The "Pull Out Now" crowd is completely dishonest and politically motivated. Period. Any intelligent politician or citizen has to realize that in the long term having our troops in the Middle East is 100% necessary for United States national security. Looking five or ten years into the future who can believe that the threat of Jihad will be less than it is now?
It won't be. Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia and parts of Pakistan teach hatred in their schools. Hate festers and grows with age. The Iraq campaign is our beach-head into the snakes nest that is the Middle East. Nobody likes war, soldiers dying or innocents being slaughtered. But pulling out our troops now to put them back in within the next ten years would be stupid, no other way to put it.
Hezbollah, Hamas, and Al Qaida will claim victory if we pull out. They will have earned it. Their manipulation of the media and Liberals has been impressive. The weakness we have shown in resolve has given these groups and the Iraqi insurgency incentive to maintain a drum beat of explosions and death. By themselves none of these attacks has ANY strategic value. But since American citizens and Democratic politicians have no concept of war, these attacks give the impression that we are fighting a never ending battle in Iraq.
It takes time to change the world. The Iraq War could change it. Historically, ten years is a blip in the grand scheme of civilizations. Bringing democracy to the Middle East is the only thing that can raise the standard of living, end oppression, and by result stop the tide of Jihadism. But short of that goal we need 150,000 troops in that region to destroy our enemies when they next are able to attack our home land.
"Pull out Now!" is equivalent to saying "I surrender" or more accurately "The United States of America surrenders to a band of rejects, killers, and thugs." You people make me sick.
Sunday, July 15, 2007
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
GOP Platform for Abortion
There is no right to abortion in the Constitution of the United States. There is also no absolute right of privacy that establishes a "law free zone" in a doctors office. This is why Euthanasia is still illegal and many other acts that a doctor could perform in a supposed free privacy zone. Therefore Row vs Wade should be overturned as bad law and the states free to regulate abortion as they see fit. Again, let the people decide where to live and which state most closely resembles their beliefs.
The state or government should have no role in encouraging abortion as a "choice". Choice is like deciding between Coke and Pepsi not whether or not a person gets a chance to live. After the first trimester, you have to be pretty cynical to not consider that aborted fetus a future person. We are all concerned about how we will leave the world for the "next" generation. But it doesn't bother anyone to kill off that generation. I guess because less people means that the pristine earth is saved from a "climate crisis". Abortion being turned into the "right to choose" is another examples of conservatives allowing the debate to be defined in incorrect terms.
So the first goal of a Republican President should be to end public funding of abortion clinics. Next he should appoint constructionist judges. Then he should change the discourse on abortion so that the life of the "fetus" "embryo" or baby is at least considered in the discussion.
...At least any candidate that this Party endorses has to state simply "Abortion is morally wrong". Facts should always help a candidate.
This post is one element of the Grassroots Conservative Republican Platform 2008. To contribute to this effort, please comment on this post and help shape this platform. Send the link to your friends and lets take our party back to the conservative principals that lead President Reagan and that were the key to President Bush's victory in the election of 2000.
Note - It is my personal hope that Roe V Wade waste away as a relic of a time in America where we lost our morals and focused on self indulgence. To the point that the blessing of a baby became just another decision about our life's fun and experiences.
The state or government should have no role in encouraging abortion as a "choice". Choice is like deciding between Coke and Pepsi not whether or not a person gets a chance to live. After the first trimester, you have to be pretty cynical to not consider that aborted fetus a future person. We are all concerned about how we will leave the world for the "next" generation. But it doesn't bother anyone to kill off that generation. I guess because less people means that the pristine earth is saved from a "climate crisis". Abortion being turned into the "right to choose" is another examples of conservatives allowing the debate to be defined in incorrect terms.
So the first goal of a Republican President should be to end public funding of abortion clinics. Next he should appoint constructionist judges. Then he should change the discourse on abortion so that the life of the "fetus" "embryo" or baby is at least considered in the discussion.
...At least any candidate that this Party endorses has to state simply "Abortion is morally wrong". Facts should always help a candidate.
This post is one element of the Grassroots Conservative Republican Platform 2008. To contribute to this effort, please comment on this post and help shape this platform. Send the link to your friends and lets take our party back to the conservative principals that lead President Reagan and that were the key to President Bush's victory in the election of 2000.
Note - It is my personal hope that Roe V Wade waste away as a relic of a time in America where we lost our morals and focused on self indulgence. To the point that the blessing of a baby became just another decision about our life's fun and experiences.
Wednesday, July 4, 2007
2008 GOP Platform for Education
Our nations schools are failing from coast to coast for a variety of reasons. The primary reason is parental responsibility. But as legislating good parenting is impossible, this is one problem that I am not going to address in my proposed platform for education.
