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     MO Letter 2008-04            Vol. 08 Issue 04           Start Aug 01, 2008

Serious Considerations:

10/24/08  As a general trend, world markets continue down. The United States markets are the 800 pound gorilla responsible.  The United States markets are behaving as they are for many reasons; however the Mountain Observer would speculate that anticipation of a possible Obama and Democrat Congressional victory in the election now weighs heavily. The possible imposition of an unrestrained socialist political and economic agenda on the largest and strongest mostly free market economy in the world guarantees worldwide economic disaster. If this scenario is validated on 11/04 then the bottom will really drop out, on Wall Street and Main Street.  It's really that simple.  JES

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10/20/08  Oil prices collapse and OPEC in a panicked state plans to cut production.  Worry not, my friends; individual members, having premised their own plans on high prices forever, are now in a bind for income as western demand has fallen and inventories have stacked up. So the organization can set production goals at whatever level they choose, and it won't matter. Individual members, desperate for income at any price, will stab each other in the back and continue to produce and sell as much as possible, holding prices down. We've seen this scenario many times in the past, and we can continue to force their desperation for customers and higher prices by relieving our own political choke hold on domestic production.  Will Democrats in power be smart enough to do this.  Very doubtful; Liberals hate free markets. To release our own producers from constraint would subvert the Democrat's priority of government (themselves) in control, and the window of opportunity will diminish as inventories are eventually worked down absent more domestic production. Back to square one.  JES

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10/20/08  So Gen. Colin Powell endorses Baraka Hussein Obama, and it's not about race?  Bullcrap.  It's all about race.  The Mountain Observer has been a close observer of Gen. Colin Powell for decades now and in my opinion there is no one more astute and practiced at playing the race card than Gen. Powell.  His entire career was built on playing on white racial guilt and climbing the affirmative action ladder.   Always falling just short of the actual competence required of the task at hand; a string of C- performances if you will, and a guilt ridden nation has always put him on a pedestal.  So it is that Powell's announcing his preference for Obama makes great headlines and will be taken seriously by too many.  Gen. Colin Powell, just smart enough to never have dared try that final career leap, now has his racial surrogate, and perhaps another personal chance to serve, as he always has, in the shadows.  This is the year, perhaps, of high tide for the national damage of white racial guilt and affirmative action to the American landscape.  And the biggest losers will be black Americans who are actually competent.  At 68, the Mountain Observer has no fear of being labeled or called names.  I prefer to just tell the truth.  JES

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10/16/08  Baraka Hussein Obama announces that his plan for national economic recovery is to "share the wealth".  Years ago it would not require a high school diploma to recognize Obama's candor as a call to socialism.  Today many college graduates may not understand, or if they do, applaud.  However, Joe the Plumber does understand, and is not amused.  If Senator John McCain should accidently stumble across the finish line this fall to victory, we should properly credit Governor Sarah Palin, Joe the Plumber, and millions like them.  JES

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10/13/08  May God bless Christopher Columbus.  JES

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10/11/08  Mr. President, you can go about gathering any collection of "world leaders" and other assorted ex-spurts you wish in the White House Rose Garden and offer only meaningless platitudes to the world.  None of this fixes, or every will fix, market problems.  You see, sir, the market actually has no problems, save grandstanding hubristic politicians of all political stripes who think that they can fix with socialist measures what they cannot, and who all collectively caused these problems themselves in the first place. The most constructive thing you can all do is resign and go play dominoes, or perhaps Monopoly; you might learn something.  What else we have here is the absolute dead end of "Compassionate Conservatism", (I can only hope that Governor Sarah Palin can influence her boss away from his worst instincts on this point if they can pull off a win).  Most folks know that your Treasury Secretary, Henry Paulson, is a card carrying Democrat, and you have made that mistake so many times that I have lost count. McCain himself, a virtual card carrying Democrat, has been an absolute dunderhead regarding these matters.  The electorate is faced this fall with a choice between Baraka Hussein Obama, a hard core Leftist of communist level persuasion, and Senator John McCain, so self consumed with "honor" that he demonstrates a complete lack of objective reality on issues economic, for starters.  This leaves us little to choose from when Baraka Hussein Obama offers us the gutting of the country and capitalism.  But then there is Governor Sarah Palin, a real American from the Heartland, who is all that Conservatives have left.  She is one of us; the rest are garbage.  The Mountain Observer is totally disgusted.  JES

