Part 3A
As I will point out, the entire Obama foreign policy has been a total disaster because it is based on his misguided opinion and hatred of America, resulting in both the disastrous domestic and foreign policies he has tried to put in place. In many instances, the two are intimately related.
His unwillingness to protect and defend our southern border has bolstered the Mexican drug cartels and their ability to both bribe and scare Mexican government officials and police. Combine this with the "fast and furious" scandal and it seems like we are empowering the wrong people south of the border. Promoting the mass exodus of children from Central America is also a significant part of this issue and finally opening our borders to any and all comers also opens our country to diseases of epidemic proportion, ruthless criminals, invading terrorists, and economic peril having to take care of all these illegal aliens (a term the president and his ultraliberal ilk refuse to use). In fact, the regime is letting Mexican and Central American criminals out of prison without deporting them back to their own countries while a decorated marine rots away in a Tiajuna hell hole prison. Here's an idea. Let's tell Mexico that we will immediately deport 100,000 criminals to Mexico City unless our marine is immediately repatriated. Due to Obama's failed policy, Mexico is rapidly becoming a criminalocracy even worse than Columbia was during the eighties. Further to the South, not only is it okay for Brazil to drill offshore for oil, Obama's regime is helping to finance it, while he tires to hinder and delay the same thing off our own coasts.
He has embarrassed and criticized our two best allies, England and Israel. As soon as he took office in 2009, he sent the Churchhill bust, a gift from England, back to the British embassy rather than merely storing it with other objects that are currently not on display. It seems that Obama has been miseducated that England, Israel, and the United States were and are today all imperialistic nations that have exploited other countries for their own benefit. He was also misinformed of that his grandfather was tortured by the British in Kenya, during the Mau Mau revolt in the 1950's. His beliefs are in lock step with the far far left, especially when it come to Israel and the United States. English Prime Minister Cameron seems to have distanced himself from Obama, even though the British have suffered similar beheadings and internal terror attacks. I don't think he trusts Obama (neither do I). Shortly after bowing to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, Obama made Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu wait while he ate dinner, a sign of disrespect that he would show to no other leader. The regime continues to equate building houses with launching rockets at civilians and constructing terror tunnels. Support for Israel by Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Kerry has been half hearted at best. No one can trust Obama or believe a word he says.
Obama's domestic policy has made it far more difficult to deal with Europe, Nato, and the Russians. Obama is desperate to destroy the American economy, using regulation and delaying tactics. He and Kerry have even tried to claim global warming is the most serious enemy of our country. He is almost correct. It should be that those who believe in human based global warming are the most serious threat to our country. (In reality Global cooling has occurred the last 16 years, there is more polar ice and it is still growing, and the polar bear population around the world is at record highs, except where the eskimos are allowed to kill them.) If the regime had approved pipe lines and coastal facilities the liquify natural gas more quickly, we could easily drive a wedge between Russia and Western Europe that depends on natural gas from Russia. Not only is the US the leading producer of natural gas in the world, but it can produce it far more cheaply. The Europeans pay Russia almost three times per unit of what natural gas costs in the US. Not only would selling natural gas more cheaply to Western Europe eliminate the Russian stranglehold, but it would eliminate one of Russia's major sources of hard currency, making Putin far more willing to listen to reason as he sees the Russian economy devastated. Russia would be forced to back out of Ukraine, put more pressure on Syria and Iran, an quash any dreams it has for reestablishing the Russian empire. Similarly, we have become the leading producer of oil, but it would take Congress to reverse a law they passed during the Carter era banning crude oil exports. If you believe that energy controls the world, than we, with an insightful and strong president could do so. In addition or coffers would be brimming with cash, from taxes and fees from energy exports. We might even eliminate the deficit and reduce the national debt.
In the Far East, North Korea continues to refine its rocketry program and accumulate nuclear weapons. In addition like Iran it exports weapons and technology to bad guys all over the world. China continues to threaten its neighbors as it sees Obama as a total wimp more interested in his golf game that world affairs. If the economies of the US and China were not so linked, they would be even more aggressive. Any threats from the regime have been ignore, because our enemies know that Obama won't follow through.
The discussion of the Middle East will be in Part 3B. This is where Obama's incompetence and failure to understand foreign policy has led to the biggest disasters.
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Monday, September 8, 2014
Thew Obama Foreign Policy Team is in Last Place in the t-ball League
Part 2
Now that we've discussed and learned about how ill prepared and in effected the leader of the team has been, its time to learn about the rest of his t-ball team. The Secretary of State is one of the most the most important representative of America to the World next to the President. Many secretaries of state have been able to advance American interests as effective mediators and framers of foreign policy. The two that come to mind during my lifetime are George C. Marshall and Henry Kissenger. Marshall went from being Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during World War II to Secretary of State under Truman. Not only did he effectively manage our war effort, but he chose the right leadership for the job. Post war he formulated the Marshall plan to reconstruct Europe and shield Western Europe from communism. The Berlin airlift stopped the Russians from taking over all of Germany. Kissenger orchestrated the opening of relations with Red China, splitting the then shaky Sino-Russian alliance and softening one aspect of the cold war. These things could not have happened without knowledgeable people who understand what's going on in the world and how to deal with people. Obama has appointed two of the least knowledgeable and effective secretaries of state, even less effective than Madeline Albright, if that can be believed.
