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Days of dollar appear numbered amid $100 trillion national debt

(Editor’s note: very busy today… here’s a guy well worth a few minutes of your time; he’s a Bakersfield investment counselor writing in The Bakersfield Californian /GA) 

 

By Andrew Wahrenbrock 

As noted early 19th-century economist Frederick Bastiat once observed,

"The state is the great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else." If we only knew now what we knew then.

Perhaps there are more lessons from "then." By all means, we the people should demand in the most expedient fashion that the words "In God We Trust" be removed from our paper currency. Then, if the people of this nation can again muster the resolve to institute sound money, (note Article I, Section 10, of the U.S. Constitution), we could easily, and with our national head held high, put the words back.

Meanwhile, we are eyewitnesses to the end times of an irredeemable currency. Researchers generally agree that the most recent period in which the purchasing power of a dollar was a dollar was the early 1930s.

Post the Gold Reserve Act of 1934, and the events of 1971, the current purchasing power of a dollar is approximately 5 cents. We are likewise witnessing the lesson of a few millennia wherein gold prevails as the ultimate store of value. The algebraic proof of this rests in how a debt is genuinely cleared. Gold remains the method that does not include a requisite obligation from another party.

I submit to the reader that the demise of these last few cents of our dollar's purchasing power will be a wild and woolly affair and the process is well under way. Correspondingly, the explosion of debt (debt is money, money is debt) since the 1971 default of gold backing on U.S. Treasury obligations is noteworthy. In 1971, the U.S. public debt was $436 billion.

Currently, according to analyst Darryl Schoon, that figure is in excess of $100 trillion. For the record, the $100 trillion includes public debt plus the debt attached to failed agencies (Fannie Mae, etc.) plus unfunded liabilities and pensions (Social Security, Medicare, etc.). Try as I may, I cannot come to grips with the scale of such parabolic growth. I wonder what the Roman numeral for $100 trillion is.

Still, we are subjected to politicians, the proverbial deer in the taillights, who claim we have to get the deficit under control. Apparently, they are unable to grasp the concept that it's over. A decade or so ago, mathematically, we passed the point of no return. Several decades ago, we passed the political point of no return.

And so those of us that watch financial markets observe a rapid shift up the financial food chain from bank crisis into sovereign debt crisis, wondering how quickly the next size-15 shoe will drop in a grossly over-leveraged system that is managing to take on even more leverage. The entire scheme has the potential to dismantle in days as market-system liquidity can disappear in an instant. Signs of this process are evident in the market actions of the recent period.

I contend that our grandchildren need not worry about paying off our debts as much as what form of government we will leave them.

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Like I always say…. liberals have never seen real hunger first hand… that’s why they’ oppose the Second Amendment. 

Thousands show up at Tulsa food pantry Friday

“We estimate there were 2,000 people here this morning,” said Connie Cronley, executive director. “The heat, the crowd and the incorrect information they have received rendered, in my judgment, a situation that was unsafe.”

Goldfingers…..

Just one more example of the insidious communist tentacles reaching into every corner of America:

First the Obama Administration sic’ed some back-bencher scum, one Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-Douchebag), on Glenn Beck’s long association with one of this radio show sponsors… Goldline.

The grandstanding Weiner has threatened to introduce legislation requiring Goldline and other precious metal retailers to fully disclose all their fees, how much the price of gold would need to rise in order for their customers’ investments to yield a profit, and the purchase price, melt value and resale value of the metal that constitutes their products. And he called on the Securities and Exchange Commission, as well as the Federal Trade Commission to investigate “the shady business practices conducted by Goldline International.”

Make no mistake… this has far less to do with gold than it does with terrorizing Beck’s sponsors. And Goldline president and CEO Mark Albarian agreed, saying that Weiner is targeting the company because of its relationship with Beck, the popular citizen journalist.

But the following absolutely strikes at your freedom to buy and sell gold as a hedge against pending economic disaster and mega inflation.

Coin Dealers Flipping

Starting Jan. 1, 2012, Form 1099s will become a means of reporting to the Internal Revenue Service the purchases of all goods and services by small businesses and self-employed people that exceed $600 during a calendar year.

Precious metals such as coins and bullion fall into this category and coin dealers have been among those most rankled by the change.

The tax change was tucked away in Section 9006 of Obama’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will amend the Internal Revenue Code to expand the scope of Form 1099.

Currently, 1099 forms are used to track and report the miscellaneous income associated with services rendered by independent contractors or self-employed individuals.Just for ball-park math estimates, and with gold right now about about $1,195/oz, you can certainly understand the rage of this man:

Pat Heller, who owns Liberty Coin Service in Lansing, Mich., deals with around 1,000 customers every week. Many are individuals looking to protect wealth in an uncertain economy, he said, while others are dealers like him.

With gold at nearly $1,200 an ounce, Heller estimates that he'll be filling out between 10,000 and 20,000 tax forms per year after the new law takes effect.

"I'll have to hire two full-time people just to track all this stuff, which cuts into my profitability," he said.

