Whatever happened to “do the math?”
I’m not suggesting calculators, slide rules, or abaci, just normal common sense responses of indignation at the arrogant and ignorant actions by the current administration, enabled by the ineffectual likes of John Boehner and John McCain, whose spines quiver like Jell-o every time an act of statesmanship is in order.
At a time when a shadow government has been installed before their very eyes and key government positions have been filled by avowed Muslims and Communists, we have McCain telling Michelle Bachmann to stand down instead of pursuing the truth in fulfillment of her sworn responsibility as a member of the House Intelligence Committee, and Boehner running a squeeze-play to force her off the playing field. Why? For questioning the vetting process and family ties of Hillary Clinton’s deputy chief of staff, Huma Abedin, whose family are active and influential members of the radical Muslim Brotherhood? That makes as little sense as FDR retaining key members in his administration with ties to Hirohito or Hitler, or any number of presidents during the Cold War adding staff whose parents were in the KGB, then acting appalled at questions about propriety, notwithstanding national security.
Thankfully, Representative Bachmann and other patriotic members of her committee carry an inborn immunity to the newly discovered Boehner’s Disease, the symptoms of which are an increase in timidity, cowardice, and dereliction of duty which rise in direct proportion to confronting reality and the enemy.
Jihad is often misconstrued as being associated solely with violence, when in fact it is an obligation and religious duty of Muslims to overthrow and convert anything and anyone through any means “to command what is right and forbid what is wrong,” which is a mumbo-jumbo and rationalized way of saying “my way, or the highway,” for flexibility and tolerance only exist within the religion’s narrow and self-created prism of rank subjectivity. Clearly, the steep and slippery slope newer members of Congress must scale is compounded in difficulty by an old guard reluctant to engage in the defense of personal liberties and national security, and exacerbated by this administration’s flagrant circumvention of Congress and The Constitution.
Consider: the previous four presidential administrations, covering a period of 28 years, signed 81 Executive Orders, and that Mr. Obama has blatantly and perniciously in three and one half years already signed 130 such orders and assembled 45 Czars, with the express intent of illicitly centralizing power in the Executive Branch while simultaneously neutering Congress.
There has been so much pussy-footing around the Obama Debacle that it is long past time to mince words and for Congress to embrace its responsibilities with decisive action. Randomly without ranking in order the level of devastation, we are now being ruled instead of governed; we have egregious security leaks that have imperiled the country, its operatives, and allies; the fifth consecutive year of Pelosi/Reid/Obama trillion dollar budgetary overruns impedes short and long term economic viability; and taxes that could not be passed legislatively against high-income achievers have been woven into and litter a bill purporting to improve health care. All this at a time when impeachment should be under urgent consideration, indictments and arrests should be issued for treason, and an immediate and entire rescindment of Obamacare should take place until a decade worth of independent studies have been performed in order to weigh the damage government interference will have on health care delivery.
Instead of following the daft and condescending advice of a seditious Nancy Pelosi suggesting the need to pass a law so we know what is in it, how about trying something new, such as learning about the damaging effects of decreased competition and addressing the gross and historical ineptitude of government management? Then we won’t have to read a bill to find out what is in it; we’ll know enough about the detrimental nature of passing such a bill and avoid another government-run fiscal catastrophe.
Obviously, our intelligence apparatus has been jeopardized, and the problem now is to determine to what degree and by whom and how many, and because acceptable vetting procedures were not followed due to end runs around long-standing practices designed to protect, the inevitable compromise has occurred. Predictably, yet incomprehensibly, the designated enemies of this administration are sovereign states, and gun-owning Christians who have been labeled as domestic terrorists by the Director of Homeland Security. Meanwhile the administration is peddling the ruse that domestic drone spying is required for intelligence purposes and forbidding tweeting and texting during speeches by Joe Biden, an infringement upon free speech and the first step toward censorship of untold dimensions. In his spare time, Mr. Obama has also through some heretofore unknown means managed to funnel $1.5 Billion to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, a group our country has long-maintained is a worldwide terroristic organization.
The move toward having more welfare recipients than taxpayers is accelerating due to unilateral and illegal efforts by the administration to grant amnesty and overload the democratic base via executive fiat, (an inconsistent process in our country, should you need a reminder) which when accomplished will render the 49% who do pay as nothing more than indentured servants of the government for those who do not pay and have no inclination to pay as long as they continue to receive freebies, for you must not forget, according to this Marxist president, business success was not the result of innovation, endless toil, and bold risk-taking; it grew ONLY at the expense of others and is now considered nothing more than a pawn on a chessboard whose profits are there for the government to usurp and redistribute.
