11. April 2008 by The Chuck.

Former President Jimmy Carter is planning to meet with the leader of Hamas next week during his nine-day tour of the middle east.  The State Department has advised him against such a meeting. Why would the State Department think Jimmy Carter, the founding father of the global terrorist movement that sparked our Global War on Terrorism, would listen to them?

According to the US State Department, Hamas is funded by Iran. Hamas can’t do what it does without funding. Iran wouldn’t fund Hamas if it wasn’t for Jimmy Carter’s policies during his long four-years as our leader.

Most Americans have either forgotten or never knew that Iran used to be one of our most dependable allies. Shah Mohammand Reza Pahlavi was praised by US Presidents Johnson, Nixon, and Ford. They trusted him with just about any technology and weapons we had, short of nuclear weapons. In spite of the sweeping reforms in the economic and social arena of Iran, there were still dark forces working against him.

With Soviet-sponsored Socialists, known as “Communists” scratching at the door of freedom while fledgling Islamic Fascism lurked in the shadows, our very own Jimmy Carter decided to wage a political war against the Shah’s human rights record.

The Shah was guilty of using military tribunals to jail about 3000 Communists, Islamic Fascists, and terrorists. Some of those prisoners were reported to have been tortured. Jimmy Carter referred to them as political prisoners and insisted the Shah release them and use civil courts to try them. The subsequent “civil” trials turned into soap-boxes for the prophets of evil to turn the masses against what Carter had called, “an island of stability in a trouble region.”

To make matters worse, Carter insisted that the Shah allow his people to have freedom of assembly, which resulted in propagating the seed of terrorism. The liberal-media broadcasted the anti-Shah rallies to the globe, and brought Ayatollah Khomeini, living in obscure exile, to celebrity status with the Iranian people. The PLO supplied weapons and terrorism experts to Khomeini’s legions to bloody the streets with their free-assemblies. The Shah initially used an iron fist of excessive military force to disperse the violent masses. Eventually the military switched allegiance, and the Shah fled to the United States, dying of cancer, while another cancer consumed the people of the one-time great ally of the United States. The once stable island was sunk.

What happened to the Shah’s prisoners? Khomeini freed the few he wanted, but the rest were murdered along with tens of thousands of westernized Iranians.

Freedom was set-back decades, while death and suffering flourished. Anything considered to be a freedom by Westerners was removed from the Iranian people. Minor infractions of the new Fascist regime was answered with arrests, tortures, or executions. The Soviets took advantage of the chaos and invaded Afghanistan. Carter responded with a boycott of the 1980 Olympics, which only punished American athletes.

Jimmy Carter said Khomeini was a “holy man” and he used ineffectual words through showy teeth to no avail. Most Americans have heard of the 444 days that the Americans from the US embassy were illegally held hostage by the Iranian government. The same day of President Reagan’s inauguration, the Iranians agreed to release the hostages. President Reagan allowed Jimmy Carter to make the announcement to the American public, possibly to help Jimmy Carter with his stained legacy.

By the way, Carter also failed miserably with the Cold War. Millions across Africa and even Central America were rolled into the Communists’ murderous leftist system. Thus, by the time Carter was leaving office, the West was losing the Cold War, Islamic Fascism controlled sovereign nations, and the US economy was failing in the face of double digit inflation. Thank you, Jimmy, and goodbye.

Since the Islamic Fascists don’t have nuclear weapons, or a first class military to fight us with, they chose terrorist attacks as the weapon of choice to kill us. Some say enough has been said about 9/11, but I wonder if we could ever say enough about that. Out of politeness, the US usually says very little about Jimmy Carter failures, but he keeps talking.

Despite the lessons about evil that Jimmy Carter should have learned from his failed presidency, he continues to excrete some outlandish opinions.

For instance, in 2004 during an interview on MSNBC, Jimmy Carter tried to explain that all wars are bad. He said the Revolutionary War was an unnecessary war. Imagine that!

The establishment of the United States was the single most pivotal event towards human liberty since the resurrection of Christ, yet Jimmy Carter believes that a nation founded on the principles of our Declaration of Independence and then our Constitution was unnecessary. Unnecessary!

And now he is going to consort with Hamas in Syria. Why not? It is right in line with everything Jimmy Carter has done in international affairs. This meeting will probably give Hamas more prestige, and just quicken them in their efforts to do more violence.

While Jimmy Carter is the closest thing to a Founding Father of global terrorism, he did win the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. But don’t let that sway any negative opinions you have of the man, since it only gives him more in common with Yasser Arafat, Gorbachev, and Algore–prize winners all.

