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                        Vol. 06                                               Issue 06                             Start NOV 01, 2006

UPDATED WHEN I TAKE A NOTION.       WHERE THE AIR IS THIN, THE NIGHT SKY IS FULL OF STARS, AND THE HUNTING AND FISHING ARE GOOD.   A FREEWHEELING CONSERVATIVE RESOURCE DEDICATED TO THE DEFENSE OF FREEDOM, THE NEXT GENERATION, THE WAY THINGS OUGHT TO BE, AND THE REVERSAL OF THE ENTIRE PROGRESSIVE PROJECT.     TO UNDERSTAND THIS WEBSITE, IT IS NECESSARY THAT YOU ARE ABLE TO READ AND TO THINK.

Updated occasionally on this website when I decide to do it.                               

                                                                                         J. E. Sohmer   Jefferson, CO  Flyover country.

Serious Considerations:

12/30/06  Finally Saddam Hussein is history.  We now have more flexible options with respect to Iraq, and the challenge of IslamicFascism can also be addressed with greater flexibility.  As expected, we notice that Saddam's final appeals were to Allah, as were those of his Sunni mourners.   Our best wishes to the good people of Iraq; you still have a long way to go, and I wish you well.  It is an American national interest only that, no matter how the pie is sliced, no threat remains to ourselves.

12/26/06   Politics, internationally and nationally, is in the midst of a vast sea change.  Perhaps this is a good time to begin   PERSONAL NOTES II.    Go there.   This is essentially an administrative move.  However, in addition, changes are going on in my personal life, for the better, and in the world around me, for the worse, that lend a certain logos to this minor reorganization.  I would also call your attention to an upgraded mission statement.  Go to MISSION STATEMENT  12-06    JES

12/25/06   Merry Christmas. It is now clear that we are in an age when the intent of this greeting must be specified.  So it is that I would call your attention to Mosaic Law which specifically forbids the worship of false gods and idols, in heaven, on earth, or in hell.  Repeat: forbids, not suggests.  So there it is.   Merry Christmas: the celebration of the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ.  Nothing more.  Nothing Less.  So Merry Christmas to those of you who have not high jacked the holiday for your own purposes, but who can honestly respect the Christian purpose of the day.   As for those who have other designs, perhaps the time has come for some deep reflection.   JES

12/24/06    South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford www.scgovernor.com/ .    Go there.  JES

12/24/06   On a recently surfaced tape Ayman al Zawahri, al Qaeda No. 2 man (the Egyptian doctor), talks directly to U.S. Democrats:  "The first is that you aren't the ones who won the midterm elections, nor are the Republicans the ones who lost. Rather, the Mujahedeen -- the Muslim Ummah's vanguard in Afghanistan and Iraq -- are the ones who won, and the American forces and their Crusader allies are the ones who lost, --------and if you don't refrain from the foolish American policy of backing Israel, occupying the lands of Islam and stealing the treasures of the Muslims, then await the same fate," Zawahri quite evidently feels himself and the IslamicFascist cause well puffed up, as we predicted they would.  We eagerly await Nancy Pelosi's response.   JES

12/22/06  A long time ago I suggested that the sleeper Conservative candidate for President might be South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford.   I think this is the right guy for 2008.  His major problem is that nobody knows him, yet.  If you consider yourself to be a serious Conservative, and not a GOP toady, do some research and get acquainted.  JES

12/15/06   Regarding the IRAQ STUDY GROUP REPORT, I must say that I find it to be an embarrassment to my country.  What we have here is psychobabble and cowardice disguised as wisdom.   What we have here is not critical thinking nor moral rectitude.   What we have here is a political salad of compromise, self contradiction, circular reasoning and self-serving moral condescension that reveals a level of political and theological understanding of our enemies beneath contempt.  It suffers severely from the intellectual paralysis so common to committees and the vacuum of an attending leadership.  It is small wonder that the jihadists think they can eventually prevail against us.  If nothing else, this report is evidence that they are correct.  Go to IRAQ STUDY GROUP to see this report, and my comments in more detail.