An issue that combines gold coins, the Obama health care law and the IRS is bound to stir passions. Indeed, trading in gold coins and bars has surged since the financial crisis unfolded and Obama took office, metal dealers said.

The reason you probably don’t have any gold US coins around the house today is that Uber Progressive FDR issued Executive Order 6102 which required U.S. citizens to deliver on or before May 1, 1933 to the Federal Reserve all but a small amount of privately held gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates.

A month after his inauguration, FDR simply demonetized gold. The $20 gold piece was no longer money, but The Government would exchange it for $20.67 per troy ounce. 

As amended the law held that violators could be punished by fines up to $10,000 ($166,640 if adjusted for inflation as of 2008) or up to ten years in prison, or both. Most citizens who owned large amounts of gold had it transferred to countries such as Switzerland.

So the increased value of the gold on the world market went to the government and in exchange Americans were paid in US currency which was worth less and less as the Depression worsened.

By the time FDR and the Progressives were finished monkey-wrenching the US economy, the Great Depression continued until well into WWII while the rest of the world, had recovered years earlier.

One observer, commenting on this remarkable turn of events, noted that of two men walking down the street at the start of 1933 — one with a gold coin in his pocket and the other with a bottle of whiskey in his coat — the man with the coin would be an upstanding citizen and the man with the whiskey would be the outlaw. A year later, precisely the reverse was true.

If you want a concise and well-written explanation of the damage FDR did to this nation… and the historical socialist roots of how it’s being repeated by the latest cabal of criminals… read:

 Great Myths of the Great Depression

Workin' in a coal mine --- Goin' down down down ---Workin' in a coal mine --- Whop! about to slip down

Sorry I’ve been absent for some days, had to battle the bi-annual allergy/sinusitis for awhile. The worst part always seems to be the fatigue and the feeling I got mugged and then tossed down a flight of stairs.

Speaking of pain… it’s been just overnight and I’m already sick to death of the media meme… “Women Win Elections!!!!”

Oooooh… since when exactly is this news?

The only important news is that Sharron Angle won the GOP primary for the hotly contested Senate seat in Nevada. Angle was endorsed by the Tea Party Express and will face U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in the November general election.

I hope she’s tough she as she sounds, because the Alinsky character assassination has already begun, spinning her as a nut job.

Reid has completely underestimated her, and the mood of the country; even his friends don’t like him, so he’s ripe for the picking.

When you make yourself the face of arrogant elitism, government run amok, a disastrous economy and far-left Obamanism, it really doesn’t matter how much cash you’ve stolen raised for the November campaign.

Besides, his president has repeatedly told vacationers not to vacation and spend money in Vegas.

The only thing that would have made this situation any better was if the Mob still ran the casinos and the unions in Vegas. Reid’s trash wouldn’t even be collected. 

Meanwhile on the Left Coast, Meg Whitman (left) walked through the GOP gubernatorial primary and for California governor while former Carly Fiorina was will challenge Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer in the fall. Both challengers are former CEOs of major companies.

I am so sick of reading gender and race politics; that they are females means zero… the only mild news here is that the pathetic GOP in California has once again elected RINOs while the ship of state is 20 degrees down by the bow and taking on water.

Fiorina, a former Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO (which fired her abruptly and very publicly for driving the company into the ground), had the endorsement of one Sarah Palin.

Good, you think? Hardly. Once more Debbie Schlussel nails it, with an Exhibit “A” of what is real and what is political kabuki theater:  

• Sarah Palin’s endorsement of liberal, pro-abortion, pro-illegal alien amnesty, Iran-enabling Republican Carly Fiorina
• the link to Fiorina’s entire waterfall-gushing speech about Islam, right after 9/11. 
• Fiorina was notorious for advocating illegal alien amnesty and for abusing H-1B visas for “skilled” foreign workers, so she wouldn’t have to pay Americans market wages for the same work.
• Fiorina is a close friend of race merchant/shakedown king Jesse Jackson,
• just days after 9/11 Fiorina gave a drooling speech about Islam.  
• 2008- “For a business perspective, Sen. McCain consults Republican National Committee Victory Chairwoman Carly Fiorina, the former HP CEO., and Meg Whitman, the former head of eBay Inc. “He listens a lot,” economist Douglas Holtz-Eakins, Sen. McCain’s senior economic adviser, said.”

When asked in a 2008 radio interview whether she thought Palin had the experience to run a major company like Hewlett-Packard, Fiorina replied: “No, I don’t. But you know what? That’s not what she’s running for.”

Gosh Uncle Gary, why would The Ma Grizzly (or Other Predator) with makeup Lipstick that Kills Pigs … or something, endorse someone who dissed her publically?

Like I said, it’s kabuki.

So what about Meg Whitman who’ll face dem primary winner… wait for it… Jerry Brown, who racked up a decisive 80%+ win in his primary.

Brown is a left-wing Caliloonie so far adrift a tether that during his previous stay in Sacramento he was referred to as “Gov. Moonbeam.”

Didn’t seem to bother him… due to the tinfoil hat.

