Obama, Gospel and Verse - NYTimes.com http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/26/opinion/26brooks.html ”When you ask about ways to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons, he talks grandly about marshaling a global alliance. But when you ask specifically if an Iranian bomb would be deterrable, he’s says yes: “I think Iran is like North Korea. They see nuclear arms in defensive terms, as a way to prevent regime change.” In other words, he has a tendency to go big and offer himself up as Bromide Obama, filled with grand but usually evasive eloquence about bringing people together and showing respect. Then, in a blink, he can go small and concrete, and sound more like a community organizer than George F. Kennan. Finally, more than any other major candidate, he has a tendency to see the world in post-national terms. Whereas President Bush sees the war against radical Islam as the organizing conflict of our time, Obama sees radical extremism as one problem on a checklist of many others: global poverty, nuclear proliferation, global warming. When I asked him to articulate the central doctrine of his foreign policy, he said, “The single objective of keeping America safe is best served when people in other nations are secure and feel invested”
Friday, August 31, 2012
Why I will support Romney in the #2012 election (after opposing him)
I have previously passionately argued against voting for Mitt Romney ,even if Obama won as a result (though I also doubted that Romney could win). I had considered voting for Gary Johnson, or for skipping the Presidential ballot and just voting for Republicans in the House and Senate. I have changed my position and will now vote for Romney in 2012 .
My reasons are as follows: 1. The court betrayed us by upholding Obamacare. The only remaining option for repealing this obscenity is to get Romney into office and a Republican Senate into power .
”But Romney won't repeal it?”
We were able to prevent any Republican defections on Obamacare in 2009 by means of applying massive political pressure,if we do so again,then there is a slim, but reasonable,chance that we will succeed in pressuring the GOP into repealing Obamacare.
This is not some open ended thing where it does not matter if it is repealed in 2012 or in 2016. Once the ”benefits” kick-in, in 2014 then it will become exponentially more difficult to repeal it.
But to do so will mean that we cannot accept the "lesser of two evils" as a standard,where we will vote for any Republican,even if he supports keeping parts of Obamacare.
Imagine what the result would have been in 2009, had we called the Republicans and told them "You must not pass Obamacare,do you hear! But we'll vote for you anyway". We would have lost all leverage .
This is not "practical",it does not "buy us time". It accelerates the decline,since the Democrats will set the standard, and the Republicans will know that we will vote for them irregardless of what they do. You think I'm mistaken? You think that the Republicans are ”good fellows, who just need a philosophy?” But they have a philosophy: it's a combination of mee-toism/second handedness (”what will the pundits say”), pragmatism (” we have to violate free market principles to save the free market”), & altruism (”people are hurting”)
And as to the claim that Republicans won't take the voters for granted, let us look at one of the "well meaning but confused folks" who just need to be given a shot of courage;Mike Murphy on Sarah Palin :
"Most pundits thought I was wrong. Look at the crowds she can draw, I was told.
She "excites the base."Phooey. Every presidential election
year brings forth some new nugget of conventional wisdom from the media elite that totally misses the real picture. Last year, the big wrong idea was this notion
that base voters have somehow become the new swing.voters. We are now told the party base - those voters who will vote for a bag of cement if it has an R or D attached to it - must be carefully appealed to, romanced and appeased.Under that funhouse reasoning, Palin was an inspired pick.Unfortunately for McCain, the actual swing voters, the independents who do determine the
winner of the election, didn't buy into this fantasy at all.”
To go forward, GOP must snap out of its Sarah Palin spell - Daily News
http://m.nydailynews.com/1.428766 Or as Mccain snickered: "where will they go".
No,if we are to actually slow down this monstrosity then we must draw certain red lines: 1. Repeal Obamacare,completely
2. Oppose Cap and Trade.
3. Defend the U.S.
4. Oppose censorship. If a candidate does not actually do any of these things, then we must be prepared to vote him out of office. We must also work to have a fallback plan should Republicans betray us. We must look into the Libertarian Party as a possible alternative,or perhaps create a new party to replace the GOP (a "teaparty party" perhaps?) . "But third parties can't succeed!" Google:”the Whigs”.
However neither a third party nor the Libertarian Party can win in 2012. It will take time to build up a alternative.
I therefore would offer this advice (HT to Stephen Bailey) Unless you live in a solidly red or blue state, vote for Romney.
