Hagel and Brennan; the choice of Obama

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The American Action Forum; Obama’s Controversial Defense Choice  "Under different circumstances, Hagel might have sailed to confirmation.  A decorated Vietnam veteran with decades of foreign policy experience, Hagel carries an impressive résumé.  Politically, he should have been able to count on support not just from Team Obama, but also from his fellow Republicans.  And being a former Senator should have made him a shoe-in, since the Senate tends to support its alumni regardless of party.  Hillary Clinton was confirmed on a 94-2 vote, and John Kerry appears likely to face little opposition to replace her.
"Instead, President Obama’s choice of Hagel sets up perhaps the most contested cabinet fight of Obama’s second term."

Jonah Goldberg; Hagel: A Petty Pick  "The coming nomination fight will undoubtedly focus on the strength of the case against Hagel. But the real indictment of Obama’s pick is the weakness of the case for Hagel — and the pettiness of the pick in the first place."

How about this?...."
Legal Insurrection; The problem is not Chuck Hagel in isolation, it’s what the nomination of Hagel says about where Obama wants our defense and foreign policy to go.
"But what I’m finding out is deeply troubling — including David Brooks’ excellent post highlighted in my post Hagel the perfect foil to manage military’s decline over Republican objections.
"Hagel seems like the perfect smash-mouth Obama nominee, someone who, like his possibly future boss, is more interested in smashing Republicans and dividing the opposition than strengthening our international standing."  (Emphasis mine, TD)

CIA Nominee Brennan Dismisses Radical Islam, Calls [Jerusalem] Al-Quds, Whitewashes Hizballah "... John Brennan, who is currently President Obama’s chief security adviser for counter-terrorism, has been a leading figure in the failure of the Obama Administration to name the enemy – radical Islam – waging war on the U.S.; has called Jerusalem by its Arabic name, Al-Quds, has whitewashed the Lebanese terrorist group, Hizballah; and been implicated in serious intelligence failures:" Read more...

Is there a White House pattern here? Egyptian Report: Muslim Brotherhood Members In White House Administration

Counter-Terrorism Chief John Brennan calls Jerusalem “Al-Quds”  "During a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, John Brennan described violent extremists as victims of “political, economic and social forces,” but said that those plotting attacks on the United States should not be described in “religious terms.” "

CIA Nominee John Brennan Has Touted Hezbollah’s ‘Moderate Elements’ " After a visit to Lebanon the following April, Brennan raised eyebrows when he was quoted as speaking about Hezbollah having “moderate elements” which the U.S. should try to “build up.” "
...."then-deputy secretary of state Richard Armitage suggested that Hezbollah could be regarded as a more dangerous threat than Osama bin Laden’s network, telling a U.S. Institute of Peace function, “Hezbollah may be the A-team of terrorists and maybe al-Qaeda is actually the B-team.” "

Obama voters already arriving for inauguration

Lucianne

Obama mulls issuing executive orders on gun control

Rick Moran at American Thinker  Quoting from The Hill:

It should be noted that there is a near zero chance that the president will issue an executive order grabbing any guns. It is more likely that Obama will tighten reporting requirements for state agencies who report mentally ill people to the government, or perhaps hit gun shows with new requirements that will make it more difficult for sellers to do business. But there's no sense going overboard with hysterical warnings about Obama taking guns. Not going to happen and it only makes the president's critics look crazy.

  "Of far more importance than any executive order Obama might issue is the obvious administration strategy of turning this into an emotional debate so that people won't think logically of the consequences. To do this, they will invoke Newtown every chance they get. They know they will lose a debate on the merits and facts. But they have a chance if they exploit the Newtown dead and scare people into pressuring congress to adopt bad legislation." "Never let a crisis go to waste" - even if you have to create one by standing on the dead bodies of little children."

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Pravda Op-Ed To US: Never Give Up Your Guns. Wait...what? Pravda?
"In fact, under the Soviet Union crime was rampant. But the Communist governments lied about it, and suppressed the statistics. A practice some claim is still continuing under Putin."