When Obama nominated Hillary Clinton to be his Secretary of State, the Dems and left cheered at this as it brought the Democrat Party together. It also would keep Hillary out of the country much of the time, so she could not organize an effective election campaign in 2012, (Bill also was happy as he could plan his trysts without her interference) On paper it seemed like a great choice, but in reality Hillary was poorly prepared for the job. Other than having met most of the leaders in the world and their wives, she contributed virtually nothing to a rather shaky foreign policy during her husband's regime. She gave her stump speech in a few countries on women's rights, and served as hostess at innumerable state dinners, nothing in her background suggested that she could be an effective secretary of state. Beholden to Obama for bailing out her massive campaign debt, she could not very well argue with the President about policy and instead became another butt licker like so many of his appointees. The "world's smartest woman" was not really so smart. She couldn't even pass the DC bar exam. She, like Obama, has a seemingly impressive, but empty resume. All of her positions including law partner at the Rose Law firm in Little Rock, were not gained because of her hard work, but because she was married to Bill, who was first State Attorney General, then Governor, and finally President. Her most effective legislation as senator was to get the naming of six post offices in New York approved. Finally she has a very obnoxious personality, not one that could build trust and friendship. God forbid she should become president. The country can't afford another president with a thin resume.
Our current Secretary of State, John Kerr,y is another person with an impressive but empty resume. A life long politician like Al Gore, he has usually been on the wrong side of most issues related to foreign policy. He even made what turned out to be empty accusations against our troops in Viet Nam. He reminds me of the Neidermeyer character in Animal House who was shot and killed by his troops in Viet Nam. About his only real accomplishment had been to marry a very wealthy woman, the heiress Patricia Heinz. I wonder who wears the pants in the relationship. Kerry's stewardship had thus far been lack luster.
Susan Rice is also on the NSA team as Ambassador to the United Nations and now as a special appointee.. This idiot, who believed the story about the video causing the tragedy in Libya, was originally Obama's choice for Secretary of State. What she could contribute other than another useless butt taking up space is unknown to me. Chuck Hagel's antimilitary attitude makes him a perfect Secretary of Defense for the regime. Obama says he wants to degraded ISIL but under Hagel, he degraded our military. The military projects power and is an important contributor to foreign policy. American power has been considerably diminished under the regime. Other members of the NSA have demonstrated they they are little more than yes men who, if they have anything to contribute are afraid to do so.
So who is in charge of foreign policy? Iranian born Valerie Jarrett has the last word and runs the show, though others in the political wing of the White House also contribute. Jarrett actually got the Obamas involved in far left Chicago politics and is probably a text book example of cronyism. Typical of many ultraliberals, Jarrett is a millionaire with an overall philosophy that would prevent us from becoming millionaires. She has no experience in foreign policy, but is an expert on dirty politics due to her association with rough and tumble Chicago politics. She is there to protect Obama politically regardless of what is beast for the country. No doubt about it, in the White House, she runs the show.
I've decided in part 3 to list and briefly review many of the total failures of the regime. I think there is virtually no area even his few successes that he hash't botched in some way.
Now that we've discussed and learned about how ill prepared and in effected the leader of the team has been, its time to learn about the rest of his t-ball team. The Secretary of State is one of the most the most important representative of America to the World next to the President. Many secretaries of state have been able to advance American interests as effective mediators and framers of foreign policy. The two that come to mind during my lifetime are George C. Marshall and Henry Kissenger. Marshall went from being Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during World War II to Secretary of State under Truman. Not only did he effectively manage our war effort, but he chose the right leadership for the job. Post war he formulated the Marshall plan to reconstruct Europe and shield Western Europe from communism. The Berlin airlift stopped the Russians from taking over all of Germany. Kissenger orchestrated the opening of relations with Red China, splitting the then shaky Sino-Russian alliance and softening one aspect of the cold war. These things could not have happened without knowledgeable people who understand what's going on in the world and how to deal with people. Obama has appointed two of the least knowledgeable and effective secretaries of state, even less effective than Madeline Albright, if that can be believed.
When Obama nominated Hillary Clinton to be his Secretary of State, the Dems and left cheered at this as it brought the Democrat Party together. It also would keep Hillary out of the country much of the time, so she could not organize an effective election campaign in 2012, (Bill also was happy as he could plan his trysts without her interference) On paper it seemed like a great choice, but in reality Hillary was poorly prepared for the job. Other than having met most of the leaders in the world and their wives, she contributed virtually nothing to a rather shaky foreign policy during her husband's regime. She gave her stump speech in a few countries on women's rights, and served as hostess at innumerable state dinners, nothing in her background suggested that she could be an effective secretary of state. Beholden to Obama for bailing out her massive campaign debt, she could not very well argue with the President about policy and instead became another butt licker like so many of his appointees. The "world's smartest woman" was not really so smart. She couldn't even pass the DC bar exam. She, like Obama, has a seemingly impressive, but empty resume. All of her positions including law partner at the Rose Law firm in Little Rock, were not gained because of her hard work, but because she was married to Bill, who was first State Attorney General, then Governor, and finally President. Her most effective legislation as senator was to get the naming of six post offices in New York approved. Finally she has a very obnoxious personality, not one that could build trust and friendship. God forbid she should become president. The country can't afford another president with a thin resume.
