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                       "The power to tax involves the power to destroy" Chief Justice John Marshall

               Vol. 07                  Issue 04                                       Start OCT 01, 2007

 Serious Considerations: 

01/27/08  We've switched over to www.MountainObserver.us , a work in progress.  Go there. JES

11/28/07   In the opinion of the Mountain Observer, the fundamental moral question of our time binding us to God, and God to us, is, at what point does our recognition and acceptance of the need for redemptive suffering collide with the issue of the enablement of evil?   Or is there collision at all, properly inspired?  The Mountain Observer does not pretend to have the answers to these fundamental questions that beg for answers.  Consideration of these weighty matters cannot be avoided as we confront the challenge of the collision of Western Secularism, Islam, and more specifically IslamicFascism with Christendom.  

Accordingly, the Mountain Observer will be making some changes in our format, which will include retirement of this entire website as active, however still available for review as an attachment to a brand new website featuring an adjusted focus on matters Conservative.  Administrative details to be announced later.  JES

11/22/07   Happy Thanksgiving Day, a uniquely American Institution.  May God Bless America.  JES

11/20/07  There has been little comment here about the Presidential race for 2008, especially as it relates to Democrats, as I have simply preferred to watch in quiet amusement the spectacle of marxist self destruction.  However, the latest poll results from Iowa compel comment.  The poll in question has Obama at 30% and Hillary Rodham, aka Nurse Ratchet, and alleged enabler of one sexual predator of women in particular, at 26%, a thunderclap for those preparing for her coronation.   As eccentric as he and his candidacy is, Conservatives owe a debt of gratitude to Obama, and Tim Russert, for beginning to force Hillary Rodham, aka Nurse Ratchet, and the smartest marxist of the bunch (I did not say she was smart) to reveal to the electorate the hollow shell that she is, and always has been.  She is what Liberals are; very uncomfortable with truth in the singular concept familiar to Conservatives as a second nature.  The problem with truth as a utility of the moment is that it is always impossible to keep the story-line all strung together, and consequences that appear quite foolish result.  You will remember that Senator John Francois Kerry, the French looking guy, pretender to the office des le roi des Etats Unis, who also served in Vietnam, observed once that he voted for funding the war before he voted against it.  So it is that  Hillary Rodham, aka Nurse Ratchet, more recently got publicly confused about whether issuing driver's licenses  to illegal aliens was the right thing to do or not.  Eventually, the corrosion of such an inability to think straight seeps into the collective intelligence of the electorate, elevating curiosity and propelling questions.  That this process should begin to unfold this far ahead of election day is a sign of a spark of health among an otherwise confused and generally uninformed electorate.  A politically alert GOP (an oxymoron) should be able to pick up on these points as they accumulate, as they will, and slice and dice.  I fear that we will give at least half the store away with the nomination Rudy Giuliani, author of many thoughts not Conservative.  JES

11/17/07  As a practicing Catholic in the Diocese of Colorado Springs I was naturally attracted to see what came out of a recent gathering of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.  On November 14 a document was released entitled  "Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship, A Call to Political Responsibility from the Catholic Bishops of the United States"  ( http://www.usccb.org/bishops/FCStatement.pdf  ).  Clearly, great effort went into this, however, I am left disappointed.  Great emphasis goes into addressing the issues of abortion and euthanasia, and from these points of initial focus a long list of other political and policy issues of concern to the Bishops is developed.  While this document includes much wisdom and common sense, it seems to this observer that as this effort continues, the Bishops manage to dig themselves into several holes.

