So much has been happening so fast that it is hard to keep up. As I predicted years ago, Obamacare ( the Affordable Care Act) was going to be a huge problem for America. My take is that it is designed to destroy the American economy and allow Obama to pick up the pieces and fundamentally change America, as he has often so stated, turning it into a socialist or communist country. A carefully designed plan to significantly reduce the quality of healthcare will take over, not only with the death panels controlled by political appointees and not physicians, already in place, but by taking over the student loan program, he can offer amnesty or mandate four years of working in a government sponsored clinic for very modest pay. Imagine a cardiac surgeon with four years of college, four years of medical school, and seven years of residency and internship, being told he has to work for practically nothing, before he can go into practice and then make an income limited to what the government wants to pay him for his work. The number of quality candidates will shrink. Medical school standards will shrink and everyone's healthcare will suffer. Obamacare was certainly not written by Obama or Harry Reid. As you recall, Reid locked everyone out of his office while he was "writing the bill". In fact, his fax machine was turned on so he could download the bill sent by the antiAmerica communist organization, Center for American Progress, funded by George Soros. Nancy Pelosi, who commonly makes dumb remarks, should have her lips sewn shut after telling everyone to pass the bill before you read it. Naturally, she and the rest of Congress have exempted themselves and the rest of government from the bill as it will not accomplish anything the President promised it would do. Instead it has slowed economic recovery, cost jobs, and put the average working man and business owner in a state of panic. It was moronic to assume that people who work hard would want to have their quality of the healthcare reduced and the cost markedly increased in order to provide health insurance to a bunch of addicts and slackers who won't get off their asses and stop using dope, stop having babies, and get a job. That is why 69% of American oppose Obamacare. Liberal logic states that Congress should do something about gun control because the majority of American are for it (they're not). On the other hand the majority of American are opposed to Obamacare and so Congress is trying to do something about it, not fund it, and Obama should favor this, he won't. Though it looks like this is at a impasse with the house not funding it and the Democratic run Senate in favor of restoring funding, there is a subtle but very effective strategy that could work. Congress does not need to fund the government with one bill. Instead the Republicans in the House of Representatives should pass a series of bill each funding a different part of the government. It would be difficult for the Senate to vote against funding each of these bills, Reid could pass all but one and attach funding to it and send it back to the House. This would only shut down one branch of the government , hopefully the criminal and corrupt IRS. We will see how this plays out.
Speaking of the IRS, Lois Lerner has finally resigned from the IRS. Although she was suspended or placed on leave, she was still drawing a paycheck. Hopefully this will not end the probe into the criminal activity of the IRS and Lerner and those involved up to and including the White House attorney go to prison. Because of the crime she has allegedly committed Lerner should be denied a pension. Hopefully the threats of a long prison term and loss of pension will loosen her tongue. After the budget battle, look for this to begin to be an issue again. A special prosecutor should have been appointed months ago, but as usual the regime is deathly opposed to special prosecutors as the truth may get out. Instead we have the buttlicking Attorney General Eric Holder preventing a real investigation of any and all of the regime's misadventures and Constitutional violations, hoping for them to go away.
Speaking of Obama scandals that won't go away, Benghazi is also going to be a problem for Obama and especially Hillary Clinton for quite awhile. Look for Obama to eventually throw Hillary under the bus, unless she, like all good Clintons, knows where some of the bodies are buried. I still don't think that she will run for President. She will be 70 years old and a long grueling primary and then presidential campaign would be very difficult for her. She looks terrible after her four years of running all over the world accomplishing nothing as secretary of state. Whether Obama disses her or not, she is going to wear the shame of Benghazi and her hateful remarks about it for a long time. The only way for it to go away is for to announce that she isn't running for president. Who will take her place? Not an idiot like Joe Biden, he'd be better off replacing Jay Leno. There are not many other prominent Democrats who have not been tarnished by Obama or their own scandals. My dark horse is the dark horse Moochelle Obama. She loves flying on my dime on the government jets almost as much as her husband and sleeping for free in the White House. The real reason why the White House tours were eliminated is not the sequestration, but her desire for more privacy. She did not like the unwashed masses trudging around where she lives, invading her and her mother's privacy. (Since this terrible policy went into effect, 344 lobbyist visits have taken place. This is 344 more than is needed for a president who stated that he would not see lobbyists,) Her slogan would be " if you don't want to work, you don't have to. If you like your EBT card, you can keep it. If you like your six Obamaphones, you can keep them too. Plus I promise Obamacars (Chevy Volts) and Obamafood (veggies grown from my own garden for anyone who wants them)." "Eight more years, so we can finish the job (of destroying America)." The media already loves this ugly woman and she has recently started fund raising. She had the major food providers in for a closed door meeting where she was by all published accounts telling them not too advertise so effectively to children. The "if you don't" was not reported and it threatened them with all of the illegal tactics and increased regulations that the Obama regime is willing to burden their businesses, There was also the real or implied request for money to avoid government sanctions.
Obama continues to repeat the mistake of the past, as if history doesn't exist. This is especially true of his energy policy or lack of it. In 1979 Jimmy Carter imposed sanction on Iran and refused accepting Iranian oil imports due to the hostage situation. Price restrictions on the price of oil were gradually eliminated and so the price of oil soared from $6 a barrel to almost $40. The price of gasoline soared as well. This not only gave OPEC record profits, but also the USSR who became a world supplier of oil and their main source of hard currency. Reagan removed all the Carter restrictions and the price of oil dropped quickly and the USSR eventually went broke, thus ending the Cold War, as the USSR could no longer keep up with our defense modernization and advances. The price of oil and gasoline has risen to and remained at record levels despite a glut of oil within the United States. We are rapidly becoming the largest producer of oil and natural gas in the world. Through regulation and delay, the regime has continued to stall and bottleneck what could be a tremendous economic windfall for our country. Obama has strangled production, by not permitting pipelines to be built, the Keystone for one, to get the oil and gas from where it found to where it can be refined and utilized. Building pipelines would create a huge number of jobs, not only in building and maintaining the pipeline itself, but also in the manufacturing of the pipes and parts. Congress would need to its part in reversing the law that does not allow us to ship unrefined oil to other countries or in non US flagged ships from one US port to another. Permits need to be awarded to build and increase capacity at existing refineries as well as building new ones. For now, if oil could be shipped overseas, it could be refined in several Caribbean refineries and then shipped back to the US. Not only would the price of oil drop significantly, but jobs and government tax income would be created. There are 20 applications pending in Washington to build facilities for shipping natural gas abroad. In the United States natural gas sells for $3.60 a million cubic feet, in Japan, China, and Europe for as much as $16.00. Unable to ship natural gas to other countries also stifles economic growth. We have so much natural gas and no place to store it and the inability to ship it, has caused it to be burned off, wasting an economic opportunity. Green energy is a hoax, green is the new red. It is the communism of our time (re Obama's former Green Commissar Van Jones who now works for the Center for American Progress). The "flat Earthers" are really the uniformed, who have been coerced into believing that anthropogenic global warming actually exists by those interested in destroying America. (A recent report states that there is more than a million square miles of new antarctic ice. This counters the recent unsubstantiated and fudged UN report. I'm certain that you are aware that the UN is an antiAmerica and anti capitalist organization. Basically it is a place where privileged people from third world countries can escape the misery they have created in their own countries and receive high pay for doing nothing.) The world is in a cooling phase now. The earth's temperature has more to do with its relationship to the sun than just about anything else.
Basic economics demonstrates that taking advantage of our oil and gas boom would have massive economic benefits. It would foster an industrial renaissance that would create millions of well paying jobs, shift the balance of trade greatly in our favor, and boost the economy so massively that we significantly pay down the national debt and prevent the ruination of our country that Obama and his ilk are so desperately trying to produce. Despite the lies and rhetoric, not a single one of his programs is a success, and now his only real political success, Obamacare, is poised to put the nail in the coffin for our country. Obama is an accomplished liar and hypocrite. His speech this week on how his regime has reduced the deficit more than any other president is a joke. That some idiots actual believe him is sad indeed. Ironically, those uninformed have suffered and will continue to suffer the most. He benefits the most by keeping them uninformed and dependent, his version of pre Civil War slavery.
