I am posting this, in the name of bipartisanship.
The Video via DailyKos:
Dear AFL-CIO and Union folk everywhere… More like this please and less of this, this and this….please.
That is all.
Month: September 2011
Quote of the Day – Special 9/11 10’th Anniversary Edition
This comes via HotAir and is from series of twitter postings by AllahPundit in 2009:
Eight years ago, I remember opening my eyes at 8:46 a.m. in my downtown Manhattan apartment because…
…I thought a truck had crashed in the street outside
I remember pacing my apartment for the next 15 minutes thinking, stupidly, that a gas line might have been hit in the North Tower…
…and then I heard another explosion. I hope no one ever hears anything like it.
All I can say to describe it is: Imagine the sound of thousands of Americans screaming on a city street
It was unbelievable, almost literally
Photo: Liberals, this is your President
(H/T to DayLife.com)
Caption from Photo: US President Barack Obama smiles as he greets attendees on September 11, 2011 after laying a wreath at the Wall of Names (background) at the newly dedicated Flight 93 memorial on the site where United flight 93 crashed in a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
The man has no clue….. No damned clue at all.
September 11, 2001 – A Timeline of events as they happened
Possibly the best timeline of events, as they happened on that awful day.
More politicization of 9/11 by the left
Wow, don’t these bastards get enough? It’s crazy…
I thought the AFL-CIO thing was bad:
Actually, I don’t think it’s me, and it’s not really that odd.
What happened after 9/11 — and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not — was deeply shameful. Te atrocity should have been a unifying event, but instead it became a wedge issue. Fake heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes, George W. Bush raced to cash in on the horror. And then the attack was used to justify an unrelated war the neocons wanted to fight, for all the wrong reasons.
A lot of other people behaved badly. How many of our professional pundits — people who should have understood very well what was happening — took the easy way out, turning a blind eye to the corruption and lending their support to the hijacking of the atrocity?
The memory of 9/11 has been irrevocably poisoned; it has become an occasion for shame. And in its heart, the nation knows it.
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September 11, 2001 — 10 Years Later – May We Never Forget
May We Never Forget
Please note: I was planning doing a special video this year. But Youtube is now imposing a 15 minute limit on videos. So, I scrapped the idea. Also too, I think my words would simply get in the way. Just remember, and never forget.
The politicization of 9/11 by the left
You remember a few days ago, when I said I did not want to really do anything special on 9/11; because of the politicization of 9/11 by the left and the right?
Well, here’s an example of what I am a talking about…..from the left.
This is from the AFL-CIO website and this is the AFL-CIO’s President —
Sept. 11, 2011: A Day to Commit to Activism
A Message from AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka
All of us will remember the horror and anguish we experienced 10 years ago. Whether we lost loved ones ourselves—family members, union brothers and sisters—or felt the shock of a society that lost nearly 3,000 people and was forever changed, we need no reminding.
Instead, I would like to reflect on doors that were opened on Sept. 11, 2001, and what has come of them in the 10 years since.
Working men and women rushed through doors to danger and became America’s everyday heroes. Firefighters, construction workers, nurses and EMTs—all kinds of professionals and volunteers—were there not just on the fateful day but some for weeks and months and even years after. And we swore we would never forget.
Doors opened within us to each other. We came together. We flew the flag. We comforted one another. In our grief, we found the best in ourselves.
What an overwhelming sense of unity we shared, all across our nation. And it was this unity that allowed us to begin healing and rebuilding. There is no time in my memory of a more proud example of what we can accomplish when we work together. Solidarity, the cornerstone of the union movement, flowed through all of us and carried us through.
But other doors opened, too—doors to hate, suspicion of “others” and self-centered greed. Our fear was twisted into something much more dangerous.
The unity that had helped us survive faded as divisiveness took root. I look around today in amazement at just how far apart our nation has become—the endless possibilities that came with our unity have all but vanished.
