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Too bad, I guess, that the Syrians are not the right sort of civilians – we’re fighting to protect them in Libya, but won’t lift a finger for them in Syria:

The United States condemns in the strongest possible terms the use of force by the Syrian government against demonstrators. This outrageous use of violence to quell protests must come to an end now. We regret the loss of life and our thoughts are with the families and loved ones of the victims, and with the Syrian people in this challenging time…

The statement goes on to say that we really, really don’t like all this oppression and killing stuff and we’d really, really, really like the Syrian government to stop. Nothing in there about what concrete steps we might take to make Syria stop, of course. Which means that little Assad will be able to use this statement the next time he defecates.

Does anyone out there think that a government which has just deliberately organized a massacre of its citizens will be deterred from further action by mere words? Does anyone out there think that anyone in the Syrian government cares how much we deplore their actions? For goodness sake, the Syrian government can already see in Libya that we won’t move any time soon and even if we do decide to move, we won’t go in for the kill.

The people who govern Syria should not be thought of as patriots who want what is best for Syria. They are corrupt brutes who only want to amass as much power and wealth for themselves as they can..they are beasts in human skin, the product of half a century of political, economic and moral corruption by a totalitarian, gangster regime. The only thing such people will ever understand is a gun pointed at their head – or a noose around their neck. If we’re not prepared to kill them, then we shouldn’t even bother…statements about how much we don’t like an action, unless followed up by stern measures of our own, are counter-productive…they may encourage continued rebellion in which people will die, but they’ll do nothing to curb the regime’s ability to kill.

Its just going to get worse from here, folks. I do hope that the Syrian people manage to topple their government – perhaps even the Syrian army is sick of all this? But I’m not at all sure they can do it – rumors are that Syria, like Libya and Iran, has hired foreign goons to do the killing…thus ensuring a pool of armed supporters who will kill without let up and won’t be moved by pity for the people. Just a few years ago, we had these forces of evil rocked back on their heels…and then the left went to work and undermined President Bush and helped to elect President Obama…and now our official policy is a combination of kowtowing and Carterism (ie, condemn your friends, help your enemies). The world has taken the measure of Barack Obama and knows that the United States carries little weight in the world while he is in office.

From the New York Post:

He wasn’t PC enough for Princeton.

A vicious campaign to end the unblemished 10-year career of a popular but often politically incorrect Princeton teacher left him so despondent that he took his own life, brokenhearted pals said yesterday.

Spanish teacher Antonio Calvo, 45 — who stabbed himself to death in his Chelsea apartment on April 12 — believed at least two graduate students and another lecturer were behind a poisonous political maneuver that robbed him of a contract renewal, two friends told The Post…

This is what happens when you allow an institution of higher learning to become a fascist stew of political correctness – when someone strays from the party line, they will be attacked based on that.

Pull the plug on Princeton – not another dime of federal money until they become a politically pluralistic institution of higher education…and then set that as the marker for all education establishments receiving federal funds…if you can’t freely express yourself, no taxpayer money. Period.

From News Busters:

In a bizarre wrap-up to the 2 p.m. EDT hour of CNN “Newsroom” Thursday, anchor T.J. Holmes confessed his “eco-sins” to the audience. Commemorating the eve of “Earth Day,” Holmes admitted to his “green” faults which included driving an SUV by himself to work daily, blasting the heat in his house during winter, and using “less efficient” incandescent bulbs for lighting.

“These are my eco-sins. I’m confessing them to you because tomorrow is Earth Day,” Holmes announced to the audience…

There is a thing we Catholics do from time to time at Mass – in unison, we say:

I confess to almighty God and to you, my brothers and sisters, that I have sinned through my own fault. In my thoughts and in my words; in what I have done and what I have failed to do. And I ask Blessed Mary, ever virgin, all the angles and saints and you, my brothers and sisters, to pray for me to the Lord, Our God.

Holmes has shown something here – that Environmentalism is a church (yes, a sort of anti-Church, if you will)…it has its sacraments (recycling) and its holy days (Earth Day). It has its deity (Mother Earth) and its priests (Al Gore). And you can be excommunicated from this church if you wantonly sin by driving an SUV or failing to recycle.

This is creepy on a lot of levels – first off all by putting a thing (the earth, or the environment) above both God and man. Secondly, by public confession of individual sins – something very much out of the communist playbook where if you strayed from the party line you were required to recant in public.

Suffice it to say you cannot sin except by violating some command of God – and driving an SUV, last I checked, was not one of the Seven Deadly Sins. I doubt that any priest would even so much as make you do ten Ave Maria’s over it. The earth is not an entity – there is no Earth Mother. The world, all we see around us, is a subordinate creation which only gains value in relation to what we, the people of the world, make of it. To start down the road of Mr. Holmes is to head straight in to paganism – and while in ancient times there was a healthy, humane paganism, there was also paganism with human sacrifice…and in a large sense, that is just what the priests of environmentalism want: human sacrifice to the Earth Mother. Human lives and happiness are to be sacrificed allegedly to save the earth…to propagate the gods of land, air, water and fire in hopes that they will allow us to continue to live.