For the last couple of weeks I have been picking my way through this document, and it just keeps getting worse.   I am not finished, but as of this date I am updating what I have so far.   I will continue to work on it, and update my efforts, even as the President has signaled moves outside of this report's recommendations.

Hopefully, this report will slide from operational relevancy to philosophical curiosity about the mindset of our Liberal Establishment Rulers, as a guide to how we have gotten into so much trouble in recent decades.   Surely this will happen after the next round of attacks against us occurs.  JES

12/07/06 Regarding the Iraq Study Group aka  How Best to Surrender Without Telling Anybody Group, up real close.  Click, and take a hard look yourself.  Analysis by the Mountain Observer currently a work in progress.  JES

12/07/06  Pearl Harbor Day.  Ask young people you know if they know what it was all about, or where, or when.   Perhaps I am optimistic.   Do you, yourself, know the answer to these questions?   JES

12/03/06  The Rumsfeld memo dated 11/06/06 directed to the White House, recently "leaked", and authenticated by Pentagon sources.  JES

12/03/06  The idea of negotiations with Iran and Syria is absolutely the dumbest idea I can imagine.   Anyone who even thinks such a move could be constructive is a mental case in need of immediate institutionalization.  All the wrong moves have started; the destruction commenced on 11/07, and will prove to be virtually irreversible.  Democrats did not win this election; Republicans, and Americans, lost it.  The Mountain Observer will continue in its task of charting the way things ought to be, recognizing the fact that the United States has begun its long decent straight into hell.  JES

11/23/06  Thanksgiving.  As we wallow in material abundance and spiritual poverty, let us reflect back:

"They begane now to gather in ye small harvest they had, and to fitte up their houses and dwellings against winter, being all well recovered in health & strenght, and had all things in good plenty; fFor as some were thus imployed in affairs abroad, others were excersised in fishing, aboute codd, & bass, & other fish, of which yey tooke good store, of which every family had their portion. All ye somer ther was no want.  And now begane to come in store of foule, as winter approached, of which this place did abound when they came first (but afterward decreased by degrees).  And besids water foule, ther was great store of wild Turkies, of which they tooke many, besids venison, &c. Besids, they had about a peck a meale a weeke to a person, or now since harvest, Indean corn to yt proportion.  Which made many afterwards write so largly of their plenty hear to their freinds in England, which were not fained,  but true reports."

                                                                    William Bradford, 1621

"our harvest being gotten in, our governour sent foure men on fowling, that so we might after a speciall manner rejoyce together, after we had gathered the fruits of our labours ; they foure in one day killed as much fowle, as with a little helpe beside, served the Company almost a weeke, at which time amongst other Recreations, we exercised our Armes, many of the Indians coming amongst us, and amongst the rest their greatest king Massasoyt, with some ninetie men, whom for three dayes we entertained and feasted, and they went out and killed five Deere, which they brought to the Plantation and bestowed on our Governour, and upon the Captaine and others.  And although it be not always so plentifull, as it was at this time with us, yet by the goodness of God, we are so farre from want,  that we often wish you partakers of our plentie."

                                                                    Edward Winslow, 1621

                                                                                                        God help America,  JES
 

11/20/06  Today is the 6th anniversary of the launch of the Mountain Observer.  So much has happened.  Jesus Christ has been very good to me; much more so than I deserve.  JES

Current Reading Recommendations:       

THE UN EXPOSED: HOW THE UNITED NATIONS SABOTAGES AMERICA'S SECURITY AND

FAILS THE WORLD

ERIC SHAWN

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ENOUGH: THE PHONY LEADERS, DEAD-END MOVEMENTS, AND CULTURE FAILURE THAT 

ARE UNDERMINING BLACK AMERICA - AND WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT IT

JUAN WILLIAMS       

CROWN                                                                                    256 PGS                                                  $25.00

Serious Considerations:

11/19/06  At a time of genuine international peril for the United States, the priorities of the mob are focused on Sony's new PlayStation 3.  You see, we have certain cultural problems.   JES

11/19/06  House Republicans elect a new leadership that does not inspire the confidence of Conservatives.  Senate Republicans re-install Trent Lott, R-MS as minority whip.   My problem with the Hon. Mr. Lott, nominal conservative, was always his tendency, in the past, of cozying up to Liberals.  But they say he knows how to count votes.  We shall see.  Meanwhile, the new minority leader Mitch McConnell, R-KY could potentially turn out to be a bright light.   JES