Just 10 years after 9/11, despite our vows, the public servants, construction workers and others who lost their lives or still suffer with the cancerous remnants of the Twin Towers haven’t just been forgotten. They’ve been vilified. The extremist small government posse has turned them into public enemy No. 1, as though teachers and firefighters, EMTs and nurses and union construction workers ruined America’s economy.
In state after state this year—with the heroism of 9/11 less than a decade behind us—politicians targeted the paychecks, benefits and basic rights of these workers in a rabid campaign to shift government support to tax breaks for the wealthy and already profitable corporations.
Wealthy CEOs, anti-government extremist front groups and frothing talk show hosts—from the Rush Limbaughs and Glenn Becks to the Koch brothers, Karl Rove’s American Crossroads group, Americans for Prosperity, the Club for Growth, FreedomWorks and the American Legislative Exchange Council—also pushed open the door to hate.
Make no mistake—setting workers against workers is a highly profitable endeavor. How many times during the vilest state attacks on public workers did we hear the question: “Other people don’t have pensions. Why should he?” Prompting that question required twisting the American psyche—which, by its founding nature, seeks to lift the common good. The appropriate question should have been, “Why doesn’t everybody have a pension?” followed by collective action for retirement security.
We’ve seen the costs of hatred in ill-thought wars, in shameful attacks on immigrants and our LGBT neighbors. We saw it in the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. We saw it in the racism that has found overt and covert expression since Barack Obama began his run for office—from outright declarations of people who said out loud they would never vote for a black man to the ridiculously persistent obsession with our president’s birth certificate. Regardless of his policies or priorities, President Obama is shadowed by the drumbeat of suspicion based on his “other”-ness. And those suspicions are fed and watered constantly by forces that were threatened by his message of “hope and change.”
We’ve seen the cost of greed in the recklessness of financial institutions that created the greatest economic collapse since the Great Depression and the devastating jobs crisis that persists today.
But I remember that other door that opened on 9/11—the door to our better selves, to our understanding that we are one and our values require us to care for one another.
That’s what sent 347 firefighters to their death at the Twin Towers 10 years ago. It’s also what sent firefighters to stand with teachers in Wisconsin even though Gov. Scott Walker had exempted them from his attack on public employees. It’s what moves employed people now to demand good jobs for the 26 million Americans who are looking for work. It’s what gives us the courage to take on a crumbling economy and the politicians preaching austerity and ignoring our jobs crisis—to take them on and say, “We are America. We are better than this. And we are one.”
Brothers and sisters, friends, I hope you will join me in marking this solemn anniversary by committing to redouble your activism on behalf of America’s everyday working heroes. We will rise or fall together.
If I were a relative of a 9/11 victim — I would be wanted to this self-centered asshole’s head on a platter. 😡
Video: Red State Update on Rick Perry! and the Rise of the Jackiebaggers
Yep, these guys are back and boy did they put a funny one together:
Video: Living proof that Ron Paul is a paranoid conspiracy theorist and has NO business being President of the United States
I’m sorry, but when you start spewing this sort of ignorant stupidity; you lose all credibility with me. Especially when you say it at a serious Presidential debate.
(H/T HotAir.com)
I am just going to say this; I too have doubts about our Government and I too, do realize that there is cronyism in our Government — on both sides of the aisle. I also, with a full B.S. filter enabled, do sometimes read what the conspiracy theorists write. I do mainly read them for the entertainment value. However, I usually put no trust, value, faith or stock in the what is usually printed on those websites; mainly because those sites contain about 10% or less of truth and 90% or more of someone’s opinion or as is properly called theory.
That being said; I do not want my President to be a conspiracy theorist, who spouts this sort of ignorant stupidity, at all. The Republican Part is not; I repeat is not, the party of the Conspiracy theory. There might be some on the far, far, right that might believe in this idiotic nonsense, but most Republicans, including the one that I gave the Hat Tip to, find this sort of nonsense laughable. Let me also go on the record as say that I also am one of those who find this ignorance to be laughable as well.
