Mustang Rambles

This quick 5 second video and sound bite of Nancy explaining that the health care bill must be passed so that we can see what’s in it. Sounds a lot like someone saying we need to buy a timeshare before we know what the terms are and where it is.

This is impossibly inane. Is she mentally competent? Or is this a horrific example of “taken out of context”?

Well, the Oscars are finally over. But, the categories got me thinking. It seems that years ago actors were actors and actresses were actresses, but the winds of change made it so women are now also actors. It puts them on an even playing field with the men actors, and rightly so. Great ability and performance on the stage have no exclusivity to either sex. Not like sports, acting is based for the most part on the inner person and the talent for facial expressions. The only difference today between female and male actors are the roles they play, which are written by people who have to gender-specify the characters. So, all things equal, male and female actors have equal abilities.

So,why is there a Best Actor and Best Actress? Is there an inherent difference that I don’t know about? Or, today, when everyone is equal, does it just double the “Best” awards?

Another thing I don’t agree with is separating out the “Best Supporting Actor etc”. For instance, this year, the absolutely best performance by anyone was by Christoph Waltz in Inglourious Bastards. His performance as the delightfully sadistic Jew Hunter SS Officer was incredible. By the time the movie was over, you were amazed at the man’s fluency in four languages, his savoir de faire, his joie de vivre, and his pure ruthless efficiency. I actually began to admire the capabilities of the demonic character he portrayed, and I have absolutely no liking for Nazi anti-semitic policy and the atrocities it caused. No one reached outside themselves more and succeeded in creating a better character than he did.

Reading in the paper today, I see where the Honolulu Star-Bulletin put out an article stating that “The Navy is helping the Coast Guard perform its oldest mission–protection of natural marine resources–”.

What a bunch of crap. The stupid reported who put that together should be fired for sleeping in 8th grade Civics Class, or fired for just being so fricking eco-freaky that he thinks he can re-write history, one of the favorite pastimes of the New-Age One World Order types. Actually, in the spirit of forgiveness, I think the reporter is just ignorant, and you can thank your local school board for that. Anyone who has any information about the Coast Guard, or the history of our glorious nation knows that the Coast Guard was established by Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasury, to stop the smugglers from avoiding their fair share of taxes and revenues. In fact, the Coast Guard was original known as Revenue Marine and the Revenue Cutter Service. It was only in 1915 that it received its current name. In the official site of the Coast Guard Historian
the first mention of environmental protection comes in the 1960’s. This hardly makes it the oldest mission of the Coast Guard.

I recommend that the newspaper, if it wants to retain its reputation, begin hiring reasonably educated reporters who will take 5 minutes to look up things on the Internet.

My wife and I went to breakfast this morning at a popular restaurant in the area. An older couple sat down with their two teen-age granddaughters. One of the girls had her Ipod or MP3 player firmly plugged into her ears. I shook my head at this act of disrespect and then began thinking about why kids have to have music going 24-7 or is it 168 now? Three possible answers ran through my head and I thought I would throw them out for thought and feedback.

1. Do our young still have a deep primeval memory or genetic kink that makes them act like primitive tribes everywhere. Tribes that all require music and dance as the prime medium of entertainment, especially in courtship matters that begin at pre-teen ages and run through middle youth. This music and dance also sufficed to transfer religious and social mores down the generations in non-literate groups. One other advantage was that it took some of the competition out of the huts and into the dance arena where harmless competition could wear off animosities, anger, and perhaps, even bloody revenge. Is that still happening today?




2. The second trend that went through my mind is that this musical rebellion against the parental generation is peculiar to the developed countries of the world. It is a statement to the parents that teens are not bound to the mores and customs of their elders; that they are indeed, masters of their universe and do not intend to be mere clones of their parents. Music of the new generations has little or only an adverse relationship to the social mores of the elders.
   
   I remember well one day when I was listening to “The Witch Doctor” which included lyrics such as: “Oo,eee, oo ah ah, oo, ah walla walla bing bang.” My father ridiculed the song as nonsensical and juvenile. Being quick on my mental feet, I challenged him back with, “And what was so smart with ‘abba dabba dabba said the monkey to the chimp’ and “Yes, we have no bananas today”, and “Three iddy biddy fishes in an iddy biddy pool”, and finally, “Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy”.
   
