There are three ways to loose a war:
1. Kill Everyone. Genocide ensures that you've won. This kind of action takes a country with a special kind of mentality. A ruthless, fascist mentality.
2. Break the Will of the Leader. And, a spineless leader it is that would go to war prepared to loose, and the giving up sort don't usually get to lead countries.
3. Break the Will of the People. When a populous becomes so demoralized, sending their sons and daughters to die that they just don't care anymore, then that people has lost a war.
If we pull out of Iraq, we have lost the war. It will prove that the will of the American people is truly weak indeed.
A little more than sixty years ago we went to war. WWII. About 450,400 died, over six years. That is 98 deaths a day.
Almost forty years we went to Vietnam. About 58,000 soldiers died over the 19 years we were there, that's a little more than 8 a day. It took nineteen years for our will to break. the youngest of the soulders at the end of the war were born after the start of the war.
Now we have been in Iraq for about three years. 3,312 (as of 18 April 2007) have died. That is about three a day.
The will of the American People has been getting steadily weaker.
What happened? This is the greatest nation on Earth. We have become so powerful that we can aford to medel in the affairs of other counties. We saw a problem, we decided we wanted to fix it and now because a few people have died, the fewest of any war we have ever participated in, are we going to say, "Oops," and give up?
I was a soldier for six years, and deployed twice. Friends of mine died. Friends who made the ultimate sacrifice. If we leave, their deaths counted for exactly nothing.
Of course I wish my friends were alive. But, you know what? THEY WERE VOLUNTEERS! This is a volunteer Army.
Of course, I heard lots of people complaining that they signed up in piece time, so did I, but you can't sign up for the Army and then be upset when they expect you to fulfill your end of the bargain.
We made a mess in Iraq, and we need to clean it up. Otherwise we become a country of losers.
I mean that, if we pull out, it will demonstrate how weak willed we are. If we pull out we lose.
If we pull out we will be a nation of weak willed losers.
If you don't want to be at war, don't vote Republican, it is that simple. Sure, the last election was A Bowl Full of Crap with a Side of Crazy vs. A Bowl Full of Crap with a Side of Bad American, but who let the guys though the primarys? And the election before that were also two bowls of crap.
But, hey, at least they weren't the green party.
Friday, April 27, 2007
Thursday, April 5, 2007
Recycling is Bad for the Environment! No Seriously.
Like all good people, you want to do something for this planet. You want to make this world a better place for your children. And, you especially don't want to bee seen by your neighbors' see you throw out a plastic bottle.Recycling is one of the easiest ways that you can feel like you are doing your part, you just look at the number on the bottom of the bottle, and throw it in the appropriate bin, and then you can practically feel the Green Party, Al Gore, Uncle Sam, Jesus, the EPA, your friends, neighbors, future great, great grandchildren, and Bugs Bunny raining down love and thank-you's from heaven. But like all things you are told to believe, there it is a truth wrapped around a great big whoppin' lie.If you don't believe me, or don't want to believe me, you can go to where I got most of my information:
Eight Great Myths of Recycling
by Daniel K. Benjamin
http://www.perc.org/pdf/ps28.pdf
This guy actually took the time to do the research for himself and site his references! I will just try to "Reader's Digest" it for you.
First think for a moment, just why you recycle, apart from the afore mentioned warm and fuzzy feeling you get.
Is it because you are afraid that we are running out of space for landfills?
Is it because you are afraid that landfills are poisonous?
Is it because you don't want some state shipping their garbage from their state to yours, because they don't have a landfill and your state does?
Is it because you don't want to run out of rescores?
Is it because it just protects the environment in general?
Before I get into just how unjustified these fears are I just want to say that I used to have the same fears as well, I was raised in the same fear mongering school systems you were and you parents were except they were told to fear the communists (I will get more into that when I post my blog on Global Warming, it really is spooky). I just got lucky, that's all. Somebody actually bothered to do the research for themselves and I was fortunate enough to catch wind of it.
We are simply not running out of landfills, or places to put them. As long as we can waste land on golf courses, we have room for future landfills, and as long as we have landfills, we have room for future golf courses, of public parks or what ever, Wal-Marts, I don't know.
Modern landfills are not dangerous to the environment. Yes, they produce methane gas, but if you burn it, it poses no threat to the environment, and, yes, they produce a toxic black sludge drains out of the bottom, but the key word is "drains", not "leaks." That sludge is drained, via pipes, out and sent to a waste treatment plant, and turned into, get this, water, just like your poo, another toxic sludge.
Your state gets paid to put somebody else's trash in your landfill. Enjoy, your future grandkids get an extra pencil in school. But where does that money come from? Garbage service costs money, not tax money.
