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A single skein runs through a number of recent articles. It starts with an extraordinary piece by Frank Miele, who rummaging through the newspaper morgue, came across an piece that shed light on who put Barack Obama on the fast track back in 1979. The old article described a $20 million dollar fund from OPEC and Saudi Prince Alwaleed to place promising 'blacks, Arabs, Hispanics, Asians and native Americans' into elite colleges. The conduit was a lawyer named Khalid al-Mansour. The article's author was Vernon Jarrett.
For some reason, al-Mansour had used Jarrett as the messenger to get out the word about his efforts to funnel Arab oil money to black students and minority colleges at about the same time that Barack Obama began his college career. That doesn't mean either Jarrett or al-Mansour knew Obama at that time, but eight years later when Obama was a rising star in Chicago, a friend of Bill Ayers and Valerie Jarrett, it is much more likely that he did indeed have the assistance of very important people in his meteoric rise. The words of Percy Sutton about what al-Mansour told him regarding Obama certainly have the ring of truth:
"His introduction was there is a young man that has applied to Harvard. I know that you have a few friends back there… Would you please write a letter in support of him? (That's before Obama decided to run.) … and he interjected the advice that Obama had passed the requirements, had taken and passed the requirements necessary to get into Harvard and become president of the Law Review. That's before he ever ran for anything. And I wrote a letter in support of him to my friends at Harvard, saying to them that I thought there was a genius that was going to be available and I certainly hoped they would treat him kindly…"
It appeared to be a strategic initiative begun 33 years ago to connect black American politics to the Middle East. It's not clear what became of this program beyond the details described in the article. What is manifest, however, is that similar efforts continue. Three decades have borne fruit. There is now a network in place where access can be expanded to get even more access. Michelle Malkin writes about visitors to the White House.
On Friday, March 30, 2012, Hisham Y. Altalib visited the White House. According to visitor logs, Altalib was received by Joshua DuBois, the director of President Obama's Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Four days later, White House officials welcomed a foreign delegation of the radical Sharia-enforcing Muslim Brotherhood from Egypt.
The White House meeting with overseas Muslim Brotherhood leaders was reported in April by a few mainstream journalists and questioned loudly by conservative media. But the White House confab in March with U.S.-based Altalib — which appears to be a prep session with the global Muslim Brotherhood's American advance team — has received no attention until now.
So, who is Hisham Yahya Altalib? What is his agenda?…
Altalib is an Iraqi-born Muslim identified by the FBI as a Muslim Brotherhood operative before he moved to America in the 1970s to earn an advanced electrical engineering degree from Purdue University in Indiana. By his own account, Altalib "soon became active in Islamic work in North America, which continues to this day."
He was the "first full-time director of the Leadership Training Department of the Muslim Students Association of the United States and Canada (MSA)" — a longtime Muslim Brotherhood front group whose explicit goal is to "conquer" America through Islamic propagandizing.
Just what agenda is the advance man for the Muslim Brotherhood smoothing the way for? Who can say. But if appearances are any indicator, the Muslim Brotherhood is part of a bidding war for influence in black American Democratic circles. The Brotherhood's chief rival, the Iranians, are making their play for Louis Farrakhan, also of Chicago.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met with the Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan and other religious leaders Tuesday, according to an English translation of the Iranian president's Web page posted Wednesday.
In a picture of the Tuesday evening meeting, Farrakhan — known for making brutally anti-Semitic assertions, and calling President Obama a "murderer" for the death of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi — is seen smiling as he sits at a table with the Iranian president.
Farrakhan, it may be recalled, was the recipient of an $8 million dollar loan from the former Duck of Death Muhammar Khadaffy. Fortunately for the Reverend now that the Duck is Dead, no repayments are probably required. But since Farrakhan is still alive and his need for money is ongoing he still has to make a buck. Recently he sent a "letter to the leaders of 16 major Jewish organizations demanding reparations for alleged crimes Jews have perpetrated against African Americans." In the Nation of Islam's view the Jews masterminded the slave trade.
Along with the letter, Farrakhan sent two books, "The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews" and "Jews Selling Blacks: Slave Trade by American Jews," written by unidentified members of the Nation of Islam's Historical Research Team. Elijah Muhammad's National Representative claims that the books contain evidence of Jewish crimes against the black community.
"We can now present to our people and the world a true, undeniable record of the relationship between Blacks and Jews from their own mouths and pens," the letter reads. "These scholars, Rabbis and historians have given to us an undeniable record of Jewish anti-Black behavior, starting with the horror of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, plantation slavery, Jim Crow, sharecropping, the labor movement of the North and South, the unions and the misuse of our people that continues to this very moment."
Whether they will collect anything on that front depends. But the Reverend must surely want for friends and allies and Iran is a good place to look. In the the comments section of the last post I remarked on the blurring line between religion and politics in the age of political correctness.
One of the problems that the Founders tried to solve was how to create an environment in which creeds could coexist without the most the ruthless and militant wiping out the others. Can you design a society where Coptic Christianity can live side by side with Islam and where Buddhism can rub elbows with Marxism.
… a mutual coexistence can only be possible if two things are prevented. No creed can wage Lawfare against another; and no creed can wage physical warfare against another. The separation of church and state should guarantee that lawfare is not waged by the system on behalf of one creed vs another. The existence of the People's justice means that private warfare, the second danger, is similarly prevented.
By fudging the line between political and religious activities or co-mingling them both these protections are failing. The Left is waging Lawfare against Christianity. Islam is waging actual intimidation against other creeds (witness the demand to censor videos) and is sheltering behind its status as a faith.
This cannot long continue. Carried on indefinitely it must mean the systematic extinction of the nonmilitant and nonviolent creeds. You can't bring a knife to a gunfight.
… Put it this way. Suppose the Necromonger cult invaded the earth. Could they claim to be a political party? Could they claim 'religious freedom'. How do you deal with the Necromongers?
Donald Thornton, writing in the Thy Black Man asks the same question. What happens when you put militant ideologies in civil society and protect them as you would the Kiwanis or the Rotary? What happens when the piranha swim with the goldfish? Well, the goldfish get et.
The eerie similarities between radical Islamist all over the world and radical Leftist that reside right here in America. Because their ultimate goals are synonymic. A nation; dare I say a world, under submission to their will.
I believe these two ideologies are clear and present dangers to America and the world at large. Because both; at their core seek to suppress any speech or expression that is contrary to their worldview. Free speech has to be the first and most protected foundational pillar of any new nation. And it must be re-enforced perpetually in any existing nation that has adopted it.
The ideology of radical Islam has no place for dissent, compromise, freedom of expression or speech. It seeks to rule by the sheer force of fear, intimidation, criminalization and tyranny. Terrorism is its dominant mode of operations. It will not tolerate any opposing views or critiques. To say or do anything that it deems insulting of its worldview is worthy of imprisonment or even death. Its influence is so strong that it persuades the emotionally unstable to commit horrific acts terrorism. Its desire is total submission to its will.
Likewise in the same way contemporary liberalism/progressivism uses the same M.O. The ideology of the radical Left has no place for dissent or freedoms that do not comport to their worldview. It seeks to intimidate via boycotts, petitions, protests' and lawsuits.
