Ladies and Gentlemen, the time has come as it surely does that things must change.  The same is for all things and this blog is no different.  Soon — very soon — I will be starting a new blog not quite related to this one.  I have no clue where the future will take it, but it is my hope that it is the start of something beyond huge.  Beyond massive.  Beyond any hint of ginormous.  The times in this country have called for a new man — or woman if you prefer.  Die Neumenschen, who will take the brunt of emotional and political punishment until such time as we are proven right and the system has broken down to the point where nobody can do anything but trust us, will need a voice.  I will be part of that voice.  Die Neumenschen will know who they are, for this will be important in the days, weeks and years ahead.

President Obama was correct when he said it’s not about right and left anymore… that it’s not about big government and small government.  Those arguments are outdated — but not in the way he might wish us to believe they are.  It is much more important than that.  It is about survival.  It is not about big government versus small government.  It is about broken government versus surviving government.

It starts with knowing who we are as individuals and as a people.  It starts with standing up for who and what you believe in.  Despite what the holy books say — the Bible, the Qu’ran, the Vedas, the Bhagavad Gita, the Humanist Manifesto, the Communist Manifesto, whatever – it does start with you and with me.  It starts with figuring out what we want in life.  It starts with finding out who and what is in your soul and then figuring a way to live it out every day from the time you get up in the morning until the time you lay your head down on the pillow at night.

The revolution is coming.  It will not be pretty.  It will not be easy.  It will not be short.  Those who wish to fall will fall.  Those who wish to stand will stand.  But regardless of standing or falling, despite what side of the issue you call home, you will need to know whether you wish to end up a follower or a leader.  Either side is fine.  But choose.

Know who you are.  If you don’t yet know that, then that is your first step, dear reader.  It starts with knowing deep down inside of you exactly what your stand is.  It is all about being that person that was created by whatever means you have determined it was created, whether by the Hand of God, by intelligent design, or by random selection.

Know what you believe in.  Know what gives you the day in and day out strength to carry on.  Grow strong in those beliefs so that, come the day it is challenged — and brother, that day is coming — you will be able to stand firm for everything you hold dear.  There are those who will try and crush you and remake you into not a Neumensch but an Altermensch.  An “other man”.  Something you are not.  They — whomever they end up being — will try to take your freedom away and recreate you in their image, something you were never meant to be.  Or they will have to try and destroy you.  You can lay down and die for them, or you can stand tall, defending — with all of your being — everything that is important in your life and in your family.  The choice is yours.  May God bless you richly.

In all likelihood, the Conservative Firebrand blog ends here.  Thanks for reading the few posts I had.  See you on the other side.

 KBD

     Where I live (Massachusetts), the gas prices are obscene.   But that shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone.  With a reported national average of $3.639 (from GasPriceWatch.com), they’re obscene everywhere. Not for the first time — and certainly not for the last — I paid nearly $30 for a tank of gas.  The actual total was $29.00, at $3.659 or so a gallon, and I probably could have pushed the other dollar but I didn’t want to spill it on the ground as happened recently.   It shut off around $27.50 or so, but I’ve done the stop when it shuts off gag and the tank’s not full.  I’m not saving the extra fifty cents, first of all, and second I can usually get another dollar or so anyway.

     It’s gotten to the point where I can’t drive or walk past a gas station without taking note of the prices thereon.  And quite frankly, it makes me sick.  But what makes me sicker is thinking about the hearings held at the beginning of this month.  As I write, I’m two hours to MayDay.  Appropriately, if the information I found was correct, Congress called the Big Six Supermajors to accountability on 01 April… giving never-more-appropriate meaning to the term “April FOOLS Day.”

     I mean, honestly, if the Democratic Primary is politics’ version of Wrestlemania — as I fear it will turn out to be — then this was Slammiversary or King of the Ring.  But at least we know the WWE is not real and that people’s futures won’t drastically change with the outcome of Vince McMahon’s latest production.  The same can’t be said for what goes on in Washington, however.

Listening to the national news media, one would have to wonder what these Liberals are about, usually.  But lately, it’s been run-0f-the-mill spectacularism.  Between the fight for the nomination – which I’ll get to in a moment – and the house speaker spending more time worried about the confrontation in communist China , it would appear that what is actually going on in this country is of little import to them.

The Speaker, for those not in the know, spent some time over the Easter break with other Congressmembers in the United Kingdom and India to “talk about the issue of global warming, its significance to our national security, to our environment, to our economy, and to our preservation of this planet.”

