He adjusted himself to beams falling, and then no more of them fell, and he adjusted himself to them not falling." ...The Flitcraft Parable from Dashiell Hammett's 'The Maltese Falcon', (1930)
Friday, September 14, 2012
The 7 steps the MSM uses to get Obama off the ropes and make the bad Mitt go away
I was watching some of the lefty journolists working their desperate angle to slow down Romney and derail any momentum he is gaining on foreign policy this week. After a few shows I ended up with Charlie Rose questioning John Dickerson and then David Brooks. Dickerson really followed the now very predictable script that seems to be applied to most every situation where Romney or Ryan seem to get Obama on the ropes.
Examples of being on the ropes would be:
July 12: You didn't build that
July 13: Romney felon
August 8: Romney murders with cancer
Early August: Biden in Chains
Late August at RNC: Ryan lied and lied in speech, especially about Janesville plant
Last week: Jobs report
This week: No Apologies for America
The Jobs report may not fit in to this equation because it was so successfully squashed by the Media under the slobbering love fest that followed the DNC, but the others seem to follow a pattern and Dickerson demonstrated it like he had taken a seminar.
Romney makes a statement or accusation,..... The left hops online to see how its being characterized by conservatives and immediately fear it might get traction. If you doubt the speed with which their reflexive responses to the "radical right", remember how quickly they fired Shirley Sherrod in 2010, just because of a rumor that Glenn Beck had commented, when in fact he had not.
If they think it has legs they:
1. Deny - Obama never said that
2. Accuse - Romney is constantly lying, this only proves it
Then video of You didn't build it emerges, or promising to save Janesville, or State Dept doubles down on previous apology several times in print, i.e. evidence backing up Romney
3. Context - Accuse Romney of being an evil genius that twists others words. Obama may have said THAT, but he meant this really nice thing over here.
Dickerson and Rose both said, "It was clearly not an apology"
4. Romney full of hate - What kind of a truly hate filled man would take Obama's innocent words, which obviously were well meaning, and twist them in to something dirty. Romney must be filled with hate and must be desperate in his cravings for power. Even when Obama's words are black and white, they retreat in to a world of secret metaphors and Junior College English Lit, where words can be jumbled around by understanding what the author was thinking or what we know about his drinking habits. Their defense is a subjective world where your use of facts only proves your fanaticism.
5. Vicious bigotry - In fact Romney is so filled with hate, the only thing a reasonable person could imagine him latching on to that might generate this kind of hate for such a good person, it has to be his race. We know Obama meant well, because he is a good person. We know Romney is bad, because he attacks good people. Obama is qualified to be President solely based on running a great campaign. People who question his qualifications, don't want him to run. What kind of a person would not want a qualified black man to run?
Then a sort of half time show occurs. As more evidence comes out, timelines emerge that slice up the debate in to literally minute by minute recitations of who said what when. "The plant closed this month or that". "Obama did give credit to Americans for building things" "Romney released his statement two hours earlier than he should". Like NFL analysts talking about stats and plays, the pundits focus on the parts of the timeline that bolster their argument. The timelines in print or online, so far have proven Romney correct. So the lefty media avoids the numbers and timelines and begins to pitch at each other lines like, "We all know what he meant" or anecdotal evidence that "Nixon did this when I was a cub reporter". This is the equivalent of Al Gore's, "the debate is over", which really means your numbers are destroying my argument, so STFU!
Then the second half is we know what we know, so lets mop up.
6. Move On - "Romney, why are you dragging this on?"
"My sources in the GOP say he is hurting himself, and they wish he would stop"
"Do you regret your statement"
this means,...you are winning, please stop this.
7. Romney mind reading and free advice - "Its pretty clear Romney wants to get back to discussing the Marginal Propensity to consume and how it relates to the Consumer Price Index". Hugh Hewitt said pointed out today, the media peddled a new theme saying "Romney had adopted a "softer tone". This means he realized he was wrong, he backed off, which is an admission of guilt. But Romney didn't change his tone, they just made it up, to close the story, so they could raise the flag of victory and run for the weeds.
Dickerson straight out said, "Romney at this point is done with this Apology thing and just wants to get back to the economy". Gee, thanks for the advice. If Dickerson advises you to get back to the economy, it very clearly means the last few days have wounded Obama in a Jimmy Carter way on foreign policy which the left thought they were untouchable on. Not one major Network has mentioned the Mob's chant "Obama, We are all Osama now!"
