I do not think that anyone one would dispute the point that Europe is gasping its last breath’s of life as a Western World civilization.  Instead of trying to fight its last battle for its survival, it chooses to lay and appease an invading 7^th century enemy (Islam) and beg for some kind of kindness as a surrendered prisoner.

The current European militaries in size, wiliness to fight, and technical capacity could not fight themselves out of a wet paper bag.

At one time, when Europeans put their minds to it, they possessed the same Yankee ingenuity and rugged individualism as America.  How else can one explain how Europe developed colonies and trade around the world and spread technical advances that were beneficial to everyone?

On the surface one can say that Socialism was the parasite that finally killed it’s host (Europe).  I believe that Europe's Socialism is a symptom caused by a deeper problem.

In the past, when Europeans fought wars, they were fought with veracity.  Two world wars had their start in Europe.  It took multiple countries and millions of troops to combat a country the size of Colorado (Germany).  Even though I do not in any shape or form endorse the reasons why Germany entered into war, Nazism absolutely conflicts with my Reagan conservative values; you have to respect the bravery and conviction for how the German soldiers fought.

After two world wars, I believe that the majority of brave rugged spirited Europeans perished fighting.  The survivors of the two world wars were; the elderly, women, children, and the lesser brave males who could maintain a marriage.  For the most part, the brave rugged spirited male European breeding stock was gone.

Without potential strong males:

   Fewer families were created.

   Families with fewer children

   Strong male skills are not carried to the next generation

Over time the European male population became feminized and socialism began to be the answer for the low achiever(s).

Today, Europe cannot maintain its own population count.  Families do not produce enough children.  The tyranny of socialism caused many of the brave rugged spirited Europeans to become expatriates to other locations around the world like South America (Brazil & Uruguay) to pursue their own fortune and liberty.

The remainder of the Europeans are betting that immigrants from hostile cultures and religions will fund their Ponzi scheme social government programs a few more generations before the collapse of Europe as the Western World knows it.  Socialism is so attractive to low achiever(s) that the present generation will sell the next generation’s soul and country’s sovereignty for their own selfish enjoyment.  Europe knows how to enjoy freedom but does not know how to defend freedom.

Russia worried about its own survival has created teenage camps to teach physical fitness, nationalism, and encourages sexual participation to revitalize its own population and counter the invasion of immigrants.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=471324&in_page_id=1770

http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007Aug14/0,4670,RussiaDayofConception,00.html

I have two predictions.  Europe will be under Sharia law in 20 years.  Since Russia will be isolated by Islam to the West & South and China to the Southeast, Russia will reach out to America as its closest ally for its own protection.

There is not a day that goes by that I do not hear someone around me or in the media scream to the world that they have a good intention to save and/or rescue a ‘victim’ from their poor circumstance(s).  But in that same statement never ever have I heard, in my lifetime, the good intentioned liberal person beginning the good intention utilizing his or her own resources first.  100 percent of the time, the good intentioned liberal always begins their savior endeavor with the personal resources or life of the ‘Other Guy’.

How many times have you heard that the Darfur population must be saved and the US Military must risk their lives on a humanitarian mission to protect them?  You never hear the individual volunteering the US Military willing to risk his/her life.  Liberals (Socialist) view their personal existence higher than the military but that is another story.

How many times have you heard (far too many I am sure) how John/Jane Doe is in an unfortunate circumstance, it should be that rich guy other there that should share his/her resources with the unfortunate John/Jane Doe.  I always respond, “Well since it is your idea why don’t you contribute the first 100 dollars and I will contribute the next 100 dollars”.  As expected the exchange always continues with “Well I do not have the resources to help out but you do”.  Then the exchange degrades to I (The Other Guy) am the heartless miser who does not care about the unfortunate individual.  Somewhere in the good intentioned Liberal mind, they seem to believe that the voiced thought of caring is more valuable and noble than the resources of the ‘Other Guy’.

It is quite ironic that the personal resources of the good intentioned liberal are always locked up tighter than Fort Knox.  It makes you wonder who the uncaring miser really is.

If you ever have encountered a group of liberals under the same roof, it is quite an entertaining spectacle.  The liberals always begin to compete how they can out care the other.  Once they think they have a declared liberal winner the true fun begins listening to the debate who in the room should pay for the good intentions.  The complex excuses avoiding real resource contributions to the good intention are as difficult to follow as the current IRS tax laws.  “My fixed income from my family trust has my wallet a little light right now”.  “I am already serving on several community organizations”.  “I could serve on the committee of the organization and donate my professional services as a tax write-off”.

