The Gaping Vulnerability

Tomorrow night, George Bush will miss the opportunity to propose the most important policy shift he could make. He will not call for a policy mandating that teachers take mandatory offensive weapons training and defensive lockdown techniques during every summer break.

In September 2004, Islamic radicals took over a Back-to-School celebration in the Russian city of Beslan. They took 1500 hostages. They held Russia at bay for 62 hours. The hostages were kept in a hotbox of a gym urinating and defecating where they sat. All the adult males were immediately murdered execution style in front of their families. The adolescent males were rounded into work gangs to build barracades of furniture - then they were executed and thrown out of a second floor window. The women and girls were raped - first sexually, then with weapons and disfiguring hardware. After an accidental detonation of one of the terrorist bombs, the in extremis assault by Russian Special Forces went bad. In the end, over 350 died.

Osama Bin Laden has said that "what they have done in Russia, they will do in America." There WILL come a day when the word of a hostage situation in an American School hits the 24 hour news channels. It will not be a couple of disgruntled teens. It will be trained, determined, deadly vipers from one of Osama's camps. They will be prepared to slay dozens and they will expect minimal resistance. They will make it as bloody and graphic as they can and it will last until it ends by force.

There will be a blood-curdling scream from the nation. Whoever is in the White House will be castigated and castrated. But for GW Bush, it's a no-win situation. Because if he was to suggest arming teachers and training them to defend the kids. He'd hear the same blood-curdling scream from the teachers union and the left.

There's not a school in the country that's postured to keep our kids safe. And there won't be, until there is a gynasium floor covered in blood. And it will have to happen because the left insists that there is a liar in the White House.

He's Baaaa-aaack!

For those that enjoyed the intellectual and philosophical disassembly of Brandon, he's back for your reading pleasure.

I indulge him, because see a spark of inquisitiveness that is uncommon in liberals. He seeks out challenging intellectual discussion and ignores it face to face rather than plugging his ears and shouting "I CAN'T HEAR YOU! LALALALALALALALALALA."

It is a scientific certainty that if he continues to seek out challenging discourse eventually his liberal worldview will show cracks and then implode. People tend to be liberal when young and conservative when they age. Some of them turn so fast they get whiplash. Others take years.

As an engineering student, I'm betting it will be the first year he makes six figures and the man comes to take $25,000 in taxes.

He still doesn't believe in American Exceptionalism, but I have hopes he will someday. I did notice he didn't try to defend the Libs against the comments in Unholy Alliance. Since he doesn't believe in American Exceptionalism he may also be supporting the big Al Qaeda win.

Questions for a Rainy Day

How come an unfertilized Sea Turtle egg is legally protected from any human interference, but an unborn, viable-outside-the-womb human being can be dismembered without any legal representation at all?

It's easy to find an angry, shrill feminist. What happened to all the happy feminists that are thrilled with the way their lives are turning out?

Does it amaze anyone else that Newsweek thinks it's news that boys are different from girls? If the feminist were really interested in equality, they'd be squealing to reverse the social engineering that's caused this. Of course, they never have been interested in equality, they're mostly interested in control.

Unholy Alliance

The libs want to limit the power of the executive branch to monitor communications.
Al Qaeda would like them to be successful.

The libs want to limit the interrogation methods available to the executive branch.
Al Qaeda would like them to be successful.

The libs would like to talk the nation into cutting and running in Afghanistan.
Al Qaeda would like them to be successful.

The libs would like to reduce the military strength of the United States.
Al Qaeda would like them to be successful.

The libs would like to eliminate Christianity from public discourse.
Al Qaeda would like them to be successful.

The libs would like more UN debate and less military action against terror.
Al Qaeda would like them to be successful.

The libs think Isreal is the aggressor and should be punished.
Al Qaeda would like them to be successful.

One has to expect there are at least a few Al Qaeda sympathizers in this country. Anybody wonder which political party they vote for?

Choose Your Weapon

Education (especially math) is a weapon against poverty.
Violence is a weapon against prosperity.

The best educated families tend to be prosperous. The most prosperous families value education.

Violence scares off prosperity by discouraging investment. Violence is illegitimate as a strategy for obtaining value because violence destroys value. Violence is a strategy of the desperate that separates the desperate from resources.

Poverty-Desperation-Violence are a self-purpetuating cycle.
Education-Prosperity are also a self-purpetuating cycle.

Poverty and Prosperity: Each condition protects itself with a specific weapon.