LEE RODGERSA CLEAR-CUT FOREIGN POLICY PROPOSAL ...
JIMMY CARTER'S INCURABLE STUPIDITY ...
LEFTISM: A RELIGIOUS CULT
JIMMY CARTER'S INCURABLE STUPIDITY ...
LEFTISM: A RELIGIOUS CULT
Submitted for your consideration ... knowing in advance that this would be dismissed as overly-simplistic by the pseudo-intellectuals in Washington who suckle at the public teat. Nevertheless ...
How does this strike you as a basis for foreign policy?
We are open to cordial relations with any nation on a reciprocal basis.
We are willing to trade with any nation if such commerce is mutually beneficial.
We have no aggressive intent nor any colonial ambitions. Nor do we feel an obligation to solve other nations' problems.
We intend to remain the world's premier military power but will exercise that power only when our nation and/or our vital interests, as determined by us, are threatened. Then, and only then, will an adversary be given exactly one warning to cease such behavior. If such threats persist, that adversary will be destroyed by sudden, overwhelming and unrestrained force. There will be no such thing as a "measured" response or endless "negotiations."
And no more exercises in insanity like Afghanistan, where we continue to fill more graves with Americans even after our hapless "leader" has announced that's we're giving up and getting out.
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All weekend it struck me --again-- as a little ... jarring ... to hear and read the words, "Happy Memorial Day."
"Happy?" On an occasion that is all about dead people?
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Idiocy in action ...
Jimmy Carter, who disgraced the presidency during his one term in office, is still deranged. After talking with some of his Egyptian Muslim buddies, Carter announced that he believed that the Muslim Brotherhood, expected to take control in Egypt, will continue to observe the treaty with Israel ... DESPITE THE FACT THAT THE LEADING FIGURES IN THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD HAVE SPECIFICALLY SAID THEY WILL NOT!
The fact that an empty suit like Carter -- and others just as incompetent -- were elected to the presidency is further proof that this nation's survival for 236 years has a great deal to do with blind luck. Given an electorate that is often easily misled and sometimes (think 2008) plain silly, we have reason to wonder about the nation's future.
After all, many well-fed Romans doubtless thought everything was just fine with their longstanding empire until September of 476 when the barbarians came to town, took names and kicked ass, and and took over.
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Why Greece has to shape up or get out of the Eurozone established among most other Western European nations ...
"The basic question is that a German has to increase working (age) from 65 to 67... to pay for Greeks retiring at 50."
-- Nick Dewhirst, director at wealth management firm Integral Asset Management --
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Dennis Prager (Townhall.com) --
"You cannot understand the left if you do not understand that Leftism is a religion. It is not God-based (some Left-wing Christians' and Jews' claims notwithstanding), but otherwise it has every characteristic of a religion. The most blatant of those characteristics is dogma. People who believe in Leftism have as many dogmas as the most fundamentalist Christian.
"One of them is material equality as the preeminent moral goal. Another is the villainy of corporations. The bigger the corporation, the greater the villainy. Thus, instead of the devil, the left has Big Pharma, Big Tobacco, Big Oil, the "military-industrial complex," and the like. Meanwhile, Big Labor, Big Trial Lawyers, and, of course, Big Government are leftwing angels. And why is that? Why, to be specific, does the left fear big corporations but not big government?
"The answer is dogma -- a belief system that transcends reason. No rational person can deny that big governments have caused almost all the great evils of the last century, arguably the bloodiest in history. Who killed the 20-30 million Soviet citizens in the Gulag Archipelago -- big government or big business? Hint: There were no private businesses in the Soviet Union. Who deliberately caused 75 million Chinese to starve to death -- big government or big business? Hint: See previous hint. Did Coca Cola kill five million Ukrainians? Did Big Oil slaughter a quarter of the Cambodian population? Would there have been a Holocaust without the huge Nazi state?"
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When will the Media Morons get the message? Wake up, dolts! Barack Obama was NEVER a law professor. NEVER. He lectured, but never achieved the status of "professor." I have also lectured college-level courses in communications, but I was not a professor of anything, and didn't pretend to be.
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Do you suspect that the real motivation behind the rabble who clamor for socialism is a lack of confidence that they can make their way in the world without a "mommy" government taking care of them? If so, their concern for "social justice" is really only camouflage for their suspicion of their own inadequacies.
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Thomas Sowell on "meaningful work" ...
"The lack of realism among many highly educated people has been demonstrated in many ways.
"When I saw signs in Yellowstone National Park warning visitors not to get too close to a buffalo, I realized that this was a warning that no illiterate farmer of a bygone century would have needed. No one would have had to tell that illiterate farmer's daughter not to stand by the side of a highway, trying to hitch a ride with strangers, as too many college girls have done, sometimes with results that ranged all the way up to their death.
"The dangers that a lack of realism can bring to many educated people are completely overshadowed by the dangers to a whole society created by the unrealistic views of the world promoted in many educational institutions. It was painful, for example, to see an internationally renowned scholar say that what low-income young people needed was meaningful work.' What is 'meaningful work'?
"The underlying notion seems to be that it is work whose performance is satisfying or enjoyable in itself. But if that is the only kind of work that people should have to do, how is garbage to be collected, bed pans emptied in hospitals or jobs with life-threatening dangers to be performed?
"Does anyone imagine that firemen enjoy going into burning homes and buildings to rescue people trapped by the flames? That soldiers going into combat think it is fun?
"In the real world, many things are done simply because they have to be done, not because doing them brings immediate pleasure to those who do them.
"Telling young people that some jobs are 'menial' is a huge disservice to them and to the whole society. Subsidizing them in idleness while they wait for "meaningful work" is just asking for trouble, both for them and for all those around them."
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Dan Sorkin sent a Memorial Day reminder of what it's really about, in the words of John Stuart Mill ...
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. A man who has nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety is a miserable creature who has no chance at being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
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The Indianapolis 500 was an exciting race -- except for the ending. Under the caution flag with cars loafing around the last lap. I wonder why the people who run this operation don't wise up as NASCAR finally did and adopt some rule that would enable the racers to end the race ... actually racing.
As has become the constant theme of the Obama economy, thousands of seats were empty at this major sports attraction. Also at the hotbed of NASCAR, Charlotte, later in the day.
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Jimmy Fallon --
"An 83-year-old man in the U.K. recently became the oldest living kidney donor in history — which is pretty cool unless you’re the guy who just got an 83-year-old kidney."
"...and now, if you'll excuse me..."