May 18, 2012
Involuntary Manslaughter
I am so glad I waited before saying anything about the Martin-Zimmerman affair. Having now seen the prosecution's evidence, it is so obviously involuntary manslaughter, that they will lose, with an honest jury. What it is not is 2nd Degree Murder.

As an interesting "sidebar" - Alan Dershowitz has shown himself to be an Eleutherian, not a Liberal. Of course, you can call yourself anything you wish, but that doesn't mean you are one.

Alan Dershowitz

May 17, 2012
Are We Surprised
I would like to say, for the record, that it is entirely possible that Barack Hussein Obama was born in Hawaii.

"..born in Kenya.."

However, with the release of the ID notes to his first book, it is remarkably obvious that he could have told people, including the Harvard Law Review, that he was born in Kenya. Did he also use his foreign négritude to leapfrog over other, more deserving black students at Harvard Law School? There is some interesting evidence there.

Négritude is an honest and honorable ideal, and to use it falsely, to gain purchase over anyone, seems to be the modus operandi of the dishonest. And, are we to be surprised, again?

May 16, 2012
Gentle Reminders
      1. WEATHER - We know it. We love it. We hate it. Most importantly, NO system can predict weather, accurately, more than four hours in advance. You know the drill: too many variables build up so that by the fifth hour, an area with as many geographical variables as South Carolina has is simply too complicated for precise forecasting - especially when it comes to accurate temperatures, precipitation, and relative humidity. The best thing you can do is know where the weather is. SWAMPFOXNEWS.COM continues to be the preferred website of choice for South Carolinians who want the fastest, most up to the minute radar and satellite maps.
      2. STATE NEWS - Our amalgamation of statewide sources is always the latest. We really have no control over what appears, guaranteeing, at least, more than one view.
      3. SCIENCE - Oddly, SWAMPFOXNEWS.COM remains the only state website dedicated to honesty in scientific data - regardless of how off the beaten path we have to go. We're the only statewide publication that picks apart all those "science" stories from the media, showing whether or not they are valid, with evidence and logic.
      4. OPINION - Our view is ELEUTHERIAN - we believe that freedom, personal worth, and personal responsibility have their bases in spiritual and ethical principles, and the promulgation of this ethos adds to the betterment of the individual and those around her or him.
      5. IT'S FREE - Always. We don't charge for our endorsements and you don't ever have to pay to visit. It's a labor of love.

May 15, 2012
The Treaty That Killed America
On December 5th, 2009, the Annenburg Foundation - supported FACTCHECK.ORG blatantly half-lied, saying that the Obama Administration was not writing a United Nations treaty which would have the effect of banning guns in America, contrary to the 2nd Amendment. Well, THEY weren't writing it. Other people were writing it for them.

No longer over the top..

On August 5th, 2011, Fox News online reported, mirrored by CBS News and ABC News, the truth about the Treaty, which WAS being moved forward by the Obama Administration. And 45 Progressives joined the voices of ALL (but a couple) of the Republicans in denouncing the move. The Obama Administration backed off.

Last month, from no less a personage than Pat Buchanan, we learned, once again, that Hillary Clinton, on behalf of the Obama Administration, is pushing the same dang International Treaty. Again.

You'll notice that the title of this article is in the past tense. I did that for one very important reason: only a few people are paying attention to this un-American activity. If this Treaty is signed before conservatives and libertarians and constitutionalists wrest control of the Senate from the Progressive buffoons who would pass this, it won't matter who the President is.

This is not the only tragedy trying to be foisted on a free people by the corrupt majority in the Senate, but it is one of the worst.

May 14, 2012
And to Think We Invented the Marshall Plan
OK. So the French aren't the only stupid people in Europe. But, GERMANS?!? On the other hand, they DID vote for Hitler. And most of them were proud of it.

Don't look now, but there's a self-fulfilling prophecy of another European Depression, lurking..

May 13, 2012
The Avengers and Moral Equivalency
People are looking for absolutes in a world full of relativity and moral equivalency. How do I know this? Because the movie, The Avengers, is the biggest hit, ever, at the box office. (For those who know the other Avengers - the equally nifty mid-20th century tv series and movie - this is not that.)

