Old Jarhead's Political
SitRep for March 25, 2013
Robert A. Hall
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May need to use the free log=in. ~Bob. Excerpt: Would you
turn down a job paying $227,000 if all you had to do was look at animal photos
in the National Geographic magazine? Of course not. And if you did, you'd be a
certified moron. There can't be much stress in staring at animal photos, even
of baboons with red behinds.
Excerpt: A state representative in Massachusetts
From Thomas: A friend of mine went to the Gun Show at
Michael Moore's rant
at Harry Reid for dropping the ban on so-called "assault rifles."
During a CNN interview, Michael Moore ripped into
Harry Reid, saying, "If a man with an assault weapon goes into the school
where Harry Reid's grandchildren [attend] and kills his grandchildren, would he
stand in front of that microphone … and say, '…my grandchildren just got killed
today but, you know, we can't get it passed because we don't have the votes.'
Would he do that really? I don't think so." My response to Michael
Moore would be: In a sane world, if a man with an assault weapon goes into a
school that my grandchildren attended, that man would DRT (Dead Right There).
Shot by the armed security guard at the school's entrance. Of course, with a
Marxist president having a democrat majority in the senate, it's not a sane
world.- LLW
[You'd
last about five minutes]: The Selfishness of Virtue. Jim Goad
Excerpt: But
the only thing that could make me change my mind would be if [multimillionaire leftist]
Katrina vanden Heuvel were to actually give all of her immense wealth to the
poor and go live in a Harlem housing project amid roaches and crackheads and
welfare queens. For once in your life go and get your hands dirty trying to
uplift your imaginary comrades. You’d last about five minutes. (This is so
right. It is the leftists' wealth we attack when we point out the disastrous
effects their policies have had on our lives. That's why they become so
indignant and start shouting. People do get angry when you even hint at
threatening their source of income. How lovely to live in a nice house, and
look out upon a pretty garden, and even better, to follow a routine during the
day, a routine that will not be interrupted by even one single
lunatic. These well-off leftists themselves, rather than one whacko after
another, get to decide what to do with their own time, resources and energy,
and they get to do that all day, every day. We almost never get to do that.
These wealthy leftists can cook breakfast in the kitchen without an aged
lesbian rubbing her breasts up against them, without a guy straight out of
rehab putting his hands all over them. They sleep through the nights because
there aren't any illegals next door shouting all night long or firing pistols
into their ceilings. These leftists can hear themselves think any time they
like, due to the fact that they are not immersed in incessant noise. They have
never once in their life been stalked. Not even once. They have plenty of places
to go where they will never be harassed for sex, for money or food or their
clothing or their homework or anything else. When we point out the every day
facts of our miserable lives to them, that's when their shouting starts,
because they don't want to know. They cannot imagine what we have to endure,
and they do not care to imagine, because that threatens the wealth that
sustains the cozy, gentle, placid, peaceful, quiet, neat and (cleaned by
someone else) bubble in which they live. What they wanted out of life was to go
into denial about their lack of marketable skills and to live very pleasantly
indeed, and to feel good about themselves at the same time. In that they have
succeeded. Too bad about people like me, people like us, who pay for the
leftists' overweening self-satisfaction in the currency of sleep
deprivation, sexual harassment, sexual molestation, sexual assault, thefts, the
utter lack of privacy, unceasing noise, stalkers, the inability to find even a
tiny little job that could lift us out of this situation if only the leftists
hadn't closed so many businesses and handed so much money over to people who
don't deserve it. Nowhere to go, nowhere to go to get away from it, no house on
the hill for us. --Kate.)
Joe Biden runs up bill of $585,000 for just ONE NIGHT in
five-star Paris
Excerpt: Paris may be known as the
City of Light, but that title certainly doesn’t mean that visitors are light on
spending as Vice President Joe Biden’s one day trip cost taxpayers more than
half a million dollars. When Mr Biden and his hefty entourage stayed in Paris
BRITISH expats living
across Europe were warned last night to take their money out of foreign banks
in the wake of the Cyprus
Excerpt: Ukip leader Nigel Farage told the party’s spring
conference that savings held in countries where the euro is the currency are no
longer safe. His warning came as Cyprus
A Marine remembers
his time in Iraq
Excerpt: Ten years ago this week, the Iraq Kuwait Del
James Burnham's Suicide Of The West
Excerpt: Burnham's thesis is straightforward.