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Sunday, September 29, 2013
Friday, September 6, 2013
Syria, Obamacare, Oil and Gas
President Obama belongs in the category of inept and corrupt leaders that I've alluded to in other posts. As you recall inept and or corrupt leaders never will admit their failures, instead they deny and blame. Narcissist that he is, Obama can never admit to ever doing anything wrong and even lies about what he has said or done in the past. Yesterday he denied the "red line" remark was his. Instead he clearly put the blame on the "world" and Congress, so that if his Syrian misadventure is approved, any problems will fall on Congress, and when Obama blames Congress, he is only referring to Republicans (he'll take all the credit if it succeeds, just as with Bin Ladin). After all the Republicans control the House, the Senate doesn't matter. Most members of the Congressional Black Caucus has said that they will support the attack on Syria in order to not embarrass the President. It is more important to put American lives on the line than embarrass Obama. I guess they hold our military in the same regard as the President. You may not be aware that after he and Moochelle flew up to Martha's Vineyard in separate jets, they realized that Bo was home alone, and so they had him flown up in a Marine Osprey vertical takeoff aircraft. (I'm sure it was Bo and Moochelle's mother) When on vacation, I suppose that carbon footprints don't really matter. Now Bo has a carbon footprint and our marines are now used as pet transporters a good reason to pull them out of Iraq and Afghanistan). He talks about Anthropogenic Global Warming, we all know is a Nazi hoax, that scientifically cannot be proven to exist and, hypocrite that he is, has one of the largest carbon footprints in the world, along with wife Moochelle. If Syria goes wrong he will blame Bush and the Republicans, just as he and Hilary blamed them for Benghazi even after they blamed an obscure stupid You Tube video.
His plan to destroy American is made even worse by his incompetence. As I have said before, arrogance and incompetence are a dangerous combination. I suppose Liberals will deem me a racists because I disagree with Obama's agenda of anti capitalism, crony capitalism, cap and trade, crony bail outs, government stimulus, Obamacare, and card check. He is not only trying to fundamentally change American, he is trying to destroy it. The amazing thing is that Obama's policies are racists in that the group that have suffered the most are the poor and black Americans. Trying to buy them off with Obama phones and EBT cards is a ploy that can't and won't last. Liberalism has done more to destroy the lives of black Americans than the KKK. Liberals have created generations of dependency, low expectations, and hopelessness, but of course blame conservatives for the welfare disasters. Liberals War on Poverty of the 60's and 70's turned out to be more of a war on, not for, poor people. Detroit is a great example of what can happen to a great American city when liberal are in control. Many other cities are sadly headed in this direction as is the whole state of California. Wealth is sifting from NewYork and California to Florida and Texas primarily do to low taxes and a more positive attitude toward business. It is no coincidence that Florida and Texas have had mostly Republican legislatures and governors.
Regretfully, we had to pass Obamacare before we could know what's it in and as we learn, it is becoming more and more apparent of what a disaster this will be for America. Nearly every group that was for it, is now against it, including the labor unions. Some are even considering breaking away from the AFL, because of Trumpka's pro Obamacare stand. Obamacare taxes so called Cadillac health insurance plans (yes, another tax and there are some many new taxes in Obamacare that maybe it ought to be called Obamatax or the Unaffordable Tax Act). These are plans that cost over a certain amount. Lesser costing plans would either provide fewer benefits or have higher deductible or both. As it turns out the ceiling is so low that most union plans would be taxed up to 40%. In fact, my own insurance plan of 2010, a typical HMO plan would have been taxed. What Obamacare wanst to accomplish is to give everyone equal access to equally affordable healthcare. Unfortunately this is equally bad healthcare.
To a doctor, as with any small businessman, time is money, and a provision that is consuming much of your physician's time is the Hospital EHR, electronic health records. Ths is another idea that sounds good on paper, but in practice is a disaster. My hospital group switched to EHR and required all the doctors to take an 8 or 9 hour EHR course. The program that my hospital chose was terrible. It places nearly all the liability for the hospital's errors, clearly on the physician even when hospital personnel were clearly at fault. The program was not at all intuitive and required reviewing minute details in order to proceed. I did the medical records on three different types of surgical cases in four hours. That's longer than it would take me to do the surgery, thus limiting my productivity and income. Seeing the handwriting on the wall, I closed my practice and treat only out patients and non insurance cases out side of the hospital.
Our labor force is rapidly becoming part time, as Obamacare does not apply to anyone working less than 30 hours per week. So not only are workers earning less, they are now forced to pay for their own healthcare or pay a penalty tax if they refuse to purchase health insurance. The college students who supported Obama in 2008 or rapidly approaching their 26th birthday, so they will no longer be covered by their parent's insurance and suddenly have to get their own or pay a penalty. For many, that becomes a real burden, as they may still be out of work since graduating and living at home. Could it be that the age of twenty six was chosen so none of his student supporters would have to worry about this until after the 2012 election? Do you think Obama knew and even planned on his policies failing in order to punish America? Of course he did or else he was the stupidest man ever. You decide.
If you filled up your car recently, you are probably asking yourself, why is the price of gas so high especially if we are producing more. The USA is on course to become the world's largest producer of oil and gas by 2015. Massive deposits of shale oil and gas in all parts of the country have destroyed the myth that all the deposits of oil have already been discovered and that we will be out of it in America very soon. Currently supplies are at their highest levels since the 1980's. Because of a pipeline shortage, it is necessary to ship crude oil by train, truck and even barge or boat as so much is being recovered. Potentially, oil and gas could turn our economy around and lower the debt. Unfortunately Obama and other liberals want to continue to destroy America and realize that oil and gas will destroy their goals. Why do you think he keeps harping on Global Warming. Currently, it doesn't even exist, as we have been going through a gradual cooling stage world wide for the past decade. (Please see my previous blogs on the Global Warming Hoax.) By doing the following our economy could be turned around. First approve the Keystone Pipeline. Not only would it create good paying jobs constructing it, but also good paying jobs using and maintaining it. Approve the 20 or so applications to build natural gas export facilities. Currently we are burning off excess natural gas as we have not enough places to store it or ship it overseas. The price of natural gas is around $4 for a million cubic feet is the USA, but can be sold for $12-$16 in China and Japan and $8-$10 in Europe. Shipping natural gas is easier and safer if it is converted to a liquid and we lack the facilities to do this. This would tip the balance of trade in our favor very quickly and provide the government income from export licenses, workers' income taxes and corporate taxes. Many major companies, such as Walmart, UPS, and Waste Management are converting their vehicles to use natural gas because it is cheaper, readily available, and burns cleaner than gasoline, if that is important to the flat Earthers who believe in Global Warming. Finally, repeal the Jones Act that prevents crude oil from being shipped overseas and in vessels that do not fly an American Flag. Right now we do not have the refining capacity to handle all of our crude oil. Although new refineries ought to be approved, there are refineries in the Caribbean that could be utilized. This would release the bottle neck and lower the price of oil and gas, having a dramatic effect in improving our economy. Oil would be another export that would improve the economy. The main resistance to this is from the far left who is out to destroy America. There is absolutely no other reason for not doing this, especially since the effect it would have on our economy who be so positive.
Just a little humor and horror: I spent two weeks in Europe this summer and visited an old girl friend who lives in Malmo, Sweden across the bridge from Copenhagen where I attended a heavy metal two day festival, Copenhell 2013. She sends her two young daughters to pre school and in addition to Swedish they are taught English and Arabic. A huge number of Muslims live in Sweden and will take over the country in the next fifty years. Still the government doesn't see the threat and just yesterday offered to accept any refugees from Syria who wanted to live there. At least they have to learn Swedish in order to work and get government benefits. That will change as Swedes will eventually be forced to learn Arabic and accept Sharia Law. You just can't make this stuff up.
Upon my return from Europe I had to go through TSA to board my plane to Ft. Lauderdale. TSA, being politically correct, stopped me after I cleared the metal detector for a routine check for explosive residue. My carryon was also rechecked and I glanced over to watch, I was shocked to see that the woman viewing the scan was wearing a hajib. That certainly gave me confidence in the system, yeah right. As I was putting my shoes and belt on again, I notice that the next victim of a routine check was an old man at least eighty years old, who appeared somewhat feeble and could barely walk. You just can't make this stuff up.
It is amazing how much regime officials are willing to lie. I suppose they realize that their jobs and bun uses require it. The Commerce Secretary commented today on CNBC how wonderful Obamacare is going to be. He said it is increasing jobs (for the IRS), lowering the cost of health insurance, and increasing healthcare benefits. What planet has this ass licker been living on. The CNBC crew appeared shocked. You just can't make this stuff up.
Unbelievable, two blogs in three days. I guess I've got my Muse back. Please comment and pass my blog on to your friends,especially your liberal ones if you what to piss them off. They will make up all sorts of excuses and try to shift the argument, typical liberal tricks, but in the end they know I'm right.
His plan to destroy American is made even worse by his incompetence. As I have said before, arrogance and incompetence are a dangerous combination. I suppose Liberals will deem me a racists because I disagree with Obama's agenda of anti capitalism, crony capitalism, cap and trade, crony bail outs, government stimulus, Obamacare, and card check. He is not only trying to fundamentally change American, he is trying to destroy it. The amazing thing is that Obama's policies are racists in that the group that have suffered the most are the poor and black Americans. Trying to buy them off with Obama phones and EBT cards is a ploy that can't and won't last. Liberalism has done more to destroy the lives of black Americans than the KKK. Liberals have created generations of dependency, low expectations, and hopelessness, but of course blame conservatives for the welfare disasters. Liberals War on Poverty of the 60's and 70's turned out to be more of a war on, not for, poor people. Detroit is a great example of what can happen to a great American city when liberal are in control. Many other cities are sadly headed in this direction as is the whole state of California. Wealth is sifting from NewYork and California to Florida and Texas primarily do to low taxes and a more positive attitude toward business. It is no coincidence that Florida and Texas have had mostly Republican legislatures and governors.