While as Catholics we acknowledge our responsibility to be concerned for the poor and oppressed, the question remains open as to how to effectively, and meaningfully, address these problems.  It is the impression of this observer that there is slowly emerging within the Church a competing perspective from the sort of knee-jerk statist tendencies of recent decades that defaulted toward the recommendations of Democrats.  This document eschews open partisanship on the part of the Church (see page 23), and yet the tone and reach of detail and recommendation is very political in its thrust.  My point to the Bishops is that they cannot have it both ways, nor should they.  You cannot enter the political arena and then claim not to.  For legal reasons the Bishops stress that they will not tell people how to vote, and yet in subtle ways, intended or not, they do.  They are over-reaching here into a worldly level of their own incompetence.  For example, the words "racism" and "torture" are undefined, and in this age of deconstruction and intellectual relativism, they need to be, and that's only for starters.   The Bishops consider themselves as non-ideological, failing to see the forest for the trees.   This becomes all too apparent in "Part II".

What is missing is self-examination.  The Bishops need to convince the Laity, and the broader citizenship, that the seminaries and alleged Catholic institutions of learning have been purged of certain unacceptable behaviors and modern ideologies totally incompatible with the message of the real Church.  This has yet to happen, leaving good seeds to wither on stone.  Until the Bishops can refocus on these issues, a perhaps to some degree unfair sense of hypocrisy hovers.

The word "prudence" appears frequently, as it needs to.  However, the application of "prudence" too frequently becomes an escape hatch, as a long line of Catholic politicians elude confronting the right-to life issue with a wave of the hand from Bishops un-prepared to enforce Canonical instruction on restriction from the Sacraments of wayward believers.   This document itself details numerous loopholes available to the cynical.

In these short comments, it is not my intention to distort the over-all context, or mis-represent the message or meaning of this document.  I would encourage you to read this, in it's entirety, yourself, non-Catholics acknowledging to themselves a lack of preparation to correctly understand or accept much that is contained.   JES

11/16/07  The fog of politics in Pakistan is beginning to lift for the Mountain Observer.  It now appears that President Gen. Pervez Musharraf overplayed his cards by declaring "emergency rule".  Back on 11/04 I pointed out that "consistent polling suggests that a solid majority of Pakistanis are not inclined jihadists".  While the military still holds the cards in the resolution of the current imbroglio, it is emerging more clearly with each passing day that former prime minister Benazir Bhutto is the most popular politician in the country, with her base among an emerging liberal (not Liberal) democratic middle class.  The emerging coalition now is not Bhutto and Musharraf, but rather Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif.  Now the military needs to decide if it's own credibility, self respect and self interest lies with Musharraf or Bhutto/Sharif.  Enter the United States, necessarily a silent advisor in the background.  At this point we are gently nudging along the Bhutto/Sharif combination, with an early return to democratic constitutional rule hinging on military acceptance and the premise of sufficient civilian political strength to stand up to the Taliban.  The chances of all this coming together partially involve the need for a rapprochement between Bhutto and the military.  Benazir Bhutto  has been around a long time.  The problem is that some years ago she was kicked out of the prime minister position by the military on charges of tolerating too much corruption.  She will have to convince the generals that this is a new day, and the generals will have to recognize that if they are to salvage their own prestige with a new middle class, clamoring for the rule of law under a constitutional government, that it is in their own self interest to return, mostly, to the barracks.  There is reason to entertain cautious optimism.  JES

11/14/07  New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer.  In the current national political climate it's a good idea to keep track of this man, a cross section of everything that is wrong with the State of New York, in addition the Rudy Giuliani, Michael Bloomberg, Charles Schumer and Hillary Rodham, aka Nurse Ratchet, and alleged enabler of one sexual predator of women in particular.  For the hyper hubrised Governor, go to:  http://www.nypost.com/seven/11142007/news/regionalnews/out_of_gas_eliot_putting_the_brakes_on_l_9236.htm , or http://www.nypost.com/news/p/spitzer_eliot/spitzer_eliot.htm     In a race between Hillary and Rudy nationally, it will all be about Gotham.  Wake up.  New York State is a snake pit. JES

11/12/07  President Gen. Pervez Musharraf vs. opposition leader and former prime minister Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan.  As Pakistani politics goes, the answer to who comes out on top will likely emerge from within the military, itself deeply divided.  Negotiations between the two of them, an outcome preferred by Washington, to join forces with each other have become unstuck.  The politicians, and Generals, of nuclear armed Pakistan are walking on eggs.  Then there is the old story about Humpty Dumpty.   JES

