tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73705342024-03-06T21:07:45.172-08:00Bloviating Zeppelin(in-ep-toc'-ra-cy) - a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.Bloviating Zeppelinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01359816456769157176noreply@blogger.comBlogger2468125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370534.post-30979097705916792372012-07-17T00:01:00.003-07:002012-07-16T20:28:39.982-07:00BZ is Dead -- Long Live the Bloviating Zeppelin<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjYbeD3kCOCva-GV7C6YHLcTM70qKXforKgS_dbOUj16yRVR_OEEW726bAo3s5Xmc2cAPEiAA7P9Zw_2YfstZY8-PW6-AQXLPrdunVDDNJF9jTb_5OX6nDQmZ9K1r63buxjCdc/s1600/BZ+-+New+Masthead+2012%252C+Slightly+Larger.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 257px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjYbeD3kCOCva-GV7C6YHLcTM70qKXforKgS_dbOUj16yRVR_OEEW726bAo3s5Xmc2cAPEiAA7P9Zw_2YfstZY8-PW6-AQXLPrdunVDDNJF9jTb_5OX6nDQmZ9K1r63buxjCdc/s400/BZ+-+New+Masthead+2012%252C+Slightly+Larger.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5765957075177615458" border="0" /></a><br />This is my last post on Bloviating Zeppelin.<br /><br />I started this blog in June of 2004.<br /><br />It is time -- for any number of reasons -- to move on.<br /><br />My new blog:<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.bloviatingzeppelin.net/">HTTP://WWW.BLOVIATINGZEPPELIN.NET/</a></span><br /><br />Please go there now and make your comments, should you so desire.<br /><br />My most sincere thanks to each and every one of you who helped me along during these crazy, tumultuous, "interesting" and confusing years.<br /><br />One door closes -- and another one opens.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">BZ</span>Bloviating Zeppelinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01359816456769157176noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370534.post-36035310058857671922012-07-16T00:01:00.001-07:002012-07-15T18:52:53.671-07:00Obama Hates Business: PROOF<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUOyGoUmQlyorPQNckVOEiVhP6YUChj7kudEE3Mc39kajiNhsnaNp4AkipjYABSzyGNf7XFXM4coW-GWLXgSAGm1ud_JvD8Zu7oDVmTr6zVl5uCnkraW0G6gL-xIWNOaFoOD_u/s1600/Obama+Narcissist-A.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 383px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUOyGoUmQlyorPQNckVOEiVhP6YUChj7kudEE3Mc39kajiNhsnaNp4AkipjYABSzyGNf7XFXM4coW-GWLXgSAGm1ud_JvD8Zu7oDVmTr6zVl5uCnkraW0G6gL-xIWNOaFoOD_u/s400/Obama+Narcissist-A.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5765576699117390626" border="0" /></a><br />Campaigning in Roanoke, Virginia on July 13th -- <span style="font-style: italic;">just a few days ago</span> -- Mr Obama had <a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2012/jul/15/picketvideo-obama-if-youve-got-business-you-didnt-/">this to say regarding his viewpoint on businesses in the nation</a>:<br /><br /><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/6j8XhQfvpW8" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="353" width="470"></iframe><br /><br />That's correct, businessmen and -women, <span style="font-style: italic;">you</span> didn't build your business -- someone <span style="font-style: italic;">else</span> did.<br /><br />You heard and read that correctly, according to Mr Obama.<br /><br />That is how fervently Mr Obama <span style="font-style: italic;">despises</span> private business.<br /><br />The full transcript is <a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/07/13/remarks-president-campaign-event-roanoke-virginia">here at <span style="font-style: italic;">WhiteHouse.gov</span></a>, should you disbelieve me.<br /><br />From <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2012/jul/15/picketvideo-obama-if-youve-got-business-you-didnt-/">Kerry Picket at <span style="font-style: italic;">The Washington Times</span></a>:<br /><blockquote>President Barack Obama <strong><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/07/13/remarks-president-campaign-event-roanoke-virginia" target="_blank">addressed</a></strong> supporters in Roanoke, Virginia on Saturday afternoon and took a shot at the business community. President Obama dismissed any credit business owners give themselves for their success:<p><em>There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me -- because they want to give something back. They know they didn’t -- look, if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. You didn’t get there on your own. I’m always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something -- there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there. (Applause.)</em></p></blockquote><p>Mr Obama goes on to say that business creators owe massive debts to their teachers, their local bridge builder. That's like saying I'm a good cop because my parents had milk delivered for a while to the house in the 50s. Or that we had our garbage collected by two guys on a truck once a week.<br /></p>Mr Obama is so beyond the pale of human ken as to be, in my opinion, not only ludicrous but patently dangerous.<br /><br />He is biased, racist, a massive Leftist, schooled at the feet of persons such as Saul Alinsky, William Ayers and of course his father, Barack Hussein Obama -- a Communist.<br /><br />He is pathologically <a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" href="http://www.barackobamawebpage.com/barack_obama_race_obsession-01.htm">obsessed with race</a> as, I believe, <a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" href="http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=5792">is his wife Michelle</a>. He is arrogant, naive and, in my opinion, <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://bloviatingzeppelin.blogspot.com/2010/03/worship-of-obama-does-history-repeat.html">possesses NPD</a>.<br /><br />Victor Davis Hanson sums up Mr Obama's racial obsession <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/288353/obama-s-racial-politics-victor-davis-hanson">quite succinctly here</a>:<br /><blockquote>Never has America been more assimilated, integrated, and intermarried — as is evident in everything from politics to popular culture, from statistics to anecdotes. Yet from late 2007 to 2012, Barack Obama has been establishing new rules of racial referencing. In general, his utterances follow a disheartening pattern. When he is ahead in the polls, has won an election, and is not campaigning, then he emphasizes the unity of the country. But when he is running for president, or campaigning for others, or sinking in the polls, he and his closest associates predictably revert to charges of racial bigotry, albeit usually coded and subtle. America is redeemed when it champions the Obamas, but retrograde when it does not.</blockquote><br />In a word: precisely.<br /><br />Mr Obama believes in government: HIS. He believes in race: HIS. He believes in nothing else.<br /><br />Because you became successful, because you aren't government, because you don't RELY on government -- you, Mr and Ms <span style="font-weight: bold;">P</span>rivate <span style="font-weight: bold;">B</span>usiness-<span style="font-weight: bold;">B</span>uilder: you can go to Hell.<br /><br />Because he's going to tax you out of existence just as he's going to tax private Healthcare out of business. Just you watch.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">BZ</span>Bloviating Zeppelinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01359816456769157176noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370534.post-89093454075742697072012-07-15T00:01:00.002-07:002012-07-14T19:28:53.720-07:00Pushing The Envelope, Part X:<span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;">The human being has always pushed the envelope into and beyond the realms of danger. This is the tenth of various weekend postings displaying how restless Man is with the mundane and how he purposely crosses the threshold into danger willingly -- and sometimes unwillingly.<br /><br />In this episode <a href="http://jetman.ch/?page_id=24">Jetman</a> -- <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Rossy">Yves Rossy</a> -- flies through Arizona's Grand Canyon in May of 2011, in a beautifully-produced video. Please expand and play with headphones.<br /><br /><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/WgdIE2t8QkM" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="264" width="470"></iframe><br /><br />"Jetman" is powered only by four tiny jet turbines built for <span style="font-style: italic;">models</span>. He can fly for a period of ten minutes. He carries two additional items: a small throttle for the engines and an altimeter. That's it.<br /><br />When flying through the Grand Canyon, as you might imagine, it's a good idea to have a plan in place should you run out of fuel. Because, you see, the Grand Canyon is generally over a mile deep. And, at the bottom, it's either very wet or very hard. Or both.<br /><br />Luckily, as you can see, he has a parachute and a grand support staff.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">BZ</span><br /><br />In case you've forgotten, please see my <a href="http://bloviatingzeppelin.blogspot.com/2011/09/pushing-envelope-part-vi.html">previous PTE posts</a>:<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">-</span><a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" href="http://bloviatingzeppelin.blogspot.com/2012/02/pushing-envelope-part-ix.html">PTE Part IX</a><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">-</span><a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" href="http://bloviatingzeppelin.blogspot.com/2012/01/pushing-envelope-part-viii.html">PTE Part VIII</a><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">-</span><a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" href="http://bloviatingzeppelin.blogspot.com/2011/12/pushing-envelope-part-vii.html">PTE Part VII</a><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">-</span><a href="http://bloviatingzeppelin.blogspot.com/2011/09/pushing-envelope-part-vi.html"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">PTE Part VI</span><br /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span>Bloviating Zeppelinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01359816456769157176noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370534.post-79943418586201477502012-07-14T07:26:00.001-07:002012-07-14T08:53:22.232-07:00Under Obama: When will you start to make ANY profit?Why yes, that would be in your <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">7th</span> month.<br /><br />Right around now. Perhaps.<br /><br />That means: you will have to work over 6 months in order to pay off your government and even begin to see any modicum of profit.<br /><br />I'm sorry folks, but that is simply obscene.<br /><br />From <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/americans-will-work-more-6-months-pay-cost-govt-2012">CNSNews.com</a>:<br /><b></b><blockquote><b>(CNSNews.com)</b> – This year, Americans have to work until July 15 to pay for the burden of government, more than six months. <p>In a new report, Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) has calculated that Americans will spend a total of 197 days toiling to pay for the cost of government.</p> <p>"Cost of Government Day is the date of the calendar year on which the average American worker has earned enough gross income to pay off his or her share of the spending and regulatory burden imposed by government at the federal, state and local levels," reads the <a href="http://www.costofgovernment.org/files/files/COGD2012_hi%20res.pdf">report. </a></p> <p>The report,<a href="http://www.costofgovernment.org/files/files/COGD2012_hi%20res.pdf"> <i>Cost of Government Day</i>,</a> shows that Americans will work 88 days to pay for federal spending; 40 days for state and local spending; and 69 days for total regulatory costs.</p> <p>"From a different perspective, the cost of government makes up 54.0 percent of annual gross domestic product (GDP)," reads the report. "What's more, the largest tax hike in the nation's history is scheduled to take place at the end of 2012 unless Congress acts to protect taxpayers. If this tax increase is allowed to hit, COGD [Cost of Government Day] could permanently be pushed back into August and beyond."</p></blockquote><p></p>Yes, that's correct.<br /><br />You're taking, as the American Taxpayer, over 7 months to even begin to migrate from the red into the black.<br /><br />Look around you. Realize that the Non-Producers are demanding you work longer, harder and more diligently and consistently. Despite your own personal budgetary trials and tribulations. And despite governments on every angle leveling devastating rules, regulations and tariffs on ever-burgeoning aspects of your life.<br /><br />Government intrusion predominates. Freedoms wither and die. Regulations and taxes run amok.<br /><br />To the <span style="font-weight: bold;">A</span>merican <span style="font-weight: bold;">T</span>axpayer: just how much will you <span style="font-style: italic;">take</span>?<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">BZ</span><br /><br />P.S.<br />To American blacks who voted racist:<br /><br /><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Bg98BvqUvCc" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="353" width="470"></iframe><br /><br />How's that mortgage coming? How are those car payments going?<br /><br />Not so well, I might suspect.<br /><br />And this is for whom you're paying:<br /><br /><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/w8n56EW_ywg" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="353" width="470"></iframe><br /><br />Harder work and more of it. She needs an iPad, a 4G phone and a 54" flatscreen to complement her 2004 Lexus.<br /><br />Stop reading this and get back to work you lazy bastards.Bloviating Zeppelinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01359816456769157176noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370534.post-50413253327093095422012-07-13T00:01:00.001-07:002012-07-12T19:23:23.229-07:00Drudge hints: Condi Rice for Romney's VP?<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWe9M_7KsH56shqZkNBFY6W-wxbDHwUMers3LB-tLf2KHCNDup9IV2lFfmoakg7xuE29s6ncCNEI-TBJUpRqDRYwA4ffsyurHIAlYejm9u_9AujNg8u4BveY9ug9GtnAFVsLE9/s1600/Condoleezza+Rice.