Regretfully, we had to pass Obamacare before we could know what's it in and as we learn, it is becoming more and more apparent of what a disaster this will be for America. Nearly every group that was for it, is now against it, including the labor unions. Some are even considering breaking away from the AFL, because of Trumpka's pro Obamacare stand. Obamacare taxes so called Cadillac health insurance plans (yes, another tax and there are some many new taxes in Obamacare that maybe it ought to be called Obamatax or the Unaffordable Tax Act). These are plans that cost over a certain amount. Lesser costing plans would either provide fewer benefits or have higher deductible or both. As it turns out the ceiling is so low that most union plans would be taxed up to 40%. In fact, my own insurance plan of 2010, a typical HMO plan would have been taxed. What Obamacare wanst to accomplish is to give everyone equal access to equally affordable healthcare. Unfortunately this is equally bad healthcare.
To a doctor, as with any small businessman, time is money, and a provision that is consuming much of your physician's time is the Hospital EHR, electronic health records. Ths is another idea that sounds good on paper, but in practice is a disaster. My hospital group switched to EHR and required all the doctors to take an 8 or 9 hour EHR course. The program that my hospital chose was terrible. It places nearly all the liability for the hospital's errors, clearly on the physician even when hospital personnel were clearly at fault. The program was not at all intuitive and required reviewing minute details in order to proceed. I did the medical records on three different types of surgical cases in four hours. That's longer than it would take me to do the surgery, thus limiting my productivity and income. Seeing the handwriting on the wall, I closed my practice and treat only out patients and non insurance cases out side of the hospital.
Our labor force is rapidly becoming part time, as Obamacare does not apply to anyone working less than 30 hours per week. So not only are workers earning less, they are now forced to pay for their own healthcare or pay a penalty tax if they refuse to purchase health insurance. The college students who supported Obama in 2008 or rapidly approaching their 26th birthday, so they will no longer be covered by their parent's insurance and suddenly have to get their own or pay a penalty. For many, that becomes a real burden, as they may still be out of work since graduating and living at home. Could it be that the age of twenty six was chosen so none of his student supporters would have to worry about this until after the 2012 election? Do you think Obama knew and even planned on his policies failing in order to punish America? Of course he did or else he was the stupidest man ever. You decide.
If you filled up your car recently, you are probably asking yourself, why is the price of gas so high especially if we are producing more. The USA is on course to become the world's largest producer of oil and gas by 2015. Massive deposits of shale oil and gas in all parts of the country have destroyed the myth that all the deposits of oil have already been discovered and that we will be out of it in America very soon. Currently supplies are at their highest levels since the 1980's. Because of a pipeline shortage, it is necessary to ship crude oil by train, truck and even barge or boat as so much is being recovered. Potentially, oil and gas could turn our economy around and lower the debt. Unfortunately Obama and other liberals want to continue to destroy America and realize that oil and gas will destroy their goals. Why do you think he keeps harping on Global Warming. Currently, it doesn't even exist, as we have been going through a gradual cooling stage world wide for the past decade. (Please see my previous blogs on the Global Warming Hoax.) By doing the following our economy could be turned around. First approve the Keystone Pipeline. Not only would it create good paying jobs constructing it, but also good paying jobs using and maintaining it. Approve the 20 or so applications to build natural gas export facilities. Currently we are burning off excess natural gas as we have not enough places to store it or ship it overseas. The price of natural gas is around $4 for a million cubic feet is the USA, but can be sold for $12-$16 in China and Japan and $8-$10 in Europe. Shipping natural gas is easier and safer if it is converted to a liquid and we lack the facilities to do this. This would tip the balance of trade in our favor very quickly and provide the government income from export licenses, workers' income taxes and corporate taxes. Many major companies, such as Walmart, UPS, and Waste Management are converting their vehicles to use natural gas because it is cheaper, readily available, and burns cleaner than gasoline, if that is important to the flat Earthers who believe in Global Warming. Finally, repeal the Jones Act that prevents crude oil from being shipped overseas and in vessels that do not fly an American Flag. Right now we do not have the refining capacity to handle all of our crude oil. Although new refineries ought to be approved, there are refineries in the Caribbean that could be utilized. This would release the bottle neck and lower the price of oil and gas, having a dramatic effect in improving our economy. Oil would be another export that would improve the economy. The main resistance to this is from the far left who is out to destroy America. There is absolutely no other reason for not doing this, especially since the effect it would have on our economy who be so positive.
Just a little humor and horror: I spent two weeks in Europe this summer and visited an old girl friend who lives in Malmo, Sweden across the bridge from Copenhagen where I attended a heavy metal two day festival, Copenhell 2013. She sends her two young daughters to pre school and in addition to Swedish they are taught English and Arabic. A huge number of Muslims live in Sweden and will take over the country in the next fifty years. Still the government doesn't see the threat and just yesterday offered to accept any refugees from Syria who wanted to live there. At least they have to learn Swedish in order to work and get government benefits. That will change as Swedes will eventually be forced to learn Arabic and accept Sharia Law. You just can't make this stuff up.
Upon my return from Europe I had to go through TSA to board my plane to Ft. Lauderdale. TSA, being politically correct, stopped me after I cleared the metal detector for a routine check for explosive residue. My carryon was also rechecked and I glanced over to watch, I was shocked to see that the woman viewing the scan was wearing a hajib. That certainly gave me confidence in the system, yeah right. As I was putting my shoes and belt on again, I notice that the next victim of a routine check was an old man at least eighty years old, who appeared somewhat feeble and could barely walk. You just can't make this stuff up.
It is amazing how much regime officials are willing to lie. I suppose they realize that their jobs and bun uses require it. The Commerce Secretary commented today on CNBC how wonderful Obamacare is going to be. He said it is increasing jobs (for the IRS), lowering the cost of health insurance, and increasing healthcare benefits. What planet has this ass licker been living on. The CNBC crew appeared shocked. You just can't make this stuff up.
Unbelievable, two blogs in three days. I guess I've got my Muse back. Please comment and pass my blog on to your friends,especially your liberal ones if you what to piss them off. They will make up all sorts of excuses and try to shift the argument, typical liberal tricks, but in the end they know I'm right.
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
My take on Syria.
Once again the Obama regime has shown its ineptitude at foreign policy. Every initiative, if you can call them that, has been a total failure with the exception of the killing of Osama bin Ladin, a moral victory rather than anything else. Obama, his advisors, and handlers, including the two inept Secretaries of State Clinton and Kerry, have virtually no understanding of history and military tactics, much like the Carter regime (not knowing, ignoring, or not understanding history is why Obama has a failed presidency). First Obama pissed off our two best allies, England and Israel. Then he went to Cairo and promised a kinder gentler US in respect to the Arab world. culminating in his bowing down to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. Arabs understand strength and laugh at weakness, its the primitive nature of Islam. N. Koreas and Iran openly mock him, the Russians ignore him, despite his suspension of the missile defense system for Eastern Europe. The Chinese have been of little help, as well, and oppose our goals, if we actually have any in Syria. Naturally for being such a total failure at peace, he has a Nobel Prize for being the most inept at bringing peace to the world.
History tells us that Islam is very diverse and has many denominations and the various countries and regions where Islam is prominent has a diversity of ethnic groups. Many of both the religious denominations and ethnic groups hate each other and want to kill each other. There are few if any democratically elected leaders who represent all of religious and ethnic groups fairly. Instead, as in Syria, Assad represents a Shiite and Alowite minority repressing Sunnis and the huge number of other ethnic and religious groups. Syria is also the home of almost two million Christains who represent several different denominations. He is the first civilian dictator in a long line of military dictators since Syria became independent of France after WWII.
Islam is for the most part stuck in the 11th century, especially those who want Sharia Law to reign supreme. Sharia Law requires the demeaning and subjugation of women and the murder of homosexuals and non believers. As a result, violence is a very important part of Islam culminating in a constant state of Jihad. How Obama expects to make friends with those countries dominated by Sharia law is incomprehensible. The so called Arab Spring turned out to be one group of bad guys replacing another. Our State Department's failure to recognize or ignore this is the main reason for out polcy failure.
In addition corrupt and ineffectual administrations have plagued nearly all Muslim countries. Foreign aid usually winds up in the bank accounts of the leaders rather than the people. There is little if any trickle down, so poverty remains the biggest problem and drives everything else, sometimes to the advantage of the leadership. Inept and corrupt leaders tend to blame others for their failures. (One need look no further than our own inept leader.) In the Middle East, it is Israel and the United States that are blamed for all of the failures, encouraging Jihad and sacrifice i.e. suicide bombers. In Africa, it is often other tribes and religious groups, traditional enemies, that blame each other for poverty and failure,. The only Middle East countries that show any success are those with a nearly uniform religious and ethnic groups, and a leadership willing to share its wealth with the people. Leaders of some oils rich countries have recognized this in order to retain power.
