The Great Depression was so much fun, let's do it again!
Don't think that's such a good idea? Then why are we doing exactly the same things that brought on the First Great Depression?
http://blog648.wordpress.com/2009/01/29/oh-thisll-work/
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
A note about the River Trail Ward photoblog...
I regret to inform anyone who might be interested that the River Trail Ward photoblog has been discontinued by request. Sorry.
Happy Birthday, Noelle
Blogger tells me I've exceeded my photo quota and can't upload any more images.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Happy Birthday, Bradley
Today, Jan. 13 is Bradley's birthday.
Here's Brad with Noelle and Chris when he was about 6 months olds.
Here he is a few months later, after he'd learned how to walk, in fact run.
Here he is at the Calgary Stampede, guzzling an Orange Chrush.
One thing about Brad was that he always did everything with a lot of gusto. He always talked loud, almost like he was shouting. Of course, he had 3 older siblings, so I guess he figured he had to compete for attention. And he never walked anywhere, it was always on the dead run. If it was some place he wanted to go to, he wanted to get there fast. You could always tell when Brad was happy, because you could hear him. If he was unhappy or sad, he was quiet. Or, another possibility was, if he was quiet he was getting into something he wasn't supposed to. He couldn't resist flavored Chap Sticks. He thought they were candy or something. One time we caught him hiding in the coat closet with a butter knife, scooping out one of my Chap Sticks.
Here's Brad at Huck Finn Day in Spanish Fork.
Chris and Brad won blue ribbons at the Cub Scout Space Derby.
Brad is married to Jodi, and they have three boys of their own.
Being a father has matured Brad in a lot of ways, but in some ways he's very much like that little boy of long ago.
Happy Birthday, Bradley. I love you, son.
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Can Israel Bomb Its Way To Peace?
Has Israel learned its lesson?
by Jeff Jacoby
The Boston Globe
"The hard truth is that no matter how much Israelis crave peace, they cannot achieve it through concessions and compromises and "road maps" - not when their enemies view such overtures and agreements as signs of weakness, and as proof that terrorism works. For 60 years, Israel has had to contend with the hostility of its neighbors and the heavy costs of war; its yearning for peace is understandable. But there will be no peace without victory, and no victory without fighting for it."
...
"Whether this strong rhetoric will be backed up by strong action in the long run remains to be seen. Yesterday, the Israeli cabinet rejected a French proposal for a 48-hour truce. Perhaps, at long last, the lesson has been learned: With an enemy like Hamas, which boasts that it "loves death" and "drinks blood," truces and deals are illusory. If Israel seeks lasting peace, it must first win a lasting victory."
Read More Here
Israel can't bomb it's way to peace.
by Rosa Brooks
The Los Angeles Times
"In a strictly military sense, Israel will "win" this battle against Hamas. For all its threats and bravado, Hamas is weak, and its weapons -- terrorism, homemade rockets -- are the weapons of the weak. Since 2001, Hamas has fired thousands of unguided Kassam rockets at Israel, but the rockets have killed only a handful of Israelis."
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"Israel has no viable political endgame here: There's just no clear route from bombardment to a sustainable peace. But the damage caused by this new conflagration won't be limited to the Israelis and Palestinians. Israel's military offensive already has sparked outrage and protests throughout the Arab world. The current crisis also may destabilize some of the more moderate Arab governments in the region -- in Egypt, for instance -- where leaders now face popular backlash if they don't repudiate Israel."
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"It's time for the United States to wake up from its long slumber and reengage -- forcefully -- with the Middle East peace process. Only the U.S. -- Israel's primary supporter and main financial sponsor -- can push it to make the hard choices necessary for its own long-term security, as well as the region's. In January 2001, the Taba talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority came achingly close to a final settlement, but talks broke down after Likud's Ariel Sharon was elected prime minister on Feb. 6, 2001. Sharon refused to meet with Yasser Arafat, and newly inaugurated President George W. Bush had no interest in pushing Israel toward peace."
"Eight years later, Israel faces another election, and we're about to swear in a new president. When he takes office, Obama needs to push both Israelis and Palestinians to sit back down, with the abandoned Taba agreements as the starting point. Here's to a less bloody 2009."
