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Progressing towards what?

Posted by James Biga on Thursday, May 26, 2011 1:17:05 PM
The title "Progressive" has become a modern day amorphous term. Similar to the terms "social justice", "diversity", and "tolerance". If you were to ask 100 people what these terms meant you would get 100 different answers. Due to the lack of comprehension, both in the vernacular and historical senses, these terms have either been redefined or used to mean whatever the user wants it to mean at the moment.

The term "progressive" piqued my interest quite awhile ago. The first question that always comes to mind when I hear someone use this term to describe themselves and/or their ideology is, "what are you progressing towards?" The answers start out similarly "A diverse, tolerant society that adheres to social justice". In other words, they use the other amorphous words to describe their amorphous ideology. Depending on their mood at the moment, or what soap box they brought with them, affects the description of what this answer means.

The Middle East is going through it's usual turmoil. Certain Western politicians, "academics, talking heads, and average politicos are claiming that there is a possibility for progress to be made off the backs of the rioters. They see these rioters as revolutionaries wishing to instill human rights (another modern day amorphous term) on their fellow country men. If I were to listen to these "progressives", I would believe that these rioters were the equivalent to the Founding revolutionaries of the United States. They should be seen as modern day George Washington's or Benjamin Franklin's. The "progressives" make these comments deaf and blind to who the rioters actually are. They also ignore what these same rioters are declaring they want.

The majority of the rioters want nothing to do with Western Liberal Democracy. The only Democracy they want is the majority of the people to take to the streets and throw out the sitting government. In return, they will replace the existing despotic atrocitizer with their own. They want Sharia to be enacted. They want Islam to rule the country. Any non-mohammedan will be considered a dhimmi and will be rated, at best, as a second class citizen. The negatives of the current revolts taking place far outnumber any imaginary positives.

After their exiting governments are replaced and the new "revolutionary government" takes hold, they will commence with actions that they believe allah wants them to perform. This puts the focus on Israel. Any peace deal or truce with Israel will be abrogated and the fight will commence. This is already happening in Egypt. If you think it will be limited to Cairo, add your self to the list of "progressives".

The Middle East is going to erupt into a violence we haven't seen in our lifetimes. The Nazi attempt at genocide of the Jews will be recommenced by the islamic armies in the Middle East. This time they are armed with nuclear weapons and no concern for their own life or existence. At least, at the "average person" level. The average islamist in the region will be more than happy to sacrifice him or herself to the islamic cause.

Whether you believe islam has been distorted or not doesn't matter. Unlike the aforementioned phrases, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are not amorphous terms. Nor are they amorphous ideologies. People may distort them. They may attempt to redefine them. This is all apart of that term "progressive".

Another word that is not amorphous is ISRAEL. In fact, that is one of the few words in the Middle East that will incite a 300 million Arabs to respond in the same manner. If the new atrocitizers take over, they will be united in one cause. The destruction of Israel. No amorphous term will be able to explain it away.
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It's Not Over

Posted by James Biga on Monday, May 02, 2011 6:22:11 PM
Osama Bin Laden is dead. Good Ridddance! Now what?

I woke up to video clips of people singing, flag waving, and just plain celebrating. My first thought was "why?" Why are these people out in the streets making joyous noises over the death of one man? I understand who the man was and what he was responsible for. Given the chance I would've had no problem putting a bullit in his head. The question is, what makes this such a joyous moment?

Has this action sent people into the streets making nice with each other? Has the death of Bin Laden led to a breakout of peace around the globe? Have the islamists decided they have been too extreme and decided to just "get along" with others? Of course not.

The cynic in me has a hard time watching these thousands of people celebrate a man's death when a good portion of them despise the war we are in. Another portion of them actually believe that the death of Bin Laden will end the war and bring our boys home so we don't continue to be perceived as aggressive warmongers. In other words, the death of Bin Laden, to these people, is the end of hatred towards America and a chance for "coming together". As stupid as that sounds, there is a good portion of the country that believes that.

As time goes by and we move farther away from the death of Bin Laden people will see that nothing has changed and recommence blaing everythin on America. A new man will take the leadership of al-Quaeda and continue with the groups attacks on America and her allies. The next man will probably be smarter and more hateful of America than Bin Laden was. Then what? Will these same people be ruing the death of Bin Laden and blaming his killing for the problems that are continuing to occur?

The War is not over. Jihad is still going to continue. If the death of Bin Laden was the only reason we continued to fight, then I will despise politicians even more than I do now. The death of one man, who led one organization of many, does not erase the terror threat posed by islamic terror groups. At some point, these groups will seek revenge. The remainder of al-Quaeda is most certainly going to attempt attacks out of vengence. Are we prepared for it?

It took 10 years to kill one man. In the end, it took men on the ground doing their jobs of collecting intelligence and setting up contacts to decapitate the head of al-Quaeda. America has spent the last 50 years defunding the CIA and regulating everything they do. They have decided to rely on satellites in orbit as opposed to face to face interaction. The present CIA is manned by paper-pushing, promotin seeking, desk-jokey, bureaucrats who care more about their front lawns than they do about protecting America (I am not claiming all are, just a good portion of them).

