Archive for May, 2005
John McCain, Media Hero
The next Whitaker Online will talk about Senator John McCain and how hard he works for the political left. He is the best friend Communist Vietnam has in congress and the worst enemy our missing POWs have.
As if to confirm what I say, I just saw an ad for a movie special on the History Channel. It will be a two-hour story of what a hero McCain was in Vietnam. They don’t make movies like that about those who have fought the political left. They do that for their friends.
Promises
Posted by Bob in How Things Work on 05/27/2005
The one thing everybody agrees on is that politicians don’t keep their promises.
They couldn’t be wronger.
Big-league politics consists ENTIRELY of promises and in the big leagues, a politician’s word to another politicians is solid gold. They don’t keep their promises to YOU.
Why should they? Politics is NOT a friendly game. It is a deadly serious battle for something much more important than money.
Power.
Money is like water. If you are dying of thirst, nothing but water matters. But if you have the money you need in power politics, it becomes a lesser consideration. Many a billionaire wishes he had power and can’t get it.
In the House or Senate, once you commit to vote for something in return for promises and you don’t come through, you’re dead meat. A Senator would far rather break his word to a billionaire than to another senator.
So why do you think he cares about keeping his word to YOU? His promises are his stock in the biggest trade there is on earth.
You, the public, have no MEMORY. You are fascinated by the latest Big Story. A pro has a memory a mile long. You break a promise in the Big Leagues and you’re on your way out.
If a man’s only capital is his promises, he doesn’t waste them on people who don’t have a knack for a memory and a grudge.
Power IS Responsibility
Posted by Bob in Bob, How Things Work on 05/25/2005
The great rules of life, from the Golden Rule of Jesus down to supply and demand in economics, are SIMPLE, but they are NEVER easy.
One of these rules is not that power IMPLIES responsibility, but that power IS responsibility.
That is the big difference between Jesus’ “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” and Confucius’s “Do NOT do unto another what you would NOT have him do unto you.” So in the Far East, you have no obligation to help anyone or to save anyone’s life. Your only obligation is NOT to do them harm.
Jesus would have none of that. If you CAN do good, you MUST do good. Confucius’s Golden Rule is both simple AND easy. Jesus’ Golden Rule is simple and backbreakingly difficult.
I am the only person who makes this distinction. Everybody else says that the Golden Rule is the same in the Orient and in the West.
What reminded me of this was the discussion of in vitro fertilization. Pro-lifers wanted to outlaw in vitro because a number of fertilized eggs die in the process.
I have known many unfortunate, heroic women who have tried desperately to have children, though all the experts told them they could not. Again and again, an egg would be fertilized and die within a week. But they kept trying.
No theologian, least of all the pope, would discourage them from continuing to try despite the fact that many, many fertilized eggs, unborn children in their eyes, died in the process.
But when these same women turned to in vitro fertilization, they became sinners.
Why? Because in vitro takes place in a lab. That was not the way fertilized eggs had been sacrificed for the birth of children in Biblical times. The difference is the lab. A woman has the right to try to have children and lose any number of fertilized eggs in her own body. The pope would say she is OBLIGATED to do so.
But she cannot ask help from a lab.
The Amish go further and claim (falsely) that they use no technology that was not present in Biblical times.
If you are a Confucian, this is moral. If you believe in JESUS’S Golden Rule this, IN MY OPINION, is not moral. Once again, if we have the POWER to make barren women fertile, then we have the RESPONSIBILITY to make barren women fertile.
If you haven’t noticed, let me remind you that I keep using the words IN MY OPINION, IMO.
IMO is what I will face the Judgement with. I believe that God will forgive honest mistakes, just as Jesus forgave those who tortured and crucified Him, because
“THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO.”
But God would NOT forgive me for going along with something so as not to offend people when IN MY OPINION it is wrong.
IN MY OPINION the Amish and those who fight in vitro are wrong. I MUST fight for in vitro.
But, if I ever do reach the right side of Jesus, I would not be surprised in the slightest to find those who SINCERELY disagreed with me right there beside me.
If I get there I expect to be right there with the uncompromising Calvinists and fanatical Catholics I worked with in politics right there with me.
The first joy I will have in Heaven will be watching the looks on their astonished faces when they see each other.
Quote for a Lousy Mood
Posted by Bob in How Things Work on 05/24/2005
I am a wordmaster, so I write for you when you are in a good mood and when you are in a bad mood. This is NOT my general attitude. This is a JOKE.
