Unicorns LOVE Virgins-- And Other Fairy Tales

Nobody Knows Have you seen the Progressive car insurance commercial where the bimbo Progressive Lady says that when she thinks of togetherness (like auto and house insurance) she thinks of glitter and unicorns?

I know...I'm glad she's not my neighbor. But, that got me to thinking...just about EVERYONE in the world thinks that unicorns never existed. Never..just a fairy tale princess item made up to make millions of little toys for little girls to fantasize about having her own pony.

Okay, bear with me because I never had a thing for unicorns..but the other day, I read this account, written by a man named John Sparke, in 1565:

"The Floridians have pieces of unicorns' horns, which they wear about their
necks, whereof the Frenchmen obtained many pieces. Of those unicorns they have
many, for that they do affirm it to be a beast with one horn, which coming to
the river to drink, puts the same into the water before she drinks."

Yeah...guess what? Years ago...everyone talked about unicorns as if they were just another fish in the sea, turtle on the log, bar-bee on the skillet. Who knew?

John goes on to describe the rest of the animals of Florida in great detail, all of whom still exist today, and lumped the unicorn right in there with the dolphins and flamingos. It was obvious that John Sparke did not SEE the unicorns, but believed they existed because the natives and the French guys had the horns around their necks.

This was before men could buy Mercedes Benzes.

And he wasn't alone.. Unicorns are in many accounts of Greek historians. Ctesias described then as wild asses, "fleet of foot, having a horn a cubit and a half in length and colored white, red, and black. Aristotle mentioned two one-horned animals, the Oryx and the "Indian ass." Strabo says there were one-horned horses with stag-like heads. Pliny the Elder describes what seems to be a rhinoceros: "a very fierce animal called the monoceros which has the head of the stag, the feet of the elephant, and the tail of a boar, while the rest of the body is like that of a horse: it makes a deep lowing noise, and has a single black horn, which projects from the middle of its forehead, two cubits in length."

The bible mentions them quite a few times...for example: "God brought them out of Egypt: he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn."

Marco Polo described them as scarcely smaller than elephants.

"They have the hair of a buffalo and feet like an elephant's. They have a
single large black horn in the middle of the forehead, and they have the head
like a wild boar's. They spend their time by preference wallowing in mud and
slime. They are very ugly brutes to look at. They are not at all such as we
describe them when we relate that they let themselves be captured by virgins,
but clean contrary to our notions. "

Good old Marco Polo. No wonder they named a swimming game after him.

Yeah...I love history. Especially this part: Unicorns, according to all those who knew one, could be captured by a virgin. (Okay, when I was a virgin, I couldn't capture a damn thing..what gives here?)

Leonardo Da Vinci wrote:

"The unicorn, through its intemperance and not knowing how to control
itself, for the love it bears to fair maidens forgets it ferocity and wildness;
and laying aside all fear it will go up to a seated damsel and go to sleep in
her lap, and thus the hunters take it."

Good old Leonardo. Not quite up to Marco's observations..but definitely more entertaining.

Wow...there's a moral in there somewhere. Mean and horny beasts, who cannot control themselves, become kittens in the laps of virgins. We need to find some virgins fast and send them to the Capitol....

Or else America will become the next fairy tale.

So, was there ever such a creature as a unicorn?

John Sparke says yes. And I'm certainly not going to argue with history, or virgins.

Bin Ladin...Lost in Transportation

Nobody Remembers: Those of you who know me...know WHY I have such affection for Seal Team Six, and how glad I was that they finally killed the scumbag who changed our world so drastically, and caused so much suffering to so many of our people.

When I told my husband, (who was playing sniper video games last night) that bin Laden had been killed by Seal Team Six...he calmly said: "Yeah, I believe that...even though it's not suppose to exist."

Bin Laden lived ten years longer than he should have. Good riddence to garbage.

And now...in celebration....a word from our sponcer:

"Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him. As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God " Psalms (68:1)

Nobody Writes Letter to Jonathan Capehart

Note to Readers: If you are new here, I most apologize up front. This blog is looooog...it just so happens some guy (see his iece) insulted Michelle Backmann, and it just put my patriotic feathers in a big huff. It's about how the libs LOVE to rewrite history.

We can't let them do that now, can we?

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Nobody Cares about what happened this last week. It seems, since Palin has keep off the grid, Michelle Backmann is the new target for the liberals. (Yes. I said target. It's a word. It has meaning. It's in the dictionary...have they banned the dictionary yet?)

Michelle very graciously gave the tea party's rebuttal to Obama's State of the Union Speech.

