DEATH BY GOVERNMENT

In 2008 Barack Obama surfed a wave of symbolism and emotion that at times resembled a political tsunami.  He told the country on election night that "change had come to America".

The problem was that almost everybody outside of his small but hard core progressive palace guard had stunningly different ideas of what change was.

The variations of the theme of change were as numerous as the stars in the night but "Obamachange" had several overarching sub-themes that time would prove amounted to little more than buzz words.  "Fairness", "fair share" and "level playing fields" for the middle class were three such examples.  However redistribution of wealth from the "haves" to the "have not's" was studiously avoided.

The political calculation by "Team Obama" was that this would be a killer of a deal breaker with the voters particularly when you did the math and the "haves" included the middle class that Obama had sworn to protect.

Obama, it turned out, was the tribune for every left wing, social justice cause imaginable.  Over time the progressive left had swallowed up everyone and every group who hated America, Israel, oil, coal, capitalism, hetero-sexuals, men, Caucasians, Republicans, the military, the Constitution, working for a living and the Catholic Church.  It had done so using the money and resources of people like George Soros and its army encompassed much of the mainstream press and media, academia, unions, militant  feminists, militant gays and lesbians, illegal immigrants, Islamists and anarchist fringe groups like the occupy movement.

December 7, 1941

The first American casualties of WW ll did not occur at Pearl Harbor.  Some say the first hostile action happened in the Yangtze River outside Nanking on December 12, 1937 where the USS gunboat Panay was sunk by  Japanese aircraft, killing three and wounding 45.  Others maintain that since WWll was not yet officially under way on that date, the first Americans to die in action were on October 17, 1941 when the USS Kearney, a Benson-Livermore Class Destroyer was attacked off the coast of Iceland, by the U-568 which was part of a wolf pack eviscerating a convoy that the Kearney was trying to protect.  11 US sailors were killed and 22 were wounded in the fight.  

All of this is a reminder that great and terrible events do not happen in a vacuum. 

For most of the 1930's, America in proud and defiant isolation caused in part by the Great Depression, watched as both Asia and Europe became engulfed in war and dictatorship.  FDR eventually turned America into the Arsenal for Democracy after WWII began on September 1, 1939.  Politically however Roosevelt had to walk a fine line with regard to American neutrality even as Churchill pressured him to join the fight and as anti-Japanese and anti-German feelings began to emerge domestically on the political left, particularly after Hitler invaded the USSR.

On October 16, 1941, the Japanese Prime Minister Prince Konoe resigned and General Hidecki Tojo assumed the post and the planning for an attack on the American Pacific Fleet was set in motion. 

Simultaneously, in Washington, Japanese Ambassador Nomura Kichisaburo  continued his efforts to negotiate a peace treaty between the US and Japan, unaware of what Tojo and the Japanese military were planning.  He continued his diplomatic efforts becoming more belligerent right up to December 7th when he was coldly informed by Secretary of State Cordell Hull that the attack had already begun.

THE AUDACITY OF A NARCISSIST

Barack Obama is becoming a man alone with his self aggrandized vision of greatness that people around him have nurtured since he was a child.

 

ObamaCare is a daily reminder of the old adage that "Pride goeth before the fall".   In a column this week George Will referenced David Remick's worshipful biography entitled“The Bridge:The Life and Rise of  Barack Obama.”  On  page 274, Remick quotes Obama's gate keeper Valarie Jarrett about Obama and then Will opines as to her description of Obama.  Jarrett said: 

"I think Barack knew that he had God-given talents that were extraordinary. He knows exactly how smart he is...He knows how perceptive hs is. He knows what a good reader of people he is. And he knows that he has the ability -- the extraordinary, uncanny ability -- to take a thousand different perspectives, digest them, and make sense out of them, and I think he has never been really challenged intellectually. I mean, he's the kind of guy you'd hate in law school, who would pick up the book the night before the final, read it, and ace the test. So what I sensed in him was not just a  restless spirit but someone with extraordinary talents that they had to be really taxed in order for him to be happy."