While President Putin pushes through reforms, the local authorities, especially in our vast hinterland, do not feel they need to act like they work for the people. They do as they please, a tyrannical class who knows they have absolutely nothing to fear from a relatively unarmed population. This in turn breeds not respect but absolute contempt and often enough, criminal abuse.

Emphasis in the original.

Coulter: Doing the research the New York Times won’t do

Ann Coulter;  "There is an academic, peer-reviewed, long-term study of the effect of various public policies on public, multiple shootings in all 50 states over a 20-year period performed by renowned economists at the University of Chicago and Yale, William Landes and John Lott. It concluded that the only policy to reduce the incidence of, and casualties from, mass shootings are concealed-carry laws. The Times will never mention this study."
...."Here’s a tip: High-crime areas are often bristling with bulletproof glass, heavy-duty locks, gated windows and armed guards. The bulletproof glass doesn’t cause the crime; it’s a response to crime. On Rosenthal’s logic, hospitals kill people because more people die in hospitals than outside of them."
"(In any event, the Lott-Landes study didn’t recommend armed guards, but armed citizens.)
....
Coulter finishes with this:

...Bad Journalism kills.

 

Chew on this, libs: Man Shoots Robbery Suspect, Protects 2-Month-Old Son

Chew on this, gun owners: Five Gun Grabbing Democratic Party Bills

By the way, did you hear this? Obamacare Amendment Forbids Gun and Ammo Registration
"It seems that in their haste to cram socialized medicine down the throats of the American people, then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Barack Obama overlooked Senate amendment 3276, Sec. 2716, part c.
"According to reports, that amendment says the government cannot use doctors to collect "any information relating to the lawful ownership or possession of a firearm or ammunition."
CNN is calling it "a gift to the nation's powerful gun lobby.""

By the way, do you notice that, in leftspeak, "gun owners" is not used? For the liberals the term "gun lobby" is more effective for their purposes. Just as they find the term "millionaires and billionaires" is better than "small business owners". TD

What planet is this guy from?

Well, this cartoon is about what you get in the LA Times. My theory is that this cartoonist goes to social gatherings where there are celebrities and introduces himself as the artist who drew this cartoon. Just think of the attaboys and schmoozing he would get; Tom Hanks telling him that this cartoon is over his desk at the office would bring him to orgasm, wouldn't you say?

There is no courage needed to be an outspoken liberal in Hollywood.

http://www.usnews.com/cartoons/barack-obama-cartoons

More of this cartoonist's sycophancy here. 

 

Well, the Peace and Freedom Party likes the similarities between Obama and socialists

"I believe that Obama would like to see an end to racism, sexism and homophobia. While many people find fault at the slow pace that Obama is addressing these issues, socialists would agree with these aims. But so would Greens, most Democrats and some libertarians (did I forget anyone?). So, being an open-minded individual who supports civil rights does not necessarily label one a socialist. In fact, most socialists would argue that our economic system, capitalism, requires inequality to survive, and so we cannot finally end these blights within the current framework – not that we shouldn’t still try."

 

The Communist Party's publication loves Obama's reelection  
Obama Wins!
                 Labor wins!
Americans reject policies of greed and union busting!

By Scott Marshall

President-elect Barack Obama.

Those words ring with meaning. For organized labor they ring with pride, hope, and energy for the struggles ahead. No one feels like labors candidate won, so now we can go home and rest. Rather, as congratulation messages pour in from all parts of the labor movement, the critical subtext is, we are ready and eager to march with you for change. At the top of labors change agenda is boots-on-the-ground support for the Obama agenda of a new New Deal for economic recovery and passage of the Employee Free Choice Act.
 ....
The labor movement took independent political action to spectacular new levels. Unions broke all previous records in mobilizing its rank and file for labor walks, phone banks, plant gate distributions, and member to member contact in the workplace. Labor continued to build and develop its own political apparatus and voice. Hundreds, if not thousands, of union halls became campaign central for the Obama campaign as well as for targeted Congressional contests.