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10/07/08  For years, decades actually, Congress has been spending money it did not have. The American people have been sucking on the tits of a dead sow. For years the implicit understanding has been that, as required, we would simply print more money, including credit offered absent measured supporting equity.  We became quite sophisticated at building pyramids of paper obligations, frequently leveraged to near 100%, public and private. This was an infection launched in 1913 with the creation of the Federal income tax, and a central bank subsequently lead around by the nose by both private and public beneficiaries of the income tax spigot. Inevitably, a debtor culture was produced, accelerated in more recent years by technology. "Money" can be produced with the click of a mouse; one no longer need wait for those creaky old presses. So today when the end game of Fannie & Freddie was finally exposed for the fraud that it has been, the entire house of cards structure started to unravel.  American political elite response, stuck in a time warp, has been the knee jerk reaction of printing more money, which is to say dumping loads of gasoline on the fire.  Won't work, folks.  The nation, and perhaps the whole world, is bankrupt.  A victim of itself and its own hubris.

Now there is underlying value, of course, in the wreckage.  Your house is worth something.  Our streets and stores are worth something.  However, government bureaucrats, judges and their appointed ex-spurts can never make that determination.  Only a free market can, which is what will happen.  That is the only possible way that you will ever know what that dollar bill in your pocket is worth, and I hate to tell you this, but today it's not worth much.  Today the free market is forcing itself upon us. The Secretary of the Treasury, the President, Congress, and the American People have not yet figured out that they are not in charge of this discussion, and never will be.  The market will rule however much politicians continue to pander.   JES

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10/06/08  So now with the $700 Billion plus bailout signed into law, what to do next?  Herein my friends lies the problem. Affected house prices (which upon close inspection actually mean all housing prices, directly or indirectly) will be set by a team of "ex-spurts" reporting to the Secretary of the Treasury. So it is, that with the free market pricing mechanism ("the invisible hand") set aside, suddenly no-one knows, for sure, what the price of anything is, including "good" real estate, equities, bonds, hedge funds, energy and the next family car. It's all smoke and mirrors.  Thank you, George W. Bush, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and friends.  Everyone, including the banks, curled up in a ball.  Market panic sets in.  Perhaps old Soviet planners could be pulled out of retirement?  Those of us who have the option of hunting for our next meal are blessed. Governor Sarah Palin would understand.  JES.

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10/06/08  As anyone who has been paying attention now knows, the systemic origins of the current banking liquidity problem lie with the Community Reinvestment Act first passed in 1977 and signed by President Carter.  Again enhanced under OJ Billyboy, the general thrust of this effort was to direct the banks to approve loans for social reasons, loans that never would have been approved under traditional banking standards (which require the borrower to repay, etc, etc.). The grand scheme was to dump these loans onto Freddie Mac & Fannie May where over a number of years this compost pile smoldered eventually to a stage of combustion.  However, going back to the beginning, the real systemic origins lie in widespread Liberal White guilt over race relations. This was the original breeding ground of political correctness and the national habit of pandering to minorities, ill-advised on several levels.  It is a discussion worthy of many books.  JES

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10/03/08  Thank you Governor Sarah Palin for an excellant job Thursday night. You are the only hope that Conservatives actually have.  JES

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10/03/08  Well it has been quite a week. Congress and the President sign up the country for a future of economic fascism, although I predict it won't stop there, with the economics that is.  I don't think most Americans have a clue as to where this $700 billion bail out will eventually lead us, however, it certainly won't be to heaven.  JES

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09/28/08  As of moments ago I am back online using a new ISP satellite system.  The old one has failed to perform since 09/12, and my patience only goes so far.  Now there is much catch up work to do, including e-mail.  The main thing I've missed here is an opportunity to comment on the great $700 billion buyout.  It is a huge mistake to do this, and will change the shape of the nation for decades.  Raw Fascism. There once was another Senator from Illinois by the name of Everett Dirksen, a Republican when such was still the fashion back there.  His comment once was "that a billion here and a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money".  But $700 billion, and counting?  Am I the only one left who would prefer free markets?  JES

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09/11/08  "-- September 11 precipitated a crisis the end of which we cannot see. Part of the task that faces us now is to acknowledge the depth of barbarism that challenges the survival of culture. And part of that acknowledgement lies in reaffirming the core values that are under attack."-----" the conflict is not so much- not only-  a military conflict as a conflict of world views, of ideas." Roger Kimball, publisher of Encounter Books, in The Weekly Standard July 21, 2008.

