I have just one question.
WHY DOES OBAMA CONTINUE TO STAND IN THE WAY OF OIL PRODUCTION AND DRILLING IN THE UNITED STATES? JUST BECAUSE HE HATES OIL BECAUSE IT'S NOT GREEN?
It's time we started drilling our own oil and that people start to protest Obama standing in the way of any oil drilling in our nation. Is he trying to destroy this country?
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Friday, February 18, 2011
Workers Rights?
I'm so tired of hearing about workers rights? What rights are those? Are they clearly defined? Are they in the constitution? What are these people talking about?
It seems when they use these words it is much like the accusation of racism. It implies some inequity, some mendacity and some violation when in reality for the most part none ever exists. The accusation is enough.
Do people have a RIGHT to a pension? Do people have a RIGHT to retire? Do people have a RIGHT to a specific wage?
The reality is that what you have a right to do is to leave a job and look for another if you feel your employer is not paying you enough. The problem with the government and this misbegotten idea of rights is that people feel they have a right to stay where they are make whatever demands they want and expect they should get them.
This is not a right! Much as our representatives and government hates us talking about the Creator, the reality is that our founding fathers based much of the constitution on the concept of a Creator and of our rights flowing from him. When rights flow from the whim of the people those rights can also change on a whim.
We need to get back to the constitution and see what rights are enumerated there. It is most certainly a good place to start and unless we have very good reason it is probably a dangerous thing to start adding to those rights.
Too many people are confused between rights and wants. They seem to think because they want to do something it should mean that they either have or should have a right to do it. They seem to think that freedom means freedom to do whatever you please, whenever you please to whomever you please. These things are not the case.
We should also be clear that the GOVERNMENT has very few rights, while the people have many rights. We are now living in a country that thinks that the government is the one with all the rights. Our representatives think they have a right to all of our money through tax and that we ought to be grateful that they let us keep any of it. The situation is quite the other way around. The government should only get the money that we the people allow them to have. If they cannot live within their means then they need to cut back on what they're spending.
If our representatives are not willing to live within their means then we probably need to consider who it is we're voting in.
Our representatives love spending OUR money! They view this as THEIR right. Their rights are constrained and we need to start constraining them by voting those out that have this attitude at every opportunity we have till we have leaders that respect our hard work and OUR MONEY!
It seems when they use these words it is much like the accusation of racism. It implies some inequity, some mendacity and some violation when in reality for the most part none ever exists. The accusation is enough.
Do people have a RIGHT to a pension? Do people have a RIGHT to retire? Do people have a RIGHT to a specific wage?
The reality is that what you have a right to do is to leave a job and look for another if you feel your employer is not paying you enough. The problem with the government and this misbegotten idea of rights is that people feel they have a right to stay where they are make whatever demands they want and expect they should get them.
This is not a right! Much as our representatives and government hates us talking about the Creator, the reality is that our founding fathers based much of the constitution on the concept of a Creator and of our rights flowing from him. When rights flow from the whim of the people those rights can also change on a whim.
We need to get back to the constitution and see what rights are enumerated there. It is most certainly a good place to start and unless we have very good reason it is probably a dangerous thing to start adding to those rights.
Too many people are confused between rights and wants. They seem to think because they want to do something it should mean that they either have or should have a right to do it. They seem to think that freedom means freedom to do whatever you please, whenever you please to whomever you please. These things are not the case.
We should also be clear that the GOVERNMENT has very few rights, while the people have many rights. We are now living in a country that thinks that the government is the one with all the rights. Our representatives think they have a right to all of our money through tax and that we ought to be grateful that they let us keep any of it. The situation is quite the other way around. The government should only get the money that we the people allow them to have. If they cannot live within their means then they need to cut back on what they're spending.
If our representatives are not willing to live within their means then we probably need to consider who it is we're voting in.
Our representatives love spending OUR money! They view this as THEIR right. Their rights are constrained and we need to start constraining them by voting those out that have this attitude at every opportunity we have till we have leaders that respect our hard work and OUR MONEY!
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Confused Representatives and Gov't Officials
It would seem that those are among the highest positions in our government are quite confused about things. They seem to think the Tea Party is as dangerous or even more dangerous than the Muslim Brotherhood. As with so many things they would rather speak lies than look at the truth. Our leaders clearly have an agenda and propaganda is a large part of that agenda. Let us consider for a moment the difference between the Muslim Brotherhood and the Tea Party according to their own stated goals and articles.
The Muslim Brotherhood has a goal of advancing Islam worldwide…and all the repression that comes with it. They have been wrapped up in the Holy Land terrorism case, and have been fanning the flames in the recent Egyptian unrest. They want to take advantage of our openness in America to undermine our way of life. The creed of the Muslim Brotherhood
* Allah is our objective
* The Quran is our constitution
* The Prophet is our leader
* Jihad is our way
* Death for the sake of Allah is the highest of our aspirations
Yes, that sounds far less dangerous than the unofficial creed of the Tea Party movement:
* Respect for the U.S. Constitution
* Limited government
* Fiscal responsibility
* Opposition to irresponsible taxation
Does any of the above give any indication or lead anyone to believe there is any equivalence between the Muslim Brotherhood and the Tea Party? Only in the minds of our leaders which ought to tell you how competent they are to lead our nation. The leftist/socialist/communists who are for the most part in charge of our government are the real fear mongers. But then it is always good propaganda to accuse others of the very thing you're doing. This makes people look at them and not at you. It also means that while they're busy defending themselves they are not attacking you. Both of these are very old ploys exercised by the left.
If this is what the leaders of our nation think of those they are charged with SERVING then maybe we don't need their service anymore. We do not need to prove our worthiness, they need to prove theirs. The rest of the world is beginning to finally throw away multiculturalism, while we are still embracing it at full steam. Political correctness is clearly a failed way of thinking and it needs to be confronted at every point.