11/12/07  Veteran's day (on Monday).  We salute all of you for your service to this nation, and your many personal sacrifices.  JES

11/12/07  In a bizarre development this last week, evangelical leader Pat Robinson climbed onboard Rudy Giuliani's band wagon.   Apparently, the underlying premise of this move was that Rudy stands the best chance of anyone in the current line-up of GOP hopefuls at defeating Hillary Rodham, aka Nurse Ratchet, and alleged enabler of one sexual predator of women in particular, in the general election.

The Mountain Observer questions this reasoning, and believes the opposite may be true.   Rudy has a mountain of social baggage to carry around, which, in a race with Hillary Rodham, aka Nurse Ratchet, would essentially be taken off the table by both sides.  But is it not this very social baggage that has Pat Robinson exercised in the first place?  How does Pat Robinson imagine that issues arising from all the social baggage can be forced into the open and placed before the voters in a Hillary- Rudy race?  Conservative values voters might as well stay home.  But Rudy is better than Hillary on national security issues.   Yes, but no better than several other leading GOP contenders, the hype of some east coast elite conservatives notwithstanding.  Is all the hype for Rudy against Hillary really about national security concerns regarding IslamicFascism, or is there an east coast bi-partisan priority in evading the discussion on the social baggage issues, with the conservative component of such a bi-partisan defacto agenda merely functioning on a premise that omits the possibility of a Conservative values voters revolt?   The fact of the matter is that east coast elite conservatives tend to be more Libertarian than Conservative, an infection especially found among neo-conservatives in the values arena.  Among such folks there is a severe lack of understanding that Values Conservatives really take their concerns seriously, and that many are at the end of their rope with being taken for granted.  You see, among such folks there is a belief that there is a higher priority than the worldly election squabble between Hillary and Rudy which can be seen as a distinction without a difference.  Can Rudy win if they all stay away from the polls? 

The Mountain Observer believes that Rudy Giuliani is the weakest choice the GOP could make for a contest against Hillary Rodham, aka Nurse Ratchet, and alleged enabler of one sexual predator of women in particular.  However, it goes further.  A Giuliani candidacy against Hillary would foreclose any opportunity to exploit some of her greatest weaknesses, a concession that might well put her into the oval office.  Pat Robinson, it is clear that you are not a politician.   In the GOP field, there are better choices to be made.   JES

Wall Street & Main St:  

11/08/07  Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke tip toes before Congress with some truth.  The Mountain Observer can be more blunt, as I have always been prone to do.  The truth is that over many years, through many policy decisions, both personal and public, we have accumulated mountains of debt, both private and public, that is simply unsustainable.  As water inevitably runs down hill, the free market inevitably asserts itself, government and Federal Reserve gymnastics aside.  The Federal Reserve was designed to mange monetary policy.  In recent years especially, in the complete absence of Congressional fiscal restraint, the Fed has engaged in all sorts of hat tricks to also second guess this lack of fiscal responsibility.  What Bernanke is beginning to suggest to Congress is that the Fed can't do it all, and that the market consequences must run the course.  We simply can no longer hold our finger in the dike.

We need to focus on paying our bills  Truth is, we can look forward to continued deterioration in the value of the dollar accompanied by corresponding inflationary pressure.  This may, or may not, make it easier to pay off old debts with cheaper dollars, depending on your specific circumstances, however any new debt will be subject to increasing upward pressure on interest rates.   Get out of the new debt cycle, fast.  Wall Street will suffer; the paper money game has its limits.  As for Congress, when was the last time you refused a government perk?  We have become addicted to stealing from each other, and rewarded our representatives accordingly.  JES

Serious Considerations: 

