A Smaller Fish To Fry

In our National Interest lies Lybia(sic) just like a boil waiting to be lanced. Lo! over there, isn't that Syria?

Oh Lebanon and Egypt ~~Tunisia and Bahrain~~Algeria ~~ Morocco~~ The whole friggin' southern Mediterranean, What in the world is going on?

I can't wait for our President to 'splain it all to US tonight. I'm sure somewhere betwixt all the theories about protecting Europe's oil supply and anti-colonial Islamo-resurgency enabling we will get to see another facet of the charade that masks our CIC with the Islamic/ African sounding name. All I can see through all this is a noose encircling Israel and no word of comfort for an ally will be forthcoming from the top levels of the representation of our Nation.

Stuff is happening right before our eyes, and it won't be pretty when its all played out.

What A Pickle

First we are ousting a dictator, then we are just preventing him from killing his civilians. We are bombing his compound but not trying to assassinate him. We are arming the rebels and hoping they can do the dirty work. But lo and behold who is also joining the rebels??

Hint: first name is Al-

This is sure a fine mess our political class has our stricken country wallowing in.

Lives created or saved.

There's a future out there that needs... winning. Duh!

UNtil Now UNthinkable UNHoly Alliance

I have read some most interesting takes on what is going on in the Middle East now that we have opened up yet another can of worms. History is in the process of writing itself. But its also a re-run.

Under the rule of Pres. Obama the US has confounded allies and emboldened Nations hostile to US benevolence. The Presidents aloof and casual reactions belie the gravity of the matter at hand. At best we may be witnessing the beginning of WW III and at worst there are a few more prophecies in the Bible that will be fulfilled before there is no longer any way to doubt.

Israel has been our most faithful friend in the Middle East and a beacon of freedom in an otherwise harsh totalitarian jungle. The recent breakdown of the old order has me concerned for what little peace they have now. Almost all potential changes seem to be more perilous for our friends. World events appear to be guiding and tracking a most dangerous path. The most anti American players are even getting enriched by the turmoil.

The Orchestration of these incidences and the viral nature make me certain we are witnessing Demonic influence on a global scale. I would hate to think Obama is complicit but I am certain he is unaware and getting played right along with The Nations of the World, the good, the bad and the Ugly. Its a spectacle both fascinating and terrifying all at the same time.

The Liberals in our country have always looked up to the United Nations as more Utopian because they need to believe that secular Humanity can self correct. And what better than the all inclusive UN to represent all the good in the world? If it were possible, ok, but... Human Nature says otherwise. So the Liberals have been Hell -bent on ceding our sovereign power to a corrupt body where hypocrisy sits on the Security Council.

I can only imagine a day when we must overthrow our own Government once again because of corruption and unconstitutional behaviours and then We the People have to fight the UN who intervene for the good of ? what? European socialism? Islamic dictatorship? Chinese Communism? My God, so many precedents are being set and so many of them are for evil ends.

I now know for certain what I have always guessed to be all we can do,

and that is to pray.

And remain vigilant.

Risk Averse

Japan had their big one last week, volcanoes erupting and now another earthquake near Tokyo. So far they are weathering the storm. How much longer can they withstand explosions in their reactors, melt down conditions, and aftershocks both geological and humanitarian?

Here in the US we are having questions of energy and how and where we obtain it. With plenty of our own resources but no willingness to exploit them we put our future in the hands of environmentalists and Middle Eastern despots, and market manipulators. On one hand using up other countries resources before our own makes National Security sense but is so hypocritical it's oxy-moronic. We can do a more responsible job of retrieving oil, natural gas and coal than 3rd world countries can. We can make a nuclear reactor able to withstand the forces of nature better than Iran, Syria, N. Korea or China. Why don't we?

And will they?

Fear is the factor driving all the decisions in the world anymore. We used to want to go to the moon and Mars, but a few mishaps and budgetary concerns have grounded NASA. Nuclear energy could solve a lot of needs but now Japan will be in the back of every new decision on permits and environmental impacts. A blown up oil well halts undersea drilling, heck it halted all drilling contrary to our Chief Executive's feeble lies. If we were so worried about safety would we drive around in any car less than armored or would we ever fly anywhere in any type of aircraft? Would we be willing to step outside our own front door?

