There's a part of me that feels somewhat guilty for returning to the blogosphere with a rant of such obvious and overexposed nature. Pat downs have been talked, written and debated to a numbing degree. But what interests me is not the sudden affection of the TSA and the media storm that has followed (and fueled) it. Rather, I haven't found anyone who raises two points.
1) The pat down assumes we are all guilty
When political correctness meets power, you get the TSA screening. Everyone is considered a potential threat, everyone is a potential terrorist: old, young, children, nuns, war veterans- we are all equally guilty. In biblical terms, it's an original sin on all mankind. In PC terms, it's a the belief that everyone is capable of hijacking a plane or smuggling a bomb onboard.
In college I was the only student in a feminist phlosophy class. I thought that as a philosophy major it would open my perspective to new theories and ideas. Instead, what I found was an angry aged lesbian manhater who taught that all men are potential rapists. Patricia Schroder would have fallen in love.
In that same vein, the Obama administration thinks all Americans are potential terrorists. History is not needed. Perspective is not wanted. Reagan once said that the solutions to our problems are not complex; they are just hard. The solution to the terrorist problem and the TSA screening process is not complex. It just needs a real leader to implement it because it is hard.
2) The pat down is a consequence of the Obama Administration's policy towards the middle east
The Obama administration has consistently dealt with terrorism as a crime. The recent unsuccessful civilian trial of Ahmed Ghailani is only the latest in a series of appeasements and misunderestimations of who and what militant islam is. When Obama announced the Freedom of the Press Act in 2009 in honor of the peaceful religion's beheading victim, he spoke of "the loss of Daniel Pearl". The loss- a magnificent use of the passive voice. Only, Daniel Pearl wasn't lost... he didn't die of cancer. He was murdered.
I thought of Mrs. Pearl who heard the President utter those words and wondered what she thought.
This is the attitude of the Obama administration since day 1. When terrorism became "man made disasters" and war on terror became "overseas contingency operations". When islam was credited with the arch and math. When the ground zero mosque is defended and Kahlid Sheikh mohammad is tried in NYC (maybe he will be found guilty of a crime other than conspiracy...)
And how has islam responded? With underwear bombers and Times Square attempts. With renewed efforts to detroy us. With Germany and England under highest security alerts in recent years. Where is the peace? Where is the understanding? Wasn't Obama supposed to wave his hand, lower the seas and restore the world order?
No- islam is in anti-American overdrive. So TSA is tapping everyone's crotch because everyone is guilty and islam hasn't backed down. Despite Obama's embarrassing behavior and nonsensical policies
When I go home on Thursday and get my pat down at Reagan Airport... I'll remember how the place's namesake dealt with evil: we win, they lose.
If only the current President could learn that lesson.
Monday, November 22, 2010
Monday, October 18, 2010
The Islam Problem
I don't watch The View.
I have a job.
But I guess the other day on The View, Bill O'Reilly caused Whoopi and Joy to walk off the set because of his comments on the Ground Zero mosque and the fact that islam killed 3000 Americans on 9/11.
Truth can be a very divisive thing.
I was watching the news last week as 10 European Airports raised their threat level due to credible evidence that members of a certain religious persuasion were planning attacks. Rome remembers those attacks well and many died at Fiumicino Airport in 1986 when a certain faith no different than any other faith launched an attack on tourists.
While these airports were going to defcon 5... Geert Wilders stood trial for "hate speech" in Holland. See- his words made people sad. Like Whoopi and Joy. And that's not allowed in Holland.
Fort Hood bomber Major Hassan is also on trial for his crimes. I wrote about that crime here and here. He and underwear bomber Umar Faruk Abdulmutallab, who also stands trial for his attempt to bring down a plane, are more recent examples of people not at war with us because of religion.
(And I use the word "crime" above facetiously. Only the left think terrorism is a crime.)
I'm forgetting the Times Square bomber who luckily knew more about cologne and gold chains than wiring and fertilizer. Religion was not a factor in his efforts, either.
I'm waiting for this anti-muslim backlash in America. One would think it would have happened right after 9/11. Or after the first world trade center bombing. Or after the dozens of muslim terrorist attacks on Americans here and abroad. It just hasn't happened. America is not anti-muslim. America is not anti-anything.
But America's equality has translated into fairness. And fairness has become relativism. Relativism is dangerous. It is relative to think "any" religion can do what islam is doing to the world. They point to that pastor in Florida who wants to burn the koran as an example of radical Christianity. How that compares to beheading people on the internet, I do not understand.
Guess it's all relative.
The islam problem is real and pervasive. And the problem is not America's treatment of islam or muslim people, but their behavior in the west. Where are the moderate muslim leaders? Where are the moderate muslim people and communities? There is nothing moderate about demanding to build a mosque in a sensitive area. There is nothing moderate about their silence in the face of persistent, frequent attacks around the world and in our country.
The tap dance around political speech and sensitivity has made America very divisive. While Europe goes into protection mode, America's leftist government continues its ostrich positioning.
And that's a problem.
I have a job.
But I guess the other day on The View, Bill O'Reilly caused Whoopi and Joy to walk off the set because of his comments on the Ground Zero mosque and the fact that islam killed 3000 Americans on 9/11.
Truth can be a very divisive thing.
I was watching the news last week as 10 European Airports raised their threat level due to credible evidence that members of a certain religious persuasion were planning attacks. Rome remembers those attacks well and many died at Fiumicino Airport in 1986 when a certain faith no different than any other faith launched an attack on tourists.
While these airports were going to defcon 5... Geert Wilders stood trial for "hate speech" in Holland. See- his words made people sad. Like Whoopi and Joy. And that's not allowed in Holland.
Fort Hood bomber Major Hassan is also on trial for his crimes. I wrote about that crime here and here. He and underwear bomber Umar Faruk Abdulmutallab, who also stands trial for his attempt to bring down a plane, are more recent examples of people not at war with us because of religion.
(And I use the word "crime" above facetiously. Only the left think terrorism is a crime.)
I'm forgetting the Times Square bomber who luckily knew more about cologne and gold chains than wiring and fertilizer. Religion was not a factor in his efforts, either.
I'm waiting for this anti-muslim backlash in America. One would think it would have happened right after 9/11. Or after the first world trade center bombing. Or after the dozens of muslim terrorist attacks on Americans here and abroad. It just hasn't happened. America is not anti-muslim. America is not anti-anything.
But America's equality has translated into fairness. And fairness has become relativism. Relativism is dangerous. It is relative to think "any" religion can do what islam is doing to the world. They point to that pastor in Florida who wants to burn the koran as an example of radical Christianity. How that compares to beheading people on the internet, I do not understand.
Guess it's all relative.
The islam problem is real and pervasive. And the problem is not America's treatment of islam or muslim people, but their behavior in the west. Where are the moderate muslim leaders? Where are the moderate muslim people and communities? There is nothing moderate about demanding to build a mosque in a sensitive area. There is nothing moderate about their silence in the face of persistent, frequent attacks around the world and in our country.
The tap dance around political speech and sensitivity has made America very divisive. While Europe goes into protection mode, America's leftist government continues its ostrich positioning.
And that's a problem.
Monday, September 13, 2010
Trent Lott and the Party Crashers: an open letter
Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott made an unnecessarily obnoxious comment over the summer.
"We don’t need a lot of Jim DeMint disciples. As soon as they get here, we need to co-opt them", he told the Washington Post.
Former Senator turned power broker lobbyist... what we don't need is a lot more of you and your lack of ideas. Shut up.
You held the leadership for critical years: years when we held the White House, the House and the Senate and we could have, should have, implemented a strategy to destroy the American leftists. We could have privatized much of government. We could have slashed spending; we could have reduced the size of the federal government by 20-30%; we could have reformed the tax code, social security, healthcare. We could have imploded the Department of Education, the EPA, the NEA. We could have given people back 20% of their hard-earned money, taken burdens off of small business, harnessed our own oil and shale and coal production.
We could have done that with a lot of Jim DeMint disciples. Instead, man who sucked at the teet of Government for 35 years, what did we get? What did we get??
Barack Obama.
Bill Clinton.
How did these candidates emerge? Their ideas are proven fallacies, their beliefs are categorically opposed to the American dreams. But they were seen as an alternative to failed leadership. They filled a vacuum of ideas.
You are that vacuum of ideas. Republicans worked so hard to protect their majorities with the likes of you and Arlen Specter and Olympia Snow that they did nothing with their majorities. Actually- not true. They did a great job at damaging the Republican party.
It took Barack Obama's socialist overreach to bring us back into the spotlight. Now we have the chance to present our ideas to the American people, not just as a counter to Barack Obama's recycled Carter Stagflation, but as a truth. Only dedicated and true-blooded Republicans will present these ideas boldly and without compromise.
Like a Senate full of Jim DeMints.
Tomorrow Mike Castle can win the Delaware primary. He's the GOP favorite. And I bet he's your choice, too. Only problem is that he's not a Republican. Well, maybe your kind of Republican. Christine O'Donnell is winning in the polls and the GOP is trying hard to destroy her because she's a Jim DeMint Republican.
And Lisa Murkowski in Alaska is thinking of running as an Independent. Like Charlie Crist. Two more loser Republicans that the voters were smart enough to reject but who are fighting hard to stay alive. For the party? Ha! Yeah. For the party. Same reason you Trent made those unneeded comments about us "Jim DeMint" Republicans.
Don't forget Reagan's 11th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Talk Ill About Another Republican. That includes you, Senator. Sorry we aren't welcomed in your big tent, Trent. But your days are over. You had your year... your 35 years. Now it's our time.
Long live the Conservative Movement. To Marco and Joe and Christine: Godspeed.
"We don’t need a lot of Jim DeMint disciples. As soon as they get here, we need to co-opt them", he told the Washington Post.
Former Senator turned power broker lobbyist... what we don't need is a lot more of you and your lack of ideas. Shut up.
You held the leadership for critical years: years when we held the White House, the House and the Senate and we could have, should have, implemented a strategy to destroy the American leftists. We could have privatized much of government. We could have slashed spending; we could have reduced the size of the federal government by 20-30%; we could have reformed the tax code, social security, healthcare. We could have imploded the Department of Education, the EPA, the NEA. We could have given people back 20% of their hard-earned money, taken burdens off of small business, harnessed our own oil and shale and coal production.
We could have done that with a lot of Jim DeMint disciples. Instead, man who sucked at the teet of Government for 35 years, what did we get? What did we get??
Barack Obama.
Bill Clinton.
How did these candidates emerge? Their ideas are proven fallacies, their beliefs are categorically opposed to the American dreams. But they were seen as an alternative to failed leadership. They filled a vacuum of ideas.
You are that vacuum of ideas. Republicans worked so hard to protect their majorities with the likes of you and Arlen Specter and Olympia Snow that they did nothing with their majorities. Actually- not true. They did a great job at damaging the Republican party.
It took Barack Obama's socialist overreach to bring us back into the spotlight. Now we have the chance to present our ideas to the American people, not just as a counter to Barack Obama's recycled Carter Stagflation, but as a truth. Only dedicated and true-blooded Republicans will present these ideas boldly and without compromise.
Like a Senate full of Jim DeMints.
Tomorrow Mike Castle can win the Delaware primary. He's the GOP favorite. And I bet he's your choice, too. Only problem is that he's not a Republican. Well, maybe your kind of Republican. Christine O'Donnell is winning in the polls and the GOP is trying hard to destroy her because she's a Jim DeMint Republican.
And Lisa Murkowski in Alaska is thinking of running as an Independent. Like Charlie Crist. Two more loser Republicans that the voters were smart enough to reject but who are fighting hard to stay alive. For the party? Ha! Yeah. For the party. Same reason you Trent made those unneeded comments about us "Jim DeMint" Republicans.
Don't forget Reagan's 11th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Talk Ill About Another Republican. That includes you, Senator. Sorry we aren't welcomed in your big tent, Trent. But your days are over. You had your year... your 35 years. Now it's our time.
Long live the Conservative Movement. To Marco and Joe and Christine: Godspeed.
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Overkill
There's been a lot of talk recently- so I haven't done a lot of writing. We are in overkill.
Ever catch someone by surprise- maybe doing something they shouldn't be doing? Often the respond with words... lots and lots of words. They try to talk their way into control. They try to talk their way into logic.
And it's not possible. What you do is just talk your way into a bigger hole.
Barack Obama hasn't learned that lesson. He thinks his golden tongue (well, his teleprompter and recycled scripts) will be the serpent raised in the desert. The more he talks, it seems the worse it gets. Remember the Cambridge Police who acted "stupidly" accordin to the President? Having admitted ... though he didn't have all the facts, the orator in chief was sure his words would put to rest any need for further discussion about the issue. And rather than placate or alleviate all POTUS did was make it worse.
And so the Ground Zero victory tower...er...mosque. He would not comment on the mosque. It was a local issue. For weeks he skirted the issue until the iftar celebration at the White House when, before the right audience (of his choosing...) he comes out in favor of the mosque... though not the wisdom of the mosque... but it was a local issue... what??
I'm against the mosque because it doesn't have to be THERE. It could be anywhere else- it could be moved. And that is what we do in a tolerant society. We accommodate.