Through it all, Boehner sits like a clay dummy until he’s beckoned to caddy another round for the president, and John McCain strives daily to become an even bigger embarrassment to his party. The border of the state he claims to represent is a virtual war zone; Arizona has been sued by the federal government and summarily cut off from federal aid to fight terror, and McCain remains idly mute unless he is placating the administration and rationalizing the maintenance of an ever-sinking status quo.
And in what could be the most sicko-ironic-twist of all time, McCain, through unmitigated pomposity, morphs into Jane Fonda by castigated a ranking member of the Intelligence Committee for valid questions about national security, suggesting that such concerns are unfounded, implying- ala- Jane that there is not a real and present danger, and that the enemy should be coddled because it is largely misunderstood.
Are you coming up with the same numbers as I?
Math class is dismissed.
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Thank you very much, s. cox.
Military friends have told me they saw plenty of WMD’s in Iraq, and for whatever the motivation is for lying, it isn’t those guys who I think are misrepresenting things.
Go figure……………..
Dan, great article. I have long believed that the current administration has put individuals into strategic positions that could easily be infiltrated by our enemies. I believe that eventually we destroy ourselves from within. Maybe, this is what they have in mind. I don’t like the term “CZARS”. Reminds me of the
old Soviet Union that may be returning.
I do believe that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. They had plenty of time to move them to Syria or ship them to North Korea.
I am terrible disappointed that we have given $1.5 billion to Egypt
i.e the Muslim Brotherhood.
Love yours and Mychal’s articles.
You’re too kind, Annie, but it is always extremely gratifying to know if our work resonates with readers.
The commeraderie felt from responses like yours and many others makes all the efforts to combat the mayhem feel worthwhile.
Dan,
That wasn’t kindness on my part–it was a
carefully considered observation. Kindness,from me, would have been “and I like your shoes.” ; )
I’m sure I can speak for all The Massie Warriors when I say that we don’t take lightly nor overlook the efforts Mychal and you make (and the risks involved) on behalf of America the Beautiful and We the People.
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Dan,
This article is the tapestry of a skilled craftsman. The content, precision, balance, and grammar are all tightly woven. I have much respect for what you have created here. Not to mention–twenty shots square on to the bulls eye and only one hole in the target.
You are a deadly thinker, Dan Bubalo. Well done.
I sometimes wonder if Dan or Mychal could a way to miss the mark if they wanted to. Every time that I come in here I find something that stimulates me to post a response (some might say shoot off my big yap). I don’t agree with everything that everyone posts here, but of course if I didn’t agree with most everything herein, I wouldn’t bother the log in.
It must be a gathering place for great minds, lovers of liberty, goads and Olympic quality gadfly’s. I’ve never seen either of the Clintons or Obama’s come in. I wonder why? Or maybe they are using a Pseudonym?
You are right, Jim.
You cannot control “The Sumitch”, you can only hope to contain him.
Thanks Dan. High praise. However you can tempt me with candy. ;-)
A great dissection of hypocrisy, Sumitch.
Thanks, and don’t ditch your keyboard.
DB
Keyboard? Keyboard?
I don’t need no stinkin’ keyboard.
And thanks to you Dan for keeping the coals burning.
Glad to have you on board with us, Old Nurse.
Stick with us, OK?
Boehner (and our diluted education system) are blinding examples of the basic problem with tenure. To rise to the top, one needs not do more than keep breathing and not get fired. Actually getting anything of value done falls a far distant second to just sitting in the corner and not seeing, hearing or speaking of anything. Just like cream rising to the top of the milk bottle, all that is necessary is to be lighter weight than the competition in the bottle.
It has become a target for blame and scorn if anyone actually works hard for years and achieves the “American Dream”. All McCain did was get shot down over Viet Nam and spend years in the Hanoi Hilton. I’m not demeaning his courage and patriotism but I am denying that these qualities are proof of leadership abilities or presidential capability. I suspect that many of us would crack like a paper shell pecan if subjected to the same torture that he was. He has become one of the spokespersons that are responsible for the apparent cowardice that seems to represent our Congress if not our nation at this time.
Like not being able to understand how supposedly intelligent people can believe that taking away arms from honest people will accomplish anything other than give criminals an easier job, I cannot understand how intelligent people can believe that caving to any person or group on any issue will do anything more than give misguided people free rein. To be free and brave, one must have a backbone. Something that McCain has misplaced. The people of Arizona (and many other states) need to wake up and elect strong leaders that support the constitution.
McCain has been offered up as the Republican nominee for President twice (if my old school math is correct) and has been rejected as many times. We now have Romney as our apparent nominee du jour and while not the perfect candidate to do battle with Obama in many minds, he is the one we much support.
