Where are you now?

Recent events have me utterly puzzled.  In the last few weeks the following has occurred... 

In Egypt the secular military has unseated the muslim brotherhood backed president because he asserted himself as a tyrant and condoned attacks against Coptic Christians.  The military has cracked down on the muslim brotherhood and has been working on putting down their violent protests in the streets.  Our president has come out on the side of the muslim brotherhood - a group FIRMLY connected to al Qaeda.  They are a group who seeks to install sharia as the governing system in Egypt.  They are also the group that spawned Ayman al Zawahiri, the current global leader of al Qaeda.

In Syria, it is claimed that a chemical weapons attack has occurred.  There has been strong evidence that one three separate instances in the past, these attacks have been staged by the al Qaeda forces opposing the Assad regime.  Again, Obama has come out on the side of al Qaeda.

John Kerry stood in front of a camera citing this dubious evidence of WMD use as the justification to attack a foreign country.  Military planners are preparing plans to carry out the president's threat to attack and we've been told to expect actions "sooner rather than later".

When George W. Bush sent his secretaries out to justify an attack on a foreign country using the specter of WMD's, liberals lined up to scream foul, yet they are now absolutely silent now.  Where are they now?  Have they lost their voice?  Clearly their convictions are based solely upon the party affiliation held by the occupant of the white house.

I told them then and I'll reiterate it now - the time to speak is BEFORE American blood is spilled because once it is, we must support our sons and daughters deployed into harm's way.

I'm speaking now.  So should you.

Where are you?  If your outrage was indeed truthful then the fact that Obama is a democrat should not alter your convictions. 

George W. Bush sought and received Congressional sanction for his actions in Iraq.  That was not enough for you.  Obama seeks no such sanction, as he has done many times before, he has decided to rule by fiat.  Yet that yields no ire from you?

The formula is so simple,  The situation is so clear and easy to adjudicate.  In Syria a tyrant who hates America and wants to kill Americans (in fact he already has killed quite a few) is killing people who hate America and want to kill Americans (and in fact they too have already killed quite a few).  Are you gullible enough to believe that if we help one side or the other that they will hate us less?  Their hatred is based solely on the fact that we are not muslims and until that changes (and we have to be the right "flavor" of muslims BTW) we will remain hated.  No all it will do is further inflame the other side against us.

We are handing these people weapons.  Congressional testimony has shown that the attack in Benghazi in fact was fueled by the local al Qaeda group's (Al Qaeda in the islamic Maghreb) desire to acquire hundreds of man-portable surface to air missiles that the Obama administration had collected from Qaddafi's left-over stockpiles and intended to funnel to the al Qaeda elements fighting in Syria.  It appears al Qaeda didn't like the price Obama was asking and simply took the weapons.  That's the secret he was hiding during the election by the way, the fact that he'd lost HUNDREDS of missiles that can take an airliner out of the air far easier than they can engage a combat aircraft that has counter measures against such weapons.

How does that work?  Obama wants al Qaeda to have weapons, MILITARY weapons.  He sends weapons to murderous Mexican drug gangs - MILITARY weapons but he doesn't want law abiding American citizens to have weapons that just LOOK LIKE military weapons?  On this point the anti-weapon left is also silent.

What do you think will happen to these weapons once al Qaeda is done using them against Assad?  Do you think perhaps they will glibly hand them back to Obama?

I am left to ask  "Where are they now?"  Where are the vocal anti-war protesters? Where's hideous old Cindy Sheehan and Code Pink?  Obviously they're just against Republican wars,  Where are YOU?  Where is your moral outrage at the very same transgressions that inflamed it just a few years ago?  Shame on you and shame on your feigned outrage.

My friends let me reiterate the situation.  There are people who hate us and want to kill us and have killed us killing EACH OTHER.  The only LOGICAL response is to do nothing but pray for a VERY high body count!  STAY OUT OF IT!  It is not worth a single drop of precious American blood or a single slim dime of treasure to prevent it.  In fact that would be counter productive.

Obama, why do you back militant Islamists and al Qaeda endangering your own people?

Perspective for Superbowl Sunday

On this day when a sport takes front and center attention of the American people, take a moment to think of Chris Kyle, a true American hero.  Chris Kyle was a SEAL team 6 member that routinely dropped targets over a mile away and scored over 150 sniper kills during his military career.  He was wounded twice during his 4 deployments.  Insurgents in Ramadi Iraq named the man, "the devil" because of his effectiveness and put a price on his head.  This is a man that decked Jessie Ventura for besmirching the memory of a fallen fellow SEAL.  Chris was killed at a shooting range in Texas.  Like every true hero Chris didn't think he'd served his country enough.  He was at an event that was a fund raiser for a Marine suffering from PTSD.  The story is still evolving, but Chris and another man were shot in the back on the range by that marine.  So while you're cheering for you favorite team today, take a moment to remember that those guys on that football field aren't really heroes.  They are fun to watch, sure, but true heroes are paid far less and face far greater dangers than hard tackles.

Rest in peace Chris.

Hypothetically Thinking

A friend and I were discussing the far-reaching desires the left has been tossing out in regards to gun control lately. The friend then suggested that if Diane Feinstein's over-reaching proposition (it really is shameless how they'll exploit a tragedy for every last thing they can get.) were passed, that it would result in new civil war.

That got me to thinking.  If there were such a hypothetical uprising, the split would fall very much along political lines. It would be left versus right. Now, if we start protracting demographics, where do those folks live? Well the leftists live primarily in dense urban areas and the right lives predominantly in the rural areas. Sure there's your odd outliers, but by and large that's how it breaks down.

During the civil war it broke down very much along those same lines... The agrarian south versus the industrialized north. The industrialization of the north is primarily what allowed the north prevail. They were able to crank out more cannon and rifles. Now however comes the big but... (...and this is where those who claim the Civil War as a corollary are incorrect) If we compare things from now to then the division urban to rural is far more stark.

A modern city requires a far larger expanse of rural land to provide the food, power and water to support it than a Victorian era city. The majority of that land is presumably (based upon the prior assumption of demographics) populated with their rural "enemies".

So then by extension we'd have large numbers of pampered urban leftists who can no longer drive down to the local Whole Foods to buy their arugula and tofu and stop at Starbucks for a Joe, suddenly being forced to eat their cats in darkness and wash it down with a few drops of water scavenged from the toilet tank (or worse).

