"The end came swiftly. All over the world, their machines began to stop and fall. After all that men could do had failed, the Martians were destroyed and humanity was saved by the littlest things, which God, in His wisdom, had put upon this Earth."
The quote above was taken from the end of the 1953 movie adaptation of HG Wells War of the Worlds. Before you think I have lost my mind, recent events reminded me of this quote this week.
Without exaggerating things, the BP Oil Spill is one of the largest man-made ecological disasters of all time. The perceived lack of a timely response to this disaster will prove to be a political albatross to many but that is not what this posting is about.
With each passing day the vast armada of skimmer ships hunt for ever-smaller scattered patches of oil. The fleet of small shrimper boats remove oil collecting booms from the water with little or no oil on them.
Yes, it seems that between the rays of the sun, the waves and currents, and the small bacteria that live in the ocean the millions of barrels of oil that was released has just disappeared. It appears that, indeed humanity perhaps has been saved by the littlest things, which God, in His wisdom, had put upon this Earth.
A Voice In the Wilderness
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
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Friday, July 23, 2010
Culling the Herd
Culling is a word which comes from the Latin colligere, which means collect. The term can be applied broadly to mean sorting a collection into two groups: one that will be kept and one that will be rejected. This is done in order to either reinforce certain desirable characteristics or to remove certain undesirable characteristics from the group. It is most often used in agriculture to obtain, through the breeding of animals, the best genetic characteristics .
Although I was raised in a rural environment, I never heard the term culling used involving livestock. The first time I ever heard the word used was when I heard an old construction superintendent from Texas say " It's way past time for a culling". This meant that we had a surplus of craft workers on site for the work available and a reduction in our work force was necessary. Those workers who were least productive were the first to be released and those with specialized or supervisory skills would be the the last to let go.
There were a couple of major cullings on Capitol hill on Wednesday this week. The first culling occurred when Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) and 20 some other House Republicans launched their newly formed Tea Party Caucus. The second was when 81 Republican Congressmen and 5 US Senators signed onto a friend of the court brief opposing the federal lawsuit challenging Arizona's new immigration. The brief was filed by the American Center for Law and Justice with U.S. District Court in Arizona.
The Tea Party movement and the new Arizona immigration law are immensely popular with the GOP base and many independents. The GOP establishment has watched the Tea party with the nervousness of a father viewing his teenage daughter leaving the house with a guy on a motorcycle. The father knows the ride will be thrilling for his daughter but he also worries how it will all turn out. The same establishment also worries that Hispanic voters will be turned off by GOP support for the Arizona law thus providing a voting majority for Democrats for generations.
In 2010 all prognostications are pointing to a GOP landslide. Many of these new Congressmen who will be elected are from the Tea party movement. They will join the Tea Party caucus and will fight for conservative causes and will be less likely to compromise. In the 2012 election many establishment GOP Congressmen will be asked why they did not join the caucus or support Arizona. The culling of the herd has started but it still has a long way to go. Somehow I think Ronald Reagan is up in heaven saying " Get along little doggies"
A Voice In the Wilderness
Although I was raised in a rural environment, I never heard the term culling used involving livestock. The first time I ever heard the word used was when I heard an old construction superintendent from Texas say " It's way past time for a culling". This meant that we had a surplus of craft workers on site for the work available and a reduction in our work force was necessary. Those workers who were least productive were the first to be released and those with specialized or supervisory skills would be the the last to let go.
There were a couple of major cullings on Capitol hill on Wednesday this week. The first culling occurred when Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) and 20 some other House Republicans launched their newly formed Tea Party Caucus. The second was when 81 Republican Congressmen and 5 US Senators signed onto a friend of the court brief opposing the federal lawsuit challenging Arizona's new immigration. The brief was filed by the American Center for Law and Justice with U.S. District Court in Arizona.
The Tea Party movement and the new Arizona immigration law are immensely popular with the GOP base and many independents. The GOP establishment has watched the Tea party with the nervousness of a father viewing his teenage daughter leaving the house with a guy on a motorcycle. The father knows the ride will be thrilling for his daughter but he also worries how it will all turn out. The same establishment also worries that Hispanic voters will be turned off by GOP support for the Arizona law thus providing a voting majority for Democrats for generations.