Dare to speak ill about or challenge any of its holy doctrines, which include:
Abortion on demand, Gay Rights/Marriage, Evolution, Unions/Collective Bargaining Rights, Open-ended Civil Rights, Global Warming, Reducing Social Programs, just to name a few.
How much longer can traditional 'religions' hold out against ideologies whose methods include de facto political subversion and perhaps even outright intimidation is an open question. The secular West long believed that religion was doomed to extinction. If by that they meant the extermination of Buddhism, Christianity and Judaism, they might be right.
But newer religions have arisen in their place, like militant quasi-religious Marxism and a resurgent Islam in several varieties. Against these contestants, perhaps it is the secular West that is itself doomed. Interestingly the fictional Necromonger creed sounds like it might be a fusion between the two most militant ideologies of our time. If these fictional cultists actually existed they might find the earth of the future the precursor to themselves.
They are literally a death cult. They practice what they preach by sterilizing themselves when they become Necromongers to prevent themselves from adding to the problem. Consequently, they increase only by conversion, which is easier than it sounds since the only other choice is to be murdered. Sound familiar? This is their only function. They travel from place to place, planet to planet, and destroy everything the find. Those that will convert are converted into killing machines themselves. Everyone that won't is killed. Then the process is repeated somewhere else. They are relentless and are too far gone to be reasoned with. They know that their cause is righteous and the only way; they will brook no disagreement.
At least they Necromongers are no bigots and they definitely won't vote Republican.
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68 Comments, 68 Threads
1. stoicheion
It looks like the Manchurian Candidate conspiracy buffs were spot on. The down side of living in a fast food society is that the average attention span is not much longer then a sex starved pygmy shrew's.
This, of course, represents a failure of the media. If Obama loses, there needs to be punishment. If he wins, there needs to be a steady diet of congressional hearings. The first thing he needs to hear EVERY morning is Machelle asking what time his hearing is that day.OT, can any of you guys with hi-end phones tell me if there is a shopping list ap? Something Honey pot can do on her phone and send to hubby.
September 26, 2012 - 4:49 pm Link to this Comment -
2. Tamquam
I seem to recall some white guy who even dressed in white going on about the Culture of Death few years ago. The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem (aka Knights Hospitaller) is still extant. They have laid aside the military tradition for several centuries now. Perhaps it is time to take it up again.
September 26, 2012 - 5:00 pm Link to this Comment -
3. Charles
This might be why Obama bowed to the Saudi King.
He seems to be politician that stays bought. Of course late in the campaign of 08 Obama's people stopped checking on the source of campaign contributions that poured in.
September 26, 2012 - 5:31 pm Link to this Comment -
4. Knight1
Editing note: duplicate paragraph in the Farrakhan quote.
As always, Richard, you give us food for thought munching. The difference between us and our enemies is they take the long view and hold it.
September 26, 2012 - 5:32 pm Link to this Comment -
5. dlsada
"The Lion shall lie down with the Lamb, but the Lamb won't get much sleep."
Woody AllenSeptember 26, 2012 - 5:35 pm Link to this Comment -
At one time, a US President who was aided by the intervention of the Saudis and who bows deeply to them while blocking an oil pipeline from Canada and stopping drilling in the Gulf of Mexico would have elecited a certain amount of concern.
Now all it elicits is the purchase by private individuals of huge quantities of guns and ammmo.
Perhaps people are not giving up on the USA but rather giving up on using a stacked deck. A Smith and Wesson beats a full house.
September 26, 2012 - 5:35 pm Link to this Comment -
7. Madison
How did such a po' boy get to Harvard? Oh.
September 26, 2012 - 5:43 pm Link to this Comment -
8. wretchard
The Wahabis figured out what the blinds spots were and ran right through it. You can't challenge a minority. You can't challenge a religion — unless it is Christianity or Judaism. You can't raise the question of patriotism or loyalty in an academic setting. Armed with that knowledge they had a network of sunken roads along which they could travel at will.
People consider themselves enlightened because they must regard agents of the Muslim Brotherhood visiting the White House as normal. Their cocktail party reputation depends on it. And who can say anything about the 'Reverend' Louis Farrakhan who is not only Muslim, of a sort, but also black. The man is completely untouchable.
The result is cognitive dissonance. People "see" they are being taken for a ride at one level and then deny it on all the rest. That is perhaps why Madonna, in her cups, blurted out that people should vote for the "black Muslim in the White House" — so that he can stand up for gay rights. One part of her poor old addled brain had bubbled to the surface before her publicists advised her to walk things back.
To some extent everyone knows what's going on. Even die hard liberals understand it at some level. It is simply that they're paralyzed by conditioning. They can't form the words they're thinking. It is a truly amazing sight. Never have so many people gone so sheepishly into the slaughter pen.
September 26, 2012 - 6:13 pm Link to this Comment -
9. Mad Fiddler
Having this come to light at this time must really chap Al-Mansour's rear end.
It might actually give political graft a bad name. Probably even make it unreasonably expensive and tedious to do likewise for others.
This explains much, but after all, it's merely a single instance of the old wisdom of "follow the money."
September 26, 2012 - 6:34 pm Link to this Comment -
10. Dworkin Barimen
8 @wretchard
To some extent everyone knows what's going on. Even die hard liberals understand it at some level. It is simply that they're paralyzed by conditioning. They can't form the words they're thinking. It is a truly amazing sight. Never have so many people gone so sheepishly into the slaughter pen.
I know it's been hashed to death many times and pretty much everyone here knows this, but this is exactly how Orwell described the functioning of Newspeak. By the time the ultimate edition of Newspeak was to be fulled rolled out, it would be literally impossible for the speaker to conceive of thoughts outside of the Ingsoc ideological framework. The most devoted progressives in real-life are pretty close to the terminal version of Newspeak. The prolefeed that the rest of us get through the MSM channels isn't too far behind.
September 26, 2012 - 6:43 pm Link to this Comment -
11. cjm
oh i think there was another instance of "so many people gone so sheepishly into the slaughter pen" in say, the last 70 years or so.
September 26, 2012 - 6:56 pm Link to this Comment -
12. 2009Refugee
I would also add that government funding of pet projects and open ended research grants is the best way to make sure alternative energy development never gets . . developed. Quite a twofer – hugs and kisses from the greenies for trying oh so hard, and barriers to entry protecting the Saudis.
September 26, 2012 - 7:08 pm Link to this Comment -
13. Fai Mao
I think I will retire in Thailand.
It appears to me the US may be a lost cause at this point
September 26, 2012 - 7:38 pm Link to this Comment -
14. MarkJ
Here's a question I doubt most Islamists have ever bothered to ask themselves:
What happens if Christians, to name one creed, throw up their hands and also decide to "get medieval" again?
Violence, intimidation, extortion, subversion, and murder are fun until your erstwhile victims decide two can play the same game…and they discover they're even more talented at it than you are.
September 26, 2012 - 7:52 pm Link to this Comment -
15. TomA
Underlying all of this is a complete lack of interest or investigation by the MSM, which likely means that it is deliberate malfeasance rather than incompetence. When there is no canary in the coalmine and the gas gets hazardous, the end result is often an explosion.
