Reflections From a Murky Pond

So what’s a horny Muslim male supposed to do for sex if it doesn’t live where it can either fuck one of Allah’s whores or buy a prepubescent girl to rut into? It’s been bot ha question and problem since Islam was contained and they could no longer conquer parts of the Civilized World and rape human women.

These Muslim males are cunning though and some have worked around the problem…

It’s Always The “Bad Boy” On The Bike

But hey! Who am I to judge? The ewe seems very, very happy (creepy!), no human women were or are being harmed and/or befouled, Muslims aren’t cross-fertile with sheep, and the Liberals keep harping that I shouldn’t judge any part of another culture…

So, Ewe go, Muhammad! You Baa-aaad boy! Just be careful; in some areas of the Muslim World they’ll make you marry her. 😛

There’s an old axiom based upon Biblical advice that states that goes, “Spare the rod and spoil the child.” It has, along with most forms of parental discipline, fallen out of favor in modern, Western society.

He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

— Proverbs 13:24, the Bible (KJV)

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Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.

— Proverbs 23: 13-14, the Bible (KJV)

Let’s leave the question of whether or not discipline benefit the child aside for the moment and consider a new proverb, “Spare the rod and raise a douchebag.”

Really! As David Hochman asks and answers, is current indulgent parenting spawning a generation of entitled hipster brats?

Let us begin with the assumption that if you are a parent, you wish for your child every advantage and opportunity. From the ergonomic high chair to that all-important first sushi experience and beyond, life should be as golden for your little one as it is for, say, Pax Jolie-Pitt.

But inevitably the moment arrives when all your doting and care come back on you in the form of a precocious little barb that reminds you in no uncertain terms of . . . you. It might be that his friend Jake’s eighth-birthday party was “unbelievably lame” or that “it’s weird that Brandon’s family flies first-class and we don’t,” or maybe it’s simply that “these taquitos taste like turd.”

It’s then that you must reckon with the real possibility that your drive to make little Johnny better, smarter, and hipper has merely turned him into a douchebag.

Now Mr. Hochman focuses on the evils of the Liberal urban elites, which is not entirely fair since the problem and problematic end results are endemic across many socio-economic strata of Western society, though the motives of the parents are likely to differ based upon economics, race, and culture. Yet it’s not particularly unfair either since these Liberal urban elites are set up as something akin to role models by the media and have the power to affect laws and policies in ways that make any form of parental discipline impossible or risky.

Now don’t get me wrong, with the surprisingly success of Reality TV, there’s obviously going to be a continuing job market for douchebags, but is raising your progeny to be fit for only that one job such a good idea, especially at the cost of the rest of us having to either put up with them or put them down?

Technology advances but people stay the same. Technological advances normally just change the delivery systems for things we already crave.

A New Improved Delivery System?

On the bright side, this could lead to a smoking hot future. 😛

The very fact that America is in its current “Debt Crisis” and seeking to, once again, raise it’s own debt ceiling is an example of a willful and utter failure of leadership. Rather than behave responsibly, the politicians in Washington D.C. have chosen to continue to make America reliant upon foreign financial aid and to burden our children and our children’s children with crushing debt owed to foreign powers.

The above was Obama’s stridently voiced opinion when President Bush Jr. was POTUS:

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure,” he said. “It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. … Leadership means that ‘the buck stops here.’ Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase America’s debt limit.

— Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL), March 20, 2006

Then-Senator Obama then voted, along with 47 other Senators, against the proposed debt ceiling increase. The joint resolution ended up narrowly passing 52 – 48.

Since then, of course, Obama’s public opinion has rather dramatically reversed. Now he and his coterie seem to feel that not raising the debt ceiling would be a failure of leadership.

In January, 2011 the White House was questioned on this turnabout of position. The response from Obama’s mouthpiece, Robert Gibbs revealed quite a lot about Obama’s “character” and his “positions” on issues.

Asked about that quote – and vote — today, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said that it was important that “based on the outcome of that vote…the full faith and credit was not in doubt.”

Then-Sen. Obama used the vote “to make a point about needing to get serious about fiscal discipline….His vote was not necessarily needed on that.”

So Obama was against the debt ceiling increase when being so would have no near-term consequences that might affect his chances of keeping his job in the US Senate. One must presume that he is for it now for similar reasons since failing to raise the debt ceiling would definitely have near-term consequences – or so his cabal keep telling us – that would negatively impact his continued employment.

Unsurprisingly, this being an election year, Obama has further “clarified” his position on the matter and no longer believes that even token speeches of dissent or unneeded votes of conscience against raising the debt ceiling are appropriate.

Press secretary Jay Carney said that “the president, as David Plouffe said yesterday, regrets that vote and thinks it was a mistake. He realizes now that raising the debt ceiling is so important to the health of this economy and the global economy that it is not a vote that, even when you are protesting an administration’s policies, you can play around with, and you need to take very seriously the need to raise the debt limit so that the full faith and credit of the United States government is maintained around the globe.”

Don’t mistake either my point or Obama’s position. He was not “against it before he was for it.” His position has always been the same, to be elected and reelected. Obama, the Campaigner-in-Chief has no firmly held positions or agendas beyond that or, at least, none that supersede that self-centered and narcissistic core goal.

Like most Liberals Obama’s ideology falls by the wayside whenever pursuing it would force him to make sacrifices or put his personal circumstances at risk. Sacrifices are things that other people should be forced to make for the “greater good.”

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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. 😉

It is probable that even the Tibetan Lamas strapped into contorted meditative postures in remote caves in the Himalayas know that the US is suffering from a “debt crisis” and that the abject fear of the GOP managing to block a raise to the country’s debt ceiling is rife within both the halls of power and in the hearts of Liberals on the street.

What is much less probable is that the average person really understands what the crisis is about or what the debt ceiling really is and why so many are afraid it won’t be raised in August.

Spend Today For A Brighter Future – For Some Other Country

It’s really quite simple – so simple, in fact, that many normal people don’t get it. The government of the United States of America has maxed out its credit cards again, just like so many Americans had done before the 2008 market contraction. Unlike the citizenry – or the individual state governments – they can raise their own credit limit, which is what the politicians seek to do.

That’s all there really is to it, though politicians and pundits will try to confuse and complicate the matter. The federal government has been living well beyond its means for years, making the “minimum monthly payments” on its debt, and borrowing more and more to maintain itself at the level it has been accustomed to.

And the major real fear is that, if they don’t keep raising their own credit limit, America’s credit score might be hurt and we might have to pay higher – sub-prime – interest rates on future loans.

Sadly for us, there’s no such thing as credit counseling services for sovereign nations.