We don't put our nativity scenes out less it "offend" other religions.
We don't allow crosses to be used in monuments less it "offend" other religions.
And we don't put mosques where islam killed 3000 people less is "offend" other religions.
But this has all been said and re-said and said again. And we try to talk ourselves into logic: the Constitution guarantees the rights of religious freedom. Congress shall make no law against it. It seems logical.
But this isn't Congress. And this isn't prohibting anyone's religious freedom. It's protecting a pluarlistic society where religious sentiments need to coexist. So why wouldn't the Christmas tree scrooges be more sympathetic to those who want the mosque moved.
They try to talk themselves into logic. And instead they make the reasoning more difficult and the understanding more muddled.
As for koran burning... just as insensitive as the mosque. Funny how it stings both ways.
Ever catch someone by surprise- maybe doing something they shouldn't be doing? Often the respond with words... lots and lots of words. They try to talk their way into control. They try to talk their way into logic.
And it's not possible. What you do is just talk your way into a bigger hole.
Barack Obama hasn't learned that lesson. He thinks his golden tongue (well, his teleprompter and recycled scripts) will be the serpent raised in the desert. The more he talks, it seems the worse it gets. Remember the Cambridge Police who acted "stupidly" accordin to the President? Having admitted ... though he didn't have all the facts, the orator in chief was sure his words would put to rest any need for further discussion about the issue. And rather than placate or alleviate all POTUS did was make it worse.
And so the Ground Zero victory tower...er...mosque. He would not comment on the mosque. It was a local issue. For weeks he skirted the issue until the iftar celebration at the White House when, before the right audience (of his choosing...) he comes out in favor of the mosque... though not the wisdom of the mosque... but it was a local issue... what??
I'm against the mosque because it doesn't have to be THERE. It could be anywhere else- it could be moved. And that is what we do in a tolerant society. We accommodate.
We don't put our nativity scenes out less it "offend" other religions.
We don't allow crosses to be used in monuments less it "offend" other religions.
And we don't put mosques where islam killed 3000 people less is "offend" other religions.
But this has all been said and re-said and said again. And we try to talk ourselves into logic: the Constitution guarantees the rights of religious freedom. Congress shall make no law against it. It seems logical.
But this isn't Congress. And this isn't prohibting anyone's religious freedom. It's protecting a pluarlistic society where religious sentiments need to coexist. So why wouldn't the Christmas tree scrooges be more sympathetic to those who want the mosque moved.
They try to talk themselves into logic. And instead they make the reasoning more difficult and the understanding more muddled.
As for koran burning... just as insensitive as the mosque. Funny how it stings both ways.
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Qu'ils mangent de la brioche
Charlie Rangel, Chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, writes the tax law that rule our land. Yet this leader did not pay his own taxes on NYC apartments and villas.
Neither did Timothy Geithner pay his taxes on time or in full. He now heads the IRS.
Several other administration officials pay their taxes- men and women who reign over the bureaucracies that rule our lives were not subject to the same laws as the ordinary folk.
Us.
Recently John Kerry tried to dock his $7 million toy in Rhode Island to avoid tens of thousands of dollars in taxes. These would be the same taxes that he we have to pay, but that he and Tim and Charlie et al want to avoid. Did avoid.
John Kerry also served in Vietnam, in case you forgot.
Then there are the hypocrites.
Al Gore. Al Gore has made a fortune- literally a fortune- dictating how we should live, how much gas and paper we should use, how big our "carbon footprint" should be. I'm assuming it should be smaller than his new $10million mansion in Malibu...
John "two-Americas" Edwards. Here is a man who made himself immensely rich by duping individuals into suing major corporations because of their own individual negligence and stupidity. Mr. Edwards owns the largest house in North Carolina yet decries the plight of the poor and wants government to bring about equitable redistributive process. Maybe we should all sue to government.
Bill and Hillary threw a multi-million dollar wedding for former first daughter Chelsea. I wish Chelsea and her husband Mark the best yet marvel that two parents who are civil servants have made so much money.
Barack Obama- spread the wealth around "there comes a time when you've made enough money" loves to vacation in $40k a week beach compounds and exclusive resorts around the nation (except the gulf coast). Barack talked a nice campaign about us not being able to drive the cars we want and keep the thermostat where we want... notice he said nothing about vacationing where we want...
And finally Michelle and her voyage to Spain where rooms cost $2500 per night according to news sources. A fun trip with 40 of her closest friends (plus about 100 secret service agents).
And all this has happened in the midst of a terrible, government made recession. This frivolity, the opulence, this esprit de versailles while Americans close business, stand in lines for food stamps and struggle. The image, the callous image sent by all of the aforementioned but most especially the first lady and the President is one of total disconnect, indifference and pure disgust for the average Americans.
Remember the arugula comments during the campaign. Remember the Hyde Park, the Harvard Yard, the Upper West Side. The Obamas hate flyover country. They despise Americans who cling bitterly to their guns and religion. They look with disdain on Joe the plumbers. "How much do they make!" Barack once snidely joked. Sure, the Obamas play the part. But when you wear $400 sneakers to ladle out food in a soup kitchen, you are telling people who you really are. Your are Sidwell Friends. You are Martha's Vineyard. You are elite.
You are the type of person the shut down traffic and airspace for hours spending hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars to go see an August Wilson play.
And call it a "date night".
In the late 18th century, in her clueless and frivolous world, Marie Antoinette commissioned the "hameau de la reine" at enormous expense to the french treasury. There in her hamlet of rolling pastures, ponds, wildflowers, mills and barns, she donned a simple dress and played the part of a peasant. It was her retreat, her escape from the world where she could pretend she was a regular person. But she didn't clean the stalls, she didn't empty the bed pans, didn't shovel horse manure or skim the scum off the pond... she didn't do any real work. She produced nothing. She neither sewed nor reaped nor harvested. She didn't plant or till or fertilize or irrigate. She didn't sweat or blister.
She just pretended.
And the public- mired in poverty and depression hated her for pretending to be like them. Because their toil was real. Their sweat smelled bad and their blisters hurt. And their bellies ached and they longed for liberation. And this monster of a queen spent fortunes- more fortunes then their entire villages could amasse- to pretend.
Go to the Gulf Shore said Obama. Yet he vacationed in Maine. It's all just pretend.
Charlie, Tim, Bill & Hillary, Kerry, Edwards, Barack and Michelle all pretend. They pretend to be public servants, they pretend to be regular Americans. But they are the extreme powerful leaders that typify a corrupt democrat party. The are the oppressors of the very people they claim to champion.
Who can tell them apart from the court of Versailles or the guests at the Winter Palace? Are they us, or are they something other than us? Did we not chose them to represent us yet... who have they become? They demand we pay taxes and live soberly, conscientiously, efficiently while they live in realities of couture and private jets, often times at our expense.
"Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."
Neither did Timothy Geithner pay his taxes on time or in full. He now heads the IRS.
Several other administration officials pay their taxes- men and women who reign over the bureaucracies that rule our lives were not subject to the same laws as the ordinary folk.
Us.
Recently John Kerry tried to dock his $7 million toy in Rhode Island to avoid tens of thousands of dollars in taxes. These would be the same taxes that he we have to pay, but that he and Tim and Charlie et al want to avoid. Did avoid.
John Kerry also served in Vietnam, in case you forgot.
Then there are the hypocrites.
Al Gore. Al Gore has made a fortune- literally a fortune- dictating how we should live, how much gas and paper we should use, how big our "carbon footprint" should be. I'm assuming it should be smaller than his new $10million mansion in Malibu...
John "two-Americas" Edwards. Here is a man who made himself immensely rich by duping individuals into suing major corporations because of their own individual negligence and stupidity. Mr. Edwards owns the largest house in North Carolina yet decries the plight of the poor and wants government to bring about equitable redistributive process. Maybe we should all sue to government.
Bill and Hillary threw a multi-million dollar wedding for former first daughter Chelsea. I wish Chelsea and her husband Mark the best yet marvel that two parents who are civil servants have made so much money.
Barack Obama- spread the wealth around "there comes a time when you've made enough money" loves to vacation in $40k a week beach compounds and exclusive resorts around the nation (except the gulf coast). Barack talked a nice campaign about us not being able to drive the cars we want and keep the thermostat where we want... notice he said nothing about vacationing where we want...
And finally Michelle and her voyage to Spain where rooms cost $2500 per night according to news sources. A fun trip with 40 of her closest friends (plus about 100 secret service agents).
And all this has happened in the midst of a terrible, government made recession. This frivolity, the opulence, this esprit de versailles while Americans close business, stand in lines for food stamps and struggle. The image, the callous image sent by all of the aforementioned but most especially the first lady and the President is one of total disconnect, indifference and pure disgust for the average Americans.
Remember the arugula comments during the campaign. Remember the Hyde Park, the Harvard Yard, the Upper West Side. The Obamas hate flyover country. They despise Americans who cling bitterly to their guns and religion. They look with disdain on Joe the plumbers. "How much do they make!" Barack once snidely joked. Sure, the Obamas play the part. But when you wear $400 sneakers to ladle out food in a soup kitchen, you are telling people who you really are. Your are Sidwell Friends. You are Martha's Vineyard. You are elite.
You are the type of person the shut down traffic and airspace for hours spending hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars to go see an August Wilson play.
And call it a "date night".
In the late 18th century, in her clueless and frivolous world, Marie Antoinette commissioned the "hameau de la reine" at enormous expense to the french treasury. There in her hamlet of rolling pastures, ponds, wildflowers, mills and barns, she donned a simple dress and played the part of a peasant. It was her retreat, her escape from the world where she could pretend she was a regular person. But she didn't clean the stalls, she didn't empty the bed pans, didn't shovel horse manure or skim the scum off the pond... she didn't do any real work. She produced nothing. She neither sewed nor reaped nor harvested. She didn't plant or till or fertilize or irrigate. She didn't sweat or blister.
She just pretended.
And the public- mired in poverty and depression hated her for pretending to be like them. Because their toil was real. Their sweat smelled bad and their blisters hurt. And their bellies ached and they longed for liberation. And this monster of a queen spent fortunes- more fortunes then their entire villages could amasse- to pretend.
Go to the Gulf Shore said Obama. Yet he vacationed in Maine. It's all just pretend.
Charlie, Tim, Bill & Hillary, Kerry, Edwards, Barack and Michelle all pretend. They pretend to be public servants, they pretend to be regular Americans. But they are the extreme powerful leaders that typify a corrupt democrat party. The are the oppressors of the very people they claim to champion.
Who can tell them apart from the court of Versailles or the guests at the Winter Palace? Are they us, or are they something other than us? Did we not chose them to represent us yet... who have they become? They demand we pay taxes and live soberly, conscientiously, efficiently while they live in realities of couture and private jets, often times at our expense.
"Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."
Sunday, August 1, 2010
My un-Christian thoughts for the Day
I took July off- not intentionally but too many things either disinterested me or were talked/blogged to death and I was bored...
I'm waiting for Mad Men to start and there is nothing on TV. I got stuck watch "Extreme Makeover" and tonight's episode angered me. It was about the something family and they are poor and struggling because they run a soup kitchen and make no money. So ABC swoops in and builds a house, pays their mortgage and finds 5 18-wheelers full of food for their "work".
Sounds nice, right?
It's my belief that these actions are to a certain extent "un-Christian" and I know that's a tough stand to defend. But here goes:
1. Regarding the soup kitchen these people run. What love for mankind is there in fostering dependency? Does that respect their dignity? Does it treat them as equals? Often times charity makes us feel good but doesn't really DO any good. It may relieve a temporary problem but it has no long-term viability.
The thousands of people (that's what they claim) who go to this food pantry have been robbed of their adulthood. Of their maturity. It treats them as perpetual children and dependents.
That is un-Christian.
2. This family has brought misery to itself. And now there is nothing inherantly Christian about that... one may feel a sense of martyrdom, but I can also cut myself and cry to the Lord that I am bleeding for Him. Makes no sense.
Charity is important and necessary. And no doubt people fall on hard time and need temporary assistance. But temporary. If your career is feeding people, you just perpetuate a cycle of poverty that will not end.
This administration acts in a similar manner. By creating a government benevolence that encompasses education, housing bailouts, credit card debt relief, food stamps, etc etc etc... they create a class of dependents. A class of children who must nurse at the government's teet for sustainance.
And there is nothing noble about that. Nor Christian. Nor dignified.
The people tonight on ABC are misguided, but probably good intentioned. The Obama administration is not misguided and has nefarious intentions. They know what they are doing and do it willfully because a class of people dependent on their government will keep them in power forever. And that is always the goal of the left: power.
We need to learn self-sufficiency. A mother bird throws its chick out of the nest. If only we would do the same.
I'm waiting for Mad Men to start and there is nothing on TV. I got stuck watch "Extreme Makeover" and tonight's episode angered me. It was about the something family and they are poor and struggling because they run a soup kitchen and make no money. So ABC swoops in and builds a house, pays their mortgage and finds 5 18-wheelers full of food for their "work".
Sounds nice, right?
