At Least the Gays Can Marry

So, let me see if I got this straight.
Okay, maybe “straight” isn’t the best word to use.
So, let me see if I understand this Rube Goldberg rattrap constructed by the Obama Administration.
The United States Federal Government will do absolutely nothing to ensure disease-infested foreigners can come into our country because, well, that’s xenophobic.
The United States Federal Government will do absolutely nothing to prevent terrorists from entering our country through the southern border because, well, it might prevent future registered Democrats from pouring over our border with them.
The United States Federal Government will not prevent American citizens who leave the US to fight with ISIS from returning to the United States once they’re done. Or, once ISIS decides to have them return to carry out attacks on us from within our homeland. Because, well, Islam is a religion of peace.
The United States Federal Government will sit on its hands and leave the citizens of this country vulnerable to disease and attack just as surely as the Secret Service will leave the President vulnerable because securing the American People is nativist.
Whoever was the first person to say Political Correctness kills should be given a medal and a lifetime supply of Rice-a-Roni.
But hey.
At least the gays can marry, right?
Good to know the Federal Government has its priorities, yeah?
Of course, Christian businesses who refuse to supply wedding cakes or photographs of gay weddings will be driven from business and forced to file bankruptcy, not to mention pay tens of thousands of dollars in fines.
Because, when it comes to actual dangers to the citizenry of the United States of America, Christian business owners are way more of a threat than ISIS or infectious diseases, am I right?!
Fussing over gay “marriage” at a time like this is precisely what the old expression, “rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic” was made for.
This is how a Republic dies.
Not by foreign enemies, but by self-inflicted death.
It’s pathetic, really.
I’m sure Obama will be tripping over himself to phone up some gay couple from Utah or Oklahoma to congratulate them on being free to marry.
Say, has Obama made a phone call to the family of Colleen Hufford.
Don’t know who she is?
Boy, I am not surprised you don’t.
We are living the end result of Liberal Political Correctness.
Ebola — a disease that has never been in the US is now here.
Some heretofore unknown viral infection is killing children.
Drug resistant tuberculosis has entered the US through our sieve-like southern border.
Islamic terrorists are here on our shores — some snuck in, some homegrown.
And we’ve let it happen. Hell, we flung the doors wide open for it. And those doors are hung on the hinges of Political Correctness.
The primary function of the Federal Government is the safety and security of the American people.
It is not the primary function of the Federal Government to determine state marriage laws.
It is not the primary function of the Federal Government to determine what contraceptives insurance companies must cover.
It is not the primary function of the Federal Government to spy on and harass American citizens.
The primary purpose of having a Federal Government is to ensure the safety, security and sovereignty of our country.
And they are failing at it.
Worse, they aren’t even making the effort.
But, hey. At least the gays can marry.
Your children will be attending public schools with an untold number of illegal foreigners who will likely not be screened medically before they are dumped in your kids’ classrooms.
But, hey. At least your kids won’t get fat from their school lunches.
Yeah, they might starve for the seven hours they are in school, but they won’t get fat!
And, who knows? Some of those foreign nationals who are in your kids’ classrooms just might expose your kids to a parasite that will help keep them skinny.
Here’s hoping!
Amazing, isn’t it?
The Federal Government is larger than it has ever been in the history of this country. It wields more power than it has ever wielded (or was supposed to wield).
And yet.
It is an impotent, flaccid, over-bloated, good-for-nothing waste of time, energy and money.
Yesterday, White House Spokes-Liar Josh Earnest declared that President Obama is taking “a whole of government approach” in dealing with Ebola here in the states [hat tip Breitbart].
I’m sorry. Is that supposed to make me feel better?
We’ve seen the “whole of government approach” to healthcare. To ISIS. To Immigration and illegals pouring over our borders.
Is this supposed to be a comforting thought?
But, hey. At least the gays can marry, am I right?
The truth is, we don’t need a “whole of government approach.”
All we need is concentrated, swift action. Close the borders. Ban all flights out of Africa. Any medical personnel or relief workers who have been in Africa must remain in quarantine until such time as it can be determined they are disease-free before they are permitted to return to the US.
Easy peazy.
But they won’t do it, will they?
Not a chance.
Because for them, the “whole of government approach” can be summed up in two words: Political correctness.
But, hey. It isn’t all bad news. Sure. We may be only days away from a domestic Islamic terror attack or a full-on outbreak of Ebola, but at least the gays can marry.

10 Ways Obama Has Failed as President

We are so over with being impressed by this president.

A poll released last week had some pretty bad news for congressional Democrats heading into the midterm elections. But buried in the poll numbers was a figure that just might constitute an even more important turning point.

Respondents were asked: “On balance, do you feel that Obama’s presidency so far has been more of a success or more of a failure?” More than half, 52%, said “failure.” Only 42% said “success.” And it gets worse. Only 22% were “strongly” convinced Obama is a success, while 39% are strongly convinced he’s a failure. And the American people have pretty much made up their minds on this; only 6% of respondents had no clear opinion.

Other evidence backs up this turn in public opinion. How bad has it gotten? The last president who was widely written off by the American people as a failure, George W. Bush, now enjoys higher net approval ratings than Obama, while Mitt Romney has been going on an I-told-you-so tour.

At this point, the American people are pretty much feeling like this kid. We are so over with being impressed by this president.

On behalf of long-time critics of Obama, let me say to the American people: welcome to our world. As a public service, to help you solidify your sense that he just isn’t up to the job, let me count down the ways that President Obama has failed to live up to his promises and to the responsibilities of his office. The list is pretty comprehensive.

1. He didn’t heal our racial divisions.

The first thing people expected of Obama, the whole reason his presidency was already hailed as “historic” on Inauguration Day 2009, before he had taken a single official act, is because voters thought that the first black president would help America put the ugly history of racially divisive politics behind us.

But from his earliest stumbling efforts—anyone remember the “Beer Summit“?—Obama has proven alternately uninterested and ham-handed in dealing with this signature issue. What he has mostly contributed has been to rush in and pre-judge racially charged cases, like the shooting of Trayvon Martin or the questionable police shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, before the defendants get their day in court. When you pre-judge someone on the basis of race, isn’t there a word for that?

So as the recent race riots in Ferguson confirm, Obama has not served as some kind of magical bridge who would promote mutual understanding between whites and blacks. Instead, he has done more to inflame the tensions in these cases than to defuse them.

Our expectations of Obama were overblown from the beginning, but he worked pretty hard to overblow them. Certainly, when voters chose him, they were hoping for the opposite of an unscrupulous race-hustler like Al Sharpton. There was even a joke about Obama sending Sharpton and Jesse Jackson on missions to non-existent countries just to get them as far away from his campaign as possible. Now, Sharpton is being described as Obama’s “go-to man on race,” with a White House source gushing to The Politico that “There’s a trust factor with The Rev from the Oval Office on down.”

For those of us who remember Obama’s previous go-to man on that subject—the Reverend Jeremiah Wright—it’s not surprising. But it’s not what most people thought they were voting for.

