A Boatload of Cruelty

Lumi · Jun 12, 2011

[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]A Boatload of Cruelty[/FONT][/FONT]

[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]by Becky Akers[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif][FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif][FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]Recently by Becky Akers: The TSA and Texas[/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT]
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[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif][FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif][FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]"?ecause they considered (them) ?useless eaters? ? [Nazi] authorities generally selected [children], along with the elderly, ill, and disabled, for the first deportations to killing centers, or as the first victims led to mass graves to be shot."[/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]~ United States Holocaust Memorial Museum[/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]Yes, the Holocaust Museum is a suspect source, one that blames the Nazis? reign of terror on "the dangers of unchecked hatred" rather than the dangers of government, checked or unchecked. Still, one wishes Our Rulers would hie themselves to its website and compare the Nazis? abuse of society?s most vulnerable with what they themselves dish out to such folks. Surely, depraved as they are, they would abhor their own bestiality.[/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]"?[A] group of 2,000 elderly British cruise ship passengers" whose "?10,000, two-and-a-half month ?Alaska Adventure? tour from the Arctic to the Caribbean" docked "at Los Angeles on May 26, for a one-day visit ? [/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]were made to go through full security checks in a process which took seven hours to complete," Britain?s Telegraph reports. Like serfs in any totalitarian regime, we turn to the foreign media rather than our own for news of Our Rulers? atrocities. [/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]And so we learn that the federal sadists kept our pathetic British guests "stand[ing] for hours in temperatures up to 80F with no food or water or access to lavatories." If that doesn?t explicitly breach the Geneva Convention, it should. And it most certainly violates the US Constitution: nowhere does that document grant the Feds the authority to monitor, control, or interfere with anyone?s movement into or out of the country. [/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]Why did Our Rulers so viciously torture these seniors? "?A couple of passengers got a bit stroppy about having to go through all the rigmarole [of US Customs] again and these petulant officials decided to take revenge,? said John Randall, 60, a retired dentist from Wigan, who bought the cruise as a retirement gift to his wife. ? ?They were just doing basic checks to begin with but after the argument we had to do full finger prints on left and right hands and all the biometric stuff.?" [/FONT]

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[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]Like many Americans, I?m a bit of an Anglophile. What?s not to like about the British ? except, of course, a government that?s almost as dictatorial as ours? A history and tradition of revering freedom, charming accents with manners to match, Cato?s Letters, stiff upper lips, "Wilkes, Liberty and Number 45," sublime cheese, John Locke, cozy cottages, Adam Smith, afternoon tea, Handel ? I?m grateful to and proud of our cousins across the pond.[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]I can also picture how "stroppy" those "couple of passengers got." Their collision with Amerika?s Warriors probably sounded something like this:[/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]"I say, Officer, we?ve already been?"[/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]"Mister, get back in line. Now."[/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]"But the cruise, you see, if you?ll pardon my saying so, they cleared our arrival with?"[/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]"You hard o? hearing or somethin?? You speak English?"[/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]"I?I beg your?, yes, of course, actually Shakesp?"[/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]"You hear me, then? I said get back in line. Yo, Leroy: got some trouble over here, call HQ for backup, tell ?em we?re runnin? a full check on all these stinkin? limeys, I don?t care if it takes all day."[/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]One lady in distress requested her captor?s permission to use the loo; she received the now-infamous response, "Do it over the side, we won?t mind." I nominate that along with "Don?t touch my junk" as the rallying cry for the Resistance.[/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]Try to fathom the brutality, sociopathic vainglory, and sheer evil that delights in torturing 2000 seniors because a handful "got stroppy" ? and rightfully so ? over complying with nonsense. Would you ever dream of forcing even one older person, let alone several thousand, to stand for mere moments, let alone 7 hours, in the heat? [/FONT]
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[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]Particularly when such folks often suffer from arthritis, bum knees, hip replacements, hypertension, angina, and the assorted other ailments, aches and pains age inflicts? Would you scatologically sass and humiliate a woman who reminds you of your grandmother? What sort of unconscionable monsters does government spawn?[/FONT]

