Thursday, December 5, 2013

The positive message in the television show introduction


The television show is Little House on the Prairie.  Original episodes ran from 1974-1983.  The linked website describes the show as "The life and adventures of the Ingalls family in the 19th century American West."  There was a real Ingalls family in the 19th century American West, and one of the daughters, named Laura Ingalls, wrote books about her family after she had married a man named Almanzo Wilder.  This is a link to her biography on the Biography website.  This is a link to her biography on the Little House website.  This is a link to her books on Amazon.

This video shows the introduction to one episode of the show.  You will see all five members of the Ingalls family and the names of the actors who play them.

Starting at 23 seconds, watch the three children run down a hill.

The youngest child is the last one to go down the hill.

Watch her:
  1. fall down

  2. get back up

  3. keep walking

The person who was holding the camera when the children ran down the hill could have put the camera down when he saw the youngest child fall down, but he did not do that.

I think that he (or she) knew that most young children have the ability to pick themselves up when they fall.

I also think that he (or she) had met all of the young actresses who had been hired to play the Ingalls children and that all of them, even the youngest, had demonstrated a minimum amount of physical skill when walking on a variety of surfaces, including the small hills in the area where the television show was filmed.

As a result of the cameraman's decision to let the youngest child fall and pick herself up so that she could keep walking, every episode of the show taught a whole generation of Americans that they, too, could fall down, pick themselves up, and keep walking without anyone's help.

I'm proud of that cameraman.

This is a link to the nominations and the awards that this television show received.  The nominations include a Golden Globe nomination for the Best TV Series in the drama category.  The awards include two consecutive People's Choice awards for Favorite Television Dramatic Program in 1978 and 1979.


Political correctness produces historical inaccuracy

This section was added June 25, 2018.

Part of the American Library Association has become a historically inaccurate association because they are now a politically correct association.  In every country, some of the actions taken by historical figures becomes embarassing to the current generation.  Many people want to preserve history so that other people, especially young people, can learn from it.

Erasing history in 2017

Watch a mob of people, without any authority from their town government, destroy a statue in a public park.

The fact that they don't have any authority to do this makes it a lawless act by a mob, equivalent to the very actions that they accuse Confederate soldiers of committing.

Watch the mob act just like a mob after the statue comes down.  Some people will celebrate the destruction of town property by jumping up and down on it, kicking it, and waving their arms in the air.

Future generations will complain that these people destroyed their ability to learn the truth about the actions of the real people who inspired the creation of those statues.  Their history lessons will therefore be inaccurate and their educational standards will suffer.


Laura Ingalls in the 1930s and the 1940s

This is the synopsis of the biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder on the Biography Channel.
Laura Ingalls Wilder was born on February 7, 1867, near Pepin, Wisconsin.  From 1882–1885 she was a teacher in South Dakota. She married Almanzo Wilder in 1885.  In 1932, she published Little House in the Big Woods, the first of her "Little House" books.  Wilder finished the last book in 1943. On February 10, 1957, she died at age 90, on her farm in Mansfield, Missouri.
The popular television show whose introduction is in the first video on this page is based on Laura's books.

These books are part history and part fiction because she wrote the books at the same time that she had those experiences.  The books include the slang words and the grammar that she heard and used at that time in history.


Ernest Hemingway in the early 20th century

This is the synopsis of the biography of Ernest Hemingway on the Biography Channel.
Born on July 21, 1899, in Cicero (now in Oak Park), Illinois, Ernest Hemingway served in World War I and worked in journalism before publishing his story collection In Our Time.  He was renowned for novels like The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Old Man and the Sea, which won the 1953 Pulitzer.  In 1954, Hemingway won the Nobel Prize.  He committed suicide on July 2, 1961, in Ketchum, Idaho.

This is the summary of a short story called 50 Thousand, from a website called Book Rags.
Jack is an older boxer who has had a successful career.  He spends a few weeks on a health farm getting into shape for an important match against Walcott.  Jack misses his family and regrets having spent so much time away from them during his career.  Jack bets against himself in this match, hoping to make money on a match he is sure he will lose.  He rents a hotel room to stay in after the fight because he does not want his family to see how badly he is beaten.  He goes against Walcott for more than eleven rounds and gets beaten badly.  At the end of the match, he hits Walcott below the belt and loses the match.

This is part of the book, copied from page 9 of the web page for this short story on the website for the Atlantic Magazine, which published this short story.
After breakfast, Jack called up his wife on the long distance.  He was in the booth telephoning.

"That's the first time he's called her up since he's out here," Hogan said

"He writes her every day."

"Sure," Hogan says.  "A letter only costs two cents."

Hogan said good-bye to us, and Bruce, the nigger rubber, drove us down to the train in the cart.
There are many words and phrases that are used in this book that are historically accurate and thus valuable to someone who studies history.  For example, in order to call his wife, Jack stood inside a telephone booth and placed a long-distance phone call using the telephone that was inside the booth.

The postage for a letter was only two cents.

A rubber was a man who massaged a boxer before a fight to help him prepare for the fight.  Ernest Hemingway's extra description of Bruce, the "rubber", was a word that was commonly used when this Nobel Prize author wrote this book.


