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Has it occurred to anybody else that if we get plunged into really hard times in this country that we could face invasion?  If the Sons of Anarchy take over in small places and numerous fringe militia's dig up their throw aways will our military be able to handle it all?  I'm thinking it may be time to start raising State and National integrated Militia groups of the silent majority of us who believe in the freedom of race and religion. 

How about it?  A mutt militia in a uniting of everything that we can for one reason and one reason only... to repel invasion by foreign powers.  I mean why wait?  The National Guard isn't really a Militia anymore and the oldest branch of service that was state by state has become a federal entity whilst real state militias are non-existent.

DAM... the Domestic American Militia.  Getting us ready for the sleeper Russian Red Army agents poised to invade us from within and the sleeper People's Liberation Army of China who run all those taco stands along our southern border.   Yup... this be the time of rumors of war and it would seem to me that the only way for Americans to finally Unite and call all Americans Americans would be to form Militia Groups.

The whole Duke Nuke-um and "Bomb Bomb Iran" crowd has called down the thunder on us... I just thought we would do the right thing after we invaded Iraq... boy... do I feel stupid.  No... we disbanded the Iraqi Army and wondered why so many militias popped up! 

So that's all of my rant on that so far...  So start a DAM near you and make sure it is totally integrated and publicly visible!

OK so about 25 years ago after Nixon went to China the communist government came up with a plan.  You don't have to use an Army and expensive troop transports to Invade the USA.  All you really have to do is look to Mexico and Canada and export a healthy amount of dedicated sleeper agents.  Especially good since a lot of Chinese can actually pass for Mexican.  You don't have to really spend any money just get heavily involved with drugs and other lucrative criminal activities that would show the strengths and weaknesses of the American Law enforcement agencies that police the borders.

There are so many well meaning liberal Americans that you push an agenda here and an agenda there and you can pretty much mask the fact that you have an on call militia at several border points ready and willing at some point to go in and do your bidding.  No problem with keeping it top secret cause all the Chinese Secret Service really need do is set the ball in motion and 10 to 100 years later an opportunity will present itself to have every American studying I Ching instead of the Sermon on the Mount.

The Rodney King incident gave some clues... a man taking a joy ride in a tank through San Diego gave some also... Y2K was simply delicious with possibilities... but now there is something really attractive.  Yeah... could you imagine the possibilities if just one little event took place and turned the already stretch military might of our nation to patrolling it's own streets. 

Hmmmm time to start outfitting those little fringe elements of American society that want to see that wonderful anarchistic race war.  Yeah... wonder how long the Border Patrol would last against special forces units of the Red Army inserted with southern unwitting help from all sorts of criminal and terrorist organizations on both sides of the fence.

Well... who would want to invade the USA outright?  No... too expensive.  But thank God we have an intelligence community that is working to stop these plots, sub plots and horrifying scenarios from happening.  I hope...

I think that CNN is the easiest news channel to watch for me.  I am watching Fareed Zakaria (when I should be in church) and I'm wondering at the fresh point of view.  What does FOX news have that is equivalent to this?  I mean I don't watch news 24/7 so FOX may have news from a middle eastern point of view... if it does please let me know.

I really love the freedom of speech.  Why is it that CNN decided to put this program on when those who need to see and hear this point of view most are listening to pro-Israel Christian sermons in our own version of capitalistic radical fundamentalism?  Must be the Cialis commercials...

Atanyrate (to replace my usual "Anywho")...

I kinda like FOX news channel... but when I don't feel like being talked to in that "don't you agree with me?" tone I watch CNN.  Fareed Zakaria's show handled Iran and had a Nobel Peace Prize winning Iranian woman whose name I didn't catch.  And he also had two egg heads... one a former Undersecretary and the other a New York Professor discussing the new Russian problem.

Oh boy.... just turned to "On the Record with Greta Van Susteren"... I've left this show alone cause my sanity and sense of well being insist that Hannity and O'Reilly are enough bold fresh pieces of humanity for one week.

News is important to me.  I think FOX News Network would do well to find a bold fresh piece of humanity that grew up in say ... Palestine... You know... moved here when he or she was 12 to 18 and has an American slash Palestinian point of view without being connected to anything but an average citizens living experience.