This one is going to hurt a little: We are not running out of rescores. Just look at the market place for proof. Hi supply, lo demand. Wood is cheap, so is paper, unless you are buying recycled paper. Plastics are made from petroleum, just like gas, and even though it doesn't seem like it, gas is cheep. Even when it was only a dollar a gallon, compared to, say, a loaf of bread, it was more expensive than it is now! Do you know how paper farms work? If not, please allow me. As an example, some guy bought land, let's says five acres, and decided to become a tree farmer and to produce paper. The first year he cut down one acre and turned it into paper and planted more trees. Not just any trees, mind you, but trees that grow fast and thick, they are more like bushes, really, they aren't friggin' red woods. The next year he cut down another acre and planted more trees. He repeated this process until the sixth year. On the sixth year he harvested the first that first acre all over again! So four out of five acres are taking all of the carbon dioxide you feel so guilty about and turned it into clean air. But our story takes a sad twist, folks. A few years from now the government puts a law into place that says all paper must be recycled, and there is just no demand for our tree farmer's trees. Sure, some other tree farmers hold out and manage to make a living after most of the other tree farmers pack up shop, but our tree farmer just couldn't wait, and sold his land to Wal-Mart, and now instead of a healthy, growing tree farm, you get a Super Center, and a parking lot.
Recycling also produces more pollution than virgin materials. When you cut down a tree and turn it into paper you produce 17 toxins. When you recycle enough to make the same amount of paper, you produce 20 toxins. Both processes twelve of those pollutants are the same, but they are in greater numbers in the recycling process.
The simple truth is the government has lied to you, starting in grade school, and then later on CNN. I hope you don't just automatically believe me that is half of my point, do the research, and find out for yourself. And remember when the news tells you that you should be scared of something, they have to compete with South Park or the Simpsons, and they know, good and well, if you ain't scared, you ain't watching the news.
Eight Great Myths of Recycling
by Daniel K. Benjamin
http://www.perc.org/pdf/ps28.pdf
This guy actually took the time to do the research for himself and site his references! I will just try to "Reader's Digest" it for you.
First think for a moment, just why you recycle, apart from the afore mentioned warm and fuzzy feeling you get.
Is it because you are afraid that we are running out of space for landfills?
Is it because you are afraid that landfills are poisonous?
Is it because you don't want some state shipping their garbage from their state to yours, because they don't have a landfill and your state does?
Is it because you don't want to run out of rescores?
Is it because it just protects the environment in general?
Before I get into just how unjustified these fears are I just want to say that I used to have the same fears as well, I was raised in the same fear mongering school systems you were and you parents were except they were told to fear the communists (I will get more into that when I post my blog on Global Warming, it really is spooky). I just got lucky, that's all. Somebody actually bothered to do the research for themselves and I was fortunate enough to catch wind of it.
We are simply not running out of landfills, or places to put them. As long as we can waste land on golf courses, we have room for future landfills, and as long as we have landfills, we have room for future golf courses, of public parks or what ever, Wal-Marts, I don't know.
Modern landfills are not dangerous to the environment. Yes, they produce methane gas, but if you burn it, it poses no threat to the environment, and, yes, they produce a toxic black sludge drains out of the bottom, but the key word is "drains", not "leaks." That sludge is drained, via pipes, out and sent to a waste treatment plant, and turned into, get this, water, just like your poo, another toxic sludge.
Your state gets paid to put somebody else's trash in your landfill. Enjoy, your future grandkids get an extra pencil in school. But where does that money come from? Garbage service costs money, not tax money.
This one is going to hurt a little: We are not running out of rescores. Just look at the market place for proof. Hi supply, lo demand. Wood is cheap, so is paper, unless you are buying recycled paper. Plastics are made from petroleum, just like gas, and even though it doesn't seem like it, gas is cheep. Even when it was only a dollar a gallon, compared to, say, a loaf of bread, it was more expensive than it is now! Do you know how paper farms work? If not, please allow me. As an example, some guy bought land, let's says five acres, and decided to become a tree farmer and to produce paper. The first year he cut down one acre and turned it into paper and planted more trees. Not just any trees, mind you, but trees that grow fast and thick, they are more like bushes, really, they aren't friggin' red woods. The next year he cut down another acre and planted more trees. He repeated this process until the sixth year. On the sixth year he harvested the first that first acre all over again! So four out of five acres are taking all of the carbon dioxide you feel so guilty about and turned it into clean air. But our story takes a sad twist, folks. A few years from now the government puts a law into place that says all paper must be recycled, and there is just no demand for our tree farmer's trees. Sure, some other tree farmers hold out and manage to make a living after most of the other tree farmers pack up shop, but our tree farmer just couldn't wait, and sold his land to Wal-Mart, and now instead of a healthy, growing tree farm, you get a Super Center, and a parking lot.
Recycling also produces more pollution than virgin materials. When you cut down a tree and turn it into paper you produce 17 toxins. When you recycle enough to make the same amount of paper, you produce 20 toxins. Both processes twelve of those pollutants are the same, but they are in greater numbers in the recycling process.
The simple truth is the government has lied to you, starting in grade school, and then later on CNN. I hope you don't just automatically believe me that is half of my point, do the research, and find out for yourself. And remember when the news tells you that you should be scared of something, they have to compete with South Park or the Simpsons, and they know, good and well, if you ain't scared, you ain't watching the news.
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