Maintaining historical accuracy

The words and phrases that people used when they wrote books in any country are part of the history of that country.  Ernest Hemingway didn't mention a cell phone in this story because they hadn't been invented yet.  If someone else changes the story to include a cell phone, they are making the story inaccurate and reducing its' value as a historical document.  If someone changes the story by changing the description of Bruce, they are also trying to change history and reducing the value of the literary product that was written by a great writer, someone who earned a Nobel Prize in Literature.  The people who destroyed the statue of the Confederate soldier are destroying history and reducing the value of the statues and documents that remain, because they will not include as much information about Confederate soldiers.


Erasing history in 2018

The American Library Association has reduced the value of an award that they give to the author of children's books by refusing to name the award for Laura Ingalls, a young woman who wrote children's books that many parents have read to many children.

Link to their announcement on their own website.

These are the first three paragraphs of a June 25, 2018 Los Angeles Times story.  The link in the third paragraph was in their story.
The Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal, a significant achievement award in children’s literature presented by a division of the American Library Assn., will be renamed because of the author’s "stereotypical attitudes" toward Native Americans and African Americans.

The Assn. for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Assn., voted Saturday that the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal, named for the author of "Little House on the Prairie," will now be known as the Children's Literature Legacy Award.

The group explained the decision in a statement on its website: "This decision was made in consideration of the fact that Wilder’s legacy, as represented by her body of work, includes expressions of stereotypical attitudes inconsistent with ALSC’s core values of inclusiveness, integrity and respect, and responsiveness."

These are the sixth, seventh, and eighth paragraphs of a C.N.N. story published the same day. The links in the seventh paragraph were in their story.
Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House on the Prarie" books are a staple of countless American childhoods.  The tales are so ingrained in the traditions of children's literature that it may be easy to forget or overlook that Wilder, who wrote the books in the 1930s and 40s, depicts Native Americans as inhuman and inconsequential.

An adult re-read reveals several characters, including Wilder's mother, saying things like "The only good Indian is a dead Indian," as well as romanticizing themes of American supremacy and manifest destiny.

While her father, as portrayed in the books, takes a more nuanced approach to Native Americans in some places, he also described one Indian as "no common trash" because "that was French he spoke."
Indians were described that way by many people at that time.  That is historically accurate.  Don't change history, and don't tell people today what to call them.  The wish to control what people say and write is fascism.

There is an immense benefit to remembering and preserving history.



Earnest Hemingway didn't write about cell phones because they didn't exist when he was alive.  When she was writing her books, Laura Ingalls didn't use the term "native Americans" because that term didn't exist when she was alive.  She used the word "indians", and she expressed the views that she had towards them, which is protected free speech under the First Amendment of the Constitution.



You have a right to read.

Don't let the American Library Association take any book away from you.

Read Laura's books to your children and explain to them that her descriptions of people and places was the way that many people described those people and places when she was alive.

When you say that to them, your children will be smarter.  This is the first sentence of the C.N.N. story that is quoted above.

"Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House on the Prarie" books are a staple of countless American childhoods."



The American Library Association has a lack of confidence in the ability of the American people to understand American history.

The descriptions of people and places can change over time.

The wish to censor what people read never changes.


I criticize the American Library Association for their substitution of their 21st century values for the views and values of Laura Ingalls Wilder at the time that she wrote her books.

The descriptions of people and places can change over time.

The wish to censor what people read never changes.

Because I criticize the American Library Association, they do not rule over me.

I am a free man because I can and do say that the American Library Association should restore the name of their award so that it honors Laura Ingalls Wilder.


Friday, October 11, 2013

If you are eligible to vote in Massachusetts


... and if you live in the 5th Congressional District in Massachusetts, in the center of the eastern half of the state ...

This is a closeup photo of this district.

The blue area on the extreme right is the Massachusetts Bay.



Please vote for Michael Stopa in the Congressional primary on October 15th, now that Ed Markey, who used to represent this Congressional district, is a U.S. Senator.


This means that the 5th Congressional District doesn't have anyone to represent it at the moment. 

Please vote for Mike Stopa, to put some respect for the sciences into our Congress.




Copied from the biography on his campaign website:
Note: The photo is a still from his appearance on Sean Hannity's show in 2010.  Two videos of that appearance are included later in this page.  I supplied the links to Suffield Academy, Wesleyan University, the University of Maryland, and the Physics Department of Harvard University that are in the first two paragraphs.

Mike and Sean Hannity
Mike Stopa is a graduate of Suffield Academy and holds an undergraduate degree in Astronomy from Wesleyan University and a Ph. D. in Physics from the University of Maryland.

Mike teaches in the Physics Department at Harvard University, where he has served as Research Physicist and Senior Computational Physicist since 2004.  He specializes in computation and nanoscience.

He is the director of the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network Computation Project and a recognized expert on nanoscale electronics and computation.  He has over 75 publications and over a thousand citations to his work in the physics literature.

Mike lives in Holliston with his wife of eighteen years and his four beautiful children, including three girls and one son.

This video was filmed in 2010, when Mike lived and voted in the 3rd Congressional District in Massachusetts.

In 2010 he was living and voting in the 3rd District.  Now that he lives in the 5th District, he will be a better Congressman than Ed Markey ever was.

Mike's voice can be heard starting at 3 min, 10 seconds.


This video is part of the same 2010 appearance on Fox News.

The panel is now discussing President Obama's request for NASA to recognize the achievements of one religion (Islam) in the sciences.