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 290px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWe9M_7KsH56shqZkNBFY6W-wxbDHwUMers3LB-tLf2KHCNDup9IV2lFfmoakg7xuE29s6ncCNEI-TBJUpRqDRYwA4ffsyurHIAlYejm9u_9AujNg8u4BveY9ug9GtnAFVsLE9/s400/Condoleezza+Rice.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5764470765242564178" border="0" /></a><br />Admittedly, I failed to see <a href="http://www.drudgereport.com/flashcm.htm"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">this</span></a> coming.<br /><br />I would have enjoyed perhaps Tom McClintock, Paul Ryan, Allen West, Marco Rubio, Bobby Jindal or any number of other young guns. I did not see the possibility of Condoleezza Rice being considered. I thought she had made her prior refusals quite clear -- but that was -- as we may all recall -- for the presidential spot, <span style="font-style: italic;">not</span> VP.<br /><br />That said, I'd take Rice over <span style="font-style: italic;">any</span> number of inept, staid, corrupt, decrepit "Old Republicans" one molecule away from their brethren and sistren across the aisle.<br /><br />Peggy Noonan of the <span style="font-style: italic;">Wall Street Journal</span> <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/declarations.html">writes</a> -- as many people inherently know but mostly refuse to verbalize -- that Obama "<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">seems to view politics as his weary duty, something he had to do on his way to greatness</span>." And that Condi Rice would be a "<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-style: italic;">brilliant choice</span>" as VP.<br /><br />Even Limbaugh <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/07/11/could_it_be_condi_for_vp">wonders</a>: "Condi?"<br /><br />Let me get the obvious up front and out of the way. She is more "black" than Obama -- because that actually matters to some blacks. <span style="font-weight: bold;">[</span>That's a massive topic for another day. -<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">BZ</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">]</span> She is more educated than Obama. She has infinitely more experience than Obama as the 66th Secretary of State under Bush. She was a poli-sci professor at Stanford, Bush's National Security Advisor in his first term and is, well, <span style="font-style: italic;">female</span>. She had to overcome incredible obstacles in her way. She is a concert-level pianist. Under <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condoleezza_Rice">Wikepedia</a>:<br /><blockquote>Rice was a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_%28United_States%29" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democrat</a> until 1982, when she changed her political affiliation to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_%28United_States%29" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a>, in part because she disagreed with the foreign policy of Democratic President <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter" title="Jimmy Carter">Jimmy Carter</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condoleezza_Rice#cite_note-15"><span>[</span>16<span>]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condoleezza_Rice#cite_note-16"><span>[</span>17<span>]</span></a></sup> and because of the influence of her father, who was Republican. As she told the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Republican_National_Convention" title="2000 Republican National Convention">2000 Republican National Convention</a>, "My father joined our party because the Democrats in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow" title="Jim Crow" class="mw-redirect">Jim Crow</a> Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did."<sup id="cite_ref-rice_at_rnc_17-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condoleezza_Rice#cite_note-rice_at_rnc-17"><span>[</span>18<span>]</span></a></sup></blockquote><br />Imagine that. Those evil Republicans.<br /><br />Any thoughts?<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">BZ</span><br /><br />P.S.<br />Here is Condoleezza Rice as portrayed by the loving, accepting, tolerant, understanding, sensitive, inclusive and benevolent Leftists/Demorats:<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWJzQbufjqVhWY4PhjcigNONZ-LefYcwcFzPZSieQcbH8Y-WjSEv5I_4TM0tt3TowkTh5JW8BaQWX6mx0-EecgAA_mqY42_hOu7GYTJ3UfmCmOd2r21r-mlDPJuy1dICx6zaml/s1600/Condi+Rice+Evil+Vampire.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 261px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWJzQbufjqVhWY4PhjcigNONZ-LefYcwcFzPZSieQcbH8Y-WjSEv5I_4TM0tt3TowkTh5JW8BaQWX6mx0-EecgAA_mqY42_hOu7GYTJ3UfmCmOd2r21r-mlDPJuy1dICx6zaml/s400/Condi+Rice+Evil+Vampire.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5764470738332025618" border="0" /></a><br />Because, after all, that's what you do to a black female in <span style="font-weight: bold;">M</span>odern <span style="font-weight: bold;">D</span>ay <span style="font-weight: bold;">D</span>emorat <span style="font-weight: bold;">A</span>merica who isn't an immediate adherent of your Leftist philosophy. Ruin her.<br /><br />If you're a black, you're a Demorat. If you aren't, you're a traitor and slated for despicable ruination.<br /><br />Condi Rice thinks that <span style="font-style: italic;">anyone</span> with their pants below their underwear looks ludicrous.Bloviating Zeppelinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01359816456769157176noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370534.post-30849353371208558262012-07-12T04:50:00.005-07:002012-07-12T13:27:56.055-07:00Starting in Fornicalia First:<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBb0FEWNhPXODBNpSPiGvUJfSs8Q48t4v7T0Xf70nUFa6diFRf9Kn8gOu-mxU5MeoyUG0eESKPCARCLaFWp2KcAt2mvRkBuB_6sSlxUkAySgtpCdcm8hVt-8XrLr6mwE1jXTsW/s1600/California+Republic.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 206px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBb0FEWNhPXODBNpSPiGvUJfSs8Q48t4v7T0Xf70nUFa6diFRf9Kn8gOu-mxU5MeoyUG0eESKPCARCLaFWp2KcAt2mvRkBuB_6sSlxUkAySgtpCdcm8hVt-8XrLr6mwE1jXTsW/s400/California+Republic.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5764251312331067730" border="0" /></a><br /><br />What do Vallejo, Mammoth Lakes, Stockton and now <a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-san-bernardino-bankruptcy-20120712,0,2433019.story">San Bernardino</a> have in common?<br /><br />They're Fornicalia cities that have become bankrupt as, unlike your glorious federal government which can, they cannot print their own money.<br /><br />People say: "no, the economy really isn't that bad. Mr Obama really isn't that bad."<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Seriously?</span><br /><br />Within the next year you're about to wake up one morning and discover you have no private health insurance, your sales taxes are akin to <a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/48144383">Spain's</a>, and your arse is bleeding from its federal pounding.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">BZ</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXT7K3Ay44jO3XW2e6N4xhWQPFRuTOkVTzBmDStkKy584RXd6OqOXGULpwT47gIbds2Vg8dxTzNUF3GvoNTLSxhsIlzOBjJEgSK5szFKjIak99GyQ4PA9AqOiZwHuCEdPvb4d7/s1600/Cartoon+-+CA+Debt+Killed+State.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 303px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXT7K3Ay44jO3XW2e6N4xhWQPFRuTOkVTzBmDStkKy584RXd6OqOXGULpwT47gIbds2Vg8dxTzNUF3GvoNTLSxhsIlzOBjJEgSK5szFKjIak99GyQ4PA9AqOiZwHuCEdPvb4d7/s400/Cartoon+-+CA+Debt+Killed+State.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5764251316419479378" border="0" /></a>Bloviating Zeppelinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01359816456769157176noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370534.post-89899467370008317892012-07-11T00:01:00.001-07:002012-07-10T18:02:10.133-07:00Muslim Brotherhood to Egypt's President Morsi: "Destroy the pyramids"<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEila0o5TbzVkvMeRUYwqZlrC9N_aKBO7R6KOj98uK3iyc7DXH-FUWgt28Z-vOmwjAZiuPuuUJ8Rgsgl9jhyn1wElRgQvVZvryYM0poqfOYmrUk5LFpfE1z4XQp5EjvIkuVLGbZl/s1600/Islam+Religion+of+Peace.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 231px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEila0o5TbzVkvMeRUYwqZlrC9N_aKBO7R6KOj98uK3iyc7DXH-FUWgt28Z-vOmwjAZiuPuuUJ8Rgsgl9jhyn1wElRgQvVZvryYM0poqfOYmrUk5LFpfE1z4XQp5EjvIkuVLGbZl/s400/Islam+Religion+of+Peace.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5763699695355704754" border="0" /></a><br />Because Muslims do not build and advance; they kill and destroy. And this is only in keeping with that ancient, time-tested trend. From <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/raymond-ibrahim/muslim-brotherhood-destroy-the-pyramids/">FrontPageMag.com</a>:<br /><blockquote>According to several reports in the Arabic media, prominent Muslim clerics have begun to call for the demolition of Egypt’s Great Pyramids—or, in the words of Saudi <a href="http://www.light-dark.net/vb/showthread.php?p=1040145204#post1040145204" target="_blank">Sheikh Ali bin Said al-Rabi‘i</a>, those “symbols of paganism,” which Egypt’s Salafi party has long planned to <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2077964/The-Salafist-partys-plan-Pyramids--cover-wax.html" target="_blank">cover with wax</a>. Most recently, Bahrain’s “Sheikh of Sunni Sheikhs” and President of National Unity, <a href="http://www.madar24.com/details-5510.html" target="_blank">Abd al-Latif al-Mahmoud</a>, called on Egypt’s new president, Muhammad Morsi, to “destroy the Pyramids and accomplish what the Sahabi Amr bin al-As could not.”<br /><br />Currently, in what the International Criminal Court is describing as a possible “war crime,” Islamic fanatics are <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57464957/radical-islamists-lay-waste-to-timbuktu-heritage/" target="_blank">destroying the ancient heritage of the city of Timbuktu</a> in Mali—all to Islam’s triumphant war cry, “Allahu Akbar!” <p>Much of this hate for their own pre-Islamic heritage is tied to the fact that, traditionally, Muslims do not identify with this or that nation, culture, heritage, or language, but only with the Islamic nation—the Umma.</p> <p>Accordingly, while many Egyptians—Muslims and non-Muslims alike—<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/8780/egypt-identity-crisis" target="_blank">see themselves as Egyptians</a>, Islamists have no national identity, identifying only with Islam’s “culture,” based on the “sunna” of the prophet and Islam’s language, Arabic. This sentiment was clearly reflected when the former <a href="http://www.alwatanvoice.com/arabic/news/2006/04/12/42211.html" target="_blank">Leader of the Muslim Brotherhood</a>, Muhammad Akef, declared “the hell with Egypt,” indicating that the interests of his country are secondary to Islam’s.</p></blockquote><p></p>I once again proffer what history and time have managed to immure regarding the bulk of Islam as predominantly practiced in the Middle East: it is a religion of death, oppression, violence and misogyny, adhered-to by barbarians, the ignorant, the soft-brained, the tribal, the feudal, with this in primary mind:<br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"><em></em></span><blockquote><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><em>Me against my brother, me and my brother against my cousins; me, my brother and my cousins against our nonrelatives; me, my brother, my cousins and friends against our enemies in the village; all of these and the whole village against the next village</em>."</span></blockquote><br />And let us not forget <a href="http://diacrino.blogspot.com/2007/06/lying-in-islam-taqqiyah.html">taqqiyah</a>.<br /><br />This is <a href="http://bloviatingzeppelin.blogspot.com/2011/07/muslims-your-best-buddies.html"><span style="font-style: italic;">already occurring</span> in Britain</a>:<br /><blockquote>From the <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2011433/Islamic-extremists-set-independent-states-UK-fall-Shariah-law.html">UK MailOnline:</a><br /><span style="font-size:1.2em;"></span><blockquote><span style="font-size:1.2em;">Islamic extremists have called on British Muslims to establish three independent states within the UK.</span><p><span style="font-size:1.2em;">The notorious Muslims Against the Crusades (MAC) group have named Yorkshire towns Bradford and Dewsbury and Tower Hamlets in East London as testbeds for blanket sharia rule.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:1.2em;">The medieval 'emirates' would operate entirely outside British law, according to a document on the MAC website.</span></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><p><span style="font-size:1.2em;"></span></p></blockquote>And did we ever <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://bloviatingzeppelin.blogspot.com/2011/02/us-energy-question-now-predominant.html">think of this</a>?<br /><blockquote>Egypt is about to be in control, under Muslim Brotherhood rule, of the Suez Canal.</blockquote><br />Uh, no; not <span style="font-style: italic;">about</span> to be. It <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">is</span> under "President" Morsi -- a member of the Muslim Brotherhood himself. See above.<br /><br />Let me get down to even more fundamental basics, the first aspect of which is widely-known to American soldiers serving in the Middle East:<br /><br />Women are for procreation; men are for pleasure. The epitome of religious hypocrisy but -- <span style="font-style: italic;">shhhh</span> -- don't speak of the obvious.<br /><br />And finally, as I've written for years: <span style="font-size:130%;">"<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-family:arial;" >Islam </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-family:arial;" >is</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-family:arial;" > as Islam </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-family:arial;" >does</span>."</span><br /><br />Period.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">BZ</span><br /><br />P.S.<br />If you wish to see my prior take on Islam, <a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://bloviatingzeppelin.blogspot.com/2010/08/islam-wake-up-america.html">go here</a>.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFTlTR5X2TMqfNbzWxWj1LrpB4V999-SjyySFV1UsWIYVeoPpUcgjB-nhyphenhypheneJifcFM8qZY-_lG3M11E9q9EVZXuC0GK5ZJlFMTPoU-NRVwYTjoiLpVCO9Xd2KwxjJ9ypd4XjtJB/s1600/Time+Magazine+Islam+Cover+Shariah+Law.