Life Is Too Short

Never Buy A Parrot From This Man

w/ a little help from Zzyzx

Six Years On, Still Getting Away With It

John Kerry In The City Of Lights

A Little Perspective From Hillary

Obama Makes Some Changes

C'mon People...He Was Busy That Day

"Smoking Ruins And Crying Widows"

In 2012 President Obama said "the future must not belong to those who insult the prophet of Islam."  Like it or not, until something changes, he has the power to define that future.  As always, his priorities have more to do with the accommodation and appeasement of those who are causing the problem, and less to do with America's interests.  Policy is being made by him, and by people who think like him.  They want us to accept this kind of thinking.  It explains, among other things, why we are leaving Afghanistan with no resolution, at the cost of 2,144 American lives, 73% of which occured since Obama took office.

The future has arrived, and the question is whether we will remain free men or whether we will be on our knees at the mercy of a global caliphate.  Apparently the latter is an acceptable choice to leftists, just so long as we are nice to each other.  People who think like this don't deserve to live in a free society.  If we allow it to continue, none of us will.   

The left has fallen prey to their own deception.  Political Correctness is a weapon devised to silence opposition to their utopian ideas, but their cowardice in the face of Islamic terrorism has brought them to apply it to their own thinking.  It offers them a way to rationalize their willingness to get on their knees in the face of the very thing that will put an end to their right to have any ideas about anything, utopian or not, if it does not conform to the ideology of Islam.  The absurdity of this appears to be lost on the left, but it is not lost on the people who have declared war on us.  "Peace at any cost" is a suicidal mirage.  In the face of an aggressive enemy, it guarantees an opposite reaction. 

   

The left has learned nothing from history.  The appeasement by Neville Chamberlain, and the complicity of Vichy France allowed the Nazis to expand into Western Europe.  It took the Normandy invasion, led by the United States Military under General Eisenhower, with the full support of the American People to push them back into Germany.  Islamist terrorism poses no less a threat to the Western world, but we find ourselves compromised by the leftists in America today.

Right now France, in exchange for their softness on Islamists,  is being torn apart, and only people who are willfully blind refuse to see that their PC cowardice insures that the nightmare will be here soon.  France as we know it will cease to exist without a focused military response by the leaders of the free world. 

  

On January 9th, Lt Col Ralph Peters presented the only answer to the problem that is based in reality.  He said:

"in a war you fight to win, you don’t worry about political correctness. The jihadis will do anything to win, and we’re worried about our table manners.”

Some points he made:

    1.  First, accept that you are in a war.
    2.  Name the enemy:  Islamist Terrorists   
    3.  Get the lawyers and the policymakers off the battlefield    
    4.  You go where the terrorists are and you kill them.
    5.  You don't send American troops into a war you don't intend to win.    
    6.  Be as merciless as the enemy.  If you're not willing to do that, he will win.

Read his full remarks here. 

A Taste Of Their Own Medicine

A Light Shines In The Darkness

Cause And Effect, A Hard One For Liberals

Liberals are a little weak on the concept of Cause and Effect.  In their minds, Cops cause crime, guns cause shootings, unborn babies cause abortions, and capitalism causes oppression, which causes poverty, which causes hopelessness, which causes street gangs, random shootings, drug use, looting, and general stupidity.

In the case of "climate change" it works something like this:

    • People invented technology and capitalism
    • Technology and capitalism created the internal combustion engine
    • Internal combustion engines cause global climate change
    • Snow is evidence of global climate change
    • Snowplows use internal combustion engines
    • Anytime it snows, snowplows always show up.

Therefore:

Snowplows cause snowstorms

I Think It Will Be A Good Year

I feel good about 2015, in spite of some things that give the left a feeling of progress as they move "Forward".  The left feels emboldened by the ground they have taken in their efforts to foment violence among us, by their efforts to disable America's  military, their assault on Christianity, and by the persistence of the media who willingly abet their fictions.  They count the mayhem perpetrated on this country's healthcare industry, on it's sovereign borders, the abject surrender of the RINOs in congress, and Obama's "pen and phone" approach to Constitutional constraints as signs of progress.  They have successfully used the IRS, the EPA, the Justice Department, and other agencies as weapons against us.  

Still, the left appears frantic in the pursuit of their "transformation" of this country.   The increasingly brazen lies (for instance, here) speak of desperation.  When caught in the open, they are forced to resort to absurdities, as we saw with Jonathan Gruber's testimony before congress, and Nancy Pelosi's bizarre contortions about the 2014 elections.
   

The left has declared war on America, and they consider anyone who disagrees with their goals to be the enemy.  There are a few things the left's hubris has led them to overlook, however, as they pursue that war.  Sun Tzu, a Chinese military leader and philosopher, wrote The Art Of War sometime in the sixth century AD.  Maybe they would benefit from rereading it, assuming they ever even heard of it.  In it he said,  

    "Know your enemy and know yourself…"   

It has become increasingly apparent that they don't know much about either one.  We are a tolerant, patient people who don't seek a fight, but we have yet to run from one.  They mistake the passivity of our protestations as weakness.  But patience has it's limits, and I firmly believe that, if we are left with no alternative, we will ultimately put an end to this assault by any means necessary.    

