The Patriot is monitoring this situation for you. Free of charge. No thanks needed. Here are a few quick points to update:
1. According to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) the ice that melted from the polar caps has come back to almost its original size
2. The movie “Inconvenient Truth” didn’t tell you that when they taped the polar bear struggling to get on that piece of ice it was August. Normal melting was occuring. Not to mention that the polar bear population is actually rising.
This post is going to be a short post, that hopefully will give you something to think about. I have been debating on a few blogs about waterboarding. I am not going to debate it in this post, that is not the point of it. What I am going to do is call into question liberal thinking.
How can someone who is pro-life bang their fist about waterboarding yet support a candidate that is in favor of abortion?
The picture of the baby above: This little boy was one of several third trimester BABIES found in medical waste bags outside a legal abortion center in Houston, Texas. He was 14 inches long, weighed 2 pounds 2 ounces
Didn’t Steven Kazmierczak know that Northern Illinois University was a gun free school zone? Maybe there wasn’t enough signs posted. Maybe he really didn’t know that guns were not supposed to be on campus. The university should have had more of a strict policy on violence. This notion that gun laws effect law breakers makes no sense whatsoever. Take drugs for example, how has that effected the drug intake of Americans. It hasn’t. I just don’t understand the argument made by those against gun ownership. The notion that if we have more restrictions and laws somehow bad people won’t get their hands on guns. Isn’t that the definition of a bad person? That he doesn’t care about the law and will find a way to get the gun anyway. Can you imagine if someone had the opportunity to shoot this guy and possibly at least save one life? Wouldn’t that be worth being able to carry a gun? To save a life? I challenge anybody to come up with a law that would restrict gun ownership that criminals would follow and obey!
Did anybody else hear about what Chris Matthews said about Obama? If you missed it check it out on YouTube. He said the speach Barack Obama gave the other night caused a “thrill to go up his leg”. Seriously. This guy is one weird cookie. I watch this guy sometimes for a good laugh. This isn’t the first time he made an off the wall comment. Remember when former President Clinton had heart surgery? The president days later gave a speech, where Chris happened to be at. When President Clinton approached to give his speech, Chris almost wet his pants stating “it was like lazarus coming out of the grave”. Don’t get me wrong heart surgery is serious, but is it really the same as being dead for a few days only then having the Son of God raise you from the dead? I don’t think so!!! Time and time again Chris has shown his true colors of not being fair and unbiased in his rhetoric. Folks complain about FoxNews yet MSNBC has some of the biggest libs out there and Chris Matthews is the biggest. To that I give you the floor. What crazy things have you heard Chris Matthews say (or any reporter for that matter)?
This is Carty Finbeiner. He is the Mayor of Toledo. I don’t know too much about him. I do know, he did park in handicap parking, even though he didn’t have a permit to do so. Yet that isn’t why I am writing about him. I’m not going to bash him or his integrity. I am going to call to attention a decision he made recently, not allowing Marines to train in the city of Toledo. They have been doing this for years and the police knew about it for sometime. Why would this bother me? Let me first tell you my background. I served 4 years active duty in the Air Force, then another 3 1/2 as a reservist. My active duty time was in a place called Nellis Air Force Base. Located just northeast of Las Vegas (yes I did lose some money). The mission of this base was to prepare pilots for war. This base is where all of our branches and allies come to train for air war. The idea behind this was stemmed from our pilots being killed in battle because of their lack of “experience” at war. So that produced this training where the pilots would actually come to this base and we would put on a full scale “war”. That in turn has benefited pilots by letting them survive in battle. So with that the same applies for these Marines. In the situation we have in Iraq, urban warfare training is critical to the survival of our men and women in the Marines. They need a chance to make a mistake without it costing their life. In doing so we hope that when the time comes they will have learned from these mistakes and come home to their families. This decision made by the mayor could actually get people killed. Could they find another place? I don’t know. I do know the process to change anything in the military such as this could take some time. Time we don’t need spending while our men and women are in harms way. This is a shameful decision by the mayor and I suggest he rethinks it completely. I also suggest you follow the lead of The Patriot and let the him know your angst about this terrible decision.
If you want to voice your concern you can contact the mayor:
Mayor Carty Finkbeiner
419.245.1001
mayor.toledo@toledo.oh.gov
Can you believe it? I actually have pneumonia. I don’t remember ever having it. Yet my first week of my new job gets me to take my first sick day because of it. So I will be back to blogging again starting Monday. Sorry I know all of you wait for the wisdom of the patriot. So sit still and be back here Monday.
“What attachment can a poor emigrant have for a country where he had nothing? The knowledge of the language, the love of a few kindred as poor as himself, were the only cords that tied him: his country is now that which gives him land, bread, protection, and consequence: Ubi panis ibi patria (Where there is bread, there is one’s fatherland), is the motto of all emigrants. What then is the American, this new man? He is either an European, or the descendant of an European, hence that strange mixture of blood, which you will find in no other country. I could point out to you a family whose grandfather was an Englishman, whose wife was Dutch, whose son married a French woman, and whose present four sons have now four wives of different nations. He is an American, who leaving behind him all his ancient prejudices and manners, receives new ones from the new mode of life he has embraced, the new government he obeys, and the new rank he holds.
