Friday: The End of the Week

Look, I won’t pull any punches: this week has been an excursion into tempers, high blood pressure, meetings, clenched sphincters, fright, lies, political machinations, more meetings, backstabbing, even more meetings and sheer panic. I’ve still managed to post here on my political blog despite the fact that I’m faced with demotion or completely losing my supervisorial position at work — and losing my full-time staffers (consisting of four deputies) to layoffs, plus my part-time contingent of 43 instructors.

I’ve had to deal with my father’s estate, my brothers, lawyers, little critical roadblocks to the sale of my father’s house, niggling details, crisis phone calls, voicemails, delayed mail and bills, utility turnovers, and making the new purchasers of my Dad’s house happy. And some mistakes. And the realtor. The sale of my Dad’s house must go through.

I have 30+ years accrued time in seniority at work so I’ll at least “have a job.” There is no guarantee where I’ll work, of course. I could find myself back in Corrections, patting down drunks for change in their pockets at the Main Jail like I did when I was a rookie, but at least I’d have a job at a much reduced wage.

At my age, I guess you could summarize my general unease as “shitting bricks.”

On the other hand, as compared to the young bucks we’ve recently hired and whose positions are clearly down the toilet — at least I can count on paying bills.

Additionally, I will benefit from having minimized my debts to the point where I essentially write a check for my mortgage only. I pay off my credit card monthly and I have no carryover debt. My wife, however, is another issue entirely.

Suffice to say, I am one stressed Jesse. It’s tough to face something like this in your sixth decade on the planet. I’ve done everything right: my credit is pristine and flawless and I’ve labored long and hard to make that so. I’m a good citizen. I’ve done good work in my career. I’ve lived well within my means for years.

And still, you and me and everyone must realize:

Shit can still occur.

BZ

Mr Obama: The United States Is No Longer Great

That was the message Mr Obama essentially carried overseas when he visited Cairo on Wednesday:

CAIRO – In remarks being translated live for broadcasts and Webcasts in every major language, President Barack Obama said Thursday that the United States wants “common ground” and “a new beginning” with the Muslim world, where America’s image plummeted with the Bush administration’s response to the 9/11 attacks.

Newsflash to Mr Obama, seconded by all of my readers: America couldn’t care less what its image might be in the so-called Muslim world.

We, first, want an uninterrupted flow of oil so that our economy might continue and flourish. We want to discover other energy sources that allow us to become more self-sufficient and energy independent.

By doing this we wish to finally sever as many ties as possible to your wicked, degenerate, corrupt and violent Middle Eastern ways up to and including any remote association with Islam, the religion of hypocrisy, more violence, hatred, death and destruction. Islam isn’t a religion of peace, tolerance and inclusion. It is a religion of brutality forced upon persons in various global regions and held together by enforcers at the tip of a rifle barrel or the edge of a machete.

Islam doesn’t liberate; Islam instead destroys freedom and enslaves its sycophants. Because of one very simple and salient fact: Islam is as Islam does.

Look about the world, Mr Obama, to see what it is that Islam does. But you can’t, can you? You’ve chosen blinders over reality, Mr Obama. Naivete, ignorance, gilded agenda and Starbucks over the truth.

Shall I remind the reader to whom Mr Obama’s first interview in office, on January 26th, was extended? Why yes, that would be the Saudi-owned and Dubai-based Al-Arabiya satellite TV, where he said “My job to the Muslim world is to communicate that the Americans are not your enemy, we sometimes make mistakes.” He also said “. . .respect and partnership that America had with the Muslim world as recently as 20 or 30 years ago, there’s no reason why we can’t restore that.”

Mr Obama continued on his path of denigration for the country that elected him, and his path of pandering to Islamic interests when, in the Cairo speech, he said:

Given our interdependence, any world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will inevitably fail. So whatever we think of the past, we must not be prisoners of it. Our problems must be dealt with through partnership; progress must be shared.”

Mr Obama is saying that the United States is no better a nation or colleague in freedom than Somalia, Venezuela, Cuba, Yemen — any other country controlled by a tinpot dictator or ruled by violence, corruption and oppression.

This is simply unacceptable and, moreover, disgusting, Mr Obama.

You cheapen my father’s and his generation’s sacrifice during World War II, whereupon he and others like him fought for and brought freedom not just to one nation but the entire damned planet. Just as the United States did in World War I and numerous other regional and global conflicts.

If we are so incredibly heinous, Mr Obama, then simply isolate the United States. Take it completely out of any global equation. Withdraw our troops from all foreign shores. Withhold all funds to other nations. Withdraw from the UN and demand its removal from our sovereign soil.

Mr Obama also believed it important to personally implement and ensure the corruption of the United States from within by Islam:

We will expand exchange programs, and increase scholarships, like the one that brought my father to America, while encouraging more Americans to study in Muslim communities. And we will match promising Muslim students with internships in America; invest in on-line learning for teachers and children around the world; and create a new online network, so a teenager in Kansas can communicate instantly with a teenager in Cairo.”

Please recall that on April 6 of this year, Mr Obama made a speech at the Turkish Parliament in Ankara, capital of a Muslim country, where he said “The United States is not and will never be at war with Islam,” and that “America’s relationship with the Muslim world cannot and will not be based on opposition to al-Qaida.” Also, complete Cairo speech transcript is here.

Really, Mr Obama? History cannot be factored into current and future events? Historical Alzheimers will be the Obama Agenda and Rule?