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09/10/08  The other day, Joe Biden D-DE, 33 year denizen of the US Senate, and Baraka Hussein Obama's coach for change, made a fool of himself on the subject of stem cell research. Attempting to chide those who defend the right to life, even as some babies are born with challenges, as being against stem cell research, our friend Joe ran off the rails. Joe, actually it is hard to find anyone who is against stem cell research.  Those of us who defend the right to life have a serious problem with embryonic stem cell research, a huge difference, which requires the destruction of human life. And during at least the last two years technical developments that have occurred remove the embryonic approach as a sensible alternative anyway. Besides, the only productive research has been with adult stem cells anyway.  So it is now that the only defense of any tax dollars going into this technical, and moral, dead end has nothing to do with research, and everything to do with keeping old programs, and constituents, afloat on the taxpayer's dime.  Joe, I want to hear you try to sell this bag of marbles to Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin. JES

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09/09/08  Now, with the Federal bailout of Fannie May and Freddie Mac, the conversion of our economic system from capitalism to statist fascism is almost complete.  Only the FDIC remains, and I predict that it will happen.  The "markets" love it and go crazy slurping at the pig trough again, at least until people actually wake up and realize what has happened. The Chinese, too, must be laughing.  There was a time, many years ago, when those who traded on the market understood the difference between investment and casino gambling, but, alas, again, that was many years ago, partially corrupted by government meddling with executive compensation rules.  Coupled with the infestation over the last 50 years of political correctness, the dwindling few of us who still honor the United States, in the Founding sense, see a long and nasty struggle ahead. It would not be inaccurate to say that the political divisions reflected in the current election campaign mirror this debate.  Governor Sarah Palin, carry on.  JES.

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09/09/08  Quote Baraka Hussein Obama: "You know, you can put lipstick on a pig, but it is still a pig".  Now, Baraka, my boy, you can deny that this was a personal attack on Governor Sarah Palin all you want, however that is exactly what it was, and so it will be understood by most people. I encourage you to keep this up; this sort of thing is most helpful to the Governor.  She can handle it, being much more of a man than you are. Actually, I will be disappointed if this is only the best you can do, your being a student, so to speak, of Chicago street politics.  Perhaps the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, or your good friend Bill Ayers, could be helpful in offering you suggestions.  No time to go soft and wobbly, Baraka, do us a favor and keep it up.  JES

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09/07/08  Look at what jumped out of the woodpile today: ”-----John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith.” ---- Baraka Hussein Obama, during an interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos. And what is to be made of it?  JES

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09/07/08  The "big" ("little"?) three automakers in Detroit come to Washington hat in hand looking for taxpayer guaranteed loans to bail themselves out of their own sorry mess.  The political answer will likely be "yes".  The correct answer is "NO".  The whole nation has stood and watched this train wreak unfold for years, and has taken no lesson from the clear failure of a similar scenario with the Chrysler Corporation back in the 70's.  Had it succeeded in its purpose then they would not now be back a second time.  I continue to harangue against fascist economics, and will continue to do so.  Capitalism absent the discipline of bankruptcy is a fraud.  Free markets corrupted by political intervention, as water flows, will seek another way around the rock with ultimate results more destructive to the nation, and its people.  The automakers should be sent packing home to fix their own problems like men, not Democrats.  Where government has gotten in the way of orderly free market solutions, then Congress should remove any such barriers, however, in the current climate, that is not likely.  It must be up to GM, Ford and Chrysler to find their own way around the rock.  JES

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09/05/08  With Alaska Governor Sarah Palin "on board", this whole election process has become fun for this old Conservative to watch.  Sarah Palin and John McCain are not exactly on the same page, a subtle distinction perhaps only really understood by Conservatives. For the practical purposes of this immediate election cycle, my point here is that it best be treated as a distinction without a difference visa vie the Democrat opposition, our priority to hold the White House.

