Hurricane Gustav barrels towards the gulf coast as a category 3. The potential disaster could be worse than Hurricane Katrina. To this loss to America of property and life, Michael Moore is exuberant, and the former DNC chairman chuckles in glee. Destruction of American property and the loss of American lives are a small price to pay for them to see a disruption to any Republican plans such as the National Convention.

Michael Moore in an interview on MSNBC’s ‘Countdown with Keith Olberman’ said “I was just thinking, this Gustav is proof that there is a God in heaven,” Moore said, laughing. “To have it planned at the same time – that it would actually be on its way to New Orleans for day one of the Republican Convention, up in the Twin Cities – at the top of the Mississippi River.”

Video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJv9to8Kc2Q

Donald L. Fowler on an airplane talking to Rep. John Spratt (D-SC), chuckled and said “The timing, at least as it appears now, is that it’ll be there on Monday. That just demonstrates God is on our side”.

Video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrBus8ORR78

Hurricane Katrina left $43.625 billion in property damage. At least 1,306 deaths are attributed to Hurricane Katrina ( http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Hurricane_Katrina:_Death_Toll ).

If this is an easy price to pay for democrats just to interrupt a convention I am sick to my heart over what they would be willing to see America suffer to actually implement their agenda of “Hope” and “Change”. They are heartless monsters to wish this kind of catastrophe on anyone, even a blood enemy. But they laugh and applaud major devastation of the people they are claiming to want to help for only the prospect of interrupting the plans of a political rival.

Will the democratic party rejoice over gas at $10.00 a gallon and millions unable to buy gas to drive their sick children to the hospital?

Will they chuckle when high taxes cause companies to close or cut back staff and those earners can not bring food home for their family?

Will they smile as they pass laws eliminating secret balloting similar to the misleadingly named ‘Employee Free Choice Act’ after they have taken control of all the guns in America?

Be afraid, be very afraid, I am.

Senator John McCain selected Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his partner for the Presidency.

Senator McCain turned 72 on August 28th, still working hard and strong for the American people he has served since graduating from the Naval Academy. A man who lived through years of torture for his country and yearns to give more. Iron character standing hard against Washington ear marks and exuberant spending.

Governor Palin is 44 with a family of 5 children she is raising while working to reform politics as usual since being elected Mayor of her town. A smart successful woman who will get up for the 3 am call to hunt pork in Washington. Nice to all and good natured, yet she leaves a field of strewn bodies of those ethically challenged or fiscally irresponsible.

The combination of these two political reformers on the pork and lobby institution in Washington D.C. should be interesting to watch. The pork waste of the democratic, republican, and independent members of the congress will be leaned out. The stranglehold on the purse strings of America by the lobbyists of Washington will be trimmed. An interesting time to come. For ear mark pork politicians and ethically challenged legislative lobbyists, may you live in interesting times.

This is a story which reminded me a lot of the wise title of Ann Coulter's book 'If Democrats had any brains, they would be Republicans'.

A reporter in line for the entrance of the Democratic Convention noticed a boy sitting next to the wall with a box of puppies. He walked over to make an inquiry. "Are these Democratic puppies young man?" he asked. The boy replied "Yes sir. they are!" The reporter made some notes, thinking this would make a good human interest foot note in his report of the convention.

A week later, the reporter was at the Republican Convention. Again he noticed a boy with a box of puppies he was selling near the wall. As he got closer he saw it was the same boy. "What kind of puppies do you have here?" he asked. The boy answered "Republican puppies, sir!". Inspecting the puppies, the reporter exclaimed to the young man "These are the same puppies you had last week that where Democratic!" The boy answered "Yea, but this week, their eyes are open."

Out of the mouths of babes comes wisdom.

Moving people of a particular political view into a region is an old way to conquer territory. The Israelis did it in the Palestinian territory, the Russians did it in Georgia and Ukraine, the Democratic party of America is doing it with illegal immigrants. The desire is to win territory by supplanting the indigenous population with your own.

