Plan B

As we struggle with the technical aspects of capping the oil spewing from the collapsed rig in the Gulf of Mexico, we can be quite certain there are those working equally hard to exploit this disaster in order to advance their own political agendas. "You don't ever want a crisis to go to waste…”

After the collapse of the science that propped up the ‘global warming’hoax, this crisis in the Gulf represents Plan B for those who would at any cost seek to throttle down America’s economic engines and thrust her back into the stone age. How convenient for them, this high profile (clearly man-made) ecological mishap – almost God-sent; a black swan. Eyjafjallajokull, we never knew ya!

Where will the White House make its stand? We think we already know, especially if and when it were discovered that it was no less a personage than George W. Bush who donned scuba gear and personally set the explosives. As for now, it’s still BP’s fault (bad enough) and, by extension, Big Oil’s (even worse) – and, of course, America’s in general (horror of all horrors), for its insatiable energy appetites. Almost effortlessly, we’ve automatically tilted back in favor of our flat earth, no-growth argument.
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We dutifully sit and debate the fine points of every issue. The points pulverize into the dust of a zillion minutiae as we continue to analyze endlessly. And before we can throw up our hands in frustration, a new crisis appears out of no where, complete with streamers bearing insult and hostility (which we do our best to counter).

The members of Congress sign their good names to bills they haven’t yet read. When they are asked to explain any given point, we find they are as confused as we are. All they know is that they’re fighting for their lives – as we are.

Mr. Smith’s stint in Washington is no longer fun or productive. Something alien seems to have taken hold of the city. Something’s been added, or something taken away. Something is missing. The newspapers seem to be in on it, but they won’t discuss it: the elephant in the room. There’s plenty of detail to fill their pages – screaming drama from all sides.

It’s classic Cloward-Piven: overwhelm the system; orchestrate crisis; gridlock. No way to get a handle on it. And even if we could, we would be appalled at what we’d find.

It’s time to stop playing. Every move we make (in good faith) sucks us deeper into the sinkhole. That’s how it was designed. The house always wins.

What’s missing is trust. Face it! We don’t trust our government. Anything it might intend has now become tainted with suspicion. It could fix health care; Wall Street; immigration; energy; education – whatever your pet peeve might be – and we wouldn’t trust it as far as we could throw the heads on Mt. Rushmore. We’ve gotten to the point where things can’t be fixed anymore. Everything needs to be replaced. We need to start from scratch.

Politically, we feel cornered - shut out. At the same time we sense danger in the pit of our stomachs. We’re even prepared to forego summer and sprint straight to November, only to discover, perhaps, that our faith in elections will be the last domino to fall.

What then? Move to Australia? Cuba? This dilemma is by no means new. It has been faced by countless peoples before us. Their dream destination was always America. And they came in droves, bringing all they could carry on their backs and in their hearts. America allowed them to make a fresh start. Eventually they would become Americans and prosper beyond their wildest dreams. But that was then…

It’s different now. America has become just like every other hell hole in the world. No need to bother packing.

Ban Wall Street?

I don’t think it’s a joke. Betting long; betting short; what’s the difference? It’s still betting. Sometimes you win; sometimes you lose. The smartest players among us understand risk management; dollar cost averaging, diversification. Sure bets are only apparent in hindsight. There are too many factors to consider.

The real issue is ‘winning’ – or the flipside: ‘losing’. Should we now ban Wall Street; risk; speculation? Should we now ban profit; value – capitalism in general? Should we ban elections?

The biggest fraud ever perpetuated on the American people has been the election of Barack Hussein Obama. Should we now hold hearings? Or should we just accept that we rolled the dice and lost? Should we let it play out? Or should we huff and puff; and point the finger of blame; scrunch up our faces and hold innocents responsible for having followed a hunch; berate them with foul language and rhetorical flourish?

Have we lost the capacity to appreciate the pratfall? Should we deny ourselves the ecstatic release of guffaw - the freedom to bleed? Or will we allow ourselves to be wheeled around on rubber-tipped, stainless steel gurneys through endlessly gleaming hospital corridors and on to our liberally padded storage cubes?

Articles of Faith

Man-made ‘global warming’ has assumed the status of a state religion for many Americans. Michael Mann is one of its high priests; Al Gore is pope. It fills the need of some to identify some part of themselves with the eternal, which was dashed when TIME magazine announced that God was dead. The new religion comes complete with sins (littering); sacraments; (abortion); proselytizing; dietary rules; salvation and apocalypse. The key here is ‘man-made’. It links devotees directly with the godhead. As such, thousands of strictures are observed and rituals performed in the hope of mitigating the original sin of audacious existence. Non-believers are looked down on as heretics.

The rise of this religion has followed a well trodden path. Our educational system has been used to indoctrinate - much like the madrassahs of Pakistan and Yemen. There is a militant element that stems from the uncertainty arising from the fear of unmasking. For the moment, believers can take comfort in the knowledge that their president is one of them – as it should be. It is they who installed him to the highest office in the land.

Obama too is a disciple. He represents the religion’s political arm. As long as he holds on to political power they are safe. The fact that ‘global warming’ has been exposed as a hoax holds no sway. Many books have been written questioning the authenticity of the historical Jesus. Still, Christians believe and will continue to do so.

‘Global warming’ devotees do not necessarily delude themselves even if it were to come out that every scrap of science supporting it is proven false. They have put aside reason. For them it’s an article of faith; a shorthand for the human condition as they perceive it. They believe in the fallen man for whom there can be no redemption. They believe in the apocalypse in which all is destroyed – unless they can convince (or force) the others (those who were not chosen) to adopt what they deem as right.

The earth is their God. Their leaders are priests. Should any one of these be shamed or in any way diminished by infidels, they will run and sharpen their knives. Should one of their oracles be killed, it will be said he was martyred.

The rank and file is not the problem. They are delusional and weak. It is those who use them to fulfill their own tyrannical ambitions; those who send them out on crusades and suicide missions who must be closely watched.

‘Global warming’ is here to stay. So far, it has defied the separation of church and state. So far, its growth has been spurred without raising suspicion. The danger to the rest of us should have become apparent by the reluctance to let it pass; to give it up; to persist as if the University of East Anglia e-mails had never been made public. Even now, the U.S. government is pursuing cap and trade legislation. Something else is behind it. Too much has been invested in this hoax to stop it dead in its tracks. And yet, it’s only a part of a far greater hoax (that started with Marx), one more attuned to human greed and the lazy desire to control everything.

John Batchelor said...

>”There is only one issue that moves the White House, and that is the issue of money.”

I actually don’t think so. I think this White House runs primarily on ideology. Granted, there are some – Axelrod, perhaps – who look to polls and ‘Jewish checks’ in order to gage how the Administration is doing relative to previous administrations. This is their job. But the president does not listen to them. He may respond reluctantly to repeated harangues from such people, but ultimately more money or less money means nothing to Obama.

No doubt, Obama is preoccupied – perhaps even obsessed – with Israel as previous administrations have been. He knows that if he were able to facilitate a solution during his terms in office, he would be lauded until the end of history. The question is by whom? The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a hard nut to crack. On a scale of challenge it ranks with Mt. Everest – or, better yet, K2. The reason there has been no solution is because there are too many opportunists – especially on the Arab side - who do not want it solved. It is their bread and butter. It represents their access to the trough.

