Government in Exile

Is American Culture Dying?

"Ernie" has some thoughts of the demise of American culture.

Obama made it very clear in his 2008 campaign that he was going to fundamentally transform America.  He didn't say how, or what he was going to transform it to, but after 5 years of this disastrous administration we have a pretty clear idea. 

 

     As much as he'd like to take full responsibility for what's befallen us as a country and a people, this ideology really started long before his regime took office.  You can go all he way back to that Woodrow Wilson, the nation's first "progressive" statists who preached the growth and power of the government.  But wait, let's not forget Teddy Roosevelt.  For all his admirable qualities, he was the first conservationist president who took millions of acres out of the private sector and gave it to the government to "preserve the natural environment".  

 

     Back to the "how" part of the transformation, that too was designed and implemented back in the FDR days.  It began with the work projects designed to defeat the Great Depression.  What it really did was transfer personal responsibility to various government welfare programs.  Though the media gave him full credit for ending the depression, it was the second world war that put America back on a path for economic growth, primarily by creating a massive industrial revolution.  

 

     It was FDR's charisma that began transforming the media from journalism to the propaganda wing of the democrat party.  That situation has grown out of control and probably irreversible.  In addition the "progressives" gained control of the educational system and eventually the entertainment industry.  The influence of these 3 entities to implement Obama's ideology is insurmountable.

 

     Most recently beginning with Clinton and exploding under the Obama regime, the fuel that runs the "transformation" engine is in these new phrases....Political Correctness (PC) and diversity.  As with integration, affirmative action, Head Start, quotas and numerous other welfare programs, the lower classes (primarily blacks) were going to be freed from their slavery mentality and lifted up to become part of the great American culture.  Such things as learning about personal responsibility, love for country, work ethic, career opportunities, unity with other ethic groups, Christian values, etc.  You know, the culture that made Americans proud and productive for 150 years.  Has it worked?  Absolutely not.  School integration didn't lift the black culture up, it brought their inner city culture into public schools and helped destroy the best educational system in the world.  But we cater to this backsliding into the abyss in the name of diversity and PC.  As a result the number of blacks feeding at the government trough has skyrocketed, new welfare programs keep on coming, and America is on the verge of bankruptcy.

 

    But this destruction of the proud American culture doesn't stop there.  Look at the worlds of music and sports.  Music is nothing more than drug enhanced screaming, and sports arenas have become the Roman coliseums of the new century.  Sportsmanship has been replaced with endzone dances, chest pounding, trash talking, tattoos, body piercing, in-your-face boasting, and other inner city inventions. 

 

     Add to this the influx of hispanics flooding across the border.  Again in the names of PC and diversity, we have to let them bring their cultures with them, and sacrifice our American culture and traditions to accommodate theirs.  Heaven help us as the Islamic influence continues to grow and begins crowding out Christianity, Judaism and American traditions.  Come to think of it, it's already happening.  Are you ready for Shariah law?  You wouldn't want to offend the people who are trying to destroy us, now would you?

 

    Abandoning the tradition of the proud American culturalism that built this country into the worlds most powerful, wealthiest, freest, most compassionate (internationally & domestically) and innovative nation in the history of mankind, we are dooming the country to failure.  Just like Greece, Spain, Italy, and most of the other Euro Zone, only worse.  When the giant falls, the noise is much louder, the destruction more devastating.   

 

     Would the last person left alive please turn out the lights?     

Is Our CIA Director a Muslim?

"Ernie" has some thoughts about our CIA director.

 When John Brennan was nominated for head of the CIA there was an outpouring of opponents who were adamant about his lack of qualifications, even tho he had served in numerous intel gathering positions including CIA chief in Riyad Saudi Arabia.  Of course the media denounced all of those opponents as right wing bigots and "professional" obstructionists.  The primary argument against his appointment was the accusation by a former FBI anti-terrorism specialist named John Guadolo, who claimed that Brennan had converted to Islam while stationed in Saudi Arabia.  (Probably around 1996-97).  Guadolo was acknowledged as an expert on Islamic terrorism, the Muslim Brotherhood, and other Jihadist organizations so spoke with some authority on the subject of Islam.   He gave as additional proof the fact that Brennan had gone to both Medina and Mecca during Hajj, which is a requirement of all faithful Muslims.  Brennan admitted that he had gone, but as a courtesy because he was living in Saudi Arabia at the time.   Guadolo retired from the FBI in 2008 when it was learned he had once had an affair with a key witness in the investigation of Rep Williams from Louisiana.   More "smear the opposition"? 

