Organized Water

Zuidplaspolder marks the lowest point (-7 m) in The Netherlands (Holland) which is famous for its dykes. In fact, much of the landmass of this country lies below sea level. Were there no dykes, even Amsterdam could not have been built.

Similarly, about 50% of New Orleans lies below sea level. Levees have been built to protect the city. As we have so painfully learned during Katrina: when the levies are breached, the city floods.

Much money is required to maintain dykes and levees. When this money is diverted to corruption and other uses and the levees are allowed to deteriorate, it puts protected areas at severe risk.

Hosni Mubarak represented a political dyke in the Middle East. He stood between the radical Islamization of the country and what we see today - a semi-modern society exhibiting western friendly values. There is some question as to just how successful Mubarak actually was. Just last week I happened to see a picture (it might have been in the WSJ) showing an Egyptian beach some 20 years ago with an insert showing that same beach today. The first showed a typical middle class family picnicking on a beach blanket dressed in western swimwear; the second showed that same beach haunted by the dark shadows of women in burkahs.

Water is 'organized' as to always pool in the lowest places. The Muslim Brotherhood, is said to be the most 'organized' faction in Egypt. Many predict that with Mubarak gone - the dam is broken, and - the Brotherhood will come to dominate the country, turning it into a harsh, restrictive, anti-western, anti-Israel theocracy.

We have seen this before in the Middle East: Iran.

The people, so enthusiastic and hopeful in anticipation of a loosening of shackles, will have little to say about how the worm ultimately turns. They are not (nuts and bolts) 'organized'. They will fall victim to the demands of 'organized' water that always seeks the lowest point in which to pool. Tyranny is always the lowest point.

It’s the same here in America. The Left is organized beyond belief while the Tea Parties are not. The Tea Parties are merely united by a vague sense of tradition and fear. They are being swept away as we speak by 'organized' political water. Like the Facebook warriors of Egypt, they do not stand a chance.

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Look at Your Perps

>…government officials would require bribery and permanent control of the dispute, perhaps over years, and that there never would be resolution or transparency of the decision.<

Candace Rondeaux has just unwittingly described the strategy that particularly Democrats have embraced in our own country. By no means original, it’s been used by every tin-horn dictator that’s ever been given the opportunity to lift himself and his cronies up by driving his own people deeper into the ground. The Dems always whine about how bad everything is. It’s bad alright but, comparatively speaking, it’s far worse in the areas that they themselves control. Katrina hit New Orleans hard, but the storm hit neighboring Mississippi hard as well. We seldom hear about what happened in Mississippi while we constantly hear about New Orleans. New Orleans was Democrat, top to bottom. It consisted of a disproportionate number of welfare clients and affirmative action officials. Mississippi was Republican.

Put yourself in the position of any one of your elected representatives (in Washington). By all accounts, they live rather insular lives. They do not pal around with people like you and me. Instead, they see themselves as highly influential policy wonks, imbued with considerable gifts. A wink and a nod can move millions (of dollars) here and there; for this or that. They are coddled, glad-handed, sweet-talked by powerful interests who seek their favors. They are wined and dined - in some cases, bribed. They know on which side their bread is buttered. Then, there’s the matter of keeping their jobs. They know to hoe the party line because even in their rarified circles there’s a hierarchy based on power. If they have any hope of being allowed to feed at the troth that finances their next campaign, they know they must goosestep to the staccato beat that may not necessarily be in sync with that of the people who elected them.

They look around and note that the natives are restless. There’s all this talk of protests and tea parties. Nevertheless, they’re not all that much concerned – not yet, anyway. Bush and his Republicans were also deeply unpopular. Besides, voters always bitch and moan, even when there’s nothing to bitch and moan about. It’s an integral part of exercising American civic pride. In the end, it really doesn’t make much difference. Only the money in the campaign coffers counts.

What our transplants to Washington do not seem to understand is that with Obama’s election everything changed. The veil has slipped off. Voters have experienced an epiphany. The hypocrisy and corruption in the capital has been exposed. All the happy talk from our so-called leaders sounds hollow no matter how often the (now generally acknowledged to be state- run) major media repeats it.

The lid has come off government; science; Wall Street, academe; foreign policy; terrorism; poverty; health care; media – every major institution has been shown to be completely and utterly corrupt. ‘How so?’ you ask - and there are still far too many who ask. They don’t yet see the bones exposed and moving inside the maggot infested carcass of our Republic through the sloppy steps of its own ritual death dance. “How so?” ask those still living in pre-Obama time. “How so?” ask fellow travelers awaiting the 12th imam in the form of the sacred Communist State. “How so?” ask the one-worlders, the warmers, the Kumbaya singers, the Kool-Aid drinkers, the truthers, the junkies, the (New Orleans) dykers, the America haters; those forever ready to pull the cord, willing to take everything down with them; and a long list of others: intellectuals, entertainers, talk show hosts, the heads of unions, communists, anarchists, Marxists, jihadis (I could go on…) If I have omitted your particular perversion, please excuse the oversight.

How so? Indeed. I think Candace Rondeaux has just answered your question. Take any problem that’s ever been described as intractable – anywhere in the world. Now look at those who would have to go away and retire if the problem should ever get solved. There, look at your perps.