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Where America is Headed

Several days ago, an uproar began in France. "Over what?", you might ask. Well, it wasn't over tax increases, and it wasn't over the Iraq war, and it wasn't over discrimination, and it wasn't over political corruption. No, let me tell you what this uproar was all about:

A new law is in the works in France. Here's what this new law would do: it would remove the government's power to prevent private businesses from hiring and firing as they choose. As it stands now, businesses cannot fire people unless the government approves of the reason. This law would give businesses the power to fire anyone under 26 years old without having to justify it during their first two years of employment. Why does France need this law? They need it because most of the people out there who are under 26 years old are completely worthless and incompetent employees(which, by the way, is a product of socialism). Employers know that if they hire one of these worthless workers, they won't be able to fire them. Therefore, they just aren't hiring young workers. That's why the unemployment rate for people under 26 is absolutely sky-high, over double the national rate and rising to 50% in some areas.

Do you understand how serious this is? In France, the government has to pass a law to prevent itself from interfering in private employment contracts because it maintains complete power in those situations now. If you're wondering why we should care what's happening in France, well, let me tell you. The left in this country basically wants to model our government after the socialists in Europe. They were successful in implementing a national minimum wage, they were successful in establishing all-powerful unions, and they will be successful in destroying the ability of businesses to thrive in this country if they get their way.

See, mine isn't just an ideological difference with leftists. The fact is, their way of doing things just does not work. History has shown time and time again that socialized anything leaves much to be desires. Just take a look at socialized medicine in Canada, where you have to wait over a month for an MRI, and now just take a look at socialized employment in France, where employers are scared to hire people because they know their new employees are likely to become blood-sucking leeches of their company.

Socialism doesn't work to bring people out of poverty. It keeps them there just as well as any dictator.

New Words for 2006

I received this in the email today as part of the "Boortz Blast." It's pretty good, so I thought I'd put it out there for all of you. I think my personal favorite is the "404." Or maybe it's the "Salmon Day." I have my share of those. Sooo many of them walking around out there. Enjoy.

1. BLAMESTORMING: Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.

2. SEAGULL MANAGER: A manager, who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves.

3. ASSMOSIS: The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard.

4. SALMON DAY: The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die in the end.

5. CUBE FARM: An office filled with cubicles

6. PRAIRIE DOGGING: When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm, and people's heads pop over the walls to see what's going on.

7. MOUSE POTATO: The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch potato.

8. SITCOMs: Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What Yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids.

9. STRESS PUPPY: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny.

10. SWIPEOUT: An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because the magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.

11. XEROX SUBSIDY: Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's workplace.

12. IRRITAINMENT: Entertainment and media spectacles that are annoying but you find yourself unable to stop watching them. The J-Lo and Ben wedding (or not) was a prime example - Michael Jackson, another...

13. PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.

14. ADMINISPHERE : The rarefied organizational layers beginning just above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the
adminisphere are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve.

15. 404: Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error Message "404 Not Found," meaning that the requested site could not be located.

16. GENERICA: Features of the American landscape that are exactly the same no matter where one is, such as fast food joints, strip malls, and subdivisions.

17. OHNOSECOND: That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just made a BIG mistake. (Like after hitting send on an email by mistake)

18. WOOFS: Well-Off Older Folks.

19. CROP DUSTING: Surreptitiously passing gas while passing through a Cube Farm.

More Idiocy From the Prime Idiots

In case you're wondering, I'm talking about the New York Times. For all the grief Fox News receives for its right-leaning slant (and yes, it does have some) the New York Times sure does seem to get a pass for its left-leaning slant. The latest incarnation is today's powerful story about how parental notification laws don't reduce abortion rates.

The purpose of this story isn't to pass along information, by the way. The purpose of this story is to serve as "proof" that parental notification laws are unnecessary and unjust. The New York Times wants you to believe that parents shouldn't have the right to know when their daughters are having abortions.

What they've done is set up a classic straw man argument: "You only wanted parental notification laws for the purpose of reducing abortion rates, and look! Abortions rates aren't down! Parental notification laws don't work!"

The fact is, most of us proponents of parental notification laws support them for one reason: we believe that parents of minors need to know when their children are undergoing serious medical procedures. Considering the possible emotional ramifications of a procedure such as an abortion, the parents need to know about it so that they can be prepared to offer support in any form necessary. It's that simple. Of course we don't like seeing 15-year-old girls having abortions, but the law says they can. What we believe is that parents have the right to know.

We wouldn't send minors under the knife for any other procedure without parental notification, and in most cases, parental consent. We're not asking for consent here; we just want the parents to be notified. If you oppose that, then you aren't "pro-choice", you're pro-abortion.

