Think Again Magazine Issue 22
Who is C D Robertson?
I will state now, up-front that I am politically conservative. Keep in mind I didn't say Republican; not all Republicans are conservative (Mr. Bush is a good example); not all Democrats are liberal either. I will also state that I am more conservative on monetary issues and tend to be more liberal on social ones.
I graduated high-school in 1967, attended college (taking many ancient computer science courses) but did not graduate. I consider myself well-
informed, politically astute, and aware of local, national, and international current events.
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Table of Contents
- I. Slicked Out
- II. The Debate on the Debates
- III. Oh, Henry! (Ross Perot)
- IV. Truth, Get Ready!
- V. Non-Thinking Issue #13
- VI. Hillarious - Doublespeak
- VII. Finis
I. Slicked Out
Forget the draft dodging, more interesting is that Mr. Willie went to Oxford and didn't even graduate! That's right! Matter of fact his second year there he took off from school to ride the "Peace Train" at the invitation of the Kremlin to Moscow to protest the Vietnam War, right in Red Square. I consider this as traitorous as Hanoi Jane's escapade. And the Democrats had the audacity to nominate this traitor! Geez!
II. The Debate on the Debates
Isn't it funny that when President Bush proposed four debates instead of three, including the format he wanted and the format Slick wanted, old Slick flinched, balked, whined and finally gave in. Old Slick is really brave until confronted. It's no wonder he dodged military service.
III. Oh, Henry! (Ross Perot)
Henry Ross Perot, yea that's the "H", one of his high school friends called in a local radio talk show the other day and made that revelation. Anyway old Henry is back in the saddle. Of course how obvious is it that he hadn't finished his ego trip? The funniest part is that just after he announced (re-announced?) there was a sound-bite of old Slick saying, "See, he's going to raise taxes more than me!" Now this is a definite sign of who Henry's campaign is hurting the most now. I suspect that the first interview, press conference, or debate, Henry will be waggling his finger at old Slick and saying, "No, you're going to raise taxes more than me!" Actually the truth is they both want to raise you're taxes, and the President wants to cut taxes to stimulate the economy. The Dumbocrats and Congress say such will devastate the economy. In fact every time taxes have been lowered, the Treasury has ended up taking in more revenue than before because of the stimulated economy. The first person the Congress said it wouldn't work to was John F. Kennedy. And guess how President Johnson paid for all those socialists programs? With the surplus from President Kennedy's tax cut. I'm sure you're heard it a thousand times, but here it is once more. NO COUNTRY HAS EVER TAXED ITSELF INTO PROSPERITY. The United States will not be an exception.
IV. Truth, Get Ready!
This is a warning. With Mount Pinatubo in the Phillipines throwing hydrochloric acid, sulfur dioxide, carbon dioxide, dust, ash, and who knows what else directly into the stratosphere, scientists are going to find another thinning of the ozone layer. So you're going to get the guilt trip that you've just been too comfortable with your CFC cooled house this summer. You're going to be warned to go out, plant a tree, jerk the compressor out of your car, and prepare for the end of the world. Remember, you heard it here first, and that science has no way of proving that the small part of the CFC's produced each year (1.1 million tons at the highest point) by man causes some ozone depletion when just chlorine evaporated from sea water entering the atmosphere each year is 300 million tons. Even if one-half of all those CFC's escaped (Geez, that would be a LOT of leaky A/C's!), 500,000 tons is just 1/600th of the amount of chlorine from seawater. If we eliminated all CFC's from earth, that would affect the amount of chlorine in the atmosphere by such a small fraction it would have negligible impact. Is this really worth banning CFC's? Especially in the light that Consumer's Digest is now suggesting that if you need or think you will need a refrigerator/freezer within the next five years you better buy it now. When the CFC-free units are introduced they will be, "bigger", "less reliable", and "much noisier." And how about in the third world countries where refrigeration is just starting to provide a way of storing foodstuffs? Ask yourself, your congressman, your senators...Is this really worth it?
And for those readers who continually write asking me if we should start uncontrolled polluting; you already know the answer is no. Pollution is never a positive, but there must be a balance between technology an environmental impact. Especially in this case, when environmental impact is minute compared to the benefits.
V. Non-Thinking Issue #13
I promised I wouldn't dwell on the bilge from this magazine, but I couldn't pass mis-observations, mis-understanding, and mis-speaking by the author.
Mr. Perkel flatly states that "the party managed to shut them (pro-choice Republicans) up..." Of course he failed to mention that several pro-choice Republicans addressed the convention, spoke of their pro-choice beliefs, and got little if no reaction. (I wonder if Mr. Perkel expected a overwhelming pro-choice demonstration?) Mr. Perkel also failed to mention that it was Slick Willie who really shut-up the opposition, not even allowing the incumbent Democratic Governor of Pennsylvania to speak because he is pro-life. And speaking of control, the Democratic Party machinery wouldn't even let Slick have his own selection of VP - because Slick's #1 choice was - Pro-Life.
Mr. Perkel also stated that "(Bush) claimed he had the endorsement of God!" I think Mr. Perkel's TV set went to a different channel. I never heard President Bush say he was endored by anyone but Republicans.
