Clueless on National Security (How the Far Left Misunderstands the Military)

Written : June 26, 2012

While on vacation last week I caught Mary Boland’s article in the Glenwood Springs Post Independent entitled, Beware The Blowback on National Security. While she implicates the current president in sticking his and the CIA’s noses where she thinks they don’t belong, she also accuses her home country of bullying leftist dictatorships instead of supporting them. Bad America, right, Mary?

I’m no supporter of President Obama, but Ms. Boland is way out of line when she accuses this president of falling in love with his weapon-toys while he seeks to defend this country. Mary is also sure the current administration revels in its love of murdering innocent foreign civilians, but this is way off the mark. She proves her misunderstanding of the armed services and the War on Terror as she defends young Muslim extremists for having nothing to do with 9/11. This fact may be true, but many of them are still plotting to kill us. Which ones conspire to hurt Americans? Only our intelligence community knows for sure. They brief the president, Mary, and he authorizes the strikes. That’s the way it works in the real world. Our bad takes care of their bad. I may think the current president is wrong on virtually every idea and policy, but he is not a sadistic killer, I can’t buy it, sorry.

Mary says that nothing good ever came from covert operations. Is she blind? We won World War II and the Cold War partly because of the competence of our intelligence gatherers. Instead of the freedoms we gain from them, she instead thinks that secret programs keep us less safe. Ms. Boland believes that the world hates us for protecting ourselves. Bad us, right, Mary?

Remember the concept during the Cold War that a strong military defense deters our enemies? Mary chooses not to understand it. She looks past the seriousness of defending the country and the positive, human spirit and camaraderie present in our armed forces. All she can think of is an imaginary, cold-hearted, military industrial complex and its so-called obsession over what she sees as their fun, killing-machine-play-things. How cynical! And, in a twist of logic, she says that investments in our common defense and not the recent wasteful spending to pursue environmental fantasies are what keep our people unemployed. Oh, how horrible we are to preserve our way of life for future generations of Americans, right, Mary?

Many of the extreme progressive crowd today believe in their own self-importance. Mary Boland is one of them. She expresses the ACLU’s and her own trembling fear over the looming possibility of 30,000 U.S. non-military drones soon spying on innocent citizens, like her. If you are an innocent individual, then who cares about you and what you are doing, Mary? These flights would be limited by weight (less than 55 pounds), visual operation only, and restricted to unpopulated areas. Better Google maps. Better law enforcement. Better border security. Do the research like I did, instead of freaking out. Calm down, Mary, don’t you recognize progress when you see it?

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War – What is it Good For? Absolutely Nothing - (There Is No War)

Written : June 19, 2012

False! There is no war. The right isn’t at war with science, women, education, teachers, firemen, road-builders, infrastructure or railroads. We like brick-layers, clean air and clean water, kids with Down Syndrome and cleft-palates, the poor, the hungry, and granny - just like the lefties. As The Who song says, it’s an Eminence Front, a put-on, perpetuated by nasty politicians and people who enjoy false stereotypes and can’t or won’t discuss the issues with conservatives.

There is a war on Republicans, though, and it’s easy to find. All I did was Google The Republican war on (more mild) and Republican hate (for more mean-spirited writing), each w/o quotes. Take a gander at the misunderstandings / untruths / anger / intolerance / hatred / wish to kill - on these sites (and there are many more out there):

The Republican War on Education

Move On’s Made-Up War on Women (This one has more links to other, similar sites)

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Pie Chart of Republican Hate

Republicans Hate the Poor and the Hungry

Wow, what an incredible collection of falsehoods! Where is that call for civility? (No Labels, MSM, I can’t hear you!) Most conservatives resist the temptation, but I’m sure that if you look hard enough, you’ll find a conservative blog which rants with curse words against liberals. That’s wrong, too. We tend to use a little more self-restraint and politeness than they do when speaking about the other side. No, this does not make us better people. (Liberals think we elevate ourselves to higher levels of humanity for this – but we don’t.) Avoid calling them names, they can’t help their confusion – or can they? If I switched From the Left to the Right, then some of them probably can, too!

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What Attracted Me to Conservatism (Part V)

Written : June 12, 2012

Add a dose of hypocrisy, false stereotypes, feigned outrage, and finger-pointing to the mix and I can show you how the left uses them to hurt people and distort right-wing positions. After five installments you might understand what motivated me to move away from my intellectual and radical teachings, and the associated, unyielding, me-first, gimme ideology.