It's my belief that these actions are to a certain extent "un-Christian" and I know that's a tough stand to defend. But here goes:
1. Regarding the soup kitchen these people run. What love for mankind is there in fostering dependency? Does that respect their dignity? Does it treat them as equals? Often times charity makes us feel good but doesn't really DO any good. It may relieve a temporary problem but it has no long-term viability.
The thousands of people (that's what they claim) who go to this food pantry have been robbed of their adulthood. Of their maturity. It treats them as perpetual children and dependents.
That is un-Christian.
2. This family has brought misery to itself. And now there is nothing inherantly Christian about that... one may feel a sense of martyrdom, but I can also cut myself and cry to the Lord that I am bleeding for Him. Makes no sense.
Charity is important and necessary. And no doubt people fall on hard time and need temporary assistance. But temporary. If your career is feeding people, you just perpetuate a cycle of poverty that will not end.
This administration acts in a similar manner. By creating a government benevolence that encompasses education, housing bailouts, credit card debt relief, food stamps, etc etc etc... they create a class of dependents. A class of children who must nurse at the government's teet for sustainance.
And there is nothing noble about that. Nor Christian. Nor dignified.
The people tonight on ABC are misguided, but probably good intentioned. The Obama administration is not misguided and has nefarious intentions. They know what they are doing and do it willfully because a class of people dependent on their government will keep them in power forever. And that is always the goal of the left: power.
We need to learn self-sufficiency. A mother bird throws its chick out of the nest. If only we would do the same.
Saturday, June 26, 2010
The President Responds to the World Cup Finale for Team USA
The White House
Washington, DC
Good Afternoon (Look sad and concerned. Scratch face)
Earlier my administration watched the United States end its hope (and change!) for a World Cup victory. As you know, my administration has been active in the promotion of soccer since day one. I believe that by spreading the sports wealth around, all of American sports will prosper. Some will have you believe that America's best sports days are behind us. But I will not give in to the notion that sports are destined to fail.
I inherited an enormous debt of soccer talent. The previous administration, pursuing a course of sports abandonment that only benefited the rich sports, through a series of deregulation, allowed soccer to become subpar, sub standard and inadequate. This is unacceptable. But now is not the time to look backward at the mistakes previous administration made. Now is the time to look ahead.
We must act now. We must act swiftly and with determination. The time for talking is over. Now is the time to act. I am not one to believe that it is impossible to improve America's sports talent. I will not give in to the notion that America's sport's future is grim. Today I am announcing a Soccer Czar. This person, appointed by me, will serve my administration by ensuring that proper and adequate soccer attention is provided in sports television, sports radio and sports newscasting. With this new focused attention on the matter, my Soccer Czar will inform my administration about steps I can take that will address this challenge.
Now is the time to act. Now is the time to come together as Americans and say, yes we can. We can kick the ball and not use our hands. Let us use our heads and direct the momentum in our favor. We can score that soccer goal. Now is the time and this is the moment when my administration headed by me will make sports history for all Americans.
Thank you.
Washington, DC
Good Afternoon (Look sad and concerned. Scratch face)
Earlier my administration watched the United States end its hope (and change!) for a World Cup victory. As you know, my administration has been active in the promotion of soccer since day one. I believe that by spreading the sports wealth around, all of American sports will prosper. Some will have you believe that America's best sports days are behind us. But I will not give in to the notion that sports are destined to fail.
I inherited an enormous debt of soccer talent. The previous administration, pursuing a course of sports abandonment that only benefited the rich sports, through a series of deregulation, allowed soccer to become subpar, sub standard and inadequate. This is unacceptable. But now is not the time to look backward at the mistakes previous administration made. Now is the time to look ahead.
We must act now. We must act swiftly and with determination. The time for talking is over. Now is the time to act. I am not one to believe that it is impossible to improve America's sports talent. I will not give in to the notion that America's sport's future is grim. Today I am announcing a Soccer Czar. This person, appointed by me, will serve my administration by ensuring that proper and adequate soccer attention is provided in sports television, sports radio and sports newscasting. With this new focused attention on the matter, my Soccer Czar will inform my administration about steps I can take that will address this challenge.
Now is the time to act. Now is the time to come together as Americans and say, yes we can. We can kick the ball and not use our hands. Let us use our heads and direct the momentum in our favor. We can score that soccer goal. Now is the time and this is the moment when my administration headed by me will make sports history for all Americans.
Thank you.
Thank you for closing 395, Barry
Early on in the administration of our "clean and articulate" President, the page sixers of journalism wrote with orgasmic joy of his coolness, his love of food and his desire to be out and about. Remember the "date night" which shut down part of the West Side highway so he and Michelle could see Raisin in the Sun?
Well, that's continued. The Obama's like to go out. And it's annoying.
Bush was a dullard who liked to spend time on his ranch. He also entertained in Crawford (or Camp David) and held many meetings there- away from the press, the limelight and the inconvenience it would cause the average Joe.
Not Barry.
Some months ago he held that nuclear summit which did as much to reduce nuclear proliferation as what I am about to do: NO MORE NUCS. And now- SHAZAAM! PRESTO CHANGE-O! Done, right? It worked? No? Crap. Well- the intention was to reduce nuclear threats... and when you are a lefty, intention is ALL that matters... but I'm getting off point... my point is that Obama held said nuclear magic show in the DC Convention center- right smack in the middle of the city- and shut down blocks and blocks of city streets, creating a traffic nightmare and causing those who live around that area to live in a version of the Warsaw Ghetto.
Bush would have held it at Crawford. But past Presidents cared about the results. Obama only cares about the show. After all- that's all he's got. That's how he ran his campaign and won: show. Appearances. Perception. Impression. Illusion...
So Russian Czar Medvedev comes to DC and after Obama bows before him (I'm sure he did...) he went to a burger joint in Arlington. And to get there, Secret Service shut down I-395 for hours.
Thanks.
Thanks for causing untold numbers of people headed to Dulles and Reagan to miss flights. Thanks for causing thousands of us to be stuck in traffic, engines idling with AC blaring in 95 degree temperatures (so much for global warming theory, eh Barry??). Thanks for backing up 14th Street, 4th Street, South Capitol Street, I-295, Pennsylvania Avenue, SE, Rt. 50, the GW Parkway, the Beltway...
But hey - you LOOKED really cool. "Hey I may be President but I know a great little burger joint if you want to grab lunch". Funny how he only had 20 minutes for the CEO of BP (how's that leak going?) but he had time to take an impromptu trip to grab a burger with the premiere of the Soviet Union.
Substance doesn't matter. It's all about impressions. It's about telling the muslims in Cairo how bad America has been and how great islam is. It's about telling ex-pats and Germans how bad Bush is and how great he will be as President. It's about telling Americans how wrong they are on race and how he remains uncontaminated of Rev. Wright's hatred. The purpose is not to win, but to tie. To make all things equal. To "spread the wealth around" as he told Joe the Plumber. To ensure fairness.
I bet Obama loves Soccer.
Well, that's continued. The Obama's like to go out. And it's annoying.
Bush was a dullard who liked to spend time on his ranch. He also entertained in Crawford (or Camp David) and held many meetings there- away from the press, the limelight and the inconvenience it would cause the average Joe.
Not Barry.
Some months ago he held that nuclear summit which did as much to reduce nuclear proliferation as what I am about to do: NO MORE NUCS. And now- SHAZAAM! PRESTO CHANGE-O! Done, right? It worked? No? Crap. Well- the intention was to reduce nuclear threats... and when you are a lefty, intention is ALL that matters... but I'm getting off point... my point is that Obama held said nuclear magic show in the DC Convention center- right smack in the middle of the city- and shut down blocks and blocks of city streets, creating a traffic nightmare and causing those who live around that area to live in a version of the Warsaw Ghetto.
Bush would have held it at Crawford. But past Presidents cared about the results. Obama only cares about the show. After all- that's all he's got. That's how he ran his campaign and won: show. Appearances. Perception. Impression. Illusion...
So Russian Czar Medvedev comes to DC and after Obama bows before him (I'm sure he did...) he went to a burger joint in Arlington. And to get there, Secret Service shut down I-395 for hours.
Thanks.
Thanks for causing untold numbers of people headed to Dulles and Reagan to miss flights. Thanks for causing thousands of us to be stuck in traffic, engines idling with AC blaring in 95 degree temperatures (so much for global warming theory, eh Barry??). Thanks for backing up 14th Street, 4th Street, South Capitol Street, I-295, Pennsylvania Avenue, SE, Rt. 50, the GW Parkway, the Beltway...
But hey - you LOOKED really cool. "Hey I may be President but I know a great little burger joint if you want to grab lunch". Funny how he only had 20 minutes for the CEO of BP (how's that leak going?) but he had time to take an impromptu trip to grab a burger with the premiere of the Soviet Union.
Substance doesn't matter. It's all about impressions. It's about telling the muslims in Cairo how bad America has been and how great islam is. It's about telling ex-pats and Germans how bad Bush is and how great he will be as President. It's about telling Americans how wrong they are on race and how he remains uncontaminated of Rev. Wright's hatred. The purpose is not to win, but to tie. To make all things equal. To "spread the wealth around" as he told Joe the Plumber. To ensure fairness.
I bet Obama loves Soccer.
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Hype and Hope
Did Barack Obama really say he is looking for an ass to kick?
Really?
The President of the United States... spoke like a Tony Soprano. If Tony Soprano had a son with Urkle.
The time for looking for an ass to kick, Mr. Hopey Changey, was 50 days ago when this happened. You know, before your two vacations, your White House concerts, a few rounds of golf and some graduations speeches. Maybe instead of retaliation and "keeping your boot on their neck" you could SOLVE the problem.
Funny- all talk and no action. This is the guy, as Sarah Palin reminded us at the GOP convention almost 2 years ago, who authored two memoirs and not one piece of legislation. This from the guy who used his own campaign as an example of executive experience.
Now we see what a lack of experience means. President Obama is not making decisions because he is both incapable and incompetent. There is no one to turn to, no one to correct his mistake, no media to hide the millions of gallons of oil, no Tony rezko to funnel his money, no guilty white Harvard or Columbia University professor to grade him on a curve.
Steven Strasburg is making his debut right now and for those of us who couldn't get tickets (or wouldn't spend the money) for this debut are stuck watching it on MASN2 which is not in HD (what century is this?). Three great innings. Six strike outs with a change-up averaging 90mph. Now in the top of the 4th, this young phenom gave up back to back hits and it's first and second with no outs. Hang on... now after a double play, a two run hommer.
Will Strasburg be hype or hope for the Nats? We are excited, turned out in record numbers to watch his inauguration into the Majors. What's he going to do? Yes, baseball is a team sport. Pitching is not (as much). What's he going to do? Will he blame the stadium, the fans, the team, the previous pitcher, the manager, the umpire? Will he bluster and blather in the locker room and pontificate on his greatness and ability without delivering the goods?
Barack Obama was a lot of hope. In the last 17 months he's proven to be nothing more than hype. Words, tomes and volumes of words, thesauraus and dictionary, erudite and eloquent words.
So no one should be afraid of an Obama ass kicking. It's just words. Again.
Really?
The President of the United States... spoke like a Tony Soprano. If Tony Soprano had a son with Urkle.
The time for looking for an ass to kick, Mr. Hopey Changey, was 50 days ago when this happened. You know, before your two vacations, your White House concerts, a few rounds of golf and some graduations speeches. Maybe instead of retaliation and "keeping your boot on their neck" you could SOLVE the problem.
Funny- all talk and no action. This is the guy, as Sarah Palin reminded us at the GOP convention almost 2 years ago, who authored two memoirs and not one piece of legislation. This from the guy who used his own campaign as an example of executive experience.
Now we see what a lack of experience means. President Obama is not making decisions because he is both incapable and incompetent. There is no one to turn to, no one to correct his mistake, no media to hide the millions of gallons of oil, no Tony rezko to funnel his money, no guilty white Harvard or Columbia University professor to grade him on a curve.
Steven Strasburg is making his debut right now and for those of us who couldn't get tickets (or wouldn't spend the money) for this debut are stuck watching it on MASN2 which is not in HD (what century is this?). Three great innings. Six strike outs with a change-up averaging 90mph. Now in the top of the 4th, this young phenom gave up back to back hits and it's first and second with no outs. Hang on... now after a double play, a two run hommer.
Will Strasburg be hype or hope for the Nats? We are excited, turned out in record numbers to watch his inauguration into the Majors. What's he going to do? Yes, baseball is a team sport. Pitching is not (as much). What's he going to do? Will he blame the stadium, the fans, the team, the previous pitcher, the manager, the umpire? Will he bluster and blather in the locker room and pontificate on his greatness and ability without delivering the goods?
Barack Obama was a lot of hope. In the last 17 months he's proven to be nothing more than hype. Words, tomes and volumes of words, thesauraus and dictionary, erudite and eloquent words.
So no one should be afraid of an Obama ass kicking. It's just words. Again.
Monday, June 7, 2010
It's Official: Anti-semitism is OK in the Obama White House
Helen Thomas' disgusting departure from her career as front-and-center member of the White House Press Corp illustrates a certain tolerance of anti-semitism. Don't get me wrong- I'm glad to see her go. Her vile and angry banter has been tolerated for too long. But I'm surprised she was allowed to resign.