An Example of the Kind of Mindset We're Up Against

I just finished publishing a comment I received on this post from someone named "Brittney."

I felt I had to post some part of her comments because it's such a stark reminder of what is at stake in the political war surrounding Iraq. By the way, instead of having to type [sic] about 38 times, I'm just going to tell you that I've left all of Brittney's grammatical and spelling errors intact.

"Our president took 'inside' information from an Iraqi (known as 'curveball'), who planned to 'help-out' our country by telling his tall-tale stories of Saddam having WMD in Iraq, and his plans for the destruction of our country. This information (along with the uranium from Africa, also from 'curveball')came to be known as un-true."

Brittney's argument is that all of the intelligence we gathered on Saddam's WMD program came from a single dubious source. That is factually inaccurate. It's not even close to accurate. In fact, it's a complete lie used in an attempt to gain points in a debate. I challenge Brittney right now to produce a single news article to that effect.

Further, the information about Saddam's interest in African "yellow cake" did not come from "Curveball"; it was British intelligence that made that suggestion, and oh, by the way, the British still stand by that assessment.

"The war with Iraq is all about the oil."

Yeah, that's why the price of oil has been dropping so rapidly since we invaded.

"The war against terrorism, which was intended to ward terrorists away,only overthrew one dictator (who, weirdly enough kept peace in his chaotic country), and the fact that we did not do anything to the terrorists who actually bombed our country, is one reason that this war is a hoax."

Did you catch that? Brittney just argued that Saddam Hussein was able to keep peace in his own country. Yes, Brittney, he was. He did it by murdering hundreds of thousands of people who disagreed with him. He used chemical warfare against his own country on at least three separate occasions. He oversaw the torture, rape, and murder of enough people to fill all of the mass graves that our troops have uncovered in Iraq.

Yes, Brittney's idea of keeping the peace means brutally murdering anyone who opposes you. Interestingly enough, that's precisely the method that was used by Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, and every other fascist dictator ever to roam this earth.

So congratulation, Brittney: you've just aligned yourself with that treasure trove of great leadership I've just listed. You're off to a great start in life.

"We are just as much terrorists in Iraq as the Arabs who bombed 9-11."

Do I really need to say anything about this one? Yes, Brittney, we have hijacked civilian aircraft and crashed them into civilian buildings because we have an intense desire to accomplish two goals: to murder as many innocent Iraqi civilians as possible, and to go to paradise so we can engage in sexual intercourse with 72 virgins at any time we choose. Yes, that's America. That's her Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps. We're just a bunch of terrorists.

Here's a tip, Brittney: read this post, and then go get the book and read it. Then come back to the Sarge and talk to me about how WE are the terrorists. In fact, just read anything. Read a newspaper, read a magazine, read any kind of book about something other than Paris Hilton, and then come back and try to put together some coherent thoughts.

"It is time for our country to retreat, and just leave Iraq be. We have 'helped' them enough by overthrowing their corrupt dictator who kept his own country from fighting with itself..."

And now we know exactly how most of those on the left feel. America should retreat. To hell with pride. To hell with seeing a job through to the end. To hell with the code of conduct our military swears by. To hell with standing up for something good and just and right in this world. To hell with the Iraqi people who need our help in their emerging democracy. To hell with bravery and valor and commitment and honor and courage. To hell with everything America stands for, Brittney. In fact, Brittney, to hell with America. Right?

Al Qaeda Plotting "Big Bang" in Iraq

Here is the link. The headline reads:

U.S. Intel: Qaeda Plotting 'Big Bang'

Know what my first thought was when I read this? It was that I hope al Qaeda succeeds in creating a big bang.

That way, maybe a solar system with one planet that's perfect for human life will be created. After all, didn't you know that billions of years ago, there was another "big bang", and that from this massive explosion, all the perfect order of the universe as we know it came into being? Well here's a small snippet from the article:

This occurance was not a conventional explosion but rather an event filling all of space with all of the particles of the embryonic universe rushing away from each other. The Big Bang actually consisted of an explosion of space within itself unlike an explosion of a bomb were fragments are thrown outward. The galaxies were not all clumped together, but rather the Big Bang lay the foundations for the universe.

What? You didn't know that explosions could cause order?

Well they can.

Just ask the scientists. If you ask me, however, I'm going to tell you this: the "Big Bang Theory", as described at the link above, sounds an awful lot like....gasp!!!.....creation. It sounds like the universe simply **came into being** out of nowhere. Now tell me, how do you suppose that would have happened?

C'mon, al Qaeda. Give us another big bang. Please. We need a do-over anyway.