Quick Comment on Muslim Claim

I wonder when there will be a response (or more likely, a disparaging retort) from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad regarding a news story that I read today. According to the German newspaper Bild, the original blueprints revealing the ominous 1941 expansion plan for Auschwitz have been found in Berlin. The plans included a room marked 'Gaskammer' (translates to gas chamber) and, according to Bild, "also include a crematorium and a "L. Keller" — an abbreviation for "Leichenkeller" or corpse cellar." The release of the blueprints for Auschwitz prove that the Third Reich planned to systematically kill the Jewish people of Europe. It will be revealing to see what Ahmadinejad has to say in the coming days, given that he has repeatedly stated that the Holocaust never happened. "These documents reveal that everyone who had even anything remotely to do with the planning and construction of the concentration camp must have know that people were to be gassed to death in assembly-line fashion," Bild wrote.

Given that Auschwitz was the largest death camp in Germany, and more than one million Jews were killed there, the idea that anyone who claims to be intellectually honest can deny the Holocaust in this modern age is ludicrous. This newly uncovered documentation proves beyond a doubt that the Nazi's "Final Solution" was underway before the United States stepped in to prevent the genocide of the entire European Jewish population.

Gee, maybe there is a lesson for the future in there somewhere, if we remember that by studying the past, we can prevent a repetition of the same grave errors in the future.

G. W. Exotic Animal Park (part 3 of 3)

This morning, Josh and I went back to see the ligers and tigers again. We went earlier, so that we could get in the cage with the 10-week old cats. The ligers were really wound up, but we managed to get them to lie down near us. Mostly, the cats crawl up on your lap and then start chewing on your shoes or each other. I got some pictures of Josh, and of the ligers chewing on my shoes, or just lounging beside or on us. This is the information I was given by the handlers: Even though they are small cubs now, these are still wild animals, and will some day be huge cats that weigh in excess of 1,000 pounds. The liger shares the characteristics of both the lion and the tiger. Because of its hybrid characteristics, the liger can be larger than a lion, and is possibly the largest cat in the world! Amazingly, while standing on its hind legs, a liger can stand approximately 12 feet tall. That is a big cat!

Okay. Here are the pictures of Josh and I, and the 10-week old liger cubs.

This was a very cool experience! Maybe next time, I can get some pictures of the adult cats, but not quite so close without a zoom lens!

G. W. Exotic Animal Park (part 2 of 3)

To continue my thoughts and our family experience with the G.W. Exotic Animal Foundation, let me spend my efforts posting pictures. Today, we saw the tigers and ligers that travel in support of the foundation. To be accurate, there was only one white Bengal tiger. All of the other large felines were actually ligers. We spent our time with the ligers, as the Bengal was six months old, and much too large to be in close proximity, on the same side of the cage walls, unless you don't value your safety.

What is a liger, you may ask? Putting on my Animal Planet hat for a moment... ahem. (In an official, Don LaFontaine-like, Marlin Perkins-esque voice): The liger is a large feline that results from cross-breeding a female tiger with a male lion. This hybridization produces cubs with more lionistic features than if the reverse pairing had occurred. That would produce a more tigeristic creature known as a tigon. Go here for more information. http://www.liger.org/

We spent time inside the cage with the two-week old liger cubs today. Jericho sat on Mom's lap, and he watched the action, but he didn't become too interactive. Gabriel was timid, but he did bottle-feed a couple of the liger cubs. The little guys are not very steady on their feet yet, and their eyes have not been open long. If you sit down and don't move around too much, within a moment or two, the cubs crawl over and snuggle up against you, just like you are a member of the pride. It was a very cool experience for all of us.

Okay. Enough jawing! Here are a few of the pictures of the 14-day old ligers and Gabriel.

G. W. Exotic Animal Park (part 1 of 3)

We took the G-Man and Jericho out to DQ. I didn’t realize that there was something very cool for us to see in town this weekend. There was supposed to be an illusionist, but he apparently had a medical emergency. However, we did get to see some tigers that travel with the magician. The idea behind the traveling showcase of tigers, ligers, and other animals, is to educate the public and to raise funding for the park where the tigers are based, in Wynnewood, Oklahoma. The park is called G.W. Exotic Animal Park. It is associated with the G. W. Exotic Animal Foundation, an educational zoo that “rescues” tigers and other exotic animals from well-intentioned by ill-prepared owners.

