Momentum

This truly is their moment. "Carpe diem" is their call. For decades the activists and intellectuals of the Left have been continuously plotting, planning, infiltrating and slowly subborning nearly every critical area of America's popular culture, leadership, educational establishment, the entertainment and news media, unions, the managers of the economy, gradually rising to the the top echelons of the military, judicial, law enforcement, diplomatic, and intelligence 'communities'.  The most radical elements of society (and I use that term "society" more and more loosely) believe that since the Obama immaculation we are on the cusp of true Soviet-style revolution; the total and dramatic transformation - and reduction - of history's greatest republic into a globalistic second-(or third-)world hegemony, brought to you via a rogue government, financial conspiracies and orchestrated violence and chaos. Despite what they view as a temporary setback radicals throughout America, reeling from the mid-term losses, are once again trying to rouse the rabble, and violence is not off the table. 

But all they want to do is to make life better for everyone, right? Uh, not really, although they'll never tell you that.

In actuality, the only people who believe socialism or progressivism is to benefit "the masses" are "the masses" themselves, the 'useful idiots' that the movement depends on to do the heavy lifting, heavy hitting, and most of the bleeding. Those at the top - the strategic plotters such as Soros, Pelosi, the Rockefellers, et al, understand that it is ultimately nothing more than a return to a merciless, feudalistic caste system comprised of the royalty (political elites who will do absolutely anything to claw their way to the top of the social structure), the warrior class who enforces their will on the people, the merchant class who must obey the dictates of the elite if they want to stay in business, and the serfs who slave for their basic sustenance and are seldom allowed to move upward.

Apart from that relatively small portion of the US population who are trying to return us to sanity, most Americans may soon find themselves trying to keep up with the flurry of changes and challenges to our day-to-day existence. They may also find themselves lining up to buy large quantities of aspirin, antidepressants and antipsychotic drugs in an attempt to quell the headaches from trying to process it all, the manic depression that truth can bring, and the overpowering frustration of battling the urge to fight back against the myriad injustices, but with no real, effective means.

The culture (another term loosely used) is rapidly degrading into a self-absorbed sort of quasi-savagery, and the cost of basic goods such as cotton, food, fuel, electricity and other commodities is rising rapidly and may not level off before we reach Depression-era levels. And did I say the government is reaching for more and more control over our daily lives and activities, even to the point of requiring cellphone scramblers in our cars, grossly insulting and assaulting airline passengers, and threatening to shut down websites that don't pass the new regime's muster?

I'm sorry; am I bumming you out already? I don't know why, other than the constant stream of news we might expect from a nation in turmoil, a formerly free people desperately trying to throw off the shackles of despotism. Oh, wait; that's modern America.

But it really isn't just in America that this purpose-driven turmoil is happening.  For example, new estimates indicate that as much as 40% of the world's population face horrific levels of food price inflation. Keep in mind that hungry people aren't noted for patience or restraint.

No way to fight a war.  First it was a medal for not shooting the enemy in combat. Then (as of last May), we heard about troops being ordered to not load their weapons in a combat zone.  Now, Afghanistan's corrupt president Kharzai wants our troops to stop US military night missions, which are among the most effective ways to combat the insurgents without taking a lot of casualties.

You might laugh if you saw this inane sort of warfighting in a Saturday Night Live skit, or if they were blue-helmeted UN troops; but this is the sort of mission-meddling that costs the lives of US troops. Yeah, the same brand of troops that helped (just a little) save half the world from tyrants in two world wars. Apparently most of the world - and most Americans - have forgotten the important and tragic lessons learned only a little more than a half-century ago. Those lessons will have to be learned all over again: that slavery has not disappeared, that evil fills the vacuum left by the inattentive, that liberty has an extremely high cost. Unfortunately, when this juggernaut of evil overtakes the entire world, there will be no cavalry to come to the rescue, and there will be no safe refuge to flee to.

The president of the United States, amidst a string of stinging diplomatic failures, appears to be doing everything he can to weaken our military morale. I served in the Army during the early 1970s, and morale was pretty dismal because of Vietnam and the wafflehouse on Crapital Hill. The situation, as I see it, is about to get much worse.

Say "cheese," don't squeeze.  Mr. Obama, in his godlike self-image of wisdom, directed Homeland Security to install full-body scanners at major airports, at an estimated cost approaching $1 billion (incidentally, isn't is interesting to know that George Soros made millions on the deal before strategically dumping the stock). These graphic imagers caused a backlash among fliers, from regular passengers to aircrews themselves; but instead of looking for security methods that are proven to work, TSA instead chose to loose an army of wannabe Brown Shirts that have humiliated and molested innocent people regardless of age or gender. Is this merely another collossal blunder in judgment, or is it part of a grander plan to destroy America's economy by causing the collapse of the entire airline industry?

