It's About the Best Way to Predict the Future...Thing

Dear America,

“They can’t beat us on the battlefield, 

so they try to terrorize us

 into being afraid,” 

Mr. Obama said. 

“As president, I will not let that happen.”

[from NY Times, 11/22/15]

Who even listens to this guy anymore?

My immediate question is wondering why, if "they can't beat us on the battlefield" [ISIS]  -- then why aren't we ON the battlefield, beating them into submission, if not totally extinguishing every single one of them muthafuckas?  [Excuse my french...but I do believe the French would agree with me totally on this one.]

So, while you attempted to sound like a commander in chief, and get all macho-man and all -- your point, I guess, was reminding all Americans that you are not going to let them scare us.  Yeah, like all, 'not on my watch' kinda way.

And yet --

just today, you have issued a TRAVEL WARNING to ALL AMERICANS ABROAD to be afraid:

"U.S. citizens should exercise vigilance when in public places or using transportation," the alert said. "Be aware of immediate surroundings and avoid large crowds or crowded places. Exercise particular caution during the holiday season and at holiday festivals or events."

Hmmmmm but now that contradicts the message to all Americans here at home.  

At least according to Jeh Johnson, who counters the international warnings with this statement for the states:

"With this holiday season coming up we want the public to continue to go to public events, celebrate the holiday season, travel, be with their families and the like..."

Fly, be free...Love one another and be happy...

Hmmmmm wonder what the intelligence reports really say?

But let's go back to September -- at The Daily Beast --

Exclusive: 50 Spies Say ISIS Intelligence Was Cooked

or 

Exclusive: This Is the ISIS Intel the U.S. Military Dumbed Down

Let's bring the New York Times back in for another good quote from the president -- The Times being the proverbial shelter, providing political cover of a presidency that revels under the cover of darkness 24/7:

“One of the things I insisted on the day I walked into the Oval Office was that I don’t want intelligence shaded by politics. I don’t want it shaded by a desire to tell a feel-good story,”

Hilarious, isn't it. (no. not really.)

Obama went on to add, he wasn't aware of the "details" on this -- sounding eerily familiar to the way he says, "oh I learned about this the same time you did" or “I heard on the news about this story, that, uh, Fast and Furious.” or “I can assure you that I certainly did not know anything about the IG report before the IG report had been leaked through the press.” or  [IRS Scandal] “from the same news reports that I think most people learned about this. I think it was on Friday.” or  [wiretapping] “found out about the news reports, uh, yesterday on the road.”  For more on all of that, go HERE.

The thing is, he goes fast and furious, like gone in 60 seconds, from acting in the cover of darkness to acting like he is totally in the dark about all of it.    He IS an amazing piece of work at work.


Re: Dumbing Down of Intelligence --

 “The cancer was within 

the senior level 

of the intelligence command,” 

one defense official said. 

[The report comes complete 

with two senior analysts signing off, 

and "seconded" by an additional 50 other analysts.]

It's strange, really.

Centcom intelligence is being messed with to fit the narrative of this administration...and the president cries 'duh, I dunno"...actually, it went something more like this: “I don’t know what we’ll discover with respect to what was going on in Centcom,” Mr. Obama said. “What I do know is my expectation — which is the highest fidelity to facts, data, the truth.”

Right.   Like Benghazi, for example.

Well, perhaps, just maybe, go look for that letter documenting the written, formal, complaint -- and highlighted here on the old G Thing, above, provided courtesy of The Daily Beast. That would be a good start, considering you get your news like the rest of us.  

Then perhaps, look in the Oval Office; it should be sitting on your desk by now.   

But then again, speaking of smudging lines of truth and dares, just a few hours ago, you kinda sorta warned the media to censor their coverage of ISIS...so as to not inflame a violent response from a few [Islamic] bad seeds.  Let's see, what did you say:

The media needs to help in this, I just want to say. You know, during the course of this week — a very difficult week — it is understandable that this has been a primary focus. But one of the things that has to happen is how we report on this has to maintain perspective and not empower in any way these terrorist organizations or elevate them in ways that make it easier for them to recruit or make them stronger.

Oh okay.

And just who is "elevating" these actions?  Is it elevating simply by reporting on it somehow?

Really?  "The media needs to help in this..."    This propaganda tango is sounding more Venezuelan than American, just sayin.'   Just what perspective are you searching for, Mr. President; what narrative do you want the media to use?   

Seriously?  You have stooped to a new low.  For some erroneous reason as to refrain from feeding into the ISIS frenzy for recruitment purposes, you call on the media for an assist?   What, like, tone it down?  Ignore it?   It's all starting to sound vaguely familiar.  Where have I heard about the deliberate dumbing down of the truth (you know...besides Benghazi, Fast and Furious, IRS Scandal....and so on).....

