I’ve gone and done it again. Many of the iron disciplined purists that haunt this forum may consider me a sell-out for doing it, this I realize and fully appreciate. My only defense is that I am coming to the defense of my poor Brother RD. Because of his suffering I will expose myself to the very breath of Satan in order to help lift him from the fiery pit.
I was this past Friday afternoon when my Dogs sprang to full alert, letting me know that we had an intruder. I let them bark and raise hell a bit, as I always do. They enjoy it so much and letting them do it helps to reinforce what I consider to be positive behavior. It also lets whoever is on the other side of my door know that man and beast await them. It’s good all the way around.
Of all the incredibly stupid things our government has been up to lately there is one thing I am grateful for. They have become so arrogant that they have stepped out of bounds so far that good and decent people have taken such offense to it as to now be considering the ways they may sacrifice their lives in the defense of our Liberties. Moreover, it isn’t just a few things of late they are pissed off about. Not only are people willing to defy new Laws, they are coming to the rightful understanding that the time is right to begin resisting ALL Laws that infringe on their Liberties regardless of when they were written.
Now that is worth celebrating. The demands of our public enemy have become so ridiculous that no self-respecting person would consider surrendering to them. Who would have thought that after all the machinations they have engaged in over the years in their efforts to seize power that they would become so incredibly stupid once they got there? Their arrogance is actually a gift to freedom loving Americans.
“Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.” ~H.L. Mencken
“Our individual salvation depends on collective salvation.” ~Barack H. Obama
“We are totally screwed.” ~R.D. Walker
Let’s face it; most of our countrymen are pretty damned ignorant about government. They don’t know what is going on in government and they don’t care. They are far more interested in the goings on of Brad and Angelina than they are trying to comprehend TARP, stimulus, bailouts or health care reform. To a certain degree, it is forgivable. They don’t try because most of this stuff is incomprehensible anyway. In fact, it is pretty self-evident that the legislators don’t understand what they are voting for and make their decisions along party lines and on overarching concepts, not details. The reality is that the United States government is too large to be rationally managed and, therefore, will be constantly mismanaged.
Based on its current size, making the government larger will come at the cost of functionality. If it is too large to be rationally managed today, making it even larger will make it even more irrational. Huge swaths of the citizenry, however, are not the least interested in understanding this basic concept. They continue to see the government as mommy, daddy, Santa Claus and God rolled into one benevolent force of good. They are taken in, therefore, by politicians who enable and cultivate their misplaced trust in government.
The Obama Adminstration wants to engage in a political stage production and try Khalid Sheikh Mohammad in New York City as a common criminal. While at Guantanamo Bay, where he has been held since September 2006, KSM has said he wants to be executed so that he can die a martyr. It is very unlikely he will maintain that position in U.S. District Court. He will suddenly want a full jury trial. That means facing accusers, discovery and a huge megaphone to make the world listen to him justify his actions. Of course the long held tradition in the United States going back to George Washington has been to try war criminals in military tribunals. Obama and Holder believe that the show trial of the millennium is a better approach. What could possibly go wrong?
Charles Kruathammer explains…
It is a travesty of common sense. So why would Obama and Holder choose to subject KSM and the nation to a trial for which the outcome is known? After all, a trial will result in KSM’s defense team to engage in discovery to prove that he was improperly arrested, not given access to his Miranda Rights, tortured and not provided with a speedy trial. These facts will be broadcast loudly to the world. Why would Obama do that?
He would do it because it is exactly what he wants to happen. He has indicated time and again a desire to subject the Bush Administration and the CIA to prosecution and have even made hesitant steps in that direction. It is, however, a politically dangerous game for Obama and Holder. To just openly levy charges against Bush and the CIA would cost the administration the support of millions of independents. Obama wanted to release harsh CIA interrogation photos, for example, but prevented their release when the poltical cost of doing so was made clear. What Obama needs is a way to put Bush, Cheney and the CIA on trial without appearing to be a banana republic revolutionary subjecting his predecessor to a kangaroo court.
By trying KSM as a civilian criminal in open court, KSM will be given the right of discovery and the right to present as evidence everything that Obama wants released but it unable to release himself. It will be a media circus as information regarding secret facilities, interrogations, renditions and all manner of dark operations are made available to the defense, the media and the world. It will help America haters spread their propaganda. It will help Obama prosecute the CIA and malign Bush and Cheney. It will help our enemies plan missions to kill us. All this and Obama and Holder will be able to claim that it was the court system and the judge – not the Obama Administration – that released the data.
While President Obama’s decision about sending more troops to Afghanistan is primarily a military one, it also has substantial budget implications that are adding pressure to limit the commitment, senior administration officials say.
The latest internal government estimates place the cost of adding 40,000 American troops and sharply expanding the Afghan security forces, as favored by Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the top American and allied commander in Afghanistan, at $40 billion to $54 billion a year, the officials said.
There’s $81 billion for Medicaid, $36 billion for expanded unemployment benefits, $20 billion for food stamps, and $83 billion for the earned income credit for people who don’t pay income tax. While some of that may be justified to help poorer Americans ride out the recession, they aren’t job creators.
