Iraq: Quagmire for Al Qaeda

The United States should stay in Iraq for the foreseeable future because Iraq is a quagmire, a quagmire for Al Qaeda and its’ terrorist allies.
The main reason Al Qaeda hasn’t been able to attack the United States directly is that its’ terrorist assets and resources are bogged down in Iraq. Every terrorist fighting in Iraq or lying in a shallow grave outside Fallujah is one less terrorist trying to sneak into the US or Europe. The money the terrorists spend for guns and bombs in Iraq is money not going for guns and bombs to attack America with.
Iraq is a quagmire for Al Qaeda because Bin Laden’s organization has devoted vast amounts of money and huge numbers of men to the fight there. It has sent in thousands of fighters and achieved little.
Al Qaeda’s power base is Saudi Arabia where the vast majority of its members and funds come from. Most of those members are now fighting in Iraq and most of their money is now being spent in Iraq. Those resources are going to the hopeless struggle in Iraq not to the war against the United States and the rest of the civilized world.
Not only are Al Qaeda’s forces bogged down in Iraq, in Iraq they are in a perfect place for our military to find and kill them. In Iraq we’ve been able to draw Al Qaeda out into the open where we can fight it.
Al Qaeda’s poorly armed forces have engaged our troops directly and almost always lost. Most of their fighters have been killed and many of them captured. The terrorist elite Bin Laden was relying on for his war against the West has been decimated. Despite these losses, Al Qaeda must pour more and more of its resources into the Iraqi quagmire where our troops can grind them down.
The Islamic fanatics have to fight in Iraq because they have committed themselves to waging war against “crusaders” a.k.a. US troops in the name of God. As long as American troops are in Iraq, Al Qaeda will have to devote most of its forces and resources to fighting them or loose all credibility as a force of Islamic fighters.
Thanks to the quagmire in Iraq, all Bin Laden can do today is sit in his hideout and make arrogant tapes attacking the West and promising attacks that never come. Contrary to the ravings of the Editorial Board of the New York Times and all the elitists who let it do their thinking for them we are safer because of the war in Iraq.
This also means that if we pull out of Iraq, so can Al Qaeda. If America leaves Iraq, Bin Laden will be free to pull his forces out and redirect them against the US and other countries. If there are no US troops in Iraq, Al Qaeda will be free to attack America and ramp up its attacks on Europe. If there is no war in Iraq, Americans and Europeans will be killed in their homelands.
Obviously the war in Iraq isn’t a pleasant affair, Americans are dying and getting wounded over there. Many innocent Iraqis are getting hurt and killed and seeing their homes destroyed. That’s tragic but we should remember Al Qaeda is just as responsible for the slaughter in Iraq as the United States, probably more so they started the war after all.
The war in Iraq is horrible, but before they criticize it too much, Americans should ask themselves? Do they want the war in Iraq or here in the United States? Do we want the fighting in Tikrit or on Main Street? For if we pull out of Iraq the war won’t end it’ll just follow our troops home.
So yes lefties Iraq is a Quagmire, a quagmire where our enemies can get bogged down and become a good target for our men and women in uniform.

Immigration, Jobs, Etc.

Immigration, Jobs Etc.
By Daniel G. Jennings
I haven’t written much about the current immigration frenzy because everybody else is writing about it. So what do I think the US immigration policy should be?
Obviously we can’t deport all the illegal immigrants or close the border as the modern day Know Nothings demand we still have a labor shortage after all. So how do we deal with this situation?
My suggestion would be two fold, first a massive crackdown on the employers of illegal immigrants in the US. There’d be arrests, business licenses would be taken, we’d send executives to jail, confiscate property that sort of thing. The focus would be the sleazebags exploiting immigrants not the poor people looking for jobs. This would be cheaper and easier than rounding up illegal immigrants and far more effective.
The second part of my suggestion would be this, we’d set up US government labor recruiting offices in Latin America and elsewhere. People who wanted to go to the US to work would go to these places. They’d register and pay a small fee and get an official labor passport to work in the US and perhaps a ticket to America. The immigrants would be screened those with criminal records would be told to stay home. Only decent honest hardworking men looking for work would be allowed.
This way we’d know who is coming to the US and why. This would protect National Security
These guest workers would make the US minimum wage and pay all US taxes. They’d have full protection of American law, if an employer cheated them, they could hire a lawyer to sue them. I’m sure the ambulance chasers would be lining up to represent them in class action suits.
This would eliminate the Coyotes and the whole criminal underground that brings illegal aliens to the US. No bribery, no violence, just decent hardworking folk being allowed a shot at the American dream.
Immigrants with no criminal records who could prove their identity would be allowed in. If they worked here for five years they could bring their families and apply for citizenship. The family members would have to pass criminal background checks too.
Such a set up could end the illegal immigrant problem and give us a solution to the labor problem. More importantly it would give us a reason to deport those immigrants who pose a threat to our great nation. It would ensure that the new Americans would be honest laborers like our Great Grandparents, not criminals.
This would be a sensible move, unfortunately our political leaders sacrificed common sense to political hysteria long ago.