He becomes an American by being received in the broad lap of our great Alma Mater. Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labours and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world. Americans are the western pilgrims, who are carrying along with them that great mass of arts, sciences, vigour, and industry which began long since in the east; they will finish the great circle. The Americans were once scattered all over Europe; here they are incorporated into one of the finest systems of population which has ever appeared, and which will hereafter become distinct by the power of the different climates they inhabit. The American ought therefore to love this country much better than that wherein either he or his forefathers were born. Here the rewards of his industry follow with equal steps the progress of his labour; his labour is founded on the basis of nature, self-interest; can it want a stronger allurement? Wives and children, who before in vain demanded of him a morsel of bread, now, fat and frolicsome, gladly help their father to clear those fields whence exuberant crops are to arise to feed and to clothe them all; without any part being claimed, either by a despotic prince, a rich abbot, or a mighty lord. I lord religion demands but little of him; a small voluntary salary to the minister, and gratitude to God; can he refuse these? The American is a new man, who acts upon new principles; he must therefore entertain new ideas, and form new opinions. From involuntary idleness, servile dependence, penury, and useless labour, he has passed to toils of a very different nature, rewarded by ample subsistence.
–This is an American.
“Letters from an American Farmer by St. Jean de Crèvecoeur, 1780
I know I am going to be a hated man after I ask this question. Before I do, I want to say something first. AIDS is a problem that needs attention. It is an issue that is growing all the time. The question that I pose is this: Is AIDS a money problem? Is this an issue money can fix? Now don’t get extreme with me on this. I do believe there is some need for money. I just don’t believe that pouring money into this is in the end going to solve the problem. President Bush has announced a 15 billion dollar funding. That would be doubling the effort, the democrats want to triple it. The world collected $933 million spent on AIDS research ($654 million coming from the United States) in 2006. With U2 and other celebrities doing concerts and fundraising money doesn’t seem to be an issue. Yet, is there an issue, are we spending too much on AIDS? I’m not the first to ask this but I believe it does need to be asked. What do you think? If we are spending too much what can we do to make the money we have now count for more? If we are not spending enough, how much more is needed and why?
This post is going to be a short post, that hopefully will give you something to think about. I have been debating on a few blogs about waterboarding. I am not going to debate it in this post, that is not the point of it. What I am going to do is call into question liberal thinking.
Did anybody else hear about what Chris Matthews said about Obama? If you missed it check it out on YouTube. He said the speach Barack Obama gave the other night caused a “thrill to go up his leg”. Seriously. This guy is one weird cookie. I watch this guy sometimes for a good laugh. This isn’t the first time he made an off the wall comment. Remember when former President Clinton had heart surgery? The president days later gave a speech, where Chris happened to be at. When President Clinton approached to give his speech, Chris almost wet his pants stating “it was like lazarus coming out of the grave”. Don’t get me wrong heart surgery is serious, but is it really the same as being dead for a few days only then having the Son of God raise you from the dead? I don’t think so!!! Time and time again Chris has shown his true colors of not being fair and unbiased in his rhetoric. Folks complain about FoxNews yet MSNBC has some of the biggest libs out there and Chris Matthews is the biggest. To that I give you the floor. What crazy things have you heard Chris Matthews say (or any reporter for that matter)?
This is Carty Finbeiner. He is the Mayor of Toledo. I don’t know too much about him. I do know, he did park in handicap parking, even though he didn’t have a permit to do so. Yet that isn’t why I am writing about him. I’m not going to bash him or his integrity. I am going to call to attention a decision he made recently, not allowing Marines to train in the city of Toledo. They have been doing this for years and the police knew about it for sometime. Why would this bother me? Let me first tell you my background. I served 4 years active duty in the Air Force, then another 3 1/2 as a reservist. My active duty time was in a place called Nellis Air Force Base. Located just northeast of Las Vegas (yes I did lose some money). The mission of this base was to prepare pilots for war. This base is where all of our branches and allies come to train for air war. The idea behind this was stemmed from our pilots being killed in battle because of their lack of “experience” at war. So that produced this training where the pilots would actually come to this base and we would put on a full scale “war”. That in turn has benefited pilots by letting them survive in battle. So with that the same applies for these Marines. In the situation we have in Iraq, urban warfare training is critical to the survival of our men and women in the Marines. They need a chance to make a mistake without it costing their life. In doing so we hope that when the time comes they will have learned from these mistakes and come home to their families. This decision made by the mayor could actually get people killed. Could they find another place? I don’t know. I do know the process to change anything in the military such as this could take some time. Time we don’t need spending while our men and women are in harms way. This is a shameful decision by the mayor and I suggest he rethinks it completely. I also suggest you follow the lead of The Patriot and let the him know your angst about this terrible decision.
I know I am going to be a hated man after I ask this question. Before I do, I want to say something first. AIDS is a problem that needs attention. It is an issue that is growing all the time. The question that I pose is this: Is AIDS a money problem? Is this an issue money can fix? Now don’t get extreme with me on this. I do believe there is some need for money. I just don’t believe that pouring money into this is in the end going to solve the problem. President Bush has announced a 15 billion dollar funding. That would be doubling the effort, the democrats want to triple it. The world collected $933 million spent on AIDS research ($654 million coming from the United States) in 2006. With U2 and other celebrities doing concerts and fundraising money doesn’t seem to be an issue. Yet, is there an issue, are we spending too much on AIDS? I’m not the first to ask this but I believe it does need to be asked. What do you think? If we are spending too much what can we do to make the money we have now count for more? If we are not spending enough, how much more is needed and why?
