Arms Control Fantasy

My maternal grandparents owned a liquor store in what progressively became a rougher neighborhood. They suffered nine armed robberies, and I am sure, hoped that the police who responded to these assaults had the most comprehensive training and the best weapons available to protect besieged merchants and innocents in the community from the felons. I am also sure that my grandparents would have preferred that the thugs did not even have access to a sharp stick or a rock. The law-abiding people of the world generally recognize that those who enforce the rules need state of the art weaponry to protect the sheep from the wolves who would harm them. So, it is or should be with the US nuclear arsenal, one possessed by a good and moral country that protects nations from nuclear peril imposed by malign nations across the globe. That is why those with good sense must stand opposed to the bizarre moral inversion of Barack Hussein Obama's new nuclear use doctrine, as Obama is so filled with naivete that he operates in his own pretend realm where all polities are morally equal and none should have access to the world's most dangerous weapons. There is a glaring flaw in Obama's reasoning. The world's leading nuclear-armed democracies (the US, the UK, France, Israel with her alleged atomic arsenal that stands as a deterrent to genocide) have been, are, and should continue to be the world's policemen, while totalitarian countries, who are the thugs around the globe, must be prevented by these policemen from ever acquiring nuclear weapons that they would use to extort their neighbors or as is the case with a nation led by religious fanatics as in Iran, use atomic weapons for the purpose of trying to summon the Mehdi by initiating the End Times. America's nuclear weapons have served as a net positive for the world by fostering stability and contributing to good order, but if a less scrupulous nation, namely Iran, gains nukes, the end of the world may be drawing near.

The King's Horses

The United States is abandoning her strategic advantage and deterrence capability with Barack Hussein Obama's announcement that America gives up her right of nuclear retaliation in almost every circumstance including chemical or biological attack (which could yield as many casualties and be just as devastating as an atomic bomb), emanating from any country that adheres to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty (which theoretically at least would mean, the US still might respond with nuclear weapons to attacks by Iran or North Korea). Obama has already said the US will not modernize our nuclear arsenal which means other nations may develop weapons that we have no means to counter and our existing stockpile of atomic weapons may deteriorate perhaps rendering them unstable or even inoperable if our defense ever requires their use. What sounds good in an ivory tower classroom of some Utopian professor, may have real world consequences in application that make every one of us and our families less safe. In addition to breaking our economy in ways that may prove to be irreparable, Barack Hussein Obama is making each us less secure and more, not less likely, to become victims of foreign attack.

Shame of Incumbency

Politicians in past election cycles have returned to their states or districts bragging of all the pork they have brought home, or all of the power they have amassed as senior statesmen, heading important committees or subcommittees, and flouting all that clout to dazzled constituents. Today, with unprecedented Federal spending engendering unprecedented deficits, I wonder if any Representatives or Senators will have the temerity to try such a line, touting their odious abuse of power. Unfortunately some moderate Republicans or Republicans in name only are standing for re-election. Among their number are erstwhile Presidential candidate John McCain in Arizona who is facing consistent conservative J. D. Hayworth in the GOP primary and Lamar Alexander who made common cause with Obama by approving Sonia "Soviet" Sotomayor for the United States Supreme Court and on cap and trade. Instead of expressing pride in their service in Washington D.C., far too many of our members of Congress should hide their heads in embarrassment for how they have facilitated the fall of the country so far, so fast. 

He Is Risen

No, this is not a reference to the Messiah but to one who seemingly has a Messiah-complex of his own. America as a nation has battled tyrants since we overturned our very own monarch, King George III in our Revolutionary War. We have crossed oceans to defeat dictators far from our own shores. Now, for the first time in our glorious history, we have our despot in the making scheming to deprive us of our rights and freedom. Under the leftist chimera of "social justice", we are being told we are permitted to keep less and less of what we earn for the benefit of our families to have the fruit of our labor ripped away from us and given to shiftless people we do not know. How this can be termed justice is mystifying. Do those social engineers now manipulating us not remember that our own revolution to end British rule essentially began as a tax protest?

Our Un-American President

Richard Nixon had detestable personal characteristics including a rampant paranoia that people were out to get him (of course, leftists, particularly in media, were out to get him). What Nixon did to himself, his office, and the nation was about perquisites and not so much about imposing Nixon's personal will on the citizens of our nation. Nixon's misconduct pales in contrast to the fiat rule being imposed by the new triumvirate, led by Obama and pushed through by Pelosi and Reid. The new direction is anti-Constitutional in nature. The will of the people is being trodden, deliberately and flagrantly, to flout their power over us, They are our rulers and masters and we are their subjects. My blog was named "despot in waiting" before the 2008 Presidential election. With Obama care, despot is here.   

Thank Our Savior

For a portion of the world's population, today is the time to show gratitude to one who has done so much- no I am not referring to Jesus, but talking about the slavish, fawning devotion to Obama emanating from the dinosaur media that happens to coincide with Good Friday. "Hallelujah", trumpet the godless in the mainstream press, our lord Obama has spurred the creation of 190,000 "corporate" jobs this week- an absolute fiction, a numbers trick that only works if you discount those hired as temporary workers for the US Census, when the real numbers that the propagandists are actively covering-up to aid and promote their man Obama reflect a still sputtering economy. Those heralding the President's achievements on health care, an arms control agreement with the Russians (who after Communism collapsed were supposed to be our allies by many of these same journalists), and the manipulated job figures are being praised on high by those who hate America as it was founded to begin with- their exhortation to hail their god is "Obama...Obama...Obama".

The Job Killer

Piling unrecoverable costs on America's businesses seems to be the primary goal of the Obama administration. Health insurance mandates, cap and trade costs, burdensome regulation are being foisted on America's private sector employers who dare not raise prices to recoup because customers are already not flocking to buy in what even Secretary of Treasury Tim Geithner admitted today was a horrible employment picture because of the scope of the recession. A company can not pass costs on if customers have no money for discretionary purchases and are leaving in droves anyway. Democrat politicians led by Barack Obama have contended that we "must spend our way out of recession" which is like drinking one's way into sobriety. With unemployment remaining dire, only a Republican Congress being voted in in November may stave off the "great national hangover."