In time I am pretty sure that the Romney vs. Obama dog love festival will be less than a footnote in history a decade from now, mostly due to general disinterest. Of course, the mainstream media will do its part to help, by erasing it from their archives. The true Right is already doing that at Reason, apparently for different reasons.
Here are a couple of videos I created about the Obama eating dog event. What is interesting is the comments from an Obama supporter that showed up in response to the short video (included my comments too):
A 10 year old child is served a meal which is common in the
country he is living. Big deal. Romney, a grown man, knowingly commits
an act of cruelty. The dog crapped all over the place and they still
kept him up there? Duh!
You Leftoids are hilarious! If Obama chased the dog down
himself, skinned, cooked, and ate it, giving the pelt to his mother as a
shawl you would still say sticking a dog in a carrier is worse. Keep
it up and don't miss the Seinfeld Lost Episode now linked to in the
video!
Obama was 6 years old, you moron. How old was Romney when
he casually committed animal cruelty? This is true Romney, an out of
touch blue blood and a narcissist.
Safe transport of a dog is "casually committed an act of
cruelty" to you. Check. You don't know the meaning of the words you
use, just like your name calling.
If this were a discussion in person, there is little doubt that "liberalmann" would be on the verge of throwing food at this point. Throwing food is the ultimate expression of deep ideas for the Leftist.
The "Seinfeld Lost Episode" mentioned above:
Side note: If you want Leftoid comments, make your video very short. If you are trying to get libertarians or people of the true right to watch it, make it long. Just look at the stats and comments on the videos in my channel and see.
A North Carolina preschooler this week got a taste of the brave new school-lunch world.
As the 4-year-old entered the lunchroom, the state lunch inspector (!!) examined her sack and found the contents to be in violation of US Department of Agriculture nutrition guidelines. Herr Lunch Lady summarily threw the offending meal — including a homemade turkey sandwich, banana, chips and apple juice — into the trash; the girl was given a school-lunch meal consisting of . . . chicken nuggets.
The Left has been "warning" us about National Socialism (they call all of that fascism) for ages. The problem is, they never bother warning anybody when they do it themselves.
The story above, even by the most generous Leftist definition, is National Socialism. Some government bureaucrat took a four year old child's lunch away, "gave" the child some government approved, commercially produced, chicken nuggets. Then the government school employees sent the mother a bill for the Obama's chicken nuggets.
The Leftists would have us believe that some "corporation" forced the government to do this. Now, just how plausible is that when the government controls the police force? More to the point, now that "the right people" like Obama are in charge, why is this sort of thing on the increase?
Within days of that incident, President Barrack Hussein Obama announced that all places of worship would be required (forced) to provide contraceptives and abortions, regardless of their objection against birth control.
In the 1930s, Hitler tried to nationalize churches too. In case you are unaware of what that means, Hitler (with Ludwig Müller) tried to tell various religions what they were to do for the National Socialist State. It did not work out so well. Also, if that is supposed to be evidence that Hitler was a Christian in his adult life, then absolutely anything counts as evidence of, well, absolutely anything these days.
Obama's most recent attempt at directly nationalizing places of worship failed too, but he had a backup plan at the ready. He ordered all insurance companies to provide contraceptives, including those owned and operated by Catholic, Jewish, and Islamic organizations that service only those religious institutions.
Again, an adage about the Socialists is appropriate here, they like word games. When they got enough resistance from infringing on religious freedom, they targeted federally required insurance programs and *poof* they are no longer ordering Mosques what to do, they are only telling insurance companies what to do. Either way, it is still National Socialism and this episode is definitely Hitlerian.
So, what is next in the Obama regime's goose-stepping march over individual rights on the way to the next election? One can speculate something along these lines for school lunches. Of course, that is not ordering people what to do, it is just providing much needed birth control for preschoolers. If their condoms and chewable birth control pills don't work, they can always get some RU-486 at communion.
