World Political Opinions of D.L. Siluk [II]

The Bashan Bull King (Poetic Prose)

2010-09-21T19:53:00.000-07:00

The Bashan
Bull King

((Poetic Prose) (with notes))

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It happened right down in the Bashan Valley ((in what is now known as the Golan Heights, in Israel, once Syria) (about 1400 BC)), close in front of what is called the Wheel of the Giants, also known as, Stone Heap of the Wildcat (a kind of shrine, temple, astrological site, for the Rephaim Giant Cult of old), you could see King Og (( jababirat )(whose bed was cast in iron)), and Ohaho ((one of the two-hundred Angelic Renegades, enemies of the Most High) (who had left his first abode—before the Great Flood, to cohabitate with the loveliest of earthly women)) snarled at each other, and cursed one another like two Bashan Bulls, on the Bashan Plateau. And when Ohaho charged King Og, the Iron Giant of old, thirteen feet tall (son to Azaz’el the renegade archangel, who had hung onto Noah’s Great Ark, during those far-off trying days above those masculine waters, that obliterated mostly all that dwelled above the earth), three-forth superhuman—of immense weight (his waist four-feet wide), he swung back firmly like a wildcat when the wind hits its face, his legs held in a firm stance, apart, the heavy iron mallet in one hand, a double-edged sword in the other, both crisscrossing following his zigzagging curve in front—as he stepped forward, then he cursed Ohaho, threw the mallet at him, wounded his thigh, broke his balance, as it flopped to the ground, then King Og, swung forward from his charge his feet heavy and sturdy, the heavy sword curving in the wind, and with each swing, each forward thrust, the circling crowd of Rephaim demonic type accursed Giants, roared mercilessly as Ohaho stepped back.
When he started this devastating rush—it was all in one ongoing motion, like a bull charging, looking straight in front of Ohaho, hating with anger, and thirsty for submission. He dropped his sword, picked up his mallet and sighted with the same movement, the side of his temple, and called to the renegade, “Ohaho, Ohaho!” and Ohaho—regaining his equilibrium, charged and just for a moment they became solitary: they become one, and then it was over. King Og was still standing straight with the iron-end of the mullet firmly by his side, griped in one mighty fist, an inch away from Ohaho’s temple. King Og, his other hand raised to the crowd, he had defeated his foe for Kingship of the Rephaim Cult, in the Bashan Bull Valley Plateau, once more. The crowd roared for more blood, and then looking straight down at Ohaho, his legs going into spasms, he dragged him around by the hair—to show his conquest, then, ostracized him from the Bashan Valley— complete.

The King’s smile inflaming, and all that watched dignified and glorious in admiration, entirely filled with awe and fear, forever their pious king of the Bashan Plains (they murmured and whispered among themselves) — personified the king in mysticism. And these Rephaim Giants of old, as tall as cedars and strong as oaks (with their king seventy-generations older), souls of pleasure, they lifted him up, up onto their shoulders and they took him, and like a whirlwind, paraded him around the great stone structure, of 42,000-tons of stones—boulders as round as large oaks, they marched, around this enclosure, within its four circles, to the tumulus, the summit of the stone heap, and like light and thunder, for an ultimate end to the parade, lifted him up as if unto the heavens for the Almighty to see, as if he was the setting of the sun, the righteous one: as if he did not defile, oppress all the children of the people from the earth: where nations had once worshiped him before the great deluge; and a great darkness befell the valley just then, and out of the darkness cautiously came a storm to be—Joshua and his armies.

Note 1: in the book of Deuteronomy 3:11, we see King Og’s bed, monarch of the trans-Jordanian kingdom of Bashan, “Only Og, King of Bashan was left of the Rephaites (Rephaim Giants). His bed was made of Iron and was more than thirteen-feet long and six-feet wide” Also, ancient writings indicate there would be a great battle to come where King Sihon of Heshbon, and King Og of Bashan would war against the Israelites—King Og, would be the only survivor.

Note 2: At one time, iron was as precious as ivory is today, thus the writer of Deuteronomy, felt it necessary to make a point of this, by making a remark on the subject of King Og’s bed.

Note 3: Bashan once contained some "sixty walled cities" with great bars and gates and many un-walled towns, had capitols at Ashtaroth and Edrei in the region of Argob.

Note: The land of Bashan was famous for its prized cattle and oak groves. Lions also once roamed the area in ancient times.

"The Amorite" the giants within this area were as high as cedars and whose strength was like the oaks, dominated this area. Amos 2:9

No: 2798 (9-21-2010)

Surviving Obama, and Now Summers (9-2010)

2010-09-21T19:23:00.001-07:00

Surviving Obama
And now Summers (9-2010)

I thought by now Obama would have learned how to run a government, but it looks like he’s a slow learner. Anyhow, Larry Summers is getting out of Dodge and quick and here is a guy who brought the United States down to its knees, being praised by Obama for his “Brilliance…and Judgment”. Obama and Summers have been so destructive for America, I’m, surprised our country’s currency, our paper money can even buy wallpaper. It is becoming more worthless by the day worldwide: we simply print it up, in the name of God.
On the other hand, 60% of Americans are coming to their senses, figuring it out—that Obama’s not the Messiah he pranced about and allowed everyone to claim him as—and after making president, said “Don’t expect miracles…” how humbling can you be; perhaps the opposite: something I’ve been saying for eighteen-months; I guess some of us are slow learners. Obama is the worse medicine America has ever had to swallow, but like a sore throat, you adjust to it, until you can’t take the proper medicine.
It has been officially proclaimed by the White House by Obama, professionals, Harvard schooled professionals, that America’s recession is over, has been for a year, by gosh, this is a surprise to Americans, when the unemployment rate is near to 10%, perhaps is beyond ten-percent, if we include those who have lost all their weekly unemployment benefits, and now are looking at what to do, and how to do it—and this is when crime starts to rebuild its pyramid.
To be quite honest, I’d give Mr. Summers a one-way ticket back to Harvard, and tell him: don’t return. And to leave—: the sooner the better. And let’s pray we can survive Obama, before he gives away the country to the Arabs.

Sean Penn ( Monkey Politics)

2010-09-04T22:53:00.000-07:00

Perhaps one of the most un-loyal, unmoral, and un American, Anti Americans alive, living off the sweat, honey and fat of the land, is Sean Penn; why he hasn’t been critical of Obama yet, is beyond me. I mean here is a man, Obama that has done nothing for America, leaving 50,000-troops in Iraq, and calling it, victory. He should have gotten our troops out long ago, actually, Bush is the one who got the troops out, he set the date and the pace, not Obama, and all Obama is doing is rerouting them to Afghanistan. Where is the big mouth, Penn? (Perhaps He and Obama are like to like) I mean he was full of starch when it came to Bush, now he’s hiding over in Haiti someplace; and Obama has turned out to be the biggest failure sitting in the highest seat in America in the last 100-years; we couldn’t have done worse by picking out Ahmadinejad.
Matter of fact, Penn’s friends seems to be all the enemies of America, Iran, and Mr. Chavez of Venezuela, and at one time Saddam’s. Too bad they didn’t take his Passport away. A man who never spent a day in the Army, taking out an add in a national newspaper, paying $56,000 for it, and telling America to impeach their president, the Commander and Chief, when he hasn’t shed a once of blood, or given an once of sweat for this country, telling us Veterans what to do. Actors should do just what they’re trained to do; they make fools of themselves with all that money they don’t know what to do with so they throw it into politics because they’re bored to death of make believe.

Obama: Turning Pro Islam

2010-08-14T09:21:00.000-07:00

Obama (Hussein): His Middle Name is coming out Loud!

I think it might have been wise for Obama to have let this issue alone, let it be settled with those who have died in 911 instead of siding with the Muslims who blew up the two Towers in New York City, now they’re going to own the land they’ve cultivated that the two American made Jets plum full of Americans got blown up on taking down those two towers up so they can make a mosque on it—how ironic can you get, I’m sure Bin Laden is laughing all over Pakistan on this one (use American free enterprise, and a pro Muslim President, and let’s mock the United States right in front of them in the center of the Greatest City on Earth), it’s the joke of the decade. He didn’t need to say anything, but why did he? Perhaps because he isn’t a Christian, or isn’t all he proclaims to be. His Hussein middle name is showing, the very one he doesn’t use so he doesn’t have to remind us American who he really is, where his heart’s desire is.
I can’t think of a worse slap in the American face than this, but I’m not surprised. And “No!” the Muslims, or anybody, nobody has a right to put a mosque up where so many Americans died. That is like Japan putting up a Japanese Flag on top of one of those sunken ships at Peal Harbor, but he wouldn’t understand that because he never shed an once of blood in a war for this country, or put on an American Uniform, he’s from Kenya, how could he understand. But we Americans got what we deserve—a President that lulled us to sleep (lulled you to sleep, not me), that doesn’t care about public opinion and this is just the beginning, wait until he gets warmed up. He’s celebrating Islamic holy month with the Muslims, of Ramadan, I haven’t seen him celebrating anything Christian, or Jesus Christ to be his Lord and Savior; since he took office he has only taken from them.

Funny, the Mayer of New York is for the Muslims—how ennoble can you be! But the Governor agreed to give them State land if they’d moved to a new location (keep that guy in office), but the Muslims said “No!” Thus, trying to provoke, and increase American anger. By the same token, this all could have been avoided had the New York City Landmark’s Preservation Commission granted it landmark status, they must have gotten paid off by the Muslims: perhaps Bin Laden.

What is next on his long and hidden agenda, perhaps to tare down the Jewish Wailing Wall for the Islam? It might be wise for Israel to think ahead, Obama is not going to stop the Russians and Iran from building their nuclear bombs; they’ll have to act on their own, lest they want to be sitting ducks.

Octopus Waters (Poem)

2010-05-15T20:20:00.000-07:00

Octopus Waters

And he who loves must swim in Octopus Waters.
And he, who is hiding, should stay out of the waters.
The deeper you go there is no light, just a black
And blazing watery abyss
I could tell you how it is at the bottom
All who have loved and lost and keep loving, can.
I could tell you because I’ve been there.
Back then, until today I could tell you,
Because, I have been there…!
Nothing grows like on the moon, just darkness.
And the more you have loved, the darker it grows.
And still I choose to love and live
And swim in Octopus Waters.
God recognized me, woke me in the morning,
And then I came up for air, remote—
Ready to leap again, like a jackrabbit
Into those Octopus Waters,
Truly this had to be the final straw
And then we made a home
(And you can guess where)!

No: 2689 (5-15-2010) a Jewish style, or form of poetry/inspired by DAVID AVIDAN

Obama's World for America (Letter: 2)

2009-01-22T10:38:00.000-08:00

Obama’s World for America
The Obama Syndrome

Everyone is on a high with President Obama, because he is the thing that will bring America if not the world change. I think the world is more in love with him than America to be frank, and they should be, he is what they want. With Bush, who made some big mistakes, made some good decisions also? Only two days in office and from what I see Obama is clueless, if not directionless. We don’t need miracles, we need sound judgment.
In less than 48-hours here are the decisions he is making, and planning. The planning part is more conjecture at this moment, but from what has said and he didn’t say, this might be pretty close to the truth.
First, he is going to release the prisoners at the Cuban, prison (Guantanamo) United States military facility, the one they just built a $500-million dollar addition to. Furthermore, he doesn’t even know where he is going to put them, great planning, how about mainstream America? Where else? I hope not in my backyard though, perhaps his. The point being, you have terrorists there, and no one wants them here, these terrorists want rights, not responsibilities, but rights, perhaps the ones doing all the complaining, from Europe over to Mexico and down to South America and Asia, should take them in, house and feed them, send out the welcoming wagon (but on that subject they are silent like mice). There are no takers, just complainers. I understand, it makes America look bad, but perhaps we are a little hasty here, I mean, do we have to have them looking through our kitchen windows to make America look pretty to the rest of the world, this is dangerous, and when some American house wife gets stabbed to death by one of these fellows, then what?
The president needs to find a better solution, not one the World wants, but the American Citizen wants, and I say citizen, because the president of America works for us, not us for him; we sign his pay check.
Having said that let me address the abortion clause he is in the process of signing. There are not many Americans I know that want to pay for a strangers abortion counselling, or abortion per se, but Obama doesn’t see it that way, so he is going to force feed us, like a baby, that neither is here or there, he will make some people happy by doing that, just as many mad. But the problem is, as it has always been, he kept it a secret until now, you know what I am talking about, those little deletions, generalizations, and distortions, we used to call them little white lies, because you didn’t really lie, you just fibbed. How many more will pop up soon?
Let’s go on here. I seem to be full of beans today writing all this on his second day in office, but he’s been a busy president these last few days, so what can I say.
On top of the one-trillion dollars America is in debt for, he is going to put $825-billion dollars on that, trying to kick start a dead lion. It is better to be a live dog than a dead lion. That is about 16% of our annual GNP, this is not good. The Monopoly Game money will be worth more than our dollar soon, with that kind of forecasting of spending just brings the world into a fright. And let’s hope, China and Japan, and Europe don’t call in our debt, god help us all then, we’ll have to all move to Peru, their money is a much higher value than the dollar at this moment.
Next, he is implying to overhaul our immigration, this may be another thorn in America’s side. If he is thinking, and I think he is implying, about opening the floodgates for Mexico, and Asia, and the rest of the world, I’d send the Statue of Liberty back to France, it is too high a price to pay. The Statue of Liberty reads, and perhaps he should read the saying on it, and I shall paraphrase, it’s been a while since I been out there, “…for the despaired…” not for the unemployed. In any other country, and I have been in 60, you do not demand citizenship because your government is to lazy to find a job for you, they don’t want you there if you do not have money in the bank. We could learn from them.

Last but not least, now what do I expect in the near future? One thing I think is that the United Nations will want the United States to bend their knees a little more, I mean we give them $20-billion already, but they’d like to control more than our pocket books, and this president I think is willing to hand over more than the piggy bank, this will come soon. And let me add to that, the World Court, which we have in the past so solidly defied and not allowed our solders to be overmanned by, lest we be on trial day and night and the enemy would love that (as I predict the terrorist at the Cuban prison will soon). What I fear is what I think he’ll do next, He will, I predict, hand us over to the wolves there. I hope I am wrong.

Another worthwhile note is, I feel the new president is being a little careless with the North Koreans, lifting the so called regime from the bad guy list, or terrorist list, when just a month ago, they told South Korea they would blow them off the map. I spent 11-years in the military, I realize we have a president who hasn’t spent 11-days in it, and is making decisions that can be very costly for our alias in that area. He needs to stop and think his decisions: ask the question, “Who will my decisions hurt?” It’s a simple question, not just go ahead and give the benefit of the doubt a secret society will come and hug you with open arms, that is a fairy tail way of thinking.

Well, that is enough for letter two, I did write one the other day, it is somewhere on the Internet.

The New President: now What? 1-2009

2009-01-20T21:25:00.000-08:00

The new president—think as you will—is directionless, even though he has convinced the world at large to the contrary; presumptive heir to the Kennedy years, and Lincoln, saga. He has engulfed all the classes, although, perhaps into what soon may be known as the wishful-dreamers table in some lonely cafe. He has as I said in other articles, saved his complexities for a later date, and one has already emerged, the turning back of tax money, few Americans want to spend out of their pockets, on someone else’s kids getting abortions. He didn’t proclaim he’d do this of course, he’d note dare to, he only whispered it behind solid walls, like when he eliminated his middle name, for the sake of the presidency. He got the Mexican vote, but I doubt he is going to do much for them.
They are comparing him with heroes that have long been proven heroes, he has not done a thing but generalizes, delete, and distort. You are not witnessing a sour mouth, I would have voted for Rice, or Hillary, which I didn’t care to do, and I didn’t like the other choice running for president he was worse then Hillary, so I didn’t vote at all, how can one, with such a selection: one cancer, the aids. God help us.
He is going to put 800,000 billion dollars on top of the already one trillion dollars of money owed out, we will have to cut a lot of trees down to print up all those dollars. We see already, the financial world is gripping for their life. You don’t heal a wound by putting salt on it.
Everybody gives the president 90-days to see how he is doing, and in those 90-days we normally see what damage he has caused or what good he has done, but of course this may be different for Obama, simple because he has voiced his opinions so loud, we expect miracles from him now, only the devil or God himself can give. But all presidents have done so, prior to becoming president that is how they made president. Few do what they say, and those that do, always get enemies somewhere along the line, in either way. I hope the best for him and America, they sure put on a good show for him anyhow, and that is worth something, and if that is all we get, we might be lucky.

Siluk Horror writer: Bram Stoaker Award (2009)

2009-01-15T17:48:00.001-08:00

Siluk: Bram Stoker Award

Announcing the Horror Stories and books by
Dr. Dennis L. Siluk, Ed.D.

Under consideration for the Bram Stoker Award

For best short fiction collection, 2009

See his horror books: the Tiamat trilogy, series, plus several short story horror books, “Death on Demand” (to include the renowned story, “The Rape Angelina of Glastonbury, AD 119” read by many of his 150,000-monthly readers) (and: “The Seventy Born Son”); “Dracula’s Ghost,” has eight trying stories, and “The Tale of the Jumping Serpents of Bosnia, another Colleton of eldritch short fiction (to include the growing interest in “Night Ride to Huancayo” a horrific supernatural tale). Also, the psychological thriller, “The Mumbler,” and “Manticore, Day of the Beast” And his book on visions “The Last Trumpet…” and “Angelic Renegades…” he is the unknown crown horror writer of the decade. Also see “After Eve” [a book of historic adventure].

His books can be seen on Amazon.com; B&N.com; abe.com and all the other internet big and small book dealers.

For those interested in the readings of Mr. Siluk’s books, he invites you to email the following:

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BENJAMIN SZUMSKYJ is a qualified teacher (Bachelor of Arts in Education / Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences, minor in English) at a private high school. He also has a diploma as a librarian technician/assistant and a graduate diploma in Christian Studies. Szumskyj also acted as convener on the horror panel of the 2005 Aurealis Awards. In addition to being a member of the Australian Horror Writers Association, he is also a member of the (American) Horror Writers Association. His blog can be found at SSWFT, which is updated irregularly.

"In the Pits of Hell, a Seed of Faith Grows" - a review of The Macabre Poems: and Other Selected Poems (Volume III) by Dennis L. Siluk for Calenture: a Journal of Studies in Speculative Verse (Volume 1 # 1: September 2005).

"Interview with Dennis L. Siluk," for Lost Sanctum #2 (Wild Cat Books, 2006).

“He Is What He Writes: The Weird Tales of Dennis L. Siluk" for Dissections: The Journal of Contemporary Horror #2

(http://www.simegen.com/writers/dissections/February%202008/dissections_page_06.html>, 2008).

Isreal: Monkey see, Money Do (Isreal Kicking thier Butts!"

2008-12-29T14:34:00.000-08:00

Israel Kick Their Butt!

It never fails, but I always fail to understand the media in such situations, and the dumb folks that follow it, or them, like white on rice, as if they do not have a mind of their own, or perhaps they are Jew Haters also, there are a lot out there. And CNN news, which I follow daily, along with other news media’s, are the worse. Today’s headlines reads, “World rallies around Palestinians and the Gaza offensive,” now let’s think logically, there is a reason for that headlines, after days of highlighting Israel’s attack on the Palestine, rallied by CNN news, who said little prior to that about Israel being bombarded daily for months on end by the rockets coming out of Gaza killing, wounding, destroying parts of Israel, the cities, etc., what do you expect, a hug and a kiss? It doesn’t take a Ph.D., to figure it out; CNN created the monster, Israel is supposed to be. I bet if the high executives of CNN were over in Israel, before they started hitting back the enemy that has been hitting them for six months, with 10,000 rockets, they’d have pulled their children out mighty quick, but instead CNN creates a stampeded, and calls it world opinion.

President Bush, which I voted for the first time, and regretted the second, has at least good eyesight, he can see the smoke in the forest, and can figure it out, there’s fire someplace in yonder land, he knows right from wrong also, and the world is wrong, and so is CNN to blast Israel for trying to make it safe for their citizens to have a good night’s sleep. Germany, France and Spain, and a lot more of Europe are Jew haters, and the world knows this, if not, the world is sleeping on it, so if they go to the streets in protest, we all know why, they’d like to burn them alive, and they will again, when the United States goes to sleep, or if not, they will hope the Middle East will do it for them.

CNN mentions a few other countries, to build up their criteria that they are justified in proclaiming the world is mad at what Israel is doing, which by the way I think is justified, by using Iran, and Egypt, and Jordon, along with Indonesia, Libya, all again Jew haters (Muslim countries this time), can they not find someone neutral? That is like me running to the loser of a fight, who tried to knock out his opponent with a slug hammer, and was spotted before he could slam it over his head, and now yelling to me, the referee (as the Palestinians did to the Jew Haters at the UN) and saying, “Unfair fight!” How rotten can you get? CNN has no blood in the face. And then the Palestine’s saying, “It is Hamas, and not all the people in Gaza, and we are paying the deadly price…” listen up PLO, Hamas is whom you voted for, and you get what you reap, or plant, if you plant poison, you get it. Israel knows the old saying, to have peace, you got to prepare for war, if they didn’t believe it that, they’d not be here today, by CNN standards. Caracas, Venezuela has even taken sides, and that is obvious why, they are hoping and allowing the Palestine’s to fight with them against the USA; what Venezuela doesn’t understand is, Hamas has no friends, and when the time comes, they will bake Venezuela alive. There are what you call a “Money see, Monkey do,” country, not much more.

“What Happened to America in 2008?”

2008-11-20T13:05:00.000-08:00

This is what my email is asking me: “Why did Americans pick out a Blackman for President?” “Why pick out a man for president that had prior links with a well known terrorist?” “Why pick out a president that his family is Muslim, and during his running eliminated his middle name which is Muslim, when we are at war with them?” “Why pick out a president so inexperienced, with no military service, can money and charm be the highest thing on the minds of Americans—I know they like to be entertained?” “Is it all entertainment, industry with its money, and Globalism that selects an American president now: I mean, is not that true?”

They asked me on my email “Who would you have picked for president?”

I sent this following letter out to my readers of 1.6 million, on my 27-sites,
“We had a pour selection for president this year of 2008. How we came up with the two candidates we got, is the underlining problem (which turned into a bad situation), it was the same in Peru, when they picked out Garcia for president, they the people felt they selected the best out of the worse, feeling Ollanta would bring in the terrorists. But they are coming back anyhow, and they had 105-canadates to choose, and they passed up some good qualified folks. Garcia who was president in the 1980s brought the country to financial ruin. Lessons are learned hard in Peru and it is seemingly the same lately in America.
But the question being asked is: who would I have picked, the most two qualified persons we have in the government, not the two worse, and it would most likely have been two women, Hillary (white) and Rice (black), not because of color, but because of qualifications, and background, who you hang round with is how you are judged, or so it used to be; here are two leaders, familiar with war, policy, and not afraid to step on toes. We have—sorry to say, weak men, with weak minds in the government, greedy as industry dictates what a president should and should not do. Globalism is not all it is made out to be, and neither are the WTO and all its linking groups (as we are now finding out).
But be not dismayed, if indeed we can survive this next presidency, maybe we can select a qualified person for once. We are now selecting kings who are not qualified to run wars, and economies, and human rights, and the world in general, otherwise we’d not be in such a predicament in all corners of America and the world, which should be obvious. And no matter who we would have selected out of the two potentials we had to select from, we would have ended up losers.

Push and Pull: Russia vs the West (WWIII)

2008-09-01T10:45:00.000-07:00

Push and Pull: Russia
And the West

Strange if not peculiar, everyone is on the bandwagon to punish Russia over the cliff for invading Georgia, which had cause to do so, now we find they used cluster bombs against their own kind, this is no-good news—history will report the truth after it is all said and done, it always does, and as I said before, we will be finding out more truths as time goes by, and the longer time goes by, the more guiltier Georgia is, and its trouble making president, that has brought the west to the onset of WWIII; everyone things Russia is kidding, when they say take our pick between hem and us. We are not playing any longer with a wild card in our packets, and Georgia is not worth the price everyone is paying, and if the folks of Georgia want to back up their president, let them do so, but now with American money, weapons or protection. I for own see no gain in it, only loss. And to be truthful, there is no moral victory here; it is a stain on us from the beginning. Why we are there I don’t know.

Anyhow, so everyone in the west wants to punish Russia (or perhaps it is just Georgia and the United States) and no one is talking about punishing China who invaded Tibet, killed a million or two Tibetans, and had the world go to their Olympics. What kind of massage is that to the world, to Russia, to China? Perhaps the European side of the world is more important. Perhaps, Japan, Taiwan, Australia, and all those other Asian countries could care less, Even South Korea says nothing. Perhaps China knows how to silence these countries, and therefore, shut America up. Whatever is the case, it is a double standard. They belong to the WTO, with the US’s blessings, and we talk about stopping Russia, over a country with a ruler like the they got in Zimbabwe.
China is less of a friend than Russia, and may even end up in due time, at war with Russia, or comrades in a way against the West, they do have a long boarder with Russia, and think alike in many ways.
We should realize, Russia does not think like the west, it never has, and we all know it, yet we all try to wipe the stripes off its back.
When I want to make a friend out of someone, I allow them to be who they are, and except them for who they are. And deal with it from that perspective. You can’t change people, or a people, you change yourself, to adjust, or get out of their town.
We were doing the best we could do, with a people half subdued, and that was pretty good. Now we are doing not so well, and soon doors once opened will be shut. There is another world out there besides America and Europe. South America once pro North American is leaning towards Asia and Russia and he Middle East. We will lose them soon also.

I’m sure there are many factors involved here, there always is, greed being number one, stability being in there someplace, and preventing the inevitable. Whatever the case is, we must feel better dealing with Russia, because we act braver with them than China, I mean, would America really go to war with China over Taiwan? I don’t think so, unless we are crazier than they.
We may find out in future time, America is hoping to get out of that commitment I bet. Soon China will own that part of Asia, and then what? I think Russia has pulled back as much as it intends to do, and push into such countries more willing to support them, and keep the money flowing, countries like Venezuela, and Cuba, and Iran. They can do more for Russia, than little Georgia, and China can use their oil, they need it bad.
The big loser, Europe.

Is America Guilty...in Georgia? (Putin says so.)

2008-08-30T10:03:00.000-07:00

Is America Guilty…in Georgia?
Putin says so.

I see a lot of politicians, those close to President Bush anyhow, saying how ludicrous President Putin’s remarks were, that our President had something to do with Georgia having enough guts to go forward and bomb their regions, to be subservient (how else would he have such guts); and in the process, killing all those civilians, Bush is trying to overlook, and keep quiet.
I don’t agree with the Russian tactics, but I surely don’t agree with Georgia’s either, whom seem to be getting absolution for their deadly deeds. But what is also interesting is after seven years of not giving an interview Putin does. Why? Perhaps he is hurt. A tender word for a muscle man, who doesn’t smile much, who has changed a sleeping bear to a happy bear with a bowel of honey, since they got all that oil, and now a—yes hurt bear. This friendship he had with our President must seem, full of holes for him, it would for me. I mean, I would be asking: are we only friends when I bend over backwards, how about you. It has been kind of a one sided relationship.
He said once, or the president of Russia said it, they have enough land, they don’t need more. How true that statement can be. And they do want to be part of the human race; they paid a dear price for it, giving up some 14 to 17, regions, since the cold war ended. And what have they gotten for it? Not even a thank you. But that statement Putin made, blaming it on the United States, that statement so many politicians said was ludicrous, how close to the truth was it, and it was pretty close I think. Even with old enemies, like Russia, what they say has some truth, if not logic to them. I agree, they don’t think like us, but half the world doesn’t think like us, not just Russia. Not sure if that is all good or bad.
Could it be, President Bush said to Georgia, “If you want, go ahead and take back your two regions, but don’t quote me, we’ll back you up; I doubt the bear will get over temperamental, plus we got strategies for that!”
Now the question comes up: why would he say that, and this is all guessing—what they call fiction, perhaps in the future, it will be less fiction and more fact, and it will come out in future times more dramatically, but it never does at the happening moment (behind closed doors).
If I was to take a guess, it would be that someone wanted to impress Georgia, we like doing that a lot you know in North America. And by saying what we said, they did what they wanted to do, and the US and Georgia got a shock treatment in return. This of course would not have been tried during the Cold War, but we got braver. And when Georgia found out the US could do little but talk, they went into a panic. And the US Presidency went frantic, that our powerful name could not move an angry bear, just nudged him a bit. It didn’t look good. There goes our future base, a supporting country that sent 2000-troops to the Middle East for us. And now in return we send those $20-million dollars worth of tax paying goods, for nothing, as if we owed it to them, as if we did something wrong, and want repay them, so they don’t tell the world the truth: a kind of silent blackmail.
Sometimes we say things we regret, and we do regret our president did what they did, I do anyhow, and it has put the world on edge, he is careless. And everyone is blaming Russia, which is a mistake; there is more in this than meets the eye. We counted our Chickens before they hatched, as they say, and one didn’t hatch as planned. We have to learn how not to be so blatant.
We need to mend fences, and it is not by covering up our dirty deeds by having the EU and UN, find loopholes to punish a bear that has all the honey on the other side of the world. Perhaps we need a president, as does Georgia that is more responsible for his actions.

Home Sweet Home for: South Ossetia and Abkhazia

2008-08-26T10:59:00.000-07:00

Home Sweet Home for:
South Ossetia and Abkhazia

Well, this may not be what everyone wants to hear, but I agree with Russia, with the two breakaway sections of Georgia, whom seem to have found a home, and are quite satisfied not being a part of Georgia (South Ossetia and Abkhazia): giving them independence, like Georgia wanted, like Kosovo got. This settles for the most part, an element that could have lead, and still might lead, if America, NATO, and East Europe, do not settle down, into a mess.
Georgia attacked a lesser military supplied and alerted region, that has wanted independence, since Georgia had gotten theirs, and for some reason Georgia did not take that into consideration, nor the USA, nor the UN, nor the EU, nor NATO.
Russia is not doing anything the USA has not done already, or Europe has not done, or China has not done, and is still doing, and they are still in the ballgame.
Everyone should be mad at the President of Georgia, yet they insist on backing up this little winy country, that will trigger a World War. NATO should have put Georgia into their nest when President Bush asked them to years ago, but the Europeans were taking a siesta, thinking they were untouchable. Yet the bear, Russia was on the alert status, looking for honey, and grabbed the moment. Simple as that, and now we try to black mark a global player in the world economy, who has as many nukes as the US, over a stupid man’s greed to force two Kosovo’s into one Georgia.
When will we learn: let them be, have we not learned a thing from WWI. Matter of fact the last two world wars, were because of Europe’s greed over this or that, and who came to the rescue? This time, will be the same, with one element missing, the United States will come to the rescue, but it will be too late (when they do), and the Iraqi war will look like a backyard brawl compared to what Russia has in store for such an event.