Our current Secretary of State, John Kerr,y is another person with an impressive but empty resume. A life long politician like Al Gore, he has usually been on the wrong side of most issues related to foreign policy. He even made what turned out to be empty accusations against our troops in Viet Nam. He reminds me of the Neidermeyer character in Animal House who was shot and killed by his troops in Viet Nam. About his only real accomplishment had been to marry a very wealthy woman, the heiress Patricia Heinz. I wonder who wears the pants in the relationship. Kerry's stewardship had thus far been lack luster.
Susan Rice is also on the NSA team as Ambassador to the United Nations and now as a special appointee.. This idiot, who believed the story about the video causing the tragedy in Libya, was originally Obama's choice for Secretary of State. What she could contribute other than another useless butt taking up space is unknown to me. Chuck Hagel's antimilitary attitude makes him a perfect Secretary of Defense for the regime. Obama says he wants to degraded ISIL but under Hagel, he degraded our military. The military projects power and is an important contributor to foreign policy. American power has been considerably diminished under the regime. Other members of the NSA have demonstrated they they are little more than yes men who, if they have anything to contribute are afraid to do so.
So who is in charge of foreign policy? Iranian born Valerie Jarrett has the last word and runs the show, though others in the political wing of the White House also contribute. Jarrett actually got the Obamas involved in far left Chicago politics and is probably a text book example of cronyism. Typical of many ultraliberals, Jarrett is a millionaire with an overall philosophy that would prevent us from becoming millionaires. She has no experience in foreign policy, but is an expert on dirty politics due to her association with rough and tumble Chicago politics. She is there to protect Obama politically regardless of what is beast for the country. No doubt about it, in the White House, she runs the show.
I've decided in part 3 to list and briefly review many of the total failures of the regime. I think there is virtually no area even his few successes that he hash't botched in some way.
Saturday, September 6, 2014
The Obama Foreign Policy Team is in Last Place in the T-ball League
Part 1
The Obama foreign policy team has been a total failure and it failures continue to multiply. Would you expect otherwise. Obama was voted into office with much hype, but in reality little to back it up. He could talk the talk, but by now it is obvious to all, but cool aid drinkers, that he can't walk the walk or even crawl for that matter. Even a cursory glance at his background showed little experience that he could run or manage anything, much less something as complex as foreign policy. When Obama said, "you didn't build that," he was actually talking about his own lackluster career. One of the reasons he decided on Joe Biden as a running mate was Biden's expertise in foreign policy, though in reality Biden, a life long politician, has been on the wrong side of nearly every issue.
Though his curriculum vitae is filled with positions, elective offices, and honors he has won, in reality it show very little of real accomplishment. He got into Columbia by claiming to be an Indonesia. How else would a mediocre student at Occidental College manage a transfer. Few people remember him from Columbia except his favorite professor, the defamed author of Orientalism and head of the Mideast Studies Department, who gave Obama his only A. After college he moved to Chicago, chosen because it was the hometown of his mentor Frank Davis, an admitted member of the Communist Party of America. Working as a community activist he came in contact with the far far left of Chicago. Seen by Bill Ayres as articulate, unthreatening, and easily manipulated, Ayres had his father, CEO of Commonwealth Edison, but a leftist, secure admission to Harvard Law School and pay Obama's tuition. He was elected to Law Review as it head, a prestigious award, but never wrote a published paper, something almost unheard of for the head of law review at any university, much less Harvard. After graduation, he moved back to Chicago to work for a law firm that was essentially the legal arm of ACORN. The most noticeable case of his law practice was that his name appears as one of six attorneys that represented an ACORN client in Bucyk Robeson vs City Group of Chicago. As it turns out this was a very important law suit as it used the Community Redevelopment Act (CRA) as passed by Clinton and the Democrats to force lenders to provide mortgages to people who couldn't afford to pay them back, leading to the home mortgage crisis a dozen or so years later.
Through his socialist, communist, and anarchist contacts, Obama was induced to run for office in Illinois. By disqualifying all of his opponents, Obama became a state senator, double crossing his political mentor, Communist Alice Palmer. He rarely took a stand on any issue voting present over a hundred times. Any new legislation he introduced was written by other politicians who wanted to advance Obama's career. In his US Senate run, his henchmen broke the law...twice, in order to first have his Democrat primary opponent who was leading the race and then use the same tactic to get his Republican opponent who was also way out ahead resign. In both instances, sealed divorce records were illegally opened in violation of the law. As a US Senator, he has no real record to speak of as he was more interested in running for President than promoting important legislation. So here we have a President with virtually no experience and is handled and managed by the far anti America left.