As for the promise of accountability, some $54 billion will go to federal programs that the Office of Management and Budget or the Government Accountability Office have already criticized as “ineffective” or unable to pass basic financial audits. These include the Economic Development Administration, the Small Business Administration, the 10 federal job training programs, and many more.
Oh, and don’t forget education, which would get $66 billion more. That’s more than the entire Education Department spent a mere 10 years ago and is on top of the doubling under President Bush. Some $6 billion of this will subsidize university building projects.
Thinking back, I don’t recall Obama agonizing over any of this spending, do you? It is almost as if he only becomes conscious of spending when it supports the troops and national defense, huh?
President Obama on Saturday urged Congress to hold off on any investigation of the Fort Hood rampage until federal law enforcement and military authorities have completed their probes into the shootings at the Texas Army post, which left 13 people dead.
On an eight-day Asia trip, Obama turned his attention home and pleaded for lawmakers to “resist the temptation to turn this tragic event into the political theater.” He said those who died on the nation’s largest Army post deserve justice, not political stagecraft.
“The stakes are far too high,” Obama said in a video and Internet address released by the White House while the president he was flying from Tokyo to Singapore, where Pacific Rim countries were meeting.
Major Hasan had been loudly advertising his enthusiasm for jihad against infidels for several years. It is going to take time for Obama’s administration to spin an obvious occurrence of domestic Islamic terrorism into a simple case of going postal.
The dictates of multiculturalism require Obama to convince Americans that, a man who called himself a “soldier of Allah” and screamed “Allahu Akbar” as he went about slaughtering infidels, was not a terrorist but a simple nut who snapped due to stress. Congressional investigations are likely to arrive at other conclusions and spoil the narrative they are carefully crafting. The Diversity Cult requires that we believe that multiculturalism makes us stronger, not at risk of becoming victims of jihad.
Speaking of the multi-culti-cult, here is an interesting question: Why was a man of Arab descent born in America dressed up like a Pushtoon?
Think you’re obsessed with President Barack Obama and the many challenges he faces at home and abroad?
Well, you’re not alone.
Fidel Castro appears to have a fascination with the American leader that would make Obama Girl jealous, writing obsessively not only about his politics, but of his youth and vigor.
And unlike with past American heads-of-state — he slammed President George W. Bush as a genocidal drunk — Castro seems to genuinely like the fresh face in Washington.
The president of the United States is admired by Fidel Castro.
I don’t care if Obama “the man” gets down on his knees and tongue slathers the feet of foreign leaders, but as president, I wish he would value the dignity of the office. Objecting to subservience to royalty is a pretty key part of what it means to be American.
There was talk of green tea ice cream, memories of a childhood visit to Japan and even a reference to the remote fishing town Obama as the US President set out his vision for US relations with Asia in a keynote speech.
He later bowed deeply to Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, upon arrival at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo for a private lunch before he headed to Singapore on the next leg of his Asian tour.
Calling himself “America’s first Pacific President” during a 40-minute address, Mr Obama said: “I want every American to know that we have a stake in the future of this region, because what happens here has a direct effect on our lives at home.
The first black president.
The first president with Muslim roots.
The first Pacific president.
This guy sure digs the self-aggrandizement, doesn’t he? To that list I might add…
The first post-American president.
The first president who sincerely dislikes America.
The first president who’s father was a semi-hostile foreign national.
The first president who’s parents were proud Marxists.
The first president to admit to using cocaine, a disqualification for most federal jobs.
The first president to adamantly refuse to release his academic transcripts.
The first president to hold no significant leadership position before being elected.
The first president to launch his political career in the home of a terrorist.
The first president to support infanticide.
Mrs. R.D. Walker Junior has gone into Labor. My prayer for a happy and healthy delivery has already gone out and been received. I ask you to say a prayer for the new family, if you are the praying type. Soon the Real Revo will have a brand new Grandfather.
As the Democrats continue to, for your own good, attempt to expand the size, scope and power of the government though the creation of an all encompassing health care bureaucracy, here are a few quotes to consider.
“Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.” – George Washington
“There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.” – Robert Heinlein
“The true danger is when Liberty is nibbled away, for expedients.” – Edmund Burke
“A wise and frugal government which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.” – Thomas Jefferson
“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.” – Thomas Jefferson
“It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly. Government should be repressive no further than is necessary to secure liberty by protecting the equal rights of each from aggression on the part of others, and the moment governmental prohibitions extend beyond this line they are in danger of defeating the very ends they are intended to serve.” – Henry George
This is really too much for a Friday but the events of the past week made my mind vomit…
I think the day I have been looking forward to has either arrived or it soon will. There is a generalized anxiety working its way through the Country now and people are waking up to the fact that we have a radical Communist P.O.S. in the White House. It’s taking a few days to sink in but it’s getting there. It seems as if this is an issue that people can no longer ignore.
Many people who voted for him are embarrassed and the rest of us are just angry. Embarrassment leads to a sense of betrayal and betrayal leads to anger. Those of us who have been angry at our fellow citizens for putting this Nation in such perilous times will soon be joined by them. That’s the way it typically goes in most Communist Revolutions.