The distinction that I address is between a John McCain, guided by the undeniable virtues of patriotism, honor and love of country, however largely absent any structured conservative values, and Sarah Palin, who loves and shares the virtues of patriotism, honor and love of country, together with an embedded sense of structured conservative values.  For example, John McCain needed weeks to debate with himself on the question of choosing a VP partner who was "pro choice" or "pro life". Under the same circumstances, for Sarah Palin, it never would have been a question in the first place.  Similarly, McCain makes much of his instinct to "reach out" to independants, and Democrats, across the aisle as if the act of doing so was itself somehow redemptive.  Sarah Palin will "reach out" only to advance Conservative principles, incrementally if necessary, without confusion about the direction in which she is headed.  John McCain is either confused or coy about drilling in Anwar, Sarah Palin shares no such equivocation.  John McCain sits astride a two legged conservative stool, Sarah Palin sits astride a three legged stool, not chasing Democrats or wayward Republicans, but demanding support and results in behalf of all the electorate, on what is right for our national welfare and security.  If successful this Fall, it will be interesting to watch this sparing continue. JES

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09/03/08  Alaska Governor Sarah Palin makes a great speech to the delegates, and the nation, at the GOP Convention in St. Paul MN.  She has more executive experience than both Baraka Hussein Obama, and Joe Biden put together, and she knows how to veto bad bills.  She is twice the man of either of them, and they must know it.   Hollywood, the OLD media and the denizens of D.C. have a problem, and they know it too; their vast smear campaign is fear, raw fear.   I predict that real Americans, the "ordinary" folks in the heartland, who make America work, will embrace her; the Barracuda is coming.  Sarah Palin will talk directly to the electorate if necessary; the pretentious, entrenched, self serving, holier-than-thou media elites unnecessary if they so choose, working themselves out of a job.  Sarah, real American Conservatives love you, and your family.  Just keep hammering away.  JES

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09/02/08  What Hollywood, the OLD media and the denizens of D.C. haven't caught onto yet is that Governor Sarah Palin doesn't seem to think that she needs their approval to run for office.  Actually, that is her greatest credential, and I suspect she knows it. She will not go to them, they will come to her.  JES

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09/01.08  The election this fall is about the actual survival of the United States of America.  This is objective reality, and I do not make this statement lightly or casually, but soberly, thoughtfully, sadly and with much prayer. There have been many instances in American history when we have been up against this wall, and each time, so far, He has intervened.  However, it could be different this time.  50 years plus of Leftwing anti-Americanism has taken its toll, and the rot perhaps too deeply settled.  Today it is not clear that we deserve His mercy.  JES

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08/31/08  Like many Conservatives, I have been on the horns of a dilemma about what to do in the voting booth this fall regarding the office of the presidency.  Things have gotten so bad on our side of the aisle it was possible to imagine that a Democrat victory was necessary to put the GOP's head back on straight, although I personally could never have pulled that "D" lever.  I could have written in Duncan Hunter, who in my opinion was the only actual Conservative in the race.  John McCain is a fine fellow about which many good things could be said, however he is not a Conservative.  A sense of honor, yes.  A patriot, yes, without question.  A comprehension of our foreign challenges, sufficient.  In other areas, a loose cannon, not to be trusted.  So now he has stumbled into the right decision to choose a Vice Presidential running mate who is 110% Conservative, and we thank him for that, recognizing that it is a political calculation on his part, and not his choice as a new born Conservative, for he is not.  But the fact that he felt it necessary to make this decision in the overall context of this race speaks volumes about where the true center of political gravity lies in the nation.  My decision in the voting booth has suddenly been made easy.  I will vote against Barraka Hussein Obama and his ilk and for Sarah Palin with John McCain as her partner.  If we can get them elected it will surely be the best for the country, and even if McCain doesn't understand the discussion, from a Conservative perspective, he will surely know which side his bread is buttered on.  And I have only gotten started. JES

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08/31/08  I want to say one thing further about the Democrat National Convention in Denver.  Sincere congratulations and thanks are due the Denver Police Department, with the support of all the regional police agencies, for their professionalism and preparation for this event.  I believe that the presence of overwhelming force and deployment, and the credible willingness to act and act early, was a major cause for the low level of violence and disruption.  Thanks fellas.  JES

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08/29/08  For the first time since 1984, I will have the chance to vote for a genuine Conservative, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. Overnight, the election has been turned around, and Conservatives are back in the game. So much more to say about this, but later; I am so happy, but I am tired.  JES

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08/29/08  Baraka Hussein Obama' acceptance speech.  I really don't want to waste too much time on this because stripped of the usual collectivist bromides and platitudes, unchanged in 70 years, all that was missing was the white horse and any measurable substance except that all the promises, stated as if he were to be king, sounded like billions of dollars.  Apparently this is to be accomplished by the usual government confiscation of private wealth to which we have all become accustomed to over the years, but especially targeting the "excess profits" of "BIG OIL". I can't go on with this here now; it is too juvenile and absurd.