Not recognizing or ignoring the above has doomed the Obama regime's foreign policy to total failure. Denying that radical Islam and a war on terrorism exists is a dangerous policy. Prisoners at Guantanamo should never be tried or released until the war on terror is over. This is not the 18th century where prisoners of war are furloughed and sit out the war back home. During WWII nearly 500,000 POWs were housed in the US. None were tried and none were released back to their own countries until the war was over and treaties signed. In Egypt we supported a mob against a violent and corrupt president who was a nominal ally. The mob elected a repressive corrupt president. In Libya we supported a mob against an unfriendly, but inactive anti American dictator. His replacement was so weak that violent mobs including Al Qaida roam the country killing four Americans, including our ambassador with no consequence.
Now in Syria we have the Free Syrian Army fighting a brutal dictator who is supported by Iran, Russia and Hezbollah. Iran has made Syria its surrogate against Israel as a way to get arms to Hesballah. The Russians maintain a large naval base on the Syrian coast. The Chinese and Europe get Syrian oil exports, that have declines significantly due to the civil war. The make up of the Free Syrian Army is very diverse and the CIA has given up its attempt to determine if there are any good guys who we could arm. Basically its bad guys fighting bad guys. The only group that we could probably count on are the Kurds. Kurds are a Muslim and ethnic sect that occupy portions of northern Iraq, northeaster Syria, and eastern Turkey. Recall that these are the people that Sadam gassed. They helped us during the Second Gulf War. The Kurds want their own country, Kurdistan, but the main stumbling block is Turkey, a NATO member and nominal ally. If the UN gets involved, once Assad is gone, they could designate northeastern Syria a separate new country for the Kurds.
As usual Obama continues to make statements that he has trouble backing up. He has drawn a "red line" in Syria and it has been crossed. He has painted himself into a corner. Both Bush 41 and 43 obtained a consensus before the Gulf Wars. Having pissed off the British, they will not join us. Both China and Russia will veto any UN involvement. Without the British, NATO with possibly the exception of the French, who are wavering, shows no inclination in joining us. Therefore, we must go it alone. Obama believes he will have a "consensus" by getting Congressional approval. Even that is not a sure thing, though I believe he will get it. If not he will blame Congress for what is clearly his problem.
Obama continues to show his ignorance of tactics. Rule number one of warfare, never tell the enemy when, where, or how and with what much you are going to attack. Assad has had time to shift and conceal his military assets through out a country, the is the size of Washington state. What I think he should do is degrade the air force and heavy long range artillery and destroy poison gas supplies. Anything less would only encourage Assad to gas civilians again. Doing nothing would be far better than a meaningless token attack by a few hundred cruise missiles. That never seems to work. My recommendation would make the fight more even and allow the bad guys to continue killing bad guys. We should give material aid and encourage the UN to aid the millions of refuges that have left Syria for safety, especially if they are in countries that are friendly to us. Once both sides have degraded each other to the point of severe weakness, the UN should then step in, broker a peace that eliminates Assad, permits real elections, and make certain that any new regime is not repressive before leaving. The Kurds should get serious consideration as well. The new regime should be encourage to make peace with Israel and stay out of Lebanon and eliminate all support of Hezbollah.
There you have it. My view of the complex issue of Syria, based on history. Sorry for not producing any blogs for a while. I know its time for at least another "you just can't make this stuff up." Your comments are always welcome.
History tells us that Islam is very diverse and has many denominations and the various countries and regions where Islam is prominent has a diversity of ethnic groups. Many of both the religious denominations and ethnic groups hate each other and want to kill each other. There are few if any democratically elected leaders who represent all of religious and ethnic groups fairly. Instead, as in Syria, Assad represents a Shiite and Alowite minority repressing Sunnis and the huge number of other ethnic and religious groups. Syria is also the home of almost two million Christains who represent several different denominations. He is the first civilian dictator in a long line of military dictators since Syria became independent of France after WWII.
Islam is for the most part stuck in the 11th century, especially those who want Sharia Law to reign supreme. Sharia Law requires the demeaning and subjugation of women and the murder of homosexuals and non believers. As a result, violence is a very important part of Islam culminating in a constant state of Jihad. How Obama expects to make friends with those countries dominated by Sharia law is incomprehensible. The so called Arab Spring turned out to be one group of bad guys replacing another. Our State Department's failure to recognize or ignore this is the main reason for out polcy failure.
In addition corrupt and ineffectual administrations have plagued nearly all Muslim countries. Foreign aid usually winds up in the bank accounts of the leaders rather than the people. There is little if any trickle down, so poverty remains the biggest problem and drives everything else, sometimes to the advantage of the leadership. Inept and corrupt leaders tend to blame others for their failures. (One need look no further than our own inept leader.) In the Middle East, it is Israel and the United States that are blamed for all of the failures, encouraging Jihad and sacrifice i.e. suicide bombers. In Africa, it is often other tribes and religious groups, traditional enemies, that blame each other for poverty and failure,. The only Middle East countries that show any success are those with a nearly uniform religious and ethnic groups, and a leadership willing to share its wealth with the people. Leaders of some oils rich countries have recognized this in order to retain power.
Not recognizing or ignoring the above has doomed the Obama regime's foreign policy to total failure. Denying that radical Islam and a war on terrorism exists is a dangerous policy. Prisoners at Guantanamo should never be tried or released until the war on terror is over. This is not the 18th century where prisoners of war are furloughed and sit out the war back home. During WWII nearly 500,000 POWs were housed in the US. None were tried and none were released back to their own countries until the war was over and treaties signed. In Egypt we supported a mob against a violent and corrupt president who was a nominal ally. The mob elected a repressive corrupt president. In Libya we supported a mob against an unfriendly, but inactive anti American dictator. His replacement was so weak that violent mobs including Al Qaida roam the country killing four Americans, including our ambassador with no consequence.
Now in Syria we have the Free Syrian Army fighting a brutal dictator who is supported by Iran, Russia and Hezbollah. Iran has made Syria its surrogate against Israel as a way to get arms to Hesballah. The Russians maintain a large naval base on the Syrian coast. The Chinese and Europe get Syrian oil exports, that have declines significantly due to the civil war. The make up of the Free Syrian Army is very diverse and the CIA has given up its attempt to determine if there are any good guys who we could arm. Basically its bad guys fighting bad guys. The only group that we could probably count on are the Kurds. Kurds are a Muslim and ethnic sect that occupy portions of northern Iraq, northeaster Syria, and eastern Turkey. Recall that these are the people that Sadam gassed. They helped us during the Second Gulf War. The Kurds want their own country, Kurdistan, but the main stumbling block is Turkey, a NATO member and nominal ally. If the UN gets involved, once Assad is gone, they could designate northeastern Syria a separate new country for the Kurds.
As usual Obama continues to make statements that he has trouble backing up. He has drawn a "red line" in Syria and it has been crossed. He has painted himself into a corner. Both Bush 41 and 43 obtained a consensus before the Gulf Wars. Having pissed off the British, they will not join us. Both China and Russia will veto any UN involvement. Without the British, NATO with possibly the exception of the French, who are wavering, shows no inclination in joining us. Therefore, we must go it alone. Obama believes he will have a "consensus" by getting Congressional approval. Even that is not a sure thing, though I believe he will get it. If not he will blame Congress for what is clearly his problem.
Obama continues to show his ignorance of tactics. Rule number one of warfare, never tell the enemy when, where, or how and with what much you are going to attack. Assad has had time to shift and conceal his military assets through out a country, the is the size of Washington state. What I think he should do is degrade the air force and heavy long range artillery and destroy poison gas supplies. Anything less would only encourage Assad to gas civilians again. Doing nothing would be far better than a meaningless token attack by a few hundred cruise missiles. That never seems to work. My recommendation would make the fight more even and allow the bad guys to continue killing bad guys. We should give material aid and encourage the UN to aid the millions of refuges that have left Syria for safety, especially if they are in countries that are friendly to us. Once both sides have degraded each other to the point of severe weakness, the UN should then step in, broker a peace that eliminates Assad, permits real elections, and make certain that any new regime is not repressive before leaving. The Kurds should get serious consideration as well. The new regime should be encourage to make peace with Israel and stay out of Lebanon and eliminate all support of Hezbollah.
There you have it. My view of the complex issue of Syria, based on history. Sorry for not producing any blogs for a while. I know its time for at least another "you just can't make this stuff up." Your comments are always welcome.
Sunday, July 14, 2013
My Take on The George Zimmerman -Trayvon Martin incident
An unbelievable amount of time has been wasted on what is, in reality, despite the tragic turn of events in all other respects very trivial. Every day in our inner cities, African-American teenagers are killed with little if any recognition by the media. It is the media that turned this into a racial incident. George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer, followed Trayvon Martin, an innocent teenager, but a stranger to his neighborhood. There was a confrontation, a fight, and finally Zimmerman pulled his gun and fatally shot Martin.
