Now reporters are following around white house functionaries and telling us what "she she" restaurants they're eating at.
http://mobile.politico.com/storyclick.cfm?id=2178
Monday, January 25, 2010
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Civil Rights Era protected by guns
The Lee Brother's on WRVA talked this morning about a Richmond Times Dispatch columnist Williams who complained about a 2nd Amendment Rally at the State Capitol on MLK Jr Day. The columnist thought it was outrageous because MLK Jr. was killed with a gun. The writer, of course, is a liberal and missed the point completely. He was too young to know that guns protected blacks throughout reconstruction and segregation and even today. When law enforcement was racist it was guns that kept blacks simply alive from the marauding KKK. Everyone thinks twice about attacking someone if they have a gun. This was ever the fear of whites when they abused blacks during that era. Today, guns protect blacks and any one else who live in dangerous areas.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
WSJ James Taranto's "Where are the Asians"
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703414504575001162237954670.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_MIDDLETopOpinion
To answer the question "where?"; is.... Asians are too assimilated and successful to associate themselves as a political affinity group. The closest thing you may find is an Asian Business Association. College Amer-Asians Clubs are to either east Asian Food or just to socialize without trepadation. Yet, there are liberal Asians and are most likely the ungrateful children of very conservative parents who paid for their expensive colleges. Asians like all minorities were abused and the Japanese have even rebounded , without government support from the infamous "internment camps", imposed upon them by a Democratic president. Asian success is killing them, as they assimilate and marry out of their group. Asians are now the highest earning ethnic group, if you exclude those fresh off the boat (FOB). Malcomb Gladwell's Outliers analysis is about right. For some their rapid assimilation meant adopting the traits and ideas of the dominate class, and for those Asians who are drawn into the academic environment, it means adopting the liberal mindset. John Yoo is a smart guy and his detractors rather than formulating arguement resort to yells, hoots and other liberal declamations. As a first generation Asian, whose mother talked about real torture under the Japanese in Burma, waterboarding is just a little mind trick where someone gets wet.
To answer the question "where?"; is.... Asians are too assimilated and successful to associate themselves as a political affinity group. The closest thing you may find is an Asian Business Association. College Amer-Asians Clubs are to either east Asian Food or just to socialize without trepadation. Yet, there are liberal Asians and are most likely the ungrateful children of very conservative parents who paid for their expensive colleges. Asians like all minorities were abused and the Japanese have even rebounded , without government support from the infamous "internment camps", imposed upon them by a Democratic president. Asian success is killing them, as they assimilate and marry out of their group. Asians are now the highest earning ethnic group, if you exclude those fresh off the boat (FOB). Malcomb Gladwell's Outliers analysis is about right. For some their rapid assimilation meant adopting the traits and ideas of the dominate class, and for those Asians who are drawn into the academic environment, it means adopting the liberal mindset. John Yoo is a smart guy and his detractors rather than formulating arguement resort to yells, hoots and other liberal declamations. As a first generation Asian, whose mother talked about real torture under the Japanese in Burma, waterboarding is just a little mind trick where someone gets wet.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Avatar Film Review
I have to weigh in on the great special effects but the vapid story. Cameron missed great opportunities to demonstrate his knowledge of economics, by inserting gun runners into the fray. There are a good many irrationalities that are not explored, like that weight/cost of a substance that defies gravity. How stupid was that. In a real freemarket universe smugglers would have been trading with the Naa'vi (short for Naive Blue Creatures) guns for the anti-gravity stuff. The silliness continues with the Naa'vi having to form a hard interface with their creatures, haven't they heard of wi-fi?
A quiz for Janet Napolitano (UNCLASSIFIED)
Source: An anonymous correspondent in the national security arena. These events are actual events from history. They really happened! Do you remember? HERE'S THE TEST:
1. 1968 Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed by:
a. Superman
b. Jay Leno
c. Harry Potter
d. A Muslim male extremist between the ages of 17 and 40
2. In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred by :
a. Olga Corbett
b. Sitting Bull
c. Arnold Schwarzenegger
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
3. In 1979, the US embassy in Iran was taken over by:
a. Lost Norwegians
b. Elvis
c. A tour bus full of 80-year-old women
d . Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
4 During the 1980's a number of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon by:
a. John Dillinger
b. The King of Sweden
c. The Boy Scouts
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
5. In 1983, the US Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by:
a. A pizza delivery boy
b. Pee Wee Herman
c. Geraldo Rivera
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
6. In 1985 the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70 year old
American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard in his wheelchair by:
a. The Smurfs
b. Davey Jones
c. The Little Mermaid
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
7. In 1985 TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens , and a US Navy diver trying
to rescue passengers was murdered by:
a. Captain Kidd
b. Charles Lindberg
c. Mother Teresa
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
8. In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by:
a. Scooby Doo
b. The Tooth Fairy
c. The Sundance Kid
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
9. In 1993 the World Trade Center was bombed the first time by:
a. Richard Simmons
b. Grandma Moses
c. Michael Jordan
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
10. In 1998, the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by:
a. Mr. Rogers
b. Hillary Clinton, to distract attention from Wild Bill's women problems
c. The World Wrestling Federation
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
11. On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked; two were used as missiles to take
out the World Trade Centers and of the remaining two, one crashed into the US
Pentagon and the other was diverted and crashed by the passengers.
