I know.  I used to live by government documents and learned how to make sure I fully complied with all that was in there.  You have to do it with one person.  If you don’t the “connectivity” of all the requirements will be missed, as to their impact from, or on other parts, which will be required during actual implementation.  Yes, I wrote a few myself, too.  Making it clear, within that type of culture and format was still a challenge.  Side effect:  trying to update/change?  Big effort, and the bigger the document, the longer it takes.  Been there, done that, too.

Back to the irregularly scheduled commentary:

Oh, and do you think Congress think they think they own the fruits of your labor?  Oh, yes they do.  Let’s wrap this in the sheep’s clothing of “Universal Health Care.”  Remember we were only talking a $1.6T Health Care cost?  Now it’s a wee bit bigger…and it’s your dollars at their work (to secure more votes, from people too ignorant, coming out of a failed educational system, who think everything is for free, if a politician promises it to them), now it’s more:  $2.4T!  Oh, yes, and in 5 years, the “you can keep your health care promise?  For 5 years….then they own you and your liver, heart, and probably what you are allowed to drink and not smoke and will put a GPS unit on you to make sure you go to the Guv’ment workout facility as scheduled, or you’ll be denied care, since you didn’t prevent your condition you’re now at the emergency room for…lovely.  Hey, good luck with a Guv’ment contracted health club being top of the line with well paid and well educated staff.  Do you see that anywhere else, besides the US Military, and then the pay isn’t that spectacular?

Side note:  What government program has even come in on or even under budget?  What has not, in every major program the federal Government has crafted, not blown way past the estimates when al lis said and done?  Yep, you’re right.  None of them.  So, how stupid are we to believe the same people who keep telling us how much something is going to cost keep being shown to be wrong, and we quote them as though they have it perfectly managed?

“Pre-existing conditions” covered?  Fools!  You thought they meant that?  Yeah…if you can wait 6 months.  If you’ve got the time, you can research how that’s working out in Britain and Canada, and other socialized medicine countries:  Either it’s and evil method to control big costs, or it’s a purely pragmatic recognition of the way the “evil insurance” companies were doing business, so as to not loose money and go out of business.  At the end of the day, it just “clears the docket” (lawyer speak for “someone just plead and we don’t have to set up for an expensive trial and backlog the overloaded already schedule”), but this time it means the funeral business is about to become the best investment you can make!  I should see if some investigative reporter can find out it the White House and Congressional office holders are already invested in such enterprises.  Call me cynical, but aren’t all these links making my very point?

Nope, there will be no “Death Panels!” Yeah!  Oh, wait.  What will occur is in the pragmatism that will be necessary to comply with the reduced funding is a medical professional typing in the desired protocols for treatment for your malady, the computer being tied directly to the central health care system in DC (or Chicago).  After some moments of the systems communicating, you will have get a “I’m very sorry.  The budget for that treatment was all used up in the first 18 days of the fiscal year.  Would you like to come back in Early October and see if we can apply again?”  What’s your response?  “No…what can we do to help me ‘handle” this?”  I’m sure those “blue pills” will be made available quickly.  No doors with “Death Panel Board Room” stenciled on them.  Instead, it will say “Doctor ________’s Office.” and the occupants will not be doing it out of choice, but out of the reality of the economic stresses of the system, and the control by a centralized office that decided what’s good for the society as a whole and the individual there is but a numbered citizen, noting more.  It shall not be done intentionally, and I susepct, some will leave the medical care profession, for they will not be able to bear up to that necessary discussion.  One the other hand, from the Government’s view, it will make them help “us” take “personal responsibility” for not being a burden on the system.

[Update 11/16/2009 - "Rationing Commission" will be a part of the "system." Yes, that directly relates to the paragraph above, which will, by necessity of lack of enough funds for everything for everyone, cut off certain procedures, medications and treatments. It's how the Government budget works.]

On a humorous note:  Diane Sawyer confronted Al Gore a few nights back about how methane is 20x more damaging to the atmosphere than CO2.  He still has settled on telling us CO2 needs to be offset.  Referring to my parenthetical comment above,  I guessing there hasn’t been a methane mitigating process developed, like we have with CO2 (plants absorb what we give off).  So, if someone can come up with a way to offset cow farts….actually any and all farts created on the planet, I’d say you stand to be a worth $20B off your investment in at least proving you can sell “fart credits.”

On a not so humorous note:  This will be a divisive, ugly mess, in just getting it signed, to what happens in medical offices all around the nation.  The “great Uniter” doesn’t care about our voices, only his agenda.  The pools tell us that clearly.  I bet no one is telling him what he needs to know.  Probably spells expulsion from the inner circles or power, with prejudice, and a dead fish in your bed.

