According to reports from CBS
News, the National Football Felons League is experiencing a bit
of a crime wave.
Twenty-seven players have been
arrested just since the Super Bowl on February 3, 2013. Oh, and over the last few days two slayers
are now facing murder charges. New
England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez was charged with first-degree murder
in the death of Odin Lloyd while Cleveland Browns rookie Ausar Walcott was
charged with attempted murder for allegedly punching a man in the head outside
a club in New Jersey.
A
massive PR push is underway by The Department of Health and Human Services
in conjunction with the NFL to pimp Obamacare using their thugs and gangstas to
sell this monstrosity because the government is hell-bent to get Americans to
sign up for something they can neither afford nor
want. And let’s not forget, even Congress
is trying to exempt itself from its own Obamacare rules and exorbitant
expenses.
NFL spox Greg Aiello on Obamacare: "We have made no commitments nor discussed any details with the administration." NFL "clarifying" request
— Stephen Hayes (@stephenfhayes) June 27, 2013
@stephenfhayes The NFL can kiss their season goodbye if they financially support Obamacare. Sebelius is a crook and needs to go to jail.
— Tori Hart (@ToriHart4) June 27, 2013
A plane took off from Moscow
Monday headed for Cuba, but the seat booked by National Security Agency leaker
Edward Snowden was empty, and there
was no sign of him elsewhere on board.
Please pardon my unbridled
chuckling. After all, you can’t make
this stuff up.
Snowden Safari proves once again that the only thing more comically inept than the White House is the media.
The blustering blowhard, Chuck
Schumer (D-NY) appeared with Candy Crowley on CNN’s
State of the Union and was he
angry.
He blasted China’s leadership for
the decision made by Hong Kong which allowed Edward Snowden to flee to Moscow
on Sunday, June 23, 2013. Snowden faces
espionage charges from the United States for leaking top secret government
surveillance programs.
Schumer said, “I have a feeling
the hand of Beijing was involved here.
What’s infuriating here is…Putin of Russia aiding and abetting Snowden’s
escape. The bottom line is very simple. Allies
are supposed to treat each other in decent ways, and Putin always seems almost
eager to put a finger in the eye of the United States.”
Allies Chuck? Since when has Russia been an ally of
America? God, this man is remarkably
ignorant. He was first elected to the
Senate in 1998. He is
not a member of the Foreign Relations Committee nor the Homeland Security
and Governmental Affairs Committee.
Membership in either committee might qualify him to make statements
about allies. Instead, he sits on the
Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, Finance, Judiciary, and Rules and
Administration committees.
Perhaps Mr. Schumer, after 15
years in the Senate, has become addled. Russia is not a NATO member. It is merely a member of NATO’s Partnership for
Peace. In fact, Mr. Schumer
apparently has forgotten when Former Secretary of State, “Cankles” Clinton, embarrassed
our country by presenting a “gift”
to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
That gift was an emergency stop button, better known as an “E-stop”. It’s cost:
$117.81.
Besides being chintzy, the “gift”
bore an incorrect translation, one that implied hostility rather than
peacemaking. The button had two words (Reset
and Peregruzka) emblazoned on it via the use of a label maker and
Lavrov called her out on it. It wasn’t
a good move by a bunch of useful idiots when you’re trying to improve relations
with a notorious Cold War enemy.
Snowden arrived in Hong Kong on
June 10, 2013. On Monday, June 17th
he conducted a live Web chat. What I
find interesting is that CIA
director John Brennan paid an unannounced visit to Moscow on Wednesday June
19th according to sources at Interfax.
“CIA Director John Brennan paid
an unannounced visit to Moscow on Wednesday and Thursday, sources told Interfax on Friday.”
“Russian Foreign Intelligence
Service declined to confirm or deny that Brennan had been to Moscow, but senior
Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov told reporters in mid-May that ‘a contact with the
director of CIA is being planned.’"
“According to U.S. media, Brennan
was on a visit to Romania on Tuesday, and the following day an Interfax reporter
saw an impressive motorcade consisting of vehicles with U.S. Embassy license
numbers at Moscow's Vnukovo 2 airport.”
Coinkydinky? I. Think. Not.