Obama and America in general are seen as the trough. Previous administrations all have accepted their role as that trough. They married themselves first and foremost to the task of keeping the trough filled. Not so Obama. He appears to be prepared to hand over an empty trough to all those feeding from it and inviting this hungry brood to partake of the main meal: Israel.

He knows it will erupt in conflagration. But, as one trained in community organizing, this is his ultimate aim. His bias tends clearly toward the Arab side of the equation. Note: Obama has not demanded that Arab nations recognize Israel’s right to exist. To be fair, neither have previous administrations. However, Obama’s motives are markedly different.

Whereas previous administrations were primarily troubled by the possible disruption of Middle Eastern oil flowing to the free world, Obama would welcome such a development as it would likely plunge the Western democracies into chaos. I still say that Obama’s ultimate aim is chaos.

Expect him to agitate; expect him to do all he can to bolster the chances of America’s enemies to emerge unscathed. This is how he aims to enhance his global street cred to the point of where he can no longer be ignored. He ultimately hopes to be embraced as the one responsible for having slain not only the Little Satan, but the Great Satan as well. What better resume for a man who is consumed by his own self-importance – to have been the one to have crafted a solution to what was widely seen as an impossible project!

Naturally, the world – including the Arabs – will shun him. Even they know that there is nothing on this earth lower than a traitor.

Elections Are Aproaching

If you have read some of my most recent postings, you may have come to recognize that one of the tenets of modern pop-ideology – of which both Bush and Obama are adherents – is that borders no longer matter. This goes along with the trend marked by an erosion of property rights. Hence, we do not defend our borders and we hold the hapless owner - whose home may have been violated by an uninvited intruder - responsible for any harm that may have accrued to the interloper. The condemnation of Israel for attempting to protect its borders is nearly universal.

In truth, it has become impractical to protect one’s borders as nationalism has faded in importance and ideology has taken its place. Ideology knows no borders. It eddies and pools wherever the like-minded happen to reside. For them, borders represent an anachronism that is no longer worth defending.

Trouble along the border has assumed the status of a pernicious video game challenge to which we routinely sacrifice half-measures – as has war in general. Anyway, this is how it reads in the academic texts carefully studied in our colleges and universities. Unfortunately (for us), the rest of the world is not quite so advanced. They are still inclined to play by the old rules. They see our border travails as a breach by which to infiltrate and capture territory. They have plenty of useful idiot help from inside.

Europe has long ago succumbed to this one-world pop-ideology. The Eurozone was the result. Europe now finds itself threatened by economic collapse in Greece [as well as in several other countries (PIIGS)]. The disaster could have been easily predicted. Submarines and oil tankers are built in a series of chambers. Should one chamber rupture, it can be sealed off to prevent catastrophic damage to the rest of the ship.

But, never mind. Chaos along our border areas has become yet another tool in our rogue government’s hands. It represents yet another fuse lit that could ignite the whole nation - giving the government cause to crack down on all of us. Totalitarianism is on the march. No wonder, this administration is so eager to stir the pot where and whenever it can. Elections are approaching.

We'll Never Know

It is those who question that control the narrative. During the Bush years, we questioned Republicans. The answers were insufficient. This would bring Obama and Democrats to power. Now, the tea parties are questioning Democrats and it looks much like a Republican sweep in November. Questions tend to “float like a butterfly and sting like a bee”. Seldom fatal, questions nevertheless put the heavy plodding of ideologues to shame in terms of artistic expression alone.

Back in the days when only Walter Cronkite and a just a handful of others read the news, no questions were raised. We all just tuned in to see what was happening. We pretty much accepted what we were being told. No alternate narratives were advanced. We now know that Cronkite was essentially a lefty, though it didn’t show and we never asked. It was during this time that the Left began to build its powerbase under cover of ignorance by infiltrating and taking control of every one of our sacred institutions.

Later, with the advent of (political) talk radio, questions were once again being asked. The public was fascinated and the whole notion of radio – which had been dying – revived. But overwhelmingly most people came to resent the ‘new’ medium. They did not appreciate the discord. Reasons needed to be found to dismiss the intrusion into mainstream corporate/government fiction. The drive was on to marginalize it; to pronounce it as ‘crazy’, radical - or merely burlesque. Still, as the taxpayer would continue to be raked over the coals, radio would grow into a significant player in our nation’s narrative; so much so, in fact, that serious consideration is now being given to banning the medium altogether – or at least to produce legislation to bring it to heel.

This is not to say that controlling the public narrative is akin to power. In some cases it might be argued that the questioning actually served to bolster the status quo by creating a backlash and give the likes of Limbaugh a black eye. However, questions remained and would accrue, especially as it became apparent that the course that the powerful, self-proclaimed elites had chosen for us would lead us to ruin.

The tea parties changed the equation. They succeeded in putting the elites on notice. Fueled by the questions that talk radio had been hammering all along, the tea parties have now grown into a movement. Questioning the powerful has become the narrative that now threatens to implode the very core of what is overwhelmingly seen as a failed agenda: liberalism. A new tactic had to be developed to counter it.

The questioning would have to be stopped dead in its tracks. We have been seeing this for some time now. Books that have sold in significant numbers remain ignored in literary and academic circles. Obama’s background remains a blank. The questions put forth by talk radio and other alternative sources are routinely dismissed. Conservative speakers are banned from university campuses.

It hasn’t worked. Despite the best efforts of the politicians and their media lackeys, the country stands on the cusp of rebellion. Stage three (stage one: ridicule; stage two: plead ignorance) would have to be implemented – and fast. We are seeing this now: News being squelched at its source.

As such, tea party activity remains largely unreported; as do problems along our Mexican border; looming economic collapse; the unmasking of the ‘global warming’ as fraud; etc. “Out of sight, out of mind” has become the motto of major news organizations.

To me, the most telling example of this trend came to mind in the non-reporting of the S. Korean naval ship’s sinking by N. Korea last month. The story of a clear act of aggression by a hostile power on one of our allies should be front page news everywhere. It is not. JB is the only one (to my knowledge) who is talking about it. Not even Bahukutumbi Raman who is like ‘white on rice’ regarding anything Asian has mentioned it.

We cross into dangerous waters when we go from ‘no news is good news’ to simply ‘no news’. How long before we will realize that 5.7 Jews have been massacred in Israel? How long before we realize that our dollar is not worth the paper it’s printed on? How long before we realize that our country as we have known it is gone forever? How long before we recognize that the president we elected was a Trojan horse working at the behest of our enemies?

I guess, if current trends take root, we’ll never know.

Curtains

More evidence to underline what we already know. Nothing new here. What is noteworthy is why team Obama doesn't appear to care. By the end of his first term POTUS will have had the opportunity to serve with both a Democrat majority and a Republican majority (in Congress). He has already succeeded in destroying the Democrats. After the midterms, he will have had at it with Republicans. There is nothing to suggest that Republicans will mount a credible opposition. By Barack Hussein Obama’s second term, both parties will have been thoroughly discredited leaving only the executive branch as a viable option.

In the meantime we will continue to talk politics – as if it matters. “…human beings will never abandon politics because politics is too convenient and too attractive as a theatre in which to give play to our baser emotions. Baser emotions, meaning hatred and rancour and spite and jealousy and bloodlust and so forth. In other words, politics is a symptom of our fallen state and expresses that fallen state.” (Quote taken from J.M. Coetzee’s new novel, ‘Summertime’.)

