Eric Holder Clears Eric Holder of Wrong Doing

                                                                                                June 3, 2013

 

U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530-0001

Press Release:

The U.S. Justice Department recently got together with Eric Holder who also chaired the meeting and after careful and balanced deliberations it was ruled that Eric Holder is blameless in the death of a U.S. boarder agent, Brian Terry, and numerous Mexican citizens in his engineering of the present administrations absurd idea of trying to alter U.S. public opinion on gun ownership by allowing American arms to “Walk” across the border into Mexico and having them "find" their way into the hands of murderous drug cartel thugs and that these arms showing up at a number of murder scenes including agent Terry’s was all just an unfortunate coincidence.

 It is clear to the Justice Department and Eric Holder that he had no knowledge of this operation and therefore could not perjure himself when he faced questions regarding this secret operation from Congress.

Eric Holder also found that he, Eric Holder, is not culpable in the tapping of phone lines of members of the National Press and of initiating possible criminal charges towards them. Mr. Holder does acknowledge that his need to locate the sources of unauthorized information leaks from the White House absolutely trumps the U.S. Constitution but that he didn’t know about the wire taps in the first place because he had recused himself from the whole matter ages ago, didn’t you get the memo?

Eric Holder’s Justice Department also declared that there was no dereliction of duty in the failure to prosecute the New Black Panther Party for voter intimidation during the 2008 presidential election since one should not expect Mr. Holder to prosecute “his people” regardless of their perceived, filmed and widely distributed actions. Mr. Holder asks “Haven’t black folks been persecuted enough in this country for doing wrong things? Isn’t it time we just look the other way?”

And finally the U.S. Justice Department under Eric Holder further determines that Mr. Holder shall not be held accountable for any new claims of wrongful conduct, obstruction, perjury or of failing to provide evidence to Congress for any future misdeeds that the American people have yet to discover or that he has yet to commit.

This concludes the inquiry into Justice Holder’s conduct.

Send this to all the media outlets please.

Obama Pantomimes Concern For Student Debt

Is there a bigger phony-baloney than President Obama?

No there isn’t. Even for Washington DC, his “down is up” politicking and never ending campaigns stand out as pure style over substance.

Today we see the president standing on the steps of the Capital with, I imagine, college students behind him in “eyes in the headlights” support of what gobbledygook he’s spouting and thus proving beyond doubt that a college education isn’t worth the money these Indoctrinaires are paying these days.

Was it not Obama’s administration that had nationalized the Student Loan Program back in 2010? Is it not this same program that will lend a student ANY AMOUNT of money they may need for their education regardless of their means or ability to pay it back? Has this not lead to a tremendous $ 1 Trillion plus student loan debt of which nobody in government is speaking to? Now he’s out there trying to keep the spigot open so more cheap money will hemorrhage out of the taxpayer guaranteed program.

No, Mr. Obama didn’t invent the student loan program, that was Socialist president Lyndon Baines Johnson who signed it into law back in 1965 but in true Obama fashion he streamlined the way for government to take over the whole program and become the sole lender. Try as I might, I can’t seem to find the article in the US Constitution that allows the Federal Government to administer a student loan program. Just why IS the government in the student loan business? Perhaps it’s to provide an almost unlimited supply of funds to their most ardent supporters, the Public University System.

Under the government loan program, there is no incentive for an institution of higher learning to scale back its operations. The local college here in Obscurity, MA is building new athletic fields, parking lots and dorms. Other colleges I see are also expanding and thereby removing more and more property from the local property tax base since they are non-profit organizations and so the property they acquire comes off of the tax rolls. The college professors are not only making crazy money for their “teaching” but these schools also offer “special” teaching positions to local politicians. It’s big money for not a lot of work. This all costs alotabucks! Where does it come from? The students tuition and fees, of course.

The Student Loan Program will let the student borrow any amount the University will charge. After all, you want your kid to have a college education, don't you? There is no point where they will not receive the money. This is why we see bank tellers with $60,000.00 in college debt and doctors with $150,000.00 in arrears and anything in between. How can a Liberal Arts major be in debt for $80,000.00? They will NEVER make that back. Plus, these people’s future borrowing power is kaput until they can whittle these amounts down. I know people ten years out of college who are still paying.

