While I got some things done today, I also had two major attacks and three minor ones. What a day. It is very upsetting to be sidelined for a couple of hours, cowering in a corner or under the covers, unable to do anything about it.

Watching Meet the Press yesterday, they had a poll for the Democrats and the largest percentage of those who would vote for Kerry (38%) would do so because simply he’s not Bush. Which means 38% of the Democrat electorate would probably vote for Satan before they would vote for Bush.

Simply, it’s seething hatred against a man who is doing the right thing without lamenting over it. Bush is quietly doing what he sees as the right thing to do, without having to consult polls or focus groups. Bush is a man of inner strength, strong morals and a clear set of core values, none of which is possessed by either the prior president, nor the current Democrat contender.

I think this is what pisses the Left off more than anything. Bush sees things in black and white instead of the intellectual “nuanced” view of infinite shades of grey. His clear idea of good and evil clashes with the Liberal outlook of “those people aren’t really bad, they’re just disadvantaged.” They may be disadvantaged, but that is no excuse for the outright evil of wanting to kill other people wholesale simply because we believe differently than they do.

Liberals who moan and wail over this war hold the belief that the US deserved 9/11. Those people have no idea as to the true relationship of such things as war and peace.

The opposite of war is not peace, but slavery. For as long as there are people who are willing to violently push their agenda, your choices are to either violently resist or submit. Never forget this.

There has been a lawsuit going on for some time between the National Association of Rocketry and the Tripoli Rocketry Association vs. BATFE. Well, the judge in the U.S. District Court in Washington, DC agreed with the rocketeers and told the BATFE to get their grubby little fingers out of our hobby.

The ruling is rather specific, but it’s a crack and we are going to try and make it wider faster than the BATFE can nail it shut.

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Boy was this a busy week. Last Monday was Waco and Oklahoma City, Tuesday was Columbine, now today was Chernobyl. Conducting unauthorized experiments, one of the nuclear reactors exploded and then melted into the offices under the reactor. Hundreds of people died from radiation exposure, thousands more from cancer brought about by the radiation. The cloud reached into parts of Eastern Europe.

The town is deserted today, except for the reactor operators who continue to operate the remaining reactor and supply power to the (relatively) unaffected towns in the surrounding area.

I got this from a NewsMax email alert, so I’ll quote the whole thing here:

Kerry Ignores Black Congressman

America’s self-described would-be “second black president” has a lot of work to do to shed his image as an uptight, condescending New Englander.

This was obvious during Kerry’s visit this past week to Palm Beach County, Fla.

Our reporter on the scene was surprised by the crowd at Palm Beach Community College.

The speech was billed as part of Kerry’s “college tour.” But only a handful of young people bothered to show up.

Kerry’s campaign claimed 3,000 attendees. We counted only a few dozen blacks and even fewer Hispanics. Bad news for a party that takes the black and Latino vote for granted.

Of course, the Massachusetts Democrat exploited the few blacks who did show up by stacking the benches on stage with an unusually high percentage of his “multi-cultural” campaign. Such a nice photo opportunity, accurate or not.

But Kerry’s discomfort with nonwhites was apparent in the way he introduced the VIPs campaigning with him.

He gushed over Sens. Bob Graham, Bill Nelson and Joe Lieberman and insisted that each one take the spotlight for a softball question from the crowd.

And he practically ignored the black congressman who was with them, Rep. Kendrick Meek.

Finally, midway through Kerry’s harangue, which he had labeled as a “town meeting,” Kerry suddenly dropped a reference to Meek – and then ignored him for the rest of the rally.

Yes, yes, yes. The party of tolerance and diversity. We all know how well blacks were integrated into the “first black presidency.” Oh, that’s right. They weren’t. They ran smack dab into that infernal glass ceiling. They were there for tokens, and I ain’t talking subway tokens.

