It just can't get any better than this

While trying to find some mention of the revised Mandate on the White House web site today, I came across a link to a page entitled, "It Gets Better".

It was really no surprise that a preening, posturing president who so desperately wishes to be identified with every pecadillo that piques to paletes of Progressive pinheads would want to jump on the It Gets Better bandwagon.

Bullying is bad. No mature person would want to associate with a bully -whether due to someone's LGBTIA.... identity or race or physical apperance or religion.

I certainly wouldn't associate myself with someone who spewed a profanity-laced rant in front of over 2000 high school students which belittled their values and identity and hurled epithets at those who refused to sit through his bullying.

In other words, I wouldn't want to associate myself with Dan Savage who cursed at, belittled the Bible and Christianity and called high school students who chose not to sit through his tirade "pansy-a##ed".

Dan Savage who is the creator of the "It Gets Better" web site and who, apparently, is the model for the president's position on those who disagree with him on Homosexual behavior.

On second thought, it can't get much worse than this. But it continues to, nontheless.

Iraqi WMDs?

Sen Durbin just threw Iraqi WMDs on the table like a old piece of dog poop to hide the odor of the horse $h!+ the Sec State has been shovelling.

And sequestration. The House Republicans are to blame for the malfeasance that led to the death of Amb Chris Stevens post hoc.

Senate Republicans getting schooled

Sitting here listening to the Senate hearing on the  Benghazi attack.

Sec State Clinton is man-handling the Republican senators. Occassionally, she lets them talk before patiently explaining to them that who attacked and why isn't important right now - preventing it from happening again is what's important.

Seems like a reasonable person might conclude that understanding the who, what, where, when and why of an event might inform efforts to prevent it from happening again.

The fact that Benghazi participants were present at the Algeria attack using Libyan weapons and led by an AQIM subsidiary who was reacting to AQIM engagements in Mali might be of some interest to the U.S. Secretary of State.

Meanwhile the Democrat Senators are helping her to run out the clock and change the subject.

One Loose Thread of Many

A lot of loose threads are blowing around in the wake of the Inauguration.


The Zombie Girls of Brooklyn by Heather Wilhelm critiques the cultural bubble foisting nihilism to us through popular entertainment in the form of the HBO slime, "Girls." I haven't seen the show, and probably never will. In the course of delivering a withering critique of the show, Ms. Wilhelm makes the larger point about how it is a vivid example of the way bad ideas are foisted upon the culture whether we want them or not. The 2nd season premier of the show garnered 1/10th the audience of Downton Abby. Nevertheless, "Girls" received 2 Golden Globes and a raft of buzz from the New York media. "It’s about how the national media and chattering classes slowly, effectively shape American culture, transmitting social mores and nihilism from a bubble that doesn’t represent most of the real world -- yet."

And so it goes.
Ms. Wilhelm's explication of Lena Dunham and the context of the show's production reminded me of FDR's Four Freedoms and Brave New World. The thread is there. Freedom from Fear, Want, etc. begets freedom from personal responsibility and loss of individual freedom entirely. We are free to do whatever we want, except think for ourselves and determine our own destiny which leaves us very little worth doing.

"This is why “Girls,” a showcase of vulgarity for vulgarity’s sake, is praised as “bold,” and why a solipsistic life, unmoored from morals or meaning, is presented as “normal” and “representative.” Unfortunately, many young people might buy it.


"With its self-referential feedback loop, casual nihilism, and refusal to take anything of value seriously, the show perfectly packages and delivers the secular, “no rules” worldview that many in the media want to sell."
Hi Ho.

"No Easy Day" for "Zero Dark Thirty"

Reuters reports, "Senate panel to examine CIA contacts with "Zero Dark Thirty" filmmakers."

"After the Senate Intelligence Committee's chairwoman expressed outrage over scenes that imply "enhanced interrogations" of CIA detainees produced a breakthrough in the hunt for Osama bin Laden, the panel has begun a review of contacts between the makers of the film "Zero Dark Thirty" and CIA officials."

Dianne Feinstein is using the power of the Senate to harrass a private business because she does not approve of the content of one of its films. Apparently, the story doesn't comport with the official version of History, and so someone must pay.

That's very worrisome.

She is also pursuing the CIA and DoD executives who provided special access to classified information to the film makers... now. When Conservative legal group, Judicial Watch used FOIA requests to bring the Administration's propaganda effort to light, Feinstein didn't see any problem.

That's also worrisome, that the Central Government would secretly collude with a media company to shape public perceptions of Government actions in ways favorable to the Government and that the media company would be a willing accomplice to the propaganda effort.

 Leni Riefenstahl, you may have a job waiting for you at Sony Pictures. The film's director Kathryn Bigelow, has failed to accurately present the Official Truth.

The bright spot in all this is that they are eating their own. Bigelow is a slavish acolyte. Sony is a Corporate Crony. Dianne Feinstein demonstrates once again what a hypocrite she is and that she values her vision of Truth Justice and the American Way higher than Freedom of Speech, Constitutional limits on Government AND National Security. Michael Morell, acting CIA chief, no doubt estimated that his obedience in putting the president's appetite for adulation above his duty to National Security would make him a lock on the top job at CIA after Petreus took his fall. Now Feinstein will most likely make him the fall guy in this. Maybe she'll pull Bradley Manning out of prison to take the job.

