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                                            Vol. 07                                            Issue 03                                 Start JULY 01, 2007

Serious Considerations: 

09/29/07  Pope Benedict XVI has directed the reintroduction of the traditional rite. God bless Pope Benedict XVI.  I would predict that eventually it will be recognized that this development saved the Church of Rome, and perhaps the whole of western culture.   I have no doubt that the hand of the Holy Spirit was on the tiller.

These changes reorder the Church as the primordial framework of western civilization, including a more correct perspective on the critical contributions of the Greek philosophers coupled with Roman law.  It  re-elevates a complex history beyond the scope of what we are about here.  Just in summary, what we now have is the necessary foundation for the re-balancing of contemporary western culture, including education.   For a much more detailed, and informed, study of the return of the Tridentine Mass, I would recommend going to the Vol. 16, No. 4 Fall 2007 issue of The Latin Mass.  E-mail jwblewett@msn.com for contact info.  I am delighted with these developments beyond words.   JES

09/29/07   Mr. President, the options regarding Iran:

1)     You can wait for reformers to overthrow the current regime.

The information available to me indicates that this cannot happen before nuclear weapons capability has been achieved for a lengthy list of reasons.

The real problem with this idea is that even if the reformers were successful, their opposition (defenders of the current regime) would still be powerful, with attendant political instability going forward.   What guarantee is there that such a political stew, however configured, would actually choose to accommodate us with a credible change of direction on Iran's nuclear program and ambitions?  At the very least, we would be confronted with a new, and additional, Pakistani dilemma.

 2).  You can continue to wait for others, through various proposed schemes of economic coercion to "force" a change in Iranian attitude on the issue, which completely underestimates and misunderstands the Iranian attitude on the issue.  Continuing to wait for a miracle to happen is wasting time while allowing the situation to continue to deteriorate.  There is the further unsatisfactory consequence of allowing others to operate our own foreign policy and oversee our own national security interests.  I would remind you that similar dithering in late 2002 and early 2003 bought the time Saddam Hussein and his Russian pals needed to apparently squirrel away probable WMD and to prepare for the insurgency that began to unfold in April of 2003.  You should have learned by now that you just can't play around with these people, or Democrats, a distinction too frequently without a difference.  

3).  The hard fact of the matter is that the military option is the only responsible option available to the United States, in behalf of not only our own security interests, but that of the rest of the world as well.  I know that the planning and preparedness are largely in place.   And I speak not of something tentative, but the full bore plan to knock out their entire military capability.  You know of which I speak.   Do it.  Soon.   And worry not about your critics; they are beyond being mollified, and you have already spent too much time and effort in that regard.  Do this thing now, let the world squeal, and leave office in January of 2009 knowing that you, in fact, did the right thing.  In the years ahead, you will come to be honored.  JES

09/26/07   In Farsi, the suffix  "jad" translates as "filthy undershorts".  Mahmoud  etc., aka Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, president of the IslamicFascist republic of Iran, aka Persia, finally departs the Liberal intellectual and moral cesspool of Columbia University, the United Nations, and New York.  We have just witnessed, on full display, the legacy of decades of the full intellectual and moral corruption of American education.  Chunks of this nation are adrift, which is why I am on this mountain top.  Few know it, but I have an ancient link to the institution of Columbia University, and New York.  God willing may they all rot in hell.

General David Petraeus, carry on.  JES 

Current Reading Recommendation:     

WORLD WAR IV: THE LONG STRUGGLE AGAINST ISLAMOFASCISM

NORMAN PODHORETZ           

DOUBLEDAY                                                                             240 PGS                                                 $24.95

Serious Considerations: 

09/23/07   Nurse Ratchet, aka Hillary Rodham, presents her case for national socialized medicine arguing her case for election to the presidency in 2008.  Will American voters buy into this socialist trash?  Real Americans will not, however Lefties and Illegal aliens probably will.   So goes the case for election registration reform.   JES

09/21/07  The Rasmussen organization tracking likely GOP primary voters now has Thompson equal to, and some times ahead, of Giuliani.   You can keep up with this by going to http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/daily_presidential_tracking_poll__1 .  