Snowden flying Aeroflot w/ stop in Moscow. And that's Putin's way of saying he thinks #obama is a spineless loser. #tcot#lnyhbt
— Rachel Ward (@RachelWard301) June 23, 2013
Now that Snowden is in Russia, I'm sure Obama's good friend Putin will return him! Hillary reset everything with him! Right/ #tcot
— Old Mac (@SPADOC) June 23, 2013
U.S./Russia “reset” now amounts to Putin kicking Obama in the nuts every week or so #snowden#syria
— Allahpundit (@allahpundit) June 23, 2013
I have not, until now, weighed in
on the civil war raging in Syria. On
Thursday, June 13, 2013 the president announced a major shift in U.S. policy that
would see America begin arming the Syrian rebels. The dilemma inherent with
this decision is that the arms will likely wind up in the hands of radical
Islamist elementssavage
beasts within the Syrian rebels’ camp.
With Susan Rice as the newly
appointed National Security Advisor and Samantha Power awaiting Senate
confirmation, it is abundantly clear, at least to this observer, that these two
Obama loyalists want a more robust involvement in the region.
Surely, we can look to her 2003
essay at New Republic for The Insufferable Airhorn’s apology tour
following his inauguration in 2009. It
was that essay in which she appealed to U.S. officials to institute “a doctrine
of the mea culpa” publicly apologizing for past “sins” and undertaking “a
historical reckoning with crimes committed, sponsored, or permitted by the
United States.”
The “Interventionista”,
as she was referred to on the magazine cover of The National Interest, successfully goaded Obama to send
military forces into Libya to stop Khaddafy from butchering his people. We all know how that worked out. Just ask Ambassador Christopher Stevens, the
two Navy Seals and the information management officer who were never rescued
when the consulate in Benghazi came under attack. Oh wait.
You can’t. They’re dead. They were abandoned to die at the hands of
barbarians. But I digress.
Secretary of State Kerry wanted
an immediate no-fly zone established to stop Bashar al-Assad from continuing to
use his air power to crush rebel forces and kill innocent civilians. Let me interject my utter disgust for this fake war hero who threw
away as many as nine of his combat medals to protest the war in Vietnam. So any military strategy he suggests should
be dismissed out of hand.
I’m not a military tactician, but
some facts to consider are that Syria is 71,398 square miles in size; roughly
the size of the state of Washington, shares 600 miles of border with Turkey and
it has 16 air bases. They are located at
Damascus International Airport, Deir Zzor Air Base, Dumayr Air Base. Hama Air
Base, Jirah Air Base, Khalkhalah, Marj As Sultan, Marj Ruhayyil, Minakh, Qabr
as Sitt, Rasin el Aboud, Saigal. Shayrat, Tabqa, Taftanaz and Tiyas.
The decade-long no-fly zones, Operation Northern
and Southern Watch, imposed by the U.S. over Iraq cost about $1.3 billion
dollars a year. With our national debt
at $16,879,124,703,927 as of 4:06AM EDT on 6/22/13 we, as a nation cannot
afford to pump money into an open war across an ancient sectarian faultline
that has been in existence since the schism in Islam surfaced some 1,400 years
ago.
The Syrian army and its security
apparatus remain loyal, al-Assad’s cabinet has suffered few defections, and the
key population centers of Damascus and Aleppo have not joined the rebellion according
to Itamar Rabinovich, a former ambassador of Israel to the United States
and a Brookings Institute Fellow.
The
latest Gallup Poll results from June 15-16 reveal that 54% of Americans
disapprove of this administration’s decision to direct the CIA to send direct
military aid to the Syrian rebels while 37% approve.
Reports out of Aleppo seem to
clearly indicate that Assad’s regime has inserted spies behind rebel
lines. This would explain a disturbing
video that purports to be a rebel group in Syria testing a nerve agent
intended to be used against civilians.
The video pans across a room
where massive quantities of industrial-sized packages of Tekkim® potassium
permanganate, potassium nitrate and potassium chlorate are stored on shelves and countertops. Tekkim is a Turkish company. If you have a weak stomach, you might
consider not watching it. It is not a particularly
slick production, but I regard it as something the regime may have
produced. The voices are haunting and
the visage of the test results is sickening.