We are now well into what appears to be our post-political period. Most of us are not yet up to speed. We cannot envision our nation without the obligatory political jousting. Like entertainment (such as sports, books, movies, and the like) it engages the emotions and consumes our time and energy. For the Obama administration, it also serves as a convenient diversion; to distract us from the real issues at hand, namely: Will we submit to tyranny or will we stand up against it?

This is not to say that the Obama administration is any different from previous ones. It may just be that this administration is less adept at maintaining the curtain with all the pretty pictures on it.

White Elephants

Yesterday, Barack Hussein Obama went to Wall Street. It reminded me of a king surveying yet another of his now long list of conquests. Though there was some grumbling among the assembled, an overall willingness to play along was clearly evident as everyone there recognized that power had effectively shifted from New York to Washington.

Now the president’s plan for his own re-election bid is slowly beginning to emerge. No doubt November will sweep record numbers of new faces into our legislative branches. These will blush like new brides at having been afforded control over the various fiefdoms the president (along with his Democrat majority) has managed to carve out. In the euphoria of the moment, they will fail to recognize that these are merely “white elephants", designed to keep them busy and off the president’s back. They will fail to reverse the fortunes of the various enterprises that have fallen under government control.

Come 2012, the public will note that nothing has essentially changed; that the country as a whole continues to spiral into the abyss. Only this time, Obama will see to it that Republicans get the blame. …and he will be re-elected overwhelmingly.

Internationally, POTUS clearly has the last word. He is not now and has never been a friend of Israel. I would not be surprised if it were ever found that the Sunday bulletins at Rev. Wright’s church had on occasion featured maps of the Middle East with Israel missing. Aside from the Palestinians, there are many within our own country (and some within Israel itself) who want to see Israel gone. Even those with no strong opinions concerning the matter are being quietly led to accept the notion that if Israel were to disappear, all would be right with the world.

Obama is one of those who harbor an all-consuming hatred of Israel and all she stands for: capitalism, sovereignty, the ability to protect herself – and, above all, religion. These, in leftist and Islamic circles, are considered the four evils of the apocalypse that must be made to heel before peace and salvation can be unleashed upon the world. It is the point at which Islam and communism join forces and strive toward a common Utopia.

With regard to Israel: Rather than wielding the hammer himself, Obama is quite willing let others do it. He will not stand in the way.

Diverting Attention

You, John, and most of your round-table sophisticates, are tilting at shadows without seeing what else is going on. Only, you say it is POTUS who is tilting at shadows. The White House is well aware of the polls. And they applaud them. They are running around the country proclaiming their hatred for the rich - not to improve their poll numbers, but – to cement them. They couldn’t care less about poll numbers – which should tell you, they couldn’t care less about elections. Why?

Barack Hussein Obama is first and foremost (by profession) a street thug and agitator. That is to say, he knows how to agitate; to divide; to provoke. His current focus is on widening the class envy split. Should he succeed in getting his financial regulation legislation passed, he will have won control over yet another chunk of our listing economy. He will have consolidated additional power. Key players on Wall Street may be in on the ruse. It is called ‘crony capitalism’.

Getting back to the November elections: The key question that should be asked is why does POTUS not seem to care about the midterms? Answer: Because Congress has already discredited itself by having been forced to govern against the will of the people. This is not something that new faces can change. If Obama wanted to finesse the point, he would right now be seeking a way to indefinitely postpone the elections altogether, citing national security (or economic crisis, whatever…). But this won’t be necessary this election. But, mark my words; it will become an issue in 2012.

These guys are professionals. Do not sell them short. Right now, the plan is to agitate – to make things worse, to set brother against brother; son against father; poor against the rich; black against white. All these divisions will come into increasingly sharper focus as the economy continues to falter; as jobs continue to be scarce; as communities have to begin cutting into basic services.

As long as we view the Obama presidency as a series of failures to be endlessly evaluated and debated, we miss the import of Obama’s overall intent. To him, each failure accrues to the complete and total re-structuring of our nation which, by the time it’s done, can no longer be called ‘America’.

I’m not saying this is inevitable. We can either allow it or stop it. We allow it by refusing to see what’s actually happening; by refusing to note what has happened already; by blindly chasing after every flare sent aloft for the sole purpose of diverting attention.

The Good Samaritan

Political? No question. "Punish winners on the downside?" Most definitely. But why split hairs? Punish winners, period. By then, the whole mortgage market had been polluted. Pretty paper printed, with no value behind it. All those freebee mortgages simply were never going to get paid. They should have been trashed and written off as welfare expense immediately.

Instead, all those young geniuses from university economics departments were recruited to obfuscate the fact; to design paper, in effect; with the intent of prolonging the fiction that these securities held any semblance of value. All the while, everyone was fully aware that 'value' was the only essential ingredient that was missing. They then proceeded to contrive a path so complex, no one could trace it back precisely - certainly not to the government's meddling in the system that had effectively sucked all the value out of the mortgage market in the first place.

Once the ploy had been exposed - when investors demanded their money - the system collapsed. Now the race is on to assign blame. The effort to maintain the fiction of ‘valuable’ securities no longer wins applause. These (securities) were then labeled 'toxic' [a misnomer - nothing toxic about them; 'toxic' implies they were imbued with some secret (value) ingredient when, in fact, they were simply ‘valueless’ as they had always been and would always be].

A similar fate can be expected to befall the dollar as the national debt rises so high that no amount of taxes – even generations out - can suffice to offset it. Reminds of the mob that, after having stripped the victim (value) of his valuables, fits him with cement shoes and pushes him off the bridge. The Good Samaritan sees what's happening, jumps in the water and tries to save the victim - but fails. The Good Samaritan is blamed for the victim’s demise - while the mob continues to operate as before.

Shut Up Already

As I read the WSJ every morning, listen to talk radio, and hear talk in town, I am struck by the deepening suspicion going around that our government has not been working in our best interests ever since Barack Hussein Obama has been in office. It reminds me of the incessant, gratuitous attacks on the previous administration by mainstream media types, academe, and the ‘comedy’ shows (I use the term ‘comedy’ advisedly). Whereas these focused on the mispronunciation of common words and awkward gestures - easily mocked, and designed to serve primarily as a vehicle to elicit laughs - Bush policy itself was mostly bruised by association with bumper sticker-size political slurs alone. Today, it is policy that is consistently questioned and immediately let slide, while invariably utmost care is taken to promote every silver lining, however fleeing, to improbable prominence.

Every criticism is couched in, “they all do it”, “we all did it”, or “Republicans and Democrats, alike…” We try to make sure that blame falls on no one in particular; that, collectively, we all are responsible (for the spread of nuclear weapons, Darfur, people starving in Africa, Wall Street’s excesses, ‘global warming’, and the like). …and when all are at fault, no one really is.

The polls tell a different story. They tell of a government that is has gone beyond deserving of mockery; a government that is recklessly out of control, feeding its voracious appetites at the expense of the people, even while it appears to distain them. Bill Clinton’s message to Americans was essentially to “shut up already”, accompanied by a threat based on a baseless comparison. Implicit in this was that the government would be forced to act if things were to get out of hand.

I am not one to resort to indiscriminate name-calling. When I say that Obama is a Marxist, it is not a slur. I say it because Obama’s own actions and words since he’s been in office (and even before) brand him as a Marxist (by the dictionary definition of the word). I have never compared Obama to ‘Hitler’ or ‘Stalin’, etc. because, clearly, no man is another. I may have pointed out suspiciously similar trends in the interest of drawing attention to what has happened before and what, by extension, could happen again. I risk doing so once more, mentioning a soon-to-be archaic, but pertinent comparison with regard to how the media today covers Hitler as opposed to how Obama is being portrayed.

