. The Jews want nothing more than to live free in their homeland. Yes, Palestine is the Jewish homeland and always has been.

Take a look at historical maps and see how the Jewish state has dwindled into what it is today. Jewish concessions and cooperation has given the Arab Palestinians more and more of what they ask for. What more do they want? We know what they want but for some reason the leaders of the world are unable to admit it and are continuing to try to solve the problem by giving away more and more of the Jewish homeland.

Not only did the Jews bring Israel back to life, which brought the Arab Palestinians into the area, but they are leaving and surrendering their lands at the behest of world leaders under the veil of “peace”. This is not peace, this is occupation by the Arabs.

Black is white and white is black in this ridiculous conflict. George Bush is fighting a war on terror. He absolutely understands what it is the blood thirsty and barbaric Arab Palestinians want. It is the destruction of Israel, the Jews and the west. He is complicit in feeding their blood lust while working to fight it on other fronts. Shame on President Bush for supporting the terrorism of the PLO and continuing to give in to their demands for destruction and occupation.

Give the Jews their homeland. The Arabs have more than 90% of the land in the area and they want the Jews to give up the slivers they have established in their quest for some sort of sovereignty. The right thing to do here would be to protect Israel and tell the Palestinian Arabs to take it or leave it, then prepare for war.

Nobody wants war but there will be war until the Jews are extinguished from Arab lands. The Jews deserve to exist. They are a peaceful people who welcome peaceful coexistence with other nations. The Arabs are the problem. The Arabs are the occupiers. Shame on George Bush for supporting them.

Senator, you are no Jack Kennedy (or any other president for that matter)

If trends mean anything then the presidential race boils down to two candidates of the same party. No Senator has been elected president since JFK and I don’t think we’re going to see a change in that statistic any time soon…or ever (LBJ and Nixon were congressmen and even though Gerald Ford was a Senator he was never elected). Senators have very public voting records and the bills they vote on are so convoluted and bloated with pork and nonsense that it’s just like shooting fish in a barrel when putting together a negative campaign ad against a running Senator.

That takes Hillary, Obama, Edwards, McCain and Thompson out of the race (the other unmentioned candidates can be dismissed and return to their classrooms). The only glimmer of hope for a Senator might be in Obama’s short tenure — the fact that he hasn’t had as much time as others to taint himself.

So, that brings us to Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney. The two religious candidates who stand for the same conservative values this country embraces but who stand as religious opponents. I only wish, for the sake of the salacious television entertainment, that these two could run against one another in the general election. I’m no Jimmy “The Greek” Snyder, but if I had to put money on it I’m going with Romney. He’s clean, he’s pretty and the man has proven he can straighten some shit out and that’s what this country needs.

Romney / <insert running mate> 2008!

The sandbox is over crowded…

…and Hillary got some in her snatch. Yeah, it’s disgusting but I said it. Hillary is losing big time and she doesn’t know how to handle it. Now she’s pointing fingers, telling Obama he’s no MLK while her introductor, Francine Torge, reminded us that JKF was assasinated and LBJ was the one who actually signed the civil rights act.

The claim is that Torge was referring to Obama, and because there are fears of a black president being assassinated those comments were completely out of line. The Hillary camp publicly disapproved of the comment but I have a feeling they knew what was coming. I wouldn’t put it past her to throw something like that into the discussion via a scapegoat.

I have a dream too. My dream is that the democrats shut the hell up, go back home and come up with some sort of strategy that will actually help our country. You know, something along the lines of a foreign policy plan, border security, an admission that there is a real terror threat and that Islam IS the enemy…stuff like that.

The media is focusing so closely on the Democrat race and playing it up to be so critical but in the big picture I don’t see any one of those candidates having a snowball’s chance in a real presidential race. I don’t expect a Reganesque 49 state landslide in the general election but you have got to be kidding me if anyone believes this United States of America would vote in Hillary Clinton, Barack Hussein Obama or John Edwards as president.

I made a prediction about a year ago that our next president would be Mitt Romney and I haven’t seen anything that has made me change my mind. I think most of the Republican candidates would be great presidents except for Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul (Ron Paul is a extreme right wing kook and Huckabee seems like a passive-aggressive cool aid drinker). That leaves us with McCain, Giuliani and Romney. If Fred Thompson were a little more inspiring than a thorazine induced drool-off he might have a chance but he’s too far behind to make an impact.

Fasten your seat belts, the ride is going to get bumpy!

What do the Democrats actually believe?

I don’t really know for sure, I’m not sure they know for sure either, but I found this today and there is always a bit of truth in humor. Take a look and have a laugh.