Based on what I consider a surprisingly nimble Romney campaign, if the MidEast continues to burn or the unrest expands, I can guarantee, Romney and Ryan will fight a two front war, but will ride this Foreign Policy dialogue for as long as they consider it to have traction,...that means right up until the polls close.
Nobody expects the media to allow that to happen. Iran could detonate a nuke next week, and they would still be finding precious broadcast time for medical studies that discuss Metamucil and Youtube videos of dancing beagles. Anything other than the impending Apocolypse and the economic collapse of the most prosperous nation in history.
In the five days following the DNC, the media had succeeded in throwing a cloak of silence over the Romney campaign. Images of him campaigning were backdrops for News Anchors discussing the bounce Obama got, which created a lead in to Obama giving lofty quotes followed by enthusiastic bear hugs from Average American saloon keepers and Michelle's latest recipes. That was 8 days total that Romney and especially Ryan could not get air time if they levitated over the American Legion. If Obama won't give press conferences when Religious radicals storm our embassy, burn it to the ground and kill the staff, Romney knows the media with gritted teeth will cover him taking questions and put it on the News. Wow, taking questions, what a concept. Romney and the MSM agree on one thing, ignoring Romney is a death sentence for him. The above examples of Romney putting Obama on the ropes angers the MSM because they consider it a personal affront to their pre-set plan. They consider it Romney manipulating them to force them to cover things that make them nauseous, such as admitting Romney is right and their favorite son is a fool.
The media would describe my above statement about sticking with this line of attack as exploiting America's foreign policy setbacks for conservative gain. Is it possible that the primary "scoop" is that the Foreign policy setbacks were the result of failed policies of irresponsible and failed leadership. Four years ago, that was the scoop, not a slight of hand that said, let's look away and see who serves to gain from this crisis.
After all, When Obama's Chief of Staff designate said, A crisis is a horrible thing to waste, we heard one thing and the slobbering journolists heard another.
That is their queue to claim, Obama's staff did not say that, you liar, that was out of context, you hate filled bigot, we all agree that is wrong so move on, why cant you drop this, I'm glad you agree that this tired debate is pointless and we should discuss something else. Why are you so obstructionist and divisive when Obama just wants to work with you. ...No, not your knees, I said ankles.
Monday, September 10, 2012
Obama gifting Submarines to the terrorists who bombed the World Trade Center
The White House is negotiating with Egypt's new radical government to gift them Submarines.
President Barack Obama’s deputies are negotiating a $1 billion aid package with Egypt’s new Islamist government, even as Egypt’s cash-strapped military revealed that it is trying to buy $1 billion worth of German submarines that could threaten Israel’s fast-growing offshore energy projects.
The German government has pointedly declined to deny the incendiary revelation about Egypt’s request to buy the two submarines.
Instead, the German government offered vague support for Israel, which is facing renewed threats from Iran’s nuclear program and the Muslim Brotherhood’s rise to power in Egypt.
The above quote might sound scary, but this revelation is far worse than even this article makes it sound.
The Obama Administration and their friends in the media have a vested interest in downplaying the high hopes they built up when they first developed the "Arab Spring" fairy tale.
These guys are not just radicals, some of the major players in this coalition are of the same group that assassinated Sadat, bombed the World Trade Center in 1993 and later joined with Al Qaeda. Others in the leadership are from other unsavory groups that fall under the umbrella of the Muslim Brotherhood. But lets focus on the World Trade Center group and how hey diverged from the Brotherhood.
The Muslim Brotherhood began in the 1920s and served as the birthplace or facilitator of nearly all the radical terrorist groups in the Middle East today. They had relations with the Grand Mufti Husseini of Jerusalem that worked with Hitler and founded the Palestinian radical groups that would follow. They had a cooperative relationship with Safavi in Iran in the 1940s who was the mentor of Khomeini. Yes, Shiites and Sunnis working together to spread terror, it happens every day. They served as the birthplace of the underground cells that assassinated Anward Sadat. Splinter groups formed in the aftermath of the post Sadat sweeps meant to disrupt their activity. Ayman Zawahiri, helped form Islamic Jihad in Egypt, which would also spawn other groups.
