THE ART OF PROGRESS IS
TO PRESERVE ORDER AMID CHANGE,
AND TO PRESERVE CHANGE AMID ORDER.
***Alfred North Whitehead***
We've set our sails,
looking for a new bridge, leading to a better world.
The one that Bill and Hillary Clinton built,
taking us into the twenty-first century,
is at least a million miles short
of our destination.
Billy Jeff Clinton's Used Cars:
Those screw-driver marks around the odometer?
Well, we was fixing it. It was broke.
That sawdust around the transmission? We're pretty sure
the manufacturer suggested either sawdust or transmission fluid.
The frame? Well, it was already straight.
We just sent it in to make it even straighter.
Nothing too good for our customers.
Rollover? Could you all define "rollover" for me?
And hey young lady.
I'm sure we could work out
a "special" payment plan
if, you know,
you don't have the
money for the down payment.
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U.S.S. SANTA MARIA, SHIP OF TRUTH, is commanded by the Armchair Admiral. It has three missions. They are:
1. Illustrate obvious shortcomings, and the ultimate, certain and absolute failure of SOCIALISM, as a viable form of government.
2. To tweak the noses of those who control the content of the Santa Maria Times. The Times practices selective censorship and it presents an unfair and unbalanced view of local, state and federal politics and governmental affairs.
For the most part, it promotes a "GROUP THINK" mentality, and it undermines the ideals of individual freedom, rights, both property and personal, and it minimizes the importance of personal responsibility.
I believe the Santa Maria Times, by dividing people, undermines our REPUBLICAN form of government.
3. Our third mission then, is to publish material that provides counter-arguments, that is, more conservative views on the items of propaganda published in the Santa Maria Times.
On our voyage we will find and report the unvarnished truth. That will remain true until the SOCIALISTS take complete control of our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor, and individuals are reduced to the status of puppets, bouncing up and down on marionette strings, manipulated by unelected bureaucrats, who serve as puppetmasters for a
SOCIALIST GESTAPPO.
WELCOME ABOARD.
If you would like to express an opinion,
click on the Admiral's picture to send him an e-mail message:
The Admiral
reflecting back on the days when
the US Navy was comprised of
wooden ships and iron men.
Armchair Admiral issues orders:
Now hear this. Now hear this. This is your Armchair Admiral speaking.
We're setting sail, in uncharted waters, leading to ports unknown,
all around the globe,
in search of a cargo of truth.
We'll bring it aboard wherever we find it, then we'll take it home to our people.
Now, Hoist all boats. Cast off all lines. Set course true north. And,
"DAMN THE TORPEDOES, FULL SPEED AHEAD."
WHERE ELSE BUT FRANCE?
"Dig up your garbage, it's desecrating our ground" on the left, and "Death to Yankees" on the right, and "Rosbeefs go home, Saddam will overcome, and will make your blood run" in the middle.
When the Admiral got wind of this desecration he considered lobbing a couple of cruise missiles in the direction
of the Eiffel Tower. After reconsidering, he decided that with a "real" Commander in Chief like President Bush in charge it would probably be O.K. to leave it in the hands of the politicians for the time being. A different decision might have been made if Bill Clinton was still President.
WHEN THE GOOD SHIP USS SANTA MARIA GOT UNDERWAY, THE ARMCHAIR ADMIRAL SET OUT THREE SPECIFIC MISSION OBJECTIVES. THE SECOND WAS TO PUBLICIZE THE FACT THAT THE SANTA MARIA TIMES PRACTICED CENSORSHIP OF POLITICAL OPINIONS. THE ADMIRAL NOW REPORTS, OBJECTIVE TWO HAS BEEN ACCCOMPLISHED. THE SANTA MARIA TIMES NO LONGER PRACTICES CENSORSHIP. THE TIMES IS TO BE COMMENDED FOR EXECUTING A MUCH NEEDED COURSE CORRECTION, THEREBY AVOIDING SOME ROCKY SHOALS AND SANDBARS JUST OFF GUADALUPE BEACH.
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The armchair Admiral says:
"It's my job to say it.
Not to explain it!"
More of the same in a different format. Check it out.
"Everyone shall have the right freely to express an opinion
and disseminate his opinion by speech, writing and pictures...Freedom of the
press and freedom of reporting by broadcasts and films are guaranteed.
THERE SHALL BE NO CENSORSHIP."
Article 5, Federal Republic of Germany Constitution, 1949
E-MAIL TO:
ARMCHAIR ADMIRAL
Definitely not
opinions from the
political left:
Thomas Sowell
Walter Williams
Ann Coulter
David Limbaugh
Paul Craig Roberts
David Horowitz
Jonah Goldberg
Tony Blankley
Charles Krauthammer
William Safire
If it's true that "Every vote should be counted,"
is it also true that every voice should be heard?
If the answer is no, then who should decide which
ones should not be heard? If the answer is yes,
then why does the Santa Maria Times get a pass on its
practice of selective censorship?
E-MAIL TO:
Carthel Williams
The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If 'Thou shalt not covet' and 'thou shalt not steal' were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society before it can be civilized or made free.
JOHN ADAMS
A Defense of the American Constitution.
SECNAVINST 10520.6
N09B1
31 May 2002
SECNAV INSTRUCTION 10520.6
From: Secretary of the Navy
To: All Ships and Stations (less Marine Corps field
addressees not having Navy personnel attached)
Subj: DISPLAY OF THE FIRST NAVY JACK DURING THE GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM
Ref: (a) U. S. Navy Regulations, 1990
1. Purpose. To provide for the display of the first navy Jack on board all U. S. Navy ships during the Global War on Terrorism.