11/19/06  The President installs Sen. Mel Martinez, R-FL, author of the infamous Senate Hagel-Martinez immigration amnesty bill which passed the Senate last May by a vote of 62-36, as the new general Chairman of the Republican National Committee.  Great news for those who wish to woo Mexican First type Hispanics.  Not so good for Conservatives, including American First type Hispanics, intent on the rule of law, the security of our borders and culture and the general integrity, and honor, of the traditional naturalization process.  This is a step in the direction of the bust up of the GOP as we know it.   JES

11/19/06  Gen. John Abizaid,  top U.S. commander in the Middle East, has a little chat with the Senate Armed Services Committee, basically explaining that, in his professional opinion, both the President and his ex-boss Donald Rumsfeld have been right all along with "staying the course".  Under the current political circumstances in Washington, he had every opportunity to pull the plug on his political bosses.   He did not, clearly rejecting the cut and run appeasement arguments of the mob about to take over Congress in January.  One must decide if the General is speaking as a politician, or as a professional soldier, or is he just stupid as John Francois Kerry, the French looking guy, ex-pretender to the office des le roi des Etats Unis, who also served in Vietnam, would seem to have concluded.  The Mountain Observer, without a doubt, prefers the council of the professional soldier.  Remember this incident point future when, at some point in the opinion of this observer, the Republic finally collapses under the weight of the mob, and soldiers will need to step in.   JES

11/15/06  In Congress, both houses, I think it would be wise for the moment for the GOP to stand aside and simply let the Dems boil in their own oil.  They are already making themselves look foolish; just let it happen.  The GOP should confine its efforts, such as it is able to do so, strictly to looking out for the best interests of the country, avoiding even the appearance of partisanship.  Dem profession to the contrary, six years of unmitigated hatred of Conservatives, George W. Bush, and white Christian men cannot be shut off like a spigot.  Do not respond to it.  Absent substance, Dems have nothing else, and will be held accountable by the electorate that supported them.  It will not be pretty; just let it happen.  JES

11/15/06  Within the orbit of Iraqi politics it has grown increasingly apparent that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is the weak link in the chain, and in a sensible world, should be removed.   Meanwhile, the so-called Baker- Iraq Study Group, an euphemism for How Best to Surrender Without Telling Anybody Group, emboldened by a voter decision to cut and run, like most committees, flounders around in its attempt to substitute defeat for victory.  What none of this motley bunch seems to realize is that we had the jihadists right where we wanted them: over there, not over here.  The war in Iraq had been more successful than originally anticipated in drawing IslamicFascists physically to a central point where they could have been dealt with in a terminal fashion.  But no, we have inverted victory into defeat, as will become apparent in the years ahead.  The likes of Osama bin Laden, and John Francois Kerry, the French looking guy, ex-pretender to the office des le roi des Etats Unis, who also served in Vietnam, seem to have prevailed.  Americans, be proud of yourselves.  What an absolute mess.   JES

Wall Street & Main St: 

11/13/06  "Ordinary Folks", aka "Joe Six pack", aka "Reagan Conservatives" and the economy.   Before the recent election the Mountain Observer listened to, and saw, much chin pulling and speculation as to why so many people failed to recognize what a tremendous economic recovery had occurred over the course of the last 5 years.  Economic ignorance born of the state of American education, etc, etc?  This is no doubt part of the answer, however a deeper examination is called for.  Just perhaps "Ordinary Folks" are forced to confront a perspective in their very ordinary lives that the typical, perhaps mildly elitist, commentator of Libertarian apologia does not personally confront and chooses to ignore.

