Re: RNC 08-29-2012

The last time I watched an entire evening of a political convention was the Libertarian Convention on C-Span back in 1991 or '92. Andre' Marrou was the Libertarian Candidate then. Last night I watched from Condoleeza Rice onward through Paul Ryan. Wow, I was impressed with both Ms. Rice and the lady who followed her, New Mexico Governor Suzanne Martinez. I thought to myself how the heck is Paul Ryan supposed to follow those two? He did and boy he did it in fine fashion. I was tempted at a few places to stand up and cheer like the crowd was doing there in Tampa, Florida. I like this guy and he and Romney continue to have my vote. I wonder how the mainstream media is going to spin this tomorrow? My bet is that words like "racist", "homophobic", "Hate-filled" are just a few of the terms used. Divide and conquer seem to be the bylines of the big three and their subordinates.

An awesome, awesome man and an awesome article.

Thomas Sowell is a person of whom I would love to spend an evening with over dinner just picking his brain. It was the writings of Sowell's mentor Milton Friedman that got me to rethinking my then Socialistic/ Communistic points of view along with the fact that my love of history led me to the writings of early Nazi's and Fascists like Mussolini that showed me the Fascists were nothing more than Nationalistic Communists. How can one (Fascism) be condemned while the other (Socialism/ Communism) has been responsible for more deaths than Nazi/Fascism? Both are the epitome of evil, both rely on sheep, fear and threat of death. The Ukrainian genocide was as horrible as the Jewish extermination. Throw in Bergen where American soldiers underwent the same treatment as the Jews also. Oh, you label one as Right Wing Extremism and while in the same breath deny the holocaust/ genocide caused by that very same ideaology. Does that make any sense? Not to me either. How about totally excluding the other group and their atrocities? How about the people surrounding our sitting President espousing the writings of Mao and Mother Teresa? How about claiming Jesus was a Socialist, ignoring the Parable of the Talents completely? All are Tyranny. Boy does Thomas Sowell hit that nail on the head. "Is U.S. Now On Slippery Slope To Tyranny http://news.investors.com/article/537967/201006211813/is-us-now-on-slippery-slope-to-tyranny-.htm?p=full

Wowzers!!!

Wow. Here I promised to do more and instead I did less in this past year on this blog. I get so involved in things and the fact that I never was a very good wordsmith thanks to my invariably bad choices over the years. For that I can only ask forgiveness, but that stuff predates the blog by over a decade. So I guess, as a New Years Resolution I will again endeavor to create something here.