Meanwhile, Fred introduces his wife Jeri to the NRA at their convention, announcing that she "she would make a much better first lady than Bill Clinton", and the place goes wild.  Giuliani is now trying to suck up to the NRA, but it won’t work.  His track record on the subject is too long and indelible.  Go Fred Go.   JES

Wall Street & Main St:

09/20/07  The Fed cuts rates by half a point.  While I understand the reasoning (I think) behind this decision, my instincts tell me that it was a bad idea to make any cuts at all.  I suspect that the Fed has not only stalled off on the inevitable day of reckoning, but even worse, thrown gasoline on the fire.  There is a limit to the monetary tricks that can be tried to substitute for fiscal discipline, public or private.  Common sense tells me that the locomotive left the rails some years ago.   Fiscal discipline is at the mercy of Congress and the President, and is inherently political in nature.  Therein lies the problem.  Systemic corruption anyone?  JES 

Serious Considerations:

09/18/07  Alan Greenspan has now made it abundantly clear to the densest among you what the Mountain Observer has suspected all along: he is a fraud.  His famous ambiguity as Fed chairman was never anything but a cover-up for the fact that he never knew any more about what he said in public testimony than a lamp post, and for years the entire nation was suckered by it all.  Perhaps we could call it Schwarzeneggeritus, which is to say, the hazards to your brain of marriage to a younger, good looking LIBERAL.  It would appear that Barry Goldwater may have also suffered a similar fate in his later years.  JES

09/16/07  War is coming with Iran.  It is not a question of whether, but when.  This will be primarily an Air Force and Navy deal, with Special Ops only on the ground.  The President cannot responsibly not do it.  JES

09/16/07  It's not hard to explain Alan Greenspan's recent load mouthing against Bush and the Republicans when you consider who crawls into bed with him every night.  Its election time, a year early.  JES

09/15/07  Notice that there has been no complaint or outcry from any of the Arab gulf states concerning the Israeli air strike against Iranian client Syria last week.  Now it turns out that Turkey provided Israel with the key intelligence.  In the Arab Sunni dominated gulf state region, fear of a nuclear armed Iranian/Syrian/Hezbollah axis is palpable.  JES

09/14/07  The Democrat party invested in itself that its "leaders" have chosen to throw General David Petraeus, and by extension the entire American military, and the United States itself, under the bus.  Let us pray for the nomination of Hillary Rodham, "moderate" DNC pretender, so that Conservatives can beat her, and the entire 60's generation ilk, aka Move On.org etc, into total and permanent submission.  It is necessary for the survival of the American nation and culture.   General David Petraeus, carry on.  JES

09/12/07  In the polls, Fred is rising like a rocket, now ahead of Giuliani among most likely Republican primary voters.  Go to http://www.rasmussenreports.com/.  Click on The Thompson Bounce.   JES

09/11/07  General David Petraeus, carry on.  JES   

09/08/07  Rudy takes a nosedive: Declares illegal immigrants are not criminals.  This is what you have to expect from someone who is a product of New York City.   Otherwise, go visit http://www.catholicsagainstrudy.com/  for another perspective on this pious Catholic hypocrite.   Go Fred Go.   JES

09/08/07  Announcing a new page on this website.    AMERICAN NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY.   Scattered throughout this website from the beginning are references to various matters that raise questions about the past, current and future defense of the sovereignty of the American nation and culture.  The most recent threat in this regard was the recent battle in Washington over immigration, legal and illegal.  Now up pops the issue of a North American Union growing out of something called the Security and Prosperity Partnership.  Go to http://www.spp.gov/ .  Now the Mountain Observer, at this point, doesn't know exactly what to make out of all this business with the so-called "Security and Prosperity Partnership", but it certainly smells a lot like Madison Avenue to me.  What I do know is that there are just too many busybodies running around inventing all sorts of internationalist agendas that seem to have in common the singular objective of pulling the plug on the American Nation and American national sovereignty.  Given the collapsed state of American education over recent decades, I guess it is necessary to begin to explain to a whole generation why all this matters.  So it is that we will begin to develop this new page.  AMERICAN NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY   GOD HELP AMERICA!  JES

09/05/07  Fred's in the race: "I'm running for President of the United States of America".  Fred has been criticized by some who contend he has waited too long to announce.  Actually, the timing is early by historical standards.   I would wonder at the timing of the announcements of other candidates, Democrat and Republican; way, way early.  All this early activity reflects the depth of polarization of politics today in the United States.  You will hear Fred speak much of "security, unity and prosperity" in the months ahead, as he addresses a key concern about the threat to the United States occasioned by international IslamicFascism.  He will also take on the difficult task of directly addressing the brick wall of entitlement spending towards which the nation is racing.  His calculation is that the ordinary voter is better prepared to consider the problems of terrorism and big government entitlements than the politicians.  For more, got to http://www.fred08.com.  The Mountain Observer supports this candidacy as representing the best ELECTABLE option for Conservatives in 2008.  We shall see.  JES