In 2010 all prognostications are pointing to a GOP landslide. Many of these new Congressmen who will be elected are from the Tea party movement. They will join the Tea Party caucus and will fight for conservative causes and will be less likely to compromise. In the 2012 election many establishment GOP Congressmen will be asked why they did not join the caucus or support Arizona. The culling of the herd has started but it still has a long way to go. Somehow I think Ronald Reagan is up in heaven saying " Get along little doggies"
A Voice In the Wilderness
Friday, July 16, 2010
My Speech to the Tea Party Movement
Around November of last year I decided to become involved in the Tea Party movement. I knew a Tea party would be going on somewhere April 15th so I put in for a vacation day for that date. You see I just not want to attend the party but I wanted to speak out. I contacted the Tea Party in San Francisco and asked permission to give a speech. I was told that they encouraged people who came to their events to speak out and they called it "astroturfing" in honor of Nancy Pelosi. The speech was well received by the crowd that day and I have since given it at other tea party functions. I share the text of my speech with you today because I feel the future of our county and the state of CA in which I reside lies in the balance with the results of the 2010 election.
Following is the text of my speech .
I moved to Vallejo, CA, in 1995 where my family and I found our little piece of the California Dream. I came here to speak because I believe that for many of us the dream is fading.
Today I would like to read to you a famous patriotic historical document, however it is not one most of you have ever heard before. On February 24, 1836, during Santa Ana's siege of the Alamo, Colonel William Travis wrote a letter addressed "To the People of Texas and All Americans in the World":
Fellow citizens and compatriots;
I am besieged, by a thousand or more of the Mexicans under Santa Ana. I have sustained a continual Bombardment and cannonade for 24 hours and have not lost a man. The enemy has demanded a surrender at discretion, otherwise, the garrison are to be put to the sword, if the fort is taken. I have answered the demand with a cannon shot, and our flag still waves proudly from the walls. I shall never surrender or retreat. Then, I call on you in the name of Liberty, of patriotism & everything dear to the American character, to come to our aid, with all dispatch. The enemy is receiving reinforcements daily and will no doubt increase to three or four thousand in four or five days. If this call is neglected, I am determined to sustain myself as long as possible and die like a soldier who never forgets what is due to his own honor & that of his country. Victory or Death.
William Barret Travis
Lt. Col. Comdt.
On March 3 Travis wrote his last letter
"Take care of my little boy. If the country should be saved, I may make him a splendid fortune; but if the country should be lost, and I should perish, he will have nothing but the proud recollection that he is the son of a man who died for his country."
Why these words from 174 years ago and what are their relevance? Today in CA we Conservatives lie behind enemy lines. We have seen the will of the people exercised time and time again through ballot initiative only to be thwarted by an activist judiciary. We have a tyrannical Democrat party minority (yes, only 45% of registered voters are Democrats) granted permanent majority status through gerrymandering. Our state legislature over-regulates, over mandates, over-taxates, and over-exasperates the citizens of our state.
The old media press who are still free are shackled to the chains of liberalism. They sit deaf, dumb and blind as our state runs like a barrel in the rapids of a river approaching a waterfall of financial ruin.
We have even gone so far as to recall our Governor only to have elected a sheep in wolf's clothing.
Government agencies raise our bridge tolls without having an election or even with the consent of our legislature. Unelected environmental bureaucrats tell us that we can not burn a fire in our fireplace on Christmas Day. Are you politicians here today listening to the crowd now??
When we have an election in CA, we are ignored. The national GOP views our elections as already lost and the Democrats expect a coronation not an election. The Democrats pick the pockets of the liberal minds of Californians for funds and send the money out of our state to win quote on quote " competitive races."
We, the voices of California tax payers, have been reduced to the tiny bleats from the dust speck in Horton Hears a Who. We are here!! We are here!! We are here!!
I bring news of hope to you today, for as much as I pray for our total victory in November, I also know we will suffer defeats. How may hope be gained in defeat you ask?