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[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]Their physical weakness makes "Alaska Adventure?s" customers typical casualties in Amerika?s War on Terror. [/FONT]
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[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]Certainly the Warriors prey on strong men in their prime, too ? Jose Padilla, Steve Bierfeldt, Julian Assange, Michael Roberts, to name just a few ? but many victims are "[children], ? the elderly, ill, and disabled." As they defend the Homeland, the Warriors ever more chillingly mimic their mentors in an earlier Heimatland. [/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) especially seems possessed of a diabolical sixth sense for fragile passengers. Its goons savage them accordingly. Two air marshals slaughtered Rigoberto Alpizar, a young missionary who struggled with bipolarism, when he suffered a panic-attack and tried to disembark from his flight. Cops at Phoenix Sky-Harbor International Airport arrested Carol Anne Gotbaum as she was flying to a clinic for help with her alcoholism. She suddenly, mysteriously died in their custody. Also clearly disturbed but arrested in aviation?s gulag nonetheless were Kevin Brown and Scott McGann. [/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]Those who are physically infirm[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif] fare no better. Whether you have survived cancer of the bladder or breast, the TSA relishes tormenting you. [/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]Ditto for the very young and the very old. Calculated, casual cruelty that would have been unthinkable a decade ago ? a time by no means kind or genteel ? is now Standard Operating Procedure. Meanwhile, too many Americans look the other way. Jaw-dropping barbarities have become so common that most witnesses shrug -- if they even notice. [/FONT]
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[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]And some horrifically benighted ones actually cheer the ferocity. "They had it coming," they smugly opine. "Don?t they know you can?t do [whatever innocent activity earned government?s ire] nowadays? What, they think they?re special and don?t have to go by the rules?"[/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]The Nazis made certain ethnicities and conditions illegal ? and punishable. So have the Warriors. But those of us watching should heed the command of Prof. Yehuda Bauer: "Thou shall not be a perpetrator; thou shall not be a victim; and thou shall never, but never, be a bystander."[/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]June 11, 2011[/FONT]
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Lumi · Jun 12, 2011

Obama's Dilemma ? and Ours

Obama's Dilemma ? and Ours

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[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]by Patrick J. Buchanan[/FONT][/FONT]
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Seventy-one years ago this spring, after the German army had broken through the French lines, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill flew to France to consult his embattled allies on how to stop the advance.

"Where is the strategic reserve?" Churchill urgently asked the French commander in chief, Gen. Maurice Gamelin, and then he repeated himself in French: "Ou est la masse de manoeuvre?"

"Aucune," came Gamelin's reply. "There is none."

The French had no reserves to stop the Germans from overrunning their country. The Battle of France was lost.

The Obama administration, in its grand strategy to generate a rapid and strong recovery from the Great Recession, is at a similar pass. It has drawn and played all its cards: the $800 billion stimulus bill, three straight deficits averaging $1.4 trillion, the Federal Reserve's mass purchases of bad paper from the world's banks, and QE2, the monthly purchase of $100 billion in Treasury bills that ends June 30.

Yet, from the numbers that came in from May, Obama looks to be holding a losing hand. The anemic growth of the first quarter of 2011 seems to have stalled, and the prospect of a double-dip recession looms.

Though the administration anticipated perhaps a quarter-million new jobs in May, as April produced, May generated only 55,000. The unemployment rate ticked back up to 9.1 percent.

The rise in manufacturing employment went into reverse. Five thousand manufacturing jobs were lost. Consumer confidence sank.

Today 2 million homes remain vacant in the USA, putting immense downward pressure on housing prices. A fourth of U.S. homes are not worth the mortgages being paid upon them.

Says Federal Reserve Vice Chairwoman Janet Yellen, "Looking forward, I unfortunately can envision no quick or easy solutions for the problems still afflicting the housing market." Recovery is going to be a "long, drawn-out process."

A further decline in housing prices of 10 to 25 percent over the next five years, says Robert Shiller, the economist who invented the S&P/Case-Shiller index of property values, "wouldn't surprise me at all."