Rand Paul's comments (what did he even say?) was front page fodder for feign indignation and a catalyst for more "tea bagging" jokes by the left. Despite the fact that the NYTimes blatantly lied (OK- creatively edited) about his comments, Rand Paul is still demonized by the media.
And let's not even talk about Don Imus. Too bad Helen didn't call the Jews nappy-headed. Maybe then she would have to apologize to... someone.
Had a comment been made about Hispanics or Blacks or Gays or muslims, Helen Thomas would have been immediately fired by the White House Press Corp, forbidden access to compound and probably shunned. Instead, CNN today talked about her as a pioneer of women journalists and a praised her tenacity and courage.
It's so courageous to be on the far left. I'm often amazed at Michael Moore's gut. Errr guts.
So I'm glad to see Helen go. Took too many a year for this to happen. But I'm sad that Jew-hating is somehow acceptable in Barack Hussein Obama's White House. I'm sad that he didn't come out against Helen's hatred and ask her to step aside. I'm side they let her resign on her own terms, as if she merrited compassion after advocating ethnic clenseing.
Yes, I'm sad. But not surprised.
Rand Paul's comments (what did he even say?) was front page fodder for feign indignation and a catalyst for more "tea bagging" jokes by the left. Despite the fact that the NYTimes blatantly lied (OK- creatively edited) about his comments, Rand Paul is still demonized by the media.
And let's not even talk about Don Imus. Too bad Helen didn't call the Jews nappy-headed. Maybe then she would have to apologize to... someone.
Had a comment been made about Hispanics or Blacks or Gays or muslims, Helen Thomas would have been immediately fired by the White House Press Corp, forbidden access to compound and probably shunned. Instead, CNN today talked about her as a pioneer of women journalists and a praised her tenacity and courage.
It's so courageous to be on the far left. I'm often amazed at Michael Moore's gut. Errr guts.
So I'm glad to see Helen go. Took too many a year for this to happen. But I'm sad that Jew-hating is somehow acceptable in Barack Hussein Obama's White House. I'm sad that he didn't come out against Helen's hatred and ask her to step aside. I'm side they let her resign on her own terms, as if she merrited compassion after advocating ethnic clenseing.
Yes, I'm sad. But not surprised.
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Humanitarian Aid with knives guns and clubs
In the earliest stages of this Administration, Obama made it clear that Islam would be treated with kid gloves. He delivered a speech in Cairo lauding Islam for accomplishments they never achieved in mathematics and architecture. He praised Islam for its contributions to mankind and apologized for the west's treatment.
Terrorism became "man made disasters" and war became "overseas contingency operations". And he waited for them to love him.
But they didn't. In fact, the Taliban upped the ante and increased their aggression. Huh? Disasters were made by men in Fort Hood, on Christmas Day and in Times Square. What?
This was all supposed to cease. Radical Islam was supposed to like us now. And rainbows and ponies would fill the earth...
Israel has been left alone. And I didn't think I could cheer for a foreign country over my own, but twice now Benjamin Netanyahu has declined invitations to the White House after being royally snubbed in his first visit, and I find myself saying GO BEN!
Seven million Israelis, surrounded by 350 million muslims, are defending their land and their lives. What is this "humanitarian" boat of goods steered by "activists"? And why is it? Why is it needed? What has happened in Gaza that suddenly an entire barge of "aid" is needed? Was there an earthquake? Did the muslim world send a barge to Haiti or Peru? I didn't notice...
Good for Israel- stopping this boat of weapons and arms from Hammas for Hammas. And while the tolerant left gasps at such brazen self defense, Israel is safe. Maybe if we took such bold steps in our airports and in our general homeland security, we would be safe, too.
Instead grandma is shuffling barefoot through the terminal holding her belt and ticket to see the grandkids in Santa Fe while TSA agents scream at her for touching the conveyor belt.
Terrorism became "man made disasters" and war became "overseas contingency operations". And he waited for them to love him.
But they didn't. In fact, the Taliban upped the ante and increased their aggression. Huh? Disasters were made by men in Fort Hood, on Christmas Day and in Times Square. What?
This was all supposed to cease. Radical Islam was supposed to like us now. And rainbows and ponies would fill the earth...
Israel has been left alone. And I didn't think I could cheer for a foreign country over my own, but twice now Benjamin Netanyahu has declined invitations to the White House after being royally snubbed in his first visit, and I find myself saying GO BEN!
Seven million Israelis, surrounded by 350 million muslims, are defending their land and their lives. What is this "humanitarian" boat of goods steered by "activists"? And why is it? Why is it needed? What has happened in Gaza that suddenly an entire barge of "aid" is needed? Was there an earthquake? Did the muslim world send a barge to Haiti or Peru? I didn't notice...
Good for Israel- stopping this boat of weapons and arms from Hammas for Hammas. And while the tolerant left gasps at such brazen self defense, Israel is safe. Maybe if we took such bold steps in our airports and in our general homeland security, we would be safe, too.
Instead grandma is shuffling barefoot through the terminal holding her belt and ticket to see the grandkids in Santa Fe while TSA agents scream at her for touching the conveyor belt.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Shit, Piss and Mohammad
Chris Ofili, the award winning British artist painted a picture of the Virgin Mary covered in elephant dung.
Beautiful, right? It is in the eye of the beholder I guess. Some think Raphael's images of the Virgin Mary were beautiful. Pish posh. He is so 16th century. Besides, defenders of the arts proclaimed, "It's not the Virgin Mary. It's a painting". Touche.
I guess Ofili was trying to out-controversy the feisty Piss Christ by Andres Serrano. In this artistic masterpiece, Serrano photographed a white crucifix submerged in the artist's own urine.
Pretty awesome, right? I mean step aside Goya and Picasso. This is real Spanish art.
So what's the big problem with South Park's images of mohammad?
Is your sacred image in feces? Is he being burnt and used as toilet paper as Torahs were during the Nazi era?
yes- you are offended. As am I by the images I placed above. And people should have more common sense and sensibility. But the call to anger, the threats of death show a level of ignorance and quite frankly evil that is not tolerable in democracy.
So if muslims demand to live in a society that conforms to their laws, then by all means they should return to Saudi Arabia. Just like Mexicans demanding Arizona provide them with free education and health care should return to Mexico.
This is America. Is can be so free that it offends your deepest held beliefs. And I'd have it no other way.
To you Comedy Central, TV Station that has offended me hundreds of times over with anti-Catholic humor, I say way to go! You have proven you humor is truly gutless and your courage is only skin deep.
Yes, this time the terrorists won. And that is no laughing matter.
Beautiful, right? It is in the eye of the beholder I guess. Some think Raphael's images of the Virgin Mary were beautiful. Pish posh. He is so 16th century. Besides, defenders of the arts proclaimed, "It's not the Virgin Mary. It's a painting". Touche.
I guess Ofili was trying to out-controversy the feisty Piss Christ by Andres Serrano. In this artistic masterpiece, Serrano photographed a white crucifix submerged in the artist's own urine.
Pretty awesome, right? I mean step aside Goya and Picasso. This is real Spanish art.
So what's the big problem with South Park's images of mohammad?
Is your sacred image in feces? Is he being burnt and used as toilet paper as Torahs were during the Nazi era?
yes- you are offended. As am I by the images I placed above. And people should have more common sense and sensibility. But the call to anger, the threats of death show a level of ignorance and quite frankly evil that is not tolerable in democracy.
So if muslims demand to live in a society that conforms to their laws, then by all means they should return to Saudi Arabia. Just like Mexicans demanding Arizona provide them with free education and health care should return to Mexico.
This is America. Is can be so free that it offends your deepest held beliefs. And I'd have it no other way.
To you Comedy Central, TV Station that has offended me hundreds of times over with anti-Catholic humor, I say way to go! You have proven you humor is truly gutless and your courage is only skin deep.
Yes, this time the terrorists won. And that is no laughing matter.
Arizona and Federalism
Arizona has made a stand. And I stand with it.
And in out federalist nation- if you do not like Arizona's laws, your choice is clear. Do not live in Arizona.
The over-powerful federal government has stripped states of rights that the Founding Fathers envisioned they would have. If Florida chooses to have no income tax and South Carolina still allows you to smoke in a bar (gasp!) then why can't Nebraska be pro-life state and Arizona a state for legals only? In California you must recycle under penalty of death. In New York, school children learn about lesbian orgies in pre-school. Why can't Arizona kick out illegals?
In the issue and emotion of this new law, federalism is being lost and, I fear, will once again be the victim. President Obama will step in as the all-knowing, all-caring, all-powerful federal government again and determine from Washington, DC what is best for the people of a State he knows is somewhere west of Chicago and south of San Fran.
Arizona has made it illegal to be illegal. And that has sparked the outrage of the left who is promising demonstrations on May 1st.
Are you as curious as I am to see how the media shows these "demonstrations"? I wonder if they will show the flag burning (American flag) and the vulgar pictures of the President. And the nazi symbols and the gazillion Mexican flags.
Illegal aliens are fleeing Arizona. Just wait till a few hundred thousand descend on Texas and New Mexico and California. Pretty soon Arizona's law will be adopted by ever border state. Just imagine if it were adopted by America, too...
And in out federalist nation- if you do not like Arizona's laws, your choice is clear. Do not live in Arizona.
The over-powerful federal government has stripped states of rights that the Founding Fathers envisioned they would have. If Florida chooses to have no income tax and South Carolina still allows you to smoke in a bar (gasp!) then why can't Nebraska be pro-life state and Arizona a state for legals only? In California you must recycle under penalty of death. In New York, school children learn about lesbian orgies in pre-school. Why can't Arizona kick out illegals?
In the issue and emotion of this new law, federalism is being lost and, I fear, will once again be the victim. President Obama will step in as the all-knowing, all-caring, all-powerful federal government again and determine from Washington, DC what is best for the people of a State he knows is somewhere west of Chicago and south of San Fran.
Arizona has made it illegal to be illegal. And that has sparked the outrage of the left who is promising demonstrations on May 1st.
Are you as curious as I am to see how the media shows these "demonstrations"? I wonder if they will show the flag burning (American flag) and the vulgar pictures of the President. And the nazi symbols and the gazillion Mexican flags.
Illegal aliens are fleeing Arizona. Just wait till a few hundred thousand descend on Texas and New Mexico and California. Pretty soon Arizona's law will be adopted by ever border state. Just imagine if it were adopted by America, too...
Saturday, April 17, 2010
On cars and Scotland
A friend sent me this op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal by Penn Jilette- the talking half of Penn and Teller. Penn writes about hummers, and more importantly, freedom. Freedom to drive a stupid car that guzzles gas and sucks down cash faster than a stripper in Vegas. Freedom to be stupid, as Penn puts it.
Seamus Hasson from the gutsy Becket Fund wrote a book called The Right to Be Wrong and it too follows this line of libertarian independence though in a religious context. Freedom is the right to believe the wrong things about God, about redemption, about sin and also about money, about wealth and savings and overall values. Freedom from a government that claims to care but intervenes with its own values system and mandates that which it deems to be your best interest.
Remember the Voltaire quote "I may disagree with what you say but will defend to the death your right to say it". Obviously Voltaire hasn't stepped foot on a college campus recently. That notion of the right to be wrong, of the right to be stupid, is dying a slow death. More accurately is being put to death by a caring government.
President Obama and his socialist ideology care about people. About their health, about their education, about their general "well being". How often do we hear terms like "adequate" healthcare and "affordable" housing... his love for mankind may even be genuine but it is shortsighted. In creating a government that provides for the people he really is robbing the people of what makes them truly human: their freedom.
And in healthcare and education it all seems well and good. But it is spreading into more obtrusive areas that is shocking the American people into awakening. Certain cars are "better" that others in Obama's mind and so he will pass policies that punish those cars he does not like. Or, like in the case of Hummer, he will just not allow them to be made. That is how he will force us to adopt his values. He will declare it so.
Yesterday Goldman Sachs was brought up on fraud charges and I'm sure some executives will get summoned before the wing backed chairs of a Congressional Committee so the braintrust of elected leaders can wag fingers and read from staff-written scripts of feigned indignation. Of course no one from Fannie or Freddie has been brought up on charges. We'll save that juicy morsel for another time...
Obama-imposed values. Imposed on us and on our lifestyles. Didn't it start with seat belts 20 years ago and, indeed, seemed like a good idea at the time. Until the fines and tickets followed. Then we got bike helmets. Then smoking. Then water meters. Then 5 cent returns on cans. Now it includes plastic bags, cars, healthcare, non-hydrogenated oil, salt and while we sit in our non-lead based painted homes and don't water our lawns at certain hours... I wonder if we are free. We certainly aren't happy.
As Obama and his caring Congress outlaw more and more things, the nation gets fatter, angrier and mobilized. So more laws, more banned foods and sugar drinks and all encompassing values on lifestyles. Interesting that the new tax being floated by the administration, modeled after Europe is called just that: a VALUE added tax. For it is the government, you see, that will put their values on what you buy, on how you live. Their values. Not yours.
