- Both sides bear some blame.
Various factions of the Republican Party are jockeying for position, leadership, and media attention. As a result, some important points about the future of this country are getting lost. Lets make this less about the individuals, and more about the nation, OK? - My major comment about the Democrat party is that they seem to exhibit remarkable cohesion on their party discipline, and, as a result, their message does reach the voter clearly.
Too bad that their message is: We won, so all y'all taxpayers have to cough up as much cash in taxes as we want - forever. If we run out of money to pay off our campaign donors, just suck it up and give us more. NO reduction of spending - no matter how wasteful or ridiculous - can EVER be considered. If you protest, we're gonna talk about starving babies and homeless old people. - I'm so excited that average citizens stood up to the Park Service Nazis, and put those Barrycades on the White House sidewalk. That's the sort of American Action I like to see - in this country, the Government doesn't tell law-abiding citizens where they can go.
- The settlement may be the best we can hope for. We should use the next few months to educate the American public about the dangers of long-term debt. I'm working to put together a Youtube presentation about it - it'll be a first for me.
- TV is boring. They don't actually analyze any of the issues. They just look for cool soundbites.
- I haven't read a newspaper in months. Most of my information is gotten from websites (OK, they are sometimes web editions of newspapers, such as the Wall Street Journal or Fortune), TV news, government sites (well, until the shutdown).
- For those who think the answer to the government running out of money is to raise the debt ceiling:
Consider a family who spend without regard to their budget, and eventually ran out of money, and maxed out their credit cards. If they then went to their creditors, and said, "We can't pay our bills. Our solution is for you to raise our credit limit."
How many of you think their creditors would think that a good idea? How many would think their response would be, "Find a way to make do with the money you have coming in. Cut out the luxuries and frills."
Sunday, October 20, 2013
After the Shutdown
I've been too busy with RL to do more than observe the posturing of various politicians over the last few weeks. I have, however, a few remarks to make about this time:
Thursday, October 10, 2013
THE GREAT OBAMACARE/BUDGET/OVERREACH CRASH
Hard as it is for the dedicated, loyal Obamanuts to imagine, The Great and Powerful O is well on the way to crashing and burning - in a mess of his own making. Some of the most recent ways he is screwing up:
- Obamacare Website Fiasco. Few can get through the initial creation of a sign-on and password. Even fewer can navigate the system to sign on, and select a plan. Those persistent few who WERE successful have NO IDEA how much it will cost them. In the process, they have had to give their financial and medical information to a government that routinely violates privacy protections, agree to let a credit agency release their credit information (and pay more if they have a low credit rating), and passively accept whatever terms the Feds want to give them.
Bad planning, bad coding (by an outsourced CANADIAN company - hey, I thought only the EVIL Republicans/Capitalists did that!), and bad decision-making. - The shift from Friendly Park Service Employees to Terrifying, Brown-Shirted (literally), Uber-Nazis.
See Here, Here, and Here. - For a man that was touted as the MOST INTELLIGENT PRESIDENT OF ALL TIME, Obama sure makes some DUMB moves.
Sunday, September 22, 2013
Cowards!
The following members of the House Oversight Committee didn't have the GUTS to stay there and listen to the testimony of these people:
I decided to see just much interest they display on their websites for the Benghazi investigation - since, according to the official statements, the Democrats would have LOVED to stay and listen to the parents, but, alas, they just HAPPENED to have these scheduling conflicts.
Membership names taken from the House site:
AMAZINGLY, the link to a puff piece about the Rep. receiving an award from the Association of Americans Living Overseas doesn't work - but if you click here, it will. Wonder how those Americans who DIED in Benghazi feel about her not having the guts to listen to their parents talk about how the administration failed them - AND lied about it - AND are STILL lying about it.
Well, Unfailing Support EXCEPT for those people who died in the Embassy attack. Ya know, the peons who don't count.
The above statement on Speier's page is the single most substantive that I was able to find. I give her credit for the support in it.
No Search function on his website
Names include links to their websites - DO GIVE THEM A SHOUT-OUT, won't you? Let them know how you feel about their COWARDICE in leaving the room. AND maybe you can ask those that have NO RESULTS in the search for the term "Benghazi" why that is.