Watch this video to understand better why the claims by Democrats that Obamacare will decrease deficits amount to little more than a badly acted farce.
This CF&P Foundation video explains why healthcare proposals in Washington will result in bloated government and higher deficits. This mini-documentary exposes the pervasive inaccuracy of congressional forecasts and succinctly lists 12 reasons why Obamacare will be a budget buster.
Edward R. Murrow said, “a nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.” What kind of government does a nation of infantalized idiots* addled by celebrity worship, instant self gratification and personal pleasure beget?
An idiot in Athenian democracy was someone who was characterized by self-centeredness and concerned almost exclusively with private–as opposed to public–affairs. Idiocy was the natural state of ignorance into which all persons were born and its opposite, citizenship, was effected through formalized education. In Athenian democracy, idiots were born and citizens were made through education.
Now I know exactly nothing about fashion, but I know that when a solemn event is being held in a cemetery, you don’t wear bright, fiesta colors. Somebody needs to let the First Lady know. Here she is at the Veterans Day wreath laying ceremony yesterday.
It’s about like watching the Beverly Hillbillies, isn’t it?
I cannot add to this thunder from the mountain top other than to say that is becomes more obvious with each day that our President hates this country so much as to willing be derelict in his duties as Commander-in-Chief.
There are three ways in which a ruler can bring misfortune upon his Army:–
(1) By commanding the army to advance or to retreat, being ignorant of the fact that it cannot obey. This is called hobbling the army.
(2) By attempting to govern an army in the same way as he administers a kingdom, being ignorant of the conditions which obtain in an army. This causes restlessness in the soldier’s minds.
(3) By employing the officers of his army without discrimination, through ignorance of the military principle of adaptation to circumstances. This shakes the confidence of the soldiers.
People who we are not supposed to jump to conclusions about…
Reverend Wright
Bill Ayers & Wife
Guantanamo Detainees
The Islamic Jihadist who murdered our Soldiers at Fort Hood.
General McChrystal when he explains what he needs to win on the battlefield.
People who it’s okay to jump to conclusions about…
Children in the womb.
Citizens in opposition to government healthcare who deserve to get the “hit back twice as hard” treatment by union thugs.
“Bitter Clingers”.
White Police Officers.
Tea Party Protestors.
You are who your friends are. It is easy to see where the sympathies of our President lie. Our President sympathizes with the enemies of the United States. Everything he has ever identified as being Evil are eminate from within our borders and among our citizens. It’s high time our fellow citizens realized that.
I was thinking about doing a tearful tribute to those who gave their “last full measure of devotion”, but I got hung up in the purpose for Veteran’s Day vs Memorial Day. Memorial Day “is designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion, and whose bodies now lie in almost every city, village, and hamlet churchyard in the land. In this observance no form or ceremony is prescribed, but posts and comrades will in their own way arrange such fitting services and testimonials of respect as circumstances may permit.” (Memorial Day Order; May 5, 1868; Commander In Chief John Logan, Grand Army of the Republic).
Veteran’s Day, however is set aside to honor America’s military veterans. With this in mind I set out to pay tribute to those few men whose art was emblazoned on the aircraft which have served to keep this country free. I am an Air Force veteran, and as such will always be partial to my aircraft. This is my way of saying thank you to the men who inspired so many flight crew members through these many years.
“Not to be confused with official markings or insignia’s (above), nose art personalizes a plane for its crew, because it is the crew members who name the plane and create the art, imbuing the plane with an identity of its own….. the phenomenon is predominantly American, perhaps due to the streak of rebellious individualism attributed to American culture. Nose art is important as an historical and societal indicator over time, an example of folk art or popular expression, and a record of the past.” (arizona.edu)
Actually I DON’T think he’s confused but I KNOW he wants US to be.
“This is a time of war. And yet these Americans did not die on a foreign field of battle. They were killed here, on American soil, in the heart of this great American community. It is this fact that makes the tragedy even more painful and even more incomprehensible…
…It may be hard to comprehend the twisted logic that led to this tragedy”.
There you have it. Change you can believe in. Where’s the Hope?
Leave it to the public school system to corrupt and destroy yet another principle of education — earned grades.
A $20 donation to Rosewood Middle School will get a student 20 test points – 10 extra points on two tests of the student’s choosing. That could raise a B to an A, or a failing grade to a D.
In 2005 in the case of Kelo v New London, the Supreme Court ruled that government can use eminent domain to seize private property, not just for the use of the state, but to hand it over to other private entities. Governments may do this, the court ruled, for reasons no more compelling than that the new owners will pay more in taxes. After winning the case, the city of New London seized the property of Susette Kelo and others, demolished their homes and turned the land over to developers for a project including a hotel and offices intended to enhance Pfizer Inc.’s nearby corporate facility. Pfizer, however, bugged out and the project never materialized.
Today the land land that the City of New London took from Susette Kelo and her neighbors for “economic development” is still vacant. None of the 3,169 new jobs and $1.2 million a year in tax revenues promised have become reality. The government of New London took the property of citizens against their will and the result is vacant, unkempt land that benefits no one.