I just know now that the Ron Paul bots are going to come here and call me a Neo-Con, a Zionist, a JEW (!) ( 😯 ) or a liberal. Let me say this; save your breath and my bandwidth — both of my parents come from the south and I was born in Southwest Detroit as my About Me page does say. If you Ron Paulians have a problem with that I say; you are free to kiss my Lilly-white, hairy, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant, Independent, Fundamental, King James Bible thumping Ass. (wait! Can Christians say stuff like that?!???!? 😯 ….. I just did... 😀 )
That, my friends…. is all.
My Thoughts on the MSNBC/Politico Republican Debate
For starters, I did not watch the whole thing. In fact, I was going to avoid it altogether. But, everyone else on twitter was blabbing on about it and not wanting to be left out, I flipped it on.
My impressions of what I did watch:
Rick Perry – I’m with Ace — Eh…. Weak Tea, I thought.
Bachmann – Eh…. She’s got the substance; but not the Palin hype.
Romney – Moderate alternative to Perry
Huntsman – Same deal, different suit
Herman Cain – Token Black man, out of his league really.
Ron Paul – Heh…. Well, he was Ron Paul, Nuff said.
Gingrich – Was the attack dog of the group. Give the man a damn milk-bone and some puppy chow already! Woof! 😛
Rick Santorum – This guy, as in the previous debate; came of as a haughty, condescending, snotty nosed, preppy punk who was all to damned happy to wave his little Christianity flag and his Bible in my and everyone’s face. Further more, the look he would shoot anyone; of whom he would disagree with, was highly offensive and frankly made me want to reach through the TV and punch the jerk right square in his silly looking nose. Rick Santorum needs to get the heck out of this race, before he further damages his career and embarrasses the Christian Right even more so, than it is now. This is a Primary contest for the Republican choice for candidate for President of the United States of America and not of the Christian Coalition. Santorum needs to go back to what he knows; which is what he was doing before he entered this primary race.
Debbie Schlussel knocks one square out of the ballpark!
I saw this one the other day and because it was late in the evening I did not write about it.
So, here we go.
There are some in the Anti-Jihadi Movement that are going soft. Debbie Schlussel is not one of these people, she has, even to the point of going after some of her own people; has always held an uncompromising stance on terrorism — even before 9/11.
A few days ago, Debbie Schlussel did an awesome piece on the 10’th anniversary of 9/11 and how the liberal media is trying to White Wash the event and yes, as always Ms. Schlussel does tell it like it is and I that is why I respect the hell out of her.
Update on situation
Just an update on my personal situation.
First off, I am not going to end up in the street, like I thought. But last night was not a good thing. I am, however going to have to find something in the form of work and hopefully, eventually — somewhere to live.
I did refund the one donation that someone did give me. I thank the person for the thought. I also thank all of those who send kind words of support.
I will make it, at least it looks like it. I’ve just got to find something to do.
Good For Him: Michigan Governor Rick Snyder Signs into law a 4 Year Limit on Welfare
Good for Governor Rick Snyder for this! (H/T Gateway Pundit)
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Gov. Rick Snyder on Tuesday signed into law a stricter, four-year lifetime limit on cash welfare benefits, prompting advocates for the poor to warn that tens of thousands of residents will find themselves without cash assistance on Oct. 1.
Michigan’s first-year Republican chief executive said the state will offer exemptions to the limit for those with a disability who can’t work, those who care for a disabled spouse or child and those who are 65 or older and don’t qualify for Social Security benefits or receive very low benefits.
Some recipients who are the victims of domestic violence also may be temporarily exempted.
“We are returning cash assistance to its original intent as a transitional program to help families while they work toward self-sufficiency,” Snyder said in a statement. He noted that the state still will help the poor by offering food stamps, health care coverage through Medicaid, child care and emergency services.
via Mich. governor signs 48-month welfare limit – Yahoo! News.
