We’re the new Enemy?
Posted By admin on November 1, 2009
Thanks and a tip of the hat to Vox .
See also Progressive Personality Disorder.
Also posted to GM’s Place.
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Uh Oh – The Peace Prize – Trouble Ahead
Posted By John Moore on October 9, 2009
The world was shocked today to learn the Nobel Peace Price had been awarded to Barack Obama.
Many have wondered what he did, during his short reign, to earn this honor.
That’s the wrong way to look at it; the real issue is what the Nobel Committee expects of him… and that’s really scary.
GITMO and the Sacrifical Goat – An American Story
Posted By John Moore on September 27, 2009
Commentary had an excellent article debunking the myths of the Guantanamo Bay detection faciility.
One incident says volumes about modern American culture. At the end of Ramadan, 2002, the guards considered sacrificing a goat for their detainees.
Ultimately they decided not to, for fear of objections by animal rights activists.
Only in today’s America…
Others Notice Obama’s Narcissism
Posted By John Moore on September 26, 2009
It’s about time the main stream media started commenting on Obama’s extreme narcissim.
From the Washington Post (not exactly a right wing outlet):
I can recall no other major American speech in which the narcissism of a leader has been quite so pronounced. It might be compared to Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s “I shall return” — which made it sound like MacArthur intended to reconquer the Philippines single-handedly. But MacArthur, at least, imagined himself as embodying his country, not transcending it
This personality characteristic is exaggerated in many politicians, but rarely do we see a president so self-absorbed as Obama. Next time you read or hear a speech of his, notice how many times the word “I” is used.
In Obama’s case, this is more than a quirk: it’s a dangerous personality disorder. Powerful people this obsessed with their own glory don’t know their own limits, and react irrationally when their self image is threatened.
Obama is a psychological time bomb.
Two Headlines, From One Day, Speak Eloquently
Posted By John Moore on September 17, 2009
OBAMA KILLS MISSILE DEFENSE FOR POLAND, CZECH…
And
NUKE AGENCY SAYS IRAN CAN MAKE BOMB…
Both from Drudge.
Wikipedia Fraud and why Conservatives Should Act
Posted By John Moore on September 4, 2009
Wikipedia is an important web resource that serves as an encyclopedia for far too many people. Wikipedia is open to editing by anyone, and is the largest encyclopedia in existence.
Unfortunately, as with many good things, the leftists have ruined it in areas of controversy, by aggressively editing articles, and persistently fighting to keep their own viewpoint dominant.
I was reminded of this today when reading the article on the so-called “Winter Soldier Investigation” – a 1971 propaganda travesty orchestrated by Jane Fonda, John Kerry and the Vietnam Veterans Against the War. The purpose of this staged event was to record “testimony” of “Vietnam Veterans” who had seen and/or participated in atrocities. The intent was to invalidate the entire war effort. The organizing group (including John Kerry) had ties to North Vietnamese operatives and were clearly trying to damage the US war effort. A side effect of this effort was to badly damage the image of Vietnam Veterans, leading many to believe we were all baby killers or emotionally damaged.
And yet, today, the Wikipedia “authoritative” looking article on the subject, fodder for innocent history students, paints the entire event as completely legitimate and truthful. Not one reference (other than the ones I added today that will probably be removed by one leftist or another before you read this) exists to books and articles which debunk the veracity of the testimony, and the one brave participant who was courageous enough to publicly admit his lies (in an emotional speech to a 2004 rally organized by Vietnam Veterans for Truth, of which I was the Webmaster) is mentioned only to attempt to destroy his credibility.
This is happeniing on many pages on Wikipedia, and is part of the left’s quite successful campaign to re-write history, to make America look bad. Conservatives need to get active on Wikipedia and fight back.
To do so, you need to learn the rules and play by the rules. One silliness of Wikipedia is that anything you can make a reference to counts as important, but personal knowledge is worthless. This gives a natural bias towards the left, since they write most newspaper articles and most books and academic papers in areas of dispute.
But please, get out there and participate. Fight for the truth!
Meet the new boss · Same as the old boss
Posted By John Moore on August 28, 2009
A knowledge of history helps one repeats the mistakes of the past.
Now, Obama, the new boss, seems to be making the same mistakes as the last Democrat war-time old boss – Lyndon Johnson.
Johnson almost certainly caused the loss of the Vietnam War, spending the lives of 58,000 of my fellow comrades in arms to do so. He did this by crippling the US war-fighting apparatus by applying stupid rules.
Now we see Obama starting to do the same thing in his Vietnam: Afghanistan. The latest stupidity: battlefield detainees have to be turned over the Afghanis within 96 hours. This in a conflict with difficult logistics.
So we’re going to see helicopters rushing detainees to US bases for interrogation so they can get a little time before turning them over to the incompetent Afghanis- when those choppers could be moving wounded soldiers or much needed supplies.
Meanwhile, our intelligence arms are crippled. Interrogation of intelligence sources has been removed from the CIA and handed over to the FBI – a domestic, not international security organization.
Stay tuned for more idiocies from our empty suited new boss.
Time to Use the Tactics of the Left – Against the Left
Posted By John Moore on August 7, 2009
With the recent union <s>brown</s>purple shirt union thugs roughing up peaceful demonstrators, it’s time for those of us who oppose this hurried government takeover of our lives to fight back – the lefty way.
Civil rights class action lawsuits should be filed against the Service Employees International Union chapters involved. We should demand fines, the creation of a Center for Freedom funded by union dues, and court enforced sensitivity training for these thugs. There should be sit-ins at union headquarters until these demands are met.
Let the left see what their own tactics, honed over the last 50 years, fell like.
Cash for Clunkers Program Screws the Poor
Posted By John Moore on August 2, 2009
The Ogovernment’s cash for clunkers program hurts the poor. How?
The poor often buy clunkers for their transportation. These vehicles are traded in for newer cars by the non-poor.
But the cash for clunkers program requires that the clunkers be destroyed, reducing the supply (and thus increasing the price) of older used cars.
Get it? It’s- a government program to improve our economy by destroying useful things. Brilliant, these guys!
And the poor – you know, those folks the left cares so much about – once again get the short end of the stick!
Narcissus Obama and his Hall of Mirrors
Posted By John Moore on July 30, 2009
For a long time, educators and others thought a big problem with our children was their lack of self esteem. So they prescribed all sorts of nostrums, so the kids would love themselves. It worked, producing hoards of selfish, narcissistic individuals.
There is no better example of this than Barack Obama. Here we have a man, praised by everyone (morseo because praising a black is the “right” thing to do). He is a child of privilege, attending only those Ivy League schools which instruct their students on how special they are, further inflating their narcissistic tendencies.
He has all the answers. He’s so full of himself he wrote two autobiographies before the age 45!
Now he is the president. He knows everyone else is beneath him in their goodness and their intelligence – after all, they elevated him above them
And we are seeing the expected result: wildly ambitious plans to shape the world to his image (or his wishes). Top down, driven by one man – Narcissus Obama.
And, like Narcissus, he has fallen in love with his his image reflected off the fawning press and the worshipping left.
And like Narcissus, he (or his dreams) will perish in this hall of mirrors. The ground will fall from beneath it, as his ill conceived economic plans destroy the nations foundations.
His subjects will rise up – not willing to be told how to live their lives by this beautiful, flawed figure. They and the inexorable forces of reality will thwart his plans.
His image will shatter on the rocks of this failure.
What happens to Narcissus Obama then?.