The animals in the park roam free and semi-wild within the park. Species include tigers, lions, parrots, monkeys, panthers, and many reptilian species such as turtles, lizards, crocs and gators. I found out that the park was named for G.W., the son of the founders, after he was killed by a drunk driver. The owner, Joe Schreibvogel, frequently takes in additional large and exotic animals that need expert care and protection from the likes of PETA and casual exotic animal owners who really cannot provide decent care for the animals. I agree with the sentiments of Mr. Schreibvogel, who says "If we don't care for God's most beautiful creatures He is not going to care for us."

The website address for the G.W. Exotic Animal Foundation and affiliated park is http://www.gwpark.org/. The park is an accredited member of the United States Zoological Association. I wish I could afford to help them out, but since we can’t do much in that regard, I thought I would give them a mention that is well deserved.

Back to this weekend, since I digressed from the point. We went to see the tigers and other animals that the G.W. Exotic Animal Foundation had in the entourage. We got a chance to see some of the animals up close. I took quite a few pictures, and in the next several posts, I will show some of the pictures. I hope you enjoy my efforts. Thanks for reading. Feel free to share the photos if you so chose.

Last Political Comments of 2008 (From Me)

To anyone who actually knows anything at all about me, this is not a news flash: I am not thrilled about the results or the integrity of the presidential election. Hell, I do not even think that there is much integrity remaining in the process after this election. I really do not want to dwell on that today. Other than to say that I do not trust either Saddam Hussein Osama Obama or Joe “Hair Plugs” Biden whatsoever, I am giving my mind a rest from the political discussion for a little while. I am sure that some of the folks who occasionally read this thing will be relieved to NOT discuss politics after this ridiculously long presidential cycle.

I have only two comments regarding politics and then I will give it a necessary respite for a time of my choosing, determined by the moment I feel it is time to write about politics again, whenever that may be. It just won’t be in the next week, and likely not much of anything before the swearing in on the Koran, so help Obama, in Allah’s name, actually takes place. My two comments then: I plan to emulate the main-vein biased media in one way for the next four years, until our socialist president-elect is voted out or he buys the presidential office for another four years. He will be referred to as Mr. Obama, NOT as president, just as the mainstream parrot press corps has referred to President George W. Bush as Mr. Bush for the last eight years. As a renaissance "enumerated powers" conservative, I will be the first to admit, to my chagrin, that Bush has stumbled plenty of times and made many missteps. President Bush is NOT A CONSERVATIVE. What did you expect but wandering from conservativism? Duh! However, all of the blame does not belong with Bush, and MOST of the blame falls on Congress, which, I might add, has been under the control of the Democrat Party for two years. Have you noticed that the economy is falling apart on the Democratic Congressional watch? Coincidence? Yeah right!

In any case, President George W. Bush has earned my respect, for putting up with all the bullpucky from the biased mainstream media with class and dignity, despite the fact that the media certainly do not deserve any respect at all. What a bunch of utopian, euphorian, socialist-leaning, big-government loving, constitutional originalism-hating liberal anti-American hacks!

My second and final political comment for awhile: I received an email discussing the 2012 presidential election. Geez! I will only say that we need a breather from presidential electioneering for at least a year, and that my favored choices for candidates are Bobby Jindal and Sarah Palin, two conservatives with a bit of Ronald Reagan’s values. That’s it. No more politics until… sometime later, in 2009. Thanks. Over and out.

Quick Comment on Work in the Dakotas

One of the techs servicing South Dakota properties left the company recently. It looks like the result will be that both I and the other remote for this side of Minnesota will be spending more time in the Dakotas. So far, that rings true. The other tech spent a week in North Dakota. I worked at the casino right on the North Dakota-South Dakota border, and this week, the other tech will be in North Dakota. All of next week, I will be in a hotel in South Dakota and working in North Dakota (long story, short drive). My studies will be starting again very soon, so I am hoping that I do not start the next class until the week after next. I will work around whatever the conditions are at that time, but I prefer to not spend my first week in a class stuck in a hotel. On the other hand, what else am I going to do in the hotel, but focus on homework?I am not aware of a lot of photo opportunities that suit me in that area of the Dakotas. I am sure I can find something interesting to shoot anywhere I happen to be working. I may not post the pictures here, but I have my photography sites and I will post photos I really like at those websites.

