Former defense secretary Gates on the presidency of Barack Obama

Former defense secretary Gates says Obama 'double crossed' him
. . . "You have to wonder how widespread the following observation by General Flynn is among military leaders:

“I think he sees the military actually as something that is more dangerous to the world,” Flynn added. “I think that he looks at the United States military and sees it as a threatening application around the world, than actually as a useful tool.”

"You can apply that observation to Obama's entire view of the US role in international affairs. He is the first president in US history to not see the US as a force for good in the world. His constant, groveling and gladhanding with murderous thugs and dictators and his numerous, humiliating apologies may please his lefty base in the US and radicals around the world, but a president is supposed to stand up for American interests, not apologize for defending them." . . .

Gates: Obama White House was unable to understand Libya military strategy  The entire column is about the ineptness of the Rev. Wright / Bill Ayres - mentored president and their foreign policy.

. . . "Absolutely amazing. We have a $700 billion military and Obama would rather listen to the 25 cent advice coming from Samantha Power.

"The result of this ignorance is plain to see around the globe. Everybody is taking advantage of us and we are flailing about against our enemies with no real strategy to defeat them. Since Obama is even more clueless than his staff, nobody who knows much of anything at all about military policy has any input.

"But it's all good because we have "smart power.' "

Sec. Gates is not the only one unimpressed by this president:
Camera Just Caught The Moment Obama Embarrassed America At Global Nuclear Summit  . . . “ 'The President has come under fire for his relaxed attitude in recent weeks. On a state visit to Argentina, he was seen dancing the tango with an attractive female dancer. On a historic visit to Cuba, he went to a baseball game instead of returning to the United States to respond to the horrific terrorist attacks in Brussels,” it wrote.

“ 'Before that, Obama chose not to attend the funeral of former first lady Nancy Reagan, electing to go to a music festival and eat tacos instead,” it added."

Rumor checks

Snopes  "Welcome to snopes.com, the definitive Internet reference source for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation."
Rumors such as these:

Disney Bans Tattoos in Theme Parks

"A report that Disney had banned customers bearing tattoos from their theme parks was an April Fool's Day joke." Read More

Hillary Clinton Arrested by FBI

"Several "too good to be true" fake news articles published on April Fools' Day reported that Hillary Clinton had been arrested by the feds." Read More

Donald Trump Blames Muslims for Death of Jesus

"A news article that reported that Donald Trump said he didn't like Muslims because they killed Jesus originated from a site that specializes in satire stories." Read More

Snopes tells us about sites such as "PunkShare (a prank generator similar to FeedNewz), which enabled social media users to generate shocking false headlines for sharing on social media. The user-generated pranks tended to get away from their intended audiences and into the wilds of social media rather quickly, and often involved rumors claiming popular chain stores or restaurants were closing nationwide. In March 2016, a spate of similar sites created constellations of false rumors about celebrities moving to small towns."

Mob Studies: Coming to a University Near You

Mike Adams

"Our nation is turning slowly into Greece. If you are not frightened by the idea of violent mobs negating free speech then you probably haven’t been watching the news. If you are all surprised that this is happening in America then you probably haven’t been reading my columns. I’ve been warning about it for years. Mob rule has been the norm on campus for years. Now, it is finally spilling over into the larger culture.

"You may have already heard about the most recent episode of campus mob violence in response to the Republican takeover of the University of North Carolina (UNC) higher administration. The Board of Governors (BOG) is now solidly Republican and so is the new UNC system president. Consequently, we are now getting down to business and making some long overdue program cuts. Naturally, not everyone is happy about the proposed budget cuts." . . .

Student Started Texting During Driving Test. Now Watch What The Instructor Does…

Daily Insider  "With all the PSAs and horrible statistics about texting and driving there are still young people around the world who die behind the wheel with their phones in their hands. This driving school opted for a different approach though… they forced their students to text and drive.

"You can watch the statistics all day long but you won’t understand how dangerous it is until you do it yourself. Watch if these drivers managed to pass the test and consider that the driving course is a walk in the park compared to the real life driving conditions.". . . 

Michael Horton on the Attraction of Trump

The Theology of Donald Trump  "Four words that reveal what his followers really believe."

. . . "While a theological analysis of other candidates would suggest many equally troubling assumptions of their evangelical followers, no candidate is more identified with the word evangelical as is Trump. The loyalty of his self-identified evangelical followers is especially startling to many.