Thanks, but no thanks. I happen to worship God, not a small part of God’s creation. And I do wish that people would start to think about what they are doing before they go on and do it.

From Yes, But, However:

Last week Mark Knoller of CBS broke a seemingly big story. He released partial audio of President Obama talking to donors on a mic that was inadvertently “hot”. The tidbits CBS released were great. Chief among them was Mr. Obama calling some Federal employees “slugs” and his taking a much nastier tone with the GOP than he does in front of the cameras. The most famous, Obama asking his donors if the GOP thinks “we’re stupid”, was choice.

However, CBS has not released the entire tape to the public or other media outlets. After several tweets by Yes, But, However! to Mr. Knoller as to why the full tape hasn’t been made public, he responded: “My editors decided against it.” Mr. Knoller offered (no) further explanation…

As what was released was pretty bad, the only rational presumption to be made is that the un-released portion was even worse. This is probably “Bitter Clingers II”. But, the MSM doesn’t care about that – they know their job. Their task, first and foremost, is to help Obama in his re-election efforts. All MSM coverage will be geared towards downplaying anything bad for Obama, highlighting anything good and, of course, a relentless examination of Obama’s opponents – with there being no requirement that accusations against the opponents be credible. To put it bluntly, the MSM will lie through its collective teeth from now until election day, 2012.

The good news is that fewer and fewer people are paying any attention to the MSM. The New Media is rapidly becoming dominant – and especially dominant among those forces most determined to oust Obama.

From the PJ Tatler:

In Tunica, Mississippi, ten guilty verdicts of voter fraud were returned yesterday against NAACP officer Lessadolla Sowers. She was sentenced to five years for each count without the possibility of parole and will serve the terms concurrently. Sowers manipulated the absentee ballot process in the 2007 election. Absentee ballots in Mississippi are notoriously subject to voter fraud…

What is surprising is that there was a prosecution. Democrats don’t prosecute voter fraud because they benefit from it; Republicans shy away from it for fear of being called “racists” or some such nonsense. Naturally, the MSM will not cover this – they’ll be too busy covering Obama’s asinine claims that oil companies are responsible for high oil prices. But voter fraud is important – it goes right to the heart of our American institutions. If the vote isn’t fair, then our democratic republic is a sham.

Each and every case of irregularity in the vote must be investigated and anyone who commits even the slightest bit of voter fraud must see the inside of a jail. Our ability to vote is a trust given to us by men and women who died for it – we dare not allow it to be cheapened so that corrupt political groups can gain power.

From the NY Times:

…Disapproval of Mr. Obama’s handling of the economy has never been broader — at 57 percent of Americans — a warning sign as he begins to set his sights on re-election in 2012. And a similar percentage disapprove of how Mr. Obama is handling the federal budget deficit…

What I wonder – how can 43% either be supporting or neutral on this? The guy is turning us in to Zimbabwe; we’ll be lucky if we get out of this with anything left.

2012 can’t come fast enough…

Gary Johnson. He was governor of New Mexico. No, really. Anyways, he’s running for the GOP nomination for President. From an e mail:

…Today, from the steps of the New Hampshire Capitol, I am announcing that I am formally declaring myself a candidate; I will be actively, passionately seeking the Republican nomination for the office of President.

In announcing my candidacy for President of the United States, I am setting out on the long path ahead, but I am not alone. I’ve always enjoyed climbing mountains, but this one is unique. I’m looking forward to this challenge…

So, what is Johnson’s claim to fame? Actually, a pretty worthwhile thing for the 2012 campaign:

…I had to veto over 750 bills in my quest to limit the growth of government, and many of those vetoes were of bills that were Republican-sponsored. It isn’t always easy to go against your own party, but I felt that my primary duty was to the hard-working, taxpaying people of New Mexico. I felt that our state would prosper with a smarter, more efficient government, and I’m proud of what I was able to accomplish during my 8 years in office…

I don’t know too much about Johnson – I do recall that not too long ago he annoyed me with an e mail in which he lent credence to the absurd stories that “wikileaker” Bradley Manning was being ill-treated in military custody. This view of Johnson’s probably stems from his uber-libertarian streak…perhaps he really believes that governments are not supposed to have any secrets and that any two-bit cretin with a gripe should be able to broadcast to the world whatever he wants, to heck with the consequences. A lot of libertarians are like that – failing to recognize that it isn’t right for an un-elected official to spill the beans on his own hook. Regardless of what you think of Manning or the leaks, the fact is that Manning, himself, did not have the competence to decide if the information should be made public.

Aside from that – and, for me, it puts a gigantic question mark on Johnson’s overall judgment – Johnson’s main thrust could run very strong in 2012. Being anti-establishment, being anti-Big Government, being willing to rock the leadership…all of that will resonate with the voters, especially Republican voters, most especially with TEA Party activists. As I’ve been saying, anyone can come along and win it all in 2012. It could be someone we’ve know for years, it could be someone we never heard of. The main criteria for victory in 2012 is whomever will fight the hardest and put out the boldest reform plan – that is who will both win the GOP nomination and win the Presidency. In this, Johnson is playing his currently weak hand well – and we’ll see where he winds up.