My book team has spoiled me horribly. In my earlier life, I got used to people promising things and not delivering. But I have been dealing with my book team too long, and I had the impression that, like them, other people would promise and deliver.
I discovered that while my team is great, the rest of the world is the same old thing.
After finding that out and while I was in a lousy mood, I came up with a way to express my mood.
When you are in a lousy mood, read this over. I am probably saying what you are thinking.
Here is how you tell your real friends from mere acquaintances:
An acquaintance will be reminded of a promise they didn’t deliver on, and they will tell you, “I was busy.”
When you remind an old friend of a promise they didn’t deliver on, he will say, “I was very, VERY busy.”
If you have done someone huge favors and even saved their job, they will say, “You KNOW I would NEVER forget you. But I was very, very, VERY, VERY busy.”
I prefer dealing with my enemies.
They just tell me to go to hell.
The Law Won’t Work as Long as We Think Judges are God
Posted by Bob in How Things Work on 05/24/2005
The 11-year old kid who killed a girl a third his size is up for another violent crime.
The psychologists said he was just a poor, misunderstood kid and he was convicted, but soon let go.
So now he’s back up for violence again.
What a surprise!
He was a vicious bully and nut before he was 11. But when he came before the judges and psychologists, The Law was worried to death about being unfair to him.
The kid was dangerous. He was a threat to the public. But that is not The Law’s problem. The Law is not concerned with some nameless person this kid might kill or maim. The Law is concerned only with treating this kid fairly.
I do not believe in The Law. I believe that a bunch of lawyers who put on black dresses and call themselves Judges are just lawyers who put on black dresses. They are going to screw up.
If there are twenty million dollars worth of legal proceeding The Law is happy with any result. To me if that huge legal proceeding results in a nutcase being put back on the streets and someone gets killed, The Law, His Majesty Itself, has just killed an innocent person as surely as if an innocent person were executed by Its Majesty The Law Itself.
NOBODY else thinks that way.
How Hypocritical Can You GET?
Posted by Bob in Coaching Session, History, How Things Work on 05/24/2005
I can’t BELIEVE it!!!
To fight embryonic stem cell research, President Bush has children produced by in vitro fertilization on. I remember when those SAME pro-lifers were trying to OUTLAW in vitro fertilization and desperately fighting to keep those SAME children from being born!
They wanted people who could not have children normally NOT to have children through in vitro. They wanted them to adopt third-world children! Now they are using those SAME children to fight for their new battle against humanity!
I remember it very well. I told my congressman that, if he wanted me to help fight in vitro, I would resign. He said he never really considered it. John Ashbrook was totally pro-life, but he would never take part in this kind of anti-life action.
LISTEN TO ME!
These people are UNSPEAKABLE.
Where Am I?
I just got back from a convention in New Orleans.
Where am I?
Who the hell are you?
What’s this Bob’s Blog thing?
5/21/05 Bob’s Weekly WOL Articles
Posted by Bob in WOL Weekly Articles on 05/21/2005
Weekly WhitakerOnline.org Articles
May 21, 2005
V-E Day, May 8, 1945
The Churchill Clown
Heroism Cannot Trump Stupidity
Gee, Guys, What Happened?
Fun Quote:
For you martial arts fans, I would like to point out my favorite tactic when I am faced with a fight.
When faced with hand-to-hand fighting, the French have a method of hitting with their legs that is called Savate.
I use my legs too. My method is called the Sprint.
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V-E Day, May 8, 1945
May 8, 1945 was V-E Day, the day Nazi Germany surrendered.
On April 30, 1945, Hitler committed suicide in his Berlin Bunker.
There was some question about whether the other Allies would take Berlin along with the Soviets. Stalin explained to Roosevelt that May Day, May 1st, was a big day for the Soviet Revolution, so the Soviets alone should take the German capital.
So Roosevelt gave Berlin to Stalin.
All this bothered Churchill. He was worried about the fact that Russia was being given what it had always wanted, a foothold in the very center of Europe. He was suddenly worried that, once Russia got Berlin, it would claim half of the continent.
Within five years, the Soviet Empire did indeed include half of Europe.
What Churchill did not realize was that both Roosevelt and Stalin understood that he was a has-been, a funny little out-of-date joke.
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The Churchill Clown
It is almost impossible today for us to understand the world Churchill’s sick little mind lived in.