"What ifs" abound. What if Zimmerman had not gotten out of car and followed Martin. That was brought up at the trial. But what if Martin had ignored Zimmerman and simply continued walking to his father's girl friend's house. What if Zimmerman actually confronted Martin and asked him why he was following him. Martin could have explained that he was on his way to his father's girlfriend's house and continued on. Unfortunately this is not what happened and instead a violent confrontation occurred and Martin was killed. Maybe we would have less violence among our young, if our schools taught peaceful conflict resolution, rather than all the politically correct nonsense they espouse.
Zimmerman wrongly profiled Martin as a stranger to the neighborhood, not as a black teen and Martin wrongly profile Zimmerman as a pudgy weak unarmed cracker. Zimmerman was, in fact, a pudgy Hispanic who may have almost as much non Caucasian blood as President Obama and certainly as much as some of the killers and their victims on the south side of Chicago or East Los Angeles. It was the media (even Fox News) and race baiters like Al Sharpton who turned this into the circus that it turned into. Even President Obama, who has been known to speak out on racial issues before all the facts are known, said if he had a son, he would be like Trayvon. I doubt it. President's Obama's son, if he had one, would never be suspended from school and although he admits to smoking marijuana, I doubt if he would want his children to do so.
The worst offender was of course NBC and its partner MSNBC News. They altered the original 911 conversation to make it sound like Zimmerman was targeting Martin and may have altered the initial photograph of Zimmerman, making him look unmarked. Al Sharpton, adopted this as a new cause celeb much like he did the infamous Twana Brawley hoax, ranting daily about his perceived view of the racism in this incident. In addition, nearly all the media showed a picture of Martin that was several years old and did not represent Martin's physical maturity. Marin was taller than the heavier Zimmerman and may have been the reason Martin decided to fight. Once it was learned that Zimmerman was a Hispanic and that he had pictures of the broken nose and scalp lacerations he received in the scuffle, the media rather than back off, went all in and continued to report this a racial confrontation influencing public opinion to indict Zimmerman more than a month after the event and charge him with second degree murder, a charge that the prosecution could never prove. The prosecution realized this after the presentation of their weak case and evidence and so at the last minute were allowed by the judge to add manslaughter as a possible verdict. They were not allowed to add the ridiculous charge of aggravated child abuse.
There was also another reason why this received so much media exposure. The media, that fully supports the Obama regime, tried to obscure all the bad publicity that the regime was getting from multiple scandals that arose everyday. MSNBC was only interested in "justice for Trayvon", but what about Ambassador Chris Stevens who was brutally assassinated, sexually assaulted and dragged through the streets of Benghazi. Hardly a word has been forthcoming from the mainstream media. Don't Stevens' parents deserve an explanation for what happened instead of being lied to or ignored?
Based on the evidence or lack there of and Florida's "stand your ground" law, the jury rightly freed Zimmerman. If anything, we learned that this law is vague and in the future ought to be modified and either made more clear or removed altogether. Martin's parents lost a son that they dearly loved, but accepted the jury verdict. George Zimmerman, though found innocent, will never ever have a normal life and will always be looking over his shoulder for some misguided assassin trying to get perceived revenge.
Eric Holder, a racist himself, could still bring civil rights charges against Zimmerman, but I hope he doesn't. It is obvious to me that the African-American leadership, and liberal media do not want an end to racism as this is how they are empowered. African-American are bright, industrious, and posses all the same qualities as all other Americans. It is only their leadership that feels that they are inferior and are not able to succeed. There was virtually no violence after the verdict showing that the African-American community has matured, even though their leadership has not.
"What ifs" abound. What if Zimmerman had not gotten out of car and followed Martin. That was brought up at the trial. But what if Martin had ignored Zimmerman and simply continued walking to his father's girl friend's house. What if Zimmerman actually confronted Martin and asked him why he was following him. Martin could have explained that he was on his way to his father's girlfriend's house and continued on. Unfortunately this is not what happened and instead a violent confrontation occurred and Martin was killed. Maybe we would have less violence among our young, if our schools taught peaceful conflict resolution, rather than all the politically correct nonsense they espouse.
Zimmerman wrongly profiled Martin as a stranger to the neighborhood, not as a black teen and Martin wrongly profile Zimmerman as a pudgy weak unarmed cracker. Zimmerman was, in fact, a pudgy Hispanic who may have almost as much non Caucasian blood as President Obama and certainly as much as some of the killers and their victims on the south side of Chicago or East Los Angeles. It was the media (even Fox News) and race baiters like Al Sharpton who turned this into the circus that it turned into. Even President Obama, who has been known to speak out on racial issues before all the facts are known, said if he had a son, he would be like Trayvon. I doubt it. President's Obama's son, if he had one, would never be suspended from school and although he admits to smoking marijuana, I doubt if he would want his children to do so.
The worst offender was of course NBC and its partner MSNBC News. They altered the original 911 conversation to make it sound like Zimmerman was targeting Martin and may have altered the initial photograph of Zimmerman, making him look unmarked. Al Sharpton, adopted this as a new cause celeb much like he did the infamous Twana Brawley hoax, ranting daily about his perceived view of the racism in this incident. In addition, nearly all the media showed a picture of Martin that was several years old and did not represent Martin's physical maturity. Marin was taller than the heavier Zimmerman and may have been the reason Martin decided to fight. Once it was learned that Zimmerman was a Hispanic and that he had pictures of the broken nose and scalp lacerations he received in the scuffle, the media rather than back off, went all in and continued to report this a racial confrontation influencing public opinion to indict Zimmerman more than a month after the event and charge him with second degree murder, a charge that the prosecution could never prove. The prosecution realized this after the presentation of their weak case and evidence and so at the last minute were allowed by the judge to add manslaughter as a possible verdict. They were not allowed to add the ridiculous charge of aggravated child abuse.
There was also another reason why this received so much media exposure. The media, that fully supports the Obama regime, tried to obscure all the bad publicity that the regime was getting from multiple scandals that arose everyday. MSNBC was only interested in "justice for Trayvon", but what about Ambassador Chris Stevens who was brutally assassinated, sexually assaulted and dragged through the streets of Benghazi. Hardly a word has been forthcoming from the mainstream media. Don't Stevens' parents deserve an explanation for what happened instead of being lied to or ignored?
Based on the evidence or lack there of and Florida's "stand your ground" law, the jury rightly freed Zimmerman. If anything, we learned that this law is vague and in the future ought to be modified and either made more clear or removed altogether. Martin's parents lost a son that they dearly loved, but accepted the jury verdict. George Zimmerman, though found innocent, will never ever have a normal life and will always be looking over his shoulder for some misguided assassin trying to get perceived revenge.
Eric Holder, a racist himself, could still bring civil rights charges against Zimmerman, but I hope he doesn't. It is obvious to me that the African-American leadership, and liberal media do not want an end to racism as this is how they are empowered. African-American are bright, industrious, and posses all the same qualities as all other Americans. It is only their leadership that feels that they are inferior and are not able to succeed. There was virtually no violence after the verdict showing that the African-American community has matured, even though their leadership has not.
Thursday, May 30, 2013
You Just Can't Make This Stuff Up
I know I haven't published anything for quite a while. Initially, total outrage at the horrible result of the 2012 election distracted and discouraged me for a while. Now, with events happening so fast it is hard to keep up, especially when the story changes every day. So I'm giving you some brief takes on a number of events.
The murderer of thirteen soldiers and wounding of numerous others at Ft. Hood, Maj. Hassan, is still drawing his military pay and so far has collected over $270,000. Due to the Obama regime's calling this work place violence rather than a terror attack has placed numerous financial burdens on the wounded survivors and not allow them to be awarded the Purple Heart. If this were called the terror attack that it is, Hassan would have been stripped of his rank and not drawn the money that he has. Interestingly, the regime has termed Anwar Al-Awlaki, an American citizen, a terrorist and the one who converted Hassan and others, and taken him out with a drone strike. You can't just make this stuff up.
The "fast and furious" gun scandal just won't go away. I was amazed that Obama referred to gun deaths on his recent visit to Mexico. He blamed the high drug related murder rate in Mexico on the Second Amendment, because it allows Mexicans to purchase automatic weapons in the United States. I was in awe that he totally ignored that it was his DOJ and Attorney General Eric Holder, who is contempt of Congress, who allowed the purchase of thousands of automatic weapons by an ill conceived plan to discredit the Second Amendment. You can't just make this stuff up.
Holder continues to be involved in scandal. Recently he lied to Congress about his targeting journalists and criminally charging them for essentially doing their job. President Obama was so outraged that he told Holder to investigate himself. Yeah right, I'm certain he won't find anything wrong. Its like asking second graders to grade their own tests. You can't just make this stuff up.