So the truth is --  it wouldn't be a stretch to think that, as President, you may have mentioned to somebody, to talk to somebody, to dumb down the Centcom Intelligence to fit the narrative of your administration.  I mean, your legacy is at stake, right; your Nobel Peace Prize is staring at you in the face, and you've got to be somebody -- a president who wholeheartedly and genuinely deserves the prize, the legacy, a library in Indonesia, a round of golf everyday, and whatever else you want.

Rest assured -- the truth will come to the surface soon enough, as another post at The NY Times highlights a story about the Pentagon...expanding it's inquiry....here.   I feel good about that; you feel good about that?  Yeah, yeah, nothing and no one stands in the way of getting to the bottom of it, I'm totally confident in the process.

Oh my word -- all of a sudden I have a BMW commercial ringing in my ear.  Have you heard this line, blurted out somewhere in the middle of it?

"Best way to predict the future is to create it."

Just you wait.

Just you wait.

Once this president is out of office, everything KNOWN and UNKNOWN will come to light.  And in no uncertain terms, America will discover all the intelligence it needs to know, and, with great shock, realize that treason was committed on her friendly shores -- our shores -- over and over and over again.  

We've been attacked from within.  It's done.

The president's allegiance is not what it appears to be; it never was.  The dumbing down of the truth began some time during his first campaign -- with a fawning mainstream media already wide eyed and bushy-tailed to follow the charismatic leader of a whole new world with no (real) questions asked. 

what a long day it's been.

Make it a Good Day, G

It's About the Complete Idiocy of Credible Vulnerabilities in the USA Thing

Dear America,

"We are not aware 

of any credible threat 

here of a Paris-type attack 

and we have seen no connection 

at all 

between the Paris attackers 

and the United States," 

FBI Director James Comey said...

(via Newsweek)

are you kidding me?

yeah, and Paris was not aware of any "credible threat" either...and look where that got them.

And forgive me, but about this whole "credible threat" thing -- are you expecting a threat to be outlined in advance somehow, as if we could all mark a calendar, Friday Night Lights with a twist coming to a neighborhood near you.......Do we really need to know more about these guys to know that the threat is real, while the entire western world is the target anytime, anywhere?

Well, Mr. Comey -- being uncomfortably close proximity to this nation's southern border, how would you characterize the following news alerts (just from last few days, mind you):

• Honduras Arrests 5 Syrians heading north for the U.S. border...with stolen Greek passports
• Arizona arrested a couple of smugglers bringing in six men (origins from Pakistan and Afghanistan)
• Port of entry at Laredo, Texas found two Syrian families just trying to cross into the country...
• Oh, and btw -- the ringleader of the Paris Attack came in by refugee...(isn't that reason enough?)

Only last month, responding specifically to the Syrian Refugee plan in the United States, Jeh Johnson, Department of Homeland Security, admitted "there is no risk free process..."  

Regarding vetting, he added, “We may have someone who is not on our radar and someone may choose to do something bad after they get here,” Johnson said. “We can only query against what we have collected, so if someone hasn’t made a ripple in the pond, we can check our databases until the cows come home but we have no record on that person.”

Maybe it's just me, but wouldn't that make it a wee bit difficult to detect the possibility for a specific threat, whether credible, incredible, to the simply doable?  Look at Al Queda's success.

How do you vet someone without a documented past, papers, or so much as PROOF of being of peaceful person? 

Is it really all that crazy, Mr. President, to demand a pause?  This is about America's well being, and as a sovereign nation, it's okay to think of our own security first.  And more than that -- you know, that I know, that you know, the Syrian refugees are not all a bunch of "widows and three year olds!" 

But of course (say that with a French accent), what else can we expect from a president who is not even interested in winning...

“What I’m not interested in doing is posing or pursuing some notion of American leadership or America winning or whatever other slogans they come up with that has no relationship to what is actually going to work to protect the American people and to protect the people in the region who are getting killed and to protect our allies and people like France,” Obama said. “I’m too busy for that.” (for more, go to American Thinker, here)

Stunning.

What an arrogant disaster of an American president.  At least he was honest, for a change.

But then, maybe this winning against ISIS really is a myth -- as described in a rather thorough hit piece on the reality of the State of all things said and done in the fight, to date -- HERE at The Telegraph UK.  It's bottom line:

A properly mounted, properly manned, and properly equipped western army probably could dispatch Isil's caliphate reasonably quickly, if it were prepared to inflict and sustain the casualties normal in traditional warfare.

Indeed.

And yet, approaching an enemy --  war, itself -- with such firm resolve would be like attempting to call this World War III right from the start...and how silly would that be?

Let's ask King Abdullah of Jordan....HERE.
And better still, let's see Abdullah in UNIFORM, here (tee hee...a girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do...)  And ya think he knows a thing or two about the characterization of war and all of it's characters?

You see, this is what we get for having some weak/fly-by-night/quarter term Senator/Community Organizer sitting in the Oval Office -- and all the while, sitting there telling us climate change poses the greatest threat to humanity.   What a joke.  [BUT not a joke IS that article there on the link @Climate Change, at Breitbart.com.  It's really good and worth every minute of your time.  Snaps to James Delingpole.    As far as that link on "weak" ... not sure what to say.  Blame it on the change...and it's got nothing to do with the weather, but I digress.]