In 1814 Britain defeated Napoleon and reestablished its traditional policy of a Balance of Power in Europe. When Hitler came along, he threatened the Balance of Power in Europe. When Hitler conquered France in 1940, Churchill’s only concern was restoring the Balance of Power in Europe.
This is not a joke. This was Churchill’s policy.
In 1939, when both Hitler and Stalin, by agreement, invaded Poland, Britain only declared war against Hitler. Hitler was threatening the Balance of Power in Europe. To Churchill, only Germany was threatening the Balance of Power in Europe.
I hope I haven’t lost you here. I am NOT overstating this. That was REALLY Churchill’s World View.
This is NOT a joke.
So France joined Britain in declaring war ONLY against Germany. Germany proceeded, as usual, to beat the hell out of France.
Germany then said, “OK. We conquered France again. Now would you please get out of the way and let us conquer the Soviet Union as Hitler said he wanted to do in Mein Kampf?”
Churchill refused to make any peace with Germany. Churchill was still living in the days of Napoleon, when Britain stood alone against the Enemy of the Balance of Power in Europe and refused to make peace with the Corsican tyrant.
No, I am NOT joking here.
So, in 1940, Churchill sat there and kept the war going.
One day a German airplane dropped a couple of bombs which landed, specifically against orders, in a civilian area. Germany officially apologized.
This was the break Churchill was looking for. He launched a retaliatory raid against civilian targets in Berlin. That is how the London Blitz began. Germany did not like Britain attacking its civilians, so it hit back, HARD.
Edward R. Murrow, the god of American broadcasting, began his series of broadcasts by describing how mean the Germans were.
Recently the History Channel had a program entitled, “Roosevelt: He Brought Light to America By Keeping It in the Dark.” The program refers to the joint efforts of Roosevelt and other American liberals like Edward R. Murrow to get America in the war.
Germany never understood why France and Britain only declared war against them and not against Stalin, who also invaded Poland. The Germans understood even less that Churchill was chomping at the bit to join Stalin and Roosevelt in a joint destruction of Germany.
Germany never understood that Churchill had no idea that Europe’s time of total world domination had passed. Hitler saw the Soviet power and the American power, and he wanted to join with the British Empire as a European balance to those powers. He praised the British Empire in Mein Kampf. He never understood that Churchill was rooted in 1814.
He simply never understood how dumb Churchill was.
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Heroism Cannot Trump Stupidity
Germany and the Soviet Union were buddies until June 22, 1941. That was the day Germany, which shared Poland with the USSR, attacked the USSR on the common front they shared in Poland.
So the Germans thought, “OK, now you know what we were really after all this time was the Soviet Union.”
Wrong.
Right after Germany invaded the USSR something incredible happened. Rudolf Hess, the Number Three man in the entire Nazi Government, flew straight to Britain to arrange for a peace settlement with Britain and the freeing of France so Germany could take care of Stalin.
Hess was a World War I hero as a combat pilot. This was a heroic mission that was typical of Hess.
I knew someone who served with him in World War I. He called my friend before he left. Hitler knew all about it.
The number three man in the United States Government is the Speaker of the House. Can you imagine, in the middle of a war, the Speaker of the House flying unprotected into an enemy country and trying to make peace?
That’s what happened. Germany simply could not understand that Churchill lived in 1814. Edward R. Murrow and Roosevelt said Hess was nuts. Hess spent the rest of his life in prison.
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Gee, Guys, What Happened?
Back to May 8, 1945. Roosevelt gave Stalin Berlin and half of Europe.
And, gee whiz, something else happened. Stalin and Roosevelt, with Churchill invited as a formality, met at Yalta to divide up Europe.
Churchill found that his old friend and worshiper, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, completely ignored him. He was terribly upset. What happened to the praise and glory his bosom buddy FDR had given him when he was the front guy for destroying Germany?
When two great powers are dividing up a silly-ass continent that just destroyed itself, they don’t have time for a clown who is living in 1814. Churchill never figured that out.
Edward R. Murrow and the liberals gave Winnie Churchill one more shot at being a Great Prophet. After all, he had done his part for the leftist cause and he deserved a little praise.
So in 1948 Winnie said in a speech that “an Iron Curtain has fallen over Eastern Europe.” Stalin, his buddy, his ally, his Hero, had taken his half of Europe and turned it into some kind of – well let’s say it – some kind of a DICTATORSHIP!
Only a genius and a prophet could have figured THAT out!
I am NOT joking.
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