Resurrection

Either by sheer ineptitude or by design, leadership (as most understand it) is not one of our president’s strong suits. We recommend that anyone waiting for Obama to make the first move not hold their breath. And why should the president trouble himself? By not acting - or only appearing to act - the stinkweed will still continue to bloom in in Michelle’s much-hyped White House garden.

In today’s WSJ there are two unsigned editorials relating to Obama’s policy regarding oil: he hates it, along with every other carbon based fuel. The Gulf oil spill introduced the opening chords of this multi-layered symphony. It gave the administration the excuse to declare a drilling moratorium. Despite being forced to rescind it at a judge’s order, this administration still hasn’t issued a single drilling permit, citing cut-backs in staffing and problems in deciphering the new regulations.

This is not the only time the Obama administration has chosen to drag its feet to achieve policy objectives. Since a judge declared the government’s health care plan unconstitutional, requiring the government to immediately cease its implementation, Obama has used every delaying tactic to circumvent the judge’s ruling. As in the drilling moratorium matter, it now finds itself in contempt of court rulings. But who would enforce it?

Setting the Middle East on fire also meets Obama’s objectives. Likely to drive up prices beyond endurance, the administration figures this to equate with a huge shot-in-the-arm for the fledgling alternative fuels industry…and, most importantly, ‘cap and trade’ legislation which would place a premium on energy usage to then be pocketed by favored constituencies - hence, wealth re-distribution, another policy objective high on the president’s list.

The entire field is in play; all the fuses are lit. All the president has to do is sit back and watch as the sacred cow dominos fall one by one.

I personally have trouble agreeing entirely with this analysis. There are too many steps involved, any one of which could put the ultimate objective ( so called energy independence) at risk. Not the least of which is that the alternative fuel bandwagon is still far from ready. But it does point to a target much closer: this, being America - to stop the blood flowing to America’s heart. If this can be achieved, by any means, America (as we know it) could be declared dead.

I maintain, that America is already dead. She can no longer defend herself in her present state while threats, both internal and external, abound. External aggression will not finish the job; i.e. strip the flesh off her bones. This will be done internally. The opposition in virtually every sector has already been eliminated. And no one from the outside will come to bury the body in accordance with respectful custom. Her one and only hope continues to be Israel which is under attack itself.

My one consolation is that the architects of this monumental crime will not be allowed to rest on their laurels. Whatever may be said of humanity, it does not celebrate murder.

As America is removed from the cross, a new spirit will sweep the world and the idea of ‘America’ will revive to guide it back into safe waters. It will signal a resurrection of sorts in which even the bad guys will have a chance for redemption, and the Mahdi will jump back into his well.

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The Ice Queen

Michelle Obama - arguably the person closest to the president - once famously said: “For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country“. This was back during the 2008 presidential campaign when it became apparent that her husband actually had a fair chance of becoming POTUS.

America has had several periods of relative prosperity within Michelle‘s lifetime. Her statement seems to suggest that even during the good times she did not like her country very much. I wonder what she thinks today?

Things are pretty bad right now, all of it pretty much the direct result of her husband’s two-year reign. Is she still proud? She hasn’t really said much about it recently - not that we know of, anyway. Is this because she’s no longer proud? Or is it because it would reveal too much for her to say it now?

As I said to a friend recently, success depends upon where you stand. A demolition crew, for instance, would have a different idea of success than a builder would. It is quite possible that both take pride in their work.

It has become clear that Democrats’ view success as the total annihilation of Republicans. They have proven over and over again that it doesn’t concern them a bit if success should come at the expense of the country. When Harry Reid proclaimed that “the war in Iraq is lost”, he did so with a certain bravado. He saw it in terms scoring points for his party, members of which were openly betting that things there would go badly. When he called President Bush "a loser" during a civics discussion with a group of teenagers, he paid no heed to the fact that he was speaking about the man who was duly elected to represent the stars and stripes around the world.