The United Nations Charter Chapter VI has provions forbidding nations from moving their own population into conquered territory.

Israeli settlements in Palestinian territories have effectively annexed those areas to be Israeli. One of the major disputes in peace negotiations in the Israeli / Palestinian war is the settlements. The Israelis in those areas have the expectation that Israel will protect them, despite the fact that the settlements are illegal. UN Security Council resolutions 446, 452, 465, 471 all declare the Israeli settlements illegal but territory settled is de facto territory conquered and annexed.

During the Soviet Union era, Russians moved to desirable areas in the adjoining satellite countries captured by the Soviet Union. When the Soviet Union disintegrated, many of the regions of the satellite countries with large Russian populations decided they no longer wanted to be part of the original satellite country, but now wanted to be independent or Russian aligned. Consequently in the early 1990's, South Ossetia and Abkhazia declared independence from Georgia and with Russian help expelled most of the native Georgian populations of around 300,000 even tho they had been historically a part of Georgia since the 4th century BC. Russian backed and implanted paramilitary forces killed police officers harassed the few Georgian natives left in South Ossetia forcing the President of Georgia to send in military forces to try to protect the Georgian citizens. Russia's instigation of violence allowed them to use the incident to move in Russian military that was assembled on the border for this purpose to assist the Russian paramilitary in the breakaway regions. Further developments will entail either annexing the regions into Russia or having them as independent puppet states aligned to Russia. With the Israeli precedent set and no forceful enforcement by UN members of the resolutions against the settlement and de facto annexation, Russia has no reason to respect Georgian and Ukrainian territorial integrity.

Senator Biden's solution for Iraq when politics between differing parties and factions where going too slow was to split the country up between the different parties. Today, America faces several divisive problems and issues. Will his solution for America be as genius as his idea for Iraq? A Barack America.

What would a new Barack America look like after Senator Joe Biden's Iraq inspired solution?

Perhaps Indians restricted to 7-11's and Dunkin Donuts. Their own ethnic region.

Anyone making more than $42,000 would have their taxes raised till their take home pay would fit them in with the rest of America. A worker class region.

Non union workers would be denied secret ballots so they can be harassed into becoming Union. A card carrying worker class region.

Misunderstood Islamic Terrorists given free health care and housing in their own Sharia Law community so they can get anger management counseling on government (read taxpayer) money. A misunderstood sociopath region.

Change for America. Into separated groups of class, ethnic, religious and political views. Or changed so they fit in with what Obama / Biden consider Barack America should be. Change you can believe in.

Osama bin Laden has been charged with murdering innocent lives during an unprovoked attack on Sept. 11 2001. American citizens weigh in on what punishment he should face if captured alive.

Bill Ayers says "Punish him? Heck, I wish I had thought of doing that!"

Reverend Wright says "Punish him? Goddamn America!"

Wes Boyd says "Punish him? Let's just move on!"

Jesse Jackson says "Punish him? I have other balls to clip!"

Junior Senator Barack Obama stated during the Saddleback forum about when a baby should get "rights" that this decision was "above his pay grade". Well, of course it is, he doesn't have the experience or character to make this decision, This is a decision that a person qualified to be the President of the United States would be able to make, not an inexperienced Junior Senator.

Nearly 130 times during the short time he was an Illinois State Senator, he voted "present". These decisions must have been "above his pay grade" as well. If state legislation is so far "above his pay grade" (even though that was precisely the job he was being paid for) that he could not decide yes or no, what will the decisions be on National and International matters?

His grade school life experiences and Undergraduate studies may qualify him for the Presidential pay grade decision requirements. In answering Robin Wright on ABC's "Good Morning America" he said "Well, actually, my experience in foreign policy is probably more diverse than most others in the field. I'm somebody who has actually lived overseas, somebody who has studied overseas. I majored in international relations." Certainly grade school experience would qualify a person for President of the United States.