Because they (progressives) couldn't criticize what she said, (Which were FACTS.) they criticized her eyes. They looked funny. And then, Jonathan Capehart, a black writer for the Washington Post, went further and reprimanded Michelle for being stupid and not knowing history, I guess like he knows it. Chris Matthews then jumped on the bandwagon and joined in. Rather viciously.

What was this about?

Michelle said this:

"I think it is high time that we recognize the contribution of our forbearers who worked tirelessly -- men like John Quincy Adams, who would not rest until slavery was extinguished in the country."

And Jonathan replied:

"Bachmann also earned my raised eyebrow with her musings on slavery -- a "scourge" -- and the founding fathers, who she said "worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States." wrote Jonathan. Talking Points Memo corrected Bachmann's history lesson by pointing out that Adams wasn't one of the founders and that he died 15 years before the Emancipation Proclamation. Perhaps she was thinking of John Adams, the second president of the United States, who is different from John Quincy Adams, the new nation's sixth president."

NOBODY SAYS---: Oh..pass me that shot of tequila boys... I'm about to unload on this guy.

Nobody's Letter to Mr. Capehart of the Washington Post.

Dear Mr. Capehart,

I don't know you, but with a raised eyebrow, and a bag of potato chips, I am here to prove, by irrefutable historical fact, that you, dear sir, owe Michelle Backmann an apology.
Sit back, ..and learn...and watch those eyes.

PART ONE: FOUNDER

You say that John Quincy Adams was not a founder? Never mind that Michelle said forefather NOT founder.

(You just can't trust a liberal with a noun these days, look what happened to Monica.)

I suppose that in your mind, as in most Americans, the only founders that come up are the simple ones to remember...right? Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Monroe, and Madison. And why do you think that is?

Because most third graders can only remember a few names at a time.

John Quincy was the fifth President you say? So that means he is not a founder?

Let's review a few of his accomplishments for our newly founded country: pretend you're in the seventh grade now.

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At 7, JQA witnessed the Battle of Bunker Hill. At 14, he helped his father John Adams, (while the country was at war) in France because his father, founder John Adams, couldn't speak French. JQA could. THINK: John Adams was a founder. He needed his son to translate.

He then parted with his father and helped the country's FIRST ambassador to Russia., Francis Dana. He learned French, Dutch and German.

He was..just getting started.

George Washington appointed him ambassador to the Netherlands. (Remember, this was when we only had a handful of ambassadors who really worked, unlike today when thousands of retired politicians are handed cushy jobs where the hardest part of their day is deciding what high priced restaurant to eat at) These few men had a boatload of influence in the major decisions of the early days.

When John Adams, his father became President, he served as US ambassador to Prussia, from 1797-1801.

When Thomas Jefferson became President, JQA became a Senator from Massachusetts, and then because he backed Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase in Congress, his party, broke with him.

James Madison made him the ambassador to Russia. He helped negotiate the Treaty of Ghent to put an end to the War of 1812. In 1815 he became the minister to Great Britain.

While serving as Secretary of State under James Monroe, (Wow...all these founders, must have thought a lot of this guy..huh?) he helped us (while supporting his nemesis Jackson) obtain Florida.

What...a country without Florida? Did he NOT found...Florida? At least give him credit for that.

Jonathan, he made a treaty with Britain to stop all slave trading, but the Senate rejected it.

He is the author of the Monroe Doctrine. One of MY personal favorite quotes from his is "America goes not abroad searching for Monsters to destroy."

In 1825, Adams became the fifth President. He ran against Andrew Jackson, a propionate of slavery, and a hater of Indians, (which JQA was not) and Jackson was furious. He served one term and lost to Jackson.

Summary to this point: Even though he was just a kid during the revolution, his service during the war, and after the war to his country, just as ambassador to all the other nations...(remember he worked all of Europe) should make him equally important. In my Nobody Opinion, JQA should be included as one of the last FOUNDERS, but I'll go with Michelle...as a forbearer.

John Quincy was a much an American hero as Jefferson. (Who may I add, sat in his house during the entire war.) He helped the new nation get a steady foothold in the world.

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PART TWO: JQA WAS the Father of Anti-Slavery

Talking points Memo to Jonathan: Let me get this straight, Jonathan. You think that since JQA died 15 years before the Emancipation Proclamation he had nothing to do with getting rid of slavery, am I correct? Let me prove that he is most likely was the author of that concept.

I hope you're getting yourself a nice hot toddy right now Jonathan; Here's what you really need to know-----

In 1830 John Adams served in the House, eight terms. Oh, this was AFTER his Presidency.