Reid may be excused for his failure to understand that the good of the nation should always take precedence over party. The Obamas’ vision, however, appears to be broader. The president appears to have used the likes of Reid, Biden, etc. for a much larger purpose. He seems bent on diminishing America’s influence on the world stage. He has been doing so consistently, always to America’s detriment, by attacking its economy (and now the military) and fostering divisions in a myriad of ways.

To date, he has applied the term ’enemy’ only to American voters and tax payers. At the same time, he all but refuses to name the Islamic threat. His administration has ordered the censure of various heretofore commonly used terms relating to global terror while introducing new terms that appear to put the Tea Parties, war veterans, and weekend militia groups on an equal footing with terrorists.

This reflects either a failure to properly prioritize, or a deliberate effort to balkanize Americans. If the latter, there can only be one reason.

In the next Congress there will be plenty of heads he can throw snowballs at. It promises to be a bloody mess. I wonder if Michelle gets off on this kind of thing.

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Columbia Drug Bust

University campuses have long existed as bubbles divorced from the real world. Drug use is seldom challenged by campus authorities . (I would bet if the events leading up to the arrests had been confined to the campus alone, nothing would have come of it. The fact that NYPD was involved says a lot.) In addition, a faux grading standard often prevails that echoes today’s ‘too big to fail’ policies. It is assumed that pass/fail pretty much covers the gamut - failure being reserved for the most flagrant violations and, like the death penalty, is almost never tapped.

Kids going to the Ivies go there with the understanding that they are already special, either by virtue of their parent’s wealth or their connections. It is possible to graduate from such schools having done nothing of note. At the same time, the opportunity still exists to do a lot. A fair number of students will fall into the former category. I did.

I could have attended an ivy league school. I was accepted, but chose not to go. At the small Pennsylvania liberal arts college I ended up attending, it was the same. Under the tutelage of liberal professors I was afforded every opportunity to graduate with honors, even without having applied myself. I’ve often wished for a do-over.

This was 40 years ago. Since then it’s only gotten worse. Liberalism has steadily advanced and bled into departments that one might have thought to be immune. I don’t think 40 years ago, a hoax like ’global warming’ could have been perpetuated to the extent it is today. Yet, even then, traditional disciplines were already openly fornicating to produce now innumerable lesser cousins.

In the resulting bastardization of academic discipline that now holds sway over traditional learning, ideology has succeeded in making considerable inroads. Along with it came a lack of regard for authority, law and country.

There is a healthy flush of rebellion in every young person. It’s the job of adults to channel this properly as not to become destructive. We’ve allowed precisely the opposite to happen. We’ve taken this natural rebellious spirit and encouraged it to pursue destructive ends.

Our current president and his wife both are the product of ivy league education. They are much younger than I and thus were exposed to a much greater dose of the poison than I.

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Revolution # 9

It’s not about the Euro. It’s about revolution. The Left has seized the day. It will not allow cuts to the welfare state. It does not care about the Euro. It does not care about capitalism. All the Left cares about is bringing down the system which is now teetering on the edge.

As in the U.S., it was the Left that had been pushing for freebies that were essentially unaffordable. There was some semblance of affordability as long as economies kept growing. Now, that the slump cycle has set in, what had seemed affordable, is suddenly unaffordable. To the Left, this is a distinction without a difference. It is not that the ‘educated’ Left could not foresee this. They saw it alright. It was a set-up. It was planned. All they had to do was wait.

The waiting is now over. For the Left it is now time to act; to take to the streets; shout slogans; raise the red flag; do some damage; open some heads. For the Left the worst thing that could happen now is for the economies to recover; for people to go on as before. “Barack will not allow…”

Even recovery is now booby-trapped. All that pent-up demand. All that consumer spending would just show up the Euro (dollar) for what it’s really worth - nothing; or, at the very least, considerably less than what people expect.

Any way you look at it, the Euro is finished. The dollar is over; even though it may appear marginally better off than the Euro. People will not allow themselves to be taxed out of existence - in North Korea, maybe; but not in the West.