    I have read tons of material on Google about Brennan, but I've never found a time when Brennan was questioned about his so called conversion.  Neither by the media nor the congress.   One explanation given for the omission was because of the law that says no one can be denied a position in the government because of his religious beliefs.  In addition, I also never found anytime when he'd flatly denied being a Muslim.  What I did learn was he has an remarkable resume including  20 years with the CIA and other intelligence community organizations, and most recently (pre-CIA head) as chief counterterrorism advisor to Obama.

     Guadolo further argued that Brennan was recruited by the Saudi's as a counter-intelligence operation.  They supposedly felt this was a way of assuring that Muslims would be infiltrated into the US federal government in highly sensitive positions.  Whether true or not, it is true that during Brennan's career as counter-intel advisor to Obama the number of Muslims working in the government has increased significantly.

     After all my searching I'm left not knowing if he converted to Islam or not.  However, there is enough information about his friendly relationship with Muslims during his tour of duty in the mideast to question his objectivity and qualifications.   If Guadolo's accusations are believed to be right, why would Obama want a Muslim heading the CIA who's charged with gathering intel on Muslim extremists?  Not to mention the fact that we've suffered numerous attacks on US soil (domestic and foreign/embassy) by these extremists, many of whom have openly decared war on America.

 

     Brennan certainly has a distinguished resume, but if he's a recent convert to Islam that should without question disqualify him from heading our most important intel gathering organization, especially at a time when militant Islam is probably the biggest threat against our country's future.   

U.N. Human Right Council Member Says Boston Had it Coming

By Anne Bayefsky A UN “expert” of the UN Human Rights Council, Richard Falk, has announced that Boston had it coming. America’s “fantasy of global domination” justified what he has labeled “resistance.” Boston’s “canaries” happened to be the ones the resisters decided “have to die.” Appointed in 2008 as the UN “Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967,” Falk spends his time as a professor emeritus from Princeton University, responding to speaking invitations, collecting awards from around the country, spouting antisemitism, and supporting 9/11 conspiracy theories. In his latest tirade in an online journal, Falk says the Boston attacks make sense when one properly understands that “the American global domination project is bound to generate all kinds of resistance in the post-colonial world.” Consequently, he argues, we should all be “meditating” on poet W.H. Auden’s apt line “Those to whom evil is done/do evil in return.” According to Falk, what happened in Boston was a mere “blowback.” Not only that, it will get “worse” if America does not fundamentally alter its “relations with the Islamic world.” Falk has been peddling his grotesque opinions from the UN platform for years. Because the truth is that antisemitism and anti-Americanism is his Human Rights Council job description. The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) controls the balance of power on the Council by holding a majority of seats in the African and Asian regional groups, which in turn comprise the majority of Council members. Now Falk has pulled Boston into his twisted terrain, where fighting back is itself indefensible. He called the police action in Boston a "hysterical dragnet." Similarly, Falk has analogized Israeli responses to Palestinian terrorism to the “Nazi record of collective atrocity.” His website has sported a cartoon of a dog wearing clothing marked with “USA” and a star of David, devouring blood spattered bones and urinating on a statue of lady justice. Richard Falk, however, did not materialize out of thin air. Less than two weeks ago, a top UN committee charged with drafting the first comprehensive convention against terrorism, ended in disarray because Islamic states insisted that there is a distinction between terrorism and “legitimate struggle” against “colonial or alien domination.” Morsi’s Egypt led the way in pressing for a world conference on “root causes” of terrorism and “the conditions conducive to terrorism.” OIC countries insisted that these conditions include “political and economic injustice, marginalization, poverty, hunger and alienation.” In short, the real victim becomes the terrorist, not Krystle Campbell, Lu Lingzi, Martin Richard, and Officer Sean Collier. Unfortunately, the Obama administration has become a lead champion of the UN Human Rights Council. While President Bush refused to join a human rights body that had no human rights credentials for membership, joining and supporting the Council has been a signature foreign policy move of President Obama. The State Department has approached the experience of belonging to the Council as a game of whack-a-mole. When the unimpeded election of Colonel Gadhafi’s Libya to the Council finally became too embarrassing, they had Libya temporarily “suspended.” When the permanent bash-Israel agenda item of the Council comes up three times a year they sit mute, and send assistant secretaries of state to Jewish events across the country assuring the community they feel their pain. When Iran wanted a Council seat, they traded the country for a seat on the UN’s top women’s rights body, the Commission on the Status of Women. The question is what are they going to whack now? Richard Falk is emboldened by a UN “human rights” Council that is emboldened by the participation and support of the world’s leading democracy. It is time to put an end to America’s support for the Council now.

