A Little More On The Foley Situation

I have already suggested that, in my own humble opinion, the Page program should be ended in Washington, D.C., but more issues continue to be brought to light, which apparently led to this particular essay that I received as an email.

I don't know the author of this, but I thought it was rather telling.

One of the things that comes to my mind, of course, is that we have democrats screaming that we can't monitor suspected terrorists' communication inside the United States, but we can highly publicize instant messages sent via the internet that seem questionable between an adult and a young person in which apparently there was no crime committed.

While I will assure you the subject matter that I have seen is an unacceptable form of behavior and Mark Foley is fortunate to have resigned, lest he be bounced out on his ear, the mere suggestions of sexual conduct are not criminal.

Apparently, the more we learn, the more interesting (and blatantly political) it becomes:



Worst October Surprise, EVER
October 5th, 2006

It had all the earmarks of a classic Democratic Party plan to depress Republican turnout. Take a barely disguised homosexual Republican Congressman, add salacious electronic messages that included masturbation, sex and other lurid flourishes, push the story to their eager and willing accomplices in the media right before an election, and as quick as you can say LBJ an instant scandal is created.

The only problem, it seems, is that in today’s world of media, with data available to the whole world that was heretofore available only to a select few, the plan didn’t work out quite the way they had expected. Enterprising bloggers have done the elemental detective work and discovered that the entire incident is nearly exactly the opposite of what was first reported.

Rather than a case of a pedophile Congressman stalking young men in the corridors of power, it instead turns out to be a case of a closeted homosexual nurturing a relationship with a young man, and making sexual advances once he became an adult. A relationship by the way that the young man, if he felt threatened or chose not to continue, could have ended at any time.

An older homosexual man seeking a relationship with a young man? Who would have thought such a thing would ever happen?

Rather than the Pedophile Politician script we were first being fed, we now know that the real story is far less than we have been lead to believe.

As it turns out, although the young man in question was indeed a Page, was indeed befriended by Congressman Foley and did have sexual discussions with him. But it seems everything was perfectly legal, if nevertheless repellant to many, including a good chunk of the GOP base whose turnout is vital in the forthcoming election. As a signatory of a Bill outlawing Internet sex between adults and minors, Foley was perfectly aware of the legal boundaries and seems to have taken great care to not cross that fine line until the young man became a legal adult.

While angry values voters fulminate over Hastert’s failure to do something before the IMs came to light, all I can remember is the Democrats’ mantra.

That the troglodyte Republicans were obsessed by sex between consenting adults.

That homosexuals in close working relationships with young people, especially young men, is a good and healthy thing.

That some forms of sex, aren’t sex.

That what two consenting adults do or say behind closed doors is their business.

That intercepting and reading electronic communications between anyone in the US, especially those between two citizens, is never to be tolerated.

And most of all, never be judgmental.

So in the end, what do we end up with?

A pedophile that wasn’t.

A child that was actually an adult.

The disclosure of personal electronic communications of a highly personal nature between two consenting adults revealed.

A sex scandal between a couple who never had sex.

That Democrat Congressmen can have sex with 17 year olds and get re-elected, but Republicans that talk about sex are forced to resign.

ABC news is made to look like a fool, hyping a story beyond the facts at hand.

Along with the infamous Texas Air National Guard documents of 2004, this latest attempt by the Democrats is not going according to plan, and I suspect it will have the same result at the Polls in November. Almost four weeks are left to digest the affair. Much remains to be discovered, but one thing is clear.

It is, without a doubt, the worst October Surprise, EVER.

Just A Question ...

Why the hell are high school students working as pages in Washington, D.C., anyway?

I mean, I can understand the honor and privilege that goes along with working as a page in the nation's capitol, but it seems to me like recent activities are sufficient enough to scrap the program and at LEAST have a level of expectation that those working in these capacities are in their third year of college, where they are older, more mature and not taking time off high school.

Of course, we'll have to make sure that they don't wear blue dresses, but I'm certain that a dress code can be determined.

Bush Conspiracy Forces Lower Gasoline Prices

More tongue-in-cheek humor for those of you who seem to think that there's a conspiracy around every corner from www.cfif.org:




If lowering taxes to stimulate the economy were not enough, just look at what President Bush has done for us now. In one of the widest ranging conspiracies in history, requiring a worldwide labyrinth of coordination with everyone who has anything whatsoever to do with the price of crude oil, not to mention controlling hurricane activity and geopolitical events, our president is driving down the pump price of gasoline by still-plummeting percentages since midsummer highs.