Reposted from Ghostnote.net

22 WAYS TO BE A LOYAL DEMOCRAT

1. You have to be against capital punishment of murderers, but support abortion on demand.
2. You have to believe that governments create prosperity by spending tax money.
3. You have to believe that guns in the hands of law-abiding Americans are more of a threat than nuclear weapons technology in the hands of Iranians and North Korean communists.
4. You have to believe that there would be no art without Federal funding.
5. You have to believe that natural changes in the earth’s climate have nothing to do with global temperatures.
6. You have to believe that gender roles are artificial, but being homosexual is natural.
7. You have to believe that National Public Radio gives a fair and balanced presentation of the news.
8. You have to believe that there would be no teachers and professors if schools had the ability to fire them for incompetence.
9. You have to believe that ranchers, farmers and hunters don’t care about nature, but activists who have never been outside of an urban area do.
10. You have to believe that self-esteem comes from talking about it, and not from doing things.
11. You have to believe that Mel Gibson spent $25 Million of his own money to make ‘The Passion of the Christ’ for financial gain.
12. You have to believe the NRA is bad because it supports certain parts of the Constitution, while the ACLU is good because it supports certain parts of the Constitution.
13. You have to believe that taxes are too low, but ATM fees are too high.
14. You have to believe that Margaret Sanger and Gloria Steinem are more important to American history than Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Edison, and Alexander Graham Bell.
15. You have to believe that standardized tests are racist, but racial quotas and set-asides are not.
16. You have to believe that Hillary Clinton is a very nice person.
17. You have to believe that the only reason socialism hasn’t worked anywhere is because the right people haven’t been in charge.
18. You have to believe that a President who preyed on a 20 year-old intern in the White House, then lied about it to the American people on national TV, deserves to be a beloved hero of our country.
19. You have to believe that homosexual parades displaying transvestites in drag and bestiality are a proud sign of our diversity, and that all Christmas displays on public property should be illegal.
20. You have to believe that illegal Democrat Party funding by the Chinese Government was ok because it served the best interest of the United States.
21. You have to believe that this message is a part of a vast right wing conspiracy.
22. You have to believe that it’s OK to give Federal workers the day off on Christmas, but it’s not OK to say ‘Merry Christmas’.

Playing the Love Child card

Oh, the sweet smell of political scandal is in the air. And it’s being brought to us by our pals at the National Enquirer. I have a really hard time swallowing much of anything those people publish but occasionally, amid the Elvis sightings and alien abduction stories, they do dig up some rather steamy and tantalizing dirty laundry. I never know what to believe but after watching Men in Black I started thinking that maybe, just maybe these dirt diggers are on to something.

Sure, they run some completely sensational nonsense just to grab another buck fitty from soccer mom as she suffers through the checkout lines at the grocery store, but I really do wonder if they get ahold of the goods once in a while. They have been sued a number of times for going too far. I recall a love child claim that resulted in a lawsuit brought against them by a woman who they said is the father of Ted Kennedy’s bastard child. Kennedy, being an easy target, makes me wonder if they just ran the story for sales or if there was really anything to it. It doesn’t make much difference to though. When it comes to Kennedy scandals, Chappaquiddick seals the deal in my mind. No love child story can trump that one.

But now we’re on to newer and fresher gossip. I sit here wondering about the validity of the Enquirer’s latest love child brew involving John Edwards and a divorced film maker named Rielle Hunter AKA Lisa Druck.

The story goes that John Edwards hired former party girl, Rielle Hunter to document his rise to the presidency and that during the campaign they had a rendezvous or two involving a bit of the old in-out, in-out. Turns out that the forty-something Ms. Hunter is actually pregnant but the current story is that she is carrying the baby of Edwards’ ex Director of Operations, Andrew Young. In fact, Young has Ms. Hunter living in a luxurious home in his upscale, gated neighborhood and is supposedly working through the drama with his family and Hunter together. They both vehemently claim that the child is theirs together and that the rumors about her and Edwards are false. Talk about taking one for the team!

Months ago on the blogosphere there were stories circulating that John Edwards had a mistress by the name of Rielle Hunter, the videographer hired to follow him down the campaign trail. Of course all of that was denied by all parties accused, but when she suddenly turned up preggos out of wedlock shortly after the scandalous accusations you have to wonder to yourself, who is telling the truth?

Is the Enquirer just feeding us more salacious tabloid pablum or are we on to something here? Could Andrew Young be taking the fall to keep John Edwards scandal free during his hopeless run at the presidency? If it is true, how must his cancer stricken wife be taking all of it? Is Young’s wife and family complicit or are they just being used by the power hungry whores who will stop at nothing to save face and preserve their egos?

This is good stuff. In the end, however, it really makes no difference in the grand scheme and big picture because John Edwards is a pathetic power hungry munchkin who is really only good at combing his hair and arguing before an audience. It’s all smoke and mirrors. He has no chance of winning. Can you imagine, after it’s all said and done and the campaign is over and the dust settles, how they’re going to sort it all out?

If Rielle Hunter wants to make her mark as an artist she needs to set the cameras rolling while it all unfolds. This is fodder for some really meaty reality television or at least a future, behind the scenes, ‘where are they now’ type project. Edwards’ political career is over but he could springboard this scandal into a TV show that would bring more advertising funds to the table than Hulk Hogan or Ozzy Osbourne put together and he could use profits for another hopeless run in 2012.

The first amendment gets trampled on but it does bring us some fun once in a while!

Can Robin Hood save America?

What is wrong with the Democrats? Do they honestly think they’re going to save America by collecting taxes on the rich and big corporations? In the recent debate there was more of the same garbage we always hear from them. Tax the rich! Big corporations, bad!

Another thing I’ve noticed is that rather than tackling the issue of a balanced budget they are resigning the argument and instead pointing the finger of blame at Bush by saying, “we’re not going to be able to dig ourselves out”.

What are their solutions to anything? They want to pull troops out of Iraq but nobody has come up with a plan of how that’s going to be accomplished. None of the democrats have given any hint of an interest in protecting our borders or continuing to secure America from the terrorist threat that they almost deny exists. They act as though Mexico belongs in the USA and that if we just play nice with the Palestinians that they will lose their lust for our destruction.

Their happy feelings and Eutopian dreams will just blend us all into that wonderful idealistic melting pot our elementary school teachers told us about. Then Hillary and Obama can go skipping hand in hand through the lily fields basking in the glory of their accomplishments. Who needs a savior when we’ve got the Democrats?