2. The stimulus didn’t stimulate.

President Obama was elected in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, and his first big act in office was to sign a gargantuan package of “stimulus” spending—financed entirely with debt—that was supposed to jump-start the economy. Congress voted for hundreds of billion of dollars for “shovel-ready projects” which Obama later discovered don’t exist, and the money disappeared without a trace.

How many “recovery summers” have there been in which growth and employment was finally supposed to take off—only to peter out again? (Hint: the first one was in 2010.)

In how many other recoveries has labor force participation—the percentage of people actually working—declined? In what other recovery have poor people emerged deeper in debt than they were at the beginning?

Yes, the economy was in crisis when President Obama took office. But he has presided over the slowest, weakest economic recovery since the Great Depression—and by a good margin.

3. Financial reform didn’t reform.

But surely, Obama saw to it that we would never repeat the problems that led to the financial crisis and the recession in the first place, right? Except that the Dodd-Frank financial reforms didn’t really reform anything. They created a couple thousand pages of new legislation and many, many more new executive-branch regulations, which have helped to muddle the rules rather than clarify them. But these regulations have never really resolved any of the pre-crisis problems.

The old system in which a handful of giant financial institutions were considered “too big to fail” and thus could depend on the rest of us to bail them out? That system is alive and well.

4. ObamaCare is a boondoggle.

The disastrous launch of ObamaCare was a reminder of everything that’s wrong with big government. It turns out that when we warned health insurance would be run as well as the Department of Motor Vehicles, we were too optimistic. And no one was ever held accountable for that fiasco.

When ObamaCare was passed, we were assured that it would provide insurance for 32 million people who didn’t have any coverage. Four years later, it looks like ObamaCare has covered far fewer new people, between 10% and 20% of what was promised, and about half of those were through an expansion of Medicaid—a burden that will eventually bankrupt the states—rather than through ObamaCare’s insurance exchanges.

Most of the people buying insurance through the exchanges are those who were kicked out of their previous health insurance plans by new regulations. It turns out that if we liked our health insurance, we couldn’t keep it. For some of us, this will be bad. For others, it’s much worse.

You’re still going to hear a lot of commentators on the left arguing that the law is a great success—if you agree to move the goalposts and ignore all the broken promises. But the American people aren’t buying it.

5. Obama failed to reform immigration.

He spent all of his political capital, and then some, on the failed stimulus and the ObamaCare boondoggle, leaving nothing for immigration reform. Having failed to get anything through Congress, he floated a dubious plan to enact amnesty through a unilateral executive authority that he doesn’t have. Then he dropped the idea.

Instead, he has simply failed to enforce the immigration laws, contributing to a crisis on our southern border.

The result: he has managed to enrage the right, the left, and the middle. He hasn’t cracked down on illegal immigration, he hasn’t legalized it, and he hasn’t forged any kind of compromise or consensus on the issue. Nobody is happy and nothing has been accomplished.

6. He withdrew prematurely from Iraq.

Obama was so eager to not be George W. Bush that he pulled all of our troops out of Iraq as soon as possible, then totally ignored the country, even as a terrorist threat re-established itself there. For most of this year, he foolishly downplayed the rise of the Islamic State. Even as Kurds and the Iraqi government issued increasingly panicked warnings, and the Islamic State took over more and more territory, he let the problem get worse for months without bothering to interrupt his golf schedule.

A few weeks ago, he admitted to having no strategy for dealing with the Islamic State. Last week, he hastily assembled one, but it’s looking like it might be unrealistic and lacks international support.

Bush went into Iraq with multiple UN resolutions, congressional approval, a broad “coalition of the willing,” and (as it turned out) the resolve to use whatever means were necessary to prevent a terrorist state from establishing itself there. Obama is going back into Iraq with none of that. So I guess he really isn’t anything like George W. Bush.

Who could have guessed that he would be the one to suffer by that comparison?

7. He blew the Arab Spring.

When a series of uprisings overthrew dictators across the Middle East, Obama failed to adopt any meaningful policy or to turn the situation to our advantage. He dithered for so long on Egypt that all of the factions there hate him, and most of Egypt’s liberals concluded that he was secretly backing the Muslim Brotherhood. The result is that Egypt went right back to where it was before, except this time the military dictatorship regards America as a useless and irrelevant ally.

Meanwhile, the two places where we could have taken advantage of the Arab Spring to get rid of truly nasty dictators who have been hostile to our interests for decades—Libya and Syria—ended in disaster. In Libya, the killing of our ambassador in Benghazi was just the beginning of a slow collapse into chaos and civil war. In Syria, three years of administration dithering allowed the rise of ISIS, which then spilled over into Iraq.

And let’s not forget about 2009, when Iranians poured out onto the street to oppose their own brutal, theocratic, terror-sponsoring regime—and Obama sat back passively because he preferred to cut a diplomatic deal with the ayatollahs.

8. Obama ignored the threat of a resurgent Russian dictatorship.

During a debate with Mitt Romney in 2012, Obama dismissed Romney’s suggestion that Russia might be a threat to American interests, sneering, “The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back.” Now it’s looking more like the 1970s are calling, with an aggressive Russian dictatorship invading its neighbors, leaving our European allies feeling exposed and unsure whether they can really count on support from the US and NATO. Poland’s foreign minister has been overheard complaining about—how shall I put this politely?—his country’s unrequited love for America.

The president’s response to Russian aggression has been to impose a few more sanctions, make a speech in Estonia, and otherwise ignore the crisis and hope it goes away.

9. He didn’t shut down Guantanamo, keep the NSA from spying, or rein in the drones.

I know people who sincerely believe that all of these are good policies and who will defend them vigorously if asked. Barack Obama is not one of those people. Yet all of these policies have been pursued during his presidency, on his authority.

President Obama came into office having loudly condemned many of the Bush administration’s measures against terrorism. Then he continued them. You can call this hypocrisy or you can call it subversion. But President Obama has achieved a unique combination: managing to morally discredit America’s anti-terrorism policies without actually ending them.

10. He has made America irrelevant.

You will notice that most of Obama’s failures result, not from taking a bold stand, but from taking no stand and just letting events drift. Certainly, in a lot of these cases, Obama has given speeches or press conference to announce his enlightened intentions—then done nothing to plan for how to actually achieve his goals.

But if he is irrelevant, that makes America irrelevant. We can look at the Arab Spring, at Ukraine, and at Iraq, but let’s add one more example. For most of his presidency, Obama has declared his intention to “pivot to Asia,” extricating himself from the Middle East and focusing on bolstering our Pacific allies to peacefully manage the rise of China. It’s pretty widely acknowledged that he never managed to do it, letting the Asia pivot die of neglect.

This may fit with the quasi-isolationist mood that has taken hold in America in recent years, but it is yet another case where Obama promised something very different. He campaigned on the promise that America would be more respected in the world after the Bush years—not that we would be considered a useless ally and an ineffectual opponent.