Let's try to look at the matter from the perspective of our "Joe Six pack", and for the sake of discussion, let us stipulate that our guy is fully aware of all the current glowing numbers.  Somehow, he suspects there is something missing in the analysis.  Those "core rate" inflation numbers are great, but they do not include food and fuel, which includes how he heats his house.  Now as it happens, these are items of great priority to "Joe Six pack", as is the cost of medical care for his kids and his aging parents.  To top it off, he senses that however good his current job may be, there is an increasing threat to his job, and/or what he gets paid, from computers and immigrants, legal and illegal.  The boss keeps talking about the need to "increase productivity"; translation: "Joe, you may soon be history".  Finally, there is at least a dim awareness that the nation has a balance of payments problem, production is going overseas, fuel is increasingly coming from overseas.  He is not likely to understand the intricacies of international finance and the banking system, but there is this lurking suspicion that somehow he is getting ripped off.  He might even be aware of the fact that since 1913 the national debt has grown from zero to 6.17 trillion dollars while at the same time the 1913 dollar is now worth 4 cents.  He might also be aware of the fact that since passage of the 16th Amendment, politicians and lawyers have stolen both his wallet and much of his freedom, both political parties in collaboration.

Now there is a difference between stupidity and ignorance, and I would suggest to you that to just toss off our Reagan Conservative Joe Six pack as stupid is not only wrong, but an act of political suicide.  To begin with, he is instinctually conservative.  Secondly, he is decidedly not stupid.  As for ignorance, we all own that one, but ignorance can be fixed.     I would suggest that it is the task of Conservatives who are serious about the future of conservative principles that it is absolutely necessary to address each of Reagan Conservative Joe Six pack's concerns with substantively solid (not political) answers and a program of action.  Time has come to break some dishes.  Platitudes and condescension are out; seriousness is called for.  The simple fact of the matter is that the GOP is absolutely out to lunch, and Conservatives, in and out of the GOP, need to go to work. There are a lot of Americans looking for some serious leadership, currently the most unfilled job since Ronald Reagan.   JES

Serious Considerations:

11/12/06  Conservatives take heart.  We may yet watch the far left go bonkers.  Senator Chucky Schumer D-NY: "If we are seen as just blocking the president, it will not serve us well in 2008."  Translation: "We Democrats are skating on thin ice".  Six years of bashing Bush, capitalism, free markets, Christians, the South and American national sovereignty does not translate into practical substance.  At some point one needs practical ideas that work, and socialism does not work; neither will cut and run appeasement in the face of IslamicFacism.  Not even in office yet, they are furiously backing and filling on how to present themselves upon arrival.  However, in just winning the election, the damage has already been done.  JES

11/11/06  The results of the election on Tuesday leave Conservatives more free to discuss in public certain matters that have festered below the surface out of principled loyalty to a war time President.  To be sure, George W. Bush is still the President, and a war time President at that, and we will be quik to defend him against opposition attempts to suggest otherwise.  However, in the current political context, Conservatives no longer need to carry around the baggage of a pending election in defending the corruption of Conservative principles.  It's is a fact that we are at war with IslamicFascism, and without knowing it, have been for years.  09/11 was not the beginning, but it woke us (some of us, at least) up.  George W. Bush, to his great credit, recognized much of the overall scope of the problem, and responded, when previous Presidents had not.  He was correct in identifying Iran, Iraq and North Korea as the Axis of Evil, and his decision to go in after Saddam Hussein was correct.   It was in the implementation that mistakes were made. 

There are two characteristics of the President's management style that became relevant.  First, he is not a detail guy; he is inclined to depend on the organization under him.  He turns them loose within the constraints of basic policy direction, and is fiercely loyal to them, and expects that loyalty to be respected in return.  Secondly, those on his team, perhaps harboring concerns about certain consequences of policy instruction, including conflicts of substance among elements of the organization as a consequence of the policy instruction, who may have sometimes gotten stuck by his inattention to detail.  There is a fine line between bringing the boss a bad message and disloyalty, and the President is known to be very sensitive to disloyalty.  Aside from personal instincts in this regard, he has been properly sensitive to the great abuse of executive privilege that has occurred in recent years going back to Watergate days, and has been determined to check further erosion.  The cancer of leftist subversion within the bureaucracy and the press has not made that easy.  So it is that it has not always been easy for true friends to pull the President aside and say "you know, Sir, I think you might be wrong about this or that, and may I suggest another way". 