Back to kings and queens ....Hmmm ......King Abdullah or President Obama -- mirror mirror on the wall, who's the lamest of them all?

Here's a good section--  under EGO --in Saul D. Alinsky's,  Rules for Radicals:

Your leader is always flexible, he has pride in the dignity of his cause, he is unflinching, sincere, an ingenious tactician fighting the good fight.  To the opposition he is unprincipled and will go whichever way the wind blows, his arrogance is masked by a fake humility, he is dogmatically stubborn, a hypocrite, unscrupulous and unethical, and he will do anything to win; he is leading the forces of evil.  To one side he is a demigod, to the other a demagogue... 

If he or she does not have that complete self-confidence (or call it ego) that he can win, then the battle is lost before it is even begun.

wow ...having watched this president "act" for the last seven years, the difference between real confidence in real leadership is blinding.

And I hear you -- little g knows she is jumping around all over the place this morning; consider the aspects of evil forces surrounding and enveloping the world, it's a wonder any of us get out of bed, let alone aim to bring it all together in a day's blog.

[So a Mali Hotel was attacked today...A Radisson, by the way.]

Let's get back to what our president said:

“Apparently they’re scared of widows and orphans coming into the United States of America as part of our tradition of compassion,” Obama said. “At first they were worried about the press being too tough on ‘em during debates. Now they’re worried about three-year-old orphans. That doesn’t sound very tough to me. They’ve been playing on fear in order to try to score political points or to advance their campaigns. And it’s irresponsible. And it’s contrary to who we are. And it needs to stop, because the world is watching.” (for more, go to WND.com)

This president -- with ego at full tilt -- is far more disturbed by the Republicans, than any Radical Islamic Attack; while his allegiance has nothing to do with the welfare of these fine United States.  That's just the truth.

Now logically, it's not about the "widows and children" -- even if some of those children are indoctrinated by the age of three to not only hate the infidels, but taught how to kill them.   It's so much more than that...

It's called ENOUGH.

• We are being INVADED through our southern border, with virtually, physically, emotionally,  no push back by the powers that be;  and then, after these people get here, they immediately plant themselves permanently on the welfare rolls, free healthcare, foodstamps, etc.
• We have tourist visas, student visas,  and work visas running amuck -- with absolutely no real checks and balances between those who are truly here to do good things vs. those who are here to do harm.  GO to FAIR for more information on VISA OVERSTAYERS.
• We already have refugees here from the Middle East -- including Syria -- with the recent so-called breakdown from Syria like so, click here.    As if we could trust the bureaucrats....

It's called a situation where the border and our sovereign security is so porous, is so open -- a credible threat pretty much lives in every city of the great US of A right now.  And more than likely, it's more like more than one.

And the problem is - -ISIS and Al Queda and "lone wolfs" know that they currently have the self-confidence factor tilting in their favor.

It's building.

The attacks are becoming more often, and more elaborate, and more sophisticated...because their EGO is huge, their self-confidence is booming.  They are finding success and the crazies are flocking to the feet of ISIS and Al Queda and begging to play a part.   For these Radical Islamic Extremists -- screaming Allahu Akbar, to God be the Glory in Arabic -- in the name of ISLAM because that IS the religion which follows ALLAH,  duh -- do NOT see a credible threat.   They are not afraid; they are fighting like hell.

The Republicans -- or rather, Conservatives -- are not screaming 'fear'  in a theater, Mr. President!   The Conservatives know the enemy, and can even say it's name aloud; and it's the conservatives who want to take this threat down wherever it lives and make no mistake --  WIN.

And I put all that in Big BOLD letters for emphasis AND my mood!

It's called ENOUGH!

You're right, the whole world is watching.  What an understatement.
The whole world sees our open borders -- and laughs --  Mr. President.   Oh sure, this sense of being overrun by the enemy is exactly the condition hoped for to create the fundamental transformation that you are seeking for America, isn't it, Mr. President.  Little by little.  Nudge by nudge.  Any means necessary and whatever gets it done.  There is that.

You broke my heart, Fredo.

As provocative as this may sound, and having documented this truth since 2009, the reality is,  America elected an enemy of the state.

Enough is enough.

Let's get a handle on the situation -- this complete idiocy of credible vulnerabilities within our general population.  Yes, Mr. President -- let's see --  let's take a good hard look at who we are...shared values and all --  with no rock un-turned, shall we?   I'm  not only all in -- I'm pissed.

Make it a Good Day, G

And here's a point of fact from the attack in Mali -- the al-Qaeda terrorist force quizzed the hostages about their knowledge of the Koran and proceeded to let the MUSLIMS free. Tell me, Mr. President, that Islamists are not at war with the West...they are so proud of their Islamic heritage, they use it as a gauge against life and death.