According to the regime, its okay to profile conservatives, Jews and Christians, but not Muslims or those suspected of being her illegally. Now we have learned that the IRS targeted conservative and some pro Israel and Christian organizations preventing them from easily obtaining non-profit status to aid their ability to raise funds. The IRS demanded lists of contributors and then not only audited the groups, but their contributors and their business. In addition the information was shared with other government agencies to turn the the FBI and EPA on them as well. Meanwhile pro regime groups were rapidly sped through the process with little scrutiny. One conservative group whose application was continually delayed for more than two years, change its name to imply it was a "green" organization and rapidly got approval. From whom did this criminal conspiracy originate, slime ball dirty trick experts Plouffe and Axelrod, no doubt. For doing such a good job of harassing and punishing enemies of the regime, the principals in the IRS behind these crimes were given bonuses and raises and appointed to other positions in which they could punish the enemies of the regime. Sarah Ingram was placed in charge of Obamacare, so she could force targeted businesses to pay higher taxes or healthcare costs. Friends of the regime would get waivers and/or instant approval. If you're not a Democrat or contributor to The DNC you may be denied certain procedures, some of which could be life saving. You might be given a "breathalyzer" when you really need an inhaler for your asthma attack. This could happen in all "fifty seven" states to quote Obama. What's more, all of this is blatantly criminal, but who is going to prison? You can't just make this stuff up.
Some Tea Party groups have recently peaceably protested their treatment by the IRS in front of their local tax office. The regime has sent out its heavily armed TSA army to guard the tax offices. Now we know why the TSA purchased the billions of bullets and is training its own army. Ironically, during the 9/11/12 violent demonstrations in Cairo, Egypt, the marines guarding the embassy had to remove the bullets from their guns. Our misguided regime is more worried about Tea Party protesters than Islamic extremists. You can't just make this stuff up.
Speaking of Obamacare, despite general disfavor among most Americans and politicians from both parties, the tax plan is rapidly moving ahead. In order to pave the way Health Secretary, Katherine Seballius has raised millions in a private slush fund to propagandize Americans to favor this plan. She is soliciting insurers for the money. In keeping with the regimes thug like strong arm attics, it is implied that an insurer's plan will get more scrutiny (think IRS), if they don't contribute. You can't just make this stuff up.
Finally, the tragedy of Benghazi just won't go away. No one seems to know what happened or who was in charge. Who ordered the rapid response team to stand down? Why won't the regime give out the names of the survivors or let them testify? Who came up with the dumb video idea? Obama, knowing the consulate was under attack, actually went to bed and wasn't told about the deaths until the next day. He was so concerned that he flew to Las Vegas, a destination he told business conventions to avoid, on AF1 for a political fund raiser. Hillary Clinton also claims to have been kept out of the loop. I guess the answer to whether Clinton or Obama would be avaialble to answer the phone at 3AM is neither. I think that it appears that Hillary Clinton will probably be thrown under the bus and her chances of becoming our next president are rapidly evaporating. Whose next in line? Joe? No way. How about Moochelle? She hates America even more than her husband, though on the other hand, I doubt if she will be as willing to take orders from Iranian born Valerie Jarrett, as does her husband. You can't just make this stuff up.
Obama claims no part of any of these scandals, the government is just to big for him to know everything (or anything). The buck obviously stops somewhere else. As I have said many times before, ignorance and incompetence are a terrible combination and it appears this may be Obama's ultimate legacy as he goes down as the worst president in the history of America.
The murderer of thirteen soldiers and wounding of numerous others at Ft. Hood, Maj. Hassan, is still drawing his military pay and so far has collected over $270,000. Due to the Obama regime's calling this work place violence rather than a terror attack has placed numerous financial burdens on the wounded survivors and not allow them to be awarded the Purple Heart. If this were called the terror attack that it is, Hassan would have been stripped of his rank and not drawn the money that he has. Interestingly, the regime has termed Anwar Al-Awlaki, an American citizen, a terrorist and the one who converted Hassan and others, and taken him out with a drone strike. You can't just make this stuff up.
The "fast and furious" gun scandal just won't go away. I was amazed that Obama referred to gun deaths on his recent visit to Mexico. He blamed the high drug related murder rate in Mexico on the Second Amendment, because it allows Mexicans to purchase automatic weapons in the United States. I was in awe that he totally ignored that it was his DOJ and Attorney General Eric Holder, who is contempt of Congress, who allowed the purchase of thousands of automatic weapons by an ill conceived plan to discredit the Second Amendment. You can't just make this stuff up.
Holder continues to be involved in scandal. Recently he lied to Congress about his targeting journalists and criminally charging them for essentially doing their job. President Obama was so outraged that he told Holder to investigate himself. Yeah right, I'm certain he won't find anything wrong. Its like asking second graders to grade their own tests. You can't just make this stuff up.
According to the regime, its okay to profile conservatives, Jews and Christians, but not Muslims or those suspected of being her illegally. Now we have learned that the IRS targeted conservative and some pro Israel and Christian organizations preventing them from easily obtaining non-profit status to aid their ability to raise funds. The IRS demanded lists of contributors and then not only audited the groups, but their contributors and their business. In addition the information was shared with other government agencies to turn the the FBI and EPA on them as well. Meanwhile pro regime groups were rapidly sped through the process with little scrutiny. One conservative group whose application was continually delayed for more than two years, change its name to imply it was a "green" organization and rapidly got approval. From whom did this criminal conspiracy originate, slime ball dirty trick experts Plouffe and Axelrod, no doubt. For doing such a good job of harassing and punishing enemies of the regime, the principals in the IRS behind these crimes were given bonuses and raises and appointed to other positions in which they could punish the enemies of the regime. Sarah Ingram was placed in charge of Obamacare, so she could force targeted businesses to pay higher taxes or healthcare costs. Friends of the regime would get waivers and/or instant approval. If you're not a Democrat or contributor to The DNC you may be denied certain procedures, some of which could be life saving. You might be given a "breathalyzer" when you really need an inhaler for your asthma attack. This could happen in all "fifty seven" states to quote Obama. What's more, all of this is blatantly criminal, but who is going to prison? You can't just make this stuff up.
Some Tea Party groups have recently peaceably protested their treatment by the IRS in front of their local tax office. The regime has sent out its heavily armed TSA army to guard the tax offices. Now we know why the TSA purchased the billions of bullets and is training its own army. Ironically, during the 9/11/12 violent demonstrations in Cairo, Egypt, the marines guarding the embassy had to remove the bullets from their guns. Our misguided regime is more worried about Tea Party protesters than Islamic extremists. You can't just make this stuff up.
Speaking of Obamacare, despite general disfavor among most Americans and politicians from both parties, the tax plan is rapidly moving ahead. In order to pave the way Health Secretary, Katherine Seballius has raised millions in a private slush fund to propagandize Americans to favor this plan. She is soliciting insurers for the money. In keeping with the regimes thug like strong arm attics, it is implied that an insurer's plan will get more scrutiny (think IRS), if they don't contribute. You can't just make this stuff up.
Finally, the tragedy of Benghazi just won't go away. No one seems to know what happened or who was in charge. Who ordered the rapid response team to stand down? Why won't the regime give out the names of the survivors or let them testify? Who came up with the dumb video idea? Obama, knowing the consulate was under attack, actually went to bed and wasn't told about the deaths until the next day. He was so concerned that he flew to Las Vegas, a destination he told business conventions to avoid, on AF1 for a political fund raiser. Hillary Clinton also claims to have been kept out of the loop. I guess the answer to whether Clinton or Obama would be avaialble to answer the phone at 3AM is neither. I think that it appears that Hillary Clinton will probably be thrown under the bus and her chances of becoming our next president are rapidly evaporating. Whose next in line? Joe? No way. How about Moochelle? She hates America even more than her husband, though on the other hand, I doubt if she will be as willing to take orders from Iranian born Valerie Jarrett, as does her husband. You can't just make this stuff up.
Obama claims no part of any of these scandals, the government is just to big for him to know everything (or anything). The buck obviously stops somewhere else. As I have said many times before, ignorance and incompetence are a terrible combination and it appears this may be Obama's ultimate legacy as he goes down as the worst president in the history of America.