Obama mocked the tea partiers at a speech in Florida. His disdain for the American people oozes out of a carefully sewn patchwork costume of patriotism and superman. He mocked the people who cling to guns and religion. He mocked the people who don't eat arugula and shop at Wholefoods. And while he cranks up the heat so he can sit in an 85 degree Oval Office, he reminds us that we cannot live as he does. Do as Obama says and don't ask how we lives. It's as if all the vegetables in his garden were for show only.
Seamus Hasson from the gutsy Becket Fund wrote a book called The Right to Be Wrong and it too follows this line of libertarian independence though in a religious context. Freedom is the right to believe the wrong things about God, about redemption, about sin and also about money, about wealth and savings and overall values. Freedom from a government that claims to care but intervenes with its own values system and mandates that which it deems to be your best interest.
Remember the Voltaire quote "I may disagree with what you say but will defend to the death your right to say it". Obviously Voltaire hasn't stepped foot on a college campus recently. That notion of the right to be wrong, of the right to be stupid, is dying a slow death. More accurately is being put to death by a caring government.
President Obama and his socialist ideology care about people. About their health, about their education, about their general "well being". How often do we hear terms like "adequate" healthcare and "affordable" housing... his love for mankind may even be genuine but it is shortsighted. In creating a government that provides for the people he really is robbing the people of what makes them truly human: their freedom.
And in healthcare and education it all seems well and good. But it is spreading into more obtrusive areas that is shocking the American people into awakening. Certain cars are "better" that others in Obama's mind and so he will pass policies that punish those cars he does not like. Or, like in the case of Hummer, he will just not allow them to be made. That is how he will force us to adopt his values. He will declare it so.
Yesterday Goldman Sachs was brought up on fraud charges and I'm sure some executives will get summoned before the wing backed chairs of a Congressional Committee so the braintrust of elected leaders can wag fingers and read from staff-written scripts of feigned indignation. Of course no one from Fannie or Freddie has been brought up on charges. We'll save that juicy morsel for another time...
Obama-imposed values. Imposed on us and on our lifestyles. Didn't it start with seat belts 20 years ago and, indeed, seemed like a good idea at the time. Until the fines and tickets followed. Then we got bike helmets. Then smoking. Then water meters. Then 5 cent returns on cans. Now it includes plastic bags, cars, healthcare, non-hydrogenated oil, salt and while we sit in our non-lead based painted homes and don't water our lawns at certain hours... I wonder if we are free. We certainly aren't happy.
As Obama and his caring Congress outlaw more and more things, the nation gets fatter, angrier and mobilized. So more laws, more banned foods and sugar drinks and all encompassing values on lifestyles. Interesting that the new tax being floated by the administration, modeled after Europe is called just that: a VALUE added tax. For it is the government, you see, that will put their values on what you buy, on how you live. Their values. Not yours.
Obama mocked the tea partiers at a speech in Florida. His disdain for the American people oozes out of a carefully sewn patchwork costume of patriotism and superman. He mocked the people who cling to guns and religion. He mocked the people who don't eat arugula and shop at Wholefoods. And while he cranks up the heat so he can sit in an 85 degree Oval Office, he reminds us that we cannot live as he does. Do as Obama says and don't ask how we lives. It's as if all the vegetables in his garden were for show only.
Braveheart was on again- it's always on TBS or TNT or AMC. And Williams Wallace has a wonderful line to the "noble" leader Robert the Bruce:
“You think the people of this country exist to provide you with position. I think your position exists to provide those people with freedom. And I go to make sure that they have it”.
We do not need nor will there be a violent revolution (did you hear that Secret Service? I'm not advocating violence). But we do need a ballot box revolution- and one is coming. Obama knows it. Reid sure as hell knows it. Americans want their hummers. They want their cigarettes and guns and religion. They want, more than anything else in the world, their freedom.
A great man I worked for knew that. The press never grew tired of mocking Bush. And Obama brings up Bush's name in spite and anger with petty banter and trite jabs. Obama in his smallness wants to be great and his way of claiming greatness will be through imposition and mandate robbing Americans of freedom and liberty guaranteed through us by God and Constitution.
Freedom is worth the fight. Obama will lose in the end. Freedom will endure.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
This Makes It Official
Newsweek magazine must have a crystal ball. The front cover of it's next issue boldly proclaims:
So, there you go. Newsweek has declared the recession over and the economy "back". And this is truly, to use their headline, "remarkable".
And I, the narrator of guffmanandgodot, declare cancer eradicated. Hurrah! Hurrah!
This is the same Newsweek, who's editor in chief, Evan Thomas, while being interviewed on Hardball with Chris Matthew stated "We stand for something – I mean in a way Obama’s standing above the country, above – above the world, he’s sort of God."
To which Chris Matthews responded "Yeah". That's some hard hitting journalism!! Maybe they all sat around after the interview, when they were done solving the world's problems, and wondered if Jesus was as smart as themselves...
It only makes sense that if Newsweek can deify Obama, then it can also declare the economy sound. "Let there be prosperity! And there was prosperity. Newsweek saw that the prosperity was good. Thus evening came and morning followed, the second day."
Media bias is one of those themes beaten to a pulp and yet we've barely scratched the surface. Today an editorial in the New York Times supported military tribunals for terrorists. Funny, Bush didn't get that editorial. And the Obama Justice Department is pressuring Google and Yahoo to release emails without a warrant... yet I've heard no Rachel Maddow screed about "shredding the constitution".
So if you can scrape together $2 and need a good laugh, go buy the newest Newsweek magazine and rejoice in America's return and celebrate the great god who stands above us all, Obama.
Millions can do this because they don't have jobs. Can you use foodstamps to buy a magazine? Eh, just call it toilet paper. Same difference.
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Just Kidding!
We all need a good laugh. Maybe that was Mohammed al Modadi's intention when he made a light-hearted joke about lighting his shoes on fire during his flight to Denver. The 27 year old Qatari "diplomat" was sneaking a smoke in the bathroom and when airline officials saw the smoke and alarms go off, he decided to make a joke about it.
That would be like Cardinal Egan making a joke about Catholic priests needing to spend more time with children.
Muslims have gotten a bad rap in this country- do doubt. And I am all-too aware of my own bias and distrust of the islamic cult...er...religion (see- another joke!). But muslims have something to prove- making jokes about blowing up planes is not great diplomacy... or very smart. Not all Italians are in the mafia; not all muslims are terrorists. But if the shoe fits.... light it. I didn't have much sympathy for Lillo Branacto when acting the part of a mafioso got him arrested.
So what is the sentence for Mr. al Modadi? Oh- it's pretty stiff. Prepare yourself: he is being sent home.
I grew up in NYC and now live in DC. My whole life has been surrounded by idiots with diplomatic license plates and diplomatic egos. It is insulting when our own laws protect those who abuse them and punish those who obey them.
But we see this all the time. Freedom of religion means don't do anything religious because that might insult someone. So hide that damn Christmas tree and put away that Crucifix. But if you are offended by Act II "My Pussy is Angry" in The Vagina Monologues.... well then you are just ignorant and intolerant.
Someday that will all make sense.
Illegals cross our border, steal American identities, rape welfare, medicare and social programs, birth bastard children who become de facto Americans and then claim they can't be deported for some family values reasons... welcome to lawlessness. When a nation's laws are used against that same nation, something is gone awry.
Obama likes this type of lawlessness- especially when it comes to his love of muslim countries. How else does one explain his hyperbolic examples of islamic contributions and historical accomplishments, his bowing to Saudi king, his constant apology for America and Americanism.
I'll tell you what is great about America- that we didn't slit the throat of the Qatari child diplomat. Had an American made such a joke overseas, I'd be curious to see if such measure would be employed. Joke about Chechnyan terrorist in Moscow and see if Putin yucks it up as tongue-in-cheek humor.
There's another issue at stake- and that is American autonomy. We will always interact and trade with world community. But we've hit a level of dependency that is uncomfortable. That is why Qatar feels no remorse. If America got uppity, Qatar would withhold oil or deny us bases for CENTCOM staging operations.
Our allies in the islamic world have the upper hand. Sometimes they are so bold as to even joke about islamic terrorism. A 27 year old from Qatar laughs at us. Something is wrong.
That would be like Cardinal Egan making a joke about Catholic priests needing to spend more time with children.
Muslims have gotten a bad rap in this country- do doubt. And I am all-too aware of my own bias and distrust of the islamic cult...er...religion (see- another joke!). But muslims have something to prove- making jokes about blowing up planes is not great diplomacy... or very smart. Not all Italians are in the mafia; not all muslims are terrorists. But if the shoe fits.... light it. I didn't have much sympathy for Lillo Branacto when acting the part of a mafioso got him arrested.
So what is the sentence for Mr. al Modadi? Oh- it's pretty stiff. Prepare yourself: he is being sent home.
I grew up in NYC and now live in DC. My whole life has been surrounded by idiots with diplomatic license plates and diplomatic egos. It is insulting when our own laws protect those who abuse them and punish those who obey them.
But we see this all the time. Freedom of religion means don't do anything religious because that might insult someone. So hide that damn Christmas tree and put away that Crucifix. But if you are offended by Act II "My Pussy is Angry" in The Vagina Monologues.... well then you are just ignorant and intolerant.
Someday that will all make sense.
Illegals cross our border, steal American identities, rape welfare, medicare and social programs, birth bastard children who become de facto Americans and then claim they can't be deported for some family values reasons... welcome to lawlessness. When a nation's laws are used against that same nation, something is gone awry.
Obama likes this type of lawlessness- especially when it comes to his love of muslim countries. How else does one explain his hyperbolic examples of islamic contributions and historical accomplishments, his bowing to Saudi king, his constant apology for America and Americanism.
I'll tell you what is great about America- that we didn't slit the throat of the Qatari child diplomat. Had an American made such a joke overseas, I'd be curious to see if such measure would be employed. Joke about Chechnyan terrorist in Moscow and see if Putin yucks it up as tongue-in-cheek humor.
There's another issue at stake- and that is American autonomy. We will always interact and trade with world community. But we've hit a level of dependency that is uncomfortable. That is why Qatar feels no remorse. If America got uppity, Qatar would withhold oil or deny us bases for CENTCOM staging operations.
Our allies in the islamic world have the upper hand. Sometimes they are so bold as to even joke about islamic terrorism. A 27 year old from Qatar laughs at us. Something is wrong.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Democrats can do what rain nor snow nor sleet nor hail could not
According to an article I read today in the Wall Street Journal, the U.S. Post Office took it's first steps to 5 day service in order to close a $7 billion budget gap.
In other words, there will be "mail rationing". Of course, this will not happen with healthcare. So don't even worry...
The Post Office employees over 650,000 people. I don't know if any of them will be let go. Or will salaries be frozen, raises suspended, benefits cut... what am I saying... this is government. And they are a protected class. After all, the Postmaster General, Mr. John Potter (or is it The Honorable John Potter??) earned a salary of $800k last year (not including benefits). And why wouldn't he? It's not like he's a greedy Wall Street fat cat. He's a noble civil servant and we should pay off his student loans, too (just assuming you remember the SOTU).
It's interesting to watch the Post Office's operational and financial struggles in light of our pending healthcare panacea. See- the Post Office provides a service- and rather than cut overhead or personnel, they cut the very service they provide.
Odd, isn't it. I wonder who'd continue to go to a restaurant if the prices went up but the portions shrunk. Or if the only ironed half your suit. Normally when services are cut, a free society changes service providers. Of course we can't do this in places where government allows monopolies like energy, phone, cable TV or transportation. Some ingenious people tried to do this with education- a little thing called vouchers- but Democrats try their hardest to keep that monopoly too.
The Post Office debacle is a prelude to Obamacare. It will run out of money. It will become exhausted, overrun, over burdened and perpetually under financed. Because Congress does not appropriate enough money? No one could appropriate enough money. ever bring free donuts to an office meeting? You always run out. Trolls and goons you've never seen emerge from hidden cubicles to partake of the free donut. Wait till it's free dental, free MRI, free everything... suddenly everyone needs a CAT scan.
So what will happen when Obamacare runs out of money, i.e., the inevitable future? It will cut service. It will ration care. It has to; it is inevitable. Elective surgery will be denied. Voluntary procedures will not be allowed. And a sliding scale of priorities established by a committee will be determined.
LASIK surgery costs about $4000 out of pocket. Insurance providers do not cover it. It is a "preexisting condition". Under Obamacare, it will be covered. It is, indeed, a RIGHT. Suddenly everyone will want the expensive procedure. But the $4000 will no escalate to $12,000. And a bureaucrat in an office in DC will make the decision who does and who does not get LASIK.
Remember that when you look for your mail on Saturday morning.
And get LASIK before the year's end.
In other words, there will be "mail rationing". Of course, this will not happen with healthcare. So don't even worry...
The Post Office employees over 650,000 people. I don't know if any of them will be let go. Or will salaries be frozen, raises suspended, benefits cut... what am I saying... this is government. And they are a protected class. After all, the Postmaster General, Mr. John Potter (or is it The Honorable John Potter??) earned a salary of $800k last year (not including benefits). And why wouldn't he? It's not like he's a greedy Wall Street fat cat. He's a noble civil servant and we should pay off his student loans, too (just assuming you remember the SOTU).