The Blind Sheik, Omar Abdel-Rahman formed Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya. As the different groups established their territories of interest he went to the US and Zawahiri went to Afghanistan where he would eventually team up with OBL. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the 911 mastermind and Al Qaeda operative was financing them and he laid out the master plan of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing for Rahman's men including KSM's nephew, Ramzi Yousef.
Many of these murderous groups develop "political wings" and then they continue to maintain a terrorist militia. Although Rahman is locked up in Supermax, his sons continue to run the organization and about 9 months ago Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya also developed a political group after the so called "Arab Spring" called the "Building and Development Party". Sounds harmless enough. This party joined two other Salafist groups to form the Islamist Bloc. This arrangement is only a matter of months old and already we are selling Subs to these people. The Islamic Bloc won 127 of the total 458 seats in the government. They hold the second most seats to the Muslim Brotherhood's party.
Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, was not only responsible for WTC 93. They have engaged in numerous other vicious terrorist attacks, including, the 1997 Luxor Massacre which targeted mostly western tourists visiting Hatshepsut’s Temple. 62 were killed with many others wounded with gruesome mutilation including disembowelment with machetes. The resultant nosedive in tourism began a steady decline from which Egypt has never recovered.
These are the people we are giving Submarines to. The Obama administration claims that diplomacy and intelligence will keep WMDs and their accompanying delivery systems out of the hands of Iran and anyone that might desire to use them on the US or our allies, including Israel.
When the current government took power, they announced that they will never recognize Israel's right to exist, which to many signals a renewed desire on the part of Egypt to attack its neighbour.
Some might argue that the current makeup of the Egyptian government will not pose a threat, but we really don't know if the Islamic Bloc will be in power sometime soon, nor do we know just how radical the Brotherhood is regarding its desire to deny Israel's right to exist.
Obama has been wrong before. When he was trying to claim credit for a Berlin Wall type outbreak of freedom in the Mid East, he gave a speech the week of the ousting of Mubarek claiming that the new leadership was like MLK or Ghandi. This was oddly reminiscent of Jimmy Carter's staff, especially Andrew Young claiming the Ayatollah Khomeini would rule like a Saint in Iran. That was just weeks before they attacked the Marines protecting our Embassy and held our nation hostage for 444 days. Well Played, Sir!
I can't imagine why Obama would give Submarines to the same people that murdered Americans in the World Trade Center, other than this strange habit he has of punishing our friends and rewarding our enemies. I have a feeling there will be some argument that the only way to get the Egyptians to abide by the decades old Peace Treaty is to shower them with gifts,...never mind they are gifts that could surface off the shores of Staten Island and launch even nuclear artillery shells in to lower Manhattan, let alone missiles. Yes, I know we have ways of tracking subs, but what kind of a defence is that? We should give Khalid Sheik Mohammed a B1 Bomber because we could always shoot hm down?
It is ironic that Zawahiri, Rahman, Osama Bin Laden, Islamic Jihad, Al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood once shared the goal that their highest priority was to depose despotic tyrants from Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and especially Egypt. Zawahiri was from Egypt, he had been jailed there and wanted revenge. Going after the West was merely a way to punish their biggest allies. putting a somewhat friendly replacement in power would be a bonus. They got that. Then having achieved that goal, its time to gather resources, go after Israel, spread Jihad across the globe, and find a way to more efficiently attack the West. But how could that be possible the Muslim brotherhood's leader might have asked as he travelled to visit Ahmedinijahd last week.
Ahmedinijahd has nukes and Egypt has Submarines to deliver them and Barak Obama is perfectly willing to hand over a Billion Dollars to cover the whole deal.
Why,... he might ask?
Our answer is who knows. His answer is who cares.
If anyone had doubts about how dangerous some of these groups are that are now running Egypt, Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya announced that it was joining Al Qaeda in 2006, they sent Rahman's sons to meet Zawahiri and OBL to celebrate the announcement and we are giving them gifts.
Why fly in to the tallest buildings in Manhattan when you can pull a submarine right up and double park along side it?
UPDATE: I posted the above on Sept. 10 and in light of the Sept. 11 attacks in Libya and Cairo, CNN is reporting that the Al Rahman Brigade is behind the carefully calculated attack on these two embassies. This is an alternative name for Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya since it joined with Al Qaeda. This puts Obama in the difficult position of denouncing Rahman's terror wing for killing us and at the same time giving them the 21st century weapons that constitute the nightmare scenario we all fear.