It has been long known in the movie biz that when the populace feels helpless, movies about empowerment and heroes who help the helpless are very popular. Just look at the box-office draw of the The Hunger Games, not to mention the colossal book sales. And what about the Harry Potter series, which was self-empowerment personified?

Surely, we are at that moment in history. The problem with people who were, or have become, moral relativists is that they do not recognize the genuine article anymore. Many people whose hearts are in the right place may not know that we are down to our last ethical penny, at least when it comes to fiscal responsibility.

While we fritter away our last moments arguing over gayness and the propriety of correct scripture interpretation, our ability to afford the freedom to argue is being syphoned away. This may seem like a small point, but I assure you, it is critical to the wisdom we must acquire in order to defeat the malaise pressed upon us by those who favor the enslavement that socialism brings.

We are our only hope. We are our only heroes. And our super-power is the ballot.

May 12, 2012
The Guardian and Obama's Ego
The Guardian newspaper of England has been, for some time, an excellent source of news about America. They will have stories about happenings in the US, when the regular media either have not or will not cover them. This latest story about the possibility that the Obama administration, itself, may have leaked the new underwear bomb details, is a prime example.

It is not libel nor slander to say that Barack Obama truly believes he is the savior of the poor and oppressed, and that the only way to even things up is to hobble the greatest opportunity machine in the history of the world - even if it means destroying our spy network and those of every friend we've had since 1914.

This level of ego is humbling to honest folk. They look at it in horror and know that there is something very, very wrong.

May 11, 2012
Tzzzzzzzt! One & Done
Oooops! People who thought the hybrid would fix their fuel expense problems are loving and leaving the half-bastard hybrid. Seems like everything else favored by the Obama Administration, the cost of owning and running a hybrid is outrageously expensive. And when compared to the new fuel efficient mini-cars, which are cheap to buy and cheap to run, hybrids are a dirty joke.

May 10, 2012
Less Respect, More Büllesgeschichte
Now that the Obama regime has proven they only want to establish militant Islamist governments in the Near East and doesn't really care about people suffering in Communist and Socialist countries, how can we trust anything said by these people? He says he's for "gay marriage" but it's "a states rights issue." What rubbish!

Either you think sex and gender discrimination is wrong, and you do everything you can to change things, or you shut up, and keep your false sense of the world to yourself. And let's face it, even if you think being gay and lesbian is a handicap, we have seen fit to institute laws to protect the handicapped, which is supposed to be a BIG "Progressive thang."

Whether you think homosexuality is an aberration or a naturally occurring force or the result of fishing with a cane pole, a cork, and a worm, in the Eleutherian world, the only thing that matters is the principle of the sanctity of the individual. What a person does to himself, as long as he is not harming another person, is HIS BUSINESS.

And sex is a very private and personal thing. So, be glad we don't have Shariah law as the law of the land.. yet.

May 9, 2012
NC Not OK to be Gay
So, our brethren to the North have constitutionalized marriage between a man and a woman. Believe it.

There is a study which claims to show that 51% of Americans believe that same sex people should be able to be married. Don't believe it.

This "study" was a poll which was taken in large cities. Large cities are zoos with concrete and dumpsters substituting for bushes, urinated and fecal air substituting for open, fresh air, and people crushed together substituting for open neighborhoods and open land. In a word, cities are unhealthy.

Over 1,000 people in per square mile (and that's pushing it), and you have a zoo. Desmond Morris was right. And it may be that homosexuality is nature adjusting to an urban situation, but whether it is an aberration or merely a preventive natural selection mechanism, it is a physical fact.

I have stated repeatedly that I believe the actual mechanism of homosexuality is the inability to read heterosexual pheromones. I have also said that, as an Eleutherian, I don't care if you sleep with goats, that's your business, and Loving v. Virginia (1967) may expressly state the matter of this opinion. As an Anglican, I believe that sodomy is a sin, but there are other ways to enjoy that "pleasure which dare not speak its name." I have also maintained that homosexuality has been with us since people have lived together in groups. All of this has scientific evidence behind it, especially if you define "sin" as "human stupidity."