Thousands of people were killed by:
a. Bugs Bunny, Wiley E. Coyote, Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd
b. The Supreme Court of Florida
c. Mr Bean
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
12. In 2002 the United States fought a war in Afghanistan against:
a. Enron
b. The Lutheran Church
c. The NFL
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
13. In 2002 reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by:
a. Bonnie and Clyde
b. Captain Kangaroo
c. Billy Graham
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
No, I really don't see a pattern here to justify profiling, do you? So, to ensure we Americans never offend anyone, particularly fanatics intent on killing us, airport security screeners will no longer be allowed to profile
certain people. They must conduct random searches of 80-year-old women, little kids, airline pilots with proper identification, secret agents who are members of the President's security detail, 85-year old Congressmen with metal hips, and Medal of Honor winner and former Governor Joe Foss, but leave Muslim Males between the ages 17 and 40 alone lest they be guilty of profiling.
1. 1968 Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed by:
a. Superman
b. Jay Leno
c. Harry Potter
d. A Muslim male extremist between the ages of 17 and 40
2. In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred by :
a. Olga Corbett
b. Sitting Bull
c. Arnold Schwarzenegger
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
3. In 1979, the US embassy in Iran was taken over by:
a. Lost Norwegians
b. Elvis
c. A tour bus full of 80-year-old women
d . Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
4 During the 1980's a number of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon by:
a. John Dillinger
b. The King of Sweden
c. The Boy Scouts
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
5. In 1983, the US Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by:
a. A pizza delivery boy
b. Pee Wee Herman
c. Geraldo Rivera
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
6. In 1985 the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70 year old
American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard in his wheelchair by:
a. The Smurfs
b. Davey Jones
c. The Little Mermaid
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
7. In 1985 TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens , and a US Navy diver trying
to rescue passengers was murdered by:
a. Captain Kidd
b. Charles Lindberg
c. Mother Teresa
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
8. In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by:
a. Scooby Doo
b. The Tooth Fairy
c. The Sundance Kid
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
9. In 1993 the World Trade Center was bombed the first time by:
a. Richard Simmons
b. Grandma Moses
c. Michael Jordan
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
10. In 1998, the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by:
a. Mr. Rogers
b. Hillary Clinton, to distract attention from Wild Bill's women problems
c. The World Wrestling Federation
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
11. On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked; two were used as missiles to take
out the World Trade Centers and of the remaining two, one crashed into the US
Pentagon and the other was diverted and crashed by the passengers.
Thousands of people were killed by:
a. Bugs Bunny, Wiley E. Coyote, Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd
b. The Supreme Court of Florida
c. Mr Bean
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
12. In 2002 the United States fought a war in Afghanistan against:
a. Enron
b. The Lutheran Church
c. The NFL
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
13. In 2002 reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by:
a. Bonnie and Clyde
b. Captain Kangaroo
c. Billy Graham
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
No, I really don't see a pattern here to justify profiling, do you? So, to ensure we Americans never offend anyone, particularly fanatics intent on killing us, airport security screeners will no longer be allowed to profile
certain people. They must conduct random searches of 80-year-old women, little kids, airline pilots with proper identification, secret agents who are members of the President's security detail, 85-year old Congressmen with metal hips, and Medal of Honor winner and former Governor Joe Foss, but leave Muslim Males between the ages 17 and 40 alone lest they be guilty of profiling.
Suicide of Young Soliders
Townhall.com reports that young male soldiers are killing themselves and some believe that these vets are combat veterans. The report talks about 26 suicides then goes on to cite General Shinseki suicide stats saying 20% of 30k or 5,000 suicides are attributed to veterans. I don't buy it. The countries with the highest levels of suicide are not at war and are mostly urban scandinavian or baltic nations. Japan also has high rates. Suicide has both organic and psychological factors. Let's not forget that that idiot Hasan was counseling for Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome for returning soldiers. I think when ever one cites a expert we have to consider the source. The VA is a great vacuum of money and there is simply little accountablity. Believe it or not all that anyone needs to do to prove they can receive benefits is to serve 180 days and then come up with a reason why they need medical care for an ailment, addiction or psychological malady. Of course the VA must be funded because they are chartered to care for the veteran and veterans are a powerful lobby, for good and bad.