09/03/07  General David Petraeus, carry on.  JES   

09/03/07  On just war theory:  "Among true worshippers of God those wars are looked on as peacemaking which are waged neither from aggrandizement nor cruelty but with the object of securing peace, of repressing evil and supporting the good."                                                            St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, II, IIae, 40.1

08/29/07 Cuban Communist President Fidel Castro announces his support for Hillary Rodham for President in 2008, teamed with Barak Obama.  Is there a message here, anyone?  JES

08/28/07  Regarding Alberto Gonzales.   So he resigns, and I'm not so sure the timing was an accident.  What we have here is a political incompetent; a fact widely recognized.  What we have here is a victim of the Peter Principle, which says that there is a tendency for people to rise in an organization to their own level of incompetency, set up by a President who has repeatedly demonstrated his inclination to promote loyal friends over qualified candidates, e.g. Harriet Miers,  et. al.  Unfortunately, in the matter of Alberto Gonzales, the matter had gotten out of hand, with Senator Upchuck Chucky Schumer and his fellow Democrats frothing at the mouth about the forced departure of 8 U.S. attorneys, who by law simply serve at the President's pleasure.  The issue of the 8 attorneys has been politically fabricated out of whole cloth, and everyone in Washington DC, and a complicit Leftwing mainstream press, knows it.  The real game is to find any way possible to dismantle the Bush Administration, and the focus on Gonzales has been to achieve his resignation so as to set up an approval of a replacement on condition of the appointment of a new Special Persecutor.  The Democrat target is not Gonzales, or the reasons for the firing of the 8 attorneys; never has been.  The real target is Bush, his Administration, the GOP, and any chance at all of a Republican presidential win in 2008.  Anybody with a lick of political sense knows all this.

Now it so happens that the ultimate outcome of all this political pushing and shoving remains to be determined.  I would point out that the administration has options to undercut the Democrat strategy.

1).  Nominate a new Attorney General who is actually qualified for the job; perhaps tough at this stage of the presidential cycle and given the hostile political climate that clearly threatens a nominee's name and career.

2.)  With or without a nominee, stall off until the end of the year, and then make a recess appointment of a "care-taker" to get to the end of the President's term.

3.)  Some combination of the above, all designed to not be forced to swallow a Special Persecutor.

With some adroit political management of the situation, the entire Democrat plan could come to be viewed by the voters as reaching too far, and the real source of the divisiveness that has paralyzed Washington.  And so it goes.  JES

Wall Street & Main St:  

08/26/07   Yes, Larry Summers  (Ex Treasury Secretary under OJ Billyboy) you could be right.   We may be headed for a recession.  So it goes with the paper, and paperless, money that both political parties have mutually conspired to foist upon a befuddled public in all the decades since the 1930s.  But perhaps not.  The economy we sit upon is a colossus, and too many folks have a vested interest it its continued success.  During such times it is inevitable that there will be those who think more as gaming speculators than investors.  I see what is going on right now as ultimately healthy for the markets and the broader economy.   Burn away the underbrush, quite possibly at the "cost" of a general recession, or worse.  The equation is too huge for reliable predictions to be made at this point.  However things work out we can be sure that some zero will stand up and say "I told you so", which will mean nothing more than the fact that a stopped clock is right twice a day.  Another thing is apparent to the Mountain Observer.   Astute investors will make millions on the savvy purchase of a boat load of under-valued stocks.  That is how a free market works, and disciplines itself.  JES

08/21/07  American nationwide real estate mortgage performance?  Go to http://www.realtytrac.com/freeSearch.asp.  JES

Serious Considerations: 

08/19/07  There continues to be much angst in the land about "global warming", alleged to be the official downside of climate change.   Forget about it; do as I do: burn as much coal as possible.  Per BTU, cost wise, it's the best bargain out there.  Now I understand that since 1998 the evidence is that we are now in a cooling cycle, which is too bad.  I preferred the warming cycle, and I am doing the best I can to reverse the matter again with my new coal stove.  JES

 Current Reading Recommendations, All Relevant, Right Now:       

 CHENEY: THE UNTOLD STORY OF AMERICA'S MOST POWERFUL AND CONTROVERSIAL VICE PRESIDENT                          

STEPHEN F. HAYES                                                                                                                              

HARPERCOLLINS                                                                    592 PGS                                                $27.95