The website, My
Peta Jawa, finds it to be too
convenient. I couldn’t agree more.
At the conclusion of the G8
Summit, Vladimir Putin warned that the opposition forces include criminals that
he likened to the animals who beheaded and hacked to death Ian Rigby in the
streets of Woolwich, England last month.
He asked, “Do the Europeans want to provide such people with weapons?”
Just
ask Nadia Umm Fuad who watched her son being shot by Islamist rebels in
Syria after the 14-year-old referred to the Prophet Mohammed as he joked with a
customer at his coffee stall in Aleppo. “I
saw rebels execute my boy for no more than a joke.”
Let the fool gape and shudder at the inhumane beasts of
radical Islam. It is a cancer on the
world body.
Syria is a geopolitical nightmare. Islam is not a religion. It is a way of life. It is savage and has been so since its
inception fourteen centuries ago. The question then is when will Islam tire of
its devotees slaughtering each other? Historically the answer may be never.
For that reason and that reason
alone, America should not insert itself in the unrest in Syria. It cannot end well. We have expended enough blood and treasure
for the ingrates of Iraq and Afghanistan.
I
understand, my dear sir, that you recently gave a very confused speech to
university students upon their graduation.
You
seemed quite fretful at the time.
Perhaps it was because you felt the winds of change rustling against
your brow. You lamented, nay, chillingly
suggested to these impressionable young men and women that they had grown up
hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some
separate, sinister entity that you felt was at the root of all the problems of
this great republic.
You
sir, went on to say that those same voices would warn that tyranny is always
lurking just around the corner.
I
thought I should pay you a visit in an attempt to school you on the subject of
tyranny; something about which, I am intimately familiar.
Need I
remind you sir that the arduous work of the Founding Fathers to resist tyranny
established the brave, creative and unique experiment in self-rule to which you
referred?
I
further remind you that King George III had established tyranny over our
thirteen original colonies and it was his tyranny that helped us to forge The
Declaration of Independence.
After
our struggle to gain independence from The Crown, I along with the other
patriots, worked to the point of exhaustion to create The Constitution, a
document for which I perceive you have great disdain.
Indeed
sir, I tremble at your vanity. My reading of history convinces me
that most bad government results from too much government. You have accepted the kingly crown placed
upon your head by sycophants and flatterers.
Experience has shown that even
under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time,
and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
You
sir, are not king of the world. I listed
twenty-seven abuses that King George directed at our colonies for the sole
purpose of creating a tyrannical government.
You are following his path and the tyranny of which you spoke is well on
its way.
Fate
is fickle. Soon you will learn that the
citizenry much prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
Can the liberties of a nation be
thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the
minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God?
It is a happy truth that man is
capable of self-government, and only rendered otherwise by the moral
degradation designedly superinduced on him by the wicked acts of his tyrant.
President John F. Kennedy spoke
to the frightened people of West Berlin on June 26, 1963. The crowd
of 450,000 heard his pledge of solidarity when he uttered the iconic
phrase, “Ich bin ein Berliner.”
On July 29, 2008, candidate Obama
spoke to an estimated 200,000 Germans.
On June 19, 2013, an estimated 4,500 (one one-hundredth the size of
Kennedy’s) witnessed The Insufferable Airhorn being hampered by teleprompters
that were on the fritz and a baking Berlin sun.
Average highs are normally in the
70s in Germany's capital city in June, but they were in the 90s as Obama
delivered his speech.
“I think a lot of the problem he
had today was the late afternoon sun in Berlin ruined his use of the
teleprompter and so his usual dramatic windup was ruined,” Matthews said
immediately after the speech. “I think he was really struggling with the text there.”
“Speaking behind a glass
bulletproof shield, Obama appeared to be using the text of the speech rather
than reading off of Teleprompters.”
Chuck Todd, groupthink press
poodle and another member of the Unicorn Tribe, grasped
at straws to explain why the sweat-drenched, bumbling errand boy sent by
grocery clerks gave such a poor performance to such a small crowd.
“…you had that very distracting
glass and you could just see that the President himself wasn't feeding off of
the crowd. And I think look, part of it, it was hot. Those folks were out there
for two and a half hours...it can sap your energy a little bit. And I just
wonder if that added a little bit to this.”