It’s all about the access to almost unfettered “influence” that will line your pocket in other ways.  For Harry Reid, it’s land deals;  For Al Gore it’s telling us the world will burn if you don’t buy carbon credits (oh, and the company he invests in ends up with $3B from the taxpayer’s pockets – interesting), while he becomes a billionaire;  for Bill Clinton, it’s $150K per speech;  For The WON:  Book deals of $500K before he’s even sworn in, and $1.5M for a Nobel Peace Prize;  John Murtha makes sure his relatives and good friends get plenty of money (while calling our Marines cold blooded murderers) from other taxpayers, not in PA, to live at the level to which they have become accustomed.

While Social Security is being “downsized” due to the economic crisis, now Congress decides they need a 2.8% COLA for FY 2010.  I guess with higher prices for energy (you know, none of the rest of us have to pay), and “incidentals” (payoffs must be higher these days, with some lobbyists going out of business, I suspect)…

And don’t forget about making sure your “supporters” employ your family members…

What does this say to me?  Someone gets it:  Politicians make it on the fringe, and outside of the box, in the shadows, and in venues that the MSM won’t expose.  And they believe if you can make it, they can take it.  Your work is now for the good of the many, and anything you do over and above…well…sorry, someone else needs it, and even if you believe that, you don’t get to choose who that someone is that will get your surplus money of time and energy.

Now, in case you want to say:  “Hey!  That’s a pretty broad brush you’re painting with there! Not all politicians are like that!”  Really, are you serious?  If you’re right and I’m wrong, then how come these people aren’t run out of office at the request of their fellow politicians, or at the very least, the people who voted for them?  Nope, they actually go to bat for one another and make sure they all stay on the gravy train.  It’s a “Good Old Politicians” club.  So, my commentary is based on actual observation of the facts, not because I have some axe I feel like grinding to make myself feel better.

Representatives for us?  No, self appointed royalty.  They are turning out to mostly liars on top of that:  “I’ll go to DC and stand on my principles!”  Yeah right, until Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid, or Barack Obama, and even other leadership, over a subsidized lunch in the Congressional Dining Room threatens to take away all the perks you all of a sudden see, that you had no idea of the luxury of hauling your family and friends and campaign supporters to exotic foreign destinations on a whim, and the barber shop, and the $93K in “petty cash” per year…just because you won’t vote their way, which is all about them making sure they stay put to rape the Federal treasury for their personal interests.

And then, they don’t even work a full week, and while “in the office,” they play solitaire.  Know anyone fired from a real company, that has to balance the books, for doing this?

I can think of a vulgar term for these people, who live large on our backs:  B@$t@Rd$ comes to mind, quite honestly….

My opinion:  We can’t even afford to keep our own incumbents any longer, unless we like seeing the outcome of giving it all to them.  Flush the old ones out, and begin again.  Difficult, but, like a bone marrow transplant:  Unless you go that far in “cleaning house,” you’ll die a lot sooner.

Somehow, this smacks of 1) building an enemies list (and they thought Nixon was bad for doing it…) 2) a violation of The Bill of Rights and 3) The journey towards fascism/communism (take your pick…they both hate dissent – “the highest form of patriotism!” so says Hillary Clinton at the top of her lungs).

But then, maybe there is the key:  We are in the Presidentially defined post-American Era, by his personal dictate, so “patriotism” is an archaic concept.  Rather than let it fade away, it is something to be quickly destroyed, lest it infect the youth.  So, viewed through that filter, it makes sense to have The President of the United States have his staff  put together a plan to put this emotion to rest, and quickly, but in seemingly benign ways at first.  The fact that it allows him the ability to take control of the decisions of the country, without regard for the “will of the people,” just becomes a bonus.

Speaking of the “will of the people,”  Karl von Clausewitz discussed that phenomena at length in his well read work “On War.” His study of war up through his own time of the Napoleonic Wars, showed that leadership that did not have “the will of the people” to wage a war, ended up the losers on a regular basis, across the millennia.

So, what’s my point?  The nature of today’s politics  are “conflict” and has become more and more polarizing in this time rather than just looking discussions among people who agree to disagree around the water cooler or at the bar having a beer.  It has many of the attributes of warfare.  Logistics, funding, intelligence gathering, out maneuvering the enemy, giving yourself credit for your proven capability, and the enemy the credit for the maximum capability when formulating your battle plans, and I could go on, but I think most would agree I’m making a good correlation of these concepts.

Now that I’ve gone there, “the will of the people” is a factor in the conflict.  Taking a quick jog down memory lane, I’d submit this:  The wars I’m going to reference were long and brutal, and littered with death and destruction, but they have a lesson for us:  Without “the will of the people,” you fail.