The philosophy of multiculturalism is that every other culture ought to take precedence over our own and that we ought to look down on ourselves while looking up to the other cultures that share our land. Why is it that no one ever asks how it is if our nations is so horrible that everyone wants to come here? If we are so bad and hateful then why are they not staying in their own nation. If their nation is so understanding and forward thinking with their socialist views then why come here and have to fight with the backwardness of capitalism? Why are questions like this never asked or addressed by the media? Thee is a simple answer to this. The reason these questions are not asked is because the answer is obvious and the media has another agenda. For some reason the media behaves as though they are trapped in this country as though we had an "iron curtain". We do not. Why don't these people just go to a communist or socialist nation, join the media there and rave about how wonderful that nation and its government are?
The Tea Party is most certainly not to be compared with the Musim Brotherhood! The Tea Party is looking to reclaim what the founders originally had in mind for our nation. If our current leaders consider this subversive it is only because those in the Tea Party recognize that the socialism and communism being put forward in our nation needs to be subverted before it gains any more hold over the people.
To the left socialism and communism ought to be the norm and therefore should not be question or impaired in any way. They feel they have an equal right in our nation. They behave as though the constitution has some clause in it that grants freedom of government. By this I mean that they think the constitution grants that we can decide what government we have any time we want. They behave as though there is no need to create that government through the constitutional process set down by our founding fathers.
I wish I could attribute all of this to simple confusion but it goes beyond confusion or incompetence. What is happening is both intentional and malevolent. The intentions of our non-representing representatives are being made clearer all the time. They are opposed to capitalism. They are opposed to America as it has always been and wish to make an America that is socialist or communist in nature.
Many of our leaders have made no bones about their position regarding the United States or the constitution. In too many cases it is clear they view the constitution as something opposed to what they want to do and treat it as though it is the constitution that is at fault, but it most certainly is not the constitution at fault. If our leaders do not like they constitution they must either change it through the means provided in the constitution. This alone ought to be more than enough for us to demand they step down from office. We cannot have people in office who are so openly opposed to the constitution. Did they not swear an oath to uphold and defend the constitution, yet aren't they the very ones who are attacking it.
If we do not raise our voices soon we may find we are forbidden from doing so. The lame duck session of congress was already able to pass a law essentially restricting freedom of speech on the internet. I'm sure they're aware of how hard it would be to strictly enforce, but then all they need to do is come down very hard and very publicly on only a few people which would then silence many other people through fear. Just the fact that such a law could be passed here in the United States ought to tell you just how serious the situation is.
You cannot afford to leave your representatives alone or unattended for a minute. Too many of them are voting and acting contrary to your constitutional rights. We have all grown weary of politics and our politicians know this and have been taking a great deal opportunity to rob us of our freedoms as we have slumbered.
The Muslim Brotherhood has a goal of advancing Islam worldwide…and all the repression that comes with it. They have been wrapped up in the Holy Land terrorism case, and have been fanning the flames in the recent Egyptian unrest. They want to take advantage of our openness in America to undermine our way of life. The creed of the Muslim Brotherhood
* Allah is our objective
* The Quran is our constitution
* The Prophet is our leader
* Jihad is our way
* Death for the sake of Allah is the highest of our aspirations
Yes, that sounds far less dangerous than the unofficial creed of the Tea Party movement:
* Respect for the U.S. Constitution
* Limited government
* Fiscal responsibility
* Opposition to irresponsible taxation
Does any of the above give any indication or lead anyone to believe there is any equivalence between the Muslim Brotherhood and the Tea Party? Only in the minds of our leaders which ought to tell you how competent they are to lead our nation. The leftist/socialist/communists who are for the most part in charge of our government are the real fear mongers. But then it is always good propaganda to accuse others of the very thing you're doing. This makes people look at them and not at you. It also means that while they're busy defending themselves they are not attacking you. Both of these are very old ploys exercised by the left.
If this is what the leaders of our nation think of those they are charged with SERVING then maybe we don't need their service anymore. We do not need to prove our worthiness, they need to prove theirs. The rest of the world is beginning to finally throw away multiculturalism, while we are still embracing it at full steam. Political correctness is clearly a failed way of thinking and it needs to be confronted at every point.
The philosophy of multiculturalism is that every other culture ought to take precedence over our own and that we ought to look down on ourselves while looking up to the other cultures that share our land. Why is it that no one ever asks how it is if our nations is so horrible that everyone wants to come here? If we are so bad and hateful then why are they not staying in their own nation. If their nation is so understanding and forward thinking with their socialist views then why come here and have to fight with the backwardness of capitalism? Why are questions like this never asked or addressed by the media? Thee is a simple answer to this. The reason these questions are not asked is because the answer is obvious and the media has another agenda. For some reason the media behaves as though they are trapped in this country as though we had an "iron curtain". We do not. Why don't these people just go to a communist or socialist nation, join the media there and rave about how wonderful that nation and its government are?
The Tea Party is most certainly not to be compared with the Musim Brotherhood! The Tea Party is looking to reclaim what the founders originally had in mind for our nation. If our current leaders consider this subversive it is only because those in the Tea Party recognize that the socialism and communism being put forward in our nation needs to be subverted before it gains any more hold over the people.
To the left socialism and communism ought to be the norm and therefore should not be question or impaired in any way. They feel they have an equal right in our nation. They behave as though the constitution has some clause in it that grants freedom of government. By this I mean that they think the constitution grants that we can decide what government we have any time we want. They behave as though there is no need to create that government through the constitutional process set down by our founding fathers.
I wish I could attribute all of this to simple confusion but it goes beyond confusion or incompetence. What is happening is both intentional and malevolent. The intentions of our non-representing representatives are being made clearer all the time. They are opposed to capitalism. They are opposed to America as it has always been and wish to make an America that is socialist or communist in nature.
Many of our leaders have made no bones about their position regarding the United States or the constitution. In too many cases it is clear they view the constitution as something opposed to what they want to do and treat it as though it is the constitution that is at fault, but it most certainly is not the constitution at fault. If our leaders do not like they constitution they must either change it through the means provided in the constitution. This alone ought to be more than enough for us to demand they step down from office. We cannot have people in office who are so openly opposed to the constitution. Did they not swear an oath to uphold and defend the constitution, yet aren't they the very ones who are attacking it.