After being elected president, his life becomes even more absurd and bizarre. He is voted the Nobel Peace Prize for accomplishing nothing (only Al Gore's global warming hoax is worse). With this award under his belt, one might think that Obama could have brought peace to the Ukraine, Syria, Gaza, Libya, Sudan, Iran, or even the streets of Ferguson, Missouri. Instead he is seen as a paper tiger who has severely diminished America's influence throughout the world. It could be said that the world has become less safe and less peaceful since he was elected. His way of dealing with important world issue is to delay in making a decision with the hope that it will just go away or resolve itself.
In Part 2, I will expose the Obama foreign policy team as a group of incompetents with virtually no experience or ability in foreign policy and how they lack any understanding how foreign policy is supposed to work. If ISIS represents the jv team, the Obama's foreign policy team is the t-ball team...and loosing.
The Obama foreign policy team has been a total failure and it failures continue to multiply. Would you expect otherwise. Obama was voted into office with much hype, but in reality little to back it up. He could talk the talk, but by now it is obvious to all, but cool aid drinkers, that he can't walk the walk or even crawl for that matter. Even a cursory glance at his background showed little experience that he could run or manage anything, much less something as complex as foreign policy. When Obama said, "you didn't build that," he was actually talking about his own lackluster career. One of the reasons he decided on Joe Biden as a running mate was Biden's expertise in foreign policy, though in reality Biden, a life long politician, has been on the wrong side of nearly every issue.
Though his curriculum vitae is filled with positions, elective offices, and honors he has won, in reality it show very little of real accomplishment. He got into Columbia by claiming to be an Indonesia. How else would a mediocre student at Occidental College manage a transfer. Few people remember him from Columbia except his favorite professor, the defamed author of Orientalism and head of the Mideast Studies Department, who gave Obama his only A. After college he moved to Chicago, chosen because it was the hometown of his mentor Frank Davis, an admitted member of the Communist Party of America. Working as a community activist he came in contact with the far far left of Chicago. Seen by Bill Ayres as articulate, unthreatening, and easily manipulated, Ayres had his father, CEO of Commonwealth Edison, but a leftist, secure admission to Harvard Law School and pay Obama's tuition. He was elected to Law Review as it head, a prestigious award, but never wrote a published paper, something almost unheard of for the head of law review at any university, much less Harvard. After graduation, he moved back to Chicago to work for a law firm that was essentially the legal arm of ACORN. The most noticeable case of his law practice was that his name appears as one of six attorneys that represented an ACORN client in Bucyk Robeson vs City Group of Chicago. As it turns out this was a very important law suit as it used the Community Redevelopment Act (CRA) as passed by Clinton and the Democrats to force lenders to provide mortgages to people who couldn't afford to pay them back, leading to the home mortgage crisis a dozen or so years later.
Through his socialist, communist, and anarchist contacts, Obama was induced to run for office in Illinois. By disqualifying all of his opponents, Obama became a state senator, double crossing his political mentor, Communist Alice Palmer. He rarely took a stand on any issue voting present over a hundred times. Any new legislation he introduced was written by other politicians who wanted to advance Obama's career. In his US Senate run, his henchmen broke the law...twice, in order to first have his Democrat primary opponent who was leading the race and then use the same tactic to get his Republican opponent who was also way out ahead resign. In both instances, sealed divorce records were illegally opened in violation of the law. As a US Senator, he has no real record to speak of as he was more interested in running for President than promoting important legislation. So here we have a President with virtually no experience and is handled and managed by the far anti America left.
After being elected president, his life becomes even more absurd and bizarre. He is voted the Nobel Peace Prize for accomplishing nothing (only Al Gore's global warming hoax is worse). With this award under his belt, one might think that Obama could have brought peace to the Ukraine, Syria, Gaza, Libya, Sudan, Iran, or even the streets of Ferguson, Missouri. Instead he is seen as a paper tiger who has severely diminished America's influence throughout the world. It could be said that the world has become less safe and less peaceful since he was elected. His way of dealing with important world issue is to delay in making a decision with the hope that it will just go away or resolve itself.
In Part 2, I will expose the Obama foreign policy team as a group of incompetents with virtually no experience or ability in foreign policy and how they lack any understanding how foreign policy is supposed to work. If ISIS represents the jv team, the Obama's foreign policy team is the t-ball team...and loosing.
Monday, August 25, 2014
Should Eric Holder go to Utah?
Apparently the shooting of an unarmed young black man by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, a northern suburb of St. Louis, is so important to warrant a statement from a golfing and vacationing President Obama and a visit and an investigation by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and the Department of Justice. Multiple investigations are still taking place so all of the facts are not in and there are multiple conflicting eyewitness testimonies. What we do know is that Michael Brown was stopped while walking in the middle of the street after committing a strong arm robbery at a neighborhood convenience store for which the police were called. He was stopped in the middle of the street by Officer Darren Wilson in his patrol car and this led to the shooting. Brown who was unarmed was shot six times by Wilson. There was some sort of scuffle immediately preceding the shooting and Wilson sustained a significant facial injury, an orbital floor fracture. That is all we know for certain.
