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.

America's Real War by Rabbi Daniel Lapin

Although written in the late 1990s, I only recently stumbled onto this incredible book by the ultra orthodox rabbi, Daniel Lapin. In America In Decline, I argue that America's problems, and our countries recent fall from greatness, are a result of the fact that we have morphed from republic wherein the central government plays a limited well defined role to a pure democracy wherein the federal and state governments control every aspect of our lives. The adverse effects of this transition include the fact that our national debt now exceeds 17.5 trillion; one third of our population are on welfare; 72 of black births are illegitimate; and over 70 percent of young black males are either in prison or on probation. Rabbi Lapin (560 AM radio from San Francisco every Sunday morning from 5 AM to 9 AM) believes that America's decline is a direct result of the fact that, over the past 30 to 40 years, we have become a "Godless amoral nation." If one accepts, as fact, that there is a God, which is a difficult pill for many of us to swallow, it is difficult or impossible refute any of the arguments this brilliant rabbi makes in America's Real War. I originally asked Rabbi Lapin this question. Why are American Jews so politically stupid (liberal). The answer, to be found in America's Real War, is that, American Jews have become progressively more materialistic, secular and, most importantly, "Godless" with the passage of time. I expect that the same can be said of the majority of present-day Americans who believe that gay marriage, late-term abortion and the redistribution of the nation's wealth from the productive members of society to those who refuse to work are "OK" public policies. Rabbi Lapin deals, at great length, with most of our social problems in his book and makes an excellent case for returning to the Judeo-Christian principles on which this country was founded. From a personal standpoint, I have always thought that I was a reasonably "good" person and that, during my tortuous journey through life had just chosen to be more good than evil. After reading Rabbi Lapin's America's Real War, I have been forced to rethink this supposition. It is quite possible that I am who I am today, seventy some years later, because I was lucky enough to be raised by a group of elderly religious men and women in the Eel Rock Seventh Day Adventist Colony in remote Northern California. Maybe I was not born good after all, maybe I was made good by the saintly people who raised me. Thank you rabbi Lapin for that bit of insight. In any case, as usual, I stray from the point. Whether you are religious or not, Rabbi Lapin's America's Real War is a must read for any American who loves their country and, more importantly, wants to prevent us from becoming another third world socialist nation like Greece. It is especially important that young people read this book because, at the very least, it will give them a accurate understanding of the importance of the Judeo-Christian principles on which our country was founded, something that is not taught in public schools today. If your children or grand children are lucky enough to attend a parochial school bring this book to the attention of their history teachers, I know they will thank you for doing so.

The liberal Media Strikes Again.

From the first moment the news on the Ferguson riots hit every television screen and newspaper front page in America, it should have been clear to anyone with an IQ over 80 that the liberal press was, once again, spinning the news to fit their liberal, blacks can do no wrong, agenda. The black hoodlum who was shot by the police was referred to as a youngster, a child, a nice boy and a model teenager, among other things, by the press and TV commentators. Never once did they mention that the "perp" was a young man who was around six feet tall and weighed over 200 pounds. Nor did they mention that he had just robbed and beat up the owner of a local convenience store, although they knew this from the beginning. A family spokesman ultimately admitted that "he was not a perfect teenager" but certainly was no hoodlum. The drive-by media seems incapable of knowing the difference between a teenager who misses a day of school occasionally and a thug who steals cigars from a local store and batters the store owner in the process. When it became increasingly clear that the Ferguson police had been dealing with a drugged-up black criminal the media switched gears and insisted though the young black man may not have been "as pure as the driven snow" but he did not deserve to be shot six times by a racist white cop! After all "he had his hands up and was trying to surrender when he was shot" the drive-byes tell us. Apparently, there are a dozen or so wittiness's to the event that will testify to the fact that the black robber was shot while charging the police officer, only a lucky shot to the head prevented the officer from being badly beaten or beaten to death! Sooner, rather than later, the truth will come out and the police officer will be exonerated. At this point the liberals in the media will move on to their next fabricated news event, having learned absolutely nothing!

Bread Recipe.

