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Tuesday Afternoon Roundup - The Appeasement Caravan Continues Along

Posted: 14 Apr 2009 03:59 PM PDT

(Due to the final days of Pesach\Passover, this will be the final blog update
until Thursday night. No new posts will appear until then and no new

comments will be moderated)

We've just concluded the drama of the showdown between the Navy Seals

and the Somali pirates, despite that the lead story in the news has somehow

been Obama's dog, reminding us that we're living in a country dominated by

a media churning out a constant tide of "Beloved Leader" stories regardless of

what else is going on in the world. And when the polls on the "Beloved Leader"

don't go their way, they just massage the numbers enough so that they can

proclaim that Hussein is more popular than ever.

“Mr. Obama's overall approval rating, meanwhile, has hit a new high of 66

percent, up from 64 percent last month. His disapproval rating stands at 24
percent” boasted a press release from either CBS News or the Obama

campaign, which is a difference without distinction.

In other words it appears The New York Times and CBS “News” cooked the

poll numbers until they produced enough people who agreed with the
opinions of their reporters about Obama.

Caddell says: “the original raw sample already showed a partisan difference of

8.5 percent but “when weighting or ‘adjusting’ the numbers the partisan
gap went over 16 points. In effect what they did was reduce the Republicans in

the sample by 13 percent and increased the number of Democrats by 12

percent. Particularly strange was the number of Independent voters was

only changed 2 percent.”

Caddell accuses the Times and CBS of being guilty of either one of two things:

“It is either terrible methodology or the Bernie Madoff school of polling.
Small demographic adjustments are ordinary, but these extremes are
unprecedented.”

Meanwhile the media continues concealing the religion of the pirates... but now

and then it slips through. Along with the Islamic value system behind the

pirates' actions. And their view of human life. Particularly non-Muslim life.

Sometime Thursday, a desperate Phillips jumped from the lifeboat in an

attempt to swim to the USS Bainbridge, only to be hauled back on board

after the pirates opened fire. From then on, Phillips was tied up.

One pirate radioed the Navy destroyer and demanded to know how far they

were from the sanctuary of Somalia's coast.

"Very far," came the reply from the Bainbridge.

"Thank you," the pirate negotiator responded, according to a U.S. military

timeline, his politeness masking menace. "If we cannot [reach the]
Somali coast, we will kill the infidel."...

Not the hostage. Not the prisoner. Not even the American. The infidel.

Kufar. A man whose life under Islamic law belongs to his captors, who
may be seized and held for ransom. Unlike a fellow Muslim.

All the while Obama continues rolling the appeasement caravan through

the desert. A close look at his Grand Tour seems to show that his

chief priority is not any kind of American agenda, let alone a war on

terrorism, heaven forfend, but protecting and promoting Islam.

On the heels of bowing to the Saudi king, pressuring NATO into giving

Turkish Generals top positions, forcing the Danish Prime minister to

apologize for his country's free speech, playing up to Iran and urging

the EU to welcome in the Turkish hordes... Obama just keeps

going and going.

In Athens, the topic was what else... but Muslim rights.

The US President Barack Obama asked from Athens to recognize the Muslim

minority in Greek Thrace. This is what he said on his 10 minute meeting
with the Ecumenical Patriarch Vartolomei in Istanbul. The patriarch asked

the US president to open the Theological school in Halki and Barack Obama

said that this will happen only if Athens undertakes analogical steps regarding

the Muslim minority in Thrace.

According to information from the Greek media, the American President
told Vartolomei that just the way that the Theological school in Halki
teaches orthodox priests in a Muslim country, Greece needs to have schools,
which will teach Muslims and other religions. Barack Obama also
supported the Muslim appeal from North Greece to choose their own
Mufti and not for it to be given to them by the ...

Now this isn't even simply a question of civil rights. Creating an
independent Islamic religious framework in Turkey means giving the
Saudis free range to set up their own radical mosques and preachers that
will naturally promote Jihad.

That's why European nations including France have been backing away
from an independent Islamic infrastructure. Meanwhile Obama is bullying
Greece into giving Islamic extremism a foothold in its own country.

Sure Barry Hussein's a Christian. As much as I'm a Buddhist. Had the
Islamists picked America's policies, they'd be exactly Obama's policies.
And just to pile some more sickles and stars on the cake... the US
will be providing UAV's to Lebanon.

The pretext is to strengthen Lebanon's army, but the practical use of such
aircraft would not do anything to strengthen the military domestically, but
would provide equalization in a third conflict with Israel.

Meanwhile via Boker Tov Boulder,
Atlas suggests that US participation in Durban is back on.

This is entirely plausible, as under the table the Obama admin promised
Jewish leaders that if they kept their mouths shut on the US rejoining the
Islamic charade of a UN Human Rights Council, Durban II would be a no go.
Now unsurprisingly they're likely to find out that you can't trust a liar,
and that both Durban II and the UNHRC are a go.

Senior U.S. officials in Washington and New York are leaning in favor of
participating in the "Durban 2" UN-sponsored anti-racism conference
scheduled to take place on April 20 in Geneva, diplomatic sources said on
Sunday.

The diplomats, who share a close working relationship with the American
delegation to the United Nations, informed leading Jewish officials in New York
that Washington has increasingly become convinced of the need to
dispatch representatives to the conference.

This is all part of the same card game, dealing from the bottom of the deck,

and stringing along Jewish groups hoping for some sign of pity or fair

dealing, only to wind up cheated and lied to again and again.

Across the blogsphere, Doug Ross at Director Blue

has your FairTax brochures in time for the Tea Party.

At Israpundit, Ted Belman writes that the Punjab is now in play.