His first act as Congressmen was to present a petition in favor of abolishing slavery in D.C.

NOBODY NOTES: (Read John Quincy Adams by Lynn Hudson Parsons to find out why just D.C,. I can't do all the work for you.)

In the next few years, while Jackson was President, JQA alone presented hundreds of anti-slavery petitions, they were referred to committees and forgotten.

Democrats loved their slaves.

And so Congress invented the "gag rule" which violated the Bill of Rights, but nevertheless the Democrats who WANTED slavery to continue, used it to stifle discussion.

Andrew Jackson called for a national censorship law. (Obama's internet gags coming soon?)

Adams was rallying for the abolition of slavery long before Lincoln. What? Did you think Abraham, one man alone should take credit for the abolition of slavery?

Both John and his son, hated the institution. Unlike Washington and Jefferson, they had no slaves because they put their principles before their comfort. Washington and Jefferson should have done the same...but they didn't.

Adams said, "The rottenness of the heart of our Union is Slavery."

As the years of 'gagging" persisted, John Quincy became the abolitionists hero. And he tried every trick in the book, just to present the 'gag" rule to be removed. Again it came up.
The Congress were full of Harry Reids. They wrote:

"all petitions, memorials, resolutions, propositions, or papers, relating to in any way, or to any extent whatsoever, the subject of slavery, or the abolitions of slavery, shall without being printed or observed, be laid on the table, and that no further action whatsoever shall be had therein."

(Gotta love those democrats.)

Adams rose to protest "Am I gagged or not?" The resolution passed117-68.

Nope. Sorry. Slaves are cheap, (and those poor illegal's)

For the next decade Adams, fought alone, but slowly he got a few helpers in the House.
And in time, the abolitions were out in droves, in churches: everywhere.

In 1842 (It's now been twelve years since he started) JQA had a single petition with 51,863 signatures.

"Adams became an expert at cramming in a s much of a petition contests as he could before being declared out of order." --Lynn Hudson Parsons

There is NO one in Congress today that matches the hatred that Adams held among his colleges in Congress. They tried to censure him, time and again. But he was there...fighting for the rights of slaves to be addressed.

He was called a Massachusetts madman. He was getting death threats from the South. They wanted to flog him, shoot him, hang him, or cut his "damned guts out in the dark." Adams ignored them. But don't think he didn't suffer. Like Lincoln, he had many bouts with depression.
Okay, you get it. It got nasty...year after year, this man was hated by the slave owners.

Never to despair...when given anothor chance, he gave a three hour speech to remove the gag rule, in 1841, but the slaveholders launched an attack that lasted for three days. It was defeated, but it was close.

Also in 1841, he took the evils of slavery in the Amistad case all the way to the Supreme Court.
It woke up a nation. And finally on December 3, 1844, the gag rule was removed.

"Blessed, ever blessed be the name of God. I regard it as the apoplexy of the Constitution." said JQA.

During the war for Texas, John Adams suggested that if Congress was to declare war (JQA, without good reasons, thought the Southerners wanted Texas to broaden the slave states) they should free the slaves if they expected the Northern men to fight.

Yes, Adams suggested the use of Emancipation Proclamation...

Here's a bit from Wikipedia:

If a civil war ever broke out the president could abolish slavery by using his war powers, a correct prediction of Abraham Lincoln's use of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. Adams met Abraham Lincoln during the latter's sole term as a member of the House of Representatives, from 1847 until Adams' death. Thus, it has been suggested that Adams is the only major figure in American history who knew both the Founding Fathers and Abraham Lincoln.

Adams had been pushing this idea for some time. Lincoln met with him...knew him...and took his suggestion. Just like Henry Ford took Edison's suggestions when he got stuck on mechanical problems with his Model T.

Adams thought of it first...hate to break it to you, Jonathan.

So I hope you have learned something today Mr. Capehart. Michelle was right. It's high time John Adams and his son John Quincy Adams got their proper respect for not only putting this country on its proper course, but fighting Democrat's love of slavery....and against great odds.

If I seem a little cranky about your "mistake" ...it's because I come from VERY crabby and cranky, and not so politically correct ancestors. They were the FIRST Tea Party...family, and I just can't help myself.

That's JQA, my grandfather George, and me standing next to a likeness of Sam Adams.(I've got Sam's great legs...don't ya think?)

Sam, the REAL &*$&^ disturber of the family just got promoted, after what? How many years? I hear they had his statue moved up from sitting right outside the ladies bathroom in the basement, to the Capitol Rotunda floor.

