FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2015
4 — THE BAKER COUNTY PRESS
Opinion / Local
— Guest Opinion —
Jobs for ISIS
thinking is
Marxist
By Trevor Loudon
For many years now I have said the
State Department needs to be cleaned
out from top to bottom. And I’m not
alone in that opinion, either. The U.S.
Department of State has a long history
of working against the best interests of
the United States, consistently shilling
for all things socialist. Those who have
looked into tax-exempt foundations
like the Carnegie Endowment, Ford
Foundation, Rockefeller Consortium,
Guggenheim Fellowship, etc., and the
subsequent investigation by the Reece
Committee, might know what I’m talk-
ing about.
The first U.S. Secretary of Defense,
James Forrestal, once said, “Consisten-
cy has never been a mark of stupidity.
If the diplomats who have mishandled
our relations with Russia were merely
stupid, they would have occasionally
made a mistake in our favor.”
State Department Spokesperson Ma-
rie Harf recently told MSNBC’s Chris
Matthews ISIS could be stopped if we
could just create jobs for them.
At first blush, for those ignorant of
Marxist ideology, this sort of thinking
seems preposterous. Well, I am strong-
ly inclined to agree. But I digress.
For dyed-in-the-wool Marxists and
their fellow travelers (sympathizers),
it makes perfect sense. This is why I
believe it so important more Americans
gain a better understanding of Marx-
ism—since it is lauded and approved
of by so many American universities
and the liberal media, not to mention
those in positions of power within our
own government.
Karl Marx believed our view of his-
tory needed to be changed (cf. “hope
and change”). Cleon Skousen wrote in
his book The Naked Communist about
the central importance economics plays
in the Marxian religion.
Marx believed history should be
changed to “a fixed, undeviating,
pre-determined course of progress
which could be charted in the past and
predicted for the future on the basis of
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Accord-
ing to Marx
and his
votaries, if
we could
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only “level
Trevor
Loudon
is a
the playing
native
New
Zealander,
field” by
political activist, multi-
making ev-
published author and
eryone and
expert on American
everything
politics. He last visited
the same
Baker City in 2014.
(see “equal-
ity and
fairness”),
it would usher in a veritable utopia,
i.e., the long hoped for “workers’ para-
dise.” Interestingly, about 90 percent
of what Karl Marx wrote concerned
economics (see Das Kapital).
Well, let’s just get something
straight: ISIS doesn’t give a damn
about economics—quite the contrary.
Their motivations and actions are not
influenced by Marxism, per se, but
rather the teachings of Muhammad,
and a literal interpretation of the Koran
and the Hadith.
Although it should be noted that
Marxism and Islam have quite a bit in
a common.
Until our government pulls its pro-
verbial head out of its posterior region,
and begins to address the Islamic ideol-
ogy that fuels terrorist groups like ISIS,
we will forever be beating our collec-
tive heads against the wall wondering
why we are not getting anywhere,
while the enemy runs roughshod over
us and others.
If you cannot define the enem , you
cannot defeat the enemy. How many
times does it have to be said?
Harf went on to make the patently
absurd claim that “we cannot win this
war by killing them [ISIS] … we can-
not kill our way out of this war.”
So why are we killing them? The
whole purpose of war is to kill the
enemy until they’re either all dead or
they surrender unconditionally. Period.
You just can’t make this stuff up.
Of course this brings us to the all-
important question: just whose team
is the Obama Administration and the
State Department playing for?
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Blue skies grace
Sumpter poker run
and outhouse races
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The winning outhouse racers: John Czernik, Emi Takalo, and Katie Czernik.
By Meghan Andersch
Meghan@TheBakerCountyPress.com
The Sumpter Valley Blue
Mountain Snowmobile
Club promised to host its
annual Poker Run and Out-
house Races in Sumpter on
Saturday, February 14th,
with or without snow.
The event featured
sunshine, clear skies, and
enough white stuff to run
the outhouses on.