The problem the left has, is that in spite of their efforts, they're losing ground with the people who supported them. This country was founded by the self reliance of individuals, and growing numbers of us refuse to give up our right to think for ourselves.  The people in this country know a pile of bullshit when they smell it.  No matter who is hiding behind it. 

Al Sharpton, A Quiet Moment

Onlookers were dumbfounded last week, confronted with a strange, unsettling sight.  Somebody managed to pull himself together, and took a picture of the Reverend Al that will go down in history as one of the rarest, most unbelievable sights ever photographed.  

It is a picture of Al Sharpton with his mouth shut.

The crowd of admirers was stunned as the Rev Al stood there, not talking, with a strange, dazed look on his face.  He wasn't even stabbing the air with his finger.  Panic swept the room, several people in the audience collapsed, and one person, obviously in a state of shock, said "we didn't know what to do.  We were waiting for him to tell us when to start the riot, but he didn't say anything.  He hadn't even told us what we were supposed to be mad about yet.  It was scary."  Someone pulled himself together long enough to call paramedics.  They were on scene in less than two minutes, and as they were preparing to stabilize him, he was heard to say…

"I'm fine, I was just in between sentences"

Here is a picture of that moment, frozen in time, along with a small sample of others showing the Al we all recognize.

Our experts, using the latest face recognition software, 
have assured us that this is indeed Al Sharpton.

The Voice Of Sanity

Here is the voice of sanity from a Harvard professor.  This Christmas we will again celebrate the birth of Christ, who came here to teach us this same message.
  

That light still shines in the world.  Truth, clarity, and respect for others is only possible if we have respect for ourselves, and if we listen to the things He taught us.  There are people now in this country who sow hatred and division, who want to replace His message with a very different one.  They've always been among us, and they know that to succeed in their plans, they have to turn us against each other by creating anger and confusion, and by turning us away from our religious principles, however they might be expressed. But they will only succeed if we let them.

Obama Ponders His Next Move

Obama spins the foreign policy wheel, hands the Castros a huge victory, America gets nothing in return, Obama stands at 0 for 10 in his foreign policy efforts, and ends up with a Texas chili bowl for his trouble.  Socialism wins, and the Cuban people lose, not to mention the damage to what's left of our national image.  But Obama doesn't see any of that as bad.  So should he spin the wheel again or not?  

Obama ponders his next move:  "After all, America does need to be brought down a peg, and besides, thanks to the RINOs, amnesty is in the bag, right there next to Obamacare.  And they actually passed the CRomnibus.  So since the midterms, it's been a pretty good run from my point of view.  So what the hell, spin it again.  It's not my money after all, and whatever happens, if America ends up looking bad, hey…. Anyway, I like a good Texas chili bowl now and then, so even if I lose, I win"

So Much To Transform, So Little Time

Today President Obama announced he would begin the process of normalizing relations with Cuba, including establishing a US Embassy in Havana.  Exactly how he will go about this is unknown (yet another Exec Order?), as Congress is the only entity that can end an embargo.  But then, when has he ever let that sort of thing stand in his way?   

One Final Thought About Dr. Gruber

Over the last two weeks, Dr. Gruber has received his share of attention for his statements disclosing the deception used to craft Obamacare, and his repeated statements to the effect that Americans were too stupid to catch on.  With the exception of the MSM, just about everybody has had something to say about the cynicism exposed by his statements. The humiliating takedown by Darrell Issa's committee yesterday, (12/10) was well deserved, and If there's more to follow, he deserves that too.  (He wasn't allowed to plead the 5th Amendment, that phrase has been copyrighted by the IRS).

Gruber's problems centered around his contributions to the development of Obamacare, his string of documented comments about the need to deceive Americans to secure the bill's passage, and his repeated observations about how easy that was given how stupid we all are.

A fascinating comment was made during the hearing by committee member Elijah Cummings.  Unconcerned about the fact that Obamacare is built completely on lies, or about the insult to America's intelligence, his stated concern was that Gruber's statements gave the GOP a "public relations gift", and that the democrats stood exposed.  The main reason Mr. Cummings was unhappy was that Dr. Gruber had dared to speak the truth.  He had broken "omertà".   Omertà (silence) is a principle that evolved in Sicily, used by the Mafia as a code of conduct that forbids disclosing information about criminal activities.  The totalitarian left shares that principle, and for good reason.  Ironically, it was originally used as a means of keeping government out of people's private affairs.  Now it has become a principle used by the government to keep private citizens away from the truth.  

History will remember Dr. Gruber as a sacrificial goat whose naiveté exposed the shenanigans of his totalitarian bosses.  Like them, he brought arrogance and an elitist sense of entitlement to the table, but he lacked the street sense to pull it off.  He was a political naif in the art of weaselspeak, and he let the cat out of the bag.  It is that about which Democrats are unhappy.

He should have stuck to teaching economics to college kids, where a PhD is a mark of high honor,  and left the lies and the disrespect shown to the nation to the people who do it for a living.  For them, PhD stands for Phony Dufus.   

Empathy For The Devil

Hillary says we need to show empathy for our enemies?  People who want us all to die?  Here's a video clip with Greta Van Susteren on Fox...Oliver North's reaction is priceless.

This woman wants us to believe she has the tickets to be the Commander In Chief, but then she says stuff like this.  It's a great way to interact with grandchildren, Hill, but it doesn't work with 11th century madmen who are willing to die for a chance to cut our heads off.