It's interesting to watch the Post Office's operational and financial struggles in light of our pending healthcare panacea. See- the Post Office provides a service- and rather than cut overhead or personnel, they cut the very service they provide.
Odd, isn't it. I wonder who'd continue to go to a restaurant if the prices went up but the portions shrunk. Or if the only ironed half your suit. Normally when services are cut, a free society changes service providers. Of course we can't do this in places where government allows monopolies like energy, phone, cable TV or transportation. Some ingenious people tried to do this with education- a little thing called vouchers- but Democrats try their hardest to keep that monopoly too.
The Post Office debacle is a prelude to Obamacare. It will run out of money. It will become exhausted, overrun, over burdened and perpetually under financed. Because Congress does not appropriate enough money? No one could appropriate enough money. ever bring free donuts to an office meeting? You always run out. Trolls and goons you've never seen emerge from hidden cubicles to partake of the free donut. Wait till it's free dental, free MRI, free everything... suddenly everyone needs a CAT scan.
So what will happen when Obamacare runs out of money, i.e., the inevitable future? It will cut service. It will ration care. It has to; it is inevitable. Elective surgery will be denied. Voluntary procedures will not be allowed. And a sliding scale of priorities established by a committee will be determined.
LASIK surgery costs about $4000 out of pocket. Insurance providers do not cover it. It is a "preexisting condition". Under Obamacare, it will be covered. It is, indeed, a RIGHT. Suddenly everyone will want the expensive procedure. But the $4000 will no escalate to $12,000. And a bureaucrat in an office in DC will make the decision who does and who does not get LASIK.
Remember that when you look for your mail on Saturday morning.
And get LASIK before the year's end.
Sunday, March 21, 2010
218
Well there is life still in the President and his Marxist philosophies. Tonight they scored a big win.
I'd like to tap the Democrats on the shoulder in 5, 10, 15, 20 years and say "I told you so". No one thinks this will work- for what has government done that works? Medicare? Medicaid? Social Security? Education? Every big social agenda they stick their collective noses into only turns into a larger boondoggle that hemorrhages money and exacerbates the very ill it tries to cure.
Well except poverty of course. After LBJ's "War on Poverty" we've eradicated it. Right?
I was listening to CSPAN and, yes, trying to call in. Everyone in favor had the same argument: FREE STUFF. It's like the ice cream cake someone brings in at the office. Suddenly everyone is in the break room on time. Free cake? Oh yeah I can be there at noon.
I propose HR 3222010: a free pony for everyone in America.
Who wants a pony!?! Why not just pass a law giving everyone free milk? Isn't it a RIGHT to have free milk? And bacon! Free bacon!
You laugh? Ha- look at french subsidies on farm products. You don't think they can afford camembert at $18 a pound do you? No- someone else pays. Always.
Tonight was a vote for free stuff. Everything free but freedom.
And to you- our beloved democrats who scored your victory tonight- congrats. Healthcare is now yours. When med school numbers plummet, when costs skyrocket- and mark my words both will- you can rest assured that all 218 votes that passed this disastrous piece of unconstitutional, unamerican, eurotrash socialism- were all yours.
And Barack Obama's.
I'd like to tap the Democrats on the shoulder in 5, 10, 15, 20 years and say "I told you so". No one thinks this will work- for what has government done that works? Medicare? Medicaid? Social Security? Education? Every big social agenda they stick their collective noses into only turns into a larger boondoggle that hemorrhages money and exacerbates the very ill it tries to cure.
Well except poverty of course. After LBJ's "War on Poverty" we've eradicated it. Right?
I was listening to CSPAN and, yes, trying to call in. Everyone in favor had the same argument: FREE STUFF. It's like the ice cream cake someone brings in at the office. Suddenly everyone is in the break room on time. Free cake? Oh yeah I can be there at noon.
I propose HR 3222010: a free pony for everyone in America.
Who wants a pony!?! Why not just pass a law giving everyone free milk? Isn't it a RIGHT to have free milk? And bacon! Free bacon!
You laugh? Ha- look at french subsidies on farm products. You don't think they can afford camembert at $18 a pound do you? No- someone else pays. Always.
Tonight was a vote for free stuff. Everything free but freedom.
And to you- our beloved democrats who scored your victory tonight- congrats. Healthcare is now yours. When med school numbers plummet, when costs skyrocket- and mark my words both will- you can rest assured that all 218 votes that passed this disastrous piece of unconstitutional, unamerican, eurotrash socialism- were all yours.
And Barack Obama's.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Playing the Nazi Card
Lot's of "cards" in politics. There's the race card, the minority card, the woman card, the fascist card. Jim McGreevy tried his hand at the gay card. I don't know which is trump, depends on which game we are playing I guess. When I was in college it seems that the date rape card was huge. Guys were scared. That's like the left bower.
The nazi card has been played a lot in the last few months. (I never know whether or not to capitalize nazi...). Recently Glen Beck must have been playing war with the Washington Post and they played that card against him. In years past it might have worked but now the nazi Nazi card has lost some of its potency. When you play the Nazi card against the Pope, well you kill it.
So Beck is now a Nazi, at least according to Anthony Stevens-Arroyo. For most Catholics... well, I shouldn't say that, for THIS Catholic, Stevens-Arroyo is like nails on a chalk board. He's as great a Catholic figure as Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden or the late Ted Kennedy. He is to the Catholic Church was good ole Link Chaffee was to the GOP. So for ASA to judge Glen Beck as a Catholic basher is like Chuck Schumer to decry Mitch McConnell as anti-Israel. The ones who hate themselves hate the most.
I don't like the Nazi card for either party because no one want to take over the world and hates Jews. Except Obama. And when you see video footage like this below, you wonder who the real "Hitler youth" tactician is....
The nazi card has been played a lot in the last few months. (I never know whether or not to capitalize nazi...). Recently Glen Beck must have been playing war with the Washington Post and they played that card against him. In years past it might have worked but now the nazi Nazi card has lost some of its potency. When you play the Nazi card against the Pope, well you kill it.
So Beck is now a Nazi, at least according to Anthony Stevens-Arroyo. For most Catholics... well, I shouldn't say that, for THIS Catholic, Stevens-Arroyo is like nails on a chalk board. He's as great a Catholic figure as Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden or the late Ted Kennedy. He is to the Catholic Church was good ole Link Chaffee was to the GOP. So for ASA to judge Glen Beck as a Catholic basher is like Chuck Schumer to decry Mitch McConnell as anti-Israel. The ones who hate themselves hate the most.
I don't like the Nazi card for either party because no one want to take over the world and hates Jews. Except Obama. And when you see video footage like this below, you wonder who the real "Hitler youth" tactician is....
Friday, March 5, 2010
Divisive Racial Agenda
Tavis Smiley is calling for a summit.
"Black leaders" will unite to discuss the "black agenda" and what President Obama has done for the black community. The sense is that he has not done enough. Black issues have not been addressed. Or maybe Tavis et al wanted them solved by now.
If Obama really is a messiah, then he could have solved those ills by now. Alas, concerns that Obama did not have enough "negrotude" have been verified and, as Harry Reid suspected, our President really has no negro dialect for he has not spoken black enough. At least not black enough for Tavis Smiley.
Tavis Smiley has a show on PBS. PBS is 50% subsidized by the government and has been since LBJ. They do not need to compete for viewership, they do not need to put out a product that can win prime time ratings. Let Tavis Smiley go on a real network and not hide behind the non-profit status of PBS. But that's another story. What Tavis is advocating is my concern. And who he is gathering to advocate it...
Louis Farrakhan is genuinly hate filled. If being a hate filled man is what qualifies you a leader, than he is a leader is in style of Hitler- a valid analogy since they both blame "the Jews" for almost everyting from war and peace to lumpy mashed potatoes and mushy apples. But unlike Hitler, Farrakhan was abducted by aliens. Oh yeah, just ask him.
Louis Farrakhan, the raging anti-semite, hate filled alien abductee will be there.
As will Al Sharpton. Al has charmed the pants off some conservatives who take the "hate the sin, love the sinner approach". That's fine for Church, not for politics. I remember Tawana Brawley and grew up near Howard Beach. I know what Al Sharpton does when opportunities arise and how Al thrives on racial violence. And when there is no racial vilence, he incites it. Or creates it. Ask the boys in the still falsly named "Duke Rape Case" about Al Sharpton. So I for one will never excuse Al Sharpton.
These are two of the fine men who will be at the summit to discuss the "black agenda". And what is this agenda? And more importantly, how is it different than the "American agenda"? What issue is so isolated, so separate, so self contained that it does not effect society as a whole? Education? Jobs? Iran? The Dollar?
So much of what Tavis and Al and "take me to your leader" Lou say sound like good ole Marxist screeds. Black nationalism has at its core the very principles of socialism. The state (now Barack Obama) has an obligation to do stuff for us, to deliver goods for us, to respond to our needs.
Race relations are not progressing in America. They are getting worse. And so long as every group gets its own agenda and expects unique treatment, the race relations will continue to digress.
There exists no black agenda that is not America's agenda. There are no black issues that are not America's issues. And if these self anointed black leaders" think that all they needed was the right color President to change society, then they are the racist minds and hearts that poison our country.
Sadly they will have a sympathetic ear in our victimist President.
"Black leaders" will unite to discuss the "black agenda" and what President Obama has done for the black community. The sense is that he has not done enough. Black issues have not been addressed. Or maybe Tavis et al wanted them solved by now.
If Obama really is a messiah, then he could have solved those ills by now. Alas, concerns that Obama did not have enough "negrotude" have been verified and, as Harry Reid suspected, our President really has no negro dialect for he has not spoken black enough. At least not black enough for Tavis Smiley.
Tavis Smiley has a show on PBS. PBS is 50% subsidized by the government and has been since LBJ. They do not need to compete for viewership, they do not need to put out a product that can win prime time ratings. Let Tavis Smiley go on a real network and not hide behind the non-profit status of PBS. But that's another story. What Tavis is advocating is my concern. And who he is gathering to advocate it...
Louis Farrakhan is genuinly hate filled. If being a hate filled man is what qualifies you a leader, than he is a leader is in style of Hitler- a valid analogy since they both blame "the Jews" for almost everyting from war and peace to lumpy mashed potatoes and mushy apples. But unlike Hitler, Farrakhan was abducted by aliens. Oh yeah, just ask him.
Louis Farrakhan, the raging anti-semite, hate filled alien abductee will be there.
As will Al Sharpton. Al has charmed the pants off some conservatives who take the "hate the sin, love the sinner approach". That's fine for Church, not for politics. I remember Tawana Brawley and grew up near Howard Beach. I know what Al Sharpton does when opportunities arise and how Al thrives on racial violence. And when there is no racial vilence, he incites it. Or creates it. Ask the boys in the still falsly named "Duke Rape Case" about Al Sharpton. So I for one will never excuse Al Sharpton.
These are two of the fine men who will be at the summit to discuss the "black agenda". And what is this agenda? And more importantly, how is it different than the "American agenda"? What issue is so isolated, so separate, so self contained that it does not effect society as a whole? Education? Jobs? Iran? The Dollar?
So much of what Tavis and Al and "take me to your leader" Lou say sound like good ole Marxist screeds. Black nationalism has at its core the very principles of socialism. The state (now Barack Obama) has an obligation to do stuff for us, to deliver goods for us, to respond to our needs.
Race relations are not progressing in America. They are getting worse. And so long as every group gets its own agenda and expects unique treatment, the race relations will continue to digress.
There exists no black agenda that is not America's agenda. There are no black issues that are not America's issues. And if these self anointed black leaders" think that all they needed was the right color President to change society, then they are the racist minds and hearts that poison our country.
Sadly they will have a sympathetic ear in our victimist President.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Colorless American Olympians
I'm an Olympics nerd.
But my whole family is too. When we were kids, our parents, especially my mom would make us watch both Olympics from opening to closing ceremony with every event, competition, game, routine and match-up in between. She insisted that we needed to appreciate the athletes and out country.
One winter Olympics I remember was 22 years ago: Calgary 1988. The star of those games was an ice skater and her name was Debbie Thomas. She was the first American woman to be a gold medal contender in years bringing athleticism and power to a sport that had been heretofore dancy, flippy, dramatic and almost silly. To make it more exciting, she had an archrival in Katarine Witt, the product of the evil communist East German sports machine.
Debbie Thomas is black. I didn't realize that at the time. Not that I didn't know. I just didn't care. It just didn't matter. She was American. She was ours.
OK- don't get me wrong I don't hold myself up as a model of racial harmony. My sentiment is not a reflection of me but rather the times. No one made a big deal out of Debbie Thomas being black or minority or African American. No one profiled her from that angle. Dick Button didn't ask about the additional pressure of being black and a skater... it just didn't matter.
This Olympics, 22 years later, every time NBC shows Shani Davis the speed skater, Bob Costas and crew comment on his color. For them, it is not enough that he is a top American athlete representing our nation. No, for NBC, Shani is an African American athlete. And for some reason that's different. At least in their eyes.