What a President! The power! The compassion! The action! By a guy who just gets it done and goes to bed by nine.

So what does he get for his effort? Respect? Gratitude? A populace awestruck that he could and would take such devious, conspiratorial action to whack the profits of his buddies in Big Oil just for us?

Nay, nay, fellow citizens. He gets 42 percent of the people, two-thirds of whom are Democrats, saying he "deliberately manipulated the price of gasoline so that it would decrease before this fall's election."

Well, actually, they didn't "say" that. They had the statement read to them by pollsters at Gallup and agreed with it, according to an Associated Press article published in USA Today this week and widely circulated. The nitpicking doesn't really matter -- factual precision rarely does anymore -- because surely they would have said it if they had thought of it. They would have thought of it if pollsters didn't make it so effortless to form national opinion by reading those handy dandy statements to folks, a thousand at a time. As Bob Dylan so prophetically wrote some decades ago, "It takes a pollster to find the weatherman."

If telling the truth (which we wouldn't question since two-thirds of them are Democrats), 42 percent of the American people have proven themselves to be such astute independent thinkers they are not about to fall for that supply-and-demand crap taught in every economics course in the country. They know that's just a cover story, probably funded by Big Money, to hide the truth of price fixing on the way up and price fixing on the way down by the Big Fixers, themselves so smart that no investigation has ever found them. After all, Big Banking has clearly driven home prices down so they can foreclose on the poor and downtrodden and resell to Big Real Estate to get the Big Housing Boom going all over again, at the secret request of President Bush.

We are talking about people who are not going to be fooled by Wal-Mart into buying those $4 generic drugs so that Wal-Mart can plant nanotechnology tracking devices in them, at the secret request of President Bush. These are certified smart people, these 42 percent of us (two-thirds of whom are Democrats) who know a political conspiracy when pollsters show it to them.

It's just a crying shame that such smart people, who can think their way through even the most elaborate conspiracies, are sometimes not as practical as they should be. Don't they know that the pollsters have their phone numbers, names and addresses and have already sold them to President Bush?

When four out of ten people on your block (two-thirds of whom might be Democrats) just disappear, probably a week or so before November's election, do not be alarmed. Thank the President. He just eased the demand for gasoline a bit more. Not a lot of driving required at all those secret prisons.

Mars and Pluto Climates Warming, Al Gore Scours for Extraterrestrial SUVs

All right, so I can admit that I ... umm ... "borrowed" this from another site -- I just thought it was good for pointing out some of the ridiculous things that we hear right here on planet Earth.

Look for another from the same site, which is the site for the Center for Individual Freedom, or www.cfif.org.

Enjoy!



Mars and Pluto are undergoing their own periods of global warming, according to multiple scientific studies. This has important implications for our own planet, and for Al Gore and liberal environmentalists as well.

On Mars, NASA and the California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Laboratory report a prolonged period of surface warming, and the Martian icecap is steadily receding. According to scientists, "the fact that it is changing suggests that Mars may have major, global climate changes that are occurring on the same time scales as Earth's most recent climate shifts, including the last Ice Age." (emphasis added)

Pluto is undergoing a similar period of global warming, scientists report. According to a Massachusetts Institute of Technology release, "Pluto is undergoing global warming, as evidenced by a three-fold increase in the planet's atmospheric pressure during the past 14 years, a team of astronomers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Williams College, the University of Hawaii, Lowell Observatory and Cornell University announced."

Of course, this is devastating news for global-warming hysterics here on Planet Earth. After all, efforts to locate Martian or Plutonian SUVs, oil conglomerates, neoconservatives, cattle or internal-combustion engines in order to attribute blame have failed so far.

Not to be deterred, however, Al Gore has reportedly occupied the Lowell Observatory, pacing the floors and bellowing in his trademark manner, "keep searching – if Mars is warming, it must have SUVs!"

Levity aside, why do Mars and Pluto matter to us? Because their global warming tells us a lot about our own planet. Namely, that climate changes occur regardless of human activity, and that planet temperatures are always cooling or warming.