Now hold the phone a minute. Global warming and the environment go together. That I shan’t dispute. But “global warming” and national security and economy?! Since when do those go together?! Since when, pray tell, Speaker. Well… never mind answering. We actually already do know the answer to it. Since His All-Holiness, Environmentalist Patriarch Al Gore pronounced it so and his encyclical has been repeatedly shoved down the throats of people who really couldn’t give a good goddamn or even oppose the subject entirely. Or in any event, would just go away and leave them in peace.

What the weather’s doing has little to do with anything involving the economy, because if people want to spend their money, nobody’s going to stop them.  It has even less to do with National Security.  Look: old baseball adage: if a pitcher wants to hit you badly enough, he’s going to hit you no matter how much or how fast you duck.  If a terrorist group wants to attack us badly enough, well, by golly, by gosh guess what? They’ll do it eventually. All of the intelligence in the world wouldn’t have stopped September 11, 2001 from happening. Nothing in heaven or hell would have stopped it if the terrorists wanted it badly enough. The liberals would have you believe that Military Intelligence is an oxymoron. But them also telling us that Global Warming has anything to do with National Defence is proof that political science — at least their version — is just as bad.

It is, however, ironic that Speaker Pelosi lumps together Global Warming – not necessarily a national priority before or after 9.11 – and national security. There are those – some likely influenced by those in the “Democratic” party – who fault a grand government conspiracy for the events of that awful Tuesday morning. There are also those who say that had Florida not been “delivered” (quotes mine) into the hands of the Republicans on November 7, 2000, and then-future Global Warming nutcase poster-boy Al Gore been elected president that what happened ten months, four days later would never have happened at all.

Disagree. It might… MIGHT… have delayed it. Preventive defence, however, has never happened on the floor of the congress. Unfortunately, after the eight-year reprieve from any accountability (twelve if you include Bush I’s four years in office following the inimitable Ronald Reagan), and all of the empowerment they got from the American Left Wing, it was inevitable. The Propagandists working at “mainstream media outlets” would have had us believe that “everything is going to be okay”… that we’ll never see a terror attack on our shores. Our country is too invulnerable to attack… and when it did come, it wasn’t the Libs’ fault.

Wrong answer.  As the eleven terrorists proved with stunning clarity, it was never a matter of “if”. It has always been a matter of “when”. No country is invincible… no nation invulnerable.

Yet the national news media fawned over Pelosi’s trip as if it was a great act of diplomacy. They started by “talking to” (Pelosi’s phrase, not mine) our allies in the United Kingdom for good reasons: national security and terrorism. And, of course “the important” global warming issue. The last I checked, the only “import” that the issue had was to keep the liberals in power and deflect attention from what they and their comrades in the media are really doing: building a totalitarian socialist state the likes of which both Stalin and Pensacola Christian College have never suspected possible in their wildest dreams.

While they were there, they dropped by His Holiness, the Dalai Lama.  Just as they did, all hell broke loose in Tibet , the Lama’s homeland. Of the five hundred plus words in the Speaker’s remarks when she got back after the Easter recess, about forty percent (204 of 534 according to the post on the Speaker’s website) had nothing to do with India or their trip, but dealt solely with the situation in Tibet and criticizing the government of the People’s Republic.

To add more credence to her speech, Pelosi (thankfully only once) invokes the name of an Almighty in which her politics – what she does – holds no standing. As if.

It would behoove the Congresswoman to take a piece of advice from another part of the Bible which the God whose name she invoked gave us: “Ye shall know them by their fruits… Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.” ( Mt. 7.16a , 20) Her supporting the hoax called global warming and partisanship are her fruits. They stink. But then how could we expect differently? As liberals define “bipartisan” as everyone working with – and kowtowing to – them and their way of thinking.  (Thankfully, she credits fate for having been in Dharmsala when Tibet happened.)

By the way, of the ten delegation members listed in the press release with her remarks, one was a Republican.  Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) is the ranking Republican member of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.  Another glowing example of Liberal bipartisanship.

Then there’s the “Democratic” Party’s nomination and the media circus surrounding it. If the casual, uninterested observer watched the nomination theatrics going on, they might for a split second wonder what they were watching. The 2008 “Democratic” Primary is the result of what happens when the political process gets its mission mixed up: it starts to look like WrestleMania on a bad-acid trip.

Barack Obama, a relative neophyte to presidential-level politics, and Hillary Clinton, ex-first lady, are in a life-or-death struggle for the right to take on Republican (and comparatively conservative) John S. McCain. The pundits at National Broadcasting Communism and their comrades at other networks would have us believe that it will come down to the so-called “superdelegates”. (Quick definition time: Superdelegates are unpledged delegates chosen from party leaders and elected officials or PLEO’s seated as delegates both nationally and from each state. All other delegates are pledged to one candidate or another either in proportion or in total.)