September 26, 2012 - 7:53 pm Link to this Comment -
16. T2costkeeper
Richard, I thought you had previous made note of these facts in several old posts and come to a fairly firm conclusion that 0bama was financed by the Saudis (You were probably the first to do so). I thought it started with the post who 'sent' you post from the old Belmont Club (Blogger) and went from there. Here is one post in 2008:
Dr. Al-Mansour was also responsible for the Africa investment activities of Kingdom Holdings, Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal's investment company. During his distinguished career, Dr. Al-Mansour has been a guest lecturer at Harvard University…
It did not get much traction. But, the facts were well documented and conclusion seemed well postulated. It looks like you were right. Now, others are catching on to 0bama's true benefactors.
September 26, 2012 - 8:08 pm Link to this Comment -
17. wretchard
Being right doesn't mean a danged thing — unless you believe in God's eternal justice. And even if you do it is still necessary to accept that in this life being right won't even buy you a cup of coffee.
What difference does it make? Who gives a damn if a whole parade of Muslim Brotherhood people go in and out of the White House? Andy McCarthy spent a lot of effort patiently explaining why it is not a good idea to have Huma Abedin in a sensitive State Department position — without impugning her character. There's too much of conflict of interest involved, as McCarthy explained. Where did that get him?
I suppose they are investigating how the heck al-Qaeda got wind of the Benghazi safe house. How they knew the contingency plans. How they knew where the secret docs and agent dossiers were kept. But where would you start with this can of worms? Who do you put on the list of the usual suspects? The problem boggles the mind.
But who gives a hoot? Why bother? Why not run out and buy a bottle of hooch and go fishing? Because — and here's the thing — there's still an outside chance that people will snap out of it. Otherwise, what prospect is there? Do you suppose one could rush to the NY Times or schedule an expose with Bill Maher? Or "Hardball" Chris Matthews? Well that was good for a laugh.
No. But like they say about the lottery. A winner never quits and quitter never wins.
Truth to tell I kinda admire the audacity of it. The sheer effrontery of it. They fought their side well. They bluffed, blustered and bamboozled their way in, palming off a coin here and a coin there. Even if they are the other side, you have to hand it to them.
The disappointment is reserved for all those champions with the faked muscles who were so confidently relied upon to keep the walls. The ardent defenders of press freedom. The political insiders, the wise and savvy guardians of the gates. How frail a shield they proved to be.
September 26, 2012 - 8:28 pm Link to this Comment -
18. Baobo
stoicheion "The down side of living in a fast food society is that the average attention span is not much longer then a sex starved pygmy shrew's."
The big issue today has something to do with football referees, a problem that both presidential campaigns validated with statements. (Here, I fall into a trap by mentioning it.)
"the Muslim Students Association of the United States and Canada (MSA) — a longtime Muslim Brotherhood front group"
Fronts can have fronts, but no definite ceiling to them. If there is a top boss, say in Saudi Arabia, we still don't know their intentions. Therefore one can't assume anything about Brotherhoods, student groups, the US, or Canada.
cjm "oh i think there was another instance of 'so many people gone so sheepishly into the slaughter pen' in say, the last 70 years or so."
Based on our news reporting, I might have thought "Don't worry- Hitler's a British spy who is going to save everyone." Which would have been wrong.
September 26, 2012 - 8:41 pm Link to this Comment -
19. T2costkeeper
That's true. But, persistence does make a difference. You can hit a donkey over the head with a 2 x 4 and he won't learn a thing. But, if you do it enough times he will.
September 26, 2012 - 8:43 pm Link to this Comment -
20. cjm
well if obama is an agent of the saudis, it's odd that he's helping the shiite's get nukes.
September 26, 2012 - 8:53 pm Link to this Comment -
21. Blast From the Past
Talk of explosions or Medieval Jacksonian or other violent reactions are worse than futile. They serve the enemy's purpose by providing ammunition for the wolves to use against the sheep dogs. Do we need publicity by assertive refusal to conform to the script? Absolutely. In NYC Pamela Hall showed the way by challenging Mona Eltahaway and got the jihadi sympathizer arrested. We do not need insurrection or Lynch Law. We do not need totalitarian government controls to protect us. We do need people reclaiming their private and public spheres for themselves. The law should remain, even if smirking jihadis and pornographers abuse it. Private citizens need to publicize and confront and shun.
SE Cupp was abused by Larry Flynt, who hides behind the law of the civilization he seeks to destroy. He published a Photoshopped image of her purporting to show her engaged in fellatio, with a disclaimer attached. What would have happened in a better day? Flynt would have been restrained by the belief that a man would have horsewhipped him in public. Any man who did so could have counted on the fact that no jury would convict him. Jury Nullification is the veto of the Militia. It is not Lynch Law, which must be crushed and for which we need a federal power able to provide a second look. More Flynt would have found himself thrown out of the Dry Cleaner the Diner and the Gas Station. People would have said, "Your money is no good here. Get out." The certainty of the second reaction lending credence to the belief in the first is what would have made it very rare or even unlikely for any such confrontation to have occurred.
In "To Kill a Mockingbird" the sheriff arrested the rowdy boys for "Cursing in the presence of a Lady" under the theory that they were so loud that every woman in town could hear them. If people insist on voting for local authorities who would do that, not change the law or impose Segregation or otherwise impose evils but simply stand up for the civilized community, then very little coercian would be needed. Find your Sheriff Joe and support him.
Then we can tell the to clever by half manipulators and abusers of America, like the oil soaked Saudis and Iranians and their domestic agents, "You want to play that game? OK we will and here are the laws, the foreign Agent acts and the Taxable Income reporting laws and let us see what else we have that your friends were so eager to lay out as traps for the unwary. There are a host of petards and you are about to get hoisted." They invented Lawfare so I say give it to them, good and hard.
The tide will turn. If we hold out soon there will be abundant energy not under the thumb of Islamists or once and future Chekisty. One day soon the influence of Farrakhan will be measured in bean pies sold. One day soon the poorer nations will again need to offer courtesy to the West, and the West will train in useful arts. One day soon the terms of a visa will be enforced and false entry will result in deportation and a bar on reentry for the offender and their children. One day soon to be an unregistered foreign agent will be the first thing employers, admissions officers, and political sponsors check for.
September 26, 2012 - 9:05 pm Link to this Comment -
22. Blast From the Past
My comment #221200 is hanging. Please release.What do we want? Freedom. When do we want it? Now.
(Insert emoticons if you insist.)September 26, 2012 - 9:19 pm Link to this Comment -
23. Cowboy
The reason they get away with it is the quite unfounded belief that the US government is all powerful. Most Amercians suffer under this assumption. For example, look at the Truthers. They believe even 9/11 was a CIA plot. A great many Americans do believe that if anything happens it is because the US government allowed it, or planned it. They, like the Truthers themselves, may be very uncomfortable with this fact, but nevertheless the omnipotence of the US government is assumed, for good or ill.
If the government is omnipotent, it always knows best. And it will always do best, unless it is perverted. By Mitt Romney, for example.