As word of the shooting spread in the community, residents of Ferguson hit the streets protesting the shooting. The protests quickly turned into looting and burning of local stores that the county police could not handle. Governor Jay Nixon (D) called in the highway patrol and eventually the National Guard for crowd control and to stop the looting. Race baiter Al Sharpton showed up and seemed to fan the flames and clearly countered the efforts by Capt. Ron Johnson of the highway patrol and one who grew up in the community, to quiet the rioting and bring calm and reason to the situation. Hundred of protestors and looters were arrested and most live in other communities in the St. Louis area, but some came from as far away as California and New York. The looters attempted to spread the violence outside of Ferguson, but this was quickly quelled. Eventually President Obama called Brown's family and sent Holder to investigate. With so much conflicting eyewitness descriptions, the county prosecutor rightly convened a grand jury to gather evidence and determine if there is enough to warrant an indictment.
On August 11 a similar incident occurred outside a convenience store near Salt Lake City. In this case, a black police officer (the local media described the officer as not white) shot and killed an unarmed 20 year old white man. The officer thought he had a weapon as the police had received a 911 call from the store of a possible gun. The victim, Dillon Taylor, had a criminal past, an outstanding warrant, and failed to get down on the sidewalk to be handcuffed when ordered to do so. The whole incident was recorded by a video camera worn by the officer. The Salt Lake City police have not released the name of the officer or the video. Taylor's family is demanding an investigation and he arrest of the police officer. In Salt Lake City there were no demonstrations or rioting and looting. Representatives from the KKK or other racist organizations did not show up to protest and stir up trouble. Taylor's family was not called by President Obama and Eric Holder is not going to Utah. This incident will be resolved after the investigation.
President Obama, as his his practice, politicized the tragedy in Ferguson. Though Brown was shot with the officer's side arm, this suddenly became a debate on the militarization of the police. Does Obama think that a police officer possessing a side arm constitutes militarization? There are neighborhoods in Chicago that are so dangerous that a swat team is necessary for routine police business. The problem is not guns owned by the police or licensed gun owners, it is guns owned by criminals who are unlicensed. Somehow this very simple fact escapes the thinking of the Democrats and the left.
After the investigation, hopefully reason will prevail. If arrest and trial of either police officer is warranted, a fair trial will be held and the result of the trial should be accepted by the community. Sadly, President Obama, liberals, and their media whores have again tied themselves to the wrong pony, just as they did with Trayvon Martin. Don't get me wrong, neither Brown or Martin deserved to die, but neither were choirboys. Both decided to fight with a smaller person with a gun, and both lost. Martin could have just kept on walking and Brown could have moved over to the sidewalk as ordered by Officer Wilson. If Obama, liberals, and mainstream media need a cause, they should use the many innocent youths murdered in Chicago as collateral damage in the gang wars. Instead most remain just a name in a short column in the local newspaper or a ten second sound bite on a local television station.
As word of the shooting spread in the community, residents of Ferguson hit the streets protesting the shooting. The protests quickly turned into looting and burning of local stores that the county police could not handle. Governor Jay Nixon (D) called in the highway patrol and eventually the National Guard for crowd control and to stop the looting. Race baiter Al Sharpton showed up and seemed to fan the flames and clearly countered the efforts by Capt. Ron Johnson of the highway patrol and one who grew up in the community, to quiet the rioting and bring calm and reason to the situation. Hundred of protestors and looters were arrested and most live in other communities in the St. Louis area, but some came from as far away as California and New York. The looters attempted to spread the violence outside of Ferguson, but this was quickly quelled. Eventually President Obama called Brown's family and sent Holder to investigate. With so much conflicting eyewitness descriptions, the county prosecutor rightly convened a grand jury to gather evidence and determine if there is enough to warrant an indictment.
On August 11 a similar incident occurred outside a convenience store near Salt Lake City. In this case, a black police officer (the local media described the officer as not white) shot and killed an unarmed 20 year old white man. The officer thought he had a weapon as the police had received a 911 call from the store of a possible gun. The victim, Dillon Taylor, had a criminal past, an outstanding warrant, and failed to get down on the sidewalk to be handcuffed when ordered to do so. The whole incident was recorded by a video camera worn by the officer. The Salt Lake City police have not released the name of the officer or the video. Taylor's family is demanding an investigation and he arrest of the police officer. In Salt Lake City there were no demonstrations or rioting and looting. Representatives from the KKK or other racist organizations did not show up to protest and stir up trouble. Taylor's family was not called by President Obama and Eric Holder is not going to Utah. This incident will be resolved after the investigation.
President Obama, as his his practice, politicized the tragedy in Ferguson. Though Brown was shot with the officer's side arm, this suddenly became a debate on the militarization of the police. Does Obama think that a police officer possessing a side arm constitutes militarization? There are neighborhoods in Chicago that are so dangerous that a swat team is necessary for routine police business. The problem is not guns owned by the police or licensed gun owners, it is guns owned by criminals who are unlicensed. Somehow this very simple fact escapes the thinking of the Democrats and the left.
