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Friday, 24 January 2014
Obama's Witch Hunts Continue......................from Dan Freidman
[Employing the organs of power to destroy his enemies – another day at the Oval Office for BHO. df]
FoxNews.com, January 23, 2014
The conservative filmmaker behind a hit anti-Obama documentary was indicted Thursday night on charges he violated federal campaign laws, in what a close colleague is calling a “selective prosecution.”
Hey, You Can Trust Iran on This One....................from Dan Friedman
TheTower.org, 01.23.14
Controversy is likely to deepen in the coming days regarding the Obama administration’s refusal to publicly release the text describing how the Joint Plan of Action (JPA) is to be implemented, after Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told CNN late on Wednesday that the White House’s public description “both underplays [Western] concessions and overplays Iranian commitment.”
Sarah Silverman: Deep in the Womb of Texas
I keep hearing people say, "You need to move out of California and move to Texas, Zo!" I dig Texas, but unfortunately it doesn't look like even Texas is immune to the infection of liberalism. Before you know it, abortion will be quite fashionable in Texas.
ObamaCare success!!!!!!..................................from Rico
Like most of the social-engineering utopian fantasies of "progressives" positive results only exist in their liberal 'dreams'...
They found a small island where ObamaCare is a success...
NRA News Commentators Episode 38: “Think For Yourself” With Austin Weiss
Austin Weiss talks about the importance of seeing past our differences and joining together as gun owners to fight misinformation about firearms.
The EPA's Agenda: Undermine Capitalism and America
By Alan Caruba
The Environmental Protection Agency has been in a full assault on the U.S. economy since the 1980s when the global warming hoax was initiated. It has been assisted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA.
To put it in other terms, our own government has engaged in lying to Americans and the result has been the expenditure of billions of taxpayer dollars on something that was not happening and is not happening.
On January 22, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released the deposition transcript of former senior EPA official John Beale. After defrauding the agency of nearly $900,000 and spending weeks and months away from his office by claiming he was on assignment for the CIA, the transcript contained a bombshell.
Discussing his job, at the time as a close associate of Gina McCarthy, the new EPA administrator, Beale revealed that he was there to come up with “specific proposals that could have been proposed either legislatively or things which could have been done administratively to kind of modify the capitalist system…”
Dan Kish, senior vice president of the Institute for Energy Research, responded to the revelation saying “In his testimony under oath, Beale, perhaps unwittingly, has laid bare the administration’s end goal. The President’s policies are not about carbon, they are not about coal, and they are not even about energy and the environment. They are about fundamentally altering the DNA of the capitalist system. These policies are not about energy, but power.”
When the new EPA administrator, Gina McCarthy, in testimony before a congressional committee in mid-January was asked by Sen. Jeff Sessions (AL-R) to confirm a statement made by President Obama last year that global temperatures were increasing faster in the last five or ten years than climate scientists had predicted.
She said, “I can’t answer that question.”
“You’re asking us to impose billions of dollars of cost on this economy and you won’t answer the simple question of whether (temperature around the world is increasing faster than predicted) is accurate or not?” Sessions responded.
“I just look at what the climate scientists tell me,” said McCarthy.
The Earth is in a cooling cycle that has lasted seventeen years at this point, but the EPA administrator was not inclined to accept this fact, nor question the climate scientists who provided the data based on computer models that have been consistently wrong now for decades.
We owe the Heartland Institute, a free market think tank a debt of gratitude for the eight international conferences it has held to debunk global warming. Joseph Bast, its president and CEO, has said, “The toll our EPA is taking on the country is staggering, putting hundreds of thousands of Americans out of work at a time when millions of people are unemployed and our reliance on foreign sources of energy threatens to compromise our nation’s security.” Heartland’s science director points out that “EPA’s budget could safely be cut by 80 percent or more without endangering the environment or human health, Most of what EPA does today could be done better by state government agencies…” I serve as an advisor to Heartland.
This is the same EPA that proposed restrictions for new wood stoves in early January. The reason given was to reduce the maximum amount of fine particulate emissions (soot) allowed for new stoves sold in 2015 and 2019. The soot is made up of solid particles and liquid droplets that measure 2.5 micrometers or less. The EPA claims, as it does for virtually all its regulations, that it is linked to heart attacks, decreased lung function, and premature death in people with heart and lung disease. This is worse than junk science. It represents no science whatever, being an invention of EPA employees who specialize in such nonsense. The Earth produces soot every day and circulates it globally.
