Sword and Sextant

I will tell you what I have told you before. Environmentalism, like health care, is not, nor ever has been, about improving the lives of Americans or anyone in the world. These causes are the modern movers of Communism in our time.

No, not socialism. Communism. Creating a faux equality between all citizens, with government officials watching them all from the highest tower. A shapeless mass of serfs, watched and controlled by their betters, the shepherds in the sky.

The mask is falling away quickly, but only because they are so close. Think about this: If you are in power when you sign a treaty to create new powers over the citizens of a nation or a global government, who decides who controls that new force? Why, its you, isn’t it? What Honduras’ Zelaya tried so crudely to do, our masters now lawfully pursue right before our eyes!

Here is a video from a climatologist that the World forgot:

This nation is in dire need of some citizen activism that isn’t instantly demonized by the media and those democrats who prefer to look away until the September of an election year. First, they came for your tax dollars. Next, they came for your health care. Next, they came for your carbon emissions.

Freedom is in great peril. Let us fight for it!

According to a Rasmussen poll just released recently, Huckabee is winning amongst GOP candidates at this moment.

/collecting

This is a fucking outrage. This man is a terrible representative of the GOP, as one can easily see by his horrible governing tactics and taxation record. Is the party reduced to voting for someone who fucking LOST to John McCain as our next hope?

McCain got floored by Obama, and Huckabee is a worse candidate all around. I swear to effing God, I’d rather have another four years of Obama than Mike Huckabee’s formerly fat ass in the Oval Office. There is no amount of damage Obama can do to this nation greater than the outright death of the Republican Party at the hands of a RINO bastard like Huckabee. Stop this man at all costs! Sound the alarm!

The man IS Bill Clinton. Quite literally. Slick and smooth, he simply masquerades as a GOPer this time. Good God, the Earth will open up and swallow us all if Huckabee gets traction this time around.

The time for action is now. Find your conservative buds and cut the head off this monsterous nightmare scenario before its too late. These coming elections are about lower taxes, tough foreign policy, fiscal responsibility, and individualism. They are NOT about pardoning murderers, raising every tax possible, and being on fucking FOXNEWS.

Get out there and stop that man!

The military wants some stuff. What do they want?

First, some background: Back in October 2007, ABC News reported that the Pentagon had asked Congress for $88 million in the emergency Iraq/Afghanistan war funding request to develop a gargantuan bunker-busting bomb called the Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP). It’s a 30,000-pound bomb designed to hit targets buried 200 feet below ground.

Why do they want it? Well, they have “an Urgent Operational Need.” That’s why. According to my knowledge of English, I believes that means that the weapon’s presence is required for operations in the near future.

Why now? The notification says simply, “The Department has an Urgent Operational Need (UON) for the capability to strike hard and deeply buried targets in high threat environments. The MOP is the weapon of choice to meet the requirements of the UON.” It further states that the request is endorsed by Pacific Command (which has responsibility over North Korea) and Central Command (which has responsibility over Iran).

So, CentCom is involved, eh? There’s a bit o’ evidence. Did Congress give it to them?

The request was quietly approved. On Friday, McDonnell Douglas was awarded a $51.9 million contract to provide “Massive Penetrator Ordnance Integration” on B-2 aircraft.

Yes, they did. They didn’t say anything about it, but they did. THIS is the kind of diplomacy I can get behind! Don’t have to say shit, but the big guns are suddenly getting built urgently. Now, why would we use this missile that can dig down and bathe things in the cleansing fires of American purification?

This is not the kind of weapon that would be particularly useful in Iraq or Afghanistan, but it is ideally suited to hit deeply buried nuclear facilities such as Natanz or Qom in Iran.

Oh snap. We’ve okayed dollars to build things that can erase the Iranians crazy pursuit of nukes. Very nice move, Congress. Now, if we can get the boy President to use them before Israel lashes out, we may just stave off millions of deaths. I wonder what Russia is thinking…

Wait, no I don’t. We take care of our allies and ourselves before considering imperialist scum countries like Russia. I hope they give us a reason to build that missile shield again.