The economic malaise has now begun to affect the mood of the nation and its attitude toward the president.

Almost 90 percent of Americans think the U.S. economy is terrible or poor. Sixty percent think the nation is headed in the wrong direction. Forty-eight percent expect a second Great Depression next year. Fewer than 40 percent approve of Obama's handling of the U.S. economy.

In one new poll, Mitt Romney leads the president 49-46 in a matchup in 2012.

The question Obama faces and, indeed, Congress and the nation face is: What do we do now?

Chairman Ben Bernanke of the Federal Reserve has signaled that there will be no QE3, no more Fed purchases of $100 billion a month in U.S. government paper. Buyers for that $1.2 trillion a year of U.S. debt will have to be found elsewhere.

And with the economy stagnant or sinking, the Democrats on Capitol Hill are starting to back away from any deep budget cuts, even as Republicans are now even less likely to sign on to any tax increases to reduce the $1.5 billion deficit.

Indeed, if the economy is stalled or sinking into recession, what economic theory is it that argues for austerity and tax hikes?

And the perceived economic stagnation not only diminishes the chance of a bipartisan budget deal but also points to deadlock on the debt ceiling.

Republicans are already holding out for $1 in spending cuts for every dollar increase in the debt ceiling. And the country seems to be behind the GOP position: If the Senate and White House don't agree to $2 trillion in spending cuts, we don't raise the debt ceiling by $2 trillion.

The U.S. government does not run out of money to pay its bills until August. But markets probably will be making judgments upon the likelihood of a U.S. default well before then.

How did we get here? How did the richest and strongest country in history, triumphant in World War II and the Cold War, approach so soon the condition of the late Spanish and British empires as they began their precipitous declines?

Answer: We overextended ourselves. We bankrupted ourselves.

We undertook the defense of nations all over the world having little to do with our vital national interests. We fought unnecessary wars. We doled out trillions in foreign aid to ingrates, incompetents, opportunists and thieves.

We promised all our seniors Social Security and subsidized medical care for the rest of their lives and failed to put the money away to pay for it. We dropped half of U.S. wage earners off the tax rolls while creating a mammoth welfare state to dwarf anything Norman Thomas and his Socialists dreamed of in the 1930s.

Not only for the United States but also for the West, the days of wine and roses are over.

Lumi · Jun 12, 2011

A Scoop of Ron Paul, Please

A Scoop of Ron Paul, Please

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[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]I've always been a great lover of ice cream. It's almost as American as apple pie, upon which a scoop of vanilla is often added for true perfection. We've all chanted that old childhood ditty "I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!" And seriously, who hasn't waited for or chased an ice cream truck down the street at some point in their lives? [/FONT]
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[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]Then came Baskin-Robbins. Ice cream lovers everywhere rejoiced at the advent of their 31 flavors. Not only that, they also introduced rotating flavors of the month! This innovative marketing concept undoubtedly contributed to BRs becoming the world-wide franchise it is today. That being said ? and my appreciation of ice cream and creative ideas having been expounded upon ? I would like to suggest that the GOP stop trying to emulate BR's success by introducing a new flavor of candidate every month. In politics it's not really innovative, as much as it is mind-numbing ? and nauseatingly ridiculous. [/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]What (you might ask if you were Rip Van Winkle) is the goal of applying such a marketing strategy to the political realm? [/FONT]
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[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]Apparently at some level of the established leadership structure, there still resides the idea that candidate kryptonite will be discovered in time to fortify the ranks against impending disaster. Somewhere, in some nook or cranny yet to be peeked into, lurks a miraculous nominee able to leap the immovable wall of Ron Paul in a single tent-saving bound. [/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]While the search continues, we are bombarded by the press with this month's top contender ? the name keeps changing as rapidly as the media polls do ? Mitt Romney. [/FONT]
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[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]At the upcoming CNN New Hampshire debate on June 13<SUP>th</SUP>, Mr. Romney will assume the center stage position, thereby demonstrating (hopefully) his superiority as a candidate to all viewers not intelligent enough to divine this fact from his steel-bending responses and laser-like stares. I expect the morning of June 14<SUP>th</SUP> will prove these hopes sorely dashed. Mr. Romney's rhetorical ammunition to this point has proved of only two casts: well worn status-quo pebbles unable to penetrate previously abused eardrums; and shiny, new rocks of constitutional sagacity chipped from the afore mentioned immovable wall. The latter will sound good, but Mr. Luther ? um...Mr. Romney ? does not have a supportive enough voting record to withstand even the most cursory of glances by those wishing to verify his sincerity. I wonder if Mr. Romney is given to premonitions, seeing as he has decided to skip the Iowa straw poll.[/FONT]