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 293px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFTlTR5X2TMqfNbzWxWj1LrpB4V999-SjyySFV1UsWIYVeoPpUcgjB-nhyphenhypheneJifcFM8qZY-_lG3M11E9q9EVZXuC0GK5ZJlFMTPoU-NRVwYTjoiLpVCO9Xd2KwxjJ9ypd4XjtJB/s400/Time+Magazine+Islam+Cover+Shariah+Law.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5763701407264904082" border="0" /></a><br />If you're female, Islam has some <span style="font-style: italic;">great</span> plans for you. Unfortunately, most of them involve pain, violence, clitorectomies, subservience, honor killings, nose carvings and beatings.<br /><br />Still interested? Sign up <a href="http://duaat.wordpress.com/2008/03/10/how-islam-will-dominate-the-world/">here</a>.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcVd9HFof_009fLTs1YnwJ6y3ajuoDUlH8ONNkNnptFOMXL6Qds4xWObZ6QFqycirl9JhQCDeTqYYjD-bt99RxuVVxj3BD5qX1bfak0CCIjLpwQg9KMrzb7ghoLTlhFuzS7_TG/s1600/Muslims+v+Atheists.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 345px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcVd9HFof_009fLTs1YnwJ6y3ajuoDUlH8ONNkNnptFOMXL6Qds4xWObZ6QFqycirl9JhQCDeTqYYjD-bt99RxuVVxj3BD5qX1bfak0CCIjLpwQg9KMrzb7ghoLTlhFuzS7_TG/s400/Muslims+v+Atheists.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5763708460211149762" border="0" /></a>Bloviating Zeppelinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01359816456769157176noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370534.post-10530582837739627592012-07-10T00:01:00.001-07:002012-07-09T19:44:50.415-07:00The truth in 3.5 minutes:<iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/tPXTOMukT9I" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="264" width="470"></iframe><br /><br />Because if you voted for Obama in '08 to prove you weren't a racist, you have to vote against Obama in '12 to prove you aren't an idiot.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">BZ</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB5Pe8Xs00MOU3IwC28uACjdLPHc6dpyB2mjBXznFlHo2GsSQh8rJgFA44NeNdufJai0F4F72aj3avcR-yLJJx6wCk3eKx1iqjbMpekIxZIKzFDYrgRAEv0o2mqIPq4sgMETnf/s1600/Shout+Racist.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB5Pe8Xs00MOU3IwC28uACjdLPHc6dpyB2mjBXznFlHo2GsSQh8rJgFA44NeNdufJai0F4F72aj3avcR-yLJJx6wCk3eKx1iqjbMpekIxZIKzFDYrgRAEv0o2mqIPq4sgMETnf/s400/Shout+Racist.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5762965661351297330" border="0" /></a>Bloviating Zeppelinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01359816456769157176noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370534.post-52514451440366214042012-07-09T00:01:00.001-07:002012-07-08T15:55:40.969-07:00$1.2 Trillion Dollars In Ten Years: Chuck's Suggestions<iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/KV-RqPtT2PU" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="264" width="470"></iframe><br /><br />I'm with <a href="http://saveuschuckwoolery.com/">Chuck Woolery</a>. Except regarding the albino squirrels. Their taxpayer funded sanctuary gets cut.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">BZ</span><br /><br />P.S.<br />This is up pending the <span style="font-weight: bold;">I</span>nternet <span style="font-weight: bold;">D</span>oomsday virus <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/blackout-monday-dns-changer-know-155840354.html">predicted to activate Monday</a>. But my computers aren't infected. I confirmed by simply clicking <a href="http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylt=AqsrWjwO4VFUPE09TpMsdayZCMZ_;_ylu=X3oDMTFkYTlrYnI4BG1pdANCbG9nIEJvZHkEcG9zAzcEc2VjA01lZGlhQmxvZ0JvZHlBc3NlbWJseQ--;_ylg=X3oDMTMzOGtwNmw5BGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDNGJjZGFjMTktYTA3YS0zOTcxLTg5ZGQtNTVjNjk0MWRlMDZmBHBzdGNhdANibG9nc3x0aGVsb29rb3V0BHB0A3N0b3J5cGFnZQ--;_ylv=0/SIG=1152jioln/EXP=1342977546/**http%3A//dns-ok.us/">here</a> and <a href="http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylt=AinJROaAv7abZ4UFwi0a04aZCMZ_;_ylu=X3oDMTFla2kyZ2h0BG1pdANCbG9nIEJvZHkEcG9zAzExBHNlYwNNZWRpYUJsb2dCb2R5QXNzZW1ibHk-;_ylg=X3oDMTMzOGtwNmw5BGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDNGJjZGFjMTktYTA3YS0zOTcxLTg5ZGQtNTVjNjk0MWRlMDZmBHBzdGNhdANibG9nc3x0aGVsb29rb3V0BHB0A3N0b3J5cGFnZQ--;_ylv=0/SIG=11in2q65h/EXP=1342977546/**http%3A//www.mcafee.com/dnscheck">here</a>. And no, those links <span style="font-style: italic;">don't</span> download other viruses. <span style="font-weight: bold;">[</span>Heavy sigh.<span style="font-weight: bold;">]</span><br /><br />On the other hand, the earth <span style="font-style: italic;">could</span> stop rotating on its axis, just as it did on January 1st of 2000, at 12:01 am.Bloviating Zeppelinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01359816456769157176noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370534.post-7408856007531207582012-07-08T10:42:00.003-07:002012-07-08T10:45:38.629-07:00I want my country back<iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/le7IV1ltgNE" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="264" width="470"></iframe><br /><br />Thanks to Jimmy Copens.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">BZ</span>Bloviating Zeppelinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01359816456769157176noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370534.post-3254255647624468052012-07-07T00:01:00.001-07:002012-07-06T17:04:51.022-07:00What has Mr Obama done?<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl2vnpBxsZsHVe0DsamkMxJsB-PbnZHGWetaC59khvlof7y7TIn5tBRmuOE7FXyw75xNE6iST4hlaPPGslDgYmk6EVv7mvxLNzlUIu5o7ULbDL7SK-h_sY66T7GpR07kbycwTi/s1600/Obama+-+American+Socialists+for+Change.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 226px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl2vnpBxsZsHVe0DsamkMxJsB-PbnZHGWetaC59khvlof7y7TIn5tBRmuOE7FXyw75xNE6iST4hlaPPGslDgYmk6EVv7mvxLNzlUIu5o7ULbDL7SK-h_sY66T7GpR07kbycwTi/s400/Obama+-+American+Socialists+for+Change.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5761846197764855474" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;">A few examples, noted for Leftists and Conservatives alike:<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;">- Signed the <a href="http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in-national/ndaa-s-cia-military-targeted-killings-of-innocent-americans"><span style="font-weight: bold; ">NDAA</span></a> into law -- assassinating US citizens w/o trial is now legal<br /></span> <span style="font-size:100%;">- Personally oversaw a <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/05/29">'<span style="font-weight: bold; ">Secret Kill List</span>'</a><br /></span> <span style="font-size:100%;">- Waged war on <span style="font-weight: bold; "><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20045508-503544.html">Libya</a></span> without congressional approval<br /></span> <span style="font-size:100%;">- Started a covert, drone war in <a href="http://stpeteforpeace.org/yemen.html"><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Yemen</span></a><br /></span> <span style="font-size:100%;">- Escalated the proxy war in <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/02/world/africa/02somalia.html?_r=1"><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Somalia</span></a><br /></span> <span style="font-size:100%;">- Escalated the CIA drone war in <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/21/washington/21policy.html?_r=3&ref=world&pagewanted=print"><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Pakistan</span></a><br /></span> <span style="font-size:100%;">- Will maintain a presence in <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/10/a-look-at-us-presence-in-iraq-after-troops-leave/"><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Iraq</span></a> even after "ending" war<br /></span> <span style="font-size:100%;">- Sharply escalated the war in <a href="http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/12/02/obama-30000-more-troops-afghanistan-summer.html"><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Afghanistan</span></a><br /> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">- Secretly deployed US special forces to <a class="external" href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/obamas-expanding-covert-wars" style="font-weight: bold; " rel="nofollow" target="_new">75 countries</a><br /></span> <span style="font-size:100%;">- Sold $30 billion of weapons to the dictatorship in <a class="external" href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/u-s-finalizes-30-billion-weapons-deal-with-saudi-arabia-1.404461" style="font-weight: bold; " rel="nofollow" target="_new">Saudi Arabia</a><br /></span> <span style="font-size:100%;">- Signed an agreement for 7 military bases in <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/10/30/us.colombia.bases/index.html"><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Colombia</span></a><br /></span> <span style="font-size:100%;">- Opened a military base in <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/05/2012526163512636123.html"><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Chile</span></a><br /></span> <span style="font-size:100%;">- Defended <a class="external" href="http://www.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/11/20/obama.tsa/index.html?hpt=T2" style="font-weight: bold; " rel="nofollow" target="_new">body scans and pat-downs</a> at airports<br /> - Signed the <a class="external" href="http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/146173-obama-signs-patriot-act-extension-into-law" style="font-weight: bold; " rel="nofollow" target="_new">Patriot Act</a> extension into law<br /> <a href="http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/the-buzz-florida-politics/content/he-heads-florida-obamas-immigration-victory-clashes-record-deportations"><span style="font-weight: bold; "></span></a>- Continued Bush's <a class="external" href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/02/obama-administr.html" style="font-weight: bold; " rel="nofollow" target="_new">rendition program</a><br /></span><ul type="disc"><li> <span style="font-size:100%;">U.S. beefs up <span style="font-weight: bold; ">Persian Gulf forces</span> <a href="http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2012/06/26/US-beefs-up-Persian-Gulf-forces/UPI-96811340730695/">(read)</a>.</span></li><li> <span style="font-size:100%;"></span><span style="font-size:100%;">Obama Ignored CIA Report Against <span style="font-weight: bold; ">Afghan Escalation</span> <a href="http://news.antiwar.com/2012/06/25/memo-obama-purposely-avoided-cia-report-that-warned-against-afghan-escalation/">(read)</a>.</span></li><li> <span style="font-size:100%;">Under Obama, the <span style="font-weight: bold; ">export of American arms</span> to countries around the world -- even those actively repressing their own citizens -- is booming. The United States is the world's top provider of major conventional weapons<a href="http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/06/21/why_is_the_us_selling_billions_in_weapons_to_autocrats?page=full">(read)</a>. Imagine that: FAST & FURIOUS.<br /></span></li><li> <span style="font-size:100%;">C.I.A. said to aid in steering arms to <span style="font-weight: bold; ">Syrian Opposition</span> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/21/world/middleeast/cia-said-to-aid-in-steering-arms-to-syrian-rebels.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all">(read)</a>.</span></li><li> <span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Drone strikes</span> threaten 50 years of international law, says UN reporter</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/21/drone-strikes-international-law-un">(read)</a>.</span></li><li> <span style="font-size:100%;">Obama asserts <span style="font-weight: bold; ">presidential powers</span> he once spoke critically of <a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/06/21/153365/obama-asserts-presidential-powers.html#storylink=cpy">(read)</a>.</span></li><li> <span style="font-size:100%;">Obama administration rejects FOIA requests from NYT, ACLU for <span style="font-weight: bold; ">"targeted killing"</span> papers <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57457612/obama-administration-rejects-foia-requests-from-nyt-aclu-for-targeted-killing-papers/?tag=stack">(read)</a>.</span></li><li> <span style="font-size:100%;">Ex-CIA Official Slams Obama's 'Indiscriminate' Use of <span style="font-weight: bold; ">Drones</span> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/06/06-2">(read)</a>.</span></li><li> <span style="font-size:100%;">What's behind Obama's new <span style="font-weight: bold; ">military base in Chile</span>? <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/05/2012526163512636123.html">(read)</a>.</span></li><li> <span style="font-size:100%;">Jeremy Scahill Says <span style="font-weight: bold; ">Obama Strikes In Yemen</span> Constitute 'Murder' <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/02/jeremy-scahill-says-drone-strikes-murders_n_1565441.html">(read)</a>.</span></li><li> <span style="font-size:100%;">"As shown through his stepped-up drone campaign, <span style="font-weight: bold; ">Barack Obama has become George W. Bush on steroids</span>." <a href="http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/05/23/barack_oromney">(read)</a>.</span></li><li> <span style="font-size:100%;">Obama order set off wave of <span style="font-weight: bold; ">cyberattacks against Iran</span> <a href="http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/nyt/20120601_Obama_order_set_off_wave_of_cyberattacks_against_Iran.html">(read)</a>.</span></li><li> <span style="font-size:100%;">Obama Personally Oversees '<span style="font-weight: bold; ">Secret Kill List</span>': NYT <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/05/29">(read)</a>. Obama and Drone Warfare: Will Americans Speak Out? <a href="http://www.nationofchange.org/obama-and-drone-warfare-will-americans-speak-out-1338448122">(read)</a>.</span></li><li> <span style="font-size:100%;">Obama OKs Proliferation of US <span style="font-weight: bold; ">"Hunter-Killer" Drone</span> Technology - Administration plans to arm Italy's fleet of Reaper drones <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/05/29-3">(read)</a>.