Obama says we ain't got no stinkin' spending problem

Wall Street Journal; The Education of John Boehner  "Mr. Boehner confirms that at one critical juncture he asked Mr. Obama, after conceding on $800 billion in new taxes, "What am I getting?" and the president replied: "You don't get anything for it. I'm taking that anyway.""
...."Mr. Boehner says that the only way to build long-term economic growth is to reduce the nation's debt through entitlement and tax reform. But can such a deal be achieved with a president who doesn't even think that Washington has a spending problem? "He believes in the power of government," Mr. Boehner answers. "I believe in the power of the American people. It is really that simple." And really that difficult."

Nile Gardiner; 128 million Americans are now on government programmes. Can America survive as the world’s superpower?   "Ironically, Britain, through the tremendous determination of Iain Duncan Smith and his team at the Department of Work and Pensions, is starting to roll back the welfare state, precisely at the same time the current US administration is expanding it.
The United States isn’t just gliding towards a continental European-style future of vast welfare systems, economic decline, and massive debts – it is accelerating towards it at full speed."

Heritage agrees: U.S. Government Increases National Debt—and Keeps 128 Million People on Government Programs

Wow!… Barack Obama Tells John Boehner “We Don’t Have a Spending Problem”

"For years we’ve been trying to decide, “Is Obama stupid or is he purposely trying to destroy the US economy?”
"Now we know the answer. He’s stupid as a can of Spam.
"Thank you, America, for reelecting this destructive bonehead.
"Barack Obama told John Boehner, “We don’t have a spending problem.” "

Krauthammer: 'Not a Scintilla of Evidence' Obama Will Reform Entitlements (Video)
 

How liberals control the debate: "prog-talk"

Propaganda Critic

Conservatives talk about "getting our message out" and having communicators who are able to do it. But I'm just plain pessimistic about it because how would we stand a chance no matter what sound logical argument is used? The left controls academia, movies, even school curricula. And all these sources use the "prog-talk" mentioned here:  

Neal Boortz: A New Term In Prog-Talk!  "It’s been a while since we have updated our list of prog-talk terms.  What is “prog-talk”?  That is the language that progressives and liberals like to use in order to say bad things but in a way that doesn’t sound as bad to the dumbmasses … actually that should be dumb masses … or the ignoramuses.  Let’s review our list real fast before we get to our latest entry, shall we?"

• “Undocumented workers” became the politically acceptable term so as to not offend “illegal immigrants” or “illegal aliens”

• “Revenues” are a fancy way of saying “taxes” in prog-talk

• “Revenue positive” is how liberals like to say “tax increases” without using the forbidden “t-word” (taxes)

• “Letting the Bush tax cuts expire” was, for a long while, the way to say “increase taxes on the rich!”

• “Investing” is the word that proggies use to describe “government spending”

• “Earmarks” and “pork-barrel spending” were replaced by the politically correct “congressionally directed spending”

• “Stimulus” became a dirty word after the $800 billion flop of 2009, so proggies managed to use the word “job creation” instead .. still puzzled as to how the two are related.

"The latest proggie term has been coined by proggie princess herself Nancy Pelosi, the hallow-eye hippie from Haight-Ashbury.  In the discussion over gun control, apparently Princess Pelosi would prefer to do away with the term “gun control” and replace it with “gun violence prevention.”
"This is how the proggies will get what they want out of this fight .. they will change the language so as to make anyone challenging them out to be for gun violence and against preventing gun violence.  Isn’t that clever?"  

The New Liberal Aristocracy; Modern elitists are past masters at preaching one thing and practicing another.

Victor Davis Hanson   "Class warrior Barack Obama spent his winter break in a ritzy rental on a Hawaiian beach. It cost the taxpayers $7 (or is it $20?) million to jet him and his entourage 6,000 miles for their tropical vacation. But whether the first family escapes to Hawaii or Martha’s Vineyard or Costa del Sol, the image of a 1 percent lifestyle seems a bit at odds with the president’s professed disdain for “millionaires and billionaires,” “fat cats,” and “corporate-jet owners” who supposedly can afford such tony retreats only because they have done something suspect."
...."Senator John Kerry, who will soon become secretary of state, is a tireless advocate of higher taxes while enjoying his multimillionaire wife’s multiple estates."
...."What explains the hypocrisy of the new liberal aristocracy?"
"....But penance plays a role as well. For the overpaid and pampered Hollywood movie star, calling for raising taxes, banning guns, ending global warming, and legalizing gay marriage means never having to feel too bad about living on the beach and making, under our capitalist system, more money in a month than do many Americans in a lifetime." (Emphasis added)

