A Kennedy announced that he would not run for Senate against one of the few remaining liberal Republicans in the Senate. He said he could better serve his constituents as a member of the House Appropriations Committee.

He may be right.

A liberal Republican or a John McCain does more good for the liberal cause than any outright liberal Democrat.

But the point of this blog entry is to make clear how important a seat on the House Appropriations Committee is.

In the House of Representatives, a new member must make a critical choice. He can serve on two committees or he can serve on the Appropriations Committee and no other. If he takes a seat on the Appropriations Committee, he must choose one subcommittee he will serve on.

Period.

It takes decades for the congressman to become a senior member of that particular subcommittee.

He is on no other committee.

Does this give you some idea of how critical that one seat on one appropriations subcommittee is?

When the chairman of an appropriations subcommittee recommends something, he normally gets his way. When the subcommittee chairman and the ranking minority member agree on something, they ALWAYS get their way.

Except once.

There is a House Appropriations Subcommittee called HUD-Independent Agencies. The “Independent Agencies” includes the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

The chairman and ranking member of the HUD-Independent Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee dedicated ALL of their seniority to that one subcommittee.

In 1978 the chairman and ranking Republican were both liberals whose only interest was getting money for HUD – Housing and Urban Development. They did NOT want money spent on space. The Republican wanted HUD money from HUD for his urban district in Pennsylvania.

So the chairman and the ranking member agreed to stop the Hubble Telescope and all of the Jupiter by-flights. They tried to hurry it up so the pro-space community couldn’t rally its supporters.

I stopped them. We beat them on the House floor by a vote of 318-83 after I got a weekend delay so that 400,000 telegrams could be sent by the pro-space grassrooters.

If you know about the House you will never know that that kind of kick in the teeth to the Appropriations subcommittee chairman AND the ranking minority member NEVER happens.

I made it happen.

And I am just a little proud of it.

The Enemies of Good Things ALWAYS Claim to Be the Friends of Good Things

Again and again I hear people say, “People who say they are for freedom of speech…” or “People who talk about love and brotherhood are the ones who are the cruelest.”

My reply is, “Welcome to the real world.”

Lenin took power with slogan, “Peace, land, and bread.”

Under Lenin, the Ukraine, which had been Europe’s bread basket, starved. The Soviet Union was a hungry country from the day the Communists took power and for the seventy years of Communist rule.

Lenin’s rise to power began a civil war that was even worse than the disasters of World War I. After that the Soviet government conducted one long war against its own citizens, killing tens of millions of them.

So much for Peace and Bread. What about land?

The Soviet Government collectivized all land. In plain English, it took all the land for itself.

But there is nothing special about Communism. The Inquisition was conducted in the name of a loving Christ.

The courts tell us that the people do not matter. People born in America have no more rights than illegal immigrants. When Californians voted overwhelmingly to deny welfare to illegal immigrants the courts said they couldn’t do that.

The Supreme Court, you see, is the Constitution. The Constitution says that its only reason for existence is to secure the blessings of liberty for the people of the United States and OUR posterity.”

The Supreme Court declared that it makes no difference whether you are one of “the people of the United States” or not.

And the person who screams most about Freedom of Speech will censor every word you say in the name of Political Correctness.

In His last agonies on the Cross, Jesus said, “Forgive them, Father, for they know not what they do.”

Saint Paul said we should be “all things to all men.” He said specifically that we should bend on matters of doctrine or ritual so that our brothers’ faith will not be weakened.

There is no one more unforgiving of doctrinal difference or of a different ritual who says he follows Christ and St. Paul.

And no one is as unforgiving as a Christian who thinks he has The Only True Faith.

Hypocrisy is not something unusual. It is routine.

Welcome to the real world.

“Pro-lifers” are ecstatic. They say that the brain dead woman they are fighting for is able to make some signs to people.

Others disagree.

Meanwhile, they are hogging all the time and money and publicity the father of that little murdered girl in Florida needs.

Somebody told me, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”

So if I were lying there, unable to breathe on my own but able to make some signs, what would I want?

Her husband says that she told him she’s rather be dead.

But all life is precious, you see. As a priest told me, the last agonies of a person dying from spinal cancer should be prolonged as long as possible because all life is infinitely precious.

Pain, he told me, means nothing.

Life, he said, is Infinitely Precious.

I saw a movie about a young Briton who visited his father in the hospital. His father had been wounded in World War I, which was still going on. The doctors told him that his father had had his face blown off. He had no eyes, he had no hearing.