It’s really a shame when it comes right down to it. The “champion” of the black people does more to keep them in their place than the so called “slavemaster Republicans.” Just remember, when it came down to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Republicans were FOR it, the Democrats were AGAINST it.

It’s the Democrats that had the KKK members, it’s the Democrats that stood in the doorways of schools and colleges and said, “You filthy [N-word]s ain’t getting in here!”

Don’t forget your history.

I know you’re waiting for my witty, rapier-like remarks on Liberals and stuff like that, but my attacks are back. I get to spend an hour or two researching and writing, then have to spend more time hiding under the covers or in the closet. I haven’t had the mental clarity to bring forth the comments that I would like to on the world. My comments on news articles have been placeholders to keep things rolling here.

When I feel better, I might try working on expanding my core values over there to the right. Who knows. I have a medication appointment next Wednesday, let’s hope I can get a positive change to my cocktail.

This Earth Day, Progress Worth Celebrating has some worthwhile points, only because the person writing the article has good, solid facts to back him up.

Despite what the eco-nuts are screaming, our air is cleaner, our water is more drinkable and things are better than they were in 1970. From the article, here are some numbers:

Average vehicle emissions are dropping about 10 percent per year as the fleet turns over to inherently cleaner vehicles, including SUVs.

Auto emissions of nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds are down 67 percent since 1985, according to EPA data.

The percentage of the U.S. population served by water systems with no reported violations of regulatory standards rose from 79 percent to 94 percent during 1993 to 2002.

Private efforts such as Ducks Unlimited have been successfully conserved habitat for waterfowl and other wildlife.

“Toxic” chemical releases have declined by 55 percent since 1988, while industry output has increased by 40 percent thanks to productivity gains and technological improvements.

I like those numbers. The bad news is I’m getting a 404 when trying to get the report that they came from. Here’s the link anyway, hopefully they will get it fixed soon: “2004 Index of Leading Environmental Indicators”.

Here comes the caveat:

But now in many, if not most, areas of environmental protection, we have reached the point of diminishing returns and we must look hard to see whether we are producing real benefits for the costs incurred.

For those of you who don’t know what the “point of diminishing returns” means, let’s put it this way:

You have a computer that you want to upgrade. For $100, you can double its performance. You like what you got even better, so you invest another $200, but this time you can only squeeze out a 50% increase of performance. Then only 25%, 12% and so on, until it costs $1000 to get you a 1-2% increase of performance. Is that small increase of performance worth that amount of money?

So we are faced with here. If we poured an almost infinite amount of money into it, we possibly could reach perfection, but is there an acceptable level that is “good enough?” Of course the eco-nuts want perfection, they have no real-world realities to get in their way of a perfect nature. We all want perfection, but most of us realize that we can’t have our lifestyle as it is today without some pollution. We just have to find out what is an acceptable level and work towards that.

I don’t like pollution, but I accept a limited amount as a byproduct of our society. One that has transportation that can take me around the world in hours. A world that has miraculous medical practices. An existence where I don’t have to live in a dirt floor hut and worry about dying of old age because I’m 42. Eco-nuts may think that kind of “natural” existence is the way to go, but I don’t.

Here is an interesting article, Discrepancies noted in Kerry’s record show that he grabbed some action for himself.

At least one and probably more actions were claimed by Kerry that were not his.

Vietnam combat records posted on John F. Kerry’s campaign website for the month of January 1969 as evidence of his service aboard swift boat No. 94 describe action that occurred before Kerry was skipper of that craft, according to the officer who said he commanded the boat at the time.

This puts a hole in his boat, doesn’t it? After all, “sexing up” reports that could be easily countered with the facts does seem to be a frequent way this campaign shoots itself in the foot.

It could be Kerry’s head is so far up his ass that he thinks he can say anything and not worry about other people coming up with the facts to disprove him.

Shame on you Mr. Kerry.

I liked this story, I thought it was funny. Kerry Says His ‘Family’ Owns SUV, Not He.