You think Dennis Kucinich is certifiable? Brown taught him everything he knows.

Whitman also has the Palin endorsement.

Here’s more on the former eBay mogul (via Debbie Schlussel and other web sources)

• supports amnesty for illegal aliens
• has the endorsement of by Jihad Darrell a/k/a Hezbollah supporting Congressman-with-a-criminal-rap-sheet Darrell Issa
• did not attend the recent pro-Israel demonstration in LA which even the Head RINO Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, managed to find time for… and Michele Bachmann a real conservative Republican, who came all the way from Minnesota.

So why does Palin endorse the very politics she claims to abhor?

Because she is still clearly running for president and is thus laying  ground- work.

She’s an effective spokesman for the cause and drives the left insane… that’s her value. She has no business running a McCain Part Deux campaign which would be an exact replay of 2008.

California more likely to default than Iceland or Iraq

CEOs rank California worst for business

Here's Your "Change": California's economic forecast fifth-worst in U.S.

California jobless rate swells to 12.6 percent

California's $500-billion pension time bomb

California is doomed

So why all this about California….?

All the above. So goes California, so goes the U.S.

They’re scribbling IOUs out there in lieu of tax refunds, whistling in the dark, facing a financial Armageddon brought on by far-left ideology, rapacious public employee unions (especially teachers’ unions), but they have millions for fish ladders:    

“… is planning to pave over part of a popular beach in the Santa Monica Mountains to build a "freeway" to lure steelhead trout into the area--adding a whopping $935,000 to the $16.7 million in taxpayer funds already spent on endangered trout recovery efforts. Former projects include a $1 million concrete fish "ladder" designed to allow fish to migrate upstream. Unfortunately, the $1 million project may cost an additional $7.5 million to rebuild.”

This is Obamanism in the macro… it’s what is happening to America under this regime; when the damage to our country is finally calculated there will be no comprehending it, that’s why I offer California as an example of our future. We have very little time left in which to decisively act and that’s why November is the most important election in the last 60 years.

The wonderful state of my adolescence is now nothing more than our last canary in a very dark coal mine.

My life experience indicates that at the least, I know where to live … and when.

Lone Star rises as Golden State sets (Texas model versus California model)

immigration… reasonable and above all, controlled

I read this morning about four young high school students who were threatened with suspension for wearing bandanas and T-shirts featuring the American flag…. because it was a Mexican holiday and it would offend Mexicans.

The school was obviously not concerned about offending Americans in an American school, paid for my American tax money on American soil, but run by communist union members.

Well, take yer Fifth of May back to Tijuana.

We aren’t going to lose our country… we have lost it.

Sub-human, mass-murdering Muslims are granted Constitutional rights, enemy POWS are “Mirandized”, our commander-in-chief refuses to protect our borders, both our major political parties openly court illegal aliens with either non-prosecution or outright citizenship… in exchange for their potential votes and cold hard cash—your taxes.

We feed their damned kids at our schools—they don’t seem to be offended by that; we give them “tax credits” which results in them paying no income tax.   

They murder us, rape us, beat us and steal… but we dare not offend them, under this regime’s edict.    

Weighing us down

Anchor babies.

Guaranteed fix No. 1: no U.S. citizenship for the progeny of illegal foreign nationals.

No more toe holds which in 20 years will guarantee an exponentially huge back-door generation that will continue to destroy our country economically and culturally.

Have you been to Mexico…?  I don’t mean Puerto Vallarta or Cancun or any other resort run by U.S. investors… looks a lot like Florida.

I mean Mexico the ultra-violent, socialist narco-state… five blocks outside the resort compound. Take a stroll out there if you dare, if you’re stupid like this idiot girl and her criminally irresponsible parents (sic):

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- A local high school student has been found murdered in Mexico, after her mother told police she went down there to learn how to transport illegal immigrants across the border. 

On Tuesday night, friends and family gathered at the teen's Sugar Land home. Cars lined the driveway, people spilled outside.

Elisabeth Mandala, 18, was found dead this past Saturday in the small Mexican town of Mina. Her body, along with those of two Mexican men, was found in a Dodge truck which appeared to have wrecked. But, authorities suspected the wreck was merely a cover-up for murder, believing the victims had been beaten to death hours before.

Below is a typical response from a typical air-head kid raised by typical air-head parents like Miss Mandala’s.

"You know, you want to see everybody happy," said student Shaina Ituah. "We don't want violence. We don't want sad faces."

Nice going, government schools; nice going parents… this empty head of mush is what you’ve produced. But don’t worry, I’m sure the principal ordered up a nifty candle-light vigil; yeah, that’ll save lives.

In my real-world view Mandala’s death might actually mean something if crime scene photos were posted in her school with this legend: “This is your brain…. beaten out of your skull.” 

But don’t worry America, a basketball team of millionaires owned by an even bigger team of millionaires in Arizona is demonstrating against the state’s new immigration law.

BTW: shouldn’t that be “Los Soles”? Will announcers be forced to scream Gooooooaaaaalll! every basket?