The mainstream media (MSM), including MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, called the recall election to remove Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI) from office the second most important political contest this year – before he won. Now that Walker claimed victory with a larger majority than he enjoyed in his original election, all of a sudden it’s not that important anymore. The big-labor fat-cats tried to recall Gov. Walker, not because he did anything illegal, but simply due to the fact that he won’t help them gain more power – and they disagreed with his politics. By the way, labor unions, for the most part, hurt the very workers they claim to help by crushing the businesses which employ them.

Should conservatives now organize recalls for all those vulnerable, liberal officials? Although I think they’d make gains I’ll remain consistent and say, as most Wisconsinites did by voting, that we should not recall any representatives on grounds that we say their policies stink. Let the cheaters go home and let the elections stand. Let democracy rule. Let freedom ring.

Over the last several years, many on the right perceived their conservative representatives as too polite. Our politicians promised to raise taxes in compromises with the left as liberals pledged to cut spending. After taxes headed skyward, though, they also increased spending. This is seen by many right-wingers as a double-cross. The left pines for the good old days, when President George Herbert Walker Bush compromised (wimped?) his one-term presidency away. They are angered when the right stands up for what they believe in – smaller government, and say we don’t like teachers or firefighters. How silly! Truth be told, we really say the public sector should hire more of them, but only if they are needed. Businesses should employ more people – and pay higher salaries - but only if they can afford it. What’s the sense in bankrupting the public or the private sectors?

As a counter-move to the MSM’s love for mushy Republicans, members of the Tea Party now protest past right-wing passivity. Sorry, folks, the good ‘ole days of yesteryear are over, we’ll compromise, but we won’t roll over anymore. Progressives expressed outrage at the defeat of six-term, bend-over-backwards-to-please-the-left Sen. Dick Lugar (R-IN) by the conservative with a spine, Richard Mourdock. Liberals loved mild-mannered Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) – unless he ran against one of their own, of course. I agree, compromise is the way we get things done, but the left also must not be rigid. Think back to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), who both insisted with ferocity that it was their way or the highway. No way they would let President George W. Bush privatize Social Security. No discussion. No compromise. No insistence on giving President Bush’s ideas a partial chance for success. No need for the No Labels group to form. Now that the president is a Democrat all we hear is, “Give the guy a chance,” and, “Enough with rigidity.” Amazing.

We can thank the calls by the left for President Bush and VP Cheney’s trial and subsequent imaginary public hangings - and angry Democrats - for the rise of the Tea Party. Thank you, Pelosi, Reid, and many others! Thank you, progressives!

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What Attracted Me to Conservatism (Part IV)

Written : June 5, 2012

This multi-part series is also about what repelled me from the left, socialism, Communism, and atheism.

My left-wing dad, whom I revered and loved, used to tell me to avoid reading comic books because they contained no literary content, and they would make me less intelligent. Not only did I disagree with his opinion, but I enjoyed reading comic books. How he knew that Yogi Berra loved to read comics, I don’t know. This wondrous man, the one who taught me the love of baseball, held on to a foolish stereotype by believing that Yogi was not a deep thinker – simply because of the way he spoke. He took this a step further and blamed the comic books for Yogi’s lack of brilliance. Hmmmph, not reading literature… “What a dummy!” he used to say. Progressives taught me that we don’t judge others by their appearance, mannerisms, or anything else – but he made an exception in this case. Yogi might just have been a smart man, so how did Dad know either way without meeting and speaking with him?

My father taught open-mindedness and told me I could learn “from anyone, and I mean anyone,” he said. I noticed that none of his friends were conservatives or Republicans. When I asked why all of his pals called themselves liberals and belonged to the Democratic Party, he told me he could never befriend a conservative. “But why would he not learn from them, too?” I wondered. This struck me as hypocritical.

While atheism is not wholly married to leftist philosophy (some liberals are indeed religious), it is a form of religion to which the extreme left-wing radicals (Communists and socialists) cling. I cannot reconcile their propensity for knocking God at every turn. And yet, they tend to blame every weather event on Mother Nature (their God). What’s the difference? Atheists make jokes ridiculing God’s male image by calling him a she. How clever!

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