"Basically Bush has a message of hate," Mr Perkel assured us, "Hate the ... single mothers with children, the news media, ... people on welfare, those who have tried pot...." His thinking magazine is as unthinking as the whole liberaly bias bilge that the news media pours forth every night.
"Single mothers with children" is obviously a reference to the Murphy Brown Flap. The infamous battle the Vice-President supposedly started. In fact of the Vice-President's 2,732 words in that speech he said the words "single-mother" exactly twice. One, he mentioned a census bureau fact that 33.4% of families headed by a single mother are in poverty. The other time, he mentioned how difficult the task a single mother had in raising children. The "thing" with Murphy Brown is actually one sentence punching at prime time TV instead: "It doesn't help matters when prime time TV has Murphy Brown --a character who supposedly epitomizes today's intelligent, highly paid, professional woman -- mocking the importance of fathers by bearing a child alone, and calling it just another `lifestyle choice.'" How did "mocking the importance of fathers" become a hate-filled speech about single mothers? The answer is "the cultural elite", the press, and those who believe and spread the bilge like Mr. Perkel.
Hating the news media isn't hard, especially when things are so biased to Slick Willie. You know things are biased when three Harvard Political Science Professors (NOT a den of conservatism) did a study and reported that the media had a definite Clinton bias; ABC being the worst, and CNN still biased but the least so.
Mr. Perkel's statement, "hating people on welfare" is folly. I heard time and time again in speeches by every speaker who mentioned the people on welfare that they needed a hand-UP out of welfare - not a hand-OUT. The Democratic Party, the bureaucracy in Wasington, the poverty pimps have no interest in empowering these people or raising their economic level; for if they do they would lose constituency and the reason for their jobs.
"Those who try pot," Mr. Perkel's ego has grown so large, he thinks issues important only to him (and other pot-heads who do inhale) are of national significance. Geez.
Mr. Perkel often revels at his own significance. It reminds me of something Mark Twain once said, "An old adage assures us that man is the nobelest work of God. Now, who found that out?" Would an American go to a Communist rally and hand out communist literature? No. By the same token no Republican (or Democrat) would go to their own convention or a rally and hand out the oppositions literature. Mr. Perkel thinks he's both a democrat and republican. In truth, he's only an infiltrator and fooling himself (especially about his own significance).
I do admit that the political scandal trading cards sound interesting. I think I'll call and order some. I can't wait to see the Carter and Company (Democratic Congress) deregulating the Saving & Loans which initiated the Savings and Loan problems/scandal. I also want several dozen Jim Wright cards showing how he blocked closing Savings & Loans controlled by many of his friends costing taxpayers billions more (and don't forget the bonus Jim Wright personal scandal card giving facts and figures of how many books that the AFL-
CIO bought from Jim Wright at full retail). How about the famous, liberal Alan Cranston Savings & Loan Card. The Koeting-Five Pack of scandal trading cards. How about the Tom Foley Congress S&L Scandal Trading Card that shows investigations on wrongdoers ending when some high-ranking Democrats discovered that any closer investigations into the wrongdoers would start pointing back at them. And the Iran Contra Investigation Spending Scandal Trading Card showing the now over $100 million dollars spent investigating a handful of people, none of which were ever convicted because of a lack of any substantial evidence? Let's not forget the Congressional Bank Scandal Trading Cards, the Congressional Post Office Scandal Trading Cards (both cash and drug versions), (should I go on?). The point is that the scandals Mr. Perkel mentioned all had one thing in common, the Democratically controlled Congress.
The whole issue of un-thinking magazine reminds me of the old riddle: What's the difference between a liberal and a socialists? A socialist knows what he's doing.
VI. Hillarious - Doublespeak
Democrats are saying, "What Hillary Clinton wrote years ago doesn't matter!" This is strange. During Judge Bork's confirmation hearings, Democrats were saying, "what Judge Bork said and wrote years ago is of great importance." Consider the fact that Hillary Rodham just happens to the the candidates wife, she is also an one of the staff of the campaign committee. Again they suffer from doublespeak and out of both faces.
VII. Finis
I started this newsletter/magazine as a backlash against idiotic bilge called THINKING magazine, but it was your letters of support agreement, even disagreement that has kept me going. During our life many things cross our paths and unfortunately some of these are not happy events. I never used the readers of this magazine, but I have used the time it took to research, think out, and write this magazine to fill a hole in my life that was empty.
Many weeks back I embarked on a new lifestyle, eating right, exercise daily, etc. Now it is time for me to grow and mature a bit more, to fill that emptyness in a positive mature fashion. I will not say that this will be the last issue of THINK AGAIN. Many of you who have written several times hold a special place in my thoughts. If you know French this is only Au Revior, not Adieu. If you don't it's only until we meet again, not goodbye.
Remember, what I have told you all along...Don't take anything you read for granted, find out if it's the truth, think again. I'll leave you with an important thought for you to share with any liberals you may cross who want to take your rights for the benefit of all, who want to kill the unborn because it's just another choice, who want to release the criminals and throw the guilt on the victims....
"You can't have the right to do wrong."
(I also like to give credit where credit is due. I don't remember the black gentleman's name running for Senate who spoke this phase at the Republican convention. But it should be the sounding board of America.)
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