Read More Here
My own view is that the Palestinians, particularly Hamas, do not want peace. They boast that they love death and drink blood. They make no bones about wanting to wipe Israel off the map. They have sought war, not peace, and now they have it. Hamas has no hope of bringing Israel to its knees militarily. Their hope is that the rest of the Arab world and Iran will take up their cause and attack Israel. When all the Israeli Jews are dead, then, and only then, will there be peace in the Middle East.
by Jeff Jacoby
The Boston Globe
"The hard truth is that no matter how much Israelis crave peace, they cannot achieve it through concessions and compromises and "road maps" - not when their enemies view such overtures and agreements as signs of weakness, and as proof that terrorism works. For 60 years, Israel has had to contend with the hostility of its neighbors and the heavy costs of war; its yearning for peace is understandable. But there will be no peace without victory, and no victory without fighting for it."
...
"Whether this strong rhetoric will be backed up by strong action in the long run remains to be seen. Yesterday, the Israeli cabinet rejected a French proposal for a 48-hour truce. Perhaps, at long last, the lesson has been learned: With an enemy like Hamas, which boasts that it "loves death" and "drinks blood," truces and deals are illusory. If Israel seeks lasting peace, it must first win a lasting victory."
Read More Here
Israel can't bomb it's way to peace.
by Rosa Brooks
The Los Angeles Times
"In a strictly military sense, Israel will "win" this battle against Hamas. For all its threats and bravado, Hamas is weak, and its weapons -- terrorism, homemade rockets -- are the weapons of the weak. Since 2001, Hamas has fired thousands of unguided Kassam rockets at Israel, but the rockets have killed only a handful of Israelis."
...
"Israel has no viable political endgame here: There's just no clear route from bombardment to a sustainable peace. But the damage caused by this new conflagration won't be limited to the Israelis and Palestinians. Israel's military offensive already has sparked outrage and protests throughout the Arab world. The current crisis also may destabilize some of the more moderate Arab governments in the region -- in Egypt, for instance -- where leaders now face popular backlash if they don't repudiate Israel."
...
"It's time for the United States to wake up from its long slumber and reengage -- forcefully -- with the Middle East peace process. Only the U.S. -- Israel's primary supporter and main financial sponsor -- can push it to make the hard choices necessary for its own long-term security, as well as the region's. In January 2001, the Taba talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority came achingly close to a final settlement, but talks broke down after Likud's Ariel Sharon was elected prime minister on Feb. 6, 2001. Sharon refused to meet with Yasser Arafat, and newly inaugurated President George W. Bush had no interest in pushing Israel toward peace."
"Eight years later, Israel faces another election, and we're about to swear in a new president. When he takes office, Obama needs to push both Israelis and Palestinians to sit back down, with the abandoned Taba agreements as the starting point. Here's to a less bloody 2009."
Read More Here
My own view is that the Palestinians, particularly Hamas, do not want peace. They boast that they love death and drink blood. They make no bones about wanting to wipe Israel off the map. They have sought war, not peace, and now they have it. Hamas has no hope of bringing Israel to its knees militarily. Their hope is that the rest of the Arab world and Iran will take up their cause and attack Israel. When all the Israeli Jews are dead, then, and only then, will there be peace in the Middle East.
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
AP Global Warming Cult Propaganda Debunked
James O’Brien, an emeritus professor at Florida State University who studies climate
variability and the oceans, said that global climate change is very important for the
country and that Americans need to make sure they have the right answers for policy
decisions. But he said he worries that scientists and policymakers are rushing to make
changes based on bad science.
“Global climate change is occurring in many places in the world,” O’Brien said. “But
everything that’s attributed to global warming, almost none of it is global warming.”
He took issue with the AP article’s assertion that melting Arctic ice will cause global
sea levels to rise.
“When the Arctic Ocean ice melts, it never raises sea level because floating ice is
floating ice, because it’s displacing water,” O’Brien said. “When the ice melts, sea level
actually goes down. I call it a fourth grade science experiment. Take a glass, put some
ice in it. Put water in it. Mark level where water is. Let it [melt]. After the ice melts,
the sea level didn’t go up in your glass of water. It’s called the Archimedes Principle.”
If you're interested, read more here.
variability and the oceans, said that global climate change is very important for the
country and that Americans need to make sure they have the right answers for policy
decisions. But he said he worries that scientists and policymakers are rushing to make
changes based on bad science.
“Global climate change is occurring in many places in the world,” O’Brien said. “But
everything that’s attributed to global warming, almost none of it is global warming.”