But also add to this situation the tax increases under the present regime including the escalating costs of ObamaCare. These increased burdens on consumers and businesses are contributing to the slowest economic growth the nation has ever seen including the Great Depression. We are in our 6^th year as of this writing after the 2007 credit crash and the nation has yet to regain half the wealth it lost at that time and a fraction of the jobs. We have more people on food stamps than ever before, more unemployed and under employed than ever and the highest tax burden on the middle class that has ever been. As we stagger along this pathway of under productivity, it’s the nation’s youth that are facing limited job prospects and looming repayment responsibilities.

Only the very rich and the very poor can afford to go to college these days. The poor go for free and the rich can just pay. It's the middle class that goes into massive debt and pays away their saving to get their kid through college. Not rich enough to afford it outright and not poor enough to qualify for government give-a-way grants.  

So at what point will the costs become too much to where students can no longer afford to pay and the college system will be forced to contract? Well, I’d say if the cost of borrowing the money went up…oh wait, now I get it!

So to see President Obama standing on the steps of the Capital building proclaiming yet again that it is Congress’ fault things aren't happening and that they “shouldn't aughta” raise the interest rates is a laughable event.  

If anybody should be to blame for the mess today’s college graduates are facing, it’s him.  

Arming Syrian Revolutionaries Is A Really Bad Idea

Who on God’s Green Earth thinks, besides the heads of the UN, EU and the US State Department, thinks that that arming Islamic Extremists in Syria is a good idea?

That’s right, nobody

Because it’s a crazy idea, that’s why.

Haven’t we learned one lesson in our endless conflict with these Islamic hoards?

We see these U.S. weapons twice. Once when they go out the shipping dock door and again when they’re fired back over the wall at us.

The U.S. remains a mostly Christian nation. The problem is that these Muslims HATE Christians. Not only will these weapons be used in the attempt to topple Assad’s regime, they will also be used to wage the ongoing war on the Christians that are still living in the country. There is great and abundant evidence that these Islamic “Revolutionaries” are killing Christians wherever they find them. So let’s give these people top notch weaponry so that they can finish the job!

Then there is Israel. Weapons in the Middle East have this uncanny habit of moving around. You never know where they will end up. Perhaps Gaza, perhaps Lebanon, who knows. The only given is at whom they will be aimed at if they do show up in these places.

Then there is the U.S. itself. We are the largest arms dealer in the world and business is GOOD. But if peace should break out and people stop fighting, business is BAD.

Instead of arming them, we should be starving them. It’s only a rebellion because the US is clandestinely supported them. Without the support of the US there is no so called revolt. The only real conflict here is the one pitting non-sectarian killers against religious killers. No good will come from continued US involvement. We can’t keep drugs out of this country; we’re going to keep these people from smuggling weapons into it?

So far the United States has done a great job of diplomacy in North Africa over the years and recent history is no exception. In the late 1970s we practically created the hard line rule and rise of Islamic resurgence in Iran by backing the ruthless Shah who served US interests above his own nations and have protected the House of Saud who keeps seemingly everybody else but their extensive family poor and who essentially rule the nation.  More recently we’ve managed to build an extreme Islamic State where none existed previously in Libya by our blatantly illegal intervention in their civil war.

These Islamic states shouldn’t be fighting us, they should be thanking us since the U.S. is doing for Islam what we did for Communism in the 1960s and 70s.  Without us, radical Islam wouldn't have half the grip on the countries as they have now.

So by all means let us openly ship arms to these needy brethren, our “brothers under the skin” so to speak.

What can possibly go wrong?

Boy Scouts Break Own Rules

Sexuality was not something to be talked about. That went for liking women as well as men. It wasn’t something that was supposed to be an issue in scouting. That was your business.

Now that has changed. Now it is about sexuality.

The Boy Scouts of America, long a target of the Political Left for their stance against homosexual membership, has now decided to become the lightning rod for open debate concerning homosexuality and put the scouts front and center in the national clash over the rights of homosexuals.  

If the latest Dog and Pony show that the BSA has put on over the last several months is any indication, polling over 200,000 of its membership, publishing the results and reporting that membership was against changing policy to allow openly homosexual scouts by a margin of 2 to 1 and then voting to allow them in anyway, the national body of scouting is out of touch with the grass roots of its organization. Most just want to just carry on with the tradition of scouting and stay out of politics and the spotlight.