This country is going to war with Iran sooner or later. Let’s face facts. The most kumbaya of liberals even resist the idea of Iran with nuclear weapons, as we all recognize how dangerous and crazy the mullahs are.

We are looking at World War 3 (III?), plain and simple. As I’ve posted before, one of three things will happen:

1) Iran gets a nuclear weapon. They use it on Israel, according to their doctrine of the last 60 years. World War 3 begins with the blood of Jews sprayed all over the world, and on the hands of those who allowed this to happen. Massive war versus the arab world (sound familiar to us Christians?). You can guarantee that the US will NOT allow Jerusalem to be an Arab city. If you don’t believe me, ask yourself why we’ve stood behind Israel for decades in the face of the world.

2) Israel strikes Iran before they get a nuke. Syria, Libya, Egypt, the Saudis all go to war with Israel. Pakistan jumps in, causing India to freak out, as well. The Iraq coalition breaks down, Russia does ?, and China sells weapons for a fortune behind our backs. Massive World War, casualties in the millions (billions?), draft instated, $500/barrel oil prices.

3) The United States attacks Iran to prevent their nuke capability. A potential insurrection in Iran could crumble their power base, Israel is safe, but Iran declares war on America, threat of terror goes skyward, and we got a conflict on our hands. On the other hand, a World War is probably averted, based on the reaction of China and Russia.

In the wake of Obama’s failure to secure meaningful agreements with Iran, and his colossal failure to gladhand the Olympics, we are shown that Obama does not have the power that many in this nation thought he did in international matters. The worrisome sign we glean from this is that Obama still believes that he can talk and smile his way into a peaceful Iran. To be honest, the “agreement in principle” with Iran has already been refuted in detail by Russia, despite the White House claiming a huge victory.

This dangerous soft diplomacy has real repercussions, as Iran stalls its way to nuclear weapons and its capability to make more. Iran getting a weapon, all but imminent now, was the only guarantor of a war, and Obama threw away two golden chances to avert this without firing a shot. The electoral dissent of Iran was Obama’s last best hope to foment a deterioration of the ruling crazy-ass class, and sanctions early in the calendar year could have destroyed their economic platform to build these bombs. Now, the mullahs only need a small measure of time to start a war. Frankly, this war is on Obama’s hands.

I’ll state it clearly as I can. Obama’s foreign policy is damning millions to death. His allowance of Iranian nukes is tantamount to okaying a war. Barack Obama has very possibly damned millions to death by folding over and hiding from the Iranian issue, simply because he is concerned with global warming, socialized medicine, and community organizer issues. If Obama waits too long and Israel strikes at Iran, he will have the blood of Jews all over this Presidency. I sincerely doubt he wishes for this to happen, but you’re the President, and his own actions allowed this to begin with.

Meanwhile, we’re trying to tax ourselves into oblivion even when nobody has any of it to begin with. If we’re not careful, it will literally go up in flames. Ignoring the problem is not a possibility, Mr. President.

What a shock.

Add another tally to the Obama broken promises scoreboard. Remember that promise to have bills online 3 days before voting? Where is the transparency we were promised? That was one of the few promising things coming out of Candidate Obama’s mouth. Only too obvious it was too good to be true.

Now, conservatives knew since day one that Obama had no intention of holding to the lion’s share of his promises as a candidate, so that news is pretty weak. On the other hand, let’s discuss WHY the Dems are hiding health care and its bill from the public.

If support for reform is so great and beloved in the public square, why on Earth would they continually play bait-and-switch with the 5ish different plans, even as leaks hit the media that the public option is still getting into the final bill somehow, despite electoral defeats on several occasions? Liberals, pundits, and operatives insist that the health care plan is demanded by the populace, but for some reason all the details MUST be kept from the public at all costs. Doesn’t lend credibility to their arguments, does it?

Furthermore, keeping the details from people like myself, who will savage the unvarnished socialism within also keeps the details from those who may sincerely agree with and defend the plan. It makes you wonder about the liberals who are so wedded to the plan, doesn’t it? How can they defend a plan they don’t have the actual details of? I’m gonna guess blind partisan hackery/foolishness.