Is Political Correctness Destroying America?

"Ernie" has some thoughts on political correctness. 

I enjoyed reading Peter's article because it touched on a topic I wanted to write about....political correctness and how it's destroying our freedoms from top to bottom.  Whether its practicing our freedom of religion, our right to disagree, our freedom of speech or any/all of the other freedoms we've come to take for granted in a free society, they're being taken from us.  In simple terms we're losing the freedom to make our own life choices, or to just be ourselves.  Check out Common Core.  This travesty will take our career choices and our education choices away from the family and giving them to the government.  It would eliminate the right to home school our children.  Just another liberal program designed to "transform" America.

 

Many people think PC began under the Clinton administration, but actually it's been alive and well for thousands of years.  Everywhere there was an authoritarian style government, people were not allowed to voice an opinion or do anything that wasn't approved by the government.  Joseph Stalin was the most recent autocrat who demanded that people buy the government ideology or face punishment ranging from death to living forever in a Siberian gulag.

 

A noted authority on terrorism was asked by FOX yesterday what we need to do to protect ourselves from being destroyed by Muslim extremists.  His answer...."do away with political correctness".   How can we justify kissing the feet of people who want to wipe us off the face of the earth?  PC says because we want to show them that we're tolerant and respect their beliefs.  Okay, we've shown them so can we now shut down all the mosques in America, denounce Islam as an unrecognized religion, and quit sending them trillions of dollars for  their oil when we have more oil underground than they have?   An imam can rail against America, Jews, Christians, capitalism, American "luxuries", etc, and that's fine.  But just let a Methodist preacher read (from the Bible) something negative about same sex marriage, homosexuality or abortion, and the progressives want to shut him down, close his church and turn the ACLU loose on him.

 

I saw recently where a teacher was fired for giving a student a Bible.  It seems the student was constantly asking the teacher (outside the classroom) about various verses in the Bible.  When he asked the teacher if he could get him a Bible, the teacher took his own small Bible from his pocket and gave it to him.  He specifically told the student that it was a personal gift and had nothing to with school.  When the principal found out about it, he fired the teacher.  This is just one more example of PC gone crazy.  He could have given him a copy of the Koran and nothing would have been said.

 

There is an endless string of such examples of how PC is destroying our lives, and our country.  Over time I've even grown proud of some of the spiteful, insulting labels they hang on people like me.  Anything that shows I'm not "one of them" is OK fine with me.

Did the U.S. Subsidize the Boston Bombers?

"Peter" has some thoughts about the Boston bombers.

Why are American taxpayers subsidizing the immigration of Muslims from such hell-holes as Chechnya, Syria, Somalia, etc? 

It is undisputed that Islamist doctrines are incompatible with American principles and culture. To Muslims we are satanic infidels who must be annihilated; evil-doers who must be converted to Islam or murdered. Muslims cannot become Americans and still retain their Muslim doctrines and Shariah laws. To become an infidel is a capital crime for a Muslim.