Uh-oh. Looks like I'm in trouble for the previous post! Article calls Obama ‘aloof’; Libs scramble to put aloof in Handbook of Racial Code Words. Well, one lib anyway. But after this remark gets forwarded around more, we'll see if Chris Matthews rants about it. Here's the tweet:                       

@NPRinskeep @ron_fournier really? Not republican intransigence and ideological rigidity but President Obama is aloof? Code for uppity?

And here is the article being tweeted about by the low-information tweeter. Read the article yourself and show me one sentence that can be construed in any way to be racial:

The Perils of Being Aloof; Willingness to Schmooze Can Make the Difference Between a Good and Great Presidency.
"At the start of his second term, one wonders less about Obama's fitness than his willingness: Why doesn't he do more to build and maintain the relationships required to govern in era of polarization?"
Did you read it? Go ahead, I'll wait here for you. After all, we don't want you to be another of the low-information people, do we?
Picture at right from Obama cartoons

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Lessons In Government School Indoctrination

Neal Boortz

"The problem is HOW this government school document teaches the lesson.  The headline at the top of the document reads “Distribute the Wealth.”  And there you have the picture of the pretty little girl with the cute little pony tail.  She’s holding a bag of money in one hand, and giving away some of that money with the other.  Yes!  She’s distributing her wealth!  But if you study the picture you’ll see there’s an even more subtle message.  She’s not handing money away from her wallet or her purse.  No!  That wouldn’t get the real message across!  Why pretty much every little girl has a wallet or a purse.  No .. this little sweetheart has a BAG of money!  Not every little girl has BAGS of money … so this girl must be really RICH!  And since she’s rich her money needs to be redistributed!  So she’s being a good little rich girl  and she’s smiling as she hands her money away."

Well, wouldn't the most accurate picture be that she is smiling while some adult is reaching into her bag to take money out?

The English role in the American Civil War

When Liverpool was Dixie; An English history, an American War
 "April of 1861, Stephen Mallory, Secretary of the Confederate Navy, met with James Dunwoody Bulloch, a private citizen, in Montgomery, AL.
"Bulloch was inducted into the Confederate Navy, with the rank of Lieutenant, and given orders to travel to Liverpool, England, there to build and equip, ships of war for the Confederate Navy. What followed is one of the most remarkable stories of the conflict, a story that continued, long after the conflict itself had finished.

"The story of the South`s hidden hero Commander James Dunwoody Bulloch."  Via The 290 Foundation on Facebook
The ships,,foremost of them all being the British-built Alabama.  Read her fascinating story:  "Originally designated the 290 (she was the 290th vessel to be built in the Lairds yard). She was launched as the Enrica, and was once referred to as the Barcelona upon her arrival in the Azores. Being commissioned into the Confederate States Navy in August 1862 as the CSS Alabama."

Hence the name of the 290 Foundation, our source for this information.

Alabama's upper and lower deck plans

Lower deck construction blueprint
Elevation drawing of Alabama Notice the storage for "Spirits","Bread' and "Shells" all together.

Alabama and Kearsarge; a comparative review
 

Hear Alabama's story in song by Kimber's Men. There are more polished versions of this, but I particularly loved KM's harmonies even though they were just jammin' here.

USS Kearsarge vs. CSS Alabama; the final battle

Report of Captain Winslow, U.S. Navy, commanding U.S.S. Kearsarge.

 

U. S. S. KEARSARGE, Cherbourg, France, June 19, 1864

SIR:   I have the honor to inform the Department that the day subsequent to the arrival of the Kearsarge off this port, on the 14th instant, I received a note from Captain Semmes, begging that the Kearsarge would not depart, as he intended to fight her and would not delay her but a day or two.

According to this notice, the Alabama left the port of Cherbourg this morning at about 9:30 o'clock.