But isn't this is just like any governing body these days? The people involved have their say and vote and then the governing body just goes and does what it wants anyway regardless. But hey, you had a chance for input, you should be thankful for that.

Before the vote, nobody wanted to hear about your sexual orientation since that was not the business of Scouting, now the BSA has made it their business and this won't be the last we hear about it.
 

Time To Blame Islam

They are immutable.  They live among us but they do not mix. The more radicalized among them force their women to live in bags. And when they go to a fellow Muslim for help, they get it. This is Islam today.

They are given every opportunity to assimilate into the societies that invite them but they do not assimilate. They are separate and self-isolating. Not only do I not know a Muslim, I can’t recall even meeting one. Oh I SEE them on the streets, their veiled women pushing baby carriages during the day and I drive by the Mosques but I don’t KNOW them.

And even though Islam has been at war with us since at least the 1970s when they were hijacking planes and taking over luxury ocean liners, WE have largely ignored them. They can blow up a barracks in Lebanon here, throw a wheelchair bound Jew overboard there, but it’s not the fault of Islam. After all look at all the crimes against humanity perpetrated by Christians! What about that?

I’d say the difference between the Christians and the Muslims these days is that the Christians STOPPED doing such things quite a long time ago and the Muslims seem to have ramped things up in the last decade or so or haven’t you noticed? There are Mall shootings, sniper attacks, bombings and now a hacking death in the streets of London during daylight hours.

All by Muslims.

But it’s not their fault.

It’s the RADICALS that are doing this, not “regular” Muslims. Well what is a regular Muslim these days?    

Islam spread across Europe twice as fast as Christianity did. Know why?

Because Islam was spread by the sword.

Nothing has changed.

Where Christianity had it’s Reformation, Islam has not. They have been on a single-minded tear across the civilized world since the inception of their “Religion” and the only time they were ever stopped is when they were BEATEN BACK.

Now we don’t have to go that far these days. We can just stop subsidizing these latent fiends and quit believing they will eventually come around to our way of thinking. They won’t.

They hate the 1^st world so much, then why not send them back to their 3^rd world.

It is the fault of Islam contextually that is causing people to feel they have to kill to spread it and to defend it. It is the fault of Muslims everywhere that people are dying and they do nothing . They ALL bear the burden of guilt and the responsibility to DO THE RIGHT THING and put themselves on the line to control their religious kindred until this violence ends.

Otherwise, ALL Muslims should be painted with the same brush of suspicion and distrust.

Taxpayer Funded Terrorism

There is little doubt any longer that it is the American taxpayer funding the demise of the American way of life? The government lets these “impoverished” groups from other countries into our nation, subsidizes their housing, gives them a stipend, a debit card, food stamps and sends them to school on the taxpayer dime so they have all the time in the world to plot and build their infernal bombs or to just plain attack people at an area Mall or even in the streets. They see this as a weakness.

When the American people say it isn’t right and try to form a political group to confront these issues in the political area, they are targeted by taxpayer funded government organizations and singled out for scrutiny and orchestrated harassment and denial of services.

When we try to protest the IRS involvement in targeting law abiding Americans from all walks of life who are dismayed by the use of the money that is taken from them everywhere they turn by government and who feel subjugated by the loss of their personal resources to fund political influence here and abroad, Homeland Security turns out armed to the teeth to keep them at bay.

This is the United States today.

Thanks to GW Bush’s Patriot Act which the Republicans pushed for and the Democrats cheered, the government now has a force of indoctrinated, loyal and partisan Apparatchiks  only hinted at during president Obama’s first campaign when he promised a military force separate from the police.

The DHS has all the information the IRS has an more. They answer to nobody but the president and they are a military unit. The IRS may audit you but the DHS can do more than that with seeming impunity.  We have already seen that government has no regard for the law these days so if our government can track their political opponents moves via their cell phones, leak their personal and financial information to their opponents and the press and limit their access to lawful services, just what else are they capable of?