In my worldview just giving enables non-performance and dependency.  I choose to help others who want to help themselves.  Often, I have offered to employ individuals in the past a part-time job at 9 to 11 dollars an hour tax-free on my real estate ventures.  The jobs would include demolition, trash pick-up, yard work, etc….  Very few have accepted the help.  Kind of gives you an idea how selective and affluent the unfortunate really are.

Yesterday evening I was visiting my local cigar shop on the Westside of Jacksonville Florida.  Lately I have been forced to buy from brick and mortar cigar shops since JR Cigars on the Internet keeps disappointing me with defective cigars with no customer service.

I bought several cigars and decided to enjoy one of my purchased cigars in the store and enjoy the A/C since it was still too muggy to enjoy a cigar outside.

The cigar storeowner was in a spirited debate with a young woman on the topic of illegal immigration.  The cigar store owner was for illegal immigration and the young woman was against it.  The cigar store owner made a statement that almost made me drop the cigar out of my mouth.  “I do not care who lives in this country and how they live, as long as they contribute taxes toward my Social Security and it does not run out before I am done”.

I was at an absolute loss that someone was more concerned about his anticipated government entitlement payments when he hits the magical Social Security age than how he handed the condition of this Federal Republic to the next generations of Americans.  What is the collective mental process of the ‘Baby Boom’ generation that they feel entitled to enact Government Entitlements that benefit one generation but places the majority of the fiscal responsibility on the next generation similar to a ponzi scheme?

If you ‘Baby Boomers’ felt so strongly for Socialized government programs, how come you did not enact these programs in their current benefits strength during your income glory days when you could of contributed more?  But I forgot, you people were too busy protesting war and perceived social injustices, experimenting with drugs, and tearing apart the moral fiber of this Federal Republic.  Now your youth is gone and you have your hand out expecting something for just being an American citizen.  It is easy to be a liberal (Socialist) when you are on the receiving end of the entitlement.

As a Generation X’er, I am irritated that the good time party hardy check from the ‘Baby Boomers’ generation has been sent to me plus past due interest.  Don’t mind me working long hours to pay for your retirement check, medical bills, and prescriptions while I also scrimp to pay for my basic needs.

Also you ‘Baby Boomers’ really made it difficult for me to raise a son it this world as a good and decent self-sufficient adult by tearing apart the social norms that built this country into a world power up to the 1940’s and 1950’s.

You ‘Baby Boomers’ left a great legacy of moral rot.  As you view your grand-children’s pictures in assisted living facilities appreciate your grandchildren’s tattoos & nose rings, single-family arrangements, drug use, and lack of respect for mankind.  What do you care, as long as the next generation and illegal aliens are contributing to your Federal Entitlements?

Sometime in the beginning of my lifetime, the American public decided that animals were higher on the animal kingdom hierarchy than us pesky humans.  I have never seen so much outrage to animal cruelty charges against Michael Vick for a breed of dog typically raised by drug dealers versus rape charges by a basketball prayer, Kobe Bryant, which got a simple ‘oh-hum’.  Here in Florida, a child rapist John Couey raped and buried alive a nine-year-old child Jessica Lunsford but, did not get the same type of attention for a more hideous and violent act.

Don’t get me wrong; I am not promoting or justifying harm against any animal because I believe that someone who will perform harmful act(s) against an animal is a prime candidate to perform a violent act(s) against another human being.

I personally believe that the animal kingdom hierarchy changed when the ‘Baby Boomers’ in the late 1960’s decided to shred the entire moral fabric of this country for their own selfish shortsighted pursuits of happiness without regard on how their actions would affect others around them.  The remainder of the American population scratching their head probably said to them self’s, Pets are:

•     Drug free
•     Don’t commit crimes
•     Obedient
•     Loyal
•     Loving

Well hell, animals got to be a higher form of life than these self-destructive idiots.

We watch with absolute indifference, when overseas, an American is beheaded by an Islamo-facist.  Here at home, fetuses are sucked out of uteruses by the thousands and no one cares.  You would think that the Liberals (Socialist) would want to save these humans to help mold them into a growing dependant class.