Before any Democrats give Governor Rick Snyder any crap over this, it looks like the previous Democratic Party Governor started the process:
Then-Gov. Jennifer Granholm, a Democrat, signed a bill that created a four-year limit starting in 2007. But that law exempted many welfare recipients, including those whose caseworkers said they were making progress toward finding employment.
The 2010 election of Snyder and the simultaneous Republican takeover of the Michigan House gave the GOP a free hand to set its own course on public assistance.
The change gives Michigan the Midwest’s toughest welfare time limit, according to a survey by The Detroit News. It said there are five-year limits in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio and Wisconsin. Indiana has a two-year limit for adults — but none for children.
This has long been one of my pet gripes with the State of Michigan; that they tax the hell out of the working man and give that money to people, who do not even work for it. I am glad to see the Governor Granholm saw this as well and worked to do something about it. I am also glad to see Governor Snyder actually fix it where only disabled and the Elderly are kept on it and rest forced to get out and get a damn job.
For the record, I have no issue with those who are actually disabled being on Welfare and Social Security. It is just these one’s who are not handicapped and disabled being on the Government dole. Especially when that dole is coming out my tax dollars; that is what bugs me.
I know it sounds cruel; but the States and the Federal Government just cannot afford to be the nanny anymore. The Country is broke and the States are not far behind it. So, the days of living off the people, are over — finally. 🙄
UPDATED: SITUATION CRITICAL: URGENT APPEAL FOR DONATIONS! – Keep Patrick out of the Streets!
My friends, I hate like hell to have to do this; but my personal living situation has deteriorated in the last hour and I mean badly. 🙁
Folks, I am just going to have to tell this bluntly; I need a place to live — as in right now. The pleasant living situation that I have enjoyed for the last 39 years ended tonight in a fit of rage.
To be blunt, I am to the point where I just cannot handle living with my parents anymore. 🙁 I love them, but, I cannot handle living here anymore.
To be quite honest; I don’t even know if I will be living here tomorrow or not.
If anyone wants to call me and offer support, I can explain it. But, for some very good reasons. I won’t explain it here. Let’s just say, that this has been brewing for a LOOOONG time and it came to head tonight.
I am 39 years old and I am living like a 16 year old in my parents basement. Part of that, is my fault. Part of it, is just my personal situation, the economy and just plain ol’ bad luck.
My Job prospects are grim at the moment; I quite honestly do not know what I am going to do. But I have to do something. Even if it is taking a minimum wage job push carts at store somewhere. I have to get a job and get an apartment somewhere.
I would like to live in this area, somewhere near my parents. I love them dearly, but I just cannot handling living with them anymore; and after what happened tonight, I do not know if I will be living here much longer anymore.
Things I need right now:
- First Months Rent and security Deposit for a One Bedroom Apartment
- Some form of reliable transportation
- Money for a bed, chairs, table, cable, water bill and all the stuff that goes with living on your own!
Let me make this very clear:
THIS IS NOT A JOKE AT ALL. THIS IS VERY, VERY, SERIOUS. I MAY END UP IN THE STREET BY THE END OF THE WEEK!
I will be pricing apartments and will let you all know on prices. But, I must, must, must get the heck out of here and I mean quickly. Believe me, this is not because of a Law Enforcement issue, it is because my relationship with my folks is not good and me being here is going to make it worse.
If you want to help, Please:
Drop a donation, The more the better in the PayPal Button at the top and left!
I swear, I wish this was some sort of a joke; it is not and I need your help now, more than ever.
I will be job hunting for something, anything…. But in the meantime. I got to get the heck out of here and now!
Update: I will keep everyone updated. But I will be getting out of here; somehow, someway. I have to, for my mom’s and my well being.
Update #2: I have posted an major update to this Story, please click here to read it. Thanks.
The Classless Left: Exhibit V for Violence
I guess the left is not just satisfied with using violent rhetoric and then having no regrets about doing so. They have now taken to creating violent video games with Tea Party , Fox News Hosts and prominent Conservatives on them.