Remember, Mike Stopa is a nanoscientist with a Ph.D. in Physics.

Mike's voice can be heard starting at 1 min, 30 seconds.



The primary election is Tuesday, October 15, 2013.



May 12, 2016 update.

Mr. Stopa lost his campaign to be a United States Representative, but he is now a supporter of Donald Trump.

On Saturday, April 30, 2016, he ran successfully to be a delegate to the Republican Convention that will be held in July in Cleveland, Ohio.

I was there in person during this one-day event, and I also campaigned to be a delegate to the same Republican Convention.  As I was waiting in line to enter the rental hall, I saw him, and I told him that I wanted to be elected as a candidate to the Republican Convention that was scheduled to meet in Cleveland, Ohio in July 2016.  I asked him to support me, and I expected that he would support me, because the first part of this essay had supported him when he was a candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives, but he told me that he wouldn't do it because he was the head of a group of people who wanted to be elected as delegates themselves, as supporters of presidential candidate Donald Trump.

I didn't get enough votes to win because there were a lot of Donald Trump supporters there, and they were obsessed with voting only for their own candidates.

Donald Trump supporters have many of the same characteristics as cult members, including an irrational love of their leader and an equally irrational hatred of anyone who is outside of their group.  I had already seen both characteristics of a cult in my brief conversation with Mr. Stopa, and I saw more of these cult characteristics later that afternoon in the hall.

A woman who was sitting next to me in the room, who had some Trump campaign literature with her, including campaign buttons, referred to another candidate as "a snake in the grass".
She worked on a Sodoku puzzle whenever any non-Trump candidate was making a campaign speech.

This meant more to a Trump supporter than anything that was said by someone who wasn't a Trump supporter.

She had a closed mind, and that's a dangerous quality for anyone who is voting for delegates to a party convention.

It's even more dangerous whenever a majority of the people in a room are voting for convention delegates.  They should be listening to all of the speeches, by every candidate to be a delegate, so that they can honestly say that they are well-informed voters.

Whenever a large number of people have an irrational love for one fallible human being, it allows that person to change from being a politician into being a dictator.  The more irrationality someone's supporters have, the easier this change can be made, and the harder it will be for any fallible human being to resist making this change.

When a majority of the people in one geographic area have an irrational love for a person who becomes a dictator, they will accept brutality, even cruelty, from that dictator.  This cage held a pilot from the Jordanian Air Force.  He was captured alive when his plane was shot down by ISIS, but then he was burned alive while trapped inside of his cage.

These web pages include information about this February 2015 photo, including actual video of his cruel death.

Shoebat, February 3, 2015

Breitbart, February 4, 2015

Link to my essay Why dictatorships are always bad, published on another one of my blogs.  It has been read 15,916 times (as of December 13, 2017) since I published it in July 2012.


Despite the fact that I endorsed him when I wrote this page, Michael Stopa's behavior during that one-day election contest offended me, so my Twitter account is now blocking his Twitter account.

Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Separation of church and state in Islam


The following paragraphs were copied from an article in the World News Daily published March 3, 2013.  All of the links in these paragraphs were in the W.N.D. original article.  The link to the article is at the end of the article.
Muslims living in America should not be bound by U.S. law, according to a leader of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, who delivered the controversial message to a crowd at a Muslim rally in Austin, Texas.

“If we are practicing Muslims, we are above the law of the land,” said Mustafa Carroll, executive director of the Dallas-Fort Worth CAIR branch.

The rally in Austin was part of a nationwide effort to hold “Muslim Capitol Day” events.

According to the event website, Muslims from around Texas went to the capitol to “promote civic and political activism throughout the wider Muslim community.”

The organizers said one major issue discussed “was the recent House and Senate bill proposals involving the implementation of ‘anti-Shariah’ legislation, where the First Amendment rights and freedoms of Muslims would ultimately be hindered.”

Critics argue Shariah prohibits other faiths from free exercise of religion when enforced, giving freedom only to Muslims.

Carroll’s statement was similar to a statement allegedly made by CAIR co-founder and former chairman Omar M. Ahmad. He was paraphrased by a reporter saying, “Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant” and the Quran “should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth.”


Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/03/we-are-above-the-law-of-the-land/#rXjoCAuCdgWUJHvE.99


Does Mustafa Carroll, the leader of the Dallas, Texas branch of C.A.I.R., think that any U.S. president, even a Muslim U.S. president, has any Constitutional authority to allow American Muslims:
  • to have multiple wives,
  • to rape women,
  • to murder people, including family members,
  • to hijack airplanes and to fly them into buildings,
  • to steal money from businesses, including banks,
  • to have veiled women walking into banks,
  • and for anyone to have sex with children?


Does he think that the American public would tolerate any U.S. president, even a Muslim president, who did violate the Constitution he swore to uphold by giving an unconstitutional exemption to American Muslims who wanted to violate U.S. law, including our tax laws and the laws that make it a crime to murder, rape, and to rob banks?



Other blog posts about the same subject in chronological order

FrontPage Mag, March 4, 2013

Frugal Cafe, March 4, 2013

Bare Naked Islam, March 4, 2013

BizBac Review, March 5, 2013

Free Zone Media Center News, March 5, 2013

Godfather Politics, March 5, 2013

Creeping Sharia, March 6, 2013

Above Top Secret, March 27, 2013

Family Security Matters, April 2, 2013

America's Party News, June 11, 2013

Freedom Outpost, July 29, 2013

Sodahead, July 29, 2013

Patriot Action Network, July 30, 2013

Patriot's Heart Network, July 30, 2013

Conservative Underground, August 3, 2013


Please allow me to quote an actual Muslim authority.