     "We search for answers everywhere, we will be the key.  You must remember who we are, we must be the key….” “We will be the Key”  --lyrics by Glenn Beck (listen here).

This is more than a numbers game… hell, white Europeans in this country lost the population battle as soon as we turned into a nation of sheeple and bought into ZPG – Zero Population Growth—40 years ago.

We simply cannot reverse the population swing that Hispanics—a class of immigrants, legal and illegal, which refuses to assimilate into American culture and language—will hammer home in the next quarter-century.  

But there is also the battle for the “hearts and minds”; and I fear we may be in worse shape on that front.

In my opinion most Americans under 40 cannot discuss U.S. history for 10 minutes without exposing a glaring ignorance. The younger the cohort, and the closer to their last school experience, the more the ignorant.

A 2007 study shows that less than half of college seniors knew that Yorktown was the battle that ended the American Revolution or that NATO was formed to resist Soviet expansion. Overall, freshmen averaged 50.4% on a wide-ranging civic literacy test; seniors averaged 54.2%, both failing scores if translated to grades.

and worse:

• Harvard seniors had the highest average at 69.6%, 5.97 points higher than its freshmen but still a D+. A Harvard senior posted the only perfect score.
• In general, the better a college's U.S. News & World Report ranking, the less its civic literacy gain. Yale, with the highest-scoring freshmen (68.94%), along with Princeton, Duke and Cornell, were among eight schools with freshmen outscoring seniors.

Irony: Top colleges and universities make you stupid(er) at a rate of $25-$40,000 a year. And who is running our country? A cabal of Ivy League socialists.

We have obviously lost the most important battle… the one for our children’s minds, vainly fought in our neighborhood schools.

"Less is being expected of secondary and post-secondary education in the way of civic education,” said one researcher. “And because less is expected, less is achieved."

Clearly government schools K-12 do little more than prepare students to vote for democrats and say,  “We don't want sad faces.”

How can you win arguments, defend against propaganda and lies when you know nothing about our government, our history and American exceptionalism?  

We delude ourselves if we believe that our servicemen and women are representative of America’s youth.

Young Americans are far more like those kids from the Houston area at the vigil… asking “can’t we just get along?” 

And yet this is The 9/11 Generation; they saw 3,000 of their fellow citizens vaporized in seconds, yet remain absolutely unchanged.

Think not? Go to a mall and observe; ask 10 random teens questions about what they should know, instead of what they do know. 

They are so pathetically ignorant about their own country that it has become entertainment fare on shows like Sean Hannity’s and Jay Leno’s and Glenn Beck’s.

With the hordes continuing to mass at the gates, “defended” by fifth-columnist and traitor sentinels, how do we defend this nation?

As President Reagan said, “This is the issue of this election.

“Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.

“If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth….”

On heroism……….

"In valor there is hope."  —Tacitus

"The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are as bold as a lion."   —Proverbs 28:1

Like most people over 40, I have a hate-love relationship with the word “hero”, or more correctly, its use… its inappropriate use. Athlete, musician, politician and movie “heroes” (sic) come to mind.

Further, there are heroes—really brave, life-risking folks—who perform at the highest levels of love for their fellow man, even if it means the loss of their own lives.

Some are feted and honored and receive awards such as the Carnegie Medal for heroism (above); this year 22 individuals have been announced as recipients.

More frequent and well-known are law enforcement officers, firefighters and the military honored by their departments and branches of service.

But we’re never aware of most heroes because there are so very, very of them; and it’s a big country/world. It takes a certain set of circumstances to bring specific heroes to our attention. “Sully” Sullenberger comes to mind, but most great heroics are not video taped or even witnessed. Often the story has to be reconstructed because the hero lays dead on a filthy sidewalk having sacrificed all.

Such was the case with Hugo Alfredo Tale-Yax, 31, a homeless man who was stabbed to death as he came to the aid of a woman being attacked in New York recently.

Police say was stabbed multiple times in the chest. Tale-Yax stepped in as the woman was being assaulted.  She was able to run away when the attacked turned his attention to Tale-Yax.

As he bled out, more than 20 passersby were captured on a surveillance tape gawking or ignoring him as they walked by; one sub-human stopped to take a cell-phone photo. And there you have the irony found in any societal collection of human beings, the absolute best and the absolute worst, sometimes in the same picture.

The NYPD has no suspects and the woman Tale-Yax saved has not come forward.   

The Distinguished Flying Cross has been awarded to a U.S. Navy pilot who sacrificed his life for his crew after fighting to keep the aircraft level, enabling his three comrades to bail out.

Lieutenant Miroslav "Steven" Zilberman made an instant decision, giving the order to jump when the loss of an engine threw the E-2C Hawkeye, a turbo-prop aircraft loaded with radar equipment, out of control and toward the Arabian Sea.

He went in with his plane and his body was not recovered.

An immigrant from Ukraine, Zilberman is survived by his wife, Katrina Zilberman, their children, Daniel, four, and Sarah, two. A copy of the DFC medal also was given to his parents -- Boris Zilberman and his wife, Anna Sokolov. The family lives in Columbus Ohio.

