The Real Threat

The way I see it, there are just a few threats facing us (U.S.) in today's world.

The foremost threat is that there are millions of people of a certain religion who hate us and want us dead or in servitude to them. No one has been able to place an exact number on those who really want to defeat us through "jihad". But if you look at news accounts of cheering crowds on the "Arab street" after 9/11, and read materials from those who have studied the subject and monitored the mosques and Islamic groups of all kinds, you might get the idea that it is pervasive in most of the world's Muslim population.

I think that if you look at the history of Islam, beginning with the initial spread of the religion which was accomplished by the wielding of the scimitar, all we are seeing today is the revival of that religion's core beliefs. They believe that Islam is supreme, their goal is a worldwide Caliphate, (i.e. World Rule by Islamic sheiks based on Sharia Law.)

In my opinion, this is the same kind of threat we faced in WW2 and the Cold War. The Nazis sought world domination of the "superior Aryan race" over all other countries. (Interesting that much of the Muslim world was allied with Hitler at that time, isn't it?) The Soviet Union sought world domination of the Communist ideology over all countries. The so-called "Radical Islamicists" seek world domination today.

There are those of my countrymen and women who somehow do not see the threat as real or imminent. 3,000 souls dead on September 11, 2001, bombings in the Bali nightclub, the Spanish commuter train, the London underground, and countless other attempted and/or thwarted attacks since, are not enough to convince them that there is an existential war, a clash of civilizations. Truly, though, it is a clash between our civilization and their barbarism.

I suppose many of my fellow Americans have had the luxury of being able to live in denial, since we have been "safe" for these six years since 9/11/01. Yet, that day still has the most profound effect on our national psyche. Everything changed on that day. Those who refuse to see the threat, who deny its import, seek every day to live in a September 10 world. Until we are victorious, that world is gone. If we allow ourselves to be defeated, (Vietnam syndrome), or give up because "it's too hard", or "it's not worth the loss of life", that world will be gone . . . forever.

Bob's My Uncle

A Few Thoughts About Global Warming

It is August here in Texas, and it's hot. Well it's not as hot as it has been in the past. We haven't even hit 100 yet, though its getting close. Hmm! A cooler than usual summer in Texas in the midst of all this hysteria about global warming. Well that's the weather report.

But here's my take on the assertion that global warming is caused by human productivity. If the Earth is truly in a warming cycle, all of science, history, archeology, and the larnin' I done when I was just a little tyke tells me that it ain't nothin' new. We know there have been historically warmer and cooler epochs in pre-history and historical eras. And as far as I know, there weren't any SUV's or Power Plants or Nukes or enough human activity to make dent at the time.

The "Global Warming Hystericals" haven't proved a thing. All they've got going for them is an apocalyptic fear of some imagined disastrous future and a fraudulent faith that anything man does is harmful to the Earth and Nature, so therefore, man is causing Global Warming.

I am highly suspicious of people who think that all of a sudden our world will come to an end and want to take control over large portions of my life and not to mention the world's commerce in order to save it. What better way to put everyone under control than to convince them that if we don't do as they say, the world will end. That is the essence of their message. They want to control your world. Make you stop driving your car. No grilling in the backyard! Oh, forget about going to work to make a living and put food on the table, your job will disappear because it probably causes pollution, anyway. Get in line for the Government cheese. Oh, wait a minute! Cheese comes from cows, and cows produce methane (a greenhouse gas) in large quantities. No more cows, no more cheese. You're going to have to eat dirt.

All this while Al Gore lives in two mansions and has a bigger "carbon footprint" than I will ever hope to have. Make no mistake. This whole thing, for those who are pushing it the hardest, is about taking control of you, your life, your government, the world. Because, only they can save us.

Bob's my Uncle

Introduction

Hi ya'll.
I'm kinda new to this blogging, but thought I'd try my hand at it. I try to keep up with the goings-on in the nation and the world and have an informed opinion about most things. But as you all know, opinions are just like armpits, so I try to laugh at everything as well as myself. Somehow we have got to try to make some sense out of the world's events and the people in it. If what I have to say here is helpful to anybody else, that's what I'm aiming for; as well as getting a few things off of my chest. But if you don't do anything else, try to have a good day.

Bob's my Uncle