Friday, September 7, 2012
Does Obama think Bush hates black people's hands
Remember how Obama told the story of his first meeting with George W. Bush and how Bush used a squirt of hand sanitizer after shaking his hand? Obama's recount of the meeting in his book "The Audacity of Hope", he implied Bush was a racist that didn't like shaking hands with Black people and that he singled out Obama out of the group of congressmen in the room to be condescending to him.
If Obama didn't say so explicitly, his followers did come out and say the hand sanitizer use was racist. This wasn't the only time the media picked up Obama's racial accusation against Bush and try to extend it. In 2010, after a year of staying out of the spot light Bush travelled to Haiti to help Earthquake Refugees, black ones. The media used a video of Bush patting his hand on Clinton's back and then characterized it as an attempt to wipe off his hand after touching a black person.
It turns out now Obama uses Purell Hand Sanitizer after shaking hands with people according to his former body man, Reggie Love. Does this mean Obama is racist or that he is out of touch, distant, or paranoid and elitist? He might be all of those things, but this fact demonstrates more than that.
It should be noted that Bono, Bob Geldof and numerous other liberals continue to portray Bush's efforts, completely ignored by the MSM, to help Africans and specifically African AIDS sufferers as the greatest effort by far on the issue and even overshadowing Obama's track record. Bill Clinton on Wednesday night, strangely enough complimented Bush's accomplishments with PEPFAR and in the midst of Clinton's claim of cross party understanding and compassion, the Democrats booed.
As I re-read the 2006 account Obama told, I found it a fascinating insight in to Obama's sense of personal animus towards his ideological opponents. According to others, Bush was almost excessively kind to a rookie Senator who weeks before was a small time state legislator. A President of the United States took time out to separate the two off from the other congressmen and offer generous advice meant to help the newcomer and protect him and his family from people of both parties that might mean him harm. And Obama mocked the gesture of kindness, portrayed Bush as a messianic figure drunk on power who had a bizarre sense of humor a condescending tone and a racist paranoia about touching people of African descent. It is sometimes forgotten the incredible attacks President Bush suffered against himself and his family and his way of handling it might be the model of presidential grace in the face of unfair attacks, but when told of Obama's characterization, he seemed shocked and hurt. I think this tells us something about both Bush and Obama and how the Presidency changed them. One man grew to be a larger man and the other became a smaller man than he already was.
When the men first met back in 2006 over breakfast at the White House, things didn't go so well.
Obama recounted the meeting in his book, "Audacity of Hope," recalling Bush's use of hand sanitizer, odd sense of humor and attempt at advice.
Bush wasn't happy with Obama's description of the meeting, expressing his irritation to Bill Sammon, Fox News' Washington Deputy Managing Editor:
The two men shook hands and then, according to Obama, Bush turned to an aide, "who squirted a big dollop of hand sanitizer in the president's hand."
Bush then offered some to Obama, who recalled: "Not wanting to seem unhygienic, I took a squirt."
The president then led Obama off to one side of the room, where Bush said: "I hope you don't mind me giving you a piece of advice."...
"You've got a bright future," Bush said presciently. "Very bright. But I've been in this town awhile and, let me tell you, it can be tough. When you get a lot of attention like you've been getting, people start gunnin' for ya. And it won't necessarily just be coming from my side, you understand. From yours, too. Everybody'll be waiting for you to slip, know what I mean? So watch yourself."...
Obama laughed and even "put my arm around his shoulder as we talked," he recalled, although he added the gesture "might have made many of my friends, not to mention the Secret Service agents in the room, more than a little uneasy."
Despite this display of bonhomie, Obama said the president's demeanor turned downright frightening when he laid out his agenda to the freshly minted lawmakers.
"Suddenly it felt as if somebody in a back room had flipped a switch," Obama wrote. "The president's eyes became fixed; his voice took on the agitated, rapid tone of someone neither accustomed to nor welcoming interruption; his easy affability was replaced by an almost messianic certainty. As I watched my mostly Republican Senate colleagues hang on his every word, I was reminded of the dangerous isolation that power can bring, and appreciated the Founders' wisdom in designating a system to keep power in check."
When I quoted from this passage to Bush during an Oval Office interview, the president seemed irritated to learn he had been taken to task by the senator he once counseled.
I thought I was actually showing some kindness," Bush said indignantly. "And out of that he came with this belief?"
The president added with a bit of a scowl: "He doesn't know me very well."
