In2 Right Wing Inanity…

 Picking your fights is important in war,life and politics. Fighting for the sake of fighting is stupid no matter the setting. If you’re going to fight-fight right. Don’t waste anything;time, effort, and credibility being the three that comes to my mind regards politics.

Over the past few days we saw how so many of the ultra Right rabble rants came to be shown as utter bullshit. Don’t kid yourself Obama and his supporters love this. The folks on the right have so much egg on their face with the added beauty of having been the ones to smash them there. meanwhile those struggling to make legitimate points are overshadowed by the inanity and if given the chance to be heard are instantly degraded and denounced as being aligned with the eggy nutters. What happens then? Well the O and his allies just keep stepping.

Let’s look at a few:

Obama accepts gift from Saudi King.

Yes yes that was some serious bling but he didn’t get it because he bowed. Much like Bush got a sword gift giving seems to be a thing with the Riyadh crowd. If you really wanted to say something on this perhaps you could’ve looked at the OPEC price increases or Saudi Arabia’s pro Western actions in the Lebanese elections.

Dresden Apology.

I didn’t hear or see an apology. I saw a little humanism fluff. Dresdeners reportedly feel slighted by the actual O visit. You see he apparently stopped by,said “Hi” to Merkel without giving her a back rub and went to Buchenwald. In fact it looks like Dresden was really only chosen not due to it’s place in history of US/German relations but it’s proximity to the former concentration camp.

Keeping vets from Normandy

This was BS from the word “go”. No crow for me on this one. 

GPA at Harvard

Although I get the idea that the “most transparent” is actually pretty opaque on a number of things I don’t get this one. What is the point of knowing any POTUS’s GPA,IQ, or other scholastic stat ? The energy expended on this one seemed misplaced and surely devolved into juvenile not far out of the gate. There are certain facts on the subject that nobody can credibly refute. He went,got “honors”,wrote “the least cited HLR entry”. Those are three things a vast majority of the Right and Left have failed to do.

about the image. it is from WWII which I hope is obvious. it holds true to today and the subject of this post though. waste does indeed help the enemy.

In2 DB Hannity and wrong wing insanity…

Hey, Obama has just nationalized nothing more and nothing less than General Motors. Comrade Obama! Fidel, careful or we are going to end up to his right,” -Hugo Chavez

That’s the money quote many on the Right are holding up as important. Surfing the recently acquired FiOS spectrum I had the displeasure of actually seeing Hannity screeching from his cage. My previous exposure to him has always been bites and glimpses via guest gigs at someone that seemed alright.His troop support and wounded servicemen things all seemed cool. But then I saw this.  To say with a straight face that such a credible source as Hugo Chavez is enlightening us all on the evils of Obamanism is just too much.

Hugo ,who has given Caracas 60% min. stake in EVERYTHING is somehow to be seen as Right of Obama’s policies. I wouldn’t care but how can you credibly attack the very failed policies Obama has going on if you open the discussion with bullshit ?

In2 Georgia on my mind…

GPA,perceived apologies to everyone and accepting a gift from the King of Saudi Arabia are all the buzz for the foes of President Barack Hussein Obama. Well my right wing friends your stance sucks on all of those and I invite you to give reality a chance.

Georgia on my mind

Georgia, as in Dixie not the once upon a time Soviet republic. Still under the cloud of the remedies for Jim Crow Georgia is subject to federal reaming regards election law. The state came up with a plan to satisfy the D.C. whim of the day and got sued for it. now the Holder DoJ is dictating that Georgia must fix the problem.

The really effed up part of this is that the squabble is over requiring voters to be properly identified. Illegal immigrant supporters and the anti American ACLU lead the charge. To be honest their claims were not unfounded unfortunately as database screw ups kept some folks from voting. The flip side is though that a third of those affected are still sitting on unclear citizenship status. 

I don’t know about anybody else but the US election system is a joke. That said allowing people to vote because you think it’s a right regardless of citizenship is absolutely unAmerican.

Voting is a privilege,a blessing,and it belongs solely to the citizens of this nation.

My call ?

Let’s end ALL of the Jim Crow shit. The crimes,the so called remedies etc. etc. Let’s start fresh and honest. For crying out loud let’s get over it ,get together and get going.

Let’s require every voter in every state (all 57 of them) to provide positive and verifiable government issued identification before they  are allowed to vote. And I mean vote not just register. You don’t get to step in the box without proving you should be standing in the country let alone the polling place !

Keep an eye on Holder. this is exactly the kind of thing saner folks were concerned about with his appointment. To hell with little Cuban boys this is a real issue as I noted before. In2 Hold on Holder Jan 09

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In2 it isn’t a helping hand folks…

Sharing a link to an Economist article I recently read regarding aid from authoritarian governments. 

Aid is a big issue with me in that I’ve seen how it is almost NEVER a helping hand kind of thing. It’s always more of a leash grip and sometimes a grasp at the throat. it doesn’t matter if it’s a western democracy,a long time NGO, or the aspiring power merchants of the likes of Iran,China or Venezuela.

There have been some great stories especially out of  Africa how aid has actually helped hobble develop and left the people in suffering ways.

All in all we the regular folks need to be vigilant where we send our money. It doesn’t matter if it is via taxes or donations. We cannot remain blind to the end results of the “gift”.

More in line with the Economist piece though one can see that the world is awash in a war. This one is more like a very aggressive pillow fight. Soft power diplomacy of aid (read bribes,extortion etc) is being waged by countries like China,Iran and Venezuela. The motives are clear and in varying lengths we all need to wake up a bit on this one. The Chinese especially are acting in an overt manner that tells me the pillow is getting some coin rolls tossed in. That’s a meaningful whack to the side of the head. I dig how people take the view America has been far from kind and benevolent. We’ve sucked in many many cases.

Changing the player doesn’t make the game better.

Much of their aid is overtly political. Iran’s offer of free electricity to Shia parts of Iraq is one example, Venezuela’s bankrolling of Cuba another. Most is steered towards a few friendly regimes, or (in China’s case) places with natural resources. China has pledged $600m to Cambodia, more than ten times as much as America. It has given Myanmar $400m in the past five years; American aid to the country is worth about $12m a year.

 Naturally, help from harsh regimes is rarely encumbered with pesky demands for good governance. This makes it welcome to corrupt officials and even to those merely sick of being lectured by Westerners. Alas, it can encourage bad governance. China, the report says, is training 1,000 Central Asian policemen and judicial officials “most of whom could be classified as working in anti-democratic enterprises”. The report concludes that authoritarian regimes are using aid to boost their soft power. If so, the spread of authoritarian aid is a challenge to more than just Western ideas of the right sort of giving. Economist

Wake up folks !

In2 Oops Don’t tell the phobes this…

“We are Muslims, we pray regularly and read the Koran. We don’t want them, they have to go,” resident Samiullah Khan said by telephone. “Attacking a mosque is not Islam. They’re not Muslim.”

 

Seems the Taliban blew up a mosque in Pakistan and the locals are taking exception. The villagers formed a group of around 500 and hunted down the T-Ban elements. They destroyed houses they hid in and killed some of them.

People that want to see change in Islam are wasting their time. People that want to see changes in how regular folks are stepping up against extremists, jihadists as some say-well you need too open up your eyes.

 

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