He took issue with the AP article’s assertion that melting Arctic ice will cause global
sea levels to rise.
“When the Arctic Ocean ice melts, it never raises sea level because floating ice is
floating ice, because it’s displacing water,” O’Brien said. “When the ice melts, sea level
actually goes down. I call it a fourth grade science experiment. Take a glass, put some
ice in it. Put water in it. Mark level where water is. Let it [melt]. After the ice melts,
the sea level didn’t go up in your glass of water. It’s called the Archimedes Principle.”
If you're interested, read more here.
Monday, December 8, 2008
UAV
As in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle.
Actually, it's Christian's RC car. Chris entertained the kids by driving it around the back yard.
It spent a lot of time in the air.
Birthday Party
Our grandson Dutch turns one year old later this week, but yesterday was his birthday party.
Here he learns to operate his new ATV.
Skylar taught him how to pop a wheelie.
Opening another present.
Happy Birthday to Dutch!
Happy boy.
Jacob pulls Hattie and Dutch up the hill in Dutch's new Radio Flyer, with some assistance from Uncle Jared.
Jacob checks out the back yard slide, with Hattie coming up behind.
Hattie liked it too.
Here's the birthday boy in his new red wagon.
Aunt Jodi with little baby Anson.
Here's crafty Auntie Susan who's busy working on a little brother for Hattie.
Here are the kids on the neighbors' backyard merry-go-round.
Hattie really liked the merry-go-round.
She rode it for several minutes. When she got off, she was dizzy and didn't realize it. She staggered like a little drunk and fell down several times. It was hilarious. Too bad I didn't have video.
Hattie enjoyed the big wheel, too.
Jacob pulls Hattie and Dutch up the hill in Dutch's new Radio Flyer, with some assistance from Uncle Jared.Jacob checks out the back yard slide, with Hattie coming up behind.
Hattie liked it too.
Here's the birthday boy in his new red wagon.Aunt Jodi with little baby Anson.
Here's crafty Auntie Susan who's busy working on a little brother for Hattie.
Here are the kids on the neighbors' backyard merry-go-round.
Hattie really liked the merry-go-round.
She rode it for several minutes. When she got off, she was dizzy and didn't realize it. She staggered like a little drunk and fell down several times. It was hilarious. Too bad I didn't have video.
Hattie enjoyed the big wheel, too.
Farmington Funeral
On Saturday Laura and I drove up to Farmington and attended the burial service of Laura's Aunt Melita, who passed away recently at the age of 96.
We were able to find the grave marker of Laura's grandparents, George and Mamie Baird, who passed away before Laura was born.
It was good that we were there, because we had to represent Laura's mom, who wasn't able to attend. The thing about funerals is that it brings family and friends together who haven't seen each other for many years.
Here are Laura and her cousin Chris Coombs, viewing a CD memorializing his mother.
This is another cousin, Dennis Coombs.
And here are Carly and her daughter Julia, with Shelby. Carly and Shelby are Laura's nieces. We get to see them a little more often than the other extended family members.Thanksgiving
I know it's kind of late to post about Thanksgiving, but we celebrated quietly at our home. And we had visitors. This little girl was one of them. Her name is Hattie.
She came with her mom and dad to share our Thanksgiving meal.
First she had to wake up from her nap.
And once she had a little juice, she was back to normal.
Monday, November 24, 2008
Twenty Shots, Twenty Kills.
Last week a 30 man platoon of U.S. Marines was ambushed by a 250 strong insurgent force in Farah Province, Afghanistan. The end result was that a humvee was destroyed and one Marine was knocked unconsious. But the insurgents suffered heavy losses over an 8 hour battle. When the smoke cleared, their stronghold was destroyed, fifty of their number were dead and others were wounded. The remainder had abandoned their weapons and fled the battlefield. Twenty of the dead died under the rifle of a single Marine marksman, a young corporal who has since been nominated to receive the Silver Star.
Target: First Amendment
An article in National Review Online points out that gay-rights activists have targeted the LDS Church in a cynical effort to exploit the fact that there's still a lot of Anti-Mormon bigotry out there. They've vandalized churches, sent suspicious white powder in the mail, left a burning copy of the Book of Mormon on a Church doorstep, but their ultimate target is the First Amendment. They want to legislate total moral conformity to their view on gay rights, regardless of personal beliefs or religious views. And they're fighting imagined slights with very real bigotry and hypocrisy.