Zilberman had planned to go on to study medicine and hoped to become an emergency-room doctor… where he would have no doubt saved many more lives in his adopted country.

My grandfather, Elmer Carter, was a hero cop… a Jackson County Oklahoma Deputy who was killed in the line of duty; his name is engraved on the Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, D.C.

Cops are heroic so often that the departments often save up the awards and accolades earned and present them all at one ceremony.

Such is the case with the San Jose P.D. I happened to run across in the San Jose Mercury News: 

A Manhattan Beach police officer who saved two women from drowning, a Gardena police officer who killed a robber in a crowded restaurant, and 10 Inglewood police officers who rushed inside a burning building to rescue senior citizens will be recognized tomorrow for their bravery.

And you faithful readers knew this was coming…

When a heater ignited the chemicals Alaskan Ben Heinrichs was working with, his shed went up in flames, burning him. He fled the shop and slammed the door to confine the flames, but realizing that his German Shepherd “Buddy” was still inside, Ben went back in to rescue his him.

Fearing the fire would spread to the adjacent house and his parents, the 23-year-old Heinrichs said, “Buddy, we need to get help.”

Buddy ran.

Meanwhile a responding state trooper, having seen the fireball was stymied. His GPS was inoperative and he was unsure of the fire’s location in the wilds north of Anchorage.

As the trooper began to turn (in the wrong direction) he saw a dog in the road. It was Buddy, and when he saw the trooper’s car, he turned and started running back home, frequently making sure the trooper was following .

Fortunately for your joy and amazement, it was all caught on the trooper’s dashcam here.

Buddy was later awarded a hero’s silver bowl by the State Police… cops recognize a hero when they see one.

And on this website, Napoleon the English Bulldog who defied the breed’s notoriously poor swimming skills to swim out into a lake and rescue a burlap sack containing six abandoned kittens is just one of 25 of our best canine heroes.

See here for all 25 of some of the best of man’s best friends.

In our busy, hectic and often cynical lives, we forget that heroes of all kinds are essential to our lives, our souls; they remind us of the “better angles of our nature” as Lincoln observed.

We would all do well to stand ready to be potential heroes, to do the hard thing when we are called upon by circumstance, morality or instinct.

It’s only fair… clearly, others stand ready to do so for us.

“There is no great sin or treachery in ‘neglecting’ a hang nail when one is dying of cancer.”

(Editor’s note: My friend TOL has had a deep interest in our space program, well, since birth. His first words were “perigee” and “apogee” –his parents through he had a speech impediment.

(He would have rather met the Mercury astronauts than Bridgett Bardot. I know I’m dating both of us badly in saying this—substitute your own erotic and unattainable female.) 

 

 

 

“I am SO glad you asked (me to comment on NASA).  You know me.  There is no bigger ‘fan’ of manned space flight.

”But that was then.  Not so much now.  It isn't so much about the money.  It is the impracticality of the thing compared to the return on our investment.

“There are only three general areas a human body can go in space.  Earth orbit.  Lunar desert.  Martian desert.  Even a Mars mission is barely possible given the life support requirements for human beings and the launch windows involved (six months out, six months back and almost a full year on surface). 

“Physics and the pathetically short life span and frailty of the human species preclude all other travel.  It simply isn't happening.  Not for centuries.  Maybe never. 

“So the question, it seems to me, is what do you want to do -- what can you realistically do -- at any of those three places.  Answer:  Not all that much.

“It was different in the late 50s and early 60s.  The space race had military implications.  Well, not really.  You didn't have to send a man into space in order to build an ICBM, but it seemed like it at the time.  In any event, we had something to prove, and we proved it.

“Entirely different paradigm today.  There is no technology curve defined by space to stay "ahead of."  Other nations will match our accomplishments in space for the same reason that India and Pakistan have nuclear weapons -- because they can. 

“While our having more nukes than most other guys has an obvious strategic implication, I'm damned if I can see that same analogy compelling us to greater and greater space conquests.  I'm with Buzz on this one.  And all the other NASA crying sounds an awful lot like a bureaucracy attempting to protect itself.  At least when the Pentagon does that the philosophical premise is considerably stronger.

“Today, space exploration has to be about the science, and there is an awfully lot of really good space science that can be done without humans along for the ride.  And forget colonizing anything.  A base supporting a few dozen is about the best you can hope for.  The Jamestown colonists didn't have to transport oxygen, trees, food and water to the new world.  The difference in scale and complexity between earth colonies and space colonies is on orders of magnitude.

“We will return to the moon one day.  We will go to Mars.  But there is no great hurry to do either.  We already have a pretty good idea of what we will find in both places.

“Meanwhile, we have done such a good job of overcoming limitations throughout our history that I believe we are in danger of buying into the myth that we may no longer have any.  If so, I would term that as ignorance born of arrogance.

“The biggest problems facing this country are national security issues posed by jihadists and economic suicide which has been adopted as a bipartisan government fiscal policy. 