Tomorrow all the folks at MSNBC,
CNN, ABC and NBC will squeal and squawk that the Insufferable Airhorn’s
snowflake specialness was clearly absent in Berlin but the Germans, like the
snail, have finally made it onto the ark.
Ralf Fücks, head of the board of
the Heinrich Böll Foundation, diagnosed
today this way: “Germans have
undergone a brutal sobering up with regard to Mr. Obama. It is as overdone as the euphoria of 2008,
but also a bit alarming.”
I've watched Berlin speeches by 4 Presidents: JFK,Reagan,Clinton,Obama. JFK & Reagan win hands down.
— Larry Sabato (@LarrySabato) June 20, 2013
The Insufferable Airhorn wraps up
his G8 Summit with a bilateral meeting with French President Francois Hollande
today, boards Air Force One around 1:30PM Eastern and arrives in Berlin around
2:25PM.
On Wednesday he’ll get the
opportunity he was denied as a presidential candidate in 2008 to give a speech
at Berlin’s most famous landmark, the Brandenburg Gate.
Germany’s Deutche
Welle notes that, “when he came to the German capital five years ago,
Barack Obama was given a regal reception. But as he heads back to Berlin for
the first time as US president, he'll find that ‘Obamania’ is a thing of the
past.”
Constanze Stelzenmueller, a
transatlantic relations expert at the German Marshall Fund of the United States
in Berlin confesses
that, "He's become somewhat demystified."
Germans who viewed him as the
great hope of world politics in 2008 are markedly disappointed that his regime
hasn’t changed U.S foreign and security policies.
Revelations about the scale of
the U.S. National Security Agency’s Internet surveillance program Prism have
caused great angst in Germany, where data privacy is seen as an important
aspect of personal freedom—so much so that even Google Street View has raised
hackles.
Past comparisons overshadow the
Insufferable Airhorn’s Berlin visit. Fifty
years ago this month, John F. Kennedy wowed a large crowd with the
morale-boosting words “Ich bin ein Berliner.” In 1987, President Reagan stood
with the gate behind him and demanded that Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev
"tear down this wall."
With his favorability tanking back home, the errand boy sent by grocery clerks is seeking to stroke his ego with his
mostly symbolic visit to Berlin. He’s
hoping that he can show the sheeple that he is still liked abroad.
Air Force Two was flown to Europe
along with Air Force One because the president and the rest of the family will
be separated. This we can blame on Great
Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron who announced in late February that he
was declaring
the G8 Summit “WAG-free” to ensure that leaders remain “focused” on issues
without the distraction of having their wives and girlfriends in tow.
“The White House is billing
Michelle’s trip to Dublin as having diplomatic significance, but
her itinerary suggests otherwise. She and her daughters will visit the
Trinity College library to explore President Obama’s Irish family roots, attend
a performance by the world-famous Riverdance troupe, and visit the Wicklow
Mountains national forest.”
After visiting Dublin, Ba-Donk-A-Donk
Butt and her daughters will join the Insufferable Airhorn in Berlin for the
second leg of his European trip.
“I am the leader of the free
world, the deity of demagoguery, the remarkably absent president, the emperor
with no clothes and my messianic status does not allow me to descend to a lower
level.”—Barack Obama
A note from our
attorneys: This is not a real quote
We learned today that a CNN poll is showing that the errand
boy sent by grocery clerks cannot be trusted.
He’s dishonest, untrustworthy, a liar.
57% of those polled disagree with
his views on the size and power of the federal government and 53% say he cannot
manage the government effectively. No
shit, Dick Tracy.
This
poll, coming from the same people that have habitually showed better
presidential approval numbers than any other pollster, reveals that this
remarkably absent president is at his lowest rating in more than a year-and-a-half.
The CNN/ORC
International survey released Monday morning comes as the White House
has been reacting to controversies over a massive U.S. government surveillance
program; the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of Tea Party and other
conservative groups who applied for tax-exempt status; the administration's
handling of last September's attack in Benghazi that left the U.S. ambassador
to Libya and three other Americans dead; and the Justice Department's secret
collection of journalists' phone records as part of a government investigation
into classified leaks.
