Posted by
OB Busch on Thursday, May 29, 2008 9:40:48 PM
The Socialists
Back in the mid 60’s the new left was pursuing an agenda of causing
unrest on the nations college campuses. This was supposed to lead
to a revolution, and the seizing of the government by the communists.
Two of the leaders of this revolution were Bill Ayers and Bernadette
Dohrn. The attempt to disrupt society by violent means waned because
at every protest march was a core of believers and a big crowd of people
looking to score drugs or find a ‘chick’. The party people disbursed at the
first sign of the cops, and the core believers made the news being dragged
off by the police. After the 1968 democratic convention the strategy of
the left evolved to infiltrating the democratic party and academia to
slowly change the government toward socialism. (This is all well documented
in David Horowitz’s book, “Left Illusions”)
So Dohrn and Ayers are back with their friend Barack Obama. The left can
parse this subject all they want, but Barack Obama is the culmination of the
full take over of the democrat party by the communists of the new left.
It seems that as Europe comes out of the fog on socialism, electing
several conservative leaders, the US continues the march leftward
toward socialism . If Obama wins the Presidency, we will be all the
way there.
Grand Old Party
The Republican party was pulled to the middle left by the influx
of old time Democrats (Regan Democrats, Neocons). As it was the
party was mostly middle to middle right. (Rockefeller Republicans)
Conservatives had that moment in the sun with Ronald Reagan,
but for the most part have been in the minority.
In 2000 George W. Bush, from the Rockefeller wing, won the
nomination and the Presidency. The compassionate conservative,
Bush, moved the party even more to the left. (If you are one of those
crazies that call George Bush a right winger, where on the scale are you?)
Now we have John McCain. How is he different than, say, Hubert
Humphrey?
Brave New World
I have that 70’s feeling all over again. The other day I was tempted to
buy a mustard colored shirt and an avocado green appliance.
It’s the gas prices and the rhetoric that goes with it.
The gaggle of clowns in congress pluck and cluck about taxing
excessive profits and suing OPEC. Those tried and trued failures of
the 70’s.
There is only one solution. We MUST drill for our own oil. This will
have an immediate benefit and huge long term benefits.
1- We must remove our dependence on oil from the very
people that are waging war on us.
2- By approving oil drilling in the US, OPEC will bring the price
down by flooding the market in anticipation of losing some market share
to our oil down the road.
3- When we get to the point of producing all of our own oil and
exporting some of it the dollar will strengthen, our trade balance will
start to even out, and we will control our own destiny.
This is based on the reality that alternative fuels equal to what we now
consume is 10 -30 years away. Until then, we need oil to survive.
The problem is that our government in this brave new world is on a
mission to change the US into a 3rd world secular country
governed by elite liberals that will rule over us with political correctness,
hate speech, and diversity. Oh, It’s already happening? No wonder
I have that 70’s feeling all over again.
Baseball
When I last posted about baseball several responders indicated that they
have left the game behind. (Thank you for posting your comments). One
indication was the players whining about their salary. For the most part those
guys are gone. The current crop of young players seem to be fan oriented
and sprited team players. As far as salaries, I mostly ignore what anyone in
sports makes under the theory that if someone is willing to pay it, someone
is willing to take it. Anyway, baseball has been a favorite since my youth
when the 1957 Milwaukee Braves won the world series over the New York
Yankees. Now I tie it in with Fantasy Baseball and it’s a lot of fun.
The Milwaukee Brewers are playing as predicted. Starting pitching holds
good for 6-7 innings, then the bullpen gives it away. Hopefully this will improve.