If we do not raise our voices soon we may find we are forbidden from doing so. The lame duck session of congress was already able to pass a law essentially restricting freedom of speech on the internet. I'm sure they're aware of how hard it would be to strictly enforce, but then all they need to do is come down very hard and very publicly on only a few people which would then silence many other people through fear. Just the fact that such a law could be passed here in the United States ought to tell you just how serious the situation is.
You cannot afford to leave your representatives alone or unattended for a minute. Too many of them are voting and acting contrary to your constitutional rights. We have all grown weary of politics and our politicians know this and have been taking a great deal opportunity to rob us of our freedoms as we have slumbered.
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Muslim Brotherhood 20%
It seems that all too many reporters are willing to brush aside the statistic that the Muslim Brotherhood only accounts for 20% of the vote in Egypt. These people seem unaware of the fact that it only takes 5% of the a country to be communist for the people to live under the thumb of dictatorship. Anyone who thinks some significant proportion of the population supports the dictator of North Korea or that a majority support the dictatorship in China, or any other communist nation are out of their minds. In most cases it is approximately 5%. So, in this case that means it should be no problem for the Muslim Brotherhood to exert their influence or completely rule in Egypt.
Our media seem to either live in a dream world, they are incapable of interpreting the facts, or they are simply lying to and trying to deceive the American people. I believe it is the latter of the three. The media seems to clearly support any cause that is communist or socialist at every opportunity. This support is easy to see if you look at the way they cover any story where socialists or communists are involved.
The American media is also either far too politically correct or at least not opposed to the goals of Islam. No matter how much evidence there is against the religious goals of Islam they refuse to mention anything negative about them.
It is difficult to look at the emerging story of Egypt without considering the media and its involvement. Almost from the start the media has clearly supported the uprising in Egypt. They have used as many incendiary terms as they dare. They have constantly called him a dictator. They have at no point mentioned the fact that Egypt has been a staunch ally of Israel and the United States. Why is this? Because they are at their root communists and socialists in their world view. They do would be more than happy if the United States was left with not one friendly nation in the world. I suppose they think this would lead to a socialist/communist United States, and they must further feel that because they somehow helped in the destruction of capitalism and freedom in this nation that they will be immune from the purges that invariably follow. Should they not like what begins to happen they will most certainly not be free at that point to write anything negative about it.
What is about to happen in Egypt I fear is not good. Too many people think that any change must by definition be good. Even as people seem to think that each successive generation must be better, smarter, more spiritual and more enlightened than the previous generation. They do not believe this because of any evidence. Indeed in many cases they believe it in spite of the evidence to the contrary.
It is this same ignorance that infects the media. History or evidence to the contrary that socialism or communism has never lead to any good for any nation that has accepted them makes no difference to them. Whether the media are honest about it or not they are ideologues. Of course they are going to spin the news that they are fair and balanced and even come up with some polls or the like to demonstrate this, but I do not believe people are really that gullible.
We need to take a closer look at what is happening in Egypt right now. It is very important that we understand where things are going and that things could well go very wrong there. If we are not willing to accept this could be the case then we are asking for problems.
The media is still not letting the news that things have finally broken in Egypt deter them from continual reporting on this issue to the neglect of domestic issues. The media is not able to walk and chew gum at the same time. It seems all they can do is report 2 or at most 3 stories at a time, over and over throughout the day, to the exclusion of all else. Rather than report 35-40 real stories in a day they report on 4 over and over. They don't simply report what has happened, but they feel they must interpret it for us. I suppose they think that we are too stupid to understand current events unless they explain them too us. Maybe this is true. There are certainly more than enough people graduating from high school who are functionally illiterate, as well as not even knowing where different states are. We are have congressmen in office who do not know what the difference between the constitution and the declaration of independence are. Somehow I don't really have any confidence that the media are any better off.
The other day our faithful media began to report, based apparently on nothing more than some rumor someone started, that Mubarak was going to step down. When the announcement came he declared he would be staying in office till September. Clearly they don't care about facts and would rather report on hearsay. Because of this and many other things I honestly don't trust the media when they start to give us information about how the Muslim Brotherhood has become more temperate. They have not changed what they believe or what they're goals are. They have merely changed their tactics. As Van Jones said, they're giving up the radical pose for the sake of the radical ends. This is the case for the Muslim Brotherhood as well. They are more than willing to appear moderate as long as they are able to accomplish their ends. They have been working at this for a very long time.
The Muslim Brotherhood is very patient about achieving their ends. We take their patience to mean that they have given them but. This again comes from assuming they are like us. We assume their religion is like Christianity. We assume this because we want to. We assume they are interested in peace because we assume they are like Christians. We assume this because we assume that all gods are the same and have the same demands on their followers as the Christian God. We cannot conceive that there are people who believe in gods of war, and who believe their God tells them to wage war on the unbelievers. Again we do this because we project our "modern" beliefs on others. This is not only invalid, but very dangerous because we are not facing things as they are. Our nation is headed for very deep trouble if we do not come to our senses and realize that the Muslim mindset is essentially at its root quite different from every other religion on earth except maybe satanism.
I'm sure they would be most appalled at someone saying this. But consider for just a moment what other religion in the world regularly puts out death sentences on any person that criticizes their religion. The fact that they have the gaul to call themselves tolerant is laughable. The only thing worse than that is that we agree with them and pretend they are tolerant.
Our media seem to either live in a dream world, they are incapable of interpreting the facts, or they are simply lying to and trying to deceive the American people. I believe it is the latter of the three. The media seems to clearly support any cause that is communist or socialist at every opportunity. This support is easy to see if you look at the way they cover any story where socialists or communists are involved.
The American media is also either far too politically correct or at least not opposed to the goals of Islam. No matter how much evidence there is against the religious goals of Islam they refuse to mention anything negative about them.