It has been suggested that I should try to “lighten up my blog a little”. Well, this is not quite as easy as it might sound since I am, by nature, not a very light hearted or humorous person, unless I have a few too many under my belt. Anyway, consider this to be a rather lame attempt to lighten up a little. For now let’s deal with a problem that I have been struggling with for most of my adult life, how to make a decent loaf of bread. My mother could do this in her sleep, not that she ever got much sleep. Unfortunately, she took all of her recipes, which were in her head, to the grave with her, so she was of no help to me in this endeavor. To make a long story a little shorter, let me say that I have tried almost everything to make a decent loaf of bread. I even built a humongous outdoor wood fired bread oven at our summer place on the Klamath. This thing took three summers to build and, for all I know, might be the largest free standing bread oven in the world. In any case, it turned out to be a great pizza oven but not a single loaf of edible bread has ever come out of it, no not a single loaf! Everything changed, for once for the better, one morning about three years ago when my wife Tina brought to my attention a bread recipe that was published in our local liberal rag the Contra Costa Times (you’re right, I can’t keep politics out of it no matter how hard I try). In any case, this bread recipe was so simple that I almost dismissed it out of hand; however, a drowning man will grasp at any straw available to him, so I ultimately tried it. The results were nothing short of miraculous. I have dubbed this my “any fool can do it bread recipe”. I assure you this works the first time and every time, just like tax cuts stimulate the economy every time they are tried! This bread will be gobbled up almost as fast as you can make it, so I am giving you a double recipe that will make two medium sized loaves of bread. To make this wonderful bread you will need two cast iron kettles or enamel coated iron kettles with lids in which to bake the bread. Here are the ingredients for the bread. 6 cups of bread or all purpose flour ½ teaspoon of yeast (this is not a typing error, this is all the yeast you need) 3 teaspoons of salt 3 and ¼ cups of water Mix the dry ingredients in a bowl and stir in the water. This will produce very, very wet bread dough. Spray the dough with Pam or olive oil, cover with plastic wrap and let it sit for 18 hours. Do not manipulate the dough in any way (you couldn’t anyway because it is so wet) Line two medium sized bowls with parchment paper. Divide the dough and place each half over the parchment paper in the bowls, punching it down as you do so. Spray with Pam or olive oil, cover with a dish towel and let it sit for another 2 to 3 hours. Preheat the oven, kettles and lids to 500 degrees F. After the kettles and lids are at 500 degrees F remove them from the oven and remove the lids. Lift the parchment paper by its corners and place the bread dough and parchment paper in the preheated kettles. The original recipe did not employ parchment paper in the transfer process but the bread dough invariably falls when it is manipulated, if you do not use the paper. Replace the lids and bake at 500 degrees for 30 minutes. Remove the lids and bake for an additional 20 to 30 minutes at 450 degrees F or until each loaf is golden brown. Remove the loaves and let them cool on a rack. That’s all there is to it, as I said any fool, even liberals, can do this! Now to jazz up your bread a little try this. Add ½ cup of coarsely chopped sun dried tomatoes to the dry mix and proceed as you would with the plain recipe. Or to make the best bread you have ever had in your life, add roasted ground wheat to the recipe. Obtain a pound or so of whole wheat. Spread it out on a cookie sheet and roast at 450 degrees F until dark brown. Grind up the roasted wheat in a grain mill until it is the consistence of coffee grounds. Add ½ cup of the roasted ground wheat to the dry ingredients and proceed as before. I usually make my bread with both sun dried tomatoes and roasted wheat. If you add these additional ingredients you will have to add a little more water, just enough so you can mix the dry ingredients together easily. You can add olives, raisins or anything else that meets your fancy to the basic recipe if you feel creative. Everything I have tried seams to work. Please try this simple fool proof bread recipe. I know you will be delighted with the results. By the way this bread makes the best toast ever! One cautionary note, this bread recipe is not for weight watchers.

Why Pure Democracies Always Fail.

In America In Decline I discuss the realities of a pure democracy and why they inevitably fail. My good friend Jim Gribbens recently send me an article in which this subject was discussed in length by Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh in the year 1887. It shows, once again, that there is nothing new under the sun! Worse yet, it proves, without a shadow of the doubt, that mankind seems incapable of learning from the mistakes of the past. This is what professor Tyler said 127 years ago when discussing the fall of Athenian Republic some 2000 years before. "A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse over loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During these 200 years, these nations always progress through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependence; from dependency back to bondage." Our obituary has already been written in stone: America, Born 1776-Died 2012. For those of you who believe that the report of America's demise is premature consider these facts. 1) Our nation no longer has borders. 2) Our nation's mean IQ has been falling an average of 1.4 points per generation for the past 150 years and now, with the unrestrained invasion of low IQ illegal immigrants from South America, is in free-fall. 3) Over that past 60 years we have gone from the world's only super power to a nation with no power. In this respect, do you believe for a nanosecond that world leaders give a damn how many red-lines our fearless leader Barack Hussein Obama draws in the sand? Of course not! 4) With an overall illegitimacy rate of 40.7%; an abortion rate of over 50 percent in the black community; and with 33% of all black males being either in prison or on parole, we have gone from a country of morality to a nation of immorality in the short period of about 60 years. 5) Finally, with a national debt exceeding $17.5 trillion we are now bankrupt! In fact, we have been insolvent for several decades but just didn't know it. In this respect, not even Albert Einstein could comprehend the magnitude of a $17.5 trillion dollar debt and there certainly is no possibility that we could ever pay it off, none what so ever! Yes, as professor Tyler predicted 127 years ago America is finished as a great nation. The fact that our Republic would morph into a pure democracy and fail in the process was predictable from day one!