Rather I would prefer to give you some" "hooks" to grab onto so as to further get acquainted with Baraka Hussein Obama the Mysterious.  Warm up your search engines.

1. Obama, Chicago, the Gamaliel Foundation.

2. Obama, Chicago, the Association of Community organizations for Reform Now (ACORN).

3. Obama, Chicago, the Woods Fund.

4. Obama, Chicago, Saul Alinski, Rules for Radicals.

5. Dennis Jacobson's Doing Justice: Congregations and Community Organizing.

6. Heidi Swarts' Organizing Urban America: Secular and Faith-based Progressive Movements.

7. Washington, D.C., Center for Community Change.

8. Obama, Jean Rudd.

9. Obama, Madeline Talbott.

10. Obama, Gregory Galluzzo.

11. Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance.

12. Obama, Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

13. Shepard Fairey's Change.

14. Scott Hansen's Progress.

15. Antar Dayal's Yes We Can.

16. Obama, Chicago, John Stroger, Todd Stroger.

17. Obama, Chicago, Tony Rezko.

18. Obama, Chicago, Bill Ayers

19. Obama, Chicago, Bernardine Dohrn.

20. Obama, Chicago, Fr. Michael Pfleger

And it goes on and on. JES

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08/28/08  The Clintons fold in a recognition that their best and only option is 2012.  A wise move for them, and a good move for McCain. One must be able to "parse" OJ Billyboy's convention speech to understand what he was actually saying, or not saying, and to whom.  Telling untruths comes easy, and faked thoughts a habit. Fools are born every minute and hear what they want to hear. An understanding of Machiavellian self interest helps, also recognizing the fact that self interest is not always congruent within the marriage.  And finally, remember, Hillary Rodham Rodham has not gone away.  JES

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08/27/08  The Democrat Party will emerge from this convention seriously split into at least 3 wings; the Obama crowd, the Hillary crowd, and the Keith Obermann super wackos; all of them various manefestations of collectivist victimization ideology and united only in their rage and hatred of George W. Bush, which is to say Conservatives, which Bush is not.  JES

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08/27/08  Hillary's speech and political strategy was, and is, magnificent, from her perspective. Hillary Rodham Rodham, aka nurse Ratchet, and alleged enabler of one sexual predator of women in particular, dressed early for Halloween in orange as a highway traffic cone, blew off her husband, and certainly did not embrace Baraka Hussein Obama, the messiah and pretender to King of the World. Much of what she said was code language to her supporters, delegates in particular, on this night (Tuesday) before a voting/poll taking procedure peculiar in the way of the political conventions of either party in my lifetime. Playing "let's make a deal" with Obama, I can see the possibility of another deal having been made with her delegates for later tonight (Wednesday). I am making no predictions, only looking at possibilities.  While it remains to be seen exactly how this is going to work out, what is clearly obvious is that on Tuesday night we witnessed Hillary Rodham Rodham's acceptance speech for 2012.  At this point, as a Conservative, I would rather see Baraka Hussein Obama get the nod.  Hillary Rodham Rodham and John McCain are too similar to one another (I'll save an explaination of this for after the election) for McCain to compete with the raw anti-Bush hatred of Hillary's followers. He can do better against Obama who has problems off the charts.  The best chance for Conservatives this Fall is to be able to vote against Baraka Hussein Obama and deal with McCain later.

Perhaps it would be instructive to repeat here what I said on 06/05:

Why does Hillary hang tough? Consider the following facts:

1. Until the Democrat delegates actually vote in Denver, there is no actual nominee.

2. Obama's delegate advantage hangs on the "super" delegates, and in spite of what any of them might say before the convention, none of them are legally constrained from changing their minds.

3. Obama is a "loose cannon", and every political pro knows it.  Many "super" delegates, no doubt, tremble in fear of the consequences of being labeled as "racists" if they back off Obama absent what they might consider to be a "nuclear" failure or revelation on his part or about him.  However, something of the sort could happen, and Hillary understandably, so far, has chosen to keep herself available.

