Get it yet?

Just read a psychiatric report on Mr.Obama using NLP and hypnotic techniquest (dated 2008) when I received these from Irene.

They speak for themselves. In order to decide upon what county you would like to live in, consider two elementary schools:

Sure wouldn't want to be the kid the Secret Service agent is looking at.  That is, if there are any in the room.

Iraq Speech to VFW- Echo of JFK

I know, I have been among the missing in action. I apologize, but my free time was taken up the the Simpsons, Transformers, and Bournes. I was reminded that I had a blog when Irene sent me the link to President Bush's recent speech. Below is a paragraph to whet your interest.

While I have to bang my head sometimes for want of information from the White House and for the stilted stuff that finally issues from the press office, I have been a fan or reading Bush's speeches and watching C-SPAN and know that his good stuff never, I mean never, makes it to air. No, not even on FOX. Something to do with a nation of people with ten-second attention spans.

Sometime ago, I reviewed his energy plan/speech given in a biodiesel plant, but you never saw that on air either. It is a good plan and only now are parts of it being passed. You never see critics attack Bush's grasp of economics, business, and energy because, I would submit, they would not want to bring attention to his mastery of these matters. Just bark something about Halliburton for effect.

Anyway, for the Iraq speech, click on the title. I still wish there would be more detail, though, say by way of white papers (no that is not racist.) After the section below, I quote John Kennedy who explained what we are doing some 45 years ago. Like Kennedy said, we do these things because they are hard. BUSH:

...Now, I know some people doubt the universal appeal of liberty, or worry that the Middle East isn't ready for it. Others believe that America's presence is destabilizing, and that if the United States would just leave a place like Iraq those who kill our troops or target civilians would no longer threaten us. Today I'm going to address these arguments. I'm going to describe why helping the young democracies of the Middle East stand up to violent Islamic extremists is the only realistic path to a safer world for the American people. I'm going to try to provide some historical perspective to show there is a precedent for the hard and necessary work we're doing, and why I have such confidence in the fact we'll be successful...

JFK was a bit more old-fashioned in his rhetoric because people still read and could follow bunches of paragraphs in a row. When you read his Inauguration speech, excerpt below, and his Berlin speech, as well as recall his use of tax cuts to spur the economy, consider whether JFK could be a 2007 Democrat. EXCERPT:

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.	4
This much we pledge—and more.	5
To those old allies whose cultural and spiritual origins we share, we pledge the loyalty of faithful friends. United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided, there is little we can do—for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder.	6
To those new States whom we welcome to the ranks of the free, we pledge our word that one form of colonial control shall not have passed away merely to be replaced by a far more iron tyranny. We shall not always expect to find them supporting our view. But we shall always hope to find them strongly supporting their own freedom—and to remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.	7
To those peoples in the huts and villages across the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required—not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.	8
To our sister republics south of our border, we offer a special pledge—to convert our good words into good deeds—in a new alliance for progress—to assist free men and free governments in casting off the chains of poverty. But this .. neighbors know that we shall join with them to oppose aggression or subversion anywhere in the Americas. And let every other power know that this Hemisphere intends to remain the master of its own house.

Bush's Ranch - Model Green Home

You have heard about Al Gore's utility bill. The idea behind the bill jibe is "Holy Hypocrite" Batman, which may be interesting character evidence to be used when judging his message, but it is still not a rejection of the message. Ad hominem attacks should be avoided or, at least, kept to a side bar.

I suppose most people would be surprised a bit about Gore since we don't teach in school his family made its money in the Tea Pot Dome scandal and VP Gore rewarded Occidental Petroleum with the $100/acre Dome land diversion.

If you missed the utility dig, here is a teaser:

Al Gore's 'Inconvenient Truth'? -- $30,000 utility bill

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(2/27/07 - NASHVILLE, TN) - Back home in Tennessee, safely ensconced in his suburban Nashville home, Vice President Al Gore is no doubt basking in the Oscar awarded to "An Inconvenient Truth," the documentary he inspired and in which he starred. But a local free-market think tank is trying to make that very home emblematic of what it deems Gore's environmental hypocrisy.