Your Media Critic I am,

Peter Skinner

Bill O'Reillys show tonight is touting a Internet video with a black woman calling Barack Obama the Anti-Christ... I haven't seen it yet and was thinking about making myself some dinner but 30 minutes into the show I'm still waiting to see this story.  But first good ole Bill has went to the Prop 8 issue and questioned why blacks in California voted most heavily for prop 8 and at the same time overwhelmingly voted for Obama... wow... that's the latest trend isn't it?  I mean it seems like many are so surprised that blacks don't like the idea of equal rights for gays so that somehow makes us suspect of being ... being.... uhhh... I guess it's another double reverse you're just as racist as you accuse me of being spin off.

So... Bill buffalo's some young black PhD to explain about us blacks and how we voted here in California... yeah... the poor brainiac couldn't explain it to the simple minded bold fresh piece of humanity.  And of course with 5 seconds left bold Bill got the PhD consultant to agree with yet another "if that had happened to a black person" cheap shot.  He was referring to a cross being knocked out of an elderly woman's hand  at a protest against prop 8.

Anywho...

OK so now he's mad at Palin for taking up so much air time.  Denis Miller props him up with innuendo about Palin and why folks are fascinated by her.  Personally I think it's the accent... that's why I watched the movie "Fargo" three times don'tcha know.

I can't believe I'm still sitting here... Bill O'Reilly or dinner... Oh... well... Miller gives a ranting root for Obama and thanks Bush for no further terrorist attacks. 

OK... Next up Bills got the video from the internet and calls it "ANTI OBAMA HATE" and boy he sure waited to find one by a black cause I googled it on youtube and you can find plenty internet vids calling Obama the Anti Christ.  You know... I just think this whole show gives me the creeps and I should be watching CNN but then... nothing to blog about.

Okayyyy, how anti climactic.  Bill gives us a mentally disturbed woman teaching a child to say bad words about the President Elect.  The woman tells the child to say "F" Obama and goes on to say Obama is the Anti-Christ.  So Bill thinks the FBI should find out who the girl is because she's crazy and that her child is in danger. 

Again... google it on youtube and you will find a host of videos about Obama being the Anti Christ.  Haven't found any quite so disturbing but it's really suspect that this should be the first one to get aired on a cable News Network.  I say suspect cause it's not really that shocking considering the current religious, social and political climate in our nation.  Well... to Bill's credit he didn't spin it... he just reported it. 

Bill just seems to spin things to me by the series of stories presented.  The whole show seemed to have an underlying theme of blacks being just as racist as those they consider racist.  Bill spun without spinning and I guess the jury is still out. 

Fox News makes watching the news annoying and fun...  Dinner for now... can't take Hannity on an empty stomach... oh look!  Newt is with him!  They both still have jobs...

You know.... I've taken to comedy cause I like to think I don't take myself too seriously.  But on the real tip I have to balance this against what happens in my heart when I read my first blog that I wrote on myfox St Louis.  I remember how I felt and why I wrote it.  I had been knowingly and maliciously treated by a local police force and was distressed by what I was seeing people in power say on the news to the reports that St Louis was the murder capital of the USA. 

You know... I wanted to attack apathy but at the same time throw some ideas at it.  So I want to quote some portions of my very first blog from October 2006 (can be found using archive menu).

"Changing St Louis for the better by...

Attacking Residual Racism with Political Correctness

How can we make St Louis a better place to live? How about taking a good hard look at residual racism and political correctness. I think it’s time for some standard operational procedures to be changed so that St Louis can start avoiding the appearance of racism. It’s time for some folks in power to know that there is a wide spread problem of perception that cannot be ignored. We can and should project the substance of racial harmony, understanding and change. We can and should call for accountability but we first have to invoke a spirit of brotherhood and community concern that leads to the establishment of media and mission."

See... I have a hard time with that cause I thought even as I wrote it "who the hell am I?"  I mean trying to write like I've got a Ph'd after my name.  I remember though that I was fearful and irate all at the same time as I huddled around my keyboard and tried to make sense of what I was going through at the time due to the actions of one lying cop.  I was looking at the ends of the earth cause well... I'm the sort that overreacts to stressful situations.  However... I've been known to show alot of creativity during my overreactions and well... I give myself a B+ for the above italics.

Anywho... (I love that word... my mom used to say it all the time... she won't cop to it though.)  So I go on to make a list of possible solutions to the area of apathy...