I can see it now:

“I love health care reform, and we need it now more than anything. Its vital to this nation and its future. Even when it has no bipartisan support, and there are rifts within my own party, we should go against national polling numbers to force this down everyone’s throat for their own good. Dems know better what is best for the people, and they SHOULD force it tyrannically on the citizens. I know I don’t have any details for this plan that anyone in Congress will stand by for even two seconds, and the Dems suppress further details of the bill at all costs, but I know for a fact that this nation NEEDS a health care bill it will not let us see.”

Here’s one thing they wanted to hide: The current version of the bill taxes medical devices. What does that cover, you might ask? Well, I got that for you too! It includes pacemakers, motorized wheelchairs, heart valves, GI tubes, and all that good shit!

Now, who uses most of that stuff? The elderly! Cut $550B/year from Medicare to start, then tax their medical devices! I suppose I can see why they wish to hide that from the populace after all. The MDMA is already putting a full court press on the Senate, trying to express what damage the tax, designed to raise $50B a year, will do to the elderly.

Wasn’t this bill supposed to cut health care costs? There are a lot of Dems out there claiming that the GOP simply wants you to die, and yet they are the ones slashing Medicare and levying taxes on medical devices the aged population uses the vast majority of.

I have personally been accused of spreading misinformation and lies about this health care plan, but its quite literally the Dems who are censoring any possibility of factual debate by hiding behind the new gauze curtain. One more morsel to chew on: Obama has championed this bill, yet has not suggested a single provision or had any hand it writing the damn thing. The central issue of his Presidency was outsourced to Congress on his deed. Discuss.

Barack Hussein Obama. Mmm mmm mmm. Barack Hussein Obama. Mmm mmm mmm.

Now, I understand the IOC does not especially like America, but let me echo droves of others who assumed that Obama had this in the bag before showing up.

Eishenhower once stated that the President only shows up when victory is assured, and thus, I “knew” that Chicago had it locked up. I suspect the IOC unloaded Chicago first as a backhand to the nation brazen enough to send their President, and that they were the real 2nd choice going in.

Once again, this is a bad misstep for a President who needs a “win” recently. At least getting the Olympics could be a positive where his influence would have appeared to win the day, and the international relations snafus of the last few weeks could be forgotten. I’m continually surprised by the ineptitude of this outfit to put itself in situations it will succeed at.

Instead, the President threw the power of his office to the IOC committee and they smacked it down hard. I’m forced to suggest that he’s nowhere near the political mind that Bill Clinton was, and the wisdom we’ve been promised, regardless of my continual doubt and argument against, is simply not there. Has this man been taken everywhere he’s gone in his career? Is this the Manchurian Candidate? A “historic” puppet driven by the shadows of the far Left? I have no idea, but now that the boy-king is in charge, it seems misstep after misstep are all he’s got.

Unemployment would max at 9% WITHOUT the stimulus right? Uh oh, its at 9.8% now with it.

We’d be loved in the world again, right? Ask Poland, the Czechs, Honduras, Georgia, the UK and Israel about that.

The auto industry would return, right? Well, Michigan is depopulating after the CARS program forced car sales down after creating a bubble to fix the results of a federal takeover of GM.

Iran would pipe down and stop their nuke program, right? Um, not exactly. We dropped the missile shield against Russia and the Russians STILL won’t support sanctions, and China won’t either.

We’d fix heathcare right? The House Bill costs $1T in ten years, the Bauccus bill costs $1.7T, and neither even covers the uninsured all the way. Even Dems won’t sign on to that poison.

The bills in Congress would be transparent, right? Several bills weren’t revealed until hours before passage even to the GOP, let alone the citizenry. The stimulus was PASSED and SIGNED before it was read.

No tax hikes on the middle class, right? The cigarette tax hits middle and low income families hardest. Cap and tax AND HR 3200 both include tax increases on the whole of the nation. Not close here. There’s even talk of a sugary drinks tax. LOL. Value-added tax is actually on the table again, as well! Party!

