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What’s the matter in Somalia?

September 23, 2008 geoausch 1 comment

When the country Somalia is brought up in casual conversation, it is usually in the context of our short lived military jaunt there in 1990’s. However, over the past two years, Somalia has crept back into cocktail chatter all over the nation. 

In 2006, I published Islami Fascists I and Islami Fascists II on my blog. It never generated much of a response and I got tired of bringing the issue up when people would just ignore it. However, today I had a friend bring up the current events in Somalia. In typical Leftist fashion, he made the Islami-fascists out to be the victims of United States’ exceptionalism.  I told him that if you were to take the Islami-fascist agenda and add the names “Jesus” and “Hashem”, the Left would go crazy and demand military action. Since it’s all done in the name of Mohammed, we must all stand by and praise the direction Somalia is headed. Evidently, sharia law is something we all need to experience.

I thought I would raise the issue once again on my blog and see if we could start a discussion this time. Check out the previous posts on the issue, Islami Fascists I and Islami Fascists II.

An Epilogue to “Don’t Do That!”

September 23, 2008 geoausch Leave a comment
After having a couple of days to think about what I wrote in “Don’t Do That,” I decided I needed to tie up some loose ends and wrap up some unfinished thoughts. I promise, this will be one of my last posts on the economy for a while.

 Our current problem is the result of both the irresponsible consumer and the irresponsible investor. You can’t put all the blame on corporate America, nor can you put all the blame on consumers. The Federal government is at fault because when debt hits, they still expect their share of our hard earned money and their share of corporate America’s money. In short, the consumer wants money from the investor, the investor wants a return from the consumer and the Federal government wants everybody’s money. In that equation, there is always going to be a short fall. The one institution that doesn’t need the money is the Federal government.

 

Eco-terrorism in Texas?

September 23, 2008 geoausch 4 comments

Someone once said, “anyone in their 20’s who is not a liberal has not heart; anyone over the age of 30 who is not a conservative has no brain.” If you need any further proof to the last part of this maxim, look no further than James Andrew Jeppe. In addition to vandalizing the cars of high school students and other Southlake residents, the 72-year old Mr. Jeppe also admitted to being part of Green Peace, the Sierra Club and other fringe, environmental extremist organizations.

While I have no love loss with the residents of Southlake, I clearly see the actions of Mr. Jeppe as those of a hippie who never grew up.  Grown ups don’t act like this, only spoiled idealogues who never learned the meaning of personal responsibility. 

Left uncheck, this could lead to greater acts of eco-terrorism. Our neighbors in the Western U.S. know far too well how far these nut jobs are willing to go to advance their agenda. Hopefully, prosecutors will use Mr. Jeppe as an example to teach would be eco-terrorists that in Texas, eco-terrorism will not be tolerated.