The Russian Doctrine ( Part Two: Iran and Nuclear Warfare)

2008-08-18T23:12:00.000-07:00

The Russia Doctrine
(For the world)

Is Russia preparing for war with America, the United States? Yes and no. They are preparing for something, and if it is the United Sates so be it, and if it is Israel so be it, and if it is the breakaway countries of Eastern Europe, so be it—and if NATO gets involve, who knows. They had one doctrine in 2000, and modified that in 2007, the doctrine is military of course, and all the commanders know they must be ready, as they were in Georgia, we saw how ready they really are, and they are ready, speedy and without question, and they know how to take down a weak nation.
Russia sees itself being smothered, if not under enemy control, don’t laugh, it has been forced feed into their systems for almost a century. It is like the old saying goes: if you tell a person long enough you don’t like chicken soup, he’ll come to believe he doesn’t.
I don’t see Russia planning an attack the United States, or the other way around, this is a different war, more on the order of a boarder war, with East Europeans, if it sparks something worse, than it does, but perhaps the days of cooperation are at its end, or close to it.
When Russia marries Iran, or takes them into their arms, then we got more trouble, the nastiness becomes home spun, the hostility will begin if Iran demands Russian support over Israel, and Russia gives it.
The good thing we got out of Russia, if anything is support working against terrorism, the Islamic element of it. And thus, we see internal security a major issue with Russia, as we do in the United States, and Western Europe. All this and more is built into the new doctrine, along with the west being responsible to recognize the Russian area of influence. They kind of feel they are, or were doing Eastern Europe a favor by protecting it, and I suppose this sparked Georgia, thinking they still had that right. On the other hand, NATO, which is proxy for the U. S., does as it please, anyplace in the world, which Russia surely sees as a bone of contention.
We need to look at the fact, they lost the so called Cold War, another bone of contention, and when a dog is done one should not kick him, and they kind of feel they’ve been kicked, and a hurt dog is dangerous, so when they can bend their doctrine, they will, as they did in Georgia.
China and Russia are becoming closer, as is Cuba, Iran, and Venezuela, and North Korea, sounds like the good old days, all our enemies turn to Russia. All these folks need technology Russia has, what we may be seeing soon is that lack of cooperation I was talking about, going, going gone to those countries. This new doctrine is only ink on white; it can be, whitened out.

Part Two Iran and Nuclear Warfare

Part of the doctrine, or so called new policy is for Russia’s military (so the chief of staff has said), if threatened, or in case of a major threat, the use of nuclear weapons will be considered, and he wants the world to take this into consideration; that is to say, if Russia feels it needs to defend the sovereignty, territorial and integrity of Russia and its allies, not only military forces will be used, but Nuclear Weapons will be preventively used, meaning preemptive nuclear weapons strikes. I think this may be more slanted toward Israel over Iran, once the honeymoon starts with Iran and Russia.
Again I must say, Russia does not like NATO encircling her, it is to her an aggressive move. And now we want to put missiles in Poland, that is a defense system, which America says is because of Iran. The problem is more I think based on the fact Russia has a land and sea-launching sophisticated system in place where it can fire missiles from either point, onto Eastern Europe; thus, this would endanger its capability destruction. Whatever it is, it is too close for comfort for the Russians. That maybe crossing a red line, I don’t know.
Russia is at present delivering nuclear fuel to Iran, Israel sees this as a deadline to hit Iran before it does what it says it will do, hit Israel. So we see a lot of roads leading to Armageddon.
In the past, the United States and Russia have been pretty much level headed in their war games, and many a country has tried to provoke Russia to fight America, and the other way around. And as we all see, Russia played chess with Georgia, and won. And so far Russia and America are still playing. America had Russia in Check, and now she is out, and the game continues, until check-mate.

8-18-2008

Russia, Mimicking America

2008-08-17T13:46:00.001-07:00

The Game is called, “King of the Hill,” as a kid I used to play it, whoever was the toughest got to stand on top of the hill. The funny part is you ended up standing alone while everyone else was looking up at you wanting to take it from you.
Russia is really doing nothing the US has not done, or at present is doing. Actually, Russia mimics the US quite a lot, and is doing so now. The problem is, America can’t deal with two of the same kind, and they got to be, as the world knows, King of the Hill. Had Cuba taken back their property we now use as a prison in a corner of Cuba, we would have done the same except Castro is not that dumb as was the President of Georgia to provoke a superpower.
And to give a time table to move one’s troops out is kind of a double standard, but the King of the Hill, can often times get away with it, and America is trying just that, to say one thing, and do another.
And talk about Cold war tactics, the US is using such words as “Punishment,” you say that when you want to slap your kids behind for not obeying. We are dealing with a superpower, not some third world nobody. And now the US wants to reevaluate its relationship with Russia. They’ve been doing that for 50-years. Maybe we need to replace an arrogant president in Georgia, and hope we do not get a duplicated president like Bush back in the office. Leave the Europeans deal with Georgia, they offer nothing but trouble. This is not where the trouble will stop, it is where it will start, and ripple over into every other phase of life we know of. The marriage between America and Russia is almost over, because of two arrogant men, how unfortunate, and one woman, Rice. Actually, I was hoping Rice might run for president, now I am really happy she is not, and it is time for me to reevaluate a few things concerning this election coming up.

The Wounded Dog has Risen (America vs. Russia)

2008-08-15T13:48:00.000-07:00

The Wounded Dog has Risen
(America vs. Russia)

I don’t know if the US is going off on the deep end or has become insane, but it is not acting with thinking; first of all the US should not be trying to do what Georgia did or Russia did by bullying anyone or everyone, like telling Russia to get out of Georgia, when we are still in Afghanistan and Iraq, plus that is the old style of the Cold War talk. Second, putting a missile system in Poland at this very time, doesn’t make sense, unless it is true what the Russians say, it is to hit them in their backyard someday down the road. It would be easier for the US to strike Iran, and eliminate the problem, and with Russia in Georgia, it is a good time to do it. Now Russia has a clear path if it wants to use it to put missiles in Cuba, or strike up a new relationship with them, and to sign a pack with Iran, which will start a world war, when (not if) Israel strikes Iran. What is wrong with President Bush, and Mrs. Rice, I really think they are not thinking things out. Iran and North Korea are the problems, Georgia is a situation, no more, we are thinking we have four aces, when we only have three, and we have just used up two, it will be easy for China and Russia soon to dominate the whole Pacific, in particular the east and North and south sides of the ocean, and then what. We do not have the recourses to fight, control, monitor and dominate all at the same time, everything on earth, and this will be America’s down fall, especially when you have no friends by your side, and Europe is note really a friend, we seen that in Georgia, they were a friend thinking they could use us as their buffer or their ace, and they used it up and found they could not, it they get out of this alive, they better think twice about playing cowboys with the Indians when they have no bullets, in trying to take back what Russia has taken, which originally belonged to them anyway before the West stepped in when Russia was a wounded dog.

Evidently Bush thinks everyone in the world is dumb, who invaded who, and why are we not talking about the damage, the killings, the president of Georgia had his army do? First! This again makes the US look bad, and as the third bully in the arena. If I was Russia, I’d not pay any attention to the US’s demand, and wait for Georgia to admit its wrong internationally or stay put. What Russia is doing is not good, but what Georgia did, was not good, and America’s demands are not good without an apology. Bush needs to learn, just because he is president, and he says America is for Georgia right or wrong, he is wrong by saying that America is no longer in the position to lead the blind, blindly, as it is trying to do with its propaganda machine; and Georgia needs to get rid of that president of theirs, before they lose the rope and the goat, everything; and finally we are getting rid of our president, in a few months, thank goodness.

Russia, the United States over Georgia (the Three bullies)

2008-08-14T19:44:00.000-07:00

Russia, the United States
Over Georgia
(The three bullies)

I am not sure why President Bush has so eminently took Georgia’s side, right or wrong, but it doesn’t look too American to do that. We have taken 50-years to make friends with Russia, and now we throw it in the garbage can because of a president from Georgia who decided to use Muscle and bully its way into territories that were in question (dispute), with a Russian presence, and now this president expects America to come to its rescue, and get into World War Three over this little country, right or wrong.
We seem to have a double standard here. I voted for Bush twice, I regret the second time. The first time I agreed with every thing he did, the second time, I can’t find a thing I like about him.
Mikhail Gorbachev, whom is one of the most respected men in the world is not afraid to tell you how it is, he came to Minnesota, and I saw him, sad to say I did not get to greet him. And I agree, Georgia started it as he stated, and if you go to war, and I’ve been in war you don’t stop half way, you do your thing until you know the other side is crippled, like America did in Iraq and Afghanistan, America needs to stop huffing and puffing, and trying to flex its muscle, and Mrs. Rice needs to settle down also, she’s on some high horse trying to badmouth everybody but the instigator. Russia as well as America has their own designs on the world, but this should not be the issue, the real issue is, who invaded. Georgia may be a friend, but a dangerous one to have, like Cuba to Russia. Castro would have had Russia go to war over their country, just for hate, but Russia said, it wasn’t worth it; we need to say the same thing. When Gorbachev speaks people need to listen, he is telling you something very important, otherwise the Government of the Federation of Russia, would not have had him speak. To me, one bully (Georgia), met another bully Russia, on its way to slaughter those who could not fight back, and we don’t need to get the third bully involved, America.

Red Cross Foolishness

2008-08-06T11:47:00.000-07:00

Red Cross Foolishness

First of all I was not going to write the article, but the Red Cross is kind of forcing it, and my wife is pushing me, Rosa. I mean, they got their say, now leave it alone, it is old business, and the Red Cross on the man’s sleeve may have saved the lives of fifteen people, in what is considered a war zone. You can’t get anything better than that.

The question comes up: Was the Red Cross emblem used with improper intent?
Perhaps it was, and I’m sure it is not the first time this has happened, but it looks like you got some professionals up there without much sympathy, in the high offices that can’t put it to rest. They say look at the future of the Red Cross! It damages the potentiality of helping others. The media and the Red Cross themselves are doing more damage than Colombia had ever intended to do, if indeed they had intent of using the emblem at all in the first place.
The President of Colombia, whose father was killed by these terrorists, and the man who wore the arm emblem by trying to make the point of their mission, an internationally mission and Red Cross supported, did what most folks would have done, had they been put into such a position. But now these so called good folks up in the high Red Cross offices, are calling it a war crime.
First of all I praise Colombia for such a daring feat, second, the terrorist got what they deserve, third, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe is my hero now; forth, is not the INRC, suppose to be helping the sick? These fifteen hostages they had were not the healthiest birds in Colombia, and these folks making the biggest noise, I bet ate a fat breakfast, and had their eight hours of glorious sleep, so they got to get off their high horses and look at what was achieved. Actually they need to look at it from a different perspective: had one of those hostages been their mother, father, child, husband, wife, would they be making such a big gripe over spilt milk? I don’t think so, and if they would, I’d not want them in my family circle.
From another vantage point, if that man who wore the emblem saved your son’s life, or family member’s life, or the mission’s life, what then? Is the Red Cross saying, he needed to take off that emblem, and say “Come and Kill us all now, because we are fooling you folks?”
I saw that happen, when the United Nations would not send in a helicopter to save their own team in Africa years ago, because it violated protocol, and I wonder now and then how their families think about it; when it would have been a simple task, because the helicopters were close by. They asked the US to do it, and the US said, if we did, you folks will insult us internationally, again for violating your standards, so the folks cried and screamed over the phone as they got slaughtered, cut to bits and pieces by the machetes of the black antagonists.
In conclusion, let me say this, right or wrong, every law has their exceptions to the policy, depending on the circumstances, we are not robots. If we limit ourselves to such standards, we become limited not only in war, but in saving lives. After the conflict, or after the war is won, no one asks, especially the losers, “Did you fight fare?” Winning means life or death, and remember we each only have one.

International Blackmailing

2008-07-30T17:49:00.000-07:00

International Blackmailing

We kind of knew this from the 1970s through the 1980s, or at least we talked about it back then, that international blackmailing would become a reality, if we did not put it in check at that moment, and we did not put it in check, and still we have not. It now is a reality, like the EU is now a reality, in the 70s it was loose talk, the ten-nations now are something like 26, but my point is this. All the third world countries have to do is starve its people, and get a few nuclear devices, and blackmailing is next. Like North Korea does, and Iran does, and Pakistan did, kept their people dumb, keep them as followers, take over the country like Burma’s generals have, and Zimbabwe has, and all those other countries that get Care Packages, keep the money and buy nuclear capability, and tell the United Nations “Look at our poor people we can’t feed them,” and demand you get what you want, and usually you get it. If you don’t mention the big bomb, and you will surely get it, it’s just a matter of a process called international blackmailing. Now they can make a deal with the international community: pay us off, or else! So we send them free food, billions, and free oil, billions, and now the got the best of two worlds, and in essence didn’t lift a finger for a thing. They feed their armies now with this free deliver items, and send a few packages down the street to the poor: their priority is to build their arsenals, not feed peasants, like Palestine does, and the terrorists in the hills of Colombia, they could care less about feeding the hungry civilizing folk, so we send more and more food. It is all blackmail, and it works, so why change things. And this new century has all these human right groups, and the news media to start a fire if we don’t.
Point two, it all doesn’t stop there, we holler we do not want our tax money to go to these regimes in Africa that are using the money to feed their armies, and nuclear ambitions, as we have done in Asia, but the good guys from the United Nations, and the so called representatives of the world, the Human Rights groups, yell at America in particular, if not directly, through the UN, and say “How undesirable and wicked you are with those folks, they are dying by the hundreds, no thousands!” So how did this come about? That is a side they do not look at. It is simple; they are killing their own people with the food they do not have to buy, which they use for weapons. They take (as in Africa) the white man’s farms, give it to the black man, and he sits on it like a king, and does nothing, and after a while, it decapitates, like it has in Cuba, which I was there a few years back, and all those once lovely swimming pools, and mansions, are no better than shanties now. Good job Castro. So the money we give to the poor countries, they buy weapons with to kill their own kind, while the human rights groups run to the US, or EU, or UN, to save the day, so we can send more food or money to support the killing soldiers. I am not sure what side these groups are on, but I do know this, Satan is working overtime with planting stupid seeds in their heads.
We seem to say little about the blackmail aspect of these called third world countries, the poor boys down the black, and in most cases the reason they are poor is not because they have to be, but their government wants them to be, because they’d get their heads chopped off by the leaders, if they try jump over the poverty line, it is only allowed for a few to do that. If I was a king of one of these countries, I’d love the Human Rights groups to death, love them morning and night, even send them a free hotel pass, at any five star hotel in the country, if indeed they have one, they get their bread buttered by these folks.

I’ll put it in a nutshell; we are enabling other countries to embezzle, to take our tax monies and misappropriate those funds, to kill and starve and build up for World War Three. I can’t make it any plainer than that.

What is the solution? I’ll say it not so sweet, but up front, and you will not want to hear it, so don’t read this part then, but this part is the problem, and we are going to get rid of some of the problems right now: no one wants to hear reality, they want to live in a nutshell. Anyhow, let Israel bomb Iran, and that will take care of the nuclear issue one, therefore another ten-years, and they have enough oil to feed those starving masses if they want to. If not, well, let their president do what he does best, boast.
Second, North Korea, don’t give them a dime, let them take care of their own, if the people of North Korea want a dictatorship, let them have it, it’s called, create a revolution, like we did in America and fought for our freedom. In most cases, in governments, you get what you deserve, what you’ve supported. If the people are not willing to fight for it, then perhaps it is not worth fighting for, let the bad guys do what they’ve been doing, as long as it does not melt out into other societies. As far as the nukes go, blow them up. They are not going to hit South Korea, they may be strange, but they are not that stupid, they will lose the ‘goat and the rope.’
Zimbabwe, lets not have a stroke over it, half of Africa is like Zimbabwe. If they can afford to bring in ship loads of arms, they can buy their own bread. If they do not want to buy bread for the masses, then we got a choice, and it should not be blackmail. Go in and dethrone the king, or pay the piper for the rest of our lives, or his, or just let him do what he does best; chop heads until someone chops his off.
The world is getting full of these so called Humpty Dumpy’s who will fall sooner or later off their high towering walls. I for one do not wish to pay taxes to keep Egypt afloat, or Palestine armed, or to pacify the Human Right’s folks.

Helping: Mr. Keith Walendowski

2008-07-26T15:42:00.000-07:00

I’ve been hearing a lot about this man from the Midwest who shot his lawn mower with a shot gun, and now they (officials of the city and state) want to put him in jail for 6-years and $11,000 dollar fine. First of all, I am from the Midwest, Minnesota, and I realize Mr. Walendowski is a drinker, and I worked many years, licensed, as a counsel for the State and Federal systems, and you don’t put someone in jail because he has a drinking problem, and has hurt no one, or has a temper, if that was the case Elvis would have never made many recordings he’d had been in jail for shooting his TV sets. Any judge, who can do that, put this guy in jail, for shooting a lawn mower, is got to be a creep in my book. But let’s look at the problem, not the situation.
It is obvious he has a drinking problem, so put him in treatment Mr. Judge, and he has an anger issue, so have him go to anger management, Mr. Judge, and just what are you going to convict him for? Disorderly Conduct? Go down to any bar after 11:00 PM, sit outside in the parking lot, and start hulling in the guys; you’ll get the jails full by midnight, for Disorderly Conduct. Do the city a service, and don’t spend so much time on this guy, just help him walk a straight line, because a fine and prison sentence is not going to do the trick.
Go after the bad guys with the guns, the ones you can’t catch.

Indifference Under the Sun (Torregaveta, west of Naples, southern Italy)

2008-07-21T09:29:00.000-07:00

I read today of the two girls in Italy on the beach who drowned, and the bystanders, or beach folk, whatever you call them, were quite indifferent on the matter, simply looked at the dead bodies, and went back to their sunbathing, sipping soft drinks, and so forth and on. The question I ask myself is this, “Why I am not surprised?”
About 18-months ago, I did an article on indifference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, basically what I said was this in a nutshell: my wife and I were walking down a street, three young men came and jumped on us, one large person grubbing me, around my arms and shoulders, and the other men grabbing my wife, to rob her peruse. I freed myself from the large man, broke his nose and perhaps ankle, with my heel, when I kicked it. Then went to my wife to protect her, and one of the two let go to fight me, and I started to subdue him, and the large guy came back, this time didn’t grab me, but rather pushed me, so his friend could run back and help the other fellow with my wife to get the purse, while I was off balance, I again, subdued the big guy, and tired to get to my wife, now two of these guys attacked trying to get her purse, and they saw me, and two of them attacked me again, pushed me to the ground, in the process one remained by me, the other two of those grabbed my wife’s purse and ran, with the third following, and I ran after the third, but my wife called, and I stopped. I was 59-years old, so I was getting winded, and she was worried I suppose.

Well enough of the fighting, I now was with my wife, we looked up the street, a woman was watching, 80-feet away. We walked up to her, I said, “Nice show, ha?” And she said, “We rode by and saw it all.” I asked, “Who is we?” And her response was, “My husband and I.” She was perhaps in her late 30s. Then I asked, “Where is your husband?” Well, she looked at me, then with a smile said, “Oh, he’s in the car, parked over there, didn’t want to see it.” She pointed a few feet away from where she was, to her car.

She then said to my wife, “I saw it all, everything,” and after a few minutes, the police came, and she repeated that to the police. And I got thinking, here she and her husband was, in the safety of their car, watching me and my wife battle it out, and all she could do is watch from 80-feet away, and her husband hide in his car around the corner. Why not stop the car in front of the bully’s and watch, get a better show, why 80-feet away, they really like being safe. Or why didn’t they simply go, since they were not going to do a thing anyhow.

Oh well, enough of that, most people I meet come under the coward area anyway, especially men nowadays, who when they feel safe, they got a big mouth, but little back up. So I get an email from someone in –you guessed it, Buenos Aires, he wasn’t sad by that attack, or even concerned how my wife was, he said in essence: how come you attack Buenos Aires (which has an obvious answer to), we are not as bad here as you say, and he went on and on how nice and safe it is there, and how great the people are. Not one bit sad for what happened to us, what a loser I thought, he perhaps needs a little experience in this area, he most likely would have cried like a baby, and not fought, most people don’t they only like a good show and world that doesn’t disrupt theirs: he will most likely get his due.

I did go to the police, and they said, “No sense in making a formal complaint, it happens all the time here.” If I would have shot the robbers, they, the police would have put me in jail for taking thier business away. They, the folkis in Bueonos Aires, and I all know they are in on it. I called up the American Embassy, and asked about getting a new Pass Port, and in the process he said, “Don’t take it so hard, even us guys here have all got robbed by someone, sometime here in Buenos Aires.” And to add to this, our guide had told us how nice and safe the city was, don’t worry wherever you walk in town here, its safe. It is the most unsafe city I have ever been in, and indifferent to its guests. And the indifference is like that beach in Torregaveta, west of Naples, southern Italy, where those poor girls, in their teens, died, and everyone just looked on, under the sun.

Should Israel Hit Iran?

2008-07-06T18:22:00.000-07:00

Before you read this article remember it is an opinion, and we all have them, and if you are a Jew hater don't read it at all, it will only get you more anger, because there are a lot of those folks out there:

Should Israel bomb the nuclear sites in Iran? First of all let me say, it is easy to say something on behalf of someone else, when you are safe at home. But let me change the options, and perspective, and then come back to the question in the first line of this article.
If my neighbor said, “…as soon has I can afford to buy a gun and learn how to shoot it, and have money to buy bullets to kill you and your family members,” and if I believe he will do what he says he will do, I would stop him one way or another. I would try to go to the police (in this case with Israel and Iran, the UN), and after five years the police if they could not do anything, or nothing, and now I knew the window of opportunity was closing, the window that could protect my family, I’d have to hurry up and do whatever I had to do to stop the professed murderer to be, and it would not be going back to the police that for five years could not protect me in the first place, that only gave the enemy, the one that said, ‘…as soon as they have the means, we will destroy them…” I repeat, I would not stop them, without the police.
So now we can go back to the original question. Would I hit their nuclear sites? Let me give another example first: what country would not try to protect them from mad cow disease? Today South Korea is protesting US Meat, not protesting the North bombing them in the future, but rather meat, my point here is, they feel a threat to their society, and they are blocking the gates so the meat markets in South Korea. They have negotiated on this matter, and resolved some issues. In a like manner, the UN, and five other countries have talked with Iran, and solved nothing. It comes under the heading of being a protectionist.
Now we know Iran has oil, enough to light up all the cities in the world for ten-years, so do they need a nuclear plant? I don’t think so, and they know so. Ok, now we go back to the first question again, which is perhaps a little more obvious of what my answer is going to be ‘Should Israel hit Iran?.”
If I was Israel, I would ask: “Do we fight a war with Iran now, or when they got the nuclear bomb,” because they will fight with them sooner or later, and sooner with the bomb, once they have it.
This is what is on their minds I’m sure. The other question comes to light: will this start a worse bloodily war in the Middle East? Iran is already at war with America in Iraq, so it doesn’t really matter all that much. Matter of fact, if Israel attacked now, and not wait a year from now, America may have to back up Israel even if they don’t want to. Whereas, two years from now, will America be there to do it? Because once we leave Iraq, as Obama says, I doubt we are coming back to assist Israel.
Yes, so my answer is yes, if I was the Prime Minister of Israel, I’d do it mighty quick also, while the world is still tossing about the fear factor of what Iran might do, since they said they will do it once they got the means to do it. Tomorrow for me would not be quick enough.
Now for those that are saying “You must like to see people die,” because war means death. I say this, tonight most likely the person reading this, thinking how negative this letter is, is going to have a good nights sleep, will Israel? It is easy to say let’s talk, but Israel has been talking for five years, going in circles, and getting mixed messages, the window is almost closed. And if there is going to be a war with Iran, it’s a good time to have one, while Israel and the US are all in place; Russia is coming in with some long term assistance for Iran, once they are in place, it will be most difficult to hit Iran, without provoking Russia, and then we got more than we bargained for, and Israel will have a new war to deal with, and bigger.

Howard Stern: You mean the sick one?

2008-07-06T09:14:00.000-07:00

Howard Stern: yes, Again, the Sick one!

Every so often I get an email, on Howard Stern, why I don’t care for his kind of entertainment. I get actually both kinds of emails, negative and positive. Negative saying, I should like him, and how great he is, and I should not write about him negatively, which I have not for years, and positive folks saying: your right he is a bad news, bad entertainment, a bad example for our society, especially our kids.
Years ago when I was writing for a website, I wrote several articles on him, basically saying what everyone would expect a Christian to write.
I said in essence, we have a lot of folks out there laughing at his sick and dirty jokes, and his TV sketches which where pats on the girls butt, and his homosexual overtones, and friends coming to his station to get on TV, and show all they could in a filthy way; So the question comes up again, why don’t I care for him or his entertainment. I’m a Christian, that should settle it and that should really settle it, but for some folks out there it doesn’t.
His followers, which I hear are 10-million, so Howard claims, want me to embrace him. I think I could pray for him, but embrace him is a little too much. And if he really has 10-million followers, we can all see why there is an issue out there, we got a lot of folks liking what he stands for, and that is filth, and we all know that. He knows that, I know that, and you reading this know that. What you put into your mind, is what is going to come out of your mouth sooner or later.
Nothing new: he does not talk on the virtues of life, or the sanctity of womanhood, or the love of children, or the need for Godly people, it is to the contrary, he talks about women being machines, and usable for sex and other pleasures, as men can be also. He has no virtues so he leaves them out of his talks, and just puts in jokes and puns, and children, I would guess are no better than dogs to him, except when he goes home and puts on the daddy play. He talks about alcoholism as if it is a nice escape, and he demonstrates his morbid issues, like William Burroughs did in his books and Allen Ginsberg has in his poetry. They all belong to the same sick club, and they infect our society, especially the children that end up listening to those around them, and hear that he is there idol, hero, and to be honest if that is the best anyone can come up with for a hero, we are really in deep mud: many folks think this person is a champion for the freedom of speech (which his folks would like to take from me, if they could, since I do not embrace him), when in essence he and they are the sick part of society. But freedom of speech, is not what he uses, he uses the weak side of man’s brain, he knows the psychological part of it well, and he feeds it, like one feeds a bull before the matador slaughters it. He knows he’s not going to Heaven, and doesn’t believe in hell, so he is free to infect society with this fitly virus, and he does.
In conclusion, let me say, I do with people would stop bringing his name up to me, he offers nothing to mankind, nothing I really want to write about, only to the devil in man does he feed, and we have enough of that, what he offers, without his input. And so, to those who have written me using his name, I hope this once and for all puts it as a settlement, he will get his due in due time, and he is not worth anymore of my time, of course, you already know this, you just want to hear an echo of my displease with such folks. You can comb the internet and find out the other comments I’ve had on him years ago, that should feed your hunger. Now if this offends you, I can’t figure out why, Howard writes much worse than I. And don’t worry folks, your hero is still alive and among you, and the devil is waiting.

Is the Democratic Ticket Sweating?

2008-07-04T21:05:00.000-07:00

CNN and the rest of the so called group gathering folks on data keep trying to figure out who will take the presidency, in November, said a month ago, most all of Clinton’s party will go over to Obama, how wrong they were, I could have told you that long ago, week by wee Obama is losing his following not only in that area but several other. Now they say, they will slip over after they go through the grieving period, then the depression, and then the acceptance. They are talking like a licensed counsellor, and I am a licensed counsellor. It doesn’t quite work like that, we are not talking about a dead horse, or a family member, or something that cannot be altered. Let me give CNN and the big boys at Obama’s party a few words of wisdom, free of charge of course, but perhaps a million dollars worth, and then some. People change for a reason, and they don’t change for the dumb one I read on CNN, to get a person to change, you change their formal reasoning. They are in an emotional state of course, but they are not going to be taken out of it, a week before Election Day, that’s silly, and we are not talking about a hurt alcoholic because you took his last beer away. Do you think some bird is going to drop a formal reasoning pill on every one who says they will stay home or vote for the another party? Those people are saying what they are saying for a reason, and for some odd reason, the Democratic Party is not listening, or are the data gatherers. Wake up out there; you are talking to a few million adults, not kids. That will not happen, and as long as folks sit back and look at the incoming data, they will be saying, “Well, now we have to go to plan B, no, C, or is if D now.” And then the victory is over, for you know who. I am one of those folks that you call a Republican, but was changing over because of Hillary, now I will go back to the Republican party, there are a lot of us folks out there also, ones CNN and all the other groups have not counted yet. But anyhow, so the data collectors are saying: they will change over at the last minute, issues are involved here, and everyone wants change. Not true, stop beating the rug, this is false. Many folks over fifty-years old do not care for all that much change, Obama proclaims to deliver, and can he deliver what he says anyhow. He is saying whatever needs to be said to win, that his gift. Hillary, we all knew, she was doing the same, but she is a little more trustful. People still see a lot of ‘if’ and ‘buts’ in the Obama ticket. Europe likes him because he is young, that is about it. If he get in if I were the world looking, I’d be saying, we may get short changed by this guy, I mean, do you really think we will end up buying more from China, South America, Europe? I doubt it, Obama is not for import, and he is for export. But we have to get back to reserved reasoning change. How do you do that? Well if you don’t do that, you don’t change the thinking of the person that is voting, or for that matter, you don’t change the thinking of anyone, they just keep on thinking they way they are thinking. I know this is kind of simple, but truths are simple; and you do not change it by a lecture on T.V., or in the newspapers, they may help but the real change comes should to should, eye to eye. You put the cards on the table and you show and tell, the old fashion way, and little by little you boil the frog alive, and he doesn’t know it. But if you put the heat of now, he knows what you are doing. Matter of fact, out of spite, he may run to the voting room and vote, for the other party, when he said he was going to stay home.
My recommendation to Obama’s party, and to CNN, since I sense they like Obama, is you better get all those meetings folks together, and have a town meeting with real people, and not machines, in all those voting cities and towns, and do a hands on job, sit down and talk to them eye to eye. The problem is, time may not allow that now. Recommendation two, have Hillary as president, and the arrogant Obama, as vice President, there is a winning ticket. If he selects Hillary as Vice President, it might not go so well, although it might look good. But the big shots in the Democratic Party, running the show, are not that smart to figure it out. Prediction: they will lose if they don’t change (this is the very thing they want everyone else to do)!