If you live in a solidly red or blue state vote for Romney,Johnson,skip the presidential part of the ballot etc ,use your own judgement. The U.S. has a electoral college system,it DOES NOT matter who gets the most votes. The election is determined by who wins enough electoral votes. If you live in one of the deepest red states, your state will go for Romney whether you vote for Romney,Johnson,Obama, John Galt,or stand on your head or don't vote in the Presidential election at all. The same holds true for solidly blue states. (But make sure that your state IS actually solidly red or blue,check Realclearpolitics )
If you live in anything less than a solidly red or blue state ,vote
for Romney. And even if you live in a solidly red state ,you should attack Obama online ,and speak with any of your friends in swing states,and present the reasons I've given here for why they should vote for Romney . Do not lie,just explain your reasoning .
I plan to address this at greater length in future posts.
My reasons are as follows: 1. The court betrayed us by upholding Obamacare. The only remaining option for repealing this obscenity is to get Romney into office and a Republican Senate into power .
”But Romney won't repeal it?”
We were able to prevent any Republican defections on Obamacare in 2009 by means of applying massive political pressure,if we do so again,then there is a slim, but reasonable,chance that we will succeed in pressuring the GOP into repealing Obamacare.
This is not some open ended thing where it does not matter if it is repealed in 2012 or in 2016. Once the ”benefits” kick-in, in 2014 then it will become exponentially more difficult to repeal it.
But to do so will mean that we cannot accept the "lesser of two evils" as a standard,where we will vote for any Republican,even if he supports keeping parts of Obamacare.
Imagine what the result would have been in 2009, had we called the Republicans and told them "You must not pass Obamacare,do you hear! But we'll vote for you anyway". We would have lost all leverage .
This is not "practical",it does not "buy us time". It accelerates the decline,since the Democrats will set the standard, and the Republicans will know that we will vote for them irregardless of what they do. You think I'm mistaken? You think that the Republicans are ”good fellows, who just need a philosophy?” But they have a philosophy: it's a combination of mee-toism/second handedness (”what will the pundits say”), pragmatism (” we have to violate free market principles to save the free market”), & altruism (”people are hurting”)
And as to the claim that Republicans won't take the voters for granted, let us look at one of the "well meaning but confused folks" who just need to be given a shot of courage;Mike Murphy on Sarah Palin :
"Most pundits thought I was wrong. Look at the crowds she can draw, I was told.
She "excites the base."Phooey. Every presidential election
year brings forth some new nugget of conventional wisdom from the media elite that totally misses the real picture. Last year, the big wrong idea was this notion
that base voters have somehow become the new swing.voters. We are now told the party base - those voters who will vote for a bag of cement if it has an R or D attached to it - must be carefully appealed to, romanced and appeased.Under that funhouse reasoning, Palin was an inspired pick.Unfortunately for McCain, the actual swing voters, the independents who do determine the
winner of the election, didn't buy into this fantasy at all.”
To go forward, GOP must snap out of its Sarah Palin spell - Daily News
http://m.nydailynews.com/1.428766 Or as Mccain snickered: "where will they go".
No,if we are to actually slow down this monstrosity then we must draw certain red lines: 1. Repeal Obamacare,completely
2. Oppose Cap and Trade.
3. Defend the U.S.
4. Oppose censorship. If a candidate does not actually do any of these things, then we must be prepared to vote him out of office. We must also work to have a fallback plan should Republicans betray us. We must look into the Libertarian Party as a possible alternative,or perhaps create a new party to replace the GOP (a "teaparty party" perhaps?) . "But third parties can't succeed!" Google:”the Whigs”.
However neither a third party nor the Libertarian Party can win in 2012. It will take time to build up a alternative.
I therefore would offer this advice (HT to Stephen Bailey) Unless you live in a solidly red or blue state, vote for Romney.
If you live in a solidly red or blue state vote for Romney,Johnson,skip the presidential part of the ballot etc ,use your own judgement. The U.S. has a electoral college system,it DOES NOT matter who gets the most votes. The election is determined by who wins enough electoral votes. If you live in one of the deepest red states, your state will go for Romney whether you vote for Romney,Johnson,Obama, John Galt,or stand on your head or don't vote in the Presidential election at all. The same holds true for solidly blue states. (But make sure that your state IS actually solidly red or blue,check Realclearpolitics )
If you live in anything less than a solidly red or blue state ,vote
for Romney. And even if you live in a solidly red state ,you should attack Obama online ,and speak with any of your friends in swing states,and present the reasons I've given here for why they should vote for Romney . Do not lie,just explain your reasoning .