Will then added: "Leave aside the question of whether someone so smitten can be in any meaningful sense an adviser. About what can such a paragon as Obama need advice?"

In point of fact Barack Obama has rarely if ever been challenged about his ideas, policies or programs.  His life while at times strange, has largely been one of accommodation and not conflict.  He has glided through his career  because of his "amazingness".   He has eluded criticism because of his "uniqueness".  He has been hyped and won election twice as a new kind of leader for the new millennium. 

The Untold Truth about JFK and the Democrats

Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of the assassination of the 35th President of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy.  Any one of a certain age remembers where they were and what they were doing when they learned the news of the President's death.  It was one of those events like December 7, 1941 and September 11, 2001 that in their aftermath we come to understand that we have left one era and entered another.

 

One of the most significant changes that the assassination engendered was the death of the Democratic Party as a national moderate party with regard to National Defense, Tax Cuts, the size and function of government, "American Exceptionalism", historic American values and a consensus on domestic policy with the exception of race.  After 11/22/63 the progressive segment of the liberal wing of the party became dominant in an aggressive fashion to the point that today we have  neo Marxists and proto Fascists in leadership positions both nationally and locally. 

 

John F. Kennedy was by almost every current definition a conservative who could not be elected as a Democrat today.  He was a "cold warrior" who believed in a strong defense (witness "Ich bin ein Berliner" and the Cuban Missile Crisis) .  He did not believe in a "nanny" state ("Ask not what your country can does for you...ask what you can do for your country").  He began the process of divorcing the Democrats from the southern segregationists which had a political hammerlock on the life of the national party.  Historic revision by progressives later redefined these racists as conservatives thereby continuing the process of distorting who Kennedy and his party really were.  He kick started the American space program into a race to the moon while stating "We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard...".

 

Kennedy's "New Frontier" was a pragmatic vision of an America ascendant where the problems of the nation were to be solved and not merely managed.  JFK included tax cuts as a critical part of his policy to make the US as productive and economically strong as possible and history proved him right and his Democratic critics wrong.

GETTYSBURG, NOVEMBER 19, 1863

The idea for the National Cemetery was the brainchild of Theodore Dimon, Deputy State Agent for the Governor of New York, Horatio Seymour.  Dimon and his superior had been sent to the battlefield in the summer of 1863 to retrieve the New York dead which accounted for over 25% of all the Union casualties of the great battle in south central Pennsylvania.  Fearing the expense  of such an endeavor while concerned over the rapidly deteriorating condition of the corpses, Dimon took the idea to David Wills the State Agent to Pennsylvania Governor Andrew Gregg Curtin who immediately saw the political and economic advantage of  a National Cemetery where people would come and mourn and spend money for years to come

Wills began the task of buying the land and securing the approval of the other 18 state Governors whose troops  fought and died there for the Union.  The battlefield had been a health and sanitary disaster after the guns had gone silent.  Corpses from both sides had been hurriedly buried in shallow trenches and pits and the humid summer heat had caused the bodies to swell and bloat until parts of the remains broke through the surface where it was recorded that in several incidences, the hogs took to rooting at the bodies.

The smell had been overpowering and the mostly Dutch inhabitants of Adams County took to sealing their windows and doors to escape the stench even if it meant suffocating in the oppressive heat.

SAUL ALINSKY AND AMERICA'S "MEIN KAMPF" MOMENT

Saul Alinsky was not a nice man.  His radicalism made him a bitter and angry man who rejected his religious upbringing and most of why America is an exceptional country.  He saw America as an evil place, filled with "haves", "have not's" and those who didn't care about what he considered to be structural social and economic inequality in American society ie "the middle class".

 

Alinsky cloaked his hatreds and radical leftism in traditional American nostrums.  This camouflage resembles the doctrine of "Taquiyah" which "Political Islam" uses to lie to their enemies until they are strong enough to totally destroy them.