Society has become so afraid of its own self we are paralyzed to attempt any thing adventurous or risky when the path is less than certain. I believe it is because western

society has placed a high price on life. As it should. Yet, at the same time moving forward has a price, also. Somewhere out here in the secular West we have lost some faith in our ability to have God direct the way. Some people even rebel from this golden corral by doing crazy stunts and taking up death defying past times.

So the higher we go the farther we have to fall. Meanwhile we tie ourselves up with a zillion cords of red tape from regulations to impact studies and reasons not to try. We are protecting our children at the same time we are impoverishing them with mountains of debt. We are sealing our own fate by trying to create a world where there are no negative outcomes. It will be bland and at the same time suffocating. We will be at the mercy of those who refuse to answer to our higher code, we will diminish and a brave, bold and possibly evil usurper will meet no resistance from US at all.

Our needs are being met by our loving creator, we just need to have faith and believe it. We just need to live.

Civilization Perched

The world seems to be teetering at the edge, of calamity on one side, or a brighter day on the other. Like my own circumstance sometimes it really does appear to be the new normal. Hope and despair intertwined, inextricably coupled into a symbiotic synergy.

I choose the brighter day and will exhaust myself in all effort to make it come to pass.

Whether Vain

"For the first time in my adult life I am embarrassed for my country"

Turn a phrase on its ear.

The Pot calling the kettle Balack.

What leadership looks like when it's actually leading.

A crisis a Day is all we ask.

Party like its 2011

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Here We Go Again

In 2008 America was treated to a spike in oil that preceded the collapse of the economy overall. The political will was there for a moment to get our own oil and leave behind the ridiculous dependence on other countries when we could satisfy our own demands. When the economy tanked the price per barrel worldwide slumped and the price at the pump also went way down. It didn't help a whole lot that gas was affordable again when there was no food or work. We even elected a novice community organizer to the Presidency over that whole fiasco. Ironically, now we are getting close to another election season and Obama's deft handling of Mid East crisis and his desires for wind and solar and benefitting Environmentalists over energy producers has brought US back to 4$ a gallon gasoline,with a fragile economy to boot.

Which way to go?

I have no faith in the American voter or in the media who have a duty to inform and maddeningly only tell one side of the story.

Take Wisconsin for example. The voters chose to try and bring sanity to their budget and debt problems and voted one political party in, a party in favor of reforms. No reporting brings in line what the options are for the future. Only what the union wants now seems to be the angle of the stories on this mess. Only what makes the liberals appear to be reasonable, when in fact their policy direction is really robbing from their children and grandchildren. Where are the stories and the badgering of the Lawmakers who have chosen to run and hide in Illinois so they won't have to face a vote? Where are the stories that would compare those tactics to our President voting present while he was a state legislator?

Just because a deal got made, if it was made in bad faith, like paying unions off for votes, then when that deal is found unsustainable it must be redone, undone. Do these strikers want to sit there with their small fortunes while everything around them crumbles and decays? Mathematics appears to be one subject they don't teach well in Wisconsin. Or logic either.

There's a New Sheriff in Town

The New Barrack is a lot like 'ole Mubarak, but Musharef could be the one in jail. Algeria and Yemen, Bahrain and Tunisia, Lebanon Gaza and even Saudi Arabia are all sweating it out right now. Its a powder keg and it will be interesting to see if the desire for freedom is more powerful than hatred for others who believe and worship just a little bit different.

I know Obama wants to be President of the world, but all this spinning out of His control has to cause a moment of reflection.

The Passing of the Olde World Order

With the Middle East in turmoil and a world economy in doldrums its worth remembering that we were promised change, and now our hope may be left to nostalgia and more revolution.

It seems curious and curioser that the big O keeps siding with the wrong players in most every major domestic and international dust up he encounters. Remember Honduras and how Obama wanted to return that commie to his "Presidency"? Now the health care bill is ruled unconstitutional and O presses on, then there was Arizona's immigration bill and the subsequent lawsuit against a State!