John Young, Vice Presi-
dent of the Snowmobile
Club said he was telling
people who complained
about the lack of snow,
“Hey, we have the best
snow in the state,” he said.
Despite the unusually
balmy weather, Sumpter
saw a good turnout of folks
eager to participate in the
event. 225 poker tickets
were purchased, with
participants moving from
check station to check
station to draw cards and
fill out their tickets. Seven
check stations were located
in town and two out on
the trails, for those who
wanted to try snowmobil-
ing.
Lynn Applegate said
husband Gary was at a
checkpoint on one of the
trails and was seeing a few
people. Check points in
town included the Gold
Post, the Stage Stop,
Sumpter Bed and Break-
fast, The Depot Inn, Soda
Mountain Pet Supplies,
Homestead Realty, and
Rustic Realty.
Michaelle Clarke, of
Homestead Realty, said
it had been kind of slow,
but she’d had groups of
up to fifteen people at a
time coming into her of-
fice. She said about half
of her out-of-town people
brought snowmobiles and
the other half brought
RZRs.
At start time for the
outhouse races, there was
only one team signed up.
However, in a show of
friendly competitive spirit,
several more signed up as
the event got underway,
with four teams ending up
competing. The Czernik
family won the race with
their Rasta Rocket.
The awards ceremony
later in the evening was
well attended. Snowmo-
bile Club President Neal
Bork was losing his voice,
so Young opened the
program, thanking all those
who donated time and ef-
fort to making the event a
success.
Lori-Jean Pruitt dis-
tributed awards of small
outhouse figures and cash
prizes to winners of the
outhouse races.
Nearly $3,000 was paid
out to the top poker hands.
The top three prizes went
to Carl Swinyer ($800),
James Moore ($500), and
Denise Nielson ($300).
Vickie Christensen then
emceed the raffle portion
of the event.
There were 6,246 raffle
tickets sold, with items
donated by numerous local
businesses and individuals,
and the Snowmobile Club
providing several addi-
tional cash prizes.
More information on
Snowmobile Club mem-
bership and events can
be found at https://www.
facebook.com/sumpters-
nowmobileclub or https://
sumptersnowmobileclub.
wordpress.com.
Annual candy sale
held in Huntington
By Eileen Driver
Eileen@TheBakerCountyPress.com
Huntington Historical
Society held their annual
Valentine’s candy sale on
Friday, February 13
at Howell’s Cafe from 10
a.m. to 3 p.m. The tables
were piled high with Val-
entine’s boxes of home-
made chocolate and white
chocolate fudge, heart
shapes chocolate swirl
candies, mini rice krispie
cupcakes and many more
assorted candies packaged
in holiday decorated clear
boxes all ready for giving
to your favorite Valentine.
For those not in the
mood for chocolate, boxes
of plump cinnamon rolls
were also available and
selling fast. Valentine
candy boxes where sold
in varieties either with or
without nuts for only $5
each.
According to Historical
Society President Alice
Burley, “This is our major
fundraiser of the year.
The money we make from
the candy sale helps pay
for the utilities for the year
at the museum.”
The Huntington Histor-
ical Society oversees and
Eileen Driver / The Baker County Press
Jean Kennick mans the candy table.
maintains the Huntington
Historical Museum located
at 395 1st Street in Hun-
tington and the outdoor
exhibit, featuring antique
farm equipment, located
on Washington Street next
door to the cafe. Examples
of what you can see inside
the museum are frequently
posted to the Huntington
Historical Societies face-
book page.
The Museum is open Sat-
urdays and Sundays from
1 to 4 or those who want
to see it any other time just
call any Historical Society
Member or City Hall and
they will be happy to have
it opened to tour.
They are currently still
selling raffle tickets for
their Pot ‘O Gold Drawing,
in which one can win
50, $1 coins, which will be
held on March 17 at noon.
Tickets are on sale and
available at any Hunting-
ton business, for 50 cents
a ticket. For those who
would like to contact the
Huntington Historical So-
ciety their mailing address
is PO Box 385 Huntington,
Oregon 97907.