The war is not over. If the American government decides to act as if it is, there will be a larger attack than 911. There will be no one to blame but the American government and the American people. The government because they ignorantly turned a blind eye and the people because they put these people in power.
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2010: Slavery in America

Posted by James Biga on Sunday, October 10, 2010 2:29:58 PM
When most of us think about slavery in the United States, it's predicated on our visions of pre-Civil War America. It usually involves a Black slave being whipped, beaten or hung by a slave master sitting on top of a horse. This type of slavery ended over a centruyt ago in this country. What followed was years of segregation and persistent racial tension and blatant agitation. Late in the last century, this was gone. What exists now, between the "races" is usually based on individual perceptions of each other that can only disappear over time.
 
Unfortunately, the United States government has decided that slavery is a necessary means to an end. Obviously there are no longer slave masters on plantations or in the workhouses. The new slave master carries the title of "political leader". Instead of taking the slave to the wood shed, the servitude is reenforced through congressional and judicial fiats. Tragically, many American's are voluntarily signing up to this modern slavery. "Governmental" handouts and numerous "entitlement programs" are the modern weapons to be used against the rabble.
 
Recently a Federal Court in Michigan, one of the larger modern "plantations", decided that the government has a right to force people to have Health Care Insurance. On the top of things, this really doesn't sound so bad. We all have seen the impact of people lacking Health Care Insurance and how it affects our rates as well as the cost of hospitalization. However, good intentions aside, what are the unintended consequences as well as the next step?
 
It is my understanding that the ruling was passed down based on Commerce Law. In other words, people not holding Insurance for Health Care have an impact on the economy? Well, from someone who has a little bit of understandning in regards to economics, NO KIDDING! Every time a person decides to buy or not to but something it has an affect on the economy. Every time a person decides to buy this instead of that it has an affect on the economy. Every time the government decides to take more money from the people it has an affect on the economy. It doesn't take a financiual genius to figure this one out. However, there is something deeper in this ruling that should scare everyone.
 
The government has decided, through it's own elitist sense of self, that it can tell the American people how, where, why, and on what they can spend their money. The American people are being told, by the modern slave master, what they are allowed to do as well as what they can't do. What does this actually mean for the effects of the Health Care bill? It means that at some point in the not so distant future, the modern slavemaster will be dictating what we can and cannot eat or drink. What activities we can participate in and those we can't. It's bad enough we are being told we Have to wear seat belts when driving and wear helmets when riding bikes. The government has conducted billions of dollars worth of unsubstantiated research involving what foods are good for us and what foods aren't. Millions of pages of correlation without causation paperwork leads to money being distributed to the agents of these modern slavemasters.
 
The government is inching slowly and steadily towards taking control of our decisions. The decisions we as Individuals were given as Rights just for being alive. We were born with certain inalienable rights. We are voluntarily handing these rights over to a caste of slave masters who, because they went to some college or made a certain amount of money, they know better than we do. well, even if they did know better, they still have no right to do this. Whether it be the oppressive fascism and hardline tyranny of the islamic regimes in the Middle East, the sending off to gulags of the Soviet Union, or the soft tyranny of Barack Obama, they have no right to mandate to any American how they will spend their money. There's another consequence. How does giving more money to the government help the economy? The answer for that is simple. IT DOESN'T.
 
If we continue on this path, we will have handed ourselves over to the bondsman for sale to the highest bidder at the slave marketplace. Who is your master? You or the government? That's a decision that must be made. If you choose the government then you deserve the confusion and misery that comes with it. If you choose to be your own master, you will find out there are always others willing to help you.
 
Are you a SLAVE or are you Free?
 
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Evil is prevailing

Posted by James Biga on Thursday, September 16, 2010 8:25:20 PM
Todays is one of those days where I have spent time thinking of Human History. Mainly the history of Humanity from WWII until now. I started out thinking of all the advancements we have made technologically. From the advancement of automoniles to Spacecraft to Computers to the Cell Phone. An impressive list of toys for mankind. Add to this the advancements in medicine and medical practicies. Unfortunately, this led me to try and figure out how this has made life on our planet better for everyone. I have come to the conclusion that it hasn't.
 
No matter how technologically advanced we become, we are still human beings and still have to deal with ourselves. This is where our history becomes wretched and disgusting. For every Jonas Salk there is an Adolph Hitler and Benito Mussolini. For every Albert Einstein, there is an Idi Amin and Josef Stalin. For every good man, thre are evil men practicing their evil trade with unrelenting abandon.
 
I knew of the Holocaust because I was tought it in school. I learned how the United Nations adopted the motto "Never Again" as a constant reminder of why it was formed and what it was supposed to do. It has become painfully obvious that the United Nations, and the rest of the world, has failed miserably.
 
Here's a small list of the "major" genocides that have occurred since 1966, the year I was born:
 
Robert Mugabe (Zimbabwe) - 20,000
 
Papa Doc Duvalier (Haiti) - 60,000
 
Hassan Turabi (Sudan) - 100,000
 
Michel Micombero (Burundi) - 150,000
 
Foday Sankoh (Sierra Leone) - 200,000
 
Charles Taylor (Liberia) - 220,000
 
Yahya Khan (Pakistan) - 300,000
 
There are far more than this little list. From Angola, to the Sudan, to East Timor, to Cambodia. The more I read about them, the more disgusted with my fellow human beings I get. There were two incidents that occurred durint the Bill Clinton years that stand out the most. One event in the Sudan and the other the genocide in Rwanda under the control of Jean Kambanda that slaughtered 800,000 human beings. in 1994 800,000 human beings departed the earth in the most violent manner possible, and the "enlightened" West and the "August" United Nations turned their heads.
 