During the civil war, there were enough rural areas encompassed in the north to support the population of urban areas (although not without some noticeable hardship), but the cities these days have grown far larger and far more densely populated and therefore they require a likewise far larger supporting rural area.

These facts are something our smug, elitist, urban brethren have not thought about when they point their manicured finger at us in derision and snidely call us "rednecks" who live in "fly-over country" in that signature, liberal nasal whine.

We've already seen how adverse to hardship these people are. In WWII we lost well over 10,000 men on a single day (June 6th '44) and still we stood fast and fought on. In Iraq, we hadn't hardly lost a dozen fighting men before they were screeching "retreat!!!". Rural folk just tend to be far more hearty by nature. We farm and hunt and fish...

So how much deprivation do you think it will take for them to cry uncle? Or am I thoroughly off base with my assessment of the hypothetical situation?

Oh and one final point which I forgot. The bulk of that industrialization that existed in the urban areas during the Civil War that facilitated the north's victory... Well that's been all shipped overseas to China or other such low cost labor areas and they are unlikely to extend more credit to a disintegrating United States.

I'd be interested in hearing your theories an speculation about such a hypothetical uprising.

Carney on the Leaks of Classified Info

It amazes me that when a Republic administration leaked the identity of a CIA desk jockey (a leak that jeopardized NO ONE's safety), the libs were out for blood!  -BUT- When a liberal administration is leakier than a sieve and does in fact jeopardize life and limb, all you hear is crickets. It just proved that their convictions are based on nothing more than partisanship.

When asked about it, Jay Carney, Obama's press secretary, said that it was "preposterous to suggest" that the White House was involved in the leaks



When I heard that it reminded me of someone else from a few years back...

But then again he always reminds me of ol' Baghdad Bob.

The Ohio School Shooting

I don't understand how we've come so far from what America used to be. When I was a kid in middle school, we took our rifles to school to take the hunter safety course and NO ONE thought anything of it. In high school it was not unusual to see rifles hanging in the gun racks in students' trucks. There wasn't all of this gun violence on the campus, so obviously the guns aren't to blame... The modern mindset is what makes a child think that he should do such things, or it would have been happening EVERYWHERE when I was in school.

For all of you liberal ding-dongs using this tragedy as a cause-celeb, clamoring for more gun control laws... There's already gun control laws in place... Kids under 21 may not possess pistols per federal law. It is already illegal to carry firearms on school grounds. It is also illegal to sell a pistol to a minor. Do you see how well those laws worked? This is a societal issue surrounding what's wrong with our kids, not an issue of needing to add more useless laws. We already have too many laws that don't work! Insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. The laws failed, will continue to fail and can not solve this. Obviously laws are not the answer. Something needs to change in the hearts and minds of our children to prevent this. Something has changed in the hearts and minds of our youth that makes such violence more prevalent. Perhaps we should go back to what was working when I was a child.

I'll bet Michael Moore wasted no time rolling the Fat Mobile out of the Fat Cave the second he heard this on the news broadcast!

Big Brother

Congress passed a bill, the FAA re-authorization act, and Obama has signed it into law. On its face that seems innocuous, but the law instructs the FAA to develop plans to allow for the operation of 32,000 drone aircraft in the skies over the United States. The same kind of remotely piloted aircraft that has been used to covertly observe and rain Hellfire missiles onto the heads of islamic terrorists around the world. To put this in perspective; on 9/11 only about 4,000 aircraft of all kinds (commercial, private and cargo) needed to be grounded. For some reason, the United States government foresees the need to fly eight times that many covert surveillance aircraft in our "friendly" skies as were in the air on 9/11. Inquiring minds wish to know, to what end?

Picture Post

I paid a visit over at Carol's blog. There I found this rather cogent political cartoon:



Following it eventually yielded a few more Michael Ramirez cartoons that I liked from Townhall.com:

Fast and Furious

Article: Holder’s No. 2 in 2009: Gunwalking, Fast and Furious a ‘terrific idea’

In 2008 representatives of this administration were out claiming that 90% of the guns that were involved in Mexican drug gang violence came from the US. That then was definitively shown to be nothing more than a bold faced lie and distortion of the facts. In fact, it was only 90% of the guns that the Mexican authorities suspected came from the US and therefore had asked to have a trace done on... From those is was found that 90% had come from the US. The Mexican authorities themselves have reported that the vastest number of Mexican drug violence guns came from other Central and South American nations.

This fact did not support the narrative that the Obama administration was attempting to weave as a reason to pass new gun control legislation. So suddenly the administration approves a plan to flood the Mexican market with literally thousands of American firearms. Mere coincidence?

Clearly the released e-mail evidence shows that this goes far upwards into the administration (Breuer is only one person, removed from Obama himself. That one person being Holder). Holder is of course sitting on the most damning evidence until after the election or even longer in order to protect himself from prosecution.

If you read the released e-mail mentioned in the article it states, "We think this is a terrific idea..." Who's "we" does Breuer have a mouse in his pocket or is he speaking for himself and Holder -or even - himself, Holder and Obama?

When all of this finally sees the light of day (if we're lucky enough to ever see the bottom of it), you will see that this was indeed nothing more than an effort to skew the numbers of American weapons involved in Mexican drug gang violence in order to bolster the demand for new gun control laws. This administration is unconcerned with the innocent lives lost along the way because to them, the ends always justify the means.

16 More Scientists Deny Global Warming

The more time goes by the more the left's global warming coalition is falling apart. More and more scientist are parting ways with the declared "scientific truth" of global warming. Of course we know these 16 will be decried as no longer being scientists, just like the long list who came before them. You can't possibly be a "scientist" if you don't believe the dogma! You obviously HAVE to be bought out by the petroleum lobby. Right?

Look this has happened before. Galileo was excoriated when he declared that the Earth was round. Scientific dogma at the time insisted that it indeed was flat and anyone who claimed otherwise was deserving of any and all derision that could be mustered. In the end... We all know he was vindicated.

The left touts their "scientific consensus" that man-made global warming is occurring but that is not how science is done. Science isn't a popularity contest for ideas.

Allow me to explain how science is truly done. There is a little thing a fellow named Galileo invented called "the scientific method". The largest hallmark of the scientific method is the insistence that a hypothesis be predictive.