 

Alinsky traveled amongst the poor and downtrodden and told them that their lot in life  was not in any way their fault.  He preached that society needed to change so that the wealth of the nation could be equally distributed among everyone regardless of who is productive and who simply receives the benefits of that productivity.  He saw community organizing and ultimately the Government as the mechanisms to control and then destroy the free market and by necessity individual rights.

 

He focused first on race and class and then on any other divisive groupings of people that could be used to organize these new communities of "victims".  His two principle books are "Rules for Radicals" which he dedicated to Lucifer the first radical, and "Reveille for Radicals" and both are must reading for those who are confused by the political turmoil that exists today.

SAUL ALINSKY AND AMERICA'S "MEIN KAMPF" MOMENT

SAUL ALINSKY AND AMERICA'S "MEIN KAMPF" MOMENT PART TWO FIGHTING BACK!!!

Bernard Lewis, the noted scholar on Islam once remarked that when something bad happens in the  Muslim world, the predominate tendency is to ask  "Who did this to us?" while in the west the predominate tendency is to ask "How do we fix this?".

 

There is a similar situation existing between so called "progressives" and conservatives and other rational people.  "Progressives" seem programmed to deny personal responsibility and instead find a villain for their problems thereby becoming  victims in the process.  Perhaps that is another reason why the hard left is so sympathetic to Political Islam.

 

Both groups regard America as the source of evil in a world that needs a good cleansing.  Everyone else...conservatives...moderates...independents and other adults focused on solving problems are in charge of or want to be in charge of their own lives and not dependent of others or the government. 

 

Thus when rational people try to debate ideas with progressives, they are often not prepared for the childish, rude  and stupid tactics that they use and consequently spend their time and energy defending themselves against the name calling, the lies and distortions and not making their case...classic Alinsky tactics!!!

 

Any adult with common sense who wants to participate in the world of politics now has to expect Bedlam  from the left so they must begin to learn how to seize the upper hand, spank the unruly child they are engaged with and take control of the debate.

 

In many instances they must act preemptively even if they will later be called by the Alinsky press and media,  bigoted, insensitive, racist, sexist, or any of the other libels that are used to shut down legitimate and sorely needed debate.

SAUL ALINSKY AND AMERICA'S "MEIN KAMPF" RENDER UNTO SOROS!!!

SAUL ALINSKY AND AMERICA'S "MEIN KAMPF" MOMENT PART THREE:  RENDER UNTO SOROS!!!

George Soros was born Gyorgy Schwartz in 1930 in Hungary to a well to do family that was pointedly non-religious and which some critics describe as anti-semitic.  During the Nazi occupation which began in 1944 he was asked as a teenager by the Jewish Council to deliver deportation slips to Hungarian Jews headed to the death camps.  It is still unclear exactly what he did but dark rumors persist that he and his family collaborated with the Germans.

 

After the war, Soros left Hungary and went to London to study at the London School of Economics where he came under the influence of the philosopher  Karl Popper.  After completing his studies he began a career in finance and in 1956 emigrated to NYC where he began to amass a fortune that now makes him the 22th wealthiest person in the world.

 

Soros was convicted in 1988 of insider trading in France, a conviction that has been upheld on appeal and confirmed by the European Court of Human Rights in 2011.  In 1992 during the British currency crisis he held a huge position re the British Pound and sold short thereby earning the sobriquet as "the man who broke the Bank of England" along with incidentally the futures of countless poor British pensioners.  Soros, however made $1.1 billion in the process.

SAUL ALINSKY AND AMERICA'S "MEIN KAMPF" MOMENT PART FOUR: SOROS, HILLARY AND OBAMA...THE UNHOLY THREE!

Before the love affair with Barack Obama, there was the romance with Hillary Clinton.  George Soros was firmly in Hillary's camp for 2008 until he wasn't.  Hillary after all had had to weave and bob for the longest time in order to disguise how truly radical she was.

Deception at massive scales was becoming the norm in American politics as the hard left progressives infiltrated academia and the culture as well as the Democratic party.