Obama actually believes that Jesus would approve of his National Socialist blending of government and religion. Here is a clip of him at the National Prayer Breakfast, February 3rd, 2012: (full transcript | Download Video: mp4 (216MB) | mp3 (21MB))
But while I petition God for a whole range of things, there are a few common themes that do recur. The first category of prayer comes out of the urgency of the Old Testament prophets and the Gospel itself. I pray for my ability to help those who are struggling. Christian tradition teaches that one day the world will be turned right side up and everything will return as it should be. But until that day, we're called to work on behalf of a God that chose justice and mercy and compassion to the most vulnerable.
We've seen a lot of hardship these past two years. Not a day passes when I don't get a letter from somebody or meet someone who’s out of work or lost their home or without health care. The story Randall told about his father -- that's a story that a whole lot of Americans have gone through over these past couple of years.
Sometimes I can't help right away. Sometimes what I can do to try to improve the economy or to curb foreclosures or to help deal with the health care system -- sometimes it seems so distant and so remote, so profoundly inadequate to the enormity of the need. And it is my faith, then, that biblical injunction to serve the least of these, that keeps me going and that keeps me from being overwhelmed. It’s faith that reminds me that despite being just one very imperfect man, I can still help whoever I can, however I can, wherever I can, for as long as I can, and that somehow God will buttress these efforts.
This year, 23 JAN 2012 happens to be both Chinese New Year and World Freedom Day. If you thought World Freedom Day was in November, then you may be as new to this celebration of freedom thing as is president Obama.
For my fellow Americans, it is easy to be unaware of the day when China and South Korea celebrate the 1954 repatriation of 14,000 Chinese prisoners of the Korean War. 22,600 Communist soldiers total refused to return to Communist People's Republic of China or to Communist North Korea and instead requested repatriation to the Republic of China or to South Korea. 14,000 of them were Chinese and they formed the "Anti-Communist League" after arriving in free Taiwan. (Note: 86 chose India over China)
People like Noam Chomsky may toss out the true but still misleading trivia that soldiers of both sides refused repatriation to the countries they were fighting for, just like he did in his famous 1960s "Firing Line" appearance that I like to call his "which way did those refugees go" moment. During the first installment of the Korean War, 22 American Soldiers and on British soldier refused repatriation too. Thus, to folks like Noam Chomsky who say "refugees went both ways" later in Vietnam, the 1,000-1 ratio is meaningless. Just as the 7-1 ratio of those fleeing North Vietnam to those leaving the South is no issue. The issue to them is that somebody went to the Communists. A list of the 22 from WikiPedia is copied at the bottom of this post. Not the fate of each, when they were returned to freedom.
Here is a video about the UN forces who refused repatriation, known as the Turncoats, that passes itself as a documentary. Any reasonable assessment is that it is modern Communist Chinese propaganda. One of the keys is their referring to the Chinese Red Army as volunteers, when in fact they were conscripts. The propaganda so preposterous that the truth shines through the lies, especially in clips of the Turncoats who spoke of how things changed in China after their propaganda value ended. I add it in the interest of fairness. Speaking of "fairness," the video notes the Courts Martial and sentencing of two Americans who returned and were convicted of Treason. The video mentions their sentencing, but not that they did not serve a single day in jail after their trials. See the Wiki information farther down.
See more in parts two, three, four, and five. This series of videos will be the subject of another post and this general issue will be covered in great detail in Would You Like Borders With That Socialism?
On the other hand, people like president Obama seem to have deep seated reasons for not recognizing the free zone of China. In September, 2009 the Communist Chinese were celebrating the 60th anniversary of Maoist Stalinism on the Ellipse,with the White House as a backdrop.
Since the 1954 POW exchange there has been the occasional American service member who defected to North Korea, not unlike college students and others who decide to get involved with terrorist causes, Communist or not.
