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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Monday, August 02, 2004
Posted
8:13 PM
by a
ORACULATIONS:
Monday, August 2
Lined up against the GOP and Bush are: all the unions, all the entertainment mega millions and power, all the newspapers and TV networks other than FOX, all of academia, teachers, blacks, and the Left business elites on Park Avenue and Beverly Hills. The news media is a potent force, a force than can determine what the public may see as issues by where they place their stories or what stories they run at all. The New York Times and LA Times blacking out trousergate as one example. The Hollywood Left makes DNC movies like the Manchurian Candidate (a box office loser) that hide the message within a story. They make TV shows which more and more contain Bush Bashing within their dialogue. And the money. The money. This election is truly a battle between what people on the Right consider the "old tired Left" and the "New Conservatism."
The old tired Left is composed of philosophical socialists and communists who are determined to "level the playing field" by taxing the rich out of all money earned over a certain pre-determined figure (to be actually determined after they win) and nearly exempting all others from paying tax at all.
The Conservatives want to allow markets to determine winners and losers and by definition there are always more relative losers than winners. The winners are always resented by most of the losers, so by inference if you can rally the country's losers you can win an election. Nothing can calm the endless rage of a burning envy; keep them hating and you can win.
I once played in Julius Caesar and I've always remembered the line,
"Such men as he be never at heart's ease while they behold a greater (man) than themselves, and therefore are they very dangerous." Old Shakespeare had them spotted, knowing that once rallied into a mob the envious have heads but no brains and are easily led.
The French Revolution with the attendant Terror and Guillotine can attest to that. Edwards is very able to make life's losers feel there is no way to become a winner. The task facing Kerry/Edwards in this regard is to convince a majority that there is no hope for success, that the deck has been stacked against them by the successful in a game they are required by citizenship to play, a tactic he used in court to make hundreds of millions of dollars. He will proclaim to the less successful that they are pre-ordained to forever to play a losing hand against a bunch of crooks out to steal their money. These victims are required by circumstance to furnish their labor to the winners in exchange for the lowest possible wage, sure in the knowledge that they will be rewarded with not so much as a single moment in the sunshine of success for their entire lives. No nice clothes, no nice cars, no homes, no health care, only a forever in shitty apartments living paycheck to paycheck, their kids in horrible schools, with not so much as the right to a doctor.
The solution to their bleak future is to somehow get money from the rich. Government can do that through taxation and entitlement programs. No need for the losers to feel guilty because they are entitled to the money stolen from them by the successful people.
The Democrats will boil the pot of voter discontent til the scum within gathers to the top so they can harvest the votes necessary to win an election. He and Kerry will quietly spread the doctrine that democracy guarantees the equality of conditions, not equality of opportunity. Blacks, many Hispanics, all the Indians, handicapped, gay and lesbian, plus feminists will unite as usual under this sacred banner of the professional loser, the only question being how much company they will have. Bush's task is to rally the troops to patriotism; that life offers plenty of opportunity for success for everyone willing to work for it.
That we have the greatest country on the face of the earth with the only Constitution guaranteeing them the absolute right to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. No other country on the face of the earth has as a part of their constitution the absolute right to pursue happiness; no government can make rules as to what happiness is, can be, or should be.
The Happiness we are guaranteed the right to pursue is entirely up to us. He has to convince us that he is fair, that his vision is for fairness and not special interests. He is going to be challenged by the pension looting that has taken place on his watch without him lifting a finger to stop it, about medical care and the maldistribution of its benefits, and if Kerry is smart he will be attacked for his failure until late in the game to staff the SEC with people who cared about criminal activity in the business community. He has allowed high paying jobs to go overseas only to be replaced by lower paying jobs and Bush is going to have to show something different if he hopes to win.
The war in Iraq is where this election will be won or lost. The reactionary mob has already formed, welded together by their white hot hatred of the Vietnam era and now recalling their hate some fifty years later.
Not only do they hate Bush and everything he represents (Christians, business, the military, and so on). They want out and they want out right now. They do not want to recognize that Democracy is on trial as never before. Europe isn't worried and Europe is where civilization is real and honest. Nothing is worth fighting for "away from home." Wait til the enemy has penetrated the gates and when that happens it is soon enough to fight. The fact that the enemy has already penetrated the gates on 9/11 is old news, a secret Jewish conspiracy, a plan co- sponsored by Bush, or something to be handled by local police. There is no threat right now.
It is in this debate that Kerry has a peculiar edge. An edge because everyone on the Left believes he will get out of Iraq on the double quick if elected. It makes no difference what he says. It's what he really means that counts and he means he will get us out of Iraq. This makes him free to argue any case because "what he really means" he cannot say to a bunch of fundamentalist Christians and radical Right Wingers and hope to win.
It will be Bush's task to "explain the war" something he has failed miserably to do. Bush will have to go to the wall and tell everyone about French and German mendacity lying so they could hang on to oil contracts inside one of the most vicious regimes of the 20th century. He will have to convince us that what was happening in Iraq was our business and had to be handled.
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