You see, suppose you observe a phenomenon and you wish to prove what is causing it. The scientific method dictates that you form a hypothesis. Then based on that hypothesis you design an experiment intended to test that hypothesis. Your hypothesis, if it is correct, should allow you to predict the outcome of the experiment. So you perform the experiment and objectively compare the results to that prediction. If the experiment's results do not match the prediction, then the hypothesis is flawed. Finally the scientific method dictates that your results be verified by objective third parties, to eliminate any possibility of personal bias.

Global warming theory does not pass the requirement of predictivity. They are consistently revising their predictions and models. That tells us that is is not then settled. For it to truly be predictive, they woould need to declare in advance, "we will see a specific number of degrees of increase in the global average temperature for a given period". They can not and will not do that. They'll give very broad estimates which will vary each time you see them.

Another thing you will find is that the global warming scientists are resistant to releasing their research and findings for third party review... Oh no doubt they'll release their figures and measurements for friendly corroboration, but not to the nay-sayers.

No my friends, this is not settled science. No matter who much they subject one to belittlement for daring to state that fact.

Finally, when they claim that those scientists who decry global warming have sold their souls, then I need to point out the true state of affairs. Global warming is used as the cudgel to force us to invest in "green" energy and technologies. So far, Obama has invested over $6.9 Billion into "green" energy companies. ALL of these companies can be traced back to funding his election campaigns. We also see how well those investments have gone. Between investments in just Solyndra, Beacon Power, Ener1 and Evergreen Solar $650.3 million of American tax payer cash has simply evaporated into liberal campaign funders' pockets. So my friends there is indeed greed at play on both sides of the equation. No matter how much they try to deflect your attention away from it, it is a fact.

News Round Up 1/26/2012

Article: Arizona Gov. Brewer gets book critique from Obama

What a pathetic, thin-skinned, petulant child! This man is supposed to be our president and can't comport himself with even the requisite level of decorum when someone disagrees with him. Perhaps that might be why Washington can't compromise! Even the much loathed George W. Bush was capable of graciousness when confronted with the most venomous criticisms ever leveled at a president.

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Article: Ahmadinejad says Iran ready for nuclear talks

"Ahmadinejad says Iran ready for nuclear talks" I believe that... MILLIONS wouldn't but I do. This is just another stall tactic. Of course Obama will be dumb enough to buy into it, "See I knew my sanction approach would works... Say what is that mushroom shaped cloud doing over Saudi Arabia's oil fields?"

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Article: Taxpayers still owed $132.9B from bailout: report

That would be the 132.9 billion dollar donation we taxpayers were "generous" enough to give the unions. Plan on seeing large chunks of it spent to reelect Obama.

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Article: Cops: Man, 65, kills teen who knocks him off bicycle

Score another point for the necessity for concealed carry and the innate human right to self-defense.

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Article: Gingrich vows to establish a colony on the moon

It would be refreshing to have a real space program with real attainable goals again. It might be a good idea to construct an expeditionary vessel in orbit that could be provisioned for long range exploratory trips to say Mars or the asteroids and the re-provisioned, re-tooled and reused for the next trip. There are a set of similar requirements that would mean the we could realize a real amount of savings with this approach... This would use the lessons we learned about the benefits of re-use from the space shuttle program.

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Article: Low IQ & Conservative Beliefs Linked to Prejudice

Let me get this straight, a leftist from a left leaning school has designed a study to prove that we conservatives are stupid and prejudiced. Now there's a big surprise... It would have been a greater surprise if he'd arrived at a different outcome.

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Article: Video: Divers find large, unexplained object at bottom of Baltic Sea

Interesting... Anyone care to speculate what it might be?

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Article: U.S. to Iraq: don't "blow this opportunity"

Whether you agree with the decision to go to Iraq or not, it would be sad to see all the shed blood and spent treasure be for naught just because we were in a breakneck hurry to get out. But then again we've wasted so much lately why would I be daft enough to believe this would be any different?

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Article: Panetta: US ground forces would be cut by 100,000

This is utterly, positively MORONIC!!! Third world nation status... Here we come! The liberals have redistributed all of our wealth around the globe and now Obama's going to squander all of our military supremacy... Why do I see more "leading from behind" in his future. I served in the military right after Jimmy Carter decimated it. We didn't even have parts to fix our vehicles. Half of them were red lined and unable to be moved. Compared to this travesty, that hardship was a walk in the park.

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Article: Report: 36 Obama staffers delinquent on federal taxes

Hey Barack, maybe before you work on getting the rich to pay "their fair share" you ought to work on getting your people to do so first! Seriously, people in glass houses shouldn't toss rocks!

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Article: Vets oppose speech by general who demonized Islamists

I frequently get crucified when I state the truth but here goes. The military is by and large conservative. In every annual Stars and Stripes poll, soldiers self-identify to at least 70%, as being conservative. Are there liberal veterans? Of course, but they are the vastest minority (and are just the ones that haven't yet learned which side their bread is buttered on). Now, to this particular group, VoteVets... The majority of their membership does not claim to be veterans. There has been a large number of their members who do claim to be veterans identified as perpetrators of what we veterans call "stolen valor"; low-life posers who claim to be veterans or actual veterans who inflate the nature of their service. This organization is a George Soros financed liberal venture just like move-on.org or ACORN. The fact that such a group would not wish to be told about the true nature of our enemies... does not surprise me in the least.

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Article: Bill Would Ban Aborted Fetuses in Food

Say what?!?

News Round Up 1/25/2012

Article: Vice President Biden Calls Gingrich Food Stamp Charge 'Ridiculous'

"Do they really think that President Barack Obama wants to put everyone on food stamps? …" Of course he does. The more people you have beholden to the government the less people you have that will stand up to it when it's wrong for fear of losing their entitlements.

On another note, is Joe Biden really the right guy; considering his history of flaps, to be calling anyone's statements ridiculous?

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Article: UK urges tougher Syria sanctions, Russia issues warning

And here you see precisely why the UN does not work. How can an organization work for good when it is hindered in that pursuit by the immoral regimes of reprobate countries like Russia and China? Everybody has this illusion that Russia is our pal now... They aren't. They got bested and their ego is still stung over that. I've stood on the free side of the iron curtain and seen the evil that Communism wrought. Such an evil is not so easily beaten. It is a cancer that needs to be forcefully excised from the soul of mankind.

The UN is a huge waste of our tax money. Why do we support this folly? Name one concrete benefit that has been wrought for the investment of the American taxpayer in the last two decades... the last three... how about four?