Back to the pheromones..     Not only do most people process heterosexual pheromones successfully, they also process anti-agent pheromones. Xenophobia may very well not be psychological at all, but a biological reaction to the pheromone "otherness" of "outsiders," and being a sexual outsider is even more problematic.

In other words, in order to get people to stop being "afraid" of homosexuality, we would have to change the way heterosexuals process pheromones. And that is a very, very hard thing to do. It takes a superior ability which most of us do not have, and cannot be expected to develop.

So, it is no wonder that, like North Carolina, most people, given the chance to define a sacrament between a man and a women as just that, most people will vote to keep things the same. This is more a biological imperative than a civil right. The amount of melanin in your skin is not the same thing as the way you process pheromones.

For Obama's part, everybody who knows him knows he's been lying for four years. So, what else is new?

FORWARDS!
One in seven people who had jobs are now out of work. That's an unemployment figure of.. let's see now.. divide seven into one.. add a decimal and two zeros.. ummm 3.. times 3 is nine.. subtract from ten.. leaves one.. and again with 3.. ok.. that's 33% !!!!!!!!!!!!! THIRTY-THREE PERCENT of the people who COULD be working ARE NOT!! Got that? 33%!!!!! So, Mr. Hope'n'Change, take your 8.1% and shove it up your nose!!

May 8, 2012
Texas Inmate gets 41% of WV Dem Prez Vote
                        (fill in your punch line here)                           .

May 7, 2012
Typically French, Encore Une Fois..
Good Lord! The ability of the French to be completely silly has, once again, proven itself. The Socialist Hollande will be President, and if he acts like a Socialist, France will go bankrupt. But silly or not, the cascade from Europe will ricochet into the US and China.

Black Someday soon? Qui peut dire?

May 6, 2012
Nunc Solum Meretrices Sed Dicunt Veritatem
Nowhere in the media, mainstream or cable, did anyone draw the conclusion that was so blaringly obvious, when Usama bin Ladin's private papers and recordings were made available. There was, from the very beginning, a very strong cooperation between al-Qaeda in Iraq and Taliban and Mujahideen in Afghanistan. It was there on 9-11.

This means that President Bush was absolutely correct, in invading and subduing Iraq, contrary to everything we've heard for nine years from Progressives and Peace Whiners. But why do we expect the truth from anybody, these days, except, of course, Colombian hookers?

No, Really?
Now, if I were really naughty, I would talk about the fact that Ex-Prez Bill speechified before the mostly-women's Columbia College graduation, and the ladies came away, breathless, according to WIS-TV.. but I won't..

May 5, 2012
Wait! Wait! Another Crazy Idea
What if.. the Moon is reaching the point where it can't hold the Earth as stably in orbit as before? We know it has to happen some time in the future. We also know there will be an interim period of adjustments as Earth loses its grip on that "silvery round beauty." But when?

Our sister planet could weigh less than we think, the Moon's core NOT being made of the denser material we think it is. Maybe the barycentric effect is other than we think. Is it possible that we have misunderstood Kepler's law of planetary motion? Or is there something very simple going on?

The math is relatively (sorry) simple. The Moon isn't flying away, and the Earth isn't tearing apart. Maybe, the two bodies are just far enough apart for the destabilization effect to be noticeable, say a few degrees difference in azimuth. Earth's immense gravity would keep us from noticing the slight difference in arbitrary movement, which would be gradual. The Moon would appear to rise at slightly different places on the horizon. Or, maybe it's just the effect of the Moon being closer to the Earth than it has been for quite a while..

Maybe this is why so many, many people are writing about the "odd place the Moon rose, tonight." They can't ALL be liars or crazy people, can they?

So, tonight, after your Cinco de Mayo tequila, salt-lick, water, and lime, saunter out on your deck or onto your yard and enjoy the fullest, closest, brightest Moon for a long while, along with the fireworks of the Aquariad meteor shower, which peak tonight (our Australian cousins always get a better show, but it's still worth seeing, no matter where it is, in the sky.)

Postscript: Where I camp out, in an area of the state known for its dryness, there has not been one meaningful meteorological event that has not been obscured by clouds, in the past three years. There is every chance that this will happen again, tonight. Last night was dry, and the sky was clear. Oh well..