It is difficult to look at the emerging story of Egypt without considering the media and its involvement. Almost from the start the media has clearly supported the uprising in Egypt. They have used as many incendiary terms as they dare. They have constantly called him a dictator. They have at no point mentioned the fact that Egypt has been a staunch ally of Israel and the United States. Why is this? Because they are at their root communists and socialists in their world view. They do would be more than happy if the United States was left with not one friendly nation in the world. I suppose they think this would lead to a socialist/communist United States, and they must further feel that because they somehow helped in the destruction of capitalism and freedom in this nation that they will be immune from the purges that invariably follow. Should they not like what begins to happen they will most certainly not be free at that point to write anything negative about it.
What is about to happen in Egypt I fear is not good. Too many people think that any change must by definition be good. Even as people seem to think that each successive generation must be better, smarter, more spiritual and more enlightened than the previous generation. They do not believe this because of any evidence. Indeed in many cases they believe it in spite of the evidence to the contrary.
It is this same ignorance that infects the media. History or evidence to the contrary that socialism or communism has never lead to any good for any nation that has accepted them makes no difference to them. Whether the media are honest about it or not they are ideologues. Of course they are going to spin the news that they are fair and balanced and even come up with some polls or the like to demonstrate this, but I do not believe people are really that gullible.
We need to take a closer look at what is happening in Egypt right now. It is very important that we understand where things are going and that things could well go very wrong there. If we are not willing to accept this could be the case then we are asking for problems.
The media is still not letting the news that things have finally broken in Egypt deter them from continual reporting on this issue to the neglect of domestic issues. The media is not able to walk and chew gum at the same time. It seems all they can do is report 2 or at most 3 stories at a time, over and over throughout the day, to the exclusion of all else. Rather than report 35-40 real stories in a day they report on 4 over and over. They don't simply report what has happened, but they feel they must interpret it for us. I suppose they think that we are too stupid to understand current events unless they explain them too us. Maybe this is true. There are certainly more than enough people graduating from high school who are functionally illiterate, as well as not even knowing where different states are. We are have congressmen in office who do not know what the difference between the constitution and the declaration of independence are. Somehow I don't really have any confidence that the media are any better off.
The other day our faithful media began to report, based apparently on nothing more than some rumor someone started, that Mubarak was going to step down. When the announcement came he declared he would be staying in office till September. Clearly they don't care about facts and would rather report on hearsay. Because of this and many other things I honestly don't trust the media when they start to give us information about how the Muslim Brotherhood has become more temperate. They have not changed what they believe or what they're goals are. They have merely changed their tactics. As Van Jones said, they're giving up the radical pose for the sake of the radical ends. This is the case for the Muslim Brotherhood as well. They are more than willing to appear moderate as long as they are able to accomplish their ends. They have been working at this for a very long time.
The Muslim Brotherhood is very patient about achieving their ends. We take their patience to mean that they have given them but. This again comes from assuming they are like us. We assume their religion is like Christianity. We assume this because we want to. We assume they are interested in peace because we assume they are like Christians. We assume this because we assume that all gods are the same and have the same demands on their followers as the Christian God. We cannot conceive that there are people who believe in gods of war, and who believe their God tells them to wage war on the unbelievers. Again we do this because we project our "modern" beliefs on others. This is not only invalid, but very dangerous because we are not facing things as they are. Our nation is headed for very deep trouble if we do not come to our senses and realize that the Muslim mindset is essentially at its root quite different from every other religion on earth except maybe satanism.
I'm sure they would be most appalled at someone saying this. But consider for just a moment what other religion in the world regularly puts out death sentences on any person that criticizes their religion. The fact that they have the gaul to call themselves tolerant is laughable. The only thing worse than that is that we agree with them and pretend they are tolerant.
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Egypt - What to Do?
It is certainly easier to criticize the president and the administration than to come up with clear workable solutions to the problem of Egypt. Still there are some things which can be clearly determined
1. Part of the concern is what will happen to our energy costs and national security?
2. Part of the problem is what will happen to Israel?
3. Part is what will happen to the people in Egypt?
4. Last is what will happen in the region, which in part applies to #1?
I put them in this order because I felt this was probably the order of most importance. It may be debated about 2 and 3, but I still think the order is correct.
To the first point, all I can say is shame on our government and administration. They have put the needs of snail darters and rodents above the needs of the people of the nation. They refuse to drill the oil we have and continue to make us dependent on the Middle East for our supply when we could easily be drilling a great deal of our own if the environmental Nazis would just get out of the way.
We have allowed our leaders to defy the will of the people with their runaway ecology policies whose real design is not a genuine concern for some animal but rather a concern for a way to exercise more power over the people without admitting it is about other things.
If our leaders were as concerned about our national security as they ought to be they would have been making sure for a very long time now that we had enough energy. It is clear in this industrial age that energy is paramount to the security of any nation. Without energy your armies will go nowhere, your factories will produce nothing. But, rather than make it a point that we have all the cheap energy we can get by producing more coal, natural gas, nuclear energy, and the like, we have a government determined to find the most expensive fuels with the least promise and then even deny us the use of the forms of energy we already have.
Would this make sense to anyone but a politician or an ecology nut? Yet this is the place we find ourselves in. We have a federal government that hates the military, when that is one of their primary responsibilities. The federal government was not set up to decide what food we eat, or whether we can hate someone or not; it was not set up to determine where we could build and where we couldn't; it was not set up to determine what type of trees we could put on our property; it was not set up to determine what should be considered obese and what could be done about it. The federal government was set up as an arbitrator between the states, for the defense of the nation, and for such things as treaties and international tariffs.
It has not been satisfied with letting the states govern themselves. It has also abrogated its responsibility in the other areas. We have incompetents in very high positions in our government. Some might even call them subversive, but I know many just don't want to think we could have such people in those positions. Consider that even after a judge decided that the moratorium on drilling in the gulf was wrong and overturned it how our president and the czars he chose simply ignored it. Consider how there has only been one new drilling permit issued since the spill in the gulf. Consider how our president and administration is again ignoring the law and the judges they disagree with by simply continuing to implement a health care plan that has now been deemed unconstitutional. Those we have in power are contemptuous and ignorant of the constitution. If anything they view it as an inconvenience.