I think in 22 years we've gone backwards and we are worse off than before. When Chris Matthews remarked after President Obama's State of the Union "I forgot he was black tonight", he revealed a much deeper, divisive and rather sinister undercurrent of thought. Does that mean that on a regular day he always sees President Obama as black? Odd... because I think most people just see him as President. Sure I see him as a bad, bad President but... not because he's black. Neither was Carter.
I will be routing for Shani tonight in his 1500 meter event and hope he gets another gold. But not because he's black. Because he's an American Olympian. I think that's reason enough.
But my whole family is too. When we were kids, our parents, especially my mom would make us watch both Olympics from opening to closing ceremony with every event, competition, game, routine and match-up in between. She insisted that we needed to appreciate the athletes and out country.
One winter Olympics I remember was 22 years ago: Calgary 1988. The star of those games was an ice skater and her name was Debbie Thomas. She was the first American woman to be a gold medal contender in years bringing athleticism and power to a sport that had been heretofore dancy, flippy, dramatic and almost silly. To make it more exciting, she had an archrival in Katarine Witt, the product of the evil communist East German sports machine.
Debbie Thomas is black. I didn't realize that at the time. Not that I didn't know. I just didn't care. It just didn't matter. She was American. She was ours.
OK- don't get me wrong I don't hold myself up as a model of racial harmony. My sentiment is not a reflection of me but rather the times. No one made a big deal out of Debbie Thomas being black or minority or African American. No one profiled her from that angle. Dick Button didn't ask about the additional pressure of being black and a skater... it just didn't matter.
This Olympics, 22 years later, every time NBC shows Shani Davis the speed skater, Bob Costas and crew comment on his color. For them, it is not enough that he is a top American athlete representing our nation. No, for NBC, Shani is an African American athlete. And for some reason that's different. At least in their eyes.
I think in 22 years we've gone backwards and we are worse off than before. When Chris Matthews remarked after President Obama's State of the Union "I forgot he was black tonight", he revealed a much deeper, divisive and rather sinister undercurrent of thought. Does that mean that on a regular day he always sees President Obama as black? Odd... because I think most people just see him as President. Sure I see him as a bad, bad President but... not because he's black. Neither was Carter.
I will be routing for Shani tonight in his 1500 meter event and hope he gets another gold. But not because he's black. Because he's an American Olympian. I think that's reason enough.
Sunday, February 14, 2010
NBC: Proud as a Peacock and Arrogant, too
"There's a huge responsibility to be the person who holds people accountable but who also helps people understand what's really happening. It's who I am."
-David Gregory
"We've been given a grave responsbility. We have to explain these very complex issues and we have to make sense of it all."
-Brian Williams
I'll be watching a lot of NBC for the next couple of days because I am an Olympics junkie. Sports that I know nothing about, sports that are really inferior and kind of stupid like the broom shuffleboard and ski/shoot/do a shot of yeager biathalon suddenly captivate me.
The downfall to Olympic fever is late nights, newfound dislike of China and Russia and NBC commentary. What I wouldn't give to have Scott Van Pelt rather than Bob Costas and crew. At least they have Chris Berman.
In between events, NBC bombards us with promos and one such ad caught my attention: NBCs self love of their news. I kept hitting rewind on my TIVO to capture the quotes correctly and transcribe them accurately. Who wrote those lines and how damn arrogant are they? What do they think about the average viewer?
We don't need Brian Williams and especially David Gregory to EXPLAIN things to us. Nor is that their job. Aren't they supposed to BROADCAST the news and let us make up our own minds? HA! Not in their worldview. Leave it to THEM to explain and that way we all think the same way... their way.
(Sarcastic voice over) And these issues are SOOOOOOO complex. I mean really, really complex you can't expect to understand them alone! But fear not- they see the gravity of their responsibility- a huge responsibility. To explain it all to you. You dumbasses at home.
In the election of 1988, SNL did a skit about HW Bush and Michael Dukakis in which Jon Lovitz playing the Massachusetts governor talked about his parents as "little people. Little swarthy people". It's the same sentiment- funny, the same network too except SNL is satire and Williams and Gregory are supposed to be serious.
Who can take this network seriously? So thanks, Brian Williams and David Gregory for looking out for us people, us little people. Little dumb people who need your explanation. Now shut up. You too Matt Lauer and Tom Brokaw.
Thank you Lord for the mute button...
-David Gregory
"We've been given a grave responsbility. We have to explain these very complex issues and we have to make sense of it all."
-Brian Williams
I'll be watching a lot of NBC for the next couple of days because I am an Olympics junkie. Sports that I know nothing about, sports that are really inferior and kind of stupid like the broom shuffleboard and ski/shoot/do a shot of yeager biathalon suddenly captivate me.
The downfall to Olympic fever is late nights, newfound dislike of China and Russia and NBC commentary. What I wouldn't give to have Scott Van Pelt rather than Bob Costas and crew. At least they have Chris Berman.
In between events, NBC bombards us with promos and one such ad caught my attention: NBCs self love of their news. I kept hitting rewind on my TIVO to capture the quotes correctly and transcribe them accurately. Who wrote those lines and how damn arrogant are they? What do they think about the average viewer?
We don't need Brian Williams and especially David Gregory to EXPLAIN things to us. Nor is that their job. Aren't they supposed to BROADCAST the news and let us make up our own minds? HA! Not in their worldview. Leave it to THEM to explain and that way we all think the same way... their way.
(Sarcastic voice over) And these issues are SOOOOOOO complex. I mean really, really complex you can't expect to understand them alone! But fear not- they see the gravity of their responsibility- a huge responsibility. To explain it all to you. You dumbasses at home.
In the election of 1988, SNL did a skit about HW Bush and Michael Dukakis in which Jon Lovitz playing the Massachusetts governor talked about his parents as "little people. Little swarthy people". It's the same sentiment- funny, the same network too except SNL is satire and Williams and Gregory are supposed to be serious.
Who can take this network seriously? So thanks, Brian Williams and David Gregory for looking out for us people, us little people. Little dumb people who need your explanation. Now shut up. You too Matt Lauer and Tom Brokaw.
Thank you Lord for the mute button...
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Million Man (Snow) March
DC was some interesting last week. Covered in snow, food shortages, a city utterly incapable of maintaining services from snow removal to public transit. Government ineptitude was on display as like Hurricane Katrina but without the same level of drama and a Republican President to blame.
But what strikes me the most is not Mayor Fenty's inefficiency or total lack of planning. No, it was the 4 days of federal government closure.
Two million people did not work for four days. That's 64 million manhours of unrealized work, of non-productivity. And no one noticed. Satellites orbited the earth. Planes stayed in the sky. China did not invade, Russia did not have it's Red Dawn moment.
So the question: what do these people do all day? If the entire federal government bureaucracy was M.I.A. for four consecutive days and nothing changed at all- well I think it goes without saying that a level of superfluousness exists.
We are $1.7 trillion over budget this year. I know a place to make some cuts. Recently an audit of the Transportation Department stated that over 1600 people make over $170,000. Wow. Just think of that- 1600+ people who do not produce, manufacture, sell, create or market anything. They regulate your life. And that's Transportation.
Wouldn't you love to see audits of Labor and Energy and Commerce and State and Interior and Agriculture and Treasury and EPA and FTC and SEC and FEC and Defense and CIA and FBI and Education... want me to go on?
And all these people, these 6-figure regulators stayed home for 4 days because of the snow. You didn't notice, did you? Yeah, me neither.
But I did notice when I got my paycheck.
Hope you enjoyed the vacation, federal workers. Your welcome.
But what strikes me the most is not Mayor Fenty's inefficiency or total lack of planning. No, it was the 4 days of federal government closure.
Two million people did not work for four days. That's 64 million manhours of unrealized work, of non-productivity. And no one noticed. Satellites orbited the earth. Planes stayed in the sky. China did not invade, Russia did not have it's Red Dawn moment.
So the question: what do these people do all day? If the entire federal government bureaucracy was M.I.A. for four consecutive days and nothing changed at all- well I think it goes without saying that a level of superfluousness exists.
We are $1.7 trillion over budget this year. I know a place to make some cuts. Recently an audit of the Transportation Department stated that over 1600 people make over $170,000. Wow. Just think of that- 1600+ people who do not produce, manufacture, sell, create or market anything. They regulate your life. And that's Transportation.
Wouldn't you love to see audits of Labor and Energy and Commerce and State and Interior and Agriculture and Treasury and EPA and FTC and SEC and FEC and Defense and CIA and FBI and Education... want me to go on?
And all these people, these 6-figure regulators stayed home for 4 days because of the snow. You didn't notice, did you? Yeah, me neither.
But I did notice when I got my paycheck.
Hope you enjoyed the vacation, federal workers. Your welcome.
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Thanks Al Gore
As I weather through the second major snowstorm, not counting 3 minor snow falls that didn't cripple but only annoyed the nation's capital, my thoughts go to Al Gore and his Global Warming...er... climate change profiteers.
I guess the earth is so hot (how hot is it?!?) that we have had record snowfalls in our city. Maybe such accumulation is atypical for Washington DC. Maybe the climate really is in constant flux- something that we used to call WEATHER.
So as Al and his buddies at East Anglia U continue to hide the decline- as Tom Friedman pushes his book about the earth being hot and overcrowded, I'm hoping one of them will shovel my walk. I mean they are in this field because of societal commitment, right? They aren't in it for the money. As Dennis Miller once joked "beware of the prophet making a profit".
So Al- get your shovel and remove my 20+ inches of snow. And don't forget the salt.
I guess the earth is so hot (how hot is it?!?) that we have had record snowfalls in our city. Maybe such accumulation is atypical for Washington DC. Maybe the climate really is in constant flux- something that we used to call WEATHER.
So as Al and his buddies at East Anglia U continue to hide the decline- as Tom Friedman pushes his book about the earth being hot and overcrowded, I'm hoping one of them will shovel my walk. I mean they are in this field because of societal commitment, right? They aren't in it for the money. As Dennis Miller once joked "beware of the prophet making a profit".
So Al- get your shovel and remove my 20+ inches of snow. And don't forget the salt.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
The Lords of the Senate
In 1913 the U.S. Constitution was amended for the 17th time to allow for the direct election of Senators.
Sounded like a good idea at the time. After all, who isn't in favor of democratic elections?
in this case, well, me.
The original Article I, Section iii of the Constitution provided for each State Legislature to choose their Senator, thus fostering an even greater link between State and Federal Governments with higher authority being held by the former. You know, Federalism. This modern system has turned the U.S. Senate from a chamber acting on behalf of their State, the State that sent them to Washington D.C., into a an American version of the House of Lords.
And this is a bi-partisan bastardization of Federalism. From Ted Stevens (found innocent) to Ted Kennedy (never found guilty) and every Biden, Dodd, Thurmond and KKK member Byrd in between, the Senate has morphed into an Upper House dedicated to self-preservation and nation priorities and even hereditary rule.
When Bobby Kennedy decided he wanted into politics, after LBJ fired him from the DOJ, he moved to a State with an open seat and a democrat/Catholic population that would sympathetically vote for him despite being underqualified. Some 40+ years later First Lady Hillary Clinton did the same thing. Neither cared about New York. Neither were New Yorkers. I'm sure they loved the City and even though Bobby enjoyed schtuping Marilyn Monroe at The Plaza on 5th Avenue and Hillary loved her Fundraisers in East Hampton, neither extra-curricular activities should constitute residency. A State Legislature would not pick such carpet baggers who would use and abuse 1/100 of the Senate while mounting a Presidential bid.
After Senator Clinton was named Secretary of State (remember how Senator Obama attacked her foreign policy credentials as nothing more than tea time with first ladies? After he won the primary I guess she became qualified. Funny how that works. Obama, after all, had more foreign policy experience. He was born in Indonesia. But that's another story) Caroline Kennedy decided she wanted to job. And in the American House of Lords, that should be enough. Family name and personal wealth are sufficient credentials.
John Corzine also desired to be a Lord. So he bankrolled a few million dollars into a campaign to buy his dutchy of New Jersey. Then headed to Washington to tell people in other dutchies what their education program should look like.
Recently Beau Biden decided to renounce his father's seat, kept warm for him by a temp appointment. At least one Biden is smart. Scott Brown's victory over the witless, gutless, clueless Martha Coakley is a step in the democratic direction. Baroness Coakley assumed that little effort would be needed to assume her position as a Lady of the Senate. After all, should she "stand out in the cold at Fenway?" to greet the peasants on her Feudal Manor? Hell no! She was the successor of Sir Edward Kennedy, Duke of Hyannisport, Lord of Chappaquiddick Bridge and Jamison Fine Irish Whiskey. Martha would not, should not need to "work" for this position like a candidate to The Commons. Martha by right, by inheritance, was above such efforts.
Damn that green truck and its 200,000 miles.
Lord Robert Byrd has hung in the throws of death for about 15 years. He has been a Senator since the battle of Bull Run (he calls it Manassas Junction and still laments the war's outcome.) Sir Christopher Dodd is finally stepping down. And Sir Arlen Specter may too be ousted from his, yes HIS, seat.
