Want to see a Train Wreck?

How Do We Solve Our Nation's Future Energy & Transportation Problems?...

With Medieval Windmills & 19th Century Train Systems!

Obama Train to Nowhere

Completion by 2026, under the, Green Jobs Act, California will get  160K construction jobs and 450K permanently unionized train worker jobs because a High Speed Train is being built on sparsely populated land in the middle of the California Central Valley because it will face no homeowners' fight about the railroad right-of-way. When it connects San Francisco to San Diego it still does not solve big city traffic jams. Why haven't the citizens of California and other states caught on to Obama's jobs creation fiasco yet?  

U.S. Govt. Collecting Taxpayer Subsidies

Initial cost is $6 Bil. with an estimated $58.6 Bil. for the  entire San Francisco to San Diego project, of course with no overruns. Are Californians so stupid that they don't see that other taxpayers in the United States do not want to loan them any more stimulus money nor do they want to bail them out when they do go under.  Today, politically they ARE NOT too big to fail! U.S. Taxpayers are tired of all of the bail-outs!

Modern 19th   Futuristic 21st Century Rail System

Who is buying the tickets for the empty seats?  Why does the rest of the country have to bail out the left coast California liberal wacko voters who have spent their state into bankruptcy?

If not stopped, this train wreck is leaving the station...

Obama is creating more Unionized voters Jobs!

No Difference between the "Helpless" and the "Clueless"

Scary Lady!

Elizabeth Warren
"Special Adviser"  to the Secretary of Treasury, Timmy Geithner, on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, testifies during a hearing on Capitol Hill on May 24, 2011.

Who's making things up, really?

A House panel grilled Elizabeth Warren, the interim director of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), this week. Republicans on the committee want to strip the agency of its power before it even begins on July 21. The agency's purpose is to oversee rules regulating loans, credit cards and mortgages for consumers.  A bureau with a $600 million start-up budget, some banking industry groups say the new bureau will have too much unchecked authority over banks, credit card companies and mortgage service providers. 

Warren has a "Holier than thou" attitude about perceived self importance. We have too many failing Democrats running amok with taxpayers money to approve her for any governmental position. According to her arrogant high and mighty professorial, lofty "Haarvaard" collegiate opinion, the United States cannot stabilize this economy without HER Consumer Financial Protection agency starting right now to get up and running before she is even approved by congress. 

While Warren is regarded as a popular choice among liberal groups to become the bureau's first director, she has attracted the ire of many Republican Senators. Also, with reports that the Democratic Party is trying to recruit her to run for a Massachusetts senate seat against Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., she has become even more polarizing. 

In an interview with Diane Sawyer, ABC News, Elizabeth said she already signed up for her lease on a Washington apartment and is here on the behalf of middle-income families to rescue them from their own stupid ignorance when applying for credit cards. Elizabeth said tearfully, "The consumer is getting tricked and sucked into horrible credit card debt by dishonest bankers."  Please, there is no difference between the "helpless" and the "clueless". The problem today is that our schools are breeding both of these people who cannot read, write or even do math.  Why are they given any credit if they don't understand terms or have no money?

The answer is very simple Elizabeth, cut off all bad credit card debt by issuing to high FICO scores only, middle class families under water need not apply.  After all, too many are drowning because of the Federal Government's liberal fiscal monetary policies with bank credit cards and Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae controlling currently 90% of the home loans.

The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform invited Warren and four other witnesses to a hearing. Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., the chairman of the subcommittee, accused Warren, a Harvard professor currently on leave from the university, of lying to Congress about her role in helping state officials negotiate a settlement with mortgage servicers that improperly foreclosed on homeowners.  After that rift, McHenry got into a dispute with Warren over when she could leave the hearing.  Then Warren said her staff made an agreement with the committee's staff that she could leave at 2:15 p.m. to attend another meeting. McHenry said, "You're making this up, Ms. Warren. This is not the case."

Gum Balls & Jews

- DOING IT WRONG -

Just like that ball mixture, Israeli - Palestinian issues can never be united together.  Both sides will eventually choke, but why? 

I have three questions. The answers will startle every American,  it is time to learn that we are wrong thinkers! 

