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Toning Down Terrorists

Posted by Steve on Monday, July 31, 2006 10:12:05 AM
Ellen Ratner, billed as liberal and proud on the World Net Daily website is currently pushing for some Kissingerian shuttle diplomacy to try to end the fighting in Lebanon. Strange I don't recall a single mention from Ms. Ratner about stopping the terrorists from sending rockets into Israel.

Liberals and other anti-Semites always come out of the woodwork screaming "Stop the fighting" only after Israel has started fighting back and winning.

Along those lines, I recently had a conversation with a co-worker and mentioned I was thinking about sending a pizza to a squad of Israeli soldiers (website here ) and she started talking about the bombing of Lebanon by the Israelis and worrying about the Lebanese children. I tried to see if she would say anthing about the Israeli children dying at the hands of Hezbullah but she was strangely silent about those children, apparently Jewish children don't count when they are brutally murdered by terrorists but Lebanese children, put into danger by terrorists who hide behind them, count for much more, but only if Israel can be blamed for their suffering. Back to the main point.

Ratner would like Condolezza Rice to work with the Syrians to bring peace to the area and "tone down" Hezbullah. This is what liberals do, they want to compromise. How do you "tone down" Hezbullah without distroying it? There is no compromise with someone who wants you dead.

I would ask Ms. Ratner, and all other bubbleheads who think you can compromise with terrorists, to imagine they live in a house that was built by them and their family on land that the family worked to make productive but that was completely worthless until the family came and worked for generations to make bloom. Now imagine that you are surrounded on all sides by people sworn to kill you and take your land.

What is the compromise? Let them beat you half to death and you move to a tent in the forest while they take the land you and your family worked so hard to make productive and let it go fallow because they are now committed to taking away the tent, which is all you have left.

Compromise is a good working tool of diplomacy, if there are parties willing to work together to come to a solution that everyone can live with. It doesn't work when one party is so inflexible as the Muslim terrorists are.

Ratners full article can be seen here
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Illegal Invasion

Posted by Steve on Thursday, July 27, 2006 1:10:52 PM
Someone needs to explain to people, especially our representatives in that swamp by the Potomac that there is a difference in kind between people who come into this country and wish to make this country their home and want to live under its rules and those people who come here looking for work and don't want to make any adjustments in the way they live but just want to take, take, take.

Immigrants are the first sort of people. We need immigration and the people with needed skills it brings in. I'm not against immigration and I'm not against having non-European peoples come into this country. What I am against is being forced to accept people who aren't going to fit in.

Imagine this country is your house. You throw the best parties and invitations are coveted because they are hard to come by. You have certain conditions set that you expect people to meet before extending them an invitation to the party. You put on the party and as the guests are coming in gatecrashers enter along with them. Your guests are enjoying the food and the entertainment when you discover the gatecrashers taking food away from invited guests and complaining about the entertainment and demanding that you provide entertainment they prefer.

Would you change your entertainment and deprive your invited guests of their rightful portion of the wonderful food you've provided or would you ask the gatecrashers to leave? Would you hesitate to build a fence around your property so that gatecrashers would have a harder time coming to your parties?

Let's keep inviting people to come to this country in order to make better lives for themselves, their families and their adopted communities. But let us not hesitate to restrict immigration to levels that can be handled, it doesn't have anything to do with racial or ethnic matters, it is simply a fact of life that we cannot accept all the people that wish to come here and if we did this country would soon cease to be a desireable destination.

Thomas Sowell has a good column about our Senators and representatives who just can't seem to grasp some facts of life here.
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Postponing but not cancelling

Posted by Steve on Wednesday, July 26, 2006 12:05:46 PM
Judge Glen A. Taylor delayed imposition of a lower court's order that would have forced a sixteen year old to have chemotherapy against his and his parents wishes. Taylor's order didn't eliminate the possibility, it just delayed a decision until August 16.