I wonder can anyone name one thing this administration has done that has proven to be for the good and safety of the nation regarding our allies, and international politics? It recently came out that Obama gave secret information to the Russians (not an ally by any means) on the nuclear program of England, definitely one of our oldest and best allies. Is there any investigation? Is there any genuine concern about how this will affect such a good alliance for the sake of nearly nonexistent concessions on the part of Russia?
In answer to the second point, "What will happen to Israel?" It does not seem to be the least concern to our president or this administration what will happen to Israel. Again, they have been one of our 2 best allies for the last 50 years, and Obama seems to never miss an opportunity to oppose them and stand on the side of the terrorists. It almost doesn't matter who opposes them, Obama is determined to side with anyone except Israel. So, can we say that Obama has the concern of another of our friends and our only real ally in the Middle East in mind?
We need to find some way to make it very clear to Egypt and the surrounding nations that we will stand by Israel and the surrounding nations no matter what. We need to further make it plain that we will support them militarily and that we are done dealing with Hamas, and the Palestinians since they have done nothing to bargain in good faith. At this point they feel as supported or even more so than Israel. Should this really be the case?
It is of course a dangerous thing to make threats if you either can't carry them out or if you don't intend to. We have a president that is very big on words but they are the words of deception. This of course makes him an unknown, which though it can have its advantages in international relations can also have a downside because even your allies don't know what to expect from you.
One of the things that is a prerequisite for international politics or any other politics for that matter is the ability to bring people together. We need to understand that Obama's complete history and life practice has been about dividing people and driving wedges between them. He has seen this method to accomplish his ends. Though this method works when you're dealing from a position of weakness it does not work when you are dealing from a position of strength. At this point all it does is turn people against you and make it harder to accomplish your ends.
It is clear if nothing else that we must declare our allegiance to Israel and stand behind that in every action we take, even when we disagree with them. We must also make it very clear that even when we disagree with them that we will stand with them. In the case of Obama he seems to make it very apparent that if they don't do exactly what he says then he will set himself against them. This is not the behavior of a president or a diplomat; it is the behavior of a community organizer. It is give me what I want or I will make your life so miserable that you'll wish you had. What really is the difference between this and what terrorists do?
What happens to the people in Egypt?
To this question the first thing we ought to address is that Egypt ought to be at least as concerned about its own people as we are. It is not our job to be the policemen of the world. Nor is it our job to make sure that all other nations do what we think is in their best interest. Doing that means that we are really playing the role of rulers of the world and this is not something our founding fathers ever intended. What they intended was actually that we should stay out of world politics as much as possible and only get involved where our friends and allies were concerned. If nations want to be concerned allies well and good, but if not then we have nothing to do with them and make it clear that they better not do anything to us either. More and more it seems people are not afraid of what we might do.
Our change toward a politically correct view of war where we should never really go after a nation or country with destruction in mind. It is as though we have unlearned 4,000 years worth of war. War is of course messy. It is not meant to be surgical. It was not meant to be painless and only aimed at what individuals had already done something wrong. It has always been aimed at nations. The end result should be that the nation attacked stops fighting against you and submits. The Muslims certainly recognize this. The word Islam means submission. If we forget this is one of the primary aims of their religion we are bound to suffer grave consequences.
We do not have enough information about the parties involved to make any intelligent decision or give advice that might actually benefit them. They should no more expect that we will interject into their government than we would wanting another nation telling us which president or leader we should pick. We would most certainly view this as very offensive and I can't see how they would feel any other way about it either.
It is for that reason that I say I don't believe we should be pressing our views on Egypt unless we would expect them to do the same if the roles were reversed.
What of Stability in the Region?
I cannot see how this would be an issue if we were a little more concerned with taking care of our own issues. If we were more concerned about getting our own oil from our own vast resources we would be far better off. It is certainly a fact that we cannot behave as though we have our own resources. Our government has taken such a position against the people to prevent us from handling our own energy needs. This being the case we do have to be concerned about what may happen in the region. If we lose control at this point we may well find that we are in a lot of trouble regarding our energy needs.
It is possible that we may be able to make up those energy needs in a fairly short period of time were a crisis to present itself, but I fear with the president and congress we have right now even a crisis wouldn't be enough to fix the issue. It is certain that nuclear plants are not going to get built any time soon. Even though in most cases there are only a handful of people opposed to them, the situation is such that they manage to mobilize themselves and make it appear that there is a great deal more opposition to them than would be expected. It is also quite clear that the building of nuclear power plants takes years. We might be able to bring more oil and coal to market in a relatively short period of time, but beyond that I'm not sure we'll be able to make up for the difference of what we get from the Middle East.
For this reason stability in the Middle East or for that matter almost any region is desirable. About the only time you look for instability is when you plan on weakening an opponent. So if the desire of our president is to weaken someone then instability would definitely be desirable; otherwise I cannot think of a reason we should seek to see such a thing happen in this region of the world at this time.
It further does not add to the stability of the region when we show that we are not really going to stand behind our allies. It makes you wonder if anyone in our administration or upper levels of government understand anything at all about these situations? Where are our ambassadors? What are they doing? Why is there no input from them when they have been there all this time and certainly must recognize better than those who are far off what is happening.
We cannot find out anything reliable from the media at this point. Most of them are too busy trying to cover for the president and others are too enamored with the whole rioting and rebellion thing. They are like ravens fascinated with the latest shiny object.
It is a shame that we need to petition our media as much or more to do their jobs. It is bad enough that we should have to do that with our leaders, but to have to do it with the media when their job is to watch the government and yet they cannot be bothered to do anything but defend the president instead of doing their job and reporting on the president
1. Part of the concern is what will happen to our energy costs and national security?
2. Part of the problem is what will happen to Israel?
3. Part is what will happen to the people in Egypt?
4. Last is what will happen in the region, which in part applies to #1?
I put them in this order because I felt this was probably the order of most importance. It may be debated about 2 and 3, but I still think the order is correct.