When Iran was in a nearly identical situation as Egypt Obama sat silent for days when his support would have made a positive impact to possibly topple a major sponsor of international terrorism. This time he steps in and destabilizes a regime that while not great with human rights issues is a regime that stands between the radical Islamists and one of the most influential Arab countries in the ME.

What we are seeing now is the old line Middle East which was pretty horrible in itself being shaken up and opportunities are now there for the Islamascists to make gains across the board. How much worse could that get?

Turkey was let go, Lebanon was not supported, Tunisia was practically ignored, Morocco and Yemen are ready to rumble and our community organizer in Chief seems like he doesn't have a plan. At least not a plan for the benefit of real American Foreign Policy.

If any plan is being followed at all its that of agitation and upheaval and destruction of alliances that kept a semblance of peace. I know certain events are completely out of everybody's ability to orchestrate now, and if we are not already across that line we will soon know we have. So if the big money players like Soros and all the international socialists want to put this genie back in the bottle before it wishes ill on them why are they making all the mistakes and sowing the seeds of destruction for so many, maybe even themselves?

I believe its more of the methodology of creating the crisis and then coming through with the solution nobody anticipated and nobody wanted, along the lines of the 1979 revolution in Iran.

So is this we are witnessing, "smart diplomacy", or is it a call to arms for the brave foot soldiers of the leftist movement?

Critical Mass

The Middle East is at a tipping point right now and what that could do to the already fragile one world economy is truly a frightening prospect. Dominoes are falling and I imagine right now Israel is ready for things to take a different tack as they can become the distraction and pacifier for the lunacy of street rioters and venters looking for a target for their pent up frustrations. So many things signal out of control and chaos right now I see the stage being set for the man of perdition to take His place in infamy, thank God there doesn't seem to be that personality out there right now, will the vigilant know Him when he arrives?

With things going on in the world like Governments shutting down the internet and micromanaging and mitigating their manufactured crises its only a matter of time before the World again turns to War to stop these challenges to their status quo. Borders need defense for many reasons and containment of the contagion's is certainly high on everyones list, or it should be, and will be proven to be.

These times they are a tryin', for sure.

Fleece Option

For me there is a certain fascination with trying to figure out puzzles. Its part of why I love doing Masonry work, writing music and playing Keno.

There has been a controversy brewing in this country for about 3 years now on the origin of our 44th President, as a man worthy of the highest office in the land, as an American in both mindset and place of birth, and how he rose so high so fast. As Hillary Clinton famously stated, all he has ever done up to this point is give one good speech. She said that at the beginning of her failed bid for the Democrat Party nomination, and her campaign also was the first to make public the shadowy facts surrounding His entire past, from birth through college.

Now I am no conspiracy nut but the intrigue surrounding Obamas past has definitely caught my attention. If I was a novelist this plot would be magnificent. It has all the angles and mystery shrouds ever corner. I am certain at some point it was calculated to keep Obama's career achievements ephemeral. With control over the release of documents and even his thought processes history could be re written at the drop of a dime.

And now it seems that the controversy is going to be gamed to somehow delegitimize detractors as kooks and conspiracy theorists. All this could be stopped by the simple release of the actual certificate.

I am certain that there is something else being hidden here, and while it may not have anything to do with the POTUS' eligibility it may be personally embarrassing to him. Which is too bad but sometimes its not the crime, but its the cover up that is more damaging. A great mystery can captivate everybody.

I always say that honesty is the best policy and just maybe a few States will before the next election have the requirements that real proof of eligibility is necessary to be placed on their ballots. That would add another twist to this saga and I would love to see how team O wriggle around that one.

Hear Ye, Here Ye

"A Lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth gets out of bed".

What if Jared Loughnerd really was a conservative Republican? Where would all the angles of the narrative be leading US now? Censorship and Govt. power would certainly be being exercised at this very moment upon all Right leaning entities. Where would the tolerance line in the sand be drawn then? I am so afraid that with every false accusation the Left levies at the Right and is proved baseless will never count. And then, when one day there will finally be a deranged soul who nuts up and does abhorrent despicable acts against society and innocents and is found to be a Conservative, Republican, or both, all we will hear about is what factors created this inevitability. All humans show some restraint every day as they deal with slights and injustices, and even outright lies and thievery. The weak invariably succumb and flame out, some in spectacular fashion. But most people deal with real reality, and when they can't they just drown in their own self pity and fade away without harming too many people outside their immediate circle.