The False Leopard: Obama

2008-06-25T23:06:00.001-07:00

The False Leopard: Obama

Obama, He will be the biggest mistake the United Status has ever made in selecting a president, if indeed he becomes president; if he becomes president, he will be the most Ungodly president we ever had, perhaps that is why the young folks like him. He is for abortion, for gun control, he translates the bible to mean what he wants it to mean. He is no Christian, and not only has his blood testified to that, his mouth has. He will be the down fall of the once American Empire. He tries to change his spots like a leopard, but he can’t. We had many good men to select for our president, and we ended up with the three worse of the lot, and Obama, among the three, is the least likely to be of any use to the American People. He will stop a war, and create a new one, one we cannot win. He will hand the government over to the United Nations, and the European Court, Dr. James Dobson, Christian Psychologist, is absolutely right, here is a man, a wolf in sheep’s clothing, one who feels Christianity does not belong in the Whitehouse, or even in Congress, or even in America, although he wants the Christian vote.
He has never been in the Military, and mocks the military by saying he can run it better than any man alive, that it doesn’t take a seasoned veteran to run such a program, he must think it is the Boy Scouts he’s talking about.
Here is a man that hides behind his middle Islamic name. Whose church is more anti white, bias and cantered toward spreading the good word that white folk are the enemy, even more so than the Black Panther’s did in the 60s. If he becomes president, God help us all. I think Obama thinks he can fool all the people all the time, if indeed he is given that time. But as the old saying goes, you can’t fool all the people all the time, perhaps some of the time, until they wake up. It would seem to me, Obama, would like all the Christians in America to overlook their belief systems, and vote on the least moral grounds possible, leaving ethical issues for the church, and democracy for him to decide how it should be for the people by the people. Yet the foundation of America was not built on his beliefs, they were built on a strong Christian foundation, one I believe he wants to eliminate, if he can. He implies we should not fight for what we believe, we should not fight at all, just let the government lead blindly the blind. He doesn’t want Christianity in the schools, but he wants the children in the schools to abide by Ten Commandments, everything he talks about is Godless, and superficial faith.

Political Dementia in Peru

2008-06-07T16:11:00.000-07:00

Recently, Peru had a fiesta for the world at large, shut down Lima, gave everybody a holiday without pay, and lavished the rest of the world with gifts, telling them how great Peru is, even though there is a robber on ever street corner ready to kill for a few bucks. Every woman, every household, and perhaps everybody, in Peru have been robbed once or twice and it is rising with Garcia in power, the day he was ordained King of Peru; the police are worse than the robbers, they wait by churches and rob the security people who are trying to protect the houses around the neighborhood, that is really the job of the police, but they now have taken up robbery themselves, it pays better. Every house in Lima has gotten iron bars on it, and you got to ask why? It is because Garcia’s police force demands it to be so, lest you lose house and furniture. Nowadays, the robbers do not take a T.V., or computer, they take the whole house full of furniture; and Garcia says on TV, look how great we are. He is blind, and lead by the blind; he has dementia I think, or is in another world.
They, the president and his staff, now want to have the Olympics in 2020 AD, and they can’t even feed their own, they have to still take handouts. Something is missing here. Garcia is on another one of his grandeur episodes, he was in the 1980s, and Peru plunged to the depths of hell, like Zimbabwe has recently, and now that Peru is sending all its food out to other counties, to become international, Garcia likes that word, food prices have doubled in Peru, how nice of him to think of the international trade before his own people, that suffocates his own people. All he will be remembered for in history I fear will be as a pea in a pod, that none care to remember. He is so out of sink with his people. I think he is trying to do what he did last time, hide the money for retirement, and run to Paris when his regime is up, but this time he wants enough money to have it out live him. He moaned and groaned about how he wanted to show the people of Peru, he could be a good president, if only they would give him a second chance; but as most Peruvians can see once a thief, always a thief.

Why so Many Robbers in Peru?

2008-06-04T08:30:00.000-07:00

Why so Many Robbers in Peru?

I’ve been coming to Peru for nine years, lived her the past three, and the question comes up now and then, “Why are there so many robberies in Peru?” Especially in Lima; people (outside of Peru) think it is because of the poor ole souls here without work, it is far from the truth. Let me explain.
For the most part the economy is doing well, the poor and old the ones no one helps, especially President Garcia, are not the robbers, what little they have; they are the ones being robbed. It is the young, able, lazy, drug addicted, gangs; it is the un-retired terrorists, and the middle-aged that are not professional, and all those that fall in-between.
It starts from the top. Something like sixty percent of the population said it has gotten worse since President Garcia took office, if you do not know his background, he is known to be the biggest robber in the country, hid in Paris for a decade so the French could protect him from his own people, whom he robbed millions from. If you are asking why he got into office, it is a long story, but the population in Peru have a degree of robbers, and the robbers like the law, because the law is for them, it is not for the person being robbed, that is why it is so profitable to be a robber in Peru.
It would be easy to enforce the laws, which are many, and the reason they do not is in part, because most mayors got into the office with the intentions of robbing, and a robber does not want to enforce laws he may be subject to himself—lest he put himself in jail. Most have businesses in their districts, I mean after they become mayor, most construction in Lima has been done under the law, and has violated most every law made in that area, but a signature from the Mayors office seals the deal, law or no law.
Let me give you some examples: if you are robbed, and your chances are 70% you will be if you are not with a group, if the group leader doesn’t rob you on vacation, but he is being paid to take you to the places of interest, and on the side to take you to places other people want you to go. They may even get paid to give the time and date when they (you) will be at a certain place, where a gang of robbers will be on hand.
If you get robbed, and it is under $2000, dollars, the police will not waist their time with you, prefer not even making out a report, and if they do, they will ask you for his name, and identification, and hope you have a picture, they don’t. If you are asking “How would I get his name,” that is where the problem comes in; no robber gives his name, do they. Case Closed!
And if they do follow up on it, it is to appease you, and nothing will be done in reality, the paperwork will be lost before you get back home on your seven day vacation.
Another example is, if you shoot a robber, and your life is at stake, and he does not have a gun, even if there are three of them, you go to jail, pay his hospital bill, and he goes home free, without charges. This is a fact. The justice in Peru is not in protecting yourself from the robber; it is allowing him to take at will, what he may, so it pays, and the robber knows this. He may even tell you to shoot, hoping he will survive, and take you to court and empty your bank account legally.
The mayors control the police in their district, and the police in Peru are worthless, most of them, there are a few special units worth their salt, but you will most likely not see them. They guard the president, and the mayors, and are used for special missions. The regular police actually turn their heads if a crime is in progress this is no job, come and see. It is not because Peru has no laws, they do, but none are enforced, the police get paid about 900 soles a month, about $400 dollars. You can buy your way out of anything, even a murder for fist full of dollars.
When I first came to Peru in 1999, it was safer than now, the laws more enforced. The last two presidents had done well for Peru, and funny isn’t, they are the ones the people try to prosecute.
Garcia now, is on his high horse, he has forgotten the people, out of touch with them, and is on some race to make Peru stand out as the country remodeled by him, as if this is Egypt, and he is the pharaoh, and he will be remembered for his glory. Sad to say, he will be remembered as a two time loser, he was President in the 1980s and he broke the country, gave them the highest inflation in the world. He now is living on the momentum of the past two presidents; Garcia in history will be forgotten like the thieves that are now robbing freely, the poor and hardworking folks of Peru, will wash their hands of him.

Can we afford Obama?

2008-06-01T10:20:00.000-07:00

Do we dare with—Obama?

Obama is not the right person for President, period. Why? We judge a person by whom he hangs around with, what is said, and if he stays in the same house with the person he says is doing wrong, and we so judge this person accordingly. It took him a long time for him to make that decision, with a lot of apologies in between to leave his church domain. We judge everyday, ever decision we make. To be frank, none of the three candidates are fit for office, but I fear Obama, is the worse of the worse, Clinton, whom I do not favor either is the best of the worse. This of course is my opinion. But I have looked, as the nation has looked closely at his background, as we should, and what he says, and where he came from, and where he goes, and who he hangs around with, and found him needing. He regrets he has had a negative relationship with a church recently, that is recently, I wonder what that church has talked about for the last twenty years, it by their own tongue, anti white, anti everything but Muslim and black, so it seems, and under the roof of Christianity “Wherefore, if I come, I will remember his deeds which he doeth, prating against us with malicious words: and not content three with, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and forbade them that would, and cast them out of the church.” (Epistle of John) they talk it, they salute it, and all in the name of Jesus Christ. They scorn Clinton, as if she should be hated, “But he that hate his brother is in darkness, and walks in darkness, and know not whither he goes, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.” (1 John). God gave to John a message he said, “…try the spirits see if they are of God: because false prophets are gone out into the world.” This is Obama’s church in a nutshell.
I hate to tell them, but Christ was not black, nor was he white, he was Jewish, and we know what a Jew looks like, do we not, and what comes out of the mouth comes from the heart, and so we know the heart of the church, and perhaps a good portion of the heart of Obama. On the other hand, he has a slight bend to the Muslim agenda. On one hand this is seen as a gift, for both sides of the world, on the other it is very suspicious—like taking his middle name out of his full name, and not exposing the fact his father is Muslim, they had to pry it out of him, because he wants to hide the fact for the present, until he makes president, he is of the Muslim code, or could be. Even Satan can go into a church and bend his knees with the rest of the crowd, and walk out smiling. It does not mean he is for Christ, his ways his heart. And one cannot afford to guess who is sitting in the White House.
He is pro gun control. If he could, and he may have the chance to, he’d take the guns away from everyone in America, everyone that is, but his bodyguards. Perhaps he will also join the International Court that will end the active role for our military around the world as a superior power, tie their hands. Also, he will give the United Nations all they want, at the expense of the American Tax payer, now we give twenty-billion of our money to feed the empire of the UN, while our own unfed, remain unfed. This would pull the rug from under the chair right out from the poor.
He has never served a day in the military, and I do not think is qualified, to control the military, why should we give him control of something he knows nothing about. It is like giving a backyard car mechanic, the go ahead to fix the 747 Jet at the international airport, whom will carry all the food, arms, money, and congress to its next destination. I spent eight years in active duty, one in war. And he wants to be Commander and Chief, where is his qualifications, in this area I would and could make better decisions, and I do not feel qualified. God help us all, if he is president.

Sharon Stone and the Big Boys from China

2008-05-31T16:56:00.000-07:00

Sharon Stone
and the Big Boys from China

I liked Sharon Stone when she didn’t apologize for her so called unspoken remarks, now a mistake she says, by telling the Chinese they got what they deserved from God, for trying to hurt the Dalai Lama, you see she was perhaps mostly right, God does throw stones in our pathway to get our attention. The reason China doesn’t understand this, is because China is not an advocate of or for God’s opinion, they really do not care one way or the other about God, they just want to be God; so they blame it on someone they can’t bully, who does believe in God. They do not see the wrongs they are doing. Sharon, I think should have stuck to her guns, she had some wisdom to share. It is sad that so many lives have been lost in China’s earth quake, but that is beside the point, I mean China has been said to have killed over a million Tibetans thus far, since 1959. Does China think God is going to reward them for killing over one million Tibetans up to date, or by trying to bully Taiwan? If I was God, and I am not, that earthquake would be right up my ally, I mean it would be something I’d use to get their attention; the peoples attention. I am sure her manager is sorry, she said what she said, he will lose some money over this, China will expel Sharon’s advertisements, and there you go a few million in endorsements down the Yangtze. Is everything about fame and fortune, I mean don’t we say what we mean, or only say what you want they want to hear. There is a price, in such things, and we have to count that before we say what we say, and Sharon meant every word I’m sure, and even her apology did no good, because China is not a forgive god, they will stop, not allow their people to buy her products, so she apologized for nothing, and in the process lost her respect. I respected her much more, for what it is worth, and not much in paper money, but it sure beats being a puppet for the regime.

Sharon was not blaming the people of China, per se, only the Government, and when a government is allowed to do what China does, perhaps God does look down and is saying: let my people go, let them be free, let Tibet breath. But a robber is never satisfied with what they got, if they know they can take more by force what you can’t secure. China now is in the Japanese sea, taking Japanese oil, and a debate is underway right now. China is in Kazakhstan, building an oil pipe line, and Russia is not happy, but does China care, I doubt it. China is selling their mechanize on through the WTO, that the United States help them become a member of, and now is undermining Europe and America, flooding the world with cheap labor items, and building a nuclear arsenal with the receipts, while spying and getting technology on and from the US. China will not let the world have Taiwan, officials as guests in their own countries, and the USA is one who goes along with it like Sharon has just did, shame on both of them.
So when Sharon Stone says: maybe God has had his fill of China for a while, or enough is enough of their meddling and insults, I want there attention, well maybe she’s right, he did send an earthquake. And to be quiet frank, I think China better look at what Sharon said, all those trimmers in-between is perhaps God trying to clear his throat, and when he does, I want to be far away.

China says: No Meddling (why?)"

2008-05-10T08:50:00.000-07:00

China says: No Meddling!

China says for all the folks in the world, “No meddling,” they are at this juncture referring to Burma, and I say Burma, because the country is still legally Burma, but why would China say that? Although it has been their policy for ages, actually, not until right after WWII, is when they formed that police. It sounds like a good philosophy, but coming from China, and referring it the Burma makes a person stop and think. This morning I woke up and this of all things was on my mind. I thought it was like someone saying, leave the fly that is caught in the spiders web alone; no meddling, we’ll talk to the spider about it later.
Recently they, meaning China, was sending arms to Zimbabwe, and said the same thing, and I thought why are they not looking at the harm they may do at this particular time, I mean we have again the spider and the fly, and the flies are caught in a big spider web and being beaten for their resistance. Perhaps they are like one another, you know: one like one, or as they say: two peas in a pod.
I am getting a little analytical, in a philosophical way, and I should just say what is on my mind I suppose. Zimbabwe as we know it, is of course being run by a gang a thugs now (Like North Korea), by an illegal government at the moment, and its form of Democracy, is simply a cover up— hypocrisy. Nothing new, everyone knows this.
Burma, is run by a group of Generals, that were not elected to the government (a takeover after WWII); a gang, a group of thugs. Usually the longer you stay in power the world comes to the point of legitimizing you as the official government, in this case: half of the world has, the other half has not.
We see this in Cuba also, where the people fought for a cause, and got eaten by the spider in the process. As it was in Haiti, and in several African countries, besides Zimbabwe, happening at this very moment, and yes, as we see in China.
China is run by a group of thugs, who took over after WWII, and if they did not say what they do say nowadays “No meddling,” they have to listen to the world scorn them. They have become legitimized, even got the Vatican listening to their echoes. Matter-of-fact, they got the World brainwashed to believe Tibet is part of their legitimized government. They will say, Tibet was once part of China, and they are right, it was, five-hundred years ago, and they broke away: but that is like saying: Alaska is was part of Russia, fifty-years ago, and Russia now coming to claim her back, now! And Russia might have tried, if she could, like China is doing, because she can. So for them to say, “No Meddling,” is only to reinforce their illegal government, selected by a coup d'état.
China knows, as well as North Korea, Burma, Cuba and Zimbabwe keep the people fooled, degraded, poor, for it is easy to lead the unlearned the uninspired, the broken willed, to water and make them drink. With the wise, it is easy to bring them to the water, but hell to make them drink it. They also know, with isolation, you can fool the masses easier than trying to fool the well traveled. It is all a game, to these kinds of people, games with humanity. And they have what they say in Peru: no shame, or no blood in their faces. So you cannot really talk to them, you go to show—and it is no love they are looking for.

War: Bush’s Billions, and Billions and Billions!

2008-05-04T10:38:00.001-07:00

For the war games the following year, spring to spring (2008-2009), it will cost American taxpayers $178-billion dollars, making the total almost one Trillion-dollars for the two wars we got going on, since 2001, in the Middle East. There is something wrong here… $178-billion dollars, what can we do with that money back home? First we could pay off our debts; restore the dollar, help people with heat issues this coming winter, help them with gas issues this summer. Help feed the old, and restore Social Security to a ripe old system to what it used to be. So many things we can do, but we are throwing it away on a dead horse. The oil rich countries do not care about their brothers, why do we? Democracy is an over used ward over there, and used quite a lot by the rich here in America, trying to get their hands on those contracts (to rebuild a country we destroyed by our bombs, and now feel we got to bring air conditioners and everything under the sun to appease them for our victories), these contracts, go through Washington D.C., from all over the world—hand picked by our elected—they can smell the money from the UN to the EU, to and through China, all wanted a share of the bottomless war bank. Yes, in war time, the rich get richer, it is a Republican play, and at the end, everyone gets a share of the goodies, except the taxpaying poor and middle class, and the soldiers doing the dying for what? –Democracy? Come on now, we all know better, tell that to the dying. How about our national security? I doubt it has a once of truth to that anymore. With that kind of money going out, we can build a better security system for Americans back home. Whoever passes these out of whack bills, I hope you remember them, on Election Day. No wonder nobody wants our money, it’s becoming no better than toilet paper, even Peru they are avoiding using it for business transactions nowadays, although you can still buy a hamburger or so with it.

Hillary Clinton: Iran Don't Dare! And Big win in Penn...

2008-04-22T22:52:00.000-07:00

Hillary Clinton: Iran Don’t Dare! And big win in Penn…

I really have not been too confused on whom to vote for; this is my third article on the subject. I like to own guns, and I was in the military for eight years, and three years in the reserves, making it eleven years. And I never have liked the selection we had for our next president, but Hillary did something today I was very proud of, something President Bush didn’t have the guts to do, or any other president that I can remember except Eisenhower, and that was to tell Iran: we can, and we will obliterate you, should you try to do so to Israel. Perhaps a lot of folks do not like that kind of talk, but I like a persons cards on the table. Let them know what you are up against. If I was Hillary I’d say the same thing to North Korea, let them know the deadly force behind the soft spoken American voices. They know we can if we want, but somehow they forget we will, if we have to. North Korea has threatened the South with obliteration, as Iran has with Israel. It is only fair to let them know: have you forgotten these are our allies? What has happened to our man-guts, say what you mean, and mean what you say.

Hillary has won the election in Pennsylvania, and perhaps well deserved, she has come a long way, and was not a quitters, as I saw a few other candidates were, whom I wanted to vote for, and they let me down and ran like chickens to wherever, I’m glad they did, they don’t deserve my vote. I kind of liked Obama, until he got a little arrogant, and cocky, and wants to take the guns away; I really do not think Hillary will win the whole show, but she could surprise me. My prediction would be, Obama, will not win either in the long run, he wants to take the guns away, and is ashamed of his middle name, and that arrogant side of him, I can’t stand; and the more he talks the more I turn away from him and say: he’s a mistake, never has a solid answer. On the other hand, Hillary might bring the boys home from Iraq, everyone promises this and that and when it comes time to do it, they don’t, but I do believe Hillary does not want to spend another 100-billion on the war, so she is the best chance for that, as far as cheap gas goes, she might bring it around, but we will not have it for long, we are running out of it. Plus she is tougher than I thought. Even McCain, didn’t have enough guts to back down Iran—or let them know what we can, and will do.
So congratulations Hillary on you win and perhaps your nomination as Democratic candidate—to be. I have voted Republican the last two times, or is it three, I forgot, I think it is time for a Democrat.

Oil: A world Crisis Coming (soon)

2008-04-22T10:54:00.000-07:00

Oil: a World Crisis

I don’t think anyone really wants to read this article, but I think they should, we got a growing world crisis on hand. I will not live to see it all the way through most likely, but the younger generation wills, those just under me by
Twenty years, and I’m 60-years old, the beginning of the crisis will start in 2010, yes soon. And by 2020, it will be a full fledged crisis, and by 2040, it will be black Sunday or close to it—empty. Let me explain the world oil crisis to the best of my knowledge, and I am not an oil expert, nor do you or me need to be, but I am learned in reading and writing, and can read the signs of the times, and graphs pretty well. So the data I am going to supple is pretty up to date stuff.

From the year 1997, we have perhaps (claimed anyway) 40-years of oil left underground in the world—depending on a few items, and looks like there will not be any conservation in the near future. The reason we got 40-years of oil, and not 30-years oil is because from 1980 to 1990 the world conserved oil, 50-billion barrels of oil. We did something right for once.
According to the Ph.D.’s in the oil business out there we have a 40,000-million-barrels (4 BBO/year x 10 years) (BBO =Billion Barrels of Oil)), that world oil production can and will use, beyond this, there is no more. From 1930 to 1997, we used 838-billion barrels of oil.
OPEC produces for the world about 10-billion barrels of oil a year, and they want to up that in the next few years. The world uses about 25-billion barrels a year. So you can see the future at this rate will hit a zenith of usage by 2010, over 30+ billion barrels a year. We must remember there is not an endless supply.
In 1979, the world used 64 MMBD (Million Barrels of Oil a Day), by 2010 it will be 85 MMBD. By 2020, if we do not conserve at 35 MMBD, we are going into a vortex of some kind of unthinkable crisis, we will have to conserve, be forced to, a barrel may be over 300+ by that time. I do not drive while in Lima, or Huancayo Peru: WHY? To conserve, plus it is cheaper to use a taxi or bus. Thus, I can buy more food.
What I am really saying is this: we are going to witness soon something beyond the world’s experience, and it is later than you think; government’s best plan on an oil supply crisis, not trying to figure out how to land on Mars. We got to figure out how to live the next generation out.

The question I somewhat answered previously, I will make clear again: when will worldwide oil demand exceed global oil supply, this question is overlook by everybody in the business, and its users, but I see a prediction date at 2010-2014.
I do not want to blame any country or anybody for the coming crises, these pointing fingers is not going to do any good, nor solve the problem. We all can come up with good reasons for sucking the earth dry of oil, but my suggestion is, let the big boys figure this out, and figure it out soon, so the well doesn’t go dry before you get to the gas station.
If we were to add future discoveries of oil, it would look insignificant, but we can look at it, perhaps two-billion barrows a year will be discovered, so the experts say, and this can be stretched out for 60-years, but it really doesn’t change much. At the rate we are going now, 85-billion barrels a year, it is two and half years of oil, and that is “if” we find new oil. And at this point, you will be able to buy the gas station building for a full tank of gas.

Zimbabwe: Democracy at its Worse

2008-04-21T20:01:00.000-07:00

Zimbabwe: Democracy at its Worse

I don’t know what is going to happen over this election in Zimbabwe, the world knows Robert Mugabe lost the election; he now wants to have a recount in over 20-districks, this is democracy at its worse, matter-of-fact a mockery of democracy. Leaders and countries of leaders use the word loosely to get world support nowadays, when in essence it is a dictatorship, and the only thing Mugabe is doing, is going through the motions. The past results have yet to be released. I know all this is old news, but it just needs to be retold before I give my opinion, and of course that is exactly what it is, my way of thinking, and perhaps, a few others.
China is no friend to human rights either in Zimbabwe, and they better hope Mugabe wins because if he doesn’t, the new leader will remember the shipment of arms they are sending to kill more Zimbabwe’s (and China wants to look pretty to the world, what a way to do it).
Now for my opinion; the United Nations, and the EU and USA, they all like the word Democracy, and for ten-years, Zimbabwe has been parading that word around the world, around like they own it, proud of it. This is supposed to be the United State’s goal, or so it seems, for countries, to try on Democracy, a government by the people for the people; whom you elect, is what you get, and if you get what you don’t want, because it turns out bad, well, you made a bad choice, you got to live with it. Now I’m no Einstein, but I can figure out this one I think. If I did all I could to play the game right, and democracy turned out not to work, and you end up with the same guy you tried to get rid of, who uses the word Democracy, but does not go along with it—and uses deadly force to keep his grips onto his throne, and the world says “He’s a bad boy, now wait for five years, or ten more years and try a new democratic election,” what would you say?
I know what I’d say…stick it buddy where the sun don’t shine.
Why, because it doesn’t work, and no one came to our rescue, only gave us lip service. Thus, you now have created a rebel group, to fight the government, and now the illegal government, and other nations are going to call it a terrorist group in time, which it is no. It is kind of like trying to convert someone to Christianity, and when he sees how bad the Christians act, like the priests have recently in the Holy Church in Jerusalem—fist fighting over a prayer spot, you say to yourself: I think I’ll stay with my old religion, or try to find something else, but you do not join the sect that is fighting—you just lost respect for it, right or wrong, the actions of the priests speak loud and clear of their hearts.
So to the politicians of Democracy, if you do not get rid of the weeds in Zimbabwe, you may never have another chance for it to bud into a democracy again.

The Government of Peru! Anti People Orientated

2008-04-18T14:19:00.000-07:00

The Government of Peru! Anti People Orientated

I’ve been t, or in, Peru nine times, lived there for two years in one stretch, and I’ve yet to understand their way of thinking, but it looks to me they are far from being society orientated for the people, rather for the government. The people are warm, but they will rob you in a blink of an eye. The Government is the host to all this robbery, they do little about it (and you can buy your way out of anything, a reckless driving ticket will cost you $6.), no wonder they say Peru is the most corrupt country in South America, it is true. Sorry to say but the government is cold towards their own people. They have the highest telephone bills in all South America, why I don’t know, but someone is getting rich off the poor. They have all these natural resources, oil, and natural gas, and the gas prices are sky high, and the people in the mountains and small villages, that have no source of security or money to buy heat have to fend for themselves. An example is, the government will send those folks blankets, why not gas heaters, and natural gas, like the rich folks in Lima, who really do not need them half as much? It is cold in the Andes in winter. And for the policing, they pay taxes, yet it is up to the community to keep the village safe, unless you want less then less, and the Government spends millions on trying to make Machu Picchu look pretty, and what do they do with the pretty money?
The last three presidents have been said to have robbed the country blind, and the one they got now, ran to Paris for ten-years—lived pretty good, after he brought the country to its knees, with 1000% inflation, and now is walking around like a peacock because his country is doing well, and he thinks it is his doings: it is doing well because Bush is doing bad, and the previous two presidents, Fujimori took care of the bad guys, and Toledo, took care of the economy, Garcia, the now president, takes care of his stomach, he is as large as a whale, and does little more—the best I can say for him is he has started an education program, thank goodness, 14-year olds could previously, teach the teachers, and this is not a joke, they are now failing the tests to be reissued a teachers license and the tests have been passed by pre college students, some at the age of 14.
In addition, Garcia took away the pensions of thousands of people trying to retire under the old law, thus making a new one; the problem with this is, people over 40 in Peru, cannot find a job, the government does not have a policy where the company or employer has to hire you equally, they take the young, and throw the old in the gutter, no matter what they know and can do. The old pension policy, helped with people being able to retire early, in such cases, now they starve to death, or rob the neighbor. The people have caught on to this, and are of cause helpless, and so they take the law into their own hands, since there is no law, nor relief, and corruption breeds’ corruption.

President Garcia says he wants to fight corruption in Peru, I’ve found out in my time in Peru, he’s been more the problem, than the solution. Perhaps he feels he did his penitence in Paris, the past ten-years, after robbing the country blind, and running from the law, until the statue of limitations ran out. Anyhow, in San Juan Miraflores, where I live, and know the Mayor, a district of Lima, 340,000 residents, for the city is between 5 to 8 million, depending on how much of the city you want to put into the gamut of data. Here, if you go to the municipality, for a complaint, they will try to do everything to keep you away from the Mayor. If your district says you can build a four story building, for $3000-dollars you can build an illegal fifth floor (how do I know this, the owner of a building is building his fifth floor right as I write this now, up the block from my house, I talked to him how much he had to slip the clerk), just do not let the Mayor know; the whole construction area is plagued with illegal activity, as is the police force. I can’t say the Mayor is, but his people that work for him are.
Matter of fact, they send out bogus bills for $250-dollars if you do not show your tax forms on time (house tax); if you cannot show them the past ten-years of your taxes also, you have to pay in addition to the $250 fine, ten-years back taxes on your house, or from the day you built it. And if you do not pay, they put it on your house taxes, which then, the house can be taken away with in a matter of months or years, it is up to them. And they got your taxes anyhow in the file next to them, but legally, they do not have to pull open the drawer, and they don’t.

China vs. Cafferty

2008-04-17T16:15:00.001-07:00

Now the Chinese are mad because someone has spoken up about their government, trying to silence CNN’s commentator, Cafferty, the only one to call a spade a spade. Like the Muslims, who fear freedom of speech, and demand the world look at them through unrealistic plastic eyes, now China does the same. Pretty soon, America will have to shut up, and say nothing about anything. Cafferty said in essence, we buy all their junk (Chinese trinkets he means), and we do (as they hold billions of our dollars and buy arms for the World War Three), and he adds, they are really a bunch of gangsters running the Government, and it is pretty much towards the truth, the only difference is, they have become legitimate over the past fifty years, but that is what they were when they started out—much like Saddam in Iraq, and Castro in Cuba. Much like most of South America, and Central America, and Cambodia, and—well I could go on and on; China wants us to look the other way when it comes to Taiwan, and Tibet, as does Venezuela, and Zimbabwe, and Iran and Syria. Should we? It is really something we all talk about anyhow, we just do not have the means to get on TV and make it public. I go from store to store, in Lima, Peru, or in St. Paul, Minnesota, and what do I see, exactly what Cafferty says he sees, junk we call it, but again it is little trinkets, China has flooded the market with such items, like Japan did fiftey-years ago.
The movie that has recently been the talk of the decade, about Muslims, really only shows what they’ve done, why in heavens name is it so bad to watch; it was all shown on TV long ago, it simple is a wakeup call on what they did, and could do again, and are doing at this very moment—I have Muslim and Jewish friends, and Christian friends so what, and I have black friends, so what, and I have Chinese friends, so what. And all my friends talk about fixing America, not China, or the Middle East, or Israel; they talk about America—again so what.
My advice to China and the Muslim world, clean up you act up, if you want a clean bill of health. I never saw such silliness in my life, where a country cries over remarks that are almost right on the center. China and many of the Middle Eastern countries have their populations brainwashed—we all know this, this is no new revelation, they only tell what they want them to know, and when they find out the truth, which the nation is trying to hide, then the Governments get made at the Western media for exposing their devilish deeds: so must we hide our heads like in a hole like an ant eater to appease them? This is a new world order, and it will get harder and harder to hid such devilish acts unless you become a part of North Korea, where all you can do is look across the dividing line to the South and wish, and go back to your hidden society.
Incidentally, when I was in China, I bought the Chinese English paper, and they cut down America and its people scornfully—publicly. And I doubt they have stopped, so China clean your house out first, before you start pointing fingers.