After all, how do radical environmentalists explain the end of the Ice Age? Prehistoric SUVs? Neanderthals operating coal-fired power plants and using aerosol hair spray? "Flintstone"-era Exxon predecessors? Obviously not.

Rather, the fact is that Earth's climate is constantly cooling or warming, and icecaps constantly growing or receding. Indeed, the May 2006 U.S. Climate Change Science Program report again confirms this cycle, concluding that natural climate factors are dominant.

Despite these obvious truths, liberals desperately press their environmentalist agenda, simply because they're running out of other vehicles to advance their larger underlying goals.

A cursory review of recent decades reveals a veritable ash heap littered with the left's discarded causes. From welfare reform opposition, to weakness against Soviet aggression, to socialist economics and anti-tax cut hysterics, to softness on crime, to missile defense, liberals are nearly exhausted of ideas to control our everyday lives. Recall President Reagan's quip that his economic policies were derisively labeled "Reaganomics" until they actually worked.

Enter environmentalism.

As the saying goes, "scratch a Green, and you'll find a Red." This truism illustrates the fact that environmentalism is merely a convenient proxy for liberals' larger goal of increasing government control over our lives. The fact that years must pass before environmental assertions can be disproved makes it an especially convenient vehicle for their larger agenda.

Unfortunately, their tactics are gaining momentum, and global warming looms as one of the pivotal long-term battlefields in coming years.

To illustrate its momentum, consider that as recently as 1998, the Senate rejected the Kyoto Protocol on a bipartisan 95-0 vote. Since that time, however, figures from Senator John McCain to Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger have applauded the global warming tenets. Just this week, Gov. Schwarzenegger signed a frightening comprehensive climate-change law that imposes the nation's first emissions-cap regulations.

Unfortunately, California often sets trends that spread throughout the country, and momentum is building for similar regulations at the federal level.

As we speak, liberals and the mainstream media increasingly excoriate President Bush for refusing to implement the Kyoto Protocol, which would do little to affect the Earth's naturally-changing climate, but would greatly harm our economy and job market. A cap-and-trade system will cost Americans an estimated $300 billion to $400 billion, hitting coal facilities (which account for over 50% of U.S. electricity generation), small businesses, low-income families and seniors particularly hard as utility bills skyrocket.

Also keep in mind that the Protocol exempts rapidly-growing competitors China and India from its limitations. Some deal.

In Europe, governments have led the march in implementing the Kyoto Protocol's mandates. The results? Stagnant economies, high unemployment, and failure to actually meet its environmental requirements. The British research group Open Europe labels it "an environmental and economic failure" and "an administrative nightmare."

In coming months and years, pressure will only increase against President Bush, future Presidents, the federal government, private companies and other states across America to accept and implement the radical environmentalist agenda. It is therefore imperative that we emphasize sound science and objectivity in order to fight draconian energy regulations that will disrupt our livelihoods and undercut our free market economy.

Dems Grasp For Straws

In the wake of the scandal involving the recently-resigned Congressman Mark Foley, democrats were quick (and predictible) in trying to pin the offensive behavior of Foley on the entire Republican Party.

Here in Missouri, the Missouri Democrat Party has even gone so far as to sift through Governor Matt Blunt's disclosure reports to try to find any ties to his campaign and the campaign account of Foley, and have demanded that Blunt donate the money from Foley to charity.

This is what they always do whenever some scandal hits a republican. It's guilt by association, and don't you dare think it's anything but.

I don't know whether or not Governor Blunt has ever even met Congressman Foley, but chances are, they crossed paths through the governor's father, U.S. Rep. Roy Blunt.

Even so, merely meeting someone doesn't make you guilty of the things they do. If that were the case, I would hope that the Republican Party would demand that any democrat that ever benefitted from a Bill Clinton fundraiser would donate those funds to charity, as well.

See how ridiculous this sounds?

I, along with many other republicans who have sounded out on this issue, would suggest that the proverbial book be thrown at Foley. For a man in such a position of trust, he has violated almost every form of decency available.

Now it is time to see whether the Republican Party will "stand by their man" or bail from him. Seems to me that they're doing the right thing and distancing themselves quickly.

One can only wonder why this didn't happen when dems learned of Clinton's numerous escapades.