The wild video is at MRCTV.
The story:
Have you ever fantasized about beating Bill O’Reilly to death with a crowbar or shooting up the offices of Americans for Prosperity with an Uzi? Well, the folks at StarvingEyes Advergaming apparently have and they’d like to share their latest creation with the world. The game is called “Tea Party Zombies Must Die” and, apart from abysmal game play, features several different levels where your only objective is to mercilessly slaughter everyone around you whether they are a Fox News stars or simply Americans For Prosperity employees.
[…]
UPDATE: I emailed StarvingEyes for comment on the game and it potentially bothering other clients. Jason Oda, the head of the company, responded with the following: “The game was just a personal project. I am not worried about it effecting business.”
File this one under, “What if a well-known Conservative had created something like this and put Obama’s, Bidens and other Democrats on it?”
It’s a question to ask.
UPDATE: Follow up part duex: White House refuses to comment on Hoffa’s threat to the G.O.P. – White House Spokesman Says, “Hoffa Speaks for Himself”
Another follow up to the follow up to the original story.
The White House is not commenting on remarks by Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa Jr.
Heck even ABC News is noticing the reeking hypocrisy here:
Despite President Obama’s repeated claims to change the tone in Washington, the White House had no comment this afternoon after Teamsters Union leader James Hoffa, speaking at an event before President Obama, said of Tea Party activists that, come November, Democrats should “take these sons of bitches out.”
Warming up the crowd before President Obama’s Labor Day speech in Detroit this afternoon, Hoffa warned the largely union crowd that the Tea Party was waging a “war on workers.”
“We got to keep an eye on the battle that we face: The war on workers. And you see it everywhere, it is the Tea Party. And you know, there is only one way to beat and win that war. The one thing about working people is we like a good fight. And you know what? They’ve got a war, they got a war with us and there’s only going to be one winner. It’s going to be the workers of Michigan, and America. We’re going to win that war,” Hoffa told thousands of workers gathered for the annual event organized by the Detroit Labor Council.
“President Obama, this is your army. We are ready to march…Everybody here’s got a vote…Let’s take these sons of bitches out and give America back to an America where we belong,” he concluded.
The Tea Party Express has called on President Obama to “condemn this inappropriate and uncivil rhetoric,” saying it “has no place in the public forum.”
“Jimmy Hoffa’s remarks are inexcusable and amount to a call for violence on peaceful tea party members, which include many Teamster members,” Tea Party Express chair Amy Kremer said in a written statement.
During the 2008 campaign, Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., immediately rebuked talk radio host Bill Cunningham when he disparaged then-Senator Obama in his opening remarks at a McCain campaign event. In the view of many observers, Cunningham had fueled rumors that Obama was Muslim by repeatedly referring to him by his full name “Barack Hussein Obama.”
McCain immediately took responsibility and profusely apologized for Cunningham’s remarks.
Should President Obama do the same regarding Hoffa comments about the Tea Party? The president has repeatedly called for increased civility in American politics. “Only a more civil and honest public discourse can help us face up to the challenges of our nation,” the president said in January.
“I do believe there is hope for civility. I do believe there’s hope for progress,” Obama said after last November’s midterm elections.
When ABC News is basically letting everyone know that Obama is being a hypocrite; something is dreadfully wrong. When you have lost a major network like ABC and they will not cover for you. You are in trouble.
As for Hoffa, No Regrets:
Teamsters union president James Hoffa would say it all again if he could, he told TPM Monday.
Hoffa riled up Fox News and the right wing Monday with a Labor Day speech in Detroit in which he called Republican members of Congress “sons of bitches” and said union workers are ready to “go to war” with the tea party next year and “take out” Republicans at the ballot box.
Hoffa said he’d say the exact same words all over again.
“I would because I believe it,” he said. “They’ve declared war on us. We didn’t declare war on them, they declared war on us. We’re fighting back. The question is, who started the war?”