From Reuters:

President Barack Obama said on Thursday the U.S. attorney general was assembling a team to root out any fraud and manipulation in the oil markets that might be contributing to higher U.S. gasoline prices…

…”The Attorney General’s putting together a team whose job it will be to root out any cases of fraud or manipulation in the oil markets that might affect gas prices – and that includes the role of traders and speculators. We are going to make sure that no one is taking advantage of the American people for their own short-term gain,” Obama said.

Investigate yourself, Obama – “short-term gain” is what Obamunism is all about. In order to make it look like the economy is improving we’ve borrowed and printed trillions of dollars. We’ve essentially manipulated our whole economy in order to get stock prices higher, bail out failed banks and give you some GDP numbers which look like a recovery. But the cost of this, among other things, has been a crashing value of the US dollar – and that is why oil is at $110 a barrel and gold at $1,500 an ounce. It is also why our food prices are higher. Because, Barry, the problem is that when people make something of value they’re not going to take less value for their product…and as you have made each dollar less valuable, those who make, mine and grown real things want more of them for each item.

This isn’t brain surgery – and, in fact, people warned of this from the get-go. People were sending up flares, writing it up on walls, shouting from the roof tops – you can’t borrow and print your way in to real prosperity. It was said – all you’ll get for your printed and borrowed money is a few quarters of bogus “growth”, followed by a renewed crash. Well, just as was predicted, we got our few quarters of growth and now the economy is sputtering…but now not just in bad shape, but getting hit with a bout of inflation, in to the bargain. It’s called “stagflation” – and I predicted this result as far back as March of 2009.

And now that Obamunism has come a cropper, what does The One do? Naturally, he tries to sucker us in to thinking that oil companies – ie, enterprises which actually create wealth – are responsible. Not Obama. Not the Federal Reserve. Not Big Government. Oh, no – none of them are responsible. They were just there, minding their own business, wallowing in hopey-changiness and, whammo!, out of nowhere those SOB oil companies decided to force the price of oil higher just for the heck of it…just because they are mean and nasty and, at any rate, wasn’t Bush in the oil business? Don’t fall for it – the economic mess we’re heading in to originated in Washington, DC and is the result of deliberate policy choices made by the President of the United States of America.

About a year or so later than he should have – but he’s calling it quits. My thoughts on this over at Las Vegas Examiner.

So says the Obama Administration – but not so, says reality. From the Washington Times:

The signature crimes of the most violent drug cartel in Mexico are its beheading and dismemberment of rival gang members, military personnel, law enforcement officers and public officials, and the random kidnappings and killings of civilians who get caught in its butchery and bloodletting.

But this disparate band of criminals known as Los Zetas is no longer just a concern in Mexico. It has expanded its deadly operations across the southwestern border, establishing footholds and alliances in states from New York to California. Just last year, federal agents tied a cocaine operation in Baltimore to the Zetas.

“Those of us who live and work along the border know they’re already here,” said Zapata County Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez Jr., whose Texas county lies on the Rio Grande 50 miles southeast of the Zetas’ stronghold of Nuevo Laredo. “There’s already been killings and many residents here are living in fear.”…

Once again, because we refuse to control the border, the Mexican drug gangs have taken it over – and just as they first controlled the Mexican side of the border and then extended their power to the Mexican interior, so they are now moving in to the American interior after gaining control of our side of the border. These men are deadly serious – they want absolute control over everything because the more control they have the more money they make. They will not put up with people, police or military forces standing in their way. They will brutally murder anyone who stands in their way. They are outlaws in the fullest sense of the word.

And they are coming to a neighborhood near you. They will first attempt to bribe local officials in to compliance and those who are not willing to be bought will be killed. Along with their families, as an object lesson to anyone else who might want to contest the drug lord’s power. After a while, they will control everything…and though they might fight amongst themselves from time to time for “market share”, the main thing is that a very large part of American territory will no longer be under US law. Through this drug lord territory will flow all manner of criminality – not just poor bodies looking for work in the United States, but gangsters, thugs, murderers, pimps, slave dealers (yes, there are such) and anyone who wishes to make a buck illegally in the United States. And in addition to these common criminals will come the Islamists terrorists, bent on killing as many Americans as possible

Do you think I’m kidding? Do you think I’m being alarmist? Fine; go ahead and believe that. But it is what is coming to America – unless we stop it. Because we can stop it – all it takes is the will to seal the border, to find the right men to kill the drug lords and to deal with the illegals already in country. It could all be done over a 12 to 24 month period and then we’d never have a serious problem from the border or from illegal immigration ever again. It wouldn’t be easy, but it is fairly simple.

But, the trouble is that our President and his party simply don’t care if criminals control parts of America. As long as they get the votes and donations they need, all is well…and if they have to consign people to criminality in order to get a few well-heeled, race-baiting “immigration” groups on side for 2012, they’ll do it. Additionally, if reality requires them to violate the smallest bit of multi-cultural political correctness, they’ll ignore reality. In fact, they’ll attack anyone who brings up reality.

This could get grim. Lots of people will die. The longer we wait, the harder it will be to correct.