To the first point, all I can say is shame on our government and administration. They have put the needs of snail darters and rodents above the needs of the people of the nation. They refuse to drill the oil we have and continue to make us dependent on the Middle East for our supply when we could easily be drilling a great deal of our own if the environmental Nazis would just get out of the way.
We have allowed our leaders to defy the will of the people with their runaway ecology policies whose real design is not a genuine concern for some animal but rather a concern for a way to exercise more power over the people without admitting it is about other things.
If our leaders were as concerned about our national security as they ought to be they would have been making sure for a very long time now that we had enough energy. It is clear in this industrial age that energy is paramount to the security of any nation. Without energy your armies will go nowhere, your factories will produce nothing. But, rather than make it a point that we have all the cheap energy we can get by producing more coal, natural gas, nuclear energy, and the like, we have a government determined to find the most expensive fuels with the least promise and then even deny us the use of the forms of energy we already have.
Would this make sense to anyone but a politician or an ecology nut? Yet this is the place we find ourselves in. We have a federal government that hates the military, when that is one of their primary responsibilities. The federal government was not set up to decide what food we eat, or whether we can hate someone or not; it was not set up to determine where we could build and where we couldn't; it was not set up to determine what type of trees we could put on our property; it was not set up to determine what should be considered obese and what could be done about it. The federal government was set up as an arbitrator between the states, for the defense of the nation, and for such things as treaties and international tariffs.
It has not been satisfied with letting the states govern themselves. It has also abrogated its responsibility in the other areas. We have incompetents in very high positions in our government. Some might even call them subversive, but I know many just don't want to think we could have such people in those positions. Consider that even after a judge decided that the moratorium on drilling in the gulf was wrong and overturned it how our president and the czars he chose simply ignored it. Consider how there has only been one new drilling permit issued since the spill in the gulf. Consider how our president and administration is again ignoring the law and the judges they disagree with by simply continuing to implement a health care plan that has now been deemed unconstitutional. Those we have in power are contemptuous and ignorant of the constitution. If anything they view it as an inconvenience.
I wonder can anyone name one thing this administration has done that has proven to be for the good and safety of the nation regarding our allies, and international politics? It recently came out that Obama gave secret information to the Russians (not an ally by any means) on the nuclear program of England, definitely one of our oldest and best allies. Is there any investigation? Is there any genuine concern about how this will affect such a good alliance for the sake of nearly nonexistent concessions on the part of Russia?
In answer to the second point, "What will happen to Israel?" It does not seem to be the least concern to our president or this administration what will happen to Israel. Again, they have been one of our 2 best allies for the last 50 years, and Obama seems to never miss an opportunity to oppose them and stand on the side of the terrorists. It almost doesn't matter who opposes them, Obama is determined to side with anyone except Israel. So, can we say that Obama has the concern of another of our friends and our only real ally in the Middle East in mind?
We need to find some way to make it very clear to Egypt and the surrounding nations that we will stand by Israel and the surrounding nations no matter what. We need to further make it plain that we will support them militarily and that we are done dealing with Hamas, and the Palestinians since they have done nothing to bargain in good faith. At this point they feel as supported or even more so than Israel. Should this really be the case?
It is of course a dangerous thing to make threats if you either can't carry them out or if you don't intend to. We have a president that is very big on words but they are the words of deception. This of course makes him an unknown, which though it can have its advantages in international relations can also have a downside because even your allies don't know what to expect from you.
One of the things that is a prerequisite for international politics or any other politics for that matter is the ability to bring people together. We need to understand that Obama's complete history and life practice has been about dividing people and driving wedges between them. He has seen this method to accomplish his ends. Though this method works when you're dealing from a position of weakness it does not work when you are dealing from a position of strength. At this point all it does is turn people against you and make it harder to accomplish your ends.
It is clear if nothing else that we must declare our allegiance to Israel and stand behind that in every action we take, even when we disagree with them. We must also make it very clear that even when we disagree with them that we will stand with them. In the case of Obama he seems to make it very apparent that if they don't do exactly what he says then he will set himself against them. This is not the behavior of a president or a diplomat; it is the behavior of a community organizer. It is give me what I want or I will make your life so miserable that you'll wish you had. What really is the difference between this and what terrorists do?
What happens to the people in Egypt?
To this question the first thing we ought to address is that Egypt ought to be at least as concerned about its own people as we are. It is not our job to be the policemen of the world. Nor is it our job to make sure that all other nations do what we think is in their best interest. Doing that means that we are really playing the role of rulers of the world and this is not something our founding fathers ever intended. What they intended was actually that we should stay out of world politics as much as possible and only get involved where our friends and allies were concerned. If nations want to be concerned allies well and good, but if not then we have nothing to do with them and make it clear that they better not do anything to us either. More and more it seems people are not afraid of what we might do.
Our change toward a politically correct view of war where we should never really go after a nation or country with destruction in mind. It is as though we have unlearned 4,000 years worth of war. War is of course messy. It is not meant to be surgical. It was not meant to be painless and only aimed at what individuals had already done something wrong. It has always been aimed at nations. The end result should be that the nation attacked stops fighting against you and submits. The Muslims certainly recognize this. The word Islam means submission. If we forget this is one of the primary aims of their religion we are bound to suffer grave consequences.
We do not have enough information about the parties involved to make any intelligent decision or give advice that might actually benefit them. They should no more expect that we will interject into their government than we would wanting another nation telling us which president or leader we should pick. We would most certainly view this as very offensive and I can't see how they would feel any other way about it either.
It is for that reason that I say I don't believe we should be pressing our views on Egypt unless we would expect them to do the same if the roles were reversed.
What of Stability in the Region?