It’s such a brilliant plan that if history’s dictators and oppressors were gathered together in a room to observe how this all came about, they all would have slapped their forehead sin surprise they didn’t think of it themselves. Let the taxpayer fund his own subjugation! The government can buy up all the ammunition they can get their hands on thus creating a shortage for the private citizen and municipal officer equally. This is because both are the enemy to the U.S. government. Only those people filtered and trained by the federal government will be allowed access to these resources. And since the government can write a check for any amount guaranteed by the printing press and the taxpayer, they have unlimited resources to get what they want at any price.

Letting the terrorists walk among us supported by the taxpayer dime is the key to keeping people in fear. A fearful people, without the resources to defend themselves will again turn to government for protection even though they don’t really give a whit about the people. The only thing the taxpayer is good for is funding the whole operation to a certain extent. The rest they can just print.

So while most of us are drinking beer, watching the Big Game, Reality TV, Porn or abusing prescription drugs, others are taking the advantage by spending our way to our eventual servitude and poverty.  Not enough yet have their head in the game of survival that our streets are fast becoming. The government is going to protect themselves and the rest of us are on our own.  

And what are you going to do about it?

The Ever Expanding Internal Revenue Service

Everybody fears them and those who don’t are either a member of government or insane. To them you are guilty first and must prove your innocence. They will sweep your bank account without notice. They will scour your history if you should somehow unwittingly become their target.

Once you become “noticed” you are much like a bug under their magnifying glass when the sun is highest in the sky. They will fry you and keep coming back to fry you again and again for years after. Once you are behind, you will remain so because of their convoluted and incomprehensible array of rules regarding back interest that is so absurd that if your check is a day late, they will hit you back up for a day’s interest. Not a day late of delivery but a day late for THEM in processing the check. It’s what THEY say, not what YOU say. YOU don’t rate. YOU are only here to serve the STATE. Their hands are in all pies, yours, mine and our neighbors.

They are the United States Internal Revenue Service and they will hound you until you crack,  grab a gun and then they will shoot you down. It's not like it's never happened and it does happen. 

This is the capability of this tool of the government. It is of no surprise that they have been targeting the Tea Party or any of the New Conservative, Patriot and even Religious groups since their job is to preserve the present administration.

Who? The Obama Administration? No, It's more than that. I’m referring to the latest syndicate of political/corporate power brokers that are presently running the country. THEM. The IRS gets their marching orders from more than this President of the United States. The people currently in power want no change in leadership. The Tea Party and other opposition groups are a THREAT. How dare you want to hold onto your own money!

So they send their IRS MINIONS after them. At first it starts quietly with a letter but as they start to track where all the organization’s money is, the ABA (American Banking Association) numbers, the account numbers, corporate office locations, they then begin to dissect your returns and surprise, they find SOMETHING! They then raid your offices and it will be all over the news and by freezing all your accounts, you can’t even buy justice in America. You will have to fight just to have access to your money in order to fight the rest of the charges. The stress alone will take it's toll.

What has become the most feared police force in North America was established back in 1862 when Congress created the Commission of Internal Revenue and gave it the power of seizure and prosecution.  This was made permanent by Congress in 1913 with the 16^th Amendment to the Constitution.  They have been a bane to the American citizen ever since.

It’s not that we shouldn’t pay the government something since people throughout history have always paid either the King or local Noble for protection of self and commerce but it becomes a problem when they take too much and spend the money on buying influence with certain groups and to undermine others. This is not the role of proper government.

Say what you will about whether it was legal under the U.S. Constitution to establish an Income Tax or not, there it is and we as American Citizens are under its heavily armed Cuban heel.  Even with the latest revelations of wrong doing, nobody of any significance is actually going to lose their job over it. Nobody ever does in government anymore. The bleating sheep of the National Press will drown out any outcry and then they will broadcast a "look over here" issue that we all must pay attention to like Lindsey Lohan getting out of rehab or the latest Robert Downy Jr. movie. Nobody will care in a few weeks and we'll all go back to the same routine of paying the IRS demands without fuss and thanking God we didn't get the death penalty.

The significant thing that the income tax does for the U.S. Government is give it incredible access to almost endless wealth and credit. So much so that it is almost impossible to fight the government in the nation’s courts. The vast amounts of resources needed to battle the government in general and the IRS in particular is out of reach for the majority of American citizens. As the lines to be heard in America’s courts become longer, justice just keeps getting farther out of reach.  The tax code has become the baseball bat the government will use to beat you bloody.

