The Fairness Doctrine designed to silence thousands of conservative voices on the airwaves is not meant to create a “fair and balanced” message by streaming in the liberal viewpoint alongside the conservative one, but rather to drown it out completely. This action is not only meant for just broadcasting but for the whole conservative movement whether it is in a church, a classroom, on a street, at a Tea Party or in congressional hearings.

The liberals are hell bent on getting their message accepted as the right, normal, decent and even American way to think and process our way of life in the United States and around the world. We have enjoyed a period of relative freedom that has come with some persecution and venom since President Reagan vetoed the legislation in 1987. In the words of President Clinton on February 13, 2009 on the Mario Solis Marich radio show, “Well, you either ought to have the Fairness Doctrine or we ought to have more balance on the other side, because essentially there's always been a lot of big money to support the right wing talk shows. Freedom of the press and freedom of speech was meant for just the liberals.

We have been on a downward spiral for a long time but as of recent the liberal movements of gay marriage and abortion on demand have attempted to eradicate the need for morality and belief in God. Here are a few rules we now have to accept as “Bible Truth” on the way to fair and balanced views in America:

Rules of the Un-Fairness Doctrine:

1. Never speak out on questionable actions of any liberal President especially the “Anointed One” or his Cabinet members or the now democrat Senate majority or you will be put on a DHS watch list as a right wing extremist otherwise known to liberals as Bible thumping, gun-clinging and homophobic psychos just for starters.

2. No Tea Parties ever. President Obama just doesn’t acknowledge them. They don’t exist and are a figment of our crackpot conservative imagination. Only 5 people are allowed to protest in front of former (but greater) President Bush’s ranch in Cranston, TX and that is a protest worth reporting about from every media outlet all over the world.


3. Schools can wholeheartedly embrace and endorse every Democratic candidate in their government classes, but those scary Republicans are going to make us all go to church and take away all our fun. Teaching about sex in health education at the age of 10 is okay, because every child at that age is eager to know how to put their first condom on a banana and pick out their first gay lover. And it’s important to talk about the Hindu goddess of wealth and fortune Lakshmi and October holiday Diwali, the September Muslim holiday Eid along with Kwanzaa and Hanukkah in the month of December and completely leave out Christmas because it’s the only religion that conflicts with the separation of church and state. Talking about other gods and religions is okay; just don’t bring up Jesus in December and April.

4. All pastors of real Bible believing churches need to embrace homosexuality as a valid lifestyle and not offend them if they come walking through their doors with why they need to be straight as Jesus was.

5. Tax cheats in the Cabinet are okay, but everyone else must pay their taxes.

6. Everyone must spread the wealth but Michelle Obama; she is going to cling to her $500 haute couture sneakers she wore to the soup kitchen. Michelle apparently doesn’t know how to share, poor thing!

7. We must love and accept all terrorists into our country and give them free reign to become productive members of their terrorist cells.

8. Water boarding and all other torture is really cruel and doesn’t work on terrorists. It just works on 24 when Jack Bauer does it.

9. Hollywood celebrities are wise old sages and they really have worked their way up to the top. We should respect them and their facelifts.

10. Liberals never lie and are not in denial. Borrowing money from China is a good thing. Our children’s children to the 4th generation paying off our current debt will promote a healthy and vibrant economy.

11. The liberal media is not biased and therefore does not need to present conservative views on their broadcasts.


12. We must apologize to every country that we have offended in protecting our country’s freedom, prosperity and sovereignty. After all we have never tried to help any of them in any way whatsoever.

13. Illegal aliens should be welcomed without any consequences because they will do the jobs the Americans won’t do. They also won’t pay their taxes and get free health care and schooling just for putting their toe across the border.