UN Forces deployed in Rwanda ran from the murderers. An armed military force ran away from people with knves, machetes, and home made maces. Villages were decimated, corpses filled the streets, and the soil was soaked in human blood. This was not war. War between enemies can be understood. Slaughter for the sake of slaughter cannot. In every genocide, there is a body of humanity that displays the basest, most vile instincts that humanity has to offer. To tell the truth, I don't know who is worse, the perpetrator or those who watch and do nothing. I tend to lean towards the people who do nothing.
 
How many "soldiers" or so called men stood by, during these genocides, with the ability to stop it, but did nothing? How many cowards hid behind the "I have to follow orders" excuse? How many try to tell people that they had no choice? This is what a coward does to try and appease their own disgust with themselves. How many of these "men" would want vengenace against a "man" who stood by and watched as his wife and child were butchered with Machetes after being raped by all wanted to?
 
These actions are more than affront to humanity. They are far more than "crimes against humanity". These actions were, and are still, an affront to G-d. We are all guilty of standing by and doing nothing. We know that our bureaucrats and politicians are worthless, yet we continue to "trust" them. The United Nations has proven itself to be an abysmal failure at best. United? No. The whole gaggle of bureaucrats are beyond a travesty. Far worse than a tragedy. It is pure evil. We sit on the sidelines playing with our iPads, texting on our cell phones, surfing the net, while watching 1 of our 350 TV channels.
 
Somewhere on the planet, not that far away, someone is being butchered because they are the wrong color, or speak the wrong language, or don't have the right amount of money, or just happen tohave the nerve to be alive. This is what we have done with the gift of life we were granted. We have set our sites on destroying that gift. If we happen to destroy ourselves, so be it.
 
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When will the people explode?

Posted by James Biga on Thursday, September 09, 2010 7:01:00 PM
How many murderers, rapists, and pedophiles will receive reduced sentences, or get off altogether, before the American people have had enough? When will the American people realize, all of us, that we do not have a Justice System, we have a legal system? A legal system that allows those with power, authority, and money to live at a different legal standard than the rest of us? When will the fact that the law has been manipulated by money hungry lawyers and intentionally written with loopholes by politicians finally sink in?
 
When will the people realize that claiming the United States Constitution is a "living, breathing document" has led to the social and economic problems we face today? Claiming that the Constitution is a "living, breathing document" allows for relativsim and inconsistency to grow through each passing generation. Politicians and activists have worked, sometimes hand in hand, over the past few decades to eradicate any definite meaning written in the constitution. They have taken advantage of a declining level of intellect and wisdom to create confusion and chaos. Basing everything they do on "feelings" in order to get the emotional frenzy they want. Once people respond emotionally, any attempt at debating with fact and logic is useless.
 
The same people that excoriated President George W. Bush and watched with a smile as the people spewed vile words of hatred and threw "temper tantrums" in order to elect Barack Obama are now on the other side of the fence and throwing accusations of "spoiled malcontents" at protestors of the present failed policies. "Bad mouth Bush, good". Bad mouth Obama, racist". The modern day "journalist" is a pathetic excuse for a human being. Newspapers and Media outlets filled with manipulation and lies. Broad sweeping, hate-filled, generaliztions thrown at people who disagree with them.
 
When will the people admit that the Constitution was not a suicide pact and that the Founding Fathers, as brilliant as they were, couldn't have thought of everything? What happens when a guaranteed right to freedom of religion is confronted with a religion that wants to eradicate the constitution altogether? Islam is that. What happens when a government believes they have a right to your money and they have a right to give it to those who won't get off their duff and earn it themselves? What happens when a government that follows an ideology that believes they should get rid of the electoral college and go to a straight majority vote is confronted with a majority of the citizenry against what they want to do? They ignore them of course. From "Health Care" to Illegal Immigration to Business Bailouts to Stimulus Bills to Bowing down to atrocitizers to denying the importance of America to claiming they just need to "teach us". This is all a tragedy waiting to explode.
 
The elitist minority in this country still don't understand what America is. They believe they are America. They believe that we ignorant sloths that go to work every day to keep our families fed and clothed, to make the economy of the country prosperous for all who want it, those of us ignorant slobs who sacrifice in order that our children will have an opportunity to make something of themselves are just a bunch of uneducated, uncouth, bums whose only reason for existence is to send them part of our paychecks. They have decided that we are here for the government and we should just shut up and pay the taxes they tell us to.
 
Enough is enough. There was a little revolt a couple hundred years back, against a tax that percentage wise, was a heck of a lot smaller than the taxes the present government is going to straddle us with. How far does it have to go before We The People have to act out of our own self-preservation? Since when does being enlightened and civilized mean we won't fight for what is rightfully ours? Leave that mentality to the metrosexual men and the androgenous women. Those of us who know who we are and have spent a life attempting to stand firm against the winds of relativism, there is a war coming. This war will be ugly. This war will be violent. This war will pit family and friends against each other just as the Civil War did. The farther on down our present path the country goes, the worse it will be.
 
The again I can be wrong. Maybe we'll just all bend over and take it with a smile and a thank you.
 
 
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Stop with the rebuilding poppycock

Posted by James Biga on Tuesday, September 07, 2010 4:48:27 PM
Barack Obama's introduction for his speech on Iraz from the Oval Office:

Good evening. Tonight, I'd like to talk to you about the end of our combat mission in Iraq, the ongoing security challenges we face, and the need to rebuild our nation here at home.
 