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Article: What the State of the Union means for your wallet

The state of the union speech means nothing to my wallet. Obama stands a snowflake's chance in Hades of getting anything through the congress after poisoning the well like he has -and- he's not getting a second term either... So the state of the union address is nothing but the ramblings of an inconsequential little man whose only effect on history will be the asterisk by his name that leads to a footnote where the words "worst president in US history" appear (a distinction Jimmy Carter is very happy to have been relieved of).

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Article: Big Brother? Google’s new privacy policy creates one massive database of your most private info

Wow sounds like a boycott is in order.

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Article: Ron Paul action figures! The best, worst and weirdest swag of the 2012 campaign

OMMFG!!! You too can reenact the true events of 9/11 or the lies of the holocaust with your very own Ron Paul action figure! Or just use them to scare your young children to death. "Eat your broccoli or Mr. Paul will come and visit you!"

News Round Up 1/24/2011

Article: Mitt Romney Is the 0.006 Percent?

See I told you that Obama has been precisely tailoring his campaign and setting the stage to attack Romney. Here you see his co-conspirators in the mainstream media setting up that argument... That is precisely why we should throw Obama off his game plan and put forward anyone -but- Romney as his opponent this fall.

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Article: Marine to serve no time in Iraqi killings case

I've always believed it appropriate that SSG Wutterich not serve any time. What he did in that deadly moment was attempt to protect the lives of himself and his fellow marines. His squad had come under attack and suffered casualties and at a time like that you can't be second guessing your instincts. Is it unfortunate that civilians were killed? You bet, but where does the blame lie, with the troops attempting to defend themselves or with the terrorists who decided to place those civilians in the crossfire? I contend it lies with the terrorists.

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Article: U.N. envoys slam Russia for selling weapons to Syria

Seriously who takes the UN serious any more? Why do we even pay into that train wreck? Why pay over four times as much into the coffers of that organization and what tangible good has that investment bought us? In this time of harrowing budget over-runs we should seriously do a cost/benefit analysis.

Moving on along. I do not trust the Russians. I have never trusted the Russians and my experiences along the East German border (when one still existed) only served to reinforce those sentiments!

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Article: Wis. governor fights recall with out-of-state cash

Let's face it, unions serve no practical modern purpose. Sure they had a time and place where they were essential... back in the robber baron era. But any valid cause that they fought for then is now firmly ensconced in federal law and bureaucracies. I mean OSHA, minimum wage laws, etc... The only purpose unions serve now is to ensure their own existence by perverting our political system with money extorted from those they claim to serve. Unions have scorched or governmental budgets at every level from local to federal. They've also driven manufacturing jobs abroad to more reasonable labor markets. If you've met a high school graduate that can not find a job, thank your local union representative. Why should a worker who does not wish to be a member of a union be forced to pay union dues if they want to work in a unionized shop? Why should they be forced to support the political candidacies of candidates they do not agree with? Liberals like to tout "free choice" when it comes to murdering the unborn, but not in the workplace.

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Article: Strongest solar storm since 2005 hitting Earth

Allot of people don't know it, but we are one coronal mass ejection away from returning to the Victorian age! The sun runs on activity cycles that span 11 years. The sun varies during this cycle from mild mannered to tempestuous. It is precisely those tempestuous periods that can quite conceivably cause us harm. In 1859 we were struck directly by a coronal mass ejection... a jet of hot gases, energy and radiation thrown off the surface of the sun. These ejections occur quite regularly, more-so during the high activity periods than during the low activity periods. If one of these ejections occurs in line with the Earth and we are struck by it as it passes by us, our planet absorbs a large bolt of that energy. In 1859 when it happened the world was quite a different place. There were no electronic devices, satellites and power lines. If such an impact occurred today, power lines would serve as a huge antenna soaking up the energy from the passing wave and directing it into the electrical grid and any thing plugged into it. This surge of power would destroy large portions of the power transmission grid and any consumer electronics exposed to it. Satellites would be instantly struck silent. Imagine it, a world with no electricity, no television, no phones or cell phones, no computers and no radios... Imagine that world... Imagine having only days or hours of warning before it struck. How would you fare in such a world?

News Round Up 1/23/2011

Article: Russian scientist claims signs of life spotted on Venus

Well life does exist under crushing pressures and high temperatures at black smokers. That has proven that life is a bit more tenacious than we had previously thought... -BUT- There has been a long history of hucksters seeing things in the pixelization of probe images... Does anyone remember that lunatic Richard Hoagland and the whole "face on Mars" debacle? That whack-job is still seeing things in NASA pictures.

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Article: Romney defeat exposes significant weaknesses for potential battle with Obama

Look, Romney is from the "I'll say anything you want to hear to get your vote" wing of the Republican party. That in and of itself makes his candidacy dubious in my eyes. Beyond that, he's been the presumptive nominee ever since McCain's pathetic attempt to get into office (That was another one I tried to warn you all about!). The Obama reelection team has been honing their message with Mitt as their hand selected intended target... You don't think it's just happenstance that liberal operatives are invading our parks and caterwauling about the 99% versus the 1% do you? If ever-a-wever a 1%er there was, the Mitt is one because because! This is the guy they've pre-built their strategy to take down. Now all that remains is for us to send that sheep to the slaughter.

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Article: Rand Paul in Pat-Down Standoff With TSA in Nashville

Now comes the interesting part... per the Constitution, a US Congressman can not legally be detained or prevented from travelling to fulfill their responsibility to vote. How does this play out now? TSA versus the Constitution. This is a duel that has been a LONG time in coming! I'd like to see it taken up by the SCOTUS!

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Article: Report: Russia to deliver combat jets to Syria

Well those should come in handy to gun down protesters in the streets... I wonder why Libyan protesters were worthy of NATO intervention, but Syrian protesters are not. The reason it really bugs me is because removing the Assad dynasty should have been a priority ever since they bombed the Marine barracks in Lebanon.

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Article: The Broken Dreams of Obama's First Term

This reads as a veritable list of horrors that our Tea Party representatives have protected us from. Who say it's a do-little Congress?

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Article: Police need warrant for GPS tracking: court

This was a correct decision. Our fourth amendment rights (like all of them) have been under serious assault lately. It is time that we start reining things in. Is it really that big of a hindrance to stop for a moment and ask a judge for a warrant? I don't think so. Now they need to correct that travesty of a decision on eminent domain... right after tossing Obamacare in the dung heap.