Working toward energy independence, right? Well, nuclear power is still on hold, no offshore drilling (except for Brazil), and huge regulations on CO2, which the Supreme Court (all environmental/physical scientists) ruled as a pollutant. On top of that, we’re moving toward hybrid cars, which NEED TO BE PLUGGED INTO THE WALL.

Well, he’s handled natural disasters much better than Bush, right? He hasn’t been to Georgia yet, who is in the midst of a 100-years flood, California burned to a crisp again this year, and New Orleans, the city Bush “forgot”, is still struggling to lift itself out of Katrina. Obama has not visited or mentioned any of these.

This President is a failure in every sense of the word, even to the point that the WaPo and the NYT have written hand-wringing, worrisome editorials cajoling their leader to act like President Obama, and not candidate Obama. Howard Fineman writing a piece harsh on a liberal is one of the signs of the apocalypse, I believe. He’s got some ground to cover to catch Carter as the worst President in history, but he’s got it in the bag at this rate. There is not a single facet of this administration that has gone as well as advertised, or really even worked as intended, and there is not one part of this nation that is stronger or better off for any policy he has championed, signed, or even argued for. May the voters deliver us from this atrocious leadership, and the vacuum it has left in the international community. Mark Levin had it right, Bibi Netanyahu is the new leader of the free world.

UPDATE (from Michelle Malkin):

Snort: Chicago crony WH adviser Axelrod on FNC lamenting “relationships & politics” at IOC that “we couldn’t overcome.”

Yep, Bush’s fault.

The Senate finance committee met today, and they discussed an interesting topic. The issue was the public option, and it was given a thumbs down.

The Senate Finance Committee has just rejected the Rockefeller amendment in favor of a public option by a 15-8 margin. All the Republicans voted no, and they were joined by Baucus, Conrad, Lincoln, Nelson, and Carper. Nancy Pelosi may still try to overcome blue-dog objections to the public option in the House, but I think this makes it pretty clear that proponents lack the votes in the Senate.

Pelosi can do whatever the Hell she wants (and she most certainly will), but the public option’s defeat today will take some wind out of liberal sails in the House, and it further signals that she will lose further support in the Senate should she try to force this in the bill.

Huge shout-out to the GOP Senators, who stuck to their guns. This nation is speaking loudly, and some of the Congress has heard. No rest for the weary, however. Time to finish this bill once and for all.

The liberals in control of the Democrat Party are completely insane at the moment, and the insults are flying everywhere. I won’t catalog them here, as everyone knows by now, but I will comment that watching this metamorphosis is shocking and terrifying, but about as interesting as anything I’ve seen in 25 years of life, politically speaking.

Recently, the tea party movement has ignited again, and with it the ichor and brutality of liberalism is scared and enraged by the Right using their own tactics against them. For a century, Nixon’s silent majority was the reality, and the liberals made all the racket in public. Party heads, notably the Democratic Party of Wisconsin’s Head, have again flown off the handle:

“These are extremist elements pulling together, distinct vocal minorities that frankly don’t believe in this country,” Tate said. “They don’t want to see more people have access to quality affordable health care; they don’t want clean air and water. They fundamentally don’t understand how the American government, economy and capitalism work.”

Wow. You’re really going to say we don’t understand capitalism? Hillary Clinton, the current SecState, once said that the most destructive force in America today is “the unfettered free market”. Obama said “spreading the wealth” was something good, etc., etc., etc.

Anyhow, the veracity of these statements isn’t the issue. The issue is that union members, full-bore Dems, and all manner of people actually showed up at last weekend’s rally, which totaled around 8,000 people, according to estimates. Calling them all names and marginalizing these people is not sound political strategy. Moreover, its the easiest path to losing power in the government as quickly as possible.

Polls are very clear that the tea party movement has sympathy in the general public, and derisive coverage of them has only increased the fervor. Independents’ support and attendance at the rallies has increased over time just as Obama’s numbers trend very negatively, and drop with each passing day. How on Earth are the liberals missing this? As a conservative, I’m delighted to watch the Democrats essentially demand to be removed from office by pressing forward on Cap and Trade and Health Care Takeover 2009. Is it a lack of self-control? I’m largely speechless.