4.  Hillary is a fighter, and no doubt looking forward.  In a worst case scenario she might consider any one of several possible "deals", including some form of inclusion in an Obama administration; not to bake cookies, but to raise much mischief in her own behalf looking forward.  And where are all those missing FBI files anyway? You see, there are many possibilities.  JES

(MO 08 03)

I would also refer you to my notes on 08/07 of this letter, (MO 08 04).  JES

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08/27/08  Notice at this Convention how busy Democrats are at fighting each other, with hatred overflowing, and McCain rarely mentioned. JES

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08/27/08  Watching things unfold at the Democrat Convention in Denver; no surprises really.  Denver Catholic Archbishop Charles Chaput finds it necessary to step in and correct House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's understanding of Catholic doctrine, (www.archden.org), and the truth, about when life starts.  At least as far back as John F. Kennedy scads of Democrat Catholic politicians have engaged in the sophistry of claiming that "while they don't personally believe in abortion, their public duties require them to represent the will of the majority of their constituents", or similar words to this effect.  This is utter intellectual and moral nonsense.  If you are actually a Catholic, and run for public office, you are still a Catholic.  There is no such thing as a part time Catholic. The voters should know this going in; accepting your Catholicism as a fact defining your values and judgment in all matters public and private. You have to be able to win your votes accordingly, and if you can't then the voters may have their own problems to deal with.  For too many decades Democrat Catholic politicians have corrupted themselves, and the electorate, on this issue, and the Church itself has let them get away with it and failed to deny the Eucharist.  Within the Church there are the stirrings of correction; God Bless Pope Benedict XVI.  Caution: Senator Joseph Biden D-DE is part of the problem.  JES

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08/24/08  Joe Biden, you cannot even lick Dick Cheney's boots, so don't try to go there and make a bigger fool of yourself than you already are. The Democrat plan for Baraka Hussein Obama, the buffoon, is now clear; steer him about with another supposedly lesser buffoon and an old white guy at that. That is a real slap in the face of actually qualified black guys; they do exist however few are Democrats.  Wonder what Hillary thinks about this, and what is Rick Lazio doing these days?  If there was no possibility that this comedy team could get elected, I would be rolling about in laughter.  At least 40 years of collapsed education in this country may have finally taken its toll.  God help America.  JES

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08/20/08  T. Boone Pickens and a fool's errand. It is the prerogative of old wealthy Texas oilmen to spend their fortunes as they wish, however it is also the habit of some old wealthy Texas oilmen to sucker the naive into front ending harebrained "investment" schemes that more sophisticated professional venture capital investors won't touch. So it is that we have also learned recently that T. Boone is not an electrician, nor does he wish to see windmills on his own property (they are "ugly"). Nevertheless, he proposes to build thousands of windmills all over the West and promote the use of natural gas as a fuel for vehicles, however it is suggested that you follow the money.

The real problem here is on the windmill side.  You see, there is no way to "stock up" or inventory electricity on the scale he is proposing.  Utility power must be used as it is produced, and utilities invest much effort into balancing electrical production with demand.  Wind, by its very nature, is very erratic and unpredictable, from zero to hurricane force.  The only way a utility can incorporate wind generation is to keep it on the margin of its supply mix and ensure the availability of adequate conventional generating capacity to constantly balance the continuously erratic amperage supply from the wind sources.  So T. Boone's windmills would only increase the need to build more conventional generating capacity to provide the means of balance while at the same time driving utility managers nuts.

In addition, there are the added costs of transmission.  Nobody wants new transmission lines (which, in fact, we do need, exclusive of the windmills) in their back yard.  The first cost of building new lines is that of overcoming the mountain of regulatory barriers, in addition to the cost of overcoming the objections of petunia pickers in court. A new conventional plant can be built on a fraction of the land required to build an array of windmills capable of generating the same amount of power (if the wind is blowing), greatly reducing the size of the supporting grid and the marginally greater inefficiencies of line loss of power.

I could go on with a list of additional problems that all add up to an economic bust for the idea of large scale wind generation. Short massive government subsidies, it will not work in the marketplace. And remember, T. Boone will not tolerate windmills on his own property.  Sort of like a certain politician on Cape Cod, and most old wealthy Texas oilmen are smarter than this.  JES.

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08/11/08  Here at home it is our national dilemma that, at least until a couple days ago, our pending elections would turn on which national parties and candidates would out stupid the other the most. To the detriment of our national security this might continue to be the case. So in addition to the growing list of national security issues that we face, the American people implore Congress to DRILL, DIG, AND OPEN YUCCA MOUNTAIN. NOW.

