Musings of the Great Gonzo

An interesting article appears today in the Southwest Florida Herald Tribune. The gist of it is that a man who lives in a deed restricted community put up a Website that criticizes the Neighborhood Association and its leadership. The main complaint of the society is that the name of the site includes the name of the neighborhood. This, says the association board, is against the neighborhood covenants and that if the man does not change the name of the site he will be fined $100 a day and have alien placed on his home for the amount of the fine. The man asserts that this is a violation of his First Amendment rights. See the entire article http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20070921/NEWS/709210366. Why do I find this article so interesting? Well, friends let me tell you. About six months ago I belonged to a real estate investment association which used to operate a wildly popular online discussion group. The group offered investors an outlet to ask questions, discuss problems, ...

The following came to me in an email from my sister-in-law, I was not able to verify it authenticity on the Internet, but none-the-less the sentiment is excellent. It is attributed to John Howard the Prime Minister of Austrailia. In this speech he does not belittle anyone, he merely says that Austrailians have the right to be Austrailian without having to worry about who they are offending. And anyone who immigrates to Austrailia is welcome to do so provided they wish to be Austrailian and live by the laws of that country. We Americans should adopt the same attitude whether we are talking about Muslims, Latins, or any other ethnic group that wants to live inthe United States. Here's the article... Prime Minister John Howard - Australia Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law were told on Wednesday to get out of Australia , as the government targeted radicals in a bid to head off potential terror attacks. A day after a group of mainstream Muslim leaders pledged loya...

I've posted in the past how I think this whole global-warming thing is bunch of crap; aparently I am not the only one. Over 500 scientists have published materials in journals such as Science, Nature, and Geophysical Review -- all major publications. But, have we heard about this in the mainstream media? Nope! It doesn't make for as good a talking point or headline. It's better to scare the bejeebies out of people, get them all riled up that the Earth is dying and its our fault rather than do some actual reporting on real science. As reported at Earthtimes, a leading website which reports news related to the human environment, it boils down to this: 1. A natural moderate 1,500-year climate cycle has produced more than a dozen global warmings similar to ours since the last Ice Age and/or that 2. Our Modern Warming is linked strongly to variations in the sun's irradiance. 3. Sea levels are failing to rise importantly; 4. That our storms and droughts are becoming fewer ...

Today, at the same time young Americans are dying in the sands of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan, our nation is being torn apart and made weaker because of the Democrats' manic obsession to bring down our commander in chief. What has happened to the party I've spent my life working in? I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny. It was Democratic President Harry Truman who pushed the Red Army out of Iran, who came to the aid of Greece when Communists threatened to overthrow it, who stared down the Soviet blockade of West Berlin by flying in supplies and saving the city. Time after time in our history, in the face of great danger, Democrats and Republicans worked together to ensure that freedom would not falter. But not today. Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someon...

The British government is expected to approve scientist’s plans to create human-animal hybrid embryos . What kind of sick idiocy is this? Aside from the religious implications there are moral issues to think of. This kind of research belongs in the realm of horror movies and only there. To be fair, British law calls for the destruction of any hybrid embryo after 14 days. But, what if some scientist decides that he wants to see what will happen if the embryo is allowed to grow? You can’t tell me that the same scientists that plan to play God haven’t wondered what would happen if a hybrid embryo was implanted in a womb and allowed to grow to full gestation. These are the same folks who think that human cloning is OK. Don’t you guys watch the movies or read fiction at all? These moral dilemmas have been played out in a number of works, the results are always tragic. In The Island of Dr. Moreau, human-animal hybrids live a tortured life on the mad doctor’s private island. The boo...