"Churches oppose same-sex marriage in part because it represents an implicit threat to freedom of conscience and belief. California already had one of the broadest civil-unions laws in the country. There was little in the way of government-sanctioned privileges that a state-issued marriage license would confer. But the drive for same-sex marriage is in practice about legislating moral conformity — demanding that everybody recognize homosexual relationships in the same way, regardless of their own beliefs. Freedom of conscience, or diversity of belief, is the last thing the homosexual lobby will tolerate..."
Where do they go from here? Gay activists are already using the legal system to try to revoke the tax-exempt status of the Mormon church. If you believe that churches and synagogues, priests and rabbis won’t eventually be sued for their statements on sexuality, you’re kidding yourself. Chai Feldblum, a Georgetown University law professor and gay activist who helps draft federal legislation related to sexual orientation, says that, when religious liberty conflicts with gay rights, “I’m having a hard time coming up with any case in which religious liberty should win.” A National Public Radio report on the conflict noted that if previous cases are any guide, “the outlook is grim for religious groups.”
"Given their cavalier disregard for the freedom of conscience, it’s little surprise that the gay lobby is equally disdainful of democracy: They began pursuing legal challenges to Proposition 8 practically before they were done tallying the votes. Lamentably, the state attorney general defending the will of the people will be former Jerry Brown, the liberal former governor who was an open opponent of the measure and tried to sabotage it. The legal challenges will be heard by the same state Supreme Court that overturned California’s previous law forbidding gay marriage back in May. There’s a real possibility the will of the people will be spurned a second time, democracy be damned. They’ve already burned the Book of Mormon. The First Amendment is next."
(Italics mine).
Read more...
"Churches oppose same-sex marriage in part because it represents an implicit threat to freedom of conscience and belief. California already had one of the broadest civil-unions laws in the country. There was little in the way of government-sanctioned privileges that a state-issued marriage license would confer. But the drive for same-sex marriage is in practice about legislating moral conformity — demanding that everybody recognize homosexual relationships in the same way, regardless of their own beliefs. Freedom of conscience, or diversity of belief, is the last thing the homosexual lobby will tolerate..."
Where do they go from here? Gay activists are already using the legal system to try to revoke the tax-exempt status of the Mormon church. If you believe that churches and synagogues, priests and rabbis won’t eventually be sued for their statements on sexuality, you’re kidding yourself. Chai Feldblum, a Georgetown University law professor and gay activist who helps draft federal legislation related to sexual orientation, says that, when religious liberty conflicts with gay rights, “I’m having a hard time coming up with any case in which religious liberty should win.” A National Public Radio report on the conflict noted that if previous cases are any guide, “the outlook is grim for religious groups.”
"Given their cavalier disregard for the freedom of conscience, it’s little surprise that the gay lobby is equally disdainful of democracy: They began pursuing legal challenges to Proposition 8 practically before they were done tallying the votes. Lamentably, the state attorney general defending the will of the people will be former Jerry Brown, the liberal former governor who was an open opponent of the measure and tried to sabotage it. The legal challenges will be heard by the same state Supreme Court that overturned California’s previous law forbidding gay marriage back in May. There’s a real possibility the will of the people will be spurned a second time, democracy be damned. They’ve already burned the Book of Mormon. The First Amendment is next."
(Italics mine).
Read more...
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
11 November, Veterans Day
We are flying the flag today in honor of Veterans Day. To all who have served our country honorably, a sincere "Thank You".Monday, November 10, 2008
10 November, Marine Corps Birthday
Sunday, November 9, 2008
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Saturday, November 8, 2008
Happy Birthday, Cindy!
Today is Cindy's birthday. Happy Birthday, daughter!
Here's my favorite birthday picture, Cindy at age one, defending her cake from one of her older brothers.
Here she is at age 4 celebrating with her very best friend, Summer Schoenrock.
Now she's all grown up, with a baby of her own. And here he is, Elmer Kai.
For more pictures and stories about Cindy, go here.
Friday, November 7, 2008
Frogs Croak
Here are Chris and Susan at last night's game at Rice-Eccles Stadium. The Utes were very lucky to pull off a last minute victory over the Horned Frogs of TCU. Did anyone notice how the "blackout" uniforms the Utes were wearing made them look an awful lot like the San Diego State Aztecs? Now, why would anyone want to look like the Aztecs?