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Article: Marine pleads guilty, ending final Haditha trial

Here we see the end of the whole "Haditha Affair". Remember that? John Murtha, (a supposed marine himself) claiming that our marines were running a-muck in Iraq "murdering women and children in cold blood"... What was the end effect of all of this? Well charges were dismissed against ALL of the marines involved, save one. No the libs needed a scapegoat, a sacrificial cow, one Staff Sergeant Wutterich. The best they could do against him was saddle him with a charge of "dereliction of duty". This was a case where our marines were hit with an IED and in the process of reacting to that attack, a large number of civilians, even some women and children were killed in collateral damage. (and of course our enemies never set things up that way on purpose right?) This again was a situation where smarmy armchair general liberals sitting safe, fat and cowardly in their arm chairs were trying to dictate how men under fire should react in the heat of battle. Oh the much ballyhooed liberal "moral high ground"... Makes you want to puke doesn't it? As if the "party of perversity" has a clue what morals are! Listen if you haven't been there, in the combat boots, don't open that ill-informed stinking hole under your nose.

If you want a real education in the liberal version of support for our troops... Scroll down to the bottom of the linked article and read some of the comments left by our liberal fellow Americans.

All for One and One for All

Well it seems that Newt Gingrich managed to beat "Mr. Inevitable" in South Carolina last night by a hefty 25% points! That brings us to the curious situation where all of the remaining candidates (the serious ones at least) have won one state. Santorum won Iowa. Romney won Vermont and Gingrich won South Carolina.

Now we move on into Florida. All of the normal media outlets are of course prognosticating that Romney will take Florida. Personally I think that Gingrich will see a hefty bounce off of his decisive win over Romney in the Palmetto state.

If I were asked I'd still have to admit, that from the remaining pool of candidates, Santorum is the most appealing to me. He's the one that brings the least amount of baggage into the race.

Beyond Speaker Gingrich's tempestuous marital history, he is still weighed down by the results of an ethics investigation that cost him his speaker-ship. Nancy Pelosi has already threatened to release the details of that investigation. Doing so would cost her her job in the House, but I'm sure if it looked like Obama was headed for a loss against Mr. Gingrich that she'd happily fall on that sword for the "good" of her party.

Romney on the other hand has his own issues. He is not well loved by his base. Most of us know that he is just telling us what he thinks we want to hear. Then there's the issue of his tax returns and his maladroit handling of the demands that he release them. Obama has set this election up like it or not to be a contest between him and the senate, framed in the color of the "99%" versus the "1%" and Romney is certainly a card carrying member of the "1%". That is why the left and the mainstream media is pushing so hard for him to be our candidate. Their tactics have been expressly designed to target Romney and even under the mild fire of fellow conservatives on this front, he's shown himself to be less than prepared to weather that fire.

Now moving on a tangent from that topic...

We are going to need to help to derail the president's plan to shift the attention away from his own abysmal performance onto the Congress. We Tea Partiers sent our representatives to the House to thwart Obama's efforts to "fundamentally change" this country. We sent them there and then we sat back down in our easy chairs while they did our bidding and lapsed back into our staunch, traditional, conservative silence allowing them to flutter in the breeze. We need to cover their six! They're doing as much of what we asked them to do as is humanly possible in light of the circumstances.

We need to also defuse this whole 99% vs. 1%, class envy garbage that the democrats have artificially injected into this race. EVERYWHERE that an "Occupy" movement crops up, we Tea Partiers in the area should gather to counter protest. We should allow America to see that the Occupy Movement's selfish demands are not voiced on behalf of all of us. So far they have gone utterly unchallenged.

Do you remember how refreshing it was during our heyday to look around yourself and see that you were not the only one thinking these heretical thoughts? We need to reassure ourselves of that again.

We also need to continue to show the stark differences between them and us. How many rapes were ever reported at ANY Tea Party gathering? Now is our time to act again. If we do not act we may well see another harrowing 4 years of an Obama presidency. I know that all of this activism stuff is tiring. It's a pain in the ass... BUT it is what the other side is good at. If we stay silent, that silence will most assuredly be construed once again to be consent again. The left will be able to claim that their patchouli stinking operatives in the Occupy movement speak for all of us and I don't know about you, but that motley mob of selfish anarchists most assuredly do not give voice to my sentiments. Without our boisterous presence as a counterpoint how then can our candidate (whoever that may end up being) disprove the contention that Occupy is the only genuine American voice?

It is time now for us all to resurrect our ire and to step back out into the streets and make ourselves be heard once more. I know, we've been called all kinds of names and drawn the liberal's anger. We've been painted as out of touch and not the mainstream. We must ignore all of that and drive for the prize. Speak to your friends and help reinvigorate them. Pull your local groups back together and be the firebrand that rekindles the fire in the minds of men. Now is the time for our leader-less movement to provide counterpoise to their supposed leader-less movement. It is time again to march and be oh so joyfully inconvenient for the left so that this country can reawaken from the socialist nightmare we've been living for the last three years.

So dust off your Gadsdens, re-don you tricorns and remember, Solidarnosc my friends!

News Round Up 1/20/2011

Article: Santorum may have won Iowa; Romney calls results ‘a virtual tie’

I'll bet the establishment intentionally rigged it that way to blunt any momentum that Santorum would have gleaned from a victory that was announced in a timely fashion.

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Article: Helix Nebula Gleams Like a Golden Eye in New Photo

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Article: Letting White Voters Choose the Nominee

The order primaries are held in has been set for quite some time now... I seriously doubt that the racial make up of the constituencies is what decided it. But nice attempt at race baiting anyways! Personally I think the order ought to be changed each go-round. I'm tired of carefully seeking out a candidate only to have them removed from the running before I have a say in who should get the nod, let's face it political campaigns are a game of momentum and usually by the time the ability to vote comes around to me it's just a proforma vote.

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Article: 3 Numbers That Will Determine the Next President

"President Obama and his Democratic backers insist he's the one to bring fairness back to an economy..." Fairness? Who ever said life was fair? If you think life is fair, or even that it ever could be fair then you are a deluded child. Every kid learns from mommy and daddy that life isn't fair so you need to just get used to it. You can't legislate fairness, because "fair" is very much like "perfect"... unattainable! Some liberals might reply, "Tell that to people who pay 25% tax rate while people that are 1000 times richer than them pay a 15% tax rate." Well, that lower tax rate serves a large number of purposes. The two main ones being 1. It spurs investment into companies that provide employment... employment for those who don't qualify for that rate and who otherwise would have no income. -AND- 2. It provides an incentive for people who don't receive it, to want to receive it and to do what is necessary to arrive at that place where they can receive it. Success is hard work and if there's no incentive to succeed people will simply languish in mediocrity forever.