Only during his job as an Illinois State Senator did he make a few decisions he considered within his experience and pay grade. His Illinois vote to deny babies born alive during a botched late term abortion medical care to keep them alive is a telling action about his character. To deny care for a living baby, he might as well tell the doctors to take the babies out onto a hill top and lay them down there to die from the elements like barbarian tribes would do. This decision to allow infanticide was not "above his pay grade".

The "pay grade" for President of the United States requires judgemental decisions about rights of human beings, about cost benifit analasys of economic issues, about environmental problems concerning the health of Earth, about war and peace, life and death. As Junior Senator Barack Obama equivicates and ponders, trying to answer questions in a politically neutral manner, we are left to realize that a lot of things are "above his pay grade".

People are claiming Iraq was a distraction from hunting Al-Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan. 

If we had ignored Iraq, a weakened Saddam Hussein would have fallen to Iranian supported influences in Iraq. Saddam Hussein said after he was captured that he deliberately made it look like he had weapons of mass destruction so that he would not appear weak to his rebellious population or his neighbors. He consciously fooled the world making transportable WMD factories that may or may not actually be able to make anything in an effort to look as if he had a working production ability. He did not think America would actually do anything about any WMD's he may or may not have. The WMD he did actually have where air lifted out of Iraq to Syria at the beginning of the invasion according to his Air Marshall.

The war became a necessity, not just because Saddam Hussein was deliberately fooling the world into believing he had WMD, but because America had earned a reputation as a paper tiger due to liberals always hemming and hawing on any deliberate action from provocations. When U.N. inspectors where unable to confirm or deny the existence of WMD, America's hand was forced because of the reputation as a paper tiger earned by liberal policy makers into action.

By replacing Saddam Hussein, Iran has a democratic government on it's borders to set an example on how a country should be run for the people of the Middle East, and America doesn't have Iraq controlled by any puppet government of the Iranian Theocracy that would surely have resulted if Iran realized how weak Saddam Hussein was to being overthrown.

Foreign fighters, the Jihadists from all over the world, would have concentrated in Afghanistan. Fighting a one front war against a democracy going through its birthing pains instead of being split up against two. Divide and conquer is a long standing military strategy that works wondrously.

By having the wanna be Jihadists fighting in a country where they would not always get sympathy from the population it would be easier to defeat them. Allowing Al-Qaeda to ally with Iraqi insurgency factions prolonged the war way to long. As soon as the Iraqi's realized America was not a paper tiger and was there to stay until the job was done they approached America to cut deals to switch sides. The brutality of Al-Qaeda on it's allies didn't help endear them much to the Iraqi's either. When America's military kept going and going, shedding blood and life and helping the Iraqi's despite the turmoil and loss, the paper tiger reputation was slowly eroded away.

Senator John ‘Iron’ McCain is behoved by the liberal appeasement mongers as a war hawk. This is completely untrue. Iron McCain is an Eagle.

During the Iraq war, his wisdom saw that we needed a surge to reverse the gains of Al-Qaeda and stabilize the country to allow the democratic government time. Time is something democracies always need, they do not turn on a dime like a dictatorship. Deals need to be made between sometimes diametrically opposed factions.

When President Bush looked into the eyes of then President, now Prime Minister Putin, he saw a soul he could trust. Iron McCain saw the ghost of the Soviet Union’s KGB. He knew a KGB agent as a leader of a country like Russia would mean the country would be run like the KGB. Unexplained deaths of press reporters critical of the government. Assassinations of people outside of Russia and attempted assassinations of leaders of countries like Ukraine’s President Viktor Yushchenko. Jailing of Russian business leaders that have companies coveted by the Russian government for nationalization. Covert operations in neighboring countries to destabilize any democratically inclined movements or governments.

Senator John McCain was not fooled by Prime Minister Putin. He was not worn down by Al-Qaeda. In the future the world will see as yet unknown dangers. In a dangerous world we need an Eagle.

The Employee Free Choice Act is a democratic backed bill that stops secret ballots in voting for Unions in the workplace. If the majority of the employees at the company are members of the Union (card check), any vote to Unionize the company is not allowed by secret ballot. All votes are public, allowing for intimidation of anyone who doesn’t vote for Unionization. The Secretary Treasurer of the Service Employees International Union estimates that if this became law, their membership would grow from 100,000 to 1 million. Other Unions would probably see a similar 10 fold increase in membership, and membership fees.