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Hillary Clinton's Testimony, My Take
Hillary Clinton finally testified before Congress on Bengazigate after numerous delays caused by illness and trips of both kinds. Before my I give you my take on the hearings, I'd like to supply you with a little bit of background information for which I am certain you are unaware. I don't much believe in coincidences, especially about anything that goes on within the Obama regime. I'm sure you are aware that Hillary Clinton rang up between 20 to 30 million in debt from her unsuccessful run at the presidency in 2008. This includes the loan from Bill after he received millions from Arab countries for "speeches". She had asked Obama after the 2008 election to help pay off her debts from his excess campaign funds. This week her debts were finally paid off, assuring that Obama would be protected by her testimony. Her testimony was obviously orchestrated. The crocodile tears and the indignation over being questioned about the video were planned and rehearsed well in advance. Ironically, after saying that she took full responsibility for what happened in Bengazi, protecting Obama, she took no responsibility whatsoever. Only a few Republicans asked her serious questions and made important comments regarding her very carefully crafted testimony. Her indignation over the video question was deflected by "what does it matter now. Four Americans are dead." That is precisely why it does matter that the regime including Obama knowing lied to the American people. Nixon could have said the same thing over the Watergate burglary, that it didn't matter after the election, but of course history took a far different course and his otherwise honorable and very enlightened presidency ended in disgrace. Claiming she never read the requests for more security is very similar to Eric Holder's excuse for not reading his emails regarding the outrageous Fast and Furious debacle. As Rand Paul rightly commented, he would have fired her. If her comments were true, then why was no one fired over this, four Americans are dead. The events of the Bengazi attack were being watched in real time. The ambassador and his staff were advising the regime of their imminent danger. There may have been very little the regime could have done to save and protect the Americans under attack, but do you believe Obama wasn't notified immediately? His handlers invented the video lie to protect him during the tight election race. His National Security staff fell on their swords for Obama and said it was they that edited out references to Al Qada and Muslim extremists, after all, we were told that after the killing of Osama Bin Ladin, Al Qada was through. Maybe it was as Ms. Clinton suggested, some guys out for a walk who decided to kill Americans with mortors and automatic weapons. Despite knowing what actually had happened, the regime including Obama, two weeks later, when speaking at the UN, still blamed the video. Four American were dead, but our incompetent national news media barely mentioned Bengazi continuing to protect the regime during the campaign for the presidency. If you recall, the press didn't hesitate to criticize Romney for his comments on Bengazi shortly after it happened. Comments that by the way were appropriate and dead on. This may have scared Romney into making a critical mistake during the debate a few weeks later on foreign policy by not bringing it up. Certainly the very biased pro Obama moderator, Bob Schieffer, would and did not. Four Americans are dead and Obama, Hillary Clinton, and everyone else in the regime got a free pass when they should have been impeached or fired. Nixon was under the threat of impeachment for far less, nobody died from Watergate. Maybe some guys were out on a walk and just decided to burglarize the DNC. Finally we have recently learned that many of the weapons used in the attack on the consulate were supplied by the Obama regime during the civil war that deposed Mommar Gaddafi, another similarity to "fast and furious." I wonder when this information was actually known by the regime, timing its release well after the 2012 election. What did the Democrats do at the hearing. They, along with some Republicans, praised Hillary Clinton for her service and testifying despite traveling all over the world and fighting off illness and injury to finally show up more than four month later. I supposed the Republicans still fear the powerful Clinton machine that brought down Gingrich, Livingston, Armi, and other Clinton impeachment enemies. They still have the FBI file info on almost a thousand Republicans gleaned from Filegate*. The Democrats even tried to blame Republicans for limiting the State department budget so that the proper security was not in place. Rand Paul quickly corrected this bit of misinformation, mentioning all the money the State Department squanders, especially purchasing electric automobiles and then constructing expensive charging stations to service them (it seems the government is the main source of Volt sales). As I have pointed out in a past post, our government could never recover the added cost over that of standard or hybrid vehicles, even if the Volts lasted for more than twenty years. It seems that the man dubbed the "smartest president in our history" knew nothing of what was going on in his regime. That is he was unaware of the situation in Libya, unaware of "fast and furious", a didn't know that Van Jones, the green commissar he appointed, was a communist who advocated the violent overthrow of the United States. I guess he was too busy campaigning, golfing, shooting hoops, vacationing in Hawaii and Nantucket, or just jetting around in AF1. If this is true, then maybe he should be termed the "know nothing president".
*Filegate was the name given to illegal (or accidental according to the Clintons) procurement of nearly 1000 FBI files of prominent Republicans by the Clinton administration. Craig Livingstone, a former bar bouncer, did the dirty work as he was chief of White House Security. Though an early memo to the FBI stated that he got the job from a recommendation by Hillary Clinton who was long time friends with his mother according to Bernard Nussbaum, all this was denied when the Filegate investigation special prosecutor, Kenneth Starr, began questioning associated individuals including Hillary Clinton. Starr concluded that no one knew how and who hired Craig Livingstone. Hillary 's testimony during her sworn deposition included 109 "I don't remember"s. The pages in the log book certifying who checked out the files mysteriously disappeared (just as many other documents during the Clinton administration). Clinton operatives were well known for stealing and disposing of documents (Sandy "the burglar" Berger for example). Whatever information was gleaned from these files has been stored somewhere to use against Clinton enemies as needed.
Did you ever wonder how the least likely person to become POTUS actually did? How a man of average intelligence, no experience, and little means obtained an Ivy League education and became POTUS. I'm working on a new blog in which I will put together the amazing story of how this aall came to be and what it means for all of us.
*Filegate was the name given to illegal (or accidental according to the Clintons) procurement of nearly 1000 FBI files of prominent Republicans by the Clinton administration. Craig Livingstone, a former bar bouncer, did the dirty work as he was chief of White House Security. Though an early memo to the FBI stated that he got the job from a recommendation by Hillary Clinton who was long time friends with his mother according to Bernard Nussbaum, all this was denied when the Filegate investigation special prosecutor, Kenneth Starr, began questioning associated individuals including Hillary Clinton. Starr concluded that no one knew how and who hired Craig Livingstone. Hillary 's testimony during her sworn deposition included 109 "I don't remember"s. The pages in the log book certifying who checked out the files mysteriously disappeared (just as many other documents during the Clinton administration). Clinton operatives were well known for stealing and disposing of documents (Sandy "the burglar" Berger for example). Whatever information was gleaned from these files has been stored somewhere to use against Clinton enemies as needed.
Did you ever wonder how the least likely person to become POTUS actually did? How a man of average intelligence, no experience, and little means obtained an Ivy League education and became POTUS. I'm working on a new blog in which I will put together the amazing story of how this aall came to be and what it means for all of us.
Monday, January 21, 2013
Some random thoughts on taxes, deficit, Obamacare, energy, and freedom
Here are some random thoughts about the past year and a few predictions for the year to come. First. I don't know who is advising the Republicans, but who ever it is, should be fired immediately. Obama has been calling for a tax on millionaires and billionaires and the Republicans should hold him to it. Since when is a tax on someone who makes $250k a tax on a millionaire? If they would have pushed the concept that $250k is not a million dollars, they may have been more successful especially in the eyes of the public (but not the buased media). Romney should have done the same, stating that people that make between $250K and 999K are not necessarily millionaires, but many are small businessmen who are the engine for the economy. Taxing them will continue to keep the economy in the doldrums. Of course, anything that affects our economy in a negative way is exactly what Obama wants. He said as much,in the book Bill Ayers wrote for him, Dreams from My Father. In addition, he wants to destroy the lives of our senior citizens. Obamacare takes $50 billion out of Medicare each year at a time when 4 million new baby boomers are being added annually. His death panels will speed the demise of many grandmothers and grandfathers when life saving drugs and procedures are withheld when the death squad deems them too old, infirm, or just not contributing to Obama's concept of society. This is where the so called savings in Medicare will actually come. If you kill off the beneficiaries before they use resources then you can save money. This is his plan for saving Medicare. By killing off the elderly, he plans to save Social Security as well. This is his way of dealing with entitlements and why he hasn't otherwise put forth a separate plan to do so. Additionally, he wants to tax dividends and capital gains at a higher level. Seniors live off of the interest and dividends that their retirement savings provide, sometimes changing stocks, bonds, mutual funds, or CDs to gain an income advantage. These new taxes will have grandma and grandpa eating dog food and living with the homeless as their savings run out, unless they turn over their life savings and become eligible for food stamps. Oh I forgot, that won't be a problem as Obama will kill them off before it happens...if they are lucky. Look for the life span of American to recede as Obamacare's invasive nature takes over the life and death of all Americans. The headlines from the mainstream will not tell you this, instead it will tell you how the lives of leeches (maybe cockroaches is a better word), the welfare beneficiaries who contribute nothing and who have never contributed anything but more welfare beneficiaries, have increased. Maybe they should be required to become responsible citizens and contribute their fair share. Oh, I forgot, Obama ended "workfair" to garner their votes. It seems unfair to change the system for people who have worked, saved, and planned all their lives to live comfortably in their golden years. Obama should be impeached for enacting genocide for the elderly. And now if this is not bad enough another presidential fiat has been forced upon us that will affect the healthcare of all American in a very negative way, affirmative action on NIH research grants. Some bureaucratic moron did a study that determined that way too many grants were going to Caucasians and not enough to Blacks and Hispanics. So now there is a 10% set a side to insure that minorities get their fair share. This moron didn't understand that grants are given out on the basis merit and potential benefit and previous successes in related research and that a research team consist of a diverse group all of who benefit from the grant. Secondly, research applications don't ask for race, but I guess NIH will begin profiling applicants now. We can't profile terrorists boarding airplanes, but we will profile NIH grant applicants. Because these grants are obviously awarded on merit, grants of lesser importance may now get preference lowering the quality of research. This is exactly what the gangster Obama has done in the past, wasting our money on worthless green energy companies that contribute little to our economy, but much to his campaign war chest.
