Does anyone else see this? Does it seem weird that so many ideas, characters, and incidents from the original TV series Star Trek relate to or foreshadow political people and themes today on The Left? How about the very last episode of Trek, "Turnabout Intruder", where a woman who bears an AMAZING similarity to Hillary Rodham bears a grudge against Captain Kirk for his position of power that she covets. A scientist helps her switch minds with Kirk and she finally has a command. Is this Hillary who cannot achieve her lust for power unless she uses a MAN to do it (first Bill Clinton and now Barack Obama)? Compare both Dr. Janice Lester and Hillary in pantsuits from behind and you will be SHOCKED!

Or how about the episode where Klingons seem to have taken over The Enterprise and the ship races on a heading to take it beyond our galaxy ("Day Of The Dove"). It has actually come under the control of an alien incorporeal entity that feeds off of fear and hate and stirs both the humans and Klingons to escalate their fighting forever. This is sort of the setting we are in now as the entity is Satan and the fighting board pieces are conservatives versus liberals.

Or how about the episode where Kirk, McCoy, Scotty, and Uhura find themselves in a parallel universe ("Mirror, Mirror") where everything is backwards. It is a world of hate, intrigue, assasination, accusation, and fear. Hmm . . . sounds kind of like Communists, socialists, liberals, and/or Democrats today!

How many politicians today can't control their urges to spawn as Mr. Spock couldn't in "Amok Time"? Are conservatives (i.e. our GOOD side) weak indecisive weenies, while liberals (i.e. our BAD side) are slick conquerors as portrayed in "The Enemy Within" when Kirk was split into two by a transporter malfunction?

And later incarnations of the Star Trek world also contain foresight. How about The Borg Collective introduced in the first season of ST: The Next Generation? Are we all now being assimilated? Is all resistence futile? I could go on and on. Feel free to have fun with this yourself. Please keep us all updated on your speculations.

--RPC, Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Now that the final argument has been made, that Barack Obama is actually NOT eligible to be President because he is not a NATURAL-BORN U.S. citizen, all other arguments dealing with his birthplace, any later loss of citizenship, etc. are unnecessary. Even if he WAS born in Hawaii, one of his parents was obviously never an American citizen. Why didn't someone just bring this up before? We could have saved ourselves a lot of grief and infighting. As far as I can tell from searching blogs and hearing on radio talk shows, the one who finally spoke of it was Orly Taits, a woman lawyer of Russian-Israeli origin. I don't know enough about her, but this argument seems clear enough. The matter has been rendered academic. The creature is now after us! OK, the last two sentences are from Mr. Spock on Star Trek, but I just always wanted to say them. They are appropriate here too. You can follow the debate in archived articles (over 1,700 of them) at RepubX.com and, I'm sure, on many other sites as well. Read all you want. View the faked birth records, etc. to your own exhaustion. It won't matter. We can't undo now what was done.

The real question is - WHY? Why did this happen? For the first time in our history, we had the two major Presidential candidates INELIGIBLE for the office they ran for! WHY? Barack was not natural-born. John McCain was not native-born. So WHY are strange things happening to us? WHY are we being hit from 50 directions at once? Most of the pundits have noticed it too. I refer everyone to an article I wrote a year and a half ago. It is on my companion blog, the Great Big Picture Blog, here at Townhall. It's title is "Our Deuteronomy 28 Moment". Now read that chapter in The Bible and weep for America!

--RPC, Tuesday October 27, 2009

Western reporters gathered around Joseph Stalin for a rare opportunity to ask him questions during World War Two. One asked him, "Sir, why do your people still follow you since you are so harsh with them?" Papa Joe (as the mass murderer was so affectionately known) asked that a live chicken be brought to him. He held the chicken tightly as he began to pluck it's feathers. The animal made the most horrific screams (for a chicken) of pain and agony until the ordeal was over and Papa released it. The featherless, bleeding bird fled to a corner of the room where it remained corraled by some of Stalin's men.

Next, the loveable dictator reached into his pocket and brought out a handfull of grain. He held it out toward the frightened chicken and waited. Slowly, the little guy quieted, then looked over the grain, and finally began to move toward the food. It ate. Stalin grinned. He said, "THIS is why they follow me."

Evil minds know how to control other minds. They have learned the psychology of how to exploit human weaknesses. They only care about what WORKS, and not about whether the methods that justify the ends are moral. One of these immoral methods is to make the one who was wronged feel that HE is in the wrong when he doesn't graciously accept the offender's outstretched hand that forgives the offendee's wrong which he never committed! Makes sense, huh. The offender never does wrong as long as he doesn't ACT guilty! If he stays cool and acts magnanimous, he receives the praise of all that he is a "uniter" and not a "divider". At the famous "Beer Summit", Barack Obama held out the grain while the police officer fell for the trap and ate.

This whole scenario played out again about a month later at a townhall meeting in Houston, Texas. Sheila Jackson Lee was filmed talking on her cell phone while a citizen, Tracy, asked a question. The arrogance of the moment only meant something to the Congresswoman after the video was played for wide exposure nationwide. On Greta Van Susteren's show, Ms. Lee spoke into the camera lens, "Call me Tracy. We can work this out." She obviously hoped that a local version of the "Beer Summit" would deflect her own wrong.