Quick Observation

Take a look at this picture. The race is not decided yet, but again, God help us here... please! Even though that irrelevant dufus, Dean Barkley, pulled enough votes from Norm Coleman to make it possible for that quixotic, loose cannon liberal, Al Franken, to be a contender in the voting, at least Barkley is follicly honest. There is a lot of weaving going on here. Can you say "Hair Club for Men"? Cy Sperling would be so proud.

As Black as I Am

Barack Obama is like me in only one way: NOT BLACK. He is of Muslim descent, and happens to be half-white and half-black. His family was never held in slavery. His ancestors were Muslim slave-owners, but the media will never tell you THAT truth. Do not believe the propagandist garbage that you hear and see in the media. I am in shock that Americans are so incredibly naïve and stupid. Hussein Osama Obama played the race card, because he is the epitome of racist. I can't wait for the conspiracy mills to get going, and I can't wait for that to bring out the truth. Even with the return of the so-called Fairness Doctrine (and the end of free speech against the machine), the truth is a virus. The truth will not be silenced. Some are already calling for an untimely end to Obama. I do not believe that is right. It is not our place to make such a call, even if you call it free speech. God help him, because free Americans will not stand for Marxism stealing the fruit of our labor. It may sound trite, but I am afraid for my children's future, especially with this lying non-American in office. He managed to steal yet another election for himself. God help us.

America the Free, Home of the Entitled

I need to be at Mille Lacs at 7 a.m., more or less. I couldn’t sleep, so I got tired of tossing and turning and decided to get out of bed. My inability to sleep was caused by the obvious, the death of free America being at-hand. So many people are getting so much from the government (also known as confiscatory Marxist economics, the Robin Hood-esque collectivism that unconstitutionally drives our federal government to steal from hardworking people to give the fruits of our labor to the shiftless and the weak-minded, who now believe that they are entitled to a handout). Economic justice? A buzzword for Marxism, collectivism, socialism, the end of free America where the American Dream is based on the hard work and drive to succeed on one's merits. Removing the ability to fail means that truly succeeding becomes nearly impossible.

This is the nightmare scenario. The only good thing I see is that Obama will have one term and be gone, because he is going to royally turn the screws on hard-working Americans and he is going to destroy the economy. George W. Bush is largely responsible for Obama being elected. Bush took us down the path to socialism with his ill-conceived prescription drug program. He reached across the aisle to work with the liberals at every turn, but that was not enough power for the Democrats. They and their media lied to us and the American people stopped thinking for themselves. We have been spoon-fed stupidity, and I am ashamed that we collectively fell for all the lies being spread. The media didn’t help us, but did help Obama. They and Obama together bought the election. The truth will come out about the tens of millions in foreign donations and the stolen election. How many people voted multiple times? How many absentee ballots from illegals and ACORN were forced into the system, and PAID FOR BY TAX DOLLARS (This means you, ACORN).

We are America, and the march towards Marxism has been happening under our indifferent eyes. We just were not willing to call it what it really is: This is the beginning of the end for a free America. God help us. This is the time for a renewed call to action and desperate prayer for deliverance through God's power over humanity. This is not the time to be a meek Christian who hides his faith. It is time to proudly wear that Christian faith on one's sleeve, before that, too, is illegal. Abortion on demand will not end now, ever, until God gets tired of our sin and messing up His creation. Within the next month or so, a number of Supreme Court justices will announce their retirement. Why? Because now, they can retire, knowing that radical anti-life judges will take their place. Roe v. Wade will stand with a renewed vigor defended by a culture of death, despite the fact that Roe is plainly unconstitutional.

Elderly people will face a change toward blatant medical duty-to-die when their usefulness to society is judged to be gone. Under socialized medicine, even if you have paid into the "system" for decades, if you are in ill health, who is going to be deemed worthy of treatment, the 25-year old who earns minimum wage but has a lifetime of work ahead of them, or the elderly person who has supported the system for decades, but is near the end of their life expectancy? I think the answer is obvious. Duty to die. Think about that. It is coming. God help us. God forgive us.