The only way Americans will be protected against the EPA’s attack on our economy will be a Congress controlled by the Republican Party and a Republican President that will support the oversight that is needed and the reversal of its vast output of regulations. It will have to do this as well for NOAA, NASA, and other governmental departments and agencies that, until recently, spewed forth all manner of “data” supporting the global warming hoax.
At the heart of the global warming hoax, now called climate change, is the assertion that carbon dioxide (CO2) and other “greenhouse gases” have been dangerously warming the Earth by trapping heat, but you don’t have to be a scientist to know that the current cold spell, comparable to the 1500-1850 mini-ice age, is the result of lower solar emissions by a sun. CO2 is a minor (0.038) element of the Earth’s atmosphere, but the second most vital gas for all life on Earth because it is the “food” that maintains all vegetation.
Little wonder, during the government shutdown, more than 93% of EPA employees were furloughed when designated as “non-essential.” That was more than nine out of every ten employees!
In September 2013, the Republican members of the Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee issued a report that EPA officials had, from the beginning of President Obama’s tenure had “pursued a path of obfuscation, operating in the shadows, and out of the sunlight.” It detailed violations of the Freedom of Information Act and other federal laws and regulations intended to encourage transparency and accountability in the government.
In mid-January, the Energy and Environmental Legal Institute revealed that emails obtained through the Freedom of Information Act revealed that the EPA used official events to help environmental groups gather signatures for petitions on agency rulemaking. “The level of coordination in these documents is shocking” said an EELI spokesman. The EPA has a long history of this, including a policy of “sue and settle” working with environmental groups to bring a suit to advance regulations and settling the suit to enable it to implement those regulations.
In an April 2013 article in Investor’s Business Daily, John Merline reported that “Overall air pollution levels dropped 62% from 1990 to 2012, while GDP grew 69% and population climbed 26%.” The pollution the EPA keeps claiming is rising includes carbon monoxide, soot, sulfur dioxide, ozone, and others, all well below the EPA’s safety threshold. Water quality, too, has also improved over several decades.
In May 2013, Paul Driessen, a senior policy advisor for the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) noted that the EPA, since Obama’s inauguration in 2009, had generated 1,920 new regulations. “The EPA’s actions are forcing us to expend vast financial, human and technological resources to achieve minimal or even zero health benefits.”
This is the same EPA leading the effort to shut down coal-fired plants that produce electricity. It is the same EPA seeking to stop the Pebble Mine, described as “a natural resource project in Alaska that could yield more copper than has ever been found in one place anywhere in the world.”
The EPA is the instrument of those who want to undermine capitalism in any way it can. Only that can explain why entire books have been written about its impact on the economy of the nation and the deceptive way it has imposed regulations responsible for it.
President Obama called for “hope and change” when he first ran for office. We can only hope that a new Congress and President will bring about the change we need to shut down the EPA and return control over the nation’s environment to its 50 sovereign states.
© Alan Caruba, 2014
Typhoon - a ride with the best
Typhoon...a ride with the best' -- Experience the thrills of flying backseat in the RAF's Typhoon frontline jet fighter. This film features highlights of an ultra-low level mission over the stunning scenery of the Lake District and the Welsh valleys.
H/T 45 Govt
News...............
The holes are drilled, inletting the trigger well .... progress notes on the "plywood gun" ....
EagleSpeak: This May Be the Dumbest Thing I've Read in Some Time
Aetna CEO: We might have to pull out of ObamaCare because it's not attracting uninsured
Canada takes its place at the table by Caroline Glick
Why the West Buys Iran’s PR Campaign
Mabrouk to Abbas on Tenth Year of His Four Year Term!
Canada's Prime Minister: A Display of Rare Courage
Iraq - AGM -114K/R Hellfire Missiles
Making the Rounds: Barry Soetoro’s Columbia University School ID
Love in the Time of Obama
Fish Oil Helps Son Recover From Brain Injury
A famous Mobilian you should know: Julian Rayford, Mobile Mardi Gras maestro
Captain and Tennille getting divorce, love did not keep them together
Conservative Who Targeted Obama Indicted
How Obama Begat Cuomo
Japan’s Nemesis Threatens Europe
Rush Limbaugh: Layoffs, Ratings Slump Mean 'Panic Time' for CNN
Food Stamp Explosion
Is There ONE American ANYWHERE Who Will Stand Up to Our DICTATOR, Get the Keystone Pipeline Moving?
