Mid-Week Post

“…and it was said of him that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless us, everyone!”

(Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol)

Don’t forget the poll to the right. Isn’t it time you did something for you?

Is Morsi finished?

Thousands of Egyptian protesters marched on the presidential palace on Tuesday to protest President Mohamed Morsi's recent decree that gives him near-absolute power as well as a controversial draft of the nation's constitution. 

But beyond making their presence felt – demonstrators were tear-gassed and broke through police lines at the palace, forcing Morsi to flee – there doesn't seem to be a realistic way for the opposition to get what it wants.

On November 21 Morsi passed an executive order  that made his past and future decisions immune to judicial oversight and protected the Islamic-domination assembly writing the new constitution. He then called for a nationwide referendum on the new constitution on December 15.

Morsi, touted as the anti-Mubarak and richly rewarded by the Obama administration, is the wedge the Muslim Brotherhood needs to control Egypt. Why this comes as a shock to anyone who believed in the “Arab Spring” was the be-all-and-end-all is the real shock of it all.

Truer words were never spoken:

…allowing the elites to categorize unpopular opinions as mental illnesses is the sort of Stalinesque junk science that criminalizes common sense and ruins lives.

Who sets the narrative? The sort of intellectually, ethically and culturally stunted snob whose idea of a withering counter-argument is to cry out any sort of –phobia or –ism until the opposing party shuts up and the real meaning of the –phobia/-ism has been so diluted as to be definitively empty. In so doing, the aforementioned snob can blather on unchallenged, believing the sound of his or her voice to be utter music to the proles’ ears. Shouldn’t it be the job of a thinking, feeling person to disabuse this sort of person of this notion? I mean- what kind emotional frakwit do you have to be to believe that little, old you is the centre of the universe and your shaky, baseless illogical crap makes sense when practised in real life? The very people attacked for being –phobic/-ist are the same people who provide you with everything you need to continue spouting out total dingo kidneys in the first place and THEY have the problems?

O Dio….

When the math guy talks, you listen:

Paul Ryan addressed the fiscal cliff crisis on Tuesday, telling a Milwaukee radio host: “We’re nowhere. We’re farther than where we started.”

In an interview with 620 WTMJ host Charlie Sykes, the Wisconsin congressman and 2012 Republican vice presidential nominee said the fiscal cliff negotiations to stop automatic tax hikes and spending cuts at the end of the year “don’t really exist” because the White House won’t negotiate with Republicans.

“He took 40 minutes to reject the deal,” Ryan said of Obama’s dismissal of a compromise offered by Republicans on the fiscal cliff on Monday.

“That leads us to conclude he’s trying to get us to our fiscal cliff,” Ryan said. “He doesn’t want to come to the middle.”

On Monday, Ryan, the chairman of the House Budget Committee, signed on to the Republican compromise plan offered to the White House.

The letter, authored by Speaker of the House John Boehner, says Republicans support “a balanced approach of significant spending cuts and new revenues from tax reform with fewer loopholes and lower tax rates” inspired by testimony from former Bill Clinton chief-of-staff Erskine Bowles in 2011.

Democrats said the Republican offer isn’t balanced enough and should include more tax revenue by raising taxes on the wealthy.

“The President’s not really negotiating,” Ryan said. “He’s just sort of moving the goal posts, rejecting offers.”

I guarantee you the “fiscal cliff” (which you Americans are teetering over, centimetres from doom, as of this typing, I might add) crisis will not be resolved by Christmas. Obama will not let it happen. He is ruining your country. You are now at a level of screwed somewhere between total bankruptcy and making relatives draw straws to determine who will be killed for meat. 

Merry Christmas.

More wackiness south of the border:

Apparently, no one likes Obamacare:

Meanwhile, according to polling by CNN, registered voters oppose Obamacare by a margin of 10 points — 52 to 42 percent.  Independents like Obamacare even less, opposing it by a margin of 22 points — 57 to 35 percent.  Clearly, voters didn’t think they were ratifying Obamacare when they pulled the lever for Obama.  

Who would have thought?

Does Obama really believe what he is saying or is he the best liar you have ever seen?

Asked whether he had painted himself into a corner with his strong statements of support for Ambassador Susan Rice despite the withering criticism she has faced on Capitol Hill, President Barack Obama argued Tuesday the “most important thing” to be done for national security is for Republicans to cave on tax hikes and stop obstructing the president’s agenda.

“The most important thing we can do for national security, though, is to get our economy on track,” Obama said in the interview.

“We are in a very strong position. As I travel around the world, it’s fascinating; European leaders, Asian leaders, they all say to me, America is actually poised to be the world leader for another century—if we can fix some of this political dysfunction,” he continued, before shifting back to talking points on the fiscal cliff. “There are some very simple steps we can take. Number one, let’s not raise taxes on middle-class families, that’s something we can do right now.”

Yes, about that:

The so-called "pivot" of the Obama administration has been painted by the US a part of a broader security platform which it helped to create and maintain over the past several decades. As US National Security Advisor Thomas E. Donilon recently stated at a talk prior to the President's Southeast Asian visit, "The United States function of providing the security platform has been absolutely essential for the social development and economic development of Asia."