Armed with Gore's utility bills for the last two years, the Tennessee Center for Policy Research charged Monday that the gas and electric bills for the former vice president's 20-room home and pool house devoured nearly 221,000 kilowatt-hours in 2006, more than 20 times the national average of 10,656 kilowatt-hours. Etc etc etc.

[Tenn. has one of the lowest electrical rates in the US, thanks to the TVA- Ed]

OK, True Believers will think their Bishop is allowed to light his cathedral because, after all, he is bringing religion to the world. After all, Kerry has his private jet and SUVs. The demi-gods don't have to do what they say. Just like the Communist Party in Russia had big limos driving special lanes in Moscow and fancy dachas in the country.

Perhaps, but check out the following, thanks to Irene, my major news service. Notice the article is from April, 2001, so it is not recent spin.

Chicago Tribune

Bush loves ecology --at home

April 29, 2001

By Rob Sullivan. Rob Sullivan is a freelance writer based in Los Angeles

The 4,000-square-foot house is a model of environmental rectitude.

Geothermal heat pumps located in a central closet circulate water through pipes buried 300 feet deep in the ground where the temperature is a constant 67 degrees; the water heats the house in the winter and cools it in the summer. Systems such as the one in this "eco-friendly" dwelling use about 25% of the electricity that traditional heating and cooling systems utilize.

A 25,000-gallon underground cistern collects rainwater gathered from roof runs; wastewater from sinks, toilets and showers goes into underground purifying tanks and is also funneled into the cistern. The water from the cistern is used to irrigate the landscaping surrounding the four-bedroom home. Plants and flowers native to the high prairie area blend the structure into the surrounding ecosystem.

No, this is not the home of some eccentrically wealthy eco-freak trying to shame his fellow citizens into following the pristineness of his self-righteous example. And no, it is not the wilderness retreat of the Sierra Club or the Natural Resources Defense Council, a haven where tree-huggers plot political strategy.

This is President George W. Bush's "Texas White House" outside the small town of Crawford

According to David Heymann, the house's architect and associate dean of the University of Texas architecture department, Heymann designed the house so that "every room has a relationship with something in the landscape that's different from the room next door. Each of the rooms feels like a slightly different place."

In a USA Today interview, Heymann said, "There's a great grove of oak trees to the west that protects it from the late afternoon sun. Then there is a view out to the north looking at hills, and to the east out over a lake, and the view to the south . . . out to beautiful hills."

OK, one for the Bush side. He is a guy who quietly has gone off-grid. You would think his personal enemies would give him a little credit. It doesn't look like it, after I visited a few links following a Google search on "Bush's ranch heat sink."

Get this, one article called President Bush a hypocrite! This one has me scratching my head. the theory seems to be he had the green ranch built that way because he knew from his evil friends that oil would be unaffordable.

Another venomous writer said Bush probably had an architect design the place. What? First of all, its true, as the architect is often quoted, but what does the writer mean? If you hire someone to build an off-grid home with a heat sink, you are still evil because you didn't follow plans from Mother Earth magazine? I guess it is supposed to mean Bush is so stupid he had to hire a superb expert to build his green ranch, using the money he earned from putting together a consortium to by the Texas Rangers. That dope.

A long piece by "Off-Grid" opened piece, I put the link above, with all manner of canards about the evil Bush and throughout the article gets in its slug fest, but buried deep:

“By marketplace standards, the house is startlingly small,” says David Heymann, the architect of the 4,000-square-foot home. “Clients of similar ilk are building 16-to-20,000-square-foot houses.”
The narrow porch stretches across the back and ends of the house. At one end, it widens into a covered patio off the living room.

The Bush ranch is the kind of place we’d all like to live. Too bad his environmental policies are moving the rest of the country in exactly the opposite direction.

So, now you know the rest of the story.