Reflections From a Murky Pond

Americans are rightly fearful of our domestic enemies’ ever growing attempts to disarm the American people. Yet that fear can easily be assuaged and the threat of disarmament removed. It’s a very simple two-step process.

1. Acquire arms and ammunition sufficient for your defense needs.
2. Make it clear to the politicians and their police that you will use those weapons against them and their families if they try to confiscate them.

Remember that the flip side of, “If they outlaw guns, only outlaws will have them,” is that, if we’re outlawed already, there’s no longer any need or purpose in abiding by their laws from that point forward.

There’s always a reason why poor people are poor and often, though not nearly always, that reason is that the people in question make poor choices and have priorities that prevent them from ever being anything better then parasites on society as a whole.

Even when they’re given largess from the public’s coffers in the form of welfare and food stamps via EBT in order for them to feed themselves, they seem to have different priorities for its use.

It seems some number of them prefer to spend the money that government took from Americans and gave to them as a hand-out on: liquor, pornography, hookah use, and strippers.

They’re on the dole — and watching the pole.

Welfare recipients took out cash at bars, liquor stores, X-rated video shops, hookah parlors and even strip clubs — where they presumably spent their taxpayer money on lap dances rather than diapers, a Post investigation found.

A database of 200 million Electronic Benefit Transfer records from January 2011 to July 2012, obtained by The Post through a Freedom of Information request, showed welfare recipients using their EBT cards to make dozens of cash withdrawals at ATMs inside Hank’s Saloon in Brooklyn; the Blue Door Video porn shop in the East Village; The Anchor, a sleek SoHo lounge; the Patriot Saloon in TriBeCa; and Drinks Galore, a liquor distributor in The Bronx.

The state Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA), which oversees the “cash assistance program,” even lists some of these welfare-ready ATMs on its Web site.

One EBT machine is stationed inside Club Eleven, an infamous Hunts Point jiggle joint known as much for its violent history as its girls in pink thongs.

NOTE: Before I go any further I must say that Fox News’ article has one huge and glaring flaw, most likely of deliberate origin. There are NO EBT MACHINES! EBT cards work in any ATM, which are what is installed in the locations mentioned. OK, technically they just reprinted an excerpt from an NY Post article but, especially considering the nature of their sister company, that’s no real excuse for either poor fact-checking or willfully ignoring errors.

By way of probably long overdue full disclosure, since it hasn’t mattered in close to two years, I worked for a Newscorp business as a senior technical executive (ISO) for 5 long years.

I know the people all the way to the top and I know what the companies’ real goals are and they’re not political in the least.

I like the various Newscorp businesses for what they are – a lone counterweight to the Leftists’ MSM complex. I can’t and don’t try to delude myself about their own agenda and methodology though, and I don’t see where anyone else should either.

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Still…Strip Clubs? These grifters and failures prefer to use hands-outs meant for their food, housing, utilities, and sundry household necessities to watch some slut jiggle and show off the sum total of her worth as an animal? Tell me again why we’re keeping these creatures alive.

I could almost understand the occasional splurge on a six-pack, a bottle of spirits, or nice bowl out of hookah, or a civilized drink or two at a bar. People do need to maintain some semblance of normalcy and pleasure irrespective of their poverty; that’s part of the aim of these welfare programs. But strippers?!?

As an interesting side-note, the NYC Green Markets accept EBT but ONLY issue coupons that are only good at the green market. They even add extra, in the form of $2 extra for every $5 spent.

Many would say that the welfare system is flawed and that this is proof of it. To be fair though, the federal government did recognize this problem and the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act, which Obama actually signed into law, included provisions that requires states to prohibit sinful welfare spending by 2014. If they don’t, they’ll forfeit federal cash. Yet those state legislatures which are controlled by Liberals, including New York’s, don’t seem to believe that they need to address this because doing so would “hurt the poor.”

For myself, I wouldn’t say that the system is flawed and I have no idea how to stop this sinful spending of other people’s money without returning to old voucher system which was determined to be both needlessly and prohibitively expense to run. In other words, what they’re losing in misuse is probably less than they were losing in overhead before.