It's Outrageous. He's Outrageous. It's an Outrageous Thing

Dear America,

"outrageous attempt to terrorize innocent civilians"

Dare I begin, by saying, what an outrageous attempt to respond to the attack in Paris, Mr. President.

Newsflash: They completed the mission.  The attempt was not only made, it was done.... They terrorized. 

And who are they?  ISIS: Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) or ISIL: Islamic State of the Levant...ISIS, ISIL same verse same as the first.  

Of course, The Left -- informally recognized as the Ignorant State of Leftists, or ISOL -- never really want to characterize the reality in real terms, do they now.

Hillary.

Bernie.

Indeed, Lefty's -- how outrageous... for the United States "to be painting with too broad a brush." It just might hurt somebody's feelings or something.  [You kids have no idea how free and easy you have it...but that's a blog for another day.]

Back to what we call things...

The Jihadists can put a name on it.   

They know who they are at WAR with...Christianity.  The Western World... Infidels...anyone and everyone who does NOT follow Mohammed, Islam, the Qur'an and Sharia Law.

Taking a broad stroke across the nation, it might even be safe to say The Left, ISOL, is equally extreme in it's attacks against America's Judeo-Christian heritage, our Christian values, our Christianity in both practice and free exercise.  Take for example, the attacks against Christian bakers, pizza makers...Obamacare forcing religious beliefs against contraception mandates, the federal funding of Planned Parenthood and abortion against the religious conscience of a majority of Americans, and of course, in light of the annual debate in the coming of  'Jesus is the Reason for the Season'  -- left-winged atheists have attempted and conquered by organizing a perpetual coup d'etat against the sight of all religion in the public square with firm resolve (but we're winning, for now, in a local story, here).

Friday morning, ironically airing an interview on Good Morning America with George Stephanopoulos, our president said this...

“I don’t think they’re gaining strength,” Obama responded. “What is true is that from the start, our goal has been first to contain and we have contained them. They have not gained ground in Iraq, and in Syria they’ll come in, they’ll leave, but you don’t see this systemic march by ISIL across the terrain.” 

“What we have not yet been able to do is to completely decapitate their command and control structures,” he admitted. “We’ve made some progress in trying to reduce the flow of foreign fighters and part our goal has to be to recruit more effective Sunni partners in Iraq to really go on offense rather than simply engage in defense.”  [get full report on Breitbart.com, here.]

And if this outrageous assessment of containment stands, then GOD help us all.

Sunday mornings always find me, G, watching church.  Today was no different.  Only that, in the shadow of the Paris attacks from Friday night, my soul was searching madly, deeply, frantically for solace and a sense of calm.

It was during the Heart of the Nation Catholic Mass that a realization stunned me into perfect submission to the thought of... by God, there is a God.

  

It was during this brief half hour, and the mere three minutes or less of a sermon, that the priest reminded us of this (and paraphrasing):  

This fear, this fear that we feel deep down inside us, gives us a chance to look at our relationship with God.  Asking the simple question, are we in good relationship with God?    For if we are in relationship, and it is good, then fear is nothing more than a chance to trust in God, to trust in that relationship, and KNOW in our heart, that God is always near, no matter what happens.

Perhaps in the broad picture of things, we can't control what happens in the world.  

We can't control the bad guys.  Or can we?  We've done it before.

We can't stop evil.  Or can we?  We've done it before.

The thing is --  we can most definitely control how we respond to things...even radical, Islamic, extreme things.

We can respond like a complete imbecile, as in President Obama's "attempt" to console France and the nation.  Or we can respond with a more merciless vengeance is mine approach.

And to that end, as Americans, we can respond to the reality of ISIL and ISOL meeting up with such dangerous political correctness, that it places America directly in harm's way and into a situation that demands attention to every detail, from top down, today.

This is where Michael Goodwin from the New York Post comes in handy.  See his November 14th column, here.  It's time for President Obama to make a choice and lead us or resign.    Thank you, Mr. Goodwin,  little g couldn't have said it better herself.

If I were president right now, today,  I would --

• Close the border.  And immediately put the military on the border.
• Go door to door, seeking out illegals of all nations, documenting origins, and immediately deport illegals from the Middle East...every single one of them.
• Blow up ISIL camps in the United States right now
• Bring in the FBI on CAIR with the full intent to close it down
• Domestically infiltrate neighborhoods with a Muslim majority (Dearborn, Chattanooga...) -- and put a stop of any organization (with membership of one to a million) that undermines the welfare and security of America and Americans.
• Go to Congress and demand a vote demonstrating full support of military operations to annihilate "radical extremists" wherever they exist in the world, as well as broaden the defense budget... in other words, return it to a military of might, not slight.
• Cease and desist the language of political correctness across the board, in both the broad and minute strokes and terms.
• And, if time allows, immediately tear up the Iran Nuclear Deal. (That is designed just to make you laugh,even though it's really not funny at all.)

All in all, there is no time like the present.

We have work to do. 

America is not done.