"Let me suggest that the slender thread connecting Trump to the church is his occasional holiday appearances at Marble Collegiate Church, made famous by its pastor for 52 years, Norman Vincent Peale. Blending pop-psychology and spirituality, Peale’s The Power of Positive Thinking (1952) remained on TheNew York Times bestsellers list for 186 weeks. Nicknamed “God’s Salesman,” Peale was criticized for trivializing Christianity. Reinhold Niebuhr said that he “corrupts the gospel,” and that he helps people “feel good, while they are evading the real issues of life.' 

 . . . "A more recent exponent of a feel-good gospel, Joel Osteen, has called Donald Trump “a friend of our ministry” and “a good man.” Trump has previouslytweeted, “Being associated with Joel is my great honor—he’s a fantastic man!”

. . .  "It is not that Trump has caused this transformation in portions of the so-called “evangelical electorate.” Rather, his candidacy has revealed the inner secularization of significant portions of the movement, which surveys have documented for some time now. Four theological words highlight the problem." . . .

Michael Horton is J. G. Machen Professor of Theology at Westminster Seminary California, host of the White Horse Inn, and the author of Core Christianity: Finding Yourself in God’s Story.

Muslims March in Germany Chanting “With Allah’s Help, We Shall Conquer You”

Unless God intervenes, the result of all this will be destruction of majestic cathedrals, to be replaced by mosques; the loss of all great works of art and music and a great darkness descending on the continent that the Nazis themselves could not have imagined. TD

Jim Hoft   "They seem to be assimilating quite well, no?

"Muslims march down a German street chanting, “With Allah’s help, we shall conquer you!' ”

Video and more commentary at Shoebat.com

. . . "While these things are nothing new, they should give us to ponder -when historians look back at these events, what will they think? If anything, we are witnessing the real-time death of one society in the same way that many previous civilization have perished- that is, unless the Europeans stand up for their Faith and lives in the same way their ancestors did in ages past…" . . .

Does none of this matter to those who adore this President?

Departed  "Pirro found herself the source of controversy once again when she discussed the attacks on the Western world at the hands of radical Islamists. She cited specifically the Philadelphia police attack and the terrorist attack in San Bernardino.

"Pirro commented that the Obama administration and Islamic radicals might as well be on the same side, because it is clear our ‘leader’ is not going to do anything to prevent these acts in the future.
Watch her comments below and tell us what you think. Do you agree with Pirro?"

American Silliness April 2/ 2016

Can we not call all this the the intellectual and spiritual decline of Western civilization and the rise of 6th-century barbarianism?

The Left Seeks End of Sex-Segregation Everywhere   
"Gender dysphoria*"  Really? Do these terms get made up by some activist speaker so he, or she, or you-name-it can enjoy the ego trip of seeing campus "intellectuals" using their term to fake intelligent thought?

. . . "If objectively male persons who are uncomfortable with their male bodies are permitted in women’s private areas, why shouldn’t all men be permitted in there? What difference does it make to women if the man in the stall next to them likes his anatomy or not?"
. . . 
"While progressives are exalting subjective feelings, they should bear in mind that many men and women content with their respective maleness and femaleness have feelings too -- feelings of modesty -- which do not make them heartless, ignorant bigots no matter how many times those epithets are hurled at them." *Ill at ease; uncomfortable

Related: Bathroom Boycotts Flush Safety of Women and Girls
. . . "Finally, let’s ask the presidential candidates if they support the 10th Amendment right of states to protect the privacy and safety of women and girls from cross-dressing sexual predators in public restrooms."
Watch: Men say we have nothing to fear from them in our locker rooms, bathrooms, and sleeping spaces.

Wanting to move on, but the silliness just keeps coming:
Further, making such conditions “normal” then results in the amputation of health body parts. . .  

Now we move on:
Obama Family 2015 Honolulu Christmas Vacation Cost Taxpayers $3,590,313 In Flight Expenses Alone…

GRIDLOCK IN NYC SO HILLARY CAN GET A $1,200 HAIRCUT: A Female Reader Responds

. . . "Which reminds me of what the late, great Dr. Bob once told me, presciently predicting the rise of Hillary Clinton, I guess. 

He said, “Beauty is only skin-deep, but ugly goes down to the bone.”

The Solar Industry Is Dying. Good Riddance.  "If you still own shares in solar energy it’s probably a sign that you’ve been in the sun too long: the sector is tanking – and deservedly so – as reality dawns that this is a Potemkin industry, an Enron of a con-trick, whose survival depends not on the energy it generates but on the subsidies it squeezes from the taxpayer."

Muslims Team Up With Black Lives Matter

Fix This Nation   "Two of the most virulently anti-American groups in the country – the Black Lives Matter movement and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) have joined forces in Sacramento, creating an ugly hybrid that makes one wish the Big One would go ahead and hit the San Andreas Fault.

