Posted on 02/24/2009 5:45:43 AM PST by SJackson
We do not have any educated folks in DC. None. Period. Thanks to our sorry high schools, pathetic lib art faculties, and complete lack of MSM journalistic integrity, we’re akin to a fighter plan with the Obamaloon at the stick. (Oh, forgot, we do have the loon at the stick.)
It’s amateur hour once again in the White House. God help us all.
They aren't even standing on a track. Most are sitting in front of a TV watching mindless crap like Oprah. Too many people in this country care about entertainment more than they care about freedom.
If you'd like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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I suspect we're taking a pass on this fight for awhile, let countries like Israel and India engage. Islamists are way, way over there, and peaceful fellows. Both the current and last administration described them as businessmem, and we all know they practice the Religion of Peace, virtually all of them. So they're no threat to us. What are they going to do, crash airplanes into skyscrapers? The stuff of fiction. Besides, we can reach their asprin factories with impunity.
Scene 1: The UN committee planning the Durban-2 pro-racism - I mean “anti-racism” - conference. Libya chairs the committee, Iran is the vice-chair, Cuba, the rapporteur, and Russia is presiding. The plan is designed to ensure that the conference limits free speech, bashes Israel and enshrines Muslims as the world’s only and perpetual victims.
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And American ‘news reporters’ are saying.............
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Nothing!
What freight train? All I see is the Pacific ocean...
When we celebrate diversity and encourage open borders (remember that GWB did absolutely nothing to help control our borders even after 9/11) then we really lose control over who we are as a nation and, no offense, but the U.S. is now a much more pluralistic society. A large chunk of our society wants government handouts, another large chunk of our society is actively cheering on the Islamic terrorists of the world and, to put it bluntly, a large chunk of our college professors and leftists wouldn’t shed one single tear if all of Israel was destroyed.
Indeed; coming like a freight train; and too many on the tracks are suffering for an sommanulance induced by the mind-numbing, brain-damning, Leftist education per ‘political correctness’ and they appear close to irretreivable.
This should be the rallying cry of the GOP.
They have four years to figure out how to explain this to the voters of Florida and New York. Or Obama & Co. will be running U.S. foreign policy.
somnolence.
“Too many people in this country care about entertainment more than they care about freedom.”
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Marx Redux:
For Germany, the criticism of religion (TV) has been largely completed, and the criticism of religion (TV) is the prerequisite of all criticism.
The foundation of irreligious criticism is this: Man makes TV, TV does not make man. TV is indeed man’s self-consciousness and self-awareness so long as he has not found himself or has already lost himself again. But, man is no abstract being squatting outside the world. Man is the world of man — state, society. This state and this society produce TV, which is an inverted consciousness of the world, because they are an inverted world. TV is the general theory of this world, its encyclopaedic compendium, its logic in popular form, its spiritual point d’honneur, it enthusiasm, its moral sanction, its solemn complement, and its universal basis of consolation and justification. It is the fantastic realization of the human essence since the human essence has not acquired any true reality. The struggle against TV is, therefore, indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is TV.
TV suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. TV is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. TV is the opium of the people.
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Presidential Determination No. 2009-15 of January 27,2009
Unexpected Urgent Refugee and Migration Needs Related To Gaza
Memorandum for the Secretary of State
By the authority vested in me by the constitution and the laws of the United States, including section 2(c)(1) of the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962 (the ``Act''), as amended (22 U.S.C. 2601), I hereby determine, pursuant to section 2(c)(1) of the Act, that it is important to the national interest to furnish assistance under the Act in an amount not to exceed $20.3 million from the United States Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund for the purpose of meeting unexpected and urgent refugee and migration needs, including by contributions to international, governmental, and nongovernmental organizations and payment of administrative expenses of Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration of the Department of State, related to humanitarian needs of Palestinian refugees and conflict victims in Gaza.
You are authorized and directed to publish this memorandum in the Federal Register.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE, THE WHITE HOUSE, Washington, January 27, 2009 [FR Doc. E9-2488 Filed 2-3-09; 8:45 am
We could refer to Bread and Circuses.
But the modern generations do not even study the history of the Roman Empire, so they would not get the connotation.
History, as taught today, "started" when slaves were imported to America. Period.
That was simply a transfer of discretionary funds to the UN via UNWRA. That’s how it’s handled, he isn’t bringing palestinians here. The $900 million for Gaza, that he’ll have to get through Congress, unless he does it with 9 under $100 million transfers. I’m sure buried somewhere deep in the stimulus there could be a boost in disretionary foreign aid.
Nothing will change until there is Blood in the Streets.
Good post. Unfortunately, Mr. Rubin is correct.
Even though the slave importation started in the 1600s, the kind of history taught today somehow manages to skip over the American Revolution, Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution. It's obvious that it's an ideological selection of what is taught in history and what isn't, not a chronological one.
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