And now the IRS has become the Club of Reckoning for the National Health Care Act. Their access to our personal information unhindered and unchecked. Not that the IRS didn’t already know everything about you, they now will have finger tip access to your personal medical records: What kind of Chemotherapy you are on, what pills you need to take and when you last had a thrombosed hemorrhoid lanced. They can audit you, your relatives, your doctor and the medical organization he works for. And they can shut you all off with the push of a button.  

And it all just depends what organization you belong to. Is it a good organization or a bad organization?

When Will Germany’s Debt Be Paid?

Sixty-eight years after the end of World War II, how much more time must pass before Germany can outlive it’s warring past?

If Greece had their way, that would be never. The Greeks just want Germany to just pay and pay. And to whom will the money go? Well, to Greece, of course!

Even though a settlement was reached in 1960, the now flat busted, irresponsible and child-like people of Greece want Germany to pay up again. This time they want 160 Million Euros to make amends. This fabulous amount of money is, coincidentally, roughly the amount Greece is in the hole financially for their wanton, frivolous and corrupt collective behavior. Well how about that!?

This is what Germany gets for trying to help bail out Greece in the first place. That’ll teach them. No good deed goes unpunished.

How come Greece doesn’t go after Italy for money? After all, they fought Italy in the war too. Oh, that’s right I forgot, Italy’s broke too. Can’t get blood out of a stone!

And what if Germany did pay up and Greece got the money? They would only piss it away again without a second thought. Not a debt would be paid, not a lesson would be learned. Does anyone believe otherwise? Don't be a sucker.

Greece’s public sector bloat is the stuff of public labor union leftist LEGEND. At one time public sector wages accounted for 27% of all government expenditures. I'm sure that figure did not include the pension liability either. Education and healthcare is also publicly funded.  That's a lot of green being sucked out of the economy annually without the production to back it up.

Even throughout the last four years of austerity, the Greek government has resisted any cuts to its public sector while its taxpaying private enterprises took the brunt of cuts and layoffs. They have not taken one voluntary step in the right direction for their own nation. That would be called "taking responsibility for ones actions" and there's too little of that around the world these days.

And the Greeks really know how to sweet talk a nation that has something they don’t IE: Money. The Greeks have been over the top in their rhetoric and public scorn aimed at Germany and its role in the bailout and the imposition of austerity measures. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been parodied and insulted in numerous ways by politician and pedestrian alike for the crime of leading a country that remains industrious and prosperous while they, the Greeks, are not and haven’t been for some time.

Greece is what you get when you have people depend on big government for their daily bread. Greece is, sadly, a country that only has history to look towards to see how proud they used to be.

All this must be seriously tiresome to the German people if they’re paying attention to this at all. How many times can Germany’s 20 something’s, two generations removed from the war, have to listen to the Nazi and Hitler references, the continued drumbeat of past atrocities and blame for something they only have read in history books and heard told by old timers? I am not without empathy for their position since I have never owned a slave or oppressed an indian but continue to hear about it like thos things were my fault. Why should the German citizenry have to put up with this crap especially from jealous grasping spendthrifts like the Greeks?

It is asking a lot of the German taxpayer to fund yet another bailout of people who don’t care an nth about them and won’t change their ways? Hmmm, that sounds really familiar…

If it were up to me, I’d forget about giving Greece any more money. They have no intention of paying what they've already received back anyway so it’s like throwing money into the street. Let the industrious nations of the world not drown themselves attempting to rescue people who don’t know enough to come in from the rain. They've spent plenty of money already.

In other words, tell Greece to blow. Let them solve their own problems!

 

Obama Campaigns While His Policies Turn To Shit

Mr. Obama is back on the campaign trail. As if he ever left. He’s out giving speeches on topics from Gun Control to Gay Marriage to mapping the human brain but answers no questions about ANYTHING. This may be because his national media support team doesn’t ask them or that NOBODY is allowed to ask questions.

But there he is, flying all over the country still.

But it’s all just more distraction, more redirection and more subterfuge for the Obama regime because the last thing President Obama wants to talk about is his policies because NOT ONE of his policies that he and his Leftist ilk has pushed through Congress to become law.