Way to go Sam. Hang in there. Another three hundred years and you'll make it to the mall!

NONE of the Adams were politicians. They were much too honest, and principled. It hurt them in both their Presidency's. Nevertheless, no one deserves a memorial than the Adams'.

So, this nobody suggests somewhere near the Smithsonian, because if not for JQA who protected the donated money from congress...it wouldn't even be there.

So Jonathan--- Tell Chris Mathews to call me, next time he gets a thrill.

Your Welcome,

Love ya!

Joyanna Adams

Nobody Flashes: The American Year of Hidalgo

Nobody Flashes: In his book Revolution of Hope, (which I got on sale for one dollar at my local book store) Vicente Fox pointed out this fact in his introduction;

"The traditional cycle of our six-year-presidential term, the sexenio, worked like this: A president used his first five years to spend the nation deep into debt. In his sixth year, known as the "Year of Hidalgo," he cut off the flow of money to the economy and diverted hundreds of millions of dollars from Mexico's oil revenues to fund the campaign of his successor. Then the incumbent handed the sash to the man to whom he'd "given the finer" and got the hell out of the country, before the economic crisis kicked in. Typically, Mexico's former presidents exiled themselves to Ireland, drew on their Swiss bank accounts, and hid from the world in walled suburban villas."

Wow, sounds like a blueprint right out of Obama's White House.

What's funny is that Mr. Fox doesn't want to spend his retiring years in his beloved country of Mexico, where he even has a Presidential library, just like the American Presidents.

Politicians are amazing. Vicente now lives in Ohio, where he owns a farm...The Bushes have farms in South America, and this nobody wonders where Obama's farm will be?

Hawaii? Dubai? Kenya?

The important thing is: if you have been a President of a country in this new global network of "criminal ink" as Glenn Beck so succinctly puts it, you'd better get yourself a farm...preferable, in another country, where you can live a life of hope that you're crimes will never be exposed...but if they are: all you will need is your farm, your wife, and your Swiss Bank accounts.

We should all be so lucky.

Nudging America to Change

Nobody Reports on a Monday






Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness.
Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness.
Thereby you can be director of the opponent’s fate

Sun Tzu, The Art of War.

So, what do you think? How’s that extremely subtle “nudging” coming? Bribing Senators with million dollar cash give-a-ways is not exactly what I’d call…subtle.

I watched some of the Obama’s White House Christmas on TV tonight, you know, the usual yearly Christmas tour at the White House---and I noticed three things:

The overall theme was “red”...besides the mantra of "hope and change" there was no theme: the first family could not, it seems, find the time to take us through the house…

But they ARE going to have some 30 holiday parties: and Sun Tzu was sitting in the Red Room, talking no doubt to the ghosts of Lincoln.

But here on my little street…Christmas is till very much alive.

It’s good to know, Obama is not America.

America, and its spirit, is still strong and full of form, simple to understand, and screams the desire for the loud and joyous sounds of “freedom.”

America, and Christmas…go together like pumpkin pie and whipped cream, and no amount of red change in the White House is going to change that recipe.

We WILL hand it down. You better believe it.

In fact, Sun Tzu made one mistake… he didn’t have a shredder; therefore, he is no mystery any longer.

You can’t kill a star. Little poor babes in mangers have been known to destroy empires, Kings, and fools. And the greatest nation ever to be built on the planet will not go down with a medicare whimper...

And sometimes...out of nowhere comes…a miracle.

It’s happened before, it will happen again.

The more Obama tries to be formless..as he has expressed in all his platitudes and empty lies, the more he succeeds in reminding us who we really are...

America...land of the free, home of the brave.

Let's hope he keeps it up.

NOBODY FLASHES: LATE MAIL!

Nobody's Very Late E-Mail favorite!

Let me first say a big "THANKS" to my two very observant readers, Earl and amfortas for pointing out that my "Kirk" moment was in fact...a Picard moment, proving once again that it's all in the details, and why nobody in their right minds would ever publish anything that I say.

I DID have a somewhat excuse though...last night, I thought my son might be on his deathbed, and to say the least, I had very little control over my own mind.

And if you have ever known a mother in panic mode...the fact that I even posted anything at all was short of a miracle. I will tell you about it tomorrow...and I beg you to remember, I may not be perfect, but then again (It's okay, he's alive) I'm not Tiger Woods either, thank goodness.!

Now, I give the credit to Earl Pundit for picking this week's e-mail...it's got a very good "point" and therefore I'll just shut up, and let it speak for itself....see you tomorrow!

