Americans make too much of an individual apologizing for an act or comment

An apology is an acknowledgement of some fault, injury, insult, etc. with an expression of regret and a plea for pardon and we insist the individual express that remorse or regret before we are willing to move on.

Americans of all ilks have their likes and dislikes; they have prejudices; they discriminate. Those are not bad terms unless they cause an individual to break a law or even worse, have an opinion different than our opinion. Remember, the Constitution defines what the government can do, not the people.

Celebrities will on occasion say or do something that is upsetting to the public. They do not regret thinking the way they think or feeling the way they feel, but they regret having to deal with the public's reaction to their thoughts or feelings. They are sorry they were caught.

When an individual is convicted of committing a crime, Americans want to know why, so before we move on we demand an explanation. Of course, once convicted the individual is sorry they were caught.

Americans need to accept that we do not all think alike, and as long as no law is broken that is OK. We may disagree and that is OK also. Some crimes have no rational explanation. We need to move past the infraction with those differences in place.

If Americans cannot forgive or forget at least we must stop insisting on being lied to.

Recently the Amish have exhibited an example of forgiveness from which we can all learn.

The United States Needs to Get Over Its Self-Righteousness

When the people who eventually made up the original thirteen colonies came to this land they came for many reasons. Some were running away from something some were running to something. One of the common desires was the desire for freedom.

Eventually demands by the government of England infringed on that freedom and became intolerable, the result being our Declaration of Independence and eventually the Constitution of the United States.

No country gave us their Declaration of Independence from which they could copy to develop our own. No country gave them their Constitution, from which they could copy to develop our own. The people of the colonies selected representatives to speak for them and to work with other representatives to make decisions and to develop a course of action.

What would our founders think? Descendants of those founding fathers have invaded a sovereign country, deposed the legally elected President and removed his government from power as well as its disbanded its army. We have turned that President over to his political enemies for trial with a predetermined verdict and punishment. Maybe the Iraqi president should have been removed and tried it was not up to us. With the world being against us I expect our leaders to eventually be accused of crimes against humanity as well as other war crimes and demands for them to be subject to a World Court will be heard. If that happens I expect our leaders to be found guilty and punished. I expect our President and Vice President as well as selected members of the military and selected members of congress to be so charged. Do not dismiss the notion it is a real possibility.

For reasons beyond comprehension, our leaders do not recognize what is happening in Iraq. Following the first George Bush’s war in Iraq we left our military in Saudi Arabia as we have a habit of doing giving a target to which our enemies could focus. The second George Bush led the United States into a quagmire from which there is no honorable way out. We have successfully defeated a country that had no chance of defeating us. We have successful bullied a smaller country. We are a bully. We are proud.

During the Russian invasion of Afghanistan the United States fought a proxy war with Russia and maintained plausible deniability. Today Iran and Syria are fighting a proxy war with the United States and maintaining plausible deniability. The Executive Branch and Legislative Branch fail to see what is really happening and continues in quagmire.

If the Iraqi people wanted freedom they should have fought for it. One cannot be given democracy when will the United States understand that? We are not the World’s Police. We do not have a right to decide how other countries govern nor how the people live. We need to get over our self-righteousness.

Keeping Things in the Right Perspective

House Democrats kicked off the new session with a 100-hour legislative blitz that is planned to allow them to post a series of quick victories before President Bush even delivers his State of the Union address toward the end of this month.

But even as Democrats filtered back to Capitol Hill on Tuesday in anticipation of the opening of the 110th Congress on Thursday, there was confusion about just when the 100 hours would officially begin. Would it be as soon as the new Congress was sworn in and began voting on internal rules changes? Or when the House takes up its first actual legislation on Tuesday?

And since it is 100 hours of strictly legislative activity, the clock will be on pause when House members give their customary one-minute speeches at the start of each day and during the “special orders” at night when members reserve floor time to carry on about their favorite issues.

Last Monday was out since the House, despite Democratic pledges of a disciplined five-day work schedule, will not be in session. The day off was scheduled to allow freshmen lawmakers time to return from an orientation session - and others to attend the college football national championship game.

What are Crimes against humanity?