The media would further have us believe that whichever candidate has a stronger choice for a running mate will have the better chance at victory both in September at the convention and in November against all other comers. McCain included. As if. Do they really think that Lloyd Bentsen in 1988 would have given Mike Dukakis a snowflake’s chance in hell of defeating the first George Bush?!  Every election shows yet anew, it’s not generally the person’s running mate that makes any difference. We don’t choose a vice president in November. We choosing the president and whomever makes the number two on the ticket is virtually immaterial. It wouldn’t have mattered if Bill Clinton had chosen Teddy Kennedy as his running mate…

Well… okay… that’s stretching it a bit far.  But point made.

Unfortunately some people have had it right in saying that a superticket should be formed and Obama and Clinton join forces, one as President, one as Vice-President. Or would the politically correct term be “Co-President” if they can’t decide who should be on top?

Wait, no… it’s Woman on Top.

There is a sneaking suspicion gathering that all of this song and dance through the propaganda wing is just that. It’s song and dance. It’s WrestleMania all over again for the next five (plus or minus a couple of days) until we get to the Convention in Denver . Howard Dean is calling for all of the SuperD’s to make up their mind by July first. As I write, that august date is exactly three months away, and many of them are being contacted directly by the candidates or their families and campaigns to try and shore up definitive support. Yet what will happen in Denver , the site of this year’s political “WrestleMania”?

Definitively, nobody on earth knows.  ”GOD only knows” never rang so true in politics.

But my best guess is they are going to go through the entire convention with all of their hemming and hawing. They are going to go through all of the song and dance. All of the pageantry. Just like the ancient Greek dramas and tragedies. At the end, our friend Speaker Pelosi, already named permanent chair for the convention, will stand up and announce the results, just like the “ring announcer” at WWE events: Both will run on the same ticket together, and everyone will cheer because their dream of having the presidency sewn up will be a reality… and they will be one step closer to a single-party state.

Once again, they will have used “the will of the people” as cover for their true intentions. Liberals do not care about what is best for the people and they never have. Their party name is misleading in the extreme as the very word “Democrat” comes from two greek words: Demos and Kratein… Literally, “people-rule.” Lincoln said it best in the Gettysburg address in 1863: The government of the people, by the people and for the people (enphasis mine). Unfortunately, today’s “people-rule” party has nothing to do with the rule BY the people, never mind FOR them. It is about power for them. It always has been, and with the media firmly – blindly – in their corner, it will never change. Do we really think that Pelosi’s concern for “global warming” has anything to do with the rank and file American? Especially when she has to take some of her cronies and go to another continent to discuss it?!

As for the convention, I just pray I’m wrong.

But I doubt I will be.

Since 1948, sixty years this year, the State of Israel has been under attack almost constantly, or very nearly so.  Within twenty-four hours of its very founding, the baby state was attacked from without by its Arab neighbours who would see it destroyed.  Upset that the United Nations — itself no friend to Israel as the years would attest — would DARE to invade their space and carve out a country from their lands, lands they’d long held as their own for approximately 1,878 years (since the final conquer of Jerusalem by the Romans in the year 70 C.E.), the Arab neighbours, faced with an unwanted new kid on the block, decided to do something about it, not unlike the bullies not liking the new kid in school.  In the sixty years since, there has been precious little long-term peace anywhere in that region.  Except between Israel and its neighbour, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.  Maybe.

 The only problem is that this “new kid” has proven over the decades to be the eight-hundred-kilogramme gorilla of the area and in spectacular fashion.  That they have failed to have any position except ambiguity with regards to nuclear weaponry has only strengthened their position.  Yet being the 800-kg gorilla has a drawback too.  When someone attacks them — such as Hamas, Hezbollah and other terrorist-backed groups — and they retaliate, the International Community, including the nation’s largest trading partner and greatest ally over the decades, raps them on the knuckles rather than do something about what caused it.

The problem is not that Israel keeps retaliating when they are attacked.  That has little, if anything, to do with it.  The problem is that the West and the European Union increasingly has forgotten the meaning of a simple word.  That word is WAR.  After two World Wars and a history bathed in blood, most recently in the Balkans generally and directly in the ex-Yugoslavia, it is understandable that Europe would want a few years of peace.  However, the way in which they are going about it is something that would make one of history’s nastiest pieces of work smile and warm his black heart.  That the United States has done little more than scold Israel for defending its borders in ways that are effective shows that our government is hypocritical at best, but at least we still back them.  Recently, as the New York Post opinion page reported, Secretary of State Dr. Condoleeza Rice came down on the Israelis for not showing humanitarian care in their ground offencive against the Gaza Palestinians when the same fired rockets into Israeli territory.