Yeah!! Go Aztecs!! Beat the Utes!!
How’d this happen? And Why? And What Now?
Robert Stacey McCain wrote yesterday that Obama, the most liberal member of the U.S. Senate, was elected to the presidency by 20% of conservatives and 60% of moderates. How did he accomplish it? By hiding his liberalism behind moderate and vague platitudes. In a post McCain (the other McCain) entitled "The Triangulation of Hope", he wrote:
"What does this mean? It means that two decades of rhetorical fudging and policy incoherence have obscured the meaning of our political lexicon. George Bush the elder promised a "kinder, gentler" conservatism, raised taxes and signed onto a minimum-wage increase. Bill Clinton cleverly (and duplicitously) "triangulated," promising a middle-class tax cut he never delivered, vetoing welfare-reform twice before signing it, taking credit for a balanced budget that was mostly the result of a reduced military and Republican opposition to his spending proposals. The "compassionate conservatism" of George W. Bush has introduced still more confusion. In what sense are the No Child Left Behind Act and Medicare Part D "conservative" policies?
Considering that the Republican 2008 candidate, John McCain, had opposed tax cuts, collaborated with Russ Feingold on campaign finance regulation that helped Democrats achieve a decisive fundraising advantage, and collaborated with Ted Kennedy on an amnesty bill that infuriated conservative voters, it isn't hard to see why Obama so easily veiled his liberalism behind vague platitudes."
....
"Beginning Jan. 20, Obama must stop promising and start delivering, and with his army of online "progressive" activists demanding that he and the Democratic Congress enact liberal policies, what he aims to deliver won't be easily mistaken as "conservative." Republicans have triangulated themselves into the wilderness, and they'll stay there a long time, if they support Obama's radical agenda."
You can read the post, including the comments, here.
"What does this mean? It means that two decades of rhetorical fudging and policy incoherence have obscured the meaning of our political lexicon. George Bush the elder promised a "kinder, gentler" conservatism, raised taxes and signed onto a minimum-wage increase. Bill Clinton cleverly (and duplicitously) "triangulated," promising a middle-class tax cut he never delivered, vetoing welfare-reform twice before signing it, taking credit for a balanced budget that was mostly the result of a reduced military and Republican opposition to his spending proposals. The "compassionate conservatism" of George W. Bush has introduced still more confusion. In what sense are the No Child Left Behind Act and Medicare Part D "conservative" policies?
Considering that the Republican 2008 candidate, John McCain, had opposed tax cuts, collaborated with Russ Feingold on campaign finance regulation that helped Democrats achieve a decisive fundraising advantage, and collaborated with Ted Kennedy on an amnesty bill that infuriated conservative voters, it isn't hard to see why Obama so easily veiled his liberalism behind vague platitudes."
....
"Beginning Jan. 20, Obama must stop promising and start delivering, and with his army of online "progressive" activists demanding that he and the Democratic Congress enact liberal policies, what he aims to deliver won't be easily mistaken as "conservative." Republicans have triangulated themselves into the wilderness, and they'll stay there a long time, if they support Obama's radical agenda."
You can read the post, including the comments, here.
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Britain is committing national suicide...Are we going there, too?
Melanie Philips has an article in National Review Online in which she points out how thrilled the Brits are that America will start to look like them and the rest of Europe now that Barack Obama has been elected. But Britain is well on it’s way to committing national suicide, and we need to avoid going in that same direction.
"Obama has talked about remedying what he sees as the flaws in the U.S. Constitution which promotes only "negative liberties," or freedom from something rather than positive rights to something. Well, through human-rights legislation Britain has exchanged its historic concept of "negative" liberty — everything is permitted unless it is actively prohibited — for the ‘positive’ European idea that only what is codified is to be permitted. As a result, freedom has shrunk to what ideology permits. Equality legislation has cemented a "victim culture" under which the interests of all groups deemed to be powerless (black people, women, gays ) trump those deemed to be powerful (white people, men, Christians). Since this doctrine holds that the "powerless" can do no wrong while the "powerful" can do no right, injustice is thus institutionalized, and anyone who queries the preferential treatment afforded such groups is vilified as a racist or bigot.
