As long as there are bully's on the school playground, there will be dictators and tyrants.
Humanity has always been fighting itself.
Always.
Fact of life.
Democratic types of government however, as documented by history, have initiated far fewer wars than any other from of government.
So, to me, it seems to come down to the issue of managing it as best is possible.
And the theory that a good offensive capability creates the best defensive capability.
There are simply some really bad people out in this world, and when they get together, they get much worse. And when good people do nothing, evil can begin to rule.
And thank God for all the heroes everywhere, all the time....
And I wonder why Obama was not more vetted by the Repblicans. They really missed the obat by not giveing more gravitas towards Obama's actions, and downplaying or minimising whatever he happens to be doing with his grand orator act, and pontificating about..
The same alliance can be seen in the U.S., he says, as the Obama administration reaches out to the radical Muslim Brotherhood, which according to the FBI, has a plan to infiltrate and sabotage the U.S. from within. Obama and other Alinsky "revolutionaries" are carrying out a similar plan, he maintains.
McCarthy says that while there's no evidence Obama is a practicing Muslim, he shares Muslim Brotherhood hatred for America and "the Muslim Brotherhood's sabotage strategy."
McCarthy says the administration ignores incontrovertible evidence tying Muslim Brotherhood front groups in America to Hamas and other terrorist groups. One of them, he notes, is the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which claims to be a benign civil-rights organization.
But he says the recent Holy Land Foundation trial – "and the eye-popping publication of 'Muslim Mafia'" – have exposed CAIR "as a farce." Quoting from "Muslim Mafia" – which he adds is an "important book" – the former top terrorism prosecutor further litigates the case against CAIR's "Hamas-tainted leaders."
In another bombshell, McCarthy reveals that he was dropped from the White House Christmas card list following his criticism of the Bush administration's purging of the words "jihad" and "Islamic terrorism" from the official military and homeland security lexicon.
Like President Bush before him, he says President Obama fails to grasp that Islam is not a "religion of peace" but "a huge part of the problem in combating 'violent extremism,'" which is the new euphemism for Islamic terrorism.
"To be sure, the same ground was staked out by his predecessor, President Bush," McCarthy argues. "They are (both) wrong."
"The need to deal with Islam is unavoidable," he adds, "not because it's an asset, but because it's a liability that can't be written off."
I am not surprised by these revelations, but I am upset and pissed off by them.
I wonder if the days of peaceful and fair elections are over for the United States.....
Obama spent six days barnstorming the Kenyan countryside in support of Raila Odinga, the socialist Luo who was seeking the presidency. Appearing with Odinga at campaign stops, Obama gave speeches accusing the sitting Kenyan president of being corrupt and oppressive, leaving the masses in poverty.
Obama's interference "was more than reckless," McCarthy writes. "It was borderline criminal (and that's being generous)."
Earlier, Odinga had visited Obama in the U.S. – in 2004, 2005 and 2006 – and Obama had sent an adviser, Mark Lippert, to Kenya in early 2006 to plan a trip by the senator timed to coincide with Odinga's campaign.
Read about the plans Islam has for America!
McCarthy notes that Obama and Odinga, who named one of his children after Fidel Castro, are "leftist soulmates" whose families go way back. Their fathers belonged to the same Luo tribe – and both Barack Hussein Obama Sr. and the elder Oginga Odinga worked inside the Kenyan government as communist agitators.
There is also an Islamist connection.
On Aug. 29, 2007, Raila Odinga signed a secret Memorandum of Understanding with Sheikh Abdullahi Abdi, chairman of the National Muslim Leaders Forum of Kenya. In exchange for Muslim support, Odinga agreed, among other things, to:
* Rewrite the national constitution to install shariah as the law in all "Muslim declared regions."
* Elevate Islam as "the only true religion" and give Islamic leaders an "oversight role to monitor activities of ALL other religions."
* Establish shariah courts in every Kenyan divisional headquarters.
* Ban Christian proselytism.
* Fire the police commissioner for "allow himself to be used by heathens and Zionists" to oppress Muslims.
* Adopt Islamic dress codes for women.
* Ban alcohol and pork.
Even with strong Muslim backing, Odinga (who does business with a wealthy Saudi donor to Osama bin Laden) was defeated in the December 2007 election. But he accused the incumbent president of rigging the vote and incited his supporters to riot in protest.
Over the next month, some 1,500 Kenyans were killed and more than 500,000 displaced – with most of the violence led by Muslims, who set churches ablaze and hacked Christians to death with machetes.