“Compared to the crises those two issues present, manned space exploration is a very distant frontier indeed.  There is no great sin or treachery in "neglecting" a hang nail when one is dying of cancer. 

The public wrath should be reserved for what is not being done about the much greater threats.”

Whack-a-mole time again

• Retard Rahm Emanuel, the Devil’s Spawn, accosting nude congressmen in the shower with his tutu hanging out.
• The Criminal-in-Chief is finding it so hard to get a 100% audience of slaves, he’s limiting his appearances to idiot college students (pardon the redundancy)… today about 1,800 students at Arcadia (?) University Pennsylvania.
• The DNC is sending its dimwit reps to a think tank, to be taught how to talk tough about terrorism:

Said Ken Spain, communications director for the National Republican Congressional Committee, “The fact that Democrats have to train their own candidates on how to talk about defending America is an indictment not just of their candidates but of their policies, as well.”  Read more here.  

The liberals are finally realizing that Obama has nothing to do with party politics and his only guiding principle is to amass as much personal power as possible in an effort to control and decimate the United States…. yes, you blue-staters and blue-dogs, you go under the bus just like anyone else who gets in the Marxists’ way. 

It’s amusing to see long it’s taken most of this nation to learn the most obvious of facts; the democrat party gave the key to the fort to the enemy, and the enemy grabbed it and locked the door behind them.

The puppet masters behind Obama such as George Soros had unimaginable power around the world, and now because they own the presidency, it has  grown massively, albeit without discipline and focus.          

This will be the first time in U.S. history that the American people had to rise up and drag both guilty-as-hell major parties to the tar and feathering of the entire government leadership.

The liberals and so-called  “moderates” will be forced to look back and admit, they weren’t just wrong, not just idiots, but were unindicted co-conspirators in the entire political coup that continues to threaten America.

Real America and Real Americans can still fail, however, if we do not ensure that only conservatives and libertarians control the government. This is what happens when Real Americans fall asleep on watch, as we have since Barry Goldwater.   

“Reasonable gun laws”?…. sure; abortion?…. sure; legislating from the bench?…sure; Mirandizing?…sure. Mirandizing POWS?… sure. Trying Mirandized POWS in civil courts?…sure. Releasing Mirandized POWS to kill American troops?… sure.

Loss of the Fifth Amendment, while the Second hangs by a 5-4 decision with a madman in the White house who’ll get at least two most SCOTUS appointments.

An all-out war on capitalism, with some captains of industry trying to make deals with the communists to be eaten last.

Gay marriage, the politics of gay/lesbian/bi//he/she/it teachers, coaches, members of congress; planned parenthood, food police, smoking police, cell phone police, speech police, thought police.

The malignant growth of unions run by Marxist collectivists.

“Women’s rights” run by radical lesbian feminists. Health care run by people unqualified to process your license plates.

Allowing the idea to persist that adulthood does not occur until the early 30s.

Forcing the top 10% of the workers in American to pay 80% of the taxes, and allowing 40% of the workers to pay no taxes whatsoever… yet reward them with free medical, free food, free education and babysitting, and cash for having kids…. you know the typical Obama voter. 

Somehow people allowed the idea to root that your darling college sophomore is smarter than you, and is a “leader of tomorrow”.… while you’re playing for her tuition, room, board and as much fun as she can have. 

…. well, perhaps she is smarter than you.

The best young Americans are serving in the military or working in law enforcement/first departments/ public safety …. the rest of young America never have and never will serve this nation.

Growing up and getting a job isn’t service—there was a day when it wasn’t necessary to point out the difference.

How did this happen? When did it happen?

It happened as soon as we became fat, complacent and lazy…. right after the Japs surrendered about the USS Missouri, you can look it up.

It began when we stopped going to church and started getting divorced; it happened when yes sir, and no m’am disappeared from children's vocabularies; it happened when men stopped acting, sounding and looking like men… when they abdicated their leadership role in every segment of society.

It began as soon as we stopped defending normal.

We’ll survive Obama, but I seriously doubt that our resolve will last long enough for our great nation to return to its founding principles in mind, and heart and spirit.

And without that final nail in the coffin of the left, it will happen all over again.

For those who might care…. a bit of film-making opinions:

One day they might have a feature film about the 2010 Academy Awards… it had all the drama and sub-plots and silliness that occurs when you corral several hundred of the world’s top narcissists in one large room and turn on the cameras.

I seldom go to the theater, and if I see nominated films, it’s usually not until much later, but the main reason I tuned last night was to see two winners…. best pic and best supporting actor.

My hunches in each category were confirmed as Christoph Waltz took best supporting actor for his brilliant performance as a Jew-hunting/hating Nazi officer in “Inglorious Basterds”  Quentin Tarantino’s terrific WII fantasy; and “The Hurt Locker” beat the Na'vi out of James Cameron’s “Avatar”—a very anti-American, anti-Marine Corps film. As I understand it, Avatar is essentially “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee”, blah-blah-blah… blah.

