No-Brainers
By James Bowden (08/25/05)
The suffocating heat of August is about to gasp its last and collapse into September. Until then it takes too much energy to read, let alone write, new thoughts of consequence. Assuming such are the occasional merits of my words. This is the time to engage in simple ‘No-Brainers'. Speak truths that are self-evident enough to be seen clearly through sun glasses. Make statements that require no further comment than a muted, “Uh-huh”, between sips of cooling beverages.
I shared such dialogues with my old dog buddy, Coal. A very large dog, he died last December less than two months before his 15 th birthday. In Coal Dawg's honor I'll share the No-Brainers as if he were still here. I sure wish he was.
President Bush must seal the borders. Seal them tight. Now. He can use the National Guard, U.S. Marshals, clerks from any bureaucracy, the Boy Scouts, or volunteers, but close the borders to illegal invasion. He can't use excuses about funding, extra border patrol and technology someday. President Bush is failing his Constitutional duty.
Congress must pass laws to give state and local police the authority to arrest illegal aliens for being illegal. Period.
Congress should pass comprehensive legislation for special immigration courts, cops, holding facilities – can be motels, transportation to start deporting a million or two illegal immigrants a year. Congress should severely restrict the judicial review of immigration procedures. I know Congress doesn't have the courage to do this, but it should be shoved in their face so they will remember when The People tar and feather them for failing in their duty.
Legislatures, State and U.S., should impeach tyrannical judges who try to interfere with regaining our national sovereignty. I know legislative politicians don't dare. But, again, they should know what is right and the truth, even if they run from it.
The state and federal governments need to get government out of the way of expanding energy supply. Demand is not going down in our lifetime. The market will adjust with new technologies but it will take years. Adding supply takes years. Get on with drilling for oil, natural gas, building refineries, nuclear power plants, and research for fusion.
If a two car family is paying, say $100 @ month, more for gas, then how about an across the board $1200 tax cut immediately? If there is some moral principle in getting the consumer to eat higher prices, I missed it. That money going to gas will circulate in the world economy while our economy will suffer from a loss in consumer buying power. It's no mystery why movie attendance is down in 05. Americans will watch any drivel coming out of Hollywood – but there's no movie money after filling the car.
Republicans in Congress will spend themselves out of office - eventually.
President Bush is a prisoner of his own Wilsonian rhetoric on Iraq. He sold The People a bill of goods in his elevated expectations of flowering democracy in Muslim culture. Self –determination for Iraq is the highest realistic goal, and it may not result in democracy, individual rights, or the rule of law. Security and stability is more important to the U.S. than democracy in Iraq. Democracy may result in a radical Islamic government. Time to re-calibrate the words on what the U.S. will do, can do, and sets as conditions of success in Iraq.
Medicare needs to be fixed. Increase supply, offer better health savings accounts, and increase personal costs – responsibility. Social Security needs to be privatized totally. Now, Congress, now.
We must settle the Second American Civil War (ACW II) to win the Global War on Islamist Terrorism (WW IV). Multi-culturalism is bunk. We will choose the future for American Civilization built on traditional Judeo-Christian culture or a Liberal Human Secularist Totalitarianism.
Islam isn't a religion of peace. Eventually, most Americans won't be so uncertain about saying publicly that Islamic Civilization is barbaric compared to Western Civilization. Islam isn't equal to Judaism and Christianity.
So, Labor Day comes with a few certainties. We change our clothes and adjust to altering weather and light. Everyone who goes to work or school gets about their business with a new focus until they reach exhaustion at Thanksgiving. New sports seasons bring fresh excitement for millions. And, the Boston Red Sox will fold in September. But, wait, one glorious year they didn't fold. Maybe, one glorious year The People will get the politicians to do the No-Brainers - their jobs - right.
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