Coulter Steals My Title

Ann Coulter - August 3, 2016 - THE WRATH OF KHAN:

She stole my title, but she wrote a better column. It's a shame I don't like blondes or skinny girls, or I'd likely be in love with her. I liked this paragraph especially:

Yes, a candidate for president of the United States is supposed to be prohibited from discussing a dangerous immigration program because Khan's son was one of fourteen (14!) Muslim servicemen killed by other Muslims in our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. That's why we're obligated to import yet more Muslims – including, undoubtedly, some just like the ones who killed his son. Q.E.D.!

She never made the point which I expected her to make. What did Hildebeast sacrifice? Her character? Her femininity? Her eternal soul?  What "moral authority" does the Hildebeast have after voting FOR the invasion of Iraq, probably entirely based on political expediency?

We will never kinow, because those that are bumping along in the left ditch really don't care,

Put A Johnson In It

Gary Johnson Polls Surge, Mitt Romney May Endorse Libertarian Candidate:

So you are "libertarian" and you think it is GOOD if Mittens endorses your candidate? Did you miss the "libertarian" dogma about NEITHER MAJOR PARTY HAS ANYTHING TO OFFER!

So we see  "libertairians" gleefully signing up for a scenario like the following:

Even if Gary Johnson wins the popular vote, he would have to win overall in enough states to pull from Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. The History News Network lists a few states that “could” end up giving Johnson their electoral votes. Alaska, Idaho, Maine, Montana, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. Although these states would only supply Gary Johnson with 32 electoral votes, that could be enough to keep Clinton and Trump from running away with the race. It could, potentially, keep both Clinton and Trump out of the White House.

So in never never land, "The Johnson" MIGHT end up winning Alaska, Idaho, Maine, Montana, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming! Thirty two whopping electoral votes -- we will leave out the conjecture about "winning the popular vote". Hello? He isn't going to win California, New York, Illinois, Florida or Texas, so he WILL NOT win the popular vote!

So we have "libertarians" salivating over the prospect of the election being thrown into the house, and "somehow", rather than electing a Republican or a Democrat, (if we are REALLY on Pluto here and the D's take the House), one of the two major parties will look around and say "hey, we REALLY need a Johnson stuck right where the sun doesn't shine!".

Really? First of all, what "principle" is it that the "libertarian" party has that would want an election decided this way? "Win Baby Win"? I think we have PLENTY of folks with that philosophy already.

Seriously? This is just too weird to even contemplate someone writing it.



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Western Heritage = Neo-Nazi

The Chart-Topping DNC Email? | Power Line:

If somebody had hacked the Trump campaign, we would be reading a daily stream  of embarrassing items, and WHO hacked it would either be a hero, or immaterial!

As it is, TP has declared that "Putin did it to help Trump", so nobody cares about whatever it is that TP had to say about their donors, "Taco Bowl Outreach",  the fact that they rigged their primary for Hildebeast, or much of anything else. Certainly not the screen grab from below.

Yes yes, **I**, and people that care to take the time to look understand that the left wants to destroy "Western Heritage" (Civilization / Culture) and replace it with pagan tribal "culture".  The idea that "Western Heritage" --- Christian, Greek, Roman, etc is somehow "National SOCIALIST", especially in the completely godless form of Hitler, is a complete non sequitur, but it is what much of the left thinks. When you don't believe in truth or consistency, "non sequitur" isn't really part of your vocabulary!

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As Crazy As Reagan? WDATPDIM

Trump asked 3 times in an hour security briefing why we can't just use nuclear weapons:

Let's not even talk about any "believability" about the "asking 3 times" -- we really don't need to listen to Hildebeast tell us that the FBI said she was "truthful" on national TV, BO sending $400 M to Iran and allowing them to get nuclear weapons in a sham deal, nor reams and reams of what is happening in BOistan.