It is still inappropriate to talk of Hitler as ‘good’, saying that he did ‘good’ things by having opposed communism, having loved dogs, painted nice pictures, and having invented the Volkswagen. We overlook all the ‘good’ things he might have done (and believed) knowing that Hitler was inherently a bad man. Nothing good that may be said about him can mitigate the evil he subjected the world to.

Yet, today, we focus on every shred of what can be construed as the positive attributes that got Obama elected POTUS. We say he has great pecs; he has a good-looking wife; two lovely children; he cares for the poor; the disadvantaged; he speaks well; etc. And yet, we know what he’s doing: He is destroying his Party; and the other party along with it. He is destroying our system of ‘checks and balances’. He is destroying our financial system; our influence in the world. He is destroying our future generations. He is destroying our history. He is destroying America before our very eyes. And yet we focus on his beautiful wife as she plants a vegetable garden on White House grounds.

Obama is a bad man. He should not be president of this once great nation. He must be removed from power.

According to today’s WSJ, the White House is still smarting over what happened in Honduras. It is doing everything in its power to re-assert its influence there. For the White House the Honduran matter is not yet settled. It intends to wield its big stick to get what it wants. It is not coincidence. There are no coincidences. It fits a pattern. It reflects Obama’s vision for America. Honduras mirrors the pressures we ourselves are under to yield to what is essentially alien to us. Whether we prevail or not depends on our willingness to confront the truth.

The Next Big Thing

Who won the Second World War? He who has the last laugh, of course! And I don't see too many people laughing.

I think humanity in general has pretty much given up on the idea of saving itself. In response, it has embarked on the quest of finding a savior from within the realm of the divine. Many divinities have been approached. Some have refused; some have been ignored; many others have been crucified before they could prove anything.

Krishnamurti did not believe he was the Second Coming of Christ; or if he believed it, he felt himself unprepared. I forget why Valentin Arnoldevitch Tomberg never became universally recognized as the implacable incarnation of the present Bodhisattva as some, including Dr. Robert A. Powell of the Sophia Foundation, believed he was. And then there is the ongoing scramble within China itself about who would replace the current Dali Lama after His Holiness joyously accepts his final release.

Some stand upright in their boots, shivering with fright. Some believe chaos is the ultimate sacrifice that the Redeemer demands; that unrestrained bloodletting will flush the 12th Mahdi out of his well.

All have found religion. All are seeking redemption, each in his or her own way; hastened, perhaps by the earth’s own spit, shake, and bluster as she opens her thighs in preparation for the next big thing.

Tea Party

Whereas I have been critical of Thaddeus McCotter (and Republicans in general) in the past, I do believe now that he has found religion. The Tea Party movement has developed into a serious political force in our nation. Its reach extends across state lines; it is not dependent on campaign cash, and even seems immune to the unrelenting ridicule and attacks orchestrated by the White House and its lackeys in the state-run media.

Tea Party dogma does not revolve around single issues like comparable movements on the Left that seems to be able to generate sizable rent-a-mobs in support of gender, race, immigration, environmental and foreign policy issues. Tea Parties appear to have a comprehensive view re all of those, including some of their own. Examples: spending, taxes, schools and unwarranted government intrusion into American’s private lives. Though Tea Party supporters are not primarily focused on foreign affairs, they tend to support of Israel and other traditional American allies.

Tea partiers pose a threat not only to the ruling elites, but also to what is seen as its adjuncts: corporate, academe, media, unions and the like. Money, traditionally generated by such deep pocket interests seemingly has no effect on the unprecedented growth of the movement. Politically, it is expedient for politicians with aspirations to higher office to align themselves with the movement or, at the very least, to make certain not to end up in its crosshairs.

No doubt, the movement developed in response to the blind ideological stance the Obama administration has adopted. It acknowledges that career politicians of both major parties have been complicit in causing the general downturn in America’s fortunes. Even more important, Tea partiers are determined that they will no longer be the victims of a political process that has managed to upend the slave/master paradigm.

The Tea Party, thus far, is has been a grassroots movement without a face. All attempts at painting it as racist, stupid, seditious, have failed. In fact, every attempt to portray Tea partiers as dangerous, Timothy McVey or supremacist militia types has only served to make them stronger. Where the ruling class and most of the pundits make their mistake is by casting the Tea Party as a political entity - a third party alternative to Republicans and Democrats. The Tea Party is not political. It is a popular uprising. Its aim is not to win elections. (Sorry, Lou Dobbs.) Its aim is to be king maker; to elect people to political office - regardless of political affiliation - who they feel most closely approximate a return to reasonable and effective governance.

The next test for the movement will be crucial to its ultimate impact. No doubt, a leader will emerge. Perhaps he or she already has. As long as this leader is not tempted to overtly pursue political office, the party remains relatively safe. Ideas, thus far, have been immune to the proverbial sticks and stones. It is the human face of a party that is most exposed to smear. As long as no leader emerges, the idea of America returning to its former self will continue to grow. And the Tea Party will have served its purpose.

STAND DOWN

If anyone still thinks that Bush Derangement Syndrome (BDS) and ODS are the same, you are out of your mind. Be that as it may, the time has come for us to step back, lie low and avoid the trap that is being set for us. Bill Clinton let the cat out of the bag today by exposing the Democrat strategy of provoking the opposition (us) into doing something stupid. Clearly, none of the Tea Party events so far have been violent. What violence there might have been was manufactured out of whole cloth or perpetrated by the Left.

The media is waiting breathlessly for something to happen and run with it. In addition, they, along with the Obama administration, are fanning the flames. It’s a far cry from Bush telling everybody to stay calm after 9/11. Bush worked tirelessly to avoid conflict within our increasingly polarized nation – even at his own expense. Obama is doing just the opposite. Why?

He is looking for any excuse to declare a national emergency and postpone November elections. Do not doubt me. He is not above orchestrating an ugly event. I suggest you attend no more rallies. Talk show hosts: get off of your soap boxes and play soothing music for the duration. Bloggers, take a breath. Be secure in the knowledge that the American people are up to speed. There’s nothing constructive anyone can do now to turn this thing around.

Come November, we will start with Congress. If we can win majorities, we can move to impeach this dangerous president. Don’t blow it. Don’t give him an excuse to rob us of the one chance we have to put him back among the loyal opposition. November may well be the last chance we’ll ever have of taking our country back.

I Ching

Asia (and the rest of the world) is in trouble alright. America’s withdrawing from the world stage is having the effect of casting yarrow stalks. It is now open season; anything goes. The game of 'pick up sticks' will consume the rest of the century. Old and new players will attempt to fill the vacuum and dominate. It is unclear who will prevail. India is not yet ready; China will screw it up; Russia will end up eating itself. Israel has been left to dangle in the breeze. Iran is making big, strategic moves. At least I Ching can predict an outcome. I see only chaos for the foreseeable future.

Unless America can re-establish some semblance of gravitas, notwithstanding its hopelessly intellectually impoverished population, she will be left in the dust, exposed to plunder and the enslavement of her people. Obama will stand by and mock her humiliation. He will miss no opportunity to fan the flames of chaos. He will encourage the forces that are dead-set of her total destruction. He will proceed with his mandate (as he sees it) to wipe her off the face of the earth, after which he hopes to flee into the embrace of the last tyrant left standing.