Palestinian leader turns to Putin for Palestinian state, dumps US and Israel as peace partners
U.S. Commander: North Korean Leader May Not Be Consistently 'Rational'
Three bombs explode in central Cairo
Syrian rebel infighting so deadly even Al-Qaeda leader is calling for a truce
Is Iran now more liberal than Saudi Arabia? Do we need to change allies?
Ibiza holiday jet in near miss with UFO over Reading
Ghost ship carrying cannibal rats could be heading for Britain
Metaphor: America's steep decline described in one short video clip!...from TPC
The short video clip in this article is the perfect metaphor that provides an example of American society's steep decline due to extremely misguided priorities!
Watch at The Political Commentator here.
Friday Funnies: Toilets Sochi-style!...from TPC
If you thought that all the athletes, coaches and visitors tot the Sochi Olympics had to face was the potential for terrorism, then think again.
How about going to the bathroom the way that's shown in the picture in this article?
Cletus & Billy Bob
Cletus is passing by Billy Bob 's hay barn one day when, through a gap in the door, he sees Billy Bob doing a slow and sensual striptease in front of an old John Deere tractor.
Buttocks clenched, he performs a slow pirouette, and gently slides off first the right strap of his overalls, followed by the left. He then hunches his
shoulders forward and in a classic striptease move, lets his overalls fall down to his hips, revealing a torn and frayed plaid shirt.
Then, grabbing both sides of his shirt, he rips it apart to reveal his stained T-shirt underneath. With a final flourish, he tears the T-shirt from his body, and hurls his baseball cap onto a pile of hay.
Having seen enough, Cletus rushes in and says, "What the world're ya doing, Billy Bob ?"
"Good grief, Cletus, ya scared the bejeebers out of me," says an obviously embarrassed Billy Bob ..
"But me 'n the wife been havin trouble lately in the bedroom d'partment, and the therapist suggested I do something sexy to
a tractor."
H/T Bob C
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One of those days - Candide Thovex
A usual skiing day for Candide in his home resort, could have ended in a better way this time! Out skiing with his friend Aziz Benkrich (red pants), we should probably tell you 'DON'T try this at home' !!
Exactly....................from Rico
It's a fairly recent change ...and one that is pointless, useless, and forgettable... but the weather people (much like career politicians) with too much idle time on their hands and frantic to boost their pathetic egos, have started naming Winter snowstorms.
- The recent "Janus" is a case in point. Not that any of the teleprompter readers or their viewers have the least clue who or what Janus represented.
But karmic irony will not be denied, as this TV screen capture attests.
- It captures my sentiments EXACTLY.
Kelly Brook See-Through Top and Panties at British National Television Awards!
Oh, yes! See-through bazongas!
I just love this lady when she goes out on the red carpet. Well, I love her anytime, but especially on the red carpet when she's showing off her bodacious ta-tas.
Here, "Oh My! Smokin' See-Through Kelly Brook at British National Television Awards."
And see-though panties too. That lady has got it going on!
Thursday, 23 January 2014
On the Verge of Hysteria: Obama's Jewish Problem.................from Dan Friedman
[All things are relative. While many Jews (like me) fault Netanyahu for having a weak spine, it seems for Obama and Kerry any Israeli or American Jew who displays the slightest Jewish backbone is utterly intolerable. df]
By Seth Mandel
The latest dustup in U.S.-Israel relations is one that makes you wonder if Obama administration officials have a shred of self-awareness. The Jerusalem Post reports that the president is unhappy with the Israeli government because his consistent opposition to sanctions on Iran is not meeting with universal approval from American Jewish groups. And why does this make him upset with Israel? Because he apparently believes that such dissent must be the product of foreign influence:
Late News..................
Rivers Of Blood Speech - Rioters and British Jihadists Confirm It Was Right
Another note to my leftist "friends" .... on the difficulty of occupation, and on the ease of inflicting misery on the modern city ....