"St. Louisan’s can start making the city safer by 1. Supporting local missions and holding them accountable for integrity and results! Get some of that faith based initiative money for either established missions or brand new ones. Consider if the present missions are helping or hindering. 2. Local mass media and citizens should do more investigative reporting on local police forces and make sure that training, personnel and pay are more than adequate. And 3. Do not ignore the issues of homelessness, alcoholism and drug addiction. I strongly encourage folks to look for the many professionals out there who want to help with entrepreneurial pursuits that will improve the plight of the less fortunate."

But you know.... sometimes you wake up and you go..."If I help that person someone will only have to do it again."  I know this all to well cause I that guy, you know?  I mean, God, the Universe and Everything have conspired against me and helped me out plenty.  It is all a matter of perception but in the end result I can only do what I can do.  If that means I can motivate alot of folks in a direction then great!  But don't tell me if it happens cause then I'll brag about it and lose all my treasures in heaven.

So to summerize and lastly and in conclusion thererfore... I've been looking lately for solutions to the problems in front of my own face... my problems... and it's been cool to do that.  Seems to me that my first blog preaches most soundly to my own behavior and how to make my own life better.  I looked at my very first blog today... and I'm real glad I did.  Thanks for reading this with me... and thankyou Myfox Blogs.

Peter Skinner

Formerly of Wood River, Illinois

Firs of all I have to say two names when I bring up our President...  Colin Powell and Condoleeza Rice.  Does anyone think to say that these two individuals had a profound affect on Mr President Elect Obama's campaign?  Does anyone think to say that by default even our President had an effect on American History in such a way that many could envision an African American in a high position.

Gerorge W. Bush made a lot of mistakes... he may be talked about as being a failure as our president for years to come.  But one thing I see is that his staff appointments set the stage for a multi-cultural and multi-ethnic Executive Branch.  His humanity, I believe, will be evident for years to come as he and his wife Laura embark on more leisurely and I'm sure philanthropic pursuits.

President George W. Bush gave us a look at what African Americans look like in high ranking positions.  I think that should be considered a big part of his legacy.

10.  Ophra gave up smoking.

9.  Sean Hannity finally started taking his medications.

8.  Relativism looks more credible than Capitalistic Christianity and Black Liberation Theology combined.

7.  Hagee should have thrown himself under the bus like Wright and Jackson did.

6.  Halle Berry cleared Obama's path by picking up all the paper cups.

5.  Pit Bulls don't wear lipstick.

4.  Bill O'Reilly called Al Gore a Patriot instead of a Pin Head.

3.  The Obama Mask did too much "trick or treat"ing.

2.  Between Condi's Birth defect and Colins endorsement what did you expect?

And the top highest reason Mr Barack Obama won the election to President of the United States of America...

1.  White Americans got tired of being blamed for the worlds problems and are finally willing to share.

Today our national birth defect of slavery is being treated with a new and favorable drug called "Preamblium".

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, 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."

Today we look into the past with sobriety and clarity in the present.  Today we look to eachother for the formation of a more perfect union.  We want Faith... we need Hope... and we seek Love.

For some, today may be the day that Godlessness finally takes our nation over in a way that cannot be undone.  Like frustrated guardian angels whose charges are living faster than they can fly the last best hope for sound Christian conservative values has been reduced to a sound bite on the far left Wright.  These are they who are looked at as first stone casters and heavy burden taskers who won't even lend a finger to help.  Now the best precepts of Christian morality seems to have been buried deep in the atheistic standards of political incorrectness by those most charged to serve the soup.  I see the young mother with her child sitting in an empty soup kitchen... but still the child smiles.

Now the voice of faiths reason comes to light as fears abound for the next retired habitat for humanities president takes his place in the worlds media and speaks volumes of the great experiment of freedom that is America.  And still today,

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

This is of course a day like any-other... the sun will rise as our planets revolves and orbits the sun we will all float weightlessly in the universe with our endless longing to know the reason for our very being.  But for Americans and all those around the world who have fallen in love with the ideals of peace and liberty that are the true genetic code of the United States of America this is indeed a day that the Lord has made and we can all rejoice and be glad in it.

May God Bless Los Angeles.

10.  Ophra will have a last minute change of heart.

9.  Ronald Wilson Reagan statue comes to life and warns Americans to vote Mc Cain.

8.  Domestic Militia's destroy voting booths across the country.

7.  Chicago Tribune to jump the gun again!

6.  America's only used nuclear weapons once.

5.  Jesse Jackson has a vision of another bloody shirt.

4.  Hezbollah makes a last minute Obama endorsement with bulk letter bombs.

3.  Colin Powell's endorsement of Obama discredited by...

2.  Bill Cosby making a last minute Mc Cain endorsement.

And the top reason Mc Cain will win this 2008 Presidential election.