Soft and Hard Marxism
Soft Marxism is for college undergrads, high school students and actors known for their good looks. Hard Marxism is reserved for professors and those employed by philanthropic foundations. The professors are tenured glibly to cut down young people who question theories as facts. The skilled professor will actually diminish his young opponents to the point that other young people will adopt views foisted upon them. You will identify Marxists by their foreign cars, genteel beards, rustic houses and expensive clothes, usually of nature fibers and leathers. The Marxist will only dine at restaurants of good reputation that is also rustic and enjoy a glass of wine with lunch. Hard and soft Marxists vacation in foreign lands, oblivious to the CO2 emissions (that they insist must be eliminated) of Jumbo Jets. The soft will do some eco-tourism, while the hard will take on European jaunts at university or foundation expense, as they bemoan the oppression that it must have required to build grand mansions or to patronize the great artists. See if you can spot the Marxists where you live.
NPR - There's Fecal Matter Those Good Cookies
As a listener of NPR for the last 20 years, I've come to respect that it is America's most comprehensive radio news organization but there's just enough "shit" in it to make you sick.
I believe that because it produces high quality content, listeners trust the authority of its reporters and this is where the soothing voices begin to plant the lies. For instance, it was back in the mid-eighties during the Reagan administration that NPR argued vigorously against U.S. involvement in Latin America, yet when it succeeded not another word was said. As issues are raised it consistently argues against "conservatives" issues with emotional responses, when a factual argument could be musters. Their responses are generally gnostic, in other words only comprehensible to an entire world view, that is essentially the soft Marxism of the college undergrad.
I believe that because it produces high quality content, listeners trust the authority of its reporters and this is where the soothing voices begin to plant the lies. For instance, it was back in the mid-eighties during the Reagan administration that NPR argued vigorously against U.S. involvement in Latin America, yet when it succeeded not another word was said. As issues are raised it consistently argues against "conservatives" issues with emotional responses, when a factual argument could be musters. Their responses are generally gnostic, in other words only comprehensible to an entire world view, that is essentially the soft Marxism of the college undergrad.
Monday, January 11, 2010
Debunking the Embedded Lies: Obama Killed More Al-Queda in 1 year Than Bush in 8
Politics is war by Other Means, and the truth is a victim.
NPR's Morning Edition reports that Obama killed more Al-Queda leaders in their first year than Bush killed in 8. No sources and no tally count. No headlines anywhere. Watch the buzz and see when the story breaks about this exageration. Here what I found.
LA Times:
U.S. missile strikes said to take heavy toll on Al Qaeda
Predator drone attacks in northwest Pakistan have increased sharply since Bush last year stopped seeking Pakistan's permission. Obama may keep pace as officials speak of confusion in Al Qaeda ranks.
WASHINGTON — An intense, six-month campaign of Predator strikes in Pakistan has taken such a toll on Al Qaeda that militants have begun turning violently on one another out of confusion and distrust, U.S. intelligence and counter-terrorism officials say.
The pace of the Predator attacks has accelerated dramatically since August, when the Bush administration made a previously undisclosed decision to abandon the practice of obtaining permission from the Pakistani government before launching missiles from the unmanned aircraft.
http://articles.latimes.com/2009/mar/22/world/fg-pakistan-predator22?pg=2
Saturday, January 09, 2010
Panty Bomber's Visa: A Forensic Audit Trail
The Nigerian boy, who set his crotch on fire a couple of weeks ago, brought about much hand wringing, finger pointing, calls for body scanners, and President Obama taking responsibility for the nonething. Certainly there were shortcomings airline security but there was no sin of commision of ommission. It was a pointless to waste a political mea culpa. The political noise and advice from all corners terribly confuses the us with things about privacy rights, racial profiling and silly rules for airplane conduct. We've now failled to grasp how data is suppose to flow in our terrorism prevention information systems, and how to make the data "actionable."