Obama, He’s starting to sound—lacking!

2008-04-13T15:16:00.000-07:00

The more I hear of Obama lately, the less I like him. What comes out of the mouth comes from the heart. Now he down grades small town folks. In addition, He also believes no one should have a gun but the robbers, and those protecting him. What next? I don’t care for any of the candidates to be frank, and so I got to pick the best out of the worse, and so far the best plan to get out of Iraq, is Hillary, and she I do not think will dare try to take our guns away—Obama believes the second amendment is his, and only his to own, that is called vanity. McCain will drain the country dry and leave our Americans in Iraq until they blow a gasket inside their heads, like Bush has. So we have Cancer, Aids and Ulcers to choose from, not a good selection. I hate all this “I’m sorry,” business if I offended this or that party or group— “…Forgive me!” It sounds like we got a bunch of backyard uneducated kids running for office; say what you mean, and mean what you say, or don’t say anything, you look better that way. Obama is even ashamed of his middle name because it is Arab. If the Teamsters have any dignity, they will not help Obama, if so they will be robbing from their votes, their Union that is—in the future. When Obama gave his speech on how he was going to deal with Iraq, I think he was the only one that could figure his own humdrum speech out, I couldn’t. It sounded to me like he was trying to butter both sides of his bread at the same time, tap dancing in the middle of the floor around everybody. Say what you mean, and mean what you say, don’t hide in the corner and try to figure out your next move, but be upfront, and you will not have to have a good memory.

Even James Dobson has expressed disappointment with this selection of candidates for president. How we ever ended up with these is beyond me. It has been said, the Democratic nominee battle will weaken the chance to take on the presumptive Republican candidate, Sen. John McCain. First of all I think they are badly mistaken, Hillary and Obama are getting a lot of show time, costly and free. No one really knows McCain’s agenda for the future, and what little we do no, is not good, so this is a gift for the two fighters Hillary and Obama. If Hillary wins, I do not think it will be much of a fight with McCain, if Obama wins, it will be a fight to the end, both are unpredictable, and I doubt could run a country. With Hillary, we get Bill free, at least he kept our heads above water.

Searching for Victory in Iraq

2008-04-11T17:18:00.000-07:00

I read the other day, President Bush is the only one with a plan of escape from the Iraqi war, and it is an individual one—for him alone on January 20, 2009, when he leaves office. How can he have gotten all into another Vietnam, and he did. The sad thing is, as in Vietnam, we won the war, but lost the peace. Why? There is a reason; it is called rules of engagement. Wars only have rules for mighty, when they fight the less mighty. Rules are really silly; they get in the way of victory. Who ever says to the victory “You fought dirty,” after they lost the war? No one dares.
So now what could we do to win the peace for Iraq—this should be the question? The same thing we didn’t do in Vietnam, we are doing now, let me explain.
In Vietnam, we were afraid to blow Hanoi off the map, had we, we would have won the war and peace; Hanoi on the other hand, cried to the world, how unfair America was, then when we left, they jumped on the bandwagon, and screamed how they chased America away with their might; far from the truth, of course.
If we got rid of Iran (likened to Hanoi), 60% of our problem would be solved. Syria would hide its head like a stork, and we could get on our way with making peace, not sure why were we are still there anyhow, but if making peace is the thing, then this is surely part of the program that needs to be looked at—I say let them make their own peace. The only good thing that came out of this war was ridding the world of Saddam: other than that, we should not be there.
My suggestion is leave, we won the war, and it is not the duty of the victor to renovate their whole country. A friend of mine said to me the other day, in Lima Peru that Peru should go to war with America, because we’d then get a new facelift, free.
In any case, if we are not willing to invade Iran, and start up another war, to stop the war in Iraq, we are simply drying ourselves out, likened to prunes or weeds in a once beautiful garden. Get hold of Israel, and invade with them, I think they’d be more than happy to assist us, or do it alone, but do it and deal with public opinion later.
It is a shame what is happening in Iraq today. A whole nation living in a state of panic, families being destroyed, and for what, because of a president’s pride, or a nation’s lack of resolve to go to the full course, and finish the job.
Former President Carter wants to talk to Hamas, and Iran, let him do so, it can’t hurt, better policy than flexing muscles you don’t use anyhow.
We are going to end up with a sick generation because of toll this is having on our youth. Fighting a war is easy compared to trying to baby-sit a nation that wants only your pocket book, and willing to die youth.

Jill Sawitt's China Get Serious Policy (seen on CNN)

2008-04-10T10:23:00.000-07:00

Jill Sawitt, puts it in the proper perspective on her CNN article: “…the Olympics are a necessary forum for political speech.” She goes on to say: “The Olympic Charter says, ‘The goal of Olympism is to place sport at the service of the harmonious development of man, with a view to promoting a peaceful society concerned with the preservation of human dignity."’ And adds, China, in fact, has used the Games as a blunt political tool for 50 years, denying athletes from Taiwan the right to participate. Also she adds ‘The right to protest and the ability to assemble and speak freely are some of the most basic human rights. The free exercise of these rights is what separates, in many cases, democracies from dictatorships. To call for a cessation of protests is to deny those basic rights and all they represent.’ So good for Jill, I am for her powerful words. Her end sentence is: The question is not, ‘Should protests be tied to the Olympics?" The question is, "Why aren't more people raising their voices?"’

Mr. Wang’s Chinese Sunshine Policy

2008-04-09T19:47:00.000-07:00

L. Ling-chi Wang, I read his article on CNN today, and how un- empathetic can a man be. He scolds the world for protesting against the Chinese for their aggressive ways with Tibet, and other countries, and points the finger at others countries that are hypocrites for the way they live—yes, he likes to point fingers, but does not want them pointed at China. What is really happening is that Mr. L. Ling-chi Wang, the world is seeing China for what it is, and China is embarrassed, shameful, and should be, as any country that hogties another people, puts them under their heal should be. He wants everyone to leave China alone, and let the Olympics go as planned; but this is perhaps the only opportunity Tibet will get for showing their case of persecution to the world, so how can he blame them. China uses every opportunity to lie to the world about this and that, it is Tibet’s turn. No one like’s equal aggressive play…they like to have the upper hand all the time, well not this time Wang. This is really a good chance for China to see how the world sees them (if the care they will take this to heart and clean up their act), not how they see the world, for China sees the world as an opportunity to build up an equal arsenal to threaten Taiwan and let the United States know they are equal in arms, so stand back; it is just a matter of time when the Chinese will come with the big bat and proclaim to Taiwan and the US, it is time to fight or back off. And I suppose he is secure in his home, and should he have to live under the heal of the Chinese like the Tibetans, he’d have a different story to tell, they all do. And yes we get a lot of trinkets from China, not sure why he puts that into his article, things we don’t really need that we can buy from another country, at any local dime-store. If anything, China should be grateful we are buying and employing their 1.3 billion people. Mr. Wang would have us all put tape over our months and pretend nothing is happening. If China goes into hibernation, as he indicates it might over this, well, so be it, and it is the price you have to pay when you open the doors to the world: everyone has paid that price, why is China different. You can’t have a picnic on dead bodies without some kind of disruption, unless you try like China did to hide the fact they are who they really are, aggressive and dominating to the Tibetans. He badmouths the United States over Iraq, and he and China have a right to do that, and I doubt the United States is going to hid its head in a hole over it, and let’s hope the war in Iraq stops by all the protests we are now having, and let’s hope, China stops playing the bully to Taiwan, and Tibet, and it if goes into a hole and hides its head, who cares anyhow, they will have to find another way how to steal American technology to build their war machine.

Iraw, Death Row (4-2008)

2008-04-08T15:14:00.000-07:00

Iraq, Death Row

Iraq has taken a superpower, with all its resources and drained it dry, likened to an empty soup bowl, and for what? We won a war, that should be good enough, but no one will win a peace over there. We are doing exactly what the enemy wants, draining, draining and draining, our nation’s assets, at a cost for a broken down, ungrateful waistband of a nation.
Most Americans do not know why we are over there, and neither do our leaders and I doubt the President has a good reason anymore himself. Unless he uses the old philosophy of fight there or in our country, which has long lost its getup and go; it no longer makes any sense.
America is in a recession, the dollar is next to worthless in the world around America, the will of the soldiers are nil, and numbing of many families, what on earth does the president expect the American people to do with such humdrum leadership.
Every week 40-soldiers die for a country that prays each night we leave theirs. We spend 3-billion dollars a day of our tax money, or perhaps we are just printing it up, like toilet paper, and no wonder no one wants the dollar any more—we could be using it for better reasons; I am lead to believe the president of the United States needs some kind of shock therapy to get him back to reality. I am an 11-year veteran, and Vietnam veteran, and this is a sorry case of misleadership; I have to believe the President is sane, and therefore it has to be for the rich to get richer with the contracts they are getting from the government, and the banking industry, which could careless if a soldier or two dies for their greater cause of power vs. control, except if it is there sons going to war.

Waiting for the Antichrist!

2008-03-30T13:42:00.000-07:00

—Global volcanism & WWIII (Watch the Antichrist on TV)

Everyday we seem to be on the edge of World War Three, from the war that just about took place in South America between three countries, Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador; China wanting to slowly weed out the blood of Tibet subjecting them to live in a rats nest, and telling the world to stand back and watch. Russia trying to tell the world Kosovo has a right to be under slavery and the hate of Belgrade; North Korea telling the South, they will burn them to ashes if they do not bow and talk nice to them, and Iran, Syria trying to eradicate Israel, and slowly bombarding Iraq to submission.
Where will the spark be? It perhaps will not be the first spark that ignites WWIII, but the second (in essence we are in the first stages of WWIII now, it is just the spark we are waiting for).
Those who promise to use the big bomb and have it, most likely will. I don’t blame Japan or South Korea for its concerns over those who have the ability, to harm them, because it is always hanging over their heads, and can and will the USA get its self involved with a nuclear country over a non nuclear country’s first strike, or take over because of a potential first strike, perhaps they would have in the last century, but I doubt this new century they will, plus, we are not as strong as we were eight years ago, and everybody knows it—and we are stretched to our limits worldwide, and do not have the capability of fighting a third war while the other two are going on (Iraq and Afghanistan).
So the first spark will come from a third world country I think, trying to prove they are a big world player, with a country with conventional capabilities, is my guess; it is like the robber, they seek out the weaker ones to rob—like Iraq who warred with Kuwait. Like Cuba wanted Russia to teach America a lesson, so many years ago, at Russia’s expense—by using it nuclear capabilities.
And so we live by hanging onto a thread, and putting out little fires before the big one comes, actually, simply avoiding the unavoidable for another day.
The United States will get hit most likely before this decade is out (biochemical or something worse, let’s hope something less), and all the officials know it, that is why they have second homes in the Caribbean, Europe, Central and South America. That is why they got their money in banks that are out of reach of the IRS, and out of the country. America is the safest and strongest, and best country in the world, but the world is not as it used to be, it envies too much, before it was everyone’s dream to get there, now it is everyone’s dream to be like them, while living in their own countries, and if need be, hurt the country you so envy.
Israel is right, they know other countries will used people as bombs, those who have deadly diseases, or wishful thinking of being a hero and going to heaven with a dozen woman, and wine once you give up your life for their cause. That is why Israel is still standing tall. America needs to incorporate some of Israel’s decisiveness.
When America sinks, the world will feel the ripple effect, and be subjugated into a world power, so confining they will think China and Tibet are blossom buddies, which we know they are far from it.

—So who are we looking for? The dictator of course, and who is he? A TV personality—most likely; he will be able to master mind the media, and capable of drawing loyalty to him from all walks of life. His every move will be monitored, and he will know all there is to know abut military weaponry, and he will know economics, have a great political mind, and spiritual sense, for the world will be ready for him in all areas, low in economics, high in worry about war. He will step into power for these purposes, to stabilize everything (he will be the Antichrist, satanic influenced).
During this time, he will kill, or starve to death his victims, persecution will be rampant. We will all see him on satellite television. We can even see in the Bible, in prophecy where TV will be used: Revelation Chapter 11: the Antichrist will be seen at once by the whole world, this was written 2000-years ago. This is only one indication the Antichrist is on his way. Plus, this was not possible fifty-years ago. And so we see the Biblical timetable at its end-time events (Revelation 6). War, famine, pestilence will all occur before the actual Great Tribulation. It will seem like the end of everything, but it will not be.
—Global volcanism, the inner parts of the earth will fill the atmosphere, sunlight disappear, or reduced to such a low it will be very cold, no crops (several volcanoes will erupt). Food stores in the USA have only about five days supply of food, should this happen tomorrow. This means population relocation on an international scale, and mass starvation. If nuclear warfare has not started with the spark, it will now start with a chain reaction.
—We do not need psychics and prophets to tell us what will take place, it will be obvious, there will be changes in the geography of our planet, within this cataclysmic time, a pole shift perhaps. I really think we are overdue, living on borrowed time. My projection is 2016-19, and a projection is just that, not a prediction. When everything is in alignment

Note: The author has studied eschatology, at Liberty University during the early 1980s, working on his Masters Degree, and finds doing an article now and then in this area rewarding.

Two Foolish Presidents of the Americas (Bush & Garcia)

2008-03-23T18:37:00.001-07:00

How will Bush Be Remembered?

How will President George W. Bush, go down in history, be remembered? Perhaps as a hero for the two wars he fought, and actually won, if you consider war and winning the battles, and putting the country under his fingertips the goal: which he did in his first five years in office. But since then, he has been nothing but a nuisance, and brought the country, the USA to near broke, brought our armed forces to a decaying military power in the world. He used all the power and money the last three presidents provided for him, and whoever gets the presidency now will get a country hanging on strings, and for that he has played the fool, and gets a badge of folly for that. It is a shame, but pride comes before destruction and most Americans, if not the world in general can’t wait for him to get out of office, for surely his pride has gotten the better of him these past three years, and the only folks that have gained are the banks, the republican banks, and war contractors, which is a good reason I suppose to keep a silly war going.
President Garcia of Peru who has produced nil for his country or people, but runs around like a peacock, neck stretched to the clouds and tells his people the great job he is doing, and he has done nothing, it was the previous two presidents that secured the economy and gotten rid of the terrorist, he is lucky, and should thank President Bush for being such a worthless president these past three years—it makes Garcia look good, and the dollar go down, and the value of the soles up, if there was a competent President in the USA now, Garcia would be out of sorts, and Peru in a dry river; Garcia is not all that different than Hugo Chavez, who controls by manipulation at the expense of his countrymen (except Peru still has an ounce of Democracy, and the highest rate in all the Americas for thievery.
Bush has drained the tax paying people of America, and given them nothing in return but two victories in countries that were no stronger than taking candy from a baby. Hannibal knew he could not control Rome if he took it, and he could have taken it: so why use up all your resources at once, he destroyed their will, we should have left it at that.
During this next election, I hope the voters have a good memory when they start picking out the new congress, get rid of the old one, they are too much Bush folks, and have no honor, or respect for the people that have put them in office. We deserve better.

Kangaroo Soup

2008-03-15T15:02:00.001-07:00

Kangaroo Soup

If this doesn’t beat all, one week they, the Australian Government is telling Japan not to kill whales, and now they go and kill 400-kangaroos, don’t they feel a little two-faced about this? If they were to kill them for soup or something, for the Aborigines, perhaps they could justify it, but because they want to keep insects alive and lizards you got to be on some Kangaroo high.
One week folks are killing whales, in the Anarchic, for whale steak, another week they are elephants for their tusks in the name of squeezing too many in to, too little a space, and the third week too many dogs in India, giving too many folks rabies, and they want to kill dogs, and now this, kangaroo via insects and lizards, what next? The animal human rights group must be putting on some miles these past two months.
But back to the premise, is not the Australian Government feeling a bit strange on this matter? Four-hundred kangaroos can make a lot of soup. They are kind though, they will not be shot to death, but a silent injection in the right place will put them to sleep so they never wake up. I would say they are a little kinder than the Japanese Whalers, although it is the same excuse, for the safety or betterment of mankind. We need to stop the pretense, and just be upfront, we like whale steaks, Elephant ivory, and hate nasty dogs, and kangaroos that make a nuisance of themselves.

I put this article under humor because it beats all, it is funny, but only in a logical way, that being, we tell others what to do with killing this and that, and then go home and kill whatever we want in the animal kingdom. It is like complaining about having a fly in your soup, and you get mad at the waitress for it, and go home and eat a dirty camel.

Sen. Barrack Hussein Obama: Muslim or not?

2008-03-11T17:02:00.000-07:00

Sen. Barrack Hussein Obama:
Muslim or not?

Sen. Barack Hussein Obama, a major presidential contender (for 2008), does it matter if he is a Muslim or not? Should it matter? Plus he is Black, should that matter? If you are saying it shouldn’t, why is he hiding or eliminating his middle name (is he not proud of his father’s given name?), and of course, he cannot hide the second one. But is he a Muslim. We all know who the other contenders religion preferences are; but we remain in a mysterious bubble over Mr. Hussein Obama. I know the Islamic world is holding their breath so he is elected, I wonder why? I could not say if Obama was a Muslim some folks say yes, others say no, not sure of anything and that is the problem (and to my understanding, once a Muslim, always a Muslim): should we be worried about this? I’m a Christian, and if I was to be president of Iran, should they worry about me? (Yes!!) That might be on the other side of the coin. Mrs. Ferraro, evidently spoke the unforgivable word, Muslim. Not sure what the hype is, do we learn this secret after he is president, then it is ok to say “I am what I am?” This is far from a race issue; it is a comment, and true one. The American people want to see whom they are voting for; this is not Peru, Russia or China, Iran, whom you find out after the fact. We react to whom we are and our beliefs. We can say all we want about separation of state and religion, but it remains a fabric in our fiber. Obama says he is a Christian, and perhaps we should leave it at that, but if your father was a Muslim, then according to Islamic law, so are you, and to go against that is apostate: so American’s need a clear cut statement, no surprises. So it is an issue that needs to be put to the burner, and put to rest, because Muslims do not think the same way Christians do, especially in decision making, and we are influenced by who we are, and who our parents are.
Not to get off the subject of Osama’s roots, but I doubt either Clinton or Obama will be elected as president, the best choice was for them to run together I think; not that I like the republican side more, but you got to pick someone, the best of the worse, or if it was an illness, cancer or aids, that is what we are coming down to in this presidential election. He has informed the Muslims he will stop the war in Iraq, within 60-days of his elected presidency. Not sure if that is good or bad either, it might help the dollar, and it might kill a lot of Iraqi’s and it might leave a hole for Iran to crawl through to Iraq, and play god.
Perhaps Obama, can denounce Islam like the Pope did; or denounce Islamic law on apostasy as barbaric and anti-American, which is more than truthful, and then I’d feel safer in adding him in to my not so good selection for President of the United States. I wish Rice was running, put this all to rest.

Will, or Can Israel and Palestine succeed in Peace?

2008-03-10T20:56:00.000-07:00

Israel and Hamas - the Islamist group that presently reins over Gaza - seem to be going along with an unspoken agreement to hold fire in and around the Gaza Strip, but will this end? The Lull is a deception, a period in which they can gather more weapons, regroup, and be ready to kill more Jews. I realize Palestinians are dying, but this is a cause, self sacrifice, they already know this; just as they know they can have peace at anytime, but this war, ongoing war is not about peace, it is about eradication, pushing all the Jews out of Israel (taking over Jerusalem) , and/or the Middle East. It is about living up to their doctrine, dogma—not to bend, not to give in, not to ever stop until either they are all dead, or the Jew is. Why does the United Nations, and the United States, and the EU, have a hard time understanding this. Peace is what everyone else wants, so of course, Hamas and the world of the Palestine go along with it, keep their mind on peace while we work our canon. Perhaps it is a conspiracy, but I hate that word, I’d like to think of it as all the common folk in the world is being fooled by the few. It is easier to fool the masses, then a few folks.

The only Solution: It was well put a number of years ago by one of the PLO leaders, and after he made his comments was killed, he said or implied: "The only way this war will be won is if we eradicate the Jews, or they us." And I believe he was the only honest PLO member of the group. Hamas is simply a new name for the old creed "Not to ever give in, and to kill all the Jews." Thus, push them into the Red Sea, or fight until the last standing man.

Life in an Oyster (-a poem for March, 2008)

2008-03-10T17:43:00.000-07:00

Nicaragua—squeezed in somehow, between the wings of
Equator and Venezuela, to bombard Colombia, who killed
The kingpin, terrorist, perhaps number two or three in
The world today, killed him and his entourage (made the
President of America happy) —but the so called friends—
Friends to the terrorist, enemy to America, Peru and Colombia:
Equator and Venezuela: Hugo Chavez creates the problem,
Then solves it, and looks like the hero (of South America).
Terrorism: seeps out of Iran, Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon. Afghanistan
Friends to no man, enemy to all whom will now bow to Islam,
And walk the straight and crooked line of Mohammad.
Mexico hordes the rim of the American boarder, marches down
The streets in America in order, with the Mexican flags, crying rights
Can’t kill a million dogs today in India, human rights say ‘no’
But it’s ok for the dogs to kill 20,000-more citizens in the year of 2008…
by rabies (young children, women and the old), they say
Sterilize them, let them live, and bite until they lose their sight);
How cruel can they be? Human rights or might?
Packs of dogs what next from these busybodies, is whose guess!
They are fighting for the elephants and whales, also, even the
Men in prison, but not the tax paying people of the world.
The war in Iraq and Afghanistan, will cost a trillion dollars soon,
And before it is over, four more, perhaps they’ll shred the dollar
For the Yen, Euro, or Pound, or the Mexican Old Crown.
All is upside Down. The Federal Reserve is printing money
Faster than a mixer for coffee and for what, to devalue the dollar more?
Worthless paper but it buys the groceries at the store. Wars going on
in Africa; Zimbabwe is worse than the dollar, inflation at 24,000-percent,
and 80% of the work forces are out of jobs. The rivers and lakes of the world
are drying up, as the glaciers are receding, and the oceans are roaring,
and in the cafes and restaurants’ in Lima, Peru, everyone is worried about
what next they can steal, as President Garcia eats until he’s so fat,
he can’t bend over to pick up his hat. My world is an oyster, closing up.
Russia is using its oil revenue, to get concessions; worldwide.
And China, has the summer Olympics nearby, as Tibet is screaming
low and high, that Beijing, has shed too much blood in the past fifty-years
or so. President Bush says America is not in a recession,
yet there is not much growth in America’s withholdings;
the house market fell to the dumps, now everyone is running
for unemployment checks. It is time to jump over the humps;
we have already jumped through the hoops. Europe is skittish on
it new part in world affairs, the Euro is worthless, yet the people buy it,
perhaps we area all dumber than we give ourselves credit for.
Hilary Clinton, running for president, and all those others,
what a worthless group to pick from, cannot America find better?
It is only wise to pick the best of the crop, anything
Less, will sicken the stomach, sooner or later.

3-8-2008 #2312

Another Polluted Human Rights Group (Dogs)

2008-03-06T09:44:00.000-08:00

It never fails, these human rights groups run around the world trying to stick their nose into this and that, and know nothing about the problem or the solution, only about, what they feel is ethically correct, no matter who gets hurt. I am talking about the millions of dogs in India. I was in India for a while in 1997, and I walked outside of the hotel, down the black at night to get some fresh air, and within a matter of minutes, no farther then a half block from the hotel, I got cornered by a half dozen hungry big eyed dogs ready to eat me alive, and I picked up some stones, and a Hindu guard from the hotel heard the dogs growling, and came running, and he also picked up some stones, and us two threw them at the ready to charge dogs, and they ran off. Had the man not been there, or asleep, I’d not be here today to write these shallow inept, people who march around he world as if they got a halo over their heads in the name of human rights, to do humankind a service, in most cases they become part of the problem not the solution. I hope India throws these careless, simple minded, unseasoned people out of their country, and instead of killing 100,000-dogs, go for a million, that will so some good, especially with the rabies epidemic there, 100,000-will only put a dent in the problem. I am not heartless; doges can be used for food or fertilizer for the farmer, for a country where people are eating garbage out of the hotels dumpster, or that which is laying on the sidewalks across the streets from many hotels, which I say on a daily bases. In Vietnam, I ate dog stew; it tastes like port, not bad when you are hungry. Perhaps I can come up with a better solution, let the Human Rights folks, feed those 100,000-dogs, with money out of their pockets, problem solved, and the dogs are saved. But they only give lip service to the problem, it is like the Good Samaritan, who walks by the dying man and say: why don’t someone do something about this poor soul, and keeps on walking to his house, and eats a whole chicken.

Victory for Colombia, and praise for its President (Part III)

2008-03-05T18:52:00.001-08:00

Victory for Colombia, and praise for its President

As always, South America looks at the situation, not the problem. And President Garcia of Peru is as always so far behind the scene, he doesn’t know what is on the table. Everyone is looking at South America at what Colombia did, not why. The problem is terrorism, the issues, Equator is allowing them to roost a mile from the Colombia boarder, so they can kill at will, or capture, citizens of the world, and have a home base to run to, a safe haven. On the other hand, Venezuela, and its president has armed the so called enemy FARC. Columba is the hero, but South America like they’ve always been, slaps the hands that fight for freedom, and when it is taken away, they say “What happened,” gullible as they can be, and normally are. Allen Garcia is trembling like a child with measles, that a ripple my fall over his country, when in essence he should be building his armed forces up, the boy scouts of America could win a war with Peru. This is a call to arms, if anything for Garcia, spends a dime and builds the Army, and stops all those parades you have. Everyone around South America is afraid of the terrorist, because of such folks like Hugo Chavez who pray on it, feed it until it becomes a monster, and then calls his friends in the terrorist group up, to let a kidnapped victim go, and is shown as a hero, throughout South America. How foolish can these South American countries be? I’m sure Hugo would like the world to remain focused on Colombia, but Colombia is smart, perhaps the smartest in South America, it is shifting the focus onto the culprit. And as far as war goes, Colombia is in a war with three armies, money from Venezuela, a save haven from Ecuador, and the killing spree from the FARC, now this is the facts, not the bull. Venezuela and Equator should be ashamed of their selves to allow this terrorist group roost on their grounds, and to have presidents support such groups; to me, like Turkey, and Israel have to do to protect their citizens, whom are doing the same thing Colombia has to do, no choice but to go into Equator, if Equator is not going to do a thing about stopping the killers. I have always had a high respect for the people of Venezuela, they treated me with high respect when I was in their country, in 2000, and sorry to have to downgrade it now, but the truth is the truth. The president of Colombia has nothing but praise from me, and I hope he goes in again, and this time destroys all those—friends of Chavez.

Kofi Annan: Man of the Hour (3/2008)

2008-03-04T21:57:00.001-08:00

I really hate to write this article, first of all, I’ve written a hundred articles on this guy in the past several years, and all negative, in the sense I could never find anything good to say about him, because he had done nothing worth saying that was good, a world leader that God only knows how he got to the top of the ladder in the UN.. He lived in my home state for a while and went to one of our local colleges, and then onto the United Nations to make his fame and millions at the expense of others. Well, he has done one good thing in his life, former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, he went to Kenya to put together a peace between the warring sides, humbled himself for once in his life, did not get arrogant for once in his life, and when he saw they did not want peace he said exactly what I would have: if you do not want to work on it, there is nothing I can do for you. And now they have decided to try and put a peace solution together. Perhaps this will atone for all his prior sins, which are countless I would say, but God is a forgiving God, thank god. So I bow to your endeavors Mr. Annan, and am happy you may have done humanity one once of good, after so much garbage you threw our way.

On the same line of thinking, it always makes me think, why people get into positions where they can help people, with the power given them, and they do just the opposite, as if God cannot see their dirty deeds. Is it not enough to make people happy, and get paid for it nowadays, they want them to bow and beg? We live in a world that people are begging to do mankind a service, and once elected become, or try to become little Gods. Annan tried this, as we see in South America many of the presidents of those countries do the same. Happiness is always collective, cooperative, because it is a byproduct, you do something for someone, and you get the happiness. Evidently, this is no longer good enough.

Venezuela & Equador: New Terrorist Countries

2008-03-04T09:17:00.000-08:00

Unbelievable, here is a country, Colombia trying to fight terrorism and killing one of the top dogs in terrorism, and finding the terrorist have a camp one mile from the Colombia boarder in Equator, and instead of helping Colombia fight them, Ecuador and Venezuela want go to war over it, to save the terrorist. And here the rest of the world, or at least North America and Europe are trying to fight terrorism. I ask myself, over what? Over the killing of the terrorist; in the recent unfolding of events, I understand a little more, Ecuador and Venezuela are terrorist countries, now it makes sense why they want to protect them, Venezuela has supported them ($300-million dollars), not sure how long but recently with a few massive gifts of money, and Equator with giving them a safe haven (and perhaps a handout from Venezuela). This issue of supporting terrorist, the two countries are trying to hide, by saying they are not terrorist countries, yet the world in general agrees that they are; and the fact is, Venezuela and Equator do not need to go to war with them, they are already at war with them by giving them their support; similar to Iran with Iraq, or Syria and Palestine, over Israel (the name of the game is gang up on them); Venezuela wants Peru likewise, but is willing to wait for the next elections I do believe. Let’s hope America gets done to business in South America before it belongs to Iran and Syria, and Venezuela, and we don’t have to have WWIII start there.
I wrote an article a few years ago, saying the Islamic quest, via terrorism, is seeping throughout the rim, or the boarders of South America, working there way to Mexico and North America. And what has America done? Not a thing. Here is a continent wide open for the taking, and the Islamic terrorist are taking it, step by step, they have more mosques in South America, and world wide now, than one can count and all established in the last 25-years, a way to establish a home base. The point here is, once America had South America as kind of a protected continent, under their wing, and for some odd reason President Bush, along with the last three presidents has left this area completely void, alone, and to reestablish a itself here will take a lot of beans.