The poll indicates that for the
first time in Obama’s presidency, half of the public says they don't believe he
is honest and trustworthy. And Americans are split on the controversial
National Security Agency anti-terrorism program to record metadata on U.S.
phone calls, but they support the NSA program that targets records of Internet
usage by people in other countries. That doesn't mean they necessarily like
what is going on: Just over six in 10 believe that government is so large and
powerful that it threatens the rights and freedoms of ordinary Americans.
Gee, I hope this news doesn’t
hurt his chances for reelection. I kid.
I have to say when I announced
the winners of the 2013
Paul Revere Awards I never dreamed that one winner in particular would be
so appreciative. He’s acting like he won
the Publishers Clearing House contest.
The NSA crept over to Odie’s
humble abode, bugged the joint and set up some surveillance cameras.
Odie had already rolled up the
carpet, installed an Academy Awards-like stage with spotlights, took a bath,
brushed his teeth, raked through his beard and even put on a tuxedo.
I think he’s almost proud enough to
channel Sally Field. If the NSA is still
recording the celebration, they just might catch him saying, “You like me, you
really like me.”
Calm down hon. Yes, we do like you.
And then there’s this
demonstration of astonishment—Earl of Taint went and changed his website banner
citing that he was now the “Award Winning Earl of Taint” and even included his “hunk
of InnerWeb Candy.”
He
wrote in his blog post, “There you go. The award is 100% authentic. Meaning
it was obviously sent to me by mistake because I clearly don’t belong in this
elite group of people that write things, with words, in a linear fashion,
consistently. I’m deeply honored regardless. And I’m not giving it back. I cannot live without it.”
All the winners have written to
me in emails or in the comment section expressing their appreciation for the
recognition of their hard work, but these two guys take the cake.
I’m proud of all the
winners. Next year, the winners will get
a big bag of personalized M&Ms to go with the trophy.
Politics is not a playground,
it’s a battlefield. Here are a few links from conservative bloggers who
are waging a war of words against the misanthropy, priggishness, prejudice,
luddism, illiberalism and irrationalism of the mainstream media bobble-head
dolls and groupthink poodles of the press corps. But first, this little tale (pun most certainly intended):
The strapping young Marxist and
his shrill spouse will be trekking to sub-Saharan Africa later this month. They are due to travel to Senegal, South
Africa and Tanzania.
Originally, their plans included
a Tanzanian safari to drink in the beauty of that fascinating travel
destination where they could view the splendor of Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount
Meru, relax on the beaches of the islands of Zanzibar, Mafia or Pemba and tour
The Serengeti National Park known for its unbelievable density of animals.
That density of animals would
have required the president’s special counterassault team to carry sniper rifles
with high-caliber rounds “that could neutralize (or what we poor folks like to call killing) cheetahs, lions and other vicious predators if they became a threat
according
to a leaked document.
Gun grabbers are pissed finding
hypocrisy in the president’s “short-lived plan to rely on armed men for
protection from wildlife, using the same kind of weapons his administration
wants banned from public use to protect against human predators.”
“Mr. Obama shouldn’t need special counter-assault teams to neutralize threats,”
Second Amendment Foundation founder Alan Gottlieb said. “He’s got the IRS for that doesn’t he?”
The left provides tyranny with
the social motive to come into being, but in the long run the left
is only the midwife of tyranny. Its ideology and activists dismantle
democracies and burgeoning democracies and replace them with tyrannies.
It is a great irony, and history
will marvel at it, that the president most committed to expanding the
centrality, power, prerogatives and controls of the federal government is also
the president who, through lack of care, arrogance, and an absence of any sense
of prudential political boundaries, has
done the most in our time to damage trust in government.
Benghazi had death under
terrifying circumstances, the IRS scandal had the most feared federal agency on
the rampage against innocent citizens, the Justice Department scandal had
reporters targeted for doing their jobs. But it is the NSA scandal that has
provided the context for all the others, that has brought them together as a bleak and brooding menace
threatening American life as it has always been lived.
Last Sunday,
BC the proprietor of I’m 41,
presented the winner of the 2013 Coolest SOB in the Conservative Blogosphere
Award. Many excellent sites were listed
as nominees for the award and those who walked away with top honors certainly
are deserving of the recognition.