It turns out that the presidential advisor for terrorism information assessment was as confused as anyone else. The problem wasn't even inter-agency at all, it was all within the State Department, from initial visa approval to Mutallab's dad making the report to the State Department in Nigeria, to the actual honoring of the visa for the fateful trip. This is the story of garbage in, garbage out. What happened was that the State Department didn't do it's homework. It didn't register the threat in its database and quite literally ignored all the other data that was readily available about a young Nigerian jetsetter, who just liked to hang-out in Yemen. The problem was that State Department employees came to believe that machines could make decisions for them and they could just enjoy the idea of being diplomats and enjoying their chardonnay
It turns out that the presidential advisor for terrorism information assessment was as confused as anyone else. The problem wasn't even inter-agency at all, it was all within the State Department, from initial visa approval to Mutallab's dad making the report to the State Department in Nigeria, to the actual honoring of the visa for the fateful trip. This is the story of garbage in, garbage out. What happened was that the State Department didn't do it's homework. It didn't register the threat in its database and quite literally ignored all the other data that was readily available about a young Nigerian jetsetter, who just liked to hang-out in Yemen. The problem was that State Department employees came to believe that machines could make decisions for them and they could just enjoy the idea of being diplomats and enjoying their chardonnay
Friday, January 08, 2010
The Long War Gets Longer
Ideas and the words they spawn are dangerous things, President Obama no doubt advised by the parsing army of deconstructionists, believes that ending the "War on Terror" only required a memorandum stop using those words. Mr. Mutallub didn't get the word in probably the same electronic glitch that the State Department didn't update their own visa database. Yet real soldiers and real civilians will really die, really really bleed and really suffer without the pain of the word, "war." Time get ready for a long, cold winter of discontent for the American people and every nation touched by the terrorism that wasn't suppose to exist when the anointed one came into his own.
Not a Construct: The World As It Really Is
The idea of the "developing world" still lives, at least in the mind of Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. Developing, of course, is a world that lacks a real definition, like say "Hope" or "Change". The three legs of Madam Clintions stool for her notion of national security are: military power, diplomacy and development. Her appointment of 36 year old Rajiv Shah to head USAID she hopes will make the nation more secure. Mr. Shah, who is an MD and a development wonk for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will disburse about $50 billion a year suppose to help developing world to overcome whatever obstacles USAID stands in their way of "development." $50B will in essence make him a king maker to the 3rd World.
The problem is not development or lack of development that causes people to drive airplanes into sky scrapers or bomb buses or subway trains, it is crazy ideas that attract unstable people.
Chief among the crazy ideas is the notion that 3rd people are noble savages and that the Western World corrupted them with colonialism. The fact that the withdrawl of colonialism from the 3rd World has produced few democracies but plenty of tryrannical regimes has not dissuaded the disciples of Rousseau and Marx that their ideas are wrong.
33 years ago I faced two friendly mentor-professors during my comprehensive examination in Asian History at UC Santa Cruz and they scowled as I prophesied that the withdrawl of the colonial powers from "3rd World" countries, would return those "nations" to their state: tyranny. The facts are in, Japan, Korea and Korea are the only true democracies in Asia and that was a result of nearly 50 years of US tutelage. China is now emerging as a state, greater than Imperial Chin. Africa is now a tribal morass and killing field. Uganda's witches exercise human sacrifice and protocol officers will have to deal the how to handle the new Zulu president of South Africa as he takes on his 5th wife. Latin America is re-entering the age of the Junta with leaders like Hugo Chavez and other leaders squashing democracies, just as people got use to voting. The world continues to be a dangerous place an reality has a way of kicking one in the butt if they don't believe it.
The problem is not development or lack of development that causes people to drive airplanes into sky scrapers or bomb buses or subway trains, it is crazy ideas that attract unstable people.
Chief among the crazy ideas is the notion that 3rd people are noble savages and that the Western World corrupted them with colonialism. The fact that the withdrawl of colonialism from the 3rd World has produced few democracies but plenty of tryrannical regimes has not dissuaded the disciples of Rousseau and Marx that their ideas are wrong.
33 years ago I faced two friendly mentor-professors during my comprehensive examination in Asian History at UC Santa Cruz and they scowled as I prophesied that the withdrawl of the colonial powers from "3rd World" countries, would return those "nations" to their state: tyranny. The facts are in, Japan, Korea and Korea are the only true democracies in Asia and that was a result of nearly 50 years of US tutelage. China is now emerging as a state, greater than Imperial Chin. Africa is now a tribal morass and killing field. Uganda's witches exercise human sacrifice and protocol officers will have to deal the how to handle the new Zulu president of South Africa as he takes on his 5th wife. Latin America is re-entering the age of the Junta with leaders like Hugo Chavez and other leaders squashing democracies, just as people got use to voting. The world continues to be a dangerous place an reality has a way of kicking one in the butt if they don't believe it.
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