The main goal of any political movement is to gain and maintain power. Whether its an abortion lobby, a human rights group, the NRA, or the Green Party, grabbing influence and holding on to it is the only real achievement worth noting. In that light, why are the Dems so gleefully alienating as many people as possible by throwing the race card all over Hell, and directing the anger of decades at anyone scared or angry about monstrous deficit spending or government takeovers?

I wish I had an answer, other than to say that liberals are scared to death by conservative activism, and their only response is anger and rage. At any rate, I cannot imagine a surer path to losing power than this one. Its so bad, I feel compelled to tell the liberals to calm it down. Its like seeing a plane crash hours before the wheels leave the tarmac.

Cleared for takeoff!

McChrystal has definitely dropped a bombshell on the Obama administration, and on our nation as a whole.

With his report, he clearly states that the war in Afghanistan will become unwinnable if we do not make clear moves to leave or to strengthen our position. Moreover, he will resign if the President doesn’t send more troops.

The question is: What now?

The three options, completely boiled down, are to leave now, do nothing different, or turn up the heat to win the war. Of the three, the easiest by far is to leave.

Leaving now prevents our further expenditure in the war, and removes us ostensibly from Afghan affairs. The area will almost certainly become a terrorist stronghold, with the Taliban coming back into power. It will also teach rogue nations that, at least under this President, simply resisting and being obstinate will make us leave. Ask Poland about that.

Doing nothing is a horrible idea, as we will continue to lose ground, lives, and money as we struggle below water in a land quite unkind to the USSR. This is hardly an option, as the General and the President aren’t willing to agree on that at the moment.

Door #3 is winning the war with superior force, troops all over hell, and what some righties would be delighted to call a “surge”. Sadly, this option is not near as wonderful as it looks, even though I wish it were. We have the money and troops to overrun Afghanistan, for sure, but we’re probably going to be at war with Iran very soon. Let’s discuss.

We will not allow Iran to get weapons to wipe Israel off the map, yet we cannot allow Israel to attack Iran, which they certainly will if we don’t step in. The major difference is that we must hit first because if Israel attacks, every Middle Eastern nation will declare war on Israel, we will have to step in, and Russia will probably step in against us, with North Korea and Venezuela, all nuclear nations, scary as that might be.

In that light, Obama has a Hard-mode choice to make. He’s the main guy, regardless of what anyone thinks of him, and he’s got three tough options on the table. But what would a conservative blogger do? Glad you asked.

My opinion is not yet set in stone, but here are some pithy comments. I suppose I would set up shop in Afghanistan with the intention of launching the eventual attack on Iran from that area. I would expend enough energy to set up a massive base of operations in Afghanistan. We must simply swallow the bitter pill of backing that horrid regime, but Iran is the biggest fish in the sea at the moment, and we cannot let Iran drive the world in to a World War, not to mention oil going to $400 a barrel or higher.

While we borrow money we do not possess to pay off Obama’s pals and cut the defense budget wherever possible, China has been building weapons and ships.

Now, Secretary Gates warns that China is becoming a threat to our Pacific operations in the area. Read: North Korea, the New Soviet Union, etc. If they decide to flex a bit of muscle, or the NORKs want to test another missile, wouldn’t it be nice if China scared us from protecting an ally for any reason? I’m stoked.

In response (not really, but soon after), Obama hangs the Czechs and the Poles out to dry on missile defense. Before, we had the Russians on their heels, and we were safeguarding nations formerly invaded by the Soviets with an entirely defensive system that could also defend assaults from anything Iran may launch in the future. Now their heads sit next to Honduras’ and the Israelis on their ceremonial pikes, trophies for Obama’s pro-tyrant agenda worldwide. Now our allies get yet another lesson that you cannot trust the United States with Obama in power. Sound familiar?

This is Jimmy Carter all over again. Does anyone still believe that Obama being elected isn’t the worst thing in 30 years of American history?