All this constitutes a profoundly illiberal culture in which no dissent is permitted, group is set against group and intimidation is the order of the day. And this also happens to be the culture of ACORN, of the radical groups funded by the Annenberg Challenge and Woods Fund, and the ‘educational’ or criminal justice ideas of William Ayers, endorsed by Barack Obama."
....
"Obama believes America has to expiate its sins: both its original, Founding sins of slavery and racism, and its latter-day sins against the world of Islam. Britain likes the sound of that. It wants America to be humbled. Nations, it thinks, cause wars. Arrogant, hubristic, imperial nations like Bush’s America cause big and horrible wars. By contrast transnational institutions — such as the sacred UN or EU — promote civilised "engagement" with the enemy to discuss grievances and reach compromises. So it is thrilled that Obama will get out of Iraq and talk to Iran and may even force wretched Israel (which Britain blames for Everything Bad in the World) to give away the disputed territories and half of Jerusalem to the Arabs. The fact that such actions would leave Iraq in chaos, empower Iran still further, destroy Israel’s security and imperil the free world doesn’t trouble it at all. And if Obama, under the responsibility of office, should change from an appeaser to a war leader in America’s national interest, then Britain’s new found love for America would revert once again into rage and disdain."
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"The British Conservatives think that, to regain power, they have to show they have broken with cultural conservatism and go instead with the way society has changed — gay rights, green politics, anti-racism. What they have failed to grasp is that such change has turned values such as right and wrong, good and bad on their heads and has produced a sentimentalised, cruel, oppressive and perverse society — one where burglars go scot-free but householders are prosecuted for putting the wrong kind of garbage in the trash can, and where people are too frightened to protest at the erosion of British, Christian, or Western values because of the opprobrium that will follow."
It’s an interesting article and it’s worth reading the whole thing.
Read more...
"Obama has talked about remedying what he sees as the flaws in the U.S. Constitution which promotes only "negative liberties," or freedom from something rather than positive rights to something. Well, through human-rights legislation Britain has exchanged its historic concept of "negative" liberty — everything is permitted unless it is actively prohibited — for the ‘positive’ European idea that only what is codified is to be permitted. As a result, freedom has shrunk to what ideology permits. Equality legislation has cemented a "victim culture" under which the interests of all groups deemed to be powerless (black people, women, gays ) trump those deemed to be powerful (white people, men, Christians). Since this doctrine holds that the "powerless" can do no wrong while the "powerful" can do no right, injustice is thus institutionalized, and anyone who queries the preferential treatment afforded such groups is vilified as a racist or bigot.
All this constitutes a profoundly illiberal culture in which no dissent is permitted, group is set against group and intimidation is the order of the day. And this also happens to be the culture of ACORN, of the radical groups funded by the Annenberg Challenge and Woods Fund, and the ‘educational’ or criminal justice ideas of William Ayers, endorsed by Barack Obama."
....
"Obama believes America has to expiate its sins: both its original, Founding sins of slavery and racism, and its latter-day sins against the world of Islam. Britain likes the sound of that. It wants America to be humbled. Nations, it thinks, cause wars. Arrogant, hubristic, imperial nations like Bush’s America cause big and horrible wars. By contrast transnational institutions — such as the sacred UN or EU — promote civilised "engagement" with the enemy to discuss grievances and reach compromises. So it is thrilled that Obama will get out of Iraq and talk to Iran and may even force wretched Israel (which Britain blames for Everything Bad in the World) to give away the disputed territories and half of Jerusalem to the Arabs. The fact that such actions would leave Iraq in chaos, empower Iran still further, destroy Israel’s security and imperil the free world doesn’t trouble it at all. And if Obama, under the responsibility of office, should change from an appeaser to a war leader in America’s national interest, then Britain’s new found love for America would revert once again into rage and disdain."
....
"The British Conservatives think that, to regain power, they have to show they have broken with cultural conservatism and go instead with the way society has changed — gay rights, green politics, anti-racism. What they have failed to grasp is that such change has turned values such as right and wrong, good and bad on their heads and has produced a sentimentalised, cruel, oppressive and perverse society — one where burglars go scot-free but householders are prosecuted for putting the wrong kind of garbage in the trash can, and where people are too frightened to protest at the erosion of British, Christian, or Western values because of the opprobrium that will follow."
It’s an interesting article and it’s worth reading the whole thing.
Read more...
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