11/08/07  Hillary Rodham, aka Nurse Ratchet, and alleged enabler of one sexual predator of women in particular, equivocates on both the issues of issuing drivers' licenses to illegal aliens as well as releasing records about communications between herself and her husband during the 1990's.  All of this has to do with determining her fitness as a candidate for President in 2008.  Meanwhile, Eliot Spitzer, past and present persecutor and now Governor of New York State, wallows in his own excrement.  Tim Russert, your old Liberal associations will get you yet.  JES

11/08/07  The British journal The Daily Telegraph, on its website (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/exclusions/uselection/nosplit/listintro.xml) recently published a list of "the top 100 most influential US conservatives.  They put Rudy Giuliani at the top of the list.  Numerous additional absurdities follow, all reflecting the twin difficulties of a foreign Liberal newspaper wandering about in the dark.  As we all know, Rudy is no conservative, and the truth of the matter is that in terms of influence, Rush Limbaugh is the clear leader.  JES

11/08/07  Note to AlGore and his toadies: As a Conservative, I am a conservationist, not an environmentalist, a distinction with an enormous difference.  I am serious about using and husbanding God's creation as He has instructed us to do.  You are really all about hijacking the planet to advance your own narrow Statist political agenda.  AlGore, the polar bears will be around long after you are gone.  JES

11/04/07  President Pervez Musharraf, for the 2nd time, declares military rule in Pakistan.  We have been watching a very dicey political situation in Pakistan for some time now, with an increasing threat of an IslamicFascist political takeover of a nuclear armed country.  Consistent polling suggests that a solid majority of Pakistanis are not inclined jihadists, however, infiltration by jihadists into key intelligence and national security positions, and the courts, have made control of the situation difficult for Musharraf.   So he has made his move.  Let us pray that he is correct.  It remains to be seen; everything in Pakistan, and Waziristan, is at stake; a very touchy situation.  JES

11/04/07  It is with a sad and heavy heart that I must confess that I have been wrong about Fred Thompson.   He is not a Conservative.  It has just come to my attention that he has jumped into bed with the ethanol lobby, which carries with it a list of problems.

1). Fred, you are either an economic ignoramus, or are baldly guilty of politically pandering to the corn lobby, or both.  Anyone who has spent any time and effort looking into this issue knows that this whole matter of pouring corn into our cars is an economic bust, and survives today only on the thread of enormous subsidies on the backs of taxpayers.  Any real solution to our energy shortage problems must hang on free market solutions, which largely means getting the government the hell out of the way.  I notice that the "evil" oil companies, for instance, are hedging their own investment bets with windmills, not groundwater sucking over subsidized corporate corn growers and processors.  The economics of this whole matter is a long and tangled trail, and you have jumped into the middle of a mess obviously without any research which we have a right to expect of a serious presidential candidate, especially one who promised to come down hard on exactly this sort of nonsense.

2).  You have bought the so-called "national security" line, again which is nonsense.  The economic framework of any energy "solution" that hangs on massive market distorting subsidies is counterproductive to our national security interests, and you ought to know that.  Released from politically motivated and arbitrary environmental constraint and regulation we have, under our own American jurisdiction, massive coal, oil and gas reserves, in addition to our ability to build safe and efficient nuclear generation.  Nothing stands in the way of the development of any additional so-called alternative energy options except a distorted tax code on several levels.  We need to get off this national habit, first acquired in 1932, of looking to the government to solve all our problems.  I thought you knew better.  I am deeply disappointed in you.  JES

10/31/07  The presidential election 2008.  Perhaps it is time to review where I think we are at.   JES

Democrat Party:

Hillary Rodham, aka Nurse Ratchet, will be their nominee.  As totally unhinged as the party is, I cannot imagine anyone else in the party to be seriously considered.  If the country has to endure considering a Marxist, she is the smartest.  I didn't say she was smart.