Barack Obama during LaborFest:
 
When it comes to just about everything we’ve done to strengthen our middle class, to rebuild our economy, almost every Republican in Congress says no.
 
Everything involves some sort of "rebuilding" with this guy. After 200 years of building this country's foundation, it is solid. The problem now is we don't like the pink adobe house we placed on the foundation. The problem with our economy has nothing to do with money or lack of education. It is strictly tied to a moral deprecation that is constantly getting worse. The "Me First" generation is destroying our country. The "gotta have it now" crowd is out protesting their "need" to have a cell phone, computers, $50,000 car and a mansion. People believe they have a right to have something they haven't earned. The same people whining about losing their homes and not having "health care insurance" are the same ones walking around with Cell Phone Service, paying for internet access, wearing $100 sneakers, having the most up to date iPod, and eating out every night at some fact food joint instead of cooking at home.
 
The only thing a government can do to the economy is destroy it. It is the people who drive the economy. It is the people who make daily decisions that affect whether the economy is good or bad. It is the people who have decided that they are tired of working for something and they MUST have it now. It is these same people, who when given something, alwayts scream that it isn't enough. "I deserve more". These same people, when talking to them in private coverasation claim that hard work, perseverence, and discipline are necessary to succeed. What hypocrites. "life's not fair". GET OVER IT and quit being a modern metrosxual male or a "I'm tougher than I am" female.
 
The nation doesn't need to be rebuilt. The economy doesn't need governmental meddling. The PEOPLE need to get off their duff and quit feeling sorry for themselves. They need to realize that what they do today will have a dramatic affect on their children (if they are more than part time parents). Bad choices and wrong actions by individuals should never change the overall approach of a society. Instead of adjusting the laws, maybe we should conduct a serious adjustment on those individuals. Never reward complacency. Never give in to lazy, selfishness.
 
Only the American people can lead this country towards the future. The government will only impede or, if we allow it, separate and destroy us.
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What happened to winning?

Posted by James Biga on Wednesday, September 01, 2010 4:59:32 PM
I preface what I am about to write with: I did not watch the President's speech about Iraq. I have not listened to any radio shows nor watched any TV news reports about the speech. I printed out a copy this morning and read it minus the "emotional" hoopla that usually goes along with a live speech. I will write, tomorrow, about my take on his speech
 
 At what point in the last century did America and it's politicians become adverse to victory in war? My guess is after World War II because we haven't won a true war since then. NOne of the wars we have been involved in were lost on the battlefield. The American Soldiers, Marines, and Sailors performed as expected and lives up to the battlefield excellence America has a right to expect. The lack of victory does not rest with the Military. It is a bit higher up the governmental tree.
 
In Korea, after starting off as a bit of a debacle, the military turned everything around and pushed the communist forces northward. Once reaching Seoul, for some reason, UN diplomacy and negotiations became more important than putting the communists in their place and keeping the peninsula as one nation. While the solders were fighting for victory, the politicians were "fighting" for a "truce". What was wrong with victory? How much better off would Korea be today if there was no Kim Jong-il?
 
In Vietnam, once again, the politicians and diplomats forced themselves into the mix during a war. It wasn't the military that couldn't do the job it was the politicians who kept handcuffing them. Instead of letting the military do what it is trained to do, win wars, the politicians wanted to "fight nice". Any strategical ground that was to be gained was all lost by politicians 8,000 miles away. The overestimation of the anti-War movement and the siding of certain hollywood personalities with the enemy was unheard of in WWII. Toss in the pathetic excuse of a newsman, Walter Cronkite, and you realize that there is a big faction in America who are nothing but ignorant cowards. Why do I mention Mr. Cronkite? Go find his report on the Tet Offensive. This was a major battle we actually won. You wouldn't know it from the papers and TV news. The Communists attempted a surprise attack expecting the South Vietnamese to side with them and go after the Americans. It didn't happen. The comumunists were routed and more territory was taken by US and anti-communist forces. Vietnam wasn't lost by the military it was lost by the paper pushing bureaucrat in Washington DC and their fear of losing re-election.
 
Let's take a look at the previous Gulf War. I was probably one of the few that didn't think Saddam Hussein was stupid enough to invade Kuwait. I was wrong, he was that stupid. Now the argument can be made that we achieved our strategic objective of forcing Iraq out of Kuwait. What good is that if we have to come back later to take out the regime? This recent war in Iraq is a continuation of the first. Therefore there can be no claim of victory in the initial battle. Just as in the other two wars, the politicians have inserted themselves into the strategy and tactics of this war. Instead of unleashing our highly trained hounds on the enemy, we have hand cuffed them and forced them to place the lives of possible killers above their own. The same is happening in Afghanistan.
 
What happened after 1945? WWII was won because the military was allowed to do what it does best, DESTROY the enemy. The Nazis were defeated because manufacturing centers, usually in civilian populated areas, were destroyed. The German people were beaten which led to the defeat of it's army. The best way to defeat even the strongest of armies is to take away the support from home. Civilians are not "innocent bystanders". Armies are led by governments who are only in power because the people have either put them there or allowed it.
 
As for the new Terror armies, once again, the people can put a stop to them if they so choose. Hamas is a perfect example. The "palestinians" in the Gaza Strip elected Hamas personnel to run their little slice of hell. They are not innocent bystanders, they chose Hamas. All over the planet, terror armies are making advanced because the people allow them to. Fear of death has overcome fighting for freedom. If one is afraid to fight for freedom, then you deserve the pain that comes with living in fear. I digress.
 