".Liberalism," he writes, "is the ideology of western suicide.
When once this initial and final sentence is understood, everything about
liberalism-the beliefs, emotions and values associated with it, the nature of
its enchantment, its practical record, its future-falls into place. Implicitly,
all of this book is merely an amplification of this sentence." That is not
to say, Burnham adds, that liberalism is "'the cause'" of the
contraction and probable death of Western civilization. ("The cause or
causes have something to do, I think, with the decay of religion and with an
excess of material luxury; and, I suppose, with getting tired, and worn out, as
all things temporal do.") Rather, "liberalism has come to be the
typical verbal systematization of the process of Western contraction and
withdrawal; .liberalism motivates and justifies the contraction, and reconciles
us to it." Liberalism's hold, furthermore, on public opinion and policy
makes it extremely difficult for the Western nations to invent-and even to
imagine-a strategy equal to the challenge to its existence by which the West is
presently confronted. (Interesting that a book written nearly 50 years ago has
so much to say about current events in the West. The link below takes you to a
detailed discussion of the book, but the paragraph below is one I found most
interesting. In it Burnham is saying that Liberalism is not simply the cause of
the suicide of the West, but discusses what may be and how things work. Very
interesting all in itself. --Del
Top Ten Obamacare
Horror Stories The Media Are Covering Up
Excerpt: Because the mainstream media lobbied every bit as
hard as Obama to win passage of ObamaCare, they are every bit as invested in
doing whatever is necessary to see that it is perceived as a success.
Unfortunately for Americans who expect truth from their media, this means the
media are having to manufacture a false reality that says ObamaCare is, to
steal a phrase, "doing fine." ... So with that in mind, I present to
you (with big hat tips to Drudge and Investors Business Daily) the top ten ObamaCare horror
stories the media is willfully covering up. (Almost all of these have been
covered in the four previous articles I've circulated on all the juicy items
about the reality of Obamacare that are now being revealed. But I thought it
worthwhile to pass this on as well, with its useful links to more information. And
of course we're all still waiting for the next set of revelations about its
actual cost, complexity, and limitations. --Del
Woman Defends Herself
From Intruders: Best Part… She Wasn’t Arrested for Doing So
Excerpt: The homeowner, a female of an unknown age, was
hiding in the closet when 18-year-old Christopher Devonte Joseph approached
her. The local ABC news
report stated that’s when the owner fired her gun and shot the
18-year-old. (If she had just relaxed and enjoyed her rape, as
Progressives prefer, this horrible violence would have been avoided. ~Bob.)
Excerpt: Perhaps the worst of the current economy is not
what is happening now, but what is to come. When one looks at the value of the
American dollar, at first blush it appears we're not doing that badly. But
that's only because the rest of the world's currencies are so much worse. We
just have a little more rouge on the corpse. In fact, the Fed's orgasmic
printing of dollars and the huge amount of American I.O.U's they've issued, and
the staggering interest we are currently paying on nearly $17 trillion dollars
of national debt, it leaves the American monetary system tighter than the tightest
rubber band. Eventually the tension has to be relieved, and every time that
tension goes we begin to experience sky high interest rates and runaway
inflation, just as we experienced during the Carter years.
Sharia in action in
the mainstream media: Muslim gang-rapes across Europe
underreported in press
Excerpt: The Qur'an allows for the owning of sex slaves: If
you fear that you will not act justly towards the orphans, marry such women as
seem good to you, two, three, four; but if you fear you will not be equitable,
then only one, or what your right hands own; so it is likelier you will not be
partial. (Qur'an 4:3)
Obama: Israelis have
true peace partner in Abbas. Abbas: We have the same policies as Hamas. Hamas:
Killing Jews is worship that draws us close to Allah.
Excerpt: "Of course, Israel
‘Quarantine her!’ Top
Tunisian Islamist says topless girl needs stoning
Excerpt: A Tunisian Salafi preacher has called for a 19-year
old girl who posted her topless pictures on Facebook to be “quarantined” and
stoned to death before she starts “an epidemic.” (I'm going to hide this poor
girl, but for her safety, I'll tell no one. Not even my wife. Can't be too
careful. ~Bob.)