BC was
honoring the late Andrew Breitbart when he envisioned the awards and wanted to
call attention to bloggers that espoused “class, common courtesy, etiquette,
selflessness and a genuine respect for the efforts of other conservative
bloggers—no matter how minimum.”
I was
disappointed that so many of the bloggers I know didn’t fare well in the voting
process. The sites listed below in
alphabetical order are being presented the First Annual Paul Revere Award
sponsored by Political Clown Parade.
I chose Paul
Revere as the icon for the award because he was an American patriot who’s
legendary “Midnight Ride” to warn the colonists of Massachusetts before the
historic battles at Lexington and Concord played a vital role in America’s
struggle to gain independence from Britain.
Paul Revere
was not born to wealth—he was an ordinary man who lived an extraordinary life.
Revere was a patriot, a businessman, an involved citizen, and a popular and
well-respected member of his community.
An obituary in
the Boston Intelligence commented, "Seldom has the tomb closed upon a life
so honorable and useful."
These bloggers
are but a few of the brave and resolute men and women who hold down jobs and raise their families while standing guard over liberty. They don’t have big advertising on
their sites nor do they have a bevy of contributing writers. They pore over information and bring their
opinions to their readers in order to inform and warn.
They have the
keen zest of the citizen whose patriotism is of the lusty type that causes them
to take an active part in politics. They
add humor and common sense. They deserve
to be recognized.
I will be
contacting each winner via email to provide them with a personalized badge
which they can place on their website if they so chose.
Thank you to
each of them for all that they do and may God bless them.
UPDATE:
Two of my favorite bloggers who were never nominated but are tops on my
list are Adrienne’s
Corner and Zilla of the Resistance. They are receiving the Paul Revere Award as
well. Thank you both.
When I was
just a kid there was a TV show I loved to watch. That show was The Outer Limits.
Each episode
would open with a “Control Voice” warning the viewer, “There is nothing wrong
with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are
controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the
volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We will
control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. We can roll the image;
make it flutter. We can change the focus to a soft blur or sharpen it to
crystal clarity. For the next hour, sit quietly and we will control all that
you see and hear. We repeat: there is nothing wrong with your television set.
You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience
the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to—The Outer Limits.”
Throughout
history, compassionate minds have pondered the dark and disturbing
question: what is society to do with
those members who are a threat to society, those malcontents and misfits whose
behavior undermines and destroys the foundations of civilization? Different
epochs have found different solutions to this disturbing problem.
Peggy Noonan,
in her Op-Ed for The Wall Street Journalwrites, “The security age began on
Sept. 12, 2001. The enormity of the surveillance state since has grown.
Americans, in the shock after 9/11, didn’t mind enhanced security, and in fact
were mostly grateful for it and supportive of it. But built into that support,
and the acceptance of the surveillance mentality’s intrusions, was I suspect,
a broadly held assumption that we’ll just do it now, and down the road we can
stop it. It’s just an emergency thing. We can make it go away when we no longer
want it. But can we? Do government programs tend to remain static, or wither?
Or do they tend to grow?”
The web is
ablaze with debates about government surveillance of ordinary citizens. The focus is on the Fourth Amendment and the
FISA courts, the NSA and the recently revealed Code Name PRISM.
The Fourth
Amendment of the Constitution reads, The
right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects,
against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no
Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or
affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the
persons or things to be seized.
Back to The Outer Limits. One episode, O.B.I.T., opens with this narrative:
“In this room,
twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, security personnel at the Defense
Department's Cypress Hills Research Center keep constant watch on its
scientists through O.B.I.T., a mysterious electronic device whose very
existence was carefully kept from the public at large. And so it would have
remained but for the facts you are about to witness…”
The Outer Limits was a science fiction
anthology created in 1963. Science
fiction then. Now, not so much.
There is another
electronic device with which we became familiar. The “telescreen” in George Orwell’s 1984 enables “the Party” to monitor its
members almost all of the time. In Orwell’s dystopian novel, technology (the
telescreen and microphones) are generally perceived as working toward moral
good but can also aid and abet the most diabolical evil.
“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were
striking thirteen,” is the first line in 1984.
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
These are the
official slogans of “the Party” and are referred to as “doublethink”. They are illogical but are central to the
psychological control of the masses—the low information voter, if you will.