Americans have an amazing, unhealthy level of trust in their government. This trust has historical roots in triumph over the Axis Powers, the Space Race, and the eventual triumph over the Soviet Union. And, a basis exists for this trust, because all those trimuphs were genuine. The US government is, in the American mind and in the world mind, an invincible colossus.
But it is not, and it never was. The sad fact is that the government has traded on its reputation in order to insinuate itself into every aspect of American life with the aim of controlling that life. And it is in way over its head. The US government, ANY government, has no business managing retirements, home purchases, educational advancements, and least of all health care. For starters.
If Obama wins this next election and ObamaCare is not repealed, we will no longer be voting for Presidents of the United States. We'll be voting for health care managers. And retirement planners.
We will have bought into the idea, as a nation, and trusted it, that Father Knows Best, that father being Uncle Sam.
When the knock on the door came, and the voice from the other side said, "I'm from the government and I'm here to help you," then we will have let him in.
God have mercy on our souls if this happens.
September 26, 2012 - 9:44 pm Link to this Comment -
24. Reloader449
"What happens when the piranha swim with the goldfish?"
… in many instances, the goldfish raise their M4s and the piranha go to meet their lying, murderous Allah (Satan).
14 @MarkJ … exactly. In Lawfare, Christians may be at a disadvantage. But we give unto Ceasar what is Ceasar's.
In physical warfare- go ahead, make my day. US Army Soldiers and Marines have established themselves as unbeatable in a firefight, most particularly against jihadis. My civilian friends and family and I train at Front Sight, which provides better training than any government job. (No offense, USMC.)
Militant Militiamen for Christ. Overwatching the Narrow Way.
September 26, 2012 - 9:46 pm Link to this Comment -
I have a hard time seeing the Saudis as a serious threat. Ultimately, they're all just a bunch of fat, inbred, narrow-minded tyrants who have to outsource any task that requires getting up before noon and working past 4. They can't even run their own hospitals – have to import Westerners and Filipinos to do that. The only reason they have the power they do is all that damned oil money. When the oil dries up and/or we figure out a way to get along without it, the Saudis will return to their camels and tents and end up as a historical footnote.
September 26, 2012 - 10:02 pm Link to this Comment -
Well now, on the bright side of things, at least we know he isn't as imcompetent as we first thought. That we need not be so embarrassed is good, isn't it?
September 26, 2012 - 10:04 pm Link to this Comment -
@24: "Don't count America out just yet. We still have the world's #1 economy, the most dominant military to ever exist on planet earth and a culture that is emulated planet wide."
Our military, however, has been professionalized; it is no longer our brothers and sons going off to test themselves for a few years. When I served in the '60s, it was difficult, if not foolish, to communicate honestly with the lifers. Unlike today, most of us weren't lifers.
September 26, 2012 - 10:12 pm Link to this Comment -
28. alzaebo
20. cjm
The Saudi's are as united as Americans are.
Unless one feels there are no ambitions or intrigues in their courts-
Cousins against strangers, remember?September 26, 2012 - 10:43 pm Link to this Comment -
29. Not Uncle Joe
The down side of living in a fast food society is that the average attention span is not much longer then a sex starved pygmy shrew's." Just like the commie brainwasher at the opener of The Manchurian Candidate says!
Definitely not a movie they watch down at Lubyanka where I'm accused of hanging out. Notice how creepy it is to juxtapose the ladies garden club. The only thing I've seen more disturbing of late is this (Grey State trailer):
And yes there are more than a few people I've noticed who are so insanely slavish to authority they would do such things to fellow Americans. Hell, some of them even have Twitter accounts and they troll anyone who asks if maybe the U.S. government is funding or arming both sides in the war on terror, droning some and tossing weapons at others while U.S. ambassadors are hung out to dry.
What is the Grey State?P.S. Biblio Globus has a hell of a military history section. A huge one. A stone's throw from the old department store and the Metro stop. I gotta throw the old dogs a bone now and then
September 26, 2012 - 11:10 pm Link to this Comment -
Never have so many people gone so sheepishly into the slaughter pen.
I'm still not sure they actually believe it though. I think they've convinced themselves that they are special and the slaughter pens are for someone else. That is perhaps part of the trickery involved in any such delusional creed – convince the followers that by joining in, by having the right opinions and by supporting the right leaders, they will be elevated above the oikes and granted an exalted station in the coming new order.
The old saying is you can't cheat an honest man, and I think a great many of the Necromonger appologists we are confronted with simply think they are getting a bargain. "All I have to do is denounce rich people and cheer on minorities, and I'm a good person? Words are cheap, I can afford that…"
They're suckers, and unfortunately they have signing authority on our joint bank account.
September 26, 2012 - 11:25 pm Link to this Comment -
31. An Préachán
Wow, BFtP at 21, I read your comment and felt uplifted–then of course I read Cowboy's at 23 and was right back down at the "run silent, run deep" level I've been diving to for some time.
I'll point out that Islam has grown by short spurts, followed by ages of rot. The Arab-immigrant subking clients to the Byzantines and the Persians overthrew their masters in 622 and after, but within a generation or two, were all played out. Then a new dynasty arose, the Abassids, which was mostly Persian-blooded, though Arabic languaged (to some degree bilingual) in their new city of Baghdad. They actually created the whole Muhammad mythos (hey, Abdul Alhazred was an Arab, remember?) Then they went to rot just as quickly. The various Turkish peoples immigrating into the Mideast kept the religion/lawfare going (great word, "lawfare"; Islam is probably the first and most enduring lawfare in all of history).
Then the first wave of Mongols about destroyed that Islamic world completely, leaving only Egypt untouched (the Spaniards did in the other great Islamic center in Spain). Unfortunately, a large subgroup of Mongols converted to Islam and conquered India (Timur Leng & Co.), a huge triumph for Islam.
Eventually, more Turkish peoples recreated the Muslim Mideast empire in a Seljuk then Ottoman form, but eventually it, too, went to rot, though not without first the HUGE triumph of destroying the Byzantines.
So, three disasters for the world: the first Arab/pre-Islamic triumph, then the Mongol-converts' conquest of India, (opening all of Indonesia to Muslim influence and eventually leading to 'Pah-kee-sthan'), and finally, the murder of Byzantium. Or actually, a fourth triumph, their strength now, brought on by oil money.
The whole mess has been back now for 50+ years, running on oil money. I suspect it is absolutely rotten from within, and about to fall to pieces, a la BFtP's ref to new energy sources.
The question is, as Wretchard mentions, will the mainstream West "snap put of it" in time to get us to that point?
Christ wondered about when He would return to Earth, if He would find any faith. Interesting reflection. Islam is all about submission, and absolutely, whatever else it is, is NOT about any 'faith'. I wonder if Christ's pondering query was an oblique prophecy about its triumph? Or at least a warning of what we were to face?
An Préachán
September 27, 2012 - 12:50 am Link to this Comment -
32. presbypoet
It is more than pie in the sky by and by, but living in a strange mix of free will and predestination where God plays with loaded dice to create the future. As i continue to contemplate a God willing to use broken pottery to co-create, i am astonished, but not surprised. Since he gives us freedom so we can come to Him, that freedom is dangerous to ourselves and others.