I plan to address this at greater length in future posts.
Man w/ gov subsidized "green job" celebrates Fukushima as gift to his company
I had a green job | Fox News
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/08/22/had-green-job/?cmpid=cmty_fb_I_had_a_green_job ”I wish I could say people work in Green energy because they sincerely believe in catastrophic global warming. But most also reject nuclear power, the only scalable form of CO2-free energy, hating it as a competitor while celebrating Fukushima for creating anti-nuclear sentiment. “Nuclear is dead!” proclaimed my boss at a staff meeting just days after the disaster. “This will be good for us!” he continued, in the wake of 20,000 deaths, not one caused by nuclear radiation. He was right--we needed disasters to compete. I remember researching catastrophic global warming claims extensively, then sharing evidence against such a threat with the director of engineering, a very intelligent man. I expected either a scientific counter-argument or excitement at the prospect that we do not face an unprecedented climate disaster and the unprecedented economic disaster of a carbon cap. Instead, he responded that our company would be better off if catastrophic global warming were imminent. He wanted it to be true, because it would help us. Our company could not survive on merit, so our interests were aligned with destruction.”
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/08/22/had-green-job/?cmpid=cmty_fb_I_had_a_green_job ”I wish I could say people work in Green energy because they sincerely believe in catastrophic global warming. But most also reject nuclear power, the only scalable form of CO2-free energy, hating it as a competitor while celebrating Fukushima for creating anti-nuclear sentiment. “Nuclear is dead!” proclaimed my boss at a staff meeting just days after the disaster. “This will be good for us!” he continued, in the wake of 20,000 deaths, not one caused by nuclear radiation. He was right--we needed disasters to compete. I remember researching catastrophic global warming claims extensively, then sharing evidence against such a threat with the director of engineering, a very intelligent man. I expected either a scientific counter-argument or excitement at the prospect that we do not face an unprecedented climate disaster and the unprecedented economic disaster of a carbon cap. Instead, he responded that our company would be better off if catastrophic global warming were imminent. He wanted it to be true, because it would help us. Our company could not survive on merit, so our interests were aligned with destruction.”
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Stimulus not working, we must liquidate
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Monday, August 27, 2012
In which Huckabee reveals that Akin (or Huck) is the prophet Elijah,or something #tcot #tlot #teaparty
“This could be a Mount Carmel moment. You know, you bring your gods. We’ll bring ours. We’ll see whose God answers the prayers and brings fire from heaven. That’s kind of where I’m praying: that there will be fire from heaven, and we’ll see it clearly, and everyone else will to.” Did Mike Huckabee attack Mitt Romney’s Mormon faith? - National Political Buzz | Examiner.com
http://www.examiner.com/article/did-mike-huckabee-attack-mitt-romney-s-mormon-faith JPS 1917 ”1Ki 18:12-46
12 And it will come to pass, as soon as I am gone from thee, that the spirit of the LORD will carry thee whither I know not; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he will slay me; but I thy servant fear the LORD from my youth. 13 Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the LORD, how I hid a hundred men of the LORD'S prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water? 14 And now thou sayest: Go, tell thy lord: Behold, Elijah is here; and he will slay me. '15 And Elijah said:' As the LORD of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself unto him to- day. '16 So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him; and Ahab went to meet Elijah. 17 And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him:' Is it thou, thou troubler of Israel? '18 And he answered:' I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the LO RD, and thou hast followed the Baalim. 19 Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the Asherah four hundred, that eat at Jezebel's table. '20 And Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together unto mount Carmel. 21 And Elijah came near unto all the people, and said:' How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him. 'And the people answered him not a word. 22 Then said Elijah unto the people:' I, even I only, am left a prophet of the LORD; but Baal's prophets are four hundred and fifty men. 23 Let them therefore give us two bullocks; and let them choose one bullock for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under; and I will dress the other bullock, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under. 24 And call ye on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of the LORD; and the God that answereth by fire, let him be God. 'And all the people answered and said:' It is well spoken. '25 And Elijah said unto the prophets of Baal:' Choose you one bullock for yourselves, and dress it first; for ye are many; and call on the name of your god, but put no fire under. '26 And they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying:' O Baal, answer us. 'But there was no voice, nor any that answered. And they danced in halting wise about the altar which was made. 27 And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said:' Cry aloud; for he is a god; either he is musing, or he is gone aside, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked. '28 And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with swords and lances, till the blood gushed out upon them. 29 And it was so, when midday was past, that they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening offering; but their was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any that regarded. 