Today, Barack Obama and the American people proved that in America anything really is possible and that any child, regardless of race, can realistically dream of becoming President.

I wish President Obama the best of luck as President of the United States.  The people in our country will always disagree about the decisions and policies of the President and Congress, but I hope we can live up to the true message of the 2008 campaign; we can disagree without being disagreeable.

Yesterday a friend I decided to finally get around to putting up a few McCain/Palin and Miller-Meeks barn signs so I thought I’d post a picture of our work:

On this day, September the 11th, 2,974 innocent men and women lost their lives in what is arguably the greatest display of evil in the 21st century (and maybe the second half of the 20th as well).

While the image of what happened on that Tuesday may be permanently burned into our minds, the lessons learned have quickly faded; just as the lessons learned from Pearl Harbor, World War II and previous conflicts have faded from our collective memory.  Appeasing an enemy, whether it be Radical Islam, Hitler and the Nazis, or any other, will never succeed in bringing a favorable outcome. By giving into our enemy, we lose our honor and they gain a hunger more of our prized freedoms to fall.

Instead, the free peoples of the world should band together in an effort to protect our own Inalienable Rights and to pass on the great gift to other societies and cultures. When the world is truly free, we will be one step closer a peaceful world.

I can only hope that those 2,974 people who lost their lives on that day, 6 years ago, will have saved the freedoms and the lives of many more by awaking the world. That is the most fitting legacy for our heroes and even just the regular people who died on that day.

God Bless America and God Bless the Free World.

These days, many more people feel that the Government isn’t releasing the full truth, or at least a portion of the 9/11 story. Skeptics may point to “evidence” that shows that there were explosions ever 10 floors instead of just at the crash or may say that a plane never even touched the buildings (despite the fact that so many people actually saw it happen). Some might even say that Flight 93 passengers who fought back against the terrorists were not killed in a plane crash but in some hanger and that the damage in the Pennsylvania field was caused by a bomb or missile of some sort.

The reason why people are doing this is because people are desperate to discredit the war and the President. Granted, it never hurts to make sure the Government is doing what it is supposed to, so on some level I am happy people care enough to try and explain this catastrophe in such roundabout ways. On the other hand, I can not imagine what if feels like to be a family member of somebody who died in September 11th. To suggest that our Government had something to do with it must seem like the most painful idea ever.

I’d say all of the evidence points the contrary. It’s much more realistic to blame the Government because they didn’t give the threat enough attention but it doesn’t make any sense to me to try and say the Government actually carried out the attacks.

• Firstly, it just so happens that somebody actually claimed credit for the attack… Osama bin Laden and co (al Qaeda). I guess if the Government really did carry out the attack it works out really nicely for them that somebody else claimed responsibility for it. Some do argue that Osama bin Laden must be an operative of the US but lets look at this logically:
  • bin Laden, whether directly (ordering an attack against the West) or indirectly (inspiring somebody to carry an attack against the west), would have an incentive just to damage the US and not destroy it (obviously, if he brings us toppling to the ground he’d
    lose his “flow” of money from the US.
  • By positioning himself against the US (whether actually or just acting) he puts his life in danger. It doesn’t make sense that he’d be willing to do that for just some cash.
  • Also, if al Qaeda is on our payroll, why would we want to destroy them? Wouldn’t it make much more sense to hire al Qaeda to carry out the attack and then blame some other group (one that we would hypothetically want to get rid of?)
• Secondly, the conspiracy theory leaves one thing out. They claim the Bush Administration used the attacks to gain power over all of us and establish the US as a dictatorship. Or, they push an older conspiracy theory that says that many Presidents (including Reagan, Bush Senior and Bush Junior) seek to establish a New World Order. But as Bush loses more and more power over his own administration everyday, these theories loses more and creditability.
• Thirdly, due to the fact that most Presidents desire to some good and also have fairly large ego’s it would be stupid for them to act in a way that would diminish the way the way they are viewed by history. President Bush is no exception. I guess just for the the sake of argument, one might argue that President Bush is indeed stupid (because of his terrible speaking skills) but somebody who says this might want to re-examine the facts. President Bush was smart enough to get elected President twice, smart enough to prosper even without his father’s help.

I hope that helps put some of the misplaced skepticism into place.

I felt like I was funding terror when I went to see Michael Mooron’s, I mean Moore’s, new movie SiCKO. I knew from the start that it wasn’t going to give an objective view (maybe I wasn’t been objective there) and the movie didn’t disappoint.

Moore is correct about saying Health Insurance companies shouldn’t be able to force sick people not to have life saving operations. I can’t argue with that. However, when he starts to try and push his left wing agenda is where he becomes wrong. What could be fixed with a simple law must be overhauled into a huge money burden and a huge waste of time and effort.

Moore also points out how “good” foreign countries have it because their health insurance is “free”. He correctly says the money must come from somewhere (taxes) but says that “it isn’t a burden”. Hey, Michael, what about all the poor people who can’t afford all of this crap they don’t have to pay for in our system.

When he takes 9/11 heroes to Cuba he really starts bending the facts. He praises Cuba for their great system of health care but fails to mention that the WHO (World Health Organization) ranks them behind the United States. He also fails to mention that in Cuba, there is always the risk that good old Fidel (who he praises in the movie) will come and kill you if you disagree with him.

What bothers me the most is that the line of thought that you are owed something by the rest of society is sinking in quickly. Moore obviously thinks it, and pushes the idea. He wants the government to do his laundry, as he stated in the movie. He didn’t even consider that maybe I don’t want the government to do mine.

I like how the comedy, I mean documentary, was put together, something I’ve said for the last three documentaries I’ve seen. This movie was uniquely formated and I liked how Moore brought comedy into his crazy ideas; even Conservatives can laugh at some of the jokes in his movie. I didn’t like how Moore loaded the movie to Socialism instead of providing productive solutions to problems and I didn’t like how he just bends the facts at his own discretion. Because of this I give the movie a 2 out of 10 (10 is the highest). Don’t go see this movie unless you want to waste your money.