When I was back in high school one of the factoids we were taught was of the role of the Nazi propaganda machine that turned an entire nation into salivating Pavlovian dogs. We dismissed it summarily and thought, “How stupid!” - thinking we were so far above it; that we ourselves would never fall for something as ridiculously obvious as The Big Lie. And yet, we are seeing it every day. The propaganda mills are working incessantly; with considerable success, I might add. It comes from distrust; refusing to talk with one another; from ideology having trumped all reason.

Rubber Rooms

I love the way the money we would save by abandoning our efforts overseas has already been spent by the progressive Left. No doubt, we need more teachers to teach about the evils of capitalism; the evils of Democracy, and of racism in America; the evils of fossil fuels; the cancers of freedom, liberty and of the anachronism of humanity in general.

There are never enough teachers, whether in the ‘rubber rooms’ or in the classrooms to bone up and teach - not math, history or language – but of the yet unrealized glories of Obama's Marxist vision of vast plantations worked by sweat, brawn and the rotting carcasses of the infirm. Teachers who by rote say only one thing: 'Arbeit macht frei', which equates roughly to the ball and chain metaphor without the actual ball, without the actual chain; Pol Pot’s vision of workers abandoning the cities to the ravages of ruin for the ideal of Schlaraffenland, the bountiful earth, the miracle of the loaves and fish; for the unsullied human imprint that excludes individuality, inspiration, exceptionalism, imagination, talent and failure – and, by extension, of course – success.

What is success anyway, if not the desire to make someone else look bad? Strike it from the face of the earth, and there will be true equality without stress and acrimony.

I went to the MoMA in New York this weekend. I’d never seen so many people there before, prompting my nephew (from Brazil) to remark, “In New York nobody works.” And so it seemed – on a weekday, no less - so many people, milling aimlessly around among the ghosts of past masters, seeking what?

I would soon find out why. The draw was an exhibit of a new art form - outside the box - involving live humans sitting or standing still without blinking, facing each other or looking away; expressionless. Some were alone; some were naked, not even allowed the dubious dignity of porn: photography prohibited. Ironically, these were precisely in a box, constrained by the space of a frame; constrained by directorial decree; the opposite of dance. I was saddened to see it. I don’t remember their faces. I only saw submission to the artist’s triumphant straight jacket (display) that kept them unnaturally motionless. It reminded me of Seaworld where dolphins are made to jump through hoops – or circuses. And yet, these were especially distressing to watch being denied even motion. A forthright display of corpses would have made far greater sense.

Then, this morning, one of the talk shows had Michio Kaku on. This is a man who had at one time inspired me with his folksy explanations of string theory. I heard him say that he had been receiving e-mails asking if God was mad at the world, causing earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, rain and flooding, and such. Kaku is a pleasant, gregarious intellect, much admired by the self-proclaimed intellectual elite for his way with words. He explained in plain language the workings of the earth’s tectonic plates and seemed to dismiss the hand of God entirely. No doubt, the e-mail writers were greatly relieved to hear that the terrible hand of God had nothing to do with recent disasters. No doubt, they felt assured that the demon head of their crushing guilt would remain hidden in the recesses of their exploding hearts - disguised as calm - for yet another day. It is God they fear the most.

Finally, the discussion turned to ‘global warming’, as every conversation by convention must. Kaku supported the concept, explaining it in tortured economic terms (new to me, but just as implausible). I turned the radio off. Such a brilliant mind bound by popular orthodoxy was too much for me to take this early in the day. Kaku reminded me of those living, inert human figures at the museum who could not move, despite nothing obvious restraining them, except the dictate of the artist/Kommandant who pays their bills.

Defending America

I had to look up the word “trenchant” again. Something didn’t quite fit. I guess it could mean ‘strong’. There was nothing strong about McCotter’s speech – or trenchant. It was matched, I thought, by the scattered applause. What were there, about a dozen people?

True, everything McCotter said was credible and worth hearing. We say the same thing every day in one way or another on this blog. I did note one significant omission, however, when he said, “We (Republicans) defend America from her enemies and we support her allies”; this, a clear reference to Israel no doubt. Fair enough. What McCotter failed to say was, “We defend America from her enemies at home (as well as abroad)!"

Our enemies at home are currently our most immediate threat. We don’t have ‘differences’ with our enemies. We’re in a war. Until that’s settled, we don’t have a ghost of a chance of doing anything overseas. I would urge Mr. McCotter to name the enemy right here at home. It is not Democrats as we have come to know Democrats. It is the socialist/Marxists that have driven the once proud Democrat Party into the dirt and who now, under cover of its once hallowed name, are exploiting our own rules to wage war against America itself.

Lest we forget, it was leftist democrats who were singularly responsible for causing our housing meltdown, from the ashes of which they raised up Barack Hussein Obama, who’s been wreaking havoc on the institutions of our nation ever since he’s been in office.

“We stand for…blah, blah, blah” is no longer enough. We must fight the beast in our midst. We must name it. We must hold it accountable. We must make it clear in no uncertain terms, “Hell no! We won’t go there! We will refuse to submit to being enslaved by debt, communist propaganda and ignorance. And YES, capitalism works if it’s allowed to do so! Capitalism is not broken. The reason we’re in the state we’re in is because capitalism has been misused and deliberately skewed to give the impression of failure - so that we would yield en masse to authoritarian rule under Barack Hussein Obama and his faux Democrats.”

Defending the nation includes defending it from its enemies within. These, unhappily, are now in power. They do not comprise a majority. Defending the nation includes defending it from lies; from rabble-rousers; from ruthless opportunists; from starry-eyed impractical dreamers; from ideologues; from would-be tyrants; nihilists and anarchists. Such folks will always exist in a country as big as ours. But they certainly don’t need to be in power. Given the keys to the school bus, they pose a clear and present danger. It’s high time we put down some rules as to the kind of people that can be allowed to govern this great country. Let's at the very least stick to adults. (Does anybody realize that Obama would never be allowed to hold a government job under present rules?)

There’s a very wealthy CEO who lives in Bombay with his family. He’s very fond of cars and owns a stable of them. His latest acquisition was a Rolls Royce Ghost. His teenage son takes the keys and drives two blocks down the road to a bar where he drinks. He hands the keys to the valet who then parks the car somewhere in the back. America is the Rolls Royce; the teenage son is Obama. Think about it, Mr. McCotter.

One Time Too Many

Since when has Obama been concerned about the Constitution? I agree that BHO can’t go there, but he is not a man who thinks inside a box. If he did, he would have backed off of health care; he would care about his Democrat majority; he would care about his poll numbers. It is obvious he doesn’t. Doesn’t that tell you something?

Obama is unlike any president we’ve ever had. He means to change this country. If he has to destroy it first, he aims to do so. Bloody insurrection is not off the table. Nothing is off the table as far as he is concerned. Who would have thought that someone would deliberately crash airliners into buildings? Who would have thought that after it happened we would be the ones who’d be at each other’s throats? Ground Zero workers are now in the process of suing New York City for damages. The courts are going along with it. Implicit in this is the understanding that we were at fault. …and there’s still a hole there after so many years. Muslims are vying to have an Islamic education center on the very spot where so many of our brothers and sisters died. Why not set up a pro-Nazi gift shop at Auschwitz with pictures of Hitler for sale? Many believe that Arab-hating Bush - the president of the United States at the time - orchestrated the whole thing to give him an excuse for invading Iraq. One of these (‘truthers’) now occupies the highest office in the land.