Why go to war if the desired result is not all out victory? Why send thousands of Americans to fight and die for an unknown or superfluous cause? If the end results in Afghanistan and Iraq were anything short of complete victory and a people prepared to join us in the 21st century, then lives have been wasted, money thrown away, Emotions crushed, American pride trampled on. Winning does matter. No one likes a tie and they definitely hate losing. If a nation is not willing to go one step further in conducting a war, then the war should not be entered into. A nation must be willing to do everything necessary to win a war. If not, send your paper pushing, desk jockey, word twisting, wide bottomed, bureaucratic, diplomats to shake hands and promise to stay out of the way.
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We The People

Posted by James Biga on Thursday, August 26, 2010 5:12:00 PM
"We The People" are probably the most known three words in the American vocabulary. In many, it stirs an inner patriotism that they may not have known they had. To others, it is a defense against tyranny and potential despotism. It is a dividing statement that separates US, the people, against THEM, the government. It is used as an outward looking phrase. This is where "We The People" get it wrong. This statement applies as much to each of us individually as it does any potential tyrant.
 
"We the people" are responsible for our actions. "We the people" are responsible for our thoughts and ideas. "We the people" are also responsible for our inaction and indecision. In short, "We the people" are responsible for all the calamitous problems we are currently facing. It is "We the people" who complaim about politicians being corrupted liars who can't be trusted. Yet, it is "We the people" who continuoulsy vote for these same "corrupted, lying politicians". "We the people" listen to their rhetoric, smiles, and faux compassion while shaking their hand and promising to vote for them. After they achieve office, the cycle starts again. If we can't stand the politicians in office today, we have no one to blame but "We the people". We put them there.
 
As for the economy, the government has to options when it comes to dealing with economics. It can stay out of it or it can screw it up. History bares proof of this time and time again. The economy, just like everything else in the country is controlled by "We the people". It is "We the people" who make the decision to spend money, keep money, keep a budget or to get in over our heads. It is "We the people" who purchased the "too good to be true" home loans. It is "We the people" who decided that an economy can boom when there is a high amount of personal debt. It is "We the people" who max out our credit cards, get 20 loans to go to college, and decide that we NEED a $60,000 automobile. It is "We the people" who have decided that having a cell phone is more important than paying the water bill. It is "We the people" who decided that having an $80 shirt was more important than putting food on the table. It is "We the people" who replaced our needs with wants. It is "We the people" who decided that discipline and thriftiness was archaic and that we have to have everything now. Why earn something when you can put yourself into financial distress, crate undue strain on your family, and then hope not to lose all of it in bankruptcy proceedings?
 
The next time you want to yell at a politician, remember who helped put him there. The next time you whine about not having enough money to pay the Doctor bill, call your spouse on that cell phone or get on your computer and e-mail them. The next time you can't make that overpriced car payment, turn to channel 357 on your cable TV. Yes, the government has alot to answer for. Unfortunately, "We the people" have more to answer for.
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Unfortunately, They Owe Him One

Posted by James Biga on Tuesday, August 24, 2010 5:45:20 PM
So Jimmy Carter is going back to North Korea. That should make the Obama administration very nervous. In fact, it chould make all American's antsy. Though he is not visiting Kim Jong-il in any official capacity, Jimmy Carter has an innate ability to make situations far worse than they already are.
 
There are those who would praise his trip to North Korea while President Clinton was in office. His actions supposedly led to "productive negotiations" which led to "effective agreements"? The North Korean's received millions of dollars worth of aid, fuel, and food for the promise of remaining part of the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty and acting within it's limits. As we all recall, in late 2001 early 2002 we started hearing the rumors of North Korea having built and activated a uranium enrichment plant. We also got to see them test, crude as it was, a nuclear weapon. All of this because President Clinton was afraid of more bad press. Jimmy Carter would've went out of his way to let the world know he had worked out a deal and would've made President Clinton look not-so-good. President Clinton should have stuck to his guns and ignored Jimmy Carter. This would've required integrity that President Clinton never had.
 
Thanks to Jimmy Carters ignorance, naivete, our downright stupidity, his actions gave the North Koreans exactly what they wanted. Food and fuel for it's people, and money to help build their enrichment plant.
 
Now Jimmy Carter is going to North Korea in an attempt to free an American named Aijalon Mahli Gomes, who was arrested, tried, and imprisoned in Pyongyang. Hw will probably be welcomed as an honored guest and treated with a special fondness that Kim Jong-il usually reserves for his friends Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hugo Chavez. As well he should be. The North Kroean reagime owes Mr. Carter a serious debt of gratitude. If it weren't for his intervention, the North Koreans wouldn't have a nuclear weapon yet. They wouldn't have had all the funds necessary to build an enrichment plant. Their actions would have had to have been more deliberate in dealing with other atrocitizing regimes. Instead, they were able to take American, as well as others, aid money and funnel it to their nuclear programs while continuing to oppress their citizenry.
 
I would think that trading one American life would pretty much cover the debt that North Korea owes Mr. Carter.
 
If you want to know the true character and quality of a man you have to look, not only at his enemies, but very closely at his friends. Mr. Carter is beloved by some of the most vile, self-indulgent, atrocitizing, murderous, prevaricating, megalomaniacs on the planet.
 