May 4, 2012
Holey Sol!
Since Our Mr. Sun ignited some 4¾ billion years ago, its number of holes has increased. That's a best guess by our best astrophysicists. They've also guessed that the number of holes have only increased a little bit at a time, and that the biggest hole should come only at the end, when the sun bulges out and then explodes. Their best guess on WHEN that will happen is in about 5 billion more years. Of course, by then, our Milky Way Galaxy will have collided with the Andromeda Galaxy, and we could all be smashed to smithereens, in about a billion years.

Big holes in the Sun mean radiation, wild weather on Earth

Now, these electro-magnetic fields, especially those that have captured tiny particles of dust, have another name in weather forecasting. We call them "clouds." When there is a boatload of radiation from the Sun, you get more activity, cloud-wise. Or, at least that's the theory.

What's also possibly true is an idea becoming more widely and successfully tested - that the warmer and more humid it is, you get more rain, but the storms are not as intense. If things are drier and colder, the storms, though fewer in number, are more charged and far more dramatic.

Are we witnessing the onset of another ice age? Possibly. Possibly, not. What is certain is that as the Sun acts up, the more dramatic the weather is bound to be down here.

May 2, 2012
Liars and Jobs
Expect the Administration to fib about the job numbers. We are headed deeper into the recession we never actually left. Even the most conservative economists are admitting that the real unemployment numbers are around 10.8%. But if you count those who have STOPPED looking for work altogether, the actual unemployment is closer to 21%.

France - les Socialistes Imbeciles
We often spoke French at the dinner table as I was growing up, so it's no surprise that I watched, or perhaps I should say, "tried to watch", the French Presidential debate. First of all, the celebrated French Internet is awful. But the fact that it was practically inaccessible because of high volume, is so French. They don't CARE that their system is only big enough for their own people to use. The people in charge KNEW that the system was not scalable!

As to the actual Debate, what I got to see of it, Sarkozy acquitted himself well against the poorly prepared Hollande. That fact, by itself, should be enough to doom Sarkozy in the eyes of the Parisiennes. And the only question, now, to be answered is, will the people of the provinces vote? If they will, Sarkozy will have more time to heal the lunacies of bad Euro decisions past.

May 1, 2012
The Government Bubble: MAYDAY! MAYDAY!
The Hogs on Wall Street pushed out the pigs and dragged the imaginary "future success" of American Industry wet dream to the edge of the abyss. Using a false "leading" indicator for a reason, the computer programs and Government-funded obfuscation patrol ran up the Dow Jones Industrial Average on practically NO volume, whatsoever.

So what did the media people report? "THE DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE ROSE TO THE HIGHEST LEVEL IN FOUR YEARS!"

But for Κασσανδραs like me, who keep trying to get people to believe us, it was a wonderful day. Finally. Finally, the oxymoron which is our current economic policy has been stripped of all of its false honors and tributes. When the market goes up on the news of increase in wholesale production, WITHOUT a corresponding retail demand, basic economics dictates a major fall ahead.

We are at the point which, if we had a real recovery, heralds the beginning of job creation. Instead, the government has to change the counting rules in order for it to appear that they have succeeded in that task. They have to change the counting rules in order for it to appear that there is no inflation. They have to change the rules in order to hide that their immigration policy is a complete failure. And they have coopted the media in order to obfuscate the fact that real volume is NOT in the market and that we are more in debt than we have ever been, since the history of our republic began.

History and logic demand that when there is oppressive debt, combined with oppressive inflation and oppressive joblessness, the economic house of cards will fall. It's 2012, but we won't need the Earth's crust to shift, or a pulsar spraying the planet with X-rays, or a plague of Mad-Cow Disease. We will have become the Weimar Republic. And it was all done by bad government economic policy, of which, Obama and his friends are only the latest clowns to employ only to fail.

We are at that point. Call it a bubble of worthless currency supported by a blanket of lies. Call it a bubble of whatever you will, but unless this shadow puppet set of facts is replaced with real economic understanding, including acts of real relief, we will reap the whirlwind by December 2012. This is a bubble as big and as profound as the housing bubble, as big and as profound as the software bubble, as big and as profound as the banking bubble. Usama bin Ladin's assassination is the swatting of a fly compared to this utter and terrible government-caused bubble.