Republican Party:

Rudy Giuliani.  Unacceptable to the Mountain Observer.  I think there is an East Coast Elite Cabal, so to speak, that is pushing his candidacy very hard. engaging in a war against the real Republican base.  He is pro abortion, pro militant gay, anti gun, and not what I would consider a good model family man.  His credentials on the issue of fighting an international war against IslamicFascism have been way over hyped.  He happened to be mayor of New York City on 09/11/01, had, and has a big New York mouth.  He had a history as a very aggressive prosecutor who stumbled into doing some good things in that capacity in addition to things that were questionable.  I question whether he can ever reconcile himself with either the Catholic Church (his alleged choice of faith), the NRA, or the American heartland when they really get to know him.  A very bad idea.  Actually, the right slot for Rudy is to head up the Homeland Security Agency, with close supervision.

Fred Thompson.   I think this is the right guy if we can get Jeri to wake him up and make him mad.  Seriously, Fred is the right guy, which is to say that of the whole bunch he has the best overall conservative credentials.  Those of you who find Fred lacking in one regard or another show me another candidate who does not have greater problems overall.  Don't think you can.  Evangelicals, wake up.

Mitt Romney.   Anybody who can get elected governor of Massachusetts and the turn around and sell himself as a conservative has got to be a phony.  Too slick to sit down and have a beer with.

John McCain.   Sorry John, but you are not a reliable conservative player.  You have always been on the wrong side of the border issue, and that's just for starters.  You might make a good Secretary of Defense

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Mike Huckabee.  Too quick to cut deals with Democrats on taxes.   He's from Arkansas.

The rest.  Non players, except that I would like to see Duncan Hunter as Fred's VP.

Note on Ron Paul:  His is a Libertarian, neither a Republican or a conservative.  Doesn't belong in the Republican race.

10/30/07  Certain things are going right (pun convenient) for Conservatives.  The surge is working and good things are happening in Iraq.  New French President Nicolas Sarkozy is actually making some progress, both at home and through Europe, in providing the first vestige of genuine leadership on the continent in decades, so relevant to our interests as the approaching confrontation with Iran unfolds.  Belgium is in an advanced state of collapse, as it ought to be, a further sign of the ultimate idiocy of the super statist European Union.  Likewise, our own Democrat led Congress, both the House and the Senate, are also in an advanced state of collapse in terms of accomplishing anything more damaging than the dedication of post offices.  This Congress is still very dangerous in terms of the damage it seeks to do, and could do with the complicity of too many RINO Republicans, however, overall conservative GOP forces have done remarkably well since the 2006 election debacle in fending off the Leftist onslaught.  The continuing defeats of Leftist and Libertarian efforts to award amnesty to illegal immigrants high on the list.  It is a huge help to Conservatives that the American Left has become publicly unhinged in ways that has exposed the Left as it always truly was.  It is likely that the 2008 elections will come down to the question of balance between the appeal of what remains of traditional American instincts and conservative values, and, on the other hand, the now decades old siren song of government freebies and nannyism.  How powerful is the appeal of Hillary Rodham, aka Nurse Ratchet?  Is it reading too much into the discussion to consider the implications of victory of now governor-elect Bobby Jindal in Louisiana, Indian American, as Conservative as you can find?  Does American sanity still have a chance?   JES

10/19/07  Rush Limbaugh, Harry Reid, and the 2 million dollar letter.  On this one, Rush is right.  Reid's letter, also signed by 40 other Democrat Senators, was an arrogant abuse of power in an attempt to browbeat a private citizen regarding his 1st Amendment rights; indeed his very livelihood.  Only a foretaste of what we could generally expect if the Dems prevail in 2008.  Rush's auction of the Reid letter on eBay was brilliantly executed on several levels. No doubt the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation will put the proceeds to good use.  Meanwhile, may the 41 signatories of this letter all hang their heads in shame, suck alum, and look forward to the attention of their constituents in the next election.  Good job, Rush.   JES

10/13/07  It sounds as if Retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, failed ex-commander of military forces in Iraq, might be a bit embarrassed by the successes of current U.S. commander in Iraq Gen. David Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker.  He points the finger at everyone but himself, an all-too-common malady in this day and age.  Retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, you and your colleagues just screwed up; admit it.  JES