Why did a civilization that produced more books in Muslim Spain in the ninth century than existed in the entirety of of the rest of Europe subside into a civilized torpor, a state of dormancy or inactivity?  Why, in Freedom House's annual listing of countries that are "free", there is not a single Arab country listed?  Why in 2006 alone, were there more foreign books translated in one European country, Spain, than were translated in the entire foregoing millennium in the entire Muslim world?

The entire civilization in the Islamic world and Southeast Asia threw out the intellectual window the principles of rational inquiry that the Greeks introduced to the West half a millennium before Christ.  The collective Muslim ulema, theological leaders, decided it would be too "Dangerous" to allow free inquiry, not just of the Koran itself but of the daily reality of living life before our eyes.  

Muslim traditionalists asserted that the "eternal" Koran associated the idea that nothing in creation could be philosophically or scientifically examined without challenging Allah himself.   Further, they completely denied that good and evil could be discerned by human reason.  Instead, they argued, Allah's nature was, quite simply, his will.  Will precedes knowledge itself, which is the exact opposite of Christian thought, as it developed in the West.  Christian thought proceeded from the assumption that God himself was reason, and that since all creation had come into being through Christ, the Logos, reason could and should be applied to the examination of all creation.  

Muslim theologists insist there was no such thing as cause and effect, everything is entirely subject  to God, incapable of acting by itself;  it is an instrument in the hand of the Creator.  To question this was to commit blasphemy by implying there were limits to Allah's power and authority.

The tragic consequence of this mode of thinking completely collapsed within Islam the spirit of scientific inquiry.  No major invention or discovery for over seven centuries has emerged from the Muslim world. This has heavily contributed to the present marginalization of Muslims and their growing sense of injustice and victimhood.  The Muslims are their own enemy. 

What is the use of reason in the face of an Iranian education ministry official who claimed that the Tom and Jerry cartoons were concocted in the United States to improve the image of mice because, during the 1930s in Europe, Jews were called "dirty mice"?

NO matter how much the Israelis and Palestinans agree upon to have peace, it will never come because the dispirited Muslims will never have inner peace through their  own religious beliefs and value system.

A Great Follow-up Book:  The Closing of the Muslim Mind by Robert R. Reilly

Neuter Newt!

David Gregory - NBC

Newt Gingrich is incredibly and indisputably smart. He’s been in the Washington beltway for decades now, probably too long. To believe that he fell prey to the “combative” questioning of David Gregory, truly an obvious liberal lightweight interviewer, and that the former Speaker was even caught in a bit of a word trap with the NBC anchor is  very unbelievable. 

I personally think he is politically smart to talk his way out of anything without dropping verbal RINO stink-bombs like “radical,“ ”right-wing“ and ”social engineering” in such close proximity to Ryan's plan embraced by so many conservatives.

Gingrich - Ryan

I’m also convinced that such a smart politico would deliver such a simple message like "we need to get Americans’ support before we do something" with such clumsy messaging is because Newt fears a potential Paul Ryan run for president and was seeking to distance himself.  We‘re in a much different world politically than we were in 1994 and Newt needs a drastic plan to turn today’s tide back in his favor.  More plausible is that Gingrich knows he’s not going to win over the GOP primary voters as “the establishment candidate.”

With many older dedicated GOP voters likely uncomfortable with the idea of changes to Medicare, the Gingrich camp used very deliberate language (“social engineering”) to try and drive a political wedge in the GOP base. 

With today‘s momentum flowing in the tea party’s support, it’s unlikely other candidates would step out to try to grab this bloc of voters, leaving them largely up for grabs. While tea party favorites divvied up the fiscal hawk voters, Gingrich may try and get a large group without risking more moderate stakes in a potential general election contest.

Hopefully, voters will see Newt Gingrich for what he was and now is, an older career politician who needs to take a back seat to younger, more conservative and aggressive candidates.

Neuter Newt - It's Time for Conservative Values!

The Coming of The Caliphate

Cairo - St Virgin Mary's Coptic Orthodox Church - Hanging Church

Personal Background

Starting in June, 1972  I traveled for three and a half months throughout Europe, the Balkans, Greece, and on to Israel and Egypt.   Ironically, I had visited Munich, Germany in late June while the Summer XX Olympiad Grounds were being readied for the upcoming events and ceremonies starting August 26.  

