Why I loathe liberals

Someone I know posted an Ann Coulter link; otherwise I would have never seen it. I respect her views—but I lump her into the category of Rush—windbag on the right. Don’t think I like an idiot like Al Franken or Gerafalo either. They are nitwits as well. I used to like O’Reilly a little when I first heard him, but he grew into a pompous ass. Same goes for Hannity and Combs—I cannot stand them either. So I am not sitting in one camp. I do like Randi Rhodes, G Gordon Liddy, & Mike Reagan. There are others I hear from time to time. Sirius satellite radio has right, left, and patriot stations. I like them all, but if I turn to Air America and hear “The Majority Report” I put on some music. I cannot stand hearing Gerafalo and the other stooges droll on and on.

Her, Barbara Streisand, Sean Penn, Alex Baldwin, etc. just need to shut the hell up with their liberal nonsense. I think Penn is an outstanding actor, but his political antics piss me off to no ends. I think they are all stooges. Not to forget, Ann Coulter and other goons in that camp garner about the same amount of respect from me. Having those sides, I am really drawn to independent voting. Both parties have good points of view, but I cannot completely fall into one camp. There are certain core values of each “side” that I can never agree with.

Aside from the Hollywood and talk radio angle of liberal influence, there is something pointed out in Coulter’s article that really stood out from the rest of the stuff because it’s something at the Smithsonian museum(s) in Washington, D.C.—a place to which I hope that a less opinionated and more factual and objective approach was taken in their exhibits.

THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT RELIGION
http://www.anncoulter.com/cgi-local/welcome.cgi

Ok the “NEA-funded performance” items are completely ridiculous. I don’t really know how it’s considered art, but I don’t like my tax money paying for that garbage. I’d rather see $ go into fixing the highway infrastructure or something. But what really stands out is stuff from “Smithsonian exhibit” references. That kind of stuff really stands out to me. I do not like seeing history getting rewritten and presented through the politically correct filter. For example, look at this one…

"For most Americans ... (war with Japan) was a war of vengeance. For most Japanese, it was a war to defend their unique culture against Western imperialism. ... Some have argued that the United States would never have dropped the bomb on the Germans, because Americans were more reluctant to bomb 'white people' than Asians." — Smithsonian exhibit to commemorate the 50th anniversary of VJ Day, later modified due to protests

That is the most narrow minded statement, and completely false. I am glad that protests changed this. Yes the war was in part a war of vengeance. Perl Harbor got attacked and the nation of Japan was the clear aggressor here. “Defending their unique culture” is the biggest load of PC horse shit that I have ever heard. The Japanese culture had been trying to westernize itself since the beginning of the 20th century. They whooped the Russians in a naval battle, and put many resources into becoming an economic power in Asia.

In doing so, they needed oil. Because of their invasion in parts of China to seize its natural resources, the Japanese committed atrocities and killed many Chinese in the process. Search the net for ‘flying tigers’ for more info on that. Anyway, in protest, the United States placed an oil embargo on Imperial Japan. As a result of the strain on resources to feed their war machine, Japan figured an attack on the US pacific fleet in one fell swoop would end the threat of the American navy, hence Perl Harbor. So a war of vengeance is justified, but be sure to include why we were vengeful to begin with…even prior to Dec 7, 1941. Stop making American’s sound like ravenous blood seekers. Stupid liberals.

Now the atom bomb…of course the liberal mindset is going to include race. With the little amount of space available on the plaque, or whatever is part of the exhibit, it has to be race. Definitely include that information in the internment camp exhibit, I saw it, it was really good. But when you consider the atomic bomb, here are a few facts:

1. VE day was way before VJ day, and the Russians were kicking ass in Berlin, there was no real need to use the bomb if we had it fully developed by then. VE day was in May of ’45. The first successful test of the atom bomb was July of ’45. Considering those dates, how the hell can that race statement seriously be taken? Stupid liberals.