A German's View on Islam

A man, whose family was German aristocracy prior to World War II, owned a number of large industries and estates. When asked how many German people were true Nazis, the answer he gave can guide our attitude toward fanaticism. ' Very few people were true Nazis,' he said, 'but many enjoyed the return of German pride, and many more were too busy to care. I was one of those who just thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools. So, the majority just sat back and let it all happen. Then, before we knew it, they owned us, and we had lost control, and the end of the world had come. My family lost everything. I ended up in a concentration camp and the Allies destroyed my factories.'

We are told again and again by 'experts' and 'talking heads' that Islam is the religion of peace and that the vast majority of Muslims just want to live in peace. Although this unqualified assertion may be true, it is entirely irrelevant. It is meaningless fluff, meant to make us feel better, and meant to somehow diminish the spectre of fanatics rampaging across the globe in the name of Islam.

The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history. It is the fanatics who march. It is the fanatics who wage any one of 50 shooting wars worldwide. It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa and are gradually taking over the entire continent in an Islamic wave. It is the fanatics who bomb, behead, murder, or honour-kill. It is the fanatics who take over mosque after mosque. It is the fanatics who zealously spread the stoning and hanging of rape victims and homosexuals. It is the fanatics who teach their young to kill and to become suicide bombers.

The hard, quantifiable fact is that the peaceful majority, the 'silent majority,' is cowed and extraneous.

Communist Russia was comprised of Russians who just wanted to live in peace, yet the Russian Communists were responsible for the murder of about 20 million people. The peaceful majority were irrelevant. China's huge population was peaceful as well, but Chinese Communists managed to kill a staggering 70 million people.

The average Japanese individual prior to World War II was not a warmongering sadist. Yet, Japan murdered and slaughtered its way across South East Asia in an orgy of killing that included the systematic murder of 12 million Chinese civilians; most killed by sword, shovel, and bayonet.

And who can forget Rwanda, which collapsed into butchery. Could it not be said that the majority of Rwandans were 'peace loving'?

History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt, yet for all our powers of reason, we often miss the most basic and uncomplicated of points:

Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their silence. Peace-loving Muslims will become our enemy if they don't speak up, because like my friend from Germany, they will awaken one day and find that the fanatics own them, and the end of their world will have begun.

Peace-loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans, Serbs, Afghans, Iraqis, Palestinians, Somalis, Nigerians, Algerians, and many others have died because the peaceful majority did not speak up until it was too late. As for us who watch it all unfold, we must pay attention to the only group that counts--the fanatics who threaten our way of life.

Nobody Wins: Buddy Bedula Biden

Nobody Wins:

Everyone and his step-sister was attacking Sarah Palin, today once again, because she had the audacity to attack the liberal bias of the press in an interview and bring up the very plain fact that she was treated horribly as a candidate, by most everyone.

Well....of course she was. We all witnessed it.

She mentioned the fact that lie after vicious lie was told about her family...one of the most pernicious being that this sweet little boy that we see her holding with her husband was really her daughters.

Well.. this nobody for one, has had enough!

Since nobody gave Joe Biden equal time when HE was running as Obama's Vice President, I think it's about time everyone know...Joe Biden's lost child...Buddy Badula Biden.

Yes, it is well known in private circles that Joe has been hiding knowledge about his son for many years now...and the even more embarrassing fact that despite his looks, Buddy's IQ is higher than Joe's. And that Joe has kept him, much like Joe Kennedy's kept his "gifted" child, holed up in his attic...but the press, due to their liberal bias, will not tell you this.

Yesterday, this...person came out and admitted that he was the son of Joe and a one night stand he had in San Francisco, many years ago.

I suggest Ann Coulter get right on this. (Go Ann!)

(Okay, I made this up. But really...I do see a resemblance...don't you? If the liberal bias can make up stupid stuff, I don't see why we can't give it right back because they are not going to stop.)

Maybe if more of the REAL American women out there get their grizzly mama bear claws out, they'd stop this idiotic stuff. (Okay, maybe not, but we might as well have fun too.)

Nobody Makes A New Year's Resolution

Nobody's Perfect: This just about sums up my mixed feelings concerning the end of 2008, and the beginning of 2009.

By all accounts, and according to all reports, (Done by mostly pundits who make a really good living scaring the heck out of us all.) next year will be worse than WWI, WWII, the Civil War, the fall of the Roman Empire, Stalin's reign of Terror, the great depression, and Nancy Pelosi losing a nail---all rolled into one.