Still - taxation or inflation - it all comes out to the same: civil unrest, which will lead to political chaos. Left or Right, it won’t matter. The solutions are the same for both. There will be blood. The revolution is here. The Left has won.

In America, we think the revolution has already happened; that it happened at the ballot box - nice and neat - with the Republicans taking charge of the House. The verdict is already in: NO COMPROMISE; no solution. The old ‘evils’ are beginning to crumble one by one: the Bush tax cuts; the Bush wars; American exceptionalism; global alliances. Revolution is the end. It is here. After that, …who knows?

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A Little Left; A Little Right

Every human heart has within it a little left and a little right. Cutting out either one will kill the heart. Where we have gone wrong is by cutting off debate between the two. It has literally ignited a war.

There are those who benefit from conflict. These are the people who will tell you not to talk to this one or that. They will tell you never to mention certain subjects. They will redefine language to be confrontational.

We see it in our colleges and universities; we see it in our media; now we are seeing it in our politics. Never forget that Republicans were not allowed access to the decision-making concerning any bill that was passed during the past two years. Never forget that the NYT does not allow for opposing views to appear on its pages; ditto: CBS; PBS; NBC, and ABC. Never forget that Islam does not allow intellectual commerce with the outside world.

Within our own nation, Left and Right have retreated into armed camps.

I remember reading a story of an Israeli boy and a Palestinian boy clandestinely meeting in some no-man’s land abutting their properties. They were friends; they played as friends do. They knew each other on a human level. The story did not end well.

The evil resides within those who forcibly block people from basic human interaction. They do so with malice. They intend to gain by it. All their words are calculated to fuel discontent and erect barriers. They invariably threaten consequences.

Words like “Barack will never allow…” and “(Republicans) gotta sit in the back.” and, “…we’re gonna punish our enemies and…reward our friends…” should never be uttered by Americans who happen to hold positions of leadership. This kind of talk should throw up warning signals to indicate that we have already gone too far. For America to save itself, Americans must unite under the nation’s banner and keep all the lines of communications open. The threat comes from those who would happily shut it down.

In India, there actually is a communist party. It interacts freely with all other parties. Often, it aligns itself with others. It does not seek to destroy them.

I just read a novel by Khushwant Singh entitled “Train to Pakistan”. The time is just after partition. It details the bloodletting between Hindus and Muslims precisely. And it tells how it started. It’s not the Hindus and Muslims who were at fault. It was the badmashes on both sides who took advantage of a chaotic situation to sate their own appetites.

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Quotable, Quotable Quotes

People, especially pols, do so much talking, yet it’s so hard to remember what anybody might ever have said. We only remember a precious few quotes precisely; quotes, that have risen, or are in the process of rising, to achieve the status of bone (sic) fide ‘quotable, quotable quotes‘. Here are a few that come immediately to my mind:

Obama: “They talk about me like I’m a dog.” My comment: Not true, most Americans love dogs. It’s Muslims who don’t.

Bill Clinton: “I have never had sex with that woman...” My comment: It depends what the definition of ‘sex’ is.

Boxer: “I worked so hard to get that title.” My comment: You certainly did.

Bush: “Mission Accomplished”. My comment: He never said it.

Michelle Obama: “Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual…” My comment: We’ll see about that.

Former Governor of NJ, Jim McGreevey: "My truth is that I am a gay American." My comment: So what?

Mayor Michael Bloomberg: …"[h]ome-grown, maybe a mentally deranged person or somebody with a political agenda that doesn't like the health care bill." Notice mention of the term ‘mentally deranged’. We’ve heard some variation of it ever since. They mean to divide the nation into nuts and bolts. Government-run re-education facilities are on their way.

Soros: “Even I Can’t Stop a Republican ‘Avalanche‘…” My comment: Do you really want to?

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Killing Jobs

No mystery here. POTUS is too embarrassed to talk about jobs. It’s too obvious what he’s doing. He’s killing jobs… and he’s doing it on purpose. It would be too much of a lie - even for him - to say otherwise. He stresses education: Marxist education; re-education. He celebrates Katrina (not the Boy Scouts) because, he feels, it focuses the nation once again on the much ballyhooed failures of Bush.