   I was fortunate enough to have a teenage club nearby where we would dance every Friday and Saturday night. I was basically a teenager who had been given a gift. My wife, on the other hand, grew up in a community that would have a “sock hop” every three months or so. She was socially denied her generational gift. I enjoyed my music in the 50’s and 60’s but quickly outgrew it in the late 60’s where volume of sound was substituted for quality of musicality. When you look back on each generation, there is a musical shift and dance shift, but still, each generation of young people creates their own distinctive musical niche and this binds them together.




3. Still, it was not so much the quality of the music, what was important was that it was our music and not our parents’ music. It set us apart from society in general and made the statement that our generation was going to be different and the world would be better for this.
   
   The need for the constant stream of music, and by this I mean the constant use of Ipods or MP3 players which have followed the early transistor radios, Walkmans, portable CD players, is a rejection of society as a whole. While listening they don’t have to deal with the millions of daily social contacts that occur in just walking down a street, sitting in a restaurant, or dealing with relatives. The music just shuts society out and insulates them against the stress of social intercourse.
   
   On an even deeper level, it may be the ultimate panacea for thought. For those who think and consider the ramifications of social interaction have much more stress and worry than those who are blessed by no or little interaction. Music forms an important barrier for those unwilling to expose them to this stress. By constantly listening, by being an uninterrupted receptor for loud, rhythmic noise, the brain can be lulled into minor activity excited only by extreme sensory input such as a loud noise or firm touch, or perhaps stepping in a cold puddle. Young escapists can hide behind a bastion of music oblivious to the responsibilities of being a human being in a human world. They have to give nothing, they have to risk nothing, ergo they gain nothing.

Since I’ve matured, my car radio is silent. The CDs I own are rarely played, and I have only five songs on my mobile phone. I may play them once every two weeks. Only when engaged in repetitious chores in the yard or in the house do I allow music as a brain filler. Otherwise, I listen to the world. In the silence I have found a wonderful universe of thought and conjecture. In silence, I have peace.

I’ve seen a lot of videos about President Obama and what his policies are doing to our beloved country. This one is particularly effective. You need to view this, American and non-American. It will tell you who we are, what we are, and why we are. If you are not from America, then you live near the graves of Americans who fought for freedom for the people who live on the soil in which the American servicemen are buried.

Tell your friends about this one. I hope to see you at the next DC rally on September 10th and 11th. The last one was the best thing I’ve ever done.

Recent polls show that five major European nations favor the banning of Burkas, the head to to covering of some Muslim women. These nations, France, Italy Spain, Germany, and the UK have severe immigration problems where Muslim immigrants are not assimilating to their new home, but are demanding that their new nation give up its cultural identity and accept the Muslim identity. When asked if a law should be passed banning all religious items, crosses, crucifixes, and the Jewish cappelle, the numbers dropped way down.

This change in numbers indicates clearly that the ban is not aimed at religious items, but is a backlash against the very rigid Islamic takeover of Europe. And it is a dedicated, determined, and insidious invasion that will succeed as long as the European, and eventually American nations, succumb to the liberal babble about the rights of the minorities and immigrants. As a nation, every state has the right to limit immigration by groups, religion, and mores. Every state has exercised these rights. Few Islamic states allow freedom of religion, or even freedom of national fashion.

When you look at the history of the World, I mean really look at it, only two groups have really risen above the clutter of mud bricks or rock monuments. Europeans and Northern Asians have risen to the pinnacle of technology and economy while the tropical climes have withered and maintained a sub-standard status-quo. To this effect, I assign a primary cause that I feel is very evident. When you live in a cold climate you have two advantages: 1. You have more time in winter to sit around and think about how you can make things better, and 2. The weather is bad enough that to survive you constantly improvise and improve tools, techniques, and social interactions. When you live in a warmer climate, where plants and animals thrive, life is much easier and you don’t have the push to spend a lot of time planning and inventing. The need doesn’t exist.