Now of course I am very much the outsider, and this is strictly educated guessing on my part.  However right now the GOP needs a new party chairman, and whoever is chosen has be able to stand up and say to the President that, on certain issues, the party may need to disagree with the President if it is realize any chance whatsoever in 2008.  The issue of immigration policy comes to mind.  Do not expect this to happen.   JES

 Current Reading Recommendations:       

AMERICA ALONE: THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT

 MARK STEYN      

 REGNERY                                                                              256 PGS                                                $27.95

FIASCO: THE AMERICAN MILITARY ADVENTURE IN IRAQ

THOMAS E. RICKS 

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Serious Considerations:

11/11/06  Veterans day, a sobering thought 4 days after voters on Tuesday, confronted with the choice of totally loony Democrat control of Congress, and largely incompetent nominal Republican control of Congress, chose the former.  The President is now in the position of making the political choice of swallowing his own cocktail of compassionate conservatism, or recognizing the need to actually become a Conservative.  I would predict that he will not only choose the former, but perhaps himself become more openly a defacto democrat.  What is at hand is a mis-reading of what actually happened on Tuesday.  What happened was that Democrats won by running "conservative " sounding candidates, and Republicans lost swamped by a national and congressional GOP cut loose from its Conservative moorings.  Tuesday, excepting those urban islands of knee-jerk Liberalism, too many actually conservative voters jumped from the frying pan into the fire.  Now the question is whether the GOP nationally, will continue to move Left, or straighten up and fly Right?  Preliminary indications are not encouraging, leaving voters with the accelerating dilemma of facing a choice at the poles of a party of the extreme Left and a "more moderate" party of the left.  In an age when the dominate media and academic institutions of the nation are firmly in the control of the extreme Left, real Conservatives have a problem.  It is additionally very relevant to recognize that Christianity is losing its grip, on several levels.  But again, what many do not seem to realize is that the Lord cannot be voted out of office, however much some try.  JES

11/09/06  What went wrong and how?  An early review of election results data suggests 2 things to me that stand out. 

        1.  The most damage was done by the defection of Reagan Democrats, not a surprise to this observer.

        2.  The overall loss, and the difference, was "a mile wide and an inch deep".

That the GOP at headquarters, including the President, claim to have been caught by surprise, in the opinion of this observer, is explained by a major difference in the behavior of the electorate, Left vs. Right.  The Left is always complaining loudly about everything to anyone who will listen to anything, and generally with a priority on themselves.  In contrast, Conservatives are much more prone to avoid direct public criticism of a wartime President, for the sake of the war effort, the safety of the troops and our own national security interests.   So it is that there has been a lot of water piling up behind the dam.  For over a couple of years this observer has found himself among those disaffected with the President's handling of the war largely for the softness of the policies and the mission drift away from a proper focus on our own national security and toward an OJ Billyboy internationalist preoccupation UN type approval of everything.  I know I am not alone on this point.   And my point is not restricted to the war, but domestic issues as well.  GOP "insiders" would do well to spend less time pandering to the likes of "Pinch" Sulzberger and more time carefully reading the hundreds of websites like this.  You had no excuse to be surprised by these election results.  JES

cc: Chairman@gop.com        Conservatives:  file this address, and use it.

11/09/06  If you think that President Bush will protect what is left of the tattered GOP with the veto, think again.   In the last six years he has used the veto pen one time, correctly vetoing a measure that would have funded embryonic stem cell research.   More to the point, he let pass train loads of bills generated by a so-called Republican Congress that were entirely out of line with Conservative principles.  The Mountain Observer has been more than tolerant of both a wartime President and the GOP in the face of outrageous Left Wing political assault.  However, that same Left Wing is now in charge of Congress, not necessarily because the American people are now all Deaniacs (Ask Joe Lieberman), but because the President and the GOP betrayed the base that elected them.  In the same election that swept Democrats into control of both houses of Congress (frequently by razor thin margins), the same voters in 8 out of 9 states voted to declare that marriage means a man and a woman, and in Michigan that affirmative action has no place in higher education.  Political bases really do not like being mis-lead by their political representatives.  Now as for President Bush, forget the veto pen.  Throwing Donald Rumsfeld under the bus, watch him morph into a Texas Democrat.  And watch the GOP tear itself apart between big government Libertarians and small government values voters as the GOP swings Left.  Time for an American Conservative Party.  As for Democrats and Liberals, this was no victory.  They are now faced with the problem of feeding their fish with zero substance.  Sand castles on a wet beach.  Great comedy if the international security consequences weren't so serious.  Oh, yes, and 1.5 million abortions a year.  JES