I need to convert "What difference, at this point, does it make?" into a nice long acronym "WDATPDIM"

"W dat P dim"

It seems like people just have this really big problem understanding that NO RULES means NO RULES!

Horseshoes, hand grenades, nuclear weapons, biological warfare, killing 60 million babies, grownups, disabled people -- NO RULES means no rules! Is that really so hard? What the hell did you expect? "morality"?

My faith in a bunch of guys sitting around on MSNBC looking all serious about making a claim about Tump and "asking about USING nuclear weapons 3 times"  has about a 99.99999% chance of being COMPLETELY fabricated, or possibly just  bit of an "enhancement" of him asking three THINGS about the use of nukes. As in maybe "what is the process from a need to use to actual use", "if we are attacked with a nuke from say North Korea and decide to respond in kind, do Russia or China automatically do anything?" ... oh, I could go on. If I was getting a briefing like that I'd have some questions that could be called "asking about USING nuclear weapons" if you wanted to phrase it that way.

The current media push is to paint Trump as insane. I like Scott Adams on this front. Hollywood notwithstanding, how likely is it REALLY for 70ish billionaires with jets, choppers, beautiful wives and children, etc to suddenly go insane and blow up the world? Well, if you are an easily led, not much for deep thinking left leaning soul, I suppose it might "feel" likely -- Hollywood certainly likes to give you that impression in all sorts of films.

Back in 1980, LOTS if people were absolutely convinced that Ronald Reagan was going to destroy the world. They did a big made for TV movie called "The Day After" and I knew A LOT of people personally that were CONVINCED it was "all over". Reagan was a "madman" and the USSR was populated by nice folks who just wanted "peace". They were in the role of Islam today -- the youth found communism to be "the non-religion of peace" in those days.

The one thing that the left has a real tendency to do if you get them excited enough is for them to completely slip the bonds of any sort of reality and set the bar so low for a Republican that if they can walk on stage, look at the camera and even stammer out of few words, people go "What was the fuss about again"?

They set Reagan up as being so "bark at the moon, foam at the mouth, totally unaware of reality, living in old movies, etc", that walking out, smiling and saying something nice made the media look like they were clueless.  Likewise, with W, he was caricatured as being a combination of Satan and Barney Fife, likely unable to even read, such an odd juxtaposition of pure evil and total incompetence was portrayed in the media  that to even form a mental picture of "what to expect" was impossible. When a pretty regular looking guy walked confidently out and talked plainly and simply with the air of reasonableness, people immediately knew the media view was a complete fabrication.

Is Trump purposely putting them in a complete frenzy so that when people get serious about thinking about the election in October he comes off as totally truthful, competent and reasonable in comparison to the caricature so carefully built by the media -- let alone Hildebeast.

Who knows, NPR is still locked in on the Wrath of Khan angle -- a completely fabricated tempest that is hard to imagine any serious person having a concern about. I LIKED Ronald Reagan, I don't "like" Trump, but that isn't really important to me. I'm choosing the candidate that will be most opposed -- and I think it is clear that is Trump.

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BO's $400 Million Iran Ransom

U.S. Sent Cash to Iran as Americans Were Freed - WSJ:

BO is indeed a nice guy. Trump is unhappy that he was attacked by an Arab parent of a killed soldier in a  a war that Trump was against at the convention of a candidate who voted FOR the war as Senator. The media is very unhappy that Trump doesn't like to be attacked.

BO on the other hand sends his friends $400 million in cash stacked on pallets on secret planes at night as part of an overall payment of $1.7 billion with barely a concern. America was a nation that used to have huge investigations about "arms for hostages" -- although memories are very short these days, "Iran Contra" was pretty damned important to the press at one point. "The Wrath of Kahn" is too big a story to worry about $400M in cash on pallets -- we can safely ignore anything BO might do that looks wrong, because the media assures us that it is fine. The job of media today is to move from one Trump Tempest mostly of their creation to the next.