Who Creates the Wars? (Banking)

2008-03-03T08:58:00.000-08:00

Wars vs. Central Banking (part two)

(Second article on the FRS, by a Poet)

Create a debt, by the Central Bank (Federal Reserve), or have the banks, through the Central Bank (FR), create a debt. Why? It only stands to reason, profit. And how do you do this? Simple, if you create the flow of money, and have the influence, and the Government counts on you (which the government should create its own currency), then you can do as you wish. Matter of fact, you can buy half America and Europe up with it, and it has. But we have yet to get the head of the beast.
Let’s look at this closer. Wars create debt, and there normally is one forth of the world at war at any given time. So the banks create wars (the US now is involved with two such wars), have the wars create a debt for the US? Yes, way past the limits of the government, an immense debt, this means immense profits, hide behind the Central Bank, this is where the money is going. We all think it is oil pushing the wars, look at the banking system.
The cost of war time debts should not cost the government interest, but it does.
So as most wars have proven, so has our new wars of today proven, in Afghanistan, and Iraq, it is mostly based on economics, which is the head of the beast, democracy is the body, the banks control public opinion, so who has the control? The person holding the control holds the power of war or no war. So the Central Bank, makes the smaller banks pay interest also, and who owns the Central Banks, the bank you cannot by stock or interest in (five other banks, private, since 1914). Now we got a monopoly, with the bank printing money out of thin air, as the old saying goes, it is so true.
So we are now in the international arena, this banking system owns much of the media, so it can sway public opinion as they wish. The monster gets bigger and bigger; that’s it.

The Federal Reserve System: by a Poet!

2008-02-25T19:39:00.000-08:00

The Federal Reserve System: by a Poet!

To be honest, I don’t think many people know what the Federal Reserve is. I worked for a bank many years ago for eleven years total, had to go to the Federal Reserve now and then, and even the folks working in the so called System, didn’t know the workings of it, they just worked for it (I’m talking about the years between 1982 to 1993). I’m not all that smart about it either but I do know a few things, that I really do not like knowing about it. And to get off of my poetry for an evening, for I am a better poet than a economist, or article writer, I think so anyways, I thought I’d write a paragraph or two about it. Two may do.
Who owns the Federal Reserve? Can you buy stock in it? How did it come into existence? Is it really a reserve? Is it really a system? These are simple questions, nobody asks, perhaps the reason being, nobody really has the right answers, and where do you get them, not in Economics 101, or 701. I will answer them for you in my own way, and you can believe it or not. The Federal Reserve is owned basically by five families in America. In essence, the FRS is the central bank of or for, America, and since 1914, no one out side of the five families could buy stock in it. They have the monopoly on it. It doesn’t sound fair, but that’s the way it is.
A reserve bank they say it is? I don’t think so. They print money, not reserve it, and they print what they want, and somehow try to keep inflation down, buy printing without discrimination.
China and Japan own so much of our money, should they dump it on the world, it would take a million dollars to buy a new car that now cost $26,000—inflation would sink America back into the dark ages. If you are asking why they buy it in the first place, it is because they want to do business with us. I doubt you will find this information in your economic books, so don’t waste your time; it is behind the doors stuff. Again I say, we had a taste of the Federal Reserve System, in the 1920s with hyperinflation, guess who was the creators of that, you got it, the FRS.
This so called group I’m talking about has total control of the money, it almost sounds criminal, but the government has passed laws protecting these investors, whom nobody can subdue. It is clear to see, in future time, our paper currency, with our national debt, breaking the ankles of the American society as it is today. I’m surprised it has lasted this long.
Last but not least, the Federal Reserve System is not a system in the terms of what a system is considered being, that is, an organization by the government, although it is blessed by the government. It is a scheme that was put together in 1913, and activated in 1914, and became an organism of these five families, and has remained so ever since, and in their hands.
Actually, this would make for a good book, but I’m a poet, and this just would not fit into a poem, except perhaps “Black Sunday.”

US Presidential Candidates: What is left? (2-9-2008)

2008-02-09T14:51:00.000-08:00

US Presidential Candidates: What is left?
(Article 2-9-2008)

Back to the race for the Democratic ticket, sorry to say, but I must, we got two losers on the Democratic side, Obama, and Hillary: and one smiling Senator (McCain), and someone I never heard of before, trying to dethrone him. If that is the best America can come up with, the world is in trouble; Obama, is a dreamer with Iran, and not practical with Iraq. Hillary is a little more practical with Iraq, and far from the issues with Iran. With Hillary, another 9/11 is bound to happen, with Obama, a civil war in the USA, is bound to take place.
On national security, they both scare me, but Hillary is more open-minded.
The issue on immigrants, or immigration, both are strong in this area, and for that they both get an “A-plus,” but do they mean what they say? They want better security along the Mexican-American boarders, plus they want to hold employers responsible for breaking the law if caught hiring them, it’s about time.
On Abortion, Hillary is stronger than Obama, but what can a person expect from her. I am not for abortion, so what can I say, if that was the main issue, I’d go to the other side.
As far as the economy goes, Hillary is more apt to come through for the masses, and I get the feeling, Obama, is a little fearful of it, if he don’t give it away to the blacks, he will to the rich, or perhaps standstill and do nothing.
On climate change, Hillary is more practical than Obama, whom again, seems to be in dreamland.

It is always fun watching the election of a new president of the United States, it really involves the whole world. And for this reason, it is a serious event. President Bush was good for Americans as a whole, and for the world economically, they may not admit it, but they will find out now, if they pick Obama or Hillary, the world will not get its economic shot in the arm, they may get a better dollar rate though.

UN Wants Spider Image

2008-01-04T19:19:00.000-08:00

UN Wants Spider Image

Some years back I wrote 55-articles on the UN, got a lot of my info from one of the three UN’s, inside information you could say, from an insider. Things have not changed much since those, not too far off years. As far as I can see, they should not be calling on Spiderman to boost their image, rather to clean the cobwebs out of their dirty closets, and they got a lot of them. They got free of a few of the dead beats, but there is so much corruption in the halls of that domain, a wash job is not going to do it.

From New York City, to Vienna, and on to Switzerland, where all three United Nations are, and its ten-year employees, whom hibernate, while drinking coffee and whiskey in there millionaires club (you see it only takes ten years to become a millionaire there, so I am told, perhaps less now; it is just a matter of sticking it out, knowing the right people, and keeping out of the way of the wrong ones); anyhow they stay in those dinning halls, while those fat checks keep coming. So I suppose I can’t blame them for wanting a better image—lest they loose their worth and the tax payers of America hold back their checks which often they do, to show them they are not kings of the hill: but now they want to force feed the American children, with this Spiderman charade, browbeating our children on all the good work they do for the world. Start in America they say, and end in Europe.

Marvel Comics is even willing to overlook the costs—why? Is my question? Are they that uninformed, or do they have a plan B? This is a question of course, I cannot answer, wish I could. Perhaps free publicity, tax breaks. I can’t figure it out. John Bolt, was right when he implied, it was an act of desperation on their part, I mean the UN, not Marvel, they already got the kids stoned on their products.

2008--a Black Sunday in the Making

2008-01-01T09:55:00.000-08:00

The Battle of Time: and a
Happy New Year to You!

(2008—a Black Sunday in the Making)

(1-1-2008)

Part One

I see we have started 2008 off as normal, battling against time to survive in a drowning world; we haven’t learned a thing from time and history. In Africa we see: “At least 15 people have been burned to death in a church in western Kenya, after seeking refuge from the mounting violence over last week's elections.” And in the Middle East we see: “The United Nations has taken control of the peacekeeping mission for Darfur in Sudan after months of negotiations but it remains seriously under strength ….After four years' violence that has left 200,000 dead and forced nearly two-and-a-half million people to flee their homes, you might have thought things could not get any worse in Darfur. Yet they have.” While over in Sudan we have: “A US diplomat was wounded and his Sudanese driver killed in a shooting incident in the capital of Sudan, Khartoum…”
In South Korea, the government pardons one of the biggest crime bosses of one of the biggest crimes in dollars, twenty billion, and who pays for the loss, the tax payers. And the little man remains in jail; we are talking about Daewoo Boss. Does crime pay, perhaps in South Korea today, and who supports this government? Yes, the tax payers of the United States.

To be quite honest, I’m bored with writing down the news for one day, and I just started, and it does not really interest me or get better, and perhaps I got about ten percent of today’s headliners. What I am really trying to say is this: we are headed for a Black Sunday.
We are on a downward spiral, and I can’t see the end of the tunnel. Peru is loosing its glaciers faster than they can build highways. They will lose 20% of their glacier snow this year, and in five years if they have any glaciers left, I’ll be surprised. The world is in a black bole, and mankind is being twisted about like a blind rat, and the only thing he can say is: “Happy New Year”.

Thirty people were killed a few hours ago, in a bomb that went off in Baghdad; Nabil Hussein Jassim, was killed by a car bombing in central Baghdad on Friday, I bet he thought he’d be celebrating New Years today.

And so we all battle for a little more time to live, breath the air around us, see our lived ones, a few more days or hours, it all matters I suppose. A US diplomat in Sudan is killed in a shooting in the capital, Khartoum, another mishap a few hours agbvo, and he will not be with loved ones today.

Fraud (or trickary): "Istok Company" Ltd. MP3 ...com products vs Dennis Siluk

2007-12-30T04:55:00.000-08:00

MP3CAKE.COM has been using the name of Dennis Siluk to sell their products for some time now, without his permission,I would suggest those who have taken interest in these products, or have been drawn to them by Mr. Siluk's name, consider checking into it, the seller is using trickary to get his customers interested, and who knows what a person like that can do. Dr. Dennis Siluk, is a poet and writer and has received many awards, and above all is honest, and does not fool around with such people, and his only interests are books, he sells nothing else, although many people are now using his name without his permission to gain the interest of others ebay, and paypal are also two other resources Dennis Siluk does not use, but people have used his name in both areas to gain customers, do not be fooled, Mr. Siluk does not have any interests in these two areas also. And never ever uses them, nor intends to. If a product of his in on Ebay, it would only be related to a books, and be assured, he did not put it on there. Do not be fooled, only books is he interested in.

One example of the business using his name is mp3..."Puya," also "Firstmp3music" "Random Movementmp3..." "MP3fiesta.com I see someone by the name of Federico Monti is trying to sell his music with Dennis' name also, how low can you go?

Rosa Penaloza de Siluk

A Prayer for the Incarceration of Paris Hilton

2007-06-04T10:09:00.001-07:00

A Prayer for the Incarceration of Paris Hilton

Solitude is rare to come by (a delicious commodity if only we were willing to buy it), and I suppose for the famous and rich, and the great minds of the world it is even harder to find, since they do not want to part with their old ways too easily. I do know this, solitude is where some of the greatest thinking takes place, where Hitler wrote his most famous book, where some of the poets got their most ardent desires met in verse, and were God has visited the blind, week, and not so wise, and it also goes the other way around. Perhaps Paris Hilton can take advantage of this time it may be the only time she will ever have to sort things out in life. Money and fame are fine, if used wise, but solitude is like uncut diamonds, if you find them, smooth them out later, and keep on grabbing them while you can; it may never come again.
And so with my little wisdom, perhaps her parents will support this, and let the blond haired heirs, grow wiser with her talents, she has a cleaver mind, she has to have, she had nothing, and got everything from it. Her parents may have gotten her the diamond sofa and golden silverware, but I doubt she ever rested in it. She must have watched her father’s eyes a lot; they know what to say, when, where and how.
So Kathy, sit back and relax, she’ll be fine; she’s a big girl now, bigger than you’d like to think. Three weeks will fly on buy, and she will make the most of it for three years after she is free from jail, and perhaps be the wiser and humbler for it, you do know the humble will inherit the earth, and end up in heaven, and I’m sure you realize you cannot buy heaven it is not for sale, so perhaps the only way she’ll find the path is now. She made a good decision, like Elvis, by going in second class to his destiny, she got my applause for that, and I don’t hand it out very easily.

Mr. Taylor: Hack and Stack Them High

2007-06-03T21:47:00.000-07:00

Mr. Taylor: Hack and Stack Them High
Liberian ex-President Charles Taylor

African injustice (1991-2002)

Bag the limbs little boys,
Bring them to Mr. Taylor
Like a bag of toys—;
Sierra Leone’s diamonds…
Is what it’s all about?—
And the merciless killer king,
President Charles Taylor
And his monstrous boy scouts.
Hack and stack their bodies high
Axes and machetes will do—:
Bring on the sexual slaves also,
All for the glitter of Diamonds
(as the world watches the show);
Now it time for the tribunal.

Note: It is not news; it is old history, the poem above. If it is too atrocious to read, don’t read it, we all watched it on the internet, and T.V., and radio, and did nothing about it, like in Cambodia with Pol Pot, until it was too late, after he killed three million citizens; it was always in the news, magazines, etc., it was never out of sight, nor mind for me. The world expects the USA to do something about it, but when we do, the world turns on us like bear to honey; Mr. Taylor is the same age I am, I wonder if money or its purchase power can buy him a warm cell in hell, I get the feeling he will have blankets of worms to keep him warm in those arctic cells. But it tells me something more, that since the genocide of the Jews in WWII, the world has not changed much, in that it has an easy neck to simply turn away when it wants to, feels it has to, or simply doesn’t have to get involved, got to make it to the corner McDonalds before it closes.

Spotlight on World Events (June 3, 2007)) The dumb and the wise))

2007-06-03T16:11:00.000-07:00

Spotlight on World Events
(June 3, 2007)) The dumb and the wise))

Something’s people do are just down right dumb, and sometimes I am surprised other folks wake up, like Japan, so let’s look at the Spotlight for today:

1) (CNN) “LONDON, England (Reuters) -- A British artist who last week ate a meal of meatballs made from a dead corgi dog in a protest against animal cruelty said on Sunday his next project involved being buried in a box under a mountain of mashed potato.” The article goes on to say, “McGowan said he ate the dog because he was angry that the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, of which the royal family is a patron, had not prosecuted Prince Philip, the Queen's husband, for hunting and killing a fox.”
It is obvious, McGowan doesn’t care one way or another about dogs, or foxes, or such foolish rights. I am not for the cruelty of animals, but in Vietnam I had dog-soup, and if cooked right it is pretty good; and don’t think it is so off the wall, simply because you are an American, or European. The world does not exist because of these countries. Peru has Ginny pig for lunch and dinner, I love it. And I like snake in Japan, and I like camel cook right in Cairo, and they eat horse in Malta. So what is the beef with dog and fox. Wake up McGowan I think you are on a big ego trip to show off.

2) Birth date: February 11, 1953 Status: Has not announced candidacy
(CNN) “ (Jeb)Bush has said in the past that he has no ambitions of succeeding his older brother as president in 2008, but that has not stopped the speculation. The two-term governor -- who was constitutionally barred from seeking a third term in 2006 -- guided Florida through eight hurricanes that ravaged the state in 2004 and 2005. He headed into the final months of his administration with a 55 percent job approval rating among Floridians. Bush failed in his first gubernatorial race in 1994 but won four years later.”
I am not sure what all this talk is about, but if Jeb wants to run, good luck, I suggest he look at his brothers track record, it is not so good this time around, perhaps he should have his father back him up if he runs. Many of us believed in our present Bush, President, not so much anymore, and Jeb needs to understand that it is thick in the minds of Americans, two deadbeats in the row is way too much.

3) GOSHOGAWARA, Japan (Reuters) –CNN some people sleep forever and never wake up, it is about time Japan has, and I am pound to say, they have, to a certain degree; they are turning from the chicken syndrome, to the old mighty warrior stance. I say that because of this: “Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has said that until the abduction issue has been resolved, Japan will not provide funds for a multilateral deal clinched in February, by which Pyongyang agreed to scrap its nuclear arms program in return for energy aid.” Actually, I’d take it a step further, I’d take the funds and build a nuclear arsenal, instead of heating the homes of the folks that told our women, rapped them, and then came proudly prancing down the ally, to notify all of Japan what they did, and laugh all the way to the bank with everyone’s money, the US, Japan, China, and South Korea in particular.
4) Putin, the President of Russia and Gorbachev, jour old friend is Russia, have said in so many words, the US is empire building, and Britain should have warned America against that. I a way I suppose both Putin and Gorbachev are right, but Putin is no Arch Angle either, and Gorbachev, even though he did a lot of good for the world, never really had intentions of creating a democracy, just a capitalist commune, that was headed by a empire, then of course, the walls came tumbling down. And I do not believe a new cold war is going to start, we are already in WWIII, it will just worsen until them or we, push the lever, it has been in the making for 55-years, let’s get on with the show, get it over with, if we are going to do it, let’s not pretend. There cannot be two generals standing on the same spot of land without one wanting the other to get off it. Say what you want, it has always been that way, we presently live in a pretense world, and the only think that has changed is the numbers from II to III. So it remains: who is ahead of whom!

5) BBC News “Two Palestinian men have been killed by Israeli troops in separate incidents in Nablus and Jenin in the West Bank.” And after 60-years the war continues, or should I say after 2500-years the war continues with the Jews and the Arabs, or the Jews and Palestinians, or the Jews and the world. There are many questions and obstacles here to peace, such as Jerusalem, water, the holy sites, history, empty peace talks, camps, activism, the Fatah and Hamas (both the same to me); my suggestion is to forget about peace, and go to war, and fight it out to the end—and I mean end, finish it off, instead of going on from year to year and prolonging all the suffering. Nobody really cares who is right or wrong. The world body hates Jews, and the Arabs Hate Jews, and so let the Jews stand on their own, and fight it out with Hamas, drive them into the sea, or are driven into sea. What will most likely happen is the Jews in the latter days will end up in Egypt; they do have a history with them. But between then and now is the question, which can live under such agony. Forget what the world body says, and eliminate the foe. That is what war is all about, and what Hama and the Fatah would like to do to the Jews, so let’ stop pretending the Jews are the bad guys, and should play fair.

Decomposed Peace (a poem)

2007-06-02T09:29:00.000-07:00

Decomposed Peace (The Seeds of War and Peace with Death)

They bill it peace, in the process destroy,
That natural fiber is declining, now cursed;
They quay the secret seeds that decompose;
The barriers no longer provide peace:
Nor the mountains nor the seas, the stars;
Now tantrums dictate who will be harmed.
Satan built our peace, planted it with wars,
The little peace we had flew off like a fawn:
Before dawn, before light was set in motion.
Now we lay in our cold and worm-like tombs,
As it has been, so it will end for man,
Where under life, families reep ardent wounds;
Sterilize the cities, too many mouths to feed,
No more babies, no more life, no more crying.

They bill it peace, lies can burn, long and hot
They come like eggs, hard and soft, in frost;
A suffering pot of crickets, are they not?
You can ease their plotted minds, with ecstasy
Providing you have breasts and simplicity,
But they will swallow you like a pig in mud,
Cut you up, peer you, suck out all your blood.
There is no glory in peace or war, only trinkets
Solitude is in God, as is time and truth…
So we buy peace, with war, a childhood toy—
And one hundred million lives destroyed:
In less than a century; wars live on, not man
Beauty resides always, in the Creator’s hand.
No more babies, no more life, no more crying.

# W1864 6-2-2007

Note: Around the world everyday we see war, and people trying to make peace, a silly combination. Take any day, and look at its contradictions of peace for war, or war if not peace, watch the hypocrites in motion, in Iraq, we fight for peace with war, in Germany today, the G8 says they want to make a better world with Globalism, and 30,000-hypocrits fight with war, and hurt policemen, because they see things differently. And the police want peace, everyone wants peace, with a gun in their hands, or a bomb, or a stick. Lebanon, rages with war again today when the UN is there trying to make peace. NATO is at war in how many countries? Trying to make peace with guns; Nigerian rebels have just decided to have peace for a while, instead of attacks on the oil wells of that country. Tomorrow things will change, but only the face, not the guts and the hormones, they remain the same, war or peace, and peace cannot be without war. And we continue to dance in the circle.

Buenos Aires: Should be on the Danger List

2007-05-11T10:19:00.001-07:00

Buenos Aires: Should be on the Danger List

I’ve received some negative email on my article concerning the robber’s of Buenos Aires, one in particular, the writer feels I was too hard on the robbers, and his city, and his country, by notifying the people his city is dangerous. Then he goes on to say, I should learn how to speak Spanish if I’m going to visit a Spanish speaking country, evidently, this is the only article he has read of mine, since I have written 1200 for one Internet site alone, and 2800-articles, stories and poems for an uncountable number of internet sites that have picked them up. Of which 10% of them are in Spanish, and seven of my 35-books are in Spanish. But the main point here is, when we make excuses for a robber, feeling sorry for him, and his country men, and not for robbed there is something wrong here (he says every country has robbers, implies I should be so dumb as to walk into such a fate; actually the embassy in Buenos Aires said this: “We all got robbed here one time or another, so don’t feel too bad,” I could give you his name, but it would serve no purpose); so I should keep an open mind for the country that allows these robbers to go unchallenged, and cops that are corrupt, you are doing an injustice, but again I must keep an open mind, and say nothing because every city the man says, is like this.
New York City was the worse city to live in at one time for crime, until it was cleaned up, and I did an article on it recently, and proclaimed it to be the safest big city in the world (I’ve been there four times), much safer may I say than Buenos Aries, by far.
I have traveled the globe, and surely much more than my writer friend, and been robbed in several countries, and have wrote about them also, again I must say, he has only read one article of mine. He goes on to say I am angry. He is right, I am angry, and writing about something you can do little about is a way to get out you anger, notify others so they do not get thinking it is safe in Buenos Aires, as so many had told me, and I of course put down my guard, walked down a city block, got robbed by three young thugs, my fault of course, because it is a big city. But I have not distorted the facts. Plus, when a city or country or any area becomes too dangerous to travel in, it becomes news, matter of fact, the US Government posts them (perhaps my writer friend should notify the US Government to stop that also), and your travel agency has access to these danger spots, Buenos Aires should be on the Danger List, especially when so many in Buenos Aires are trying to tell the tourist how safe it is, come to Buenos Aires, and get robbed, and cheated in the Café’, yes, that is another story; anger is not the word, perhaps tired and annoyed might be better, and when you come out of a theater, you are almost mugged by twenty-five bums trying to get all your loose change, and not a policeman around, perhaps they is waiting down the street for his cut. Or when you go into a pizza place at night, and you got a half dozen characters looking in the window waiting for you to come out. Actually I was pretty kind in my article, there is much more. But needless to say, just make sure you are not alone if you are going there, and have a few broad shoulder men to keep you company. Also avoid, “Restaurant 36” in Buenos Aires, they will cheat you out of your money, and give you surplus meat for your dinner. Sleep well in Buenos Aires.

Invaders of America

2007-05-10T21:10:00.000-07:00

Invaders of America

We got a problem, and when I say we, I do not necessarily mean Government, because the Government is half the problem. Let me explain, without trying to create anarchy, which is not good for any state or country. I am talking about a militia problem here (private Armies). We do not seem to have the government support, which is suppose to go according to our constitution, which is to ‘Safe guard the boards’ this is a violation of our Constitution, and the Government of America is at fault, and should be liable to the people who elected them, to go according to the Constitution, not to passive our neighbors. It is the job of the Federal Government, unless directed by them and given to the State, or it is the right, and obligation of the state to guard our boarders if the Federal Government falls short, or the third option is, for the public to take arms and safeguard our boarders. This is not anarchy, this is Constitutional. But it can turn into anarchy.
I see CNN, and FOX TV, and magazines and Newspapers all screaming, Anarchy look at the groups of people taking the law into their own hands, when in essence they have not yet, when I see simply people watching invaders coming over our boarders, and those we have already allowed in staying longer than agreed to. Thus, I see criminal activity, and the US Government, doing very little about it, but pacifying non-citizens, and having the legal citizens, subsidize them. These so called groups, anarchy groups I do not have a problem with, I am sure they will go away if the US Government and its elected officials do their elected jobs, and go according to the law of the land, the Constitution. I am a Vietnam Veteran, will 11-years in the Army; I did my duty, and did it well, while a lot of deadbeats smoked pot and sat back and watched America plunge in every which way, and say ‘I’d rather be dead than red’. It is wrong to give the status of a citizen for a hand shake. To make the Mexican President smile. We need friends, but we need safety first.
I live in Peru part of the year, and Chile and Ecuador, Peru’s neighbors, have take land from Peru, and Peru has done nothing about it in the past and present—why? Because they can’t, they’ve allowed these countries to invade Peru, and thus, now suffer the consequence. The fat cats take home the money, and leave the boarders open for the taking, sad to say, and I love Peru, but that is a fact. If the robbers of Peru spent the money they steal on military for Peru’s well fare, Peru would have their lands back.
Anyhow, Mexico is the worse of the lot. They tell us to not build walls, so they can invade; these are criminals once they advance on to US Soil, and they all are criminals if they are not here legally once their visas are up; they demand their rights without accepting responsibly. In Peru, I obey the rules, as I do when I go to Mexico, I do not cry for rights that I have not earned, or legally acquired. And now we are putting our guards in jail for shooting criminals, what is going on here. Prevention is the cornerstone to safety, not after the fact. Perhaps a terrorist is among these invaders, and if we got hit with a nuclear devise, because of this, than what. We got our airports safe, but that is about all. The news media seem to enjoy making the American Citizen the bad guy, when we should be thanking these so called, private armies whomever they are for doing the job, our government is paid to do but is reluctant to do. Mr. Bush, whom I voted for, start doing what is right, you know what that is, stop the invaders before everything falls apart. We can live without them.

Iraq’s Death Row for: Samar Saed Abudullan: CNN and Amnesty International Interfere

2007-05-09T18:55:00.000-07:00

Iraq’s Death Row for: Samar Saed Abudullan: CNN and Amnesty International Interfere

BAGHDAD, Iraq CNN has decided to published Samar Saed Abudullan’s death row case (along with others), not sure why, but it looks like Amnesty International has also got involved. Before I get too much in this ‘pure opinion,’ article of mine, I am writing; let me tell you how I feel in a flash flooded way. I belonged to Amnesty International once, and I always found out when they got involved, they never told the public, or me the whole story, just wanted support from me, and everybody else. So I’ve learned not to trust their data all that much, nor their intent. And for CNN, I like their news, although in this case I think they are not only slanted, but gullible, if not naive to take this as serious as they have.
The woman in question, Samar, is innocent, so she says, and in her case, who would not say the same. She of course blames her husband, who cannot voice his opinion because he has run off, as I would do have done if I was him, most likely. And do they torture in Iraq? Most likely, but where do they not? China, Russia and the good old USA, all torture, so who can really know. Anyhow, the question might be, why did she stay with a man that carried out killings? Why did she not report him? She blames the judge for doing his job, if you kill someone, you should not be free to kill again, and run back to the husband you protected during those so called innocent days your husband killed at will, and you never notified the police about. If you are living with a killer, you are just as he is, not innocent. They say Iraq has the 4th highest execution rate, not sure which one is the first, but I’m all for it if it stops my neighbor from coming over and doing me in. Amnesty says ‘…such claims are not uncommon in Iraq,’ nor are such killings, with the assistance of a spouse. They add, “(in Iraq there are) …flawed trials and coerced confessions.’ That is an obvious statement, and then they imply ‘(these death sentences) …failed to meet international fair trial standards.’ Here we go again, whose standards? The west, the east or America’s or Europe’s, and if it is the UN’s standards, nobody really pays attention to them, now do they. So a standard in one country may suite the country, where in essence, it does not in another, or the UN’s standard. As of today, the world is not completely polarized, that is if you are not a coke or MacDonald’s hamburger.
CNN and Amnesty International seem to not like the idea of Capitol Punishment (which is a personal opinion of theirs, and mine) which was reinstated into Iraq in 2004 legally, just like in America, when it was originally abolished in 2003—but they make a moral issue of this, when it is not, it is a self-governing issue of that country. And since then 270-people have been sentenced to death, so their data banks say. How many people did the 270-criminals kill? Perhaps 2270, or 10,000, who knows, they don’t give those statistics, as I expected. I also understand two of the women have their children with them, on death row (which is really a plea for mercy), this is good, so they can say goodbye when the time comes, and perhaps they can teach them, killing is not a good thing.
I am not putting in all the data here either, just like CNN and Amnesty International, and the folks on death row, whom I’m sure have a one sided story. And thus, people can say about me: he only looks at one side, and perhaps they are right, but the side I look at is more practical than theirs. They are looking at a side that enables the criminal to continue, if released, to go home to kill again, and regroup with their husbands, the ones they blamed for everything.
Written 5-9-2007

Buenos Aires: Becoming a Deadly Haven (Avoid "Restaurant 36")

2007-04-30T18:32:00.000-07:00

Buenos Aires:
Becoming a Deadly Haven
(Avoid “Restaurant 36”)

I just returned from Buenos Aires, Argentina, and it is getting worse by the minute. When you have a good thing, everyone thinks it will remain that way by momentum in Buenos Aires, it never does. I am writing this article for a few reasons: one, I hope the officials of Buenos Aires wake up, and two; it is becoming dangerous for Americans to go there.
I suppose it is dangerous in any big city in South America, the officials are more corrupt, and it is always harder for these countries to accommodate the American tourist, they have a different way of thinking, and it is not service related, more than it is: give me the dollar, and once received, the services then melt down. They do not necessarily think of the future, but rather the present.
I’ve been in just about every country a few times in South America, in Buenos Aries twice. It is a beautiful city that seems to have a tinge of Paris and Madrid melted into it. The dollar is not bad 3.16 pesos to the dollar. But it is a world no longer safe to walk around with your wife. The tour folks in South America, just as soon wash their hands of you once they pack your package together, should you deal with a South American Tourists Companies, and we have dealt with them in Lima going to Buenos Aries, and several other South American cities. The American Embassies are more helpful, and have emergency numbers 7/24; you will need to know the numbers, for your guides will not know them.
Most of the hotels, in Buenos Aries are not equipped with staff that can speak English and Spanish (let’s hope you can or your guide), and if robbed, and there are twice as many robbers in Buenos Aries than Lima, I do believe, and there are many in Lima, so be careful, for the police will simply try to talk you out of doing a report, saying in essence, “What for, it’s just a simple robbery, and no one was hurt.” Do not go walking anyplace in Buenos Aries without a bodyguard or group of people, it is no longer safe.
There were two robberies in a ten minute span, when we were by the train station, which the police told me and my wife to not go in, in fear we’d not return out of the station alive. I asked the police why they would not go into the station to look for the robbers, and they simply refused, as did the desk clerk refuse to do the report at the police station.
My recent trip to Buenos Aires was in April, 2007. My previous one was five years ago, and it has gotten worse. The authorities and the people blame the Peruvians for much of the turmoil, coming into Buenos Aires, I blame the city per se, and everyone is pointing fingers and taking no blame. I feel the police are in on the payoffs here, because robbery is taken so lightly.
In the nightclubs, they no longer cater to the customer; I went to several of them, as I had down years back. When my steak turned out to be a lower class of meat, for a higher class of dollars, that was on the menu, the manager fought with me; this was at the “Restaurant 36” by Congress, downtown Buenos Aires. I asked him to go talk to the cook (maybe he made a mistake), and he refused, and he said,”We have a good reputation.” My wife said, “You had, and now it is going down the drain, because your cooks are more correct than the customers, whom are simply your Ginny Pigs.”
A few other pizza places had the same attitude. I am sorry to be so negative, but it is simply a fact, until they start making the customer priority, it is neither safe, nor going to be a good experience for the traveler to such places.

