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Senator Craig is a creep. I guess the only gang signs white GOPers know these days are the ones that will get you plugged in a different way. Michael Vick has somehow tarnished the reputation of the NFL, which, I think, was a harder feat than it would be getting a man on Mars. So kudos Mr. Vick on making the drug abusers and gang members in your league look refreshingly normal. And of course there is the bear market that is waking up from its extended slumber. What would we be doing if we didn’t have these very important things to worry about?

Well, I am not one of those people who think the American public is just a ignorant mass of consumerism if that is what you wanted to hear. But the American public will consume what is the best stuff out there. And, unfortunately, liberals are responsible for an overwhelming majority of what is put on the air. This means that we have gotten a long line of ever more decreasing moral values in everything we watch and listen to.

The rationale for such depraved shows and music is that they are just responding to what the market is demanding. That is why we have barely legal pop stars parading around on stage in barely covering clothing. And that is why every show on TV must show sex as currency. But this is not what the American people want.

I could point out the increasing attendance of churches, which I just have, or I could point out High School Musical 2. I didn’t watch nor would I (I like Deadwood, Rome, and The Sopranos). What it does prove, however, is that when quality content is put on TV people will watch it in droves. I can come up with many other examples of shows that are moral and rake in the viewers but I would still contend that those shows are greatly outnumbered by the crude and the sensationalized content that comes into our homes everyday.

Please don’t misunderstand my meaning however. I think that television and music execs should have the freedom to produce whatever they want to. We all have the power of the remote control or, as the case may be, the click wheel.

My true meaning for writing this article is that there is a lot of money, I think substantially more actually, to be made in producing content that speaks to true American values like the family, honor, perseverance, religiosity, and the all encompassing Judeo-Christian morality. The reason you rarely see any of this is because the ones making the movies do not agree with you, their values are based in a Little Red Book and a Manifesto, not in the Bible.

In order for our side to win out in the culture war is for us to start producing more moral content and making money off these ventures so we can grow. This isn’t a battle we should fight in the courts or in the legislature but home to home. BigT

Leonardo DiCaprio is, according to Dr. Patrick Moore who co-founded Greenpeace, a scare monger. Yes, that’s right, not Bush or Cheney or Rove but little ol’ DiCaprio is trying to frighten the populace into doing something that would put the world at a greater disadvantage. I have said this before but is worth mentioning nonetheless; I am not against conservation or anything else that saves money and energy, I am against blindly making changes to the way we live our lives just so we can placate watermelons.

Dr. Moore wrote an article titled An Inconvenient Fact in The Vancouver Sun that goes on to explain to the reader that using trees is in fact a good thing. Unlike what my aunt and live-in uncle use to tell me when they came down from their hemp home in Oregon it is better to cut down old growth trees because we can just regrow them.

“Hog wash,” you say, “we can never get the old growth trees back and that is, well, just wrong!” Well, Melinda, old growth trees have taken in a lot of carbon already and take it in at an ever decreasing rate. Cutting them down and making them into a humidor, for example, won’t even release that carbon into the atmosphere for centuries. The new growth trees will take in a lot more carbon and would lead to us using less plastics, concrete, and other products that produces a lot of Carbon Dioxide.

Furthermore, actively managing forests by clearing out the underbrush and cutting down older trees will go a long way in preventing forest fires and the gigantic releases of Carbon Dioxide that would result from said forest fire. I’m not sure if I will be parting ways with the doctor here but that is as far as his piece went.

What needs to be done is that all the forests in America need to be sold to private interests. This way best practices will be found about how to best deal with growing and harvesting trees. We all need to let go of our silly attachment to the notion that forests need to be left alone. I do not think any logger would even consider clear cutting a whole forest nowadays if that logger actually owned the forest he was cutting down. It wouldn’t make since because just like farmers cycle crops loggers would have to find the best way to grow trees. The free market will solve every problem when it is allowed to work. BigT

I have just created an Email address for myself: bigt@conservativeinc.com for all of you to hassle me with. BigT