30 And Elijah said unto all the people:' Come near unto me '; and all the people came near unto him. And he repaired the altar of the LORD that was thrown down. 31 And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the word of the LORD came, saying:' Israel shall be thy name. '32 And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD; and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed. 33 And he put the wood in order, and cut the bullock in pieces, and laid it on the wood. 34 And he said:' Fill four jars with water, and pour it on the burnt- offering, and on the wood. 'And he said:' Do it the second time '; and they did it the second time. And he said:' Do it the third time '; and they did it the third time . 35 And the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench also with water. 36 And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening offering, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said:' O LORD, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that Thou art God in Israel, and that I am Thy servant, and that I have done all these things at Thy word. 37 Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that Thou, LORD, art God, for Thou didst turn their heart backward. '38 Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt- offering, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench. 39 And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces; and they said:' The LORD, He is God; the LORD, He is God. '40 And Elijah said unto them:' Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. 'And they took them; and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there. ” RRD:This individual will be addressing the GOP convention. What could go wrong?
http://www.examiner.com/article/did-mike-huckabee-attack-mitt-romney-s-mormon-faith JPS 1917 ”1Ki 18:12-46
12 And it will come to pass, as soon as I am gone from thee, that the spirit of the LORD will carry thee whither I know not; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he will slay me; but I thy servant fear the LORD from my youth. 13 Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the LORD, how I hid a hundred men of the LORD'S prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water? 14 And now thou sayest: Go, tell thy lord: Behold, Elijah is here; and he will slay me. '15 And Elijah said:' As the LORD of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself unto him to- day. '16 So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him; and Ahab went to meet Elijah. 17 And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him:' Is it thou, thou troubler of Israel? '18 And he answered:' I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the LO RD, and thou hast followed the Baalim. 19 Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the Asherah four hundred, that eat at Jezebel's table. '20 And Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together unto mount Carmel. 21 And Elijah came near unto all the people, and said:' How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him. 'And the people answered him not a word. 22 Then said Elijah unto the people:' I, even I only, am left a prophet of the LORD; but Baal's prophets are four hundred and fifty men. 23 Let them therefore give us two bullocks; and let them choose one bullock for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under; and I will dress the other bullock, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under. 24 And call ye on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of the LORD; and the God that answereth by fire, let him be God. 'And all the people answered and said:' It is well spoken. '25 And Elijah said unto the prophets of Baal:' Choose you one bullock for yourselves, and dress it first; for ye are many; and call on the name of your god, but put no fire under. '26 And they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying:' O Baal, answer us. 'But there was no voice, nor any that answered. And they danced in halting wise about the altar which was made. 27 And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said:' Cry aloud; for he is a god; either he is musing, or he is gone aside, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked. '28 And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with swords and lances, till the blood gushed out upon them. 29 And it was so, when midday was past, that they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening offering; but their was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any that regarded. 30 And Elijah said unto all the people:' Come near unto me '; and all the people came near unto him. And he repaired the altar of the LORD that was thrown down. 31 And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the word of the LORD came, saying:' Israel shall be thy name. '32 And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD; and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed. 33 And he put the wood in order, and cut the bullock in pieces, and laid it on the wood. 34 And he said:' Fill four jars with water, and pour it on the burnt- offering, and on the wood. 'And he said:' Do it the second time '; and they did it the second time. And he said:' Do it the third time '; and they did it the third time . 35 And the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench also with water. 36 And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening offering, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said:' O LORD, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that Thou art God in Israel, and that I am Thy servant, and that I have done all these things at Thy word. 37 Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that Thou, LORD, art God, for Thou didst turn their heart backward. '38 Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt- offering, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench. 39 And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces; and they said:' The LORD, He is God; the LORD, He is God. '40 And Elijah said unto them:' Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. 'And they took them; and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there. ” RRD:This individual will be addressing the GOP convention. What could go wrong?
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