I should be worried that our National Leaders are this venal and incompetent. But I think that is the only guarantor of our freedoms we have left.

History in Three Hard Lesson -Unlearnt

“Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.” - Edmund Burke


The Young British Soldier By Rudyard Kipling

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier.
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
So-oldier of the Queen!

Who will be the poet of the current Afghan war? God save our (and the British and the other remaining Armies) Soldiers who continue to fight there.

The attempt to bring some degree of order in the Modern sense to Afghanistan has been abandoned by the Administration and by opinion makers on both the left and the right. And yet, we maintain a Military presence there that is scheduled to continue until at least 2014. What is the strategic objective? What are the operational goals for the next couple of years? Troops remain to support the fiction of a successful transition to Afghan control.

But, according to an article in the NY Post by Paul Sperry of the Hoover Institution  the people who are closest to the truth know that there is no truth in that:

"A 2011 Army survey found that “on average, US soldiers perceived that 50% of (the) ANA (Afghan National Army) were Islamic radicals” vulnerable to Taliban recruitment. The results were reported in an unclassified study titled, “A Crisis of Trust and Cultural Incompatibility.” It quotes one American soldier as saying, “A reporter attached to my platoon said that during a conversation with ANA soliders, they said that if the Taliban began to win the war, they would switch sides and join the Taliban.” "


They know the truth: The last four years and the next two have only one purpose: to avoid the obvious: Obama surrendered; and any progress that had been made will be lost within months of our eventual departure.

The Afghans know the truth too:

'“The fate of the Americans in Afghanistan will be worse than that of the Russians,” Mohammed Ismail Khan warned in 2009. The same Afghan is now vowing to drive all “foreigners” out of Afghanistan.


"More bluster from a Taliban leader? Hardly. Khan serves as Afghanistan’s energy minister, and is a key member of American ally Hamid Karzai’s cabinet."

This is Groundhog Day for the Afghan war lords.

"Khan has lethal experience launching such attacks. In March 1979, Khan, then a captain in the Afghan army, orchestrated the murder of 50 Soviet military advisers and 300 of their family members in Herat Province. He decapitated many of them and had their heads paraded on spikes through the city. "

So, the Afghan government's cabinet knows what is about to happen, and aren't even hiding their anticipation. What about the rational, Modern leaders of the Free World?

"The US military seems to be in denial about the breadth and scope of theinternal threats it faces in Afghanistan. While on the one hand it warns that the “major problem confronting the Soviets was the unreliability of the Afghan army,” it nonetheless appears Polyannish about its own prospects for partnering with the Afghan army. “U.S. forces can gain keen insights and lessons from the Soviet 10-year occupation of Afghanistan,” the Army handbook asserts. The same document goes on to claim that “in contrast” to the Soviet experience, “the United States and CF (coalition forces) have achieved great success in training and partnering with our ANSF (Afghan National Security Forces) counterparts.”"

If it doesn't get printed in a newspaper, it isn't news, right?

Apparently the Washington Post thinks so. The threat to religious freedom isn't news, because, according to the WaPo, there is no threat.

I stumbled across this story, celebrating the election of a Hindu woman and a Buddist woman to Congress. Wonderful. Of course, they are both Democrats, which makes it more wonderful still for the WaPo writers. What the article chiefly celebrates is the decline of White, Anglo-Saxon Protestants in government and in America at large. With no real reason why this is worth celebrating except diversity is inherently good.

The author, Charles C. Haynes claims, "in 2012, religious minorities became newly visible and vocal in a society historically dominated by the symbols, values and leaders of the Protestant faith," but fails to mention the protests of the most visible, most vocal religious minority: the Catholic and Christian protests against erosion of religous liberty under ObamaCare and other HHS mandates. Must not be news when bishops, cardinals, universities, orders of religious, hospitals and even the Pope publicly oppose the policies of the current administration.

Nope. "The growing visibility and strength of America’s religious diversity is good news for religious freedom. The First Amendment affords legal protections, but it cannot fully prevent people in the majority from imposing social discrimination and political exclusion on those in the minority." The big news is that a couple of Democrats who are not Episcopalian or Baptist were elected to Congress.

Haynes goes on, "as domination of one faith recedes, freedom for all faiths and beliefs expands – moving us ever-closer to fulfilling the promise of religious liberty under the First Amendment."

Tell that to  the Green family, who own and operate the Hobby Lobby chain of craft stores. They are Christian. They run their business according to their Christian principles, which include both providing for their employees and not paying for the intentional destruction of pre-born persons. The HHS Mandate under ObamaCare will force them to violate those principles or face up to 1.3 millions dollars per day in fines; which will no doubt destroy their business and put out of work the employees in more than 500 stores in 41 states.

That seems like a slightly bigger story than a couple of non-Christian Democrats being elected to Congress.

But not to the wisdom of the WaPo editorialists.

A search of the WaPo website on "Hobby Lobby" returned only five AP reports on the topic. Nothing by Post writers. Nothing beyond brief wire reports. It isn't news to the WaPo and its readers because it does not fit into their neat little view of how the world should be. It violates their reality therefore it doesn't exist.