I wouldn’t put anything past this man. The speeches and writings of the men and women he surrounds himself with have convinced me that this man means business. It is dangerous to underestimate him. He clearly does not have the best interests of our nation in mind. He proves it every day he is in office. I honestly think that he believes he’s got everything covered; that audacity will win out. …and it will, if we refuse to see what this man is all about; if we say, “he can’t go there… the Constitution forbids it… he won’t get re-elected”, etc.

Obama got elected. For him that’s more than enough. “Thank Allah for my black face! Thank Allah for America’s boundless guilt! Thank Allah for our educational system that produces armies of bloodless vegan wimps!”

For us, the one-time election of Barack Hussein Obama has been one time too many.

Party Crashers

Just as Bush wrecked the Republican Party (by yielding too much to Democrats), Obama is continuing with this Bush policy by doubling down and wrecking the Democrat Party as well, forcing it to govern against the will of the people. Bottom line: Congress is wrecked. The legitimacy of our representative government has been compromised. From here it’s only a small step for the executive branch to dissolve Congress altogether and establish itself as the only legitimate governing entity remaining.

The plan is to ignore the clamoring electorate – or even to criminalize the leaderless ad hoc opposition. In today’s WSJ, Mary Anastasia O’Grady tells how it was done in Ecuador; how President Rafael Correa managed to consolidate his power and create a left-wing tyranny. Obama, in the meantime, publicly endorses what has happened there by sending the State Department’s Arturo Valenzuela on a high profile courtesy visit - a clear continuation of his (Obama’s) charm offensive aimed at Latin American’s mushrooming authoritarian regimes.

No doubt, our president envies the seemingly unlimited powers of dictators around the world. At the same time, he eschews democracies. He clearly understands that the people no longer support him and his policies. Obama seems to be okay with that. It had only taken their fleeting support one time – enough to install him. He (Obama) would take care of the rest. Every one of our nation’s festering wounds (racism, abortion, poverty, fiscal instability, etc.) is in play. Each one will be exploited to wreck our system of its checks and balances, to divide and promote chaos. By the time it’s all over, the executive branch will be the only pillar left standing.

While we argue about the upcoming November election, Obama is busy consolidating his power. The election speculation at this point only serves as a useful distraction. By the time November arrives, it won’t matter a hill of Mexican jumping beans who we vote for. The re-making of America will have been complete. Odd to think that the one option – the November elections – that gives Americans so much hope at the moment could actually drop the veil of all pretense and expose a blushing America in its new tyrannical garb.

Lighting Fuses

Again, the storm will not pass by November. Wherever there's a Democrat running, the
Democrat will lose. Democrat losses will be so overwhelming, neither the best efforts of the unions and ACORN are likely to make a difference. The only thing of interest to watch for is how many moderate Republicans survive. It is they who will have to run against ill-financed conservatives and tea party types. My prediction is that moderate, reach-across-the-aisle Republican career politicians are likely to meet the same fate as Democrats in general.

POTUS will not pick someone who is acceptable to Republicans for the bench. He will pick a radical and attempt to have his majority in Congress ram it through. It will be a repeat of the health care cram-down. In the end, the Dems will get it done. They are still clinging to the belief that if the public sees results, they will vote Democrat in November. Though counterintuitive at this point, it is nevertheless what both POTUS and their leadership are telling them.

The Democrat's first instinct now is to back off. Obama won't let them. He will squeeze his Democrat majority for all it's worth. The smart ones know this. They have already decided to retire. The rest will be urged to remember that Obama won the election and thus deserves to have his nominee for the Supreme Court vacancy approved. Republicans, lacking in numbers, may finally put up a good fight but, in the end, they will fall short.

The problem with most of the Democrat Party today is that they’re in denial. They will not admit that their party has been hijacked by wildly radical elements. Neither do they understand that the American people are aware of it and that they are singularly determined to do something about it.

Democrats are living in an echo chamber. They talk to each other and they talk to the main stream press. They still think that the opposition is limited to a handful of Rush Limbaugh listeners. The money from cash rich foundations is still coming in. They do not recognize the grass roots tsunami that’s building to sweep them away.

The White House knows it, but doesn’t care. For them, November is still centuries away. They’ve got a lot planned between then and now and they will push for all of it. The more outrage and chaos they can create, the better it suits them. It’s all about breaking the nerve of the American people; it’s about lighting fuses so, by the time November arrives, POTUS will be able to declare a national emergency and postpone elections indefinitely.

Hiroshima Mon Amour

It seems to me this documentary should be shown in Iran, North Korea, and Pakistan. We can be virtually certain it won't be. I can imagine that the film makes no mention of why the bombs were dropped in the first place, and of how these weapons would serve as an effective deterrent for so many years. The conclusions drawn were likely faulty as well: (Shout it from the mountain top!) America = evil. Eternal shame on evil America for dropping the bomb; for its audacity to wrest victory from the jaws of defeat!

I'm sure, this will also be the lesson liberally taught in our schools. What is 'victory'? (No longer listed in the dictionary; must be archaic or banned terminology.) And a whole new generation will clamor for us to disarm and atone for daring to win; heroes – men who had fought honorably for what they believed was right - forgotten and besmirched, their holy graves violated.

Meanwhile, only the bad actors will be allowed to keep their bombs; those who won't listen to reason or give in to regret; those whose intent it is to destroy us (as well as themselves). In their profound suicidal ignorance, they will not hesitate to loose nuclear mayhem and they will make themselves into heroes - not for dropping the bomb; only to threaten us with it - turning us into mindless pink begging poodles – for the duration. “Arbeit Macht Frei”.

After the bombs drop (on us) every argument is moot. Our choking guilt will thankfully dissipate. There will no longer be any cause to offer regret, tell stories, and make movies telling how bad we were – like braggadocios gang members after a bloody Chicago-style car jacking.

I don’t buy it!

Driven Out

The past couple of nights I’ve been awakened by the scream of some kind of animal. Somebody said it’s a meerkat. (What a meerkat would be doing in NJ, I’ll never know.) It reminded me of Alan Grayson whom I’ve seen spewing his liberal garbage in the MSNBC echo chamber. Grayson is energetic, outspoken, vain and (I suspect) about to lose his privilege. This makes him (as you say) ‘act out’.

The meerkat’s call (if it’s that) signals stress, pressure, danger. It’s scary; insistent. I would not go outside to confront it. It is piercing as that of a stuck pig. Unsettling. Somebody is about to get hurt. Call it a response to “an uprising that has no name other than taxpayer, homeowner, worker, citizen"... Call it ‘tea party’; call it anything. - Or ignore it at your own risk. It’s a long way to November. But the Dems still keep digging.

Republicans are watching and licking their chops. They think they’re shoo-ins. Not so fast. We’re all watching now. ‘Not Bush’; ‘not Obama’ won’t work anymore. You’re all on your own now: arabesques of either, the cancer or the cure. No slick ads; no union endorsements and cash can save you. No riding coattails. No hiding behind empty platitudes.