Iran: Nope, We Never Said We'd 'Dismantle' Our Nuclear Program
Justice Dept accuses firm that cleared Snowden of faking 665,000 background checks
Smith & Wesson to End Most CA Sales Due to Microstamping Regulation
FDA Says It Is Studying Caramel Coloring in Soda
White House rejects review board finding that NSA data sweep is illegal
Finally, GOP Begins to Focus on School Choice
New gun gadget promises faster, clearer shot
Nineveh sends formal request to Iraqi parliament for the establishment of its region
Hilarious portraits of low information voters
Poll: 53% say that Obama's administration has been incompetent in running the government
Two new oil companies, six new provinces
How Social Conservatives Are Saving Liberalism (Barely)
Save the A-10: Give It to the Army
Al Qaeda head addresses infighting in Syria
Nanny State Snow Day
Obama Aborts the Opposition
Nuke Deal Delays Iran Bomb by One Month
De Blasio Backs Cuomo: Wants Conservatives to Get Out
Food Stamp Explosion
Corporation Carte Blanche: Will US-EU Trade Become Too Free?
China To Build World's Largest Marine Surveillance Ship
South Sudan government and rebels sign ceasefire
Cheerleader sues Oakland Raiders over low pay
An Israeli's Response to "Breaking Away"...............................from Dan Friedman
The fellow who wrote the comment below is a scientist with a special expertise in military optics (heads-up displays and the like). He holds a number of patents, but he’s not giving away any secrets here. In Israel the idea of a truly independent Jewish state seems to be catching on.
Dan Friedman
NYC
Re: Breaking Away
The Kerry and Obama plans are evident and Israel for a change, quietly, has been moving away from the above. That, to the hysterical dismay of the ghastly "elite" dating back to the pre state and early state MAPAI-MAPAM era. Stalinist, atheist and violent enemies of Jewish Heritage and perennial "partners" with the worse external enemies of a Jewish State. Today the arch enemy within, Peres, came out with his latest assault on the State. He used the captive TV and Radio system to scream that Israel does not "need" recognition as a Jewish State. That saboteur has been planted for decades to undermine, betray. Other items from that pile offered other forms of gruesome attacks on the Jews and State.
Still and in spite of these and other internal and external enemies, we prosper.
The energy angle is partially known but is far more relevant than imagined. Israel is now self sufficient on natural gas and electricity with giant reserves. The oil and shale oil reserves, both very large, are developing at great pace. ETA, 2016.
Water: This year, outside the single giant snow storm a month plus ago, there have been no real rains, yet water is in ample supply from DS plants. The Lake Kinneret is maintaining its level!!! The economy is steady and growing in the export side.
I am not going to go into the political shambles here, but I will mention that a Royalist current is gaining traction fast.
China and the Far East:
The huge rail system expansion reaching our region in the North and Eilat, is now joined by a line being built connecting Haifa port with the Bet Sha'an in the Valley and into Jordan. Almost all Chinese. The dreaded "histadrut" union clique has been tamed to a great extent.
The highways are all being expanded at record pace with several foreign firms involved.
In the industrial side, the Chinese are investing mountains of cash as well.
The economic links are growing at great pace.
My wife just signed two new contracts to provide advanced English training to top executives of multinationals exporting to the Far East and Europe.
Food imports are strictly controlled.
The Health and Medical Care systems are advancing a great pace, in comparison to most countries at a par or ahead of most.
Pharmaceutical: Incredible growth and research advances.
Hi-tech and military. Surpassed France and Israel is now in 4th place as an exporter.
I am only guessing... :) but I believe there will be surprises at 5th generation military aircraft level.
More as time allows...
Sam
Breaking Away...........................from Dan Friedman
In one of the greatest ironies in history, Obama’s animosity could yet become the best thing that has happened to Israel since 1948.
Israel’s vast new-found energy sources – natural gas and oil - are just beginning to come online, while her medical, military, agricultural and hi-tech expertise is already second to none. With so much going for it, the Jewish state may soon push away from the bogus “peace” table and gain the confidence to end its banana republic relationship with the USA. Which by now is a fictional dependency that the Jewish Left here and there exploit. Of course, it would benefit both countries to remain friends and allies – but this time on equal terms.