</span></li><li> <span style="font-size:100%;">Top Obama Officials, Secretive Process Create <span style="font-weight: bold; ">'Assassination List'</span> - President Obama's counter-terrorism chief has "seized the lead" in secretly determining who will die by US drone <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/05/22-2">(read)</a>.</span></li><li> <span style="font-size:100%;">Obama's 'Poverty-Relieving' Plan for Africa a Profit Boon for <span style="font-weight: bold; ">Giant Agribusiness</span> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/05/18-3">(read)</a>.</span></li><li> <span style="font-size:100%;">Obama has opened three new military bases in <span style="font-weight: bold; ">Honduras</span> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/06/world/americas/us-turns-its-focus-on-drug-smuggling-in-honduras.html?_r=3&pagewanted=1">(read)</a>.</span></li><li> <span style="font-size:100%;">Ex-CIA Interrogator: <span style="font-weight: bold; ">Obama's War on Terror Is Less Ethical Than Bush's</span>. "We don't capture anybody any more... [Obama's] default option... has been to ... take no prisoners...How could it be more ethical to kill people rather than capture them?" <a href="http://nation.foxnews.com/war-terror/2012/04/30/ex-cia-interrogator-obamas-war-terror-less-ethical-bushs">(read)</a>.</span></li><li> <span style="font-size:100%;">Jeremy Scahill: <span style="font-weight: bold; ">US Has Become 'Nation of Assassins'</span> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/04/30-2">(read)</a>.</span></li><li> <span style="font-size:100%;">The Drone-Happy President: Obama Escalates in <span style="font-weight: bold; ">Yemen</span> – Again. Obama allows the CIA and the military to fire <span style="font-weight: bold; ">even when the identity of those who could be killed is not known</span> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/04/26-9">(read)</a>.</span></li><li> <span style="font-size:100%;"></span><span style="font-size:100%;">The Obama administration has already launched <span style="font-weight: bold;">six times</span> as many <span style="font-weight: bold; ">drone strikes</span> as the Bush administration in Pakistan alone, killing hundreds of innocent people and devastating families <a href="http://ccrjustice.org/newsroom/press-releases/pakistani-lawyer-representing-victims-of-drone-strikes-prevented-speaking-u.s.">(read)</a>.</span></li><li> <span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Strip-Searches</span>: Obama Wants You to Bend Over (Or Squat) and Spread ‘Em <a href="http://blackagendareport.com/content/strip-searches-obama-wants-you-bend-over-or-squat-and-spread-%E2%80%98em">(read)</a>.</span></li><li> <span style="font-size:100%;">Air Force ramps up <span style="font-weight: bold; ">drone war</span>. New documents reveal plans to more than quadruple Reaper missions by 2016 <a href="http://www.salon.com/2012/04/05/air_force_ramps_up_drone_war/singleton/">(read)</a>.</span></li><li> <span style="font-size:100%;">Obama Signs <span style="font-weight: bold; ">"Fraud-Friendly" JOBS Act</span> into Law. Economist: Bill will bring fraud, destroy jobs <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/04/05-8">(read)</a>.<br /></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Why Obama's JOBS Act Couldn't Suck Worse <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/04/09-13">(read)</a>.</span></li></ul><ul type="disc"><li> <span style="font-size:100%;">U.S. draws up plans for <span style="font-weight: bold; ">nuclear drones</span> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/02/us-plans-nuclear-drones">(read)</a>.</span></li><li> <span style="font-size:100%;">Our government is watching us more. Clearly. New guidelines permit the federal counter-terrorism investigators to <span style="font-weight: bold; ">collect, search and store data about Americans</span> who are not suspected of terrorism, or anything at all -- like YOU and ME <a href="http://www.southernstandard.com/section/9/article/7559/">(read)</a>.</span></li><li> <span style="font-size:100%;">U.S. joins effort to equip and pay 'rebels' in <span style="font-weight: bold; ">Syria</span> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/02/world/middleeast/us-and-other-countries-move-to-increase-assistance-to-syrian-rebels.html">(read)</a>.</span></li><li> <span style="font-size:100%;">Drone strikes in <span style="font-weight: bold; ">Yemen</span> soar as U.S. stokes 'secret war' - America has dramatically stepped up its "secret war" in Yemen with the U.S. ordering dozens of drone attacks on al-Qaida hotspots, which have also killed scores of civilians <a href="http://www.canada.com/mobile/iphone/story.html?id=6375090">(read)</a>.</span></li><li> <span style="font-size:100%;">Bush's <span style="font-weight: bold; ">"Total Information Awareness"</span> data mining program revived by the Obama administration <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/23/us/politics/us-moves-to-relax-some-restrictions-for-counterterrorism-analysis.html?_r=1">(read)</a>.</span></li><li> <span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Obama signs Executive Order allowing for </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">control over all US resources</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> </span><a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" href="http://www.examiner.com/finance-examiner-in-national/president-obama-signs-executive-order-allowing-for-control-over-all-us-resources#ixzz1pRgK9imT">(read)</a><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">. </span>Related: "Obama's Creepy Executive Order: Permanent War Economy" <a href="http://www.progressive.org/permanent_war_economy.html">(read)</a>.</span></li><li> <span style="font-size:100%;">Obama signs <span style="font-weight: bold; ">anti-protest trespass bill</span> into law <a href="http://rt.com/usa/news/trespass-bill-obama-secret-227/">(read)</a>.</span></li><li> <span style="font-size:100%;">Obama administration moves to aid <span style="font-weight: bold; ">Syrian</span> opposition <a href="http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/03/06/obama_administration_moves_to_aid_syrian_opposition">(read).</a></span></li><li> <span style="font-size:100%;">Obama's Attorney General says<span style="font-weight: bold; "> U.S. can assassinate American citizens abroad (without being charged with anything or given a trial) </span><a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/03/06/2678204/holder-says-us-can-target-citizens.html#storylink=cpy">(read).</a></span></li><li> <span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-02-27/white-house-muslim-NYPD/53267060/1"></a></span><span style="font-size:100%;">Obama sees single-candidate election in <span style="font-weight: bold; ">Yemen</span> as 'model' for Middle East <a href="http://news.antiwar.com/2012/02/19/good-enough-obama-sees-single-candidate-election-in-yemen-as-model-for-middle-east/">(read).</a></span></li><li> <span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "></span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">U.S. drones targeting rescuers and mourners in <span style="font-weight: bold; ">Pakistan</span>; Obama indirectly admits that U.S. strikes have killed civilians by claiming the drone campaign a “targeted, focused effort” that “has not caused a huge number of civilian casualties”. . . .</span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">(</span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.presstv.ir/usdetail/225261.html">read)</a></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">.</span></span></span></li><li> <span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">We're #47! After Occupy Journalist Arrests, US Plummets in <span style="font-weight: bold; ">Global Press Freedom Rankings</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">(</span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/01/25-6">read)</a></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">.</span></span></span></li></ul><span style="font-size:100%;">And this just in:<br /></span><ul type="disc"><li> <span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">10 reasons the U.S. is no longer the <span style="font-weight: bold; ">land of the free</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">(</span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/is-the-united-states-still-the-land-of-the-free/2012/01/04/gIQAvcD1wP_story.html">read)</a></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">.</span></span></span></li><li> <span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Has Obama taken <span style="font-weight: bold; ">Bush’s ‘preemption’ strategy</span> to another level?</span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">(</span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/has-obama-taken-bushs-preemption-strategy-to-another-level/2012/01/06/gIQAHDImmP_print.html">read)</a></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">.</span></span></span></li><li> <span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Obama sending 5 US military officers to <span style="font-weight: bold; ">South Sudan</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">(</span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2012/01/10/obama_sending_5_us_military_officers_to_s_sudan/">read)</a></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">.</span></span></span></li><li> <span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">The White House has declared the government of <span style="font-weight: bold; ">South Sudan</span> eligible to receive weapons and defense assistance from the U.S. The announcement came amid an outbreak of violence between two South Sudanese tribes that may have left thousands dead and some 50,000 people needing aid</span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">(</span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2012/01/06/obama_gives_us_ability_to_send_weapons_to_s_sudan/">read)</a></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">.</span></span></span></li></ul><ul type="disc"><li> <span style="font-size:100%;">White House rejects calls for oversight on <span style="font-weight: bold; ">drone killings</span> <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203899504577129014177012028.html">(read)</a>.</span></li><li> <span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">TSA</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> spreading its wings beyond airports</span> <a href="http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/tsa-333360-vipr-something.html">(read)</a>.</span></li></ul> <ul style=" text-align: left; font-family:Verdana;" type="disc"><li> <span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; ">National Defense Authorization Act</span> - By signing the 'anti-terror' bill the president could end up being worse than his Republican predecessor on civil liberties <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/dec/23/obama-abysmal-record-civil-liberty">(read)</a>.</span></li><li> <span style="font-size:100%;">The Zenith of <span style="font-weight: bold; ">Civil Libertarian Anger</span> at President Obama <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/12/the-zenith-of-civil-libertarian-anger-at-president-obama/250159/">(read)</a>.</span></li><li> <span style="font-size:100%;">Secrecy defines Obama's <span style="font-weight: bold; ">drone war</span> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/12/20">(read)</a>.</span></li><li> <span style="font-size:100%;"></span><span style="font-size:100%;">Obama Promises to <span style="font-weight: bold; ">Label GMOs</span> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqaaB6NE1TI&feature=player_embedded">(read)</a>.</span></li><li> <span style="font-size:100%;"></span><span style="font-size:100%;">Obama: U.S. to expand military in <span style="font-weight: bold; ">Australia</span> <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57325630/obama-u.s-to-expand-military-in-australia/?tag=stack">(read)</a>; 2,500 US Marines to be stationed in Australia <a href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/obama-in-australia/us-president-touches-down-at-fairbairn-airforce-base/story-fnb0o39u-1226197111255">(read)</a>.</span></li><li> <span style="font-size:100%;">Obama Administration Delays <span style="font-weight: bold; ">Keystone Pipeline</span> Decision to After Election <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-10/obama-administration-postpones-keystone-xl-pipeline-decision.html">(read)</a>.</span></li><li> <span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Palestine </span>Wins UNESCO Membership... And Obama Withdraws <a href="http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/688795/palestine_wins_unesco_membership..._and_obama_withdraws/">(read)</a>.</span></li><li> <span style="font-size:100%;">Obama's new war in <span style="font-weight: bold; ">Uganda</span> <a href="http://spectator.org/archives/2011/10/31/obamas-new-war-in-uganda">(read)</a>.</span></li><li> <span style="font-size:100%;">Obama's proposal would gut <span style="font-weight: bold; ">Freedom of Information Act</span> <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/opinionla/la-ed-secrets-20111031,0,273702.story">(read)</a>.</span></li><li> <span style="font-size:100%;">As troops pull out of <span style="font-weight: bold; ">Iraq</span>, Obama plans more combat forces elsewhere in the Middle East <a href="http://www.salon.com/2011/10/31/what_withdrawal_means_for_an_empire/singleton/">(read)</a>.</span></li><li> <span style="font-size:100%;">The U.S. will maintain a presence in <span style="font-weight: bold; ">Iraq</span> even after "ending" of war <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/10/a-look-at-us-presence-in-iraq-after-troops-leave/">(read)</a>.</span></li><li> <span style="font-size:100%;">New Obama <span style="font-weight: bold; ">Foreclosure Plan</span> Helps Banks At Taxpayers' Expense <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/24/foreclosure-plan-obama-harp-refinancing_n_1028554.html?ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false#sb=776950,b=facebook">(read)</a>.</span></li><li> <span style="font-size:100%;">US Troop Deaths in <span style="font-weight: bold; ">Afghan War</span> Under Obama Now Twice That Under Bush <a href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/1043">(read)</a>.