If the
government’s constant propaganda induces fear and doubt then its citizens will
accept anything. A common enemy keeps
the people united. The man who is
independent is doomed to fail and the man who accepts the collective is free
from want and danger. The powerlessness
of the people to recognize the contradictions bolsters the power of the
authoritarian regime. Every citizen lives to serve the nurturing mother state.
Keith Koffler
at White
House Dossier opines, “President Obama and his fully politicized White
House have shown their contempt for the Constitution, the rule of law, the
other branches of government and the watchdog institutions of our society time
and time again.”
“Laws are
meant to be circumvented. The Supreme Court is to be vilified for making the ‘wrong’
decisions. The press is to be bullied and intimidated. Opponents in Congress
are cynical, politically motivated extremists who want to oppress Americans
they don’t like.”
In the dark and brooding video
below, a totalitarian propaganda world is ruled from above. A young girl witnesses the fate of a tortured
worker and the murder of her protesting mother.
The girl rises up and confronts the dehumanized regime occupying her
Motherland. She can be all it takes to spark off a revolution…
On Friday, May
31, 2013 Sen. Rand Paul brought
the funny while he outlined his vision for the growth of the Republican
Party to a sold-out crowd at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi
Valley.
Moments after
taking the podium, he began drilling the Obama Administration over the Internal
Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups for extra scrutiny last
year.
“You know, I
hardly know where to start. It’s kind of like Old MacDonald’s farm of
scandals,” said Paul. “Here a scandal, there a scandal, everywhere a scandal.”
(My apologies
to artist Grant Wood for parodying his 1930 American Gothic
painting. I simply couldn’t resist.)
Hearing from some top Hill sources that IRS scandal about to explode. Low-level agency workers miffed at being blamed. About to return fire.
— Joseph Curl (@josephcurl) June 3, 2013
There was an
interesting exchange between House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa
and CNN’s R2DoubleD2 today on the cable new channel’s “State of the Union”
program.
Issa’s bluntness
was uplifting. The scandal surrounding
the IRS’s decision to target Tea Party groups was, he believes, “mostly likely
the employees in the Cincinnati IRS offices were acting on orders from
Washington, DC.
Issa said, “The
administration is still—their paid liar,
their spokesperson, picture behind, he’s still making up things about what
happen[ed] and calling this local rogue.” [Emphasis
mine.]
“The reason
that Lois Lerner tried to take the Fifth [Amendment] is not because there’s a
rogue in Cincinnati,” he added. “It’s because this is a problem that was
coordinated. in all likelihood, right out of Washington headquarters.”
On May 21,
Carney said: “I think that the tenor of the president’s public comments about
it, both in his statement Tuesday night and his public comments the next day
reflect his feelings upon learning about the apparent conduct by our IRS
officials in Cincinnati.” A day earlier, Carney discussed “matters involving
the office in Cincinnati” in an exchange about when the White House learned of
the episode.
An IRS employee
was asked if the scandal could be the work of a few local rogue agents.
"It's impossible," the employee said. "As an agent we are
controlled by many, many people. We have to submit many, many reports. So the
chance of two agents being rogue and doing things like that could never
happen."
The
interrogator then asked: "With respect to the particular scrutiny that was
given to Tea Party applications, those directions emanated from Washington, is
that right?"
The contest is
so named out of a reverence for the late Andrew Breitbart. Breitbart, to whom BC had sent an email tip,
replied thanking him for the tip and BC was impressed that he had taken time
from his busy day to respond to “a nobody blogger.”
BC contends
that Andrew was not the only blogger out there that excels in all-around
coolness, class, common courtesy, etiquette, selflessness, and genuine respect
for the efforts of other conservative bloggers.
This year,
your humble scribe has been nominated as “The Coolest SOB in the Conservative
Blogosphere.”
I’m still
giddy over my award from Zilla and by
the 2012 PUK Award sponsored
by IOwnTheWorld. I hope that my
readers and their friends will help Political Clown Parade rake in another
award.
Voting began today
and runs through Saturday June 8th.
Vote often for your favorite SOB.
There are some awesome blogs vying for the title of The Coolest SOB.
Thanks in advance for your support and best of luck to all the nominees.
