Reflections From a Murky Pond

The Obama Regime has unveiled its “plan” for countering the violence and terrorism of Islam…by giving the jihadis and potential jihadis jobs.

We can work with countries around the world to help improve their governance. We can help them build their economies so they can have job opportunities for these people.

— Marie Harf, State Dept. Spokesperson

This is the typical sort of “nuanced” declaration that we’ve become ever so used to from Obama and his sycophants. And it is nuanced and not without a kernel of truth to it. Improved governance and economic opportunities would reduce certain forms of violence and unrest. It just won’t do anything to undermine the Islamic terrorism, extremism, and jihadist behavior that the world is facing today.

It’s a far more generalized prescription that could be applied with various chances and degrees of success to almost any violent group.

Obama’s Jobs For Jihadis Plan

What we have here and now is a refusal by the Obama Regime to effectively, even in rhetoric, address the issue of Radical Islam.

Alinsky’s 12th Rule for Radicals states, “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Obama knows this rule and its proven worth, yet he refuses to pick the Jihadis as the target, freeze them, personalize them, and polarize them. He refuses to do what he was trained to do to an enemy.

Pause and think about that for a moment.

How can anyone, even for a moment, believe that Obama sees Radical Islam and Muslim terrorism as a serious problem to be countered when he refuses to follow the rules he was trained to follow when dealing with them? It seems fairly obvious that he doesn’t see it as a serious problem and likely that he, instead, sees Radical Islam and Muslim terrorism a “crisis” to be exploited for other gains in his and his handlers’ and overseers’ agenda.

On Wednesday, February 18, 2015, speaking at a dinner for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker at the 21 Club in Manhattan, Rudy Giuliani spoke the blunt truth about Obama and his feelings towards America.

I do not believe, and I know this is a horrible thing to say, but I do not believe that the president loves America.  He doesn’t love you. And he doesn’t love me. He wasn’t brought up the way you were brought up and I was brought up through love of this country.

— Rudy Giuliani

This, of course, bothered and offended both Obama and the Liberals and Progressives who support and enable him. The White House, mirroring their foreign policy strategy, rapidly responded with a Twitter #hastag, #ObamaLovesAmerica.

The simple truth is that Giuliani’s right in his concerns. Obama doesn’t love America. Nobody who seeks to fundamentally transform something or someone loves it or them; and nobody who consistently denigrates something or someone loves it or them. And this has been the tenor, words, and deeds of Obama’s entire campaign and attempted reign.

Got To Warm Things Up!

With the eastern half of the US being hit with record-breaking cold weather, we’ve got to warm things up a bit. To that end, I’ll think she’ll do nicely…or naughtily, as it were. 😉

Congratulations to all those born between the 1930’s and early 1980’s! You seem to have won the temporal-genetic lottery, having been born in the right times.

Congratulation!

First off, you survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried you. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a tin, and didn’t get tested for diabetes.

Then, after that trauma, your baby cots were covered with bright colored lead-based paints. You had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when you rode your bikes, you had no helmets – not to mention, the risks you took hitchhiking. As children, you would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags. Riding in the back of a van or pickup truck – loose – was always great fun. You drank water from the garden hosepipe, not from a bottle. You shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and no one actually died from this. You ate cakes, white bread and real butter, and drank pop with sugar in it, but you weren’t overweight because…… YOU WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!

You would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as you were back when the streetlights came on. No one was able to reach you all day. And you were OK. You would spend hours building your go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out you forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, you learned to solve the problem .

You did not have Playstations, Nintendo’s, X-boxes, no video games at all; no 99+ channels on cable; no video tape movies; no surround sound; no mobile phones; no text messaging; no personal computers; no Internet or Internet chat rooms……….YOU HAD FRIENDS and you went outside and found them!

You fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents you played with worms (well most boys did) and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever. You made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although you were told it would happen, you did not poke out any eyes. You rode bikes or walked to a friend’s house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!

Local teams had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn’t had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that! The idea of a parent bailing you out if you broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever! The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. You had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and you learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL! And YOU are one of them! CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for what they claim is our own good. And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.

Two student organizations at Duke University, Think Before You Talk and Blue Devils United, have started a campaign to get fellow students to self-censor themselves so as to not offend certain protected minorities.

As you’ll note, each image includes the starting phrase, “I Don’t Say.” Yet, the campaign’s name is far more honest, “You don’t say.” That’s both telling and important because such cultural pogroms, when enacted in what now passes for academic environments invariable move from “I don’t” to “You don’t say…or else.” It never stays voluntary self-censorship or, at least is hasn’t so far.

First it will shift into peer pressure against- and ostracization of students who do not chose to self-censor their speech. This would, under the current (mis)definitions of the term, be considered “bullying” if it weren’t being applied against the normative majority.

Then it will expand to protests against any student organization or club that are deemed by the “faithful” to have a tendency towards nonconformity to the new speech code.

After that, it will expand further into protests against faculty and curricula that do not overtly support the politically correct “newspeak.”

Finally, it will move into the political arena and, as a result of protests, “studies,” and the like attempt to coerce the government into basing funding of universities upon their compliance with fostering the use and enforcement of the new speech codes.

To any who claim this is merely a hysterical “slippery slope” argument I say that there is no better predictor of the future than the past and the past, in the form of racial appeasement and affirmative action, has shown that this downward slope is the one that is followed in what passes for academia in the US.

First it’s “I don’t say.” Then it’s “You don’t say…or else.”