Winning Wars

Other than our invasion of Granada, we have not won a war in nearly seventy years. Yes, we drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait but did not finish the job and were right back in Iraq 13 years later in a second feeble attempt to clean up the mess left by George Bush 1. I believe there is a very simple explanation for the fact that we have become so inept on the battle field in recent times. As I have said before in this blog, it is impossible to win a war unless you are willing to kill the enemies' civilians, huge numbers of them, as we did in Germany and Japan in the second world war. We are told over and over again, by our present day brain-dead generals, that we cannot prevail against the rag-heads in Iraq and Syria without boots on the ground, hundreds of thousands of them. These meat-heads apparently have forgotten that, after Nagasaki and Hiroshima, Japan surrendered without us having to put a single boot on the ground. Similarly, after we leveled Dresden from the air, Germany surrendered. I would argue that air power, not boots on the ground, was the deciding factor in World War 11. Yes, boots on the ground were necessary, especially early in the war before Rosie The Riveter got her act together, but the war was ultimately won with air superiority which we used to kill civilians by the hundreds of thousands. By the way, did you know that over 60 million people were killed in the second world war, most of them civilians! In this respect, the photographs of the pin-point air strikes and the beheadings of the three innocent American and British citizens by the Muslim fanatics were very informative. These pictures and videos show that this war is being fought in a desert. Unlike Afghanistan, where the enemy could easily avoid air strikes by hiding in the numerous caves that pox-marked the countries rugged mountainous terrain, there is nowhere for the enemy, and their civilian supporters , to hide in the treeless mountain less deserts of Iraq and Syria. In short, this war could be over in a matter of days, without employing a single pair of boots on the ground, if we were willing to use our air superiority to eradicate the ISIS troupes, and their civilian followers, with bombs dropped from aircraft flying at 40,000 feet. It is unacceptable for us to place our military personal in harm's way simply because the enemies' troops choose to hide in the homes of civilians and in religious places of worship (mosques) when they are not committing their atrocities on the battle field. To date, we have let the enemy decide when, where and how to fight. In essence, we are fighting a war with not one, but with both hands, tied behind our back. Why, because we do not have the stomach for killing the enemies civilians, it's really as simple as that! We need a change in leadership in this country, leaders that value the lives of our military personnel more than the lives of the medieval vermin we are fighting. Along these lines, the idea that there is such a thing as a good Muslim, is a fantasy. Rather, they are lying low in their Mosques patently waiting for the day they can rise up and kill every Christian and Jew on the face of the earth. Unfortunately, I do not believe there is a single politician of either major political party that realizes the seriousness of the threat the Muslim faith is to our country, not a single one!

Time To Plant The Winter Garden

Vegetable gardens don't look all that great this time of year, that's for sure. However, if you live in a temperate climate, like we have in California, it's time to plant a winter garden. No, you will not have those wonderful vine ripened tomatoes by Christmas, but you will have an abundance of fantastic vegetables including carrots, turnips, onions, kale, chard, cabbage and the various types of lettuce to enjoy during the winter months. The point is, that now is the time to plant while the soil is still warm and almost everything you stick in the ground, whether seed or seedling, will get off to a good start. Wait another month or so when the soil cools and you will have lost the opportunity to get your winter garden off to the best beginning possible. I began to prepare for my winter garden a month or so ago by adding composted oak leaves and well aged and horse manure (the secret to any organic garden) to the top of the raised beds in the garden. My raised beds do not have sides but are simply rectangular mounds of organic material that are about a foot or so deep in the middle and a few inches in depth around the bed's perimeter. The beds are placed directly over the native rocky clay soil we have in the hills of the bay area and are basically dirt less. Yes, you heard me right, dirt is the least important component of an organic garden and that is particularly true if you are gardening in a rocky clay or adobe soil. If you are dealing with such a soil, do not attempt to rehabilitate it, plant over it in a bed of organic material. Carrots, as well as onions and other vegetables with small seeds, are difficult to plant. Fortunately, there is a nearly effortless solution to this problem. Simply, place a couple of handfuls of sand in a small container, add a package of seeds to the sand and mix well. Saturate the soil with water before planting the seeds. Using a hoe with a four to six inch wide blade, make a very shallow trench, about one quarter to one half an inch deep, in the area where you wish to plant the seeds. Sprinkle the sand and seed mixture over the surface of the shallow row and cover with soil or, as in my case, the organic material which makes up the garden bed. Use the back of the hoe to compress the material that has been placed over the seeds and water the prospective new row of vegetables. The advantage of this method for sowing vegetable seeds is threefold. First, you never have to deal with individual tiny seeds that are nearly impossible to see let alone arrange correctly in a garden row. In fact, using this methodology a blind man could sow carrots in his garden. Second, and of equal importance, the developing seedlings will be spread, more or less, evenly over a wide row in the garden, rather than in a crowded straight line. This, of course, greatly reduces the time you will spent thinning the rows of vegetables in the garden. Finally, vegetable seeds are expensive, using this method of sowing seeds will save you money because you will not be throwing away nearly as many valuable seeds during the thinning process. Happy fall gardening. For those of you in Minnesota, get ready to enjoy the snow and ice. Look on the bright side, you will soon be past the mosquito season.

And The Dingbat Of The Week Award Goes To-

Florida congresswoman and Chair of the Democrat National Committee Debbie "blabber mouth" Wasserman Schultz! This colossal liberal idiot has stepped into it a time or to in her not so illustrious political career; however, never more so than in the remarks she made at the Milwaukee Athletic Club this past Wednesday. During her remarks on women's issues, this creature from the depths of some nasty Florida swamp with the unkempt hair due, made several incredibly stupefying statements. First, the dingbat of the week said, when referring to the conservative pro-life Christian principles of Governor Scott Walker and the Republican Party, "That they had given women the back of their hand." The liberal miscreant went to say that "What the Republican Tea Party extremists are doing is that they are grabbing us by the hair and pulling us back and it is unacceptable." Well, Debbie "blabber mouth" Wassermann Schultz here are some facts for you to consider. The bible and the Jewish law, given to Moses on Mount Sinai 3300 years ago, all prohibit many of the things you and your liberal colleagues now champion including the taking of innocent life (abortion); same sex marriage ; homosexual behavior, referred to in the bible as an abomination; and excessive taxation (stealing) over 10 percent of a worker's pay. By the way, you simpleton, women, on average, make less than their male counterparts because whey work fewer hours than do males who are in similar positions. In short, Debbi "blabber mouth" Wassermann Schultz is a typical liberal American Jew who, over the past few generations, has lost her way and become an amoral, anti-Christian, anti-Jewish materialistic zealot of the worse kind. As Rabbi Daniel Lapin says in his America's Real War, these amoral liberal extremists, many of whom are Jews who should know better, are destroying the conservative Christian foundations which made America the greatest nation the world has ever known. These same conservative religious principles are largely responsible for the fact that antisemitism is as rare as hen's teeth in America, as has been the case since the nation's founding.