In 2008, over five million Californians voted for John McCain, a candidate who to most of us was uninspiring and we viewed as the lesser of two evils. Five million...that's more votes than Barack Obama got in NY state, it's more votes than McCain got in Texas and five times more votes than McCain got in in South Carolina. We, the conservatives of California, are actually the largest voting block of conservatives in the USA!
My Congressman in the 7th district, George Miller,.... He puts up his re-election signs just three - count them three - days before the election. Now George Miller , Barbara Boxer and Madame Nancy Pelosi ......are not expecting a battle this NOVEMBER because in the mind of the Progressive you and I are ignorant rubes and are undeserving of their attention. They have. quite frankly, lost their fear of you - the electorate.
But I will tell you one thing...When the creative minds that I have seen in this Tea Party movement are unleashed, the Democrats are awaiting a re-election campaign from hell! We all seen have seen the brilliance of the American mind on UTube. Can you imagine what our political advertisements on are going to look like on TV? All the power of the old media will not be able to protect these buffoons from their own words and actions as recorded by Briebart. In the words of Thomas Jefferson "We will place before them the heart of the matter in terms so clear and concise so as to demand their assent."
I am calling on you, as patriots, today to make four sacrifices but the sacrifices I am asking you to make are much less than those that were made at Valley Forge, Gettysburg, Omaha Beach and, yes, the Alamo.
Following is the text of my speech .
I moved to Vallejo, CA, in 1995 where my family and I found our little piece of the California Dream. I came here to speak because I believe that for many of us the dream is fading.
Today I would like to read to you a famous patriotic historical document, however it is not one most of you have ever heard before. On February 24, 1836, during Santa Ana's siege of the Alamo, Colonel William Travis wrote a letter addressed "To the People of Texas and All Americans in the World":
Fellow citizens and compatriots;
I am besieged, by a thousand or more of the Mexicans under Santa Ana. I have sustained a continual Bombardment and cannonade for 24 hours and have not lost a man. The enemy has demanded a surrender at discretion, otherwise, the garrison are to be put to the sword, if the fort is taken. I have answered the demand with a cannon shot, and our flag still waves proudly from the walls. I shall never surrender or retreat. Then, I call on you in the name of Liberty, of patriotism & everything dear to the American character, to come to our aid, with all dispatch. The enemy is receiving reinforcements daily and will no doubt increase to three or four thousand in four or five days. If this call is neglected, I am determined to sustain myself as long as possible and die like a soldier who never forgets what is due to his own honor & that of his country. Victory or Death.
William Barret Travis
Lt. Col. Comdt.
On March 3 Travis wrote his last letter
"Take care of my little boy. If the country should be saved, I may make him a splendid fortune; but if the country should be lost, and I should perish, he will have nothing but the proud recollection that he is the son of a man who died for his country."
Why these words from 174 years ago and what are their relevance? Today in CA we Conservatives lie behind enemy lines. We have seen the will of the people exercised time and time again through ballot initiative only to be thwarted by an activist judiciary. We have a tyrannical Democrat party minority (yes, only 45% of registered voters are Democrats) granted permanent majority status through gerrymandering. Our state legislature over-regulates, over mandates, over-taxates, and over-exasperates the citizens of our state.
The old media press who are still free are shackled to the chains of liberalism. They sit deaf, dumb and blind as our state runs like a barrel in the rapids of a river approaching a waterfall of financial ruin.
We have even gone so far as to recall our Governor only to have elected a sheep in wolf's clothing.
Government agencies raise our bridge tolls without having an election or even with the consent of our legislature. Unelected environmental bureaucrats tell us that we can not burn a fire in our fireplace on Christmas Day. Are you politicians here today listening to the crowd now??
When we have an election in CA, we are ignored. The national GOP views our elections as already lost and the Democrats expect a coronation not an election. The Democrats pick the pockets of the liberal minds of Californians for funds and send the money out of our state to win quote on quote " competitive races."
We, the voices of California tax payers, have been reduced to the tiny bleats from the dust speck in Horton Hears a Who. We are here!! We are here!! We are here!!
I bring news of hope to you today, for as much as I pray for our total victory in November, I also know we will suffer defeats. How may hope be gained in defeat you ask?