I have long thought the lack of military people that seems to align themselves with the left was a reason the Democrats didn’t seem to comprehend the issues of conflict.  As I began to type this, I fear I have missed the point.  They do understand conflict, but have chosen to not deal with it in the profession of arms, but in the minds of the people, backed up by the arms.  The left takes the path of Marx, Lenin and Mao, and more recently, Alinsky.  They do fight, just not on the battlefield environment I have so long studied.  So, it is no that they lack a method, as I convinced myself of until this day, but that they have the one around gathering the support of the people.  So did Lenin, and Mao, and Pol Pot, Ho Chi Minh and Hitler, or at least they gave the allusion of that support, not to mention other such leaders in “modern times.”  I think the thing that speaks to the deficiency in the long run is those leaders convinced enough people to follow them, but in reality, were not interested in a democratic style of discourse along the way, maybe at first, to built the “marketing campaign,” but soon any one in opposition was…to be polite…disposed of.  Then, later, as a significant voice of the “run of the mill” citizen was raised, then the oppression came, in forms of watching and reporting neighbors, to disappearing from your home at night, never to be seen again, to entire areas having the population deported to Siberia, and new residents coming in, while the culture art, literature and other vestiges of the people who had lived that for centuries was destroyed.

Hitler had a fantastic military machine, that could manage tactically to trounce their opponents, but his overall strategy, which rested on economics, and logistics and “the will of the people,” was lacking.  The entire Communist world, that began manifesting itself in 1917 has largely been dismantled around the world (in less than a century), or, in the case of China and Vietnam, in order to keep from a massive uprising, has adopted the methods of the “capitalistic” societies that have made much more progress.

Analysis:  Right now, the Democrats and the very left end of the spectrum has great tactics.  They are able to organizes masses, show up and event, shut down a dialogue and claim it’s all their right.  Now, when people who disagree with a plan of the currant administration voice their opinion, the left claims it’s an organized mob, pushed by right wing extremists.  I think the ever necessary “will of the people” will quickly wear off, and President Obama and the Democratically controlled Congress will find out like the others who failed to truly comprehend the importance, and the actually concept of “the will of the people” and be left standing isolated, and rebuked.

In the meantime, it will not be a uniting time, as was promised.  We shall be more divided than we have been in just over a century and a very cursory study of history of that time will tell it was brutal.

Call to action:  Contact your representatives and let them know your will…you are “the people.”

I will presume, a person who has not studied history well, or has been taught only history from a perspective of “America the Evil,” does not fully appreciate there are many parties involved in the events that took place in Dresden during WWII, not merely US airmen dropping incendiary bombs.

I also presume, that he filters out that their own actions, regardless of who they are now, directly resulted in what came to their doorsteps. Between WWI and WWII, America was strongly isolationist. But, if you are looking for a scapegoat, it was one of President Obama’s heroes, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt that deftly maneuvered us closer to entering the conflict using the Lend Lease Program for England and Russia, and a variety of interesting operations that put US Navy and US Coast Guard ships in harms way escorting convoys. The mood of the Nation, despite the many year long conflicts in both Europe and China, and the massive expansion of the Japanese control of the Pacific Islands, we sat to the sidelines and went about our “normal” lives.

Somehow, in this day and age, declaring you were a victim seems to be all the rage, and a defense against anti-social behavior, at a personal and national level. The President of the United States must believe those victims need our heart felt apology, and we need nothing from them.

Like what is happening all across our nation, the abrogation of personal responsibility is the accepted manner in which to live life. Walk away from a mortgage you never should have signed on for, for one torpical example. Let the Government coddle you and keep a roof over your head, and food on your table, and a “volunteer” job to go to daily.

Now, if one was to be fair and balanced, how might these questions be answered:

Who stand from the Saudi Arabian Kingdom and apologize to the African nations and the ancestors of the slaves of the 1600s, 1700, and 1800s?
Who from Japan will go to Nanking and apologize to the Chinese?
Who from Germany will go to Warsaw and apologize to the Poles?
Who from Japan will travel to Malaysia and Singapore and Myanmar and Vietnam and Laos and Cambodia and apologize to the people of those countries?
Who from Germany will go to Volgograd and apologize to the Russians?
Who from Germany will go to Paris and apologize to the French?
Who from Germany will travel to Morocco and Egypt and Libya and apologize to the Allied Forces?
Who from Germany will go to London and apologize to the English for the Blitz?
Who from Japan will travel to Pearl Harbor and apologize to the US military?
Who from Germany will travel to Rome and apologize to the Italians?
Who from Germany will come to Normandy and apologize to the Americans, the French, the English, the Poles, and all the nations warriors who came to take back their lands?
Who will come from North Korea to Seoul and apologize to the South Koreans?
Who will come from Beijing to Seoul and apologize to the South Koreans?
Who will come from Moscow to Seoul and apologize to the South Koreans?
Who will come from Hanoi to Saigon and apologize to their countrymen?
Who will come from Hanoi to Cambodia and Laos and apologize for the aftermath of the US involvement in SE Asia?
Who will come from Hanoi to a VFW convention and apologize for the treatment of the POWS in their custody?
Who from Iraq will come to Kuwait City and apologize to the Kuwaitis?
Who will come to New York City and Arlington, VA and Shanksville, PA and apologize to the families of the 9/11/2001 victims?
Who from Pakistan will go to Mumbai and apologize to the Indians?
Who will come from Germany to Jerusalem and apologize to the Jewish people?
Who from Turkey will stand and apologize to the Armenians?
Who from Iraq and Iran will come and stand at Arlington National Cemetery and apologize to the families of those men and women in uniform who were killed as a result of their hate crimes? After all, they hated us because we were “Infidels” and I believe that would come under the Hate Crimes legislation in this country, if someone were to speak a religious epitaph during the commission of a murder.