The fact such abuse of power can take place at all is disturbing, but that a medical ethicist would approve is proof, if such were needed that 'medical ethisist' is as much an oxymoron as 'legal ethicist'.

World Net Daily has more Here
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Who decides

Posted by Steve on Tuesday, July 25, 2006 11:58:45 AM
A judge in Virginia is coming between a teenager with cancer, his parents, and their right to decide what treatment the boy should receive. We aren't talking about parents refusing to have anything to do with modern medicine, the teenager has had chemotherapy and found it debilitating. After going through a round of chemo that left him weak and unable at times to even walk 16-year-old Starchild Abraham Cherrix, along with his parents, decided to try an alternative treatment.

A medical ethicist claims that because parents don't always know what is medically best for their children the state should step in and force Cherrix to take the chemo and radiation treatments.

For me the question revovles around whether the parents and their son have the right to decide their own lives, not whether their choices are the ones conventional wisdom says are are best.

I firmly believe that every person has the right to decide what to do with their own body. It's the same argument that abortion rights people use (although they forget there is a second person [abortionists prefer the term fetus] affected by a woman's "right to choose".)

Let's ignore the fact the young man is nearly at the age of emancipation and therefore able to form, and act on his own judgements and focus on his rights and his parent's rights. People in this country have the right to decide their own fate. White or black; male or female; rich or poor; Christian, Jew or Muslim, it makes no difference, the individual is free to do those things he or she decides are in his/her best interest.

Suppose the parents allowed their son to try skydiving. Skydiving is not without danger, should a court declare them negligent and force them to share custody with the county department of social services for allowing this dangerous activity?

Of course not. To say otherwise would be to invite the government to pass judgement on every decision of every parent, a disaster just waiting to happen. AP story
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Warmongering Children

Posted by Steve on Monday, July 24, 2006 4:43:31 PM
Some children in Israel are shown putting graffiti on some artillery shells destined for some Hezbullah terrorist and the politically correct get their panties all in a bunch over it. Sure it may have been foolish but unless the military in Israel is stupider than the average bear those shells are fairly safe, they aren't fused and they aren't ready to be fired until they are prepared some more. Jerusalem Post has a story. Warmongering Children
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Queer eye for everyone

Posted by Steve on Monday, July 24, 2006 10:43:13 AM
I don't care if someone is gay or not, it isn't any of my business and I'm not going to pry into it. I just wish gays would leave me alone. Why can't I watch a television show without being bombarded by gay references? If gays don't like people noting their differences do they parade those differences in public? Growing up a phrase I heard a lot was live and let live. Well, I'm ready to let live, I just wish the people who feel you have to push homosexuality as a lifestyle felt the same way.
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Blame the victims

Posted by Steve on Friday, July 21, 2006 11:31:26 AM
You hear it all the time, something bad happens and in the discussions following the incident someone says something like "Why would a person put themselves in a situation where the likelyhood of bad things happening is so high?" Immediately the person asking a resonable question is accused of 'blaming the victim'. Let's be clear, there is a difference between saying the victim is at fault and saying the victim placed themselves in a risky situation. If a bungee jumper is hurt in an accident because the operator of an amusement park failed to maintain the equipment it is not the jumper's fault. However, it doesn't absolve the jumper of some degree of responsibility, be it ever so small. Likewise many are bemoaning the fate of civilians in Gaza and Lebannon during Israel's defensive counter-attacks. The Lebannese and Palistinian civilians may not be to blame for their own suffering, but they do have to share it. It is their acceptance of evil among themselves in the form of terrorists bent on the destruction of Israel that causes so much harm to their population when Israel, excercising its inherent right of self-defence, rains bombs and rockets down on terrorist targets. If anyone is truly innocent of fault it is the Israeli citizens who try to go about their daily lives while their neighbors plot to destroy them. In all the media-mongering humbuggery spewed by wailing Palestinians remember they lay down with dogs, it's not Israel's fault they get up with fleas.
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