In 2008, over five million Californians voted for John McCain, a candidate who to most of us was uninspiring and we viewed as the lesser of two evils. Five million...that's more votes than Barack Obama got in NY state, it's more votes than McCain got in Texas and five times more votes than McCain got in in South Carolina. We, the conservatives of California, are actually the largest voting block of conservatives in the USA!
My Congressman in the 7th district, George Miller,.... He puts up his re-election signs just three - count them three - days before the election. Now George Miller , Barbara Boxer and Madame Nancy Pelosi ......are not expecting a battle this NOVEMBER because in the mind of the Progressive you and I are ignorant rubes and are undeserving of their attention. They have. quite frankly, lost their fear of you - the electorate.
But I will tell you one thing...When the creative minds that I have seen in this Tea Party movement are unleashed, the Democrats are awaiting a re-election campaign from hell! We all seen have seen the brilliance of the American mind on UTube. Can you imagine what our political advertisements on are going to look like on TV? All the power of the old media will not be able to protect these buffoons from their own words and actions as recorded by Briebart. In the words of Thomas Jefferson "We will place before them the heart of the matter in terms so clear and concise so as to demand their assent."
I am calling on you, as patriots, today to make four sacrifices but the sacrifices I am asking you to make are much less than those that were made at Valley Forge, Gettysburg, Omaha Beach and, yes, the Alamo.
- You must come out of your Patriot closets and work to elect candidates who support our ideals If your ideal candidate loses in the primary, you must equally support others who will fight for our beliefs. You will become the crazy person with the American Flag and yard signs on your block.
- We must speak our minds for silence is assent. We must be informed, compassionate ,and speak the truth to our family, friends , and coworkers. Don't worry, Thanksgiving and Christmas are after the election.
- You must pull out your wallet and, from the bounty God gave you, contribute to our cause. Until 9 months ago, I had never contributed money to any political campaign. That was something only the rich folks and corporations did. Well, I say it's time to buy the best government that WE THE PEOPLE can afford with contributions of 10 and 25 dollars. Does anybody remember when the Democrat got into real trouble running against Scott Brown in Mass? She flew down to DC and got several million dollars in campaign funds from the Democrat National Committee. In this 2010 election cycle they can only go to the well so many times. Let's make that well go dry! Let's make the Tea Party movement a guerrilla resistance that will make the Democrats compete for every vote and every election in California. Let's make all the money from the big Hollywood liberal fundraisers stay right here in CA. We may not win every election in CA this November but we are going to fight to win every election!!
- And finally the most important thing that I could ask each of you to do is to seek the favor of our Almighty God for our Tea Party Movement as it says in the Declaration of Independence " With a firm reliance on Divine Providence."
Sunday, July 11, 2010
You Might Be a Tea Partier If
I did this short comedy routine at the beginning of a recent Solano County Tea Party Patriots meeting. I hope that you will enjoy it.
According to the famous comedian Jeff Foxworthy the definition of a redneck is -The Glorious absence of sophistication
One definition of sophistication is- A change to the natural character or simplicity or the resulting condition. I would say the definition of a Tea Partier is the glorious absence of sophistication in matters involving Patriotism
If any of the below items pertain to you personally then- You Might Be a Tea Partier!!
According to the famous comedian Jeff Foxworthy the definition of a redneck is -The Glorious absence of sophistication
One definition of sophistication is- A change to the natural character or simplicity or the resulting condition. I would say the definition of a Tea Partier is the glorious absence of sophistication in matters involving Patriotism
If any of the below items pertain to you personally then- You Might Be a Tea Partier!!
1. If you have more than one tee shirt with an American flag on it then...
2. If you own a flag with a snake on it then....
3. If you think you we need to spend less money than you take in then...
4. If you would rather go fishing with Sarah Palin then on a junket with Nancey Pelosi then...
5. If you believe more government is less and less government is more then....
6. If you think yes, no, and is are simple two and three letter words with one definition then....
7. If you think the best use for the NY Times is as a hamster cage liner then....
8. If you believe the nation that sent a man to the moon can build a fence on the border then...9. If you are looking forward to Nov 2 then YOU MIGHT BE A TEA PARTIER!!!