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Article: U.S. and Iran on Collision Course

Where's all the Paulbots and Obamaniacs to tell us that if we just talk nicely to Iran, they'll stop wanting to nuke us and our allies out of existence... That it has nothing to do with the fact that they are fanatical elevener-shia who believe in Armageddon and that they can hasten the coming of the Mahdi by starting Armageddon.

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Article: Romney nosediving in South Carolina as Gingrich surges

Wait. I though Mitt was the inevitable winner...

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Article: The real reason no one impersonates dead voters: high risk, little benefit

Let's assume for a moment the premise that there is virtually no voter fraud... (not that I do, but let's do so for the purpose of a mental exercise). It is conceivable that there *could be* voter fraud. This conceivability of an offense is enough in many cases to enact laws that liberals support. Let's take gun control laws for example. To be more specific, let's take the "cool down" period that many anti-gun people advocate. The sole reason for this law to exist is based on the premise that a gun buyer may be purchasing a weapon to use in a crime of passion. If you look at the entirety of gun purchasers, what percentage of them might fit that description? The percentiles are certainly absolutely, infinitesimally small and yet this is a gun control law that many liberals favor and is in fact espoused very heavily by the Brady gang (it's one factor from their grading system for state's gun control laws). So certainly the conceivability that an offense could occur is a good enough premise upon which to base a law for liberals. That leads one to question why they are against its employment in the case of voter fraud prevention laws. Since there are, as we speak a number of Democrat politicians freshly convicted of voter fraud in New York state, I can only assume that they are concerned about closing this "gun show loophole" in their ability to steal elections.

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Article: Army reports suicides down, but violent crimes up

You'll notice how they intentionally fail to mention how these numbers compare to the population at large! They do this to reinforce the liberal caricature that they are perpetuating against our veterans. Just FYI and since they fail to mention it... Criminality rates among active duty service members and veterans is LOWER than the population at large. Suicide rates are also lower. Stop slandering our heroes!

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Article: Pentagon report: Sexual assault in the military up dramatically

Here is yet another article employing the same underhanded tactic where the statistics are not compared to the population at large. If you read the article you'll see: "Mr. Panetta emphasized that 'we assume this is a very underreported crime'". Why would we "assume" that? Further what is the point of this unending bombardment of the character of our troops? Last year according to this article, there were 3,191 "reports" of sexual assault (a very broad category). Not convictions mind you, just accusations. There are 1,466,545 Active duty personnel and 1,458,500 reserve personnel yielding a total of 2,925,045. So that means there are 109 reports (not convictions) per 100,000. Per the government crime statistics the nationwide average per 100,000 for convictions of "forcible rape" (the most serious of sexual assault offenses) in 2009 (the latest available statistics) stand at 158. The rate of this happening is therefore LOWER in the military than in the population at large. I wonder how the number of rapes in the military compares to the rate per 100,000 at Occupy encampments. Stop the assault on the honor of our heroes!

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Article: World not quite as hot in 2011; ranks 11th warmest

So wait... "Not quite as hot"... That means it's cooler then right? Look, this global warming scam is not science. If our greenhouse gas contributions contributed to atmospheric warming it would have to exhibit a never ending trend of increases in temperature. That is because our output of those gases has not decreased, nor has the atmospheric concentrations of those gases. You see a key factor in determining whether a theory is scientifically valid is that a hypothesis must be "predictive". (for those who don't know what I'm talking about, look up "the scientific method".) That means if you can make a prediction based upon the premise of your hypothesis that is then found to be true based upon the objective measurement of the results of experimentation, then your hypothesis can be assumed to be scientifically valid. The global warming hypothesis however offers no such predictive quality and therefore, despite being quite a popular hypothesis (because we all know science is based on popularity contests right?), must be found to be flawed. Once you can show me an undeniable predictive quality to your hypotheses, then I'll join the band wagon, but not before.

This article then goes on to attempt to blame the unforeseen decline in temperature on the La Niña/El Niño cycle... If greenhouse gas concentrations were truly the cause it should be a simple matter of certain concentrations equating to a certain number of degrees increase averaged across the globe. The La Niña/El Niño cycle has nothing to do with it since the sun presumably delivers a fixed amount of energy to be trapped by those gasses.

News Round up 1/19/12

Article: Obama rejects Keystone XL pipeline

Just part of the ploy cause energy prices to "necessarily skyrocket"... The left is so married to global warming... they think those that deny it are loons... why do they not see the national debt as an equal but more imminent crisis and that ignoring it is just as crazy if not more so. How do you plan to deal with global warming with no money? Jobs are needed to build the tax base, to pay down the debt to be able to afford your global warming peccadillo. We all knew he was going to make the wrong decision, at least he doesn't get to hide it away until after the election. So now he has to do the same thing he always does try to shift the blame off onto someone else... Standard cowardly liberhole tactics.

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Article: Newt Gingrich to South Carolina: You’re my (and America’s) only hope

Article: Sarah Palin: 'I'd Vote for Newt'

Look, I don't care. The three of you please discuss this out and two of you walk away. I don't care which two. It is more important to not have Romney be our nominee than to quibble over which of the three of you takes the nod in the end. Stop splitting the non-Romney vote. Why can't we have a candidate like David Petraeus or Ray Odierno that we can all unite behind?

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Article: Gov. Haley: Romney doesn’t have to release his tax return

Nikki, the tea party put you where you are and the tea party can certainly remove you from that position. Please remember that. Romney is NOT tea party, he's Dom Perignon party...

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Article: Arkansas family loses second son in Afghanistan

I honor both of your service. May you rest forever more in the memories of your brothers in arms as an honored comrade and in the hearts of a thankful nation. I also honor the sacrifice of your family. May they know that our hearts and thoughts go out to them in this terrible time.

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; for he to-day that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, this day shall gentle his condition; and gentlemen in England (or America for that matter) now-a-bed shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here, and hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks that fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.