The Sharia law is very cruel to the Islamic population by Western civilization terms.  I would suspect that pets/animals are not treated any better.  Why doesn’t PETA go on a fact-finding trip and see if pets/animals are treated with the same care as they are in the Western World.  I bet they have dogfights and rooster fights for entertainment over there.

If the American public had the same enthusiasm to save the Western Civilization as they want to save their pet’s lives, Islam would have already been contained and possibly neutralized.

If Americans do not defend the Western Civilization for mankind, do it for the pets; Fluffy the cat and Spot the dog.

In two US Federal court decisions this summer in the Pacific Northwest, the courts have sided with the argument that genetically identical animals but possessing different behaviors and/or environments are considered separate species.  The argument is likely to head to the 9^th Circuit Court for appeals.

The argument began when the environmental group Earthjustice (Code word: Environmental Socialist) wanted to keep the Upper Columbia River steelhead (salmon) to remain on the endangered species list.  The fish hatcheries were too successful improving the number of salmon so the environment group tried another angle to keep the salmon as an endangered species.

Judge John C. Coughenour, of the Western District of Washington, ruled that "human interference" and the "unnatural" way that hatcheries maintain salmon populations was unlawful. The judge then ordered that the Upper Columbia River steelhead remain on the endangered species list.

So now how does an individual determine the difference between the hatchery raised salmon versus the wild natural raised salmon if they are genetically identical?  Do you ask the fish?  Check his ID card?  I am sure the bear catching the salmon does not care.  He is probably happy the number of salmon has increased.

At the root motivation of keeping animals on the endangered species list is to control the use of the land (Private and/or public) that the endangered species lives on and to push social engineering policies like farming policies (Irrigation) or commercial fishing.

This kind of interpretation to decide if an animal is endangered by species count or by behavior, which ever is easier to acquire the endangered status, can be wildly interpretive.

Example #1 – If a government agency discovers a ferrell cat living under your porch, could the government decide to confiscate your house in the name of protecting an ‘endangered species’ because the cat is ferrell instead of being a typical domesticated house cat?  This could be a very convenient way for the government to confiscate private property without using Emanate Domain.

Example #2 – What is to stop this kind of logic from applying to human law?  Diversity, which already has run amok, could grant minority status based on species and behavior.  Do you grant minority status to someone who was raised in a 5 million dollar condo facing Central Park New York City versus someone who was raised in a 150K-dollar ranch house in Jacksonville Florida?  How about a trailer?  Would someone receive special privileges because they were born in a car en-route to the hospital versus born in the hospital?

Well finally…  Global Warming alarmists are claiming that there are other causes not just limited to human activity but other life on this planet that is now contributing to the Global Warming crisis.  It makes me sleep better at night knowing that us pesky humans are not the only guilty culprits on this earth.

I found this news piece in the Wall Street Journal: 

http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110010506

"Norway is concerned that its national animal, the moose, is harming the climate by emitting an estimated 2,100 kilos [4,630 pounds] of carbon dioxide a year through its belching and farting," reports Der Spiegel:

Norwegian newspapers, citing research from Norway's technical university, said a motorist would have to drive 13,000 kilometers in a car to emit as much CO2 as a moose does in a year.

So not only man but animals cause global warming. Apparently the only way to preserve life on earth is to wipe out life on earth.

For the entire article view this link:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0%2C1518%2C501145%2C00.html

So what are the Global Warming alarmist’s going to do to remedy this situation?  Do we genetically alter the plant life to make it less gassy?  Do we force feed the moose Gas-X or Beano on a daily basis?  Do we install catalytic converters on each moose’s tail end? Or just kill the entire moose herd?

I suspect that the Kyoto accord will now have to be re-written to include every country’s wildlife species and population sizes.  It is kind of ironic on one hand Liberals will go to great lengths to preserve animal life at any cost and on the other hand the protected animal’s belching and farting are supposively killing us.

So does this clear the way for America in the name of Global Warming to kill all the caribou in Alaska near ANWR?

At least the Global Warming alarmist are moving away from purely human causes of Global Warming to maybe one day include other causes like natural disasters (for example volcanoes) and/or fluctuations in the sun's activity.

In a few more years, the Global Warming crisis will be extinct as the Dodo.  The Liberals (Socialist) will have found another crisis to push their social engineering agenda.  Socialist really do not like facts that dispute their crisis mode antics.

Iran states that it’s nuclear program is for ‘peaceful’ endeavors.  The nuclear program is merely for the production of electricity even though Iran is swimming in crude oil and natural gas.