I know the list is woefully short of all the apologizes necessary, in this day and time, for all the bad behavior, that has resulted in death and destruction, at the hands of tyrants.

Mr. President: I know we have done things in this Nation, that are worthy of contemplation for the immoral paths taken, but we are not the source of all evil in the world, nor in all of history. It was this society that threw off the mantle of a monarch that has given you this platform to speak and to be part of the legacy that has freed peoples and helped along the cause of greater worldwide prosperity since its inception. If this is unsettling to you, you are in the wrong job, and maybe there is another land that would welcome a leader who is disgusted by their own historical behavior, so much so, he will make a point to point it out at every opportunity., and even travel abroad at the people’s expense to trumpet that feeling in large and small venues.

If you, Mr. President, are using this opportunity to set a worldwide tone of reconciliation, then you need to place that standard in the open, and look other country’s leaders in the eye and say: “We (not “I”) have done our (not “my”) part, now I expect the same from you and your people.”

Somehow, I doubt this is your plan.

Somehow, I expect you to tell the world how mean we have been through out our 232+ year history, and why they should not respect us any longer, by your words and actions.

Mr. President: One president in our history went to Berlin, Germany to demand the end of tyranny. Millions are free as a result of that speech. I presume you go there to endorse tyrannical behavior, not call it out, and I will be listening to your words in your important speech in Dresden. President John F Kennedy did not shy from facing down tyranny, either, in Berlin, as did President Reagan.

And, when you’re done with that, I’m sure the D-Day visit shall hold for us more degrading rhetoric at the hands of you and your speech writers. I’m projecting this outcome, based on your G20 World Apology I Tour results.

First he took over the major banks with the leverage of TARP funds. Now, the ones who want to give it back could be without FDIC backing.

He directed his people to provide bonuses to those who are trying, in the publicly held financial firms, to get things back to normalcy, then decided it looked bad to his supporters and called upon the mob rule to harass those who were the benefactors of the law passed. They received death threats and had to hire security, and some committed suicide, others gave the money back, money rightfully owed to them by their employment contracts, and by Federal LAw, until it became “an inconvenient truth” in the open press.

Then he fired the CEO of a public corporation, on the grounds that they had been given taxpayer money. Then he took another corporation and handed over the a sizable portion of the control to the UAW.

The threat of severely restricting the right of the 2nd Amendment hangs in the air, as a country, unable to provide for its own domestic peace, would say it is the fault of the American gun owners who have caused the conflict across our borders, and he did not tell them they must accept the responsibility for their current struggle, for years of failed policies of the past, as he tells us that is where our current problems come from.

He’s now poised to force the entire medical care system of the nation into his vision of health care.

All the while, he is empowered with the money he is taking in from the tax base, which he is looking to make even more of a burden to those who produce the very things the entire economy, not just the Federal Government rely upon to stay in existence. The consummate politician: He cannot generate his own capital, he must take it to enable him to buy the allegiance of others, and to control their behavior.

Our money is being exploited for the gain of power by the Federal system. Power over things that are not enumerated in The Constitution of the United States.

Along the way, he is now directing the Governor of the largest state as to who will benefit from any decisions being made locally, even while the economy of that state is about to fail. His leverage? Do it or no bailout money for you and your citizens.

Wonderful. The President of the United States takes money from all over the country, launders it through thousands upon thousands of civil servants, then dictates to a state governor how the sate will conduct it’s business.

At what point will the governors of this land bring a case to the Supreme Court to tell the President his acts are Unconstitutional?

At what point will the American populace say “NO! Not with my tax dollars!”

Didn’t we have a war about this in the 1860s?

We won’t dictate to the rest of the world, who are murdering their own people and saying they will murder the people in Israel, but we will listen to them and heed their demands. He will tell Americans how they will pay tribute to him, because he won, and he will muzzle their speech, be it directly, or by threat of the power of the FCC, IRS, EPA, OSHA, CDC, etc….

This is beyond a not so funny thing. It’s becoming a nightmare. Barely over 100 days in office, and he is openly defying The Constitution and all we get is how Bush and Cheney and Palin should be waterboarded from comedians, while he sits there and laughs.