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Article: GOP campaign rhetoric raising racial concerns

How does this pass for News? Seriously? You have a Berkeley Professor commenting on the Republican nomination race. There is no way you could EVER get an objective opinion there. Everyone knows that the vastest majority of blacks voted for Obama in 2008 and we're quite aware that they will do it again in 2012. They will do it specifically because he is black... yet that is not racist. Gingrich didn't even mention race, and as any liberal will be happier than a clam to tell you, the majority of welfare recipients are white. Now I ask you. Where's the racism? Who's practicing it? This is all an effort to prevent the voters from actually protracting Obama's abysmal record.

News Round up 1/13/12

Here are my reactions to a few news articles that caught my eye:

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Article: Outrage at Video of Marines Urinating on Taliban Corpses: A Veteran's View

I always hear about the so called "moral high ground"... I can understand behaving better than our enemies... My question is, why it is always some self-righteous prick (usually some brain-dead libtard who is far too effete to ever serve themselves) dictating (usually with that signature annoying liberal nasal whine) how much higher our moral high ground has to be? (It looks like Yahoo found the rare libtard veteran for this so called "article").

Isn't it good enough to be on slightly higher moral high ground or significantly higher moral high ground? Why does it always have to be nothing less than the very pinnacle of virtue that is expected from our troops?

Taking a leak on a corpse is a FAR milder offense than what the enemy does to our dead; FAR MILDER! ( Example 1, Example 2, Example 3, Example 4, etc...)

Put yourself in these guys' combat boots for a change... How would you react if you finally killed some prick that has been trying to kill you; someone who more than likely has taken the life of or maimed a comrade or comrades?

As far as I'm concerned, unless you've served, you have no right WHAT-SO-EVER to pass ANY judgment. It is high time to bring back the draft. I'm tired of all these stupid, effete liberals who are far too fine to ever serve themselves pontificating on what the moral high ground is for our troops. If more of them bird wits served there would be FAR LESS uninformed talking out of their asses (at least on this topic)!!.

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Article: Court martial sought for suspected WikiLeaks leaker

Let's hope for a quick court martial followed just as quickly with a date with a firing squad. There can be no mercy for endangering the lives of your brothers in arms by leaking intelligence to the enemy.

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Article: Obama wants export agency, closing of Commerce Department

After usurping the constitutional powers of the congress, why should they work with this bozo on ANYTHING at all in the remaining few months of his presidency? As far as I'm concerned, they should already be impeaching this clown for his actions. There has been no more corrupt administration in the history of the union and no administration with a greater disregard for the constitution either!

Beyond that, we ALL know that Obama's type of "consolidation" will mean that this move will no doubt yield no true savings. There'll of course need to be a new multi-billion dollar website, new uniforms, new letterhead and add in a few thousand new federal employees to manage the integration. Then they'll fire up Carney to spin the facts that "no, this is indeed a more efficient structure that prevented projected spending" (kind of like jobs created or "saved"). Air Force 1 will be spooled up for countless costly trips around the country for even more countless telepromptered speeches about how wonderful Obama is for doing this and how terrible those Republicans are for resisting it.

Give me a break! No additional power for Obama of any kind!

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Article: Confederate submarine revealed and here is a slideshow

I found these images of the now fully revealed Hunley really interesting.

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Article: Taunted Girl Dies From Fatal Disease

What a pretty little sweetie pie, such a pity... and what an utterly despicable excuse for a human being Jennifer and Scott Petkov are! Just remember, karma is a bitch and I hope its sweet justice comes to visit you two VERY soon!

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Here are a series of articles and a single comment:

Article: Ogden Utah Police Shooting: Suspect Matthew Stewart Is War Veteran

Article: Iraq war veteran suspected of killing Mount Rainier park ranger found dead

Article: Ex-military man who killed mom, pets in shooting rampage charged

Article: Ex-soldier from Telford jailed over sex attacks on children

Article: Ex-soldier named in wrongful death suit

The has been an abundance of stories for some time now where the media has felt strangely compelled to trumpet a criminal's veteran status in the headlines. For example there was a shooting in Washington state of a park ranger, then there was a shooting in Utah revolving around a botched SWAT home invasion. In both cases, the suspect happened to be a veteran and in both cases that fact found its way into the headlines about the story. Just a cursory look at the news found many more instances as well. It is interesting that the media does not feel a need to publish the fact that a criminal is an illegal immigrant or even a welfare recipient in their headlines but veteran status is somehow extremely compelling.

It is my belief that this is a concerted effort by the liberal media to discredit our veterans. The problem is, even Fox News has fallen into this trap. Study after study has concluded that our veterans are far less likely than the population at large to engage in criminal behavior, yet the media is trying to build this false impression that every veteran is a ticking time bomb. This is further evidenced by Janet Napolitano's assertion that veterans are potential domestic terrorists. The funny thing is I'd probably bet you everything I own, that those who are illegal immigrants or welfare recipients are far more likely to engage in criminal behavior than our veterans.

I ask all of you to help bring attention to this topic. Send letters to the editors of news organizations that participate in this injustice to our veterans and demand that they stop!

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And Lastly...
Article: Michelle Obama Dismisses 'Angry Black Woman' Image

Oh come on now Michelle, why are you so angry about being called angry?

Happy Dirt Nap Day!!!

Navy SEALs took out Osama bin Laden Yesterday. Thank You! I can not say that often enough! We all know that Obama will try to take credit for this victory, but this victory is come in spite of and not because of his anemic leadership. Early released details indicate that actionable intelligence was initially gleaned from Kalid Shiek Mohammed's interview. That information was later corroborated during the interview of Abu Farraj al Libbi. This intelligence was then worked by our operatives in the CIA on the ground in Pakistan. Obama of course would have NEVER collected this infromation from these two men and the democrats have also felt free to hold our CIA operatives up to prosecution for doing the unseemly things that at times need to be done to protect us.

It was also reported that bin Laden's body was disposed of at sea to prevent any shrine from being built for him. I hope they stuffed every orifice with bacon before they tossed his worthless carcass overboard!

Now ol' Zawahiri and the traitor Gadahn better be some ducking and runnin' mo' fo's because pretty soon you're going to look like your boss!

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As the news has slowly spooled out regarding bin Laden's death there are some interesting tidbits to share. True to form the anointed one is storming about claiming this as his great victory and vindication for his administration. How convenient that is, considering that he's been taking one hell of a shellacking in the opinion polls lately. Well, there are a few details that he is of course NOT heralding from the roof tops.

Remember how terrible the democrats find all those "secret CIA prisons abroad"? The intelligence that broke bin Laden's location was collected there.