The earthquake has occurred. It started somewhere over in Indonesia where they’re toppling statues of Obama and burning him in effigy. The tsunami is on its way. It should hit around November and take out everybody connected with this sinful betrayal – the betrayal of the people by their elected representatives. Start building the ramparts now. Pile up all your bags of Soros' money around your homes. Hide among the pseudo-civilian media whose faces we’ve now identified. Sink that bunker from which to proclaim your hollow victory - the cry of the meerkat, that no longer frightens. For now we know that meerkats don’t inhabit this continent. If they’re here, they’re interlopers; posers; they don’t belong here. They – and especially you, Grayson - will be driven out.

Sorry, Sarah!

If we’ve learned anything from the last election, we know we can’t go by how people look or what they say. We must choose candidates on the basis of our gut feeling. We must look at the whole person and judge. In Obama’s case, we simply did not pay enough attention. The election was treated simply as an irksome formality, to give Bush his final comeuppance. Everything else was willfully ignored. We wanted to wipe that smirk off of Bush’s stupid face; see him disgraced beyond redemption; satisfy our political bloodlust that had been carefully stoked for eight years. We played along enthusiastically because it was fun. And we felt bored. And we thought it didn’t matter anyway; and that it could never happen here. -- Well it did. And now we’re tuned in. And most of us are scared out of our wits. We cling to the November election like drowning men cling to straw.

Look, we know Palin’s heart is in the right place. She says all the right things; and, intellectually, she outpaces Obama by at least two lengths. But does anyone here truly believe she could lead the nation at this critical time? Just because she has put herself in the spotlight, surrounded by adoring crowds, doesn’t mean much. Obama did the same. But note: Despite the polls, Obama is succeeding. Why do you suppose that is?

It is true, if a presidential election were held today, Obama would lose handily. But, what difference does that make? There is no election today or tomorrow. His re-election will not come up until a couple of years from now. That is a fact.

Obama is not a political animal. He is ideological. In his ideological world, elections don’t count. He will do what he must to complete what he came here to do. He will do it if it takes him one term, two terms or the rest of his life. This is ‘do or die’ for Obama. He will not give up. We saw that with health care. If he has to postpone or cancel elections in order to achieve his goals, he will not hesitate. Barack Hussein Obama sees himself as a historic inevitability; a transformational, revolutionary figure.

Could Sarah Palin stand up to such self-importance; such crazed arrogance? Does she look like she’s tough enough? This is no longer “Mr(s). Smith Goes To Washington”. This is “Mr(s). Smith Goes To Tora Bora”! Can’t you just see how she’ll be attacked; the vile, filthy things they’ll say about her? The sewage mills will be pumping all out. An entire Palin term will be taken up by people debating if she did or didn’t (clean under her fingernails). She’ll be absolutely smeared and tarred by the media – worse than Bush. In the end, even we – her supporters - will deny her three times.

We have to have someone who will be able to withstand and counter all the partisan bile – like Reagan did (as Obama is doing now). And even he was wearied by it.

Sorry, Sarah! Would you settle for number two – after Petraeus?

Shutdown

Not so fast! Gingrich may have a point. Government shutdown may well be the only answer at this point. It may end up being chaotic. It would send the press howling; the unions demonstrating; the rabble throwing bricks, but who can predict at this point that chaos can be avoided? It’s gone too far already. We have been speeding towards our financial and subsequent political abyss at breakneck speed for more than a year. We’re almost there now. Personally, I think we’ll reach there well before November. No Dem can hope to win without it. You can bet your socks Obama and the Dems are working on something right now. Whatever it is, it will be duly trumpeted and endorsed by the state-controlled media. It will be portrayed as a ‘crisis’ that only the smartest men (Obama, et al) on earth can solve. Elections postponed.

Outrage among the public will build to a fever pitch. Despite what The New York Times says, the people will not believe that the ‘crisis’ is anything other than manufactured for Obama’s benefit. They will have been pushed beyond the edge of reason as they see their only chance for retribution slipping away. This is when the real crisis starts: the revolution.

Now, it is still possible that the Dem’s timetable will not be met – not before November anyway; that Obama will somehow be denied a reason to postpone elections and (in effect) declare a national emergency. This is where Newt comes in. Republicans will have a majority in both houses of congress. They will have the power to shut down government. It will be their only power. It would effectively stop Obama who would presumably still be in office for the next two years.

I believe most Americans would support a government shut-down. They would understand that no governing can take place for as long as Obama remains in office. Most would understand that the runaway train simply has to be stopped, even if just inches away from the washed out bridge; that there will be a need afterwards for some time in which to reflect, gather thoughts and steady nerves; that they had been granted a reprieve – however brief – but a reprieve nonetheless.

Two consecutive years of gridlock governance will be a hell in itself. It’ll require a hunkering down and waiting out the storm. Perhaps, the troops will be withdrawn from overseas and charged with keeping the peace here at home. (On whose orders?) Perhaps the president will be impeached. More troops. Which side will the military take? Will there even be sides to take?

In November, God willing, the train will be stopped. Time will have been bought. What happens next is critical. It will do no good to compromise on this and that and let the train creep forward. The bridge is still out. As long as Obama and his gang are still in office, they can be counted on to sabotage any bridge repairs. Can we afford to lose another two years of governance? Actually, with this bunch in office, we can’t afford to win.

Fearing Fire

Any human interaction involves partners that are not precisely matched in terms of confidence, intelligence, determination, power of personality (aura), etc. It exhibits itself in the weaker mimicking the stronger’s gestures, vocal inflection; and, most commonly, the weaker summarily agreeing (nodding) with what the stronger is saying. The bitch rolls over and submits to the male.

Obama is weak, at home and abroad. He has nothing going for him except a highly suspect ideology. He is propped up by a bitch press and a rag-tag army of malcontents. By sending Obama out on the world to represent our nation, we project weakness. He is incapable of holding his own among men who have actually achieved something – however nefarious – besides winning an election in which only the comatose can be said to have voted. In other words, we are getting fu**ed.

Russia, China, Venezuela, and even Afghanistan have succeeded in publicly humiliating us and bending us to their will. Republicans, historically, have been suffering from a similar disease, rolling over at the drop of a hat. Modern progressives on the Right, RINO’s, Blue Dogs, Moderates, Middle-of-the-Roaders feign shock and outrage at the lack of nuance, bipartisanship, reaching-across-the-aisle, comity, civility, etc. whenever the extended open hand is spat on, and run crying to the media; themselves, a collection of venomous, scribbling paper tigers, horrified by mere fire.

Australopithecine Discovery

Mankind: “Inevitable”; “accidental”? What difference does it make? Just because we’ve learned to write and add and think in linear fashion, we think we’re better than all creation. It speaks to our almost pathetic parochialism. It makes us susceptible to the call of the snake oil salesman who promises utopia, immortality, global warming and who knows what. True, we’ve managed to survive long enough to evolve. To what end? To become entrenched victims of ourselves? To deny the greater power that so obviously sustains us? To debase the significance of our external organs? To think we can manage alone?

Man’s arrogance – based on ignorance – continues to astound me. I don’t quell when a tree is cut down to build a house or a guitar. I don’t swoon at the thought of eating meat. I trust in the laws that govern the universe, the natural cycles of history, the rise and fall of empires; the boom and bust of economies. And I am awed by all of it. Even if I should find myself caught in the destructive end of a cycle, I can hardly complain, knowing that I have been privileged to witness the birth of new shadows. I now know why Hindus worship the cow.

No Compromise

>"POTUS does not believe in nukes as a weapon."

