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Message-ID: http://www.ultimatewarrior.com/092203.htm Hello warriors. Time is short around here these days. I have been very busy and it looks like it may go that way for a while so posts may be sparse. But I promise you'll hear from me regularly and no more 3 year disappearances... Just got back from a couple of speaking engagements in Missouri at University of Missouri at St. Louis and Washington University at St. Louis. Great people, great time. A lot of kids that are thinking. That is what is important and it is impressive and inspiring. I happen to think that as long as they are thinking about the concerns and life-importances outside the bubble of their campus experiences, even those with with somewhat inconsistent views at this time of their life, will, in time, piece it all together, Conservatively. There are many libertarians, calling themselves hyphenated conservatives, i.e., conservative-Libertarians. I think that is a misnomer and told them so. And I think this grows out of their refusal to draw hard, distinct, clear moral lines. The kind of moral lines they, themselves, have to draw (and do draw) day-in and day-out to achieve effectively. That is what morality is and what it is, it is. Morality is simply choosing what is right, true and good over what is wrong, false and evil in your life, to determine the actions you will take to set the direction of the course of your life -- AND WHEN YOU JUDGE OTHERS... We judge, again, day-in and day-out about all things. It's hypocrisy (one many won't admit they hold) to withhold judgment when accessing the thoughts others hold and the erred acts they commit as direct result of their erred thinking. It's ironic, because most of those who want to allow others moral flexibility hold themselves to a stern moral standard. What is forgotten is that all the conceptual knowledge they have about political and government issues, issues they want to succeed in the real world, depend first on that people are thinking and acting correctly, morally. All the varieties of incompetence disliked in our society are a direct result of the moral decay. Period. All societal repairs begin there, they must. One speech was my Socialism Sucks Speech...did you know: there are 342 different economic development programs in the federal budget, along with 130 programs serving the disabled, 130 programs for at-risk youth, 90 early childhood development programs, 75 programs funding international education, cultural and trade exchanges, 50 homeless assistance programs, 40 separate employment and training programs, 23 agencies providing aid to the former Soviet republics, 19 programs fighting substance abuse, 12 food safety agencies, 11 principal statistics agencies, four overlapping land management agencies; and that The Department of Agriculture seems to have lost track of $5 billion in receipts and expenditures; and that Of 26 departments and major government agencies, 21 received the lowest possible rating for their financial management; and that if each agency and department had cut its spending by just 1% in 1980, that taxpayers would have saved $190 billion through 2002 -- or about half of our current deficit. I do what I can to influence...and I will keep at it. Arnold for governor. I've followed Arnold's career ever since I was kid, going all the way back to my budding weightraining efforts in the ‘70's. I was a scrawny, insecure kid who wanted to be strong; not simply strength in muscle, but strength in confidence, decision making, and self-discipline. I wanted to muscle control over the direction of my life. A healthy young male believes, first, that this can happen through bigger body muscles, an Adonis physique. The girls, the jobs, the prestige -- it all follows. This idea takes hold the first time you see a Charles Atlas ad. So it was when I was a kid growing up in a rural area of Indiana. Arnold was the champion of the Universe. Literally. He was Mr. Universe and Mr. Olympia. Arnold's face and physique were on practically every page of "Muscle and Power Builder" (today's "Muscle and Fitness"). Hanging on the beach or hawking exercise equipment and bodybuilding supplements, Arnold was Joe Weider's main muscle-pitch man. And like many young scrawny, insecure males seeking themselves, I was following Arnold's (and his sidekick, Franco Columbo) workout lead. (One of the best beginner books for bodybuilding to learn good, strong basics was Franco Columbo's book "Winning Bodybuilding" I looked around and it is no longer in print but you can find used copies at internet sites -- great book for you young guys who write asking for work out advice.) I became an even bigger fan of Arnold's career beyond his own competitive bodybuilding days. I never missed a movie, and I never failed to defend the career-trade he was making, lightening his body weight for heavyweight bank and success in Hollywood accounts; a trade no-life-otherwise-can't-even-pay-my-rent muscleheads never could understand. While it bothered them that the Arnold on screen was letting his physique get small, it never bothered them that they had to beg for protein drinks or for more time to come up with the $20 bucks to pay their gym dues. The only success they were willing to concede was his competitive bodybuilding success. None of his successful growth as businessman and an actor making successful films even registered (literally and figuratively). Some of these guys are still running around in the same gyms now 20 years later. Broke, all the timeframes to fulfill their own dreams outlived, their futures busted. Six or seven years ago, I quit following Arnold's career. I quit patronizing his movies. I quit reading articles about him, and just didn't care to mind what was going on with him. The short answer is, Arnold quit growing up. He quit working at bettering himself in ways that would be inspiring to me; true manly and mentoring ways. Ways