Who Is NOT the Enemy

People are forever poised to run over and embrace Democrats because of what Micky said: “When a Republican runs, they run against a whole frontal assault of their opponents war machine... media, academia, pop-culture, etc.” The Dems try to make it look like they’re the ‘in’ thing and that Republicans are out-of-step, backwards and dumb. And we’re helping their cause by crucifying our own every chance we get. What we – and everybody else in this country – are responding to is power. The Dems have the power. Even when we win elections, we act like we shouldn’t have. We’re happiest when we can sit in the scalding sun and yell from the bleachers. The Dems like us to be there as well, so they can blame us. The more they can blame us, the more the gulf widens.

The way it’s set up, it’s totally a win–win situation for them. Their successes (winning) work against us; and their failures work against us as well.

The call to “wake up” is primarily for Americans to understand that the deck is stacked and to quit hoping for that moment when wolves turn into lambs and pumpkins into Bentleys. We’re at war here in this nation and it’s high time we begin taking sides.

The first thing to understand when fighting a war is to understand who the enemy is – and it’s not what used to be called the ‘Democrats’. Democrats have already been co-opted. They’ve gone over to the other side. Some know it; most don’t. The enemy is those who consistently tell us who is NOT the enemy – Republicans included – even though we can plainly see who is. Newt with Pelosi; Romney with ObamaCare. What’s wrong with this picture?

The take-down of Israel and the take-down of America are being orchestrated by the same group (or a coalition comprising the same group). Both nations are shot through with infiltrators. It’s simple: If Israel falls, America falls. There’s still time to stop it. However, time is growing short – less than two years. The main point being, that the black hats have been given the green light. They are forging ahead. They believe they can win. As Corlyss says, they might well be overreaching, in which case they’ll fail. I’m really not sure at which point Americans will even notice that white is not black; that down isn’t up; that it’s time to abandon our political templates and look somewhere else for our salvation.

Blowing Up Bridges

It’s on! The trash talking has begun. And make no mistake, it’s being encouraged by the White House. Expect one of the dirtiest campaigns in recent history.

We are all the same. It should be easy to find common ground. It is not. Enter ideology. Ideology forces us into templates that do not fit well. It tends to pervert our true natures - to live and let live - and puts the accent on confrontation. This is generally needed in times of war - in the face of threat. In peacetime it seems a silly way to behave.

Since Barack Hussein Obama has been in office, there has been no peace. It’s almost as if, while we were living our lives, draft notices began arriving in the mail. We’ve been forced to take sides - one side being America.

Obama is a warrior alright, even if Libya doesn’t quite speak to the issue. Warriors do not compromise. They dismiss the broad range of the painter’s palette and divide the world into black and white. Again, this is only appropriate to war.

“You’re either for us, or against us.” No shades of gray even.

Who is POTUS fighting? America, of course. This has been hard for Americans to swallow. They thought he was on their side.

Similarly, it’s been difficult to square POTUS’ color scheme. The white hats have traditionally been ‘good’; the black hats, ‘bad‘. We’ve been taught this from watching John Wayne westerns. POTUS is black and tells us he’s white - while he paints us black as sin.

Something does not add up here. We’ve known it from the start. Now we’re starting to feel uncomfortable with it. We read about the soldiers in Syria who are refusing to shoot protesters being shot by their own - the worst of all fates. We wonder about how the term ‘conscientious objector’ might fare in this climate.

Voting for a black president was supposed to solve all this. We thought it would bridge the eternal divide. Instead, we find the existing bridges blown up and not enough shovel-ready jobs to build new ones. Sources tell us that China is building bridges like crazy - while we are tearing ours down. Some of us are trapped behind enemy lines.

Carlos Castaneda tells us that each life represents a complete, self-contained universe; that two people standing side by side must be seen as two such universes; that these cannot be commingled, except by event affecting both. Ideology disregards the deeper meaning of this lesson. It seeks to bridge chasms (that cannot be bridged) by hostile rhetoric, fomenting non-existent threat and, finally, by outright aggression. Thereby, the individual is lost and replaced by ordinance.