 

On September 5, a terrorist group, Black September, massacred eleven Israeli athletes in the Munich Olympics Park.  I was in Greece at the time and shortly afterward I flew from Athens, Greece into Cairo, Egypt arriving  on an Air France flight at mid-night and was met in the dark by an Army half-track armored vehicle with soldiers with under-eye black with machine guns pointed at me as I debarked my plane and entered into the Cairo airport terminal with more machine gun sand bag nests positioned and pointed at arriving passengers.  It was intense.

While in Cairo, I visited  the Coptic Church of St. Barbara where Joseph, Mary and Baby Jesus had stayed during their travels.  I also heard stories about how the Coptic Christians were shunned and treated as second class citizens in their society too.  At that time, as a casual observer, I was not honestly aware of the Islamic society  due to the fact that any public unrest and Muslim militancy had not even remotely affected the United States or any of its citizens.  After all, 9/11/2001 was still twenty-nine years away from happening on United States shores.

A week later, I went to Israel and began to see and compare differences beyond the cultural beliefs and really felt it between the religions for their regional aspirations for territorial power and control.  Ordained by ancient Holy scriptures, the Jews, Christians and Muslims all laid claims to the Holy Lands.  Again,  I did not understand then what the full significance meant of these demands by either an expected entitlement or as by the virtue of Godly preordained rights laid upon a religious group.

 

I remember getting on a bus going from Jerusalem to Haifa with three teen girls, about sixteen years old, who were garbed out in drab green combat uniforms with Uzi machine guns strapped over their shoulders matter-of-factly as if they were just school backpacks full of books and boarded the bus to take seats in front of me.  Strangely,  I felt more safe, except for the obvious I did not know why.  Reality time check here?  So in 1972, I could see very difficult problems looming ahead even as a naive observer at the time.  

The Caliphate

In the past the greatest Muslim confederations were led by a caliph, a leader of all Muslims. The word "caliph" is the English form of the Arabic term kalifa, which means successor. The ruling institution of the caliphs is called the caliphate.

The modern movement for restoring the caliphate over Islam is presently growing quietly throughout the Middle East. If it should succeed it could possibly decentralize control over Muslims from Morocco to Indonesia—at least 1.5 billion Islamic followers. That would change dramatically the scope of Islamic power and influence in the world today.

The Caliphate is a rallying point between the radicals and the more moderate Islamists. The idea of a government based on the Caliphate has a historical pedigree and Islamic legitimacy that Western systems of government by their very nature do not have.

The Plan

Islam means ‘peace’, but a peace only on its terms, through full submission to Allah’s law. Hence, despite politically correct adulations of Islam by Washington and also Europe, there can be no co-existence between Islam and Western Civilization.  Many citizens are fast becoming aware it is not a "kumbaya moment" and is not going to work.

 
A Reaganite inspired and neo-conservative influenced American policy seems to be moving more openly by attaching the vague label of “evil ideology” to the Caliphate. However, as with Communism, Western policy needs to be bolder in correctly defining Islam as the main threat. By adopting our current slow, deliberate, politically correct Policies of Appeasement that the United States Government has adopted, it will fail as our country loses its sovereignty.

A continuing state of public denial in regards to a conflict with Islam in Washington as well as Europe only breeds more confusion, frustration and contradiction among academic and policy circles aware of the incompatibility between the two doctrines.  

Neville Chamberlain, the former Prime Minister of Great Britain, in 1938, sold out his country's sovereignty by capitulating with Adolph Hitler to negotiate his Policy of Appeasement of surrendering Czechloslavakia to Germany. Chamberlain's hollow promise said, "Go home to your beds, it's peace for our time"  as  Hitler continued onward with his conquest of the world.  History calls us again.

It is time to say to wishy-washy gratuitous spineless politicians... The USA is solely based upon Judeo-Christian Beliefs! (We still have religious tolerance and no persecution of others, not like in the Arab countries for Christians or Jews.)

The United States was founded on Judeo-Christian principles or the Christian world view.  This was not by happenstance, this was by design because our Founding Fathers knew that this was the only way in which the people could be assured the freedom, liberty, and justice they sought.  The Judeo-Christian world view sees man as an individual creation of God, special in his own right, worthy and valued in his individuality, with rights as an individual.  This was the basis of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. Under the Judeo-Christian world view, our nation has prospered and flourished as no other nation had before or has since.