I don’t know if you could come up with a more comprehensive list of presidential failures, encompassing foreign policy and domestic policy, economics, race, and immigration. And I’m sure I left a lot of things off this list, not least of which is the targeting of Obama’s political opponents by a corrupt IRS, which continues to announce the oh-so-mysterious loss of potentially incriminating data by its employees.

Combine all of this with his frequent vacations and golf outings and his fascination with the trappings of pop-culture celebrity, and you get the impression that Obama has checked out of the presidency and lost interest in the responsibility he is neither willing nor able to shoulder.

Obama was originally elected on the basis of celebrity, on vague slogans about “hope and change,” on a sense of self-congratulatory smugness about how progressive and enlightened we would all be if we voted for him. He was re-elected on all of that, plus the smearing of his political opposition as racists and mean rich white guys.

If the result is an utter failure of leadership, maybe there are a few lessons we ought to learn for the next presidential election.

Obama Terrorist Released For Bergdahl, Now Commander For Isis

The Obama administration is worried that news of Fazi’s emergence as a top commander in ISIS will worsen public perception of both the terrorist swap for Bergdahl and the GAO’s findings of illegal activity. The two events, taken together, could generate sufficient fallout to derail some of the political agenda President Obama has for the remainder of his “lame duck” term. The White House has gone into full damage control mode regarding both developments.
Unofficial word coming out of the White House is that Fazi has been elevated to the top of a prioritized drone strike list of terrorist targets. It is being speculated that the administration believes that it can mitigate a large portion of the potential political fallout if Fazi, and the embarrassment he represents, is quickly eliminated. To facilitate this elimination large portions of regional drone resources are being specifically tasked with finding and destroying the former prisoner.
I don’t know how you can spin this. Obama released five for one, now at least one of the five is committing genocide with ISIS in Iraq. That is treason my friends. When a sitting President releases a known terrorist and in under a years time the terrorist is back killing people, that President needs to be removed from office….end of discussion.
The only thing the Obama regime is worried about is being embarrassed. Stunning.

MY SECOND DAY AS PRESIDENT…..

January 21, 2017 agenda

[Buzzing the new Press Secretary, Eric Bolling] “Eric, would you please arrange for a quick press conference at 1:45 this afternoon in the White House briefing room?  I’ll be signing my first executive order, so I’ll need a desk, chair, pens, etc.  Yes…. perfect.  Oh, I’ll speak but I won’t take questions today – I think my remarks will be self-explanatory.  As soon as you set that in motion, please join me in my office.  I have several phone calls to make.

Yes today!  [laughter] Forgive the short notice but I know you can work a miracle for me.  Yes, I’m jumping in with both feet.  Why not make a little news on Day 2.”

My first call would be to the new Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani.

“Good afternoon, Your Excellency.  Thank you for taking my call – I will be brief. 

The United States is no longer your ally.  You have opted for your country to fund radical Muslim factions throughout the Middle East, particularly ISIS.  The United States is suspending all relations, including aid, with your country effective immediately.  The planes that arrived last night and took off at sunrise are bringing home all Americans, including the complete diplomatic staff based in Doha.

Additionally, American military and contract employees in charge of our embassy security are likewise now airborne and entering Mediterranean air space.

You have thirty days to cease and desist funding and support to ISIS.  If you opt NOT to follow this order, it is this government’s intention to obliterate your country with any means possible.

Please say ‘I understand’ if you DO understand what I have said.

[Silence]

I understand you are fluent in English.  A final diplomatic pouch should be arriving at your palace shortly, with my demands in English as well as Arabic.  I do not want any confusion about what I have said.

Good day, Excellency.”

My second call would be to the President of the United Mexican States, Enrique Peña Nieto.

“Buenos dias, Sr. Presidente.  I know you are busy so I will be brief.

You have been holding one of my former Marines, Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi, in jail for a number of months.  You have 24 hours to return this man, along with all of his belongings including the weapons you confiscated, to the United States.  If you fail to do this, the busses will begin coming to Mexico.”

“What busses, Madam President?”

“The busses that will be lined up two days from now to repatriate your citizens, who have poured into this country illegally.  Not only will they be returned but, pursuant to Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution, I am federalizing the National Guards of all Border States.  As Commander-in-Chief I will be directing them to take up armed positions along our common border with orders to shoot to kill anyone trying to enter the United States illegally.  THOSE buses.  Are we clear, Sr. Presidente?”

[Silence]

“I assume we are.  Tiene un buen dia.”

Third call, after getting myself a cup of coffee, would be to my Secretary of State, the Honorable John Bolton.

“Good morning, John.  I hope you’re getting settled in because I want to move forward on the complete review of the budget for the State Department like we discussed.  It’s time to start rewarding our friends and jettisoning those who are not.    

Please break it down by country into Peacekeeping, Foreign Military Financing, and Counterrorism expenses from last year. Then  I would like this put into two columns, please.  One column would be ALLIES and the other column would be NOT SO MUCH….. 

[laughter].  Yes….. Any idea how long that will take?  Excellent!  Oh… By the way, please cease ALL funding to Qatar immediately.

I look forward to sitting down with you soon.  Absolutely, John - you too.”

My fourth call will be a surprise to everyone.  It’s to my newly appointed Director of the US Office of Personnel Management, Liz Cheney.

“Good morning Liz.  Is there any chance you could come to my office after lunch today, say 1:30?  ………Wonderful – I look forward to seeing you and I promise our meeting will be short.  Thank you.”

Next call will be a conference call with the Leader of the Senate, the Honorable Marco Rubio, and the new Speaker of the House, Rep. Marsha Blackburn

“Good morning Senator Rubio and Rep. Blackburn.  Congratulations to you both on your new jobs within the Congress.  I look forward to working with you both.

Having said that, please forgive this short notice but I would be honored if you could both join me in a brief meeting after lunch, around 1:30.  Would that be possible?  [replies]  Excellent!  I promise not to keep you very long.  See you then.”

My next call will also be a conference call to the new Minority leaders of the Senate and House, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi with a similar invitation to join me at 1:30 in my office.  Oh – how nice – they both accepted.

[Buzz to Eric]” Eric, I’m expecting Liz, Marco, Harry, Nancy, Allen and Marsha here for a quick private meeting at 1:30.  I want you here as well….wonderful.

[Buzzing my White House Chief-of-Staff, Allen West] “Allen, everything is a go for this afternoon at 1:30, with the press conference at 1:45.  Please join me upstairs for a quick lunch at noon with the new ‘first man’ and the girls.  Wonderful!  See you soon.”

1:30 p.m.  January 21, 2017

[Greeting the invitees as well as Allen and Eric as they file into the Oval Office]

“Please grab a seat, and thank you all for coming.  I’m about to make an announcement that was NOT specifically part of my campaign agenda for the last year – I’m certain you will understand why. 

I have a press brief in 15 minutes where I will sign the following Executive Order.  I wanted all of you to hear this from me first, as I’m sure there will be immense fallout.  

Rest assured…. The fallout matters now a whit to me.  This is my first step as President to reduce the federal budget and to give this nation back to the people who are paying for it.