The speech came shortly before President Obama took the stage in Detroit — and Hoffa’s remarks certainly overshadowed Obama’s on Fox. But the Teamsters chief said he was just matching fired-up conservative rhetoric when it comes to organized labor and Obama with some fired-up rhetoric of his own.
Presidential hopeful Herman Cain decried the speech as “name-calling” in an interview on Fox News shortly after Hoffa’s remarks — which were repeatedly looped on the network — but the union leader dismissed criticisms like that one as total hypocrisy.
“How is that different than Mitch McConnell saying he wants to take out Barack Obama?” Hoffa said.
Like I said in my last follow up piece:
The problem now is this, what is going to be the liberal left’s reaction and response, when some liberal thug shows up at a Tea Party protest, start harassing people; and some Conservative pulls out a gun, and shoots him dead? Further, what is going to be the left’s reaction and response when some person, who grasp on reality is not that of a normal, sane, rational person — and he shows up at a union organized rally somewhere, with a assault rifle and starts shooting people? What will left do then? Will they blame Hoffa? Will they denounce their own? No, what they will do is blame the right for editing a video and accusing the right of ginning up the rhetoric. It is a classic Neo-Liberal, Frankfurt Institute of political correctness response.
I fully stand by that Statement above. I mean, you cannot go around calling for civil discourse and then have one of your Union cronies calling for violence; sorry, that does not work. Obama’s got a big problem on his hands and if he does not fix it, he will be totally discredited come 2012 and will lose badly.
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Update: The Lonely Conservative Reports that Jay Carney has told Jack Tapper that Hoffa Speaks for himself. Good on Jack Tapper for hold that four-eyed political hack spokesman’s feet to the fire and force him to give some sort of explanation. Which is my whole issue with this White House; just like former one, they seem to believe that they are above criticism and do not owe anyone, including those who voted for them, any sort of explanation. They’ll find out different come 2012.
If have come looking for the article titled: “RECENT PENTECOSTAL SCANDALS”
I pulled it.
I felt that the article itself had no place on this blog. This is a “right of center” Political Opinion blog. Not a Christian Blog.
Further more, I am someone who is quite estranged from the Church and I just do not feel that I can be a very good defender of the Fundamentalist Christianity belief system that the author of that article promotes.
So, I yanked the article.
Do not misunderstand me here; I am a former pentecostal and I do well know the doctrines that they teach. However, I am not interested in using this blog as a crusade against them.
I hope you understand.
-Pat
If you have come looking for the tribute to Melissa C. Doi
I pulled it.
I happened to sit and read that tribute — and I found it to be overly partisan.
The truth is folks, that the right has exploited 9/11 as much as the left has tried to ignore it.
I do not wish to be a part of that exploitation.
I will not be a part of any remembrances this year. Because I feel that the remembrances have become, for the post part partisan and political in nature. The victims and their families deserve better. No political party should use 9/11 as an issue or an excuse to attack anyone. It’s nasty and I want zero to do with it.
Thanks,
-Pat
Follow Up: Left claims that FOX NEWS edited Hoffa’s comments
The problem is —- it does not matter one lousy iota.
For back story on this go here.
Now for the unedited version of the clip and yes, I do know where it is from; and you can zip it with the objections. I am getting to a point here:
Now for my explanation as to why this silly little argument of context does not matter one lousy iota. Whether the liberal left wants to be intellectually honest about this or not —- the phrase “let’s take these sons of bitches out” is a call to violence — Period, end of discussion.
The problem now is this, what is going to be the liberal left’s reaction and response, when some liberal thug shows up at a Tea Party protest, start harassing people; and some Conservative pulls out a gun, and shoots him dead? Further, what is going to be the left’s reaction and response when some person, who grasp on reality is not that of a normal, sane, rational person — and he shows up at a union organized rally somewhere, with a assault rifle and starts shooting people? What will left do then? Will they blame Hoffa? Will they denounce their own? No, what they will do is blame the right for editing a video and accusing the right of ginning up the rhetoric. It is a classic Neo-Liberal, Frankfurt Institute of political correctness response.