Excerpt: Chinese President Xi Jinping warned against foreign
interference in the affairs of other nations during a speech in Moscow
Police arrest 2 teens
in Ga.
Excerpt: A pair of teenagers was arrested Friday and accused
of fatally shooting a 13-month-old baby in the face and wounding his mother
during their morning stroll through a leafy, historic neighborhood. Sherry West
had just been to the post office a few blocks from her apartment Thursday
morning and was pushing her son, Antonio, in his stroller while they walked
past gnarled oak trees and blooming azaleas in the coastal city of Brunswick
Confronting Sharia Law in Belgium
Excerpt: Islamic Sharia law is "incompatible with the
fundamental principles of democracy." — European Court of Human
Rights. After members of the newly established Islam Party vowed to implement Islamic Sharia law in Belgium Europe to the point where there are now official
pronouncements by courts about Sharia Law, and politicians are starting to pass
defensive measures against Islamic extremism. This article from Belgium Del
Excerpt: Forget Cyprus Japan Japan
University Apologizes
for “Stomping Jesus”
Excerpt: Florida Atlantic University
Despite sequester,
Obama to designate five national monuments
Excerpt: The new monuments will
be: the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument in New Mexico;
the San Juan Islands National Monument in Washington State;
the First State National Monument in Delaware and
Pennsylvania; the Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument in Ohio
and a monument commemorating Harriet Tubman and
her role in helping black slaves reach freedom through the Underground Railway
in Maryland.
IRS blasted over
'frivolous' parody video of 'Star Trek,' agency admits mistake
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/22/irs-calls-tar-trek-parody-video-mistake/#ixzz2ONwDd44b
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/22/irs-calls-tar-trek-parody-video-mistake/#ixzz2ONwDd44b
Excerpt: While taxpayers may be getting used to seeing
federal agencies fritter away their money, there's something ironic about the
IRS doing it. The tax-collecting agency is under fire over a training video
from a 2010 conference that parodied "Star Trek" -- and cost tens of
thousands of dollars to make. … The agency says the six-minute video,
along with a training video that parodied the TV show "Gilligan's Island ," cost about $60,000.
Excerpt: Bowie
County
Rotten Tomatoes for a Billion-Dollar Farm Payout. Calling
all women and Hispanics who once thought about applying for a loan. By James Bovard
Excerpt: Are you a woman or a Hispanic who planted a
backyard garden between 1981 and 2000? Did you ever dream of asking for a loan
for help growing more? If so, you might be a victim of discrimination and
entitled to a $50,000 payout from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. But
hurry—the deadline for submitting your claim is March 25. (The giveaway program
for allegedly discriminated Black farmers gave out many millions of dollars to
over 90,000 claimants, when there were no more than 33,000 Black farmers
working in the years described. It was one of the all-time super ripoffs of
taxpayer dollars in the name of Politically Correct scheming. Now they've
invited something like that again, from women and Hispanics. But at least this
time they want just a tad of information about their actual farming experience-
which has brought on the predictable cries of "discrimination" and
"unfairness". Time to get the politics out of this whole farm subsidy
mess. --Del
The
Salvation Army, Captain Peacock and the Lefty mega-bores who hate Michael Gove.
Damian Thompson
Excerpt: This
so-called “workfare” scheme means [benefit recipients] help the [Salvation
Army] for a maximum of four weeks – and some of them are so impressed by its
Christian witness that they stay on as volunteers while they find real
jobs. In the eyes of Boycott Workfare, however, the Salvation Army is
“collaborating” in a Tory conspiracy to exploit benefit claimants. Hence their
charming old-lady decoy trick, which enabled a bunch of scumbag protesters to
push past the reception staff, manhandling them.
Many Unitarians would
prefer that their polyamory activists keep quiet
Excerpt: But within the ranks of the UUA over the past few
years, there has been some quiet unrest concerning a small but activist group
that vociferously supports polyamory. That is to say “the practice of loving
and relating intimately to more than one other person at a time,” according to
a mission statement by Unitarian Universalists for Polyamory Awareness (UUPA).
The UUPA “encourages spiritual wholeness regarding polyamory,” including the
right of polyamorous people to have their unions blessed by a minister. (where
were they when I was 30? Kind of late now. ~Bob.)
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