14. President Obama is not arrogant, we are. And he didn’t bow to the Saudi king. What were we thinking?

15. Michelle Obama is the prettiest and most hip First lady ever! Ever!

While we have had years of discourse on the subject of torture as a means of obtaining information from reluctant spies, terrorists and other pond scum, Jack Bauer clearly answered the question last night, torture works. Had not the distraught President and the cynical senator been convinced that Jack would not be able to get exactly what he needed to know from the Senator’s staffer through violent treatment, the White House would have remained intact on last night’s episode of 24. The staffer was about to give crucial intelligence on the location of the attack when security blew down the doors where Bauer was interrogating him quite successfully with a stun gun. Last summer at the DNC, street theater by Jason Mattera demonstrated that there are people gullible enough to believe that detainees at Guantanamo have rights and deserve every convenience afforded to them be it cable TV or work out equipment . After some detainees were released from Guantanamo under the new Obama administration, at least one was accused of committing acts of subversion. Thanks President Obama for giving them the benefit of the doubt. What liberals don’t get is that terrorists are just that, terrorists. They have the bare minimum as far as rights are concerned. Getting a trip to Guantanamo is not some prestigious honor, it is a sign of certain suspicion. The truth is discovered not through talking by a candlelight dinner as our newbie president would like to think, but through rigorous torture and interrogation. That is the only way valuable information is ever obtained.

Ahmedinajad is a royal loser, but since he’s really not royalty, he’s just a loser.   He wants world control, to annihilate the Jews and the Christians and anything that gets in his way.  When Ayatollah Khomeini ousted the Shah of Iran, it was horrible.  But this is worse, and so unimaginable, that the United Nations has no idea what sort of madman they seem to praise within their walls.  I can’t believe now that I once wanted to be a translator for the UN.   Ahmedinajad along with Kim Jong- Il and Osama Bin Laden are more than capable of pushing the button to unleash a nuclear holocaust on the American people and our allies.  Heaven help us if Obama doesn’t see this and hopes  to sit down and talk with these crazed men.  What is rule one in any movie or law enforcement scenario when lives are at risk?  Do not negotiate with terrorists. Maybe Obama needs to catch up on some episodes of 24 in the White House theater and see how Jack Bauer deals with crazed men.

According to the United Nations Convention Against Torture, it is defined:

"any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity. It does not include pain or suffering arising only from, inherent in or incidental to lawful sanctions."^[2]

The Third Geneva Convention states:

(Article 17): "No physical or mental torture, nor any other form of coercion, may be inflicted on prisoners of war to secure from them information of any kind whatever. Prisoners of war who refuse to answer may not be threatened, insulted or exposed to unpleasant or disadvantageous treatment of any kind."

And how does the anti-torture group expect prisoners to give the interrogators vital information if they aren’t “coerced”?   Will a warm bath and 700 count sheets on a bed with a five course halal meal do the trick?  It is only when we think that our lives are in danger or when we are in excruciating pain that we will do just about anything to spare ourselves.  Torture is torture whether the law forbids it or not, defines it or not. These acts could be named anything else other than torture but these are proven interrogation techniques that work.

  And we have to use torture on the few so that millions of US citizens can live free from torture.  I have not heard of a POW being completely innocent and wrongfully tortured.  If a POW is captured, they tend to carry information helpful to the other side.  And if I am in error, let me know.

 

 

I try not to laugh at the demise of others, but in this I must relish the manner in which Hillary Rodham Clinton has taken sore loser to a new low.  Yes it’s been a few weeks now since the reluctant concession but since she clung on for dear life for so long, I think it’s only fitting to take my sweet time in picking her apart piece by piece.

Her campaign discredited by tall tales of pregnant women turned away from hospitals while the baby died for lack of insurance were examples of scant information run amuck with liberal rant.  Didn’t she think that there were going to be fact checkers or did she think that her supporters had lobotomies before attending rallies?  Like they wouldn’t care since they were so enamored of her?  Americans had enough of the Clintons in the 1990’s why would they want seconds? Could we have called Bill Clinton “First Gentleman”?

She claims that she was a victim of feminism in her campaign.  Gloria Steinem and the like tried to explain that America wasn’t ready for a woman president.  But were they really ready for a Black man either?  If they were willing to endorse a Black man for president, then why not a white woman?  Surely in the American eye, a black man is the equivalent of a white woman when it comes to minority status and power?