Until latter
A Voice In the Wilderness
Monday, July 5, 2010
Why California is Broke
This is not my original material but I had to share. This is too good not to.
>>>> California
>>>> The Governor of California is jogging with his dog along a nature trail. A
>>>> coyote jumps out, bites the Governor and attacks his dog.
>>>>
>>>> 1. The Governor starts to intervene, but reflects upon the movie "Bambi"
>>>> and then realizes he should stop; the coyote is only doing what is
>>>> natural.
>>>> 2. He calls animal control. Animal Control captures coyote and bills the
>>>> State $200 testing it for diseases and $500 for relocating it.
>>>> 3. He calls a veterinarian. The vet collects the dead dog and bills the
>>>> State $200 testing it for diseases.
>>>> 4. The Governor goes to hospital and spends $3,500 getting checked for
>>>> diseases from the coyote and on getting his bite wound bandaged.
>>>> 5. The running trail gets shut down for 6 months while Fish & Game
>>>> conducts a $100,000 survey to make sure the area is free of dangerous
>>>> animals.
>>>> 6. The Governor spends $50,000 in state funds implementing a "coyote
>>>> awareness" program for residents of the area.
>>>> 7. The State Legislature spends $2 million to study how to better treat
>>>> rabies and how to permanently eradicate the disease throughout the world.
>>>> 8. The Governor's security agent is fired for not stopping the attack
>>>> somehow and for letting the Governor attempt to intervene.
>>>> 9. Additional cost to State of California : $75,000 to hire and train a
>>>> new security agent with additional special training re: the nature of
>>>> coyotes.
>>>> 10. PETA protests the coyote's relocation and files suit against the
>>>> State.
>>>>
>>>> Arizona
>>>>
>>>> 1. The Governor of Arizona is jogging with her dog along a nature trail. A
>>>> Coyote jumps out and attacks her dog.
>>>> 2. The Governor shoots the coyote with her State-issued pistol and keeps
>>>> jogging. The Governor has spent $0.50 on a .45 ACP hollow point cartridge.
>>>> 3. The Buzzards eat the dead coyote.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> And that's why California is broke
>>>> California
>>>> The Governor of California is jogging with his dog along a nature trail. A
>>>> coyote jumps out, bites the Governor and attacks his dog.
>>>>
>>>> 1. The Governor starts to intervene, but reflects upon the movie "Bambi"
>>>> and then realizes he should stop; the coyote is only doing what is
>>>> natural.
>>>> 2. He calls animal control. Animal Control captures coyote and bills the
>>>> State $200 testing it for diseases and $500 for relocating it.
>>>> 3. He calls a veterinarian. The vet collects the dead dog and bills the
>>>> State $200 testing it for diseases.
>>>> 4. The Governor goes to hospital and spends $3,500 getting checked for
>>>> diseases from the coyote and on getting his bite wound bandaged.
>>>> 5. The running trail gets shut down for 6 months while Fish & Game
>>>> conducts a $100,000 survey to make sure the area is free of dangerous
>>>> animals.
>>>> 6. The Governor spends $50,000 in state funds implementing a "coyote
>>>> awareness" program for residents of the area.
>>>> 7. The State Legislature spends $2 million to study how to better treat
>>>> rabies and how to permanently eradicate the disease throughout the world.
>>>> 8. The Governor's security agent is fired for not stopping the attack
>>>> somehow and for letting the Governor attempt to intervene.
>>>> 9. Additional cost to State of California : $75,000 to hire and train a
>>>> new security agent with additional special training re: the nature of
>>>> coyotes.
>>>> 10. PETA protests the coyote's relocation and files suit against the
>>>> State.
>>>>
>>>> Arizona
>>>>
>>>> 1. The Governor of Arizona is jogging with her dog along a nature trail. A
>>>> Coyote jumps out and attacks her dog.
>>>> 2. The Governor shoots the coyote with her State-issued pistol and keeps
>>>> jogging. The Governor has spent $0.50 on a .45 ACP hollow point cartridge.
>>>> 3. The Buzzards eat the dead coyote.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> And that's why California is broke
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