2. Discussion. As the first ships of the Continental Navy readied in the Delaware River during the fall of 1775, Commodore Esek Hopkins issued a set of fleet signals. His signal for the "whole Fleet to Engage" the enemy provided for the "strip'd Jack and Ensign at their proper places." Thus, from the very beginning of our Navy, the Jack has been used on board American warships. The first navy Jack was a flag consisting of 13 horizontal alternating red and white stripes bearing diagonally across them a rattlesnake in a moving position with the motto "Don't Tread On Me." The temporary substitution of this Jack represents an historic reminder of the nation's and Navy's origin and will to persevere and triumph.
2. Action. The first navy jack will be displayed on board all U. S. Navy ships in lieu of the Union Jack, in accordance with sections 1259 and 1264 of reference (a). The display of the first Navy Jack is an authorized exception to section 1258 of reference (a). Ships and craft of the Navy authorized to fly the first Navy Jack will receive an issue of four flags per ship through a special distribution.
Gordon R. England
Distribution:
SNDL Parts 1 and 2
As good government is an empire of laws, how shall your laws be made? In a large society, inhabiting an extensive country, it is impossible that the whole should assemble to make laws. The first necessary step, then, is to depute power from the many to a few of the most wise and good.
John Adams,
Thoughts on Government
1776
THOMAS
JEFFERSON
"Political propaganda in modern society is becoming increasingly professional
with a growing reliance on non-rational techniques of persuasion."
One such technique is censorship. With propaganda and censorship combined, a heretofore murky image of the Santa Maria Times begins to come into focus.
"If there is one thing upon this
earth that mankind love and
admire better than another, it is a
brave man,---it is the man who
dares to look the devil in the face
and tell him he is a devil."
JOHN GARFIELD
Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
The Oath of Allegiance:
I hereby declare, an oath,
that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen;
that I will support and defend the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic;
that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same;
that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law;
that I will perform noncombatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States when required by law;
that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law; and
that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose or evasion: So help me God.
"The public good is not to be considered if it is to be purchased at the expense of the individual."
Lord Acton
"So, then, to every man his chance -- to every man, regardless of his birth, his shining golden opportunity -- to every man his right to live, to work, to be himself, to become whatever his manhood and his vision can combine to make him -- this, seeker, is the promise of America."
Thomas Wolfe
"Without liberty, law loses its nature and its name, and becomes
oppression. Without law, liberty also loses its nature and its
name, and becomes licentiousness." --James Wilson
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Friday, April 16, 2004
Posted
4:45 PM
by a
Mrs. du Toit
One of the things I don't think I've ever written about is that there is disagreement in my family over the War on Terrorism generically, and the War in Iraq, specifically.
You might have guessed that the other members of my family have always been opinionated. Since we no longer live close, we discuss things in Round Robin type e-mails. We disagree, often, over trivial issues and the e-mails can get quite heated. That's normal and expected. We might have disagreed over tax increases, how to deal with crime, etc., but those ARE trivial. We all realized they were trivial and the heat of the argument never got nasty—just HOT—and being a family used to that sort of thing, it was never any more than a hot debate.
When the degree of divide over the WOT became apparent, however, it was no longer possible to reconcile those differences with one of my sisters. My response to this? I disowned her. There were no words. There was no dramatic discussion with big arms and tears. I simply stopped speaking to her. She can live her life with her friends and I'll live mine, but our paths will never again cross--ever.
I mention this because I want to make clear, in case it wasn't painfully obvious before, that there is war on. Sides must be chosen. I don't make allowances for traitors (or slip sliders), even within my own family.
We can discuss and disagree over the wisdom of a 2% hike or decrease in sales tax forever, but, when the primary directive, the security of the country and the Free World is at stake, there is no compromise. Lines in the sand and all that.
What should also be clear, but probably not so obvious, is that it is not personal. It's war.
THANK YOU MRS. DU TOIT FOR EXPRESSING THAT VIEWPOINT. YOUR MESSAGE WAS RECEIVED AND UNDERSTOOD BY MANY WHO WERE SEVERELY STUNG BY THE ISLAMOFASCISTS COWARDLY SNEAK ATTACK ON OUR COUNTRY ON 9-11-01.
"The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it will never forget what they did here."
That's what I think. What say you? Please comment.
Tuesday, April 13, 2004
Posted
6:09 PM
by a
To The Editor:
"SCATHING ATTACK ON THE UNITED NATIONS BY THE SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE."
What's that all about? "It's all about the oil," and money. Over the next several months sordid details about Saddam Hussein skimming off hundreds of millions, perhaps billions of dollars from the United Nations managed Food For Oil Program in Iraq will come to light. Based on what is known, Saddam, acting much in the style of a Mafia Godfather, bribed and corrupted dozens, perhaps hundreds or even thousands of individuals around the world.
While hate spouting Leftists make gratuitous calls for the United Nations to replace the United.States as the provisional authority in Iraq primarily to discredit President Bush, It comes to light that France, Russia, and probably to some lesser extent Germany, colluded with Saddam to scatter stolen baby milk money around the world as an insurance policy for the protection of his evil regime.
If serious people with sufficient clout to force an independent investigation of all the facts of this grotesque affair prevail, some of the most vile corruption and unparalleled greed in recent history will be uncovered. Evidence will almost surely prove that France, Russia and Germany would never have agreed to the removal of Saddam from power. So, President Bush faced them down. Blood money is a powerful motivator. So are courage and leadership.
Carthel Williams
That's what I think. What say you? Please comment.
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