BOistan is a different country. When the ruler does a sham deal with folks that regularly shouted "Death to America" (one of BO's favorite chants), the sheep bleat "Long Live BO!" ... and cover their mouths in horror at the latest Trump Tempest.

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MPR Preaches The Party Mythology

Trump's party is not your granddaddy's GOP, but it's been building over time | Minnesota Public Radio News:

"The Party" (TP-D) is a party of wonderful people -- they are the government, they fund MPR, both with the tax monies of unwilling funders and with the donations of loyal TP members. TP is goodness and light, the opposition is backward, racist, poorly educated, prone to clinging to guns and religion.

TP isn't really much for history, only small snippets that fit a narrative which glorifies TP. Gone down the memory hole is the fact that TP was the party of slavery, then of Jim Crow and segregation for 100 years. This article is a little rare because it DOES point out that REPUBLICANS broke the TP stranglehold in the Senate and passed the Civil Rights Act.

If you want a pivotal year in this history, you might choose 1964. The Civil Rights Act was passed because Republicans of that time provided the votes to break the filibuster by Southern Democratic senators. One Republican who did not support the bill was Barry Goldwater of Arizona, who won the party's presidential nomination that same summer. 

Goldwater won only five states outside his home state that November, and they were all in the Deep South. Four years later, Richard Nixon and his "Southern Strategy" reclaimed the White House for the Republicans. Despite Alabama Gov. George Wallace's third-party candidacy, Nixon won five states from the old Confederacy plus Oklahoma, Missouri and Kentucky.

Turns out that Goldwater believed in the Constitution and it's clauses on States Rights. He understood (correctly it turns out) that if those clauses were devalued, Washington would usurp the powers that were reserved for the states and the people. We used to live in a country where people could disagree and not call somebody a racist.

TP is the party of POWER over principle / truth / law / honor / loyalty / ANYTHING! Blacks were far better off under Jim Crow than they are under the thumb of TP. TP destroyed their culture and replaced it with a matriarchal structure without fathers, where the black man is replaced by the Federal Government and left to lives of addiction, drugs, crime and victimhood. BUT, TP, which was both the party of slavery and Jim Crow, now purchases over 90% of the black vote and keeps the black population enslaved to it's social programs.

See, Barry Goldwater created Donald Trump by way of Richard Nixon! The Republican Party is a bunch of RACISTS! It's a simple narrative. It happens to be completely false, but it is one of the core articles of faith to TP, so it is repeated like the Lords Prayer.

When you are the party of POWER, with no morals at all, plus control of the media, you can pretty much convince the sheep of whatever you want. As I've discussed many times, 5 or 6 thousand young black men  kill each other in TP controlled cesspools of cities and TP cares not at all. "Cops murder blacks" is an important narrative -- it may account for as many as 100 black deaths in a year while the urban policies of TP account for 50x that number of lives, but no matter. TP cares ONLY for power, and the "Black Lives Matter" helps them keep control of their captives.

Isn't it nice to see "public" radio spread a noxious calumny and call nearly half the country "racist" using millions of dollars of the money of the people that are being slandered!

Welcome to BOistan -- they aren't locking up their enemies yet, just calling them names. The end of the Constitution, the rigged system, the destruction of morals and the constant coarsening of debate -- indeed, even "public" media directly lying and calling names in the service of TP, none of THAT had anything to do with the rise of Trump.

Nope, it is all Barry Goldwater's fault! The level of gullibility of the BOistanians is remarkable.


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When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

https://www.amazon.com/When-Breath-Becomes-Paul-Kalanithi/dp/081298840X

A good and worthy book, and I LOVE the title.