What I would say is that entire concept is flawed. Clinton, under American pressure in his 2nd term, reformed Welfare to some extent but we’ve never gone far enough. We’re still keeping habitual parasites and failure alive instead of implementing caps and cut-offs to limit how long they can live at our expense.

Then again, since only very recent dates were mentioned, it may just come down to who are the new poor and who’s been now allowed these entitlements. That would point to a systemic failure but not to a failure of the specific system delivery largess to the our society’s dregs and temporarily – we hope but do not count on with Obama’s reelection – impoverished.

Bipartisanship is very often lauded even though, under the current regime, it is a word more often used to paint the enemy as obstructionist for not giving the Left everything that they clamor for.

You Didn’t Just Cross an Aisle. You Crossed A Line

The problem is that often in these times bipartisanship is not only wrong, it’s very, very ugly. 😉

The Muslim Brotherhood’s primary US cell, CAIR wants an end to “Islamists” – not the actual Islamists, mind you, just the use of that word by anyone, especially the press. Their ranting and raving mouthpiece, Ibrahim Hooper made it clear they CAIR wants “Islamist” banned in public discourse because there are rarely any positive references to Islamist in news articles”.

Firstly, the only thing involving this Muslim vermin, Ibrahim Hooper that should ever be in the news is the joyous announcement of it’s extermination. But, since I haven’t gotten to him, and others who have more opportunity seem too weak to do what is right, we’re forced to hear or read this incestuous pig-fucker’s jabberings.

As many people make promises to themselves to improve their lives or their societies in the coming year, here is a suggested New Year’s resolution for media outlets in America and worldwide: Drop the term “Islamist.”

The Associated Press (AP) added the term to its influential Stylebook in 2012. That entry reads: “Islamist — Supporter of government in accord with the laws of Islam. Those who view the Quran as a political model encompass a wide range of Muslims, from mainstream politicians to militants known as jihadi.”

The AP says it sought input from Arabic-speaking experts and hoped to provide a neutral perspective by emphasizing the “wide range” of religious views encompassed in the term.

Many Muslims who wish to serve the public good are influenced by the principles of their faith. Islam teaches Muslims to work for the welfare of humanity and to be honest and just. If this inspiration came from the Bible, such a person might well be called a Good Samaritan. But when the source is the Quran, the person is an “Islamist.”

Unfortunately, the term “Islamist” has become shorthand for “Muslims we don’t like.” It is currently used in an almost exclusively pejorative context and is often coupled with the term “extremist,” giving it an even more negative slant.

There are few, if any, positive references to “Islamist” in news articles.

I would hope this little rant of Hoopers would sound familiar to the peoples of the Civilized World as it is nothing but yet another paraphrasing of the IOC’s ongoing attempt to make criticizing Islam a crime. I would also hope that this is a case where familiarity breeds contempt, loathing, and swift reprisal against both the speaker and those it claims to speak for.

For those who think my response to a “simple request” seems extreme, let me remind that CAIR rarely just asks for anything. Any “request” by them must be, given their history of paper terrorism against people who criticize Islam for its subhuman evil, seen as nothing less than a legal preamble or preparatory step for lawfare.

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I will remind each and every American that warfare trumps lawfare; attorneys who take cases against Americans’ rights are valid targets; and that neither legal briefs nor judge’s robes will stop a well-aimed bullet.

Mankind periodically experiences prophetic Change. Such change also tend to accelerate, with prophetic changes happening with greater and greater frequency as we stumble the road of entropy.

5000 years ago Moses said to the Children of God, “Pick up your shovels, mount your asses and camels, and I will lead you to the Promised Land of milk and honey.

75 years ago Franklin Delano Roosevelt said to the people, “Put down your shovels, sit on your asses and light up a Camel. This is the Promised Land and the government shall give you all milk and honey.”

Today the government has stolen your shovel, taxed your asses and Camels, mortgaged the Promised Land, and declared milk and honey to be regulated closely.

I think that we’d be far better off with a change of prophets! The ones we’ve been getting lately down seem to be serving any God that Americans would choose to worship.