I will be reading the following statement to the nation in 12 minutes and upon completion I will sign an Executive Order putting this in motion.”

“LADIES AND GENTLEMEN OF THE PRESS, FELLOW CITIZENS…. AS A FIRST STEP TO FULFILL MY CAMPAIGN PLEDGE TO REDUCE THE SIZE OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND HENCE, FEDERAL SPENDING…. I AM ON THIS DAY SIGNING AN EXECUTIVE ORDER THAT WILL GO INTO EFFECT AS SOON AS THE INK ON THE PAPER DRIES.  

TO WIT, EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY THERE WILL BE A COMPLETE, TOTAL AND UNEQUIVOCAL FREEZE ON ALL GOVERNMENT HIRING IN EVERY CABINET, IN THE 15 MAJOR DEPARTMENTS AND ALL AGENCIES THAT COMPRISE THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH, RIGHT DOWN TO THE SMALLEST SUB-COMMITTEE.  THIS WILL BE THE CASE UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.  THIS WILL ALSO APPLY TO, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS.  THE ONLY EXCEPTION WILL BE THE UNIFORMED MILITARY SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES.  ANY HIRES IN PROGRESS BUT NOT COMPLETED AS OF 2:00 TODAY WILL BE SUSPENDED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE."

“Any questions?  Nancy, dear – you look pale. Here – have some water. Everyone, please take a deep breath as we begin.  Shall we adjourn to the White House Briefing room for this announcement and the signing of the Executive Order?.”

2:00 p.m., January 21, 2017

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:  THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES…

“Good afternoon everyone.  Thank you all for coming on such short notice.  I am today taking a page from the playbook of my predecessor, President Obama….. and using my pen.

“LADIES AND GENTLEMEN OF THE PRESS, FELLOW CITIZENS….

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This is some of the stuff MY dreams are made of……

Islam is the Face of Evil

"ISIS is not Islamic", said  Barack Obama as he gave yet another vapid speech to say what he will or will not do next about the threat of Islam. What he said is both idiotic and a lie. ISIS calls itself the Islamic State.

Obama used the word "war" only once, but ISIS is all about war---an Islamic holy war that has been waged since 632 AD. 

The one person neither named, nor blamed is the so-called prophet, Mohammad, yet everything being done by the jihadists today is being done in his name.

In his memoir, “Dreams from my Father”, Obama, in the preface to its second edition, wrote: “Nor do I pretend to understand the stark nihilism that drove the terrorists that day (9/11) and that drives their brethren still. My powers of empathy, my ability to reach into another’s heart, cannot penetrate the blank stares of those who would murder innocents with abstract, serene satisfaction.” And therein is the problem that he, as President, and we as citizens must address.

Political correctness is so dominant in the Obama White House that no one in the U.S. government dares say anything that might be deemed critical of a so-called “religion” that sanctions beheadings, amputations, stoning, kidnapping hostages, ransoms, polygamy, and slavery. To anyone deemed an infidel or unbeliever or a Muslim who questions anything about Islam, death is the only option other than dhimmitude, a second-class citizenship.

The pure evil of Islam was seen most recently in the two videos of American hostages being beheaded by the Islamic State, but despite decades of attacks on U.S. embassies, the taking of U.S. hostages in Beirut and Tehran, attacks in Bali, Madrid and London, and the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and on the Pentagon, Americans have been slow to realize the intensity and size of the threat that the Middle Eastern and North African nations represent along with wherever else a large Muslim population exists.

As the U.S. and threatened Middle Eastern nations hurtle toward a military confrontation with the Islamic State, the name it has given to territory it has seized from northern Syria and into Iraq, a new book, Fault Lines: The Layman’s Guide to Understanding America’s Role in the Ever-Changing Middle East, ($00.00, Elevate, Boise, Idaho, softcover) provides one of the best, short histories on U.S. involvement and why, at this point, its influence has reached a low point.

Liebich writes of the way the U.S. policy regarding the Middle East changed over the years, particularly in the wake of World War II and the Cold War that followed as the Soviet Union challenged us for the implementation of communism worldwide. Dependent on the flow of oil from the Middle East, much of our strategic interest in the region was based on exercising our influence, often bringing about the removal of leaders whom we regarded as a threat to that necessity. After 9/11 that went into overdrive.

Liebich notes that our concept of nation-building proved costly, not just in the lives of our troops, but which included $50 billion in Iraq “and it didn’t work. Before you can build a nation you have to have a nation and only the citizens of that nation can decide what kind of a country they want to have.” The problem the U.S. encountered was that “In the Middle East, people related much more to the Ummah (the Muslim community) and to their own tribes.”

The problem that George H.W. Bush and his son, George W. Bush, encountered was that “The Middle East is a part of the world where many odd alliances appear. One is never sure who is allied with whom and whatever one thinks may all change tomorrow.”

Liebich takes note of the “Arab Awakening” that followed the U.S. invasion of Iraq that deposed Saddam Hussein. It began “with so much promise” followed by “its subsequent descent into chaos, has drastically changed the geopolitical landscape in the Middle East and North Africa.”

Liebich says “My definition of a vital national interest is one that deals with an existential threat to the United States, and one for which the U.S. is willing to spill its blood and to spend its treasure in order to accomplish its objectives. By this definition, the U.S. has no vital national interest in events in the Middle East.” Written prior to the emergence of the Islamic State, a new existential threat is facing the U.S.

Liebich says our strategic interests in the Middle East for many years included access to stable supplies of oil at reasonable prices; support for the state of Israel; preventing adversaries or potential adversaries from coming to power or achieving influence in the region; improving life for the people of the region; and preventing terrorist attacks on U.S. territories and citizens.

“The region has become the epicenter for terrorist groups, some of which have ambitions for a global reach.” That alone will require a renewed military involvement by the U.S. as we are the only nation with the capacity to alter the facts on the ground.

It comes at a time when the U.S. is close to having developed its oil reserves to a point where the oil of the Middle East will not determine our policies, but it is that oil which other nations such as those of Europe depend upon. China and India need it as well so its protection by and for the West as well as the developing Asian nations affects our decisions. Even Russia whose economy is dependent on oil and natural gas has cast its support for Syria along with Iran.

Everything, though, depends on understanding the true nature and intent of Islam.

Liebich ends his book with a quote from Winston Churchill who said, “We can always count on the Americans to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all other possibilities.”

Right now, the right thing is the destruction of the Islamic State.

"Anymore" acknowledges at one time we did

I am not going to argue with Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany for saying, “Even a superpower can’t solve all of the problems alone anymore.”


In fact, I thank her for acknowledging that at one time we could and did “solve all of the problems alone.”


I see nowhere in her words a slam on my nation, but a lament for how far we have fallen.

Have no economy after a war? No problem. The USA will buy your crap. Made In Japan was a pejorative in the 1950s.

Have an Evil Empire about to devour you? No problem. We'll keep drafting and sending our boys into Korea to die and we'll keep them in Europe and Japan so that those countries are not overrun.

This isn't all ancient history, either.