The premise is simple, brilliant neurosurgeon about to embark on his career contracts lung cancer (he never smoked, as if that makes a difference) he fights, he dies. It is a good and worthy read, but while exposure to this particular work might be of special use to some, it is well worth it to read  Ecclesiastes 1 and just ponder a bit even if you ARE going to read the book:

The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
2“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher,
“Vanity of vanities! All is vanity.”
3What advantage does man have in all his work
Which he does under the sun?
4A generation goes and a generation comes,
But the earth remains forever.
5Also, the sun rises and the sun sets;
And hastening to its place it rises there again.
6Blowing toward the south,
Then turning toward the north,
The wind continues swirling along;
And on its circular courses the wind returns.
7All the rivers flow into the sea,
Yet the sea is not full.
To the place where the rivers flow,
There they flow again.
8All things are wearisome;
Man is not able to tell it.
The eye is not satisfied with seeing,
Nor is the ear filled with hearing.
9That which has been is that which will be,
And that which has been done is that which will be done.
So there is nothing new under the sun.
10Is there anything of which one might say,
“See this, it is new”?
Already it has existed for ages
Which were before us.
11There is no remembrance of earlier things;
And also of the later things which will occur,
There will be for them no remembrance
Among those who will come later still ... 

Remember, this is Solomon writing this -- the wisest man that ever lived.

Page 167 begins Paul's (the author) discussion of his Christian faith, and this passage especially hit me:

The problem, however, eventually became evident: to make science the arbiter of metaphysics is to banish not only God from the world but also love, hate, meaning — to consider a world that is self-evidently not the world we live in. That’s not to say that if you believe in meaning, you must also believe in God. It is to say, though, that if you believe that science provides no basis for God, then you are almost obligated to conclude that science provides no basis for meaning and, therefore, life itself doesn’t have any. In other words, existential claims have no weight; all knowledge is scientific knowledge.

The Biblical definition of "vanity" is anything apart from God -- which is MEANINGLESS! Human life and wisdom is "vanity" ... which apart from our relationship to God (which is ETERNAL) is meaningless. Consider the words of Solomon and replace "vanity" with MECHANISM. If we have no spirit, then ALL is mere mechanism, but if we do have spirit, then we are spiritual beings having a mechanical (physical) experience which is VERY short!

Science is all about mechanism and mechanism only. In programming, I can write a program in any programming language,  a wealth of styles, run it on at least hundreds of operating system / hardware combinations. etc. What counts is "the algorithm" which started in my head and was "expressed" in the program, then "reified" (made real) by the interaction of the compilers, interpreters, operating system, and under it all, the hardware.

I agree with Paul (the author) when he says "Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create with each other and the world, and is never complete. And Truth comes somewhere above all of them ... " 

Being the sort of person I am, I realize that it is definitely by the Grace of God that my wife is 3+ weeks into recovery rather than 3+ weeks into the grave. My model has always been that I would precede her in death ... it seems "fair", she is younger, and lord knows that I need her MUCH more than she needs me! 

But I know that is not Truth -- that is a wish, which is as ephemeral as the passing of a gravity wave. 

The author was willing to admit that even two very much in love and committed people had problems in their marriage .. prologue, page 9 ... "But I'm worried we want different things from our relationship. I feel like we are connected halfway. I don't want to learn about your worries by accident". 

"Half way"? Pretty damned good for a relationship. One human brain is the single most complicated thing we know about in the universe -- at least trillions of connections, and mostly we are completely clueless of how it operates. Two brains? And for believers, "spirits", "love",  and connections to the infinite? Perhaps .0001 % "connected" is all even the closest can hope for in the life in which we breath. 

I fear I did not give the book high enough praise. READ IT, there are a myriad of things that make it worthwhile to read -- you get to know a brilliant neurosurgeon on a fairly deep level and understand a TINY bit of what it takes to walk that road. 