In all kinds of science fiction there are stories of the time patrol that works to stop people from going back in time to change things. If God sees all time at the same time, it explains how there seems to be a strange pattern in the chaos.
I realize that what i have just written is foolishness to the wise who know there is no god. Yet all i do is focus on the data points and the paradox of predestination and free will to arrive at human history and the strange universe we live in, where we have proved we don't know what 95% is made of.
Knowing God is in charge is a great blessing, but knowing He is fond of asking us to walk on water is strangely disturbing. "You want me to do What?!" Puppet or co-creator, or both?
For us in this pivot time we have to watch the watchmen. Opening the gates to barbarians is nothing new, the Chinese had that problem a few times. The fall of Constantinople was the result of the loss of one gate. What gates are now unguarded?
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33. Anson E. Long
"Perhaps people are not giving up on the USA but rather giving up on using a stacked deck. A Smith and Wesson beats a full house."Bears repeating.
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34. Doug
re: @ 27. MSO
Michael Yon:
Yesterday a concerned father forwarded to me a letter from his son in Afghanistan. I confirmed authenticity, and republish with permission:
I am fed up. I cannot believe the lack of attention the recent changes in this war is receiving by the media or the country.
I think I saw one thing on CNN about the following subject, but I had to dig extensively to find it.
The purpose of this letter is to let you know of the garbage that our soldiers are going through right now. With this knowledge, I hope that you take action by writing your congressmen…
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Muslims…yawn…Christians have been in much worse position than they are today. So what you can't post the ten commandments in a goverment building. So what you can't say a prayer before government meeting. The Romans threw us to the lions years ago and the Romans were much tougher than these muslim pussies.
September 27, 2012 - 4:20 am Link to this Comment -
36. Doug
…Now all it elicits is the purchase by private individuals of huge quantities of guns and ammmo.
Perhaps people are not giving up on the USA but rather giving up on using a stacked deck. A Smith and Wesson beats a full house.
Our son's stockpile of lethal weapons and ammo must be worth considerably more now than when he acquired them.
…having not honed my skills in years, I'll take the gas operated semi-automatic 12 gauge shotgun based on the AK-47.
Living like the Saudi Prince to whom he OWED that bow:
"Presidential Perks Gone Royal"
Taxpayers spent $1.4 billion dollars on everything from staffing, housing, flying and entertaining President Obama and his family last year, according to the author of a new book on taxpayer-funded presidential perks.…
Author Robert Keith Gray writes in "Presidential Perks Gone Royal" that Obama isn't the only president to have taken advantage of the expensive trappings of his office. But the amount of money spent on the first family, he argues, has risen tremendously under the Obama administration and needs to be reined in. Gray told The Daily Caller that the $1.4 billion spent on the Obama family last year is the "total cost of the presidency," factoring the cost of the "biggest staff in history at the highest wages ever," a 50 percent increase in the numbers of appointed czars and an Air Force One "running with the frequency of a scheduled air line."
Washington Times
"Air Force One "running with the frequency of a scheduled air line."
Now used almost full time to support his job as Candidate in Chief for four more years to finish off this country as we know it.
September 27, 2012 - 4:40 am Link to this Comment -
37. Doug
Likely accepted by Harvard as a Kenyan:
The Vetting – Exclusive – Obama's Literary Agent in 1991 Booklet…
Breitbart News has obtained a promotional booklet produced in 1991 by Barack Obama's then-literary agency, Acton & Dystel, which touts Obama as "born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii."
The booklet, which was distributed to "business colleagues" in the publishing industry, includes a brief biography of Obama among the biographies of eighty-nine other authors represented by Acton & Dystel.
It also promotes Obama's anticipated first book, Journeys in Black and White–which Obama abandoned, later publishing Dreams from My Father instead.
Obama's biography in the booklet is as follows:
(this was still being run just a few years ago)
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38. hdgreene
And who can say anything about the 'Reverend' Louis Farrakhan who is not only Muslim, of a sort, but also black. The man is completely untouchable.
Except by other Muslims. They won't touch him as long as he is useful. But the differences are important — at least to the folks who take that stuff deadly seriously.
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39. CharlesWhite
There are no "Morals" left in America (there are "moral" Americans), We are no longer a Melting pot held together by the Christian foundation of our founding fathers but a glob of separating chemicals (Cultures/Tribes), Freedom left us more than one generation ago and Yes Islam will win over all others if no Christian Crusaders or Templar's arise, the Fear of the Judeo/Christian God is gone in America!
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40. toadold
I remember Time magazine doing a puff piece on this guy. The American elite really liked him it seemed. Then something embarrassing happened.
September 27, 2012 - 7:45 am Link to this Comment -
41. Joe Doakes
You're in danger of sounding like Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann(R-Minn), who asked the Inspector General to investigate Muslim infiltration in the US Government and was roundly condemned for McCarthyism.
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By fudging the line between political and religious activities or co-mingling them both these protections are failing.
And the Christians-Only-Need-Apply Republicans are doing what?
September 27, 2012 - 8:13 am Link to this Comment -
43. Josh
Necromongers? Heck, we had nearly the real thing, and this wasn't that unique in history, lots of weird mystery cults back in ancient Rome and probably earlier, tho the records get spotty. And still today, Applewhite's flying saucer crew Heaven's Gate, … but back to the Cathars:
Killing was abhorrent to the Cathars. Consequently, abstention from all animal food (sometimes exempting fish) was enjoined of the Perfecti. The Perfecti apparently avoided eating anything considered to be a by-product of sexual reproduction.[12] War and capital punishment were also condemned, an abnormality in the Medieval age. As a consequence of their rejection of oaths, Cathars also rejected marriage vows. Sexual intercourse between the sexes and reproduction was viewed as a moral evil to be avoided. Their moral doctrine was based on the belief that the material world including the flesh was intrinsically evil as stemming from the evil principle or god.[23] Such was the situation that in order for a reputed Cathar to have the charge of heresy against him dismissed he needed only to show that he was legally married.
Sure the Inquisition went after them, in the Albigensian Crusade.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catharism#Albigensian_CrusadeBut hey any cult that didn't reproduce, wasn't going to get very far on its own. So how does something like that even get started, you may wonder? Well, look at today's Greens. For that matter, look at today's Democrats.
Twenty years ago I wouldn't have believed a word of it, but these days, look around folks.
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44. ConfederateH
@23. Cowboy:
"For example, look at the Truthers. They believe even 9/11 was a CIA plot.
Way off mark. The Truthers want the truth, pure and simple. If you think you have been told the truth about 9/11 then you are just as gullible as your typical Obama voter. Truthers would also like to know the truth about Obama's birthplace, his sexual nature, his religion, they just don't suffer from the same blindspots as yourself.
But the real truth is that the trajectory of US history will not change even if Romney is elected, he is just as owned as Obama, just not by the same elites. The federal government is ungovernable. The US must fix herself before she can have a prayer of stopping the spread of wahibism, salafism or any other Islamist flavor of the week. When you BC'ers turned your backs on Ron Paul you gambled away your last quarters on the establishments casino. As Obama said himself, you cannot change the system from within. The time has come to bring it down.
