The President who has never been right on a single major decision has now decided to make a lot more decisions.
Stunning! Obama Administration Declassifies Document on Israel’s Nuclear Power
This one, however, is just another joke headline from one of the President’s media enablers.
Sure they do. And now, after a hard week:
Here comes Florida: The president takes another golf weekend
I’ve seen this before, but people do not seem to remember, or perhaps do not even care.
In 1887 Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh , had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior: “A democracy is always Temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent Form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until The time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous Gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority Always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally Collapse over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a Dictatorship.”
“The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the Beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 Years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:
From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to complacency; From complacency to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage.
The Obituary follows: “United States of America”, Born 1776, Died 2016
It doesn’t hurt to read this several times.
Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the last Presidential election:
Number of States won by: Obama: 19 Romney: 29
Square miles of land won by: Obama: 580,000 Romney: 2,427,000
Population of counties won by: Obama: 127 million Romney: 143 million
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Obama: 13.2 Romney: 2.1Professor Olson adds: “In aggregate, the map of the territory Romney won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of the country. Obama territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in low Income tenements and living off various forms of government Welfare…”
Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the “complacency and apathy” phase of Professor Tyler’s definition of Democracy, with some forty percent of the nation’s population Already having reached the “governmental dependency” phase..
If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegal’s – and they vote – then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years.
If you are in favor of this, then by all means, delete this message.
If you are not, then pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at stake, knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to our Freedom.
The worst president and an even worse media. He couldn’t do what he’s doing if he weren’t being given such benign media coverage by the American media that is laughably supposed to speak truth to power. The stories are from Powerline Picks at the moment, with links only to the ones that are not covered in the headline. They media know everything we know, but they won’t say a thing. And we know they know because of the way they avoid every issue that might damage their president. But if the shape of the world as outlined below doesn’t spook you, I don’t know what will.
US begins Tikrit air strikes — NORDLAND & BAKER, NY TIMES
Saudis begin air assault in Yemen — MAZZETTI & KIRKPATRICK, NY TIMES
Bergdahl charged with desertion — D. LAMOTHE, WAPO
American chutzpah — Y. AMIDROR, ISRAEL HAYOM
Kerry off to close deal — MATTHEW LEE, AP
In nuke talks, Iran avoids specifics — SANGER & GORDON, NY TIMES
Obama snubs NATO chief — JOSH ROGIN, BLOOMBERG
Google makes most of close WH ties — B. MULLINS, WSJ
Let me get this right. Obama is in secret negotiations to arrange a deal with Iran to allow it to build nuclear weapons. Iran has said that it seeks to have nuclear weapons so that it can wipe the Jewish State off the map. Israel has been using whatever ports it can to find out what Obama and Iran are up to. Obama is infuriated with Israel because it has been spying.
OK, let’s face it. Obama is either an idiot, or he is pretending to be an idiot. No one in the position that Israel is in would do anything other than stay on top of every manoeuvre now being made by every party in the Middle East.
That the media in the US asks not a question about what is going on is not news. Everything goes on quietly with hardly a murmur while Iran moves closer to nuclear capabilities. It is inexplicable to me. But there it is and it’s not changing soon enough for me.
One more take on the Israeli election, this time by Sultan Knish who I always agree with. In this case, since I have no knowledge myself, I have paid close attention since he sees as I see. Worrying, but not an unfamiliar picture of the left. Nevertheless, it is one that makes them crazier than anyone else I can think of. They are like so many people I personally know, but they, at least, don’t live in the Middle East. How can people with the same insanity and hopeless ignorance live in the Israeli cauldron and have these same views. Here he is to help you understand although it is hard to understand. Israel’s Leftist Losers:
Its allegiance was not to Jewish history or democracy, but to its crackpot leftist fantasies. Now its fantasies are dead and it wants to kill Israel.
The left spitefully alienated every immigrant group from Holocaust survivors to Middle Eastern Jews to Russian Jews. It also had slurs for each of them. The Holocaust survivors were ‘Sabon’ (soap) and the Middle Eastern Jewish refugees were ‘Chakhchakhim’. That particular slur at an election rally cost Peres and Labor the 1981 election. Another slur at an election rally now hurt the left and boosted Netanyahu. But if you ask the left why it lost, it will blame Israeli racism.
So far so bad, but this is the hard part to understand.
Since the left lost control of Israel, it has been hell-bent on destroying it. The PLO deal was one step in a process meant to destroy Israel and return to the bi-national state that Ahdut HaAvodah, the ancestor of the Labor Party, and Ben Gurion had been flirting with in the twenties and thirties. The Two-State Solution was always meant to end in a One-State Solution.