Working at Teletech

"And Now for Something Completely Different" that's what they would say on the Classic British TV show Monte Python's Flying Circus back when I was a tot. That's what we're going to do now. As a blogger I suppose I should expose some of my personnel life so here goes. I'm a freelance writer who needs to make a living. As a basically honest person I could never work in journalism or academia. I like to work so education is out of the question. For the last six months I worked as a copy operator and print shop laborer for the state of Colorado. I enjoyed that job andliked the people I worked with. Operating big copy machines Xerox 6135s is an art. It's fun because you get to see what you make books and copies. The people who work there are great solid working class types. They'll make cynical comments about you all day long but they'd have your back in a fight. Now I'm working at some place called Teletech. I don't trust anybody I'm working with. They'd betray me in a second. Now Teletech is a dot.com company it issues stock (anybody who'd buy Teletech stock should seriously look into investing a bridge in Brooklyn)It's badly run. It's based in a building in the Meridian a development with a golf course south of Denver (if it's a great golf course how come I never see anybody actually playing golf on it?) near a private airport. (all the better for executives to fly out of the country on). I work with expense reports (note the pilots (no nonsense ex military types at this so called company have unlimited expenses on their American Express Cards and unlimited charges why? Oh they might land the CEO's plane at the US Air Force Base and tell the officer on duy to call the US marshals because there's a warrant out for this mother fucker if he doesn't come up with the real cash and now) The buidling is badly designed it has a cafteria but not enough file rooms. These morons can't get filing right. Uh duh, expense reports should be filed in folders marked with the names of the people who make them. The building is so badly built that a few years from now it'll be bulldozed to make way for a supermarket. Security is interesting they don't have a decent file system, they have guards. Etc. by the way I could infiltrate the facility in duh five seconds. I have no training, no criminal record etc. Complete bull shit I hate it. Sorry folks I want some real work.