2. The potential cost of US lives in an invasion of the Japanese homeland was 1 million casualties. In turn, the Japanese felt the need to go out fighting tooth and nail in event of Americans landing on their islands. They might have been defeated over time, but the Japanese military planned on making every inch of US progress as costly as possible. See the suicide weapons that Japan was developing. Kamikaze mini-subs and rocket planes. Of course we are going to use whatever weapon minimized American casualties. The Japanese mindset behind this was to have a conditional surrender, where we wanted an unconditional one. Of course the liberals just use race.

3. “For most Japanese, it was a war to defend their unique culture against Western imperialism” – total horse shit. Their emperor, who dictated its will to the people, for the most part (to be fair with the statement quoted) were acquiring as much westernized technology and knowledge as possible so that they could become a world power well before 1941. Much of their culture is oriented around serving the emperor at that time. The Japanese culture is amazing to me, but this was the way it was at that time. The emperor was treated as sort of a living deity, so his will was the will of the people. There was no real defending against Western culture. Defending against western military influence in terms of strategic influence and secure resources for Japan, yes. Western culture, no. Stupid liberal.

4. Another aspect of the bomb was to show the Russians what we could do. Factor in that, with the Japanese determination to kill as many American’s as possible, was included in dropping the bomb. There were MANY factors, but the liberals only factored in race. In addition, more lives were lost…”over 100,000 people were killed in the ensuing firestorm--more casualties than in the atomic bombs dropped on either Hiroshima or Nagasaki” during the napalm bombing of Tokyo (http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0310-34.htm). If that did not lead to surrender because of the total devastation, other and all means to save US lives were used. The Russians were invading Manchuria. In using the bomb, we showed Stalin what we could do and ended the war quickly. Occupation after VE day by the Russians was causing concern for the rest of the allies. That was also included in consideration to drop the bomb. Of course the liberals won’t include that, just the context of race is used.

That’s what pisses me off about liberals. Obstruction of fact and all points of view. The only one they care about. I can definitely appreciate the racial aspects of historical events being used within their context, like in the civil rights exhibits. That is definitely needed to educate people on what black Americans had do suffer through and deal with. I’d say that is something we should never forget or gloss over with a PC brush or filter. Sean Penn and co. are definitely a bunch of nitwits. But they are harmless compared to a Smithsonian historian (or group of) that decides in this little amount of space that they have called an exhibit, they put the most blatant politically correct liberal garbage that they can possibly think of. It’s rewriting little bits here and there of history, expand that to laws, that liberals do that pisses me off. I consider that train of thought to be a virus, a disease, or a mental disorder.

I am not any accredited historian. The facts I looked up were the dates mentioned and the tally of the Tokyo bombing. This was just off of the top of my head, this scares me because Smithsonian employees should have better sense, but they apparently have a disease.

6/28 Bush speech

I thought it was the same droll that I’d expect from the administration. Of course they are going to use 9/11 to justify the war in Iraq. The bogus information that was given to go there in the first place is the turning point in my support for Bush. It was all so obviously bogus. I remember seeing the footage of Powell (I like the guy in the context of outside serving in the administration) sitting there going over satellite photos of mobile weapons labs that turned out to have nothing to do with WMDs when troops on the ground checked them out. The only thing really found was old trace amounts of buried chemical shells.

There was no direct Al Qaeda link that was formalized with the Iraqi government. It was all put together and made up based on very sketchy intelligence. Say I am full of BS? The 9/11 whitewash commission and British “downing st. document” can back up my thoughts. How the hell can I trust a president to support our troops when I hear about vet benefits getting slashed?