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45. Alexis
Barack Obama isn't winning this election. Mitt Romney is losing it.
Mitt Romney is losing this election by reminding voters why they picked Barack Obama – as an explicit campaign policy. The mainstream media may be harping on the 47% comment, but that's a red herring. It is rather Mitt Romney's insistence upon reminding people of the emotional bond they feel with Barack Obama that is causing a resurgence of support for Obama. Mitt Romney may presume that disappointment with Obama or even contempt toward Obama would be enough to get disaffected Obama voters to vote for Romney, but he is wrong. When I hear Mitt Romney's voice, he is sounding uncertain and altogether too eager to please – altogether too much like Sidney Rigdon during the Mormon Succession Crisis.
The good news is that Barack Obama is unlikely to get people to vote for him who haven't voted for him already. The bad news – that's all he needs to get reelected. And the way things are going, the official flag of the United States of America may very well become some version of the Obama "rising sun" flag; remember, there was once a time when gay soldiers kissing each other for the television cameras would have sounded like it came out of a "Bizarro World".
If this election were merely a referendum on the Obama presidency, Obama would not win. Yet, by talking about election day in 2008, the Romney-Ryan ticket reminded people of the mythology that led them to vote for Obama in the first place. Moreover, Mitt Romney faces another hurdle.
Both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party are open and inclusive parties. The difference is that the Republican Party accepts assimilated immigrants as fellow Americans, while the Democratic Party accepts assimilated immigrants as Irish, Mexicans, or Jews. This cleavage has existed since the Federalist-Jeffersonian split of the 1790′s, particularly in New York State. As a rule, hyphenated Americans vote for the Democratic Party regardless of their economic circumstance, so outreach to any hyphenated constituency plays into the Democratic Party's narrative. So, when Mitt Romney seeks "Hispanic voters", he implicitly accepts the narrative of the Democratic Party – and thus loses votes. Rather than reaching out to "Mexican-American" voters, he needs to seek American voters who may happen to have Mexican ancestry. And there is a difference. A big difference.
Mitt Romney needs to represent something more to Americans than being "Mr. Fixit". His Mormon background could be shown as an example of assimilation to American culture as opposed to a hyphenated loyalty – that he doesn't want to be known as a Mormon-American, but rather as an American who happens to be Mormon. He needs to show that his will be an American presidency, not yet another version of the kind of hyphenated presidency that Barack Obama represents. Win or lose, Mitt Romney needs to make his presidential campaign something Americans can be proud of.
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46. Josh
ch @ 44: The Truthers want the truth, pure and simple.
They can't handle the truth.
(sorry, too easy)
… especially when the truth is never pure nor simple.
You look at the *actual* Truthers, and the truth is, they are 99.44% nutz. Maybe they really, truly, do *want* truth, but – see above.
Also see related PJM below, a nice recitation of the craziness of Kalifornistan these daze:
http://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2012/09/27/crazifornia-how-california-is-committing-suicide/… to which I've added my comment already – ain't just Kalifornistan.
a @ 45: Mitt Romney is losing this election by reminding voters why they picked Barack Obama
Well look, we don't really know what the Romney campaign plan is, maybe all along he planned to wait for a last minute blitz, starting around the first debate. Or not. Certainly to date his strategy was to simply be the non-Obama. It may yet work. It may *be* working. Depends on these polls. Who can tell, at this point. Not me.
And if this is true, then it's not so much that Romney is reminding them of anything, but hey guess what, Obambus has his own campaign! Who knew?
So if Romney loses on his non-Obama campaign, he will only have lost on the standard Republican trademarked archetypical traditional grand old assumption that he'd win the election because the country owed it to him.
… and maybe he was not personally smart enough or tough enough to sustain a serious campaign on any other basis.
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47. Dan
Vernon Jarrett was a racialist, but also a Communist. The Sauds may think they're getting Muslims in power, but the Commies are distributing the money to the candidates they select. They're not funding Muslims, they're funding Commies. To see how the Old and New Left regarded Blacks and Muslims viz the US part of the World Revolution, do a little research. It's not like it isn't absolutely 100% unambiguous.
September 27, 2012 - 9:26 am Link to this Comment -
48. Skandia Recluse
aaaaahhhhh….necromongers …
…another Chronicles of Riddick fan, eh?Would that solution work? The appearance of the 12th Imam who could spout dogma with sufficient credibility to take over the faith? Might be a book/movie deal there.
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49. dlsada
Obama's attempt to "run out the clock" may be failing. The "We need more time" claim doesn't hold water when the economic news is trending worse. Durable Goods Orders down >13%, the worst number in 3 and 1/2 years. 2nd Quarter GDP revised down to 1.3 and was described by Business Insider as "ugly." Meanwhile, Obama keeps saying, "I have a plan to create 1 million manufacturing jobs in the next year." He's pulling numbers out of his ass and he has never said what this master plan is. Again, he still believes that merely stating that jobs will be created will magically create jobs. He just pounds the same trite claim, that Romney wants income tax breaks for "millionaires and billionaires." Hell, he doesn't realize how much a billion is? What moron would report earned taxable income of a billion dollars? These folks generate most of their income through investments, not salary-any idiot would know that except an idiot named Obama. He doesn't even realize that a corporation doesn't actually pay taxes-it's a freakin' legal conduit. Any taxes on the company get passed on directly to the consumer. This is rudimentary economics.
The Christopher Stevens diary is likely to blow the top off of this Libyan "security" story. Seems he was calling for help and no one at the WH or Foggy Bottom gave a damn.
The two-week propaganda film excuse still being pedaled was a lie from the get-go, a ruse they hoped to ride until November 7. The WH is no longer in control of events, but now, at their mercy.September 27, 2012 - 10:07 am Link to this Comment -
50. Alexis
During the Republican Convention, speakers – particularly Paul Ryan – reminded people of Election Day of 2008 being the high point of how wonderful Obama voters felt for Barack Obama. This is precisely the strategy that Mitt Romney outlined last spring during a confidential fund raiser.
Although bringing up Election Day in 2008 was intended to highlight voters' disappointment with Barack Obama's economic record, it actually highlighted not only the euphoria of the moment but also the emotional connection those voters felt for Barack Obama. It is not wise to remind a woman of the wedding day with her ex – yes, she may feel disappointment, anger, humiliation, and even contempt, but reminding her of her wedding day also reminds her of why she married him.
The reason why the Obama campaign has gone relentlessly negative against Romney is because it doesn't have a good record itself. This means that all Mitt Romney needs to do is look and act more presidential than Barack Obama. That's all there's to it. That's how Ronald Reagan defeated Jimmy Carter and how Bill Clinton defeated George H. W. Bush – and also why John Kerry didn't win against George W. Bush. The key is to show Barack Obama and his administration to be panicked and frantic, while showing Mitt Romney to be cool and confident under pressure. Rather like 1980.
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51. Kinuachdrach
Maybe it is time to take a deep breath and remember that the Good Old Days never were that good. It's worth remembering the cause that social reformers in Pennsylvania were fighting for in 1900 — stopping children working in coal mines. If we want to talk about intrusive government, what about imposing Prohibition on a reluctant people in 1919?