Perhaps one day all such awards will depend on the art of film making and not how many gazillion$ pour into producers’ pockets.

Part of my need to watch was to see if anyone involved with Locker would bother to recognize those who the fight real wars in Iraq and Afghanistan… our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines.

I was gratified that the talented and lovely Kathryn Bigelow (and Cameron’s ex-wife) thanked the troops twice as she dedicated the Oscars for Best Director and Best Picture to “to the women and men in the military who risk their lives on a daily basis in Iraq and Afghanistan.”

When leftists attack….. nothing to see here, move along

Sometimes a single story becomes a freeze frame—a stand-in—for other larger issues.

This is the case of murderer Amy Bishop, 44, who gunned down three of her University of Alabama colleagues last Friday during a staff meeting.

The dead include (l-r):

Maria Ragland Davis, Adriel Johnson, and Gopi K. Podila.

Two of three wounded in the attack remain in critical condition.

After the shooting she called her husband and asked him to pick her up as if nothing had happened, said police Huntsville Chief Henry Reyes. She has been charged with capital murder.

A family source said Bishop, a mother of four children - the youngest a third-grade boy - was a far-left political extremist who was “obsessed” with President Obama to the point of being off-putting.

Not unlike the Fort Hood shooter, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, it appears that someone, everyone, have been covering for a lethal individual who has repeatedly demonstrated great instability and murderous intent.

The deadly attack appeared to be triggered by the college denying her tenure.

• In 1986 Bishop shot her brother to death; it was ruled an accident at the time.
• 18-year-old Seth Bishop died of a shotgun blast to the abdomen, the result of her learning to handle the weapon. 
• In all, three shots were fired: Braintree police Chief Paul Frazier said she shot once into a wall, then shot her brother, then fired a third time into the ceiling, apparently three “accidental discharges in a row. 
• Her mother and father and Bishop all gave police different accounts of what had happened. Read more here.

Police referred the case to the District Attorney Bill Delahunt's office (who had a reputation of being soft on crime); it was ruled an accident, no charges filed.

Authorities are now reviewing the case and have found some of the file contents missing.

Delahunt, who has been in Congress since 1997, said last Friday he was considering leaving the position, one of many dimocrats to see the writing on the wall.

And as they say, “but wait there’s more” .

The Boston Globe has reported that Bishop was a suspect in a 1993 mail bomb attempt on a Harvard professor 17 years ago.

Dr. Paul Rosenberg received a package at his Newton, Mass., home containing two pipe bombs. The explosives did not detonate because the box was cut open. No one was ever arrested in the incident.

Bishop, a Harvard medical student at the time, was questioned in the bombing attempt because she was worried about receiving a negative evaluation from Rosenberg on her work.

After being questioned by AFT Bishop told a co-worker about it "… ‘with a smirk on her face’.”

"We knew she had a beef with Paul Rosenberg, the co-worker said. “And we really thought it was a really unbelievable coincidence that he would get those bombs."

Bishop’s family and friends agreed that she demonstrated “not a hit of violence” and “were shocked at the shooting.”

This is what comes of a “non-judgmental” society in which the left, especially insists that judging anyone (except white, male conservatives) is wrong. Major Hasan wasn’t judged… death toll: 14.

Suspicious-acting ragheads on airliners can’t be judged; women can’t be judged, blacks, Mexicans… can’t judge them or your a homophone, racist, sexist; and the death toll mounts.    

If there is one thing true of academia, considering that academics do not live in the real world, is that being “non-judgmental” is a religion.

Yet Bishop was considered by some at the university as an “oddball”, “hard to get along with, arrogant” and “brilliant”.

That last trait covers a multitude of sins on campus… especially when the person is a female.

Bishop’s husband even found a way to blame the University of Alabama: “Everybody loves her. And everybody, including myself, we’re shocked. We don’t know what happened. They don’t know what the university did to her.’’

Here is a brief list of some of the “oddball” academics who get away with questionable, belligerent and even violent behavior, but are ignored until it’s time to fill the body bags.

But thank gawd the University was a “gun-free” zone.

One UA student, Gina Hammond, said she lobbied the school trustees to allow students with gun permits to carry their weapons on campus. She was turned down.

“I’m scared to go back to school,” Hammond said. “However, if they were to allow me to carry my pistol on campus, I would not be as scared.

“... I’m sorry that nobody in that room had a pistol to save at least one person’s life.”

Never happen, Gina; campuses are leftist Utopias.

Obama: the threat that keeps on giving

The Posse Comitatus Act, passed in 1878, prohibits federal military personnel and units of the National Guard under federal authority from acting in a law enforcement capacity within the United States, except where expressly authorized by the Constitution or Congress.

But while we slept the Barack Hussein Obama signed another midnight executive order which seems to be aimed at undermining  posse comitatus.

The order, innocuously named Establishment of the Council of Governors creates a body of 10 state governors directly appointed by Obama to review the involvement of the the “National Guard of the various States; homeland defense; civil support; synchronization and integration of State and Federal military activities in the United States; and other matters of mutual interest pertaining to National Guard, homeland defense, and civil support activities.”