All the while, Odinga was in regular communications with Obama, who publicly called for an end to the violence.
"Odinga's strategy, the extortion strategy of Islamist intimidation, worked to a fare-thee-well," McCarthy notes in his book. To appease his angry mob of supporters, he was named prime minister and allowed to share power with the president.
"With Obama's helping hand, leftists and Islamists had combined forces to overwhelm a constitutional democracy," McCarthy says, while decrying the national media's "stubborn disinterest" in the "stunning" chain of events.
Ex-prosecutor: Obama's Kenyan activities may be 'criminal' McCarthy says Obama's foreign dealings as senator possibly illegal Posted: July 15, 2010 11:45 pm Eastern
In a new best-selling book connecting Islam and Obama-style socialism, a former top terrorism prosecutor chides the national media for failing to investigate Barack Obama's "borderline criminal" activities in Kenya as a U.S. senator.
Andrew C. McCarthy, the former U.S. attorney who investigated the American embassy bombing in Nairobi, Kenya, charges that Obama interfered in Kenya's internal politics possibly in violation of the Logan Act.
The centuries-old law bars Americans who are "without authority of the United States" from conducting relations "with any foreign government ... in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States."
In "The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America," McCarthy says Obama undermined U.S. relations with a strong anti-terrorism ally in an African region where al-Qaida operates. In 2006, he details in the book how Obama campaigned for a pro-communist candidate running against Nairobi's pro-American government – "in outrageous contravention of U.S. policy and, probably, federal law."
The same alliance can be seen in the U.S., he says, as the Obama administration reaches out to the radical Muslim Brotherhood, which according to the FBI, has a plan to infiltrate and sabotage the U.S. from within. Obama and other Alinsky "revolutionaries" are carrying out a similar plan, he maintains.
McCarthy says that while there's no evidence Obama is a practicing Muslim, he shares Muslim Brotherhood hatred for America and "the Muslim Brotherhood's sabotage strategy."
McCarthy says the administration ignores incontrovertible evidence tying Muslim Brotherhood front groups in America to Hamas and other terrorist groups. One of them, he notes, is the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which claims to be a benign civil-rights organization.
But he says the recent Holy Land Foundation trial – "and the eye-popping publication of 'Muslim Mafia'" – have exposed CAIR "as a farce." Quoting from "Muslim Mafia" – which he adds is an "important book" – the former top terrorism prosecutor further litigates the case against CAIR's "Hamas-tainted leaders."
In another bombshell, McCarthy reveals that he was dropped from the White House Christmas card list following his criticism of the Bush administration's purging of the words "jihad" and "Islamic terrorism" from the official military and homeland security lexicon.
Like President Bush before him, he says President Obama fails to grasp that Islam is not a "religion of peace" but "a huge part of the problem in combating 'violent extremism,'" which is the new euphemism for Islamic terrorism.
"To be sure, the same ground was staked out by his predecessor, President Bush," McCarthy argues. "They are (both) wrong."
"The need to deal with Islam is unavoidable," he adds, "not because it's an asset, but because it's a liability that can't be written off."
I am not surprised by these revelations, but I am upset and pissed off by them.
I wonder if the days of peaceful and fair elections are over for the United States.....
Obama spent six days barnstorming the Kenyan countryside in support of Raila Odinga, the socialist Luo who was seeking the presidency. Appearing with Odinga at campaign stops, Obama gave speeches accusing the sitting Kenyan president of being corrupt and oppressive, leaving the masses in poverty.
Obama's interference "was more than reckless," McCarthy writes. "It was borderline criminal (and that's being generous)."
Earlier, Odinga had visited Obama in the U.S. – in 2004, 2005 and 2006 – and Obama had sent an adviser, Mark Lippert, to Kenya in early 2006 to plan a trip by the senator timed to coincide with Odinga's campaign.
Read about the plans Islam has for America!
McCarthy notes that Obama and Odinga, who named one of his children after Fidel Castro, are "leftist soulmates" whose families go way back. Their fathers belonged to the same Luo tribe – and both Barack Hussein Obama Sr. and the elder Oginga Odinga worked inside the Kenyan government as communist agitators.
There is also an Islamist connection.
On Aug. 29, 2007, Raila Odinga signed a secret Memorandum of Understanding with Sheikh Abdullahi Abdi, chairman of the National Muslim Leaders Forum of Kenya. In exchange for Muslim support, Odinga agreed, among other things, to:
* Rewrite the national constitution to install shariah as the law in all "Muslim declared regions."