Now, as in the Dark Ages (let’s hear it for Roland and Vlad Dracule) when the Muslim hoards first invaded Europe, it is time for the Northern peoples to reject a religious society that has rejected their glorious past, that seems set on remaining in the 9th Century, that has no empathy, tolerance, or acceptance of ways that are not Islamic.

We can do this. Laws can be passed. I personally welcome any immigrant that comes to America and becomes an American in dress, habit, and loyalties. Just as all Catholics give up their secular allegiance to Rome when they immigrate here, all others must make America their first loyalty. Those who just want to get American goodies and still not become Americans, can just stay home. They are not wanted and will not be tolerated much longer. There will come a day when the American public will get together and pass the necessary laws.

New report on a possible Gulf War chemical effect, may be similar to Viet Nam’s Agent Orange in the way that the VA treated it. However, the VA may have learned and is reacting quickly to this new discovery.

Comment from my source:

One of the guys I copied on this, XXXXX, was my CC over there. He emailed me back last night that it’s documented that we ‘dusted’ 20,000 prisoners!
I remember being on the platforms as they would come in as part of the search routine prior to processing them into the compounds. So they came to us already dusted, then we dusted them right before we searched them, all in close quarters. I don’t recall any respirators or masks…at most, we tied a piece of cloth around our face, similar to what we did during sandstorms. Not much protection there, and now the thought occurs to me that using that same cloth, without decontaminating it, just held the dust (and other things) and the next time we used it we likely inhaled whatever was lingering there.

I feel OK, but you never know what lurks on the inside. You may remember that I have had a rash on and off. My concern is that I don’t want a lump showing up in my chest or bum and for civilian medical folks to think it is there just because I’m old dude. At least, hopefully, if I am a patient at VA, then someone may raise an eyebrow.

Here’s the video:

If you were in contact with Iraqi POWs during Desert Storm or the current Iraqi war, you may want to contact the VA about filing a claim.

View the related article here.

This is a good opening statement by a Congressman from Michigan concerning the health control bill that is coming up.

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You’ve got to see this video of Democrat Senators berating Republicans on the threatened use of the Nuclear Option (the 51 vote rule in the Senate). These senators are irate that the Republicans would even mention such a tactic and deplore it as the end of our government as we know it. These names should be familiar now that the Democrats are threatening the Nuclear Option for Health Control Bill.

Senators: Obama, Reid, Shumer, Clinton, Biden, Dodd, and Baucus.

here’s a source for the video of their remarks: http://www.breitbart.tv/obama-dems-in-2005-51-vote-nuclear-option-is-arrogant-power-grab-against-the-founders-intent/

Check it out for today’s Hypocrisy Prize.

In a great article by Pajamas Media, several new and encouraging things are happening. See the three quotes below, and read the entire article here: http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/climategate-and-the-law-senator-inhofe-to-ask-for-congressional-criminal-investigation-pajamas-mediapjtv-exclusive/?singlepage=true. Or you can view it on my global warming page.

1. Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) today asked the Obama administration to investigate what he called “the greatest scientific scandal of our generation” — the actions of climate scientists revealed by the Climategate Files, and the subsequent admissions by the editors of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report (AR4).
2. Senator Inhofe also called for former Vice President Al Gore to be called back to the Senate to testify.
3. Since the Climategate Files were released, the IPCC has been forced to retract a number of specific conclusions — such as a prediction that Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2035 — and has been forced to confirm that the report was based in large part on reports from environmental activist groups instead of peer-reviewed scientific literature. Dr. Murari Lal, an editor of the IPCC AR4 report, admitted to the London Daily Mail that he had known the 2035 date was false, but was included in the report anyway “purely to put political pressure on world leaders.”

Wow, good stuff and about time someone started to look at these lying bastards with a view towards prosecution. They have caused world panic and billions of dollars wasted in phoney research and dangerous proselytizing of children and gullible people worldwide.

If Al Gore was half a man, he would return his Nobel Peace Prize and give it to Irena Sendler.