Jimmy Carter uses talk as the solution to all international problems. Talk is cheap, but the result of talk, where action needs to be taken, can be the most costly of all possible actions. In some cases, talk is nothing–it is really inaction.

When the decision-makers in the United States fail to take action, when they could have, to protect American lives from terrorists, they turn the government of the United States into a terrorist organization.

Jimmy Carter’s inaction as President was a dishonor to those that came before him and a danger to those who came after him.

He had his say in his day, but that day is done. Nations fell, and hundreds of thousands have died, and maybe millions more will because of what came out of his mouth. America voted his incompetent ideas out of office back in 1980. He does not speak for America today.

It just makes sense.

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11. April 2008 by James.

Hi everyone,

Sorry about your vehicle, Chuck. I used to not believe in extended warranties, but I think that these days, they might be a good idea. It certainly worked out in your case!

My dad’s funeral in Arlington National Cemetery on 20 Feb was simply awesome. I am so glad we decided to bury him there. It was a little bit of effort for everyone to drive up there, but what a source of comfort for the family it was. The soldiers of the Old Guard are so good at what they do.

I’m now clearing out my dad’s huge backyard workshop of 40 years of accumulated stuff. One of the guys that used to work for him when he was a general contractor agreed to empty the place out and fix up my mother’s house for cost. So far he has carted 6 heaping pickup truck loads of stuff to the dump and taken many of the tools and supplies. For example my father had 1000 pounds of nails in there. I’m hoping that in 6 months the workshop can be emptied, the house roof fixed and the fence replaced. At that point the house should be able to be sold and my 81 year old mother can move into something easier to take care of than a 40 year old, 4 bedroom house.

I’ve run in a couple of 10Ks in downtown Savannah recently, but the guys in my age group, 50-54 don’t seem to be slowing down. One of these days, if I get into a race with a small enough field, I hope to win!

Savannah Sand Gnats have their home opener this weekend, so I’m attending. I’m visiting my daughter in Houston in the first part of May, so I look forward to that.

Anyway, I hope to hear from everyone soon.

James

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11. April 2008 by The Chuck.

Well, here’s another month. Seems like longer . . . or is that shorter, what ev.

I talked with Brother Vern Moore this week. He apologized for being so busy that he never posts here. I told him I understood, and the rest of you do too, being as most of us don’t post either.

I guess it’s just a phase we’re going through. I hope its not the phase my Land Rover is going through.

A couple of months ago it overheated–darn thermostat. My extended warranty covered the $$$. After the work was done, the water level kept getting low, but there was no fluid to be seen on the ground The dealer said it was just an air bubble and to add some water, it would clear up.

A while later it developed a strange click when it was cold. We took it to the dealer. Once again, my extended warranty covered the $$$$ as they had to replace the intake manifold because of some “irreparable” part inside of it. The click was still there when Cindy picked up the machine, but she was told it was normal for the Rover to have that. The click got worse over the next couple of weeks, from going away shortly after starting to pretty much clicking all the time.

I changed the “click” word for the “slap” word in describing the sound and they took it in the shop. Later that day they showed me the engine in the maintenance bay. Under the valve covers was a covering of metal filings all over the cams. In addition, the oil was thin. They wanted to know if we had it serviced anywhere other than with them. I was glad that I had been too lazy to take it anywhere or to do it myself and I was happy that Cindy had been following the maintenance schedule to the letter and always at the dealer.

The next day, they disassembled the motor and discovered sludge in the oil pan. I told them that I had not put it there. They suspect the motor had been mistreated by the previous owner, however, my extended warranty started fresh when I paid $3000 for it shortly after I purchased it. They say the sludge fouled the oil pump … must have been really bad.

They have to bring in an insurance adjuster before they can take further action, which probably won’t be until Monday. Meanwhile they’re paying for Cindy to drive a 2008 Highlander.

According to the dealer service folks, they only need to replace the 24 tappets (lifters) and the oil pump to fix the engine. I would have thought the metal filings would have degraded the cylinder walls and rings … but they say they pulled off the head and inspected it.

My extended warranty is scheduled to end in November, I plan to take several long drives before October ends. I might buy another warranty, if there is one that goes beyond 5 years from manufacture … but without one my confidence is low about keeping it.

We had a dear friend hospitalized with tumors. Some were removed from the spine, but others are in harder to reach places … kinda makes the Land Rover problem seem piddly.

Well, I’ve got to unplug from here a write an article for my commentary site. It’s been boiling in me since I heard JC was going to meet with Hamas. You’ll enjoy it.

The Chuck out …

Oh yeah–write when you get a chance.

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