11/09/06  Donald Rumsfeld resigns.  It has been difficult at this distance to draw firm conclusions about his tenure, and in any event, I am inclined to undertake criticism of high level national security staff in wartime with great reluctance.  However, in the context of the very hostile opposition takeover of Congress, I feel more free to share my thoughts on certain sensitive matters.  Donald Rumsfeld was brought onboard at the beginning of this Administration to address the Herculean task of rebuilding and restructuring the Department of Defense.  The DOD had suffered badly at the hands of an OJ Billyboy Administration, openly hostile to the military.  In addition, "leadership" during that period was totally incompetent in restructuring a DOD configured for Cold War requirements to a new environment of newly released multiple nationalisms worldwide.   Meanwhile, our national intelligence assets, only very partially under the authority of the Rumsfeld (DOD) charter, had been savaged by left wing politics into incompetency.  Then came 09/11, and the Secretary of the DOD had a real job on his hands.   So it is in the context of all of this that I think Donald Rumsfeld's greatest singular contribution was the elevation of Special Operations and a total restructuring of the DOD around that concept.  That has required him to step on a lot of feet, and he has made enemies, but he is of the old school type who understood all that before he got started. 

Now I think there is a legitimate discussion about whether or not the regular Army, stripped back severely by the previous Administration, should have been re-expanded by a couple of divisions.  However, the answer to that question is not obvious.   In hindsight, it now seems more clear that we were short of the necessary ground assets going into Iraq in March of 2003.  Part of the problem at this point was that Mr. Rumsfeld held the traditional understanding that the charter of the DOD was to fight wars, and not engage in nation building.  When Saddam Hussein was swept from power, in the narrow sense of the word, the military mission had been accomplished.  What was missing, and this falls on George W. Bush, was a clear strategy and plan to deal with post Saddam Iraqi politics.  On our side, that required that the rest of the U.S. Government, including our total intelligence asset structure and the Department of State understood our enemies and that we were at war.  An argument could be made that to this day that has never happened.

Donald Rumsfeld once was quoted as saying that "you go to war with the army you've got".  He was absolutely correct.  Whether the assets we had were most effectively deployed is a legitimate question for Monday morning couch potatoes.  There is much about this war that will be subject to "coulda, woulda, shoulda" partisan hacking for years to come.  What is missing in all of this is a better understanding by many of the American people that the decision to take out Saddam Hussein was exactly correct, that there was no other way than to go in and get him as we did, and that our efforts in Iraq are key to the total  defense of the Western World against IslamicFascism.  The decades ahead will force that understanding upon us.   

Mr. Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, thank you for your service and a job well done.  JES    

11/08/06  History will come to record that yesterday the worldwide IslamicFascist agenda scored a huge victory in its war with the west.  Osama bin Laden was right: America cut and ran,  Such is the objective reality of the situation, forthcoming denials of reality notwithstanding.  The consequences will take decades to repair the damage, if, indeed, that will ever be possible at all.

As for the Democrats, the mob will demand a revolution, and the professional politicians, having overfed the fish, will be unable to deliver.  The problem with their rhetoric in opposition is that it has been totally lacking in substance, for years.  Socialism does not work, and neither will a policy of "cut and run", however disguised.  Terrorists will see it for exactly what it is: retreat and surrender, making inevitable another 09/11 event(s).  Today our country is in a world of hurt, and apparently most do not even recognize this.  As reality unfolds, expect the Dems to start fighting among themselves in a more public way.  The handy target, and excuse, will continue to be George W. Bush, sufficiently so that an alert GOP might be able to capitalize on voter weariness of this overworked point before November 2008.  However I would bet against such GOP capability.  The party is feckless and as intellectually broken as the Democrats are mentally ill.  Among other things, what we have just witnessed is the death of Compassionate Conservatism, a silly idea from the beginning.  The party, and George W. Bush, ran away from their own base; betraying us with huge spending, walking away from small government, surrendering on certain social issues, e.g. affirmative action, and failing to take borders seriously be they with Mexico or Iran and Syria.  The war in Iraq, never successfully portrayed as at the heart of the worldwide war against IslamicFascism that it certainly is, has been crippled from the beginning with too much pandering to an international audience most of whom are not our friends.  The President has allowed his policies to be subverted by Vladimir Putin, Kofi Annan, Hu Jintao, Teddy The Swimmer, "Pinch" Sulzberger, Susan Estrogen, and Vicente Fox (This, of course, the short list).