And we have nothing to fear, but fear itself.

It IS time for the President to lead or RESIGN; begging the question, just who is containing who, Mr. President?

But Hope does NOT float with this thought of resignation for very long; for in reality, it would be truly naive to think he sees anything wrong with his response, his leadership, his illogical, ill-conceived, reckless response to the Radical Islamic Extremists of the world, whether they be on foreign soil or domestic.  From home and abroad, HE has set up America, if not the entire free world, for a free fall...as in no problem, let's just open the flood gates, come one, come all,..It's all outrageous, really.

God bless us one and all --- especially to the people of France as they struggle to find peace in the presence of pure evil.

Make it a Good Day, G

It's No Time Like the Present Thing

Dear America,

"Those who expect to reap 

the blessings of freedom must, 

like men, 

undergo the fatigue 

of supporting it."  

Thomas Paine

I love that part, "like men."

And to think, it's so sexist, isn't it!...Oh the shame.  Oh the crime. Oh Thomas Paine -- I love you, man.

And Oh how I dream of a time gone by when men were men and women were women and nobody was confused about anything.  I know -- thump on the head to me.   Whatever.

Yesterday -- Veteran's Day -- I spent the better part of a morning surrounded by MEN, veterans, real men, with their service to America dating back twenty...fifty, sixty, seventy years...and many of them were seated with their wives of twenty...forty, fifty, sixty years right next to them.  It was a beautiful thing, let me tell you.

About a dozen boys of the Camp Pendleton Young Marines stood at attention throughout the entire forty-five minute program -- which took great skill, considering less than six feet in front of them, the "half-time show" featured a dance troupe from the local school, Santa Fe Christian, tapping out a fine boogie woogie number (of course, accompanied by the school band)  -- to a classic, "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B."   

The girls were good!   And almost better than The Andrews Sisters...

Giving high marks on costume -- dressed in red satin and gloves -- the modern day ensemble takes home a decent honorable mention.  But the trophy, that goes to the sisters simply on points for originality and, for something that I like to call --  setting the bar; and certainly not to discount the many years of service in the business of keeping the morale up for our boys.   Hoo rah.

The thing is, we know what "better" is. It's a cut above.  

Take  Jeb Bush, at Tuesday night's debate -- he failed to make something of his campaign.  He failed to stand out and hit a higher bar.  He may have done better than expected, in the eyes of some, but better isn't always enough, is it.   (Not a question.)

Now Ted Cruz did better than Jeb;  he left his mark in the hearts and minds of those listening.

Marco Rubio did better than Jeb, and quite possibly even better than Cruz; he left his mark in the hearts and minds of those listening.

But like most things in life -- it's subjective.

I'm sure for some people, what Thomas Paine said, might be offensive.  Take it out of context, take it out of the 1700's and thrust it into the year 2015 and we have immediate controversy.  But let's not quibble, shall we. 

"Those who expect to reap 

the blessings of freedom must, 

like men, 

undergo the fatigue 

of supporting it."  

I was shocked to read news out of Colorado Springs this morning -- it centers around a lawsuit from a group of women IN the police force who objected to the physical ability test each year.  And now -- long story short (and fat) -- when it comes to the men and women in uniform in the Spring's area and racing to the rescue of citizens in need, nobody will be required to stay "physically fit." [At least, until such time it's been argued back and forth through the legal channels.]

Seriously?

Why wouldn't a woman -- especially a woman currently in police uniform --  insist on staying fit, on their own, for their own benefit, for the betterment of both community and her own life itself?  Talk about a life and death situation that naturally raises the bar --  demanding the call for being better than the average joe a personal standard in the every day!   Holy super girl, this might be such an occasion.

But let's consider for a moment how women got here.    Women have cried discrimination for decades -- fighting tooth and french manicured nail, long and hard, to make gains in male dominated careers, be it local police forces or one of our honorable armed forces...including now in combat zones...and this is where we take it?  Griping under the fatigue of the demands of being in what is, for all intents and purposes, a man's domain?  Are you kidding me?

Shut up.

Shut up.

Shut up.

Dig deep, put down the doughnut, get back in shape, and shut up.

Did I mention you stupid girls need to shut up?

Enough said.

Now for the betterment of this day, this blog, my wish is to do a one-eighty and get back to d'boys in uniform.  Here you go:

"It is the Veteran"

It is the Veteran, not the preacher, who has given us freedom of religion.
It is the Veteran, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press.
It is the Veteran, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.
It is the Veteran, not the campus organizer, who has given us freedom to assemble.
It is the Veteran, not the lawyer, who has given us the right to a fair trial.
It is the Veteran, not the politician, who has given us the right to vote.
It is the Veteran, who salutes the Flag,
It is the Veteran, who serves under the Flag,
To be buried by the flag,
So the protester can burn the flag. 

[that's a really good link! don't miss it]

 Author: Anonymous

...The guest speaker at my local Veterans Day service, Lt. Col. Scott Hall (a very handsome Fighter Pilot!), offered these words in his closing.  