Saying he is rich and therefore does not understand the middle class is denying his ability as a business person and making success a crime. Would he be more qualified if he gave his money away? Saying he is a Mormon begs the question of a preference for Islam. Saying he has cost many their jobs never addresses the jobs that are saved by keeping a failing company from closing its doors completely and costing many more jobs. Throwing rocks at him for his off shore financial accounts makes me want to see how many of the current millionaires in Congress aren’t in the same boat? It’s my understanding that avoiding taxes is an American pastime; evading them is the crime.
In one hand we have a pile of donkey dung whose smell grows each day; in the other a successful and apparent truly good man at many levels. Which would you rather have for you neighbor?
Great comment Sumitch!
Thank you kind sir. It comes straight from an old coot’s mouth and mind.
I certainly come up with the same numbers as you.
No apologies needed whatsoever, Marilyn. You’ve still got me laughing with your speculation about special “hiding places.”
Rock on.
Thanks, DLB.
I can’t imagine a large collection of more unsavory and unethical people no matter how hard I try.
Great comments, Richard. A couple weeks back I asked rhetorically if the Republicans got their advisors from a car wash, then quickly realized I insulted some pretty bright people who, indeed, WORK in car washes. Strategy, or the lack thereof, is totally absent at times, and amby-pamby responses do nothing but placate the enemy while they’re stealing our lunch.
McCain has traded on his POW status and heroism far too long, Bob Chester, and though I find the plight of nearly 50 years ago to be immensely regrettable for him and all the other military members, it was not a proving ground for politics.
Somehow along the way he was able to parlay it into a position of power, though as we all realize, political savvy is absolutely no guarantee of intelligence.
I understand the coffee comment, Betrayed.
Sometimes after going through a couple news cycles I actually need something even stronger.
I am afraid you could be right, Bill Sr. My first experience with an “academic” insisting I parrot his words if I wanted a passing grade occurred in 1973, and he went on to be a US Senator, filled with idealism but with no more qualifications to serve than a pool boy. (His name was Paul Wellstone) My fear is that instruction of empirical facts and data has been jettisoned in favor of emotional interpretation and ideology, and universities have had more than 40 years, or two generations, to shovel this schlock with no fear of reprisal unless a kid is content to fight it and then be failed.
For one thing, McCain is jealous that he didn’t think of Michele’s idea to inverstigate the Muslims working in Classified Information Positions. So, McCain under-cuts Michele and tries to make her look foolish. I’ll say it again, McCain is a Prig! Boehner is a different breed of Republican/Democrat. He can’t make up his mind which he would rather be. In this case of Muslim Huma investigation, he is a Fatuous Fathead, and shows his ignorance to please the illegal president; plus, Boehner thinks he has some clout. He has golfed/caddied too many times with the president. I am thankful that ‘some’ Senators and Reps are of clear mind and do want to pursue Michele’s accusations. I just saw a video that promotes jhad and demands that Muslim men may have their anuses stretched to carry explosives. Well, I pictured this and found some humor in it but it really isn’t funny. I wondered about Huma and her closeness to Classified American Information and wondered if she had anything stretched… The political clowns for some odd reason don’t want to investigate much of anything that could be of great importance. After all, They allowed a steet organizer and a do nothing Senator to become president. (So far, they can’t even get Holder, et el, nailed for his lies and cover-up in F & F!) We learn that Muslims are working with confidential material right under their noses and no one is concerned about this? ahh, I feel a conspiracy going on and we will learn more as the next three months unfold. I got tired of doing the math on all of the government inconsistencies. It became mind boggling. Thank you, Dan, for your Monday ‘rant.’ My apology for not sicking with the subject.
I’m with you Marilyn. I find a constant headache from listening to these political baggage carriers and worrying if I’m slightly (mostly) daft in being suspicious of a true conspiracy at hand. I guess being suspicious rather than sorry is preferable.
I took great pleasure is seeing the UN arms treaty fall apart and now want to see the same fate for the control of the seas. Then on to November and what I hope to see is an awakening of the citizenship.
The curious thing is that Boehner and McCain and all others who attacked Michele conveniently missed processing the fact that NPR had aired a story on 26 June about the FBI tracking 100 militants in the military… but because a liberal, govt. subsidized news source put out the information prior to Michele’s letter which substantiated the concerns, no one attacked NPR, and it was ignored by the MSM. Inadvertantly, Boehner and McCain clearly revealed where they stand. From reading the critical comments it is clear no one in the MSM or those critical of the call for investigating the issue had ever read Michele’s letter, or her response to Ellison. Ellison clearly is lying about his knowledge and association with the Muslim Brotherhood… but Boehner and McCain give him a pass..