Six American servicemen are known to have defected to North Korea after the war:
United Nations Service Members who defected during the first installment of the Korean War (via WikiPedia):
American
Adams, Clarence (Cpl.)
A soldier fromMemphis, Tennessee. Adams cited racial discrimination in the United States as the reason he refused repatriation. While a prisoner, Adams took classes in Communist political theory, and afterwards lectured other prisoners in the camps. During theVietnam War, Adams made propaganda broadcasts for Radio Hanoi from their Chinese office, telling black American soldiers not to fight:
You are supposedly fighting for the freedom of the Vietnamese, but what kind of freedom do you have at home, sitting in the back of the bus, being barred from restaurants, stores and certain neighborhoods, and being denied the right to vote. ... Go home and fight for equality in America.
A native of Belgium who immigrated to the United States as a teenager. He lived in China for ten years, working in a paper factory in Jinan, before returning to Antwerp, Belgium.[5][4]
Bell, Otho Grayson (Cpl.)
Originally fromOlympia, Washington.[4]In China was sent to a collective farm with William Cowart and Lewis Griggs (see below). Bell described himself, Cowart and Griggs as "the dummy bunch", saying they were sent to the farm because they could not learn Chinese. They returned to the United States together in July 1955, were arrested, but were released when it was found that the military no longer had jurisdiction over the defectors after they were dishonorably discharged. Bell died in 2003.[5]
Corden, Richard (Sgt.)
A native ofChicago,Illinois. He returned to the United States on 19 January, 1958. He was reported to live inMilwaukee,Wisconsinin 1961 and moved to Chicago in 1962.[4]He reportedly continued to favor communism even after returning to the United States.[5]He died in 1988.
Cowart, William (Cpl.)
Returned with Bell and Griggs. Later the three soldiers sued for their back pay. The case went all the way to theUnited States Supreme Court, which held that Bell, Cowart and Griggs were entitled to their back pay from the time they were captured to the time they were dishonorably discharged.[6]
Douglas, Rufus (Sgt.)
Died in China a few months after arrival in 1954. The manner of his death is not certain but is believed to have been from natural causes.[5]
Dunn, John Roedel (Cpl.)
FromAltoona, Pennsylvania.[4]He married a Czechoslovakian woman while in China and settled in Czechoslovakia in December 1959.[4][5]
Fortuna, Andrew (Sgt.)
Originally fromGreenup, Kentucky.[4]He was awarded two Bronze Stars for his service in Korea before he was captured.[5]He returned to the United States on July 3, 1957. He worked inPortsmouth, Ohioin 1958, inDetroit,Michiganfrom 1963-64 and Chicago in 1964. He was reported to be inGary, Indianaas of 1964.[4]He died in 1984.[5]
Griggs, Lewis Wayne
Returned with Bell and Cowart in 1955. He was listed as a senior majoring in sociology atStephen F. Austin State University, graduating in 1959.[7][8]He died in 1984.
FromOklahoma City,Oklahoma. He married a Russian woman in China and returned to the United States in February 1957, shortly before his wife was permitted to come to the United States. He successfully petitioned the government to change his discharge from dishonorable to other than honorable. He raised a family, and has given interviews to the press on the condition that his location not be disclosed.[5]
Pate, Arlie (Cpl.)
Worked in a paper mill before returning with Aaron Wilson (see below) in 1956. He died in 1999.[5]
Rush, Scott (Sgt.)
Married in China. After living in China ten years, he and his wife moved back to the United States and settled in the Midwest.[5]
Skinner, Lowell (Cpl. )
His mother begged him to come home over the radio at the time of the prisoner exchange, to no avail. He married in China, but left his wife behind when he came back to America in 1963. Later he would have problems withalcoholand spent six months in a psychiatric hospital. He died in 1995.[9]
Came home in 1955. He went to Louisiana a few months later to welcome home fellow defector Aaron Wilson (see below). He settled in Utah before dying in 2001.[5]
FromVandergrift, Pennsylvania.[4]He stayed in China and became a dedicated communist, taking the Chinese name 'Lao Wen'. He worked in a steel mill, participated in theGreat Leap Forward, hung posters during theCultural Revolution, married three times, and had children. He visited the United States in 1976 but returned to China, where he is buried.[10]
Webb, Harold (Sgt.)