His spinal cord was severed.

His father could not move or communicate, but he was alive. The young man’s father was still there, but he was unable to know anything that went on around him. He was alone in a way you and I can never understand.

He would be that way for as long as medicine could keep him that way.

The son should have shouted, “Hosannah in the Highest! My father has Infinitely Precious Life!”

His son’s reaction was utterly at odds with what is now called a “Truly Christian” reaction. His son was so horrified he chose to be arrested rather than join the military.

His son decided that nothing could be worse than being in the condition his father was in.

President Bush says, “One should always err on the side of life.”

According to Right-to-Life, that son was evil. Instead of taking the Pope’s position that life was infinitely precious, no matter how horrible, the son decided he would far, far rather die than be in his father’s position.

He wanted to treat his father as he would want to be treated.

Someday I will face God. When that Day comes, I pity the Pro-lifers.

The United Nations is a third world organization. When it ran the Iraqi Oil for Food program, most of the money was stolen, just as foreign aid is stolen in the third world.

Well, DUHHH!

The reason the third world is so desperately poor, filthy, and has runaway AIDS is precisely because the third world is run horribly.

Not just badly. Horribly. Children are dying in the streets while those in charge steal.

That’s the way the UN operates.

Ah, Bob, but we are speaking of the third world. We are speaking in awe of the United Nations Organization.

So what?

You give money to the third world and it will be handled horribly.

That’s why it’s the third world.

Today when affirmative action is discussed most people conclude, “Discrimination against whites will only get worse. Minorities were not satisfied with equality. They went straight on into endless and increasing race preferences.”

The old segregationists would say, “Give a N an inch and he’ll take a mile.”

What the old segregationist said was not nice, it was not respectful, but was it true?

And if it WAS true, why SHOULD it be respectful?

On the show “Married With Children,” the star, Al Bundy, was the absolute ultimate loser. He worked for minimum wage at a women’s shoe store, he never bathed, his feet stank, and his only moment of glory was a high school football game.

Once Al decided to take on the phone company. His son Bud asked Al’s wife Peg if, since Al had obviously lost again, he would back down and get back the family phone.

She said, “Of course, he always loses.”

Bud said, “I don’t know, mom, he’s a proud man.”

And then Peg answered with a question I have wanted to ask a thousand times:

“Of what, dear?”

I am ALWAYS hearing about how some third worlders “are a proud people.” These proud people’s children are starving, their communities are garbage piles, they know nothing, but, “They are a proud people.”

Of WHAT, for God’s sake?

As for blacks who follow today’s “black liberal leaders,” why should one be respectful of people whose only asset is another people’s guilt? Why should one be respectful of a people that wants to be forced on another people?

Yes, one must be respectful. Yes, no one is going to remember all the old segregationist warnings because they were not put the right way.

But WOL is here to make you think. So I am just suggesting that we might look at those old words not for their diplomacy, their appropriateness, or even their decency, but for the truth in them.

Eric Hoffer lived through the Depression, and he was deeply impressed by the fact that you could give a bunch of Americans a task to perform all by themselves, like building a road in the mountains and they could do the whole job themselves, including setting up rules to get along with each other.

But this was the generation of Americans the ones who call themselves The Greatest Generation.

The group that calls itself The Greatest Generation was Obedience Trained. They learned to obey, to believe the Authorities. They learned that The System is everything.

Since the group that calls itself The Greatest generation took over, we all believe that it is Rules, the System, that makes everything possible. White countries are rich because they happen to have had a Culture, a System, that everybody else can learn.

Respectable conservatives say that if we take all the whites out of America, dump in three hundred million Africans, keep Christianity and the Constitution and Free Enterprise and the English Language, and nothing would change.

In other words, lawyers, preachers and professors say that the white race doesn’t matter. All that matters, they tell us, is lawyers, preachers and professors.

Respectable cosnervatives agree. They say that any change in their doctrines, which they call the System or the Culture or the Traditions, will destroy “what America is all about.”

As Jefferson said, white people need regular total revolutions. The best thing that ever happened to the German economy was its total destruction in World War II. Germany came roaring back to levels earlier Germans would not have dreamed of.

Hitler’s Blood and Soil slogan is exactly wrong. Whites are a moving people. We take new soil and build anew. We came from the Indo-European homeland, wherever it was, into Europe and over to America. And at each stage we used what we wanted and dumped the rest.

Today a conservative is a moron because we have nothing to conserve.