Dan Friedman
NYC
The Secret is Out: Chinese are Investing in Israel in Billions | China Law Flash
Hypothesis: Is Barack Obama a member of the Muslim Brotherhood? (Video)...from TPC
The video at TPC lays out some extremely compelling evidence that Barack Obama might very well be a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. Watch and come to your own conclusions.
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Hillary 2016 preview and the fate that has befallen so many Clinton associates!...from TPC
List of Bill and Hillary Clinton associates who have died over the years.
Is there anything to this list or is it all merely coincidence? It's hard to say but in light of Hillary's apparent track to the 2016 Democratic Party presidential nomination it is certainly of interest!
World's best performing stock market is socialist..........................from Rico
The world's best performing stock exchange today belongs to socialist Venezuela.
- And socialist candidate "number two but trying harder" the US is right behind them.
Today Venezuela set their official exchange rate at Bolivar 11.36 to the USD. This was a 45% devaluation.
- Not a year ago, the official exchange rate was devalued from B 4.30 to 6.30 to the USD.
Unreported is the current black market exchange rate, which is roughly B 78.73 to one USD.
And despite having THE best performing stock market in the world today, the residents of this socialist paradise still cannot get any toilet paper.
- Lucky for them, a TP-substitute is now possible. Stock certificates
...and using Bolivar notes is looking very much like a viable "Plan B."
Meanwhile, that other out-performing socialist exchange, the DJIA, remains above 16,000 but Janet Yellen could not be reached for comment on rumors that one dollar bills should now be stockpiled against the eventuality of a toilet paper shortage in the US.
One thing is certain, there is no shortage of socialist BS in either nation these days.
- Engels, Marx, Lenin and Stalin must be positively beaming from their graves.
News...................
Lessons from the Battle of the Paracel Islands
Iran Sanctions Relief Could Fund Terrorism Against U.S.
The Number of ObamaCare Losers Grows
Majority Say Obama Dishonest And Untrustworthy; Incompetent
Benghazi-- Evolution of Obama's "JV" explanation from "Just (the) Video" to "Junior Varsity" but surely not "linked" with al Qaeda
Trial, and Error by Mark Steyn
ASU fraternity suspended after 'offensive' MLK party
European Jihadists in Syria
Village elders ordered gang-rape because woman fell in love with wrong man: Indian police
CNN Ratings Down to New Lows
US, S. Korea special forces train for guerrilla warfare in N. Korea
An Arab walks into a bar......................
An Arab walks into a bar and is about to order a drink when he sees a guy close by wearing a Jewish cap, a prayer shawl/tzitzis and traditional locks of hair. He doesn't have to be an Einstein to know that this guy is Jewish. So, he shouts over to the bartender so loudly that everyone can hear, "Drinks for everyone in here, bartender, but not for that Jew over there."
Soon after the drinks have been handed out, the Jew gives him a big smile, waves at him, then says, "Thank you!" in an equally loud voice.
This infuriates the Arab. He once again loudly orders drinks for everyone except the Jew. As before, this does not seem to bother the Jewish guy. He continues to smile, and again yells, "Thank you!"
The Arab asks the bartender, "What's the hell is the matter with that Jew? I've ordered two rounds of drinks for everyone in the bar but him, and all the silly bugger does is smile and thank me. Is he nuts?"
Nope," replies the bartender.
"He owns the place."
H/T Liz B
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Not raining........................from Rico
In the access market after CRIMEX yesterday's closing, the Bullion Banksters smashed both Gold and Silver bullion prices with unlimited unbacked paper.
- Expect more of the same today!
The 'regulators' maintain that the Cartel pissing upon the markets so openly is actually rain instead.
- It is not...unless your paycheck depends on your saying it was.
The death throes of Keynesian fiat continue....
- The prudent mariner would already be learning some Chinese.
Free lesson number one: Yuan, Chinese unit of currency, formerly known as Renminbi. Backed by Gold reserves. Pronunciation 'yen', root: the former US Dollar.
Syria: Al-Qaeda's New Home
Three years ago, an uprising against the Assad regime turned into what looked like a straightforward civil war between Syrian government forces and rebels. However, over time, what had started as a largely secular opposition movement began to take on more of a radical Islamist tone, with two al Qaeda offshoots -- the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) and Jabhat al-Nusra -- becoming the dominant forces on the ground across the rebel-held North.