Where are the men and women in the highest offices who will step into the well of the houses of Congress and state, without reservation, what is happening and that they will oppose it?

The Republicans wonder why some people, when contacted say, no thanks to giving. Why should they be paid for doing nothing in the face of a socialist takeover of the nation?

There is a trend here: He told Joe the Plumber and few believed him. Those who did, and pointed it out in public, were shouted down. All above I have mentioned speaks clearly to exactly what he said he would do.

It may be the one promise everyone can count on him to keep…to all of our detriment,and to the rest of the world, as well.

Further, he denigrates the Nation on the stages of the World. He calls on his staf anf the press to call out private citizens for their criticism of him. It is sport to him. Honestly, it is a polite way of doing what many others, who sought total power have done – sidelining the “competition,” within and outside of the circle of the most powerful.

Better call those in Congress, who “represent” you (and I use the term loosely), before your pay is determined by the local union or the local ACORN Chapter, and it’s still not enough to keep a roof over your head and your family fed.

When the capability of this nation is handed over to the ineffectual Federal Government, against the specific language our forefathers crafted for just such a time as this, our consumer market will die off, and those other nations, on the opposite end of the “Balance of Trade” numbers shall have few to buy their goods, and they shall also whither. We are using many resources, and we are paying others around the world for them, which keeps the world in business.

How much will they love us when we can buy no more from them? Maybe we should ask ourselves how angry will they be, when their lives were beginning to get better, are now dropped back into poverty, the likes of which we do not see in our country, as the scourge of Communism and socialism were pushed back, in a great measure by the power of capitalism?

One day, if this trend continues, all we own shall become property of “The State,” and all we are given will be according to the needs as determined by the faceless bureaucrats, who will ration all in our lives, even our ability to make decisions.

The President of the United States, will hand over dozens photographs of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan to the ACLU, based on a long legal battle. According to the link, these aren’t even as bad as the Abu Gharib photos, but show there was more abuse than disclosed to the public.

You’d think, for the sake of the Muslims, who rioted and even killed some of their own overseas, when they heard, falsely as it turned out, that a Koran was flushed down a toilet. Forgetting Americans will be endangered, foreigners may die in the resulting riots. I this not out of the realm of reason, based on the last time such things were brought to light by the MSM, to postulate that this is a likely outcome, is it?

The irony off this long process, that was politicized before, is that the US Army, with a brave soldier ratting out the morons at Abu Gharib, were the ones to disclose it was going on at all. The MSM then ran with it, and used it as a blunt instrument against President Bush. Regardless of the fact that the military was busy taking care of their bad actors, it was presented to the nation and the World as though this was a common methodology of our service members, a charge that was completely false.

It strikes me as a double jeopardy like issue, where the military has taken these photos in as evidence, and most likely has handled the disciplinary actions in each case. Now, the stories will be published and the “trial” on the media pages and screens, and all across the ‘net will begin in earnest, but, these not being valid legal venues, there will be no stopping them.

The outcome? If you can read this, then you are well aware of the dark strain Abu Gharib left and how then the implication became a reason to not trust the Bush Administration in any matter of detainment, regardless of the evidence that pointed towards containment of the enemy.

So, where do I see this getting us? To a bad place. Some days I just feel like packing it in, but what country is left, that is not overrun by the urge to bend over to the lawyers or the terrorists and let them have their way. As far as I know, there is none left. I can’t afford an island of my own, or the private army/navy to defend it, so, I guess I’m screwed.

I can only figure the President is blinded by his ambition. I may be way off the mark, but the lower his popularity numbers sink, the more this kind of reporting floats up, with the only seeming rationale is to satiate his left left wing crowd….so they will settle down.

Short sited at best, dangerous at the worst. On top of that, will this make “them” make hate us more or less? I say more, but The One will stand will hold them high, and declare “This was not on my watch! Don’t blame me, I’m the one showing you how horrible the American military and intelligence systems are, and what they do behind closed doors.” It will put all of us at risk, at one level or another. It will make military members second guess every act, if they must come in contact with detainees. It will cause good men and women to leave their jobs, so they are not abused at the whim of a capricious administration, bent on saying “It’s not I!” who caused this, when, in fact, he is sowing the seeds of the next action against American citizens and our military.

What good can come of this? None. What has happened? The guilty parties have been taken care of, now, the world will be shown a whole new set of pictures they can use as an excuse for their hatred.

And the irony of it all, is even our own citizens and “Western” media can’t seem to do more than yawn when the people’s head were rolling in the streets of Iraq and Afghanistan, and Thailand and the Philippines, and even recently here, in the United States proper. Our soldiers can have a dog bark at someone and make them stand naked, and be reviled, yet a terrorist can actually chant “God is Great” while decapitating another human being, and somehow, it is wished away as a justifiable act.