that our culture needs and ways the he can afford to project with the kind of power and image capital he has amassed in Hollywood over the years. Yes, I know he does a lot of good things. But he could do better and make better choices as a grown adult man influencing young minds. In his movies and his interviews there is always a crude, prepubescent sexual innuendo. Here's a guy who is over 50 and has this incredible power yet when he acts like a 20 year old, in comment or action, it just seems like you want to say "Hey, Arnold, grow up." I think he does it as way of hanging onto an image of himself as a younger man. Many guys his age do the very same thing. There are recent accounts (and pictures) where he has in appropriately fondled female interviewers while touring to promo Terminator 3. My conclusion is that he behaves this way because it is part of his real personality. It's uncouth and uncool. It reveals a juvenile mentality. In addition, there are lowbrow behaviors, presentations and language in his films that he, with the power he has to cull creative talents, doesn't have to stoop to. The best films ever made never resorted to ‘defining deviancy down' nor catered to the basest or dumbest qualities there are about us as human beings. Arnold has built up the kind of power to demand otherwise. When he doesn't he takes the easy, lazy, cheap way out (just to bank the money). I think in many ways that has been the case over the last 10-12 years where our culture has deteriorated. No one wants to do the harder work to create what is unique or one of a kind. Those in charge of which creative direction taken are catering to the lowest and basest about us. And, I think the entertainment industry is, right now, reaping the patheticness it has sown. Unfortunately, the effect is not only the industry's bottom-line. Millions of young minds have been deviantly adulterated. Arnold needs to act his age and do so at all times as if all eyes of the world are watching. He's grown up, he needs to think and act like it. Both on the street and on the silver screen. That said, there are a couple things all the pundits have blown out of proportion. The government of this country was never intended to be run by professional politicians. Our Republic form of government was at one time clearly taught to, studied and understood by all American citizens. What seems like only confusion to many of us, was at one time common sense -- ‘of, by and for the people.' Professional politicians have proven that they are the worst at representing us. They are making a mockery out of our government and following their lead is ruining our country. So much so has it, it will never again be what it was intended to be, and, very likely, one day will not even be recognizable nor be called The United States of America at all. Arnold not being a politician is a plus. Another thing pundits forget is that Arnold has throughout his life shown that he has incredible self-determination and discipline. That right there will beat the intellectuality of a thousand Ph.D.'s. It is just that simple and history holds hundreds of thousands and hundreds of thousands of stories to support the irrefutable truth of that statement. His social agenda sucks. (It's the Kennedy worn off on him. You know they say after so many years together a couple begin to look like one another; it's true here -- Arnold has her socialistic/marxist/totalitaristic/communistic views, and Maria has Arnold's face). Different than the ‘tough love' Bustamante proposes to administer by raising taxes, the tough love needs to be that people are held accountable to think and provide for themselves even if they have to suffer through it. Everybody has their tough luck and tough times stories. But we can't let our sympathies turn into sacrifices that no one, no group, no government has the wealth to pay. I can't spend more than I have and many times that knowledge has come from a lesson hard-learned. I didn't enjoy getting it, but I learned from it's experience. There are just too many people who want lifestyles and possessions they cannot afford to have. The social agenda in this country has swollen into something not about giving people what they truly and genuinely need. It is about giving people what they irrationally want and what they subjectively want and what they whiningly want until it has become grotesquely about what they believe they deserve at someone's else expense. The buck truly does need to stop. On a dime it does. And it needs to the moment we begin to ‘feel' sorry for others without first considering objectively how they ended up in the mess they find themselves in. Too many times it is their own fault, created by weaknesses that have nothing to do with the lack of money at all. If those are not repaired, good money is simply being thrown after bad. Arnold will surprise people if he wins. It is stunning how so many people believe others can only do one thing that they have been successful at. I get this all the time: Once a pro-wrestler, always a pro-wrestler. People just breeze right over the fact that any human being can do anything he sets his mind to for that one reason and that one reason alone -- the human being has a mind. Conservatives especially need to dump the prejudice; holding it cancels out one's Conservatism as far as I'm concerned. Here we have Conservatism, ostensibly, striving to have people realize they can and must take care of themselves, support their own lives, yet, absent any forethought, they dismiss without legitimate reason the possibility that a person, willing, can remake them themselves. And to top off the farcicality, they hold this prejudice more unreasonably about those who have already proven they have the will to succeed. I would vote for McClintock. There was a lot of wondering being shuffled around the media about whether or not terrorism was the cause of the blackout a few weeks ago -- the damn media has become nothing but