I cannot see how this would be an issue if we were a little more concerned with taking care of our own issues. If we were more concerned about getting our own oil from our own vast resources we would be far better off. It is certainly a fact that we cannot behave as though we have our own resources. Our government has taken such a position against the people to prevent us from handling our own energy needs. This being the case we do have to be concerned about what may happen in the region. If we lose control at this point we may well find that we are in a lot of trouble regarding our energy needs.
It is possible that we may be able to make up those energy needs in a fairly short period of time were a crisis to present itself, but I fear with the president and congress we have right now even a crisis wouldn't be enough to fix the issue. It is certain that nuclear plants are not going to get built any time soon. Even though in most cases there are only a handful of people opposed to them, the situation is such that they manage to mobilize themselves and make it appear that there is a great deal more opposition to them than would be expected. It is also quite clear that the building of nuclear power plants takes years. We might be able to bring more oil and coal to market in a relatively short period of time, but beyond that I'm not sure we'll be able to make up for the difference of what we get from the Middle East.
For this reason stability in the Middle East or for that matter almost any region is desirable. About the only time you look for instability is when you plan on weakening an opponent. So if the desire of our president is to weaken someone then instability would definitely be desirable; otherwise I cannot think of a reason we should seek to see such a thing happen in this region of the world at this time.
It further does not add to the stability of the region when we show that we are not really going to stand behind our allies. It makes you wonder if anyone in our administration or upper levels of government understand anything at all about these situations? Where are our ambassadors? What are they doing? Why is there no input from them when they have been there all this time and certainly must recognize better than those who are far off what is happening.
We cannot find out anything reliable from the media at this point. Most of them are too busy trying to cover for the president and others are too enamored with the whole rioting and rebellion thing. They are like ravens fascinated with the latest shiny object.
It is a shame that we need to petition our media as much or more to do their jobs. It is bad enough that we should have to do that with our leaders, but to have to do it with the media when their job is to watch the government and yet they cannot be bothered to do anything but defend the president instead of doing their job and reporting on the president
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Republican Progressives At It Again
Once again we have the progressive republicans at it again. Just like the democrat progressive/communist/socialists, they love a good tragedy, or crisis to take yet more rights, and place more restrictions and legislation on the people.
Already they are preparing to do what they can to curtail guns due to the latest crisis. I'm sure curtailing speech won't be far behind since we certainly have to stop anyone from every criticizing the government. After all such criticisms lead to the kind of madness we saw a few days ago with Giffords.
They certainly would never consider actually making an example of this man by actually giving him the death penalty and carrying it out swiftly before the shock of what he did wears off. No, they would rather blame those who said "incendiary things" or go after the people that sold him the gun, because after all they should have been able to see the future and thus not sold him the gun. It's everyone's fault but the killer's.
Get ready to watch our elite progressive republicans continue the work of their democrat progressive partners.
One thing I would ask. Keep an eye on the Tea Party Candidates and if they stick to their guns with their votes then vote more like them in at the next election. It is possible to get these progressives out of office, but we must be watchful. If we are not we will lose the republic our forefathers worked so hard to give us.
They will use every crisis to clamp down on us. If there isn't a crisis they will generate one. it almost seems they are salivating at decline in civility and are encouraging it at every point.
When the media keeps reporting all the hate of the right and the provocative language that lead to this terrible event it would be worth your time to refresh your memory with what they have said for a very long time on the other side. There is a lot of info at Michelle Malkin and this is a site well worth book marking. Whether you agree with her politics or not she has nothing but solid facts at her site usually quoted directly from the other side.
Already they are preparing to do what they can to curtail guns due to the latest crisis. I'm sure curtailing speech won't be far behind since we certainly have to stop anyone from every criticizing the government. After all such criticisms lead to the kind of madness we saw a few days ago with Giffords.
They certainly would never consider actually making an example of this man by actually giving him the death penalty and carrying it out swiftly before the shock of what he did wears off. No, they would rather blame those who said "incendiary things" or go after the people that sold him the gun, because after all they should have been able to see the future and thus not sold him the gun. It's everyone's fault but the killer's.
Get ready to watch our elite progressive republicans continue the work of their democrat progressive partners.
One thing I would ask. Keep an eye on the Tea Party Candidates and if they stick to their guns with their votes then vote more like them in at the next election. It is possible to get these progressives out of office, but we must be watchful. If we are not we will lose the republic our forefathers worked so hard to give us.
They will use every crisis to clamp down on us. If there isn't a crisis they will generate one. it almost seems they are salivating at decline in civility and are encouraging it at every point.
When the media keeps reporting all the hate of the right and the provocative language that lead to this terrible event it would be worth your time to refresh your memory with what they have said for a very long time on the other side. There is a lot of info at Michelle Malkin and this is a site well worth book marking. Whether you agree with her politics or not she has nothing but solid facts at her site usually quoted directly from the other side.
Monday, January 10, 2011
Politicizing, Lies and Propaganda
It does not take much to see just how much the progressive socialists are pouring on the lies and propaganda. It is not only shameful it borders on evil. They understand in propaganda and lies that it is important who dominates the conversation first and after that to keep saying the same things no matter what conflicting information comes out. I wonder if the American people are really as stupid as the leftist communist media believes they are.
It sometimes seems the people prefer to believe the lie they've been told rather than look at the facts now matter how many clearly conflicting facts they are given after the fact.
Let us consider the latest tragedy of Rep. Giffords. right after the shooting the media went into full swing blaming conservatives, the Tea Party and anyone who opposes the current liberal government. Then it comes out that the shooter was himself an extreme leftist, following communism and Marxism. Do we hear anything about this from the media? Of course not. The media is only too well aware that this would then make them look like the gun toting, revolutionary, extremists they are.
Now how would they handle this. They would start by saying you can't judge everyone by the acts of one man, Yet at every opportunity this is exactly what they do. Like global warming, it doesn't matter what the facts are, it must be because of the conservatives. This is the rhetoric and there is no change to this mantra.