To my observation, this "Beer Summit" tactic is ONLY used by leftist minds. While I don't think that Barack or Sheila ever studied Stalin so deeply that they consciously LONG to apply his methods, those methods just seem to be built into them naturally. So, if you have ever been wronged by a he of the twisted left, don't let him pluck your brain. He is the chicken, not you!

-- RPC, Sunday, October 25, 2009

Book Review:

Last Flag Down -- The Epic Journey Of The Last Confederate Warship, John Baldwin & Ron Powers, Crown Publishers, NY, 2007, 332pp.

This is the story of The CSS Shenandoah, the second most famous and successful Confederate Raider (the CSS Alabama being first) and the only Southern capital ship to sail completely around The World. She was purchased surreptitiously at a London dockyard and put to sea disguised as the coal freighter "Sea King" on October 7, 1864.

Sea King rendezvoused with a Southern supply ship at The Madeira Islands where cannons, powder, ammo, and a new crew were brought aboard. October 19th saw the commissioning of the new warship and the start of a mission that would take her around Africa, through The Indian Ocean to Melbourne, Australia where CSA sympathy was strong, and then up to the whaling grounds of The North Pacific to prey on Yankee vessels.

At the time, Shenandoah was likely the fastest ship on the planet because she was actually an early design upon which the famous clipper ships of the 1870s were based. She WAS a clipper ship except with both steam and sail. She even had a propeller screw that could be lifted out of the water for reduced drag. She was a clipper fitted for destruction. Her first owners had built her specifically to race the first tea from the latest Chinese harvests to the ravenous London markets. The first cargo to arrive each season was allowed to set the price and, in effect, corner the market. Barely 1 year old, she had set the London to Bombay and back speed record. She was 230 feet long, 32.5 feet wide, weighed 1,018 tons, and had a 250 hp steam engine. These early clippers were built to survive the worst storms and were able to ride WITH the storms (under full topsail) rather than INTO their winds (to ride them out without sail). These ships were known to cover 400 miles in a single day of "storm riding".

Unknown to Shenandoah's crew as they sped north past The Philippine Islands on April 9, 1865, General Lee was 10,000 miles away surrendering to General Grant at Appomatox Courthouse. But Shenandoah's intended mission had not yet begun. She wreaked havoc on whalers over the next four months with 38 total "prizes". She captured and sank 24 of them in one two week span. Finally, on August 2, 1865, the Raider's crew learned from a British vessel they met just west of Baja, California, that The War had been over. First Officer Conway Whittle, upon whose diary/log this book is based, wrote that it was "the darkest day of my life". Rather than surrender immediately and face possible trial and death as pirates, the men decided to return to England. They sailed around Cape Horn and arrived in Liverpool on November 6, 1865. The ship was sold to The Sultan Of Zanzibar who used her as his personal yacht. She broke up on a reef in The Indian Ocean during a storm in 1879.

There may be some sort of new mini-cult following for this ship and her story as I count at least 5 recent books about her. Here is a list of others :

The Last Shot -- The Incredible Story Of The CSS Shenandoah And The True Conclusion Of The American Civil War, Lynn Schooler, Harper Collins, 2005.

Confederate Raider In The North Pacific -- The Saga Of The CSS Shenandoah, Murray Morgan, Wash. State Univ. Press, 1995.

Sea Of Gray -- The Around-The-World Odyssey Of The Confederate Raider Shenandoah, Tom Chaffin, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2006.

Gallant Rebel -- The Fabulous Cruise Of The CSS Shenandoah, Stanley F. Horne, Rutgers Univ. Press, 1947.

CSS Shenandoah -- The Memoirs of Lt. Commanding James I. Waddell, Annapolis Naval Institute Press, 1996.

 BOOK REVIEW:

Throes Of Democracy, Walter A. McDougall, Harper, 2008.

This book approaches the great rift that afflicted our country from 1861 to 1865 not just as a war but as the centerpoint of a whole era. The subtitle is -- The American Civil War Era 1829 - 1877. Expansion, Indian wars, growth of a new Industrial Age, "Social Perfectionism", and "Cultural Pretense" are some topics covered as they exacerbated regional differences. Myths were broken and reborn couched in new terminology. One chapter descriptor is "The Glory And Fraud of Manifest Destiny - 1841-1848". Religious differences between North and South bred tension. The North became what we would call "Liberal" today while the South remained "Conservative". With 19 maps, the book is a hefty 627 pages with 144 pages of notes.