Her flip flop views on the war must have been nurtured by John Kerry, while she was creating her platform based on the living Constitution blown back and forth by the winds of change, not the original meaning penned by our forefathers.

Her staff changed as quickly as her campaign stories did, and while she inflicted horror on them they in turn also continued the vicious cycle.  Toxic woman, toxic staff, toxic stories and toxic platform, why do we want her at the White House? We don’t want her and told her so, and it took her a long time to accept the answer.

In a moment of brief compassion though, I feel sorry for her family, her friends and her staff.  I feel sorry for her that she cannot get over herself or the fact that the world does not revolve around her.  God have mercy on her. 

 

 

 

 

No sooner did I post President Bush's support along with Senator McCain denouncing water boarding as torture did he turn right around and agree that water boarding was a necessary tool to win the war on terror.  Does your neck hurt as much as mine?  I wore a neck brace for almost a month.  I am assuming this change of heart was brought on by pressure from key people.  Or maybe he realized that he didn't want to appear as the weak-willed diplomat that sings to the tune of Live Aid or American Idol Gives Back.  No I hope not. 

 Winning in Iraq is a humanitarian effort equal to helping AIDS patients in Africa or Hurricane Katrina victims. It is reshaping the lives of the Iraqi people and setting up a democracy. It does require sacrifice and it is one that our troops have willingly accepted. It is preserving our way of life in America.

We support a fighting machine called the U.S. military.  Our intelligence community will use water boarding as deemed necessary and does not need to adhere to the U.S. Army Handbook on Interrogation techniques.  The Clandestine Service will and should use every method to smoke out the enemy.

I hope that our rough around the edges, not well spoken President continues to send a hard cold message to the world that we will not cower to threats or attacks made on the American people here or abroad.  We will win!

 

There has been much discussion on the difference between coercive interrogation and torture. President Bush recently retracted his original view on water boarding and, “accepted Sen. John McCain’s call for a law banning cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment of foreign suspects in the war on terror.”  Associated Press (MSNBC)

Attorney General Michael Mukasey stated that water boarding could be regarded as torture if it were done to him.

“For everyone out there who has to have a definition, there it is," proclaimed [Stephen]Colbert. "Waterboarding is torture when it's done to Michael Mukasey. When it's done to everyone else, it is irresponsible to provide an answer." Mike Aivaz and Muriel Kane, Rawstory.com

Where do we find our definition of torture? Human rights groups would advocate that, “mildly coercive "stress" interrogation methods are clearly illegal and indistinguishable from torture.”  National Journal

Or shall we be emotionally swayed by the clear message given by the TV show “Law and Order SVU”? In the episode “Harm,” a white American woman was helping at a refugee center where she met a woman whose husband Abbas, was detained in Iraq and tortured (by Americans). He then fled to the U.S. (the country from where his interrogators came).  He was tortured again in the U.S. which led to a heart attack and subsequent death.  SVU detectives questioned the physician overseeing the torture and then she was brought to trial for negligent homicide. Toward the end of the episode they show “victims” of torture telling of their experiences. Would the U.S. military take prisoners without just cause or suspicion? 

Did we not lose some of the most beautiful buildings in New York City on September 11^th along with thousands of lives that day? It turned out that this man Abbas who was tortured and died was the brother of a well known terrorist.   Pass the Kleenex please. Oh my, these people are being tortured. We should stop such senseless acts and let these people come to bomb and destroy our way of life.

We are fighting the war on terror, not trying to preserve our oil rights in the Middle East as the unhappy Americans known as liberals would like to think. It is obvious that September 11^th proved to the world that we have enemies that would rejoice in the annihilation of the American people. Why wouldn’t we use every method available to extract information from these crazed men?

"Despite his rhetoric, Clinton made no changes in policy to prevent additional attacks, Johnson said.

