The Unintended Consequences of Liberal Social Engineering

Wall Street Journal subscriber article; Washington's 'Fair Housing' Assault on Local Zoning  "Our experience in Westchester shows what the country can expect from a new federal discrimination rule."

 

Thomas Sowell on Unintended Consequences   "Quite aside from the question of whose values and habits may be better is the question of the effects of people living cheek by jowl with other people who put very different values on noise, politeness, education and other things that make for good or bad relations between neighbors. People with children to protect are especially concerned about who lives next door or down the street.

"But such mundane matters often get brushed aside by ideological crusaders out to change the world to fit their own vision."

Rush Limbaugh  "...Okay, let's fast forward to today.  Social engineering is on the verge of being imposed on entire neighborhoods, adults and children alike.  I want to read a little paragraph here from a document about the Department of Housing and Urban Development, HUD.  "The agency wants the power to dismantle local zoning so communities have what it considers the right mix of economic, racial and ethnic diversity. A finding of discriminatory behavior, or allegations of discrimination, would no longer be necessary.

".... HUD wants to be able to force people to move into certain neighborhoods so that there is racial, economic, and ethnic diversity in the neighborhood, not just bus kids to schools.  This is that times 10.  What this is, is nationalizing neighborhoods."

Obama's Plan to Eliminate Suburbs

The fruits of epic incompetence

Charles Krauthammer  "Take at face value Obama’s claim of authorship. Then why isn’t he taking ownership? Why isn’t he calling it the “U.S. proposal” and defining it? Why not issue a U.S. plan containing the precise demands, detailed timeline and threat of action should these conditions fail to be met?"
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"On Thursday, Assad repeated that demand, warning that without an American pledge not to attack and not to arm the rebels, his government would agree to nothing.
"This would abolish the very possibility of America tilting the order of battle in a Syrian war that Assad is now winning thanks to Russian arms, Iranian advisers and Lebanese Hezbollah shock troops. Putin thus assures the survival of his Syrian client and the continued ascendancy of the anti-Western Iranian bloc.

"And what does America get? Obama saves face."

Don't complain about Vladimir Putin's gloating. Our craven behaviour has left him in charge   "Because while Barack Obama's handling of the Syrian crisis has been startlingly inept, the fact is that Congress, by making clear it would not support him and cutting the President's legs off when he asked for backing, has created a world in which Vladimir Putin gets to run the show."

National Review Commentaries on Obama and Syria

In reading these columns by the esteemed people at National Review Online, we are struck by the common thread that this president and his counselors are, to a person, unqualified to run our nation's affairs.
While this material is a condemnation of the Obama administration's amateurism, it highlights the silliness of the American electorate. That and of the cultural rot that led to our selecting this petulant juvenile celebrity as our trophy president. TD

John Podhoretz; Feckless Obama embarrasses the nation
“ 'Thanks to Pres. Obama’s strength,” tweeted House Democratic honcho Nancy Pelosi, “we have a Russian proposal.” The Washington Post’s Ezra Klein tweeted, “Kind of amazed I’m saying this, but the White House may really be about to win on Syria.”
"Ah, yes, winning. Which is to say, being humiliated, acting weak, behaving in vacillatory fashion, making a mockery of your office, destroying your country’s credibility, making your own words look desperately foolish, and ceding foreign policy to the Machiavellian machinations of a gangster regime in Moscow."

 NRO Editors; Amateur Hour
...."This deal is the immediate, concrete expression of that loss, with Putin elevated, Assad more secure, and Obama humiliated."
...."American power is a fearsome thing. But the American presidency at the moment, occupied by a rank amateur, is not."

Victor Davis Hanson; Obama’s Farce
"No one currently in charge of U.S. foreign policy has any record of foreign-policy success. Those who might have offered wise counsel either are dead, have left the administration, or do not exercise authority — Crocker, Eikenberry, Gates, Holbrooke, Mattis, Petraeus."

Daniel Pipes; Forget Syria, Target Iran
"In this light, I recommend that Congress reject the sideshow proffered by the administration and instead pass a resolution endorsing and encouraging force against the Iranian nuclear infrastructure."

Rich Lowry; Unbelievably Small and Incredibly Unpersuasive
"If he’s not already, the president may soon wonder why, with the Syria vote, he built a pyre, threw his presidency on it, and asked Congress to decide whether to light a match. Considering the gravity of the possible defeat before him, any escape hatch can look attractive, even one provided by his secretary of state’s careless words."

 

Ex-Mossad chief: U.S. 'floundering' over Syria

"Russia’s proposal makes Assad’s ouster less likely, to Israel’s detriment, says Shabtai Shavit; attacks like 9/11 won’t recur, thanks to Western vigilance."
Times of Israel

"Shabtai Shavit, ... accused the administration of President Barack Obama of “floundering” over Syria. He noted witheringly that the US had “balked” at firing “half a dozen Tomahawk missiles” at the Syrian regime in the wake of the August 21 alleged chemical weapons attack by Assad, that the US says killed 1,429 Syrians.

        

"Replacing the Assad regime was a clear Israeli interest, he said, as it would significantly weaken Hezbollah, leaving Israel to confront Iran without its regional proxy."

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Echoing comments by Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Chairman Avigdor Liberman on Tuesday and by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, Shavit said that Israel will likely have to face the Iranian threat on its own.

"God is using Israel today as a measuring rod of the nations of the world; to judge the nations whether they will support or reject tiny Israel!  The prophet Joshua put it succinctly that God alone will fight for Israel:"  Joshua 23:9,10.
From Israel’s Role in the Endtimes

National September 11 Memorial & Museum

911memorial.org/

Museum 
   THE WORLD TRADE CENTER

 

   9/11: Events of the Day   

 ..."Marisa had already arrived to work at World Trade Center 1 when the plane hit the building and did not survive the attack.  A year later, Marisa’s heavily damaged and charred pocketbook was returned to her family."