I am going to take a page from the main vein parrot press corps, an unrepentant arm of the true socialist, er, Democrat Party. As they never called George W. "President Bush", so, too, will I never allow myself to give Hussein Obama that honor. As the propagandist media disrespectfully called W only Mr. Bush, I will return the favor to Mr. Hussein Osama Obama. I will always respect the office of the presidency and its noble underpinnings. I will never give undue honor to a Muslim anti-American traitor in hiding. Mr. Obama, you may have stolen the title, with the help of ACORN and your racist anti-American politics, but you will never be my president.

We need prayer more now than ever. Free America, it was nice knowing you. Will we cave to the pressures of Mr. Abomination and the future of a mediocre nation, under a Marxist administration? We do not need to rename this once great nation to know that the reality has been done. Today, we took an irretrievable step down a path toward becoming the de facto United Socialist States of America. This is a tragic error and we shall never turn back toward the freedom we lost today. Fervent prayer is in order today. I weep for my children, for the future, and for an America that lost its soul forever. God help us.

From Each According to His Ability, to Each According to His Need?

What if Obama wins the presidency? Will ACORN get the credit for stealing the election? There are countless witnesses who can attest to the fact that Democrats stuffed ballot boxes in 2000 and 2004, using the names of dead people and absentee ballots to follow their long-held mantra (spoken quietly in public) "Vote early, vote often" as if it is their birthright to rule the average American and rob us of our liberties. One example was the college student from Madison, Wisconsin, who bragged about voting 13 times for John Kerry. The Democrats are, as we speak, trying to steal another election that does not belong to them by birthright or anything virtuous. My dad said that Democrats have always tried to steal elections and have always stuffed ballot boxes, but that conservatives do not do that, because they (we) do not believe in winning elections by cheating. Is it scary that the Democrats offer freebies to garner votes, but in reality, would strip American liberties in the name of the common good? What's even scarier than Obama winning is the phony sense of a mandate, when he will claim that the people have spoken, a statement he is certain to make. The Abomination will say that this is a mandate on his policy plans, if, God forbid, he does win.

The reality is that what would have elected Hussein Obama would be a blatant despotic brainwashing of the public, using an amalgamation of media partiality, and an electorate tired of Bush, again because of the misrepresentations and outright lies by the main vein media. Using this Marxist and propagandist tripe as his directive, Hussein Osama Obama would misconstrue a win as America agreeing with his radical, anti-free market, anti-American leftist ideologies.

A triumphant Obama will misguidedly consider that America believes as he does, that you strengthen the fragile, by weakening the strong--or that you enrich the underprivileged by bankrupting the wealthy.

When Democrats in the House created the monstrous Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, John McCain spoke out against this nationalization of mortgage underwriting. And yet, the Democrats and the disinformation machine known collectively as the mainstream media transferred the blame to Republicans and conservatives who tried to stop the financial bleeding--this false accusation caused the Obama surge in the polls--consequently, Hussein Osama Obama will certainly misinterpret this to mean that America is tired of free market capitalism and is ripe for socialism, something that he believes in and calls "the change we need". Yeah? Says who?

If the media were actually unbiased, if Congressional Democrats admitted their financial illiteracy, if Loren Michaels and Saturday Night Live made fun of Joe “Plugs” Biden the way they mocked Sarah Palin, if Letterman was fair to John McCain instead of blatantly biased, America would have had a clearer, more evenhanded representation of the candidates in this presidential election.

As it stands, if Barack Hussein Osama Obama wins the presidency, it will have been a dishonest and unfair undertaking. America will slip down a path to collectivism from which she can never return to the liberties that we are about to give up. Why Americans would ever be dumb enough to vote for this poor excuse for a leader is beyond me.

Though Obama says he is not socialistic, when he says he will take the hard-earned dollars from every Joe the Plumber and every John the carpenter, to give that money to another who has not earned as much, that IS socialism, by any name.

When you give your dollars freely to less privileged folks, it is charity. When you are forced by collectivist autocrats to give to others with no regard to what is in your heart, is that really living in a Christ-like fashion? Seriously... Is it? When the government forces you to give for the greater good, whatever that might be, when Obama confiscates the dollars you worked hard to earn, it is not only Marxist, socialistic, anti-American, and unfair, it is slavery. Are you truly free today? If Hussein Obama wins the presidency, you will never be free again. Talk about un-American. God help us, and by the way... Why should God bless America when we damn Him and kick Him out of our lives?