This tells you all you need to know.
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I "Hope" it's Not Too Late

Posted by James Biga on Thursday, August 19, 2010 7:25:21 PM
The amount of people claiming unemployment keeps slowly going up. The amount of tax revenues is going down. The purchasing power of the American dollar is shrinking. The Citizenry is screaming at the government to get off of their backs. What do we hear from the MSM and leftist politcos? The President needs to "educate" us on what he is doing and how it is going to benefit us. The same man who was glorified for is talent for oratory is at a loss for new words. We keep getting the same recycled diatribe we received when he was running for office. The same man who was praised for his campaign speeches has not changed. His speeches during the campaign were intentionally vague and ambiguous. So much so, that it has landed him in hot water with the people that put him in office.
 
He gives a speech one day then has to come out the next in order to "clarify" what he did or didn't mean. George Bush may have stumbled through his speeches and bungled some words but I knew what he was saying and what he meant. No clarification was needed. Barack Obama is the stereotypical politician that millions of Americans, including those who voted for him, claimed to have an extreme disdain for. Barack Obama now finds himself being cast aside by the democratic Congress that looked forward to having him as their spokesperson. He was to be the face of the party. Well, he is. It is a party that assumes it is smarter than the average American. It is the party of, "we didn't spend enough money." It is a party of "It's all George Bush's fault".
 
The Republicans are just as guilty for what is going on as the Democrats are. Had they not started spending like drunlen Democrats ( I get tired of bad mouthing sailors), they would have remained in power. The next time you hear a politician talk about someone in the other party making an issue political, turn off whatever medium you are utilizing. Of course a politician is making something political. That's what politicians do. The next time you hear some "economic expert" give their opinion on the economy, especially if it is positive, look up the history of this economist. More often than not, you will find that they are an expert in a field that has nothing to do with national or international economics. You should also be aware of the fact that economists are just as guilty as the rest of us in placing their ideology over factual economics. In other words, their economic plan is formed to support their social ideology.
 
The Democrats are in a quandry and have no clue how to get out. They are starting to "eat their own". Instead of admitting their dangerous ideology they have to blame others even if it is of the same family. The Republicans have yet to figure out how to take advantage of the situation. Why? They're politicians and modern politics is all they know.
 
The present administration and Congress was put into office by "We The People". The fact they don't know how to handle the situation isn't all their fault. "We The People" put them there. Despite years of people complaining about "crooked, lying" politicians, we fell for the same sham. We set aside common sense and reality and fell for the fraudulent tactic of "hope and change". Hope is not a strategy. Hope is what you have when you have done everything you can possibly do and are now "hoping" things work out. The only way things will work out is if you made the right decisions and took the right actions.
 
I only "hope" it's not to late to turn all of this around and get back to being America.
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Asking the wrong question

Posted by James Biga on Wednesday, August 18, 2010 5:58:27 PM
Will the republicans save us? Will the democrats destroy us? Will socialism/communism take over our country? These and many questions like them are being asked by men far more educated than myself. Maybe it is that education that keeps the heads turned in the wrong direction. Maybe it is this education that prevents them from seeing the true question as well as the answer.
 
The real question is, who will save us? Neither the Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, nor any other political group can save us. They not only lack the desire to do such, they lack the ability. Placing ones salvation on political ideologues is the quivalent of handing over the car keys to a schizophrenic blind man. The answer to the question is: We The People. Only the American individual can save us. The Hard working, persevering, disciplined Americna Individual is the last hope for America. Not the metrosexual, multi-cultural relativist, that hold political offices and run political parties. We The People hold all the power. We The People have the ability to maintain the control. We The People have the G-d given right to fulfill our own destinies. No politician can decide what is right for We The People unless we let them.
 
Our politicians no longer represent We The People. They represent their ideologies from one extreme to another. How many of you have made a statement similar to "no sane man would run for political office?" Think about that. Look at the people who run for office. Event the seemingly mild mannered individual running for office ends up having some scandal along the way. There is some character flaw that ends up embarrassing quite a few people. To run for political office, especially at a national level, requires a huge ego that can't be dampened by any possible release of negative information on the candidate. These politicians can provide an excuse for just about anything. we find this unaaceptable in our individual lives. Why should we accept it from them? I digress.
 
Only We The People have the answer. Only We The People have the ability. Only We The People determine the fate of our nation. We are unlike any other nation on the planet or throughout history. Though we have the same personal flaws that our forefathers had, we have the ability to overcome them and teach our children to do the same. We have the ability to make something more than just gadgets and doo-hickey's. we have the ability to continue building on what our predecessors left us. Blood has been spilled and lives sacrificed so that we would live in a nation that depends on it's people and not it's government.
 
Are you prepared to live up to the responsibility of that answer?
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Big Brother is in the door

Posted by James Biga on Wednesday, August 18, 2010 4:27:22 PM
We were forewarned of the impending elitist government takeover of our lives. For decades this has been in the works. Some actions blatant others the result of miguided good intentions. When Barack Obama was campaigning priot to being elected, he made the statement that we had to "rebuild the foundaition of America". To anyone with more than two braincells this should have been a "wait a minute" moment. It wasn't. For various reasons that range from anger at the Rupublicans to "Barack's gonna buy me a house", Barack Obama is in the White House. This Shakespearean tragedy does not end there. Throw in the takeover of congress by a bunch of socialists and borderline communists and we have the making of the USSR all over again.
 