It's something that I like to call perspective.  [And surely within "It is a Veteran," a lesson, or two, lives for the wayward student body re-organizers of  Missou and Yale...and we'll have to save that for another day...]

"Those who expect to reap 

the blessings of freedom must, 

like men, 

undergo the fatigue 

of supporting it."  

According to the stats:  19.3 million veterans in U.S. in 2014, with 1.6 million of them listed as female (but do we really know anymore?)...  And talk about physically fit -- most often, the cream of the crop, all of them; Bergdahl aside, it's a group of men and women who act with honor and courage and strength better than most of us upon any given day.  

Which brings me to this:

it would be an understatement to say, there is     no     time    like    the present.  Think about it.

But this is where I must leave it for one day.

Make it a Good Day, G

It's I don't care what you say CNN, Rock On, BEN! Thing

Dear America,

just wish CNN was half as interested in vetting a candidate Barack Hussein Obama, back in 2007, as they are with one of the republican front-runners, Ben Carson...after eluding to Carson's extensive fabrication of a somewhat violent past in a recent journalistic hit piece.

Now little old g spent many moons, here, in my Diary of America, investigating Obama's questionable associations (Frank Marshall Davis -- take that! for a link into controversy... or  this one, Reverend Wright...) and the Communist/Marxist family background -- on both sides of his family, mind you.  OF course, given the birth of G dates back to summer of 2009, all of my searches and finds and story telling unfortunately came after the fact -- after the country was diabolically mesmerized of the notion of the first black president taking the oval office in hopes of all kinds of wonderful things in our future; all 300 million of us carried a different dream on our backs, but mostly in our hearts, of a new age.   As if.

And it's not like any of it has been old news -- or as if any of it went away either.   Just yesterday, one of my favorite places on the WWW, The Patriot Post, Mark Alexander came out with this post ....HERE...in which he also reminded us of a post from way way way back in '08....HERE.

And where was CNN then? Or better still -- NOW?    

Where is CNN doing it's great investigative journalism in wondering just where we all went wrong under Obama?  Or better still,  where is CNN questioning Hillary on her questionable past, perhaps telling a fib or two?  Really, now -- questioning ALL of her stories might take a decade just to corral the bevy of  unbridled lawlessness, let alone unearth the number of lies (that being, UN-truths, just to be clear).

But back to Barack:

The economy has never bounced back -- the world is coming apart at the seams, Al Queda is not the JV team, ISIS is committing crimes against humanity from sea to shining sea and from heaven to earth, IRAN still believes in Death to America -- the Obamacare exchanges are turning into billion dollar fraud schemes and have turned one-sixth of this nation's economy into a cesspool of bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo and in spite of it all, we still have millions uninsured -- race relations have deteriorated, and have metastasized into a groundswell of hate crimes against law enforcement -- the cost of simply living, as in electricity will in fact "necessarily skyrocket..."  and the cost of basic food and goods and services have soared, while over 93 million Americans are not even in the labor force!

We could go on and on -- 

The thing is, long before day one of this administration,  THIS  president, and this first lady, have been nothing but perfectly clear.     

Their malicious intent was to change America forever because they simply hate America for which she stands. [Whatever...go ahead and hate me...it's just true.]  

• America's traditions would have to change.
• Holidays would have to change.
• All of the inequalities of America's racist past would have to change and be course corrected, beginning with the return of the bust of Winston Churchill...
• Foreign affairs would have to change -- beginning with making our enemies welcome associations, while our allies would become nothing more than chess pieces in the re-organization of a new world order.
• All the while -- new energy policy, new immigration policy (more like domestic invasion), new education indoctrination policy, new domestic terrorist policy -- would all became immediate targets via Executive Order or by simply writing a new government regulation, coming in conjunction with a brand new bureaucracy of officials to make it so [See RED Tape Rising, at The Heritage Foundation, HERE]

No longer in the cover of night, what we have here is TYRANNY, as in one side takes ALL, and CNN isn't saying a word -- except, oh how 'bout that Ben Carson over there telling stories about a shady childhood and we can't find anyone from fifth grade to verify it.

seriously?

And the left wonders why the panel of leftist attacks, along with the innumerable and unprofessional interruptions featured during the last CNBC debate didn't go over well?  Can The Right  actually get a question without the ideological zinger thrown in, or at least without the inherent condemnation?

Which reminds me of something else I read just yesterday on The Hill that made me roll all the way down the stream laughing,  It's from Brent Budowsky, and reads like so -- Sanders Trouncing Trump, Media Ignores. 

First off, Brent, The Left side, the establishment, wants Hillary; that shouldn't be a surprise. [Well, if we are really being truthful, the left establishment doesn't really want Hillary -- it simply gets down to the law of pay back -- it's just her time.  The Left owes it to her.]