THE NATURAL FAMILY: A MANIFESTO

ALLAN C. CARLSON & PAUL T. MERO                                                                                              

SPENCE                                                                                     272 PGS                                                 $27.95

Wall Street & Main St:  

08/17/07  Long time readers of the Mountain Observer will recollect my skepticism about Ben Bernanke initially upon his appointment to the chairmanship of the Federal Reserve.  Today I will state that I am impressed with his handling of the current credit and banking crisis arising from the boiling over of the super heated sub-prime mortgage and hedge fund markets.  He is skillfully containing the problem within its proper dimensions and containing the pricing of the costs of correction to those responsible for the crap shoot; as it ought to be.  The market’s overall will come to be much more healthy as a result.  In the 1990"s the crap shooters ran amok with technology stocks.  This time the game was played with real estate.   So far, at least, Bernanke seems to showing a lot more skill at diagnosing the problem, and containing it than Alan Greenspan did back then.  I was never really a Greenspan fan; let us now hope he just keeps his mouth shut for once, tough as that might be for him to do.    

 Mr. Bernanke just needs to continue focusing on relieving the credit pressures on the affected segments of the banking industry, at an appropriate price to the malefactors, while at the same time not caving into to pressures from Main Street to lower rates that would fuel inflation.  Ordinary consumers, trained for decades to rely on others (the government and regulated institutions) to guide their own choices, need to learn to accept some personal responsibility for their own borrowing and spending decisions.  This cultural problem is really what is at the bottom of the problem.  People should buy houses only because they can afford them, not just because they want one.  I know, it's a tough world out there.  JES

Serious Considerations: 

08/12/07   US Marines: Haditha, Iraq.  All charges were dropped 08/09 against Marine Lance Cpl. Justin L. Sharratt concerning an "incident", aka firefight, in Haditha.  Also cleared: Capt. Randy W. Stone, battalion lawyer, accused of inadequately investigating the incident.  Shame on state-side prosecutors for leveling these charges in the first place, all based on flimsy information from unreliable sources and premised on the intellectually perverted notion that actions by Marines in combat can be reasonably second guessed by attorneys and the media on the Potomac. 

Now we await an apology from the Dishonorable Rep. John Murtha, lower than a snake's belly, D-PA.  He is a sorry and despicable excuse of an "American".

08/09/07  General David Petraeus, carry on.  JES  

08/0707   Visit Fred Thompson on this website for more links- developing

 Current Reading Recommendations, All Relevant, Right Now:       

 CAMELOT AND THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION: HOW THE ASSASSINATION OF JOHN F. KENNEDY SHATTERED AMERICAN LIBERALISM

 JAMES PIERESON     

 ENCOUNTER                                                                           253 PGS                                                 $25.95

 THE PRIZE: THE EPIC QUEST FOR OIL, MONEY & POWER    (6th Ed 1991)

 DANIEL YERGIN                    ROOSEVELT'S DEAL WITH THE SAUDIS    

 SIMON & SCHUSTER                                                                XXX                                                       $59.00

 A LEADER BORN: THE LIFE OF ADM. JOHN SIDNEY McCAIN, PACIFIC CARRIER COMMANDER

 ALTON KEITH GILBERT                HOW WOULD HE RATE HIS GRANDSON?                                 

 CASEMATE                                                                          288 PGS                                                 $32.95

 SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL: ECONOMICS AS IF FAMILIES MATTERED

 JOSEPH PEARCE   

 ISI                                                                                          350 PGS                                                 $18.00

 UNSTOPPABLE GLOBAL WARMING: EVERY 1500 YEARS

 S. FRED SINGER & DENNIS T. AVERY                                                                                               

 ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD                                                     260 PGS                                                 $24.95

 LEO STRAUSS: AN INTRODUCTION TO HIS THOUGHT AND INTELLECTUAL LEGACY

 THOMAS PANGLE                                                                                                                               

 JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV                                                           200 PGS                                                 $19.95

 THE REGENSBURG LECTURE

 JAMES V. SCHALL       

 ST. AUGUSTINE'S PRESS                                                       180 PGS                                                 $20.00

 NATURAL LAW LIBERALISM

CHRISTOPHER WOLFE      

CAMBRIDGE UNIV                                                                    268 PGS                                                 $75.00

 Serious Considerations: 