Incidentally, I talked to the tourists that were attacked, the woman was all bruised up, and the gentleman was all cut up, it is a shame this once beautiful city is becoming no more than a haunting house for mischief. You guide may tell you it is safe to walk anyplace in Buenos Aires, do not take him at his word, it is not so.

Iraq, Swimming in Blood (4-21-2007)

2007-04-21T08:59:00.000-07:00

Iraq, Swimming in Blood

Let them swim in their own blood (I am talking about Iraq). I am not sure if winning a war in Iraq is a good premise, the war has been won, trying to force feed them into democracy, is another adventure, and even though you can make them say uncle, even Hitler knew, you cannot change their hearts and minds, even Hannibal knew this, and did not go into Rome, lest he slaughter everyone, and he would have had to do that. On the other hand we are not obligated by any mandate to rebuild a new world for the Arab ungrateful state, let them swim in their own blood, if that is what they want. Let them fight with Iran, and whomever; the world seems to look the other way when they do, and condemn the US when we do. In an article on CNN, one of the neighbors said he didn’t like the wall that was being built in his neighborhood, protecting them, saying, it is only a few terrorist here and there, I would expect with that kind of talk, he is one of them.

Because of this drawn out war, our president has not paid all that much attention to South America, where we used to have friend, and we have oil interests, and the Arabs are moving into, and we are losing it. And the dollar is crap all over the world, it should be higher than the Euro, which is a sorry currency since it has nothing to back it up but America’s security, and so we pay for that likewise. And our resources are being drained, and our soldiers stretched to the maximum. The only smart thing the president has done lately, is slap China’s hands, after China has drained all the jobs out of America, with their little trinkets: everything says “From China” From the Canadian boarder, to Lima, Peru.

If it is his intentions to break America, he is doing a good job of it. If you want to do the job right, do it right, take down Iran, like we did Iraq, and then go on to Syria, and we might be able to enslave Iraq, as it was before? If not, get out of the pot, it’s too hot, and try to stop pleasing everyone. And stop condemning our soldiers for killing, it goes with the territory, you teach them how, and condemn because of public opinion 7000-miles away, as the enemy cut heads off with no discretion. You fight fire with fire.

Right or wrong, the people of Iraq, and Baghdad, look like a bunch of rag pickers, there is nothing left to the people, its land and its city. If dignity to them is living with a corrupt government, and enslavement, who is to say America can offer more to their contentment. America is in North America, not in the Middle East. Had the president left Iraq, he would have went down in history as winning two wars, now I would think, history will nominate him as the one president that brought America to its knees.

St. Lucia Defies The Great Panda Bear (China) for Taiwan

2007-04-18T08:01:00.000-07:00

Yes, the Great Panda Bear has spoken!

St. Lucia’s (and its Government in St. John) in the Caribbean Sea is defying the Great Giant China Panda Bear, who demands they bow before them, and say uncle, kind of like that. In essence, they are telling them what they can and can’t do—China that is; in this case, they do now want them (St. Lucia) to allow a delegation from Taiwan to enter their port. I kind of think this game of: you do as I say, as the Chinese Government has bullied the world away from Taiwan for 50-years, should stop.
Even the United States adheres to a lot of that rhetoric. They said, China says to the small government, whom do not seem to fear the Big Panda Bear: we can remain friends if that is what you want, otherwise, hit the road. China says: “We wish the St. Lucia government not to allow the delegation to enter into St. Lucia because this delegation will be severely detrimental to the Chinese-St. Lucia friendly relations” now is that a nice way to talk to a friend. I don’t think St. Lucia’s cares all that much for the Chinese junk they been trying to flood every country in the world with. Good luck China, I think you met your match. St. Lucia’s Foreign Minister Rufus Bousque wants to keep good relations with China, I do hope he does not persuade his government to reverse its decision to not allow the delegation, I think this is a first in a long time, and will capture the attention of many, lest Taiwan end up being another Tibet, and China I fear would live it to be under their heels.

Cho Seug-Hui, vs. Gun Control

2007-04-17T21:11:00.000-07:00

Cho Seung-Hui, vs. Gun Control

All the gun control people are going to run on this one I suppose, let it rest, I do not see any room for an argument here. A non American shot a lot of people perhaps with two guns; guns he got legally, and had he not got them, the old story goes, he would have anyhow. But the other side of the story is also is worth looking at, seldom brought out too, had some of the students guns of their own, the story might be a little different today. I am from Minnesota, and have a Permit to carry a gun, and in most cases I feel safer with it than not. And when in a store, I’m sure the robber doesn’t know who has a gun and who doesn’t in Minnesota, and so he has to guess, but once you put gun control into the issue to the point of restricting it to mostly law enforcement, the bad guy knows he has no competition, he is free to do as he pleases.
I also have a license to carry in Peru. I took a psychological test, and a shooting test, and a three day background test, and was given one. And again, with my ailments, I’m glad I got one, because it would be hard for me to defend myself otherwise, nowadays. The robber picks on women, old folks, and those a tinge lame, he or she does not fool around with the strong and able, and gun totting fellow; the same thing for dug addicts. This is a very sad case, happening of course, and will take long to heal for the families involved, and I am sad for them. Not sure if there is really an understanding to all this killing, people want to analyze it. Anger out of control, is often displaced. And anger will come out one way or another; fortunately, there were signs, but unfortunately, nobody paid much attention to them except a teacher that could do little about it. In this case, the killer had too many rights, with out responsibility to balance them. A psychological test would have helped prior to purchasing those guns, and a three day wait to review the sale (in Peru, the even keep your gun under lock and key until the test is reviewed, and the score in the shooting is complete). I guess I don’t call that gun control, simply normal precautions, like getting a drivers license, you just don’t get it when you apply for it, there is a process. No man or woman should be denied a gun, if indeed he shows a pattern of cooperation and responsibility, and pass the tests (our 2nd Amendment says so).

Can a Bulldong and a Cat play together? (China vs. Japan)

2007-04-11T18:00:00.000-07:00

Will China and Japan mend their differences? (No!)

Will a bulldog and cat play together? Is the question, if they do mend their differences, there is an ulterior motive, and the motive will be on China’s behalf, and in China’s interest? Japan should arm themselves, and quickly, remembering what happened to Tibet. They could be on China’s future menu—China is still hungry over Japanese oil, in the Japanese Sea, and other things. I always hear of miner things breaking up long term goals for peace, such as Japan going to a temple site, that produces China’s anger; I don’t much care about China’s anger, nor should Japan, China is not a saint, never has been, and is more corrupt than Japan is now. They have enslaved Hong Kong, and scared Singapore to repentance, threatened Taiwan (and is waiting to enslave them), butchered Tibet’s people, and sucked dry the World Trade Organizations kindness by flooding Europe, South and North America, with cheaply made items, at our expense; on the other hand, they have taken the liberty of grabbing everything America has without paying for it, just duplicating it and selling it, and doing nothing about it. Getting along with China is a must, as it is with Russia, and the USA, but I would recommend it be on equal terms. China has bullied the world community in scorning Taiwan, for simply wanting to be unattached to a bulldog. Who wouldn’t; if I was Japan, I’d be putting nukes all over its islands, and then invite China for dinner, and show them how easy it is to aim them in China’s face, as they have done to Taiwan, but we all have short memories, do we not. There will be a future showdown, and will the USA be available, and willing to help Japan? Self interest is stronger than the devil himself, which is what Japan should be worried about: don’t count on anyone. And look at China’s track record. Be careful who you sup with. Even if China promised Japan, to deliver the whole Forbidden City to them on a silver platter, I’d still look for the hidden motive, and arm myself quick (it is too late after the fact). If they are not accountable to anyone now, mending bridges is simple saying; I will not bite you today.

The Narrative Dialogue and Meeting of:Historian Maria Rostworowski and Poet Dennis L. Siluk (in Spanish and English)

2007-04-02T16:46:00.000-07:00

SPANISH VERSION

Diálogo Narrativo y Reunión
de :
La Historiadora María Rostworowski y el Poeta Dennis L. Siluk

Por Dennis L. Siluk
(Traducido por Rosa Peñaloza de Siluk)

Avance: Una reunión histórica, puede ser llamada esta entre la renombrada historiadora, María Rostworowski (de Diez Canseco), de Lima, Perú, y Dennis L. Siluk, poeta y novelista (quien vive parcialmente en Perú, y en su tierra natal Minnesota, EE.UU.); María tiene medio siglo investigando y estudiando el pasado histórico del Perú, y una audiencia mundial con sus incontables libros sobre su cultura, tradiciones, y datos históricos; algunos libros traducidos del español al inglés (por ejemplo, “History of the Inca Realm”).

La madre de María era una dama peruana y su padre era de Polonia, como fue mencionado durante la reunión entre ella y Dennis. María nació en Barranco, Lima, Perú; cuando tenía cinco años ella fue con su familia a Europa—y vivió en Francia, Polonia, Inglaterra y Bélgica, y volvió al Perú cuando tenía 19 años. Similar a la experiencia de Dennis, en la que él se enamoró de Perú (particularmente del Valle del Mantaro, y ahora ha venido a Perú a radicar parcialmente)

Ella se casón con un polaco en Polonia, así como Dennis se casó con un peruana de Huancayo, Perú, aventurándose en Lima, en 1999, cuando ellos se conocieron y se casaron unos meses más tarde, en febrero del 2000.

María se volvió una historiadora autodidacta. Así como María, el entusiasmo que tiene Dennis lo han conducido a explorar Perú y escribir seis libros sobre sus costumbres, tradiciones y cultura, en forma poética, y recibir reconocimientos de la Universidad Peruana Los Andes, en Huancayo, por su contribución cultural; además, le concedieron la Gran Cruz de la Ciudad de San de Jerónimo Tunán y fue nominado Poeta Laureado de la ciudad, y le fue concedido el Premio Nacional de Perú, “Antena Regional”: El Mejor del 2006 por promover la cultura.

María, en Lima se conoció y se casó con don Alejandro Diez Canseco, su verdadero amor y juntos condujeron una vida muy orientada a la cultura, quizás como Dennis y Rosa Peñaloza de Siluk lo han tenido estos años pasados, ya que Rosa ha viajado alrededor del mundo varias veces, y por muchas partes de Perú.
Aunque la mayor parte de las poesías culturales de Dennis es sobre muchos aspectos de Perú, otros son sobre el Guerrero Wanka y la Guerra del Pacífico, Dennis siendo un Veterano de Vietnam decorado de la guerra (1971), y también poesías sobre el Valle del Mantaro; como con María, en mayor grado es sobre el Imperio Incaico.

María, puede quizás ser llamada, o mencionada como la “Josephus” de Perú; mientras Dennis ha sido referido en Perú, como Julio Verne (refiriéndose a todos sus viajes y libros relacionados con viajes, y su estilo cultural de poesía, y sus escrituras), y de vez en cuando, como el Poeta Trotamundos, denominado por los periódicos y revistas en Perú.

Y ahora para la narración y reunión:

El Diálogo Narrativo y Reunión

Nosotros (mi esposa Rosa y yo) llegamos al edificio del Instituto de Estudios Peruanos a las 10:50 de la mañana del día Jueves 22 de Abril del 2007, en Lima, Perú (Jesús María); justo después de acabar de llegar hablamos brevemente con la persona encargada de la seguridad, y nosotros estábamos ya con veinte minutos de retraso para la reunión, debido a que nuestro taxi se malogró en plena carretera (Panamericana) y tuvimos que salir de allí a buscar otro taxi en la calle transversal. Mientras nos apresurábamos a subir las escaleras, llegamos a una pequeña oficina, que el guardia nos había indicado, allí estaba ella sentada detrás de su escritorio, yo la reconocí al instante, había visto una fotografía de ella, ella lucía lo mismo, pensé que era una fotografía de cuando ella era más joven, por eso estuve sorprendido, ella lucía más joven de lo que pensé: ella llevaba una blusa de seda multicolores (negro, rojo y blanco principalmente). Ella tenía 91 años, pero parecía más bien de 67 años, pensé que estaba muy conservada. Ella, María dio la vuelta por su escritorio, saludándome y a mi esposa, mientras nos pedía que nos sentáramos, en aquel momento le di dos de los libros que había escrito sobre Perú, ella leyó los títulos verbalmente, mientras miraba cada uno, los leyó en inglés, “Spell of the Andes”, y “The Magic of the Avelinos”, después ella sonrió (más adelante le diría a una amiga, refiriéndose a los libros “son maravillosos”), podía ver que ella estaba orgullosa de ser peruana, aun cuando yo averiguaría que ella tenía raíces polacas por el lado de su padre, y peruana por el lado de su madre.

Yo sabía que era muy difícil conseguir una cita para hablar con ella, ya que ella había estado enferma una semana antes, y no permitía a muchos visitantes, en primer lugar, lo que fue confirmado por un número de personas antes de mi llegada, e incluso el guardia estuvo sorprendido que ella me permitió visitarla, así que me sentí más que afortunado.

“Siéntese por favor”, ella dijo con su delicada mirada fuerte, pero ojos suaves y severos.
Mientras me sentaba la pedí que firmara uno de sus libros para mí, “Historia del Tahuantinsuyu”, y mientras me puse a firmar mis libros para ella, ella dijo modestamente con un poco de humor, “Intercambiaremos firmas”, y otra vez vino esa sonrisa misteriosa, que era cálida y natural.

(Durante los pocos minutos siguientes me levanté, y mi esposa Rosa, tomó dos fotos de ella y yo, y yo se los mostré en mi cámara digital, y ella me miró un tanto y dijo, “tengo 91 años”: No dije nada, quizás nada que decir, ella lucía 25 años más joven. Ella lucía muy bien para su edad.)

Después vino, conversación suelta sobre la comida de Huancayo, ya que yo había empezado ese tema diciendo que “mi esposa era de allí”. Me gusta “cuy colorado”, le dije, y ella contestó, “¿ha probado cuy chactado?” y contesté, “¡Ah si…la esposa del profesor Pedro de Huancayo lo hizo para mí, estaba muy bien!” Entonces añadí, “me gusta Huancayo pa…pa…” y antes de que yo pudiera terminar la oración, ella me preguntó, “quiere decir, ¿papa a la huancaina?” Sí, reafirmé.

(Pienso que María estaba descubriendo, que amaba a Perú y a sus culturas misteriosas tanto como ella lo hizo, atrás cuando primero descubrió esta tierra antigua.)

“¿Cuál es su origen?” ella me preguntó, sabiendo que yo era de Norteamérica.
“Ruso e irlandés”, le contesté, añadiendo, “y su apellido no es...peruano ¿no?
“Ciertamente no”, dijo ella, “es polaco”. Entonces añadí, “Yo también soy polaco de parte de mi abuela, ruso de parte de mi abuelo, e irlandés de parte de mi padre”. Un tanto repitiéndome yo mismo.

“Es una mezcla” comentó ella. Creo que omití el decir que era polaco debido a eso, demasiado condimento en el pastel. (Y hablamos brevemente sobre esto, cómo la vida en mi clan familiar, sacó el polaco y ruso en el círculo familiar.)

Después, mi esposa y yo la invitamos a tomar desayuno diciendo, “Martina va a ir el miércoles a tomar desayuno (y su amigo)”

“¿Quién es Martina?” dijo ella, con una pizca de ingenio, ella estaba muy dinámica para ser una mujer de 91 años.
Mi esposa le explicó, que ella era del Centro de Antienvejecimiento en Lima, y ella reconoció el nombre enseguida, diciendo, “hay una reunión la próxima semana allí”. (Pensé, qué memoria tan aguda, mejor que la mía)
“Estoy muy vieja para desayunos” dijo ella, “tengo que comer comida especial, pero gracias por la invitación”

Entonces comprendiendo que el tiempo había pasado rápidamente, simplemente dije, en voz baja; “No deberíamos de tomar más de su tiempo, usted ya nos ha dado la mayor parte de este, y estoy seguro que usted tiene muchas cosas que hacer” y entonces nos disculpamos, y ella dijo en seguida, “encantada de conocerlo”, ella estaba de pie, cuando habló, y ahora comenzó a sentarse, mientras nosotros comenzamos a marcharnos.

Esta fue una reunión muy cordial, y una que siento, sacó la predecibilidad de una persona, una que no está encerrada en una caja debido a la profesión de uno. Esto fue bueno pensé: hay una gran humanidad sobre esta renombrada historiadora.

ENGLISH VERSION

The Narrative Dialogue and Meeting of:
Historian Maria Rostworowski and Poet Dennis L. Siluk

By Dennis L. Siluk
(Translated by Rosa Peñaloza de Siluk)

Advance: A historical meeting, it can be called between renowned historian, Maria Rostworowski (de Diez Canseco), of Lima, Peru, and Dennis L. Siluk, Poet and novelist (who lives part time in Peru, and part time in his home state of Minnesota, USA); Maria has a half-century of investigating and studying Peru’s historical past, and a world wide audience with her countless books on its cultures, traditions, and historical data; a few books translated from the Spanish into English (i.e., “History of the Inca Realm”).
Maria's mother was a Peruvian lady and her father was from Poland, as was brought out during the meeting between her and Dennis. Maria was born in Barranco, Lima, Peru; when she was five-years old she went with her family to Europe—and lived in France, Poland, England and Belgium, and returned to Perú when she was nineteen-years old, similar to Dennis’ experience, in that he fell in love with Peru (particularly the Mantaro Valley, and now has come to Peru to retire here part time).
She married a Pole in Poland, as Dennis married a Peruvian from Huancayo, Peru, adventuring in Lima, in 1999, they met, and married a few months later, in February of 2000.
Maria became a self-taught historian. Like Maria, Dennis’ enthusiasm has lead him to explore Peru, and write six books on its customs, traditions, and culture, in poetic form, and receive awards from the Los Andes University, in Huancayo, for his cultural contribution; in addition, he was awarded the Grand Cross of the City of San Jeronimo, and appointed Poeta Laureado of the city, along with Awarded the National Prize of Peru, "Antena Regional": The best of 2006 for promoting culture.
Maria, in Lima she met and married Alejandro Diez Canseco, her true love and together they lead a very culture-oriented life, perhaps like Dennis and Rosa Penaloza de Siluk have these past several years, for Rosa has traveled around the world several times, and throughout Peru.
Although much of Dennis’ cultural poetry is on many aspects of Peru, a great deal is on the Wanka Warrior and Pacific War, Dennis being a decorated Vietnam Veteran, of the war (1971), and the Mantaro Valley, as with Maria, to a great extent is on the Inca Empire.
Maria, She perhaps can be called, or referred to as the Josephus of Peru; as Dennis has been referred to in Peru, as the Jules Verne (referring to all his travels, and books relating to travel, and his cultural style of poetry, and writings), and at times, the Globe-trotter Poet, dubbed by the newspapers, and magazines in Peru. And now for the Narration, and meeting:

The Narrative Dialogue and Meeting

We (my wife, Rosa and I) arrived at the building about 10:50 AM, Thursday, morning, March 22, 2007, in Lima, Peru (Jesus Maria, district) at the cultural center (Peruvian Learning Instituted); right after we arrived we talked briefly with the guard, and we were already twenty-minutes late for the meeting, our cab was stranded on the highway, and we had to jump off it, and catch another on the side road. As we hurried up the stairs, we came to a small office the guard had pointed out to us, there she was sitting behind her desk, I knew her instantly, had seen a picture of her, she looked the same, I thought it was a younger picture at the time, so I was surprised, she looked younger than I thought she was: she wore a silk like multi colored blouse (black, red and white for the most part). She was 91-years old, but looked more like 67, I thought, well kept. She, Maria came around her desk, greeting me and my wife, as she asked us to sit down, at which time, I gave her two of my books I had done on Peru, she read the titles verbally, as she looked at each one, read them in English, “The Spell of the Andes,” and “The Magic of the Avelinos,” then she smiled (later on would say to a friend, “These are marvelous books…”), I could see she was proud to be a Peruvian, even though I would find out, she had Polish roots, from her father’s side, and Peruvian from her mother’s.
I knew it was most difficult to get a visit to see her, she had been sick a week before, and did not allow many visitors, in the first place, thus confirmed by a number of people prior to my arrival, and even the guard was surprised she allowed my visit, I felt more than lucky.

“Sit down please,” she said with her strong looking frailness, soft but stern eyes.
As I sat down I asked her to sign one of her boos for me, ‘Historia Del Tahuantinsuyu” and as I went to sign my books for her, she said, modestly, and with a little humor, “We shall interchange,” and again came that mysterious smile, that was warm and unspoiled.

(During the next few minutes I stood up, and Rosa my wife, took two pictures of her and I, and I showed them to her on my digital camera, and she looked at me somewhat, and said, “I’m 91-years old:” I didn’t say anything, perhaps nothing to say, she looked 25-years younger. She looked good for her age.)

Next came, loose talk about the food from Huancayo, since I had brought up the subject of my wife being from there, “I like Cuy Colorado,” I told her, and she replied, “Have you tried Cuy Chactado?” And I replied, “Oh yes…Professor Pedro’s wife in Huancayo made it for me, it was very good!” Then I added, “I like Huancayo po…ta..” and before I could finish the sentence, she corrected me, “You mean, Papa a la Huancaina?”
“Yes,” I confirmed.

(I think Maria was finding out, I loved Peru and its mysterious cultures as much as she did, back when she first discovered this ancient land.)

“What is your origin?” she asked me, knowing I was from North America.
“Russian and Irish,” I said, adding, “And your name isn’t Peruvian...?”
“Of course not,” she said, “it’s Polish.” Then I added, “I’m Polish also, from my Grandmother’s side, Russian from my Grandfather, and Irish, from my father.” Somewhat repeating myself.
“It’s a mixture,” she commented. I think I left out the Polish because of just that, too many spices in the pie. (And we talked briefly on that, how my extended family life, brought out the Polish and Russian in the family circle.)

Next, my wife and I invited her for breakfast saying, “Martina,” was going to be over Wednesday for breakfast (and her friend).
“Who is Martina?” she said, with a speck of wit, she was quite lively for a 91-years old woman.
My wife explained, she was from the Center of Anti-aging, in Lima, and then, pondering a bit on the name, and center, she recognized the name, saying, “There is a meeting next week there.” (I thought: what a sharp memory, better than mine)
“I’m too old for breakfast” she said, “I have to eat special food, but, thank you both for the invitation”

Then realizing the time had gone by quickly, I merely said, in a low voice; “We shouldn’t take anymore of your time, you’ve already given us much of it, and I’m sure you have things to do,” and so I excused us, and she said promptly, “Nice to meet you,” she was standing, when she talked, and now started to sit down, as we started to leave.
It was a most cordial meeting, and one I feel, brought out the ordinariness of a person, one that is not locked into a box because of ones profession. This was good I thought: there is a great humanness about this renowned historian.

The New Breed: Content to infect mankind with Ignorance

2007-03-24T10:04:00.001-07:00

The New Breed: Content to infect mankind with Ignorance

People are content with ignorance nowadays (it’s just the way it is, turned out to be), go off on a tangent over simple things, and overlook the big; clumsy they are, misunderstood they say (often); oh yes they are, if you are saying no to this. A good scientist nowadays (likened to many of us now), is too content with changing old (and as they say: ‘worn out,’ unproven discoveries), because of new mentalities, for new discoveries that are less provable: he and we, you, she, I and they, should simply admit this, that these particular younger minds particular I say, for the scientists, put less importance on proof, they give fragmentary proof, of the new, for the old, substantiated, but as I said, a tinge worn out because of age—and say it is written in concrete; hence, a new language is developing out this kind of thinking, out there, hitherto borne from the lie, until death do we part, that is the new language, it started in the ‘60s (I hate to say, my time), and developed in the ‘90s (there time) to complete its mission of ignorance, now in the first decade of the 21st century: thus, the blind leads the blind, and smiles all the way to the editors office, or the military’s command; or the UN, or the alter—it has a multi curriculum. Keep the world ignorant, churning and chugging every solid and old idea into mush, persuading the new tongues of the day at all corners of life and studies (knowledge in: philology), persuading, if not manipulating until forced into intellectual lockdown, we see this in our freedoms being smashed for the pendulum of modern sciences. Islam has this philosophy, oversight, committed to blindness. It says “Oh,” painful learning means you must go with the flow, not define their terms, motives, interests, even the Good Old American way, has this growing dilemma inside their heads, now quite as bad as Europe, or the Middle East, or China’s new Asia, but frankly, take it by faith is what they say, it is for your interest, and call it science—not ignorance, tradition, or Godly sent, anything but ignorance (even the war in Iraq, has turned out to be just that, ignorance by us, for the greedy). Where is responsibility? Perhaps it is all eaten up by self-interest, you know, the politicians and the scientists: those that say, “Don’t go and spoil Antarctica,” and launch a 200-man team to trample through its wilderness, yet telling the good folks of the world, stay away, unless you are a scientist, or politician, it is in the world’s interest (hogwash, it is in your interest, you simply want more room to play your games), and what are they doing, but digging holes in the ice sheets (scientific holes of course), and Antarctic peninsula remains scientific ground; we are big time hypocrites on top of the liars pyre, all under an unhealthy climate, general style to infest mankind into excepting ignorance as a lifestyle.

Iran: Operation: Extermination Procedures (stop playing their game)

2007-03-24T08:53:00.001-07:00

Let’s stop the game playing here. Iran does not want to be humiliated I heard the writer from BBC say, yet, they know the game well, how to humiliate, and taking in 15-Bridish Sailors is a good way of doing it (which is old business for them). So the question comes up, “…were they, the British Sailors in Iranian waters?” Everyone around that area at the time says they were not, and normally the British and Americans give a lot of latitude in this area. So let’s assume it is ‘no, they were not in Iranian waters’, since Iran has a death wish in the making anyhow. I mean, let’s not say: “I wonder if this is a misunderstanding,” as said By Bridget Kendall, BBC diplomatic correspondent; I mean we are in the 21st Century now, not heading into WWI, it is WWIII, in the makings. Let’s look at reality here. We are going to land on Mars in a few years, so says President Bush, perhaps by 2019, and we are not sure where the line water is in the Persian Gulf on a clear day (I don’t think so), with those multimillion dollar vessels under their feet, we know, they know, so let’s stop kidding one another, almost everyone knows. In the old days, we used to say: give us back our men, or we will have a war. This is a good reason to take Iran out, use it, time is essential. They are the pests in Iraq, they are surely linked to the PLO, and Lebanon’s trouble will perhaps disappear, this is a good time for exterminating procedures to commence.

Iran: Operation: Extermination Procedures (stop playing their game)

2007-03-24T08:53:00.000-07:00

The Narrative Dialogue and Meeting of:Historian Maria Rostworowski and Poet Dennis L. Siluk

2007-03-23T22:47:00.000-07:00

The Narrative Dialogue and Meeting of:
Historian Maria Rostworowski and Poet Dennis L. Siluk

Advance: A historical meeting, it can be called between renowned historian, Maria Rostworowski (de Diez Canseco), of Lima, Peru, and Dennis L. Siluk, Poet and novelist (who lives part time in Peru, and part time in his home state of Minnesota, USA); Maria has a half-century of cultivating Peru’s historical past, and a world wide audience with her countless books on its cultures, traditions, and historical data; a few books translated from the Spanish into English (i.e., “History of the Inca Realm”).
Maria's mother was a Peruvian lady and her father was Polish, as was brought out during the meeting between her and Dennis. Maria arrived in Peru when she was 19-years old, and fell in love with the country, similar to Dennis’ experience. She married a Pole in Poland, as Dennis married a Peruvian from Huancayo, Peru, adventuring in Lima, in 1999, they met, and married a few months later, in February of 2000.
Maria became a self-taught historian. Like Maria, Dennis’ enthusiasm has lead him to explore Peru, and write six books on its customs, traditions, and culture, in poetic form, and receive awards from the Los Andes University, in Huancayo, for his cultural contribution; in addition, he was awarded the Grand Cross of the City of San Jeronimo, and appointed Poeta Laureado of the city, along with Awarded the National Prize of Peru, "Antena Regional": The best of 2006 for promoting culture.
Maria, in Lima she met and married Alejandro Diez Canseco, her true love and together they lead a very culture-oriented life, perhaps like Dennis and Rosa Penaloza de Siluk have these past several years, for Rosa has traveled around the world several times, and throughout Peru.
Although much of Dennis’ cultural poetry is on many aspects of Peru, a great deal is on the Wanka Warrior and Pacific War, Dennis being a decorated Vietnam Veteran, of the war (1971), and the Mantaro Valley, as with Maria, to a great extent is on the Inca Empire.
Maria, She perhaps can be called, or referred to as the Josephus of Peru; as Dennis has been referred to in Peru, as the Jules Verne (referring to all his travels, and books relating to travel, and his cultural style of poetry, and writings), and at times, the Globe-trotter Poet, dubbed by the newspapers, and magazines in Peru. And now for the Narration, and meeting:

The Narrative Dialogue and Meeting

We (my wife, Rosa and I) arrived at the building about 10:50 AM, Thursday, Morning, in Lima, Peru (Miraflores) at the cultural center (Peruvian Learning Instituted); right after we arrived we talked briefly with the guard, and we were already twenty-minutes late for the meeting, our cab was stranded on the highway, and we had to jump off it, and catch another on the side road. As we hurried on up the stars, we came to a small office, the guard had pointed to, there she was sitting behind her desk, I knew her instantly, had seen a picture of her, she looked the same, I thought it was a younger picture, so I was surprised: she wore a silk like multi colored blouse (black, red and white for the most part). She was 91-years old, but looked more like 67 or 69 I thought, well kept. She, Maria came around her desk, greeting me and my wife, and asked us to sit down, at which time, I gave her two of my books I had done on Peru, she read the titles verbally, as she looked at each one, read them in English, “The Spell of the Andes,” and “The Magic of the Avelinos,” she smiled, I could see she was proud to be a Peruvian, even though I would find out, she was Polish, from her father’s side, and Peruvian from her mother’s. I knew it was most difficult to get a visit with her, she had been sick a week before, and did not allow many visitors to visit her, confirmed by a number of people prior to my arrival, and even the guard was surprised, thus I felt more than lucky.

