The Egyptian Uprising: Messages to the America People

Egyptian Uprising: Messages to America  

The Egyptian Uprising had the largest attendance of any event in human history. Throughout the crowd, there were clear messages to Americans.

The Lone Ranger just ain't what he used to be. (Updated)

Have you noticed who the latest villains are in the TV dramas lately? Not gangs, certainly not Islamic terrorists, not foreign spies; the evil people are those we work for, buy from and who have enriched our lives and economy. Walk around your home, or drive around your town and see the luxuries and needs that these abhorred bandits provide. They are the soft targets that nobody loves, but we cannot do without.
Now the Lone Ranger - from whom we boys of another generation learned honor, integrity, tolerance and fair play - is the latest with the identical list of  enemies; Hollywood's enemies that includes the TEA Party, conservatives, Christians, oil companies, capitalists, and pretty much everything that involves Caucasian non-Muslims.

Why do we have to pay big bucks for a movie or plan on an evening of television to be brow-beaten and indoctrinated by the shows we watch?
By wealthy Hollywood liberals no less?

The Johny Depp Lone Ranger movie, at least based on early box office results, is shaping up to be quite the bomb.
"What makes the Lone Ranger finally embrace the need for his mask, and hence the whole “secret identity” thing? In a nutshell, he realizes his fellow

white men are corrupt, and complicit in the mass murder of Tonto’s fellow Native Americans. If he takes the mask off, then he too will wind up becoming complicit. Yes, that’s right — in this film, the Lone Ranger’s mask is made of White Guilt. "And in fact, the only function the Native Americans in this film have, other than Tonto, is to die horribly so that the Lone Ranger will have a catalyst to make him Man Up."

And is it a spoiler to say that one of the film's heavies is a capitalist?

Tonto calls the Lone Ranger a "weak, pale-faced wet-brain".

Even the LA Times didn't like the show, but the PC didn't seem to register on their radar.  "...."The Lone Ranger" exists without a convincing sense of jeopardy or, more critically, any place for audiences to emotionally connect. That TV show may have been modesty itself in terms of production values, but we cared about its heroes in a way we do not here."

Crosswalk calls the movie a Wild, Wild Mess   "The final 30 minutes of The Lone Ranger....are nothing short of spectacular. Clever, well-paced and thoroughly exciting (the William Tell Overture provides the perfect musical backdrop, naturally), this last half-hour is exactly what one wants a summer movie to be.
"Trouble is, the audience has to sit through nearly two hours of utter tedium to get there...." 

When liberals elect a US world leader, what can possibly go wrong? Well, a whole reading list for starters.

Obama's Impotent Middle East Policy  "A self-interview by Barry Rubin and Barry Rubin"
" First, I want to apologize that I have often used intemperate language to describe U.S. policy and the people making it in the last 4.5 years. Perhaps I have put off some of you who would otherwise have been persuaded that something is very wrong. Therefore, I have tried to do another version of this approach. Remember, I'm not responsible for the way the questions are phrased here."  Hat tip to Jeffrey Dunetz

France Shows Its Lack of Class At U.S. Embassy 4th of July Party   "Real Classy! If Mr. Valls wanted to make a statement about the American spying program he should have stayed and told his hosts he didn't feel he could show up based on the revelation, that would have been the honorable thing to do."
Now go away or I will taunt you a second time! 

Who Lost the Middle East?  Both of these developments were reported last evening: Al Arabiya published the article “Saudi king congratulates Egypt’s new interim president”; Time magazine reported that ”Obama expresses ‘concern’ over Morsi ouster, orders review in military aid to Egypt.”

Obama Chides Egypt to Quickly Elect Government, Respect Muslim Brotherhood  "The resulting statement tried to be equally critical of each side, reflecting the administration’s continuing refusal to take a stand while the Egyptian protesters decried the U.S. president for propping up the Muslim Brotherhood regime."

 A small, irrelevant America   "From the perspective of Obama, however, our reduction to smallness and irrelevance represents a great success."

Caroline Glick; Israelis watched in shock and horror as their American friends followed the Pied Piper of the phony Arab Spring over the policy cliff

Where’s America?  ...." America might act to shape the course of events; it could, at this moment where the outcome is up for grabs, perhaps have a decisive effect."
 
Egypt: Little U.S. influence, few good choices    "Unfortunately, it is hard to have much confidence in the Obama team to figure it all out. Obama went way too far in bolstering Morsi and not making aid contingent on improved political and economic conditions. So now we see an emboldened Morsi, an aggrieved populace, an economy near collapse and secular opposition leaders who mistrust the U.S. government. We are, as has been the case for so much of the Obama administration, a bystander."

Neat NSA cartoon

I just can't get too worked up about the government keeping track of postal addresses and phone calls that they are not listening to. For years-and you have seen this referred to in police dramas- checking telephone "LUDS" helps in police work ( though it has become less controlled than it once was).
This is the reason you see few cartoons and articles on the subject in the Tunnel Wall. However a relative posted this on his Facebook page and I thought it too funny not to use:

Having said all that, phone tracking can be a dangerous weapon in the hands of those who advocate a strong central government and who have no qualms about using it to stay in power.
Obama and Democrats have demonstrated that they are sophisticated in the use of electronic means to win elections; we have certainly seen how powerful government agencies such as the IRS will be used against Obama's political enemies and that his supporters are his willing, compliant enablers..
Hat tip to Don Standlee Jr., Arlington, TX 

Satire that is too close to the real truth: Obama to College Students: Do Not Celebrate Fourth of July

The Liberty Paper  Satire, yes, but close to what he told Joe the Plumber.

America is a great country. There is no denying this. However, I caution you all as you step forward in your careers. Peer back into history and ask yourselves- Was a revolution truly necessary? Great Britain may not have had it completely right, but they had many things right. Take taxes for example. If your neighbor makes $1 Million a year, but you and your family can barely keep the heat on should he not help your family? God instructs us to help our neighbors. He does not instruct us to look down upon them though the windows of capitalism. Why then on the Fourth of July should you celebrate such a radical break from what is Godly and just? No doubt there are many voices warning you of the harm of big government. They are wrong. Government can provide you with what family and friends cannot. If this is gone what will you have?” 

 Hat tip to Rich Cutter Avallone 

Krauthammer: Obama’s Global-Warming Folly; No, Mr. President, we don’t need a war on coal.

 

Charles Krauthammer   "The economy stagnates. Syria burns. Scandals lap at his feet. China and Russia mock him, even as a “29-year-old hacker” revealed his nation’s spy secrets to the world. How does President Obama respond? With a grandiloquent speech on climate change.

 

"Climate change? It lies at the very bottom of a list of Americans’ concerns (last of 21 — Pew poll). Which means that Obama’s declaration of unilateral American war on global warming, whatever the cost — and it will be heavy — is either highly visionary or hopelessly solipsistic. You decide:"

....there is no point in America’s committing economic suicide to no effect on climate change, the reversing of which, after all, is the alleged point of the exercise.

Unemployment Stays at 7.6% Under-Employment JUMPS By Half/Percentage Point   "There is a long way to an economic recovery and look for the unemployment rate to rise in September when some of these summer jobs go away."