Reflections From a Murky Pond

Every year around the Christmas season there’s an argument within the Beltway about what sort of public observance of the holiday will be done. This year things were a bit more extreme and odder than usual though.

No Nativity Scene in Washington This Year!

The United States Supreme Court has ruled that there cannot be a Nativity Scene in the United States Capitol this Christmas season. This isn’t for any religious reason. They simply have not been able to Find Three Wise Men in the Nation’s Capitol.  A search for a Virgin continues. There was no problem, however, finding enough asses to fill the stable. 😉

Congress and the White House, always ever eager to circumvent the rulings of the SCOTUS, has decided to include the Nativity anyway, just not as a public display.

Bacon Nativity – So Wrong But So Porkalicious

That’s right; they’ve figured out a way of combining their two great loves: feeding from the public trough and an endless supply of pork with their holiday celebrations.

President Obama has a serious political problem; he has boxed himself into an untenable and utterly unsustainable corner and now has nowhere to go but down.

In the wake of America’s rejection of the Left’s agenda the POTUS has had something vaguely akin to a wake-up call; he’s now finally willing to make some pretense of governing all of America.

President Obama has, having seen the disaster that he and the Liberals have already wrought upon themselves, has cast aside – at least for now – the Leftist, anti-American, neo-Socialist agenda that he’d been, up to now, trying to ram down the unwilling collective throats of we, the People.

Specifically, Obama engaged with the GOP and negotiated a compromise resolution to the painful issue of whether, when, and how the Bush Era Tax Cuts would be allowed to end. The details of this compromise gave all sides much of what they felt necessary but did so at the cost of giving their opposition much of what they desired.

The Leftists Despise Obama For This

Liberals, Progressives, and the “lamestream” media pundits that pander to these domestic enemies of America are gnashing their teeth and now are claiming that Obama is a failed President.

There’s even talk, both among the neo-Socialist Left and within the Beltway, that the Dems are divided enough that their might be even more serious problems facing Obama shortly.

It’s pretty clear that, one way or another, these Liberals are going to make President Obama pay for breaking ranks, however superficially, with their anti-American ideology. They’ll show him the price of not punishing the productive in order to pander to nonproductive, non-contributing, rabble.

Guess We Showed Obama…

Of course there’s a huge upside to this if you’re an American in faith as well by accident of birth. Not only has the Left shown it’s true colors for all the nation to see, but Obama’s loss of much of his base bodes for the 2012 Elections. 😉

They ask; they tell. In the case of the Liberals who have debased the Democratic party, they ask for everything and tell lies when balked by Americans.

Their latest bit of perfidy is their whining that the Senate Republicans blocked the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell (DADT).

Such mouthings may play well with  their base, but fall far short of reality or American credulity.

These domestic enemies are not utterly without intelligence and cunning, however. They, following the “shining” example of what passes for President Obama’s rhetoric, lie through omission and by spewing half-truths and ambiguous statements rather than by outright lies.

Yes, it is true that a bill that included a repeal of DADT as a rider failed to come to a vote in the US Senate due to 39 Republican and 1 Democrat Senators blocking it via filibuster. Senator Reid’s vote  for cloture ended up 57 to 40 with 3 abstaining (2 GOP, 1 Dem).

What is patently false, and a stupid lie by the Liberals trying to still rule Congress, is that the bill in question was a bill to repeal DADT or that the GOP blocked it on the grounds of being such a bill. It was, in truth, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011 (S. 3454), something very important to the nation and the Republican Senators representing it.

The GOP, with one Dem supporter, filibustered the bill because the Senate Democrats, led by the ever arrogant and delusional Reid, tried to keep the Republicans from having any input into the bill and to prevent any debate upon its content where C-SPAN and the nation could see it.

Sens. Brown and Murkowski had previously said they supported repeal of DADT but demanded an “open amendment process” to ensure Republicans can make changes to the defense bill. Reid, in turn, offered Collins 15 amendments — 10 for Republicans and five for Democrats — but she countered with a request for four days of floor debate.

So the truth, despite the lies and misinformation spewing out of the mouths of America’s domestic enemies, is that Senator Reid and his cronies used the LGBT community in an attempt to ramrod a unbalanced and non-transparent national defense appropriation bill through the Senate and the Republicans refused to bullied by them.

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Keep your eyes open. Travel light but load heavy, and always put another round in the enemy after they’re down. 😉

Current events and the odd the ways that reality messes with people in general has left me with an odd feeling – Ambivalence, which is quite odd for me.

I’m truly torn over the moral and ethical implications of my involvement, such as it is, in the whole Julian Assange and WikiLeaks debacle.

On one hand, I put up a post that included content that upset and outraged a number of Australians enough that they were willing to violate their own laws to threaten me and my family with death. That, in and of itself, showed me that my post was egregiously wrong and I chose – No, my provider only required that I remove certain specific content – to delete it.

On the other hand, my actions seems to have convinced an avowed enemy of America and fugitive from the international judicial – note, I don’t say justice – system to surrender himself into UK custody. For support of that very odd and unexpected turn of events I refer you Julian Assange’s own words which were published as Op-Ed in The Australian just before he surrender himself to British authorities.

[Sic]…There have been dozens of serious calls in the US for me to be “taken out” by US special forces. Sarah Palin says I should be “hunted down like Osama bin Laden”, a Republican bill sits before the US Senate seeking to have me declared a “transnational threat” and disposed of accordingly. An adviser to the Canadian Prime Minister’s office has called on national television for me to be assassinated. An American blogger has called for my 20-year-old son, here in Australia, to be kidnapped and harmed for no other reason than to get at me.

I am that American blogger that Julian Assange referenced just before he submitted himself to the legal system. That infers or alludes that I was was part of the reason why he did so.

Hence, the ambivalence I feel, in the true and denotative sense of the word.

Ambivalence

Pronunciation: \am-biv-uh-luhns\
Function: Noun
Date: 1909

Definition(s):

1. Simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action
2. Continual fluctuation (as between one thing and its opposite)

I did something that, even by my attenuated standards of Right and Wrong, was reprehensible and it seems to have had a net positive impact, especially for the citizens of America and the Western World.

This leaves me in an odd position and one that I was, and am, frankly unprepared to deal with. I truly never expected – hoped, certainly – my lone voice in the wilderness of the internet to have any measurable on the world at large.

Truly, I’m going to have think about this – and assess and reassess how much of this is ego on my part – for a while. This will likely affect the frequency on content of this my posts for a while. 🙁

So what’s a pregnant woman to do? She’s gained weight, probably isn’t feeling sexy and that, combined with the hormone roller coaster she’s trapped in, is likely making her feel unhappy and undesirable.

Fortunately, Roxy Fedaro (Christina Applegate, actually) has released a prenatal exercise DVD that should help. 😉

Roxy Fedaro’s Prenatal Pole Dancing DVD!

Watching Christina’s Applegate’s spoof video put me in an odd position; I didn’t know whether to fall on the kitchen floor laughing or gouge out my own eyes and try to pour bleach on my brain.

The only lingering bit of sadness this video engenders is that, given the growing depravity of American society, there probably is, or soon will be, a real life Roxy Fedaro and a commercial such as this.