We have lost a critical thinking skill: Logic, which would establish a real proportionality. I fear we shall not be able to retrieve this before it is too late.

I am not in favor of any mistreatment, but I am not in favor of the President taking all matters into his own hands, disregarding the very military and US legal systems that have served this Nation well over 200 plus years. His action do just that.

All I can say: He is not looking out for justice, he is looking forward to punishing anyone connected to his political opposition.

Consider this quote from the article linked above:

“My sense is the president was trying to please a lot of audiences at one time and that over the last (week) he has totally failed to put the mind of the intelligence community at ease,” said Mark Lowenthal, a former senior adviser to CIA Director George J. Tenet. “He is going to end up with a national clandestine service that will not be willing to do anything because they feel he will not be there for them when they need him.”

Call to Action: Bombard your representatives, once again, for they need to be the check in the system, or we are truly lost for a lack of leadership where we must have it under these circumstances.

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]]> http://www.therosistance.org/2009/04/11/not-funny-funny-nff-1/feed/ 0 http://www.therosistance.org/2009/04/10/testing-testing-testingis-my-brain-on/ http://www.therosistance.org/2009/04/10/testing-testing-testingis-my-brain-on/#comments Fri, 10 Apr 2009 22:51:19 +0000 admin http://www.therosistance.org/?p=381 Joe Biden warned us. What he didn’t say clearly was, in 60 days, the tests have come hard and fast, and the Administration of President Obama, has failed, failed, failed, but then he thought Hillary would be a better VP pick than he would be. History is what it is and we’ll not know, but after he thoughts about “criminal acts” and then not saying we’re going to sink them before dawn says she’d be equally as bad in the role, playing her lawyering as the lead view of the conditions.

A few pirates in a lifeboat can bring the the entire US response to a standstill, but not without using up lots of taxpayers dollars. Ships don’t run for free. P-3 Orions have a thing called “flight hours” with a dollar value attached to them.

History has been here before, only then, the pirates were actually agents of their governments, making a good life off of stealing the goods of others, and enslaving the crews of the vessels. Finally, while the other nations of the world kept paying for protection, we got tired of it and sent the frigates, the Senator Jefferson argued against building, to make the point that we wouldn’t tolerate such behavior. We got our way, but it seem President Obama is too tied up trying to nationalize health care to be able to protect our citizens outside our borders, even when the might of the US Navy is sitting right there, on scene, observing the scenario play out. On top of that, somehow Eric Holder believes he has some decision making role in the drama, not having any idea this is, in the clearest context, a job for the military forces to handle. The FBI does not patrol the sea lanes of communications, the US Navy does.

Now, as we diddle and send a capable warship (USS HALYBURTON) to the scene, the pirates are doing what the spineless, but cagey terrorists do: Bring in the human shields.

Here’s an idea, if you want to treat his as an LE op: How would the duty SWAT team handle this? They’d have snipers ready (granted covered boat, roll and pitch, and relative motion between two targets (not one) in addition to windage in the equation), as well as many as close to the threat as possible, ready to rush and engage.

Would they allow a breach in the cordon to allow the bad people to have their friends come over, with more weapons and ammo, and also more hostages? No ……..in’ way.

My point: This administration hasn’t a clue as to what they are doing. If it’s a military/international operation, we are about to go from a position of strength, to one of extreme weakness (we can’t manage collateral damage anymore, even a hang nail on a bad guy).

If this is supposed to be in the LE realm, then we have blown it, too, telling them (a report I read) they won’t negotiate, and either to hand the Master over, or die, and we haven’t the guts to follow up. The LE now becomes a joke to the pirates/criminals/thugs/hoodlum or the seas.

How will they get out of this? Well, when you’re gonna spend over a trillion, what’s $2M to save a life? Hey, the world will still love us (a delusion at best)!

No grasp of the law of unintended consequences, where our citizens will become like those in SA and Mexico that are being captured as a money making operation…and it’s been paying.

No grasp of history, that of some guy, I think his name was Jefferson (but he, being a white, European oppressor), why study his administration and a little tiff in the Mediterranean? Might have some clues as to mistakes and corrective measures…

Further consider WHEN the Administration authorizes payment and parachutes the money (will it have those cute little exploding money packs, so we can see who has the dye on them?), that our tax dollars will be directly funding terrorism.

Was it Lenin or Stalin that said something about the capitalist will see them the rope to hang themselves with? Maybe he didn’t realize the peoples to his south would be more successful that they would be…

Now watch what John Bolton has to say and note comments by the President and the Attorney General in the report.

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The outcome of our “test results,” as a nation are going to establish the “Obama Doctrine.” I project that will be “We aren’t worthy and deserve anything you want to do to us, for we have been arrogant and have dictated to you. We’ll now let you take what you will as reparations.” That policy, much “equal rights” has no end on it. No one can say when the rest of the world has extracted thier due. It’s endless.