The Israeli left has despaired of turning the country into the utopia that it wanted. There are still plenty of bureaucrats and union monopolies, but children are raised by their parents and most of them are born to the types of Jews that they hate.
The more philosophical members of the left see the “peace process” that they illegally initiated and passed as a cleanup operation that removes the failed experiment of Israel to make way for the Muslim “decolonization/ethnic cleansing” of Israel.
Bad but he goes on with even worse.
It would be nice to think that the Israeli left was transformed into this twisted thing by the loss of its utopian dreams, but it was always like this. It was never patriotic. It was forced to become patriotic by the Muslim rejection of all its efforts at co-existence. It was never Zionist. Zionism was forced on it by the anti-Semitism of its Russian Socialist colleagues. It never wanted to be Jewish. It was forced to be. Muslim hate turned the Israeli left into the unwilling caretaker of a Jewish State. G-d kept Israel alive despite the left’s incompetence, its treasons and its slavish instinct for appeasement.
I have sometimes let the thought pass my mind that the thousands of years as a persecuted minority has left its mark. Everything towards accommodation; nothing towards fighting to keep what you have. Pre-emptive surrender the aim; not the prolonged fight in which you never give up. I hear people I know who never say a word about Obama even though he is in every way the enemy of Israel, differing only from others of his type by the power he possesses. Weirdly, this is the crew it seems I am part of: “the Middle Eastern Jewish Schorim (blacks) and the Ultra-Orthodox Schorim (also blacks, for their hats) and the Russians”. How have things come to this, if this is really how things have become?
MORE ALONG THE SAME LINES: This time from Dennis Praeger: America’s Left-Wing Jews Ashamed of Israel’s Jews. It’s depressing so why read it all, but then again, why not? Here’s a sample:
As American Jews on the left see it, their moral credibility in the eyes of fellow leftists in the news media, Hollywood, and academia is threatened by Israel. They must therefore make it abundantly clear that a) they not only do not support the right-wing government of Israel; they do not even support Israel at this time; b) they regard Benjamin Netanyahu as a vile human being; and c) they are ashamed – simply ashamed – of Israel’s Jews for having voted for a right-winger.
If I am not for myself, then who will be for me?
IT ONLY GETS WORSE AND WORSE: This is about the Israeli media:
By far the most important aspect of the recent Likud victory was that once and for all everyone in the world could see how biased and unrepresentative the Israeli media are. With the exception of the freebie Israel Hayom, almost the entire print media in Israel are leftist, and with no exception at all the television and radio stations are also. The media in Israel operated a naked jihad against Netanyahu in the months before the election, candidly promoting a victory for the Labor Party’s Herzog team and his day camp staff.
Do you get it? I don’t get it.
Let’s start with the conventional view which is from an article whose title begins, A jobs miracle is happening in Britain:
At the start of this government, Ed Miliband predicted a jobs armageddon — austerity would inevitably mean mass unemployment. Osborne would cut 500,000 public sector jobs, he said, with ‘no credible plan to replace them’. And surely government spending is synonymous with prosperity? Boldly, he forecast a ratio: one private job would be lost for every public sector job lost — leading to the loss of ‘a million jobs in all’.
The conventional Keynesian wisdom, to which Miliband subscribed, is that government spending cuts make the economy weaker: fewer public sector workers means less money spent in the shops, so less demand, therefore more unemployment. Osborne saw things differently. What if the problem was not the supply of jobs, but the supply of willing workers? If you cut taxes on low-paid work, it becomes more attractive: more people want to move from welfare. Especially if welfare reform makes it harder to game the system.
What else would someone who learns his economics from a Keynesian text believe? So let us then go to the actual situation as it has now turned out:
In five short years, Britain has gone from having mass unemployment to jobs galore. Unemployment is falling at a rate that confounds the economists, and employers are starting to panic. Maths teachers, chefs — the list of ‘shortage occupations’ grows ever longer. Construction companies are not tendering for work in London because they can’t find bricklayers. Financially this is a headache, but economically it’s a problem of success. The Prime Minister set out to get rid of the deficit. He failed. But instead he has presided over a jobs miracle — one that economists and policymakers are still struggling to understand.
Just before the Budget was published, the latest figures came out — all of them smashing records. There are 30.9 million of us in work, the most ever. That’s an employment ratio of 73.3 per cent, the highest in history. Employment is up by 1.7 million since Cameron took power and 1.5 million of these jobs are full-time. The number on Jobseekers Allowance fell by 30 per cent last year alone and the youth claimant count stands at its lowest since the 1970s. Birmingham added more jobs to its economy last year than the whole of France; Britain is adding more than the rest of Europe. David Cameron can take credit for creating more jobs than any first-term prime minister in postwar history.