You know, if Bush stuck to his response about Bin Laden (I remember seeing this on TV)… "I want justice," Bush said. "And there's an old poster out West… I recall, that said, 'Wanted, Dead or Alive.'” (http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/09/17/bush.powell.terrorism/)...and we actually captured or killed him, I probably would have voted for him in 2004. I remember 9/11 quite well. I was running late to work that morning, because I was watching what was going on television unfold and then they closed my office. Remember I live in northern VA. My father worked in the Pentagon; I go by it all of the time. I live near Dulles airport, from which one of the planes took off. This area was definitely shut down. I have never been a fan of radical Islam, I wanted Bush to put Bin Laden’s dead on a stake and display it on the national mall. I still feel that way. It just seems that the people who did suffer from 9/11 have been marginalized by the media to some extent. I don’t know about the other people, but I remember.

If we had Bin Laden and more resources were put into Afghanistan’s infrastructure, I mean waited 6 lousy months before going into Iraq, and not pick up and send a majority of his forces to the Persian gulf for Iraq, I would have totally supported his efforts. I kind of saw Iraq as an unresolved issue that needed to be dealt with. Saddam is not that funny old man in the prison camp the media like to portray (see the interviews with the prison guards of recent news); he is a mini Stalin who is guilty of genocide (Kurds) and mass murder (all of his opposition). He needs to be held accountable for his actions.

What if Bush just pushed the UN for an additional 6 months? We all know about the weapons inspection debacle. If we drilled their assess and made them do their jobs and stuck to the context of their own damned resolutions, we could have probably garnered more support, or even tell the UN that they were officially a paper tiger who’s usefulness has come and gone (oil for food is all I think of them, and how they packed up and ran when one of their offices got blown up in Iraq—useless organization with a very bad agenda—that’s another post at another time.) On that resolution alone, we could have gone in and ousted that SOB. Instead we lost a lot of support in the world. Well, screw France. I don’t care about them. I am directing that statement to the French govt. and Parisians—the one’s with their heads up their asses or in the sand. I have enough personal experience by talking to people from others countries to form my statement.

So Bush, last night, gave another ineffective speech that does nothing to give me any warm fuzzies about his policies. It makes me think about the soldiers in the field. I think I am going to www.booksforsoldiers.com now and see what support I can give. It’s not Bush’s words that I care about, it’s that of those soldiers in the service of this great nation whom I support wholeheartedly.

Virgin post, don't expect anything special

I guess that the biggest thing to make me start this is the Supreme Court ruling about private property. I really see the rights of normal Americans being eroded into nothing, the constitution is just something being whittled away. From liberals to conservatives, it’s all the same really. The Republican Party is supposed to stand for limited government, but things like the Patriot Act contradict that. Liberals are trying to change this country into some silly little Lenin/Trotsky socialist land. The scream and scream but offer no real solutions. Their work can be seen in the public education system. It seems that students cannot do the basic “3r’s” to save their lives, but they will do a fantastic job at telling you how they feel.

On that note, how can we compete with the rest of the world? I am impressed with the value other countries and other cultures place on education. Sometimes it really seems true that the generalization of “fat, lazy Americans” is true. I hope people still give a rat’s ass out there. I just don’t get things sometimes. Then again, I might be getting my information from 24 hour news channels. Fox is right! CNN is left! They both suffer from little content. It seems CNN is just turning into a 24 hour Entertainment Tonight. There is already E!, I hope CNN does better. The reputation they built during Gulf War I is def gone now.

Our information is crap, American’s seem more interested in getting more stuff or be me, me, me…I really wonder where my place is in everything. I read poli/sci and religious books, watch the history channel too much…I think I have a greater understanding of things. That’s why I feel more informed than some other people. I studied media stuff in school and had the opportunity to have a father who moved around a lot because he was in the military. I lived in Israel for 3 years, and I really feel that I have a deeper understanding of things over there compared to the average joe. There is so much going on there, both wonderful and tragic. There is just so much conflict. It seems with all that is going on, I really fall back upon what is happening in my country the most. Namely it seems that the Constitution is on its way into the past tense of history. The way the government seems to be going, I am not sure what to think.