FromJacksonville, Florida[4]. He married a Polish woman in China and moved to Poland in 1960, reportedly settling inKatowice.[4][5]In 1988, he was given permission to settle in the United States.[5]He is the subject of theYouth Defense Leaguesong Turncoat about rejection of a Korean War defector seeking a return to America.[11]
White, William (Cpl.)
Married and got a bachelor's degree in international law while in China. He returned to the United States in 1965.[5]
Originally fromUrania, Louisiana.[4]He came home from China 06 December 1956[4]. Wilson married an American girl and worked in hisLouisianahometown's mill.[5]
Scotsman of41 (Independent) Royal Marine Commando, was the only Briton to decline repatriation. He returned to Britain in 1960, and faced no disciplinary action.
Here we have Rep. Dan Lungrin (R-CA), during a session of the House & Senate Homeland Security & Government Affairs Committee, asking repeatedly if the US is at war with radical Islamists, or if they are at war with the USA. If anybody is following along, the Al Qaeda network is composed exclusively of radical Islamists. Obama's Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and Americas' Security Affairs, Office of Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, Paul N. Stockton, cannot bare the possibility that radical Islamists have declared war against us (link to full testimony):
Andrew C. McCarthy at National Review has a great commentary on this abomination -
If you want to know why Maj. Nidal Hassan was able to carry out a jihadist attack at Fort Bragg Hood [ACM: senior moment -- my apologies] one of the most fortified targets imaginable; if you want to understand why, despite months of neon signs that he was a jihadist, Hassan was able to murder 13 United States soldiers and support personnel (i.e., about double the number killed in the 1993 terrorist bombing of the World Trade Center); then look no further than this video clip.
It features testimony at a House hearing on threats to our military by Paul Stockton, President Obama’s Assistant Defense Secretary for Homeland Defense & America’s Security Affairs. He is unable to bring himself to utter the word “Islamist,” much less admit what ought to be the undeniable fact that Muslim terrorists are motivated by Islamist ideology.
It reflects the Obama philosophy that we cannot even hint that an interpretation of Islam — drawn literally from Islamic scriptures — is the force motivating our enemies. Even though this is unquestionably true, to say so, to acknowledge it in any way, would mean, according to administration thinking, that we are at war with Islam itself — with all 1.4 billion Muslims, including the hundreds of millions who do not subscribe to this interpretation. Unwilling to entertain the possibility that the enemy has a coherent, knowable doctrine — which is a powerful catalyst precisely because it draws credibly (not inarguably but credibly) on scripture — we have forfeited the natural right to defend ourselves and the troops who make it possible for us to live freely.
This is criminal recklessness. It is idiocy beyond description, so I should just stop trying to describe it. Watch it in all its jaw-dropping ignominy. Three and a half minutes — although it will take you longer than that because you’ll need to watch it a few times in order to come to grips with the fact that it’s not a parody but the real thinking of top officials in the Defense Department and throughout the administration.
UPDATE: I am doing something wrong in trying to embed the video. Until someone who actually knows what he’s doing arrives, click here.
Gingrich, who would have made a marvelous Marxist, believes everything is related to everything else and only he understands how. Conservatism, in contrast, is both cause and effect of modesty about understanding society’s complexities, controlling its trajectory and improving upon its spontaneous order. Conservatism inoculates against the hubristic volatility that Gingrich exemplifies and Genesis deplores: “Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel.”
As any thinking person knows, there is precious little difference between Marxism and the other Socialisms, beyond marketing. "Progressive" is just the latest relabeling of National Socialism, an authoritarian system of government that began as Yellow Socialism in France, but did not catch on in Europe after it was made popular in the USA by Theodore Roosevelt, his cousin FDR, and Woodrow Wilson.