Monday, September 3, 2012
POLITIFACT Goes All In for the Obama Campaign; PropagandaFact is Born
Good post by SooperMexican on the Ryan Janesville story:
POLITIFACT Goes All In for the Obama Campaign; PropagandaFact is Born
POLITIFACT Goes All In for the Obama Campaign; PropagandaFact is Born
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Obama sent Janesville jobs to China, but kept the votes
I believe Ryan is setting Obama up on this one and they are taking the bait, hook, line and sinker.
We are going to hear lots of debate about exact dates of when Obama promised what and if the Evil Bush had his blood soaked claws on this closing, but lets look at the reasoning here. The bottom line... Obama did not say, "If you have a government that cares, (and then using his latest 'I care') meaning ME, this plant will be open for 100 years, but not if Bush, the GOP, or take your pick, someone else shuts it down after I get elected, but before I am inaugerated".
Obama's Chicago way and cronyism always implies, I'll do something for you and you do something for me. Obama was telling his audience, You are a swing state, and you are union members and I want your votes and I want your union money, so If I'm President in less than a year, I will PROMISE to keep this plant open,...no excuses, no blaming, I promise to you people of Janesville. The people of Janesville heard his promises, believed his hope, change and promises and they voted for him and they gave him union money.
When Obama came in to office, he did not say, I know there has been a production slow down or an order to close or whatever, but I will fix this. He just walked away. Actually he did worse than that.
Ryan has pointed out before, Trucks, vans and SUVs are one of America's most popular products, but Obama and his party through regulation and CAFE standards has pushed the Auto Industry away from these vehicles and made it more difficult to produce, and more difficult to employ workers for these products. This is why Obama's so called solution was retool to make green go cart sized cars, which no one wants. Why? Supposedly the atmosphere is damaged by Chevy trucks. So the left gets its way and less of these products are made in the US and in Janesville in particular. Result, No Jobs, Obama gets votes.
So to add insult to injury, what did Obama do? He took over GM and what was the first order of business? GM went to China, cut a deal with the communist Chinese government to make, not environmentally friendly chevy volts that the Chinese would laugh at.... They opened a plant to make trucks and vans!!!!
Now last time I checked,... and who knows how the latest pop science theories Al Gore and Barack Obama are peddling,..., but isn't the atmosphere in Asia the same one we have in North America? Isn't there just one Stratosphere?
So how does it help the environment or help American workers or help Americans for us to outlaw the manufacture of trucks in Wisconsin, so that we can have our former communist enemies in China using what is essentially slave labor to build trucks to drive along the Yangtze? Furthermore, why is it preferably to risk a Kuwaiti oil tanker running aground in the Indian ocean and hurting an African sea bird as opposed to a Minnesota water beetle being endangered by a pipeline from the newly discovered oil fields in the Dakotas, that are larger than Saudi Arabia?
The answer: None of it makes sense, because Obama is not sincere on these matters, which was Ryan's point. Obama made a promise, average middle class workers believed it and gave him what he needed, votes and money, and he threw them under the bus. Nothing new, and to make sure the pattern is complete, when confronted with it, he blames Bush for causing their misery, completely ignoring the fact that he had promised to solve any injury Bush might inflict on them. He broke that promise. Period. He lied.
I am convinced this is a set up by Ryan, because it is a big fat pitch over the plate and Obama's people are swinging wildly at it, forcing the issue to be elevated by his compliant media, at which point Ryan will pull Obama's pants down in front of Keith Olberman and Rachel Maddow, which of course will prove Ryan is a racist.
Read more on the GM China plant 2009:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125160989949269941.html
Friday, August 24, 2012
It looked like Jesus when I started,... I know, I'll just blame someone else!
God Bless her. I feel for the 80 something woman who took it upon herself to "touch up" a masterpiece painting of Jesus, only to realize too late, that she was in over her head.
I can't help but imagine she must have gone through the same thought process as Barack Obama when he took on a job too big for his abilities.
When I look at her handy work, I wonder, after finishing the left eye, did she say to herself, "OK, that's not quite what I was looking for, but I should at least try to make the right look similar, then I can come back and maybe they will like it once they get used to it".
Did Obama also, say, "OK, I didn't try to work with the GOP and I didn't get any votes from them for my debt bomb stimulus package, and after a year, I'm not seeing the response I'd expected, maybe I can go at the Obamacare monstrousity with the same lack of transperancy and failure to work with others and see if the two heavily polled and unpopular policy beasts at least look like something people will eventually learn to accept once they realize most of the damage is done."