You may say I am being extreme. That's possible. However, if things continue on their present path, I will be deemed tame and too nice. Let's take a look at a few things. The modern Democrat claims to believe in "true democracy". One man, one vote. There are many who wish to rid the nation of the "archaic" electoral college. There are many individual citizens who agree with this. They don't understand the purpose of the Electoral College. Here's the simple answer, it gives the smaller states the same voice as the bigger states. By ridding the nation of the electoral college you guarantee that the states with the larger populations will control the smaller states. In short, the coastal states will dictate to the fly-over states. Don't believe it? Obama beat McCain by 5 million voltes in the 2008 Presidential race. Go see how many fly-over states it takes to make up that difference. There are many states that don't even have 5 million voters. Therefore, the fly-over states are the little guys. I thought the Democrats cared about the little guy?
 
Lets look at the possibility of the AG going after an Arizona Sherriff for doing his job. Really?! Not the state of Arizona. Not the community that elected him. The Federal Government is going to go after a Sherriff for doing his job and enforcing the Law. Why would the Feds do this? Because the Democrats don't like the law and have decided they weren't going to enforce it so they can't allow some "maveriock" Sherriff make them look bad. Ironically, by going after a man doing his job, the Feds will be the ones that look like idiots. Afterall, the Sherriff is a little guy and I thought Democrats cared about the little guy?
 
Now lets wander over to Nancy Pelosi. She wants an investigation of who is funding the groups protesting the building of a msoque in the vicinity of Ground Zero? So once again, if you say something we don't like' we're going to bring the weight of the Federal Government done on you. There's another conflict within their own beliefs here. They want a majority rule, or so they intermittantly claim. In New York the people have spoken and the overwhelming majority don't want this mosque anywhere near Ground Zero. All of a sudden the Majorty rule Doesn't apply. Nor did it apply with the "Stimulus Package", Company Bailouts' and the "Health Care" Legislation.
 
We are currently being ruled by a condescending, self indulgent group of elitist megalomaniacs who, because of some false sense of "better education" believe they know better what we want than we do.
 
Open your eyes people. Big Brother is at the door with a smile, a handshake, and a tax bill coming due.
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The New Slavery

Posted by James Biga on Tuesday, August 17, 2010 5:57:59 PM
What is it about modern Western Society that creates citiznes who call for it's destruction? Democracy and Capitalism have created more affluence for more people than any system that has ever existed. Yet, there are still people, within borders of nations-states, who fight for it's downfall. What would make an American citizen want to hadn over their rights to a group of elitist autocrats?
 
First off, we should look at the Western idea of Freedom. It used to be that people were "Free TO...." do what they chose to do and suffer the consequences as well as reap the benefits. Now it would appear that a good portion of western citizens want to be "Free from..." those repercussions. They want all the benefits but they don't want to suffer the consequences. This is not freedom. It is a sure path to despotic control. No matter how "nice and caring" the group in charge is, they are in charge and were are nothing more than the equivalent to serfs.
 
The ideas of Socialism and Communism place power and control into very few hands. Advancing ones personal standing has nothing to do with how smart you are, how motivated you are, how hard working you are, or how persevering you are. It has all to do with who do you know. The argument can be made that there are many situations like that today. However, they can be overcome by the aforementioned character traits. One is not limited by others only by themselves.
 
This leads me to believe that there are many today who have failed or are on the verge of failure and are afraid. Maybe they dropped out of High School or sooner. Maybe they got pregnant early. Maybe they have made decisions that led to their incarceration. Maybe they are just fearful of failing for whatever reason. In orer to "protect" themselves, they choose to hand responsibility for their lives over to a bunch of elitist, political, bureaucrats in Washington D.C. This is deemed voluntary servitude. In another term, slavery.
 
Slavery doesn't have to involve shackles or whips. It doesn't have to be enforced through torture. Many people will just fall right into it. Either out of ignorance or fear. Instead of a gun to the head, the practitioners who act as the "new slaveholders" practice political doublespeak while slowly but surely dumbing down the citizenry. Manipulation, false sense of compassion, and uncertainty are tools of their trade. Throw in old time slave tools such as lies and fear, and the "new slaveholder" can guarantee a large crop of slaves.
 
The most effective tool the "new slaveholder" has is ignorance. A high dropout rate coupled with Historical and Economic ignorance guarantees a constant replenishing of the slaves. Modern slavery is not limited to people of a certain pigmentation. It also includes people of all classes and religions.The potential for human ignorance knows no bounds. he modern "slave holder" is well aware of this and takes advantage of it with a pat on the back and a smile on his face.
 
Governments don't enslave people. People enslave themselves. The sooner we realize that, the sooner we can get back on the path toward recovery and growth. Politicians don't have the answers. Politicians don't have the power. Politicians don't have the authority. The only thing they have is what we, the people, allow them to have. It's time we took all of these back.
 
 
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The Ignorant Fascists are in Control

Posted by James Biga on Saturday, August 14, 2010 9:28:48 AM
If you had chosen to be blind to the fact that we, America, have been taken over by fascist elites who will dictate what we simple Americans are to believe, it's out in the open now.
 