* Elevate Islam as "the only true religion" and give Islamic leaders an "oversight role to monitor activities of ALL other religions."
* Establish shariah courts in every Kenyan divisional headquarters.
* Ban Christian proselytism.
* Fire the police commissioner for "allow himself to be used by heathens and Zionists" to oppress Muslims.
* Adopt Islamic dress codes for women.
* Ban alcohol and pork.
Even with strong Muslim backing, Odinga (who does business with a wealthy Saudi donor to Osama bin Laden) was defeated in the December 2007 election. But he accused the incumbent president of rigging the vote and incited his supporters to riot in protest.
Over the next month, some 1,500 Kenyans were killed and more than 500,000 displaced – with most of the violence led by Muslims, who set churches ablaze and hacked Christians to death with machetes.
All the while, Odinga was in regular communications with Obama, who publicly called for an end to the violence.
"Odinga's strategy, the extortion strategy of Islamist intimidation, worked to a fare-thee-well," McCarthy notes in his book. To appease his angry mob of supporters, he was named prime minister and allowed to share power with the president.
"With Obama's helping hand, leftists and Islamists had combined forces to overwhelm a constitutional democracy," McCarthy says, while decrying the national media's "stubborn disinterest" in the "stunning" chain of events.
Ex-prosecutor: Obama's Kenyan activities may be 'criminal' McCarthy says Obama's foreign dealings as senator possibly illegal Posted: July 15, 2010 11:45 pm Eastern
In a new best-selling book connecting Islam and Obama-style socialism, a former top terrorism prosecutor chides the national media for failing to investigate Barack Obama's "borderline criminal" activities in Kenya as a U.S. senator.
Andrew C. McCarthy, the former U.S. attorney who investigated the American embassy bombing in Nairobi, Kenya, charges that Obama interfered in Kenya's internal politics possibly in violation of the Logan Act.
The centuries-old law bars Americans who are "without authority of the United States" from conducting relations "with any foreign government ... in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States."
In "The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America," McCarthy says Obama undermined U.S. relations with a strong anti-terrorism ally in an African region where al-Qaida operates. In 2006, he details in the book how Obama campaigned for a pro-communist candidate running against Nairobi's pro-American government – "in outrageous contravention of U.S. policy and, probably, federal law."
One big difference between Israel and their surrounding Muslim neighbors is the fact that Israel has never called for their destruction, as many of the Muslim nations have called for the destruction of Israel.
Another big difference is Judaism does not call for the death of anyone who does not believe in Judaism.
Another big difference is Israel is way outnumbered and surrounded by nations and people hostile to them.
Another big difference is Muslims have never had the history of genocide and discrimination that Jews have experienced repeatedly.
These are just a few off the top of my head........
That is why Israel needs a very strong defense.... to include nuclear weapons.
Hey Barney, you're wrong about a few things already, and short on the big truth going on with this.First off, not everystate allows their police and firemen and EMT's to Unionize....
Here is more on your Police and Firefighters Monopoly Union Organizing bill:
Even Big Labor Apologists Can't Stomach Mandating Police and Firefighter Monopoly Bargaining by Federal Fiat Thu, 06/17/2010 - 13:29 — Will Collins
Many Freedom@Work readers are already following the latest Big Labor offensive on Capitol Hill. Under the guise of protecting our first responders, pro-forced unionism politicians are attempting to ram home the Police and Firefighter Monopoly Bargaining Bill.
This legislation would force states to adopt monopoly union bargaining for all police officers, firefighters, and emergency medical technicians. Not only would this bill push unwilling public safety employees into Big Labor's forced dues-paying ranks, it would also usurp the right of state and local governments to determine if their employees unionize.
In fact, this power grab is so egregious that even the often pro-Big Labor Washington Post has taken notice. Here's the Post's blistering editorial against the bill:
What this bill would do is impose a permanent, one-size-fits-all federal solution in an area -- public-sector labor relations -- that has traditionally been left to the states, and where state flexibility is probably more necessary than ever. The imposition on Virginia would be dramatic, of course, but even union-friendly Maryland, which lets each county decide whether and how to bargain with its employees, might find itself in costly, time-consuming contention with the feds. Farther afield, Colorado's "fire protection districts," special units of government dedicated to providing that service, would face costly collective bargaining even where firefighters and management are working harmoniously without it.