Neither the people nor such semi responsible reporting media such as Fox seem to be considering how rapidly this is giving our elitist representatives every excuse to do everything behind closed doors and not to answer to the people. After all they're afraid for their lives! Are they really? They feign fear very well but they more than enough boldness when standing against everything the American people have told them they don't want. The American people scream at the top of their lungs they don't want national health care, the communist/socialist/progressive left decide to pass it. They pass more taxes. They now have laws in place that allow the IRS to start seizing your property even before guilt is established. Our who government is out of control, but still they continue to attack the American people. They are waging political and propaganda war on the American people.
This is not to excuse this horrid act against one of our representatives no matter what his political leaning. The balance that the media simply doesn't want to report is that this killer acted alone. His political views are not the views of normal people anywhere in this country. The Tea Party represents normal Americans, it certainly cannot be said that the communists/socialists/progressives hold normal views about our nation. They want to see our system brought down and replaced and they have made this clear many times.
We only need to listen to the many writings, and speaking engagements of most of Obama's czars to recognize that they hate this country and want to see it brought down and replaced with something much more communist or socialist. They are even willing to see and promote revolution in the violent sense in this country and they have said as much from lecterns. The media and thus the people do not discuss these outrageous proclamations because most don't even know they're spouting this stuff. Thank you media for keeping this stuff hidden. It's not like you don't know they're saying it, you just don't want to report it.
I have little doubt that our elite non-representing representatives will do everything they can to start passing yet more restrictive laws on our freedoms in the name of their safety. The question is, "Who will protect us from them?"
It is interesting how many phrases the media has picked from people such as Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin, all out of context and made to sound violent, yet no media report such things as Obama's comments that if they bring a knife you should bring a gun. There is no mention that every bit of violence reported on the political front has been by a liberal either defending Obama or one that doesn't think he's gone far enough and is mad at him for that. Do you hear any of this? Of course not. The spin is amazing and worse yet the lack of facts or that the facts are ignored and the rhetoric continues is yet more amazing. they wield propaganda like a knife in the hands of a skilled surgeon.
People need to start demanding really news and real facts not a lot of editorializing from our media. They can easily demand it by simply refusing to buy read or listen to those that aren't offering the facts. We are not stupid. We don't need people to tell us "WHAT THIS BILL MEANS IS...." We need them to tell us, "What the bill SAYS IS...." We are more than capable of figuring out what it means for ourselves. We only need to know what it says.
Understand the progressives, not to be confused with real democrats or liberals, are rapidly taking control of much of what we hear in the media and over time it will have it's effects unless we simply stop listening to it and through that force them to offer us real facts and real news along with real retractions when they're wrong.
It sometimes seems the people prefer to believe the lie they've been told rather than look at the facts now matter how many clearly conflicting facts they are given after the fact.
Let us consider the latest tragedy of Rep. Giffords. right after the shooting the media went into full swing blaming conservatives, the Tea Party and anyone who opposes the current liberal government. Then it comes out that the shooter was himself an extreme leftist, following communism and Marxism. Do we hear anything about this from the media? Of course not. The media is only too well aware that this would then make them look like the gun toting, revolutionary, extremists they are.
Now how would they handle this. They would start by saying you can't judge everyone by the acts of one man, Yet at every opportunity this is exactly what they do. Like global warming, it doesn't matter what the facts are, it must be because of the conservatives. This is the rhetoric and there is no change to this mantra.
Neither the people nor such semi responsible reporting media such as Fox seem to be considering how rapidly this is giving our elitist representatives every excuse to do everything behind closed doors and not to answer to the people. After all they're afraid for their lives! Are they really? They feign fear very well but they more than enough boldness when standing against everything the American people have told them they don't want. The American people scream at the top of their lungs they don't want national health care, the communist/socialist/progressive left decide to pass it. They pass more taxes. They now have laws in place that allow the IRS to start seizing your property even before guilt is established. Our who government is out of control, but still they continue to attack the American people. They are waging political and propaganda war on the American people.
This is not to excuse this horrid act against one of our representatives no matter what his political leaning. The balance that the media simply doesn't want to report is that this killer acted alone. His political views are not the views of normal people anywhere in this country. The Tea Party represents normal Americans, it certainly cannot be said that the communists/socialists/progressives hold normal views about our nation. They want to see our system brought down and replaced and they have made this clear many times.
We only need to listen to the many writings, and speaking engagements of most of Obama's czars to recognize that they hate this country and want to see it brought down and replaced with something much more communist or socialist. They are even willing to see and promote revolution in the violent sense in this country and they have said as much from lecterns. The media and thus the people do not discuss these outrageous proclamations because most don't even know they're spouting this stuff. Thank you media for keeping this stuff hidden. It's not like you don't know they're saying it, you just don't want to report it.
I have little doubt that our elite non-representing representatives will do everything they can to start passing yet more restrictive laws on our freedoms in the name of their safety. The question is, "Who will protect us from them?"
It is interesting how many phrases the media has picked from people such as Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin, all out of context and made to sound violent, yet no media report such things as Obama's comments that if they bring a knife you should bring a gun. There is no mention that every bit of violence reported on the political front has been by a liberal either defending Obama or one that doesn't think he's gone far enough and is mad at him for that. Do you hear any of this? Of course not. The spin is amazing and worse yet the lack of facts or that the facts are ignored and the rhetoric continues is yet more amazing. they wield propaganda like a knife in the hands of a skilled surgeon.
People need to start demanding really news and real facts not a lot of editorializing from our media. They can easily demand it by simply refusing to buy read or listen to those that aren't offering the facts. We are not stupid. We don't need people to tell us "WHAT THIS BILL MEANS IS...." We need them to tell us, "What the bill SAYS IS...." We are more than capable of figuring out what it means for ourselves. We only need to know what it says.
Understand the progressives, not to be confused with real democrats or liberals, are rapidly taking control of much of what we hear in the media and over time it will have it's effects unless we simply stop listening to it and through that force them to offer us real facts and real news along with real retractions when they're wrong.
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