Lemon Lime Moon takes on piracy for fun and profit

Debbie Schlussel takes a look at Pat Buchanan's support
for yet another Nazi.

Solstice Witch brings word on Operation Rooster

Via Dragon Dirt, Sharpton has picked up the meme I wrote about this week,

calling the pirates of Somalia, a "Voluntary Coast Guard".

Via Islamic Danger to Americans, an article at Citizen Warrior asking whether
it's time to defang Islam.

And at the Fox Forum blogs, the American Legion responds to the Obama Administration's politicized scapegoating of veterans.

The Struggle for America's Soul - a Nation of Laws or a People of Pop
Culture

Posted: 13 Apr 2009 07:53 PM PDT

When Benjamin Franklin was asked at the close of the 1787 Constitutional

Convention, "What have we got— a Republic or a Monarchy?”, the learned

gentleman answered both wisely and cynically, “A Republic, if you

can keep it.”

Can we keep it? That's the question at the heart of the great struggle for

America's soul. Are we a nation of laws or a people of pop culture?

The 2008 Presidential election saw a race between an American
war hero with decades of political experience and a man with virtually no

political experience and no talent besides posing for photographs. The

larger struggle that took place was between America as a nation of laws

and the mass media and the internet distilling everything into digital

entertainment. And America lost.

When Tony Blair ushered in the New Britain, the Cool Britain, the one

detached from its many centuries of wars and history, in favor of one

defined by screaming pop stars and brazen tabloid covers-- he did to

England, what Obama's backers would do to America. It was not

America that crowned Obama, but the New America, without

standards, without laws and with no values beyond bread and

circuses.

A republic if you can keep it. Rome couldn't. In the years ahead, it

will become finally clear whether there will be a United States of

America that derives from the laws and values of over two centuries of

history-- or Obama's New America, a conglomeration of design skills,

reality tv shows, iPod commercials, magazine covers and celebrity

hysteria. Not a nation of laws, not even an empire, but a decaying

bewildered collapsing oligarchy, where gawkers hawk merchandise

with the great leader's photo, where bribery and graft control

everything-- and where the biggest employer is the government
and the only other employers worth mentioning are overseas

companies.

Call it Putin's America. Call it Obama's America.

The panic, the chaos, the devaluation, the defeatism, the depression and

the dumbing down of America all serves a purpose-- to make certain that

we can't keep the Republic. To make certain that there isn't even a

Republic left to keep.

America, the original Ownership Society, is swiftly becoming the Owned

Society. The Ownership Society meant that Americans were one of the

few citizenries that actually government themselves, because they owned

their country. The Owned Society by contrast rolls everything

together into one massive bureaucratic pyramid that owns
everything and controls everyone, from cradle to grave.

The way to turn one into the other is through disempowerment and

devaluation. And by causing people to forget that they are owners, by

promising them that life as slaves will be so much easier for them.

Why bother working hard when your new bureaucratic masters

promise to take care of you instead?

Universal health care, unlimited immigration, universal laws, universal
everything.

Come for the free chains, stay for the 16 hour ditch digging in
the volunteer community corps.

Finally and most of all, a Republic is based on reason. So reason must be

shouted down with crude slogans, with emotionalism, with biased

narratives and memes... and through recreating language itself into a

Newspeak mockery that no longer has any objective meaning.

Promise the impossible, speak in grand terms and wait for the applause.

Propose what can reasonably be done and let your proposal be debated.

That is the difference between the monarch and the President of a

Republic. It takes men and women of reason in an ownership society to

conduct business in a Republic. But any mob with any figurehead can
march around, shout, wave banners and thrill to the demagougery of

an egomaniac with a microphone. That is how most of the world is run.

America has been dumbed down, through the public miseducation

system, through multiculturalism, through second language

immigration, through racial grievance mongering, through the

lowest common denominator of entertainment-- all leading to a

society eager to give up its rights and freedoms in exchange for a

chance to gather in a mob and cheer hoarsely while they're promised

a new Golden Age just around the corner.

The Constitutional Convention was the product of a citizenry willing to

work for a Republic. The 2008 Presidential election was the work of

shills and salesmen playing to a public that no longer understands any

of the values or agendas of 1787. Instead a poverty of the intellect and

the spirit holds sway disguised by splashy design schemes and
carefully orchestrated marketing programs.

The American Experiment was not built on catering to the rule of an

ignorant and greedy mob.

It was built on the rights and responsibilities of American citizens as

individuals. Mob rule negates the Republic, the Constitution and

America itself. As Lincoln himself said, a nation cannot survive half-slave

and half-free.

Today America is half-slave and half-free and the balance is tilting toward

slavery. The slavery is not quite as dramatic, but it is every bit as real, in the
political, moral, economic, intellectual and spiritual sense. The nation is half

enslaved to a state of enforced mindlessness and ignorance.

The Civil War came about because America could not survive as a free nation

if it was half-slave. A society where rule is in the hands of the citizenry cannot
exist as a free nation if it is half slave, given time it will become a slave empire,

ruled by a handful over the groans and whimpers of the many. The Free

Power that the Union Armies fought for, was to be the power of Free Men in

industry and politics... over the power of slavery.

Today we once again face that struggle, to submit to slavery, to a nation of

slaves chained to a vast government bureaucracy, lashed by endless media

propaganda and driven to cheer their own enslavement. Or to reject slavery

and to choose freedom.

The Constitutional Convention was the work of men who would not be slaves,

it was the heritage of Patrick Henry's warning of the chains that had been

forged by a monarchy for the binding of free men, it was that same Republic

which Franklin understood could only be kept by free men.

And so the New America of Obama must fail to swallow and forever destroy

the United States of America, a nation ruled by laws, a Constitutional Republic

in which rights and freedoms are vested in the individual.