Second, Brent -- loved this part! --

My view of Trump is similar to my view of Matt Drudge, who is the most powerful influencer in modern media history when it comes to what is covered by the news business. Drudge towers over the media like a colossus. News leaders read The Drudge Report like Talmudic scholars poring over ancient scrolls. News stories blessed by Drudge flow like mighty rivers from his keyboard to television screens and daily newspapers in living rooms across the nation. 

As a liberal Democrat, I am overwhelmed (honestly) by the green monster of jealousy that President Obama, Hillary Clinton and Democrats have never figured out that they should assemble their Democratic super-donors to finance ventures to challenge the literal monopoly of news aggregation power that Drudge — who is never accused of liberal bias — has achieved for what he does so brilliantly.

Are you for real?

Is it not enough to have the Liberal bias simply everywhere -- on the net, on TV, including in the everyday conversation in schools -- are you kidding me?  Are you that blind, deaf,  or dumb?  What -- because conservatives have a nice neat little list to go to every day, you think the Left sits at a disadvantage? Are you f$@&& kidding me??!??! 

...yeah because places like the Huffington Post, and Yahoo, in the mainstream, is just not enough...

.... the liberal dialog quoted daily by the likes of really cool people like Facebook's Zuckerberg or Sandberg or turned into a funny comedic rant by Jon Stewart,  all with the liberalism persuasion being magnified and multiplied and re-directed a top priority daily through the Google machine is simply not enough... 

....to the powerhouses of the big three -- ABC, CBS, NBC -- finally experiencing a wee bit of competition with the rise of Fox News is not enough.....

...As if -- as if George Soros doesn't sit behind a curtain all the live long day masterminding the propaganda and bank rolling a fundamental transformation through think tanks and liberal websites, complete with the wealth of liberal elites in Media, Hollywood, and Government at his beckon call...is never enough.

yeah, Brent.  I feel for you.  You should be jealous of the likes of Drudge.  How crazy powerful Matt Drudge must be against the army of millions in liberal media available 24/7 and dominating the voice of America for so long.

Let's see...

what else...

I have nothing else.

The liberal hypocrisy of CNN is what began the day, but it's the liberal ideology the rues the day in America.   And it sure ain't your grand-pappy's liberal ideology no more, no more; no sir ree bob.  It's so far left they simply want to abolish all other thought!  It's so far left, they want to censor any and all opposition.    It's so far left it has turned into a tyrannical, totalitarian subversion of the American Dream, turning us inside out and upside down without CNN, or any one else on The Left for that matter, so much as blinking an eye.

Oh Brent, you know not what you say.

And finally,

rock on, Ben!

Make it a Good Day, G

It's Just an Echo Heard 'Round the World Thing

Dear America,

so talk about disturbing...

over the weekend, my in-box was assaulted.  

Yeah, "Paul Ryan" sent me two emails -- both within thirty minutes of each other -- the first, titled "My Vision" and the second titled, "Time to Get to Work."

now, when you stop laughing, please let me know so we can continue.

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Granted, it wasn't really a personal attack from Mr. Ryan -- it was more a group affair, courtesy of the National Republican Congressional Committee.  They were fishing for donations.

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But here's the brand spanking new Speaker, speaking Friday:

“To me, the House of Representatives represents what’s best of America,” he said. “The boundless opportunity to do good. But let’s be frank, the House is broken. We’re not solving problems, we’re adding to them. And I am not interested in laying blame. We are not settling scores. We are wiping the slate clean...”

“We are the body closest to the people. Every two years, we face the voters and sometimes face the music. But we do not echo the people, we represent the people. We are supposed to study up and do the homework they cannot do. So when we do not follow regular order, when we rush to pass bills that a lot of us don’t understand, we are not doing our job. Only a fully functioning house can truly represent the people,” he said.

[thank you, Breitbart, here]

and of course, I begin to wonder about that vast ocean between "echo" and "represent."

So here we go.

To "echo" is "any repetition or imitation of something, as of the opinions, speech, or dress of another,..one who imitates another."

To "represent" is "to stand for, symbolize...to serve as the official and authorized delegate or agent for; act as a spokesman for."

So by deduction, the new Speaker is a spokesman.  According to THE SPEAKER, he speaks NOT to ECHO the people, but merely to stand as a symbol of the people; in other words, he REPRESENTS for show --  simply to portray "the people," but not necessarily in substance, to speak and act for the people.

I loved the part about "to do the homework they cannot do" --  as if we are all fifth graders pouting about common core economics...but I digress.

When going to the dictionary for the official...representative...well studied academic back up on definitions, a discovery was made:  Echo, in Greek Mythology, is "a nymph whose unrequited love for Narcissus caused her to pine away until nothing but her voice remained."   And I had to laugh...

For it nails it; it's perfectly representative of all I have left -- my voice.

And more important, the Speaker has it entirely wrong and backwards.

For the house, of all places, IS to ECHO! --- In substance, in action, in integrity!  --- It's designed to ECHO the actual voice and opinion of the people!  ----  And believe you me, it IS working if this government comes to a screeching halt!