Have an asshole named Saddam Hussein take over your country? No problem. We'll drive him back to Baghdad so you don't have to lose any of your children. It cost us 292 good men and wounded 467 more, but we consider it a small price to pay for freedom.

And in between times, we put a man on the moon, became the first nation in history to live biracially in peace (before South Africa) and came up with a trillion-dollar-a-year program to redistribute wealth that made the commies look stupiid.

We did all this even while snoots in Europe -- decidedly a minority -- looked down upon us as cads, ruffians and barbarians.

But in the last decade, we have fallen. Mightily. Most of the nation sees America not as a victim but as the cause. The Spiritual Son of Jeremiah Wright occupies the Oval Office.

The British government failed, the Russian government failed, the Japanese government failed, the German government failed, and the United States of America government, when it came to treating her citizens of Indian descent fairly, she failed. She put them on reservations. 

When it came to treating her citizens of Japanese decent fairly, she failed. She put them in internment prison camps. When it came to treating her citizens of African descent fairly, America failed. The government put them in chains. She put them on slave quarters, put them on auction blocks, put them in cotton fields, put them in inferior schools, put them in sub-standard housing, put them in scientific experiments, put them in the lowest paying jobs, put them outside the equal protection of the law, kept them out of their racist bastions of higher education, and locked them into positions of hopelessness and helplessness. 

The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three strike law, and then wants us to sing God Bless America…no, no, no Not God bless America, God damn America. That's in the Bible, for killing innocent people. God damn America for treating her citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme. The United States government has failed the vast majority of her citizens of African descent. 

Think about this, think about this. For every one Oprah, a billionaire, you've got 5 million blacks who out of work. For every one Colin Powell, a millionaire, you've got 10 million blacks who cannot read. For every one Condoskeeza Rice, you've got 1 million in prison. For every one Tiger Woods, who needs to get beat, at the Masters, with his cap, blazin' hips playing on a course that discriminates against women. God has his way of bringing you up short when you get to big for your cap, blazin britches. For every one Tiger Woods, we got 10,000 black kids who will never see a golf course. The United States government has failed the vast majority of her citizens of African descent.

God damn America?

Barack Obama didn't rise from that pew and walk out of this hate-monger's "church"?

And we subsequently elected and re-elected Jeremiah Obama.

For shame, America, for shame. More than 1 million men died for your freedom -- one-third of them to liberate the black man from slavery -- and you now are a navel-gazing, stone, video gamer living in Mama's basement.

Not the world's policeman?

Guess what? Someone else will be and he will be more corrupt than a Chicago building inspector.

Yes, we once policed the world alone, as she indicated. Where Chancellor Merkel is wrong is thinking we cannot do it again. It is a matter of will. I am not going to argue with Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany for saying, “Even a superpower can’t solve all of the problems alone anymore.”

In fact, I thank her for acknowledging that at one time we could and did “solve all of the problems alone.”


I see nowhere in her words a slam on my nation, but a lament for how far we have fallen.

Have no economy after a war? No problem. The USA will buy your crap. Made In Japan was a pejorative in the 1950s.

Have an Evil Empire about to devour you? No problem. We'll keep drafting and sending our boys into Korea to die and we'll keep them in Europe and Japan so that those countries are not overrun.

This isn't all ancient history, either.

Have an asshole named Saddam Hussein take over your country? No problem. We'll drive him back to Baghdad so you don't have to lose any of your children. It cost us 292 good men and wounded 467 more, but we consider it a small price to pay for freedom.

And in between times, we put a man on the moon, became the first nation in history to live biracially in peace (before South Africa) and came up with a trillion-dollar-a-year program to redistribute wealth that made the commies look stupiid.

We did all this even while snoots in Europe -- decidedly a minority -- looked down upon us as cads, ruffians and barbarians.

But in the last decade, we have fallen. Mightily. Most of the nation sees America not as a victim but as the cause. The Spiritual Son of Jeremiah Wright occupies the Oval Office.

The British government failed, the Russian government failed, the Japanese government failed, the German government failed, and the United States of America government, when it came to treating her citizens of Indian descent fairly, she failed. She put them on reservations. 

When it came to treating her citizens of Japanese decent fairly, she failed. She put them in internment prison camps. When it came to treating her citizens of African descent fairly, America failed. The government put them in chains. She put them on slave quarters, put them on auction blocks, put them in cotton fields, put them in inferior schools, put them in sub-standard housing, put them in scientific experiments, put them in the lowest paying jobs, put them outside the equal protection of the law, kept them out of their racist bastions of higher education, and locked them into positions of hopelessness and helplessness. 

The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three strike law, and then wants us to sing God Bless America…no, no, no Not God bless America, God damn America. That's in the Bible, for killing innocent people. God damn America for treating her citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme. The United States government has failed the vast majority of her citizens of African descent. 

Think about this, think about this. For every one Oprah, a billionaire, you've got 5 million blacks who out of work. For every one Colin Powell, a millionaire, you've got 10 million blacks who cannot read. For every one Condoskeeza Rice, you've got 1 million in prison. For every one Tiger Woods, who needs to get beat, at the Masters, with his cap, blazin' hips playing on a course that discriminates against women. God has his way of bringing you up short when you get to big for your cap, blazin britches. For every one Tiger Woods, we got 10,000 black kids who will never see a golf course. The United States government has failed the vast majority of her citizens of African descent.

God damn America?

Barack Obama didn't rise from that pew and walk out of this hate-monger's "church"?

And we subsequently elected and re-elected Jeremiah Obama.

For shame, America, for shame. More than 1 million men died for your freedom -- one-third of them to liberate the black man from slavery -- and you now are a navel-gazing, stone, video gamer living in Mama's basement.

Not the world's policeman?

Guess what? Someone else will be and he will be more corrupt than a Chicago building inspector.

Yes, we once policed the world alone, as she indicated. Where Chancellor Merkel is wrong is thinking we cannot do it again. It is a matter of will.

France Strikes Again

Two polls released this week both ask a question that you would hope wouldn’t need asking: how many people support the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS)? Unfortunately, in all four countries surveyed, the answer is greater than zero, and by a lot.

…
In any case, the big, scary, surprising, number here is France: 16 percent of those surveyed say they support ISIS. That’s an awful lot. And that number gets even larger as the demographics get younger,  …

That’s one in six Frogs who support a terrorist organization. See charts at the link.

This is alarming, in part because a growing number of Europeans, often from predominantly Muslim immigrant communities, are not just expressing their support for ISIS in polls: they are traveling to Syria and Iraq to join up. The ISIS fighter who killed American journalist James Foley on video last week spoke with a strong London accent. European governments are rightly worried about the implications of this for their own national security.

That’s what happens when you allow a large group of Mooslimes into your countries.  They don’t want to assimilate.  They want to turn the countries they move to into the Shitholestans they moved from.  It’s just like this Mooslimes Aren’t Happy email that has been circulating over the intertubes forever.