These are the LAST things that the president wants to talk about.

“Look! Over there! It’s North Korea! Aaaah! Look out! They mean it this time, they’re going to do something baaaad! Hey but wait, all these kids got shot in Newtown, Connecticut. We gotta doooo something right now! It’s baaaad! This is a national CRISIS! This is IMPORTANT!”

But the real crisis is that the much trumpeted “Recovery” is not a recovery at all but a failing attempt by big government at slowing the economic death spiral that it's tax & spend policies has put the U.S. economy in. It continues to spend money the nation has yet to earn while getting nothing in return.

The quick rundown of just some of Mr. Obama’s campaign themes:

The Stimulus has been an expensive failure. Just on its surface it could never gain ground on debt because it increases debt. How can you produce ANYTHING when you’re expanding debt? It makes no sense.

Green Energy has also been a colossal and expensive failure. Green Power is pricey power. Look at the Cape Wind project that was going to be built off the coast of Massachusetts. It was all a rosy picture until we found out what it was going to cost the public when/if it went on line. Boom, gone! No more Cape Wind. The Obama government has been losing millions in taxpayer funds in it's gamble of picking economic winners and losers in energy production.

If there is a single major reason that the economy is not recovering but in fact going backwards, it's ObamaCare.  Any gains that may have been made would be offset, or rather, overwhelmed by the incremental increases brought about by the Lefts National Health Care initiative. What business is going to hire workers when they don't know how much they're going to cost from year to year? ObamaCare makes people more expensive to hire and keep every year when they should be finding ways to make them less expensive so they can be hired and so that business can be compeditive on the global marketplace. The source of this great expense has not been wages but government intervention in the healthcare industry. There isn’t enough money in the world to make Socialized Medicine work.  Just by the nature of it, ObamaCare could never work. Unfortunately it will cause a lot of pain on its way down the “Failed Socialist Ideology” toilet of history.

Gun Control can never work. Sure kids got shot but kids get shot every day in our inner cities and nothing, you hear nothing. This is because those deaths are a result of government mandated prohibition that keeps drugs illegal and therefore firmly in the hands of an increasingly violent underground economy and murderous terrorists. Who wants to talk about that? Certainly not the president.

Obama’s support of Teachers Unions has been a dismal failure since most of his Stimulus package went to them instead of his much touted Shovel Ready jobs. Remember those? Mr. Obama apparently does not.

The list can go on. There's the Public Union Pension Liabilites that are crushing state budgets across the nation and the Federally mandated funding of Medicaid and Medicare which were mistakes right from the beginning.

And so far it’s all held up by printed or borrowed pieces of worthless paper.

But the message we get from Mr. Obama? “We can do better!” What does that even mean?

President Obama may be able to defy Congress. He may be able to defy the Supreme Court.  He may be able to defy the U.S. Constitution and the will of the American People. But the one law the President won’t be able to defy is the Law of Gravity. Because of his either purposeful or misguided direction, these debts our government is piling up will fall due and when that happens, all the money will turn to shit just like Cyprus.

Everything the Obama Regime has put through has caused hardship, shortages and pain for the general public of the United States. There is more poverty, more people out of work, more people on food stamps and more people in the streets than at any time in the Baby Boomer era. We as a nation are in the most debt ever run up by government.

And nothing is going to be done to address it because government is out of bricks to kick under their various pyramid schemes that they've used to buy votes since the 1950s. There are no more fixes and no more money to throw at them. We as a nation are insolvent.

So when you hear the sound-bites circulated on radio and TV, just keep in mind that that is all you’re ever going to hear. There will be no questions, no answers and certainly no candor or truth.

But the truth is, this nation is in a heap of trouble.

North Korea Wouldn’t Last Two Weeks

If North Korea actually manages to start a war with either South Korea or the United States, they couldn’t possibly keep much of their vaunted 1.5 million man army in the field for more that a week or two.

And why is that, you may ask?

Because they have no FOOD!

Have you seen pictures of their solders? Have you ever seen a skinnier bunch of  baggie clothing in your life?
 