Copied and pasted from a Muslim website, the Online Darul Iftaa of Darul Uloom Deoband:
What's the proof for living under the law of the country you live in as long as it does not contradict Shariah? And which laws of the Mushrikeen-e-Mecca did our beloved Prophet Muhammad (Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam) obey to?

(Fatwa: 702/686=L)

(1) It is narrated in Hadith: (المسلمون عند شروطھم (او کما قال علیہ السلام), Muslims should keep the agreements they make.  And we have been prohibited to revolt:المختار: (/6:212)  (We have been commanded to refrain from rebellion and cheating.)  Therefore, one should abide by the law of one's country until it contradicts the Shariah.

(2) First, there was no government.  Secondly, had there been any tribal system, then you should point out the examples which were in opposition with Shariah and the Prophet (peace be upon him) did not oppose it. Allah (Subhana Wa Ta'ala) knows Best


Darul Ifta,
Darul Uloom Deoband


There.  Mohammed has spoken.  We all heard it.

The head of the Dallas chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations is wrong.


"One should abide by the law of one's country until it contradicts the Shariah."

Sunday, September 15, 2013

Update on Ayo Kimathi


A man fitting the description of Ayo Kimathi has been seen in the company of a Kentucky moonshiner.  Local law enforcement officials who have seen them together say that the local boy is well known to them and that he lives in an underground bunker.

When asked for comment, Jeremiah Wright said that Ayo was making a deal with the devil, and he said that he hoped Ayo would stay away from the moonshine long enough to accomplish his holy mission of ridding the world of devils like the man he was with.  However, Jeremiah also said that Ayo's open hostility for a majority of the people in this country, coupled with his well-known plans to murder as many of his enemies as he could, likely meant that there was now a bounty on his head, making it necessary for him to hide out until he could assemble the armed militia that was necessary to finish the massacre that he has been planning for years.

The two men have been listening to some music that is a blend of country and rap.  The local people call it "crap".

Some of the people in Ayo's neighborhood are amused at the sight of the two people walking and talking together because it's very plain to them that neither of them has been sleeping much.

They speculate that Ayo and the local boy are both afraid to sleep because the first one who does so is likely to be killed and eaten.

If you happen to see a pile of charred human bones with barbeque sauce on them, please notify the local police.

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Welcome back from your latest vacation, Barry


These bumper stickers, pins, and other products are all available for purchase somewhere on the internet.

Why is the United States so united in hating him?


These two charts are helpful in answering this question.  They are copied from an article published June 27, 2012 by the American Enterprise Institute.

Compared to President Ronald Reagan, President Obama's economic policies are a complete failure.




When is your next vacation, Barry, and why can't you admit that your economic policies are a failure?


Now that he's been out of office for more than five years, you can't blame George Bush anymore.

Oh by the way, Barry, President Ronald Reagan cleaned up Jimmy Carter's economic mess in less than TWO years.

Remember the double-digit unemployment rates, the double-digit mortgage interest rates, and the double-digit inflation rates of the late 1970s?  Of course you don't, you idiot, because President Ronald Reagan's economic policies, with the full support of the American business community and the American public, fixed all those problems.

In less than two years.

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Which Barry is believable?


The following two videos, recorded one year apart, both show how one man, who is unfortunately but temporarily the President of the United States (thank the founding fathers for his term limit) discussing a "red line" with respect to the use of chemical weapons in Syria.

The first video was sent to YouTube by the Telegraph, a newspaper published in the United Kingdom.  The second video was sent by the Cable News Network (CNN).


Uploaded August 21, 2012
Uploaded September 4, 2013
One minute, 37 seconds
One minute, 23 seconds

Partial text of video #1

Starting at 30 seconds:
We have been very clear., to the Assad regime, but also to other players on the ground, that a red line for us is if we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized.  That would change my calculus.  That would change my equation.

The full text of video #2

First of all, I didn't set a red line. The world set a red line.

[You're a liar, Barry, because you did set a red line.  You're a liar.]

The world set a red line when governments representing 98% of the world's population said that, uh, that the use of chemical weapons are abhorrent and passed a treaty forbidding their use even when countries are engaged in war.

Congress set a red line when it ratified that treaty.

Congress set a red line when it, uh, indicated that, uh, in a, uh, piece of, uh, legislation titled "The Syrian Accountability Act", that, uh, some of the horrendous things that are happening on the ground there need to be answered for.

Uh, and so, when I said, in a press conference, that my calculus about what's happening in Syria would be altered by the use of chemical weapons, which the overwhelming, uh, consensus of humanity said is wrong.

Um, That wasn't something I kinda made up.  I didn't pluck it out of thin air.

There's a reason for it.


Uh, Barry, you did say that you had drawn a red line.  You were recorded in the first video saying that "we", meaning the United States, with you as our unfortunate but temporary President, were the party that drew the red line.

I didn't make it up.  I didn't pluck it out of thin air.  The video is my proof that you made that statement.

I have been searching for a video of the leader of another country making a similar statement about red lines and chemical weapons, but I can't seem to find it.