</span></li><li> <span style="font-size:100%;">Obama sends 100 US combat troops to <span style="font-weight: bold; ">Uganda</span> to help fight 'rebels' <a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/10/20111014174712102972.html">(read)</a>.</span></li><li> <span style="font-size:100%;">Obama vows to seek 'toughest’ <span style="font-weight: bold; ">Iran</span> sanctions to punish Iranian officials whom he accused of complicity in an alleged plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to the United States <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2011/10/14/obama_vows_to_push_for_the_toughest_sanctions_against_iran/">(read)</a>.</span></li><li> <span style="font-size:100%;">Obama Waives Penalties on Countries That Employ <span style="font-weight: bold; ">Child Soldiers</span> – Again! <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/10/05-3">(read)</a>.</span></li><li> <span style="font-size:100%;">U.S. drones attack in southern <span style="font-weight: bold; ">Somalia</span> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15052484">(read)</a>.</span></li><li> <span style="font-size:100%;">US Resumes Arms Sales to <span style="font-weight: bold; ">Bahrain</span>. Less than three months after including Bahrain on a list of human rights offenders requiring the United Nations' attention, the Obama administration seems to have changed its mind <a href="http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/09/bahrain-united-states-weapon-sale">(read)</a>.</span></li></ul>My trolls usually predominate upon emotions. They conveniently exclude facts.<br /><br />Guess what, ladies and gentlemen? Check out the above <span style="font-weight: bold;">FACTS</span>.<br /><br />I have provided every link possible.<br /><br />Leftists? Knock yourselves out. See how Mr Obama has VIOLATED your very foundational precepts. I anticipate hundreds of comments from Leftists and Demorats and so-called Progressives. Maybe even Flo.<br /><br />Or: truly, not even a peep.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">BZ</span>Bloviating Zeppelinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01359816456769157176noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370534.post-48933357909343146152012-07-06T00:01:00.001-07:002012-07-05T15:52:30.499-07:00Things Are About To Change at BZ<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcpcA6hlq3avAvittyXwoqMPYKn9Z5LwcWXL2PNSg3hYHLnNLXlNBWQntS-c1PftZcn-QHHF-nSKGMewNNDr_xgawmWNF7FrMNl31HKXPuVaDoK53v4P0LzqbS8YLeC6Udac76/s1600/BZ+-+Waves+of+Change.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 299px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcpcA6hlq3avAvittyXwoqMPYKn9Z5LwcWXL2PNSg3hYHLnNLXlNBWQntS-c1PftZcn-QHHF-nSKGMewNNDr_xgawmWNF7FrMNl31HKXPuVaDoK53v4P0LzqbS8YLeC6Udac76/s400/BZ+-+Waves+of+Change.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5761821030822691458" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">BZ<br /><br /><br /><br /></span>Bloviating Zeppelinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01359816456769157176noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370534.post-23720340536633574042012-07-05T00:01:00.004-07:002012-07-04T18:02:41.623-07:00Reflections on ObamaKare:<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiVuLSCwpBVDiaoT1gbFUzHdeLtzrCL-zJn1XNa6zdTcsI06LmcK64DwkEyrppsII_fV275EREQ0ItjxXCIbAz2mPLVo-Edf5NlouXGQhRJ5WtEXuQII_QEMfc6oITFKEY3U2S/s1600/Obama+Care+Line.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 352px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiVuLSCwpBVDiaoT1gbFUzHdeLtzrCL-zJn1XNa6zdTcsI06LmcK64DwkEyrppsII_fV275EREQ0ItjxXCIbAz2mPLVo-Edf5NlouXGQhRJ5WtEXuQII_QEMfc6oITFKEY3U2S/s400/Obama+Care+Line.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5761110417734250946" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family:times new roman;" >"You can't tell how good the day was until the night has come."</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family:georgia;" >- Old Axiom</span></span><br /></div><br />The final arguments are not yet in.<br /><br />Voices on both the Left and Right are crowing about the Roberts SCOTUS decision <span style="font-style: italic;">in re</span> ObamaKare.<br /><br />To listen to it, both sides would portray themselves as having won. I submit: no one has "won." Because there is no such thing as a "win" to pull out of ObamaKare.<br /><br />There is only this:<br /><br /><blockquote>A LETTER TO MY NIECES and NEPHEW:<br /><br />I know you voted for Obama.<br /><br />He was your first federal vote.<br /><br />You voted for him because you were taught in your Public Education venues that base Caucasoids were and are inherently despicable and responsible for the bulk of what's wrong with history.<br /><br />In our own nation -- and around the globe.<br /><br />You were taught to be GOWPs: <span style="font-weight: bold;">G</span>uilty <span style="font-weight: bold;">O</span>vereducated <span style="font-weight: bold;">W</span>hite <span style="font-weight: bold;">P</span>eople. You were raised in Paradise (Coronado, Fornicalia) and doted upon by dutiful parents. You went to Fornicalia universities as well.<br /><br />But now, <span style="font-weight: bold;">you</span> are the racial miNORity instead of the maJORity in not only Fornicalia but soon to be so around the nation. And you think <span style="font-style: italic;">me</span> racist by dint of my merest mentioning of race.<br /><br />With this in mind, I submit: you have voted for your own terrible future conditions and early demise.<br /><br />You <span style="font-style: italic;">may</span> be like your GOWP Caucasoid kind al<span style="font-style: italic;">ready</span>.<br /><br />Your kind won't have children. And if they discover a pregnancy they'll likely abort. Because they can or because it's inconvenient. If they actually bring a child to term it will be by mistake or by a one-time singular choice. After many weeks of anguish. Bottom line? I suspect you or your peers won't have kids.<br /><br />And what is your devotion to your parents? Will you take them into your personal homes when they require intensive care? They <span style="font-style: italic;">will</span> require intensive care. They <span style="font-style: italic;">will</span> have health problems. They <span style="font-style: italic;">will</span> have mobility problems. Just like my father did. And your grandfather.<br /><br />My guess: they're on their own. My two brothers. His wife. Because you will have your own lives and they won't wish to intrude.<br /><br />Which means that, like your parents, you'll be literally "on your own" when you get older and riddled with disease and infirmities. You won't have kids to help and, if you do, they'll be even more distracted and uninvolved than <span style="font-style: italic;">you</span> were.<br /><br />You'll only have your wonderful Government to assist. The Government and future <span style="font-style: italic;">you</span> assured by voting for Mr Obama. Your healthcare, resultingly, will be conducted with all the kindness, loyalty, care, efficiency and professionalism of your local DMV. And administered by bureaucrats, not doctors. Cost and age will be the only considered factors. The older you get, the less valuable you become.<br /><br />So here's YOUR future under Mr Obama:<br /><ul><li>Death Panels</li><li>Excessive taxes</li><li>Health care rationing</li><li>Lack of doctors</li><li>Lack of nurses</li></ul>Which will equate to this:<br /><br />Your final days won't be covered by your children. You didn't have any.<br /><br />You were born alone and you have the mandate that you will die alone.<br /><br />You will find your final days shoved -- if you still have a semblance of life about you -- into a small room with another ten individuals.<br /><br />And further, because you are <span style="font-weight: bold;">C</span>aucasoid, you will find your Caretakers speaking anything <span style="font-style: italic;">but</span> English. And ignoring your needs because you are. Because when <span style="font-style: italic;">you</span> think it's not about race -- there are others who think differently. Open your eyes. Start looking around. In Fornicalia you'd best have an <span style="font-style: italic;">excellent</span> grasp of Spanish, Tagalog or Jamaican Patois. Start learning now.<br /><br />THIS is what you have guaranteed under ObakaKare.<br /><br />About ten or twenty years in the future. But, because you are ignorant and short-sighted, Mr Obama has ALREADY taken advantage of you. Because if ObamaKare holds and, moreover, if he acquires a second term. . .<br /></blockquote><br />And if you don't think this is your future -- ?<br /><br />Then I might actually -- for a second or two -- feel sorry for you.<br /><br />Bottom line: "There is no fixing stupid."<br /><br />Good luck with that Obama vote. Good luck with Mr Obama's dystopia.<br /><br />You'd best learn Spanish and quickly. If you move east, adhere to Islam.<br /><br />This <span style="font-style: italic;">isn't</span> a <a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" href="http://www.blogger.com/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World">Brave New World</a>. It's a quivering, apologistic, simpering, <span style="font-style: italic;">cowardly</span> New World.<br /><br />You weren't born alone. Both your parents were there.<br /><br />But be prepared to <span style="font-style: italic;">die</span> alone.<br /><br />And with no one who <span style="font-style: italic;">cares</span> about you <span style="font-style: italic;">around</span> you. Your loving parents will have <span style="font-style: italic;">long</span> since passed away.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">BZ</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghLfiygK63IVd66odh35AJnRve0VrNf02RVsLDy3uEaBLJvvdUg9Gq5osTNRh38LUMLwLFfte6MVjcY7X78C8HaTau-XyMfeCXkN0g43udY8RHLM1DD9vBy3kDUAUkzkt7e_oD/s1600/Obama+Worshippers.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 291px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghLfiygK63IVd66odh35AJnRve0VrNf02RVsLDy3uEaBLJvvdUg9Gq5osTNRh38LUMLwLFfte6MVjcY7X78C8HaTau-XyMfeCXkN0g43udY8RHLM1DD9vBy3kDUAUkzkt7e_oD/s400/Obama+Worshippers.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5761109802557162018" border="0" /></a>Bloviating Zeppelinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01359816456769157176noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370534.post-35384523031658177382012-07-04T00:01:00.002-07:002012-07-04T17:56:08.515-07:00Oakland Raider BEN DAVIDSON: Dead at 72<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCKKcFcWQGJabnS1lRvH9AsxT8IHJNaXemkJm7MMgNooh_a0aqD-9XNsvfc3TWCftMbSo_nh3i0RQ7qVvsh7rRqflqaz-S-bJLMV6moKbbK7LPQ6IBtAg4tq81-mDdaBmvG7O0/s1600/Ben+Davidson+Raider.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCKKcFcWQGJabnS1lRvH9AsxT8IHJNaXemkJm7MMgNooh_a0aqD-9XNsvfc3TWCftMbSo_nh3i0RQ7qVvsh7rRqflqaz-S-bJLMV6moKbbK7LPQ6IBtAg4tq81-mDdaBmvG7O0/s400/Ben+Davidson+Raider.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5761120994333348514" border="0" /></a><br />Oakland Raider Ben Davidson has <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/news/former-raider-ben-davidson-dies-221247683--nfl.html">passed away</a> of prostate cancer, at the age of 72, on Tuesday, July 3rd.<br /><br />At 6'8" and 280 pounds, his handlebar moustache predominant -- Ben Davidson kicked major ass for the Oakland Raiders as a defensive end from 1964 to 1971.<br /><br /><a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Davidson">Benjamin Earl Davidson</a> was born on June 14th of 1940, and passed away on July 3rd, age 72.<br /><br />He also played some characters <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0203234/">in film</a> -- Conan.<br /><br />Ben Davidson will always be #83 to me.<br /><br />He brought the Nasty to Oakland.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw_dQQIEbPfHw3dc7TMmurmB9hVNuT5fsJ6CIcc0G0xvp-tdI5-4Vm8wOfx-Zit_nOXImY6tLNT3Pd-1Ayl__xELK8yHMnLqNjiJY45tqyUBwMZiUhjWHhYQGmOb5HiM-RX4u6/s1600/Ben+Davidson.jpeg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 285px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw_dQQIEbPfHw3dc7TMmurmB9hVNuT5fsJ6CIcc0G0xvp-tdI5-4Vm8wOfx-Zit_nOXImY6tLNT3Pd-1Ayl__xELK8yHMnLqNjiJY45tqyUBwMZiUhjWHhYQGmOb5HiM-RX4u6/s400/Ben+Davidson.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5761120989695847202" border="0" /></a><br />Further, Ben Davidson was <span style="font-style: italic;">my</span> football player in the 70s.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_9WYDRyMo2kQyl5efCJFS-fQV_zAQlQNC0SlxtMUypLcZXRXRKyGcDhTdpRYwMtmyaW1SV_mWgjHmd3APnvAJazUIR-Fxbxtri_Aote9K-FqHZAwLBQHu__224lbJcIU7Kr25/s1600/Ben+Davidson+49ers.jpeg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 286px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_9WYDRyMo2kQyl5efCJFS-fQV_zAQlQNC0SlxtMUypLcZXRXRKyGcDhTdpRYwMtmyaW1SV_mWgjHmd3APnvAJazUIR-Fxbxtri_Aote9K-FqHZAwLBQHu__224lbJcIU7Kr25/s400/Ben+Davidson+49ers.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5761122903070313858" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">BZ</span><br /><br />P.S.<br /><br />Andy Griffith passed away. Enjoyed his first show. That's it.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR0LeNSnuFOmwH1Z39jA5npUkWrdsPf9N7W4rJhXyVOdPROJCBSSdq4rw2ttANAY8JuXAJDl2IuM7HI3Rzwm3_TIxM654emhXxmEmTBaEPGhU4y84Zz9MrOs_cumGLZ_ERS5Si/s1600/Ben+Davidson+Joe+Namath.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 218px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR0LeNSnuFOmwH1Z39jA5npUkWrdsPf9N7W4rJhXyVOdPROJCBSSdq4rw2ttANAY8JuXAJDl2IuM7HI3Rzwm3_TIxM654emhXxmEmTBaEPGhU4y84Zz9MrOs_cumGLZ_ERS5Si/s400/Ben+Davidson+Joe+Namath.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5761130695052262530" border="0" /></a>Bloviating Zeppelinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01359816456769157176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370534.post-32479964655506936132012-07-03T00:01:00.001-07:002012-07-02T17:15:14.093-07:00DOJ: We won't prosecute Holder for contemptWhat was mostly UNcovered by the DEM/MSM over the weekend:<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA-GVNq4uQD5eqfCBktJGnnXtiQNfq4cDaAWQIO-tz58qA3YfhHuAvvP87aKfdXefAfVWdfbOlmugU8dL-Dyy6jajhPmY_xNTr1TH0SSiC-_MwplmQqwwBk-vx5tYOQRJBvgqS/s1600/dictator-obama.