There is an atheistic cadre of elitists who deign themselves superior to US commoners. Who would rather rely on socialism and secular humanism to control the masses. Their faith is in themselves, for themselves, with themselves atop the heap, making the rules and enforcing their views upon US all.

Blood Libel

Libel libel, political attack, deranged psychopath, Spin spin,

"the devil made me do it"...

• Responsibility

• I was reading readers comments to pundits reactions of the shooting of congresswoman Giffords and some of the things said make me wonder what country we are living in. How come everyone is trying to place the blame for this heinous atrocity everywhere but at the doorstep of one Jared Loughnerd? Here is a sample of some of the grousing and vitriol toward Sarah Palin

All about her… She needs to shut up and shut her operations down.BY JR NNIFER on 01/12/2011 at 07:55

This woman is a sad, selfish, stupid opportunist. She should be SILENT.BY EDWARD on 01/12/2011 at 08:05

The stupid liberals (which means all of them) are OBSESSED WITH SARAH PALIN. It is a sickness not seen since Ronald Reagan was in office. Liberals are truly a sorry bunch. I think even some liberals are beginning to see this sickness.BY ABE on 01/12/2011 at 08:13

That's right - she has no business speaking about this situation. This has nothing to do with her. It has everything to do with a crazy, drug abusing, radical leftist who acted alone and with malice. Sarah Palin should go about her own business and keep quiet.BY TONY on 01/12/2011 at 08:16

Well said, Mrs. President.BY BURTONROBSON on 01/12/2011 at 08:17

Classic Sarah, it's the media's fault. This killer could have asked her on camera if she was proud of him and she'd blame the media. Must there be deaths directly related to her words before she grows up and shuts up.When will she take responsibility for her words and actions? What is wrong with our country ? Who would support someone this self absorbed?BY MOMMADUKES on 01/12/2011 at 08:18

Sarah Palin is a patriot and a wonderful example of a conservative. I thought BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome) was bad…PDS is 10 times worse. You lefty losers should be ashamed of yourselves.BY LIAMD2 on 01/12/2011 at 08:18

Good for Sarah. Tell the haters where to stick it.BY JWF on 01/12/2011 at 08:20

"Morons, your bus is leaving." This 22 year old shooter is the only person responsible for this tragedy. The left is for free speech until the free speech conflicts with their views.BY MIKE WILLIAMS on 01/12/2011 at 08:22

This woman is a disgrace. The media treat her with kid gloves, pretending she is some harmless dingbat "Mama Grizzly", but she is really a terrorist, inciting anti-American violence by telling her idiot followers to RELOAD and placing rifle targets over representatives districts. Shame shame shame on her.BY SEQUOIA on 01/12/2011 at 08:23

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Lets Get On With the Business of Governing, or...

Garbage in and garbage out.

California changed figureheads and we get a whole new batch of rules. The country changed a legislative body and lets hope we get some serious forward thinking problem solving as we are only a few short years away from the tank. Just like a football team thats a little too little too late I pray our world can straighten itself out here and now. However, now that my children are old enough to attest to the way things were and stand on their own two feet, with a little help still of course, I am ready to say we do need the old way to fall if it can be replaced by true freedom. If the only way this world can keep on its present course is more indebtedness then the course needs to be changed and reverse could be a viable option if its moved back by around 50 years. Which ironically is just about my lifetime, imagine that.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

WHY?

The START treaty needs to be stopped, or at least slowed. I heard today that Russia wants no amendments to this treaty signed already by POTUS Obama but needing to be ratified by congress. I can only ask why our President is in this headlong rush to get this deal inked and permanent before the new more balanced congress convenes at the beginning of the new year. The last election had consequences and the Dems seem to want to complete their banishment with a flurry of last minute legislation aimed at weakening our countries national defense and our economic viability. Two legs

of the stool our whole house of cards is stacked upon right now. I continually wonder why moves are being made that make US weaker. In this time that just begs for national unity what is there to possibly be gained by these fantasies of the leftists being turned to reality?