We can expect to "starve, lose our jobs, houses, cars, and ability to buy $100 shoes. We will be nuked, biologically attacked, raped by an illegal alien, lose our electric, get heat rash in the snow from global warming, crushed by crumbling highways, lose our homes to unforeseeable earthquakes, more fires, floods, tornadoes....and never again be able to afford season hockey tickets"...not necessarily in that order.

So, in order to give us all a bit of a kick...remember..in 1777, the Redcoats controlled New York City, Fort Ticonderoga was overtaken by the British in July, Washington lost the Battle of Brandywine, 300 Americans were killed at the Paoli Masacre, all our ammunition was destroyed due to rain, Vally Forge left bloody footprints in the snow, two of the Generals were alcoholics, the British captured Philadelphia, and the number of Congressmen went from 56 to 20, (Right now, that would be a blessing!) and France was not about to join in a losing effort.

All this before HD TV, and Monday night football.

The remaining delegates met in YORK, and all was about to be given up, when Sam Adams made this amazing rally:

"If we despond, public confidence is destroyed, the people will no longer yield their support to a hopeless contest, and American liberty is no more. Through the darkness which shrouds our prospect the ark of safety is visible. Despondency becomes not the dignity of our cause, nor the character of those who are its supporters."

He went on to say more great stuff...but you'll have to read the book: Samuel Adams..A Life, by Ira Stoll. It's a great work, well worth your depression buck.

S0....

Here's my Nobody New Year's Resolution: In the next year, I will strive to do my best, not to let the tremendous implications of what it means to have the Clintons and all their monkeys back in power, get the best of me. If it does, may I have a sense of humor at the right times..but:

I'm not perfect. Nobody's Perfect...There WILL be times when I will be so angry, and so full of the madness of it all, I might start getting really emotional. In those times, I beg of you to see me as what I'm proud to be...an American.

Really...if we don't fight for our country, then our men and women fighting in other countries will come home to tyranny, even if that tyranny is hard to trace.

Besides...we should fight for all those that fought before us.

I figure we owe it to them.

We should NOT let America and it's founding ideals be erased forever into the globalization of a handful of greedy and power hungry oligarchs, who have already set up a most formidable system to control us, and our children forever. Despite their denial, the facts are all around us.

This has not been overnight.

Personally, I think the odds are against us all...but I also remember the line from the Star Trek movie, when Captain Kirk was talking to Captain Picard, (or is it Pecard?) when they were both lost the Nexus---and the Captain Picard asked Kirk to come and help him save a planet. (They were both on horseback...remember?)

To which he asked if the odds of succeeding were impossible, and if there was danger?

"Yes, most certainly"

"Sound like fun." said Kirk.

Captain Kirk, okay, was an actor. But that scene was the perfect example of the American spirit of Sam Adams.

And since this is my first public resolution, I don't intend to break it. I count on you to hold me to it. In fact, keeping this one is going to be...easy.

Not getting mad when my dog pees on my carpet...

I might not make that resolution this year...maybe next. There is only so much perfection in one year I can manage.

Richard S. Fuld Jr...Striving for Perfection

Nobody's Perfect: This is a very good picture of Richard S. Fuld Jr.. the CEO of Lehman Brothers, the one company that was allowed to fail in the "Pearl Harbor" (as Warren Buffet likes to call it) of Wall Street... and so this man, knowing that his company was not going to be bailed out by the government, quickly made sure that all high executives got their million dollar bonuses.

He feels horrible about what happened, he says. Today before Congress, he tried hard to admit that he was not perfect...but just didn't quite pull it off.

Richard really needs to work on his humbleness, despite all his fine statements.

Yes, Richard feels a bit bad, because he went ahead and listened to the President's cousin, George H. Walker, a Lehman executive who assured the board that going under without giving everyone huge monetary bonuses was just plain Texas silly.

Of course all the executives should take whatever they could grasp! That's the Texas way boys!

We see Richard looking very dubiously evil in this picture. See Richard walking away with over 430 million and also whatever he secretly makes by serving on the Federal Reserve Board of Directors of Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

See Richard getting investigated by his homeboys, the Congress, which is suppose to make us all feel better.

And I, personally can't wait, to see just where he goes next....U.S. Treasury?

That would be PERFECT!

A Universal Translator

Nobody Flashes: One of the reasons our school's are not doing so well is because there are now over two thousand and seventy-six different languages being spoken, and English seems to be--- not one of them.

So much money is being spend "helping" out all those students who do not speak English, that teachers are quitting in droves, because they feel that money should go to THEM...instead of interpreters of Portuguese.