With overwhelming public opposition to the "Stimulus Package", the elites forced it through. WIth overwhelming opposition to the "Health Care" bill, the elites passed it through. WIth overwhelming opposition to the buidling of a mosque near Ground Zero, the elites get their way again. WHo is to stop them? They are like a bunch of selfish children that have come into money and power and are forcing their ideas and beliefs on the rest of us. The PResident made a speech, whish is about all he does anymore, and claims to be enforcing American values. Mr. President, these islamists don't think like us. They don't believe in the same values as us. They want to replace America with Sharia. They won't to be the rulers of this country. You are mistaking tolerance for accpetance and forcing a religion that has values that conflict with American values, onto us. You are showing your ignorance as well as the condescending attitude that manu of your ilk display daily. YOU DON"T KNOW BETTER THAN THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
 
Barack Obama is daring someone to take the next step in this internal conflict. He is daring law abiding, normally tolerant people to defend their beliefs. He is attempting to make America just like the Middle East. HE is doing it exactly the way the despots in the Middle East do it. He acts like he is the smartest man in the country when he's nothing more than a puppet for the cowards on the left as well as the atrocitizers of islam.
 
Yes I am mad. I am mad as hell. I am tired of watching what millions have died for get cast into the trash and replaced by modern relativistic ideologues who see America as overly flawed and past it's prime. The recent lie propagated by the President about America taking from islamic values would be laughable if it weren't so dangerous. MUSLIMS DID NOT HELP FOUND OR BUILD THIS COUNTRY. The only cvontact with muslims that America had was, go figure, conflict.
 
Barack Obama is a fraud, liar, cheat, and murderer. He may not have killed anyone with his own hands but his is in the process of attempting to murder Lady Liberty. He has no right to speak of American values when he doesn't live them or believe them himself. He has taken the islamic approach and manipulatively uses words that have certain meanings to people in this country. This makes him a liar and a fraud.
 
At some poin this mosques will start to be built. Watch what happens. It will take years to complete. The millions of dollars that are coming from anti-freedom despots in the Middle East as well as money from terror reoups will be wasted as Americans who have had enough, interfere every step of the way. If I were a muslim I would not want to visit that mosque. At some point it will be destroyed.
 
To those of you who "refuse to believe that those 19 murderers weren't representative of islam" I suggest you read the korand and the hadiths for yourself. If after reading that you still hold that opinion then you are beyond help and will pay for it.
 
I'll vent more later.
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You can't be serious?!?

Posted by James Biga on Wednesday, August 11, 2010 4:30:46 PM
I often comment on the immaturity of Barack Obama. I have blamed the problem on the fact his Mother was a "bit different" and that his Father was a self interested piece of cow dung. There is an overwhelming abundance situations and impacts that can be delved into by professional psychologists if they were willing to spend the time. In fact, an entire lifetime might not allow for covering every psychological defect the man has. That being said, this piece is not about that. I want to attempt to go back a couple years to when Barack Obama officially decided to throw his hat into the ring to run for President of the United States.
 
If a person is actually reasonable and sane, there is no way they could believe that Barack Obama had a shot of holding the highest office in the land. First off, Hillary Clinton and the Clintonistas were the shoe in for the Democratic nomination. It was assumed that people would just forget that she allowed her husband to embarrass her on the international stage. Never mind the fact she showed her true colors and that being the good feminist she is, she was going to advance herself off of this same husbands coat tails. But that's a side issue. Barack Obama, in no way, thought he could legitimately win the nomination, let alone the actual office. This was a feeling out process. He was going to find out what it took to run for President. He was going to get the experience he needed in order to run later.
 
NOt in the deepest recesses of a sane mind, did he ever think he could win. Maybe he had those moments, late at night when he was listening to translated speeches by Lenin and Stalin, while playing with his Ken doll, where he woudl think to himself "Wouldn't it be cool to be President?. I could spend billions of dollars and not go broke because it isn't my money. I could take money and give it to people who don't have money. I can prove that we all just want to get along and go talk to these people that supposedly don't like us. I can prove that all you have to do is be nice to people and they will be nice back. I would be able to send my family on trips and have a lot of parties and I don't even have to pay for it. It sure would be cool. Someday"
 
Then tragedy struck. Americans were peeved. Some because we weren't communists. Some because they were too stupid to control their monsy. Many because they were mad at George W Bush. Many of these were also mad at Hillary CLinton for being the "establishment" politicians. All of a sudden the adolescent from Illinois seemd ok. He "promised hope and change". We didn't fully understand what that meant but that was intentional. We could fill in the blanks with what we thought that meant. This young fella' was going to be everything to everybody. Racist past? That's all Right Wing nonsense. Not a citizen? we saw the certificate of live birth. Socialist? what does that really mean? Hasn't ever held a real job? Nor has the majority of his supporters. Barack Obama will give me a job and buy me a house. He'll be nice to all these make believe bad guys and make the world a better place to live in.
 
Unfortunately, something very bad happened. On election night, the numbers started coming in. Defeating Hillary Clinton in the primaries could not have prepared him for what was going to happen. There was no way the American people were going to elect an unknown from a corrupt city. A person who had done nothing but "community organize". Wouldn't you know it. Obama becomes PResident.
 
Can you imagine what he was thinking when it finally sank in? "Are you kidding me? I actually won? I get to sit in the Oval office? I get to visit countries and meet famous and powerful people? Oh my G-d this can't be serious?"
 
Unfortunately America, the man who didn't expect to win is sitting in the White House now. He is laying his plans out on an etch-a-sketch and plotting economic strategy with his spirograph kit. This is the preoblem we face today. A man who never intended to win, won.
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