This is a classical liberal tactic; Fox News and the Conservative Blogosphere took the bait and now we have this; this sort of nonsense right here makes me want to pack in it with Blogging. This whipping of the political arenas into virtual bloodlust for the other side is most disgusting. Both sides do it; and it totally pisses me the hell off. I am not a man who enjoys violence at all. In fact, the only reason I would ever want to own a gun, is for personal protection — not to carry around with me, unless I had to.
Further, another thing that really angers me is the fact that the President of the United States will not say one damned word to denounce Hoffa’s comments at all. It is because the Obama Administration has its nose square up the ass of the labor movement — for votes. Not that he honestly gives two flips about the actual ordinary people of the labor movement, you know the actual workers? You see, the President, along with Hillary and Bill Clinton are what is known as internationalist Democrats. They see American in the context of the international community, not America for the great Country she is.
So, do not expect the White House to issue any sort of denunciation of these remarks. Because this is, what the White House wanted and the right, as they are prone to do — took the bait and ran with it. I hope that this does not turn into a huge issue, because the Liberals need something desperately to hold against the right, as liberal policies have failed Americans and the Democrats need a cover, badly.
The best article on 9/11’s 10 year Anniversary
The proper task of the “public intellectual” might be conceived as the responsibility to introduce complexity into the argument: the reminder that things are very infrequently as simple as they can be made to seem. But what I learned in a highly indelible manner from the events and arguments of September 2001 was this: Never, ever ignore the obvious either. To the government and most of the people of the United States, it seemed that the country on 9/11 had been attacked in a particularly odious way (air piracy used to maximize civilian casualties) by a particularly odious group (a secretive and homicidal gang: part multinational corporation, part crime family) that was sworn to a medieval cult of death, a racist hatred of Jews, a religious frenzy against Hindus, Christians, Shia Muslims, and “unbelievers,” and the restoration of a long-vanished and despotic empire.
To me, this remains the main point about al-Qaida and its surrogates. I do not believe, by stipulating it as the main point, that I try to oversimplify matters. I feel no need to show off or to think of something novel to say. Moreover, many of the attempts to introduce “complexity” into the picture strike me as half-baked obfuscations or distractions. These range from the irredeemably paranoid and contemptible efforts[MN1] to pin responsibility for the attacks onto the Bush administration or the Jews, to the sometimes wearisome but not necessarily untrue insistence that Islamic peoples have suffered oppression. (Even when formally true, the latter must simply not be used as nonsequitur special pleading for the use of random violence by self-appointed Muslims.)
Underlying these and other attempts to change the subject there was, and still is, a perverse desire to say that the 9/11 atrocities were in some way deserved, or made historically more explicable, by the many crimes of past American foreign policy. Either that, or—to recall the contemporary comments of the “Reverends” Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson—a punishment from heaven for American sinfulness. (The two ways of thinking, one of them ostensibly “left” and the other “right,” are in fact more or less identical.) That this was an assault upon our society, whatever its ostensible capitalist and militarist “targets,” was again thought too obvious a point for a clever person to make. It became increasingly obvious, though, with every successive nihilistic attack on London, Madrid, Istanbul, Baghdad, and Bali. There was always some “intellectual,” however, to argue in each case that the policy of Tony Blair, or George Bush, or the Spanish government, was the “root cause” of the broad-daylight slaughter of civilians. Responsibility, somehow, never lay squarely with the perpetrators.
I very, very, very highly recommend you to head on over and read this article. I do not know if
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Is Israel on the brink of an all-out war with neighboring countries?
It sure looks that way. (H/T Drudge)
Recent revolutions in the Arab world and the deteriorating ties with Turkey are raising the likelihood of a regional war in the Middle East, IDF Home Front Command Chief, Major General Eyal Eisenberg warned Monday.