1.  Sarah Palin falls ill and is replaced by Mitt Romney.

I like Bill O'Reilly these days... back 6 months ago when I started watching him daily during the Rev Wright controversy I lumped him in a bag with Hannity and Lou Dobbs and thought the three of them were all worth throwing in the creek.  Now I guess the only one left in the bag is Hannity... but I'm in a good mood and I want to talk about Bill O'Reilly.

Now he may be a pin-head masquerading as a patriot but I feel better lately about how he has presenting the news minus all those cheap shots I remember him saying in February and March.  And by cheap shots I mean the same kind of leading questions Sean Hannity is still asking.  Oh... see now there goes my mood again... I'll have to watch Sean tonight to break my depression with good old fashioned anger. 

Anywho... back to Bill.

He really is trying to be more fair and balanced with his spin on the no spin zone.  I kind of think that unbiased reporting is only done by those who plainly reveal what their bias is.  O'Reilly is a news man to me again.  Now you may be thinking...' Well then why don't you like Sean Hannity?' Well... cause even though I know where Sean's coming from I'm not real sure he does.

Oh... yeah... uhhh Gingrich.  He changed his mind and was telling Bill the Bail Out Bill is necessary.   You know... I'm just so suprised by that.

McCains version of American Patriotism is purposely feeding into fears.  I've had quite enough thank you very much... I'm summarily withdrawing any support from him save that I still believe he will ultimately win the election.

What to do... what to do?  I'm getting ever so tired of both democrats and republicans fighting back and forth but one thing is becoming increasingly obvious.  Republicans are bent on more war and have no idea how to handle the world by dialogue.  The Democratic Party is showing more willingness to at least try to talk to the nations we are at odds with and perhaps treat our allies like they are not insignificant boobs that owe us one for WW II.

I'm so sorry... but it is high time that we forgo the sabre rattling and go in with cheaper and more effective humanitarian aid.  A soft army will be cheaper and in the long run more effective.  Will they're be atrocities and kidnappings and torture for volunteers in such a soft army?  Of course... but let me be the first to volunteer for a low paid unarmed position with an unarmed Peace Corps styled Army in the Middle East. 

That is my suggestion... we send an army of unarmed social service workers and laborers and Kum Ba Ya/Amazing Grace singing missionary types into Iraq and Afganistan paid for by donations and all that faith based initiative money we're not using. (Could you see the Iranian spies meeting up and seeing all the crazy missionaries amassed along their border?  They'd probably comply with all our demands in short order while begging us not to sick our bright eyed flower children on them.)   Imagine all the recovering alcoholics and addicts getting a real boost in self esteem by going over to Iraq or Afghanistan.  Not to mention the boost in secret service types that could be snuck in and interwoven into the middle east region so that over the next 50 years we have some really great stories for spy movies.

So who's talking tough and who's talking smart?  I'll be watching John... all this counter productive Obama bashing doesn't tell me a darn thing about you!  Look where it got you in the polls anyway buddy!  The country's starting to Biden Obama and McCain's starting to Palin comparison. (Great names this election huh?  First Dude... mid west corniness in Alaska.)

God I love this country!   This is my country!  We are the BOMB of peace and freedom in the world... but how is it we've forgotten to walk softly as we carry our big stick?  Why not show our technological prowess using more than Stealth Bombers and fighters?  We need to use our intelligence and gain the upper-hand through intelligence.  With that... diplomacy will come easy. 

I have absolutely no idea what's going on with this bailout and no concept of how or why we would need to pay for nearly 1 Trillion Dollars in bad loans.  Is that what this is about?

Bad Loans... folks not paying what they agreed to pay to the tune of nearly a Trillion dollars?  What if we chopped off the interest and the administration fees... could we get away with paying say ...1/2 Trillion?  What if we simply took all the loans and made affordable payment plans for those who took them?

What if we sold all our cars to China and India and all started riding buses and bicycles?  Would that do it?

Is the economic Crisis all about bad loans?  Is someone making money off this?  Is there some secret organization that orchestrated all this for years and now is going to come to our rescue?  Where are "All the Presidents Men" when you need them?

Deep Throat... Oh DEEP THROAT!!!  Could you give us a hand here?

Scary thing is that this really may actually be all about offering loans to folks who can't pay them back but somehow I just don't buy that. 

WHAT'S REALLY GOING ON?