From the former Senator from South Dakota, John McGovern, “We cannot be a party that strips workers of the right to a secret ballot election. We are the party that always defended the rights of the working class. To fail to ensure the right to vote free of intimidation and coercion from all sides would be a betrayal of what we have always championed.” McGovern sees the traitorous precedents of a non secret ballot election for all secret ballots. That his party is working towards a method that would eliminate secret balloting not just in labor unionizing, but in all elections with the Democratic party as the only party to vote for.

Unions could mobilize a force of Union card carriers who are unemployed or are willing to to advance the interests of the union to target any company for Union takeover. Simply monitoring a non union company for employee openings and doing their best to get a union card carrying person to fill the openings in the company will soon allow for a non secret balloting to unionize the company.

Russia deliberately fomented a secessionist movement in South Ossetia, Georgia, financing and training a paramilitary group. When the Russian backed paramilitary forces shelled areas in Ossetia, the Georgian President had to send in Georgian military to try to protect the citizens of Ossetia from the paramilitary guns. Prime Minister Putin’s plan, a variant of the KGB inspired ploys of the Cold War against Chechoslovokia and Afghanistan was working as he wanted. He used this military movement by Georgian forces as an excuse to send in Russian troops to ‘protect’ the Russian citizens living in Ossetia. The ultimate goal, to make Georgia once again a satellite of Russia and to gain control of the trans Georgian oil and natural gas pipelines.

Russia has gained vast wealth from its Petroleum since the breakup of the Soviet Union. Realizing that this wealth was primarily important in Russia’s rise to Hegemonic power, plans to get 100% control of any oil and transporting infrastructure it could where implemented. Planting flags under the Arctic to claim any oil there was part of this plan. Georgian control of a pipeline to transfer the Russian oil to Europe was unacceptable to Russian plans. After all, Russia would have to pay for the use of the pipeline and that would mean a decline in their revenues. This situation is more important than the Iraq invasion of Kuwait, a similar motivated invasion.

If the Russian incursion into Georgia stands and they achieve the regime change of the Democratic government of Georgia to a Russian puppet government it will send a dreadful chilling signal throughout the world to dictatorialy inclined governments. The Democracies of the World are weak, ineffectual and impotent, do as you please. Every effort to send American personnel and aid to Georgia must be made.

More official non-Georgian personnel in Georgia to help the Georgians will cause Russia to pause in any military advances in Georgia. The death of any non-Georgian in an assault could cause military strikes against Russian forces and escalate the war beyond the bounds of Georgia. How much Russia desires the Georgian pipeline will determine if they will risk a shooting war with America over it. This is more important than the Berlin airlift, because more than just Russia needs an unequivocal message of resolve.

If Georgia falls to Russia, China’s military buildup will be used to capture Taiwan, Iran will back and train religious insurgencies all over the Middle East as they do Hezbollah now with an eye towards an eventual world Islamic Caliphate. A spreading Russian Hegemony, Chineese Hegemony, Islamic Caliphate, these are just some of the threats and eventualities the democracies of the world face if Georgia falls.

He proposes we withdraw 70 million barrels of oil. The SPR contains 707.2 million barrels of oil. The U.S. uses 20,730,000 barrels per day. The oil withdrawal would be about 3 and a half days of oil for America. This would lower the price of gas within 2 weeks according to Junior Senator Obama, but for how long?

Once this 3 and a half days worth of oil was used up, we would be back to buying oil on the open market. Prices would quickly recover from any blip in price reduction, since we aren’t adding any long term new supply. Only opening oil exploration and drilling in new areas would do that.

This would be like taking the gas out of the gas can for your lawnmower and putting it in your car gas tank one day. You pay less for your total gas bill that week, but the next week, you have to fill up your car again AND fill up the gas tank to use for your lawnmower at full price.