NO MORE EXCUSES.  JES

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08/11/08  Russia invades Georgia on 08/09/08.  It is now clear, more than ever, that our national priorities require the election of Senator John McCain as President of the United States. And while NATO and the EU fumble around in their typically Western European intellectual sludge, immediate action on our part is required to succor the Georgians. The issues surrounding the relationship between South Ossetia and Georgia, as a nation, have festered at least since the collapse of the USSR, and are complex.  It is a natural development that as Russia further retreats into the cave of hard core fascist nationalism, that it would lash out at perhaps the most vulnerable link in the chain of ex-Soviet states on its western borders. Now we are confronted with naked Russian aggression, and a replay of western inaction surrounding the events in Czechoslovakia in 1956, or the Sudetenland in 1938, are not in order. Our moral obligations and national security interests here are too clear.  The policy issues and the politics surrounding the current situation are complex and require immediate review.  The need to supply the Georgians with anti-tank weapons and stingers requires immediate action.  I am reminded of another invasion lead by Soviet supplied T-34 tanks on June, 25th, 1950 on the other side of the world, and in those days WWII bazookas became immediately valuable.  Harry Truman D-MO, President of the United States acted immediately and correctly.  Baraka Hussein Obama, you are no Harry Truman.  There are those who will ask why it is any of our business at all.  The answer is that history clearly teaches that, left unattended, sooner rather than later, the Russians will make it our business, and at much greater cost.  And so is it also with Iran.  JES

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08/07/08  Hillary Rodham Rodham is getting restless as I predicted she might back on 06/07/08 (MO 08 03).  I repeat exactly what I wrote then:

Hillary "suspends" her run for the White House, a pregnant term under Federal election law, leaving open the term "resumes".  She states her intention to back and support Obama without specifically praising anything he has said.  She has pre-empted any possible charge by her party peers of divisiveness within the party and positioned herself for all possibilities, including a run in 2012 irrespective of who wins this year, including the outside chance of herself.  Frankly, to this observer, this sounded like the first pitch for office of 2012 election year.  Very excellently crafted and delivered with more than a dollop of feminist victimization to urge on her base  Hillary has not gone away. 

Words in the same Letter, dated 06/05, are also, perhaps, worth your review JES 

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08/07/08  Meanwhile, Senator John McCain D-AZ (the other Democrat in the race), continues to suck up Democrats for support.  Which way will Hillary's crowd split? JES

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08/07/08  China and the Olympics.  While the President's words to Chinese leaders about religious and human rights are welcome, it did not require a trip to China to do so, and is inconsistent with the heretofore Administration position that the Olympics are non-political.  Of course the Olympics have become very political since at least 1936. The problem here is that his attendance, as President of the United States, offers legitimacy and validation, in the name of the United States, to the same folks who were responsible for the Tianaman Square massacre and thousands of other brutal and evil acts before and since. In spite of his words, the President is rewarding authoritarian Statism. So too has the International Olympic Committee for setting up this event in Peking in the first place, and the American Committee for following along like puppy dogs.  The whole thing is disgusting.      JES

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08/06/08  Energy.  Nancy Pelosi D-CA, Speaker of the House of Representatives (the United States, not San Francisco) refuses to allow a vote by the House on energy policy, turns out the lights, and closes the House down for 5 weeks of summer vacation. At a moment when Americans universally are struggling with $4.00 gas and $5.00 diesel. One is reminded of French Queen Marie Antoinette's advice to "let them eat cake".

A handful of Conservative Republicans hang on in the darkened hall of the House, continuing to make the case for a vote on energy policy, including the need to set aside certain restrictions on domestic and off shore drilling. Representative Tom Colburn R-OK is to be commended for his leadership in this effort. Meanwhile, President George W. Bush, Republican, and only very occasional Conservative, and who has it within his power to call the House back into session for this energy vote, skips town for an ill-advised visit to China and the Olympics.

Meanwhile, no better demonstration is needed of the grasp of far Left political environmentalism on the leadership of the Democrat Party. But we are not really talking about conservation here. We are really talking about the pretext of "saving the planet" in the name of a faux "environmentalism" to further extend top down government control over people's lives.  Fascism originated by Liberals in opposition to freedom, as originally understood in the American context.  That is what is really going on here, and has been for a very long time.  JES

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08/01/08  The problem with MO Letter 2008-03 will be fixed. JES

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08/01/08  The battle with Microsoft Vista continues.  Please be patient. I'm on a steep learning curve, and so, apparently, is Microsoft.  JES

JIM

American Nationalist Conservative

Jefferson, Colorado