Remember how terrible they find water boarding? The intelligence was extracted using that technique. Beyond that, the information that corroborated it was also collected by these means.

Remember what a terrible intrusion they thought it was to intercept telephone calls placed to terrorists? Well guess what... The courier who exposed bin Laden's location revealed himself during one of those intercepted phone calls.

All of these intelligence collection activities happened BEFORE Obama took office.

None of these things would have been presumably done under the Obama administration. He can honestly only take credit for giving the order to mount the operation and nothing more. A publicity coup fell into his lap in his greatest time of need and he seized it with both hands. That is his only courageous act, an act of selfish self promotion.

To date he's not credited the president who actually presided over the collection of the information. He's not admitted that he may have been wrong about the utility of the practices that brought the leads to light. That would require true character and true courage and we all know he does not possess even the slightest modicum of those traits.

Bin Laden's death is OF COURSE a great boon for the United States. It was a great feat for our intelligence operators fighting in the trenches to protect us. It bear stark testament to the bravery of our troops and it pin points, like a spotlight what an opportunistic leach of a glory hog our current president is. Don't give him and his parasitic followers the satisfaction.

The standard troop of muslim apologists have marched forward to claim that killing bin Laden was improper and that disposing of his worthless carcass at sea was an insult and not in keeping with expected muslim burial practices. They threatened that these facts will inspire more of their insane fellow muslims to participate in the jihad... Well guess what, no matter what we do, you freaks find it a reason to hate and kill us... BUT we will find a way to get you, even in spite of the protection of nations like Pakistan and in spite of any inept leadership that happens to sit in our oval office. We will be avenged and you will suffer bin Laden's fate.

A Correction

It appears I have spoken out of turn. Jan Brewer did not sign a bill into law requiring presidential candidates to present proof of eligibility to be placed on the ballot in Arizona. (More's the pity.) There are however more than enough votes in the legislature to overturn a gubernatorial veto. So we shall see if the Arizona legislature shoots down Jan's veto. Let's hope. I think this is a wonderful idea. If Arizona doesn't end up passing the law, perhaps one of the other states that are contrary to Obama will... Montana Utah or Texas perhaps. Even better would be if a series of states would pass such a law.

Now let me be clear. I do not think that Obama was born outside of the USA -BUT- I do believe there is something on his birth certificate that he wishes to hide... Perhaps his mother named a different father or something. There has to be some reason why a man would spend so much money and effort hiding the document. It will present him with a dilemma... "Do I give up and release the secret I've been hiding or do I fore go those electoral votes?"

Any and EVERY opportunity to complicate his reelection campaign should be exploited. You know he would never give up any opportunity to exploit the weaknesses of his foes. Why then should we be any more magnanimous than he? McCain made that mistake. He tried to take the honorable route without even a figment of reciprocity on Obama's side and you see where that got us don't you?

On a side note... turns out the FEC is still investigating wrong-doing and fund raising in Obama's 2008 presidential campaign. Turns out he's spent more than double the amount in legal fees since his election than he did during the entire campaign. This is something I'm still trying to find more information on though. If you have any more details please do pass them along.

The Egyptian Crisis - A Question of Morals

There's been a lot of coverage on the news lately about the uprisings throughout the Middle East, most especially in Egypt . Many of the commentators have been making doomsday prognostications of a repeat of the Iranian revolution, claiming that the Muslim Brotherhood may rise to power in the turmoil. I've also heard many making excuses for America 's support of Mubarik saying things like, "better to support a dictator than to have chaos".

Let me make myself absolutely clear. America has a clearly stated set of over-arching collective morals. Our forefathers proclaimed those morals loudly and boldly to the whole world saying:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."

This statement put for the first time to pen something that every person has always known instinctually in their inner core. This incontrovertible truth must be our answer in every such foreign policy case. To see success, we must be true to our core beliefs and live that bold and unprecedented truth to its fullest.

All too often we've side-stepped these principles and paid the grim price. We've supported one despot after another out of expedience. We've allowed an enemy of our enemy to be our friend. We must never do that again. A deal with a devil inevitably and invariably ends up costing you your soul. We have paid that dire price far too frequently. Those who wish to harm this country from within have often used this sort of expedient relationship to point out how base and evil America is. We are indeed imperfect and must learn finally and at long last from the error or our ways.

America must always stand on the side of liberty. Expedient deals with dictators may get you what you want in the short term. It may prevent a war now that would make your political waters perilous, but to avoid the short-sighted mistakes of the past our stance should always be that self determination is the inalienable right of all men.

Sure, the people may choose poor leaders (Heck even we have elected our current disastrous president). Some time ago, a frequent critic of mine cynically pointed out the results of the election in the Gaza strip where Hamas came to power as an example of how my belief was flawed. These things do happen, but we must support the will of the people and fight to preserve their right to choose. We must do this because while the fervor of the moment may lead the masses to a poor choice, inevitably free men will choose peace. So if they elect a dictator, we must oppose the ability of that elected dictator to prevent being removed when the people change their minds. Our only response to such an unpropitious choice in leadership is to insist on preserving their freedom to choose more appropriate leadership once they have tired of the predations of the thugs they've chosen and to isolate those governments we disagree with to hasten the people's reawakening.

Modern progressive liberals see this as their core conundrum. They despise the fact that men are fallible and believe that an all-powerful government is the only way to dispense with the fallibility of man and thus protect us from ourselves. They strive to create perfection with more regulation and ever more complicated and convoluted laws intended to address every odd edge case. But that government too is a fallible construct of fallible men. Chasing perfection is a fool's errand. Instead I choose to believe that the majority of men long for peace, seek justice and are innately good and with that in mind, I cast my wholehearted support behind the notion that the fallibilities of man will come and go and that they are always best countered by allowing free men to learn from the errors of their ways.

I've heard many from the left say that we can not "impose" freedom on a place. In response to that I am going to say something that I do not often say. That stance is utterly and absolutely un-American. It flies in the face of that preeminent foundational statement of our collective morals made so many years ago. The words expressed are not that "All white men are created equal" or "All men in this country" or even "All men in this hemisphere". It states that unequivocally ALL men, wherever they may happen to exist, are created to be equals and that they have at the center of their being a right to liberty and self determination. If you seek peace, then we must strive to introduce freedom in every land and have a responsibility to impose the will of the people over every despot that constrains freedom. For only when all men are truly free will we as a species experience lasting and durable peace.