“Sit down please,” she said with her strong looking frailness, soft but stern eyes.
As I sat down I asked her to sign one of her boos for me, ‘Historia Del Tahuantinsuyu” and as I went to sign my books for her, she said, modestly, and with a little humor, “We shall interchange,” and again came that mysterious smile, that was warm and unspoiled.

(During the next few minutes I stood up, and Rosa my wife, too two pictures of her and I, and I showed them to her on my digital camera, and she looked at me somewhat, and said, “I’m 91-years old:” I didn’t say anything, perhaps nothing to say, she looked 20-years younger, perhaps that clinic had did some work on her, if so, it was worth every penny she paid, she looked good for her age.)

Next came, loose talk about the food from Huancayo, since I had brought up the subject of my wife being from there, “I like Cuy Colorado,” I told her, and she replied, “Have you tried Cuy Chactado?” And I replied, “Oh yes…Professor Padro’s wife in Huancayo made it for me, it was very good!” Then I added, “I like Huancayo po…ta..” and before I could finish the sentence, she corrected me, “You mean, Papa a la Huancaina?”
“Yes,” I confirmed.

(I think Maria was finding out, I loved Peru and its mysterious cultures as much as she did, back when she first discovered this ancient land.)

“What is your origin?” she asked me, knowing I was from North America.
“Russian and Irish,” I said, adding, “And your name isn’t Peruvian...?”
“Of course not,” she said, “it’s Polish.” Then I added, “I’m Polish also, from my Grandmother’s side, Russian from my Grandfather, and Irish, from my father.” Somewhat repeating myself.
“It’s a mixture,” she commented. I think I left out the Polish because of just that, too many spices in the pie. (And we talked briefly on that, how my extended family life, brought out the Polish and Russian in the family circle.)

Next, my wife and I invited her for breakfast saying, “Martina,” was going to be over Wednesday for breakfast (and her MD, friend).
“Who is Martina?” she said, with a speck of wit, she was quite lively for 91-years old woman.
My wife explained, she was from the Center of Anti-aging, in Lima, and she recognized the name right away, saying, “There is a meeting next week there.” (I thought, what a sharp memory, better than mine,)

Then realizing the time had gone by quickly, I merely said, in a low voice; “We shouldn’t take anymore of your time, you’ve already given us much of it, and I’m sure you have things to do,” and so I excused us, and she said promptly, “Nice to meet you,” she was standing, when she talked, and now started to sit down, as we started to leave.
It was a most cordial meeting, and one I feel, brought out the ordinariness of a person, one that is not locked into a box because of ones profession. This was good I thought: there is a great humanness about this renowned historian.

Just Words: Bone-head words

2007-03-17T23:16:00.001-07:00

Just Words: Bone-head words

One must consider the value in writing for modern man, men of the 21st century, the new commentator—“Sweep the temple steps clean,” he says, “the tourist needs to see the shrine and get on back home,” to catch a plane here or there.
In each age there is a need to write, people want to see words daily, they want to know how to use them, and the why of them. I am no different; I’ve read the encyclopedia three times over. When I go to Peru, I don’t have one there, and I seem to be lost without it. I perhaps read and write five hours a day while traveling, and 10 or more when I am not traveling.
We simple do not seem to get enough out of words do we, and this essay is about words, plus we do not get enough of them, even though a simple book may have 30,000 to 130,000-words, depending. And the words don’t always justly satisfy ones reading, it is a task, but we do it, plus, everyone has his or her own versions do they not, of what they’ve read, and who knows, perhaps the write didn’t mean what you thought.
The mind of the East worries about the minds of the west, and the south is suspicious of all, and it all has to do with, words, all about words you see. And somewhere along the line we create our impressions from these words, perhaps some illusions along with them, we call the other guy with words, his opinions, he is hard-headed, or bone-headed, or a dead-head because his head doesn’t think like your head.

I am not suggesting what should be, nor what is concrete or simply exhausting for me or you, writing is simply communications service, a production of merchandise for the book trade, or paper, or magazine, and now the internet, it is most often the editor who determines what is important, this is what will be communicated. If indeed he says you’re not confining to this or that, he is perhaps waiting for a need for this or that.
Today the whole world is bathed in a struggle to get words out, knowledge of things come from words that define those things. And so the world begs for more words.
I prefer not to write to the new modern world, but in considering the value in my age-old thinking, perhaps each age has their needs, and my words have value. So this aging poet writes.

Vagabond to Vagabond: Brazil Complains!

2007-03-16T09:49:00.000-07:00

I don’t want to be too cruel, or harsh on this subject, or debasing, for some may think I have a slanted opinion perhaps on this matter, which I really call an up-front opinion, and it has to do with American travelers in South America; and I spend a lot of time in South America. This does not pertain to Peru, Colombia or Argentina, and a few other countries. But countries like Brazil and Paraguay, and a few others, I will not mention their names, they know who they are. The premise is Visas. So what’s my beef! Just this, they are greedy. Let me explain.
Six years ago I went to Brazil for eight-days that is all, the visa cost me $60-dollars. Now in 2007 I go back to Brazil it cost me $100-dollars (in Paraguay, it cost $45-dollars even if you only want to stay a day, and there isn’t one thing worth seeing there, even in the big city called Asuncion ((which is really not too big)), not one thing worth $45-dollars to see; the only thing you get for your money is a cheap hotel for the dollar, yes, once you look out the window, you will agree with me most likely, except if you were born there. Yet on the other hand, it doesn’t cost the South American a dime for their Visas (I know because my wife has never had to pay), only Americans, yes, just North Americans; why they charge Americans, is perhaps because they know they don't want to live in Brazil, except if retired, there are no jobs, and little hope one would pay equal to America. The normal premise of a Visa, is to insure the person receiving it, does not stay in your country and take jobs away from citizens, and can pay his or her way while visiting; in most cases the Brazilian cannot meet these standards going to America, where everyone knows, Americans can afford to stay longer in a foreign country, and would not want to leave good old America, especially for most South American Countries, unless retiring, as I said before).
Anyhow, let me get on with my complaint, or better put, dismay at this situation. Mostly Brazil: I know they say ‘But we have a reciprocal Visa plan, monkey see, monkey do.’ Meaning, America makes it difficult for a person living in Brazil to get a visa to get into America. This is true, but if America did not have a policy like that, there would be no one left in Brazil, they’d all be in America (one must remember America is giving them aid, they are not giving it to us; if indeed it was reversed, I could understand their postion in this matter); like the Mexicans are doing, and the Asians in South East Asia are doing, and Cuba would like to do, and started to do, until we put a stop to it. It is no different than the West Africans (as they were doing) trying to invade Malta and Europe recently, trying to get on their shores, leaving their battered countries to start a new life, and they put a stop to it: the EU.
But here is my logic. They hurt themselves in the process, out of pride you could say, and to a neighbor that gives them between $800-million to $1.6-billion dollars a year--every year, and they slap the tax payer in America twice in the face. They grab the money and run like an elephant to the bank with it, and say, ‘…throw another $40-dollars on top of the already $60-dollars for the visa, it is simply part of the visa reciprocal program; thus, they get more money.’ It is a cheap way of slapping your neighbor in the face (as I just said, twice), who has just signed a billion dollar check for you (for nothing). If I had, but I don’t have of course, the power to stop these gift payments to South American Countries that slap our face, I would. Anyhow, the rhetoric we get back from them is this: ‘…you give more free money to Egypt, than us, your neighbor.’ They even say it as if they are hurt, so the beggar is complaining about the other beggar getting more; I can’t believe it.

How About those Young Critics

2007-03-11T14:23:00.000-07:00

How About those Young Critics

The whole American speech today is turning into butter making and swallowing a large mouth full of cream and the world is a matching set. With the young critic today, there are certain things he or she does not know; blind I call this to some part of the spectrum, and part of the butter making process. Because in most cases their determined attempt has a patriotic flag, to conquer, thus it is not possible to get a good review in most cases, disuse of the beginner, to his limited culture refinement.
Another point not understood by young critics, who are clumsy at languages, is this: when we are kids, in our limited environment, we memorize certain things, process, biases, and it sticks with us for life, or until we can measure it with something else, in the process, one becomes however bored, prideful, and they never wholly forget, and consequently, call Confucius, Homer, Ovid, Dante, old stuff, unsatisfactory. This goes on in the internet, newspapers, magazine reviews, almost everyplace you find a young critic.
Is there a remedy? I do think so, I suggest don’t be limited to vague terms, making them up on their own, simply because they are too ignorant to have a meaning for them; the young critics who use terms so vaguely, by which I mean, articles etc.; we should demand of a critic his ideograph (his symbol), next what does he consider valid, or good writing, and what does he consider general terms. Now we know where he is coming from, and who he is, and should he be doing what he is doing, like a waitress that never smiles, she’s in the wrong business. It is like having someone live in St. Paul, and write about Peru, and never go there, he cannot simply stay in Minnesota writing about the Inca Culture, or the Wanka customs, or Nazca pottery, looking at pictures, he must begin by works (touching the pottery, traveling to the locations, talking to the people; another example might be, as in living in the south, no one can say this is bad or good language, if indeed folks talk the way you heard them talk, why would you write perfect English, when the folks back when, didn’t speak perfect English, it is the new young critic that things this way. Thus, before a critic becomes a critic, he needs a core curriculum (or program) in place with instructors, or be forever annoying to the readers with the dullness he demands.

Some years ago, I had a young man whom wrote me off and on for several months, wanting advise on what to write about, and I told him: forget about writing (if you can’t figure it out), and go on an adventures around the world, and when you get back, you will have more than what you need to write about. He said, "What do I need to start," I said, "...feet!" I haven't heard from him since, and that has been three or four years back. Perhaps this might be good advice for some young critics.

Hugo Chavez on a Rampage (3-11-2007)

2007-03-11T09:25:00.000-07:00

Hugo Chavez on a Rampage

Hugo Chavez is presently showing the mentality of his people unless his people are paralyzed to do anything about it, and it is a shame Venezuela’s Government and media do not stop such a shameful spectacle a rampage around South America (if anything, he is not a normal person, ramping and raging as he does, like at a cockfight). Communism, socialism, feudalism, and fascism, and in Chavez’s case his socialism is really totalitarianism. I’m not saying Capitalism in the form of the American Democracy would fit the needs and structure for every country in the world, or even in South America, but a form of Capitalism mixed with Democracy, and a tinge of socialism may work for most countries.
And make such people like Chavez and Castro accountable to his people, instead of slowly boiling them alive. I live half the year, and been in most South American Countries, and been in Venezuela, the people don’t need Chavez’s kind of socialism (they are warm kind people), they need an honest elected man, one for the people and elected by the people, not a hummingbird that wants attention all the time, and is running wild with its oil revenues and throwing it every which way, while the poor live on the mountain sides in Caracas waiting for a handout; his kind of socialism is the kind he wanted for Peru, and every other country in South America, a dependency on him: this makes him the godfather.
Now for my second thought, I am not sure what these South American Countries are mad at Bush for, I mean, Bush or America has not caused them any harm, if anything given them for a century, aid in the form of food, military equipment, etc (1.6 billion, was the last figure I had—for nothing). But it is normally the free hand out by the good Samaritan, that the prideful bite (but pride always comes before destruction), only to find out down the road, it was more faithful than, their grandiose leaders, and South America has had it share, that is why it is as it is waiting for a leader that will not pluck their feathers, keeping them dependent, and running away with the piggy back to Europe or America or some island. Tomorrow Chavez can cash his billion dollar check America will give him for his over inflated oil, how much his people will get will be according to how hard the beg.

Peace for Israel and Palestinians: Why Not?

2007-03-07T19:41:00.000-08:00

Peace for Israel and Palestinians: Why Not?

I don’t really think Hamas, whom the king never mentioned in his great lecture to congress (today) wants peace, but here is what he said “…Jordan's King Abdullah II said Wednesday the United States must take the lead in creating conditions for a permanent peace between Israel and the Palestinians.” … His remarks were limited almost entirely to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. … His comments on the Middle East issue before his departure for Washington were far more critical of Israel than the ones he delivered on Wednesday.” CNN
There is no language to change a world from war to peace, it comes from the heart, a break in the heart has to occur, and from what I see, and hear from Hama, Syria, Iran and the rest of the Middle East what they indicate, say, show and act, and produce, they don’t want Israel to exist (thus, they do not want peace, unless Israel evaporates, this is a code they live by), what has to change is infected to uninflected speech, and actions. And I think the king has got his good will in his pocket, every word he says has a little final tag telling America and Israel it is a subject or an object for them to cure, when the ball is in Islamic hands. The king is good in English, and he knows all the variations of how to get emotion from the west, only to hand over his misguided ideas to this specific group whom they want to have persuade Israel to die slowly (or so I see it that way).
If one finds it convenient to think in chronological cycles, and wants to review history, I suggest they look at why for 40-years every chance or attempt of peace has collapsed between Jew and Muslim, human confidence appears to have approached that the obliteration of the state of Israel is at hand, and thus the world suffers each time a set-back happens, and it happens every time this peace is almost available, but never quite ripe enough for the Islamic world.
I don’t want to use up too much of my time on this scornful subject, there will be peace when Hamas wants it (or Syria, Iran, and the rest of the Middle East, stop supporting Hamas and its ways), until then, there will simply be war. Like alcoholism, to tell a person to sober up, and not have something better for him waiting, why would he sober up? In a like manner from what I see, Hamas does not see anything better than war nor its comrade states, and the elimination of the Israel State is still in their hearts, a quest they believe is attainable (they have a lot of oil, thus, they have a lot of resources). I guess, like the King of Jordan, we all have our views; sorry I can’t go along with his.

Ignorance in Literature

2007-03-07T07:43:00.001-08:00

Ignorance in Literature

The public needs to be educated (simple as that); in school they do not teach a view on literature as a whole, or its relation to any other part. Often the teachers consider this subject dull at best, not natural. There are literary masterworks out there, but most of them are not what we think they are. Hemingway, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Joyce ( ‘Ulysses’ his masterpiece is nothing but a reckless Picasso), as was Gertrude Stein’s work, none have what I called masterwork interwoven in them, yes interesting, but far from admitted into the select category, much inferior to the Odyssey. Apologies for selecting these readers, I have most of their works, read all of them, and simple as they are, they are poor versions for a Nobel Price in Literature, or any prize in literature which is suppose to be top shelf stuff. Neither Faulkner nor Hemingway went to college and one can tell that in their writings, full of redundancy. If that is what they are teaching in school then literature is bound to be pushed aside and locked up in an old chest, for something else. The near past has miscalculations, clumsiness in their hammered out selections of junk; Emersion, was right when he said Nathanial Hawthorn was unlearned, and unprofessional, and lazy in his writings, and that is when North America started selecting, second best to be best, and now we are down to fifth best is best. E.E. Cummings, with his vast verity of poetry, has a few I like, out of an uncountable number, and Ezra Pound, a great thinker of his day in literature, perhaps came close to what could have been…but never was.
So where am I going with this? In defiance of this dead-end for the contemporary scene it may be urged that authors in the future attempt a mixture, of everything, not just detail, so they are more expandable and compressible in the categories they choose to write, if they seek the Literature prize, and I do think prizes are a deterrent to good works, most great writers perhaps do not have prizes, simply because they do not have the connections.
Most people do not know the term comparative literature, even college students in literature. We can call these students low-brow readers, what he needs to do is read more books, but we are down to American taste are we not, like the hamburger, and pizza, and chicken concepts, roll them off the assemble lines, put them in a box, and bring them to a bookstore that only sells the run of the mill best sellers, the new born arrivals. Many bookstores are doing that now; I am not making this up.
It is hard for most people to write orderly paragraphs, it surely was for Faulkner, so don’t feel bad, and Sherwood Anderson who seldom had a theme, or connecting plot, but he was suited for his day. I wait for enlightenment, and never seem to find much of it in literature nowadays. The Epic of Gilgamish is great of course, and other such works.

Literature is not as complicated as folks make it out to be, too often undefined, and common sense not used, which is often not common in writing, simple procedures, a theme, plot, and insight, clearly marked; discoveries, define where you are going, make it organized, not fragmentary like Faulkner’s, or Joyce’s, or e.e. Cummings poetry. Does the sentence avoid confusion? No where you are going, state it; approach literature as if it were not a library (or categorical division); don’t divide it up like a scientist. One thing needs to be related to the other—associations. It appears we have accepted unsatisfactory liberties as in our freedoms, in our literature, make it sound like it is suppose to, it doesn’t matter if Charles likes it, and Bill doesn’t, be true to literature, to it right, misspelling is just laziness, that is my hang-up, I even have a computer nowadays, and I misspell more than I did when I had only typewriter, but that is again, laziness not wise to do, but acceptable in the long run, for it can be quickly fixed.

America: Laws of War and Contentment

2007-03-06T18:22:00.000-08:00

America: Laws of War and Contentment
(and: the Inside Hidden Force)

In today’s world, the sword has one point, only, and no sharp sides, the symbol is of course force, or power, or money, it is all in one. There also is a hidden force inside that tip, this point I’m talking about, divides and smashes to smithereens and kills, there is of course a mystery force beyond this, which does not go into the maze of man, inside the maze religion is destroyed, and there are different images of god, or gods, a movement you could say, this force remains outside it, but I wish only to talk about the inside force.
We have all been in fear, at one time of the unknown, I learned it in school, counseling school many years ago, this is the object we were to look for to stabilize the person we are counseling, find his or her cultivable area and bring it back to health. But the maze, which most of us are in doses not really have this kind of person, they, the lenders do want him around, yes, these so called moneylenders, who betray all to get all. And do nothing for it. How is this you say? I shall answer my own question in a minute. Another question: why are we in one war after another? There are reasons I do believe for this trend. In a way of thinking, you create a problem, solve it, and you look like the hero. In a similar manner, like banks, and as I said moneylenders in all shapes (not just banks), take in interest on all the money people put in it, this money of course is created out of nothing for them, the interest that is, and when it gets a lot of it, it can take back what the borrower cannot pay back, which they got out of interest for nothing. So they end up with money and assets such as cars and houses, and so for and so on.
In America this is simply called capitalism at work, or is it? You can, as they have, create a slump in a certain area of the market, as they did in the 1980s with gold and silver, it went up to $800 an ounce, I remember, I was in Ozark, Alabama at the time, the late 70s, and early, 80s, then all of a sudden gold went down (down, up, down), someone made money, and a lot of it. So we blindly follow the fog, where the moneylenders lead us in the maze, without looking, asking questions, but this is America, and we have liberties, right. And let us not forget the philosophic definition of American liberty, do as you please not necessary what is right, as long as you do not harmed anyone.
So we have liberty at work, but how does this all come about. I thought about this a lot today, and in the past, put it to words this evening, and here is what I came up with, War! Yes, war. It is really so simple. I can’t give you a lot of proofs, it would take 100-pages of thought, and investigation, but here is my idea in a nutshell, and perhaps old to many readers: drive the nation into debt, if you don’t who will lend money, money is the bowling ball, trade and industry is the bowling alley, this is called sabotage of course, but provoke a war to impose monopolies, in their interests, so they can extract the interest, the profits resulting from change, change is very valuable in the market today. In the past few days, we have seen this in action, and perhaps it has provoked me to speak out. The market in China went upside down, and hit Europe badly, someone, somewhere got a big hung of money out of it. And will again, after they buy, cheap, and sell later on, high.
Today if it cost a dollar for a war part, tomorrow the demand will rise, with the war, and it will cost $2.00, but you can borrow the money if need be, the lenders will give it, the supplier will borrow the money to make the supplies, and charge a higher fee for the demand; we got everything in motion now.
So let’s have a war (I guess we got one going, don’t we), and change some values, and then you ask, what happened to the cheerful dispositions of our youth, our nation, the utopia of the modern world, America. Fifty years ago, our schools were teaching different things, the laws were different; anyone my age can tell you that. We actually thought before we spoke. We could define our economic state of being. The reason a government needs to impose more taxes is usually because its expenses exceeds their forecast, or newly discovered needs, or it needs to produce more currency to keep up with whatever, a criminal act perhaps, if was to make the money that is. Thus we have origins of a war, created out of nothing, but a game to make more money, and war’s succession.
Well, this is simply my way of thinking today, if you got a better way, let’s hear it, I’ll give mine a benediction. It is really a poets view, more than an economist’s view, but I do know this, to get us back to what I would call normality in the good ole USA in the economic liberties field, it is not a step ahead we need, rather a jump (and perhaps stop an old war).

Iran & North Korea: Sacking the West

2007-03-05T19:10:00.000-08:00

Sacking the West: America the Slave
Under: Black Mail

I hole this makes some sense, it does to me, but then often I find out, people have their own views, and rather be red then dead, an old saying from the 60s. Anyhow, let me see if I can get my thoughts out on this the way I’d like them. Democracy and liberties, we Americans are putting them up for sale, for hamburgers, and fried Chicken, pizza and soda, as we pay black mail money to any and every country threatening to build a nuclear arsenal. A bribe that is what it is, clear as day. This will not give us salvation, or a higher survival rate, but an ultimately impotencies (inability to function properly)) sad to say, but there are after affects to this)), as we burn those who think different, it is the curse of America’s new mentality, its general concepts: pay them, in the name of protection and peace; in the process, we go into isolation, as our religions are damned also, we are govern by men who take in account too few of the facts. A United Nations that is a farce, and a danger in that its committees appoint inner cliques to sack larger nations of their GNP in the name of plenty (yet these nations we support with food, have the ability and money to build nukes, just not feed their people, and why feed and heat them, or keep them warm, when you simply need to black mail America), and in the process create local disputes, which produce war. In Minnesota we go to jail for bribing a police officer, yet our elected officials, get a badge of honor for such work, and publicly too. We remain slaves to the little countries that black mail us, with no liberties (liberties indicate freedom from bondage), as long as we allow other nations to black mail us we are slaves.

America Growing Ignorant

2007-03-05T13:42:00.000-08:00

America Growing Ignorant

Ignorant 1

Ignorant: unaware, badly informed, rude, ill-bred: I could go on and on, but that describes the topic pretty well, America is becoming Ignorant, this is not a phenomenon, it is a fact, and humanly motivated. And so I want to show you in my words, in my way.
We think, as Americans, we are pretty smart in this so called New World Order, which has been developing since the 1960s, because perhaps we win wars we cannot govern or contain thereafter. Thus, in the process we have forgot how to move about in a world we have inspired to change, only to find ourselves denatured and growing more ignorant about what is happening around us.
We have artificially created a world wide economy (cut out of what now is called globalism: a ward that didn’t exist in the 1970s); it is knitted together by the WTO (World Trade Organization), with the USA at the helm; yet the USA has lost the talent to run the program, out of plain old ignorance bad choices, bad selections, and allowing the blind to govern the blind.

What is the Mission? 2

What is the mission? It must first be defined, not after the fact, as in our reconstruction of wars. He, who has knowledge of the subject, without knowing the facts, is bound to arrive at a dead end. A friend of mine said he hated New York City, I asked him why? He said, “I couldn’t find a hotel, and me and my kids had to carry our luggage all over town…etcl,” But after asking for more facts I found out: he never made reservations; he didn’t want to take a taxi, he walked everyplace trying to find a hotel, and ended up sitting the night away on a bench with his kids. It did rain, but he just abruptly took him and his wife to NYC for a weekend holiday without any planning, expecting all would be well. I told him, I was in NYC three times and had a blast, but I had also done some planning, I had a mission, and it entailed having a place to sleep in advance, my mission was to see several sites my wife and I wanted, it was defined, if indeed we seen more than what we planned, all the better. On his part, ignorance, yes, and self inflicted.

Admiration 3

To avoid uncertainty know when you will be out of place—in most regional, and religious situations, after a war, this is overlooked; civilization building is not simply putting bricks on top of bricks.
America was once a world classic, why? Because it had certain eternal and inner irresistible freshness, it wasn’t ignorant, and then admiration came from those all around her.

The Past 4

Ignorant countries of the past are rediscovering the simple laws once mislaid (such as: Egypt, Germany, Japan, China, and Russia, to name a few), can be regained. Life mixed with the laws’ of art (skills, talent and ability to do), can pull a man away from ignorance.

When I eat fish, I want to know what kind of fish it is…that is called (to my understanding) modern thinking. When I was in the Amazon, I ate perinea; they have small bones in them, and many, similar to sunfish, back in the State of Minnesota, in the USA. I do realize, perinea fish, are not created to swim in the lakes of Minnesota, to try and make them, will create disorder among the other fish, to force the other fish to accept these deadly beasts, would to me be ignorant.
We are in this tub, kind of, that we think everything needs to look the same: hamburgers, pizza, sodas, chicken. The world is not a pizza, and the New World Order, is having a hard time figuring this out.
It is like trying to govern Iraq, with American ideology. If you want to win a war, you go to America, we are good at it, but if you want to govern, and contain Iraq (or a country like Iraq), you resurrect Saddam Hussein (or find someone like him, I hate to say). To think otherwise is ignorant of the laws of submission, environment, common will, and that is where criticism comes in for the USA.

Think carefully on this, this philosophic thought, their way of thinking produces difficulties for us, not for them, we say they misinterpret us, and they say, so what. Persuasion is no different than manipulation, and nobody likes to be manipulated.

President Chavez, Venezuelan Mosquito

2007-03-04T18:24:00.001-08:00

President Chavez, Venezuelan Mosquito

I think Chavez, he has a double personality, and a tinge of paranoia, perhaps a few other symptoms of mental disturbances also, he now is pointing fingers everywhere he can, even at shadows, in fear he will not make it to his next dinner engagement, or Talk Radio show with Castro. Now he says the CIA is after him, a death plot. Does he think he can do as he pleases in a world that does not take kindly to his kind of rhetoric; I think he is a bit careless with his words, and I’m sure with his background, he has lots of enemies, not just a few in the CIA. From what I hear, Cuban anti-communist militant Luis Posada Carriles would like to have part of him, and perhaps his own people. For some odd reason, such dictators like him, think (Like Castro, and such presidents in Syria and Iran) they can do as they please with the powers of their nation, and not be accountable. It is just a matter of time before they are dethroned, in most cases, unless somewhere along the line they wise up. The world no longer can afford such leaders like him, and like North Korea’s. They are getting too dangerous for the new world, and now even Libya, who took the first step in calming things down, want a rebate, they want to be able to black mail the west, like North Korea and Iran is doing, they feel cheated, it is monkey see, monkey do. Even if they get want they want from such big countries as the EU, US, China and Russia, there has to be a halt to it, and in the past it has been by assassins, that usually does the trick, and every country uses that, not just the USA. Half the Middle East use that on a daily basis, so what is new, Castro used it likewise. Chavez has said he will cut the oil supplies to the US, should he not get his way. Iran said they will use their rockets on Israel, should they feel a need to (what then if they get the big one?); North Korea has warned Asia and even shot a few rockets into the Japanese Sea, so what does President Chavez expect; I would think, exactly what he has dreamed up.
Those that survive in this new world order will be those that can adjust to the world, and not solely on their own terms; Russia found out the hard way, and Libya did also, China’s ability to put 50-billion dollars into their military defenses this year is due to acquiring the right to join the World Trade Organization, which the US sponsored for them. Chavez may have to learn the hard way, as Castro has already done. Castro survived only because of Russia. Chavez does not have the luxury at the moment.

Talk Radio Show: Castro to Chavez (a Sham)

2007-02-28T09:10:00.000-08:00

Talk Radio: Castro to Chavez (a sham)

I read the transcript of the Talk Radio Show, between what Castro and Chavez spoke about 2-27-2007), and they sounded like two pigs in a blanket. If indeed they talk like that in person, I would think they were two sissies, trying to get a date with one another. I couldn’t believe the conversation. Now let’s get serious, both compliment one another on world affairs, and how much they read, and how much they know, and have done for their countries. All this was talked about live on the “President’s Show” or hour, on National Radio, in the transcript of the conversation between Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez and Cuban leader Fidel Castro, edited for brevity, the two mongooses’’ whom are quite compatible for one another, put on quite a show, I couldn’t stop laughing, but it proves one think, if anything, they are out of reality, which most dictators like them are, they actually think, and feel, believe and have reasoned, they are the champions, the Heroes of the Western Hemisphere, that they have done mankind a favor for breathing their air, when in spirit, these two are really the revolutionary kings of plunder.
They have driven their counties into a foggy existence, drained their countries to the limits, to be and live grandiose; Castro even throws a pun to his mate, saying he will speak a few words in English, and laughs. I think Castro is trying to tell the world he reads newspapers, not just takes girls through his back door entrances into his palace, at night, which he thinks no one knows, and everyone in Havana talks about (and fears they will be found out for laughing about it, sadly laughing for it costs them tax money); and how he lives in his palace, guarded from the so called people that love him. Anyhow, it was a witless show of stupidly; do they have nothing else to do?