Strategy for failure

On Tuesday, speaking from West Point, the "Silver-tongued Devil" himself, Barack Obama, once again showed his talent for talking out of both sides of his mouth. He opened his speech by reiterating that our reason for the war was "19 men [who] hijacked four airplanes and used them to murder nearly 3,000 people." He never referred to them as terrorists; merely as "extremists who have distorted and defiled Islam, one of the worlds great religions." He equivocates for a few 'misguided Muslims' for mass murder, yet for nearly a year in his travels around the world he has been bowing and scraping before foreign world leaders, apologizing to everyone except the American people, and implicitly blaming the US for all the world's problems.

But the bloom is coming off the rose. All things considered, the world is not greatly impressed with him as either a president or a commander-in-chief. If anything, Obama has become a behind-the-scenes laughing-stock, at least to other world leaders.

As I watched the speech, I was more intent on the faces of the cadets. These are the young men and women who will be subject to the orders of the president. They and the soldiers in their charge will be the ones who suffer and die when grand strategies fail. I saw real concern as Obama told a worldwide audience what amounted to our plans for not fighting to win over the terrorist elements.

In the larger picture, the president pleased no one but the non-thinkers. Even megalomaniacial leftists like Chris Matthews, who called West Point "the enemy camp," criticized Obama. "The president said tonight that we're fighting in Afghanistan because al Qaeda is in Pakistan," he said. "Is that what this is all about? Is that why we're fighting and some are dying in Afghanistan?"

General McChrystal asked for 80,000 troops, but said he would make due with 40,00. What he got from the president was a commitment for only 30,000 troops; not enough to win against a guerilla force in a rugged country the size of Afghanistan; but just about enough to fight a war of attrition with an implacable foe that is willing to sacrifice innocent lives - or their own (except their leaders) - for nothing. On the other hand, our overly-sensitive rules of engagement put our troops at increased risk, giving the enemy an advantage over us.

As if to add injury to insult, Obama also told our enemies how long they need to stay low before we pull out - which is coincidentally around the same time as the next primary election (and is also when most of the remaining stimulus funds is expected to be handed out - yet another incredible coincidence, eh?). He even gave them our proposed operating budget for the war, which indicates the measure of our resolve and the limits of our will to (not) win.

Does anyone remember a little place called Vietnam? We have met the enemy, and he is our leader.

Global hype. Notwithstanding Al Gore's legacy of lies and his totally undeserved Oscar for Best Propaganda Piece and Nobel Prize for Global BS, and after years of embarrassments such as global warming conferences being held during blizzards and a population explosion among polar bears, the truth about this worldwide scam is finally leaking like an open porthole in the Titanic. The discovery that raw climate data was intentionally thrown away, and a number of e-mails in which global warming advocates write about concealing unfavorable evidence are exposing the bogus pseudo-science that is being pedalled as political necessity. Addtionally Gore himself has faced a rising tide of discontent during his most recent book tour, as critics brave his bodyguards to get answers to simple questions.

The scale of the swindle is mind-boggling when you consider it is being used as the framework to restructure the entire Western world and to transfer the bulk of what wealth we have left to those with an even greater propensity to squander it than our own congress. The swindlers will reap in huge profits, and America will continue its descent to third-world status.

Actually, the Earth has been in a cooling trend for nearly a decade. Nevertheless, an estimated 16,500 UN delegates, activists and reporters is set to descend upon Copenhagen this month for the UN Climate Conference 2009, leaving a cloud of CO2 emissions in their hypocritical wake. The primary intent of the summit is to formulate what amounts to a global tax on American productivity and life in general (because it would hike the cost of everything). God help us if Obama signs anything other than another expensive restaurant bill.

Fed up. You can tell it's bad when avowed socialist Bernie Sanders (I-VT) agrees with a number of Republicans in trying to hold up Ben Bernanke's reappointment as head of the Federal Reserve Board.

The Fed has the legal (cringe when you hear that word; not every law is moral or good) authority to literally create fiat (false) money out of thin air merely by adding numbers to a favored account.

Case in point: During the stimulus package giveaway, the Fed padded AIG's books, simply by adding zeros to their ledger. Keep in mind that although it is intimately entwined with the government, the Fed is not a government agency but a privately-owned financial conglomerate that has controlled the US economy since its inception in 1913. Now AIG is paying back the Fed with the profits from selling off two of its subsidiaries - to the Fed! Thus a huge fortune is made by investing in thin air, but the economy suffers because the dollar is devalued in the exchange, meaning that everything costs more. The top execs at the Fed are mostly mega-million and -billionaires. Meanwhile, businesses close down and millions of American citizens are out of work, with no real good news forthcoming.

If the truth be told, the Fed is, at its core, perhaps the greatest con game ever foisted upon a people. In 1913 the government granted it the authority to print money and set interest rates for selling that money to banks. Those interest rates affect our credit and debt. The ultra-rich get richer, and the rest of us go deeper in debt. But this isn't about class envy, it's about institutionalized dishonesty. The Fed - which has never been audited - should be abolished.