For a little levity -- from Jonah Goldberg, albeit going all the way back to 2012:

And that’s a point worth keeping in mind. The merits of compromise depend mightily on direction. If my wife and I agree to move to Chicago, then the opportunities for compromise are limitless. When we move, where we live when we get there, even how we get there: These are all reasonable subjects for negotiation. But if I want to move to Chicago and she wants to stay in Washington, D.C., splitting the difference and moving to Cleveland would be absurd. But it would be compromise.

And again to Jonah -- speaking compromise on a day more current, as in about 4 days ago,  here (in video! watch! Comes courtesy of "The Daily Signal" produced by The Heritage Foundation).

THIS liberal, leftist, progressive president has been gifted everything he wants!  What is left to give him other than total leniency for full amnesty, a single-payer healthcare system, the unconscionable extinguishing of  [certain religion... namely Christianity] and the "free exercise thereof," all topped off with another trillion dollars added to our national debt???  [That last link, btw, is really good...and it's found on The Patriot Post, and written by Arnold Ahlert.]

Seriously.  How much more can the "representation" of the right side of this fine country give in and give up without a fight -- even if that fight looks an awful lot like a fight between the people and the "republican" representation itself!?   

Now moving on to something a little more frightening -- as if it couldn't get much worse -- let's take a look at where the president has compromised, and compromised badly, to the extent of putting the United States, Europe, all of the western world basically, directly in harms way...

...on America's Foreign Policy and the finest military in the world.

Because of Barack Obama's intent on getting all boots off the ground in the Middle East -- in order to right the wrongs of his predecessor, George W. Bush, and angling to prove his ideology and policy superior to the W -- Obama compromised the safety of the world!  

Digging his heels in deep, he was so determined to get our boys and girls out of Iraq, home from Afghanistan, keeping at an arm's length in Libya, and hands completely tied against Assad, etc.etc.etc.  the western world might as well have dug our own grave.  And it's all due to the unfettered compromise of a sort -- the de-militarization of the greatest armed forces in the world coming in conjunction with "negotiations" (i.e. total capitulation) with terrorists (in Iran), telegraphing our intent to keep boots at home, come hell or high desert, no matter what, and thereby leaving the entire region, for all intents and no good purpose, utterly defenseless. [Call me silly, but telling the enemy we will not be dragged into another war pretty much tells the enemy, go for it...she's all yours.]

It wasn't Bushie who left the region vulnerable and ripe for the taking, it was President Obama.

Compromise after compromise after compromise.

But wait.  There's more!

After years of saying what sounds a lot like  "no boots on the ground" -- guess what he's doing now -- granted, about a thousand days late and a few thousand troops short?    Boots meet Ground.  [again, call me funny, but a half-assed strategy in war leaves us short, as in we are only half way involved, half way in, half way committed, but leaving us totally screwed.]

Cue The Patriot Post once more, for a nice, neat, little drive-by of a compilation of a compromise in Syria, here. Funny stuff, huh.   And for another quickie, go here.

For added research -- on your own time --  

Another good read is The Naked Communist, by W. Cleon Skousen.  There are innumerable sections to highlight, but allow me to point out how compromising (scroll a bit up on this link...if you will) on our commitments is very, very bad.   As in, "what he did not know [General MacArthur]....the Chinese had already been assured by their intelligence agents [spies] that the diplomats in Washington, London and New York [U.N.] were NOT going to allow MacArthur to retaliate with the U.S. Air Force.  MacArthur was going to be restricted to "limited" warfare."  ....MacArthur was later relieved of his command for basically committing acts of insubordination -- ergo for speaking up and violating a presidential gag order...  The book also quotes a Senator Robert A. Taft, saying "The United Nations serves a very useful purpose as a town meeting of the world....but it is an impossible weapon against forcible aggression."   An Armistice in Korea was really only achieved by accident....Stalin died...But that's really a whole 'nother story. 

Now, the last thing to read is rather long; but what can we say -- there are days when an uncompromising level of strength is not asked of you, but required!  So on that note, go to Hillsdale's Imprimis for a real treat.  Senator Tom Cotton (AR) responds to the times like a diplomat, a statesman, a learned, accomplished, and decorated war Veteran and American -- and blows any opposition out of the water with logic, law, a grasp of history and current affairs clarity, in a speech given on a day celebrating our Constitution.

.......READ IT NOW.  I will wait........

The thing is, little g is finding herself wishing on a morningstar -- and wishing a guy like this was Speaker of the House.  For a guy like this -- Senator Tom Cotton -- truly ECHOS a belief system aligned in principle, and in action, with America's foundation and Constitution, and it's uncompromising!   

What a breath of fresh air, considering the rampant suffocation of the average, conservative voice in the general (eh hem mr paul-compromise-or-bust -ryan)..... and especially.....

.....my voice, in the specific.  

echo 

echo 

echo 

(Thank God I can blog about it, right.  Tee Hee)

Make it a GOOD day, G