Yes, it is sad & unnecessary that Europe is circling the plug hole, that both the US and China are developing into fascist states, that Mother Russia is out of the breeding business. Those developments are going to cause a lot of human misery, and change the world. But the early 20th Century saw the end of more European dynasties than most of us can be bothered remembering. The middle of the 20th Century saw the end of the British Empire, on which the sun had never set. The Late 20th Century saw the utter collapse of Communism. Change — it is the only constant.
Time to start looking forward. Tough days ahead, but the human race will survive and (in the long run) our descendants will prosper like never before.
September 27, 2012 - 11:06 am Link to this Comment -
52. Josh
a @ 50: This means that all Mitt Romney needs to do is look and act more presidential than Barack Obama. That's all there's to it.
I hear ya, and you and me and Peggy Noonan and John McCain all agree, that Romney would be better off with a more active, positive campaign. But that has not been his choice since the primaries began. Maybe he's simply not capable of it. Of course it makes me very uneasy to be grouped with Noonan and McCain. I'd rather a Republican candidate … well, hire sufficient surrogates to slice and dice Obambus' record and positions and dishonesty into handy bite-sized pieces the electorate could digest. With of course the candidate himself smiling down benignly and as you say, acting presidential. And maybe taking a swing or two himself, modestly of course.
But that just ain't how it's been.
Wait for the debates. I don't know what Romney is going to do, just sit there like the Buddha?
Romney's passive strategy *has* allowed Obambus to frame issues, describe Romney, and validly complain that Romney has made few specific recommendations about anything – and those mostly negative. Romney, the Republicans, and conservatives in general – although this seems anti-conservative – MUST have a proactice plan of action, and go out and sell it. As a vulture capitalist Romney always HAD such a plan (or someone around him on the project did), but in general it didn't have to be sold to anybody, certainly not the the great mass of employees much less the public.
Res ipsa loquitur.
So what about Reagan vs. Carter in 1980, did Reagan "have a plan"? No, but he certainly went out and sold himself as the product. He set up an active differential between him and Carter, more on a personal and philosophical level. Not sure that would work today, hope that is not Romney's Plan B. Also, Romney ain't Reagan. Well heck, he does have that "R", doesn't he, six letters, two syllables. Zow.
September 27, 2012 - 11:22 am Link to this Comment -
53. mother nature
51. Kinuachdrach
"Change — it is the only constant.
Hey kid, ya got that right. I'm here to say that I've destroyed just about everything I ever made, except for life itself. Time after time, I've fashioned new habitats and new species. I'm like one of those renaissance painters, painting my most recent work over the older one already on canvas.
Now you pesky humans listen up. Existing human societies get painted over by new ones; all the time. The post WWII 70 year old societies are being painted over with something else right now. Darned if I know what the new ones will look like because Nature doesn't make human societies; humans do.
So you frigging humans – take it from Mother – refuse to accept massive coercion by governments that you yourselves made. Blustering about extreme or violent measures to "reclaim" society simple shouts the same society destroying language as the would be dictators of "Occupy" – it's not helping. Stand up and speak out as assertive, civilized and free members of society and chances are you'll use the existing society as a base to paint yourselves a new civilized and free society.
Oh, and be sure to support Mother's Green Team. "Go! You Packers! Go!"
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54. CharlesWhite
America needs a Christian Cesar, the problem is American Christians can't be counted on to deliver one!
September 27, 2012 - 1:11 pm Link to this Comment -
55. bilejones
How soon they forget
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56. Subotai Bahadur
The question is not whether Buraq Hussein Obama is a piece of political and societal malware inserted into our country. From the preponderance of the evidence, approaching beyond reasonable doubt [I will not completely rule out the highly theoretical possibility that he can provide adequate proof, confirmable by independent examination, of such details as American birth and background; but I consider it as likely as the discovery of the Philosopher's Stone or a working perpetual motion machine by the end of business today.] he is. There is nothing beyond the automatic acceptance of political and societal norms by the members of our culture that supports the belief of him being anything but TWANLOC.
What we are seeing is the cognitive dissonance reaching a breaking point. Every culture has bedrock assumptions that are inculcated into individuals through the process of socialization [sociology, not political/economic, but political/economic assumptions can be part of the process]. These define the world view and "window on the universe" of the members of that culture.
Europeans have a different set of bedrock assumptions than Muslims, than Americans, than Chinese. Everybody does NOT think alike or have the same viewpoint; and everything from communications, to diplomacy, to war is affected by the differences.
When something happens to upset those hard-wired bedrock assumptions, the reaction is violent. We have, in our culture, certain assumptions about common ground between Americans [what John Ringo called a "General Trust" society -v- "Family Trust" or "Tribal Trust" societies] and equally strong and bedrock assumptions about the restricted role of government and the bounds and controls we have placed on it.
When those bedrock assumptions are shattered, there will be a reaction.
There are assumptions in pieces now. For example:
1) That the laws will be equally applied to everyone, in the main.
2) That the restrictions on the role of government placed in the Constitution are real and will be effective.
3) That the legal system will act to maintain #2.
4) That the government, with the imperfections inherent in anything run by humans, is on the side of the American people; all the American people, and is not being run for the benefit of an elite group of cronies.
5) That the United States is a sovereign country, and the government will protect that sovereignty and American interests.
6) Culturally, that the United States is on the side of Liberty.
7) That the consent of the governed is the basis for government, not rule from above.The presence of a President/regime/Nomenklatura whose provenance and loyalties are questionable shatters these and many other assumptions. And weakens the "General Trust" American culture, and brings the legitimacy of the political/legal system into question.
As I have said before; politics is the means that a particular culture finds acceptable to allocate power, resources, and status short of brute force and mass murder, i.e. war. The political means can range from pure participatory democracy all the way to assassination. It depends on the willing acceptance of the means by all but a small minority of the culture. If that consensus breaks down, human beings revert to the brute force and mass murder model until a new consensus is achieved, with its own set of assumptions.
The inability to formally confirm the provenance and background of the president, and the abject failure [or direct refusal] of the institutions normally tasked with that confirmation to perform that function is equivalent to detonating nuclear bombs under the bedrock. As does the blatant existence of a Nomenklatura that is above the law and the Constitution, regardless of party. See the lack of a Constitutional budget for 4 years [combined with economic collapse], the number of government officials, celebrities, or "connected" people who find the payment of the taxes and obedience to laws they demand from us to be optional and penalty free; for a specific example look at Elizabeth Warren, Democrat candidate for Senate in Massachusetts.
She holds the Leo Gottlieb Chair as Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, has apparently falsely claimed ethnic minority status for Affirmative Action preferences throughout her career, and has been actively practicing law from her Harvard office, according to filings in Federal and state courts. However, she has done so without having a license to practice law in Massachusetts, and from recent revelations without a license to practice law or active membership of the Bar Association in any state.
See http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/09/elizabeth-warren-represented-massachusetts-client-in-massachusetts/ and related posts there.
Massachusetts Democrat Candidate – Harvard – "Affirmative Action". What are the odds that she will ever face legal actions or penalties if these charges are true?