]]> http://www.therosistance.org/2009/04/10/testing-testing-testingis-my-brain-on/feed/ 0 http://www.therosistance.org/2009/04/06/we-must-act-rapidly-in-order-destroy-the-economy-and-america/ http://www.therosistance.org/2009/04/06/we-must-act-rapidly-in-order-destroy-the-economy-and-america/#comments Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:16:09 +0000 admin http://www.therosistance.org/?p=366 No…he didn’t say that, but I fall back on the actions taken, now coupled with the early outcomes, not on the words spoken, let alone the stated intentions.

“They” told us we had to do this right away, to fix the economy, beginning in Sept 2008.

“They” got $750B to fix it.

“They” told us it wasn’t working fast enough, and told us they needed $787B more “RIGHT AWAY!”

“They” told us this and that special circumstance arose and took more.

“They” told us we could not afford to wait, that doom resided around the next corner, and was on it’s way to our door step.

It was a crisis, for sure, but now it is a crisis of a different type: It began as a financial one, and now it is a systemic one, encompassing politics, national security, the culture, jobs, cash flow, interest rates, and the ability to speak your mind freely.

It has made a system “of the people and by the people” into a hierarchy “of the politicians, by the politicians and pollsters, dismissive of the people.”

Barack Hussien Obama, the President of the United States lied, in how fast we needed to proceed, and how he and his administration would handle all of this, and not only is the US Economy dying, but with it major components of American society.

The political structure is no longer willing, capable citizens, who accept less pay than they could make, or see the effort worth the sacrifice to serve the people, for a time, but now people who have made an entire long term career of sitting in Washington and peddling their influence for personal gain, or that of a few close relatives and business partners on the “outside.” Pork is the main dish, and it comes from the hides of the very people who pay the rent, the salaries, the petty cash, and the other expenses for a class of people who have made a fine art of “relativity” in matters of the law, in which, the “house” almost always wins, and when it appears that it may not get the upcoming win, it begins to use the power of the Federal Govenrment to pave they way, at the expense of the citizens and their rights, for a successful outcome.

They have become an amplified version of the unions of this nation, and they come with the same attributes: Work part of the time allotted, collect a full paycheck, and the guys at the top skim off the inflated, guaranteed earnings, to live a life style of the rich and famous, and use what’s left over to buy legal protection of the money stream, or the manner in which they choose to operate. That’s what Congress has become, and, in league with the Presidency, the perks of high office are passed back and forth, too.

My own Congressman, in response to my voice about the GIVE Act, told me he voted for it, because America needed to regain the spirit of volunteerism. And he’s been a pretty right of center, vote against the stupidity of the left Republican. I’m not speechless, but left wondering, just when is it the place of the Federal Government to demand individuals around the nation volunteer? Top that off with a dose of common sense, if they have any: Just where in your life have you seen an efficient operation where people were told thay had to attend and they had to work? Can anyone show me a model of tremendous effectiveness and efficiency for a Community Service program, mandated by judges and probation officers? I doubt we could find more than a handful of people, all across the nation, directed with the power of the system into same, who excelled and really put their heart into the effort. I know there would be some, but not enough to call the entire system functional.

Now, after being told as a citizen, that all these billions, well, over a trillions dollars, flowing from my wallet, to the needy was needed, how the taxpayer was making “an investment!” and we would actually see a return on the investment (and I suspect, if someone had the stones, they could show, legally, the Federal Government has no authority to become a large investment firm, using any monies, let alone those of the citizens), I find out that the Federal Government won’t let the institutions return my money.

From what parallel universe am I living in, that I am unable to understand how the money not coming back into the US Treasury is going to help the Federal Government is going to help me, and all other taxpayers, see return on “the investment!”?

One of two things is occurring: The President is consciously and purposefully destroying the very engine of this nation, or he and his staff are so woefully ignorant, they don’t even comprehend what their investment advisers have been doing with their money all these years….loaning it, then getting back the principle and interest…thereby allowing that process to be called an investment.

In either case, it’s wrong.

Overlay, if you will, the decades of imposed Federal Government mandates, in violation of states rights: 55 MPH, No Child Left Behind, handgun waiting periods/registration, and numerous other dictates, using the money extracted from the earnings of the citizens of states, then used as a bludgeon by Congress on what states will do, or forgo billions of dollars of taxpayer money (taken from the states!). See the picture? We are funding our own loss of freedom, by letting Congress and the President take it, then only let us have it back on their terms. And don’t forget they will send it around to compliant states, if you push back or object against the mandates handed down.

