A Little Humor

If ignorance is bliss, Obama voters are some very happy people.

London Olympic Threat

Arrests have been made and extreme vigilance has been evinced with authorities even surrounding a bus on the major tollway when a passenger tried to surreptitiously take a smoke, but this hyper-sensitivity to a potential terror threat is absolutely proper now with the stakes so high. London was already subjected to lethal jihad on July 7, 2005 when bombs blasted mass transit and blood gushed on the streets and in the tubes of London. British law enforcement already had long and grim experience in fighting off terror attempts from and the sometimes successful attacks of the Irish Republican Army in the bad old days before the essential reconciliation in Ireland after the implementation of the Mitchell Plan with the Good Friday Agreement of 1998. British intelligence services are well aware that the world's focus will be on the Olympics and both police and elements of the military are making every effort to counter any possible outrage. The Olympics themselves are no strangers to the bloody hand of terror with both the 1972 Munich Olympics and the 1996 Atlanta Olympics being stuck. Let us hope and pray that the determined effort to safeguard the events and attendees of these latest Summer Games is a complete success.

Mexico Election Turmoil

"Gambling at Rick's" really did not shock anyone in the movie "Casablanca", and allegations of cheating in a Mexican national election are rather par for the course. I am not surprised that over half the votes are having to be recounted, but I have no idea how an ordinary recount will resolve allegations of vote buying. Was there sufficient irregularity to sway the outcome? Was misconduct limited to the winning PRI? Doubt will never be satisfied in a country so afflicted with institutional corruption. All I can say to those who want good government and a transparent process in Mexico is "good luck" ("buena suerte").

Some Fresh Disambiguation

A new meaning has arisen in light of a particular recent event. "John Roberts" used to be merely a name and a relatively common one at that. Now, "John Roberts" may be used as a verb when one buckles under pressure and betrays formerly sacred values. "John Roberts" may now be construed as a byword for "Judas", someone else who gained eternal infamy for an act of betrayal. To all the true Gentlemen "John Roberts" out there in this world, please understand that using "John Roberts" as an insult is directed only at the unctuous Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

The Power Grab

One-sixth of the American economy has just been taken over with the five member Supreme Court rubber stamp of Obama Care and this follows on the heels of two of the Big Three US automakers, Chrysler and General Motors being taken over by the Federal government and the Democrat handmaiden United Auto Workers union. Accompanying this massive usurpation of the private economy, at least sixteen thousand Internal Revenue Service agents are being hired to enforce Obama Care, along with thousands of other new Federal employees. Barack Hussein Obama knows no bounds when it comes to growing the Federal government or expanding the intrusiveness thereof. Our new overlords may tell us what to eat and because obesity contributes to sleep apnea, the Federal government may now even intrude literally into our bedrooms. What Obama is imposing and our highest court just upheld is the opposite of freedom.

A Certifiable Democrat

My Mother has a lifelong friend, an educated woman from a good family background with whom she took part in a civil rights march who is a bona fide Obamabot, a true believer. We ran into this lady at a local grocery near our home. She was ecstatic about Obama Care, how it would "give" so many folks access to health care. The government has no capacity to give anyone anything. They can tax the productive to provide dole dwellers with their medical treatments. They are able to print fiat currency which devalues whatever real wealth people have left, or they can borrow to pay for parasites. Even China is reluctant to loan us more due to Obama's profligate spending (even before Obama Care goes into force), so America is left with the Federal government buying its own debt in a lunatic maneuver known as "monetizing" America's insane overspending. Obama's blind faith backers do not realize how government destroys so much more than it creates and with care rationing, will shorten lives. There is nothing the GOP can say to my Mom's buddy to win her vote because in her eyes, Obama can do no wrong.

The Crooked Referee

The dinosaur media only makes noises that they are fair and objective in matters of politics. In fact, the poison press are baldfaced partisans of the political Left. Look at how the last President Bush was pilloried for Hurricane Katrina- not the Democrat New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin who left buses idle that could have saved hundreds who ultimately died- Bush was blamed when all he did was assume that those on the local and state level were routinely competent and would put measures in place that would preserve as many human lives as possible in an event that after all was an act of God. This same main stream media is giving a total pass to Barack Hussein Obama for cutting back the fleet of airplanes available to fight fires. One leader merely trusted those who did not perform their foremost duty of office, that is the protection of innocent human life, responsibly. The other leader actively diminished the government's ability to protect life by making one of his few actual cuts in an area that would cost lives. The places where Obama reduces spending are few but are in the Department of Defense budget and in the allocation of Federal funds for fire fighting airplanes and these reductions that are never reported by the dinosaur press actually make us less safe.