Oh, and I have also been searching for a video recording of a member of either house of Congress making a statement about a red line and chemical weapons.  Can you help me find this video?

I would be very grateful.

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Poor economic choices by President Obama


He can't afford to fight Idaho wildfires ...

Copied from an article published August 21, 2013 (today) by Politico:
Running out of money to fight wildfires at the peak of the season, the U.S. Forest Service is diverting $600 million from timber, recreation and other areas to fill the gap.

The nation’s top wildfire-fighting agency was down to $50 million after spending $967 million so far this year, Forest Service spokesman Larry Chambers said Wednesday in an email.

Chambers says the $50 million the Forest Service has left is typically enough to pay for just a few days of fighting fires when the nation is at its top wildfire preparedness level, which went into effect Tuesday.

There are 51 large uncontained fires burning across the nation, making it tough to meet demands for fire crews and equipment.

Read more:
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/08/federal-government-wildfire-95778.html#ixzz2ceV0zUcl

... because he decided to spend money on this instead

Copied from an article published August 20, 2013 (yesterday) by the Cato Institute:
With dead protesters littering the streets of Cairo, Secretary of State John Kerry’s theory that Egypt’s military rulers “were restoring democracy” isn’t looking very good. The dead won’t be able to vote in the new and improved Egypt.

Instead of acting as the regime’s enabler, the Obama administration should cut off foreign “aid.” If there is influence for Washington to exercise, officials should do so quietly and informally.

Unfortunately, U.S. policy toward Egypt has rarely focused on the Egyptian people. The $75 billion in “aid” was largely a payoff to successive dictators and their military Praetorian Guards. Washington worried about “stability,” not democracy.

Economics means you have to make choices based on your preferences

$75 billion could pay for a lot of firefighter overtime, with money left over for their equipment, their food, their water, their medical bills, their housing, their phone calls home to their families, and many other vitally important details.

Because our Muslim President decided to give away $75 billion to some terrorists in Egypt, who have used this money to burn down Christian churches, this money isn't available to prevent Idaho homeowners from losing their homes.
video of the 2013 Colorado flood


Copied fr4om an article published on August 20, 2013 (yesterday) by the Tribune-Review
AL NAZLA, Egypt — Weeks ago, Egyptian Islamists marked Christian homes here with red graffiti that vowed to defend ousted President Mohamed Morsy with “blood.”

Last week, as police and soldiers assaulted two sprawling Islamist protest camps in Cairo, Christians say members of Morsy's Muslim Brotherhood organization looted and burned two churches and a monastery dating to the 16th century.

“There were a lot, like a thousand or more,” said Milad, a custodian at Emir Tadros Monastery, founded in 1598. “As they attacked us, they yelled, ‘Allah is Great!' ”

Like other Christians in this village, Milad would give only his first name, fearing retaliation. He said his son needed 13 stitches to treat a head wound.

The attackers looted all of the monastery's rooms, he said, “and then they burned everything.”

Christian-Muslim confrontations, long a problem in Egypt, turned more frequent and deadlier since the country's 2011 revolution and again after the Brotherhood and other Islamists won control of the government in 2012.

Since Morsy's ouster on July 3, scores of Christian churches, homes and shops have been looted or torched. So many attacks have occurred in the past week that human-rights groups are struggling to track them.

Maspero Youth Union, a Coptic Christian activist group, reports 38 churches and monasteries destroyed and 23 damaged; Bishop Ermia, president of Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Cultural Center, puts the total at 65.

This was e-mailed to me


When Obama died, George Washington met him at the Pearly Gates.  He slapped him across the face and yelled, "How dare you try to destroy the Nation I helped conceive?"

Patrick Henry approached, punched him in the nose and shouted, "You wanted to end our liberties but you failed."

James Madison followed, kicked him in the groin and said, "This is why I allowed our government to provide for the common defense!"

Thomas Jefferson was next, beat Obama with a long cane and snarled, "It was evil men like you who inspired me to write the Declaration of Independence."

The beatings and thrashings continued as James Monroe and 66 other early Americans unleashed their anger on the radical socialist leader.

As Obama lay bleeding and in pain, an Angel appeared.  Obama wept and said, "This is not what you promised me."

The Angel replied, "I told you there would be 72 VIRGINIANS waiting for you in Heaven. What did you think I said?  You really need to listen when someone is trying to tell you something!"

Saturday, August 17, 2013

Four videos, one wonderful woman


Michelle Dowery, during the 2012 presidential campaign.

This video was uploaded to YouTube in September 2012.

It has been watched more than nine million times.


The following two videos were broadcast online on January 14, 2013 and uploaded to YouTube the next day.


Two minutes out of a one-hour online broadcast.



The first conversation:

Interviewer: "Who are you going to vote for in 2016?"

Michelle: "It darn sure won't be Obama."
Five minutes from the same broadcast.

Recorded January 14, 2013.


This next video is the full one-hour online show that was broadcast on January 14, 2013.

The last two videos show parts of this one-hour video.


Thank you, Michelle Dowery, for your honesty.

I wish America had seen this honesty earlier.



Unfortunately, there are millions of people who voted for Obama and who didn't know what they were doing until it was too late.

Many of these conversations were recorded in Detroit, Michigan, which filed for bankruptcy recently.

