I think that Arafat ought to be buried in Jerusalem. A modest tomb should be erected for him in the Valley of Hinnom. Christians and Jews would get the joke. Islam may not.

You will see less activity on this site now that the election is over, and I revert to the mode described at the top of the blog.

I want to spend more time on my related blogs, the ones linked on the right side of the page. I also want to update and add to my major site, basketoffigs.org.

I also want to read some good books, bask in the glow of the Bush victory, and put out of my mind the human debris that dominates the liberal agenda. There are so many good things to do, and the danger of becoming preoccupied with evil is that it rubs off on you. It is rather like handling a fireplace poker, the black gets on everything. It is a shame even to speak of the things they think and do. I shan’t for a while. The week I took off recently was very rewarding.

I will expect to post to this site daily, so I will try to get some discipline [very hard for me], so that I can do good stuff, even if there is not so much.

My son Matt tells me that there are two kinds of bloggers: linkers and thinkers.

Linking helps to fuel your outrage, and serves its purpose. But thinking is far better.

FOXNews.com - Foxlife - Nicole Incites Bath Wrath in 'Birth': "But Nicole Kidman insists her new R-rated movie, which features a shocking scene of the Oscar-winner naked in the bathtub with a 10-year-old boy, is done in the best possible taste."
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Pervert Kidman and the producers, camera people, editors, support actors and actressess, promoters, advertizers, movie theater managers, and everyone who goes in to see this film ought to be arrested and put in jail for contributing to the deliquency of minors and child abuse. To say it was in the "best possible taste," is the moral equivalent of excusing a rapist because he said, "Thank you, Ma'am."

The liberal/conservative divide in this country is about sex. That is the basic issue. The protests about Viet Nam were not about Viet Nam; they were about sex. Obscenity was redefined. The Viet Nam War against communism was obscene. Hence, Mom and Dad were evil for supporting the war, and therefore I am excused because I want to smoke dope and fornicate. It was always about sex and the Viet Nam protests were not noble and caring, but a cover for fornication.

It is the major issue, the elephant in the room that no one wants to talk about. Liberals have re-written the consitution by judicial decisions to permit pornography, adultery, homosexuality, fornication, and are on their way to make it permit pedophilia and sexual child abuse. Do no be deceived. The whole liberal agenda, in spite of what they say, is skewed to made it permissible to sleep with anyone or anything at any time under all possible conditions, and to make the practice acceptable and to demonize anyone who would protest. It is the phallic worship of the ancient world revived in the modern day. The high priests are people like Bill Clinton, Michael Moore and his set, the Hollywood set, Supreme Court justices, Homosexual preachers, feminists, and such. This was the reason that they went after Ken Starr, John Ashcroft. It was not a slip of the lip when John Kerry said they were the soul of America, because he believes that.

The Gnostic movement of the Sixties and the generation that is moving like a slug through the history of America was obsessed with sex and perversions of all types. Gnostics believe that it is sex that gives life and energy to art, music, literature, and psychology. They are now college professors, foundation heads, ministers, politicians, bankers, etc. But they are still slugs, perverts, and obsessed with sex. They are trying to shape America into their own image, and have succeeded above anything anybody dreamed in 1960.

Sexual perverts think 'way ahead of everyone else. They are three or four steps ahead always. They will defend freedom of speech because they know that any curtailment of an absolute right to say or print anything will deprive the pornographers of revenue which fuels their agenda. They will insist on absolute abortion rights because they do not want to be responsible for the results of their adultery and fornication. They will oppose any marriage act because they do not believe in marriage. David Letterman professes to love his little boy dearly, but leaves the child a bastard by not marrying the mother. Thus, this whole generation, except those who have truly repented and returned to a true church. By pornographers, this writer does not mean Larry Flynt and his sleaze only, but the everyday sleeze offered up on network tv, from the date shows to the CSI type shows that numb people to perversion and sadistic behaviors--behaviors that the majority of people would even know existed if they were not dished up night after night by this crowd. This indictment includes soft porn shows like "Friends" and "Seinfield" where young attractive fornicate through life. Hollywood knows what it is doing. They are moral terrorists. They don't want any family to be like the Brady Bunch--How square can you get?

Anyone who would put a nude adult into a bathtub with a ten year old boy is worthy of death. All who consent and all who go to get titillated are corrupt and godless.

But the whoredom and fornication is but a symptom of a much more serious disease, the disease of idolatry, worshipping that which is not God. Hosea 4:12-14. "My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God. They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery. I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall."

God gives societies over to fornication and whoredom when they depart from Him. Where is the outrage? and the repentance?

"Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them."

The Vietnam War is finally over. I am so proud to be an American today. The slander and disgrace and shame that was heaped upon the brave Americans in that terrible war have finally been laid to rest. The defeat of John Kerry is a vindication of the Swift Boat vets who suffered so much abuse in this election from the the unreconstructed anti-war remant of that era.

America is not the America of the Vietnam days. International Socialism represented by the Soviet Union is discredited and rests on the dust heap of history. North Korea and Castro's Cuba are hollow-eyes hags, the only national remnants of that era.

It is a completely different war that we now wage. America understand that, and gave George W. Bush the great number of votes in the history of the nation. It is not that they agree with everything he has done; it is not that he captivates them with his rhetoric and glib speech. But they perceive him to be an honest man, nothing like the slippery guys of the antiwar movement. They were not honest then, and they are not honest now. The trouble with Kerry, is he wasn't smart enough to remember what he said yesterday.