Speaking of impeachment, the ongoing hearings on Bengazigate (my own term), though damaging to some, will not disclose the real cover up. A day or two after it happened, I was able tell you pretty much what happened, apparently before Obama, Susan Rice, and Hillary Clinton knew, yeah right. The cover up would be pretty easy to discover. First an independent special prosecutor would need to be appointed. He could subpoena phone records, emails, text messages and personal visits of all involved. From these records the trail could be followed from those who watched the terrible tragedy unfold and where it went from there. The Obama regime would resist turning over these documents and then, taking a lesson from the Clintons, a lot of info would mysteriously disappear, especially those leading directly to Obama and his directives. Hillary Clinton is now deciding whether she will side with Obama or come clean, trying to determine what will hurt her the least in her run for the White House four years from now. She needn't worry, the media has a short memory, when it comes to progressive Democrats. Watergate was over an stupid burglary and forced Nixon, a relatively moderate and otherwise great president, to resign. With Bengazigate, four Americans including a United States ambassador were brutally murdered and dragged through the streets. The coverup was to shield the public from the facts so close to the election. Al Qaeda was not dead, the Arab and Moslem outreach was a failure, and they had been killed with weapons that they got from us. Sort of sounds like the "fast and furious" scandal that was successfully covered up.
It has been predicted that by 2017 the United States will be the largest producer of oil and natural gas, passing Saudi Arabia. Unfortunately our laws don't allow to export much of these valuable commodities. This will lead to a glut, which will lead to a price collapse and then a rapid slow down in oil production. The very thing that turned a backward desert wasteland into a wealthy country, namely oil exports will be denied us because of a left thinking president and congress. This is one of the reasons why pipelines have been denied and applications to build export facilities put on hold. Despite over twenty application to build export facilities for liquid natural gas (LNG), only one has been approved. As we speak LNG in North Dakota is being burned off for lack of transport pipelines. Green energy, no matter how good it sounds, is decades and maybe centuries away from replacing fossil fuels as an economic means for electricity. Those who push it now, are either too stupid to understand this, been brainwashed by the media, or want our economy to fail. This is not my opinion, this is the history of green energy to date.
The guy who admits to never having ever made a mistake and always blames everyone else, would have been happy to see us go over the fiscal cliff. Taxes go up on everyone and military spending down. Though other spending is to be cut as well, much of it would have remained or even increased by presidential edict, ignoring the Constitution and Congress, just as he has done numerous times in the past. The economy would have continued to suffer again to Obama's liking. Milk prices may have tripled and been the first sign in what could have turned to food riots, need for marshall law, and quickly turning America into a Marxist dictatorship. Opponents to the regime would have been arrested and private property and wealth confiscated. Gun owner would have been the first to go to concentration (reeducation) camps. The Republicans were caught in a trap and accepted a bad deal, but the only one available at the time. They must not cave to threats over the deficit increase. It makes sense that if you cut spending and balance the budget, there is no need to increase the deficit.
My last comments are on the recent attacks on the 2nd Amendment. None of his recent attacks and regulations by Obama would have prevented the recent tragedies in Colorado and Connecticut or the murder rate in Chicago. He said so. Then why propose them at all. The reason, of course, is to destroy the 2nd Amendment and terrorize legitimate gun owners on one level and to attack constitutional rights in general on another. Very few first degree murders are carried out by NRA members with registered weapons. What could help? Little has been said about punishment. The death sentence should apply to those convicted of first degree murder, attempted murder, armed robbery and rape with a gun with one year or one appeal after conviction and then sentence is carried out. If nothing else, it will prevent the criminal from ever committing another crime. Illegally possessing a gun, possessing a stolen gun, theft of a gun would warrant long mandatory prison terms. The situation with crazies is much harder to deal with as the libs forced there release on to our streets at the end of the 1970s and now they make up a sizable segment of the homeless population, few of whom, fortunately are dangerous. admittedly enhanced background checks and a national data base would help as long as it does not interfere with privacy rights. Remember Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and Castro all disarmed their citizenry. As the patriot and father of the Bill of Rights George Mason once said,"To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
Finally, I'd like to wish all of you who follow my blog a happy and healthy New Year. I am hopeful that we the American people can overcome Obama and all of the terrible things for which he and his cronies wish upon us. Only 1461 days left for the tyrant. Pray the Constitution of the United States of America and its 22nd Amendment prevail.
Speaking of impeachment, the ongoing hearings on Bengazigate (my own term), though damaging to some, will not disclose the real cover up. A day or two after it happened, I was able tell you pretty much what happened, apparently before Obama, Susan Rice, and Hillary Clinton knew, yeah right. The cover up would be pretty easy to discover. First an independent special prosecutor would need to be appointed. He could subpoena phone records, emails, text messages and personal visits of all involved. From these records the trail could be followed from those who watched the terrible tragedy unfold and where it went from there. The Obama regime would resist turning over these documents and then, taking a lesson from the Clintons, a lot of info would mysteriously disappear, especially those leading directly to Obama and his directives. Hillary Clinton is now deciding whether she will side with Obama or come clean, trying to determine what will hurt her the least in her run for the White House four years from now. She needn't worry, the media has a short memory, when it comes to progressive Democrats. Watergate was over an stupid burglary and forced Nixon, a relatively moderate and otherwise great president, to resign. With Bengazigate, four Americans including a United States ambassador were brutally murdered and dragged through the streets. The coverup was to shield the public from the facts so close to the election. Al Qaeda was not dead, the Arab and Moslem outreach was a failure, and they had been killed with weapons that they got from us. Sort of sounds like the "fast and furious" scandal that was successfully covered up.
It has been predicted that by 2017 the United States will be the largest producer of oil and natural gas, passing Saudi Arabia. Unfortunately our laws don't allow to export much of these valuable commodities. This will lead to a glut, which will lead to a price collapse and then a rapid slow down in oil production. The very thing that turned a backward desert wasteland into a wealthy country, namely oil exports will be denied us because of a left thinking president and congress. This is one of the reasons why pipelines have been denied and applications to build export facilities put on hold. Despite over twenty application to build export facilities for liquid natural gas (LNG), only one has been approved. As we speak LNG in North Dakota is being burned off for lack of transport pipelines. Green energy, no matter how good it sounds, is decades and maybe centuries away from replacing fossil fuels as an economic means for electricity. Those who push it now, are either too stupid to understand this, been brainwashed by the media, or want our economy to fail. This is not my opinion, this is the history of green energy to date.
The guy who admits to never having ever made a mistake and always blames everyone else, would have been happy to see us go over the fiscal cliff. Taxes go up on everyone and military spending down. Though other spending is to be cut as well, much of it would have remained or even increased by presidential edict, ignoring the Constitution and Congress, just as he has done numerous times in the past. The economy would have continued to suffer again to Obama's liking. Milk prices may have tripled and been the first sign in what could have turned to food riots, need for marshall law, and quickly turning America into a Marxist dictatorship. Opponents to the regime would have been arrested and private property and wealth confiscated. Gun owner would have been the first to go to concentration (reeducation) camps. The Republicans were caught in a trap and accepted a bad deal, but the only one available at the time. They must not cave to threats over the deficit increase. It makes sense that if you cut spending and balance the budget, there is no need to increase the deficit.
My last comments are on the recent attacks on the 2nd Amendment. None of his recent attacks and regulations by Obama would have prevented the recent tragedies in Colorado and Connecticut or the murder rate in Chicago. He said so. Then why propose them at all. The reason, of course, is to destroy the 2nd Amendment and terrorize legitimate gun owners on one level and to attack constitutional rights in general on another. Very few first degree murders are carried out by NRA members with registered weapons. What could help? Little has been said about punishment. The death sentence should apply to those convicted of first degree murder, attempted murder, armed robbery and rape with a gun with one year or one appeal after conviction and then sentence is carried out. If nothing else, it will prevent the criminal from ever committing another crime. Illegally possessing a gun, possessing a stolen gun, theft of a gun would warrant long mandatory prison terms. The situation with crazies is much harder to deal with as the libs forced there release on to our streets at the end of the 1970s and now they make up a sizable segment of the homeless population, few of whom, fortunately are dangerous. admittedly enhanced background checks and a national data base would help as long as it does not interfere with privacy rights. Remember Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and Castro all disarmed their citizenry. As the patriot and father of the Bill of Rights George Mason once said,"To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
Finally, I'd like to wish all of you who follow my blog a happy and healthy New Year. I am hopeful that we the American people can overcome Obama and all of the terrible things for which he and his cronies wish upon us. Only 1461 days left for the tyrant. Pray the Constitution of the United States of America and its 22nd Amendment prevail.
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