In the end though, Plato, Caesar, Augustine, DaVinci, Luther, Einstein -- pick your favorite. Only ONE life and death really matters eternally -- Jesus! ALL of us DEARLY want to be "special" -- The author talked of his expertise, the fact that he had not caused a leak of spinal fluid in a year, and some surgeon trying to help him did. I sometimes feel pride in my writing, or my maybe "imposing presence" in some cases. The author was WAY more special than I will EVER be, and  ALL of our works which we so very much want to be "special" are "filthy rags" --- BUT, in the power of Christ, we are all infinitely loved! (sadly, not all of us accept that love)

My kitties love me, which makes me feel good day to day. More importantly, I realize the greatest theological truth in history -- "Jesus loves me, this I know!" Next to eternity, the length of our lives here is definitely "vanity" -- we have a lot of very dear wishes, but they are not truth, they are vanity. 

So, when my breath becomes air, I'm ready. 

Clinton Character Consistent, Just Consistently Bad

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/08/why-hillary-clinton-keeps-lying/493841/

Why can't Hildebeast stop lying and why can't Slick stop womanizing?

Because it is WHO THEY ARE, and even their supporters may be infuriated by it, but it is not going to change!

The particular supporter in the linked column even realizes that they will override all oversight, but that STILL doesn't matter!

Read here if you want to know about the FBI’s findings. In addition, her actions were an assault on the Freedom of Information Act and the hallowed concept of legislative oversight.

Only it ISN'T "hallowed" if major papers and whole parties are willing to "let it slide" because they think "Trump is worse". That is the same sort of logic that got us BO!

BOistan is a nasty place, but it is CERTAIN to be nastier if Hildebeast takes over because guys like the linked columnist will not oppose here, even though they fully know she is a fully lawless liar!

BETTER A FASCIST WITH OPPOSITION!

Wrath Of Kahn, Messin With Your Mind

Broad array of military luminaries condemn Trump over attacks on Khan family - The Washington Post:

Same author, different convention, you are supposed to THINK DIFFERENTLY!

Any thought or discussion of the brave Americans that died in Benghazi under Hildebeast's watch as Secretary of State is to be ERASED from your feeble mind! Those lives DO NOT MATTER! Any "use" (as in their mother expressing her grief) of those deaths is completely off base. GOT THAT???!!!!

However, an Arab Gold Star Father being put up at the convention for "The Party" (TP-D) is TOTALLY DIFFERENT (TP is doing it, it is GOOD!). Indeed, a WONDERFUL thing, and oh so useful and worthy of many press cycles worth of castigation for Trump and his assumed to be subhuman supporters.

Trump BTW was against the invasion of Iraq and in any case, was not in the government at the time, while Hildebeast voted FOR the invasion -- oh, "But what difference, at this point, does it make?" Mind control isn't about facts.

But it gets deeper:

But until now, it looked like the Khans were just Gold Star parents who the big bad Donald Trump attacked. It turns out, however, in addition to being Gold Star parents, the Khans are financially and legally tied deeply to the industry of Muslim migration–and to the government of Saudi Arabia and to the Clintons themselves.

Unsurprisingly, Republicans are on the list of those attacking Trump. News at 11, corruption has destroyed BOTH PARTIES! The system is rigged through and through and WE ARE THE PATSIES!

They are determined to control your mind and get you to follow the TP narrative!  We are fast approaching the point where "the little people are relieved of the burden of their failed and useless lives" with no more concern than BOistan gives babies in their mothers womb today.

Might Trump merely be a "show candidate" who will purposely hand the election to Hildebeast? Certainly, I'd argue 30% chance at least that is the case. But then why not play it out? Vote for Trump, the establishment (both parties) will make LOTS of attempts to stop him -- all sorts of rigging work like this up to election day, no doubt maybe millions of fraudulent votes, and if that doesn't work, the left is already thinking of usurping the will of the people in the electoral college!

Wow, I've been listening to NPR and they haven't been this concerned about "Gold Star Parents" since Cindy Sheehan! Deaths of soldiers have become as non-interesting since BO as are deficits or poor economic numbers.