At 10:20 a. m. we discovered her steering toward us. Fearing the question of jurisdiction might arise, we steamed to sea until a distance of 6 or 7 miles was attained from the Cherbourg breakwater, when we rounded to and commenced steaming for the Alabama. As we approached her within about 1,200 yards she opened fire, we receiving two or three broadsides before a shot was returned. The action continued, the respective steamers making a circle round and round at a distance of about 900 yards from each other. At the expiration of an hour the Alabama struck, going down in about 20 minutes afterwards, and carrying many persons with her.

It affords me great gratification to announce to the Department that every officer and man did his duty, exhibiting a degree of coolness and fortitude which gave promise at the outset of certain victory.

I have the honor to be, most respectfully, your obedient servant,     

JNO. A. WINSLOW,                     Captain,

Hon. GIDEON WELLES,

Mentioned in this account is the city of Birkenhead. This is the account of the sinking of the HMS Birkenhead and the origin of the phrase, "The Birkenhead Drill" and "Women and children first"...
The account includes this quote from Somerset Maugham:

 "I much prefer travelling in non-British ships. There's none of that nonsense about women and children first."

Trend in conservative protests — supporting retailers under attack

Legal Insurrection  "It seems my first prediction of the year came true:  There won’t be any massive “Tea Party” rallies. Instead… more impromptu displays celebrating American principles and liberties will occur.
"Over 60,000 people signed up to shop at Hobby Lobby Saturday in a show of support for the company’s freedom of religion. The firm sells arts and crafts supplies and is owned by evangelical David Green. The company filed a lawsuit against the Health and Human Services contraceptive mandate that requires it to cover contraception, sterilization and abortifacients in their employees’ health care.
" "It was another successful buycott organized by average Americans upset with the over-reach of the government, just as Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day was last year.  For example, News 5/KOAA in Colorado Springs reports that hundreds of area residents showed up and added a little something extra to their support:"

Tens of Thousands Flock to Hobby Lobby on National Appreciation Day

Standing With Hobby Lobby on Facebook

"PROTEST BONUS! There is a petition on the White House website to officially recognize the Roman Catholic Church as a hate group. Happily, they seem rather shy of the 25,000 signatures requested. My purchase seems like a good way to protest that, too."...See below:
We The People has this petition going: We petition the Obama Administration to: Officially recognize the Roman Catholic Church as a hate group.   ...."Pope Benedict said that gay people starting families are threatening to society, and that gay parents objectify and take away the dignity of children. The Pope also implied that gay families are sub-human, as they are not dignified in the eyes of God.
Upon these remarks, the Roman Catholic Church fits the definition of a hate group as defined by both the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League." ...."Signatures needed by January 24, 2013 to reach goal of 25,000: 22,625" "Total signatures on this petition: 2,375"
But this cartoon shows us how any of us who take a stand for Christian principles will be depicted:

http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2013/jan/05/hobby-lobby-cartoon-clay-bennett-chattanooga-times/

It does not matter that a company carries healthcare for its employees; if they do not provide birth control they will be accused of not doing so and be given the" tolerant liberal treatment".  

Why Is The Left In America So Filled With HATE?

The Freedom Fighter's Journal: A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet
"They have no respect for anyone other than themselves.  Common decency in addressing another human being who may hold a differing opinion is avoided like the plague.

"Their use of the vilest of profane language in the pubic square is their trademark.  Having a conversation with them is akin to walking barefoot through a livestock pen — in the dark.

"They are the bully in every conversation or discussion.  Their use of vocal force to dominate a debate, especially when they are losing to common sense, only demonstrates the shallowness of their own knowledge stream ...."

...."The rancid attitude of the left has poisoned the American political process and has infected the American citizenry so deeply that a total breakup of the country would not be unexpected."

 Want some good examples? How about this one on then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice by Danziger? We printed another of her by the virulently anti-Republican 'toonist Oliphant recently. 

 

Here is liberal treatment of conservative economist Thomas Sowell that MSNBC people are free to comment upon at any time they feel like doing so:

 Emerge Magazine