Andy Stern, the head of the Service Employees International Union, is the union leader who probably best understands the challenge of the world market and the need to make American union members productive in the face of world competition. Sadly, he is a distinct minority among union leaders.
The thing that divides Progressives like Newt Gingrich from libertarians like Ron Paul is freedom, especially the freedom for the consumer to chose in a free market. The sad thing is, Gingrich can play the nomination game better than the Ron Pauls of the world.
Actually, the current crop of National Socialists running the United States are worse than the National Socialists of old. Worse in obscuring the execution of their pathetic, transparent plots to grab more political control, and worse in the safety of execution.
By execution, I mean pulling a violent political stunt and turning it to the advantage of the party that will benefit the most from it. In the case of Fast and Furious, it is most certainly the Democrat party of the United States that stands to benefit the most from the scheme, had it been kept secret.
It is still uncertain of the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP, aka, Nazi Party) set the fire, or if the International Socialists of the Communist Part Of Germany (Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands – KPD) set the Reichstag fire. We do know a Communist was convicted of setting the fire, he said he acted alone, and was murdered (purged) by the Stalin in 1940. This sort of indicates that it was indeed a Communist plot, if only plotted by one, that resulted in the demise of the KPD, which probably upset Stalin a little too.
The event was used to great advantage by the NSDAP to limit the rights of citizens and consolidate one-party-rule in Germany. Remember a motto of the Socialist, never let a serious crisis go to waste.
Georgia
Democratic Rep. Hank Johnson accused the tea party movement and the
National Rifle Association of creating an “manufactured” controversy
over Operation Fast and Furious Thursday.
Johnson’s
comments came during an interview with The Daily Caller outside the
House Judiciary Committee hearing room. Attorney General Eric Holder was
testifying before the committee about Fast and Furious — a Justice
Department program where Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and
Explosives agents facilitated the sale of about 2,000 guns to Mexican
drug cartels.
“I think this is another manufactured controversy by the second amendment, NRA Republican tea party movement,” Johnson said.
This is the same Georgia Democrat who thinks the Guam might flip over if any more American troops are stationed on the American island. He also takes the Socialist view that the "promote general welfare" wording in the preamble of the United States Constitution is a mandate on the Congress to provide National Healthcare. If you watch the second video link, you will see that Johnson's Town Hall Meeting security will eject anybody who asks a question on the Constitution, they will be ejected. Representative Johnson is obviously a Socialist and it does not really matter if his flavor is National or International.
Without much mainstream media fanfare, which is no surprise since the MSM is nothing more than the public relations branch of the hard Left in the USA, National Rifle Association (NRA) officer Wayne LaPierre responded to the absurd notion that the NRA was responsible for the Obama administration plot to sell guns to Mexican drug lords:
"Over a period of two or three years they were running thousands and thousands of guns to the most evil people on earth. At the same time they were yelling ’90 per cent… of the guns the Mexican drug cartels are using come from the United States."
"That was a phony figure from the very start. Even the Wikileaks cables from our own State Department prove they are coming from Central America, they are not coming from the U.S. Every police officer will tell you that they’re coming from Russia, they’re coming from China, most of them are coming from Central America and a lot of them are coming from defections from the Mexican Army,” said LaPierre, the NRA's executive vice president and CEO.
But LaPierre said that President Barack Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were determined to make it appear that most weapons used by the Mexicans came from north of the border, “so they could stick more gun legislation on honest American gun owners of the United States.”
The bottom line is simple. Fast and Furious is a botched attempt by the Obama administration to limit the rights of all Americans and they are still trying to salvage this operation to restrict the rights of Americans to own and purchase guns. They are attacking licensed gun dealers, even those that were cooperating with the government, and they are using this as a propaganda device to blame Mexican drug war violence on innocent Americans.
