A Caribou for a Caliphate

Article contributed by
David Dvorak
(a.k.a. The Purple Elvis)

As I was filling up my tank yesterday at $2.35 a gallon, I found myself pondering Iran. I wondered how much of my $2.35 was going into the pocket of those fanatical Ayatollah’s; you know the one’s who say Israel should be wiped off the map; and that the Holocaust never happened; and that the United States, you and me, are the wellspring of all evil; yeah those same ones who are a couple months away from building a nuclear bomb. It seemed ironic to me that the money I was giving them for gas, might very well be headed back my or Israel’s way someday in the form of a warhead. Then I wondered, with 6 continents of relatively normal people, why in the hell are we pumping money into these Islamic states, which have declared us their enemy? Then I remembered this map:

You see that little region in the right hand corner of Alaska? That’s ANWR. Now take a look at the little green area in the larger map; this is the coastal plain which has unknown amount of oil-reserves. Finally look a little closer at the tiny red box. This is the proposed development area. That’s it. That’s what all the fuss is about. The conservationalists have deemed this land too precious to drill upon because of these caribou.

The insanity of this, when we are faced with real evil which challenges our very civilization, is just plain Orwellian. I would love for the West to have the option of saying to Iran, “not only aren’t we going to buy your oil till you dismantle your nuclear program, but we are taking immediate steps to block every single drop of oil coming out of your caliphate.” But we don’t have this option, in part because of the caribou. Yeah that’s a great trade, a caliphate for a caribou. -dd


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Who are you calling stupid?

"I've been all around the world and found
That only stupid people are breeding. "
-Harvey Danger, Flagpole Sitta

Based upon Mark Steyn's recent article in the Wall Street Journal, It's the Demography, Stupid,I have come to the conclusion that the above, which is one of my favorite lyrics, is false. We, that is the "West", are the stupid ones. Western civilization is in decline, and if you agree with Mark Steyn many, if not all, of the Western European countries will disappear by the end of our lifetimes. What then are we to do to reverse the tide?

A few suggestions:

• Open our homes and communities to the influx of immigrants and others who may at first seem different. No need to make this an us against them. Create opportunities for interaction. Demonstrate what liberty, freedom and equality mean in your life, not just in words, but actions.
  
• Have babies. Support policies that promote more babies. Contribute to the growth of other peoples babies.
  
• In pursuing the above, as well as in other areas of your public and private life, act out of love and benevolence. Find and build upon the good and the positive.
  

There is no guarantee that the result will be a preservation of Western culture as we have known it. However, this is by no means a defeat, only a change, one in which we should find comfort in the faith that what we leave behind will be better then it is today.

John T. Byrne