After the investigation, hopefully reason will prevail. If arrest and trial of either police officer is warranted, a fair trial will be held and the result of the trial should be accepted by the community. Sadly, President Obama, liberals, and their media whores have again tied themselves to the wrong pony, just as they did with Trayvon Martin. Don't get me wrong, neither Brown or Martin deserved to die, but neither were choirboys. Both decided to fight with a smaller person with a gun, and both lost. Martin could have just kept on walking and Brown could have moved over to the sidewalk as ordered by Officer Wilson. If Obama, liberals, and mainstream media need a cause, they should use the many innocent youths murdered in Chicago as collateral damage in the gang wars. Instead most remain just a name in a short column in the local newspaper or a ten second sound bite on a local television station.
Sunday, June 22, 2014
WASHINGTON REDS?
The Politically Correct Police (PCP) have recently been at their best, demanding that Daniel Snyder change the name of the team he owns, the Washington Redskins, claiming that "redskins" is a racial disparaging name. In the context of a football team name though, it seems appropriate as it does just the opposite. The mascot or name of a football team implies strength and courage, two very good qualities. With all the conversation on how violent football is, I'm sure the liberal lobby would like the name changed to the Washington Pansies. A simple solution that may satisfy BHO and his ilk would be to merely drop the word "Redskin", retain the "s" and the name now becomes the Washington Reds, most appropriate for the current regime and the PCP. The indian warrior logo on the helmet could be replaced with a hammer and sickle and the team song "Hail to the Redskins" could be replaced with "Meadowland", the national anthem of the former USSR.
All this begs the question as to what NFL or other sports team is next? Continuing the indian thing, the Kansas City Chiefs and Chicago Black Hawks come to mind. This would be easy. Just drop the "i" from Chiefs and the team name becomes the Chefs. Combine this name change with banning what Moochelle considers unhealthy food choices either tailgating or at stadium concessions and libs who never ever watched a football game may become season ticket holders. The team could advertise, "we've traded brats for beans, watch a game and eat healthy." Moochele might even be invited to the opening game to throw out the opening game football. The NHL's Blackhawks could just drop the hawk part of the name and they become the Chicago Blacks, emphasizing the contributions of blacks to ice hockey. Maybe this would attract a whole new segment of the population to become fans. The indian logo on the Blackhawks jersey could be replaced with Jessie Jackson's head, a well recognized Chicago resident, or maybe Michael Jordan's head might be more appropriate as the Bulls and Blackhawks played in the same Chicago Stadium and Jordan is certainly more loved than Jackson in the Chicago area.
The PCP might also go after the New Orleans Saints as promoting religion. Change the name to the New Orleans Mardi Gras. The new fan chant would become "show us your tits", as the cheerleader parade up and down the sidelines. A string of beads could be the team mascot or maybe a musical note like the St. Louis Blues hockey team. "When the Saints Go Marching In" could be replaced with something by Maddona or Mylie Cyrus to which the Cheerleaders could booty dance.
The Green Bay Packers and Pittsburgh Steelers should also beware. Though the Packers name is derived from the local meat packing industry when the team was first organized more than 90 years ago, the PCP might consider this to now be a gun reference that might encourage "packing a gun". The Steelers are obviously named for the now dwindling steel industry for which the city is famous. Due to the poor education that our teacher unions and liberal school boards are providing, young people may confuse "steel" with "steal" and obviously this would encourage theft.
There are many other sports teams, both profession and college, that may have a team name or mascot that is objectionable to the PCP. Maybe Harry Reid and the libs in Congress could introduce a bill that would require all sports teams to change their name to either a flower, tree, fruit, or vegetabls. How scary would it be if your team was about to play the Notre Dame "Fighting Potatoes".
All this begs the question as to what NFL or other sports team is next? Continuing the indian thing, the Kansas City Chiefs and Chicago Black Hawks come to mind. This would be easy. Just drop the "i" from Chiefs and the team name becomes the Chefs. Combine this name change with banning what Moochelle considers unhealthy food choices either tailgating or at stadium concessions and libs who never ever watched a football game may become season ticket holders. The team could advertise, "we've traded brats for beans, watch a game and eat healthy." Moochele might even be invited to the opening game to throw out the opening game football. The NHL's Blackhawks could just drop the hawk part of the name and they become the Chicago Blacks, emphasizing the contributions of blacks to ice hockey. Maybe this would attract a whole new segment of the population to become fans. The indian logo on the Blackhawks jersey could be replaced with Jessie Jackson's head, a well recognized Chicago resident, or maybe Michael Jordan's head might be more appropriate as the Bulls and Blackhawks played in the same Chicago Stadium and Jordan is certainly more loved than Jackson in the Chicago area.
The PCP might also go after the New Orleans Saints as promoting religion. Change the name to the New Orleans Mardi Gras. The new fan chant would become "show us your tits", as the cheerleader parade up and down the sidelines. A string of beads could be the team mascot or maybe a musical note like the St. Louis Blues hockey team. "When the Saints Go Marching In" could be replaced with something by Maddona or Mylie Cyrus to which the Cheerleaders could booty dance.
The Green Bay Packers and Pittsburgh Steelers should also beware. Though the Packers name is derived from the local meat packing industry when the team was first organized more than 90 years ago, the PCP might consider this to now be a gun reference that might encourage "packing a gun". The Steelers are obviously named for the now dwindling steel industry for which the city is famous. Due to the poor education that our teacher unions and liberal school boards are providing, young people may confuse "steel" with "steal" and obviously this would encourage theft.