At this level of corruption, the media is one big exercise in mind control. It is still barely possible to combat it with greater and greater effort, but the point at which it is ALL pure control creeps closer and closer as life in BOistan continues to descend.

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Frack You! OPEC and $50 Oil!

Texas shale oil has fought Saudi Arabia to a standstill:



We need to go to foreign media to find good news stories about the US. Innovation still works, even in the face of the most negative for business administration in US history. The short story is that innovation in fracking has turned the US into completely a global player, if not THE global player in oil PRODUCTION.



"The Party" (TP-Dem) and it's media arm "drilled it" into our heads that the US would NEVER be a serous oil producer again and the ONLY "solution" was wind/solar.



The article is worthy to read -- we can and ARE producing millions of barrels a day at sub $50 a barrel prices, and causing no end of trouble for those "nice people" over in the sand pile.



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Dark Nostalgia For Creased Pants

The Dark Knight - The New York Times:

In this surrealistic universe of BOistan it is hard to recall things like "logic" or "reason". David Brooks is supposed to be the CONSERVATIVE columnist for the NY Times. He voted for BO twice, and famously "like the crease of his pants".

Sometimes in that blood-drenched world a dark knight arises. You don’t have to admire or like this knight. But you need this knight. He is your muscle and your voice in a dark, corrupt and malevolent world. 

Such has been the argument of nearly every demagogue since the dawn of time. Aaron Burr claimed Spain threatened the U.S in 1806. A. Mitchell Palmer exaggerated the Red Scare in 1919 and Joe McCarthy did it in 1950.

It was also the argument of every actual protector of the people from real vermin since the dawn of time  -- Demosthenes, Winston Churchill and Ronald Reagan.  Let's look at Demosthenes in 342 BC

It is this fate, I solemnly assure you, that I dread for you, when the time comes that you make your reckoning, and realize that there is no longer anything that can be done. May you never find yourselves, men of Athens, in such a position! Yet in any case, it were better to die ten thousand deaths, than to do anything out of servility towards Philip [or to sacrifice any of those who speak for your good]. A noble recompense did the people in Oreus receive, for entrusting themselves to Philip’s friends, and thrusting Euphraeus aside! And a noble recompense the democracy of Eretria, for driving away your envoys, and surrendering to Cleitarchus! They are slaves, scourged and butchered! A noble clemency did he show to the Olynthians, who elected Lasthenes to command the cavalry, and banished Apollonides! It is folly, and it is cowardice, to cherish hopes like these, to give way to evil counsels, to refuse to do anything that you should do, to listen to the advocates of the enemy’s cause, and to fancy that you dwell in so great a city that, whatever happens, you will not suffer any harm.

Brooks seems to argue that even after BO, "we dwell in so great a city that, whatever happens, you will not suffer any harm".

Brooks obviously believes that there is no such thing as "too much government". Were EVERYTHING -- each sentence and glance, scripted by "experts" in Washington, or presumably by such icons of wisdom as himself, the world would be a "better place".

There is no danger in the path we have trod the last 8 years to Brooks. Churchill was a FOOL for the better part of a decade for speaking out against Hitler and what Churchill saw as "rising peril". He was a pariah! Indeed, a "demagogue", as was Reagan for claiming that the USSR would be consigned to "the ash heap of history".

I have to allusions that Trump will be seen as anything like Demosthenes, Churchill or Reagan, HOWEVER, to argue that those who point out that there is danger in the rise of government / Deep State and the destruction of the Constitution are somehow demagogues merely for the FORM  of their argument is intellectual malpractice at least and most probably pure calumny.

BTW ... McCarthy was RIGHT! He may not have been as "smooth" about it as BO and Hildebeast locking up the guy that made the movie that they blamed for Benghazi, but he was WAY more CORRECT about the "Communist Menace" than they were about "Benghazi being caused by a movie!".