Her case is individually not catastrophic, but the failures that let her case get to this point is.
We are on the edge of having a collapse in the popular [as opposed to the elite view] of the legitimacy of our political system and much of our culture. And that will mean mass violence.
This election is the last chance to start the process of turning things around. Amongst the TEA Party/Patriot Movement people I know, there is no huge faith in Romney, just the knowledge that he may help staunch the bleeding a bit so we have time to continue to try to salvage the country politically. And there is the pragmatic knowledge that he and the Institutional Republicans will betray us and have to be beaten politically themselves. And the pragmatic knowledge that failure to complete that salvage successfully is quite possible, and the implications of a collapse of legitimacy.
Malware sometimes works.
Subotai Bahadur
September 27, 2012 - 1:59 pm Link to this Comment -
57. Don Rodrigo
How "good" and effective does Romney have to be?
I find him to be just fine right here:
If he does lose, he and his team will certainly have to shoulder some of the blame, but how much of it? If he loses the primary reason is that he is fighting a powerful tide of false narrative being fed to an increasingly beaten-down populace.
September 27, 2012 - 2:01 pm Link to this Comment -
58. Don Rodrigo
Incidentally everyone:
Which "America" are we talking about "going back to?"
To one based on first principles of the Founders?
Before Obama? Before LBJ?
Before Teddy Roosevelt?
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/09/jean-yarbrough-tr-and-the-american-political-tradition.phpSeptember 27, 2012 - 2:09 pm Link to this Comment -
59. Knight1
#21 and #22 – Blast From the Past – I salute you!
September 27, 2012 - 3:26 pm Link to this Comment -
Here is something I have come to wonder about recently.
47 million – or something like that – Americans are said to be using Food Stamps.
I note that Arbys has a Feed the Kids effort underway. I contribute to that every time I go in there.
And I recently saw a piece on TV about locals who have set up a feeding program for kids on weekends. It seems that for at least a few thousand of them if they don;t go to school they do not eat. I have no idea how they survive the summer.
So if all these people are using food stamps and kids are still hungrey – what the heck is going on?
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61. wow&flutter
I'm with Don Rodrigo @ 57. This and the other clips I've seen of Romney show a strong candidate, speaking to my concerns–economic growth, containment of federal bloat, and a foreign policy which puts American interests first.
I'm having a hard time making the "weak candidate" meme jibe with what I've seen. Maybe I'm missing something.
Does he breathe fire like Newt? No. But then again, Newt's candidacy sort of, um, self-immolated. Does he take an uncompromising stand like Paul? No, but apparently being uncompromising only gets you 9-13 percent of the vote. Is he as galvanizing (and I see that as a positive) as Sarah Palin? No, but she didn't run. Is Romney a perfect candidate. Not in my book. However, he is a very good candidate who has espoused ideas and principles with which I largely agree.
He strikes me as an extremely prinicpled man who had run an extraordinarily disciplined campaign. The one mistake (and admittedly it's a big one) is that he did not repudiate Romneycare when he had the chance. However, he says he will largely gut Obamacare.
Add to that, he is a candidate who faces stiffer MSM headwinds than any other candidate in history. I don't know that we can say he has allowed the Obama camp to control the narrative when the MSM has been working overtime to carry that particular bucket of water.
I come up with great ideas to help the Romney campaign on a daily basis, but they don't call me. Then again, I'm often able to point out that a pass was ill-advised once it's been intercepted.
September 27, 2012 - 3:59 pm Link to this Comment -
62. Knight1
#56 SB – I agree wholeheartedly with your analysis re blowing out the bedrock of our beliefs. There is a drumbeat I can feel in my bones – a swelling of outrage and anger building. There are people who cannot bestir themselves to vote for something; those same will turn out to vote AGAINST something or someone as their line in the sand. I hope it will be enough because the stats on voting in the primary 2012 in my county were 1/3 of registered voters.
#61 wow&flutter – I second your points.
This is my day to be agreeable apparently.
September 27, 2012 - 4:17 pm Link to this Comment -
63. Annoyed Mouse
"what the heck is going on?"
American children are growing obese.
10 Home
20 Sweet
30 Goto 10
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64. Sgian Dubh
33. Anson E. Long
"Perhaps people are not giving up on the USA but rather giving up on using a stacked deck. A Smith and Wesson beats a full house."Bears repeating.
I agree. No revolvers, then. And nothing short of .45.
Bears remembering, "…against all enemies both foreign and domestic."
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65. Sgian Dubh
Lately, I keep coming away from the discussions on this board with the feeling that a lot of folks are crestfallen, frustrated, panicked, sullen, feeling downtrodden, some positive and only a few generally optimistic.
I actually agree with all of those presentations and am generally hopeful (because as yet, I cannot see my country falling apart), but one sense I cannot divine from this discussion is that anyone is seething with anger. Shouldn't we be? I am experiencing a controlled righteous Christian anger so far, but I am preparing mentally to react to the "bombs under the bedrock" that Subotai has written about with direct and proactive means.
I also believe that the election of Romney will not make much of a difference…unless…unless…we as a people are willing to take on the Islamic miasma spreading in this country as promulgated by willing participation of both the Bush and Obama presidencies.
I saw the documentary "The Project" tonight and what was striking in that presentation was the point that the word "Islamophobia" is being used as a weapon to destroy the concept of free speech. And what did Mohammed Morisi spout from the UN "Pulpit" today? That Muslims will not allow anyone to speak ill or portray Mohammad in a bad light. Dude! Perfect timing.
Wow. Threats from the UN; he sounded just like that 5'3" guy from Iran. I was personally insulted… do you think he gives a rat's ass?
The other thing that was brought out (the Project) is that all the documents presented as evidence in the terrorist funding travesties in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism funding trial have only been released to the terrorists. To date, no documents have been released to Congress or to any interested "American" parties as a result of any Freedom of Information requests. President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder are sitting pat – just like they did on Fast and Furious – and the pot is beginning to boil.
They will lie to anyone to just get past election day.
Then we can impeach them.
September 27, 2012 - 8:01 pm Link to this Comment -
66. Doug
Romney will win because of the intensity of the anti-Obama vote.
…and because Priebus/Ryan/Romney have an exquisitely crafted ground and Social Media Game.
All proven to work in 2010, esp in Wisconsin.
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67. Joan
#65 Sgian Dubh
Count me as seething.
It interferes with any ability to articulate.
In addition, I believe that some of us are becoming more circumspect in what we write on the net.
September 28, 2012 - 6:13 pm Link to this Comment -
68. ErisGuy
No conspiracy, no Saudi money barons, no long-term plan by subversives for the destruction of liberty and America can explain why the American people have voted again and again for their own destruction.
The people are not fools, imbeciles or dupes: they desire the end of (as the '60s generation put it) "AmeriKKKa," the end of prosperity, the end of liberty. They have not acquiesced in these ideologies: more than half of all voters choose them in election after election.
Simply put: Obama, Islam, Socialism et. al. are the true and natural condition of, if not all people at all times, the American people here and now.
September 29, 2012 - 7:54 am Link to this Comment
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