What many do not seem to realize is that the Lord cannot be voted out of office, however much some try.  JES

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11/06/06  Confession time.  Occasionally I am wrong, and I am not afraid to admit it when that happens.  So it is with the disposition of one Saddam Hussein.  I have strongly suggested on previous occasions that it might have been better for our forces to have simply dispatched him in his rat hole when he was originally discovered.  This was wrong, and a pleasant misreading of the determination, and incredible bravery, of the group of Iraqi judges charged with the task of Saddam's trial and the rendering of justice.  At a great cost of personal safety, which will be with them the rest of their lives, justice prevailed in a rough sort of Arab way, and we can all look forward to Saddam's eventually swinging by the neck from the end of a rope, an utter failure as a human being, not to take pleasure in the spectacle, but to take satisfaction in the accomplishment of justice at the hands of his former brethren who have suffered so much.  The rendering of justice in this matter, by Iraqis, is a tremendous building block in self respect for Iraqis at a time when they are greatly strained among themselves.  We do not know yet what the future holds yet for the Iraqi people, but some pride and self satisfaction has certainly taken a boost, most needed.  And with all of that, the US military can also take a bow.  Thank you, G.I.'s, and good luck, Iraqi democrats, in a very dangerous world.  JES

11/05/06  Voters on Tuesday are confronted with the choice of totally loony Democrat control of Congress, or largely incompetent nominal Republican control of Congress.  For the sake of the country, the Mountain Observer endorses the choice of a largely incompetent nominal Republican control of Congress; perhaps; incrementally, with the help of the Lord they can be scared straight and we will continue our best efforts from our end to do so.   At the same time the Mountain Observer recognizes the possibility that the Lord has His own ideas, above our understanding, of how to address the whole mess.  We look to His guidance.  Within the limits of our understanding, we will press forward.   JES

11/01/06  Now as it turns out, in chasing Osama bin Laden, perhaps we have not been chasing the real guy, but a decoy so to speak.  A new theory is beginning to emerge within the intelligence community that, perhaps, the real guy is one Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, aka KSM, aka Mukhtar, currently in detention somewhere as a guest of U.S. intelligence assets.  KSM is a member of al Qaeda, but this was not always so.  As Mukhtar, he is described as the real mastermind behind the 09/11 attacks, as well as a number of the now well documented al Qaeda attacks throughout the '90's.   He was captured 03/01/03 in Pakistan.  The link-up with al Qaeda seems to have occurred when Osama bin Laden fled to Afghanistan from the Sudan, as a matter of mutual interests.  To more fully understand the significance and importance of KSM, it is necessary to reach back before the al Qaeda link.   KSM is a tribal product of Baluchistan, a nonexistent nation much in the mold of Kurdistan, more familiar to the West as a challenge looming over the horizon.  While there is reason to believe we could do business with a Kurdistan, such is not the case with a Baluchistan.  To make a long story short, a very extended tribal family of whom KSM is a part, was responsible for the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center, some of whom are now in jail.   There is much, much more to all of this, but I'll get to it later.  Meanwhile, for your information, Baluchistan touches Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, and it is the Iranian connection that arouses interest because of some apparent cooperation between the Baluchistanis and Saddam Hussein during the Iraqi-Iranian war.  Much more to follow, including the real objectives and motives of what we have come to know as IslamicFascism.  JES

                                                                   God Help America

                                                                    Jim                         

                                                                    American Nationalist Conservative

                                                                    Jefferson, CO 80456