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BO, The Faked Sub 3% President

Barack Obama Will Be The Only President In History To Never Have A Year Of 3% GDP Growth | Zero Hedge:

I suppose that since BO created BOistan, he is both the best and the worst economic president ever. If America had survived however, he would CERTAINLY be THE WORST! He is the first to not have even a single quarter of over 3% growth, and that is with MASSIVE deficit spending, 0% interest AND printing trillions of dollars! (quantitative easing)

When I say that socialist policies don't work, I mean THEY DON'T WORK!

Sadly, it is even worse than  the sub 3%. BO changed the way they account for GDP last year to make himself look better by 2-3%! He spotted himself 2-3% by cooking the books to guarantee that things would look rosy for the election and it STILL SUCKS!

You can tell we live in a fully totalitarian state now because numbers like this about the economy and the level of deficits are state secrets! Perhaps the Russians will hack something and like expose some actual numbers in the media.

No doubt people would be SHOCKED -- it would take the latest manufactured Trump gaff off the headline.

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Victor Davis Hanson on Post America, Trump

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/438296/trump-clinton-obama-matter-degree

Most things in this excellent article will be familiar to readers of this blog. The basic point is that the media - BO narrative of the past 8 years has given us Tump -- and he counts the ways.

This is a good example paragraph. I think it is safe to say that Russia, China, ISIS and Cuba have enjoyed the BO administration very much -- are there ANY allies that have? I don't think so.

I am worried about Trump’s flamboyance and about his sloppy and dangerous references to NATO and U.S. foreign commitments. But from the reaction to his ad hoc and sometimes incoherent musings, one would think that the next president was inheriting a time of peace and stability — not one in which the entire Middle East has imploded, reset with Putin has become a nightmare of Russian expansionism not seen since the Soviet period, “jayvee” and “on-the-run” terrorists are insidiously destroying the calm of the entire international order, and China is creating artificial islands with commensurate “sovereign” air and sea space. If there is one region in the world that is safer and more stable than it was in 2008, would someone please identify it? Iraq? Syria? Ukraine? Libya? North Korea? France? Baton Rouge? For now I am worried about what was and is rather than what might be. Are there any traditional U.S. allies that feel more secure in their partnership with us? Israel? Japan? France?

I'm not really bothered about the NATO references. There is no question the USSR was an existential threat to the US and we were correct to "pay any price, bear any burden" to combat that repressive and expansionist ideology. Of course aside from the fact that it is Kennedy that uttered that "pay any price" phrase,  Democrats were pretty much in the "better Red than dead" camp!

Eventually we will have to defeat Islam, another repressive and expansionist ideology, where it lives or they will continue to slaughter innocents where we live. W gave us a superb start prior to BO, but now we are back to pre 9-11 vulnerability with terrorist attacks world wide increasing in frequency and devastation.

The Islamists are equal opportunity slaughterers -- they find European or even Asian blood to be just as red as BOistanis, so if Europe etc wants security work done, they can damned well pay for it. They certainly ARE NOT going to pay for it if we keep saying that we will cover them "no matter what". I really can't imagine any ally that feels confident that mr "red lines" or miss "What difference, at this point, does it make?" are likely to come to the aid of anyone but themselves.

The whole thing is worth a read. Hanson shows off a bit in his discussion of Satyricon, Scipio, etc. Satyricon is like "classical pulp fiction", Trimalchio is an ostentatious rich cad in it, Scipio is a great and honorable general, Catiline, Clodius,  and Milo are various schemers, traitors and murderers ... the idea of "sterling character or morals" in post-America BOistan is as laughable as it was in post morality Rome.

Little wordy but worth it.

Commodus Obama, Concern for BOistan

Media Helps Trump’s Image Because They ‘Cry Wolf’ on All Republicans | National Review:

Sensationalism itself is a critical part of BOistan. The news must bleat "Special Report!!!", "This Just IN", "We interrupt this inane show to give you something REALLY stupid!". Threats like Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW), now "Climate Change" which MAY take place over decades and centuries are CRITICAL ISSUES! $150 T in debt and unfunded liabilities isn't even a story, where mere deficits less than $500 B were once "situation critical".