And considering his Cairo speech, what might have been the reaction of Muslims in the area? Let us look. From YahooNewsUK/Ireland:

Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that the nations of the Middle East shared a “deep hatred” of the United States.

Khamenei’s latest salvo against Iran’s arch-foe came as US President Barack Obama arrived in Cairo to deliver a much-heralded address to the Muslim world in a bid to heal a wide breach between America and Islam.

Further, Khamenei said:

The nations in the region hate the United States from the bottom of their hearts because they have seen violence, military intervention and discrimination,” Khamenei said at the mausoleum of Khomeini.

“The new US government seeks to transform this image. I say firmly, that this will not be achieved by talking, speech and slogans.

“They have done things that have deeply hurt the nations in the region… action is needed and one can not remove this deep hatred by words, speeches and slogans.”

Chanting “No, you can’t!” and waving signs bearing messages in a similar vein, nearly 200 people held a demonstration outside the US Consulate on the capital’s Rehov Agron on Wednesday evening, protesting the growing American pressure to stop construction in West Bank settlements.

And your pandering, Islamic-embracing speeches only emboldens our enemy, Mr Obama. Read that correctly: our enemy.

BZ

Rocket Fired At American Airliner In Texas?

A commercial airliner pilot, once a military pilot, reported what he thought was a missile or rocket passing roughly 150′ beneath his aircraft, which was traveling at 13,000-feet near Liberty County, Texas on Friday, May 29th at 8:15 PM.

As you can see by the map, this area is generally northeast of Houston, west of Beaumont, and north of the Galveston and the Gulf of Mexico.

Liberty County Sheriff’s officials are expected to meet with the FAA on Tuesday to discuss what a Continental Express pilot reported as a “missile or rocket” flying near his airplane.

At first blush, examined by those with no inclination towards an inquiring mind whatsoever — like most so-called “journalists” these days, to include the staff of the Houston Chronicle — this is a seemingly inconsequential story best shuffled off to page B9, far back in the newspaper.

I should care to tear apart this story and reveal to you why it is a story with much implication, and why someone apparently did fire a missile at a domestic airliner on domestic and sovereign United States soil.

First, some persons may be thinking the so-called “missile” or “rocket” may have been someone’s idea of a prank; that is, perhaps, a type of “hobby rocket” fired by kids or enthusiasts having come near a commercial craft.

Wrong. Read the article. The incident occurred at an elevation of 13,000 feet. The missile streaked under the aircraft, missing by about 150-feet. This is not “hobby missile” territory.

Second, where did this occur? What’s near the area?

Oh, only the Texas portion of The Chemical Coast. The area is packed with various refineries and railroad tracks servicing said industries, to include numerous plants in Port Arthur, Houston, Texas City, Pasadena.

Third, information now indicates that Air France received a bomb threat in Rio de Janeiro a few days before the Airbus A-330-200 departed for Paris.

One commenter in the original article wrote:

Do you really expect Homeland Security to divert resources from the “Great Tea Party Investigation” to check on a possible missile being fired at an airplane? Are you kidding? Didn’t you hear how those radical right wingers want the government to be more responsible with our money? I’m sorry, but if Homeland Security needs to make a choice between tracking down possible missile launches or trailing minivans with a Jesus fish and a FairTax.org bumper sticker, I’m going to have to say the minivans are the priority.

Is no one in the media possessive of a curious mind anymore? Did our government learn nothing post-9/11?

BZ

The MSM/DEM DESERVES To Fold!

Further, this continues to prove the MSM is rife with bias and likely beyond restoration.

What issue now?

A question for you: did you read or hear of the MUSLIM who murdered an Army soldier and wounded another on Monday?

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – A man with “political and religious motives” killed a soldier just out of basic training and wounded another Monday in a targeted attack on a military recruiting center, police said. The shootings were not believed to be part of a broader scheme.

You heard all about the man who murdered the abortion doctor; that’s been all over the media in every form.

But let a MUSLIM be involved in a PURPOSELY-COMMITTED MURDER against an AMERICAN SOLIDER on AMERICAN SOIL and the Mainstream Media shoves the information aside.

Even Breitbart, my source for this story, minimizes the fact that the murderer was a MUSLIM.

This, ladies and gentlemen, is a reprehensible act that needs to be publicized but was and is purposely being buried by the American media.

WAKE UP AMERICA.

This is just the tip of the approaching iceberg.

Couple these events with other internal struggles and I become more convinced, by the day, that another American revolution is indeed coming. I do not belief it will be brief and I do not believe it will be easily mendable. I do not know if it will take the form of violence, insurrection or simply protests and strikes. But I fear it is coming.

BZ

SCOTUS Nominee Sotomayor Quote:

Have you read this quote:

The Second Amendment applies only to limitations the federal government seeks to impose on this right.”

— Opinion of the court, including Judge Sotomayor, Maloney v. Cuomo (2009)

What does that sentence mean to you?

And moreover, what does the Second Amendment mean to you:

In my opinion, the Second Amendment is extremely clear.

(CNSNews.com) – Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor ruled in January 2009 that states do not have to obey the Second Amendment’s commandment that the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

In Maloney v. Cuomo, Sotomayor signed an opinion of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit that said the Second Amendment does not protect individuals from having their right to keep and bear arms restricted by state governments.

America, the revolutionary writing is becoming more visible on the wall. You think your freedoms are immured forever in stone?

Perhaps you’d best think again.

BZ

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