a terrorist organization itself! All they do is promote pessimism and perpetuate negativity and terror about life. Like there is only fear and we must deal with it in fear. That it is only fear our minds can comprehend and without it we would not know what to do with our lives. I just couldn't live with myself getting paid to constantly hammer fear and despair and desolation into the minds of my fellow citizens. Just what do you tell your pompous self to make it right in your own mind that what you are doing contributes nothing positive to the world you live in? Think about it.... The September 18 edition of USA today, SECTION A, Page 9, has story titled "Complaints delay new citizenship oath." Its frightening and serious. A swearing of new citizens was postponed because some real Americans realized the oath of citizenship was being revised ad hoc at the ceremony. For those who don't know the original oath here it is: "I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by law; that I will perform non-combatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States when required by law; that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by law; and that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; So help me God." The revised one they were attempting to get away with had removed these parts from the vow: "renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty," and "bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by law." This is appalling. The Socialist States of America encroaches closer and closer every day. Private Clark entering race...according to a poll, he leads among the Democraps. The chilling thing is that 45% of those voting say they've never heard of him before now! The brilliance of this illustration is blinding. Liberals (read Lesions, always) want to be lead around by the nose and do not care, nor care to think, about anything consequential to their life. They want to be on the dole and they are doing all that is empty-minded to create such a State (capital S intentional) of living. It is truly time to start telling the truth: some of us that look like human beings simply are not. There can be no doubt any longer. Each day I am more convinced. Government parasites who are subsidized to study the monkey's similarities to humans have used the experimentation as an empathetic ploy driving humans to become more like monkeys. Political poll after political poll prove this out. Rep Racist Charles Rangel NY, an eerie, ugly, greasy black man filled with hatred who abuses Sean Hannity like he's a hated poor white child, claims he has never met Clark, but that didn't stop him from blazoning (about Clark), 'He Can Save This G-ddam Nation From Self-Destruction'... I say, 'No!!, what can save us, Chucky-Racist, is a Conservative/Republican conviction that there is very, very serious ideological war for the IDEA OF THIS COUNTRY going on and that we need to beat, as in kick intellectual ass, you rancid liberals into a yesterday not even on record. A yesterday not even on historical record. Kick your liberal asses clear back to a day before there was even a sun and a moon... you piece of non-human traitorous waste...' Clark says he'd be Republican if only Karl Rove had returned his calls... boo-hoo, boo-hoo, it's blasphemous for him to be called a General...my 7 month old daughter is less emotionally swayed and has stronger principles. September 17th was Constitution Day, don't expect Liberals to use any of their printed pulp to let you know. I am a subscriber to "Federalist.com" and I recommend all patriots subscribe and contribute. Here is the text of their Constitution Day Issue: 17 September 2003 Federalist No. 03-38 Special Edition Celebrating the 214th Constitution Day _____ _----********O********----______ THE FOUNDATION "We The People of the United states, in order to form a more perfect union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this, Constitution for the United States of America." --Preamble to the U.S. Constitution ______----********O********----______ FROM OUR CONSTITUTION'S AUTHOR "The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation and foreign commerce. ... The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives and liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement and prosperity of the State." --James Madison in Federalist Paper No. 45 (See Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution, and its Bill of Rights, particularly the Tenth Amendment.) ______----********O********----______ FOUNDERS ON THE CONSTITUTION "The Constitution on which our Union rests, shall be administered ... according to the safe and honest meaning contemplated by the plain understanding of the people of the United States at the time of its adoption...." --Thomas Jefferson "The Constitution which at any time exists, 'till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole People, is sacredly obligatory upon all." --George Washington "...I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a general Government necessary for us, and there is no form of Government but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered, and believe farther that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in Despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of any other. I doubt, too, whether any other Convention we can obtain may be able to make a better Constitution." --Benjamin Franklin "I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that 'all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states or to the people.' To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, not longer susceptible of any definition." --Thomas Jefferson "Nothing has yet been offered to invalidate the doctrine that the meaning of the Constitution may as well be ascertained by the Legislative as by the Judicial authority." --James Madison "The aim of every political constitution is, or ought to be, first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of the society; and in the next place, to take the most effectual precautions for keeping them virtuous whilst they continue to hold their public trust." --Alexander Hamilton & James Madison "...