They're basically bags o' bones with military uniforms. Even the once diminutive Chinese look like GIANTS in comparison to the North Korean army. Oh you may think being skinny means “Lean & Mean” but in this case there is a real lack of size and muscle in that group which comes from generations of poor nutrition and scarcity that North Korea’s massively failed system has produced.

The North cannot feed themselves and haven't been able to for decades and since their shabby Democratic People's Republic collapsed, they can't even BUY food. The DPR even has the Communists thinking they're on the wrong path.

As Donald Rumsfeld first pointed out, North Korea is a country of darkness and misery. The North Korean military could be in possession of  all the food in the country but that’s not saying much. There is only ONE fat guy in the whole country!

And to think that China will want to or even be able to get enough food to them fast enough is hard to imagine. The only motivation that the North Korean army has to attempt to storm South Korea’s heavily armed fortifications is because they smell food cooking over on the other side.

China would be wise not come to North Korea's “rescue” if Pyongyang is that stupid or that desperate to start a full scale conflict since a global fall from grace for China could very well spell doom for their robust but still sensitive economy and would most definitely drive other countries back to the U.S. for stronger relations and investment. They may have the big bucks but nobody really TRUSTS China.

There is a saying, and I'm going to screw it up but it goes something like this: "If I owe you $500.00, you own me but if I owe you $ 500 Billion, then I own you." Could a boycott of Chinese goods get their attention from the United States, still home to the largest population of mindless consumers in the world? Look, we're all being taxed to death and money is short but we still run out and buy iPhones and basketball sneakers when the ads come on TV! Oh, and give up our CABLE? That's crazy talk!

Or how about a DEFAULT on our debt to China. Would that get their attention? Then again, there's no telling if the current administration actually has the BALLS to do it but just maybe they will if pushed far enough.

We can always buy our cheap stuff from India, at least THEY like us. Such competition makes the world go around.

So go ahead China, send some troops and help out the global scourge you have cultivated for so long. That will look great. Look what helping out the Assad regime in Syria has done for Russian relations!

North Korea may have a nuclear warhead or two and they can cause much local damage and destruction to their Southern neighbors which will be a sad, sad thing if that happens but once they blow their wad, they’re done, it’ll be over, the iron grip of misery for the North Korean people will be unclenched and the world will be rid of this particular lot of nasties and then it will be on to the next group, I guess. Once the regime is broken, both North and South Korea will become a garden.  

And the world will just caulk up Kim Jong Un as yet another petty tyrant to be swept away by his own lack of benevolence to his people and the world.

Good riddance.

The Boy Scouts of America vs. The Radical Left of America

I have been an adult volunteer with the Boy Scouts of America for over a decade. I believe that there is no finer organization for the training of young boys to be upstanding young men in the world.

It is a long program, spanning ages 6 through 18 and there are no short cuts. The BSA is a Meritocracy, that is, all advancements are earned and scouts are reviewed by adults at every step up the ladder to Eagle. They learn first aid, how to work as a team and eventually how to lead a team. It is they who decide what they want to do, where they want to go, plan how they’re going to do it and who among them they want to be their leaders. The adults are there for guidance. This has been the model for over 100 years.

The Boy Scouts of America is one of the oldest and most benevolent organizations in these United States. Any child of any color and any religion can join and be a part of the troop. The BSA has a place for them.

And you can be gay, just not openly gay. That’s the caveat. It’s not an issue because it’s none of anybody’s business, really, if you are or you aren’t. Just don’t make it one.

But factions of the political Left in this country are using the current BSA policy as a hammer, and although overruled by the Supreme Judicial Court in 2000, continue to wage a media war against them.  

Why do these people want into the Boy Scouts so badly? Can’t they just start their own scout troop?

If they really cared that much about gay scouts having no organization of their own, then why haven’t they chartered their own openly gay scouting troop? There is nothing stopping any body, government organization or private citizen or organization from starting a scouting troop, is there? You just can't call it the Boys Scouts of America but there's nothing holding anybody back. Let someone start an openly gay troop and let the multitudes run to them.

Sure, they wouldn't have the National or World Jamborees but the BSA didn't have them in the beginning either. The BSA built up their organization brick by brick into the long standing pillar of stability, achievement and youth education you see today, more than 100 years after it started. It is a long running success story built on self-reliance, training, teamwork and personal achievement. Basically it's for everything the political Left is NOT.