Uploaded to YouTube in September 2012.

This video begins with Michelle before she knew who Obama really was, but it also shows brief interviews with other Obama voters who only like him because he's giving them things like free food and housing assistance.

The Constitution calls this bribery, and it says explicitly that this is a valid reason to impeach him.

Monday, August 12, 2013

The last president didn't cause this many problems


If President Obama truly wanted to help the middle class of this country, he would do more to help the businesses that offer jobs to the middle class.

That means reducing the regulations that put unnecessary burdens on American businesses, including these costly regulations:

Every dollar that a business, large or small, has to spend on any of the above regulations is a dollar that cannot be given to a company employee, no matter how much he or she deserves to have that dollar in his or her paycheck.

That means that no matter how much you may want people in the middle class to do well, Mister President, your own regulations are driving them out of the middle class and into the lower class.

But don't worry about that tiny little detail.  The government has lots of money to spend on food stamps, subsidized housing, free telephone service, tax refunds to people who aren't even U.S. citizens, and lots of other benefits, right?

$4.2 billion was given to Mexican children, reported May 2, 2012 by the Examiner.  The link in the paragraph below is in their original article.
Investigative television reporter Bob Segall of Indianapolis NBC affiliate WTHR TV Channel 13, was contacted by a long-time central Indiana tax preparer, who blew the whistle on a multi-billion dollar tax fraud about which the IRS has done nothing, according to the TV news show video segment that aired on Monday.

"There is not a doubt in my mind there's huge fraud taking place here," he said, slowly flipping through the pages of a [heavily redacted] tax return.

"We're talking about a multi-billion dollar fraud scheme here that's taking place and no one is talking about it," he said.

The scheme involves illegal immigrants that are filing tax returns, claiming child credits for multiple dependents under their support in "their" U.S. household, and collecting enormous cash refunds--such as one persons tax return that showed income of over $14,000, who collected a cash refund of over $10,300.

Barak Hussein Obama, stop wasting our money and start allowing U.S. businesses to support our middle class by using the savings from reduced or eliminated regulations to hire people and give the deserving ones bonuses and raises.  That's something you're supposed to do but haven't done yet.

It's that simple, MISTER President.

Would you rather have me call you Bam-Bam?

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Update on my 100th Twitter follower


The essay that mentioned a contest and my Twitter followers was published before I had 100 followers on Twitter.  Since then, I have been fortunate enough to have enough followers to push me over that milestone.  At the moment, I have 145 followers.

My 100th Twitter follower is named Upstate Criminals.  This is the person who I have chosen to have early access to a special essay.

The essay wasn't finished when this Twitter follower became my 100th follower, but I finished writing the essay yesterday.

The essay accuses President Obama of taking actions that harm his own country and mine.  Under United States law, he could be arrested and charged with a very serious crime called Treason.

Treason is usually defined as taking actions that "give aid and comfort" to one of this nation's enemies.  The essay names one country as being one of America's enemies (with documentation of that statement) and it says that Barak Obama, at the end of 2011, gave aid and comfort to that country.  I document those actions as well.

I began writing this essay more than a week ago.  I finished it yesterday, as I said.

Soon after I finished writing the essay, I logged onto Twitter and sent a message to Upstate Criminals, telling him that he should contact me.  As a condition of his early access to this essay, I also required that he be a subscriber to my "Conserving the Nation" blog.  That is the blog that will publish the essay.

I have not heard from that Twitter follower yet.  I can only guess why he has not contacted me so far.

I sent him a message, also visible to all my other followers, saying that if he did not contact me by Monday morning (July 29), I would publish the essay anyway, and he would lose the privilege of early access.

The essay took a long time to write.  It includes a video and a few photographs.  Most of my essays also have several links.  This essay also includes several links.

President Obama is a dangerous man to be in control of the White House and all of its' power.  It is my strong hope that many Americans will read that essay and be so outraged at his treasonous actions that they write to their representatives in Congress, urging them to begin the impeachment process that is in our Constitution.

Obama's popularity ratings are very low, but I am not satisfied, because he still has the power to order many U.S. Government agencies to take actions that hurt this country and its' citizens.  This is something that he has been doing ever since he was first sworn in, January 2009.

Obama can also order the U.S. military, as the civilian Commander-in-Chief, to take actions that harm them, even without the formal approval of a Congressional Declaration of War.  He has already used U.S. military forces against Libya when no declaration had been provided to him by the U.S. Congress.  That alone should have been grounds for impeaching him.

President Obama must be impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives, Convicted by the U.S. Senate, and forced to remove himself from the power of the White House, power that he has abused ever since he became president in 2009.

Whether my new essay is published today or Monday, it will help in this very worthwhile goal.

Barak Obama, save my nation the embarassment of an impeachment.

RESIGN.

[August 10, 2013 update.   I tried many times to contact my 100th Twitter follower in order to give him the early access to that essay, but he never followed up on my repeated attempts.   I then contacted another follower of my Twitter account, someone who is also a member of the U.S. Congress, but he also didn't respond to my attempt to give him early access to the essay.  Finally, I published the essay called "Barak Obama is a traitor to his country"on Monday, July 29th]

Sunday, July 21, 2013

Shout out to a fellow patriot.


I have an essay that lists about 40 reasons to impeach the President of the United States, Barak Hussein Obama.