There are many other sports teams, both profession and college, that may have a team name or mascot that is objectionable to the PCP. Maybe Harry Reid and the libs in Congress could introduce a bill that would require all sports teams to change their name to either a flower, tree, fruit, or vegetabls. How scary would it be if your team was about to play the Notre Dame "Fighting Potatoes".
Saturday, June 21, 2014
What the Hell is Going on at the Border
Just about all of you have heard about the massive increase in illegal aliens at our southern border and that most of them are unaccompanied children from Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua and El Salvador. The popular explanation for this is that word is out that if you can get into Texas or Arizona, you can stay in the United States. For many this may be true. Once they reach Texas or Arizona, these illegals are supplied with food, shelter, medical care mental health services, vocational services, and education. They are shifted from Immigration Department to Health and Human Services' Office of Refugee Resettlement, that in away changes their status from criminals to refugees. The ORR tries to place them with family members here or back in their country of origin until their case comes up for review. They are even given free legal aid. This aid goes far beyond that given by the usual schlub immigration attorney. Rather, it is supplied pro bono by experienced trial attorneys with close roots to the Democrat Party. These attorneys are big time donors to the Democrat Party and are compensated in other ways. Many work with an organization called Safe Passage. The director of Safe Passage is a highly recognized New York attorney named Lenni Benson. Refugees can obtain permanent status if they can show that they are in danger of being physically or mentally harmed by something or someone in there country of origin not just because they are economically deprived. For children, who are too young to have any political ideology, this should be difficult, but these children are instructed to say that they are abused by the parents back home. Now its a no brainer with liberal judges, they get to stay and the propaganda process begins to turn them into loyal brainwashed Democrat voters.
The question that few have asked or really looked into is how and why is this happening. Its easy to incriminate the Obama regime for starting the mass migration of children from Central America to our country, but this doesn't go nearly deep enough. These children are brought to our border by "coyotes". They have to travel more than a thousand miles through Mexico and need to be feed and cared for in order to arrive safely. Coyotes do not work pro bono. Neither do the Mexican border authorities and police who need to be bribed to allow these illegal caravans to traverse the entire length of Mexico. Parents may even be paid and/or threatened to send their children on a dangerous journey even for adults and surprisingly the children seem to arrive in Texas and Arizona in relatively good condition, although a few are found to have diseases that immediately quarantine them from the rest of the population. It is obvious who is fitting the bill, and its not the Obama regime, although it would like to. It is the Mexican drug cartels, as they have the money and the connections to do so. Why? Its all a diversion. Thousands of children arriving at our southern border each week tie up our border patrol with picking up and handling these children, severely limiting the number available to track and capture "mules" bring illegal drugs into our country. This is the dirty little secret that the regime does not like to talk about as drug seizures are down from years previous. Of course the regime conceals the truth by saying it is doing a great job and so smugglers are no longer using or southern border.
Two things are really scary about all of this. First, a few of the children are coming here with communicable diseases with the potential to start an epidemic among our own. If that happens public sentiment for these poor children will turn despite all the regime can do. The other, and I don't think this has happened...yet. Islamic terrorists also have the monetary resources and could use this as a means of smuggling weapons of mass destruction and individuals bent on using them, by the border agents who are busy rounding up children. They might even infect the children with killer diseases just before they are picked up in hope of starting a nation wide epidemic that might kill millions of Americans.
Americans are compassionate people and all of us feel sorry for these children. I feel sorry for them because they are being used by forces far beyond their control and understanding. The Great Wall of China was constructed over 2200 years ago and runs a distance of nearly 1400 miles. We need to construct a great wall (or fence) that runs from Texas to California.
The question that few have asked or really looked into is how and why is this happening. Its easy to incriminate the Obama regime for starting the mass migration of children from Central America to our country, but this doesn't go nearly deep enough. These children are brought to our border by "coyotes". They have to travel more than a thousand miles through Mexico and need to be feed and cared for in order to arrive safely. Coyotes do not work pro bono. Neither do the Mexican border authorities and police who need to be bribed to allow these illegal caravans to traverse the entire length of Mexico. Parents may even be paid and/or threatened to send their children on a dangerous journey even for adults and surprisingly the children seem to arrive in Texas and Arizona in relatively good condition, although a few are found to have diseases that immediately quarantine them from the rest of the population. It is obvious who is fitting the bill, and its not the Obama regime, although it would like to. It is the Mexican drug cartels, as they have the money and the connections to do so. Why? Its all a diversion. Thousands of children arriving at our southern border each week tie up our border patrol with picking up and handling these children, severely limiting the number available to track and capture "mules" bring illegal drugs into our country. This is the dirty little secret that the regime does not like to talk about as drug seizures are down from years previous. Of course the regime conceals the truth by saying it is doing a great job and so smugglers are no longer using or southern border.
