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The list of articles published over the past few months.. Most of us took the tortured road of youthful idiotic leftism before we understood that human nation cannot be changed and the only way to enforce leftist-liberal redistribution is through terror. It is not as long as Hugh Hefner's pompous opus, but then again, we did not write it in pijamas waited upon hand and foot by All-American beauties. Still, liberal domination of political humor must end. Most of these are still funny, as when we had a picture of Fidal Castro bawling because he was scheduled to host the 1990 Dictator's Ball, and so many had fallen the previous two years. Also has the classic, first-ever-in print demand to end Christmas as a legal holdiay, accurately forecasting idiocies of libs 10 years ahead of time. |
They got a lot of nerve The United Nations Wants Us to Cede Control of Web By F. JJ. Kiel
As President Reagan famously said of the Panama Canal in opposition to Jimmy Carter’s craven decision (and now, a monstrously dangerous act with the rise of terrorism and China) to turn over control to Panamanians, “We stole it fair and square.” Mainstream liberal media insist on saying that the United States “returned” the Canal to Panama. Excuse me, but when did we “take it” from them? The area that became the Canal was just lightly inhabited and unhealthy jungle, and it didn’t even belong to the Panamanians. There wasn’t even a Panama. The isthmus had always been part first the Spanish colony centered on Columbia and then the sovereign nation of Columbia. A bit more than 100 years ago, some wealthy businessmen living in the region that became Panama wanted to declare their independence in order to become even wealthier. Yes, the capital of Columbia, Bogota, was far away and difficult to reach in that pre-airplane era, but so was California a big haul from Washington DC. These aristocrats knew that the United States wanted to build a canal through the narrow part of their country. It was not the only alternative. Nicaragua, just north of Costa Rica, which joins what became Panama, has a much longer distance between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. However, two large lakes lay across a possible Canal route and would have cut a lot of the difference in work breeching Nicaragua over what it took to cross Panama. The “fathers” of Panamanian independence were rich enough to have bought modern rifles, machine guns and artillery and could have probably defeated the Columbians easily enough in a defensive war, but they didn’t want to risk their precious unlined hands, nor those of their sons. They found it much more convenient to beg assistance from Americans, who insisted that if they were going to spend a fortune and possibly risk the lives of members of its military, they wanted a guarantee that they wouldn’t build a canal and the Panamanians would take it away from them. Those were the days were Americans were not ashamed to be Americans. It was a great bargain for those Panamanian bandits, I mean, fathers of their country. They agreed to hand over a 50 mile wide strip of useless jungle forever to the Americans, and in return, they got a whole country for themselves and got to put on those presidential sashes that Latin American presidents love with all the dash of an old-time American woman selecting her Easter bonnet. The Panamanian expertise at improving jungle regions can be demonstrated by the one section of their country that the United States didn’t improve, the so-called Darien Gap that meets Columbia in thick jungle. Yes, in the beginning, Panamanians were in no hurry to develop Darien and make it easier for the Columbians to attempt to cross over. Now, UN bureaucrats the world over who are demanding the right to control and tax the Internet can be told the same days thing. Build your own damn network if you want. We don’t even have to use President Reagan’s supremely correct in phrasing our right to the Panama Canal – “We stole it fear and square.” With the Internet, we actually created it out of nothing more than the ideas of dozens of scientists and the works of hundreds before them. |
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