They're not happy in Egypt
They're not happy in Libya.
They're not happy in Morocco.
They're not happy in Iran.
They're not happy in Iraq.
They're not happy in Yemen.
They're not happy in Afghanistan.
They're not happy in Pakistan.
They're not happy in Syria.
They're not happy in Lebanon.
SO, WHERE ARE THEY HAPPY?

They're happy in Australia.
They're happy in Canada.
They're happy in England.
They're happy in France.
They're happy in Italy.
They're happy in Germany.
They're happy in Sweden.
They're happy in the USA.
They're happy in Norway.
They're happy in Holland.
They're happy in Denmark.
    Basically, they're happy in every country that is not Muslim
    and unhappy in every country that is!    AND WHO DO THEY BLAME?

    Not Islam.
    Not their leadership.
    Not themselves.    THEY BLAME THE COUNTRIES THEY ARE HAPPY IN!

    AND THEN; They want to change those countries to be like.
    THE COUNTRY THEY CAME FROM WHERE THEY WERE UNHAPPY!
    Excuse me, but I can't help wondering.
    How dang dumb can you get?

Pretty freaking dumb.  Islam like liberalism is a mental disease.  Remember, Islam is a political ideology fronting as a religion.  That insane pedophile, Mohammed (Piss Be Upon Him) wanted a way to unite the Arab tribes on the Arabian Peninsula and he came up with the brilliant idea of using a religion to accomplish this.  He stole parts of the Old Testament and the New Testament from the Bible and elevated a Semitic moon god (Yes Arabs are Semites.  They and the Jews are cousins.), Allah, into a supreme being.  Voila!  Islam.
Here’s more on those wacky camel boinkers.

    Everyone seems to be wondering why Muslim Terrorists are so quick to commit suicide.
    Lets have a look at the evidence:
– No Christmas
– No television
– No nude women
– No football
– No pork chops
– No hot dogs
– No burgers
– No beer
– No bacon
– Rags for clothes
– Towels for hats
– Constant wailing from some idiot in a tower
– More than one wife
    More than one mother in law
– You can’t shave
– Your wife can’t shave
– You can’t wash off the smell of donkey
– You cook over burning camel shit
– Your wife is picked by someone else for you
– and your wife smells worse than your donkey     Then they tell you that “when you die, it all gets better”?

Well no shit, Sherlock!
    It’s not like it could get much worse.

Our Obituary

In 1887 Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh , had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior: "A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship." "The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; 
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage."
The Obituary follows: 
  
Born 1776, Died 2012 
It doesn't hurt to read this several times.
Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul , Minnesota , points out some interesting facts concerning the last Presidential election: 
  
Number of States won by:       
Obama: 19               Romney: 29 
  
Square miles of land won by:   
Obama: 580,000      Romney: 2,427,000 
  
Population of counties won by: 
Obama: 127 million  Romney: 143 million 
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by:                                               
Obama: 13.2             Romney: 2.1 
Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the .territory Romney won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of the country. 
Obama territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in low income tenements and living off various forms of government welfare..." 
  
Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population
already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase.. 
  
If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegal’s - and they vote - then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years. 

Whither Israel?

I first heard the phrase in Phnom Penh during the siege: “The situation is hopeless, but not critical.” As Israel and the Moslem world claw at each other unendingly, I wonder whether the same diagnosis doesn’t apply. Perhaps I am wrong. I don’t see how.

 

To begin at the beginning: The Jews had long wanted a country of their own and, after Germany, understandably really wanted one. The problem was that all the countries were already taken except maybe Antarctica, so they conquered parts of Palestine by force of arms.

 

There was nothing Jewish about this. Most of history consists of groups conquering each other’s territory. When you do this, the conquered people hate you, and begin to resist. To control them you resort to the rifle butt, the torture chamber, the air strike, and the secret police. This makes them hate you more, world without end. Consider the occupation of Jewish Palestine by the Romans, the Jewish resistance, and Rome’s murderous responses.

 

The neighboring Moslem peoples, and indeed all Moslems, came to hate the modern Jews like poison, and the Jews, now become Israelis, soon returned the sentiment. Historically, this was business as usual. Christians, Jews, and Moslems have spent a phenomenal amount of time hating each other. It doesn’t seem to have gained them much.

 

Anyway, a vaguely possible modus vivendi was the Two-State solution, now dead, if it ever wasn’t, because Israel is absorbing the occupied territories. So many Jewish settlers now live on occupied Moslem land that no Israeli government could force them to come back, even if it wanted to, which it emphatically doesn’t. So much for modus vivendi.

 

In what amounts to Greater Israel, the Jews came to have custody in Israel proper of about 1.7 million Moslems, in Gaza of over a million and a half who hate Israel and, in the West Bank, pushing toward three million more, who hate Israel. Why Israel wants additional Moslems isn’t clear—I don’t want any at all, as they seem to be nothing but trouble--but it does seem to be collecting them.

 

This means that Israel can never be a democracy because, if the Moslems had the vote, Israel would stop being a Jewish state and just be a country with a lot of Jews. Worse, the moment Moslem voters, who breed faster than Jews, outnumbered these by one vote (if they ever did), Israel would become an Islamic republic, like Afghanistan. I do not think the Israelis have this in mind.

 

How a First World people can live as keepers of what appear to irremediably primitive Third Worlders is not clear, even without hatred.

 

There is worse.  The Moslems cannot be allowed much commercial success, since it would translate into political power. And intermarriage must be prevented at all costs, since Jews, of whom there are not many to begin with, could be bred out of existence. Is this not Alabama in 1900?

 

So what can Israel do with its internal Moslems? Logically it can (a) shoot them all, which even Netanyahu probably wouldn’t do, or (b) exist forever with a huge and perhaps growing number of hate-filled subjects, or (c) push them across the borders at bayonet-point. Is there another choice?

 

Since the Moslems both internal and external hate the Jews, Israel must constantly fight them off, often militarily. Just now it is invading Gaza again, which has been firing rockets into Israel. The Moslems are always doing something, such as blowing up buses full of Israelis, so Israel is always bombing Gaza, invading Gaza, killing Turks, bombing Lebanon,  invading it, bombing Iraq, killing Iranian scientists, and so on. There is the usual political posturing and kindergarten yelling about you started it, no, you started it, but underlying the noise is that the two sides bitterly hate each other.

 

If there is any reason to believe that it will ever stop, I am unaware of it. Does anyone seriously foresee a multi-culti, Koom Bah Yah amity, with turbans and yarmulkes back-yard barbecuing together and swapping dirty stories? Anybody who thinks this possible must be smoking Drano. The two flavors of Moslem are murdering each other in droves, and they have the same faith. They’re going to learn to love Jews?

 

Any day now.

 

No military solution is possible. Israel’s First World, heavily armed, high-tech forces can defeat, usually easily, any forces arrayed against it by its Third-World enemies. It just can’t keep them defeated. Nor can the Moslems decisively defeat Israel. The only remotely plausible approach would be to force Israel to mobilize and stay mobilized until its economy collapsed, which for a lot of reasons isn’t going to happen, and anyway the US would intervene.

 

The beat goes on.