Muslims do not want to become Americans, they just want to live here and enjoy our wealth.

So why is our government paying them to immigrate to the U.S. and housing them in our neighborhoods at our expense? Why is our own government's apparent policy to place Americans at risk and make us pay for it?

Why isn't this glaring hypocrisy and incongruity being addressed by the "Gang of Eight" immigration policymakers?

Why isn't this being discussed in the media? Even Fox News tippy-toes around this injustice of acting against our own interests!

It's so obvious: Political correctness has nullified the First Amendment and intimidated an entire generation into shameful silence! America is slowly committing political and cultural suicide. The land of freedom envisioned by our founding fathers is decaying into divisiveness, violence and chaos at the hands of an ill-educated generation that truly does not understand the meaning of freedom!

 

Who is Responsible for the Boston Bombings?

"Ernie" has some thoughts on the Boston bombings.

 

I empathize with those poor people in Boston who were either involved in, or witnesses to, the bombing at the marathon.  I know the culprit(s) haven't yet been identified, but it has all of the appearances of Muslim jihadists.  The 2-bomb tactic is widely used in Iraq, Afghanistan and other areas of the peace loving "Arab spring" countries of the mideast.  The first bomb kills people and the second bomb kills the first responders.

I was surprised to hear Obama call it an "act of terror".  Obviously he's clinging to the hope it was done by the NRA, the TEA Party, or other gun loving, God-clinging right wingers.  If it turns out to be done by Muslims he'll no doubt switch from "an act of terror" to a "marathon incident.  Sorta like the Ft. Hood massacre.  When it turned out to be a raghead shouting "Allah Akbar", the slaughter quickly became a "workplace incident".

Using WH logic, I guess Syria is just a "civil disagreement" and the killings and harassment of Egyptian Christians by those fun-loving kids of the Muslim Brotherhood are just "desert incidents".  Why don't we send the MB F-16s and Abrams tanks to show we bear no hard feelings. As for the Palestinians, the Iranians, the NoKoreans and other crazies, they're just expressing their point of view in the only way they know how.  You know, by killing.

How amazing is it in a world full of crazies who want to destroy us, that Obama keeps weakening our military?   The latest report is he's offering to reduce our nuclear weapons cache even more in a move to get the ChiComs to shut up the thumb-sucker in NoKo.

It will be interesting to see how the media and WH finally sum up today's travesty.  Was the perp protesting marathon racing or Patriots Day?  If so, those events will forever be seen by the libs as "assault provoking events".  Marathon races will have to be shortened from 26 miles to 5 miles.  Patriots Day will be to commemorate Muslim freedom fighters.  

 

Reagan, Reagan, where are you?  Does anyone remember "peace thru strength"?  Does anyone on the left remember the end of the communist Soviet Union?  Does anyone remember the iron curtain coming down?  Probably not anybody under the age of 50.  They do however know who the last winner of American Idol was.   We're on the verge of collapse unless we somehow find leaders who can tell people the truth in a convincing, believable way.  And soon.

Is There Any Hope for a Resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict?

"VietVet" has some thoughts on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

  After seeing our President speaking to an assembly of Israeli college students recently on his latest trip to the Middle East and calling for them in the name of "stability and peace", to try and see things the way the Palestinians do and go the distance to make things better for "future generations of disenfranchised Palestinian Arabs"; I was hoping that Pat Condell would have something to say on the subject. And now he does.

   After sixty four years of warfare between the Israelis and the Arabs who surround them on all sides, and after peace missions by virtually every President and diplomat of importance who ever lived during that sixty four years; you would think we would have figured out the problem by now - but guess what? It took an private citizen of Great Britain to actually say the words. Click below for the (not so) surprising truth of why people are still dying there.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzCIckbZKUs&list=UUWOkEnBl5TO4SCLfSlosjgg&index=3

 

Have the Republicans Given Up on the Budget?