Did she step back and say, "My Lord, this looked so easy when I saw other restorers do this, why is this going so off track? Maybe I should have brought along others to assist me, because going it alone carries a heavy burden of responsibility. I know, I'll say, I'm an old person and a victim, I should have had more help"
When she got to the mouth, It looks like she just kind of drew a big hole and began to smudge and smear and eventually give up any pretense of a real effort.
And hasn't Obama seemed like that for the last year. Occasionally he'll talk about Stimulus 2, but then he steps back and shakes his head. Then he tries to rename it by calling it roads and bridges, sometimes teachers are tossed in, but he knows its just Stimulus 2 and then he wonders why it seemed so easy to those guys who went before him.
In the end, the poor woman decided to bring her work up and out in the open. I'm trying to imagine what the priests faces looked like when they saw what she had done to the Lord Jesus and the masterpiece that had been cared for by so many generations of caretakers before her. What could she say? I did my best! It was damaged before, I was trying to fix it. It would have been worse had I done nothing.
The priest might have picked his jaw up off the floor and said, "You were not qualified to fix this. You should have waited for someone who was qualified. Why didn't you respect the ideas and opinions of others by sharing your plans with others and allowing input from the other caretakers of this precious treasure?"
In the end, she succumbed to temptation and sought refuge in that irresistible shelter from shame,...she blamed the priests.
Meanwhile, Cecilia Giménez, the octogenarian who allegedly took it upon herself to touch up the decaying artwork, has made an appearance on television to claim her restoration effort was sanctioned by the priest at the church where the fresco resides.
At least she waited until the outrage in the end. Obama has been blaming everyone else from the very beginning. He will go down in history as the President whose dog at his homework.
He began as the new messiah who played the part of a presidential candidate, but when his brush touched the canvas, his work was not merely the expressions of child like brush strokes. He chose to do his fresco upon the wall of the great masters who built and protected the greatest country ever created, and just as the owners of this sacred painting are now saying,....people who understand the true value of a masterpiece fear the damage is so great, it may never be completely restored.
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Barack Obama is John Doe Number 2
The national angst that accompanies massive acts of violence in America manifests itself in a number of ways. In Dallas, the search for a grand theme or conspiracy lead people to search for the man in the grassy knoll. In Oklahoma, they posted drawings of John Doe #2. In Tucson last year it was Sarah Palin that caused the killings to occur. No one in the mainstream media blinks at such a stretch of an accusation. Had someone said such a thing about Obama they would be audited and arrested.
In the past week we have seen the Aurora theatre shooting go from a so called unifying event that should never be used to advance anyone's political agenda to a catch all canvas for Liberal grandstanding using the victims and their families as props.
It started with Brian Ross blaming the deaths on the Tea Party. Then after a few timid forays in to the obligatory Columbine gun control sales pitch by lefty politicians became an avalanche of sermons on weapons and laws they know nothing about. On Friday, Washington Week in Review had a whole panel of pundits nodding in unison as a Manhattanite in a designer dress explained that the "Semi-Automatic" type weapons are the problem. That would include most firearms and all non-revolver handguns. She clearly didn't have any idea what she was saying and her chorus of bobble heads were applauding her emotional plea to "Do Something, Do Anything", regardless of the rationality of the statement.
Now that the city is crawling with upwardly mobile cub reporters with no compelling backdrop, they are now scrambling through the halls of the hospitals to get interviews from victims and their families. Yesterday was the beginning of the "He's in ICU, but has no Health Insurance" story lines.
So the left has a hammer and every problem in this battleground state looks like a nail.
So what is their theme? It seems to be... If Liberals had not had their programs blocked by Conservatives, this would have never happened.
James Holmes is a mad man. He may not be insane, but he is a mad man. Those on the left often feel uncomfortable hearing this, but James Holmes is evil. Evil is hard to legislate against. It is hard to fund an anti-evil program. They enjoy creating faux evil strawmen, like Tea Partiers, gun owners and opponents of Obamacare, but true evil? That befuddles them.
Just like the Villains in the Dark Knight series, these are people who can't be bought or reasoned with. As Alfred explains in a Parable about evil, "Some men just want to watch the world burn”. This was the challenge Batman faced. This was the challenge America faced on Sept 12, 2001 and the challenge George W. Bush confronted and pursued. It is also the challenge that many on the left would prefer to walk away from or exploit for their own personal gains.