From about the mid 80's to the late 90's seemed to me that every other new Sci-Fi novel I read was about the US plunging into an economic Chaos and total Anarchy.

Well... I think that's already happened only we don't see it.  The survivalist and all those militias are stocking up like mad about now.  Recent news is the joy of every I told you so conspiracy theory nut job across the country.  

So are they right?  Is America soon to be ruled by Hells Angels?  Well... no.  No worries really...  the militias and the survivalist will have to move back home soon.  The Economy will be manipulated back to normal when the hidden think tanks have achieved what they think is the desired end.  However if there are major hidden US think tanks they're working at cross purposes... Seems to me rich folks with nothing better to do are battling each other behind the scenes and putting it out there in front of the camera.   Who cares what Rothschild's thinks?  Good candy though.  (Are they the ones ole' Mel was talkin bout?)

Is there a coming Economic  breakdown in the US?  Will  society itself disintegrate plunging us into Anarchy? 

No...

But start brushing up on your Mandarin.

10.  Knew Ophra wouldn't like her.

9.  Got a heads up on her pregnant daughter and needed the publicity.

8.  Looking forward to playing in that riverboat poker tournament.

7.  Look Bill... now people are really gonna wonder!

6.  Wasn't sure if Biden might bow out and be replaced by Hillary.

5.  Best possible use of Huckabee's falling chair comment.

4.  Needed someone who could give great speeches.

3.  Condoleeza was suffering from a birth defect.

2.  A former NRA President came to John in a dream and told him too.

and the top reason why McCain picked Palin!

1.  Because McCain/Palin rolls better off the toung than Obama/Biden.

I'm sorry but I'm beginning to think that mass news media ownership has fallen into showbizness in a very hard way and we the people have let it happen.  The Obama Clinton fued is but one of the things that seems to Fuel Info'tainment.  So I'm going to try to be very specific by pointing at one show on the Fox News Network that I find particularly disturbing.   But first!

As a sophomore in Missouri Military Academy in 1980 I won the end of year speech contest delivering a speech that called media and political partnership "The Unforeseen Problem".  In the speech I pointed out that more and more political parties were using the media to perpetuate their own agendas and were getting better and better at it.  I can't remember the authors I had been reading at the time but I read alot more then than I do now... and I regret that a bit...

Anywho...

My specific example of showbizness Info'tainmen that I feel is an extreme example of the worst kind of showbizness crowd drawing/pleasing/disgusting exploitation is the Hannity And Colmes news commentary show.  I watch the show so I'll have something funny to say in my blogs.  The so-called conservative news man Sean Hannity is in my opinion a man who the American public would do well to ignore.  So far at my count the man has put forth several ideas that are nothing more than pet projects like Senator Obama being someone who wants doctors to be able to kill babies who don't die during an abortion, a man who is secretly connected to terrorists, a man who is a secret Muslim who goes to a church who hates America and has a pastor the hates America and a wife who hates America.  My conclusion is that the big cheese board of folks who own Fox News Network are secretly Obama Supporters who hire the absolute worst form of mentally unstable representation to represent conservative ideologies to well... prove a point.

For may part I cannot give up on conservative ideals because I feel they are sound.  It's people who claim these same conservative ideals and actually support Sean Hannity's brand of conservative news presentation that give me the creeps.  I feel that liberal ideals are great when you do them quietly... you know, like the little old lady with the soup kitchen who does good without blowing a trumpet?

Last anywho...

A blond reporter who's name I can't remember said after Michelle Obama's monday night speech that Barack and Michelle had a long way to go to prove they were "like us".  I'm sorry but I've seen this same female reporter on Hannities show and this sort of commentary scares me... because do to the fact that Fox News enjoys high ratings I can hardly see how this kind of news "reporting" is beneficial.   At what point does reporting stop and  the battle for the human mind begin?  Are we, the commodity of mass media, being peddled off to the highest bidder?  Is the sale going to go through?

There is a horrible sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach that makes the same sensation of watching a really good horror flick the kind of appeal I have for watching Hannity and Colmes.  The Fox commentary after the last two nights of the Democratic Convention continues to give me this sensation.  What's more the most alarming thought in my mind is that Fox News Network is secretly conservative and that Sean Hannity is the best they've found to represent the cause.  The fueds that fuel this pathetic form of info'tainment are unquestionably great cause for concern... as is the info'tainment itself.

(PS Thanks Leelila for the word "Info'tainment")