“It looks like the Arab Spring, but it can also be a radical Islamic winter,” he said in a speech at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv.
“This leads us to the conclusion that through a long-term process, the likelihood of an all-out war is increasingly growing,” the IDF general said.
“Iran has not abandoned its nuclear program. The opposite it true; it continues full steam ahead,” he said. “In Egypt, the army is collapsing under the burden of regular security operations, and this is reflected in the loss of control in the Sinai and the turning of the border with Israel into a terror border, with the possibility that Sinai will fall under the control of an Islamic entity.”
“In Lebanon, Hezbollah is growing stronger within government arms, but it has not lost its desire to harm Israel, and the ties with Turkey aren’t at their best,” Major General Eisenberg added.
Referring to what he characterized as the possibility of a “radical Islamic winter,” Major-General Eisenberg said: “This raises the likelihood of an all-out, total war, with the possibility of weapons of mass destruction being used.”
During his address, the senior IDF official revealed that new, more lethal arms surfaced in the hands of Gaza terror groups during the latest round of fighting in the area. As result of the disturbing development, Israeli civilians were instructed to adopt greater precautions, he said.
via IDF general: Likelihood of regional war growing – Israel News, Ynetnews.
Needless to say, I believe the Republicans will make this a wedge issue during the campaign. They are now, to a limited extent. But, I expect to see more of that, after the primaries. Because to many, who are Jewish; and those of us who are supporters of Israel. Obama’s attitude is basically, “I don’t give a shit” when it comes to Israel and the Jews. For the most part, the Republicans own this issue; the notable exception being Ron Paul. Which is all you need to know about the man.
UPDATED: The coming 2012 battle?
The video is over at Real Clear Politics. (H/T Drudge)
Quotable Quote:
“We got to keep an eye on the battle that we face: The war on workers. And you see it everywhere, it is the Tea Party. And you know, there is only one way to beat and win that war. The one thing about working people is we like a good fight. And you know what? They’ve got a war, they got a war with us and there’s only going to be one winner. It’s going to be the workers of Michigan, and America. We’re going to win that war,” Jimmy Hoffa Jr. said to a heavily union crowd.
I got a bad feeling about this coming 2012 election. It’s going to get ugly on both sides, I am afraid.
Others: Big Government, blogs.telegraph.co.uk, Proof Positive, And So it Goes in Shreveport, Associated Press, Scared Monkeys, Pajamas Media, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Sipsey Street Irregulars, The Lonely Conservative and HotAirPundit
Update: I’ve posted a follow up to this posting. Please, go check it out! Thanks. 😀
The left is not happy with President Barack Obama
First of all, Video of his biggest and most outspoken of his supporters: (Via Real Clear Politics)
Then there is this, which comes via Polipundit:
Its time to turn our backs to President Obama.
“I am so not alone here in bright blue oregon with my disgust and utter disappointment in Obama.”It’s Too Late – 2012 Will Mark The Final Takeover
“The 2012 elections have already been decided in favor of a neo-fascist-controlled Republican party.”President Obama spits on his own record, on the law, and on his base …
“The President’s decision flies in the face of — spits on — this Administration’s record, the law, and every single independent review of the costs and benefits of environmental regulation.”Discord in the House the New Deal Built
“Yes, I’ll vote for Obama when the time comes because, as I’ve said before, the alternative is worse– but that means that Obama has become a ‘lesser of two evils’ candidate and that is not something to be proud of. That is ‘status quo’ when I was promised ‘change’.”What’s the difference between Obama and Romney?
“This isn’t snark, I actually can’t really tell anymore.”Nixon: more liberal than Obama?
“By many measures, Nixon was more of a liberal than Obama.”
All of those posts are from TheDailyKos. Which is a liberal community Blog.
The Republican Party is gearing up to defeat President Barack Obama in 2012; something tells me, that they are not going to have to work very hard at all.