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[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]Next? Ms. Palin and Ms. Bachman ??????? "On you marks!" Surely, one of the two females in the revolving carousel of flavors will be given their moment in the sun as well. [/FONT]
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[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]According to Slate, it won't be Ms. Palin however, so Ms. Bachman better suit up. [/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]In the meantime let's move on to other candidates already in the display case. First, Mr. Gingrich whom it would seem is in for some difficulties ? if not already on his way out ? since on Thursday his "campaign manager Rob Johnson and...[the] entire senior staff, including [the] strategists in early primary election states," resigned en-masse. Good luck with that is all I can say. [/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]Next, there's Mr. Pawlenty who, in essence, threw himself under the bus by acknowledging that "Mitt is going to be the front-runner." I'm sure his campaign staffers were ? after their initial shock ? reinvigorated to hear him add, "but those early polls usually don't predict the final outcome." Then, there is Mr. Santorum whose demise ? once it's admitted to ? will eventually be laid at the door of Google. Two cases of either blowback or collateral damage it would seem.[/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]As for Mr. Cain, the New York Times felt moved to state that "candidates with electoral resumes as thin as Mr. Cain?s have very poor track records." This despite early polling results for him being more impressive than even those achieved by "Mr. Jackson in 1988, Mr. Buchanan in 1996 and Mrs. Dole in 2000." Numbers even the Times apparently found remarkable, especially considering all three of these candidates were achieving name recognition percentages of 80, while Mr. Cain's recognition factor "barely exceed[ed] 30 percent." One just has to wonder, albeit tongue in cheek of course, if the poll respondents included employees of the Federal Reserve and Godfather's pizza. [/FONT]

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[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]All this without even mentioning Gary Johnson ? the candidate banned from the New Hampshire debate for "low poll numbers" despite his having participated in the recent South Carolina debate. Sadly for him and for the so-called "democratic process," he seems to have been allotted the position of replacement "fringe candidate of the year"[/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]Lest you be heaving a sigh of relief at the moment ? don't bother ? as there are additional flavors presently in preparation for the voters' edification. Possible favorites with previous mass appeal that might rotate in and out are: Rudy Giuliani; Rick Perry; Jon Huntsman; Jeb Bush; and any other possibility that can be dredged up from the depths of some ancient rolodex. [/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]This distasteful state of affairs is likely to continue for some time. At least until the GOP concedes that times have changed. This is not the 2008 election cycle. There is no enchanting new flavor to be found in their stale freezer of ideas. The economy is in a shambles, the country is bankrupt, the failed foreign policy of war and empire is an expense that can no longer be afforded ? and the people know it. The tea-parties, which included participants from all areas of the political spectrum, were evidence of the great awakening that began in 2007 and continues to grow apace with the crisis. The formerly clueless televised mainstream media is now recognizing the fact that there is only one candidate with real solutions to America's problems and the prospect of even challenging Obama. The quiet little country doctor and Congressman from Texas's 14<SUP>th</SUP> District.[/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]Ron Paul has been offering the tried and true taste of liberty to the American people for decades, and has a record just as long to back it up. The time has come for his distinctive, unique brand of flavoring. It's finally in high demand and it's value isn't going anywhere but straight up. Consequently, it's time for the Grand Old Party to accept with grace the presence of Ron Paul and invite his supporters gladly into their "big tent" for the win in 2012. [/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]June 11, 2011[/FONT]

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