Patricia Smith and Charles Woods. Ms. Smith is the mother of Sean Smith, an information management officer killed in the 9/11 Benghazi attack. Charles Woods is the father of Navy SEAL Tyrone Woods, who was also killed.
I decided to see just much interest they display on their websites for the Benghazi investigation - since, according to the official statements, the Democrats would have LOVED to stay and listen to the parents, but, alas, they just HAPPENED to have these scheduling conflicts.
Membership names taken from the House site:
AMAZINGLY, the link to a puff piece about the Rep. receiving an award from the Association of Americans Living Overseas doesn't work - but if you click here, it will. Wonder how those Americans who DIED in Benghazi feel about her not having the guts to listen to their parents talk about how the administration failed them - AND lied about it - AND are STILL lying about it.
Inscribed on the award is a message that reads, “In Gratitude For Her Unfailing Support For the Rights of Americans Living and Working Overseas.”
Well, Unfailing Support EXCEPT for those people who died in the Embassy attack. Ya know, the peons who don't count.
- Rep. Jackie Speier (CA-12) - aside from the Ranking Member Elijah Cummings, she's the ONLY one that stayed.
The above statement on Speier's page is the single most substantive that I was able to find. I give her credit for the support in it.
No Search function on his website
Names include links to their websites - DO GIVE THEM A SHOUT-OUT, won't you? Let them know how you feel about their COWARDICE in leaving the room. AND maybe you can ask those that have NO RESULTS in the search for the term "Benghazi" why that is.
Saturday, August 17, 2013
Cloward-Piven, Again
It's the same tactics, in a new war.
For those who, unlike myself, did not attend a liberal college, this may be new to you. Here's a link explaining the technique.
Here's a link explaining the strategy with their OWN WORDS. Social service activists have taken over the field of social work, USING the poor/desperate deliberately to move their revolutionary goals. The social worker who is in the job because she/he want to help people is pushed to cooperate with anti-American movements, that want to bring down the system, no matter who it hurts.
Here is a deeper analysis of the way that crises are deliberately manufactured to promote the destruction of American society.
The efforts to overload the American System to the point of breakdown continues.
One of the little-known (by the general public) institutions that have a LARGE impact on American policy is the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) - Wikipedia reference:
Some affiliated people are:
We have to think of the current situation as the result of a Long March of Progressives. They laid the groundwork, and are now beginning to make their influence felt.
Fortunately, they are mis-managing the economy, military, education, and other American institutions so thoroughly that they may well doom themselves to a footnote in history, if the American public catches on and votes them out.
For those who, unlike myself, did not attend a liberal college, this may be new to you. Here's a link explaining the technique.
Here's a link explaining the strategy with their OWN WORDS. Social service activists have taken over the field of social work, USING the poor/desperate deliberately to move their revolutionary goals. The social worker who is in the job because she/he want to help people is pushed to cooperate with anti-American movements, that want to bring down the system, no matter who it hurts.
Here is a deeper analysis of the way that crises are deliberately manufactured to promote the destruction of American society.
The efforts to overload the American System to the point of breakdown continues.
One of the little-known (by the general public) institutions that have a LARGE impact on American policy is the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) - Wikipedia reference:
The Institute for Policy Studies is the largest and most influential of the far left think tanks in Washington. Since its founding in 1963 it has steadily followed a pro-Marxist line on foreign policy, defense and the economy and has spawned a large number of spin-offs, other think tanks and public affairs organizations following the same radical agenda.[2]
To put its policy recommendations into action, IPS built networks of contacts among Congressional legislators and their staffs, academics, government officials, and the national media.
Some affiliated people are:
- Frances Fox Piven - the mother of the Cloward-Piven Strategy
- Barbara Ehrenreich - wrote Nickled and Dimed - an "experience" working in the minimum-wage job industries that "proved" it was not possible to survive, let alone get ahead. For a different experience, read Scratch Beginnings. Adam Shepard, the author, started off in a strange city with just the clothes on his back and $25, and at the end of a year, had money, a home, and transportation.
- Leon Panetta - THIS came as a surprise - I think of myself as reasonably well-informed, but had no clue.
- Noam Chomsky - Super-Leftist.
- Tom Hayden - Ditto, also founder of SDS.
We have to think of the current situation as the result of a Long March of Progressives. They laid the groundwork, and are now beginning to make their influence felt.