It seems to me that politicians in the West need to re-learn the definition of WAR.  Especially today, it is not uncommon for a group of thugs like the hoods that run the Gaza Strip to use innocents for human shields.  In wartime, there are casualties.  They are regrettable.  However, in this case, they are being used in an offencive way.  The sports term would be “offencive defence”:  The thugs are using the human shields in hopes that Israel will launch a retaliatory strike against them, hitting the human shields and thus triggering an international outcry because of it.  Yet, when the international community rises up against Israel, they show their hypocritical nature by failing to censure those who use the human shields in the first place.  Israel knows well the meaning of war.  They have — to my knowledge — never attacked without provocation.  Yet for their retaliation they are given much grief by their supposed allies and are admonished to “obey the law” when their opponants are offered no such admonishment, not that it would do any good.

In war, humanitarianism as an international law is a joke.  There is collateral damage and it is unfortunate.  But what is sadder is when the international community disciplines a nation for simply defending its borders and refuses to see that it is the thugs who first attacked them who are in violation of any ‘humanitarian’ standards.

It is not much different from the gun debate in this country.  The laws are meant to keep people safe, but when stronger laws and tougher laws are put in place, assuming they are enforced, crime often goes up.  Why?  Because those who follow the law have no way to protect themselves from those who do not.  Why do we bother with tougher gun laws when those whom the law was meant to target do not abide by it anyway?

Same thing here.  Israel has abided by international law… yet those who offend international law are allowed to get away with bloody murder.  Literally.  What will be the response of the international community in the coming days when and if Israel decides on further retaliation for the carnage at Merkaz Harav Yeshiva in Jerusalem that left a total of nine dead (including the gunman) and nine wounded?  I can tell you immediately what it will be: The international community will again come down on Israel.

But then again, is that much different from Liberalism in this country?  I dare anyone to take a look at the way American Liberals behave and point out to me significant differences between them in 2008 and how the Bolsheviks behaved before and during the Russian Revolution in 1917.  I doubt you will find many.  I believe it was Hitler who remarked that Nazism and Bolshevism (or Communism if you prefer, though the term is obsolete today) had more in common than they had in opposition.

As more than one conservative writer puts forth, it is these people who lead us to defeat.  It is these people who make us the laughing stock of the military community.  We have the most powerful military in the world… yet when we are at the cusp of victory we are hamstrung by the Liberals in the media and in the halls of academia… or is that Macademia, because they are certifiable nuts!… and in the halls of Congress with kooks like Teddy Kennedy and Nancy Pelosi and even the two candidates for president, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.  Israel has the fourth most powerful and they use it to defend their borders.  We use our most powerful ranking to defeat terrorists and despots worldwide.

Unfortunately for us, the Liberals especially, would that we would play by ’safe and clean’ rules.  They wish that we and Israel especially would ‘play nice’ in the face of people who laugh at such conventions.  When did people like the Terrorist of Teheran and the Communist of Caracas and the Pipsqueak of Pyongyang ever play nice?!  Is that phrase even in their vocabulary?  Of course they laugh at us… because they have absolutely no intention of EVER playing by the same rules.  Using the liberals’ tactics and ideas to take on these lunatics is approximately like trying to take on a streetfighter using Marquess of Queensberry rules!

War is hell.  There are very few rules when it comes to war, but there is one thing that war has in common with baseball.  It is the objective.  Rule 1.02 of the official baseball rules states that ”(t)he objective of each team is to win by scoring more runs than the opponant.”  Maybe Rule 1.02 of the official war rules should state that “(t)he objective of each side in a war is to win by totally defeating the enemy.”  Point blank.  Israel knows this and has since long before 1948 was a twinkle in their eye.  Intelligent people the world over have always known this.  Sun Tzu knew this before the Common Era.  Carl von Clausewitz knew it in the 1800s.  Lenin and Mao knew it in the last century.  Even the Bedlam candidates we deal with on a daily basis the world over know it.  Any politician who denies that this is the case either doesn’t know what he’s talking about, hasn’t been doing his job, or is being deliberately obtuse.

Why our leaders kowtow to hypocritical niceties while our enemies hysterically laugh is beyond me.  But it seems we should be taking a page from their book and spend less time prating about niceties and more time finding a way to achieve total victory.  Once that is achieved, then and ONLY then, may we discuss the rules.  Like the old adage goes, shoot first, ask questions later and let GOD sort it all out.]

If our ally Israel and our enemies can figure it out… what’s our problem?!

 Until next time.

Conservative Firebrand