This is why I don't believe that this issue is about the exclusion of gays from scouting. For me this issue was aways one of Sovereignty. The BSA and its sponsors have every right to choose how it wants to run its organization, period. It’s a private organization chartered mostly by churches.

If the chartering organizations don't want openly homosexual boys or leaders in the troops they sponsor, then they shouldn't have them and shouldn't bow to pressure to accept them. If the parents of scouts have an issue with openly gay boys sleeping in the same tent as their kids, they have every right to protest and every right to leave scouting if they so choose.

Forcing acceptance of openly gay individuals into the Boy Scouts of America will achieve neither unity or acceptance. It will only fuel further division and people will vote with their feet. Reaction will be swift and could lead to fracturing and turmoil among the ranks of long standing volunteers and their children.

But the Left will take that, rather it wants that to continue the conflicts that divide us as a nation. That way they can fight on; receive their funding from who knows where and continue to be the obstacle to, rather than the force for, good. That's what Anarchists do.

I see no upside for such a policy change.

May God bless the BSA.

Hugo Chavez Died Like A Dog

Venezuelan Dictator Hugo Chavez contracted an infection in one of those pitiable Cuban hospitals that spread to his lungs and he died rasping and begging for his foul life in a third world banana republic.

There was no glory in his death at the hands of nature, fate and perhaps ultimately the Cuban hospital system.

So then why on God's Green Earth is our nation’s news media only repeating the glorified account of his death as told by some murderous Chavez henchman like it was a page out of the Gospel? 

Beats the hell outta me!

There is no doubt, however, that Chavez was anxious to get back to Venezuela and the business of totally destroying the economy and extending his misery over the people who were not yet living in the slums. He needed EVERYBODY to live in the slums. He may still get his wish.

Hugo Chavez would not have loosened his madman’s grip on the nation until everyone was drinking out of mud puddles a la the African nation of Zimbabwe when kindred spirit Robert Mugabe used his uneducated mindless hordes to force the white Afrikaner farmers out of the country and confiscate their land.  Zimbabwe has never recovered while the nations bordering the country flourish.

After 14 years of Chavez’ rule, the slum dwellers remain in their slums. How they must rejoice. But others have joined them! The middle classes have fallen into the ranks of the poor and the nation’s money is not worth wiping your behind with. This is Chavez’s legacy to his nation and the world.

This is a man to be lionized and remembered? What I remember is that during political rallies by his opponents, armed men would ride up on motorcycles and fire bullets indiscriminately into the crowd of men, women and children and then ride away unobstructed by the police.  And why not, the shooters were the police.

But to people like Chavez, it’s not about bringing up the status of the poor but to tear down the well-to-do, the wealthy, the Haves. It is the pleasure of the rabble to bring down the hard working achievers even if it benefits them not. Because to Chavez and the people like him, these people didn’t deserve it, they somehow cheated and built their success by taking away from someone else. The benefit for people like this is to see someone else suffer. This is a sickness that plagues mankind and Hugo Chavez, like so many others in history, played on it. In other words: Chavez was filth and his filthy minions remain so, not one step closer in legitimacy, high stature or enlightenment.

Hugo Chavez died like a dog, begging to be saved by the witless doctors of a backwards, cloistered nation hopelessly stuck in the late 1950s in thought and ideology. There is nothing to see here. There is nothing to memorialize and nothing redeeming to look towards.  Chavez and his ilk are the embodiment of archaic thinking and singular want. He was just another misguided Marxist Megalomaniac terrorizing a nation of people who only wanted a good life for themselves and their children and an opportunity to make something of themselves.

Yet Chavez’s minions vow to “Continue the Revolution”. What Revolution? They already ruled the country for 14 years and, much like Mugabe’s idiot ill-fated army of autobots, they haven't a clue what to do with it. They can’t farm, they can’t produce and they can’t govern. They don’t know how, they're too stupid. The nation has been failing ever since he took over and is on the verge of total collapse. They will rule a nation in tatters. There has been no "Golden Age" of Hugo Chavez, only deprivation, shortages and hardship.

To praise Chavez is to praise the Devil. To tell it any other way is a lie.