ISIS's policy of kidnapping journalists has made it almost impossible to report from within Syria. But one VICE filmmaker managed to secure unprecedented access to both al-Qaeda factions battling Syria's government forces, creating this remarkable portrait of the foreign volunteers and local Syrians willing to fight and die to establish a new caliphate on Europe's doorstep
Wednesday, 22 January 2014
Late News.................
Cambrian Dissenters:Politicians Want Open Borders For Syrian Refugees - The People Do Not
Wendy Davis Official Statement: Paraplegic Opponent 'Hasn't Walked in My Shoes'
China's Epic Offshore Wealth Revealed: How Chinese Oligarchs Quietly Parked Up To $4 Trillion In The Caribbean
The Obama Six
Barack Hussein Soebarkah?
Michigan Black Student Members Call for “Physical Action” if Demands Are Not Met
Middle East Peace Process: America's Wishful Thinkers
Lone Survivor: What Are We Meant To Learn?
Bombshell sworn allegation against Tim Geithner
Mullen: Washington 'Doing Handstands' as if Grave Problem of National Debt 'Has Gone Away'
DeBlasio's 'Snowgate'
Michelle Obama Chooses Jane Fonda as Role Model
Warmists Pivot to Climate Adaptation
Gates and the Duty Dilemma
Patriot Guard says farewell to a stranger at Barrancas
Argghhh! The Home Of Two Of Jonah's Military Guys.. - Rethinking procurement...
Argghhh! The Home Of Two Of Jonah's Military Guys.. - Things that make ya go, "Hmmmm."
Pentagon relaxes rules on religious apparel, facial hair
Teachers Union: We're Disconnected From Our Members
21 January 2014 Snow Day in DC
Coldest Winter in 35 Years?
Sex, socialism and the fall of France
America's Dying Economic Freedom
Zuwahiri plotted Palestinian-Caucasian terrorist attacks on US embassy, Jerusalem Convention Center
Pentagon: 10,000 Troops Or Nothing In Afghanistan
Belgium gripped by theft of mayor's underpants
Aspen airport releases video of Jan. 5 jet crash
Why Liberals Attack America
By Alan Caruba
Have you noticed how liberal intellectuals are drawn to various dictators? Largely unknown to most Americans is the history of many intellectuals who expressed their disdain for “the masses”, all those millions who work in manufacturing, have small businesses, and hold onto the American dream of success, having a home of their own, and other elements of a good life based on hard work.
Those ordinary Americans don’t worry about “income inequality” because there has always been income inequality and because America provides income mobility. You can earn more if you want to. You can change jobs. You can open a business. You can acquire wealth. There were 53,000 new millionaires in America last year. We have a President who criticized “millionaires and billionaires” throughout his first term.
In his book, “The Revolt Against the Masses: How Liberalism Has Undermined the Middle Class” by Fred Seigel (Encounter Books), he provides a history of liberalism that dates back to the early years of the last century and the rise of communism; particularly in the Soviet Union that collapsed in 1991 from its implementation.
You may be surprised to learn that authors like H.G. Wells (1866-1946), the famed science fiction writer, were early advocates of socialism—communism-light. “Liberals thought themselves smarter than other people because they had seen through the supposed Victorian verities to a future not yet born,” says Seigel, noting that one of his books, “Anticipations”, was described by Wells “was designed to undermine and destroy…monogamy, faith in God, and respectability, all under the guise of a speculation about motor cars and electrical heating.”
The “success” of liberalism has given us a nation where a million unborn are killed every year, where marriage is subject to a 50% divorce rate, where same-sex marriage is now law in several states, the middle class is heavily taxed, and—not surprisingly—an increasing number of Americans regard Big Government as the biggest threat to their liberty and freedom.
It is also a nation that has twice elected a Marxist named Barack Hussein Obama who is now openly equating any criticism of his failed policies as a form of racism.
The early liberals “looked to a new elite, a separate caste with the wisdom to lead society to social salvation by breaking with the conventions of middle-class Victorian morality.” It was an early liberal, the literary critic Van Wyck Brooks, who coined the terms “highbrow” and “middlebrow” to demarcate the levels of taste in American life. America’s entry into World War I put the liberals into high gear as they regarded the war years as revealing “American society and democracy (as) agents of repression.”