When John Kerry lamented that we may get back to the day when Terror attacks will be no more than a nuisance or a distraction, like prostitution or other minor crimes. Obama has also tried to redefine the GWOT into something we can live with,...as long as the "we" is cloistered in an ivory tower and not flying coach with a panty bomber or any number of other terror plots in the last 4 years.
Obama recently tried to shame the business community as being ungrateful for all the help they have received from Big Government. "You didn't build that!!" I really don't care about the silly meme that his context was referring to businesses not building highways. The entire context and tone was clear.
Who do you think you are? You ungrateful private sector leeches that prance around vainly proclaiming your liberty and lack of dependence on Big Brother. You should be ashamed of yourself after all we've given you, so let me catalogue the gifts the New Deal and Great Society have given you. There! So now that I have set you straight that roads and bridges are here to help you and is in no way a scam to fund unions to put in new and unnecessary curbs and sidewalks so they can skim the profits and return the profits to my campaign fund. And Oh by the way, if this sales pitch sounds surprisingly identical to my failed Keynesian "Stimulus" Package,..we will no longer use the word stimulus or stimulate during the upcoming campaign months. You are too dumb and ungrateful to know how helpful my policies are, so this is what is called "Effective storytelling". So clap, faint or shut upHe erroneously claimed Big government built the internet so businesses could use it to make money. That is false on so many levels. But that doesn't matter. His argument is that if the overly intrusive government has touched you in any way, you are expected to throw yourself at his feet and weep with humility. If his Big government can fix anything with your tax dollars, is there ever a mistake that can be caused by his largess.
Let's look at the shooter, James Holmes. He has clearly been planning this evil attack for months. Those in the media that ponder how easy it was for him to get a stamp of approval by gun dealers upon doing his background check seem to be arguing that the current regulatory rules are faulty. Yet, these are the rules the left claimed would solve everything. So if you buy in to their argument that there always needs to be more, then the NRA is proven right and that is that if a single mass shooting occurs, the left will always plead for more until guns are completely gone.
But what about the question if he received help. Was their a grassy knoll or a helper? Many have wondered how he could arm himself so effectively and where did he get the money to go on a $14,000 shopping spree to purchase his arsenal. We know now.
Barack Obama is John Doe #2.
According to CBS News, Holmes funded his rampage with a Federal Grant from the NIH in the Dept. of Health and Human services:
WNEW News reports that Holmes was awarded a prestigious grant from the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. NIH is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
It gave the graduate student a $26,000 stipend and paid his tuition for the highly competitive neuroscience program at the University of Colorado in Denver. Holmes was one of six neuroscience students at the school to get the grant money.
Let's see if the media doggedly follows the money on this one. I'm guessing the trail will be about as crowded with reporters as the anti-gun media was fighting to get the Fast and Furious story out.
Before this broke, the media was right to ponder how he got enough money to wage this war. They may have wondered if he robbed banks or if his parents could be considered accomplices. They would have had to question what he was going to do with the money.
So then why not ask the same questions here. How did Holmes get by the NIH screeners. How did he pass the background check of Obama's money givers. If he was so bonkers that the gun dealers could be denigrated for not catching it in the process of a routine business transaction (Which some actually did), then how did Obama's HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius not have a screening process that would know whether they are handing over $26 grand to a completely mad as a hatter monster.
If you are a mass murderer and think you did this on your own, You didn't build that! Someone helped you.
What many Liberals don't understand about evil is that the monsters are watching us so much closer than the left are willing to accept. They stalk us and adapt to what ever "disincentives" we place in their paths. The Liberal mindset is one of vanity that we can fix everything with the ideas of the anointed ones. So when evil monsters study the rules carefully and then adjust themselves to evade the obstacles to succeed, they find this hard to accept. It must be we are lazy in our law writing habit, so write more rules. The Audacity of the enemies of the left to not lay down and accept their perfect legislation.