"Ernie" has some thoughts on the RHINO Republicans

     Well, the "doormat Republicans" are at it again.  Boehner and the gang came out today and agreed with Obama that the debt crisis was not yet an immediate crisis.  This follows last week's declaration that they don't have to sacrifice the budget in order to save ObamaCare.   If our financial situation isn't an "immediate" crisis, what the heck would does an immediate crisis look like?  As if that weren't enough, he also confided that while he and Obama had differences, their relationship was based on trust.  Are you kidding me?  He trusts a president who lies through his teeth with virtually every public utterance he makes?  This is the guy (Boehner) we want leading the republican party? 

 

     Boehner says he doesn't want a budget with increased taxes, but is willing to cut loopholes in order to balance the budget.  Does that include marriage benefits?  Contribution deductions?  Deductions for interest on home purchases?  And on and on?  Who knows?  He wasn't clear on those issues.  He thinks (and GOP leadership thinks) that if they just say the words "no tax increases" often enough that they can fool people into thinking they're really standing up to the wannabe dictator, Barry Obama.  It sure worked for Bush-1.

 

     The sequester was yet another moment of brilliance for Boehner and the wet noodle crowd.  He said on Hannity (and other places) that he supported a continuing resolution in order to keep the government funded.  Scuse me, but I thought funding this insatiable, oversized, largely worthless government was the problem.  The continuing resolution simply means providing temporary funding of gov't agencies if a formal resolution hasn't been passed.  Of course Obama was out there scaring the beejeebers out of people in an effort to make them believe that the GOP was going to shut down the government.  I'm sure the low-information voters bought it.  No more SS, fed salaries, MediCare, money for the military, etc., and all because of conservatives.  (The TEA Party people to be exact).   Gingrich and other conservatives proved that not passing a continuing resolution might shut down the gov't for a few days, but it also led to a congressional resolution to balance the budget.  (For which Clinton took all the accolades). 

 

     Can you believe that last week I received yet another request to donate to the RNC so they could support these doormat republicans in the next election?  The same group who couldn't figure out how to defeat the worst president in the history of the nation?  Now they're going to figure out how to save the House?  And they have the nerve to ask me if I've abandoned the republican party? Naturally I again had to return their request form (void of any contribution) with another scathing memo as to why I'm no longer supporting RINOs or any organization that defends and supports them.   They abandoned me, I didn't abandon them. 

 

 

Is the Republican Party Dying?

"Ernie" has some thoughts on the Republican party.

 Accounts of the pending death of the Republican party may not be far from wrong.  It must be comforting to libs knowing all they have to do is stand by and watch as the GOP goes about destroying itself...and without any help from them.

     Rand Paul took a stand regarding Brennan and the use of drones inside the US with a 9-hour filibuster.  It was courageous and necessary, especially after the appointments of Kerry and Hagel.   ( A known liar and a closet anti-semite).  Ironically, the dems didn't have much to say about Paul's action, seeming content to let the progressive republican RINOs attempt to discredit and even destroy him politically.  The first to jump on him was McCain, a 2-time loser for the White House, and someone whose usefulness to the conservative movement is zilch.  When Paul responded, McCain jumped on him again claiming Paul was going against the GOP and trying to appeal to young pro-liberalism college students in their dorms.  These are the same critics who complain that the GOP has lost the youth vote.  Which is it, John?  Is appealing to college students good or bad?

     The next notable critic was Bill Kristol of the Weekly Standard.  His comments must have made Bill Buckley and Ronald Reagan turn over in their graves.  Anyway, thanks Bill and John for giving the dems plenty of soundbytes to use in the 2014 election.  You may not realize it yet, but Obama's going to come out all guns blazing the win back the House.  God forbid that he and his Marxist pals ever get control of the House, the Senate, the Judiciary and the executive branches. Can you imagine?  Who would be left to stop him from totally destroying the constitution, the economy, the conservatives, the military, and most likely the 22nd amendment?  Please don't tell me our saviors will be McConnell, Boehner, Kristol, McCain and the rest of the progressive republicans.  Or as I like to refer to them...the doormat wing of the Democrat party.