However, as Robert S. Ross, one of the foremost US specialists on Chinese foreign and defense policy, pointed out in Foreign Affairs, "the Obama administration's pivot has not contributed to stability in Asia. Quite the opposite: it has made the region more tense and conflict-prone." Ross notes that the irony of the pivot is that, "a strategy that was meant to check a rising China has sparked its combativeness and damaged its faith in cooperation." To some extent, this is almost certainly true, as the pivot has at the very least provided China's state media with more material to analyze, rightly or wrongly, US motives and thus influence nationalistic opinion.

An overwhelming percentage of Russians said the reelection of US President Barack Obama would better serve Russia’s national interests as opposed to the presidential challenger, Mitt Romney.

Well, any normal individual understands that as true but liberalism is a psychosis . O'bomber even keeps the war going along the Mexican border with projects like "fast and furious" and there is still no sign of ending it.  He is a Communist without question promoting the Communist Manifesto without calling it so. How shrewd he is in America. His cult of personality mesmerizes those who cannot go beyond their ignorance. They will continue to follow him like those fools who still praise Lenin and Stalin in Russia.  Obama's fools and Stalin's fools share the same drink of illusion.

And let’s not forget that the middle-class have been suffering since Obama took office, that he watched four men die and has no intention of staving off economic ruin.

He’s a crazy man, a racial supremacist and he hates Christmas for being “white” (not the snowy kind):

Farrakhan says that the result of this notion is that kids end up loving Santa Claus more than they revere their own parents. But Santa wasn’t his only target. The Christmas tree, too, was on the minister’s list of evil Christmas traditions.

“Now you got a big tree. How does a tree figure in the life of Jesus…go home and open your Bible to the tenth chapter of Jeremiah — you look and see how the scripture says that the wicked cuts a tree down out of the forest and deck it with silver and gold,” he explained. “What you’re following is a pagan ritual that was started in Rome and Babylon.

Be honest- if he was a derelict, you’d give him a quarter just so he would leave you alone. And, well… who has reduced black Americans to welfare recipients? White Democrats.

Saint Nicholas, by the way, was Turkish.

And then there’s the Jesse Tree.

And Saint Ambrose of Milan:

"The root is the household of the Jews, the rod is Mary, the Flower of Mary is Christ. She is rightly called a rod, for she is of the royal lineage, of the house and family of David. Her Flower is Christ, Who destroyed the stench of worldly pollution and poured out the fragrance of eternal life. As He Himself said, 'I am a flower of the plain, a lily of the valleys'”

And the fact that Christmas trees have more to do with Saint Boniface than Babylon:

St Boniface (675-754) was the English Bishop Winfrid who went to Germany in the eighth century, to Hesse to be precise, to preach the Christian faith as a missionary from the Church of Rome. After a period of apparently successful Gospel preaching, Boniface went to Rome to confer with Pope Gregory II (715-731). After a long absence, he returned to Geismar, Germany, for Christmas 723, and felt personally offended on discovering that the Germans had reverted to their former idolatry of pagan divinities and were preparing to celebrate the winter solstice by sacrificing a young man under Odin's sacred oak tree. Fired by holy anger, as was Moses by the golden calf, Bishop Boniface took up an axe and dared to cut down the oak. This courageous, historically documented act meant the triumph of Christianity in Germany over the pagan divinities.

Farrakhan’s rant is just racialist Protestantism with some pseudo-Islamism thrown in. Nuts, is my point.

A cautionary tale of Islamism in France.

It’s alright when they do it:

Much has been made of the Palestinian exodus of 1948. Yet during their decades of dispersal, the Palestinians have experienced no less traumatic ordeals at the hands of their Arab brothers. As early as the mid-1950s, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Libya expelled striking Palestinian workers. In 1970, Jordan expelled some 20,000 Palestinians and demolished their camps; in 1994-95, Libya expelled tens of thousands of long-term Palestinian residents in response to the Oslo process; and after the 2003 Iraq war, some 21,000 Palestinians fled the country in response to a systematic terror and persecution campaign. As recently as 2007, Beirut effectively displaced 31,400 Palestinian refugees when the Lebanese army destroyed the Nahr el Bared refugee camp during fighting between the militant Fatal al-Islam group and the Lebanese army.

But the largest forced displacement of Palestinians from an Arab state took place in 1991 when Kuwait expelled most of its Palestinian residents in retaliation for the Palestine Liberation Organization's (PLO) endorsement of Iraq's brutal occupation of the emirate (August 1990-February 1991). It mattered little that this population, most of which had resided in Kuwait for decades, was not supportive of the PLO's reckless move: From March to September 1991, about 200,000 Palestinians were expelled from the emirate in a systematic campaign of terror, violence, and economic pressure while another 200,000 who fled during the Iraqi occupation were denied return. By September 1991, Kuwait's Palestinian community had dwindled to some 20,000.

Yet while this expulsion was near the order of magnitude of the Palestinian 1948 flight (estimated by the Israeli government at 550,000-600,000 and by the Arab League at 700,000), driving PLO chairman Yasser Arafat to declare that "what Kuwait did to the Palestinian people is worse than what has been done by Israel to Palestinians in the occupied territories,” it was largely ignored by the international community with neither the U.N. Security Council nor the General Assembly doing anything to assist the newly displaced refugees and punish their ethnic cleanser.

"Maple Spring"? HA! I didn't realise ingratitude and thuggery counted as world-changing.

 

(With much thanks and applause)