Because of the rebels of the Vietnam anti-war generation we have dissipated much of our nation's moral capital. We have elevated and listened to the real scum bags, the Kennedys, the Michael Moores, the Scoroses, the Hollywood thugs, the Rathers, the Koppels, the Jimmy Carters, the Peter Jennings, the Brokaws, and all the rest of these liberal outlaws. These termites have gnawed away at the moral and spiritual fiber of the country, and equate the Christian faith of Americans with the faith of Saudi Arabia and Iran. "Because they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind."

"Hello, John? Good to talk to you, Buddy. Say, John, Hillary and I really want to compliment you on a very well-run campaign. Especially since I sent my advisers over there to help you. It's too bad that you came up a bit short--sorta like Al, you know."

"Well, you know, Mr. President, it has been a very long night, but we are not really ready to concede. I have a bunch of lawyers up there in Cleveland now. There is some evidence that there was a good bit of abuse of some of our voters there and in other places. You know, of course, that we have a great deal of friends in Cleveland who know how to ste..., ha, ha, I mean, know how to manage affairs like this."

"Ha, Ha, John. You really are a card. Too bad you couldn't have allowed that sense of humor to come out on the campaign."

"Thank you, Mr. President. As you know, Teresa is a great fighter, and she ... "

"John. I am sorry to interrupt, but perhaps you should take the high road. I know that concept is hard for you to understand, but Hillary and I would be glad to talk to you about the dangers of the low road. We know a bit about that, ha, ha."

"What do you mean, Mr. President."

"This is not the end of the world, John. Well, it is the end of your world for sure, but there are other Democrats. Some of them might want to run for president in four years. Hillary has been mentioned. She wouldn't want the people of America to think that Democrats are mean, narrow, self-serving. You can't pull it off, John, for you don't have the talents that I have. You don't lie well at all, if you know what I mean. I mean that you forget what you said and appear to flip flop. You will never be a democratic president because you have to have that talent, ha. ha. It is ok to be mean, narrow, and self-serving, but you mustn't let people think that."

"But...."

"John, don't talk too much. That's another weakness you have. The reality is this. It is time for you to take one for the team, John. I know I didn't do that--I mean in that ugly Monica business--but this is different. This is you and that was me. You understand the difference, don't you, Pal? I know you do. If you don't, I have some other people that you don't know who will be glad to explain it to you."

"Ha, ha. Mr. President, you are a real card."

"Yes, John. I really am. Hillary sends her love. She has to send it somewhere, you know. Ha, ha."

"Thank you, Mr. President. I understand."

"I knew you would. Give our love to Teresa. Goodby, John."

"Goodby, Mr. President."

OpinionJournal - Featured Article: "High-level officials of Saddam's regime have told investigators that oil and goods contracts were always awarded with an eye to helping Saddam politically, particularly to promote the lifting of the sanctions. The Volcker data bears this out. Iraq's top customer was Russia, whose firms bought $19.2 billion worth of Iraq oil and exported $3.3 billion in humanitarian goods. Fellow Security Council member France was a distant but significant second, at $4.4 billion and $2.9 billion respectively. China is also high on the list.
Oil voucher recipients are alleged to include the Russian presidential office, former French Interior Minister Charles Pasqua, and even former Oil for Food program director Benon Sevan of the U.N. Just this week our news side colleagues reported that French authorities have placed under formal investigation a top official of French oil giant Total, for possible misuse of funds including payment of the Iraqi kickbacks. Before the war Total was also openly courting Baghdad for the rights to develop two large Iraqi oil fields."
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Inspections never would have worked, and no resolution with teeth would ever have passed the UN, because Security Council members had sold their veto to Saddam Hussein. This was the reason for his arrogance. He knew nothing against him would ever pass the Security Council, for he had bought them off. Kedward's solution is pie in the sky.

HoustonChronicle.com - Liberals, please embrace the 'L' word again: "Whether John Kerry wins or loses Tuesday, the time has come for you to embark on a new project: taking back the dreaded 'liberal' label."
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I am not sure whether or not Mr. Chester is serious or if he is trying to sabotage the liberals, but I think it is a great idea, but not for his reasons. For liberals to admit to being liberals will not raise the debate in this country, for liberals are by definition "unfettered," which is the meaning of the word. They are free from logic, morals, god, and scripture. They are free to love birds more than men, trees more than churches, and forests more than cities. The result is to turn men into dodos, churches into woodpiles, and cities into jungles.

But please, please, please take back the liberal label, please.

The "hinterland" knows what liberalism means for them every time it is tried, whether it is FDR's welfare state, Jimmy Carter's sentimental foreign policy, LBJ's great society, or Bill Clintons foreign policy of sexual distraction and foreign campaign donations. They know what liberalism every time their life is choked by regulation and their property confiscated and their liberty is curtailed by increased taxation. They may not be able to explain it to snobbish academians who disdain those with dirt under their finger-nails, but they know. Believe me, they know.

So please take back the liberal label. That will assure this great nation of a long line of great and noble election victories. Give us more great liberals like Humphrey, McCovern, Carter, Dukakis. The prospect is delicious. Don't give us liberals who mask themselves as conservatives like Bill Clinton and John Kerry--coward who are afraid to tell us what they are. We are simple folk, who work hard, and might get confused and elect one once every thirty or forty years. Just put the "L" on their forehead, and we will know what to do to assure our prosperity and liberty.