I believe this book reinforces what I have said in earlier articles here, namely that the REAL beginings of America's political problems began in THIS ERA and NOT with The Progressives of the Roosevelt/Wilson era. Those later years were actually PHASE TWO in the long-range plan for the destruction of the country. The FOUNDATION was laid here which was the ENDING of our Constitutional Republic. It was replaced (primarily via the 14th Amendment) by a strong centrist Federal oligarchy. Progressivism, then Socialism, and now today's Fascism have only been possible because of the events of the much earlier "Civil" War era. And, the cracks and strains of this era were direct outgrowths of holes (I think I see 8 of them) in our Constitution from it's beginning. So, what we really need in the largest sense is a) a complete takeover of government at all levels by conservative people who will then b) restore The Constitution and repair it's holes. Something like this WILL happen. I believe it's guaranteed. But it may not be WE who actually do it.  I am grateful for everything that Glenn Beck is doing to wake up people, but somebody please tell him that we don't have a Constitution anymore except insofar as it spells out the structure of elections and offices.  And even these don't matter anymore.  Talking, tea parties, and street marches mean NOTHING to those who rule by fiat.  Their next step will be to SILENCE media opposition.  Then what will we do?

--RPC, Sunday, October 18, 2009

Property And Freedom, Richard Pipes, Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.

--RPC, 09Oct14, 2009

Enemies Within:

How To Beat The Democrats And Other Subversive Ideas, David Horowitz, Spence Publishing Co., 2002, 237 pages.

No one better understands the way leftists think than David Horowitz because he used to be one of them over 20 years ago. After a beginning section of the book where he summarizes "How the Left Undermined America's Security", David proposes a "Strategy Guide" for "How To Beat The Democrats". Four principles of politics: 1) politics is a war of emotions, 2) politics is a war of position, 3) politics is about fear. and 4) politics is about hope. Then Six Lessons of the (2000) election. He says that democrats win because they understand the "Romance Of The Underdog".

There is a lot of great stuff in the book, but my greatist lament is that we have never invented some way to keep leftist idiots and power/control freaks OFF OF OUR BALLOTS IN THE FIRST PLACE. Why should we have to fight them every election cycle? If we must remain in a two party system, it would be nice if we had two CONSERVATIVE parties which could then have civilized debate over slight differences in everyday issues. Instead we ALLOW (I'm sure Satan is laughing at us over this) the communist leaders of the communist Party of America (i.e. the democrat Party) to muck up the system as they pour sugar in our gas tank! This is the REAL subject of my article from last year (see below on a previous page) titled "If Hamas Is On The Ballot . . ." The point is is that if BAD guys are legitimized by allowing them on a ballot, then we are just GIVING THEM A CHANCE TO WIN! God forgives sins, but . . . how do you forgive stupidity?

 --RPC, Tuesday October 13, 2009.

Enemies Within:

--RPC, Monday October 12, 2009.

Today is the Last Great Day Holy Day, so no writing is ready, just a coupla books --

More Books:

--RPC, Sunday, October 11, 2009

(Another book here soon about the CSS Shenandoah. Check back in a couple more days).

NEIL CAVUTO:

Neil kept referring (on his TV show) to the experiment in which an explosive was set off this morning in a south polar region crater on the Moon as "blowing up the Moon". He didn't seem to be attempting humor about it, so I assume he just didn't understand the purpose of it all and how it is supposed to work. So, . . . I say Neil, your "common sense" editorial had little common sense in it. Study a little science once in a while.

 JERRY DOYLE:

JASON LEWIS:

Conservative Stuff:

Destructive Generation -- Second Thoughts About The 60s, Peter Collier & David Horowitz, Summit Books, 1989.

Leviathan On The Right -- How Big-Government Conservatism Brought Down The Republican Revolution, Michael D. Tanner, CATO Institute, 2007.

The Chicken Little Agenda -- Debunking "Experts" Lies, Robert G. Williscroft, Pelican Publishing Co., 2006.

Flat Tax Revolution, Steve Forbes, Regnery, 2005.

Ronald and Nancy Reagan Books :

Ronald Reagan -- An American Life, Autobiography, Simon and Schuster, 1990.

Ronald Reagan -- How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader, Dinesh D'Souza, The Free Press, 1997

My Turn -- The Memoirs Of Nancy Reagan, Nancy Reagan (with William Novak), Random House, 1989.

I Love You, Ronnie -- The Letters Of Ronald Reagan To Nancy Reagan, compiled by Nancy Reagan, Random House, 2000.

Ronald Reagan Books :

Ronald Reagan -- The Wisdom And Humor Of The Great Communicator, Edited by Frederick J. Ryan, Jr., Harper Collins Publishers, 1995.

A Time For Choosing -- The Rise Of Modern American Conservatism, Jonathan M. Schoenwald, Oxford Univ., Press, 2001. (not ALL about Reagan but interesting)

Tear Down This Wall -- The Reagan Revolution, A National Review Book, (a collection of his speeches, writings, and articles about him).

The Reagan Phenomenon And Other Speeches On Foreign Policy, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, American Enterprise Institute, 1983.

New Books:

Grant And Sherman -- The Friendship That Won The Civil War, Charles Bracelen Flood, Harper Perrenial, 2005.
They first fought together at Shiloh and developed the final strategy to cut The South into thirds after Chattanooga in late '63. This book explores Grant and Sherman's early years as well as years shortly after The War. With battle maps in black and white, the book is about 400 pages and exists in both paperback and hardback. --RPC