Two things are really scary about all of this. First, a few of the children are coming here with communicable diseases with the potential to start an epidemic among our own. If that happens public sentiment for these poor children will turn despite all the regime can do. The other, and I don't think this has happened...yet. Islamic terrorists also have the monetary resources and could use this as a means of smuggling weapons of mass destruction and individuals bent on using them, by the border agents who are busy rounding up children. They might even infect the children with killer diseases just before they are picked up in hope of starting a nation wide epidemic that might kill millions of Americans.
Americans are compassionate people and all of us feel sorry for these children. I feel sorry for them because they are being used by forces far beyond their control and understanding. The Great Wall of China was constructed over 2200 years ago and runs a distance of nearly 1400 miles. We need to construct a great wall (or fence) that runs from Texas to California.
Sunday, June 8, 2014
Stupidity of the War on Coal
In the last post, it was my opinion that the timing of the Bergdahl swap was to obscure the release of a major series of regulations last week, purposely designed to hurt America. Every educated American should have come to the realization by now that global warming is nothing but the "big lie", designed to destroy capitalism and the United States, especially since temperatures have dropped the last fifteen years. Despite painfully aggressive regulations, the coal industry isn't going anywhere. Coal is and still will be the number one way of producing electricity in both the United Staes and the world far into the future. It is also a necessity in the production of steel. More than 50% of electricity production in the world today comes from coal. Coal use is expected to increase 58% worldwide over the next 20 years. Currently, coal fired plants produced 39% of the electricity in the United States. Natural gas is second with about 27%, nuclear 19%, and solar only 0.23%. In the world, the United States (11.4%) only ranks second in coal use with China (48.8%) far ahead and India (7.8%), surging to take over second place in the next five years. The main reason is cost. The cost of a mega watt/hr from coal is $82 , natural gas $84, wind $154, and solar $254. The costs of coal and gas can vary slightly depending on he cost of the raw material. Some plants in the United States can burn either depending on the cost.
Scrubbing, a process in coal plants thats cleans the byproducts of coal burning has become more and more effective and though the overall use of coal has continued to increase, the level of pollution has come down dramatically. The levels that the Obama regime wants, may make the cost of electricity much higher as electric companies will be forced to pay fines that of course will be passed along to the consumer. BHO admits this, but as usual doesn't seem to care. He knows that offering government subsidies for electricity and heat will continue to keep the poor shackled and beholden to the Democrat Party.
The United States is the "Saudi Arabia" of coal and becoming so with natural gas. Why would BHO want to hamper the use, production, and/or export two abundant natural resources? Numerous high paying jobs would be created to build pipelines and the infrastructure necessary for handling these resources. The answer is simple. BHO represents the real version of the "Manchurian Candidate" who fundamentally said he was going to change the United States. He just didn't tell us what he was his concept of change. The loss of well paying jobs is unacceptable. The anti business legislation and regulations have hampered what can only be called an anemic recovery. I personally, with little business experience, but more than BHO and 90% of his appointees and advisors could get America going immediately.
I have one question related to the Bergdahl swap. If BHO believes in the slogan of no American left behind, why did he go to bed and then fly on to a political fund raiser, while many Americans, four of whom were murdered, were in peril in Benghazi? Maybe he thinks that if you're dead, you're no longer left behind.
Finally, those of you who follow my blog posts, know that I have listed Moochelle Obama as a "dark horse" to run for President. I recently read an article saying that she is being groomed to run for the US senator from Illinois, if current Republican Senator Mark Kirk, who had a stroke in 2012, decides not to run. She could also consider running for President on the campaign slogan "8 more years"
Scrubbing, a process in coal plants thats cleans the byproducts of coal burning has become more and more effective and though the overall use of coal has continued to increase, the level of pollution has come down dramatically. The levels that the Obama regime wants, may make the cost of electricity much higher as electric companies will be forced to pay fines that of course will be passed along to the consumer. BHO admits this, but as usual doesn't seem to care. He knows that offering government subsidies for electricity and heat will continue to keep the poor shackled and beholden to the Democrat Party.
The United States is the "Saudi Arabia" of coal and becoming so with natural gas. Why would BHO want to hamper the use, production, and/or export two abundant natural resources? Numerous high paying jobs would be created to build pipelines and the infrastructure necessary for handling these resources. The answer is simple. BHO represents the real version of the "Manchurian Candidate" who fundamentally said he was going to change the United States. He just didn't tell us what he was his concept of change. The loss of well paying jobs is unacceptable. The anti business legislation and regulations have hampered what can only be called an anemic recovery. I personally, with little business experience, but more than BHO and 90% of his appointees and advisors could get America going immediately.
I have one question related to the Bergdahl swap. If BHO believes in the slogan of no American left behind, why did he go to bed and then fly on to a political fund raiser, while many Americans, four of whom were murdered, were in peril in Benghazi? Maybe he thinks that if you're dead, you're no longer left behind.
Finally, those of you who follow my blog posts, know that I have listed Moochelle Obama as a "dark horse" to run for President. I recently read an article saying that she is being groomed to run for the US senator from Illinois, if current Republican Senator Mark Kirk, who had a stroke in 2012, decides not to run. She could also consider running for President on the campaign slogan "8 more years"
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