'Net threat. While our attention is focussed on healthcare, the war, and Tiger Woods' unexplainably stupid indiscretions, a bill has been silently wending its way through the US Senate. The Cybersecurity Act of 2009 (S. 773) threatens to give the government unprecedented power over internet communications; including the authority to shut it down upon a declared "emergency". It may come as no surprise that the bill was authored by that globalist extraordinaire, Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV).

Each new propsal to limit our freedom for the sake of "security" moves us closer to slavery. And yet, the majority of Americans are content to sit silently on the sidelines, as though nothing will interrupt their "lives of quiet desperation". Alas, Babylon.

Not the Top Dog?

An insightful article from the very good American Thinker website puts forth the hypothesis that Barack Obama may not be the 'Alpha Male' so many American voters thought he was. Greg Lewis posits that the world's perception of our president's nuanced passivity in regard to international relations is a sign of weakness at the highest level, which could in turn jeopardize our national security in profound ways by emboldening our enemies and alienating our allies.

From his reluctance to acknowledge our war on international, primarily-Islamic terror organizations, to his 'world apology tour', to his less-than-patriotic UN speech, to his seeming non-interest in fighting to win in Afghanistan, it appears that President Obama is displaying classic signs of being a 'beta male'.

Note of explanation: the 'alpha male' in a pack of dogs is the undisputed leader of the pack. The 'beta males' are the dogs that roll over, purposely exposing their weakest parts to the alpha in a gesture of submission to the alpha's authority. While 'betas' may growl at each other or at 'outsiders', they cower before the alpha.

In a world overwhelmingly run by dominant personalities (at least within their own spheres), I think that despite his posturing of superiority, the message Obama sends outside our own country through his reluctance to seriously challenge other leaders puts us at greater risk in the short and long run, especially in a world that is governed by the threat or use of intimidation and force.

No major in free speech. Another college - this time the Catholic-run St. Louis University - has chosen to withdraw from the battle for freedom of speech and its responsibility to actually educate by cancelling a speech by David Horowitz. Horowitz, a radical '60s leftist turned arch-conservative, was hired by the school's College Republicans to present a talk on "Islamo-Fascism Awareness and Civil Rights". Apparently, the school isn't interested in either the threat or our rights. School officials stated their concern that the talk might be interpreted as "attacking another faith." Duh!

OK; allow me to say what so many others are unwilling to say. Every religion (faith system) believes it has the right answers, and every true believer - whether they are Christian (of whatever denomination), Roman Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Communist, everyday Atheist or any other - is convinced his belief is the only true one. Anyone who believes there can be more than one Absolute truth is fooling himself.

While there are superficial similarities in some belief systems, the profound differences in all cause logic to present us with only two choices; either one is true, or none of them is true (and therefore the actual Truth remains unknown). This necessarily means that advocating the superiority of one's own faith system automatically puts it at odds with all others. We each must make the choice of which one to believe, or to believe none (which, in the case of religion, is itself a belief system based on an unsustainable paradox: since one cannot possibly know all things, to presume there is no God is to presume oneself to be an all-knowing god).

Various faiths can choose to interact peaceably, and even without rancor; but each must - at least within himself - be certain that all the other guys are wrong. Of course, human nature being what it is, in most cases individuals have a tendency to cherry-pick which parts of that faith they are willing to adhere to, and to conveniently disregard those parts that interfere with their personal desires. God must be so proud of us.

Pardon the digression: St. Louis University is either being hypocritical to cancel Horowitz' speech on the grounds of offending other faiths, or they are being supremely disingenuous about the validity of their own faith.

How dare they?! CNN recently did a piece criticizing Saturday Night Live's parody of President Obama's ineffectiveness, from a liberal point of view. Yea, I know, hard to believe. ( Of course, they were never that hard on the George Bushes.) But what was harder to swallow was that the CNN report actually went to a fact-checking website to defend Obama, in order to push what they think he's accomplished. That effort fell flat, however; for example, they tried to portray Obama as strong in Afghanistan, even though (as noted above) he's wasted weeks without giving his own pick for theater commander - General McChrystal - the manpower and other resources he's requested, forcing the general to do the militarily unthinkable - going public. It isn't bad enough that Obama seems intent on losing the war, as it is that for every day he procrastinates or outright refuses to beef up our forces, Americans are dying and being terribly wounded for nothing. Mr. President, get off the pot (take that however you wish); bring the troops home or fight all-out to defeat the enemy.

To an unsuspecting audience that swallows the Kool-Aid unflinchingly, it probably appeared as though SNL was trashing Obama - with an uncharacteristically lame portrayal by Fred Armison - for the same reasons conservatives might. But actually, many liberals such as the SNL crew are PO'd because they think Obama hasn't pushed the liberal agenda far enough, especially given the Democrat Party's current on congress and another potential voice on the Supreme Court. Either way, it looks like the honeymoon may finally be over for The Man Who Would Be King. We can only hope - for change.