For the benefit of my international readers, impeachment is a peaceful method of removing many elected officials in our government who have taken actions that violate our Constitution or who have performed their jobs exceptionally poorly in other ways.

Another person who writes a blog has published his own essay that lists reasons to impeach President Obama, which are called "Articles of Impeachment" in the U.S. Constitution.  His essay lists 115 reasons to impeach him, about four times as many reasons as I have.  Many of his 115 Articles have links to other articles, such as this one.

Those other articles serve the purpose of documenting the facts that he offers in support of the impeachment resolution that he and I both want the U.S. House of Representatives to produce and approve, followed by a historic vote in the U.S. Senate to convict Mr. Obama, which would result in him being forcibly but peacefully (I hope) removed from the White House.

Well done, Peter Paton, well done.

Saturday, July 13, 2013

Readership Statistics

Total number of readers: 27,815 as of February 10, 2020.

This blog does not have as much readership as my other blogs, but I want my readers to know the names of the most popular essays so that they can find them with the help of these links, read them, and send links to these essays to their friends.

When I started this blog, I intended it to have shorter essays that could be read easily on "mobile devices", including personal digital assistants like the Blackberry, shown on the left, which was very popular at that time.  I tried to accomplish this goal by copying some of my most popular blog pages on my other blogs, while reducing the number of photos and videos that were on these pages.

As a blog author, I have access to some analytical information about my blogs.  That information includes the names of the operating systems that are being used to read these pages.  When I looked at the analytical information for this page, I discovered that "mobile devices" weren't being used by a majority of the readers of this blog, so I "rededicated" this blog to shorter, more "lightweight" essays.

I have a separate page on this blog that lists the 20 most popular essays on all six of my blogs combined, but this page is dedicated to the essays on this blog.

This update was made on February 10, 2020.  The last update was made on June 22, 2018.


The ten most well-read essays on this blog

Name of Essay Readers
My 20 most popular essays 2,801
Two of my seven blogs have most of the essays, and
those two blogs also get most of the readership.
This blog page lists the 20 essays, on all of my 7 blogs,
that have the largest number of readers.  However,
this page also lists the four most well-read pages
on the other five blogs, including this one.

Boycott the National Football League on Veteran's Day 2,016
This page mentions Alejandro Villanueva, who was an
Army Ranger and until recently, a member of the
Pittsburgh Steelers.  Because he stood for the National
Anthem prior to a September 2017 game, when his
teammates were all in the locker room, the sales of
his football jersey skyrocketed.  I quoted one story
and linked to 16 other stories about this event.

My Twitter information 1,437
This page includes a statement of my standards for
retweeting messages, and it also includes a list of some
of the people who follow my Twitter account, including
members of Congress and past presidential candidates.

Voter identification prevents voter fraud 1,115
This essay compares voters in the United States with
voters in other countries, including India and Mexico,
that must show identification when they vote.  India
has over a billion people, yet their voters all have an
identification card, and Mexican voters also have them.

Now you know why college is so expensive 744
This blog page was inspired by a photo of a U.S. Senator
who is a hypocrite.  The photo, with the caption on it,
was spotted on my Twitter account.  I copied and pasted it
onto an empty blog page and added a short explanation.

Summary of the Sample Articles of Impeachment 643
This is a summary of another essay on another blog.
That essay is a long list of President Obama's impeachable
offenses, which is one of the most popular pages on any
of my blogs.  This essay includes a clickable link to that essay.

Boycott the National Football League - updates 553
This page mentions the N.F.L. Player's Association, the
2017 meeting attended by owners and the Commissioner,
Colin Kapernick,and various well-known people who agree
with the fans that players should stand for the Anthem.

The economics of the N.F.L. boycott 511
This page has information about the revenue of the
teams and the league.  It mentions sponsors who have
decided to stop sponsoring teams.  Colin Kapernick's
lawsuit is discussed.  I also include news stories about
half-empty football stadiums and slow sales at stores
that sell N.F.L.-licensed clothing.

Why I am a Republican 255
This page includes a YouTube video of a state legislator
named Elbert Guillory.  He is a State Senator in Louisiana.
He says why he switched from the Democrat Party.
His reasoning is hard to disagree with, partly because
he talks in a calm, quiet voice without strong emotion.

Seeing racism and sexism where it doesn't exist 432
This essay is based on my personal experience attending
a chess club at a public library many years ago.

Also worth reading on this blog


This gun saved lives. This page includes a 2013 news story about a woman who successfully defended herself and two small children when a man broke into her home.

Richard Nixon's second impeachment article. There are similarities to actions taken by President Obama.  There is a detailed explanation of those similarities in this page on another blog, that shows how Obama committed every one of the impeachable offenses that President Nixon did in his two abbreviated terms, which ended when he resigned as President in August 1974.


Why I am a Republican.  This page has been read 311 times as of February 10, 2020.

This page was written in June 2013.  At that time, a man named Elbert Guillory, a member of the Louisiana State Senate, had just switched from the Democrat Party to the Republican Party.  He recorded a video of himself stating his reasons why he made the switch.  Since then, he has retired from the Louisiana Senate, but he is now part of the executive team in the Louisiana Republican Party.



Race for Dummies

Starting in the late 1990s, a company published a series of popular books that helped people with limited skills in certain areas improve their skills by reading these "How To" books.  One sample book is shown on the left.  My essay, written in March 2015, explained the basic principles of social color-blindness that had been discussed in much more detail in the third essay I had ever written for any of my blogs, The End of Racism.