Surrounding nations and those in the Civilized world strongly suspect that Iran’s intention of a nuclear program is to create nuclear material for their own nuclear bomb.  Iran desires an efficient weapon of mass destruction to eliminate all the Islam ‘non-believers’ off the map.

I believe that there is a third reason Iran wants nuclear material.  Iran watched as the US Military forces stormed across Iraq’s territory in the first Gulf War.  Iraq’s armored vehicles were absolutely no match against the US’s artillery.  Iran must have just watched in horror at the pictures of all the Iraqi armored vehicles, which were simply neutralized on the ‘Highway of Death’.

The US military learned that artillery forged out of spent nuclear material had superior amour piercing properties.  The new artillery could slice through amour like butter.  If Iran can acquire the same spent nuclear material from its nuclear program that it has just activated, Iran has in fact leveled the playing field of Iran’s ground forces against the US military.  Iran's ground forces can now fight back with the same type of effective damage considering if Iran’s troops are able to fight with the same bravery as US troops.

I figure that I am on an eleven-year plan.  In eleven years, my son will be eighteen and I hope that I have done a good job of educating him on life’s skills and wisdom needed to be a moral self-reliant adult.  At that point I will make the decision of whether I will seek greener pastures outside of America.  Who knows, maybe my son will follow me.

I feel blessed to have been born and raised in this great Federal Republic but I have had some serious doubts about the future of this country.  As countries in the European Union wrestle on how to shed to shackles of servitude to socialism, America seems more than willing to pursue the same failed social experiment and learn the same lesson.  Too bad we can’t seem to learn the lessons of others.

For example in France, France is trying to lift the government burden on the high achievers and the wealthy.  Not too long ago, Sarkozy spoke in London England addressing French expatriates asking them to please come back.  In fact there are 300,000 French expatriates that Sarkozy hopes to come back.  It is a fact that socialism chases away high-achievement and wealth.

If America is persistent in being a socialist ‘Nanny’ state, an entrepreneur, self-reliant high achiever, with wealth will probably be perceived as an enemy of the state and could be punished.

Another problem is how America treats it’s own citizens versus how it treats illegal aliens.  There is not a Federal and/or State government entitlement that our government won’t refuse to our illegal aliens.  You start your life as an illegal resident in America and get free compensation, food, housing, health care, legal aid, and in essence immunity from prosecution for committed crimes.  How great is that…….

As a legal American citizen, it is a real slap in the face to live my life within the Federal/State/Local government legal framework and to sacrifice my income to the highest Federal income tax rate.

In eleven years, if things don’t improve I may be an American Expatriate and I will take my wealth overseas.  But don’t worry, I will be back with my hand out screaming for all the socialist entitlements that I believe that I deserve as an non-American citizen while I am thumbing my nose at the laws that I do not have to obey.

My daily consumption of the news comes from multiple forms: Internet, newspaper(s), and the AM radio.  I am constantly shocked and confused how individuals within our own nation’s sovereign borders proactively tear apart the moral fiber of America on one hand then defend & represent Islam as a helpless victims of American aggression.  Our ‘Progressive’ (Liberal) counterparts state that America lacks tolerance and diversity to Islam and should be punished.

It is understood that the United States of America does have outside aggressive adversaries that seek us great harm.  It is just a fact of life; some individuals will just plain despise you no matter what.  As long as America exist, there will probably be an external threat to monitor justifying why America should have a strong military.

America Civilization is now fighting a war for its survival on two fronts.  The internal enemies of America want to destroy the Judeo-Christian worldview and all the laws and moral values that created this Federal Republic and that has held this country together for over 230 years (Counting from the Declaration Of Independence).  Our immediate external enemy is the cult of death called ‘Islam’.  This ‘Peace Loving’ religion as our friends in the media and government call them, would rather exterminate all non-Islam believers and return the world’s civilizations back to the 7^th century than to live in some civil arrangement with the non-believers.  This intolerance to the non-believers must be like a bright light to a moth to our internal enemies.  Just listen to our internal enemies now, they have bastardized the meaning of ‘tolerance’ and ‘diversity’ to mean, be tolerant to me and submit to my ways or you are a racist/bigot and must be punished.  These two enemies have very similar attitudes in how they project their worldview unto others.

These very similar attitudes to force their beliefs to others has allowed Islam to find a willing participant for their cause within our own borders.  These internal enemies spite America so bad that they are willing destroy the foundation of this Federal Republic even if their worldviews are mutually exclusive to Islam.  In the days of Communism, Marx and Trotsky referred to people like this as ‘Useful Idiots’.