First, we have to focus the education on developmental learning, not agendas. For example our schools are indoctrinating young people with stories of eminent global destruction and not teaching them the Bill of Rights. I once heard a great thought on Global Warming..
"the arrogance to say that the temperature and global climate as of today is Earth's ideal setting is astonishing".
Twenty years ago it was global cooling. How about before teaching global warming we teach our kids the difference between Fahrenheit, Celsius, and Kelvin. Then how to measure temperature properly and the number of variables it would take to achieve an accurate global forecast. If we taught them that, they could test our theories. And we wouldn't want that. Somehow we have to get the schools focus back on teaching our kids to succeed.
The federal department of education should be eliminated and 85% of the funds distributed to the 50 states based on population size. Then the other 15% should produce 1 study per year ranking the fifty state education systems. Let the people decide where to live and how their kids are educated. The states will compete, try new ideas like vouchers, and less tax dollars will be wasted on bureaucratic nonsense. The states, cities, and schools that are rated the highest will be flooded with new workers looking for the best opportunity for their children. Plus these locations will thrive because educated people make better citizens. With 50 test laboratories all focused on achieving the best quality education, the country will adapt and use the best methods to teach our kids.
The second problem with education in today's America is the teacher's union and job mentality. There are many amazing teachers who deserve our admiration and thanks. However our schools are filled with other types of teachers who see teaching as a job that includes summers off, no performance evaluations, guaranteed pay raises, and amazing benefits. This type of teacher uses the same lesson each year, endless videos and media, and spends very little of his/her free time planning lessons or helping struggling students. I went to high school 15 years ago and at that time I had 3 good teachers for every 7 bad. From stories I hear, I imagine that has got worse and not better. Pay scales in schools have to be changed from tenure based to performance and difficulty based. A teacher working with 45 students in the most dangerous and under-funded programs need to make more than the suburban teacher with 25 students and unlimited supplies.
Finally, the Government can only guarantee educational opportunity. It cannot legislate that every citizen accomplish being educated. Ultimately that responsibility lies on the individual, the family, the church, his neighbors and our society at large.
This post is one element of the Grassroots Conservative Republican Platform 2008. To contribute to this effort, please comment on this post and help shape this platform. Send the link to your friends and lets take our party back to the conservative principals that lead President Reagan and that were the key to President Bush's victory in the election of 2000.
First, we have to focus the education on developmental learning, not agendas. For example our schools are indoctrinating young people with stories of eminent global destruction and not teaching them the Bill of Rights. I once heard a great thought on Global Warming..
"the arrogance to say that the temperature and global climate as of today is Earth's ideal setting is astonishing".
Twenty years ago it was global cooling. How about before teaching global warming we teach our kids the difference between Fahrenheit, Celsius, and Kelvin. Then how to measure temperature properly and the number of variables it would take to achieve an accurate global forecast. If we taught them that, they could test our theories. And we wouldn't want that. Somehow we have to get the schools focus back on teaching our kids to succeed.
The federal department of education should be eliminated and 85% of the funds distributed to the 50 states based on population size. Then the other 15% should produce 1 study per year ranking the fifty state education systems. Let the people decide where to live and how their kids are educated. The states will compete, try new ideas like vouchers, and less tax dollars will be wasted on bureaucratic nonsense. The states, cities, and schools that are rated the highest will be flooded with new workers looking for the best opportunity for their children. Plus these locations will thrive because educated people make better citizens. With 50 test laboratories all focused on achieving the best quality education, the country will adapt and use the best methods to teach our kids.
The second problem with education in today's America is the teacher's union and job mentality. There are many amazing teachers who deserve our admiration and thanks. However our schools are filled with other types of teachers who see teaching as a job that includes summers off, no performance evaluations, guaranteed pay raises, and amazing benefits. This type of teacher uses the same lesson each year, endless videos and media, and spends very little of his/her free time planning lessons or helping struggling students. I went to high school 15 years ago and at that time I had 3 good teachers for every 7 bad. From stories I hear, I imagine that has got worse and not better. Pay scales in schools have to be changed from tenure based to performance and difficulty based. A teacher working with 45 students in the most dangerous and under-funded programs need to make more than the suburban teacher with 25 students and unlimited supplies.
Finally, the Government can only guarantee educational opportunity. It cannot legislate that every citizen accomplish being educated. Ultimately that responsibility lies on the individual, the family, the church, his neighbors and our society at large.
This post is one element of the Grassroots Conservative Republican Platform 2008. To contribute to this effort, please comment on this post and help shape this platform. Send the link to your friends and lets take our party back to the conservative principals that lead President Reagan and that were the key to President Bush's victory in the election of 2000.
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