In its' most simple form, the concept of color-blindness is the natural result of an inconsistency in the concept of race.  If you believe in race, and if two people from two different races become the parents of a biological child together, then the child cannot be a member of either of its' parent's races because it shares the DNA of both parents.  The definition of those two races is instantly unusable as a way to define the race of the child.



Water Economics for Students, 328 readers as of February 10, 2020.

This page was written on July 26, 2016.  At that time, my essay "Water Economics" on my main blog was receiving thousands of readers daily, and from many different countries around the world.  I wrote this page for students in elementary schools and middle schools, so that they would understand how the scientific principles that they were learning in school could be applied to the problem of the drought in California.  This same concept, using science to solve a problem that affects a large economy, is the basic concept of the original 2012 blog page "Water Economics'.

This page uses many more graphics than my original 2012 page, meant for adult readers.  It uses some animated graphics, and it also uses colored text for everything but quotes of other people's words.  The page has a different feel, too.  It copies the style of some children's literature, which encourages them to take a "hands-on" approach to the task of learning the science concepts that give them the tools to understand the other ideas.  I even included two versions of a diagram that explained something called a Water Cycle.


Both diagrams show the same science principles.


A message for Kevin, 252 readers as of February 10, 2020.

This page was written in June 2015 when I saw a cartoon drawing about a soldier with an amputated leg inside of a public school classroom that included one student, named Kevin, who didn't want to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.  I added more information later, including some information about a Major General in the Army who had been killed in Afghanistan in 2014.  Many people were outraged because three high-ranking officials went to a funeral for Michael Brown, who had been killed by a police officer after robbing a convenience store in Ferguson, Missouri, yet no high-ranking people in Obama's White House attended the military funeral for an Army general.  I also added some photos of the funeral for some soldiers who served at Fort Hood, Texas, and who were murdered by a jihadi who was a psychiatrist at that base.


The ten countries that have sent the most visitors to this blog

These are the names and the numbers since I began writing this blog on December 10, 2012.

The names of these countries and their readership numbers have been verified by Google.  The number of readers from Brunei hasn't changed since the last update in June 2018, but that number is still high enough to qualify that country for this list.  Ireland only added two readers to this list since the last update.

Another piece of analytical information that I can see as a blog author is the number of readers during the past 30 days.  During the past 30 days up to the date of this update (February 10, 2020), there were 9 readers in Turkey, 5 readers in Argentina, 5 readers in Indonesia, and 5 readers in Mexico.

The June 2018 update of this page included 107 readers from Poland, but the number of readers from unknown countries (probably using virtual private networks) is now more than that number, so Poland is no longer on this list.
 

This part of this page will be updated whenever I update the list of the ten most popular essays.

Country Visitors
United States 17,723
Russia 1,966
Germany 1,631
France 1,179
India 664
Ukraine 614
Canada 255
Brunei 236
Ireland 188
"unknown region" 154

Friday, July 12, 2013

Boycott Jay-Z. Don't buy any of his products!

why
He said "the N-word" (three times) in "H.O.V.A."

Note: He also says n***as and b****.

Other web sites with the same lyrics

Rap Genius   E-Lyrics
Song Meanings  Metro Lyrics



He said "the N-word" in "Can I get a ..."

Note: He also says s***, b****es, n***as, and f***ed.

Other web sites with the same lyrics

Sing 365  Metro Lyrics
Let's sing it  Song Lyrics


Justice for Paula !!



He said "the N-word" in "99 Problems".

He also says s***, b**** (four times in the verses and twice more in each chorus), a**, and a**h***.  The video on the right includes all of the words that other people have been criticized for saying.

Other web sites with the same lyrics

Metro Lyrics  A-Z Lyrics  Rap Genius  Lyrics Mode



Oh by the way, he said G*dd***it, s*** (twice), bulls***, f*** (twice), and f***ing in Open Letter.

Other web sites with the same lyrics

A-Z Lyrics
Direct Lyrics
Rap Genius
Lyrics Freak
Lyrics 007



Paula Deen deserves justice. If you're going to boycott her for saying "the N-word" once, then boycott Jay-Z too, because he said it many times.

If you're willing to buy his music and willing to hear him say that word two or three times in one piece of rap music, knowing that he has other rap "songs" with the same word in them, knowing that he says other swear words in those other songs, and knowing that he has never apologized for anything that he has said, then buy her brand-name products, too.

She only said the word once.

Paula Deen products
(clickable link)



10/05/14 update.  Paula is expected to launch a new digital television network.  Link to the June 11, 2014 announcement in the lifestyle section of Businessweek.


04/07/18 update.

This is a Jesse Lee Peterson broadcast about Jay-Z. It was uploaded on April 7, 2018.

It includes a clip from an interview Jay-Z had with David Letterman, broadcast on NetFlix.

In this interview, he said,starting at 1 minute, 19 seconds, "We have to talk about why white men are so privileged in this country."

A Forbes Magazine article about Jay-Z.  He is #1 on the Forbes list of the wealthiest Hi-p-Hop artists, and Forbes says that he is worth $900 million.

Billboard says the same thing.  Jay-Z is the wealthiest Hip-Hop artist of 2018.