I keep scratching my head trying to understand what is to be gained by an internal enemy of America who lives a 'progressive' lifestyle(s) by joining forces with an entity that swears death to any Christian nation and/or non-believers.  Islam is not going to give these ‘Useful Idiots’ diplomatic immunity and will probably eliminate them first because of their progressive lifestyle(s).  Is an Atheists and/or ACLU who works tirelessly to remove any trace of ‘God’ in this country going to willingly pray five times to Mecca each day?  To the homosexual community who attacks the Boy Scouts and the institution of Marriage: Is Islam going to allow ‘Gay Pride’ events and/or protect your civil rights?  To the Race Baiters like Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson who have made a career of stirring up contempt between the races in America, Is Islam going to protect you?  There is an active Islamic slave trade in Africa now.  Islamic fundamentalists are wiping your own people off the map in Northern Africa.

There is no country that is a utopia and is all things to all people.  America is the closest thing to ambitious individuals who seek Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.  It is a tribute to America how strong it is by the 60 years of moral rot that this country has been able to absorb and the country still has not collapsed from within.  I wonder how much more can it absorb before it does.  There is a real external enemy at our doorsteps.

The Judeo-Christian worldview in reality has built a government that gives people protection to live a conservative or progressive lifestyle(s) in safety.  To the internal enemies of this Federal Republic, I challenge you to reconsider your actions and not slaughter the goose that gave you the golden egg (freedom).  Will the Islamic law of Sharia protect you?  I think not.

Mid July 2007, Warren Buffett the well-known billionaire investor endorsed the Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

It has always puzzled me why a billionaire would endorse a Liberal (Socialist) candidate.  On the surface it seems to contradict all laws of economics why someone who believes in free enterprise and the accumulation of wealth would endorse a political candidate that believes and campaigns about the redistribution of wealth.  Socialists are very generous with someone else’s money but that is another story.

While smoking my daily Rocky Patel ‘The Edge’ cigar last night, a theory came to mind that seemed to explain Warren Buffett’s actions based on an experience during my first career position out of college.

I was a data processing manager of a large homebuilding company.  I reported to a senior level accountant.  Over the course of a year, my supervisor was promoted to Chief Financial Officer.  His background was not Ivy League.  He acquired his college education at night while working as a bookkeeper by day.  He was a very temperamental individual so people tended to shy away from him.

Once he became CFO, he immediately raised the standards for all accountants before they could work for him.  All accountants had to have a Masters in Accounting and to be credentialed as a CPA.  In essence he arose to a position that he wanted to be and then slammed the door on the other employees around him to keep them from progressing up the corporate ladder and to be able to compete with him over time.

Several times in my life in Corporate America, I have observed individuals changing the rules to stop competition of others around them for protection of competition.  That is one reason why I am self-employed.

Warren Buffett is at a position where he wants to be and now he wants to slam the door on others who could compete with him in free enterprise and the accumulation of wealth.  Socialism (or the redistribution of wealth) would have never allowed Warren Buffett to achieve the wealth that he has acquired.  With the Democrat’s assistance, he could now use the socialistic policies to severely restrict other individuals from accumulating wealth and to be able to compete with him on investments.  Secondly he can also reduce the economic variables that affect his investments by basing his predictive investment models on the Democrat’s Social Engineering policies.

Credit must be given to ‘Liberals’ (Socialist by my definition) for being very ingenious of pushing their social engineering agenda by masking it with issues that on the surface may seem cruel to oppose.

In the 90’s, liberals pushed for higher taxes, entitlements, and expansive endangered animal list because they were doing it for ‘The Children’.  Conservatives scared of bad publicity did not debate the agenda for being considered in public as being against ‘The Children’.

Today, liberals want to save the planet from ‘Global Warming’.  Liberals will only believe that Global warming can only be caused by human activity.  Natural occurrences like volcanoes, weather cycles, and solar flares are not for discussion.  Gas guzzling cars, cow flatulence’s (methane), large populations, and large houses all contribute to Global Warming.  In reality these listed causes push the Liberal agenda of conservation&no drilling in ANWR, vegetarian lifestyle, abortion, and public supported housing projects. 

Conservatives need to be smarter and have the fortitude to communicate the real agenda behind the catchy Liberal phrase of the decade.