Fortunately, they are mis-managing the economy, military, education, and other American institutions so thoroughly that they may well doom themselves to a footnote in history, if the American public catches on and votes them out.
Monday, August 12, 2013
Benghazi Update
Once again, the Republicans have gained possession of the political football, and fumbled it.
Why, oh, why, do the Republican leadership let the Obama administration get away with 1/2-truths, outright lies, and evasions? Why can the American public not get the straight story about what actually happened - including EXACTLY what Obama was doing/not doing that fateful night of the Benghazi attack?
Here's a link to a post that addresses that exact issue.
Why, oh, why, do the Republican leadership let the Obama administration get away with 1/2-truths, outright lies, and evasions? Why can the American public not get the straight story about what actually happened - including EXACTLY what Obama was doing/not doing that fateful night of the Benghazi attack?
Here's a link to a post that addresses that exact issue.
Sunday, August 11, 2013
Common Sense for the Modern Era
I just read the Krauthammer post, and was moved to tell you - go read it.
It's a cogent explanation of WHY Obama's policies for the Mid-East make no sense.
NAME the enemy - Islamicism, which is the political use of the Quran to impose tyranny on all who oppose that religion.
It's a cogent explanation of WHY Obama's policies for the Mid-East make no sense.
.Obama defends the vast NSA data dragnet because of the terrible continuing threat of terrorism. Yet at the same time, he calls for not just amending but actually repealing the legal basis for the entire war on terror, the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force.
Well, which is it? If the tide of war is receding, why the giant NSA snooping programs? If al-Qaeda is on the run, as he incessantly assured the nation throughout 2012, why is America cowering in 22 closed-down embassies and consulates? Why was Boston put on an unprecedented full lockdown after the marathon bombings? And from Somalia to Afghanistan, why are we raining death by drone on “violent extremists” — every target, amazingly, a jihadist? What a coincidence.
This incoherence of policy and purpose is why an evacuation from Yemen must be passed off as “a reduction in staff.” Why the Benghazi terror attack must be blamed on some hapless Egyptian-American videographer. Why the Fort Hood shooting is nothing but some loony Army doctor gone postal.
NAME the enemy - Islamicism, which is the political use of the Quran to impose tyranny on all who oppose that religion.
Thursday, July 18, 2013
We Are Called to be Saints
Boy, do I ever feel unworthy of that ambition!
From Catholic Stand:
From that perspective, I REALLY am spinning my wheels - not only am I hopeless in accomplishing anything on this Earth, but I'm failing miserably in Heavenly accomplishments, as well.
Have I sinned greatly - well, too much for comfort, but, compared to others, not that badly.
But I can't measure myself against the rest of the world - what counts is that I act according to the best that I am able.
We need to begin organizing ourselves into something like this Mastermind Group - but, not with secular purpose - instead, with spiritual growth as our goal. As was suggested in my study group's reading this spring, we need to have regular meetings with a study group, dedicated to providing support for our achieving our spiritual best.
Click on the link for a free copy of the book that got me so excited - it only costs shipping and handling for a single copy. 6 copies are only $3/each.
From Catholic Stand:
We are called to be saints. Granted, it is a rather lofty directive. Few people ever really feel up to the challenge. We struggle with our earthly duties and challenges while viewing sainthood as a celestial attainment reserved for “the chosen.” However, Scripture clearly tells us that we must“strive for that holiness, without which you will not see the Lord.” (Hebrews 12:14) Yet how often do we view people who seek holiness with skepticism and criticism? Perhaps the doubts are not about the person’s sincerity in achieving conversion, but more about the uncertainty of achieving our own sainthood.
From that perspective, I REALLY am spinning my wheels - not only am I hopeless in accomplishing anything on this Earth, but I'm failing miserably in Heavenly accomplishments, as well.
Have I sinned greatly - well, too much for comfort, but, compared to others, not that badly.
But I can't measure myself against the rest of the world - what counts is that I act according to the best that I am able.
We need to begin organizing ourselves into something like this Mastermind Group - but, not with secular purpose - instead, with spiritual growth as our goal. As was suggested in my study group's reading this spring, we need to have regular meetings with a study group, dedicated to providing support for our achieving our spiritual best.
Click on the link for a free copy of the book that got me so excited - it only costs shipping and handling for a single copy. 6 copies are only $3/each.
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