The article attributes this turnaround entirely to tax cuts. Even though he notes that the central feature of Government policy has been the “austerity” program, even the writer here, who no doubt was mis-educated on Keynesian aggregate demand, cannot see, really see, what is happening before his eyes, even though he can see the outcome. Of course taxes should also be cut, which is part of the way we reduce even the ability of governments to spend. But the diversion of our resource base into productive activities is the key.
It’s this Keynesian economics that will blind you to reality. But slowly but ever so surely it is entering the dust bin of history. Shame the same cannot be said about our economics texts which still continue with the same as before.
[And my deep thanks to DB for sending this article along.]
A piece like this has to be satire: When Tony Abbott ate that raw onion it really got under my skin.
It’s been nine days since the Prime Minister travelled to a farm in Tasmania and ate an onion like it was an apple. . . .
It was when the farmer was – literally – showing the Prime Minister his onions that the odd thing happened. Mr Abbott seized one and took a lavish bite, skin and all.
Now: not being surprised by things that Tony Abbott does is becoming a national skill-set. But in the days since, I find that I cannot read or think about anything the government does without thinking of that moment, and wondering who eats raw onions, and why, and what it might possibly mean for the nation that the Prime Minister is one of them.
I know this sounds silly.
No, I wouldn’t say it sounds “silly”. I wouldn’t say that at all. I can’t quite find the word, just yet, but don’t you worry, it will come to me eventually. But “silly” is not the one that I am at the moment tossing up between
Both Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio were in the news lately, and both will very likely run for President of the United States in 2016. Cruz was sandbagged over an incident when he was slagging global warming, and the interesting part was how he kept his poise and equilibrium in the face of the Democrat media. Rubio was discussing the Israeli election, and therefore was about containing the hatred that will follow from the Obama White House. They are here in alphabetical order since it is not a little premature to be thinking about 2016. Let’s first get through 2015 which will be challenging enough. It will be nice to have a Republican president, but then there’s Hillary.
This then is Marco Rubio whose views on Israel make me think there are still possibilities for renewal. There’s a lot of ruin in a nation, and Obama has done his best. But there is a lot of recovery in a nation which has its history and inner strength.
Ted Cruz has also defended Israel here so this is not meant to be a comparison of issues chosen, only a view of the candidates.
And let me finally mention this photo today on Drudge of Martin O’Malley, former governor of Maryland, who has stepped into the race over on the Democrat side. The lead headline at Drudge today is O’Malley Fires Up Iowa with the underneath story that he has been criticising Wall Street, which is part of the Punch and Judy show of Democrat politics since nearly every Wall Street banker is a Democrat (and why wouldn’t they be?). He is as obscure today as Bill Clinton was in 1991 but the Anyone But Clinton crowd is not small and is growing. Here’s the pic:
Well he lost my vote right there. Anyone who thinks he can pretend to play the banjo using a six-stringed instrument, no doubt tuned like a guitar, is obviously as false and fake as the rest of them, utterly untrustworthy from the get go. Pathetic, absolutely pathetic.
This is part of a story on a murder investigation, but the alleged murderer turns out to have been part of a past incident with our Prime Minister. This is another side to the PM, who is vastly under-appreciated, especially by people who are nothing like him in their common decency.
The man . . . punched Prime Minister Tony Abbott in the face nine years ago.
Mr Abbott was visiting the Thomas Embling [Psychiatric] Hospital on February 22, 2006, in his capacity as Federal Health Minister when he was attacked in the hospital’s acute care unit. . . .
Media reports of the incident say Mr Abbott was hit twice, without warning.
In an interview with an Age journalist . . . Mr Price said that he was the man who hit Mr Abbott, adding that the incident had given him “new respect” for the man who would become Prime Minister.
“I hit him and he stepped back and shaped up like a boxer,” Mr Price said.
“Then he dropped his hands and smiled, and said ‘I’ve been hit harder than that on the football field’.”
Mr Price, who remains in custody, said he had admired Mr Abbott’s self-control, saying not many people would have been able to refrain from hitting him back.
Mr Price’s story has been confirmed by a psychiatric nurse who worked at the Thomas Embling at the time of Mr Abbott’s visit.
“Much to Mr Abbott’s surprise, he realised there was no security operating in the hospital as such,” he said.
Mr Abbott was reported at the time of the attack as joking that “some people probably thought he had a sane moment”.
A spokesman for Mr Abbott said at the time that it was “a matter of complete inconsequence”.
“(The man) did take a swing. He did connect, but to say he punched him is overstating it,” the spokesman said.
[Via Tim Blair]
If he thinks of Israel the way he must think about Cuba he will be as good as it gets. Very presentable and articulate.
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