Seigel writes of liberals that “They had no doubt that the American masses were culturally diseased people, playthings in the hands of America’s philistine plutocrats. For the critics of mass culture, World War I had discredited not the Kaiser and German militarism, but democracy.” Those attitudes from the 1920s persist today.
So now we have a President who daily reveals his contempt for the Constitution and wants to rule by executive order rather than work with the Congress. We have a President who disdains the U.S. military, has been engaged in a purge of many top generals and admirals, and whose view that America is not an exceptional nation, has triggered and supported a growing disrespect of America, contributing to its declining influence on global events and trends.
By the 1940s and 50s, liberals—often Soviet agents—had infiltrated the U.S. government to such an extent that many Americans became concerned, but Sen. Joseph McCarthy who tried to expose them was attacked by liberals who have turned “McCarthyism” into a term for anyone who seeks to expose them.
The intellectuals who led liberalism had a deep disdain for the masses and the egalitarianism of American democracy which they regarded as a degraded form of government that in one’s description discouraged “respect or esteem for superior individuals.” That, too, remains a major theme among the current generation of intellectuals. Obama’s administration is filled with people who never ran a business or worked in one. Government for them is the ultimate means to control Americans, not serve them.
Over the course of the 1960s, “national income had doubled. The poverty rate was cut in half as unemployment dropped to only 3.5 percent and inflation-adjusted personal income grew by nearly 40 percent. Home ownership reached record highs that have been difficult to surpass.” Yet it was the 1960s in which Lyndon Johnson launched his “War on Poverty” saying that the “days of the dole in this country are numbered.”
Under Obama, the most liberal President ever to hold the office, unemployment is estimated to be over 13 percent and millions are on some form of government dole. Liberals still do not make a connection between liberal policies and actual outcomes. Facts do not concern them.
The 1960s also marked the takeover the American system of education and what we are witnessing today has much to do with the indoctrination of socialist values in the generations that attended schools and universities since then.
The 1960s also saw the beginning of the environmental movement. Now don’t get me wrong. America needs clean air and clean water, but it does not need an out-of-control Environmental Protection Agency whose real agenda is to undermine the provision of energy and the entire economy. It is environmentalism that led the government to ban incandescent light bulbs, to mandate a reduction in the amount of water in your toilet seat, and generates countless other idiotic regulations whose real purpose is to control all aspects of your life.
In 1962, a baseless screed against the pesticides that protect human health and property against the onslaught of many pest insect species was published. It was Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring.” The establishment of Earth Day followed in 1970 and ever since liberals have corrupted science to claim that humans were destroying the Earth and to advance the greatest hoax of the modern era, global warming.
The liberal disdain for humanity—the masses—was reflected in Paul Ehrlich’s “The Population Bomb”, published in 1968, that claimed that “the battle to feed all of humanity is over.” Like environmentalism, it was a fear-mongering theme designed to influence public policies. Liberals not only disliked humanity, they disliked the industrial societies that gave them the opportunity to live better lives with innovative technologies.
As Seigel notes, “Before the 1960s, government regulation was aimed at specific industries. But with the creation of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (1964) the Environmental Protection Agency (1970), the Consumer Products Safety Commission (1972)m and the vast expansion of the Federal Trade Commission, government asserted its influence over the entire economy.”
Now the nation is sharply divided between liberals and conservatives. The problems encountered in the decades since the 1960s have not had any impact on the views of liberals. As Seigel says, “Liberal interests never examined their assumptions, even when faced with social and political failure.” They turned to the courts to achieve their goals and have been successful in transforming the nation through them.
The greatest transformation is the Affordable Care Act—Obamacare—that has seized one sixth of the nation’s economy while depriving millions of Americans of their personal health plans, forcing many to give up their personal physicians, and is negatively affecting the entire economy. The fact that it is such a disaster is the only good thing that can be said for it because it will likely force many who favor such liberal programs to rethink their views. It will likely have a major political backlash toward more conservative candidates.
The lesson is clear. It is liberals who have been working very hard to undermine the U.S. Constitution, our democracy, and our freedoms.
© Alan Caruba, 2014
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