 

     Just because the GOP is devouring itself, don't think that the dems will just fall over laughing and not do anything to help out.  The trashing of Paul, Lee, Cruz and all other TEA Party types is just beginning.  When the libs are so good at destroying their political enemies, can you possibly believe they won't get Hollywood, the state run media and the Oprah Winfrey types geared up for an onslaught against GOP opponents in 2014?  They were all too busy singing the praises of that great statesman, humanitarian multibillionaire, Hugo Chavez. 

 

     Let us not forget, in this next election the prize is the House, not the White House.  The few conservatives left breathing need to stand up and be counted.  The future of the country is at stake.

Do the Democrats Understand the Economic Crisis?

"Ernie" has some thoughts on Steny-Hoyer.

 Another incredible, costly and unnecessary undertaking by the Obama regime.  This one coming from Steny Hoyer and Barbara Lee, 2 democrat-socialists who can't seem to grasp the seriousness of our economic crisis.  Not to mention their oblivious disregard for facts that are right before their eyes.  No telling how many billions of dollars we're talking about here, but what's a few billions among Obama low information supporters?

     This is a program introduced by Rep. Hoyer, and Rep. Barbara Lee will chair the worthless undertaking.  In recent remarks she complained that we spend millions sending military people to war colleges and to all kinds of specialized training for the purpose of making war.  Strategies are developed and implemented by all branches of the military, and are of very little practical use.  Her logic?  Why not develop a task force to attack poverty and violence?  That would be money much better spent.  Since these two are not atuned enough to understand what's going on in the country, I thought I owed it to them to offer some helpful enlightment. 

     First let's look at the task force "mission statement" designed to help the poor. 

 

1.    New opportuities for the most vulnerable.   Anybody got any idea what that means?  Yeah, more taxes.

2.    Access to affordable education.  Ever hear of quotas, affirmative action Pell Grants, etc?  

3.    Succeeding in the job market.  How about first getting an education, then a job, then some initiative and then just a dash of dependability?  Wouldn't that help achieve success in the job market?. 

4.    Attain home ownership.  Ever hear of the fed-enforced mortgage bubble that almost wrecked Fanny Mae, Freddie Mac, banks and home lending agencies?   Apparently not,but then that was all George Bush's fault, right?

5.    Coordinate federal/state/local taxpayer funded anti-poverty program.  What?  Anybody think the feds can actually coordinate anything other than smear campaigns against the hapless republicans?

6.    Ensure stronger oversight of anti-poverty programs by the feds.  (See #5).

7.    Remove barriers preventing the poor from reaching the middle class.  (See #3).

 

     There is no way a reasonable, intelligent manager-type could take this list and do anything with it but laugh.  This is all more liberal democrat BS that will create a new over-staffed department spending millions/billions of dollars with no results to show for it.  More good intentions with disastrous results.

     As for Ms. Lee's criticism of the military planning and strategizing, I've got a suggestion for the low-information Representative.  Instead of ending military preparedness, why not send our law enforcement personnel to these same "war colleges" so they can use military expertise in cleaning out the heavily armed gangs, drug dealers, and other vermin from our inner cities?.  How about forcing men to pay child support for the herds of children they produce?  How about teaching something in schools beside socialism, black history, the joys of homosexuality, Debby has 2 mommies, and other far left BS?  How about forcing the entertainment industry (movies, TV, music, video games) to clean up their act and quit force-feeding filth and violence on our kids?  How about shutting down our borders and making it mandatory for all legal immigrants learn English?

     And just a thought, but  why not deport every illegal back to Mexico who's found out for whatever reason?  If we get all, or most all of the illegals out of the country, seal the borders, stop paying minorities not to work....I think all those jobs going to latinos would quickly be grabbed up by minorities.  Hunger has a way of doing that.

     And last but not least, let's conside outsourcing our prisons.  Build them in Mexico, Brazil, Africa or wherever.  After all, the cost to build would be much cheaper; the cost of employees would be far less; the cost to maintain them would be less;  and surely foreign countries couldn't do any worse managing a government agency than we do:  And best of all, when the prisoners have served their time they would be released back into their homelands that they love so much.