Why bother teaching anymore? One nation, under the new Tower of Babel Educational system, goes beyond the usual tolerance of "support every vice and diversion under the sun," NEA administrator.

Tolerance only goes so far.

Just ask any Democratic Presidencial candidate...they all think that to ask all the people in the nation to speak one common language would be equivalent to asking all Hollywood actors to profess their love of President George W. Bush.

So, we obviously need someone to invent an instant I-POD translator. One that we can embedded into every student, which will give electric shocks whenever they speak any other language but English in their classes. Due to this new invention, they will hear in English...and will have to speak English, or else suffer tremendous headaches.

And next time you hear Newt Gingrich say he thinks English should be the official language of the "government"...remember, his last speech was in Spanish.

The idea is to leave the masses totally confused, so that the ruling elite can control them better.

And for that, they have God to thank, after all, he thought of the idea first.

Now, if only some of them would look back, when the tower falls.

Meltdown

Nobody's Opinion....No matter what you think of the market, if you missed this, you should catch it here...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWksEJQEYVU

If you have not seen this meltdown of Cramer, it's a moment to remember.

Most of the time, I'm happy to be a nobody, the market is a headache for the rich.

But, this man, has been breathing this stuff since he was in the womb. His father taught him to play the market when he was nine.

The woman, put in for decoration it seems...is lost. She is NO match for the "old" guy.

So are the Feds lost? Or do they know exactly what they are doing? Mmmmm?

Nobody Knows. Either way...it's mattress time.

What Would Christopher Columbus Say About Iraq?

Nobody’s Opinion: I decided to take a break from the depressing news of the week, and Alex Baldwin is by all accounts, deranged.

So, here are some other nobody thoughts about a guy every one of us heard about in lst grade…Christopher Columbus, and his look on life.

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In 1493, Christopher Columbus wrote a letter to one of his ‘patrons,’ Lord Raphael Sanchez, treasurer of Aragon.

He starts out his letter: “Knowing that it will afford you pleasure to learn that I have brought my undertaking to a successful termination, I have decided upon writing you this letter to acquaint you with all the events which have occurred in my voyage, and the discoveries which have resulted from it.”

The key word to be noticed here is “successful.” Never mind that Columbus thought he had reached the shores of Asia, but actually found instead, Cuba and the Caribbean islands. Never mind that he really did NOT succeed in what he was looking for, a way past the throat-cutting Muslims, and a new route to China.

In that he failed miserably.

But as far as Columbus was concerned, his voyage was an enormous “success.”

“Success”---a word that our current Democratic Congress would like to outlaw forever into some vast pool of American words never to be used again.

Columbus was successful because, by boldly taking a risk on his vision, to go where no one else had gone, he opened up for decades to come, Spain’s domination of the world…for a while.

Before you start saying, hey Joyanna, “The Spanish went out and plundered, got slaves, stole gold, and destroyed the ingenious population of South America with disease.”

That’s another blog. Let’s stick to Columbus for now, and the meaning of “success.”

“Success” has always been a word Americans have strived for. After all, we pretty much industrialized (along with England) the planet. We have been the most successful country in history. And our innumerable successes have benefited every nation on the earth.

But now, due to a tremendous propaganda machine put in place by the “liberals” it seems the word “success” has been deemed a very dirty word, (much worse than Hoe) and has been replaced with the word, “tolerance.”

We are being told that America must tame our “successful” drives to make way for the new “global citizenships.”

They have redefined America’s success …as imperialism. And now, we must admit we are failures in everything we do.

Harry Reid this week has come out and said that Iraq is a failure, the war is lost. And by all means, in Baghdad, so it seems to be. The civil war has begun.

But if you read Christopher Hitchens piece, “Holiday in Iraq” in the April issue of Vanity Fair, in the North of Iraq, where the Kurds are now thriving, it seems the American’s have done a very good thing. Chris visited Kurdistan at Christmas with his son.

“Walking anywhere at night in any Kurdish town is safer than it is in many American cities,” says Chris. “I was among those who thought and believed and argued that this example could, and should, be extended to the rest of the country, the cause became a consuming thing in my life.”

So yes, our President has at least one strong voice on his side.

But if it was George Bush’s intention to completely democratize all of Iraq, then just
like Christopher Columbus, President George W. Bush has missed his true goal entirely.

It’s a good chance, with half the world against him, he will fail. Columbus after all, did not have CNN nightly news always badgering him about his “failure to find a route.” And unlike the year 1492, in 2007, we have come to realize there are no more routes around the throat-cutting Muslims anymore.

They can now fly to us.