You can start the timeline as far back as the World War II era. In 1944, Franklin Roosevelt told the country that if Republicans were returned to power, “even though we shall have conquered our enemies on the battlefields abroad, we shall have yielded to the spirit of fascism here at home.” The press nodded along.

The left crying "Fascist" is insanity itself -- as I've covered in detail, Fascism, Socialism, Communism, Monarchy, etc are ideologies of the LEFT. We knew "chutzpah" works well when you have the media on your side, but maybe it works when YOU DON'T? Reagan did after all get elected and the media was ALL over the "danger to America", "warmonger", "loose cannon", etc when he was running.

On NPR and in the left wing press, "Trump is a threat to America" or "A threat to democracy" is pretty much a constant bleat. There is no question that they are all convinced that he is a threat to the "business as usual" that they know, love, and profit handsomely from. The unique thing about Trump is that the establishment Republican Party and magazines like National Review were EVEN MORE against Trump than the MSM. The MSM rather enjoyed what they saw as a "good dumpster fire" in the hated Republican Party.

The fact that Establishment Republicans liked the shape of BOistan well enough that they lap-dogged to BO and fought Trump harder than they EVER fought BO is proof positive that BO changed the game. By using the IRS to attack his enemies and ignoring the Constitution with raw executive power, he made it clear that he could reward and punish as he sees fit. The Establishment Republicans decided that they would rather be rewarded than punished -- and that pretty much nobody in the country was paying enough attention to even care.

America was never a "democracy". When it existed, it was a Constitutional Republic. BOistan is a left wing fascist state, and I think a lot of people recognize that at some level, even though they may lack the historical / political science background to fully understand it. As when a loved one dies or is severely injured, difficult things are HARD to accept. Many of us loved America, watching BO finally do it in reminds me of "The Gladiator".

The power structure didn't want to believe that Commodus had murdered his father -- there would have no doubt been MANY very uncomfortable with the rise of a great general to rule the empire. Commodus is of course infamous -- he is remembered because we sometimes call a toilet a "commode" to "honor" his name.

If something like America ever returns, perhaps someday people will say "hold on, I need to go take a good Obama" and freedom and justice may once more reign.

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WaPo Excited About Trump, Worried About BOistan

Donald Trump is a unique threat to American democracy - The Washington Post:



A threat to "American democracy"? If they had noticed BO and his views, we might even still have some shreds of America -- it was a Constitutional Republic, not that I'd expect the WaPo to remember that.  I'm not sure what BOistan is -- Fascist mess? Set of tribes squatting on lands once belonging to now bankrupt nation? A cruel joke?



No character? No experience? Slick Willie established that this nation was fine with a president who had no character. BO never ran anything -- not even a lemonade stand, prior to taking office. Between Slick, BO and Hildebeast, Trump is WAY ahead of all three on character, experience, truthfulness and support for the Constitution!



Which of course still says that BOistan is a sorry place, since the other three set such a low bar that even being compared to them is an embarrassment.



I did like this one.

The Republican Party has moved the lunatic fringe onto center stage, with discourse that renders impossible the kind of substantive debate upon which any civil democracy depends.

A major NY real estate mogul and TV star who the US press had very little negative to say about prior to the rise in his candidacy is now "the lunatic fringe" as described by what once ascribed to be a paper that claimed to not be an equivalent of "Pravda" in the old USSR. During much of last year, they even liked his candidacy because they hoped he would run as a 3rd party and make it a cakewalk for Hildebeast.



The election of Trump would definitely be right up there with Reagan being elected in '80 and the Republicans taking the House in '94 -- WaPo, NPR and the NY Times would have hemorrhages!



I'm starting to get fired up!





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