"The two groups are teaming up to march on the California Capitol, hoping to persuade Governor Jerry Brown to sign a bill requiring police officers to report the “perceived race or ethnicity, gender, and approximate age of the person” they stop in traffic. The bill also expands the ban on racial profiling to include “racial and identity” profiling.

Some of the luminaries of CAIR are: 

Randall Todd Royer – 20 years in prison for helping jihadists get to Pakistan for terrorist training.Bassem Khafagi – Deported due to ties to terrorism financiers, visa fraud, and bank fraud.Imam Siraj Wahaj – Co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

It’s pretty sad that we’re at a point in American history where these two groups are considered champions of civil rights. In fact, it’s more than sad. It’s downright frightening.

To see the sheer hypocrisy of Islamists, consider this "#BlackLivesMatter Toolkit for Muslims

And this video shows what anti-American political pressure looks like. Think of the price that will be paid by those who have the courage to stand up to this:

Sharia Black Lives Matter Revolution EXPOSED!

WH Censors French President Saying ‘ISLAMIST Terrorism’

MRCTV  "The White House website has censored a video of French Pres. Francois Hollande saying that “Islamist terrorism” is at the “roots of terrorism.”

"The White House briefly pulled video of a press event on terrorism with Pres. Obama, and when it reappeared on the WhiteHouse.gov website and YouTube, the audio of Hollande’s translator goes silent, beginning with the words “Islamist terrorism,” then begins again at the end of his sentence.

"Even the audio of Hollande saying the words “Islamist terrorism” in French have, apparently, been edited from the video.

"According to the official White House transcript of Hollande’s remarks, Hollande refers to “Islamist terrorism.” The audio of the bold text in brackets is missing from the video – the only point in the video were the audio is absent:

“ 'We are also making sure that between Europe and the United States there can be a very high level coordination.

“But we're also well aware that the roots of terrorism, [Islamist terrorism, is in Syria and in Iraq.  We therefore have to act both in Syria and in Iraq, and this is what we're doing within the framework of the coalition.]  And we note that Daesh is losing ground thanks to the strikes we've been able to launch with the coalition.”

"Watch the video of Hollande's censored comment:"

Notice how the translation goes silent at the part where Hollande utters the words-which-must-not-be-spoken.

Peace out, fools! Obama plays the clown by flashing the peace sign for nuclear security summit 'team photo'... and gets a very unimpressed look from David Cameron and bemused world leaders

UK Daily Mail

"Surrounded by world leaders, President Barack Obama gave the peace sign as they gathered for a 'team photo' during a two-day nuclear summit.

"All eyes were on Obama as 54 other presidents and prime ministers joined him in Washington, DC, for crunch talks on Iran and terrorist threats involving nuclear weapons.

"There was one set of eyes, however, that was particularly focused on the President - those of Prime Minister David Cameron.

"Relations between Cameron and Obama have been strained since the President criticized the Prime Minister for getting 'distracted' during the crisis in Libya and turning it into a 's**t show'.

"There was more than metaphorical distance between the pair at today's summit, with Cameron only able to glare at Obama from across the podium as he was elbowed out to the edge of the stage. " . . .

Donald Trump’s clumsy abortion pandering alienates both sides Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/03/donald_trumps_clumsy_abortion_pandering_alienates_both_sides.html#ixzz44YH68DGa Follow us: @AmericanThinker on Twitter | AmericanThinker on Facebook

"I doubt that the pro-life movement will ever forgive Trump for making them look bad, revealing his lack of any serious thought on the issue.  How can they trust such a hollow panderer?  And his inability to parry Matthews may raise doubts in the minds of his supporters about his ability to handle the rigors of a campaign that promises to be vicious, fast-moving, with a very cunning opponent."

American Thinker  "Donald Trump’s Teflon™ coating may have worn off with his comments on punishing women for abortion yesterday, despite his campaign’s walking them back in two separate statements.

"Here is the report MSNBC issued prior to airing the town hall, which immediately created a firestorm among pro-life and abortion rights advocates:"

"Charles Krauthammer, on Special Report, cited Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council:

"Anybody who's been on this issue who knows the pro-life community, who knows what the arguments are and what people really believe, knows that is not true. That is not the position of anybody on the pro-life side. That is the position that the pro-choice people attribute -- this kind of hard-heartedness -- to the pro-life side. And that's apparently what Trump imbibed."
Krauthammer said that Trump's "lack of curiosity" is the problem, noting that the candidate also failed to learn more about the nuclear triad in an interval between debates.