 

Meanwhile, Israel depends utterly on America for its survival. Yes, it is an advanced, highly educated, commercially astute nation, and if it lived in peace would be a small roaring success.  But it doesn’t live in peace. And it is too small to buy or build the forces it needs to repel its neighbors and keep its supply lines open. It cannot field a large army other than briefly because it just doesn’t have the population. A garrison state, it very much needs US support.

 

Said support is not just military and economic.  If votes in the UN are an indication, Israel is detested by most of the planet, which would endeavor to do all manner of anti-Israeli things if the US didn’t veto all of them. Israel has a PR problem. In Gaza we see the now-common spectacle of a national military fighting a non-state enemy of barely armed militants. The result is dead children, recorded on cell-phone cameras. Image-wise, not good.

 

In America politics regarding Israel are often bitter and even more confusing. For example, I know feminists hostile to Israel, which doesn’t mistreat women at all, yet well disposed to Moslems, for whom mere misogyny would be a great step upward. Many Jews of my acquaintance are ambivalent or confused, wanting Israel to survive yet loathing its government.

 

How firm is American support for Israel? Very—for now, anyway. This is due in part to the immensely powerful Israel lobby in Washington, in part to a certain lack of enthusiasm for Moslems after 9/11, and in part to the lack of strong anti-Jewish sentiment in America. The United States isn’t Poland. In fact there is a lot of pro-Jewish feeling, seldom mentioned because it doesn’t fit the journalistic template of the eternally endangered Jew on the raw edge of extermination, sieg heil.  Of course, pro-Jewish and pro-Israel are different categories.

 

If there is ever a threat to American support, it will be not from anti-Semitism but from indifference. There is a potential softness in the support. When Netanyahu gets 29 (was it?) standing ovations in Congress (which he did) it is not because all Congressmen are wildly enthusiastic about Israel.  God himself would not receive such unanimous enthusiasm. Electoral politics screens out principle, and politicians will vote for whatever they think in their interest. If congressmen spoke honestly (yes, I know) I think you would find a small neo-Nazi group virulently against Israel, a substantial Christian group strongly for—and a majority who just wanted the question to go away.

 

There are powerful forces—Big Oil, companies that want to do business in Iran—that would happily abandon a small, petro-dry nation with no resources. Thus the crucial importance of the lobby.

 

All in all, it seems to me that Israel has gotten itself into a horrible situation, hated within, hated without, and hanging by a lobby. What can the Israelis do? Emigrate to New York? Undertake an absolutely horrific ethnic cleansing? Exercise the Antarctica Option? Spend all eternity ducking rockets and bombing neighbors? Live as herdsmen of unwanted Moslems that they have to avoid assimilating?

 

I don’t see a happy ending. Or any ending.

A Response to Elizabeth Warren

 

In a recent speech Elizabeth Warren outlined ‘What it means to be a Progressive’.

 

I find it necessary to reprint Ms. Warren’s outline (in italics) followed by my response…

 

- “We believe that Wall Street needs stronger rules and tougher enforcement, and we’re willing to fight for it.”

 

Wall Street is not the problem.  The power of our Politicians to grant Wall Street et al. favors and cover them from enforcement is the problem.  Removing that power from our elected representatives is the ONLY answer.  There are no other solutions.

 

- “We believe in science, and that means that we have a responsibility to protect this Earth.”

 

We also believe in Science.  However, instead or proposing solutions, that coincidentally benefit our campaign donors and their friends, to problems we cannot define we expect to retain the element of Science that is Rational and Reasoned.  Skepticism is an integral part of Science and must be nurtured lest the scientific method be abandoned and all things to be determined through consensus.  If this were the case the world would still be considered flat.  So why do we want to go down that road again, Ms. Warren?

 

- “We believe that the Internet shouldn’t be rigged to benefit big corporations, and that means real net neutrality.”

 

We believe the Internet should be ‘rigged’ to benefit everybody including ‘big corporations’ which is why we expect you to leave it alone.

 

- “We believe that no one should work full-time and still live in poverty, and that means raising the minimum wage.”

 

We believe destroying the buying power of those you profess to want to help by raising the minimum wage and subsequently the cost of goods across the board while simultaneously reducing the availability of what goods are left is ignorant and self-destructive.  We believe that the individual has a choice and should retain that choice to exercise the principle of substitution when it comes to employment.  If that individual chooses to work full-time, either directly or through a series of decision-making which demands it, then so be it.  We believe creating new businesses which pay all kinds of wages which are determined by the business owner alone allows for greater choice for the individual to better their lives… if they choose.

 

- “We believe that fast-food workers deserve a livable wage, and that means that when they take to the picket line, we are proud to fight alongside them.”

 

We believe you, Ms. Warren, and your cronies simply hate whatever you define as ‘Fast Food’ and want to do everything you can to shut down the readily available nutrition it supplies the American Population.  Your War on Food is well documented and is based on the premise that the American People are too Stupid to make decisions for themselves thus you have undertaken the effort to reduce their options to feed their families.  You should be ashamed, but you have no shame.

 

- “We believe that students are entitled to get an education without being crushed by debt.”

 

We believe the no one is entitled to anything.  Using the word entitled revisits a past where only those ‘noble’ people associated with Royalty enjoyed the benefits of their labor allowed by a King.  That aside, when you make something ‘free’ you make it worthless… just as you and your ilk have done with Elementary Education, High School Education and if you get your wish College Education.  (You’ve pretty much already achieved it, just ask graduating Seniors how valuable their Degree is in today’s job market.  For that matter ask a High School Graduate to read… anything… out loud.)

 

- “We believe that after a lifetime of work, people are entitled to retire with dignity, and that means protecting Social Security, Medicare, and pensions.”

 

Once again, the word entitled… let’s try ‘deserve’ instead.  We believe that after a lifetime of work people ‘deserve’ the fruits of their decision-making.  If they went to the casino and gambled away all of their earnings they will be subject to whatever safety net We the People, who did not waste our money and planned for retirement, determine they should have.  The only people this part of Ms. Warren’s platform should appeal to are those who do not save and do not plan ahead, and know it.  These are the people who rely on some ambiguous definition of ‘fair’, that is whatever definition benefits them directly, when it comes time to pay the price of their decisions.  They wish to be irresponsible and never be judged for it.  They expect to use the power of Government Force to mortgage the lives of The Responsible instead of living with the consequences of their decisions.  They should be reminded that whatever support they receive from ‘the Government’ is actually a Gift from the rest of us.  I would even find it acceptable that every person who receives subsidies from the Government be compelled, by Government Force, to write Thank You notes to a minimum of 100 taxpayers every year until they become self-sufficient.  The Stigma of taking and the Pride of Producing must be returned to the system.

 

- “We believe—I can’t believe I have to say this in 2014—we believe in equal pay for equal work.”

 

I Agree.  And you don’t have to say that in 2014 unless you’re addressing the Current Progressive Administration occupying White House.

 

- “We believe that equal means equal, and that’s true in marriage, it’s true in the workplace, it’s true in all of America.”

