Monday, October 25, 2004
Gut Check for Americans
We are looking ahead to a larger world war, increased terrorist threats on the homeland, penny ante loyalties and divisions within both parties and the 50-50 chance that a multilateralist, radical leftist-lib will become president.
What, Me Worry?
Never in my lifetime, have the sides been drawn so clearly. Now that the screaming and shouting is nearly over, we must look at the differences clearly.
If Kerry becomes president, we need to talk about this "global test" thing. Now that the U.S.S.R. is behind us, and Europe's inevitable impotence is shown by its lack of moral clarity and mission, Americans cannot capitulate to the vageries of the "urban" tribalism that continues, after centuries of it, to be the thorn in America's side.
The global test about which Mr. Kerry spoke does nothing more than attempt to neutralize the power of the U.S. The one thing we learned with Mr. Bush is he doesn't need no stinkin test. Many Americans, more than half, agree. People across the world are scared of America's power.
They should be. Witnesses of 9/11 testify to the need to rearrange our feelings about a cuddly world, run by a man whose main claim for presidential consideration is a dubious war record. I simply cannot trust a man this weak to insure the safety of me and mine.
The U.N. is Corrupt
Mr. Kerry's buddies at the U.N. are responsible for a program called Oil for Food. This scandal has Chirac's pawprints all over it. Who can justify any of France's opposition to the U.S. in Iraq? They're up to their ______ in helping Saddam.
Media Corruption
Sometimes I feel like the only person in the world who is not only outraged by France's arrogance and diplomatic stance during the pre-Iraq war months at the U.N. Old media has demonstrated they can't be relied on to tell us the truth, or even bring up events that might cause them to be neutral. Salient examples include the Dalfur report which states the intent of Saddm to rebuild wmds weren't part of the Report's story. Instead we got hyperbole that was not even a correct quote: "We were wrong," or something similar.
AIDS
President Bush did a good guy thing when he apportioned 15 billion dollars to Africa to fight the HIV epidemic. That isn't something you hear about very often. According to the old media, President Bush is not only a moron, but a mean moron. Gut check.
No Child Left Behind Works
Unfortuantely the national and states teachers unions don't think so, thus the president gets hammered for this too. Does it not stand to reason, that if you test students on a regular basis, you can draw a baseline above which progress is made?
It is not in any way meant to hurt or hinder a child. It is meant to help each student learn by holding teachers accountable for their teaching skills. We have spent 400 trillion dollars on education reform, etc. over the past 40 years.
Putin States His Right to Pre-Emption
Following the ghastly massacre of little children at Breslan, Russia, Vlad Putin has decided he will follow a similar policy of premption ala the Bush Doctrine. Smart man.
Thanks for the read.
What, Me Worry?
Never in my lifetime, have the sides been drawn so clearly. Now that the screaming and shouting is nearly over, we must look at the differences clearly.
If Kerry becomes president, we need to talk about this "global test" thing. Now that the U.S.S.R. is behind us, and Europe's inevitable impotence is shown by its lack of moral clarity and mission, Americans cannot capitulate to the vageries of the "urban" tribalism that continues, after centuries of it, to be the thorn in America's side.
The global test about which Mr. Kerry spoke does nothing more than attempt to neutralize the power of the U.S. The one thing we learned with Mr. Bush is he doesn't need no stinkin test. Many Americans, more than half, agree. People across the world are scared of America's power.
They should be. Witnesses of 9/11 testify to the need to rearrange our feelings about a cuddly world, run by a man whose main claim for presidential consideration is a dubious war record. I simply cannot trust a man this weak to insure the safety of me and mine.
The U.N. is Corrupt
Mr. Kerry's buddies at the U.N. are responsible for a program called Oil for Food. This scandal has Chirac's pawprints all over it. Who can justify any of France's opposition to the U.S. in Iraq? They're up to their ______ in helping Saddam.
Media Corruption
Sometimes I feel like the only person in the world who is not only outraged by France's arrogance and diplomatic stance during the pre-Iraq war months at the U.N. Old media has demonstrated they can't be relied on to tell us the truth, or even bring up events that might cause them to be neutral. Salient examples include the Dalfur report which states the intent of Saddm to rebuild wmds weren't part of the Report's story. Instead we got hyperbole that was not even a correct quote: "We were wrong," or something similar.
AIDS
President Bush did a good guy thing when he apportioned 15 billion dollars to Africa to fight the HIV epidemic. That isn't something you hear about very often. According to the old media, President Bush is not only a moron, but a mean moron. Gut check.
No Child Left Behind Works
Unfortuantely the national and states teachers unions don't think so, thus the president gets hammered for this too. Does it not stand to reason, that if you test students on a regular basis, you can draw a baseline above which progress is made?
It is not in any way meant to hurt or hinder a child. It is meant to help each student learn by holding teachers accountable for their teaching skills. We have spent 400 trillion dollars on education reform, etc. over the past 40 years.
Putin States His Right to Pre-Emption
Following the ghastly massacre of little children at Breslan, Russia, Vlad Putin has decided he will follow a similar policy of premption ala the Bush Doctrine. Smart man.
Thanks for the read.