This is not what the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is for.

When President Bush took office, the Reserve was at around 550 million barrels. After 9-11 it was increased over several years to over 700 million barrels. This was because of fears terrorists would make attempts to disrupt oil flow to cripple the U.S. economy.

Since then, Iran has emerged as a full time threat to oil traveling through the Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf of Oman. If Iran starts attacking shipping in the Gulf, supplies of oil would be drastically reduced until Armed Forces could eradicate any threat Iran can pose to shipping. This could take many months or longer, depending on how soon Armed Forces could locate and destroy any missile and naval forces of Iran. If Israel is forced to use military strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities, one sure response will be Iranian disruption of the Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf of Oman.

This scenario is all the more likely as Iran stalls on talks to cease Uranium enrichment and gets closer to having the means to assemble a nuclear bomb or a dirty bomb. The prospect of this creates the dire threat of death to Israel. If Israeli intelligence indiacates Iran is close to acheiving this goal, Israel will be forced to act. Even if they do not have the weaponry to successfully eradicate the facilities, many of which are underground or burrowed into mountains, they will need to do something to destroy what they can and slow down Iranian nuclear progress.

Using the reserve to try to influence price would net less benefits than the gas tax holiday that had been previously proposed for the summer of 2008 that Junior Senator Obama decried as a political stunt. The decrease in price would be far less, and the decrease would last only a few short weeks. The detriment of this would be a crippling of the U.S. economy should Iran feel the need to attack shipping in the Gulf of Oman. Making this proposal not even worthy of being called a political stunt, maybe a political LSD trip.

What’s more important? What your neighbors think of you, or putting food on your child’s dinner plate?

Prince Kumbaya.. I mean Junior Senator Barack Obama is “improving America’s standing in the world.” so that everyone will smile at him and sing “Kumbaya”. Visiting Europe, skipping the visit to the wounded sons and daughters of America, to give speeches expounding his vision of a world with no walls between it’s neighbors.

Iron McCain is pushing for offshore oil drilling so folks can afford to drive to work and bring food home to their family. He wants to keep taxes on small businesses as low as possible, so they can employ as many people as possible.

Is a “symbol of America” with a honeyed tongue and a princely look going to bring food to the table?

Provide for more domestic oil drilling, increase the jobs in oil exploration, oil drilling, oil refining, transportation of oil as well as jobs in oil byproduct industries (plastics, pharmaceuticals, fertilizers, among others).

$700 billion dollars a year going to overseas economies, how many jobs will that buy in our domestic economy? How much of an economic stimulus for America will that be?

Now that Congress has retired for a 5 week recess without voting on any extended off shore oil exploration and drilling bill, it is safe for Junior Senator Barack Obama to advocate it. Nancy Pelosi abused her powers and kept any oil exploration bill from going up for a vote to shield the Prince of the Democrats from having to place a no vote against something that 70% of Americans want.

If a vote had come to the floor, Junior Senator Barack Obama would have had to vote yes, as an opportunistic politician wanting to win the Presidential election. Voting yes now though, after so much effort to cow tow to the leftists and maintain a ban, would cost a huge amount of political capitol with his base but gain him very little for the November elections.

The elections are to far away, and the American voters will forget he voted to allow the drilling for the most part by then, not gaining enough votes from moderates to offset the loss from the far left. But not his base, they will remember the betrayal and stay home.

When Congress returns in 5 weeks, a vote on any extended oil exploration will be much closer to the November elctions. Now, he proposes to support a plan proposed for an off shore oil exploration bill put together by some members of congress.

The hope being that either the bill will be so restrictive, or have provisions for certain non oil energy timetables to be met to release sections for off shore oil drilling, that the far left won’t mind if he votes for it much. 

Ideally, the bill won’t be ready for a vote until after the election, and he won’t have to vote for it and harm his far left voter base. If it is ready, he can vote for it, and look like a hero to the far left, and to the majority of the public who will think it will actually allow extra domestic oil supply to help reduce gas and home heating prices.