Like the difference of who ‘owns’ the SUV matters. My wife can’t drive, but for numerous reasons, she owns our (dead) family vehicle. I’m the one who drives it because I have the license. Same thing here. It doesn’t matter who owns the vehicle, as long as someone in the immediate family does, then in essence, so does John.

Get over it, you have a gas-guzzling SUV, whether or not you admit it.

You know, I usually don’t watch The West Wing, but it’s the only thing on before Law and Order. Anyway, they had one scene where CWA (Communication Workers of America) reps were in the White House trying to hold the administration to a promise to keep their jobs in America instead of “letting” them go overseas. That’s what brought my attention to this: Outsourcing Debate Tainted by Myths, Misconceptions.

It is very important that you read this article and know the facts of the case instead of relying on limited anecdotal evidence. While we lose certain jobs overseas, we pick up more from insourcing, other countries outsourcing to us.

But that’s not usually the way it works. Many times, American companies will create new jobs specifically for overseas workers, jobs they’d never consider if forced by law to give them to Americans, because they’d be too expensive. Many recent domestic start-up companies have spent their first few years of existence employing only overseas workers, with a few executives here in the U.S. overseeing things. Once they’ve established financial footing, these companies can then expand, and begin to hire more expensive American workers.

America is actually a net importer when it comes to jobs. Far more foreign companies come to America to hire people than American companies go overseas to hire cheap foreign labor. We’re even a net importer of tech jobs.

There are only some things you can outsource, other things must stay here in the US because you just can’t run wire and do installs from India.

There’s no doubt people get hurt in the short-run when the economy shifts and embraces new business models, but it’s been that way since the industrial revolution. Those self-correcting measures have in the long run made us the most prosperous, comfortable and productive society in history.

And it will always be like that.

Here is another classic example as to why the far-Left environmentalism groups are wacko. They now want to get rid of diapers because they are a hazard to world health and contribute to landfills. Diaperless Babies Seen As Earth-Friendly Solution.

Their idea is to “get in tune with the baby to predict their movements.” Yeah, right. And their solution is to hold the child over the toilet, bucket, bush, etc, providing we correctly predict the moment has arrived.

Incredibly, some environmentalists actually prefer that the foul messes we normally capture in diapers and landfills, spill instead onto our linoleum, carpets, and even our children,” [Robert] Bidinotto told CNSNews.com.

And just to show you how stupid and hypocritical these eco-nuts are, here’s a quote:

[Scott] Noelle finally chose to go diaperless and looked to traditional cultures for inspiration. “How I longed for a simple, dirt-floored, baby-friendly hut like that of a Yequana family,” he wrote.

If Scott really wants a dirt floored house, why doesn’t he live in one? I’m sure he would love the rest of the natural things the Yequana have to worry about, like dying of old age at 40, rampant disease, 1/3 of babies dying in the first year of life, a good portion of women dying in childbirth, etc.

He has it so good that he doesn’t know how good it is, which is probably why him and his fellow nuts long for the old life. They don’t realize how tough of a time our ancestors had it.

Another great hit from the folks at Despair.Com.

This article, MI5-Style Intel Agency Could Be Hard Sell in U.S. talks about a CIA equivalent agency tasked with intelligence gathering domestically here in the US.

This is a bad idea. Law enforcement already has these apparatus’ in place, and with Homeland Security, we are already skating the edge of having a secret police. I do not want a Gestapo spying on every move I make, especially with extra-Constitutional powers that such internal security forces might want “to do their job the right way.”

Therein lies the path to a police state, and that is the last place I want to live in.

Papers, please?

I found this article on Yahoo!, Heinz Co. Is Campaign Weapon for Bush and thought that irony is pretty ironic.

While Mr. and Mrs. Heinz is running for president under the Democrat banner, the actual company where their millions are coming from is in support of President Bush.

I just thought is was funny that her own company is aligned the other way from her and her husband.

Gotta get ready and go to work. See you tonight.