James Holmes might be a genius. He might be an evil genius. He is surprisingly similar to the types of characters that make up the villains in Batman story lines. They are truly evil. They adopt an alternative persona. They don a costume, in this case Holmes dyed his hair and dressed up as a cross between Bane and the Joker. A lot of attention has been focused on the character of the Joker in the second movie of the trilogy, the Dark Knight. Let's consider a villain from the first movie, Batman Begins. Scarecrow (Dr. Jonathan Crane)was a genius. He was a scientist that specialized in Neuroscience like Holmes. He studied those with mental disorders, but carefully disguised his complete lack of empathy for the patients at the Asylum. They were his lab rats. He was a Josef Mengele. He was a Megalomaniac with severe hatred of the human race. He had delusions of grandeur.
Dr. Jonathan Crane was a corrupt, sadistic psychiatrist specializing in psycho-pharmacology at Arkham Asylum. Crane was secretly allied with Ra's al Ghul and Carmine Falcone, smuggling the former's hallucinogenic drugs into Gotham to create fear gas to use upon his patients in cruel experiments. Crane testified in court that Victor Zsaz, one of Falcone's assassins, was legally insane and should be moved to Arkham for rehabilitation. This enraged Assistant District Attorney Rachel Dawes, who later accused him of being corrupt.
He worked for the government and used the system to exploit others and gain personally.
Holmes bio says his Politics are "Middle of the road", so Brian Ross' attempt to classify him as a Violent Republican murderer doesn't quite fit. His attack would be classified as a terrorist attack for every other reason except for the fact, he has no stated political or Religious objective to achieve. In this regard, he is similar to the Joker that he considers himself an "agent of chaos".
And that is often the case. Even when these mad men claim an ideology, it is confused and incomprehensible. When the left tries to shoe horn bizarre acts of madness in to their worn out Lefty playbook, it nearly always fails and often confuses the issue to the point of making the matter worse. This is the 6th day and they are still breaking in to regular broadcasting with Special Reports and Dateline Specials, but the more deadly Fort Hood Shooting which did not fit their playbook and in fact created a stumbling block for Obama's desire to de-emphasize terrorism was met with "Let's not jump to conclusions" or "Details will continue to trickle in as we wait for Obama's internal investigation to come to light". The story was back filled, buried and to this day they are still claiming to not know whether he had connections to Al Qaeda, which is ludicrous to the point of Trutherism.
So if Big Government pervades everything it should carry some responsibility for things that it touches. If the tea party is the one stop shop for blameworthiness for any conceivable act of violence, when in fact, of the millions of participants, not a single significant act of violence has ever been linked to the grannies in sneakers and mothers with strollers that attended those anti-deficit rallies. Unlike the Crime infested Occupy movement our President backed. If the Tea Party gets blamed that easy, why shouldn't Obama bear responsibility for funding the violence in Aurora.
As I said earlier, isn't it ironic how the gun control people that are letting their freak flag fly this week are the ones that blame easy access to cheap guns as being the problem, not the motives of individuals. Here we have a mad man who didn't have a financial impediment to cheap guns, because Obama gave money to a mad man. Are we to argue for Education reform in the loose standards by which the Government sends your hard earned tax dollars to Universities with little or no care for its usefulness or consequence?
And last week with Fast and Furious, the same anti-gun people who are using the same "guns kill people" argument had no interest in another story where Obama funded the gun buying habit of some of the bloodiest killers on earth this side of Al Qaeda and that is the Drug Cartels of Northern Mexico. In that situation although Obama was funding the program, the increased ease of access was the key factor, but like the James Holmes situation, the lack of discretion and oversight of the program was obvious in the fact that in both cases mad men killed innocent Americans and the media turned away. It was not until the history making spectacle of having the Attorney General, the top law enforcement officer in the nation next to Obama himself was found in contempt of congress. A crime so serious it was listed as one of the articles of impeachment for Richard Nixon. For the media.... it earned a 4 sentence after thought delivered late in the broadcast. In several cases it was accompanied with remarks about the partisan nature of Washington. Really?
Don't expect anyone to confront the Anti-Gun people on this disconnect. Nor does anyone really notice that Obama siphoned mountains of Stimulus money to his home town and helped get his Gangster pal Rahm Emanuel in the Mayors office and the city is a massive Fallujah of murder and mayhem. Three times as many people were murdered last weekend in Chicago than were killed in Aurora.
So to the concern trolls of the media that are preaching to outlaw "semi-automatic" firearms because of their plea that we commoners sympathize with the Aurora victims as much as they (the Anointed) do, I wish someone would ask them why those in the ivory towers don't sympathize with Bryan Terry, Chicago or Fort Hood the way we do.
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