Back to the actions, not the words, coupled with the above paragraph: If the act of taking tax money, and handing it out, to get a return, it still sounds like a bad idea to me, but, the intention may have been good, but, with good intentions, an open and honest discussion would have followed. Can I know the thoughts specifically of the President and his staff? No, by by my observation of the then and now, the rush to get the TARP and bailout funds through was to make sure no one would have time to address this very, logically derive circumstance and insert a remedy in the legislation. What does that mean? The logical thinkers know. The real mind-numbed robots will still think it’s about change…and when the disaster arrives on their very personal doorstep, they will still be inclined to say, no, he didn’t abuse his power, and no Congress didn’t either…we needed it.

However, don’t forget, the trump card in all of this is “Manufactured Rage,” to impose a reversal of specific law, duly written and passed in both legislative houses, then signed by the President of the United States. Using this tactic, even a law in the works, and with every one thinking it is a settled circumstance, becomes meaningless in a single news cycle, and the people call their congressional office and demand the laws be ignored so we can feel better…for a moment, until later, when we realize that mob rule is a bad idea….for us…but…not for others.

Ladies and gentlemen…we had an unprotected election – we didn’t use our knowledge, we just went for it, caught up in the emotions and the heat of the moment, even when warned it’s a really, really, really good idea to not go to the voting booth without taking knowledge along, you know, in case you have to use it. A difference here: In school, we mandate the teaching of how to have safe sex, and, in retrospect, at the expense of teaching about how to have safe elections based on history, civics and economics, and some ability to do math, too.

Update 4/6/2009: Ah! A kindred spirit!

]]> http://www.therosistance.org/2009/04/06/we-must-act-rapidly-in-order-destroy-the-economy-and-america/feed/ 0 http://www.therosistance.org/2009/03/28/you-cut-back-i-overspend-you-do-without-i-get-get-deals/ http://www.therosistance.org/2009/03/28/you-cut-back-i-overspend-you-do-without-i-get-get-deals/#comments Sat, 28 Mar 2009 19:04:56 +0000 admin http://www.therosistance.org/?p=344 I served with many leaders for 24 years. The good ones? They asked you to do hard things, and you know either they had done them, or they would be side by side with you, as the difficulty/pain/deprivation/etc was to be endured.

The not so good ones, issued directives, then abandoned the field to more comfortable quarters, better food, and more hours of rest. Get on with it peons, and quit complaining…were the real or implied communications associated with the situation.

The bad ones, they demanded you push/break “the envelope” and go, in their stead, to do what was questionable or worse. Thankfully, I never had one in the third category, but I know peers who did.

In the first case, sleeves were rolled up and effort, physical or mental or emotional, was tackled with purpose. The second case: The work got done, but, it strong urge was to only perform at the “good enough for Government work” output level. Many times however, it was the peer discussions that got the frame of minds to the proper level of excellence. In this case, the assigned leader wasn’t the functional leader in the daily operations.

Applying this to current events:

The “Leader:” He turns up the heat to be comfortable. He asks you, via directing billions to develop “smart grids” to “conserve” energy. In the meantime, he eliminates the funds to safely store nuclear power plant waste, blocks offshore drilling for oil and natural gas, and his Secretary of the Interior rescinds granted leases to drill for energy resource on land in Utah. All the while, he tells us he will lead us to energy “independence.”

The “Leader:” He laments about you losing your jobs, your house…and then spends, spends, spends, and when there’s no more to spend, prints more currency, all the while telling you it was living on debt that got us here, while, at the national level, he pushes the National Debt over the cliff, telling us that will save our economy. He also can find time in his schedule to have weekly cocktail meetings, and serve Wagyu steak to his guests for dinner.

The “Leader:” Signs a book deal for $500K, 5 days before taking a $400K/year job, then gets upset that people working for non-Governmental enterprises are getting bonuses. Once more, he turns the power of his position into a platform to personally denigrate those who are laboring under legal contracts, and even Federal Law, for that remuneration. Before you are President, certain Federal Laws don’t apply to your financial dealings. Surely, he was well aware of that, not to mention someone doesn’t just appear out of a crowd and ask you to “sign here” with a $500K check in their hands, with your name on it, do they? Consider: He told us he wants to “spread the wealth,” yet he does not offer to share his new found gain.

The “Leader:” He asks us to get along, then top level administration officials take the stage before the World’s media and vilifies individual American citizens for speaking their mind, freely and openly, without threats, nor backed by the coercive power of the Federal Government.

The President of the United States, is not a good leader. He is one who will ask you to sacrifice, yet not give up his luxury in a show of “unity.” Worse than the circumstances while I served, the not so capable leaders I worked for didn’t take my money to keep their comfort. In this case, the President does, very directly, by his economic policy.

He takes from me, asks, and is working towards the power to direct, me to give up comfort, while keeping his, at my expense.

The only part of his plan intact is how to legislate compliance with conservation, via the “cap and trade” carbon credit system. He does not have a viable plan defined to help the Nation to become “energy independent.”

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