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 283px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA-GVNq4uQD5eqfCBktJGnnXtiQNfq4cDaAWQIO-tz58qA3YfhHuAvvP87aKfdXefAfVWdfbOlmugU8dL-Dyy6jajhPmY_xNTr1TH0SSiC-_MwplmQqwwBk-vx5tYOQRJBvgqS/s400/dictator-obama.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5759619035048961586" border="0" /></a><br />From <a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/justice-department-confirms-it-will-not-prosecute-holder/2012/06/29/gJQAbHgACW_print.html"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Washington Post</span></a>:<br /><p></p><blockquote><p>The Justice Department has told House leaders that Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.’s decision to withhold certain documents about a flawed gun operation from Congress is not a crime and he will not be prosecuted for <a xslt="_http" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/fast-and-furious-house-plans-vote-on-holding-eric-holder-in-contempt/2012/06/28/gJQAznlG9V_story.html">contempt of Congress</a>.</p> <p>Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole explained the decision, which was expected, in a letter to House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio). The letter was released publicly Friday, just over a week after President Obama <a xslt="_http" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/fast-and-furious-scandal-obama-exerts-executive-privilege-house-panel-moves-forward-with-contempt-vote/2012/06/20/gJQAGImIqV_story.html">invoked executive privilege</a> to withhold the documents.</p><p>In his letter, Cole said the decision not to prosecute Holder conforms to long-standing Justice Department practice in both Democratic and Republican administrations.</p></blockquote><p></p>Again, the federal government elites skate on crimes that otherwise would place you and me under immediate arrest.<br /><br />That's like making the <span style="font-weight: bold;">C</span>ouncil of <span style="font-weight: bold;">A</span>merican <span style="font-weight: bold;">R</span>attlesnakes responsible for the review of every rattlesnake bite in the country. Their series of conclusions: "We're rattlesnakes."<br /><br />I refer again to a very important quotation from John F Kennedy:<br /><h1 style="margin:0;font-size:12"><blockquote>Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.”</blockquote></h1><br />There is a breaking point for the <span style="font-weight: bold;">A</span>merican <span style="font-weight: bold;">T</span>axpayer.<br /><br />That breaking point is approaching.<br /><br />Listen up, DC. You <span style="font-style: italic;">ignore</span> the <span style="font-weight: bold;">A</span>merican <span style="font-weight: bold;">T</span>axpayer to your own upcoming detriment.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">BZ</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2itkuBBjrbDKrih4JfXR1CAbYNVeQYdih4mSj7gqHKiQNbjc2t8lk_5m3UiK9VGYWVpk0I40B9VA2sVgYWg-XIWCo-Eac_Sl1CTPNxMNivrXlgeDyc8n2HeNV8Ha89DiUmOZK/s1600/Dont+thread+on+me.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2itkuBBjrbDKrih4JfXR1CAbYNVeQYdih4mSj7gqHKiQNbjc2t8lk_5m3UiK9VGYWVpk0I40B9VA2sVgYWg-XIWCo-Eac_Sl1CTPNxMNivrXlgeDyc8n2HeNV8Ha89DiUmOZK/s400/Dont+thread+on+me.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5759619042528551154" border="0" /></a>Bloviating Zeppelinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01359816456769157176noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370534.post-6351663053005117682012-07-02T12:55:00.002-07:002012-07-02T12:55:00.030-07:00Why I still enjoy watching Chris Christie:<iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/5gz0XCpyoh8" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="264" width="470"></iframe><br /><br />The man tells you what he thinks. And he mostly doesn't care what you think about <span style="font-style: italic;">him</span>. I find that, frankly, somewhat refreshing.<br /><br />Not to mention worthy of its intrinsic entertainment value.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">BZ</span>Bloviating Zeppelinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01359816456769157176noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370534.post-5642545056582714692012-07-02T00:01:00.001-07:002012-07-02T00:01:00.238-07:00Drudge: DC To Be Dark For Days<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiftoDNdH_ALTnTPJL_hWy4UQs1dwwDW_WxA_rYOcM4Ef8K3DvvD7b3s9g1WjERWmdfQEVWCS-6Vq-5T14CmMbSU5sUEHNXx_Ozwk7E93zZgN-igDf0CjBlSdh6VQ25DN4Bsbww/s1600/Obama+Dark+Soul.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiftoDNdH_ALTnTPJL_hWy4UQs1dwwDW_WxA_rYOcM4Ef8K3DvvD7b3s9g1WjERWmdfQEVWCS-6Vq-5T14CmMbSU5sUEHNXx_Ozwk7E93zZgN-igDf0CjBlSdh6VQ25DN4Bsbww/s400/Obama+Dark+Soul.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5760370456052764738" border="0" /></a><br />DC was dark the moment Mr Obama took office. And I make no reference to the intrinsic nature of melanin, either. I make reference to the shaded and freedom-robbing stance of his policies down to the uncaring, arrogant, naive, inexperienced and darker nature of his very soul.<br /><br />Mr Drudge merely aggregates the obvious, in my opinion.<br /><br />That said, <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/power-outages-could-last-for-days/2012/07/01/gJQA3JVjFW_story.html?hpid=z1"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Washington Post</span> writes</a>:<br /><blockquote>With much of Montgomery County still <a xslt="_http" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post_now/post/dc-storms-power-outages-weather-forecast-storm-updates-and-how-to-stay-safe/2012/06/30/gJQAXHufDW_blog.html">without power and ongoing 911 problems</a> continuing across Northern Virginia on Sunday afternoon, local officials vowed to press utilities to restore service more quickly. <p>“I will not accept the timetable of July the 6th, said Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett (D), shortly after Pepco announced some homes would not have their power restored until Friday or even later. “Having our citizens go seven days without utilities in my opinion is not the kind of service we should expect.”</p>Maryland declared liberal leave for all non-essential state employees. But all federal agencies are set to open Monday, though officials said workers could take unscheduled leave or telework.<p>District government, however, is expected to be open on Monday, officials said. Dozens of city traffic signals remain without power. But Paul Quander, the District’s deputy mayor for public safety and justice, said traffic control officers will be in place at anticipated trouble spots for the Monday morning commute.</p><p>At 7 p.m., about 608,000 <a xslt="_http" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-thunderstorms-knock-out-power-across-region-leaving-2-dead/2012/06/30/gJQAsw5jDW_gallery.html">Washington-area businesses and households</a> — one in three of the region’s electric customers — remained out of service, according to data furnished on utility websites.</p></blockquote><p></p>Cell phone service <a href="http://wtop.com/41/2925313/Electricity-slowly-coming-back">crashed in DC. Electric lines were down</a>.<br /><br />Some train passengers were <a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" href="http://washington.cbslocal.com/2012/07/01/mid-atlantic-power-outages-could-last-days/">stranded for 2o hours</a>.<br /><br />You can anticipate, however, that the <span style="font-weight: bold;">A</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">merican</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">T</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">axpayer</span> will be <span style="font-style: italic;">stranded</span> and then systematically <span style="font-style: italic;">cut down</span> in the next four years if Mr Obama takes November and, with upcoming SCOTUS appointments, the entire <span style="font-style: italic;">nation</span> will be stranded, cast <span style="font-style: italic;">adrift</span> -- only to <span style="font-style: italic;">capsize</span> in the next 20 years or -- <span style="font-style: italic;">much less</span> time.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">BZ</span><br /><br />P.S.<br />All the while -- thank God, thank Jesus! <span style="font-weight: bold;">[</span>or should I say: thank Obama, thank Holder!<span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">(same thing, just ask them)</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">]</span> -- <span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" href="http://www.politico.com/politico44/2012/06/friday-night-news-dump-white-house-salaries-edition-127779.html">White House salaries continue to <span style="font-style: italic;">bloat</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">swell</span></a>.</span><br /><br /><span style=" color: rgb(153, 51, 153);font-family:arial;font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">And even better news: [<span style="font-style: italic;">Hooray! Hooray!</span>]:</span></span><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Wall Street Journal</span> Chief Economist Stephen Moore <a href="http://www.humanevents.com/2012/06/30/wsj-chief-economist-75-of-obamacare-costs-will-fall-on-backs-of-those-making-less-than-120k-a-year/">says 75% of the ObakaKare bill will fall on those making $120,000 or LESS</a>.<br /><br />So: thanks, Mr Obama! Thanks for sticking it -- once again -- to the <span style="font-weight: bold;">A</span>verage <span style="font-weight: bold;">A</span>merican <span style="font-weight: bold;">T</span>axpayer! You sure <span style="font-style: italic;">taught</span> those <span style="font-weight: bold;">F</span>at <span style="font-weight: bold;">C</span>at <span style="font-weight: bold;">P</span>oliticians a thing or two:<br /><br /><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ixRRuzmxzTg" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="353" width="470"></iframe>Bloviating Zeppelinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01359816456769157176noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370534.post-50882722730034320682012-07-01T17:01:00.001-07:002012-07-01T17:02:50.068-07:00Sunday:<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnAXufr6zSefVDEN6wLesBmIk-T_bQllidXrePd7d6g3iUhBj89HJrx1kj7UzADlOJTtkbS3JJ03-Dw5yss-clEX_STjm1du7odh2yfbMWzBe5jU8GInIDCWtIfyDddSWLEAl6/s1600/Cartoon-Attention-Passengers-LFS-990.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 309px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnAXufr6zSefVDEN6wLesBmIk-T_bQllidXrePd7d6g3iUhBj89HJrx1kj7UzADlOJTtkbS3JJ03-Dw5yss-clEX_STjm1du7odh2yfbMWzBe5jU8GInIDCWtIfyDddSWLEAl6/s400/Cartoon-Attention-Passengers-LFS-990.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5760355855776955218" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">BZ</span>Bloviating Zeppelinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01359816456769157176noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370534.post-6809230831603839662012-06-30T00:01:00.001-07:002012-06-29T16:14:36.826-07:00Sac UFO Con & Summit:<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEAc-D1LjUcnoDe6lD53Exe6Gnw9Cgi0Jj16mQXvSzZP5KYoVigQUqeOOfJMVUeMR7u4oxU9eXdjYsEXn8uFilqb0IUahI-0cR6Hs7SResRvz7kKALNyVrDosYzfq6yeXaJohw/s1600/Sanger+Paranormal+Society-A.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 196px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEAc-D1LjUcnoDe6lD53Exe6Gnw9Cgi0Jj16mQXvSzZP5KYoVigQUqeOOfJMVUeMR7u4oxU9eXdjYsEXn8uFilqb0IUahI-0cR6Hs7SResRvz7kKALNyVrDosYzfq6yeXaJohw/s400/Sanger+Paranormal+Society-A.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5755466018235449794" border="0" /></a><br />On June 16th and 17th -- just two weekends ago -- I attended the <a href="http://sacufocon.com/">SACUFOCON</a> and Paranormal Summit, hosted by <a href="http://www.ufohighway.com/">Strange Lights Publishing</a>, held at the <a href="http://www.crowneplaza.com/hotels/us/en/sacramento/sacne/hoteldetail">Crown Plaza Hotel</a> near Madison Avenue and I-80.<br /><br />That may explain why I lagged behind in my posting. I was otherwise, so to speak, <span style="font-style: italic;">occupado</span>.<br /><br />Though I've not much written about the topic, I believe that <span style="font-weight: bold;">W</span>e <span style="font-weight: bold;">A</span>re <span style="font-weight: bold;">N</span>ot <span style="font-weight: bold;">A</span>lone in the universe.<br /><br />For those who've not considered the issue, I posit: the universe is wide and ever-expanding. It exists in infinity. Most if not all of us have a difficult if not impossible time grasping the meaning of the word itself: <span style="font-style: italic;">infinity</span>.<br /><br />Because there is <span style="font-style: italic;">not</span> a <span style="font-weight: bold;">G</span>reat <span style="font-weight: bold;">E</span>xpanse and suddenly -- a brick wall. If so: then what exists <span style="font-style: italic;">beyond</span> that so-called brick wall?<br /><br />I also believe that there is <span style="font-style: italic;">much</span> in this world (and perhaps others) that defies description and remains <span style="font-style: italic;">unexplained</span>.<br /><br />As a result, I cannot denigrate those who attempt to seek answers to many questions posed on any number of levels, ranging from theocratic to scientific.<br /><br />And all points in between.<br /><br />My wife has always been more receptive to these thoughts and ideas than me. With this weekend having passed, I find myself asking more questions than I have easy answers.<br /><br />At this summit, I was provided with a wide range of differing thoughts and philosophies and suggestions and suppositions.<br /><br />It was up to the individual to draw their own conclusions or -- more importantly -- to begin their own exciting adventures into potential personal investigations.<br /><br />Because:<br /><br />Admit it. We don't talk about many of the strange things we've seen or experienced in our lives. Because we don't want people to think we're unhinged. We keep some of our experiences very close to our personal vests. Sometimes it's best to classify those things as "adjunct" and just move on.<br /><br />But I'll bet this: each and every one of us have encountered events in our lives that we <span style="font-style: italic;">couldn't</span> explain and that we didn't or won't reveal. Because we <span>can</span><span style="font-style: italic;">not</span> readily explain them.