Absolutely! Despite the threat to my “conservative” credentials I would vote for Kinky Friedman as governor of Texas. But I would rather vote for him as President! I applaud those like Freidman who speak their minds, those who are not cowed by the bullying tactics of political correctness. We desperately need such people unafraid to speak out against the enemies of America, people unafraid to take the moral high road of expressing what they really believe.

Cliff May in his column today writes “President Bush said the United States is fighting ‘the decisive ideological struggle of the 21st century.’ OK, but remind me: What ideology are we fighting?”

To answer May’s question at the same time the Star Spangled Banner is getting some much needed attention, though I cringe at any self-aggrandizing “stylizing” of our anthem, here locally the recent “interview” of the Prussian Blue Gaede sisters and their mother together with the politically correct editorializing of it in the Californian does not commend anything approaching fairness. At the same time Mexicans march in the streets of America flying their flag demanding the legitimizing of the invasion of illegal aliens by a feat of illiterate oxymoronic legerdemain transformed into “immigrants” by the politically correct enemies of America, the Gaede sisters and their mother are vilified as “hate-mongers” for sticking up for Caucasians and the America of our Founding Fathers. But I believe they, like Kinky Friedman, are to be congratulated as Americans for sticking up for what they believe in. Despite the incongruity, my basis of evaluation is whether the persons are Americans first and foremost, and not “hyphenated,” before they are anything else regardless of religion, ethnicity, or politics.

For my part, no matter the fault that may be found with the twins and their mother the fact remains because of the enemies of America like the ACLU and La Raza to name two of the worst aided by a politically correct judiciary and media America is not just a divided nation now but a fractured nation, our very heritage and culture, our language and borders under constant attack. And Caucasians are attacked for not bowing and scraping before the “lords of political correctness.”

At the same time our troops are being emasculated from fighting a war to win, just as with our various police agencies here at home, literally gutting morale and aching for the support they need, here in America our enemies are given a free pass to vilify us, the universities and a politically correct media giving the haters of America a bully pulpit from which to spew their vitriolic venom.

But many real Americans are beginning to make their voices heard against this insanity. For example while our Federal Triune Dictatorship refuses to secure our borders for the sake of slave labor benefiting only the wealthy and extorting We the People to pay the bills through taxation without representation for this invasion by the enemy nation of Mexico, a friend in Indiana just sent me the following that would help Caesar Bush define what he means, if anything, by his use of the term “ideology:”

In 1970, the estimated population of Mexicans in this country was 7 million. By 2004, estimates had risen to between 50 to 60 million. Presently, Mexico's population is estimated to be about 100 million. Someone tell me what is happening here? In the name of God, why hasn't the brutality and viciousness of Mexico's ruling families been brought to account? How is it they get a human right's pass on the persecution of their own people? In God’s name, one of the world’s greatest human tragedies is happening south of our border resulting in sustained waves of human flight, one of the greatest human flights in recorded history. Mexico is far richer in natural resources than Canada, so what other explanation besides corruption and cruelty on an unbelievable scale explains this catastrophe? Fact is, I am now supporting military training and arming of Mexican freedom fighters to march south and retake their looted country. Take Mexico back for the mothers and fathers and sisters and brothers whose dignity, from whom even the bread from their mouths, has been stolen from them!

Many of you have heard of the student that was suspended for wearing a shirt with “Remember 9/11” on it. That should have been the rallying slogan of The Attack on America, but the refusal of Caesar Bush and Company to secure our borders for the sake of slave labor, the refusal to articulate the enemy of Islam not only has led to leaving We the People with no idea of what “ideology” Caesar is talking about, this is acerbated by the continued infighting and jockeying for power on the part of the conscienceless scoundrels in Congress that being without virtue have no ideology themselves but that of greed and avarice.

Perhaps circumstances like that of Fail-Safe will make the final decision about ideology. At my age, time flies whether you are having a good time or not. It seems the weeks and months now fly by and turn into years without any real perception of the time having passed. But there is no denying the “computer age” that has had such a profoundly marked influence on the passing of the years.

The hypocritical pretense of sincerity on the part of politicians is infamously proverbial, and has been around as long as there have been politicians. I recall reading many years ago in the old Saturday Evening Post of one such incident in which the politico was campaigning. He recognized a man in the crowd, and while vigorously shaking his hand asked him in an unctuous voice, “And how is your dear mother doing?” The man replied, “Oh, she’s still dead.”

However, at least in this case there were human beings involved irregardless the human frailties. What with the computer age this is becoming ever less the case, but despite the increasing reliance on computers I do not anticipate a computer generated Rembrandt, Washington, Emerson or Harper Lee.

Tim Russert’s interview some time ago with David McCullough having to do with David’s book 1776 was one of the best of such interviews I have watched. But the painful fact brought glaringly and painfully to the fore during the interview is something of which as a teacher of many years experience I am too well aware— the fact that Americans have become illiterate when it comes to our history as a nation.

There were several, large old pines on our mining claim. As a boy I was able to build a platform in the branches of one of these not far from our cabin. Thither I would resort to do my schoolwork on occasion, and in addition to the usual math, history, and English I would often take some books for pleasure like a National Geographic or a novel.

Sitting on the planks in the branches of the old tree, I would look out to the dun-colored, sere hills to the east, and moving my eyes north to north-westward to the majestic, forested and granite grandeur of the mountains I was master of all I surveyed from my aerie. What child could help but imagine all things were possible in such surroundings? But it took good books and good literature in conjunction with such grandeur of my surroundings to fire my imagination.

Long ago the teaching of American History in our universities and their product schools fell to the wayside; as has the teaching of great literature in our schools; and no amount of “computer literacy” will compensate for this monumental loss to our young people especially.

Computers were in their infancy many years ago when I read a Sci-Fi story in which a person got caught up in a relatively innocuous problem. But through having to deal with computers in attempts to resolve the problem, it escalated to his being condemned to death for a capital crime by the government though the fellow never was able to contact a living human being in the process. There would appear to have been a degree of prescience on the part of the writer of this story so many years ago.

Those interminable mindless, disembodied telephone menus that so frustrate any hope of talking to a real, live and breathing human being, those ongoing computer generated messages from the various disinterested, disembodied entities, beyond the aggravation of mechanical systems dedicated to taking our money whether dead or alive I fear our government agencies operate in much the same way. And like the film Fail-Safe when things become so complicated and complex relying on computers removing living, breathing, human beings from the system, when you have no one to hold personally accountable as with government throughout you have a system virtually destined to break down. And with so much nuclear saber rattling around the world this lack of personal accountability does not bode well for our survival.

It is good to put a human face on these systems, and to demand accountability. However, with those in government as with business motivated by greed and avarice, their lust for power, Emerson was tragically correct in pointing out the study of Shakespeare will not produce a Shakespeare, and the virtuous whether Socrates, Jesus, or Washington have left no “class” and each generation must find its own way. And I fear for this generation that has no leader of virtue to lead the way out, and is moreover forced to rely on computers, which if computers take over voting outsourced to Venezuela or India may well doom the real voice of We the People.