 

We believe Government should get out of the Marriage Business altogether.  Marriage is between you and your church.  The day’s of some Government Bureaucrat deciding that Blacks shouldn’t marry Whites and only Certain Families can marry certain other Families should be long, long over.  We Don’t Care.  And Frankly, the idea your marriage must be validated by some Government Worker should be nauseating at a minimum.  Get Governments dirty, fat, bloated, hands off our Marriages.  As far as Government is concerned, Contract Law should do just fine.

 

- “We believe that immigration has made this country strong and vibrant, and that means reform.”

 

We believe using words like ‘reform’ are designed to get people to nod their heads in agreement instead of asking for a definition.  We believe that a Liberal Work Visa Program should be initiated while keeping all current immigration requirements in place.  We believe in Tall Fences and Wide Gates.  We believe that those who come here to work should be able to send their money anywhere they wish.  We believe the American People should never be asked to pay welfare for those who are not Citizens of the United States… not… even… asked.  And if those that do choose to come here like the American Experience and want to stay, they must get in line to become a Citizen like every legal immigrant has done before them.  If not, then they can rest assured that as long as they obey our laws, return to their country of origin for two weeks every year and do nothing to foment or agitate Anti-American Sentiment then they will be welcome here to work.  If they choose not to do these things they will not be welcome.  Simple.

 

- “And we believe that corporations are not people, that women have a right to their bodies. We will overturn Hobby Lobby and we will fight for it. We will fight for it!”

 

We believe that Corporations are IN FACT people.  A Corporation is created by Human Beings and made up of Human Beings and subsequently creates products enjoyed by Human Beings which make their lives better and more productive or they wouldn’t purchase them.  It is also worth noting that the Humans Beings which make up, and enjoy the benefits of, Corporations are over 50% Women… with Bodies.  The fact that Corporations should not be involved in Anyone’s sex life, women’s or any of the other varied genders, is a point we can all agree.  Which is why Corporations and the Human Beings who make them up should not be expected to pay for Anyone’s sex life.  Easy Enough.  If you want to fight for some inane and poorly thought out line of logic go ahead.  We’ll be here waiting.

 

And the main tenet of conservatives’ philosophy, according to Warren? “I got mine. The rest of you are on your own.”

 

We believe it would be more accurate to state: “I’ve got mine, now I can help you get yours if I choose to.”  Absent in our philosophy is Force.  We believe in Choice.  Choice is sacred to Us and every Human Being’s Freedom depends on that Choice being protected at all costs.  I would rather die Poor and Free than Wealthy and Enslaved.  Warren and her Progressive/Socialist ideology bring only Slavery.  So, by her own words, Ms. Warren is rallying the useful idiots to ‘fight for’… Slavery.

 

This is true of Every Socialist… no matter what they call themselves.

 

Make a Choice.

 

We’ve made ours.

We are witnessing the implosion of the Obama presidency.

The first time I heard the term “military advisors” it was being used by John F. Kennedy and they were being sent to South Vietnam. A strong anti-communist, in 1961 Kennedy approved financing an increase in the size of the South Vietnamese army from 150,000 to 170,000 along with sending a thousand U.S. military advisors to help train them. We all know how the Vietnam War ended.

Earlier, the North Korean attack on the South had ended in a stalemate. Technically a state of war still exists.  Since 1953, the U.S. has maintained a military force in South Korea. In the wake of World War II, we still have a military presence in Europe and Japan to aid in their defense.

Obama’s announcement that 300 military advisors are being sent to Iraq is too little, too late.

As of this writing Americans are witnessing what happened when Obama withdrew from Iraq and are anticipating the same result when we withdraw from Afghanistan. Yes, we were and are war-weary, but we do not like what we’re seeing in Iraq and the President’s foreign policy failures are compounding by the day.

We are weary, too, after six and a half years of the presidency of Barack Hussein Obama. It has taken this long for all the predictions regarding his lack of experience and competence to come true.

The polls taken during the past week provide evidence of this. Gallup’s job approval poll of June 9-15 showed that 42% of “national adults” approved. Over at Rasmussen Reports, Obama’s job approval on June 21 was 48%. Asked by Rasmussen if the nation is headed in the right direction or not, 67% of likely voters said it was not. Reacting to the immigration invasion crisis a Gallup found that 69% thought he was doing a poor job.

Depending on events, polls rise and fall, but the numbers indicate a growing loss of confidence in Obama’s decisions and actions to date. I suspect that what they do not show is a growing sense of the man as utterly untrustworthy and increasingly distant from the demands of the office.

We are witnessing the implosion of the Obama presidency.

All presidencies have a scandal or two, usually relatively minor in the grand scheme of national management. Watergate was considered minor initially and took two years to materialize into the scandal that forced Nixon to resign. Obama, however, has generated directly and indirectly enough scandals for their combined weight to begin being noticed even by those who pay little attention to Washington, D.C.

The worst of the latest has been the revelation of how the Internal Revenue Service was politicized to attack organizations that were deemed to be affiliated with the Tea Party movement and patriotic objectives. The “loss” of Lois Lerner's emails and others smells of the destruction of evidence Congress has demanded. The one element of the government that virtually all Americans interact with is the IRS.

Other scandals like Solyndra, representing the waste of billions on wind and solar companies, many of which went bankrupt after receiving all manner of grants and loans, did not registered in a similar fashion. The wiretapping of Associated Press reporters’ phone calls likewise did not evoke widespread concern. The failure of the “stimulus” that spent billions without producing an uptick in the economy was seen as just another way the government wastes our money. Even “Fast and Furious” in which thousands of weapons were purchased and transferred to Mexican drug cartels did not evoke more than a short expression of dismay.

Benghazi, however, in which a U.S. ambassador died along with three others, remains an unresolved scandal as much for the lies about a video as its cause as for the tragedy of the abandonment of those killed. The release of five leaders of the Taliban from Guantanamo without letting Congress know has piled on the previous scandals to a point where serious concerns about both Obama’s judgment have arisen.

What remains now is a combination of the President’s increasing use of Executive Orders to create as much mischief as possible along with the perception that he simply does not care what Americans in general and Congress in particular thinks about what he is doing. There is talk in the House of bringing a legal suit against the President regarding his heavy use of Executive Orders to bypass Congress while initiating policies that require congressional inclusion and oversight.

Those of us who pay close attention to what the President is doing know that the ultimate aim of his actions in office has been to harm the nation in a variety of ways from reducing our military to pre-World War Two levels to destroying a large element of the nation’s electrical energy supply by forcing coal-fired plants out of business.

Ultimately, the implosion of the Obama presidency has been the realization that he has put the nation at risk of the world’s bad actors by causing America’s global leadership position to erode. Americans have been accustomed to being a leading military and economic power since the end of World War Two and he has been undermining that in every way possible.

Voter payback is likely to see a major shift of political power in Congress away from the Democratic Party in the forthcoming midterm elections and would enable Republicans to slow or stop further damage to the nation. Failing that, the fate of the nation will be a great risk