07/25/07   There is a lot I could be saying that I am not.  I am getting tired of repeating the same old points.  The fundamental political problem in this country today is that Americans, a majority it appears, are lost in a sea of denial concerning the determination and ability of an IslamicFascist enemy to destroy us, and how central our policies and decisions concerning Iraq are, and always have been, to this matter.  At the heart of the matter is the Cartesian doctrine of the destruction of objective reality in favor of intellectual and moral relativism.  It is a long story, the exposure of which is central to the purpose of this website, however I confess to exploring a different format.  We shall see.   Meanwhile, the "Surge" in Iraq is succeeding, brilliantly.  Again, General David Petraeus, carry on.  JES 

07/25/07   Is George W. Bush a Conservative?  Hell no, and Conservatives have known it for some time.  He is what this political analyst calls center-right.  The Left pejoratively calls him a cowboy; I wish, non-pejoratively, that it were true.  He makes great speeches and then walks away from his own words.  This has happened repeatedly throughout his term in office.  The Mountain Observer would have always preferred Dick Cheney in the driver's seat, with a couple of advisors from Halliburton on the White House staff, and a spinal expert over at the Surgeon Generals' Office to administer to the American people.   General David Petraeus, carry on.  JES 

07/25/07   Is Fred Thompson a perfect Conservative?  Of course not, as such a creature does not exist.  Furthermore, the supposition of such a question is that there is a broad consensus among Conservatives concerning what criteria would define the "perfect Conservative" in the first place, which is in the category of chasing butterflies.  So it is that such a complaint concerning Fred Thompson is, shall we say, juvenile.  We are living through a period of high political polarization in American history, not conducive to reasoned argument and discourse in the public, or private, square.   It is a problem that afflicts both the Left and the Right, however I would dare say that today 90% of the problem is on the Left.  Let's work to keep it that way.  That is the opinion of the Mountain Observer, and his further opinion, as a Conservative, that today Fred Thompson, who is perhaps 85% Conservative, is the most ELECTABLE Conservative to be had.  I would like to see him teamed with Duncan Hunter.  JES

07/18/07   I've got a lot to say and write about, however I'm in a bit of a writing funk.  Maybe this weekend.   Meanwhile, all the quitters and appeasers will be on vacation for 3 weeks, so the country will be safe for at least that long.  General David Petraeus, carry on.  JES 

07/16/07   Visit Fred Thompson on this website for more links- developing

 07/16/07   Visit www.Vote4FredThompson.com

Current Reading Recommendations:       

 ANNIHILATION FROM WITHIN: THE ULTIMATE THREAT TO NATIONS

 FRED CHARLES IKLE    

COLUMBIA UNIV                                                                  130 PGS                                                 $24.50

 IN DEFENSE OF THE BUSH DOCTRINE

 ROBERT G. KAUFMAN      

UNIV  KENTUCKY                                                                   251 PGS                                                 $35.00

 THE REAGAN DIARIES

DOUGLAS BRINKLEY, ED  

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 Serious Considerations:  07/04/07  I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation UNDER GOD, with liberty and justice for all.  JES.

The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. --That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to affect their safety and happiness. prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. —Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain [George III] is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these States. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the state remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands.

He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers.

He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to the civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation:

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states:

For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing taxes on us without our consent:

For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of trial by Jury:

 For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these colonies:

For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments:

For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow citizens taken captive on the high Seas to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.

We, therefore, the representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be free and Independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred Honor.

Does anyone remember?  JES

 07/03/07  The President does something right, and puts the squash on jail time for "Scooter" Libby.  As I reflect on it, the full pardon, at this time, would have deprived Libby of the opportunity to fully clear his name on appeal.  The pardon option remains available in the future if the courts on their own prove incapable of correcting for themselves this outrageous miscarriage of justice and subversion of both the legal system and the political process by the Left.  The fact of the matter is that I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby is a true patriot.  Help him out.  Go to http://www.scooterlibby.com   JES

 07/01/07  I have never been impressed with Michael Chertoff, currently Secretary of Homeland Security.  How he ever got tangled up in the high levels of this administration remain a mystery to me.  His general incompetency first came to my attention during the Katrina fiasco.  I think in his current post as Secretary of Homeland Security he is a complete disaster. 

Mr. Secretary, you could get 750 miles of fence along the border built in 6 months, if not sooner, if you awarded 150 contractors to each build 5 miles of fence.  This is not rocket science.  During WWII we built and launched Liberty ships in 3 days, and I submit this is an equally important matter.  Perhaps the real answer is that you have been under orders to do otherwise.   JES

 07/01/07   Visit www.Vote4FredThompson.com 

                                                  Jim                         

                                                   American Nationalist Conservative

                                         Jefferson, CO 80456