Legalize Internet Gaming

Legalize Internet Gambling A Good Play
By Daniel G. Jennings
Legalization of Internet Gambling could be an economic boon for the United States and a new source of tax revenue for the US government.
According to Tech Central Station $200 Million is wagered on the net everyday. Hundreds of jobs have been created and vast fortunes and new corporations built in Internet gaming. Unfortunately none of this industry’s jobs or the jobs it creates are coming to the United States. CBS News reports they are going to Costa Rica which is rapidly becoming the Las Vegas of the Internet. Nor is the United States government is getting any tax revenue from Internet gaming.
Internet gaming revenues and jobs are flowing to Costa Rica and other locations overseas because of an archaic law called the Wire Act which bans the use of phone and telephone lines for betting. The sensible thing would be for Congress to repeal the Wire Act, establish a federal agency to regulate Internet gaming and place a sin tax on it.
Such a tax could be an important stream of revenue for our deficit strapped federal government. If $200 million a day is wagered on the net a ten percent tax on it would bring in $20 million a day, that’s $73 billion a year. A 23 percent tax like the Fair Tax would bring in $46 million a day or $167 billion a year.
Then there are the jobs this business generates, the president of one large Internet gaming firm Betonsports.com told CBS he would move his company to the US in a heart beat if it were legal. This would bring several hundred high paying jobs to some lucky American town not to mention tax revenues and incomes.
Naturally Congress is not taking the sensible course of action. Congressman Jim Leach (R-Iowa) wants tougher laws and more enforcement. In other words he wants to waste our tax dollars, invade our privacy, trample our rights, stifle free enterprise and waste the time and resources of law enforcement in a hopeless quest to force his morality on the rest of us. Instead of looking for terrorists the G-Men would be trying to stop Uncle Fred from placing a bet on the Final Four - not a good use of resources.
Some state legislators in Virginia want to go even farther and ban Internet Poker Tech Central Station reports. Virginia Poker players are even worried that some Internet Poker players might be jailed.
How laws against Internet gaming would be enforced I don’t know. Would we send the Marines to Costa Rica, a peaceful nation with no military to shut down the Internet gaming companies? Would cops be going around staring at everyone’s I-Pod? Would Uncle Sam be using spyware to watch our Internet activity. Would we jail or fine the 70 million Americans gambling on the Internet. Are the courts and jails big enough to handle this.
The answer to these questions is no, any effort to ban Internet gaming would be a boondoggle that would make the war on drugs look like a success. Like Prohibition it would end in failure and be a national embarrassment.
Perhaps it’s time for all the Americans who engage in Internet gaming to let their Congress people know they don’t want Big Brother trying to control their behavior. It’s also time for the rest of us to demand common sense instead of Victorian morality from our so called leaders.

Protests in France & America

The intellectual elite and Frenchmen are always ranting and raving how France is more civilized than America. Obviously these people haven't been watching the news lately because Frenchmen have been demonstrating what barbarians they are while Americans have been displaying their civilized restraint.
Over the past couple of weeks France and America have both seen massive demonstrations against government policy. In France millions of educated middle class students the educated cream of French society took to the streets to protest changes in labor law. In the United States millions of Hispanic immigrants quite a few of them illegal, many of them among our poorest citizens protested against a proposed immigration law.
The French protestors acted like drunken hooligans burning cars, throwing objects at the police, brawling with the police among other things. The American protestors were completely peaceful nobody was arrested except one man in San Diego, no cars were burnt, no brawls broke out. No extra police were mobilized and the riot squad stayed home.
The lesson here is clear America is a far more peaceful place than France. The American Dream actually works and American traditions of nonviolent protest and peaceful dissent are alive and well.
American capitalism works America's immigrants want to be part of our society. French socialism doesn't French immigrants burn French cities because they have been denied a place at the table or worse told the only place at the table for them is clearing away the dishes.
So will we all the pompous intellectuals who sing the glories of France while living here in America, admit that America is the more peaceful and civilized nation? I wouldn't hold my breath.

Another Academic Moron speaks

The Citizen Scientist
http://www.sas.org/tcs/weeklyIssues_2006/2006-04-07/feature1p/index.html
This really pisses me off. This moron is screaming that 90 percent of the human race needs to die. I have an answer for him, a loaded pistol should be laid in front of Dr. Eric R. Pianka and he should be given a simple offer. If you believe what you say Doctor pick up the pistol put it to your head and pull the trigger. If you don't do that you are a lying hypocrite. Campus security will come and escort you off campus. They'll politely tell Mr. Pianka that he is not welcome back on campus ever. Meanwhile everything Mr. Pianka has earned from his academic career, his car, his house, his investment funds, everything will be auctioned off and the proceeds donated to UNICEF or some other charity that helps the poor. When Mr. Pianka asks what he'll do for a living. He should be told that Wal-Mart is always hiring and has plenty of jobs for people of his intellectual capacity. Any professor who rises to defend Mr. Pianka should be told that there is plenty of work for him available at the local Wal-Mart. I don't care what David Horowitz says this is the only solution to the academic freakshow at our colleges. College professors you'd better listen to this or you'll find yourself sitting quietly and listening while some high school drop out explains how to operate a cash register or a pallet jack and thanking God for the job. Sooner or later some politician such as Hillary is going to pick up on this bullshit and purge the academic community and make the paranoid fantasies of Ward Chruchill come true and guess what. Nobody will rise to defend the professors. Academic community clean up your own house or sooner or later us working class types will come over and do it for you. And believe me you won't like what we do to you.