Shantilal Nanji Satyabhashak was born in Baroda, India on February 19, 1931.  He was the son of an Indian Methodist pastor and one of nine children from two marriages.  His parents succumbed to sickness and died in the same month when he was six years old.  He was mostly raised by his brother Joseph and eventually went to live in hostels for schooling.  He told us stories of how he only had 2 outfits and 2 pairs of underpants that he had to wash frequently.  He laughed heartily as he spoke of some of his childhood memories. 

 

Eventually the time came for him to be married and an arrangement was made between the Satyabhashak and Canara families for Kathleen Canara to become his wife.  They married on May 15, 1958.  During the first few years of marriage, Shantu was the postmaster in Radhanpur and later Maninagar, India. He also completed a Bachelor’s degree in Economics at Maninagar College.  While my mother attended my grandfather's church on Sundays, you could find him playing cricket.  Perhaps that's why he fell in love with American baseball.  In 1962, their first child arrived.

 

In 1963 he left India and came to the United States on a student visa to pursue his master's degree.   He first arrived in Bangor, Maine to attend Husson College.  He was teased by his classmates for coming to a cold weather climate.  I guess Florida didn't have the program he was looking for.  From Maine he went to Fairleigh Dickenson University where he completed his M.B.A.

 

His wife and young daughter came to the states in 1967. They resided for a couple of years in Hoboken, New Jersey and then moved to Spanish Harlem six months after I was born. My brother came a year later.  He would spend all his time living there until 1999.

 

During our school years I remember frequent trips to Coney Island, the Bronx Zoo and Bear Mountain.  We would often drive up to Albany, New York and Burlington, VT to visit my sister at college.

 

Food was one of the ways I knew my Dad loved his kids.  In the morning he would cook us eggs, cream of wheat or oatmeal.  He would leave us snacks after school if he knew he wasn't going to be there.  Evenings we always had Indian food, and Tuesdays, American meatloaf. Even in his hospital stays over the last few years, he'd offer me his food making sure I had something to eat. 

 

 On special occasions we would either go out to eat in Chinatown or he would cook his delicious biryani.  My friends loved his biryani so much they learned to cook it.  He and my mother would spend hours making Indian sweets at Christmas and other holidays.  Kind of hard to make sweets as a diabetic, but I'm glad he did.  They’re now some of my treasured memories.  I also loved his keema and chicken curry in which he would throw some grated coconut on occasion. But I never got any real recipes from him.  It was always watching him cook and him telling me “use a little of this or a little of that.”  When visiting a local Afghani restaurant a year ago, I tasted their chole (chick peas) and remarked to my husband that they must have gotten the recipe from him. 

 

 He was openly passionate about his faith in God.  He found God in America.  It happened in a very Samuel-like experience.  In the Bible, Samuel was hearing someone call his name at night. Thinking it was Elkanah he went to him and Elkanah said it was not him but that instead that he should say, "Yes Lord."  I remember the countless hours we spent listening to my Dad preach at churches in Harlem, or the Haitian church in Brooklyn.  I can still hear the Creole translations in my mind. 

 

He had great plans and aspirations for his children and for himself.  He started working at Standard and Poor’s after he received his M.B.A.  He then worked for General Development in the 1980’s and became a real estate broker for commercial and private property in New York.  He became a citizen in 1982, another stepping stone in achieving his American dream.  He was a broker until his health started to fail in 1999.

 

My Dad tried to steer me toward computer programming.  After I received my B.A. in French and had been teaching for a while he recommended news broadcasting to me. My Dad knew that not only did I have an analytical side but a people side.  He used to call me his “Public Relations” person because of the hours I spent on the phone or with my best friend Lilly next door. 

 

He moved down to Virginia with my mother in 2000 so that it would be easier for us to take care of him.  And every day in Virginia he never let us forget that he had to get back to his promised land, New York City.  He also got to experience the joy of having two granddaughters and see his grown children settled in their lives and careers.  He also helped sponsor his two brothers and their families to come to the United States.

 

My Dad came to America worked, raised a family and made a life miles away from India.  He achieved his American dream.  Well done Daddy and Happy Birthday