Scott Brown taught us a good lesson. It is not Ted Kennedy's seat- or anyone's seat. All true Senators should know that they are classic interlopers. May the people, the rabble commoners, now called "tea baggers" by some Lords return the Senate to its purpose and intent: defending the rights of the States from the crown, er, President.
Sounded like a good idea at the time. After all, who isn't in favor of democratic elections?
in this case, well, me.
The original Article I, Section iii of the Constitution provided for each State Legislature to choose their Senator, thus fostering an even greater link between State and Federal Governments with higher authority being held by the former. You know, Federalism. This modern system has turned the U.S. Senate from a chamber acting on behalf of their State, the State that sent them to Washington D.C., into a an American version of the House of Lords.
And this is a bi-partisan bastardization of Federalism. From Ted Stevens (found innocent) to Ted Kennedy (never found guilty) and every Biden, Dodd, Thurmond and KKK member Byrd in between, the Senate has morphed into an Upper House dedicated to self-preservation and nation priorities and even hereditary rule.
When Bobby Kennedy decided he wanted into politics, after LBJ fired him from the DOJ, he moved to a State with an open seat and a democrat/Catholic population that would sympathetically vote for him despite being underqualified. Some 40+ years later First Lady Hillary Clinton did the same thing. Neither cared about New York. Neither were New Yorkers. I'm sure they loved the City and even though Bobby enjoyed schtuping Marilyn Monroe at The Plaza on 5th Avenue and Hillary loved her Fundraisers in East Hampton, neither extra-curricular activities should constitute residency. A State Legislature would not pick such carpet baggers who would use and abuse 1/100 of the Senate while mounting a Presidential bid.
After Senator Clinton was named Secretary of State (remember how Senator Obama attacked her foreign policy credentials as nothing more than tea time with first ladies? After he won the primary I guess she became qualified. Funny how that works. Obama, after all, had more foreign policy experience. He was born in Indonesia. But that's another story) Caroline Kennedy decided she wanted to job. And in the American House of Lords, that should be enough. Family name and personal wealth are sufficient credentials.
John Corzine also desired to be a Lord. So he bankrolled a few million dollars into a campaign to buy his dutchy of New Jersey. Then headed to Washington to tell people in other dutchies what their education program should look like.
Recently Beau Biden decided to renounce his father's seat, kept warm for him by a temp appointment. At least one Biden is smart. Scott Brown's victory over the witless, gutless, clueless Martha Coakley is a step in the democratic direction. Baroness Coakley assumed that little effort would be needed to assume her position as a Lady of the Senate. After all, should she "stand out in the cold at Fenway?" to greet the peasants on her Feudal Manor? Hell no! She was the successor of Sir Edward Kennedy, Duke of Hyannisport, Lord of Chappaquiddick Bridge and Jamison Fine Irish Whiskey. Martha would not, should not need to "work" for this position like a candidate to The Commons. Martha by right, by inheritance, was above such efforts.
Damn that green truck and its 200,000 miles.
Lord Robert Byrd has hung in the throws of death for about 15 years. He has been a Senator since the battle of Bull Run (he calls it Manassas Junction and still laments the war's outcome.) Sir Christopher Dodd is finally stepping down. And Sir Arlen Specter may too be ousted from his, yes HIS, seat.
Scott Brown taught us a good lesson. It is not Ted Kennedy's seat- or anyone's seat. All true Senators should know that they are classic interlopers. May the people, the rabble commoners, now called "tea baggers" by some Lords return the Senate to its purpose and intent: defending the rights of the States from the crown, er, President.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
A Dead President
Tonight, President Obama's political power officially died.
So too died the atrocious Obamacare, Obama's Cap and Trade, Obama's immigration reform- basically Obama's whole legislative agenda.
In effect, it's the best thing that could happen to him. It saved his legacy. Just ask Bill Clinton what Newt Gingrich's House did for his Presidency.
To recap- in the past year Obama went to Copenhagen to win the Olympics. And Failed. He headed to Virginia to campaign for Creigh Deeds (I got stuck in the traffic in McLean) and failed. And he went to New Jersey to support John Corzine. Failed again. Then, in a scramble amidst the Haiti crisis, Obama went to Massachusetts to woo the Chowdah Heads with his non-negro dialect.
And failed.
Remember- this is the the man who is a "a honey-tongued Frankenfusion of Lincoln, Gandhi, Cicero, Jesus, and all our most cherished national acronyms (MLK, JFK, RFK, FDR)" according to New York Magazine. Evan Thomas was awed at how he stood above us "like a god".
Not a very strong god. Or at least, not a long lasting god. I mean it's only been 364 days... and the "god" cannot deliver a win in Teddy Kennedy's hometown?
I hope you had a good year, President god. Welcome back to earth.
And mortality.
So too died the atrocious Obamacare, Obama's Cap and Trade, Obama's immigration reform- basically Obama's whole legislative agenda.
In effect, it's the best thing that could happen to him. It saved his legacy. Just ask Bill Clinton what Newt Gingrich's House did for his Presidency.
To recap- in the past year Obama went to Copenhagen to win the Olympics. And Failed. He headed to Virginia to campaign for Creigh Deeds (I got stuck in the traffic in McLean) and failed. And he went to New Jersey to support John Corzine. Failed again. Then, in a scramble amidst the Haiti crisis, Obama went to Massachusetts to woo the Chowdah Heads with his non-negro dialect.
And failed.
Remember- this is the the man who is a "a honey-tongued Frankenfusion of Lincoln, Gandhi, Cicero, Jesus, and all our most cherished national acronyms (MLK, JFK, RFK, FDR)" according to New York Magazine. Evan Thomas was awed at how he stood above us "like a god".
Not a very strong god. Or at least, not a long lasting god. I mean it's only been 364 days... and the "god" cannot deliver a win in Teddy Kennedy's hometown?
I hope you had a good year, President god. Welcome back to earth.
And mortality.
Saturday, January 9, 2010
"The System Worked"
Much has been written and said about this poorly uttered phrase of DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano. Surely it has been added to the lexicon of political gaffes along with "Where is the 'O'" and "I did not have sexual encounter with that woman".
But I disagree with most conservative writers and commentators who assert that said phrase was not just incorrect but highlighted the incompetence inherent in the Obama White House. The system did indeed work.
For the muslim terrorists.
Since the birth and life of mohammad the false prophet in the 7th century, his followers have used violence, fear, terror to spread their religion. Let's not forget: "islam" means "submission". The muhammadans began their campaign in northern Africa and moved into Persia, stopping of course in the Holy City of Jerusalem where mohammed died, conveniently adding a third religious group to Jerusalem's already crowded streets. Where was Titus when you needed him...
The advance of the muhammadans continued into Byzantium along the Adriatic coast in the eastern edge of Caesar's mare nostrum and across Gibraltar into the Iberian Peninsula in the western edge of Christendom. Opposition was few and far between. A chaotic dark ages of civilization had plunged Europe into disorganized feuding fiefdoms and collectives without army, defense and structure.
But leaders did indeed emerge from the ashes of Rome's greatness. Charles the hammer Martel and his progeny Charles the Great, Charles-le-magne. Muhammadans, people of a certain religious faith that spread their belief through the sword, had been stopped along the Pyrenees. And Christians from Covedunga began their southward crusade pushing the muhhamadans back into Africa over the next 500 years. When the House of Aragon and Castilla united in marriage in the late 15th century, their combined forces finished the job.
"Spain" is the only region once held by muhammadans that has been restored to the west. Iberia is a phrase the Ayatollah invokes as a war cry. When I lived in Spain I remember an imam in Madrid saying something about "reconquering Spain without firing one shot". Well- all it took was a bomb on a train and the rage in Spain falls mainly on... cowardice.
For homework, look up the Battle of Lepanto of 1571 and Pope Pius V. Then, read about Jan Sobieski and the Battle of Vienna of 1683. History shows us that the west has been in FUNDAMENTAL CONFLICT with the muhammadans for 1400 years. We have never lived peacefully side by side. We have never experienced mutual collaboration and fraternity.
There has been prelude to war, war, defeat, and muhammadans defeat. The last defeat gave us a few hundred years of quiet. We are quiet no longer. Since 1979 the west has been at war again. Our president can bow to Saudi kings and pronounce islamic terms with an islamic accent and call the koran "holy". He can falsely exaggerate islam's achievements (the arch? geometry? really? who wrote that Cairo speech and had he ever heard of Pythagoras or Euclid or the ancient Romans?). He can, and probably will, make many more overtures of appeasement. But that will not bring peace or coexistence.
Look at history.
So when Janet Napolitano says "the system worked" she is speaking a truth. The system as intended by post-W Obama is a roaring success. It keeps his head firmly in the sand while terrorists make gains. It forces tens of thousands of American travelers to take off their belt and shoes and dance through scanners in security kabuki instead of pulling asides 18-35 year old men named Akhed who checked in without luggage. It grants civilian trials to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and permits Umar Farouk Abdulmuttalab miranda privileges while forcing us all to "hold it in" during the last hour on a plane so as not to detonate our briefs.
The system works. It suspects all equally while appeasing the enemy in the hopes that he stop killing us. Obviously our President does not understand our enemy. If he thinks Lepanto is like Waterloo, then he is sadly ignorant of facts. Those stubborn facts.
In this age of darkness when the west is once again plagued by failing economies, dispair and fear have become commonplace. Muhammadans take this opportunity to advance their cause as they have always done in history. But I am certain our Hammer, our le-magne or Sobieski will rise up again and drive them back. And like Scippio, may he salt their fields of religious evil so that nothing may grow again.
Then we won't need a system.
But I disagree with most conservative writers and commentators who assert that said phrase was not just incorrect but highlighted the incompetence inherent in the Obama White House. The system did indeed work.
For the muslim terrorists.
Since the birth and life of mohammad the false prophet in the 7th century, his followers have used violence, fear, terror to spread their religion. Let's not forget: "islam" means "submission". The muhammadans began their campaign in northern Africa and moved into Persia, stopping of course in the Holy City of Jerusalem where mohammed died, conveniently adding a third religious group to Jerusalem's already crowded streets. Where was Titus when you needed him...
The advance of the muhammadans continued into Byzantium along the Adriatic coast in the eastern edge of Caesar's mare nostrum and across Gibraltar into the Iberian Peninsula in the western edge of Christendom. Opposition was few and far between. A chaotic dark ages of civilization had plunged Europe into disorganized feuding fiefdoms and collectives without army, defense and structure.
But leaders did indeed emerge from the ashes of Rome's greatness. Charles the hammer Martel and his progeny Charles the Great, Charles-le-magne. Muhammadans, people of a certain religious faith that spread their belief through the sword, had been stopped along the Pyrenees. And Christians from Covedunga began their southward crusade pushing the muhhamadans back into Africa over the next 500 years. When the House of Aragon and Castilla united in marriage in the late 15th century, their combined forces finished the job.
"Spain" is the only region once held by muhammadans that has been restored to the west. Iberia is a phrase the Ayatollah invokes as a war cry. When I lived in Spain I remember an imam in Madrid saying something about "reconquering Spain without firing one shot". Well- all it took was a bomb on a train and the rage in Spain falls mainly on... cowardice.
For homework, look up the Battle of Lepanto of 1571 and Pope Pius V. Then, read about Jan Sobieski and the Battle of Vienna of 1683. History shows us that the west has been in FUNDAMENTAL CONFLICT with the muhammadans for 1400 years. We have never lived peacefully side by side. We have never experienced mutual collaboration and fraternity.
There has been prelude to war, war, defeat, and muhammadans defeat. The last defeat gave us a few hundred years of quiet. We are quiet no longer. Since 1979 the west has been at war again. Our president can bow to Saudi kings and pronounce islamic terms with an islamic accent and call the koran "holy". He can falsely exaggerate islam's achievements (the arch? geometry? really? who wrote that Cairo speech and had he ever heard of Pythagoras or Euclid or the ancient Romans?). He can, and probably will, make many more overtures of appeasement. But that will not bring peace or coexistence.
Look at history.
So when Janet Napolitano says "the system worked" she is speaking a truth. The system as intended by post-W Obama is a roaring success. It keeps his head firmly in the sand while terrorists make gains. It forces tens of thousands of American travelers to take off their belt and shoes and dance through scanners in security kabuki instead of pulling asides 18-35 year old men named Akhed who checked in without luggage. It grants civilian trials to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and permits Umar Farouk Abdulmuttalab miranda privileges while forcing us all to "hold it in" during the last hour on a plane so as not to detonate our briefs.
The system works. It suspects all equally while appeasing the enemy in the hopes that he stop killing us. Obviously our President does not understand our enemy. If he thinks Lepanto is like Waterloo, then he is sadly ignorant of facts. Those stubborn facts.
In this age of darkness when the west is once again plagued by failing economies, dispair and fear have become commonplace. Muhammadans take this opportunity to advance their cause as they have always done in history. But I am certain our Hammer, our le-magne or Sobieski will rise up again and drive them back. And like Scippio, may he salt their fields of religious evil so that nothing may grow again.
Then we won't need a system.
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