Senator McCain

Senator McCain

Could there ever be a better time for Senator McCain to button his lip – both with Egypt and with Syria?  How could the situation in Egypt be ever more complicated for the administration?  We have a duly elected president in Egypt deposed by the army because he decided once elected that he’d impose an Islamist Theocratic form of government that’s totally rejected by a very large part of the electorate.  We can’t call it a coup because that would require us to withhold financial support from the only entity that’s friendly to us – the Egyptian army.  Senator McCain is calling for us to withhold that aid.  The leadership of the Egyptian army has pledged to bring about an election to install a new president.  And because they are in the process of establishing a true democratic government it’s not a coup in the classic sense, where the army takes over and establishes itself as the ruling body.  This is not the time for a loose cannon from the United States to be urging the administration to be acting precipitously about how we should be reacting to what’s happening there.  The past election showed that the largest faction in the country is the Muslim Brotherhood.  The trick is going to be to find only candidates that will not only accommodate people from that group but also be a president for all the people of Egypt and not someone cut from the same cloth as Morsi.  He jailed more reporters in the year he was in power than Mubarak did in the thirty years he was in charge (Doctor Charles Krauthammer, Fox News 7/8/13).    

About a month ago Senator McCain was urging that a no fly zone should be established over Syria.  He surely had to be one of the rarest of people in government in both parties that thought that was a good idea.  President Bashar al-Sarrad has been committing the most atrocious crimes against his own people, including having babies murdered right in front of their parents.   But what can we or any other nation other than Russia do about it?  And they don’t have the will.  Syria and Russia have mutually beneficial trade agreements, to the point where it could be considered that they have an unspoken defense pact.  For us to establish a no-fly zone could involve us in a serious international crisis.  Another thing we have to be concerned about is the talk about arming the rebels.  The rebel forces are more and more coming under the control of Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups.  Do we really want to put arms in their hands that might eventually be aimed at us?

Early in the time that it looked like we were going to be getting involved in the fighting in Libya I was one of the people who wrote to pundits asking them to urge the administration not to be getting involved in the turmoil there.  We knew the devil we had with Khadafy and he was pretty well tamed starting with when President Reagan almost bumped him off
after the Pan Am bombing.   We didn’t know who would be replacing him.  But we did know the entire area was infested with Al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups.  We are in no better a position with Libya today than before we first got started. And if we never got involved, Ambassador Chris Stevens and his aides would still be alive today.                           

Dave Koller

I accidentally tripped over a liberal talk show host I never heard of before named Dave Koller when I was looking up something on the web about the Fox News program The Five.  If you’re ever searching for a liberal who can give an intelligent analysis of an issue and who can make a sensible counter to an argument being made by a conservative you wouldn’t want to find one like Dave Koller.  I thought I’d never get to know what it was that was on his mind.  He just kept ranting on, laughing and making a lot of profane remarks and having a good time entertaining himself but not saying much of substance as he was telling us that he thought all the members of The Five were stupid but couldn’t give an explanation of why he thought so.  It seems as though the level of the intellect of most liberals in debating an issue with a conservative is to respond by calling them stupid.  There are exceptions but I rarely see a liberal who can present an incisive commentary on why they are in disagreement when they’re debating an issue with a conservative.  Kirsten Powers is one of the most intelligent liberals to listen to and makes points that are worth hearing.  Juan Williams talks with intelligence but I’m rarely on board agreeing with him.  But liberals like Dave Koller, whose comments match the level of maturity of a sixth grade schoolboy could only titillate people whose level of intelligence is no greater than his.       

Obamageddon

This is an article from the 3/16/11 issue of the Washington Times that's worth dusting off again to show why Obama is doing everything he can to create dependency on government.  With dependency comes control:

http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/mar/16/welcome-to-obamageddon/

Obamacare Alternative

This is an interesting article in the 6/10/13 issue of the Washington Times.  There are some interesting highlights.  One is the explanation of how the Amish want no help from the government for their healthcare or any other handout.  They have their own methods of taking care of one another and pooling their resources to help a family when it's in financial trouble:

 

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jun/6/obamacare-alternative-exemptions-offer-way-out/?page=all 

Hillary Clinton

This is the woman that wants to become the president of the United States:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOy6ZagodUE

Roy Costner's Valedictorian Speech

Roy Costner’s Valedictorian speech:

http://foxnewsinsider.com/2013/06/06/roy-costner-iv-south-carolina-valedictorian-rips-speech-and-recites-lord%E2%80%99s-prayer

Dependency vs. Self-reliance

Dependency vs. Self-reliance

This is something that was part of a letter I wrote to my son in Florida two months ago that I think would be worth being a post for Facebook: 

I’m not optimistic about what’s ahead for this country no matter what Republican candidate becomes the nominee in 2016.  With 47% of the electorate paying no income tax and living in a state of dependency on government and are content on staying there we’re not far from the Socialists having a permanent majority that will lead to a single party state and dictatorship.  We’re not far from dictatorship right now as Obama runs the country through the EPA and HHS and whatever other agency he can use to get around the Constitution. 

There has never been a Republic that has ever lasted much more than 200 years.  We’re behind schedule right now.  Gimmeites prevail to elect power hungry dictators that hold out bait to them, having very little awareness that there’s a hook in that bait.   They’re like termites.  Termites destroy houses.  Gimmeites destroy republics.  Just imagine how much better off we’d be if the mindset of the people in this country embraced the attitudes of Doctor Ben Carson who stresses personal responsibility and self reliance instead of a bunch of people who want to live like fish in a water tank waiting for someone to feed them.