Wrong! How is it possible not to believe!? POTUS believes in nukes alright, but he sees nukes it in terms of weapons to be used AGAINST AMERICA! Naturally, he does not want America to have nukes. America can hardly be persuaded to use its nukes against itself. By extension, therefore - in Obams’s mind - nukes are useless in America's hands.

It is clear that many in America have not yet figured out where we are headed with this president. We have only partially completed the jigsaw puzzle that is Obama’s enigma. We think that we have a pretty good idea what the final picture will look like. Yet some of the pieces are still missing. No matter how hard we try, the remaining puzzle pieces just don't seem to fit. The reason is because our assumptions about the competed picture don’t match the president’s.

It is easier for us to believe that the puzzle is somehow flawed; that we must return it to the store. It is easier for us to come up with excuses to ignore what the puzzle really shows: That this president does NOT have our best interests in mind. We sense trouble, but hope that in time the president will come to recognize it too, and change course. Maybe, we feel, it’s not up to us. This, after all, is what we elect a president for.

The tea partiers get it. They know we are the ones who are in danger. But it’s still not enough. That sense of doom churning in the pit of our stomachs speaks of something much more immediate than danger: We are being stalked. We are the target!

I just heard a speech by Arundhati Roy and Noam Chomsky at the 2010 Left Forum held a few days ago at Pace University in which they made reference to some of this. From what I can gather, their positions are in stark contrast to our own; and, as such, it sets the stage for a conflict that cannot be resolved. Compromise is not possible. Neither is it possible to defeat the base sentiment that America is inherently evil. This is an idea that bullets will never convince. What is the answer? Are we to suffer an endless war of attrition?


Here in America, we thought we'd solved everything by electing an avowed Marxist president. We didn't think he was a Marxist, though we might have suspected as much by his friends and affiliations. No, we only saw his skin color. We sought to slay the race demon for once and for all. Now we know better. If given even half a chance, we will not repeat the same mistake again.

Myanmar

I've been thinking of Myanmar recently. Myanmar is probably one of the two most repressive regimes in the world. The other is North Korea. I haven't been to North Korea, but I've been to Myanmar. The people there are like people everywhere, inquisitive, gentle, but somehow dispirited. The world doesn't care about what anyone in Myanmar says or thinks. Myanmar is like a black hole on the globe. The whole nation is a prison.

And yet, from the look of things, Myanmar was once a great nation. One can gather that much from seeing its antiquities. At some point, all the greatness ceased; the people's spirit died. The people still exist, but they do not live. They are afraid to speak out, or even enquire. No one seeks their advice; their opinion. There will never be an International Auto Show in Rangoon.

This is what we can expect to happen in America if our present administration gets its way. Even the socialist countries of Europe are scrambling to form alliances with some sense of future in mind. Only our government seems determined to choke of all avenues of progress; hope. It's done so much damage already; it's difficult to gage our chances of recovery. Two and a half years of same should suffice to plow us under for good. The world will turn its back on us. Even the most morbid among us find it painful to watch a suicide. Like Myanmar, it won't even be worth the effort to bury the corpse.

Hell No; We Won't Go!!!

Let me say it again: No Democrat will be elected or reelected to office in November. Obama has poisoned the field. There will be exceptions, of course. But these will be few and far between. People who vote are now fully engaged and aware of the threat to our nation. Obama himself can make light of it, glibly pointing out that meteors have not struck the continent since he's been in office. The press can comfortably ignore the ramifications of allowing the Democrats to continue flaunting their contempt for the Constitution in word and action. Jerry-rigged numbers will no longer convince the un- and underemployed that we are heading in the right direction.

Obama's message has gotten out alright. Simply put, it is that he despises the America of pre-Obama days. By extension, he can be expected do his level best to see to it that we will never be able to return to that America (I am paraphrasing Michelle).

Here are some hard facts to consider: Whereas there have been no meteor strikes on the continent, our situation has not improved as promised. Internationally, there are troubles brewing on the horizon - specifically in the Middle East. While it is true that most Americans have difficulty locating other countries on a map, our traditional enemies have not softened their hostile stance toward us. Even our traditional allies are now raising concerns. Also here at home, divisions have only deepened. Unemployment is still unacceptably high. The private sector is under constant assault. Taxes are becoming oppressive. Racial frictions have not diminished. People who have never protested before have felt compelled to come out into the streets to voice their displeasure with the way things are going.

Never once has the president come out to assure the nation. In fact, he and his surrogates have been all too eager to fan the flames of discontent, accusing practically anyone who disagrees with his policies of racism, the only other explanation – implausible as it sounds - still credible to support a dearth of progress. It is a diversion of course; one, that ignores the blatantly obvious observation that the people of America elected Obama - a person of color - to the highest office in the land.

Even the canard of inexperience or incompetence is beginning to wear thin, leaving increasing numbers of Americans to conclude that what is currently being done by our government is not to fix, but to destroy.

Neither have Republicans escaped the nation’s misgivings entirely. Republicans are seen as having been complicit in creating our current mess. When Republicans had their chance, they failed to take a decisive lead, always caving in to Democrat’s shrill demands that have now brought us to the edge. While it is true, that Republicans are routinely ignored or mischaracterized by the media, they have failed to convincingly articulate an alternative. Conventional wisdom now has it that whereas Democrats are sending us into the abyss at hyper speed, Republicans would do the same, only at a much slower pace. There has never been any serious discussion about halting our descent, much less about changing course entirely.

Yet, course changes are in the offing. These have now been forced on us by circumstance. A new crop of leaders are now taking up the reigns. This is America. We will not allow ourselves to be marched into the ovens.

Trolling For Excuses

In the upcoming midterms Democrats will lose overwhelmingly. Among the opposition it will not matter who wins. Republicans, tea partiers and independents will vote as a block against Obama; just like Democrats, socialists, progressives and the various (rainbow) caucuses have voted as a block in support of the current president's policies. Midterms will merely show the relative strength of sundry factions. Overall, Obama will lose his legislative majority and will have to rely on the regulatory structure, already in place, to advance his big government agenda.

The 2012 presidential election is a horse of a different color. Democrats are banking on the opposition fracturing six ways to Sunday, thus producing the opening for their candidate(s) to skate through to victory. This amounts to delusion. It will not happen. Republicans, tea partiers and independents will recognize that Obama himself is the single most potent threat to this nation and will end up uniting under a single (Republican) banner. It will be said that the Republican Party has returned to its conservative roots. Democrats in Congress will suffer further erosion in their ranks.

This once again sets up the country for one-party rule. We can only hope that Republicans (which now will include a broad spectrum of factions) will not succumb to giddy excess. This is precisely where Democrats met their doom. The damage that has already been done to our nation will require a steady and principled hand to set right. As clear leadership has yet to emerge from within our ranks to articulate and coordinate a path forward, the future remains hazy - like a great mountain shrouded in cloud cover. Nobody doubts that the mountain is there.

The media will do its level best to undermine and disparage any serious challenge to the progressive juggernaut. Fortunately, trust in the MSM has eroded along with Democrat fortunes. The media’s current efforts on behalf of their Democrat pals have become patently obvious. Even should Obama's regulatory framework succeed in shutting down alternative media between now and then, it will have come too late. The comatose giant has awoken. He is fully up to speed. He needs no further prodding. The only way Obama and friends can remain in power is by postponing or canceling elections. Don't think they are not trolling for excuses as we speak.