10/11/07  Note to Jeri Thompson: Poke Fred with a stick and wake him up.  We do not need another inarticulate presidency.  The American electorate won't accept it.  JES

10/04/07  "Phony soldiers" and Rush Limbaugh.   The dustup has nothing to do with Rush Limbaugh.  It has to do with the intentions of Democrat pretenders to power with regard to the 1st Amendment.  Look what moral relativism, political correctness and the whole concept of "hate speech hath wrought?  I repeat here, exactly, what I wrote in the launch off document to what became this website 11/20/2000:

The Statist mindset has, for about 35 years now, promoted the concept of "hate crimes".  The problem with the idea of "hate crimes" is that a prosecutorial investigation of one's thoughts is required.  I would suggest that this is dangerous stuff.   Does one "hate" women because of a belief that life begins at conception?  Does one "hate" gays because of a belief that the practice is dysfunctional?  Does a white person "hate" a black person because of a belief that the excuse of slavery has gotten in the way of resolution?  Is "hate", whatever that means, by and of itself, a crime?  Is a murder victim less dead because he was not killed by a "hateful" person?   All of this is madness.   Or are we really trying to describe thoughts and perspectives that are simply out of tune with the fashions of the Liberal Statist Elite?  Notice that the same folks who condemn "hateful" speech are the same folks who defend the Hollywood porno mills under the guise of the First Amendment.

The legal regulation of thought is the most distinctive feature of a Statist regime.  About 30 years ago we saw a major breach of the Constitution with the initial passage of property seizure laws, all directed, we were assured, against "organized crime".  We now see where that has gone.  RICO is everywhere.   Now the fashion de Jour is "hate crime" legislation. Notice that it is the same judicial system that tolerates this stuff that created the right, out of thin air, of women to murder their offspring, and to furthermore do so without the consent of the father. The legal system has become politicized and a function of the Statist agenda.   I submit that "hate" crimes are political crimes masquerading as criminal law.

In America we have a First Amendment to our Constitution under which, presumably, a citizen's right to think and speak is protected.  If one acts on certain thoughts in some way that is a violation of the traditional criminal code then the action should be the issue, not the thought alleged to be behind it.  To start prosecuting thoughts is to disassemble America and guarantee a breakdown of the system.  The prosecution of thought is the end of dialog and the promotion of the Gulag, with "appropriate psychological re-education".  When will the camps appear? John Rocker, watch out!  Sadly, this process, known as "political correctness", is already well underway.   Much of the Press, the Fifth branch of government (after the regulatory empire), has become complicit, and our system of education at all levels debased, thanks to 110 years of John Dewey.  All of this is being accomplished in an atmosphere of hostility toward a humble consideration of a Divine Creator and a Superior Intelligence and Authority, i.e. God.  This is not a coincidence or irrelevant.  No doubt my thoughts here are evidence that could be used against me; I am no doubt under suspicion of being me.   This is the real reason for the Second Amendment and the real reason why Statists are working so hard against it. 

Check out the entirety of what I wrote.  The context was the fight over the Florida votes, at the time, unresolved.  Go to 11/20/00   JES

10/04/07  The President properly vetoes the attempted 5 year $35 billion increase in spending for SCHIP (State Children's Health Insurance Program).   This pre-election year trojan horse for universal socialized medicine had nothing to do with either "the children", or "the poor".  This precursor to universal Stalinist medicine was actually Nurse Ratchet, aka Hillary Rodham, running around loose, and says everything you need to know about those who supported it, Democrat and "Republican".  JES

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Serious Considerations: 

10/01/07   Alleged GOP "conservatives" cave in and vote with the Democrats on a 5 year $35 billion increase in spending for SCHIP (State Children's Health Insurance Program), which shouldn't even exist in the first place (Read the 10th Amendment.).  Apparently the only option left available for the reform of our government will be actual bankruptcy.  The national GOP can expect no help from me.  JES

10/01/07   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

10/01/07  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

                                                                    Jim                        

                                                                    American Nationalist Conservative

                                                                     Jefferson, CO 80456