Yes, Christopher Columbus wanted to find a route to China. President Bush says that by promoting democracy in the area for the future, we will have less to fear from a future attack.

Christopher Hitchens believes that, and so does, believe it or not, Bill Clinton.

And who is this nobody to argue? The Democrats have been telling us that it’s President George W. Bush that the world should fear. Still, when we were attacked, the President hadn’t been in power very long.

The liberals have a nasty habit of trying to make everyone think in the emotional moment. Instead of thinking in 3-D, they want you to think only in their one dimensional, world of “vote for me.” I will save you.

Nevertheless---we must ask ourselves: Is there something else that is being accomplished here that, like Columbus’s voyage, will in the future, actually benefits our nation?

Columbus opened up decades of wealth for Spain, and yes, no doubt America stands to gain from the oil. American companies will expand throughout the region in time. It’s no secret that our huge international Corporations want into every single nation on the planet, and that includes all the Arab states.

But this vast imperialism as it is called is not exactly going to hurt all these other nations. On the contrary, it will probably destroy us instead.

Our loss of jobs, is building vast middle classes in India and China, at the expense of the middle class in America. We are actually hurting OURSELVES more than hurting other nations on that account. I wouldn’t call that imperialism.

But…the most important fact we need to think on is that the Muslim religion, as we see now in Baghdad, is not exactly one that any American would want to bow down to.

Not ever.

Yet, we are doing that in this country right now, in our schools and communities.

The premise of religious tolerance, as put forth by our founders, also meant that the religion we tolerate must ALSO tolerate us.

It’s got to be a two-way street.

And that is not in the Islamic belief. They do not believe in this “tolerance” that the liberals want us all to succumb to.

Let’s just suppose for the sake of reason, that Columbus had been a Muslim. When he came upon the naked and vulnerable people of the Islands, would he have treated them so decently?

Here Christopher Columbus, the Christian, described the trading habits of the natives: “They also gave objects of great value (gold) for trifles, and content themselves with very little or nothing in return. I, however, forbade that these trifles and articles of no value (such as pieces of dishes, plates, and glass, keys and leather straps) should be given to them.”

Columbus forbade his men to take advantage of them, in any way. But if he would have been a Muslim, he would have cut more than a few throats, and traded probably little for the gold that they offered. He would have asked for bribes…as has always been the habit of Muslim rulers for thousands of years.

And who know if they would have let the woman live. They were after all, naked to the core.

Columbus was a very devote Christian. One thing our schools don’t tell our kids.

In the ending of letter, after describing the rich and beautiful islands, the building of a fort by his men, and the many wonders he had found, (including that the women seem to do all the work and men and woman were monogamous) he said:

“But these great and marvelous results are not to be attributed to any merit of mine but to the holy Christian faith and to the piety and religion of our sovereigns; for that which the unaided intellect of man could not compass, the Spirit of God has granted to human exertions, for God is wont to hear the prayers of His servants who love His precepts even to the performance of apparent impossibilities.”

It as good thing Columbus wasn’t reporting to Harry Reid, because the Democrats have no clue what the words, “apparent impossibilities” mean.

So, as apparently impossible as the democratization of Iraq seems to be at this moment in time, maybe if the people that represented us, had a little more faith in America, someday there would be a child in Iraq, who would read in a book:

In 2009, the Iraq’s discovered a true peace and stability. Thanks to America.

So, America might ask…where is our Christopher Columbus? And would that Christopher have the vision to ask ,“Whose God do you worship?”

That would be a good start on a success, which beats failure any day.

Nobody’s Perfect: Now, having said all this that still doesn’t let President Bush off the hook for all the other awful things he is doing to us as regards to our border problem.

Nobody Knows: I really enjoyed the video that Mike LaSalle put up on the site---where Christopher’s Hitchens talks at Hart. Surprisingly, I also agree, (as did John Adams) that organized religion has been a curse to humanity in many ways.

On the other hand, the great gift from the Bible, the Ten Commandments, has been the basis for the rule of Law, and in that respect has done wonders for Western Civilization.

Nobody Cares; I am not actually a Christian....although I do beleive the man was God inspired... I was raised a Methodist, and my church ending days came when I went out one Easter to five different churches of different dominions and found each and every one of them locked.

But I do believe in the concept of God …whatever that concept turns out to be. And so did the natives of Cuba, because they thought Christopher Columbus was from heaven. It seems to be a universal feeling, (we even have genes for it) that…we are not alone.

Now, if God would just get rid of Castro, and all his leftist buddies...the apparently impossible.