Posted on 07/10/2014 5:39:52 AM PDT by SJackson
How is it that ISIS, numbering fewer than 10,000 Islamic cretins, can pretty much overrun Iraq and instill fear throughout the entire Middle East and here in America? And while we’re on the subject, why haven’t we signed them up to deal with Iran, Russia and North Korea?
As for Iraq, where Obama saw fit to squander American lives and treasure by simply packing up and walking away, I say the most sensible resolution to a problem involving Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds, is to divide the one big cesspool into three smaller cesspools. In the past, the hang-up has been that each sect insisted on winding up in possession of the oil fields. My solution is to put their three names in a hat. The winner gets the oil, the other two get casinos.
I would also like to see America divided into two parts. Our part gets the Constitution and the rule of law; the other guys get Obama and liberalism. The difference between the two groups is obvious. Our side would have gotten the Christian woman out of a Sudanese prison cell and the Marine out of a Tijuana jail within 24 hours, or the bombs would have immediately begun falling on Khartoum and Mexico City.
Another illustrative failing of liberalism is that in the five years since Obama was elected, the thugs at the EPA have come up with 2,839 new regulations, every one of which was intended to destroy our economy and increase unemployment by placing stumbling blocks in the way of industry. Any business owner who still has his head above water these days is a magician. And any federal agency that comes up with nearly 50 regulations every month, nearly two-a-day, including weekends, is an agency that should be eliminated from the face of the earth.
Another tipoff that the feds shouldn’t be running a damn thing is that the private sector fires its executives at a rate six times that of the public sector. Seriously, does anyone really believe that civil servants are as smart, as capable or as honest, as those employed in the real world, let alone six times as smart, capable and/or honest.
In spite of constantly being shot down by the Supreme Court, the alleged constitutional scholar in the White House, Barack (“Mr. I’ve Got a Pen and a Phone”) Obama, in the words of my friend Steve Maikoski: “Continues to ignore his constitutional duties, not just to respect the limitations of presidential power, but to take care that the laws of the land are faithfully executed.”
With disgusting regularity, Obama and his bitch at the Justice Department, Eric Holder, refuse to enforce those laws, such as the Defense of Marriage Act or the ones dealing with illegal drugs and illegal aliens, which they happen to disagree with; and to arbitrarily re-write others, such as the Affordable Care Act. My biggest concern isn’t even with Obama, but with an electorate that continues to approve of the job he’s doing by managing to ignore the havoc he’s wreaking. From my vantage point, it seems that while he keeps giving us wake-up calls, 40% of Americans keep hitting the snooze button and going back to sleep.
Obama lies about our getting to keep our doctors and our health insurance, lies about Benghazi, lies about the VA, lies about the IRS, and then lies about lying, and the response of most Democrats is to pull the blankets over their ears and….zzzzzzzz.
The truth is that it’s hard to find good news anywhere these days. For instance, when he was campaigning in 2012, Obama kept reminding us that Osama bin Laden was dead, but G.M. was alive. General Motors, which began being called Government Motors, thanks to Obama and the Democrats bailing out the members of the UAW with our tax dollars, has now had over three million cars recalled because of their lethal ignition systems. So a more appropriate mantra would be: Osama bin Laden is dead and so are at least 13 people who were foolish enough to buy GM cars.
You would think that UCLA would be sufficiently embarrassed to be known as my alma mater without going out of its way to make a public spectacle of itself. But such is not the case. The school recently hosted a workshop titled “Finals Can Wait, Masturbate,” where students were to receive training in the practice of what used to be called self-abuse. As if that’s not bad enough, what’s this younger generation coming to that they can’t do both at once?
Between having to spend more time with doctors than with friends and suffering the general aches and pains that go with aging, getting older is already bad enough. But what’s with the shrinking? When I was 60, I was 5’7. When I hit 70, I was a tad over 5’6. Now I’m 74 and I’m 5’5 ½. At the rate I’m going, by the time I hit 80, I’ll be able to play the Mayor of Munchkinland in a re-make of “The Wizard of Oz.” And when I die, they’ll probably be able to bury me in a shoebox like a pet parakeet.
Speaking of dying, a reader, who claims not to be a conspiracy theorist, is convinced that in 2016, Bill is going to mysteriously drop dead, resulting in Hillary’s receiving a huge sympathy vote.
I said it will all depend on how Bill goes. If he suffers a heart attack, she’ll no doubt get a sympathy vote. On the other hand, if she shoots him, she’ll get my vote.
LOL!
Thanks for a few chuckles this morning!
Ga rawn teed if ANY of us heard or saw a bunch of bloodletting maniacs next door tearing up our neighbors ... we'd not hesitate a second to come out of our houses blazing whatever firepower we possessed ... after calling our neighbor friends to get here right now.
Those 10,000 cretins in Iraq are pikers compared to what just 1 cretin is doing to the United States —
“... if she shoots him, she’ll get my vote.”
Heck... she should have shot him 20 years ago, she would have gone to jail and she’d be OUT by now!!
Ya got that right!
The inner city Democrat voters are scared. A Republic cannot function if too many of the citizens are scared. The Republican Party needs to appeal to those scared Democrat inner city voters.
“My solution is to put their three names in a hat. The winner gets the oil, the other two get casinos.”
Gotta nit-pick here. All three areas, Shia, Sunni and Kurd have oil deposits. What they don’t have is transport rights to export it and equal access to Iraqi refineries.
Except for the Shia’s Basrah oil export facilities the other petroleum transit routes cross someone else’s territory.
Goldberg’s ‘winner take all’ proposal is exactly the source of the fighting between Sunnis and Shia since 2007. First the Sunnis ran everything, then the Shia and now they inhabit territories with fractured petroleum resources.
The only logical step at this point is for the Shia to accept autonomous Sunni and Kurd states and make oil and petroleum product transit and allocation agreements. This way everyone can get their territorial oil to market and everyone has access to a share of Iraqi refinery products.
Only federated nation states permit Shia, Sunni and Kurds responsible political representation, semi-autonomy, oil resources, a source of oil income and access to refinery products. Excluding a brutal civil war and genocide this is the only way to remove the motivation for the ‘winner take all’ in-fighting which has been going on since 2007.
Sunni & Shia have been at each other’s throats for centuries.
I don’t see a current solution.
First the Sunnis ran everything, then the Shia
Maybe it’s time the Kurds ran everything...
Possibly dividing the country would have worked once,
but now with IS on the march, I don’t see how.
I’m not worried about ISIS. They’re criminals hiding behind theological fanaticism. No one gets along with them. They’re a pariah. So far this month they’ve been attacked or fought with Syrian and Iraqi Kurds, Syrian and Iraqi Shia, Syrian and Iraqi Sunnis, Assad’s SAA and Iraq’s IA.
Sumbitches just don’t fit in. There’s no future for them. Neither the Syrians nor the Iraqis support 7th-century governance.
Like we did last time with the old Ottoman Empire?
ISIS, or ISIL, or IS is and does support that 7th century
mind set and even if it only appeals to a small percentage
of Islam it is still a threat to us all. I hope to see
much Islamic infighting as an alliance would spell disaster
for the rest of the world in short order.
Golly...
I wonder WHY???
Genesis 16:12
"He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand will be against him. He will live in conflict with all of his relatives."
WHY are we trying to STOP this?
These barbs bring to mind the late, great Feeper known as Firehat .. now there was an author who could stick it to ‘em!!!! (If you get a chance do and Google on ‘Firehat’ and I’m sure you’ll quickly agree)
Ha! Got that right, Bernie!
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