<br /><br />Count me there.<br /><br />My wife, however, is the proverbial <span style="font-weight: bold;">O</span>pen <span style="font-weight: bold;">B</span>ook. She not only <span style="font-style: italic;">believes</span> but, in a way, <span style="font-style: italic;">welcomes</span>.<br /><br />Me? Admittedly, not so much.<br /><br />Until I was in San Diego at my brother's home in Coronado in the very late 80s. At night, I watched a series of lights, mostly to the southwest, with my naked eye, moving together in a group. The problem as discerned was this: they did not move in any kind of a ballistic motion. They moved in a very staccato fashion and at 90-degree angles within a few seconds. At quite some distance. Rapidly. Then they split and disappeared in an outward radial movement.<br /><br />This was in the mid-80s.<br /><br />I kept this in my brain Tickler File.<br /><br />Fast forward to Now.<br /><br /><a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" href="http://sacufocon.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">W</span>e <span style="font-weight: bold;">A</span>re <span style="font-weight: bold;">N</span>ot <span style="font-weight: bold;">A</span>lone</a>. I am convinced of this, absolutely, positively.<br /><br />My wife and I met a number of persons from this summit, but we somehow gravitated towards Jeffrey Gonzalez of the <a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" href="http://www.sangerparanormalsociety.com/">Sanger Paranormal Society</a>. He sat with us at breakfast and regaled many tales at our table.<br /><br />The predominant bulk of the speakers and hosts coagulated only upon themselves at other tables. Mr Gonzalez sat squarely at a table consisting of a series of "unknowns." And he impressed me with that.<br /><br />And, whilst listening to the Sunday 7pm streaming video of the SPS wherein Mr Gonzalez interviewed <a href="http://projectcamelotportal.com/">Kerry Cassidy</a>, I chanced to meet Allen -- the astute and knowledgeable TechnoGuy with PSP.<br /><br />We exchanged some personal histories.<br /><br />Please check out the photos above: Jeffrey's website and the <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.sangerparanormalsociety.com/">Sanger Paranormal Society</a>. He exists in Fresno, and this was my wife's hometown.<br /><br />I should care to suggest: the <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.sangerparanormalsociety.com/">SPS</a> hosts a LIVE streaming event <span style="font-style: italic;">every</span> <a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" href="http://www.sangerparanormalsociety.com/radio.html">Sunday at 7 pm</a>.<br /><br />Thanks to Jeffrey and Allen, we can all find ourselves on the cusp of cutting-edge paranormal activity and techno information week-to-week.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">BZ</span><br /><br style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">PS:</span><br /><br />A <span style="font-weight: bold;">C</span>ase <span style="font-weight: bold;">I</span>n <span style="font-weight: bold;">S</span>ummary, to Anthony Sanchez <span style="font-style: italic;">in re</span> the <a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://sacufocon.com/"><span style="font-style: italic;">First Paranormal Summit</span></a>:<br /><br />- The Crown Plaza Motel was a brilliant choice; every -- and I mean EVERY -- employee I encountered was kind, courteous, solicitous. The rooms they provided were appropriate and clean. When the outside temperatures reached 108-degrees, their auditorium -- for YOU -- kicked down to 70 degrees. That's a MAJOR concession to your audience. I have nothing but good to say about the Crown Plaza and its employees!<br /><br />I however, suggest:<br /><br /><ul><li>- Remove the side tables on the dais. Those tables weren't used until the final panels. They kept people from having a clear view of the speakers and screen.<br /></li><li>- Play your PPTs and videos prior to their revelation. Ensure your technology works.</li><li>- If you have people who pay <span>$200</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>per ticket --like me and my wife -- then I might suggest your speakers and hosts spread themselves around the tables for the VIP/Level III dinner. I understand that your speakers and hosts feel more comfortable around themselves, but it would have been enjoyable to meet more of the featured personalities.</li></ul><br />On that vein, I thank Mel Febregas for keeping the Summit on track. Much appreciated.<br /><br />To Anthony Sanchez: your first attempt was <span style="font-style: italic;">quite impressive</span>.<br /><br />You could make it even more impressive next year.<br /><br />It's all about scheduling and organization and techno realization.<br /><br />The incredibly <span style="font-style: italic;">professional</span> <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.sangerparanormalsociety.com/">PSP broadcast</a> with Jeffrey and Allen:<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh54wnTxNbd3gOIk6m4-4ydDergxn0QwTZUCHg4BJ5NRa3-NBltKmZc8RGlL7R8fM8L7jEUDSGriVxsiL7b9C_g3ZUM01f1W0JlpofANyeXlJ96liiTSN_NW00SFYzb4rQfoijr/s1600/DSCN0120-A.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh54wnTxNbd3gOIk6m4-4ydDergxn0QwTZUCHg4BJ5NRa3-NBltKmZc8RGlL7R8fM8L7jEUDSGriVxsiL7b9C_g3ZUM01f1W0JlpofANyeXlJ96liiTSN_NW00SFYzb4rQfoijr/s400/DSCN0120-A.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5755465565364240258" border="0" /></a><br />SPS broadcasts live <a href="http://www.sangerparanormalsociety.com/">via internet streaming</a> with Jeffrey Gonzalez and co-host Allen!Bloviating Zeppelinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01359816456769157176noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370534.post-44316138806221220902012-06-29T00:01:00.001-07:002012-06-28T19:00:00.306-07:00ObamaKare is NOT a taxExcept when it <span style="font-weight: bold;">is</span> a tax -- as ruled by SCOTUS.<br /><br /><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/5_-qh9XDbgE" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="264" width="470"></iframe><br /><br />You can't have it both ways.<br /><br />Unless you're SCOTUS. Or unless you're the Obama Administration. <a href="http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/11-393c3a2.pdf">PDF is here</a>.<br /><br />1. It <span style="font-weight: bold;">is</span> a tax increase;<br />2. You <span style="font-weight: bold;">are</span> taking over every sector of the economy.<br /><br />But, of course, let us not forget the most important part of ObakaKare for those of us who have been paying into the HCS for, literally, decades:<br /><br /><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/1LRcLMScEqo" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="353" width="470"></iframe><br /><br />Rationing and Death Panels a Go-Go, here we come!<br /><br />Wow. Can't wait to get old.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">BZ</span><br /><br />P.S.<br />Meet the New Boss.<br /><br />Same as the Old Boss.<br /><br /><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Rp6-wG5LLqE" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="353" width="470"></iframe>Bloviating Zeppelinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01359816456769157176noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370534.post-25266503700413299692012-06-28T07:09:00.007-07:002012-06-28T07:19:15.167-07:00DECISION OUT: ObamaKare generally UPHELDNow the talking heads are reading it, in order to make a proper interpretation.<br /><br />The decision is lengthy and complicated.<br /><br />In part:<br /><ul style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><li>- The healthcare law is generally upheld.</li><li>- It can be upheld under the court's taxing authority.</li><li>- The mandate <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">cannot</span> be upheld under the Commerce Clause.</li><li>- The penalty -- tax -- at this point appears to be intact.</li><li>- The opinion was written by Chief Justice Roberts.</li></ul>There will be more as the day goes on.<br /><br />Now according to SCOTUS, you have to 1) Die, 2) Pay taxes and 3) Have health insurance.<br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-size:180%;" >God help us all.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">BZ</span>Bloviating Zeppelinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01359816456769157176noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370534.post-57510783781596711142012-06-28T00:01:00.001-07:002012-06-27T19:17:34.556-07:00Waiting<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX_ZJH_5mqyEN2CThnvPi5f2lPtC3SMqHv-rtWvZvewd01nhFuPAgWl87MP2Q_IhnHVpD2PcxkYss2gbKdxfvjU5vL7vkTsKIsoZtMWmKNIJRLe_EN84dsbRBAHY3mU4iRO_Dq/s1600/ObamaCare.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 303px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX_ZJH_5mqyEN2CThnvPi5f2lPtC3SMqHv-rtWvZvewd01nhFuPAgWl87MP2Q_IhnHVpD2PcxkYss2gbKdxfvjU5vL7vkTsKIsoZtMWmKNIJRLe_EN84dsbRBAHY3mU4iRO_Dq/s400/ObamaCare.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5758905892162450258" border="0" /></a><br />For <span style="font-weight: bold;">the</span> make-or-break SCOTUS decision of, likely, the past thirty years.<br /><br />On par with <a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Board_of_Education">Brown v Board of Education</a>. <a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_v._Wade">Roe v Wade</a>.<br /><br />We as Conservatives will be broken, or we will be -- at least -- partially vindicated.<br /><br />It's <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/27/politics/health-care-ruling/index.html"><span style="font-style: italic;">that</span> important</a>.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">BZ</span>Bloviating Zeppelinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01359816456769157176noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370534.post-41220406976959767462012-06-27T00:01:00.001-07:002012-06-26T17:09:41.631-07:00Usernames and Passwords<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_lu7__QmCdVPArt27coUYahhmIiyllTfgwhRh3iuKA6aIWIOp0PnNTNDL6YQTiCbPvPwUippyZ_tLLw6Eyi1uZiQCot0ZOMHijkBpp5hQwmebt0RhCbwR2rTmFnh71fjabyZA/s1600/Computer+Frustrated.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 335px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_lu7__QmCdVPArt27coUYahhmIiyllTfgwhRh3iuKA6aIWIOp0PnNTNDL6YQTiCbPvPwUippyZ_tLLw6Eyi1uZiQCot0ZOMHijkBpp5hQwmebt0RhCbwR2rTmFnh71fjabyZA/s400/Computer+Frustrated.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5758490263931411394" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">[</span>Sorry: Politics kicked aside for today. -<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">BZ</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">]</span></span><br /><br />I think I'm done.<br /><br />No; I <span style="font-style: italic;">know</span> I'm done.<br /><br />Every<span style="font-style: italic;">thing</span>, every<span style="font-style: italic;">where</span>, requires a "username" and a "password."<br /><br />Everyone and everything, from grocery stores to bookstores, additionally, want you to sign up for their individual "<span style="font-style: italic;">cards</span>." I don't have a key-ring or a wallet large enough. Nor am I going to get one.<br /><br />I'm done. No more information or cards or usernames or passwords unless I ABSOLUTELY have to have one, say, for my credit card provider. And I blast RADIO SHACK for starting this bullshit. Even when paying cash, <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">years</span> ago, they would require a phone number or a zip code. Which is why I STOPPED purchasing ANYthing at RADIO SHACK.<br /><br />I'm done with, for starters, blogs that require a username and password. If I don't already read you and already have one of those with you, then I'm deleting you in my <span style="font-weight: bold;">T</span>he <span style="font-weight: bold;">U</span>sual <span style="font-weight: bold;">S</span>uspects blogroll. I'm just <span style="font-style: italic;">done</span>.<br /><br />I'm not just <span style="font-style: italic;">at</span> "threshold" -- I'm <span style="font-style: italic;">beyond</span> threshold.<br /><br />I'm username'd and password'd and card'd OUT.<br /><br />And -- of course -- you absolutely cannot use the same username or password from one site or blip or blog from one to another or you're going straight to <span style="font-weight: bold;">H</span>ell. Because, naturally, the sites simply won't let you do that. Here is essentially what each and every site would want for your password:<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">845J</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">NVN</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">MVBP-Q989IE</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">HY</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">FN VHkevnqp-8oenbn v-p84jmkb</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">mqw</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">-89e4nngv0q87njl.b-7NVH679039W</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">3Ghvp</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">q8vnn8884</span><br /><br />Some sites might even think this a "weak" password.<br /><br />So go ahead. Try to remember <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">that</span> crap.<br /><br />I reflect my philosophy on my own blog.<br /><br />Trolls make me, now and then, go on and off <span style="font-weight: bold;">C</span>omment <span style="font-weight: bold;">M</span>oderation. But, because I HATE word verification, you won't see me forcing <span style="font-weight: bold;">you</span> to trudge through that inane bullshit.<br /><br />So, to those of you whom I've deleted or to whom I will no longer read and/or comment: <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">sorry</span>. But life is already too terribly complicated for me. If I can't figure your site or comments out in five seconds, I'm gone. I don't have that many years left. No one's site is worth my frustration. I'm just a: curmudgeon. Admitted.