And on a similar note the state of California going it alone on their own cap and trade scheme really is impossible to rectify with common sense that says in times of crisis just do no more harm. We are slitting our wrists even as we have already lost almost all our lifeblood to cerebral hemorrhage. And now Schwarzzy is cozying up to Obama for a Climate Change gig now that he helped bankrupt this once great state. It's really too much to swallow, I can only ask,

why?

Rain Rain

After about 4 straight drier than normal years of winter rainfall here last winter was a welcome return

to normalcy. We started this wet season off with some rain and it seemed like we would be in good shape again to have a normal winter rainfall accumulation. Since I don't have a TV I am not barraged with running totals on the weather report on which percentage of normal we are at and how much snow is in the Sierra and all that. But I can say in my semi expert opinion, I have found that construction workers, and probably farmers, are better weather forecasters than what gets trotted out on the local TV stations. And this seems like a year for potential flooding. I guess with the value of water in this state we should be very thankful, and I am also thankful to have 1 job under cover and one ready for a finish coat and curing beautifully as I sit here dry and typing.

The global warming (now climate change) hysteria and myth must sooner or later be put to rest and we can all just say that the weather is so much bigger and more complex than any of us can realize. The Earth moves in and out of Ice ages and the sun has calm and active periods and we are along to witness the different phases and hang on to weather any storm. We self inflict many troubles upon ourselves as Nations and individuals but one thing I am most certain is that weather is not something we have any control over whether we want to admit it or not.

Big Game Mania

The San Francisco 49ers have had one heck of a disappointing season so far. In the preseason they were looked at as a team that could not miss the playoffs for the 10th straight season or however long it has been. They rolled through San Diego, Minnesota, Indianapolis, and the Raiders and looked like they were going somewhere they haven't been in recent memory, the playoffs. Then came the ugliness of the regular season and ineptitude and just really bad football, really hard to watch football. 0-5 right out of the gate, oof. but then a little fighting and some professional soul searching and they righted their ship, somewhat. Every big game this year they have had a chance to step up thy have stepped back. After being 1-6 and alternating victories with losses to the point they are 5-8 it is really a miracle they still have a shot at the division at all. Once again this weak division will be represented by a team right around .500, and this year possibly 7-9. If the 49ers make it to the playoffs they will most likely be 8-8 and on a nice little end of the season roll, something we used to take for granted from this team was a very strong December run into the playoffs and a team that once in the playoffs had a great chance to go all the way. Of course those days are long gone now and we don't expect much from this team anymore. But the SF Giants caught some magic and just maybe the Niners can too. They will have to be playing great right when they need to be this year, and as much as I would like to jump on the bandwagon it seems every time I get into the hype the last few years the team comes out flat and disappoints again. I will be watching Thursday evening and throwing a grain of salt over my shoulder.

Heres to hoping they can play their best game of the year against a tough team, ironically the very city team (San Diego) the SF Giants had to get past in their improbable run to the MLB championship. Lots of interesting angles here and at least for one more week we have a football team to cheer for playing a meaningful game in December,

always so much fun.

UpDate January 17 2010

Last nights game really made me realize how much a waste of time it is being emotionally involved in pro sports. The "professional" athletes go home the next day or into their offseason still multi-millionaires and the fans get to dream of the what-ifs and next year and all that garbage. What I witnessed last night was embarrassing and pathetic. In the biggest game of the year the 49ers went for a running play on 4th and inches at the goal line(whatever happened to the quarterback sneak!) they had a kick return(opening the second half) for a TD called back for a penalty, then after a 3 and out and a punt they drop a sure game changing interception, I mean with so many squandered opportunities you would think you were watching Obama and the Democrat controlled congress here. I give up, and if the League does do a strike and kill themselves off like that count me as one who could not care less. What a waste of time and effort it is to invest in these big babies.