More at the site. 

 

I also refer you to this TW post from one year ago: 9-11 Reading list

 

Esquire; The Falling Man   "Do you remember this photograph? In the United States, people have taken pains to banish it from the record of September 11, 2001. The story behind it, though, and the search for the man pictured in it, are our most intimate connection to the horror of that day."

Muslims Against Crusades Celebrating September 11, 2001

Obama's Syria address to the nation flops

Thomas Lifson  It was all too obvious last night that the only reason President Obama gave his speech to the nation was that it would have been too embarrassing to cancel it. The result was inconsistent and unsatisfying at any level. (Transcript here) 
"Obama commandeered the nation's airwaves to call for a "diplomatic pause" in a Congressional vote he requested to affirm a military threat to enforce a red line he doesn't take responsibility for."
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"Faced with opponents uncowed by his race and beyond the reach of his media claque, Obama is discrediting liberalism and the Democrats. This may be a good lesson for the country -- if only the ship of state does not founder on the shoals as amateurs run its foreign policy."

Can you tell me this is not the creation of Jimmy Carter?

http://terrellaftermath.com/

 

Syrial Losers/ Getting Syrious

Ann Coulter   "Americans unsure what to think about President Obama's plans for Syria should remember that all military action undertaken by Democrats for the last half-century has led to utter disaster....."

"Democrats are gung-ho about deploying the U.S. military provided only that it will harm the national security interests of the United States, but vehemently oppose interventions that serve American interests."

 

...."By giving Islamic fanatics their first nation-state, Carter produced the global Islamofacist movement we're still dealing with today."....

...."The Iraq War turned every Middle Eastern despot into President Bush's bitch. But now Obama is their bitch.

"I know you liberals care more about free birth control than geopolitics, but if you keep electing Democrats, you'll be getting fitted for burqas, not IUDs."   (Emphasis added)

This next writer has had enough with this nation's political leadership and wants to see them out of this government.
Getting Syrious  "And it should be even more painfully obvious that, behind his putative "leadership," our manic lurching to and fro among all manner of unsavory social minefields and dangerous political and international adventurisms will never stop as long as he is on the scene." 
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The right course is to demand that the Congress snare this unhappy raptor, and impeach, convict, and remove him from his stupendously powerful official perch before he gets even crankier.  There is no shortage of outrages which more than justify this "unbelievably small" gesture of self-defense. 

Tunnel Dweller off line till Wednesday evening

We'll be watching for 9-11 stories that crop up, so please do check in. TD

Peggy Noonan: We've never had a speech like this!

WSJ  "A serious foreign-policy intellectual said recently that Putin’s problem is that he’s a Russian leader in search of a Nixon, a U.S. president he can really negotiate with, a stone player who can talk grand strategy and the needs of his nation, someone with whom he can thrash it through and work it out. Instead he has Obama, a self-besotted charismatic who can’t tell the difference between showbiz and strategy, and who enjoys unburdening himself of moral insights to his peers. "
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"All this, if it is roughly correct, is going to make the president’s speech tonight quite remarkable. It will be a White House address in which a president argues for an endeavor he is abandoning. It will be a president appealing for public support for an action he intends not to take.

"We’ve never had a presidential speech like that!"

...."Then get ready for the spin job of all spin jobs. It’s already begun: the White House is beginning to repeat that a diplomatic solution only came because the president threatened force. That is going to be followed by something that will grate on Republicans, conservatives, and foreign-policy journalists and professionals. But many Democrats will find it sweet, and some in the political press will go for it, if for no other reason than it’s a new story line." 

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"..this White House is full of people who know nothing—really nothing—about history. They’ve only seen movies."

Warning: Obamacare May Be Hazardous to Your Health

Heritage  "The Heritage Foundation, our experts, and our 600,000+ members believe so strongly that Obamacare is bad for your health that we’re putting this message front and center in Times Square.
"Our new billboard in the heart of New York City will be installed this week to get people thinking and to raise awareness about the need to stop Obamacare.
"Why? Because we don’t want to see people lose their health coverage—and the doctors they trust.
"We don’t want to see access to treatments and procedures determined by government boards, putting bureaucrats between doctors and patients."....
 

Syria has created a whole new art form

An Unbelievably Small Really Futile and Stupid Gesture 

"The Obama/Kerry insistence on the insignificance of their proposed attack on Syria reached its logical absurd conclusion yesterday when Kerry described it as “unbelievably small”. What do you do with news that’s already a cartoon? You go to Animal House for “a really futile and stupid gesture”.

"The side-slitting must have been too much for Putin. He pounced on Kerry’s “rhetorical point” that Assad could avoid attack by giving up his chemical weapons:

“He could turn over every single bit of his chemical weapons to the international community in the next week — turn it over, all of it without delay and allow the full and total accounting. But he isn’t about to do it, and it can’t be done.”

"By six o’clock Obama was all over the news shows swapping his red line for a life line from Putin."....

 

 

 

 

 

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Can you believe some cartoonist drew this next one?

The above cartoon comes with this text: Obama Suggests Syrian Pres Bashar al-Assad Step Down  "Stocks are plunging (again) today after President Obama’s announcement that he’s officially behind Syrian President Bashar leaving office for good. Bashar’s reign of terror has gripped the country too long, and it looks like Obama is ready to put his money where his mouth is. Stock market volatility today is due to the public perception of fear of the unknown."