<br /><br />I've actually gotten to the point where I have to carry a small notebook around with me which is alphabetically tabbed and contains NOTHING but usernames, passwords, addresses, URLs and phone numbers of the essential agencies and sites in my life.<br /><br />Finally:<br /><br />How do YOU handle all this burgeoning username and password garbage? How do you frigging COPE?<br /><br />Or do you even <span style="font-style: italic;">try</span> anymore?<br /><br />I'm at my wit's end. What about <span style="font-style: italic;">you</span>?<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">BZ</span>Bloviating Zeppelinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01359816456769157176noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370534.post-50714758034133560822012-06-26T00:01:00.001-07:002012-06-25T17:42:27.732-07:00SCOTUS rules on Arizona: 3 of 4 key immigration points struck down<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-De4YKEB7tLlJh04HL9HLsSMWd1OsbS8PBuAXrUvFpqDb7Z984mEuYqexgHOnm0ZcLPwouY-YGoio4UuxpeA6MddnfxBFBchsZ6NKm1LV2zt4EW1D7na1SZz3Er6lFzbTByLc/s1600/Illegal+Immigration+At+The+Border+--+Cartoon.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 279px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-De4YKEB7tLlJh04HL9HLsSMWd1OsbS8PBuAXrUvFpqDb7Z984mEuYqexgHOnm0ZcLPwouY-YGoio4UuxpeA6MddnfxBFBchsZ6NKm1LV2zt4EW1D7na1SZz3Er6lFzbTByLc/s400/Illegal+Immigration+At+The+Border+--+Cartoon.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5758133962490209378" border="0" /></a><br />With Justice Elena Kagan recusing herself, <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.supremecourt.gov/">SCOTUS</a> <a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" href="http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/11-182b5e1.pdf">delivered a <span style="font-weight: bold;">5</span>-to-<span style="font-weight: bold;">3</span> ruling</a> <span style="font-style: italic;">in re</span> Arizona's SB 1070 -- as in <a href="http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/11-182b5e1.pdf"><span style="font-style: italic;">Arizona v United States</span></a>.<br /><br />The provision requiring police to conduct immigration checks on those they arrest or stop for questioning -- and they suspect as illegal -- was <span style="font-style: italic;">upheld</span>. From the <a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" href="http://jurist.org/paperchase/2012/06/supreme-court-partially-strikes-down-arizona-immigration-law-but-upholds-controversial-section.php">Jurist.org</a>:<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 10pt;font-family:Verdana;font-size:78%;" >Four specific provisions of the law were at issue: Section 2(B), which requires police officers to check the immigration status of anyone whom they arrest and allows police to stop and arrest anyone whom they believe to be an illegal immigrant; Section 3, which makes it a crime for someone even to be in the state without valid immigration papers; Section 5(C), which makes it a crime to apply for or hold a job in Arizona without proper papers; and Section 6, which gives a police officer the power to arrest an individual, without a warrant, whom the officer believes has committed a crime that could cause him or her to be deported, no matter where the crime may have occurred.</span><br /><br />Everything else: struck <span style="font-style: italic;">down</span>. Essentially the SCOTUS indicated that illegal immigration enforcement falls within the scope of <span style="font-weight: bold;">federal</span> authority <span style="font-style: italic;">only</span>. The <span style="font-weight: bold;">states</span> must step aside and shut up.<br /><br />In my opinion, this is merely one branch of the Fed, the <span style="font-weight: bold;">J</span>udicial <span style="font-weight: bold;">[</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">E</span>xecutive, <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">L</span>egislative, <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">J</span>udicial<span style="font-weight: bold;">]</span>, simply standing up for itself and the other two. In my view, to be <span style="font-style: italic;">expected</span>.<br /><br />Which is <span style="font-style: italic;">good</span> if your version of the federal government believes in enforcing laws extant. <span style="font-style: italic;">Bad</span> if your federal government involves Mr Obama.<br /><br />Arizona Governor Jan Brewer <a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0612/77789.html">crowed</a> about the ruling in a positive fashion. I submit: she couldn't be more wrong. <a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jun/25/justices-reject-obamas-racial-profiling-worries-ar/">Immigrant-rights advocates cried foul</a>. They couldn't be more wrong <span style="font-style: italic;">either</span>.<br /><br />Because, as a direct result of this ruling, <a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" href="http://www.fronterasdesk.org/news/2012/jun/25/homeland-security-suspends-immigration-enforcement/#.T-j6UvXBUsg">Janet Napolitano declared immediately</a>:<br /><div class="content_title"> <div id="target-story_headline_template"> <h2 class="header"></h2></div></div><blockquote><div class="content_title"><div id="target-story_headline_template"><h2 class="header">Homeland Security Suspends Immigration Enforcement Program For Arizona Officers</h2> </div> </div> <p class="byline">By <a href="http://www.fronterasdesk.org/staff/hernan-rozemberg/">Hernán Rozemberg</a></p>The Department of Homeland Security is suspending the program it uses to deputize local, county and state law enforcement officers in Arizona so they can double up as immigration agents. <p>The move affects only Arizona and it was made in direct reaction to the <a href="http://www.fronterasdesk.org/news/2012/jun/25/supreme-court-rejects-part-arizona-immigration-law/#.T-jGJL9Gde4">U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling</a> on Monday regarding Arizona’s controversial immigration laws.</p>But with Homeland Security’s suspension of the program — called 287(g) from its section in immigration law — no future officers in Arizona will be given the training to arrest immigrants solely on their immigration status.</blockquote><br />You'll enjoy this. Further:<br /><blockquote>Homeland Security would not comment on the record. An official on background indicated that ICE agents in Arizona have been instructed not to respond for calls for assistance from local enforcement unless the person in question is a convicted criminal, was just caught crossing the border illegally or is a repeat illegal border crosser. <p>Not only will no more officers be trained in Arizona, but already existing agreements with state law enforcement agencies were also nixed, according to the Homeland Security official.</p></blockquote><p>Because I'm a "bottom line" kind of individual, what did this ruling actually do, and what does it mean?<br /></p>It means that Arizona peace officers <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">can</span>, for example, stop vehicles and inquire into immigration legality. But, once a potential illegal Mexican or otherwise is found, it can do nothing further.<br /><br />Because the federal government has decided to ignore Arizona and its MOUs or JPAs.<br /><br />It has kicked Arizona to the curb. It is now refusing to acknowledge Arizona or its ability to bring illegals to light. It is refusing to deal with illegals unearthed by Arizona.<br /><br />The federal government, in a nutshell, is <span style="font-style: italic;">refusing</span> to enforce its <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">own laws</span>. It has <a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" href="http://www.fronterasdesk.org/news/2012/jun/25/homeland-security-suspends-immigration-enforcement/#.T-j6UvXBUsg"><span style="font-weight: bold;">overtly</span> suspended immigration enforcement in Arizona</a>. By targeting Arizona. For having the balls to challenge federal authority. And challenging the US government to enforce its own laws.<br /><br />Yet, with that in mind, Maricopa County (AZ) Sheriff Joe Arpaio weighs in during an interview with Fox's Neil Cavuto:<br /><br /><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/8SdyQcyVCSs" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="264" width="470"></iframe><br /><br />Say what you will about Joe Arpaio, he clearly has balls the size of grapefruit.<br /><br />God bless you, Sheriff Arpaio. You're <span style="font-style: italic;">one</span> of a <span style="font-style: italic;">few</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">A</span>ctual <span style="font-weight: bold;">A</span>mericans left in this country's governments.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">BZ</span>Bloviating Zeppelinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01359816456769157176noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370534.post-65721801482077943272012-06-25T08:06:00.011-07:002012-06-25T15:21:32.027-07:00Muslim Brotherhood elected in Egypt: Mr Obama congratulates.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkpahBUlRUDusGg3t08LZQDBwfi1Bn7jDccLjTvt9aMlh-LX2VsQ450YaTdqxe0mc78bVLZVmqRc5zz6VNPHtm4DZE19ZYA_lRI3__SN10vtCoXKa5vrJlRi2mC0ZU0_jkyEYT/s1600/Obama-and-islam.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 269px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkpahBUlRUDusGg3t08LZQDBwfi1Bn7jDccLjTvt9aMlh-LX2VsQ450YaTdqxe0mc78bVLZVmqRc5zz6VNPHtm4DZE19ZYA_lRI3__SN10vtCoXKa5vrJlRi2mC0ZU0_jkyEYT/s400/Obama-and-islam.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5758005287178748594" border="0" /></a><br />Mr Obama "congratulates" Egypt on having a member of the Muslim Brotherhood elected as president?<br /><br />Mr Obama just isn't "tone deaf" as some minions might say. I'll write what needs to be said: he is ignorant, naive, uninformed, or a Muslim sympathizer himself. And Islam, as practiced -- primarily in the Middle East -- is a religion of and for barbarians, the tribal, the superstitious. It preys on the ignorant. It is a Death Cult. I say: "Islam <span style="font-style: italic;">is</span> as Islam <span style="font-style: italic;">does</span>."<br /><br />Even the UK is beginning to come to grips with its handling of Islam and women. Of its fear of being labeled racist and religionist. Of turning its governmental head as women are sold as chattel in forced marriages, raped. Where women are genitally mutilated, removed from school, their rights trampled by Sharia tribunals -- all male Muslims. This is <span style="font-style: italic;">already <span style="font-weight: bold;">happening</span> in <span style="font-weight: bold;">Britain</span></span> and has for some time. But whites historically say nothing, for fear of Islam, on behalf of cowardice, "feelings," and the GOWP-PC mindset. Only now are things even <a href="http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/columnists/janiceturner/article3440358.ece"><span style="font-style: italic;">beginning</span></a> to change.<br /><br />That said, "<a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2012/06/201262412445190400.html">Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi</a>" won Egypt's presidential election.<br /><br />His election is described as "<a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/24/us-egypt-election-idUSBRE85G01U20120624">Islamist joy</a>." From the article:<br /><blockquote>Businessman Maged Abdel Wadud, 45, who had gathered with others at a hotel hoping to greet a victorious Shafik said: "This is a very bad day for Egypt.<p>"I am so, so upset. I can't imagine this man becoming a president of Egypt. This is the beginning of the end for Egypt."</p><span id="articleText"><p>In Hamas-run Gaza, where Palestinians hope Morsy may end Cairo's cooperation with an Israeli blockade, celebratory gunfire rattled across the crowded coastal territory.</p><span id="midArticle_14"></span><p><a href="http://www.reuters.com/places/iran" title="Full coverage of Iran">Iran</a>, which is at odds with most Arab states, welcomed what it called an "Islamic awakening" in Egypt.</p></span></blockquote><span id="articleText"><p></p></span>Those are called "clues," ladies and gentlemen, when Hamas and Iran endorse an individual.<br /><br />So <a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" href="http://www.politico.com/politico44/2012/06/white-house-congratulates-egypts-morsi-127117.html">Mr Obama weighs in</a>:<br /><blockquote>The White House congratulated<a href="http://www.politico.com/tag/egypt" target="_blank"> Egypt</a>'s president-elect Mohamed Morsi on his victory in that country's presidential election, calling it a "milestone" in the country's transition to democracy.</blockquote><br />Brilliant. The "<a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_ISRAEL_EGYPT?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-06-24-14-20-33">democracy</a>" thing. Of course. Egypt will get right <span style="font-style: italic;">on</span> that.<br /><br />Just like Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran and the rest of the Middle East did. Let there be no mistake: Bush was <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">wrong</span>. You can't force "democracy" on people who both <span style="font-style: italic;">don't want it</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">don't understand the concept</span>.<br /><br />What Mr Obama <span style="font-style: italic;">doesn't</span> realize: you can just chalk the Egyptian election up to the continuation of religious repression and death nationally and worldwide.<br /><br />Mr Obama, you incredible <span style="font-style: italic;">oaf</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">dupe</span>.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">BZ</span><br /><br />P.S.<br />Let us not forget this little and mostly-obscured tidbit:<br /><br />Mr Obama bypassed Congress and has <a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);" href="http://lettingfreedomring.com/2012/03/22/obama-bypasses-congress-gives-1-5-billion-to-muslim-brotherhood/"><span style="font-style: italic;">already given</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">$1.5 BILLION</span> to the Muslim Brotherhood</a>.<br /><br />Does that put things a bit more into perspective for you?Bloviating Zeppelinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01359816456769157176noreply@blogger.com10