Progressives, it must be remembered, usually begin as people who fervently desire to save the world and  who end as people who fervently need to control the world and Hillary was no exception as the debacle of "HillaryCare" demonstrated.  

 Moreover throughout her 8 year term as First Lady, The Clinton White House had one or more scandals percolating often with her at the center : witness White Watergate, The  Rose Law Firm billing records, Travelgate, Vince Foster, Lewinsky, bimbo eruptions, Impeachment, etc which all seemed to roll off Bill like water off a duck while it clung to the humorless Hillary like the faint traces of a bad perfume bought off a travelling salesman.  

After a  presidency during which she was famously billed as the "Co-President", she finally struck out on her own as the Jr. Senator from New York where her particular brand of celebrity was perfect for an electorate  battered by joblessness, high taxes and utopian political fantasies that always ended in a nightmare.

The stop over in New York turned out to be an out of town tryout for the big prize...the Presidency.  Former Clinton aides like John Podesta of the Center for American Progress,  were already in place to assist in a coronation/restoration return of the Clintons to power and George Soros was more than willing to fund it and provide it with political and policy muscle.

KILLING CERTAINTY

'THE SECOND COMING

      Turning and turning in the widening gyre
    The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
    Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
    Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
    The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
    The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
    The best lack all conviction, while the worst
    Are full of passionate intensity"

W. B. YEATS

 

Uncertainty exists in nature as part of the human condition.  As such, it can be dealt with through careful planning, insight and foresight so that the individual and collective affairs of a people don't become hopelessly endangered.

 

But when uncertainty is politically "weaponized", it becomes the destroyer of the social compact and a cancer on the nation it targets.

 

This administration uses uncertainty so adroitly that it becomes impossible to believe they are merely inept. After all the creation of chaos, confusion and uncertainty was the bedrock strategy used by Obama's ideological inspiration, Saul Alinsky.  For those who hate capitalism, the free market, individual liberty and democracy...killing certainty will also kill all of the above.  

 

In point of fact, our economy will never recover with out certainty!   Certainty is what allows economic growth to proceed because the job creators will be able to safely make the decisions they need to make to create wealth and grow jobs in the private economy.

 

Everywhere you look however, there is nothing but uncertainty. 

Consider how a near state of perpetual uncertainty has manifested itself over the last five years.

THE DECAY OF THE FIFTH ESTATE

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The October 1, 2013 front page of the New York Daily News was perhaps the lowest point of its controversial history.  On its cover sat a caricature of Speaker John Boehner, sitting on a Lincoln Memorial style throne a la Kevin Spacey in "House of Cards" but with the headline "House of Turds".

 

With that adolescent and vulgar headline, the News sunk back into the swamp it inhabited back in the 1850s and during the Civil War when it was the leading "Copperhead", pro-secession and pro-slavery newspaper in NYC and perhaps the nation.

 

There is no further need to to pretend that the Daily News reports facts in an unbiased and objective fashion.  It has become an appendage of the radicals who run the Democratic Party and the willing serf of the most arrogant and disingenuous President ever to sit in the White House.

 

Less than two weeks before it had devoted major space and a front page to the demonizing of the AR 15 rifle which is claimed was used in the Navy Yard massacre.  The fact that no such weapon was used was shoddy journalism at best and sheer propaganda for the anti-2nd Amendment/ anti Bill of Rights lunatic left also led by those who wish to bring the nation down.

 

Obama survives in large part by willing press and media slaves who cover him in the most fawning and worshipful way possible.  The Schools of Journalism in this country have been busy for years creating the "agit-prop" shock troops needed for the "Progressive Putsch" that will flush away our Constitution, our institutions, our values, our individual liberties as well as our common sense.

 

The GOP in the House knew or should have known that fidelity to the promises they made to their constituents about Obamacare would subject them to savage lies and vituperations from Democrats and their President who deliriously wants to meet with terrorists and dictators but refuses to meet with Republicans. 

 

His strangle hold on news people pretending they are journalists created by Aaron Sorkin, is perhaps the only thing for which Putin, Assad and the Mullahs truly are envious of him.