[N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt." --Samuel Adams "The whole of that Bill [of Rights] is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals.... [I]t establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of." --Albert Gallatin "In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution." -- Thomas Jefferson "A constitution founded on these principles introduces knowledge among the people, and inspires them with a conscious dignity becoming freemen; a general emulation takes place, which causes good humor, sociability, good manners, and good morals to be general. That elevation of sentiment inspired by such a government, makes the common people brave and enterprising. That ambition which is inspired by it makes them sober, industrious, and frugal." --John Adams "There is a higher law than the Constitution." --William H. Seward ______----********O********----______ REFLECTIONS ON THE CONSTITUTION "Let this day always be a reminder to our nation, to the world, why we fight in freedom's cause and why we must fight and win this global war on terror." --Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld "The Constitution was never meant to prevent people from praying; its declared purpose was to protect their freedom to pray." --Ronald Reagan "America's Founders endowed our Republic with sound principles and a framework for governing that is unmatched in the history of mankind. The prosperity and freedom of America can only be made secure if they are guided by a return to these basic principles as our country enters the 21st Century." --The Claremont Institute "Thus the U.S. Constitution has a long history behind it -- it is part of our American tradition, and we should be proud of it. But we should not respect the Constitution simply because it is tradition. There are, after all, bad traditions. Rather, as American citizens we have a duty to understand the Constitution as fully as possible -- which means understanding the principles upon which it was built. ... The Constitution was based on the idea of an unchanging human nature. That idea is best captured in the Declaration of Independence, and its statement that all human beings possess equal rights by nature. The idea of equal natural rights is not only the ground for government by consent, but also sets the limit for what that government may rightfully do. If rights precede the formation of government, the primary goal of government is to secure those rights. It cannot grant them, nor can it violate them. To achieve this, government must protect individuals equally under the law." --Thomas L. Krannawitter "'Why We Fight' is a question that a free people are compelled to answer not merely by invoking the imperatives of self-preservation but also by reminding themselves of their blessings and, correspondingly, their duties. ... Chief among our blessings is the United States Constitution. ... Human dignity; the rule of law; the equal rights of men and women; limited government; separation of powers; the consent of the governed; due process of law; separation of church and state; freedom of speech and religion -- these are the glories of our constitutional order. To the tyrants who struck New York and Washington, however, these are a syllabus of errors." --Charles R. Kesler ______ ----********O********----______ THE GIPPER "I had a copy of the Soviet Constitution and I read it with great interest. And I saw all kinds of terms in there that sound just exactly like our own: 'Freedom of assembly' and 'freedom of speech' and so forth. Of course, they don't allow them to have those things, but they're in there in the constitution. But I began to wonder about the other constitutions -- everyone has one -- and our own, and why so much emphasis on ours. And then I found out, and the answer was very simple -- that's why you don't notice it at first. But it is so great that it tells the entire difference. All those other constitutions are documents that say, 'We, the government, allow the people the following rights,' and our Constitution says 'We the People, allow the government the following privileges and rights.' We give our permission to government to do the things that it does. And that's the whole story of the difference--why we're unique in the world and why no matter what our troubles may be, we're going to overcome." --Ronald Reagan ----********O********----______ FROM THE HIGH COURT As The Left Reads... "The genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might have had in a world that is dead and gone, but in the adaptability of its great principles to cope with current problems and current needs." --Former Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. ++ "We look to the history of the time of framing and to intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time." --William J. Brennan, Jr. "We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans." --William J. Brennan, Jr. As The Right Reads... "Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind." --Hugo L. Black "The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of the people." --William O. Douglas "There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all." --Antonin Scalia "The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it." --Felix Frankfurter About two rumors going around... One...THQ game...NO agreement to be in it. Two...WM XX...what is it you don't understand about what I have said over the years? McMahon doesn't have the courage, integrity or substance to meet my price. Always Believe, Warrior --- Internet Rex 2.29* Origin: The gateway at Swills (1:229/3000.1) SEEN-BY: 633/267 270 @PATH: 229/3000 123/500 106/2000 633/267 |
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