“there is something rotten in Denmark” and it is more than the Danish video which showed Obama repeating the same insipid “compliment” to many of our allies that “they punched above their weight class”… hopefully enough people will wake up and vote. This will be the last chance to adjust the course of America using the ballot box.
Ben, you raise a couple great points. If a person was one of integrity there couldn’t be a better time than today to make a difference as a politician or a journalist, yet what are we getting instead?
The same old, same old, same old “junk.” I can’t explain or understand it, either.
Thank you Gene Man and thanks to Pat as well. Mike and I never confer about what the other intends to write, and yet we always remain headed in the same direction.
There’s plenty of credit to go around, and more than anything we appreciate your readership.
“All this at a time when impeachment should be under urgent consideration, indictments and arrests should be issued for treason, and an immediate and entire rescindment of Obamacare should take place until a decade worth of independent studies have been performed in order to weigh the damage government interference will have on health care delivery.”
No truer words have been spoken Dan, I simply can’t believe what these politicians are getting away with. The lunatics have taken over the asylum. Thank you for writing the truth.
Where to start….how about the Republicans don’t know how to fight their opposition. They act like everything that comes up beyond the norm is a “mother may I” moment. There are no General Patton types in their ranks, only sugar plum fairies. The Democrats offer knock out punches and the Republicans say “oh, your so nasty.” Grow some balls and fight fire with fire. And, if you can’t get with the program, then get off the bus. Everything the Democrats offer up, the Repupublicans are afraid to harshly respond to, because it might, could be, faintly thought of, as being “racial.” Heaven forbid that could happen, we may have to slap ourselves for being sooo unkind. Look, the race card has been played so many times over, that the public couldn’t care less about that accusation. Quit the timorous behavior and fight like your life depends upon it. It just might, at least your congressional life might, because we’re tired of your pantywaist antics. Real conservatives are starting to roar and there ain’t gonna be no stopping them, now. So, get with it, or get GONE.
Sadly, math in schools has gone the way of “common” sense. There is nothing common about sense these days. It is rare and therefore, to be valued. Math? I think what they teach these days is ‘rithmatick, just like they teach that there grammar and spelin’. If the computer doesn’t do it, they don’t bother and the ability to think critically has gone by the wayside. I remember basic arithmetic and then we had math, then advanced math and then we got into calculus and physics and we thought, long and hard. Now…oh, just google it. And you expect these people to wake up and smell the coffee. Oh, Mychal, I adore you and your flaming pen, but you are way too optimistic. wink, wink, nudge, nudge, know what I mean, know what I mean?
To be fair McCain was a POW for an extended time and his brain obviously suffered considerable damage….why the RNC picked him to LOSE last time we may never know? In short McCain belongs in a mental hospital and the RNC (Including the RINO’s – - like Boehner) need to heed The Tea Party Agenda/Message post haste!
Well written, Dan, thank you. I sit here and just shake my, then get on my knees and pray that scare will spare us.
Peace to you all,
Betrayed
Sorry, meant to type GOD will spare us…..I need coffee…
Well good grief, SHAKE MY HEAD is what I meant to type….what is wrong with my old, stupid fingers????
Dan, you get an A+ on Administrative Arithmetic from me.
The thing that still puzzles me is why so many seemingly normal people just can’t see what you, I, and others clearly observe going on day in and day out as you say, right before our eyes.
Has the media and academia produced a nation half full of lug heads who have no concept of Evil no moral compass and no knowledge of recent world history?
Excellent review. We are headed toward a disaster which is quickly becoming irreversible. If we cannot stop the re-election of those like McCains and his ilk we will be doomed.
The establishment republicans are just as much at fault for not doing anything to stop this. They are not even capable of putting up a fight. These politically correct, crooked, wizards of stupid must be voted out.
Somehow the ignorant need to be educated, and with a compliant media that is close to impossible.
Once again Mychal, you have said what others fear to say.
The more I hear about this brouhaha over Secretary Clinton’s aide, the more I realize exactly how frightened of the media and Obama the GOP leadership actually is. And then when the call me for money, their callers wonder why I refuse to give to the Senatorial Committee or the GOP National Committee. Too many of the same people are sitting there who were there before 2000 and were afraid of honestly reviewing the impeachment of W. J. Clinton because an incumbant Al gore might be harder to unseat.
Fear is not the proper motivation of a free people. When will they ever learn?
Thank You Again
Pat
patlennon says: Once again Mychal, you have said what others fear to say.
I like Mychal’s rants also, but this one by Dan Bubalo hits the nail on the head!