We share the bill sponsors' esteem for first responders. They should be adequately, even generously, compensated. Still, many outsized pensions now threatening state and local governments were awarded by politicians to curry favor with public-safety unions. To be sure, the bill includes acompromise provision assuring states that they don't have to bargain over pensions. But it hardly matters. The bill further empowers an already strong lobby that could use its additional clout to pressure state legislators to allow pension-bargaining anyway -- or to enact such benefits by statute. This bill is a bad idea whose time, we hope, has still not come.
So little Barney, why don't you tell the whole story about your sweet little selfish power grab of a bill huh ?
What are you so afraid of??
THE TRUTH ??
You just want an easy ride and don't want anyone to take that away or something??
You want the Union, so you can protect the freeloaders, and hold back the high achievers so they don't make you look bad or something??
JVaski and I need to clean this thread up quite a bit now that you have taken note of it....
Jvaski, you need to listen to Laura.... she is much smarter than you.....
Hope you had a great Independence Day Laura.
Jvaski, I hope your headache from the Independence Day celebration is not too bad.... I know you liberals HATE celebrating the birthday of the United States of America, because you don't like many aspects about our country and always feel the need to be constantly apologizing for it.
So I know Independence Day was tough on you.... I hope your doing better.
To list all the reasons an American taxpayer will dislike our President... could take hours and hours.
With a guy like Obummer, it is obvious why an intelligent American taxpayer will thoroughly dislike a corrupt, socialistic, fraudulent, dishonest, arrogant, ignorant, sophomoric, narcissistic, elite, wasteful, foolish, radical, ideologue like this Barry Sorotoro, or what ever he calls himself these days.
Your people will really stop at nothing to take over the free market economy.....
Your people want to tax carbon sooo bad.....
Why else would the EPA and the Coast Guard keep the A-Whale, an oil tanker converted into the world's largest oil skimmer and processor, in Virgina and out of the Gulf for months?
James Carville was screaming at your guy Obama to DO SOMETHING!
All Obama had to do was suspend the Jones Act and allow the foreign flagged A-Whale into the Gulf.
Regarding British Petroleum, I just wish the federal government would have been doing their job and regulating BP.
So, what do the taxpayers get for our tax money when we pay the government to regulate off shore drilling?
Did, any government employee get fired?? Get demoted??? Get investigated?? Get fined??
Nope, and your friend the fireman/policeman thinks government employees all need unions to protect them.
Government can screw the pooch over and over and over and over and nothing will happen.
Just look at congressman Barney Frank and the trillion dollar collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddia Mac..... nobody in the Democrat controlled congress has slapped his hand or even said a cross work to him.
And they probably won't, because that would be sooo politically incorrect...
To answer your question: NO, I DO NOT WANT OBAMA TO SEIZE CONTROL OF BP AND REGULATE IT.
HE ALREADY HAD THE POWER TO REGULATE IT, AND LET THIS BLOWOUT HAPPEN.
Hey Juan.... you haven't killed yourself yet... thought you would have by now.
Anyway, I like the country the way it is.
It is you liberal left wingers that want to change the US over to the socialist model.
So, since YOU don't like the country as it is, why don't YOU leave, instead of trying to change it, and ruining it?
The left wing liberals, the ilk that don't like individual responsibility, free enterprise, capitalism, the Constitution as it is written with freedom to defend ourselves, freedom of religion, rule of law, limited goverment........ apparently feel the need to change the whole country, so that everybody will live in the manner that suits them.
So, Juan, you ought to move to Cuba or Venezuela where you can be more Marxist and happy.
I am noticing the left wing union lovers and the permissive progressives seem kind of pissed off today....
I guess celebrating the birthday of the United States is kind of hard of you liberals.
So, you drank too much and don't like the throbbing head or something?
Yes, that writer described the economic situation here in the US very accurately and correctly.
You can only lie and fool the people for a while, then the lies become stale and the truth begins to surface.
Of course the Permissive progressive left wingers will be blaming all the problems of the country on President Bush until they die.... that is all they can think to do.
BTW, did you know last Thursday at around Midnight, Pelosi and her henschmen tacked on to a funding bill the pro-union Police and Fighters Union bill, which basically allows unions to organize the police and fire-fighters around the country.
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RE: Are you a......
My religion is not an opiate for me.Too bad you think you know so much, when you really don't.
That is the definition of sophomoric.
You are also quite insulting.
But I forgive you.