Shuffling through the bargain bin of my local CD-Depot, I was delighted to pick a DVD copy of the movie, Red Dawn for only $5.99. I've not seen it since it came out in the 80's, and yeah, it's silly and simple-minded---what patriotic movie isn't? 

Watching Red Dawn felt wicked and subversive. That's because "Red Dawn" reminds us that the original patriots who won America's freedom were not Vietnam Chicken-Hawks or Fox NEWS commenators carrying the baggage for the Israeli Lobby.  Nor were they the children of wealth and privilege, or the pimps for the CEO classes. In Red Dawn, it's the American school kids who take the role of the "terrorists". These Freedom Fighters use roadside bombs and rocket propelled grenades against the modern tanks and attack helicopters of an invading army of foreigner occupiers. "Red Dawn" reminds us that the young men and women who won our freedom were the plain folk, poor farmers, artistians and laborers, working class kids in small towns and suburbs.

Red Dawn seems strangely relevant to today's besieged American Middle Class. Everyday Americans sit by watching the corrupt Latin American oligarchies ship the "people they don't need" to America to take their jobs, and overwhelm their neighborhoods, schools and hospitals. We watch the factories that our fathers and mothers worked in being dismantled and shipped to Communist China. Caught between Liberalism's war on their cultural heritage, Wall Street's drive to destroy it's economic security, and a war-mongering cultural minority inciting us to wars that have nothing to do with our national security, a lot of Americans are wondering what do they have to show for America's victory in the Cold War?

Everyday Americans have doubts about the wisdom of occupying a foreign nation to impose a economic and political system alien to it's culture and religion. Most Americans believe with all their hearts that American is a force for good, and doesn't invade other countries for the purpose of making their natural resources available for our own use. Nor does America defend foreign governments composed of alien invaders that oppress it's native inhabitants.

"Red Dawn" is a reminder to all Americans of who we really are. Rent it at Netflix or buy it at Amazon. It's an amazing movie.

Having lived in San Francisco for 5 years from 1993-1999 during the internet bubble, I'm well aware of the politics of that "Sodom by the Sea". San Francisco is perhaps the most Democrat of Democrat cities, meaning real estate is impossibly expensive, the local transportation system is a scandal, the public schools ought to be declared a disaster area, a huge economic divide between it's fabulously wealthy elite, and a desperately poor black underclass.  San Francisco has the distinction of being probably the worst place in America to raise some kids. Run by notorious "Da Mayor" Willie Brown, a guy so known for his corruption and lack of ethics, that only Washington DC's Marion Berry could possibly compare.

So excuse me that I'm not going to get excited about the history making ascension of Nancy Pelosi as the first WOMAN Speaker of the House.  If the feminists are going to put a women in the number 3 position to run the United States, you'd think they'd pick someone with some intelligence and a history of legislative skill to represent women in Congress.

Instead, they've put in Nancy Pelosi, whose got little credentials other then she is the daughter of a Democrat big-wig, and wife of fabulously wealth real estate developer with a reputation of carrying the baggage for the special interests. Read Journalist Doug Ireland's skinny on this modern reincarnation of Tammany Hall politico.

Doug Ireland's blog entry on Pelosi and Murtha gives us a glimpse of her ineffectiveness.

The latest report from the Congressional Budget Office is projecting a shrinking federal deficit, and a balanced budget by 2012. But even the CBO knows that it's report is in the tradition of Republican-style "Voo Doo Economics". 

There is only ONE way the government can balance the budget:  rescind the Bush tax cuts, and end the US military occupation of Iraq.

The media is engaged in a frenzy over the New York Times Study that the majority of women no longer live in a state of matrimony. 

Is that supposed to be good news?  Sorry, I'm not going to celebrate this either.

Businessweek Magazine just published a survery of the cities with the cheapest rents.   It should come of no surprise that all of the cheapest places to rent are in Red States that vote Republican in Presidential elections. 

Metro areas with the lowest rents are, in order of most affordable to most expensive: Oklahoma City; Birmingham, Ala.; Memphis; Indianapolis; Columbus, Ohio; Kansas City, Mo-Kan.; Cincinnati; San Antonio; Charlotte, NC; Salt Lake City, Nashville, Atlanta, Cleveland, St. Louis, Milwaukee; Dallas-Fort Worth; Jacksonville, Fla.; Houston; Detroit; Austin;; Texas.

Simply, where you have low cost housing, you've got more young people getting married, and more of those marriages taking place at a younger age, and more of those marriages longer then 10 years. You see more families with 3 or more children, and more concern about the quality of education, about rising taxes, more people who regularly attend church. In places where housing is expensive, you've got most marriages without children, more singles, more divorces. In couples that do manage to afford children, almost always have less then 3 children.  So it's not surprisingly to learn that there is more divorce, more emphasis on the culture of materialism and consumption, and less Church attendence per capita.

It was Steve Sailor whose studies identified the "Dirt Gap" as the fundamental root cause of the RED/BLUE division in America in his article in The American Conservative.  As the cost of rents and homes rises, there will be less Republican voters. 

Bad news for Republicans. Rents and housing costs are squeezing the middle class like never before! 

"This is not the fight we entered in Iraq, but it is the fight we're in,"  - President Bush, State of the Union Speech, January 23rd 2007

If the "Little Sheriff" had listened to anybody who knew anything about the military and political consequenses of his decision to go into Iraq, then we wouldn't be in this mess we are in.  Do we want to listen to the idiots who told us lies to incite us to war, and made disasterous decision after decision in the implementation of the war to continue to call the shots? It's as simple as that.

This man is not going to admit he messed up, he's an alcoholic, addictive personality---a spoiled rich kid who claims he's a "entrepreneur" while everyone knows the only businesses he's every run were based on his family's connections.  Cut his funding. Cut it now before he does more damage.