Obama keeps stressing the failure of past administrations. As his wife once famously proclaimed, “Barack will never allow you (the people) to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.” Back to what? Jobs? Economic growth? Prosperity?

He means to turn the nation into a land of the jobless. Only then will he be able to impose his solutions and to do whatever Marxists do with legions of beggared masses.

In Obama’s world view, a return to prosperity would spell defeat. He cannot allow it because he knows that it is the rich who would prosper again and return the nation to a two-tier system of rich and poor; of winners and the losers. This would be unacceptable to POTUS who wants everyone to exist on an equal (economic) plane, some being more equal than others by virtue of skin color (and political orientation).

Virtually all the talking heads miss this point. They view Obama’s policies as failures while he sees them as successes. Limbaugh recognized it early on when he said he wants Obama to fail. The Left was stung by the clarity of his revelation. He had swerved too close to the truth. And he was attacked relentlessly for it.

In Obama’s world, America had become a cancer. He sees himself as the surgeon mandated to cut it out, leaving but an empty shell with no relation to past glories and what we all have traditionally regarded as success. American exceptionalism to Obama was and is anathema as long as it put our nation on a higher (economic) level than the rest of the world; as long as there is even one child starving in Africa. America had no right to endure its standard of living because, to Obama, it was never a result of hard work, talent and ingenuity. It was the result of theft.

A thief has no conception of the value of work. Therefore he has also no conception of what it takes to run an economy. He happily takes what does not belong to him and thinks it is good. Obama is essentially a thief. He has never worked a day in his life. He was pre-ordained to his present position by skillful apparatchiks who carefully groomed him to fit Shiva’s part. He is no more than a ventriloquist’s dummy. A hollow man. Dead wood, on which someone has chosen to hammer (and sickle) out an implausible Fabian tune.

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.

Tiananmen Square

I wouldn’t give a plug nickel for anything (Google, GE, GM. etc.) connected with the U.S. government right now. As we speak, they are devaluing work, initiative, talent, representative governance, law, education, alliances, etc. - all, as a matter of official policy. They’ve all done it in the past, to be sure. But now it’s blatant. It cannot be said that they are doing it on our behalf. Every poll shows that they’re governing against the will of the people.

Michelle Obama let the cat out of the bag when she said, “Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual…” Looks like the people don’t really want to go there after all. But, “Barak will never allow…” What’s that all about? Aren’t Americans a free people? And who says that Barack (or anyone) has all the answers?

And while we’re at it, what does she consider “usual”. True, there are modifiers: “uninvolved” and “uninformed”. Another mystery: Who’s uninvolved? The people all over the country who are now busy organizing the biggest, most profound defeat of any political party in history? Who’s uninformed? The man who doesn’t know how many united states make up America; who doesn’t know what’s in the bills he signs?

Today, Obama wouldn’t allow pictures be taken of him and Netanyahu together. Israel is our closest ally in the Middle East. All the others have been playing us for chumps. And remember how hard it was to get Obama to wear that American flag pin on his lapel?

Obama was telling us exactly who he was from the very beginning. Now we act surprised that he’s been true to his word? It’s not hard to infiltrate any institution in a free society and destroy it from within. How do you think our economy got the way it is? Ditto, our educational system; our charities; our foundations; our churches – and now, our government as well.

Look what’s happening to the Catholic Church in Europe at the moment. It’s being destroyed from within. It only takes one kid who claims abuse; it takes just one martyr infiltrator to agree to be the abuser; it takes just one motherless boy to stand at the president’s side and watch him sign health care legislation. The God-hating press will do all the rest.

The dignity of even the most virtuous man always hangs by a thread. That thread is trust. When trust is broken, he becomes a pariah. It’s all done with smoke and mirrors. The trust our president engenders is thinner than gossamer. It’s pure Madison Avenue illusion – always has been. For it to continue it will increasingly require meatier measures – like the picture of Mao on an exterior wall overlooking Tiananmen Square.