Not only is this a bureaucratic redundancy (pardon the redundancy), seeing as how the very same input could be obtained by the feds in a conference call with the National Association of Governors, it constitutes a threat to the Constitution and therefore all Americans—essentially what the democrat party is best known for.

One-third of Americans welcome Big Government into every facet of their lives, and upon reading this would brand me an hysteric or worse… a veteran just a few steps away from forming a militia; to which I say, “naw, it’s too early.”

Another third didn’t read beyond “Posse Comitatus Act” and went back to American Idol.

The rest of us in Real America love our country, but we sure as hell don’t trust our government.

But, what have ya done for me lately?

Three things immediately struck me last night as the news of the Haiti earthquake was reported.

First, Obama, who required three days to find something to say about the latest Muslim terrorist attack on his watch—the Christmas day bombing of Flight 253—but took only a half-hour to get knee-deep in the Haiti disaster.

Secondly, Haiti is the poorest country in the hemisphere, other than the voodoo that they do so well, so why do they have (had) a Presidential Palace?

Who says God doesn’t have a sense of humor?

The Marine Corps ran the island from 1915 to 1934 in orderly fashion, but since then, it’s been an unmitigated disaster of military coups and revolving door dictators; so much for billions of U.S. aid and propping up various incompetents and anti-communist dictators like François “Poppa Doc” Duvalier.

And thirdly, most governments in the world hate us and blame us for all ills imaginable, just like our current president.

But which country immediately poured massive cash, food, water, medical care and rescue teams in to Haiti? And after it’s all over and the Haitians get back to hating us, who will have spent the most to prop them up?

And that doesn’t even include the millions contributed by private, charitable and religious organizations.

Yeah, yeah… it’s who we are blah, blah, blah; but what if we sat out one of these disasters and simply said we’re going to take it any more… being the butt of everything despite shouldering the burden of the entire world?

Some singer named Wyclef Jean, a Haitian who immigrated to American (where else?) and founder of the Yele Haiti relief charity, said that aid needed to be deployed by the international community straight away.

"We're going to need the United States and the international community to react immediately," Jean told CNN.

See? “The United States, and the international community”.

First thing that comes to these asshats’ minds… America.

Old Glory is the only flag in the world that causes people to say a heartfelt “thank God”, when it comes marching over the horizon. 

Latest news from “Some of my best friends are light-skinned Negroes Department:

Al Sharpton: Bill Clinton's "Getting us Coffee" Remark About Obama may Have Been Racist; Reid's "Light Skinned, No Negro Dialect" A-OK...

And here’s a chuckle about the Negros’ best friend (thanks, Zip): 

Saturday breakfast

Deep in the heart of Texas:

Today at Saturday’s breakfast at the world-famous Fried Pie Company Don said he had watched an interview with some of the cops and firefighters who survived the WTC on 9/11 and loved others who had lost loved ones.

One of the firefighters wondered “when are we gonna start calling this ‘dissent’ what it really is… being a traitor who gives aid and comfort to the enemy?”

We all agreed that it had been a long time since we’d fried the Rosenbergs back in 1950 and that a resumption of higher utility costs at federal prisons was long over due.  By acclamation top on the needed hit list was Maj. Amahad Raghead who shot up Fort Hood, killing 14 and wounding dozens more

It’s been weeks and more time is being spent on seeing to Hasan’s comfort that determining who gets immediate forced retirement for allowing such an unforgivable breech of security.

Thank God Fort Bragg was and is a “gun free zone”, like Va Tech, Columbine and other left-wing run installations. 

We also agreed that since we are a “nation of laws, not men” this zero tolerance policy applied to members of Congress and the President of the United States and every tenured teacher, instructor and professor in the country.

Major Raghead is a murdering traitor; but they put Pvt. Slovik before a firing squad in WWII on a desertion charge, but it’s clear Hasan will get three hots and cot and then some democrat will release him back to Ragheadville… after therapy, of course.

Some of us around Amanda’s crowded table observed that it was an outrage that it was going on 10 years and the communists in New York couldn’t decide on a 9/11 Memorial that wouldn’t offend the sub-human rat bastards that drove the planes into the e’ffing towers.

To which former Cheeapolee Carl got off the morning’s best line:

“Yeah, but the Navy had time to build an entire ship that can deliver an entire battalion of 800 Marines anywhere on the planet in less time.”

What’s the difference, my friends?

Exactly; it’s the plain and simple difference between left-wingers and conservatives, it’s the difference between blue and red, the difference between communists and Americans, the difference between those who believe in God and those who worship Barack Hussein Obama… mmmm, mmm, mmm.

As faithful, long-time readers may remember, I’ve often said that “We are no longer a serious nation.”

Strike that… “We have become a suicidal country.”

Bill Buckley is supposed to have said that he “… would rather live in a society governed by the first 300 names in the Boston phonebook than by the Harvard faculty."

Right sentiment… wrong city.

Should be Gainesville by Gawd Texas.