Love lost in the ashes of ritual (s)laughter.

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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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Don't Tell Anybody

Just the other day, I heard one of our local morning radio hosts expressing surprise at the speed with which the new “Freedom Tower” is going up. “It’s almost half-way there,” he said.

I haven’t been there myself recently. I can only guess that he’s right. The fact that it’s taken us almost 10 years to get crackin’, however, is a disgrace. On the battlefield, the role of flag bearer is always most important and, hence, dangerous. The man remains a target to the end. If he should fall, another will pick up the flag and continue the advance. The soldiers take their cues from the position of the flag.

We’ve allowed our flag to lay fallow for far too long. We’ve been wrangling about it either to advance personal egos or to keep personal egos from advancing. In a way, the threat of seeing a mosque completed in the proximity of the Trade Center site on the 10th anniversary of its collapse, seems to have spurred us to action.

Make no mistake, the World Trade towers were our flag. They were our monument to the success of capitalism. It was our Mecca. Its destruction should have roiled us to immediate anger and to taking revenge. One just doesn’t leave one’s flag lying on the ground this long to be trampled.

I’m glad that it’s finally underway. Cynics say that we’re just building another target. They advise that we bulldoze the whole thing, plant a few trees in memory and be done with it. Our enemies say, “Let us plant our own flag while you declare defeat.” It’s almost gotten to the point where many of us no longer care either way.

We botched our revenge in large part because we left our flag to be trampled. Our anger flagged because our own government convinced us to take our enemies’ advice: “We’re trying to kill you. It’s true. But don’t tell anybody.”

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Any Guesses?

One aspect of the human condition is its ability to recognize beauty – however fleeting – and wanting to possess it. Some feel inadequate in the presence of beauty and want to destroy it. America was beautiful – a rare and wildly successful experiment in governance. As such, she became a target.

Beauty must be capable of protecting herself. She must act to appear haughty. There will always be people plotting either to possess her or destroy her. Barack Hussein Obama, in his two years in office, has succeeded in turning America into a whore. [Ref.: "Melina" ('00) Italian]

Some say that a Caliphate is beautiful as well; that sharia must and will rule over all. I find it incredible that our president will not come clean about his origins. He could easily put the matter to rest simply by producing his birth certificate. (We all must do so on any number of occasions; now, along side with our genitalia.) He won’t do it because he can’t.

The people of the Middle East know the truth. They know who and what he is. If we had know when we elected him, would he have been elected? Doubtful. Most of us understand that Islam has declared war on us. Would it make sense to install the enemy to lead?

Now we have a situation. We have become the enemy in the eyes of our own leader. Any guesses as to how that will turn out?

Waves: Nothing Is Happening

What everyone forgets is that '08 too was a 'wave'. The 'waves' seem to be getting bigger. '12 ought to be a doozy.

When the waves get bigger, it usually means there is a storm out at sea. People pray that it will pass them by. Still, fishermen will secure their boats. The local Home Depot will run out of plywood and the shelves at the grocery stores will empty.

It’s no different from political waves. Some are already certain that the storm will make landfall. They are now in the process of preparing for it. Others will continue to ignore the warnings. Still others will take their surfboards down to the beach for a thrill ride.

Most times the warnings are indirect - not at all like color depictions of diseased lungs on cigarette packs - it takes multiple leaps to arrive at a conclusion. Like Bernanke running the printing presses so hot, we can well expect the paper to catch fire. Like our own government’s severely restricted use of the word ‘enemy’ - barring all reference to our real enemies - and we coming to realize (belatedly, perhaps) that the enemy is us.

It’s become a minefield to navigate these waters. Plenty of opportunity for re-direction (diversion) to lead us astray. The way to do it, I suppose, is to step back - to take the long view of the battlefield. We’ve got the technology, the satellites. But even that’s uncertain in these troubled times. How is it that when we see the rockets’ red glare on both coasts, our government appears to have no clue as to what just happened?

They know alright. They just won’t tell us. It might embarrass the president. Go back to sleep. Nothing is happening.