In 1945, the United States and other Allies developed the Agreement for the Prosecution and Punishment of the Major War Criminals of the European Axis and Charter of the International Military Tribunal (IMT), sitting at Nuremberg, which contained the following definition of crimes against humanity in Article 6(c):

Crimes against humanity: murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, and other inhumane acts committed against civilian populations, before or during the war; or persecutions on political, racial or religious grounds in execution of or in connection with any crime within the jurisdiction of the Tribunal, whether
or not in violation of the domestic law of the country where perpetrated.

The Nuremberg Charter represented the first time that crimes against humanity were established in positive international law.

Washington, The Unchanging Place

ALL politicians at ALL levels are dishonest, unethical, immoral. They will take care of themselves first, those who give them money second, and last and certainly least, those who vote for them.

There is a proverb "Absolute power corrupts absolutely." That can be said about any power in any amount corrupts. You can see examples almost everyday. There must be a higher power overseeing anyone in a position of authority.

Citizens of the United States must wake up and observe how their government is being taken from them. The Executive branch believes itself to be above the law and the Constitution. The Legislative branch believes itself to be outside the law and looks only to line its pockets. The Judicial branch believes it should make law instead of applying the Constitution.

The following is a poem written by Judge Roy Moore from Alabama. He was sued by the ACLU for displaying the Ten Commandments in his courtroom foyer. He wrote a poem:

America the Beautiful, or so you used to be.
Land of the Pilgrims' pride; I'm glad they'll never see.
Babies piled in dumpsters,
Abortion on demand,
Oh, sweet land of liberty; your house is on the sand.
Our children wander aimlessly, poisoned by cocaine

Choosing to indulge their lusts, when God has said abstain

From sea to shining sea, our Nation turns away
From the teaching of God's love and a need to always pray.
We've kept God in our temples, how callous we have grown.
When earth is but His footstool, and Heaven is His throne.
We've voted in a government that's rotting at the core,
Appointing Godless Judges; who throw reason out the door,
Too soft to place a killer in a well deserved tomb,
But brave enough to kill a baby before he leaves the womb.
You think that God's not angry, that our land's a moral slum?
How much longer will He wait before His judgment comes?
How are we to face our God, from Whom we cannot hide?
What then is left for us to do, but stem this evil tide?
If we who are His children, will humbly turn and pray;
Seek His holy face and mend our evil way:
Then God will hear from Heaven; and forgive us of our sins,
He'll heal our sickly land and those who live within.
But, America the Beautiful, if you don't - then you will see,
A sad but Holy God withdraw His hand from Thee.

A Democracy in Default

It has been said a democracy can exist only until the electorate discover they can vote for someone who will give them something. Politicians at all levels are unethical, dishonest, and immoral. They will take care of themselves first, those who give them money second, and last and surely least, their constituents. At the Federal level they pay millions of dollars to obtain a job that pays a couple of hundred thousand dollars a year. When they complete their term they are millionaires over and beyond their net worth when they began their term in office.

Without a word being said the folks leaving office in Washington D.C. know the special interests will provide for them. With this assurance special attention is paid to the wants of those special interests while maintaining plausible deniability of any collusion.

Politicians are beyond the reach of the laws most Americans must follow and have become a government unto themselves. In practice they pass their place along to their children. Members of the Judicial branch, appointed by the members of the Legislative branch know if they rule as wanted by those same members of the Legislative branch they know more like them will be appointed and members of their families will be taken care of and all the while are able to maintain plausible deniability. To rule as required, the Judicial branch has stopped long ago applying the Constitution and have begun making laws themselves.

The ordinary American is out of the loop and is merely a surf to the Lordships.

With the blessing of the Legislators and the Executive branch selected members of the ruling hiarchy become millionaires and billionaires while the surfs lose their jobs. Our country manufactures nothing, leaving an economy based on lotteries and casinos.

We go to war, commit atrocities, sacrifice the lives and limbs of our military and then treat them as if they are the ugly step child when they return and all for the benefit of those special interests.

The women's lib movement of the 70s or so has resulted in women being successful if they dress and act like prostitutes and feel self expression includes participation in pornography. A surprise affect has been less children so the working class is dwindling while those on welfare and members of violent religions multiply by 4 and 5 times in one generation.

Being Politically Correct means one thinks they can pick up feces by the clean end.

Within this democracy we have minority rule, necessarily meaning America is self destructing.

America may survive but her best days are behind her.