The Eight Greatest Engineering Feats of Mankind

2007-02-23T15:26:00.000-08:00

The Eight Greatest Engineering Feats of Mankind

Seeing is Believing

[Advance] I tried to word this right, the title, for surely there are many Engineering feats, throughout history, the Roman walls in England, and the Greeks Acropolis, in Athens, and the legendary labyrinth, in Crete, and so on and so forth. But these are the ones I’ve seen, and feel are worthy to be called among the greatest of mankind. Some are ancient, some are contemporary, all are great, and until I see something better, this will remain written in stone in me, and I am not adding the space programs, or moon landing in this overview, or scenario. Man has accomplished a lot, with his blood and sweat,
Perhaps too much blood and sweat went into these feats, but then, that is part of the human race is it not, to be and seek challenges. So here we go:

1—The Panama Canal: The Panama Canal, one of the world’s most impressive achievements, with three locks, and a long canal 51-miles long is perhaps the Greatest Engineering Feat of Man kind. I visited the site three times, in 2006.
The city of Panama, an old city dates back to 1673 AD (and some structures to 1519 AD: I’ve seen them all, impressive); it was once burned down (the old city), I walked among its ruins, which is a UNESCO site now; or World Heritage Site.
What is the Panama Canal? It is a 51-mile waterway, linking the Atlantic with the Pacific oceans. That is it, in a nutshell. I saw large and small ships going through the canal. In the 1880s, France tried to build this waterway, fighting yellow fever and malaria, killing 22,000-people. There was a canal treaty in 1903, and in 1904 the Americans took over the building, and accomplished it in 1914 (it only took ten years to build). They purchased the rights for $40-million dollars from France, who had started the project but could not complete it, at which had $375-million dollars invested into the project; and then the USA invested $300-million. Mountains had to be split in two, creating a crack between them, and manmade lakes created. I saw pictures of the ongoing construction, it was breathtaking, the task.

2—The Great Wall of China: I walked on the Great Wall of China, in 1996, it was a haunting experience. Built between 250 BC and 1450 AD, it expands over mountain rangers and across unforeseeable terrain it is spellbinding to walk up and down its wall, knowing it kept the nomad tribes, or better put, the so called barbarians out (or was suppose to). It stretches two-thousand miles across China, and can be seen from outer space. An ancient engineering feet only surpassed (I believe) 500-years later when the Panama Canal was created. You could put six of the pyramids of Egypt into the construction of the Canal, and have leftover debris.

3—The Central Railroad of Peru (completed in 1907): The Central Railroad of Peru the most distinguished in the world (historically); an engineering feat of land and steal where it reached to heights of fifteen-thousand eight hundred and thirty feet (above sea level) to the city of Ticlio, then down to Bone City (La Oroya) and onto Huancavelica: One thousand miles of rail through mountains, across 41-bridges, around 13-zigzags, through 60-tunnels. It goes alongside the Mantaro Rio, in the Mantaro Valley of Peru (as you can see there were many technical engineering difficulties involved in its making). I have not been on this railroad, but I’ve seen the bridges, and the tunnels they carved and built for this accomplished, while traveling throughout the Andes of Peru, and the Mantaro Valley itself, and been to the Rio.

4—The Pan-American Highway: While in South America, I’ve been on this highway a dozen times, but while in Bogota, Columbia, I found it was a little different in that those folks who died on the highway, their loved ones planted trees for them, and you see these trees all about. What a kind gesture.
This was no little project, 29,800 miles of highway (the whole system); from beyond Fairbanks, Alaska to Ushuaia, Argentina in South America (with a 54-mile gap in the rainforest). It is the Americas supper highway, it is really too big, and too complex to put into a small paragraph like this, but let me say, it is a tourist haven; perhaps the best way to travel in the Americas besides the jet.

5—The Plateau of Giza: and its Pyramids and Sphinx (Egypt): When I was in Egypt, I took a tour of the Plateau, and of course the three pyramids, and went into the pyramid of Khafra, with its tunnels, and sections, and all. And got a front row tour of the Sphinx, which only a few people get, and very few, it has to be at midnight to get that special tour, and costly (perhaps as much as the trip to Egypt itself), but you get what you pay for, to touch it, and perhaps a little more). The Great Sphinx is north side of the court, in front are temples, ruins. When you see this combination, and all its linking connections, throughout the Plateau, and the connections with the heavens, astronomical associations, it is a gallery of Engineering on a grand scale.

6—The Siberian Railroad: I’ve only been on what one may call, a small section of it (Perhaps the European Section), for it goes from England to Brussels, Belgium, to Cologne, Germany, and on to Moscow, Russia, and then on to capitol of Mongolia (Ulan Bater), and to Beijing, China. Not sure who gets the credit for building it, perhaps those countries I just mentioned, it is, if anything, a United Nations Achievement, in that it crosses the boarder of so many countries. But the miles involved, for such a trip I just mentioned would take six-days on the train that in itself is an Engineering feat unsurpassed in a railroad.

7—The Alaskan Pipeline: On my way to Barrow, Alaska and during a flight while in Barrow, across its tundra, I saw pipeline, it is massive, and like a long unending snake. It bewilders me how one might have to go out and fix a link, oh well, the week in Barrow, in 1996, was a long week to say the least, and you see nothing in the Arctic but white, no trees, no anything, except, white bears, white this and that, and the pipeline, which looks white after a while also but is perhaps more silver looking. Back in 1968-‘69, when I went to San Francisco, many folks were heading up there to work on oil projects, anticipating the pipeline, as if it was a gold rush. I remember quite well, Dan, a friend of mine, back then; his stepbrother’s father was heading up there, to work in oilfields.
The 800-mile-long Trans Alaska Pipeline, it started up in 1977, and pumped, successfully transporting over 15-billion barrels of oil since. It crosses three mountain ranges and over 800 rivers and streams; it cost $8-billion to build, and was mostly from privately funds. It took three-years, and two months to build between 1974-1977, I assume the planning stages were complicated, for they had to build seven airfields to accommodate the construction.

8—Borobudur (the Magnificence): A master piece of art, and engineering (assembly): temple, or shrine to Buddha, with 504 Buddha’s statues in sitting or standing positions around the shrine. It is wider than the Great Pyramid of Egypt, built on a mound. I went there in 1999, summer and it encircled me, until I got to its peak, Built in the 8th Century, AD. It has two-million blocks of volcanic rock, to the total building structure, the area is 14,165 square meters, with a width of 120 M. With a total weight of 3,500,000 tones. Only about 5000 visitors go there a year it is not one of your regular stops, to say the least, You have to fly into Yogyakarta, central, Java, to get there (from the Midwest, you go to Alaska to Japan, to Guam, to Bali, and a small plane can take you into the city. On the top of the shrine, is a giant Stupa; there is also a calm, about, and around the whole area.

2-23-2007

Egypt, the world’s Internet umber one Nose puller

2007-02-22T15:44:00.000-08:00

Egypt, the world’s Internet umber one Nose puller

I have been in Egypt, and I am not surprised with their on going fear and pressure they try to put on their citizens. We are dealing with the Middle East, where they have been for as long as I’ve been around pulling their citizens by the nose, and telling them when to, and what to do. They are used to that. I’m surprised the young blogger is still alive (Abdel Karim Suleiman, a 22-year-old who went against the system on the internet). He wrote about Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, eight articles, and now has to go to jail, do time. I’m not surprised either, that the USA is not stomping their feet, if it was Cuba, they would. But many sites are afraid, even Enzinearticles, who I usually write for fears the backlash of the Arab whip. That is a lot of control.
Bloggers are going to be watched now perhaps and the freedom we had will be gone…or at least in the Middle East. Amnesty International and the United Nations might get involved, and should, although I don’t care for the groups, perhaps they might be of some influence for once in their life. Their past jobs have been bogus in most cases, or simply worthless. The motive behind this of course, is to tighten up the free space in-between. Better put, keep your mouth shut, out of sound out of mind, or out of sight out of mind, or out of print, out of mind.
The Egyptians want their rights and freedoms when they go to the Western World, but even when you are tourist their, you get roughed around; the people are much like the government, controlling, so I can’t blame the government for trying. But Good luck Abdel Karim Suleiman.

Terror to Come to Europe

2007-02-15T14:49:00.001-08:00

Western Europe thought they could buy their way out of Terror:

…think again, they are learning a hard lesson, what America learned in 2001, you don’t appease them, and you eliminate them. If need be you fight terror with terror, or as the old saying goes, to beat the bully, you get a bigger bully. Israel has known this for a long, long time. They don’t play around with the Arabs, or Islamic yoyos, they break them apart, even if the UN cries and stomps their feet (saying unfair) to stop hurting the mass murders such as Hamas, the PLO, and all of the secret Iranian groups in Iraq, and Syria, and the Lebanon missionaries. Europe will still have to learn the hard way, Paris and Madrid, and Germany and a few other hot spots for the Islamic Jihad, who know they will get a fair deal when they war with that part of the west. The reason they hate America, is America stands erect, and they can’t stand that, they want the west, Europe and America to bow, and Europe has. In Madrid they want to put the seven killers in jail for 38-years. Now figure it out, how much money is that going to cost the Government. If it was in the US, that cost would be: $45,000 per person, per year, so that is 45,000 x 38-years, $1, 710, 000 per individual, x 7 individuals=$11,270,000, tax dollars. Now I like the way the old Romans used to do it. If they could not use you for labor, you went to the butcher shop, they were not going to have their society feed and cloth and shelter, anyone they could not get some use out of; why use up resources on a dead horse. No society should be burdened with such a task, as to feed your enemy who is going to do nothing but get fat in his or her cell.
But back to the premise of this letter, Europe is not free from the scorn of the Arab world. They cannot find or buy their way out, as they thought they could. Iraq has a good policy, get rid of the trash. I think all these Human Right groups play a big part in this, fighting for the rights of the criminal, and now the EU and UN, seem to have gotten some kind of devil policy like that also, to save the terrorist so they can kill another day (this is called, rights without responsibility). How they got that into their system is beyond me, but it tells me something, I am glad I’m not there, but here. If the US was under the World Court, I would fear for l my life; I might just as well become a Muslim, or take my life, because there goes my freedoms and rights all in one trash bag. The laws in Europe are simply a Christmas gift to the terrorist.

The Bug-eyed Monkey Man: Darwin, and the Kansas Debate on Evolution

2007-02-14T21:15:00.000-08:00

Saint Darwin, the Monkey Man, and Kansas´ Debate on Evolution

When I was a kid, and that was long ago, life was simple, there was no fighting in educational establishments over how man was created. Now we go on forever trying to prove one mans concept, or should I say, faith, or belief, since it has not been proven, which is none other than Saint Darwin, and his ever lasting theory of Evolution, why everyone is stuck on, which is beyond me. Kansas seems to be leading the fight for God or a Higher Power, being responsible for life (or was, and is no more). Whereas, the well educated folk can’t seem to adjust to such a simple faith called God Almighty, and select, the extreme, the bug-eyed monkey to be our long lost link, or God.
How did this all start? I mean, life was simple when I was young, the zoo had the monkey, and we got to visit him looking through bars, now we teach our children we got to accept them as our long lost ancestors. I think it is easier to believe in the faith called, a Higher Power created us, rather than coming from a lower power the monkey who can’t tell us a thing but make funny faces at us all day.
I’m no scientist, and I know I think in simple terms, but just because it says so in the book, or in the eyes of a few educated people, don’t make it right.
When I was in the hospital dying several years ago, and the doctors said to my mother: he’s going to be a Fruitcake when he wakes up (no brain left is what he meant), I had a stroke, a bad one, and heart surgery, I was not suppose to have survived and the doctors could not do a think about it. In three days I healed, and the doctors were in shock. I suppose the Lower Monkey God did that, Saint Darwin sent him I expect.
Call it what you will, but it is wrong thinking…you can’t coddle a monkey god, and Darwin was no more of an authority on such matters than a bird watcher; if he did anything, he did create a fantastic fantasy movie, in the form of a book (like Jack London’s “Before Adam,” which I enjoyed reading, as I have enjoyed reading, “Charles Darwin's 1859 book "The Origin of Species" but I’m grown up now, and I got to put kids stuff away, the fantasy collection, is what I’m speaking of, it is good stuff for my grandchildren, but to have a whole nation believe in one mans delusions is insane, but he got peoples attention, did he not. The best thing I can say about the man was he was ahead of his time, like Victor Hugo’s, “The Time Machine” by H.G. Wells; and like Hitler once said: it is easier to fool the masses, than the few, how right he was. From what my research shows, Darwin just before he died, said: "I really didn't believe so many people would believe me." Fools believe foolish things.

Ramadan (Hang him Quick and Hang Him High))Baghdad Commentary, 2-13-2007))

2007-02-13T09:26:00.000-08:00

Ramadan (Hang him Quick and Hang Him High)) Baghdad Commentary, 2-13-2007))

I’m not sure why, how and when the UN came up with a policy to not kill, killers, or to save killers, or to preserve them for posterity in prison cells, but it is a bad policy. And so thinks the Iraqi government, or legal process:“Iraq's High Tribunal has sentenced Saddam Hussein's former vice-president Taha Yassin Ramadan to be hanged. He was tried alongside the former Iraqi leader over the killing of 148 Shias in the village of Dujail in the 1980s.” Now anyone in their right mind knows this high ranking devil of Iraq had his hands bloodier than simply killing only 148 Shias, which is a lot in itself, perhaps he should take credit for the mass murders across Iraq during his whole term in office. In any case, I think the UN, as I have often said, is the devils playground for world disorder. America seems to need it for a platform to speak I guess, but at such a price. The Iraq judge paid little attention, as has Israel, and the US and Russia, and China to the UN, when it comes to self interests, and perhaps with good reason, it is the devils backyard, as I repeat myself. So good for the judging and sentencing and the good men of Iraq, who do not want to pay taxes to feed fat killers like Ramadan. Good work boys. You saved the nation a headache. Plus I’m sure if you would have let him live he would have boasted between his cell mates, how brave he was in killing this person and that person, and so forth and so on (or having them killed). He was indeed, a deadly cockroach.
Now if only we could get the rest of the world behind this policy we’d get rid of a lot of trash, save money, and give a good message to the world’s future legal assassins.

Mugabe: King of the Wild Kingdom

2007-02-12T14:50:00.000-08:00

Too Many Kings in the World
(Dedicated to: King Mugabe)

King Robert Mugabe has more expressions in his face and arms than a dog has wiggling his tail. The old coot, I kind of like, if only he could stop acting like Castro, and settle down, and take off that overly proud look of his. He is king, and will remain so until he dies, and like Castro, many a folk are waiting to celebrate that day (I am not, simply because he cannot rule me, if he could, I WOULD probably celebrate with those poor folks also), but why can’t he have a little mercy for his own race, the Zimbabweans, hard to figure out the old man. Unfortunately, when we get old we forget those suffering around us, Castro has, the North Korean leader has, and so many other leaders have, so to condemn him, we must condemn many others, and some would prefer to name President Bush, who is bankrupting America, among that group. No, Mugabe is not alone in this world of shameless robbery of his own kind, his own people, he has company galore. We could even go to Saudi Arabia, or Iran, or Jordan even to Cambodia for kingship, or Yangon (old, Rangoon), to name a few shameless countries that could keep Mugabe company.
Mugabe’s birthday is coming up, and I’d like to attend it, but I don’t have the time, he will be 83-years old. He’s now ruled Zimbabwe for some 27-years; he must have gotten his leadership criteria from Castro (he has survived everything)—Castro being his old friend of course. How long will he last, I’m sure a few more years, and then hand his kingship to one of his loyal followers, and a new regime will be born, unless… the country rises up and a revolt starts, or everyone leaves the country and there will only be animals to rule over, sad to say, but true, more pain is in store for that country whom ever decides to stay, animal or human, but the old saying is very true: you deserve the king you allow to rule you, and his government. So why complain.

America's Milk and Honey goes to North Korea

2007-02-12T13:29:00.000-08:00

North Korea Black Mails the West

Call it what you want, but at the end of the tunnel, it is pure blackmail, and no true American can be proud of such a fate. Yes, I say fate, because what comes out of blackmail is more blackmail. The US government condemns its citizens for such criminal activity, and disregards it internationally, and who picks up the tab? Every American Tax payer is going to be blackmailed, legally, and internationally. So you say: what else can we do? There are solutions to the problem. Perhaps Japan and Twain need to let China know, if North Korea has nukes, they will have them also. North Korea will simply be 100-yards away from making the necessary warheads when needed, for they’ve already proven they’ve got the rudiments of the bomb—they’ve shot one over the Japanese Sea. They can stop and start at will. I am ashamed of our Government today for allowing this blackmail to go on. If South Korea and Japan want to appease North Korea, so be it, with their tax money, but for me, I don’t like it. Our freedom is being taken away by the terrorist country, legally, North Korea. They are robbing us and laughing all the way to the bank, and making us pave their roads with lilacs, for nothing. Iran will do the same, and so will every country in the world—if blackmail works, we will have every beggar in the world at our doorsteps. Just work on getting the bomb, and you got a blank check from the US Treasury, with the blessings of the American President, that is suppose to be protecting our economy, not giving it away.

How is the President going to pay, or reward North Korea? I mean, where is the money coming from? America is almost broke, I would it is going to come from the Medical Services he wants to cut out of the budget, for the poor Americans, along with other Social Services. He has gone too far with his righteous roughhouse Christian Flag.

Iran Still Wants to Nuke Israel (11 Feb., 2007)

2007-02-11T08:25:00.000-08:00

Iran Still Wants to Nuke Israel (11 Feb., 2007)

Where there is smoke, assume there is fire, or get burnt when it reaches you. The president of Iran said several times it wants to crush Israel, and it sent a missile over the Persian Gulf, over head of an American Ship recently, now that they got the attention of the UN, EU, China and Russia, and Israel, their spokesman said, it is for a peaceful mission, for fuel, when they got a horde of oil in their backyard. Now I’m no nuclear scientist, but I smell, see smoke, it’s is coming from over the horizon; if it isn’t Iran, than whom? Could it be, they got a few American ships in the Gulf now on ready alert, or perhaps because the UN has put a few sanctions on them, withdrew a few care packages? Not sure what it is, but the President of Iran is not boasting what he intends to do with Israel these past weeks, but I’m sure it is not a belated Christmas greeting in store. I would prefer negotiated settlement with Iran on this issue, but something tells me we will get a little less than what we want. I doubt they will dismantle anything, perhaps stop what they are doing to appease us for a month or year, and start back up again. So what is the solution? Go in there and take them out, down, or blow them up. Do they have a right to have them? So they think so. Does a crazy man have a right to have a 38-gun in the middle of a panic attack?

I Eat what I want…and feed a few folks in-between (dedicated to Teun van de Keuken)

2007-02-09T17:29:00.000-08:00

I Eat what I want…and feed a few folks in-between (dedicated to Teun van de Keuken)

I was reading an article today called: “Dutchman: Jail me, I ate slave-made Ivory Coast chocolate” the article goes on to say “-- A Dutch journalist asked an Amsterdam court on Friday to convict him for eating chocolate, saying by doing so he was benefiting from child slavery on cocoa farms in Ivory Coast.”
Now here is my point, I’m an American that lives in Lima, Peru and St. Paul, Minnesota. If you ever go down to Miraflores, in Lima, any day, any time of the day, of the year, you will see children selling candy (this is also happen in the downtown area in Huancayo, Peru). This is normal, and yet I do not hear anyone hollering about that. If you ask the kids why they do this, they will say: “We have no mother and father, and live with other relatives, if we want cloths and food, this is what we have to do.” How old are the kids…between six and perhaps twelve. After that age, I’m not sure what happens to the girls, but the boys become shoeshine boys. Maybe Teun van de Keuken, who is causing all this yuck in the Ivory Coast, should take a trip to Lima. If you stop buying from the kids, as Teun suggest, who is going to pick up the tab for feeding them. You see we all have our moral request, without any long term solutions. Maybe he wants to feed them, care for them. They don’t want to do what they got to do, they just got to do it, to survive. What little they have is in the hands of the few folks that are willing to care for them, that make but a few dollars themselves a day. Take that ugly loving parent away, and they got an even uglier life ahead of them. It is easy for many folks coming to Peru to say: you should do this, and look at that…etc., and go home and sit on their fat…you know what, and thank God they don’t have to return.

The only thing worse than being poor, is starving to death.

Iran's Junkyard: Tehran

2007-02-08T09:25:00.000-08:00

Iran’s Junkyard: TEHRAN

“Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed Thursday the Islamic republic would hit back at U.S. interests worldwide if attacked.”
That is what is coming out of Iran. The point is, what they say is what they are already doing, not going to do, so who cares if we start a war with Iran, not me. The sooner the better, if indeed they will have the nuke, which Israel believes, and the US knows, and the rest of the world suspects, will have it soon. They kill at will in Iraq, and don’t expect a backfire, and now they are worried. I suggest they get out of the terrorism business, and then talk about right and wrong. It is a two way street in the new world order, not a one way path in the sands. The war will come sooner or later, it is better to have it sooner, simply because, they will later have Russia and China on their side, now they still may have them, but they cannot do anything without drowning with the Ironies, so I suspect it is better now. Sink their boat before they shoot the nuke, I say. They even talk about destroying our war ship in the gulf, before they’ve even thought this through, and they have now the missile to do it (we gave them time to build it, and as I’ve said all along, what they have is what they will surely use, sooner than later). If we are going to do business in the gulf area, then we best, make it safe now, or get out. Perhaps if we make Iran a junkyard (or at least, Tehran), like they’ve done to Iraq (and: Baghdad), possibly we will have another decade of peace in the Middle East.

Frankie Laine: Mostlly forgotten, down here on Earth

2007-02-07T09:35:00.000-08:00

Frankie Laine: Mostly forgotten, down here on Earth

Frankie Laine, let’s hope they remember him up yonder, because only a hand full of folks remember him down here, perhaps hard core Frankie Laine groupies (from the 40s and 50s). Every time I hear of a movie star, or General, or record recording singer or writer dying, the media of course picks up on it as they should, and the ones that love him tell the world, what they think, and they think he will live on forever in the eyes of the world. Not sure where they got that idea but that is not even reality.
“He (Frankie Lain) will forever be remembered,” someone said (he died at 93—today, Tuesday). I asked my wife who is 12-years younger than I, if she ever remembered Frankie (I can call him Frankie because I remember him, I’m 59-years old, and he was going out when Elvis was coming in, and that was long ago). Anyhow, my wife said, “No, who was he?”
My mother, who now has passed on, some three years ago (at age 83), would have remembered him quite well I suppose, not sure if she enjoyed his music (not everyone enjoys every singer out there, and there are a lot out of them out there), but perhaps, Americans (I didn’t care for his music all that much to be honest), anyhow, old Americans will remember him, and I’m an American. He was just before the hamburger culture and rock and roll culture came into the spot light. Of course Frankie, was not a rock and roll person, he was perhaps a little rhythm and blues, with a touch of Nat King Cole, if I remember right, a few spicy songs to boot.
“No,” I’m afraid not, he will be lost in the shuffle of some aging encyclopedia, (American most likely) historical pages, with a little burp (a few lines perhaps, maybe), that says something like this: ‘He was a person from 40s and 50s who was a popular singer in the United States; and then, like most singers 99.9% of t hem, faded out.’ But of course, the main thing is, let’s all hope he anyway, he will be remembered up yonder, where it counts, where I hope I will be remembered myself. But let’s say he had his day, under the sun: Frankie Laine. Here is a poem (Haiku) for him:

Haiku for: Frankie Laine?

Who was Frankie Laine?
Let us simply say, he had his day
Under the sun…!

#1684 2-7-2007

Iran, Crybaby (Diplomat Kidnapped)

2007-02-06T07:39:00.000-08:00

Iran, Crybaby (Diplomat Kidnapped)

I think Iran got a taste of their own medicine, and they don’t like it. They think they can kill Americans and Iraqis at free will, disrupt Israel through Syria and Lebanon, send military snipers over to Iraqi, and be immune to terrorism itself, when it is part of the lot. It’s about time they get payback. Iranian President said the abductors “…acted under U.S. supervision." I say, all the better, they got my support. If I hear right, it is a crybaby, I hear over there, but it is all an act. You get what you plant, if it is bad seeds, you get black roses. If I had the power, and I don’t, we’d have been doing this long ago, the day we found out Iran is poking their nose into Iraqi, we should have been poking our noses the same way into Iran. Perhaps, Iraqi is tired of Iran meddling into their affairs, and Washington, is just looking the other way and saying: do what you want, we can’t tell them a thing, and they won’t listen, so perhaps this will get their attention (kidnapping is not a good thing, don’t get we wrong, it is just a normal thing over there, and Iran has thus far been immune to it). In my old neighborhood, on Cayuga Street, in St. Paul, Minnesota, it is called: fighting back the same way. The diplomat was in Baghdad, where everyone is killing everyone else, perhaps he should know he is in a war zone, and that means war.
I think I will celebrate this evening, and toast the Iraqi folks for once are fighting back at the folks fighting them, instead of fighting Americans whom are trying to help them; thus, taking a little step forward in this terrorist war, that Iran has been sending over to the Iraqi people now. I think the only thing that has slowed down the retreat of the Iran military forces infiltrating Iraqi lands is the Americans under order to maintain peace. Arabs know how to fight Arabs, throw the rules in the gutter, and fight. Americans have too many rules that is why we are losing the peace, why we lost Vietnam, and why we are bogged down in the first place.

Mikhail Gorbachev: Happy Birthday (2007)

2007-02-05T09:01:00.000-08:00

Mikhail Gorbachev: Happy Birthday (2007)

There are not a whole lot of heroes nowadays worth their salt; it seems the young folks want movie stars and sport players, whom maybe good at what they do, but do very little to contribute to a better world, or so I feel anyhow. Of the many men that have played a role in peace keeping, and making a difference in the world, few can match Mikhail Gorbachev. Perhaps the most worthy Russian President ever, he was the last Soviet Union president, since it perished in January of 1992. But it was he who brought the Iron Curtain down, broke the back of the Cold War. We can claim Ronald Reagan had something to do with that, but very little, he just asked the man across the Berlin wall, to tare it down. And willingly, he did but America tried for 40-years unsuccessfully.
Mikhail Gorbachev was man of the year in 1988 (‘Time,’ magazine), and well deserved at that. And he took note in the uprising for democracy in the Lithuanian part of Russia, where my Grandfather came from; and the universities their voice.
Yes, I came from Russian stock, and am proud to say Russia had a great man in my time, thank God.
He came to Minnesota once, St. Paul (where I live part time, between there and Lima, Peru), I wanted to meet him, and sorry I couldn’t. He went to Summit Ave, an area in St. Paul, and I was waiting for him down by the Capitol, and wished I was on Summit Avenue to greet him, he was shaking everyone’s hand, and so forth and so on. Then he came with his long black vehicle, to the Capitol area. His wife was on the left side of the car I remember, and I on that side of the street, thus, she rolled the window down, and I waved, but so did a 1000-other folks, and I got a glimpse, profile of her, and not her husband (but that was even a privilege, for a good woman, molds an already good man). Oh well, what can you say, I tried.
But in all fairness, it was worth my efforts, for the once Soviet President, born in 1931, who brought down the old Communist Party; so happy birthday, Mikhail; it will be March 3 soon, if I’m correct with my data, and you deserve a nice birthday card: this one.

Global Climate Change: we need Psycological Scientists

2007-02-02T17:03:00.000-08:00

On Global Change: We Need Psycological Scientistgs

I just can’t take it anymore, dump, silly, if not foolish, statements, by the so called high paid scientists giving us old news, when it is psychological drama that is needed. We got the official report from IPCC (the International folks), and Green Peace and a few others saying:

“Global climate change is "very likely" to have a human cause, an influential group of scientists has concluded.”

I’m not sure how long and how much this report cost, but I could have told you 20-years ago this every something free, I mean it is something we all, already knew. They (the scientists) even go back to 1750, to document their findings. Again I say, 20-years I heard this, and for twenty-years, it has been in Newspapers, on TV, in Magazines, on the Radio, but now this week, it’s an official report from IPCC, thus, written in stone. My gosh how lucky can we be to get this report))they even add the future temperatures will rise; this might be good for a lot of house holds in the far northern part of the world). No one cared about it 20-years ago, and not many do today.
It reminds me of smoking. I’m 59-years old. I smoked for 22 of them, and have stopped for 22-of them; I started smoking when I was 15-years old, everyone back then (1962) was talking about how bad cigarette smoking was. Then down the road of life, they made folks put “Danger” signs on the packs of cigarettes, as if we didn’t know it was bad for our health; of course we all knew, but like food, we liked to smoke. Then the National, and official stamp was put onto the packages, upgrading its concern, saying, “For sure we know…it is bad for your health (something like that).” But that didn’t stop me, nor many of my friends. What did was, it cost too much, and I wanted to travel, I had better things to do with my money. Thus, one must find something better to replace the something we must grieve, and let go of, if indeed we wish to let go of it; sometimes it is better to hang onto a bad habit, such as smoking, than to suffer its consequences (and there can be some). Yes, I said grieve, that is what we got to do with cigarettes, just like drinking, or gambling, or any bad habit; even moving from a house or apartment we’ve had a long relationship with needs to be grieved.
And so, if we want to stop the modern world from contaminating the atmosphere, we will have to come up with something better to occupy us with, and not so called, Environment Programmers, or Green Peace folks, telling us what we already know.

To change a persons actions, attitudes, you first must change his formal reasoning…scientist or not, this is human nature speaking.

The Old Camera (A tribute to old Times)

2007-01-29T18:43:00.000-08:00

The Old Camera
(A tribute to old times)

Sometimes I feel
(looking at that old picture
from that old camera—back in ‘58)
feel I’m still that eleven-year old boy
in Como Park (St. Paul, Minnesota)
standing in the sun
with my pal, Mike Rossert
(like Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer)
smiling—proud as can be
(over nothing)) just life))
arm around his shoulder
(his around mine)) now 59)).
I suppose there wasn’t a care in the world
(just loose time, romping time—).
That old camera (1840s)
caught it all:
life was so simple
it was a ball…!

#1632 1-29-2007

Note: Dedicated to Mike Rossert. Mike and I roamed St. Paul as kids, between 1956, perhaps to 1959; but we remained friends until I was perhaps 15-years old, then we both lost track of each other. He was perhaps my first real friend, I mean, one I spent any quality time with. We’d roam the banks of the Mississippi River, and wake up the bombs in the caves thereabouts. We run and explore the tunnels under the streets of St. Paul, Minnesota, that went from the Capitol to the Historical Society, and to other such places. And to the top of the hill where the museum used to be, and of course out to Como Park; we’d also run in and out of the elevators downtown, like clowns. I think he was more daring than I but it was—nonetheless, unforgettable times, times that are worth looking to back; thus, it is prudent I do believe, to let ones kids explore the wonders of youth, it is only around for a clap of an eye, than lost to oblivion, unless you can capture it, in a poem.