Reflections From a Murky Pond

President Obama delivered what passed for his his State Of The Union Address last night. The GOP and various members of the American people immediately thereafter began rebutting it and analyzing the speech’s meanings.

Why do they bother? You can’t rebut meaningless hot air, which is all that Obama’s nuanced rhetoric and conflicting not-quite-promises were.

The 2011 SOTU Address was nothing other than- or more than Obama’s first major campaign speech in his bid for re-election in 2012. Don’t waste your time and effort, or lend it or its speaker any undeserved weight or significance, rebutting or analyzing it.

So, today is the day of the POTUS’ annual pep talk, his State Of The Union Address. Tonight at 9:00 PM. EST President Obama will preempt the national airwaves and deliver his SOTU address to Congress, various dignitaries, and those of the American people who choose to watch it.

As is now commonplace, the POTUS will speak much but say very little of substance.

This SOTU address in particular will be nothing but a pep talk combined with admonitions for Liberals to stay strong, to rally behind President Obama’s agenda, and to swallow another serving of “Hope and Change.” Much more so than a Constitutionally required report to Congress, tonight’s address is the inauguration of Obama’s 2012 Presidential election campaign.

Take Obama’s speech for what it’s worth, no more and no less. If nothing else, it makes for a good drinking game.

Thomas Sowell’s A Man of Letters is a book that most people in America should read. It is certainly, without a doubt, a book that every White should read in order to help dispel the Liberals’ long perpetuated myths about race relations in America and how their policies have affected it.

While nowhere near Sowell’s first publication, A Man Of Letters is a particularly great starting point for reading Sowell’s extensive body of work.

To-date Thomas Sowell has written 32 books and many more scholarly papers during the last 39 years on race relations, societal modeling, history, politics, and economics. Many of these books are considered seminal works in their respective fields. A Man Of Letters, however, gives a rare glimpse into the mind of the author and is, therefor, a great starting point for new readers of his works.

A Man of Letters traces the life, career, and commentaries on controversial issues of Thomas Sowell over a period of more than four decades through his letters to and from family, friends, and public figures ranging from Milton Friedman to Clarence Thomas, David Riesman, Arthur Ashe, William Proxmire, Vernon Jordan, Charles Murray, Shelby Steele, and Condoleezza Rice. These letters begin with Sowell as a graduate student at the University of Chicago in 1960 and conclude with a reflective letter to his fellow economist and longtime friend Walter Williams in 2005.

It is certainly worth the time it takes to read and is a book I highly recommend for everyone in America.

The Countdown is over and it ended, not with a bang but with a whimper bordering on a whine.

Liberal pundit Keith Olbermann, unsurprisingly rather theatrically, announced at the end of his show Friday night that he and MSNBC were parting company and that he had just finished the last episode of Countdown. He provided no further explanation of the reasons for this.

Liberals, of course, are already concocting various conspiracy theories. Most of them involve trying to paint NBC’s probable future owner, Comcast as being “to blame” for Olbermann’s  and Countdown’s removal from MSNBC’s prime-time line-up.

As an American, I wish there was more substance to the Leftists’ paranoid, anti-capitalist drivel this time. It’d be great to think that Comcast and NBC were planning on shifting MSNBC to something closer to journalism. I doubt that is their plan though; there’s too much money to be made by being the Liberal propaganda machine and, as every Liberal is so wont to jabber, a corporation’s goal is to make money.

Personally, I think we’ll soon be seeing Olbermann, whose first love was sportscasting, as a major force on Comcast’s Versus, most likely heading at least one show and narrating and commenting upon others, much like Mike Rowe does for the Discovery Channel.

Have you ever before today heard of Casey Brezik or that he planned on killing Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon but was both too crazy and drug-addled to identify his target and, therefor, ended up brutally knifing Penn Valley Community College Dean of Instruction, Al Dimmitt Jr. by mistake?

It’s a safe bet that you haven’t unless you live in the Kansas City area. The story of Bresik’s assassination attempt didn’t manage to garner the interest of the Leftists’ “lamestream” media and so failed to receive any national attention.

This is cause for anger and certainly justification for any and all forms of retribution against the Liberal MSM pundits, but it is hardly surprising. Casey Brezik is a radical Left-Wing, drug addicted, Black who embraced Islam and who chose a knife for his assassination attempt. Brezik’s not the sort of creature whose wrongdoings the “lamestream” reports upon.

If it wasn’t for American Thinker this story would never have made it past the local news in Missouri.

In September 2010 Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon was scheduled to speak at Penn Valley Community College in Kansas City.

At some point, wearing black clothes and a bullet-proof vest, 22 year-old Casey Brezik bolted out of a classroom, knife in hand, and slashed the throat of a dean. As he would later admit, he confused the dean with Nixon.

The story never left Kansas City. It is not hard to understand why. Knives lack the political sex appeal of guns, and even Keith Olbermann would have had a hard time turning Brezik into a Tea Partier.

Indeed, Brezik seems to have inhaled just about every noxious vapor in the left-wing miasma: environmental extremism, radical Islam, anti-capitalism, anti-Zionism and Christophobia, among others.

In his “About Me” box on Facebook, Brezik listed as his favorite quotation one from progressive poster boy, Che Guevara. The quote begins “Our every action is a battle cry against imperialism” and gets more belligerent from there.

Blacks, Drug Addicts, Leftists, and Muslims – those are all “protected classes” insofar as the bulk of America’s national media are concerned. They are utterly loath to report on any wrongdoings or crimes by those sorts; doing so would violate their ideology.

I can’t help hoping that Olbermann, Maddow, Huffington, and/or some other Liberal talking heads get exterminated or mutilated by either a nut-job or a fed-up American striking a blow for our nation.

After all, if “words have consequences,” then so too must silence.

Even the use of a ballistic vest, the slitting of the throat of a college’s Dean, and the fact that the intended target was a Democrat wasn’t enough to overcome the MSM’s unwillingness to accurately and fully report the news when it shows Blacks, Leftists, or Muslims – especially converts – acting out in garishly violent ways.

So Casey Brezik remained an “unknown assailant” as it were from September 14, 2010 to January 21, 2011 – just over four months and carefully past the 2010 elections – due to the disgusting racism and anti-American leftist ideology of the Media which has degenerated into little more than a traitorous fifth column.

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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. 😉