Barbara Boxer Worked So Hard to Get Titled

Perhaps some of you remember Barbara Boxer’s sitting pouting at being called “ma’am” by a Senior Military Officer at a Senate conference meeting.    In her Boxer tones of snot and condescension, she informed the officer that she ‘had worked so hard” to get the title, “SENATOR”.

It is military protocol for women to be addressed as “Ma”am” which is considered  equal to the “Sir” as an official address to men, the officer who was confronted,  explained….remember?

Wasn’t enough for Barbara.    Check this re-enactment presented by David Zucker of the scene and more to try to understand better, what California sends to the Senate, these days of its bankruptcy.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/10/22/zucker_apologizes_for_supporting_boxer_through_satirical_scene.html

Mr. Minneapolis in Washington, Keith Ellison, Claims Juan Williams “Made an Ugly, Bigotted Statement!”

Why would he say such a thing, asks Muslimman, Keith Ellison, the Choice Congressman of the People of the City of Minneapolis, Minnesota.   “It’s just an ugly bigotted statement”.    “He should apologize to the people of this country!”   “Profiling”…..”Harrassing Americans”…..”UnAmerican”…

These words are from this Muslim Congressman’s mouth regarding Juan Williams statements.

The ignorance of this representative from Minneapolis is as  magnificent and profound as it is obvious.

Juan Williams made no such statements.  Juan Williams expressed an honest feeling from the  private pages of his thinking….both ……..NOT PERMITTED IN EITHER TYRANNIES, THE MUSLIM OR THE MARXIST!

No American should ever forget these systems of governance, the Muslim and the Marxist, are among the most degrading ever to have cursed mankind.    Open your eyes, ears, and minds, fellow Americans.  KNOW the history of the chains placed upon those who have suffered from these enslavers.   

Let Mr. Ellison govern the Leftists of Minneapolis, but learn to recognize who he is and whom he represents.  Follow his languag, for a start.

Click on to hear the Muslim Congressman express knowledge and understanding:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/10/22/muslim_congressman_juan_williams_is_un-american.html

Every American should keep keenly posted to the politics of this marriage between the Obama-Soros Marxists and the  soft sell Muslim jihadists like Keith Ellison in their battles against traditional American values.  

This is not the first time in history two great authoritarian systems each providing an opposite tyranny, have partnered against free societies.

More on the Juan Williams Sack

Patrick Maines at USA TODAY writes this regarding NPR firing Juan Williams:

“Though the dust hasn’t even begun to settle, it’s already clear what many people, of varying political stripes, think of the way NPR has handled the Williams affair: They think it’s a disaster. As Howard Kurtz put it in a Daily Beast piece: “His firing has backfired, handing FOX a victory and making Williams a symbol of liberal intolerance — on the very day NPR announced a grant from George Soros that it never should have accepted.”Indeed, the Soros revelation, combined with Republican and (especially) conservative antipathy for taxpayer support of PBS and NPR, guarantee that the Williams flap is not going away any time soon. As lamented here, there has been a coordinated and richly financed effort underway for months that has, as part of its aim, a substantial increase in government funding for public media generally, and that would oblige PBS member stations to redirect their news programs to more local coverage — the very thing that Soros’s contribution is designed to facilitate at NPR.But that is a story that will play itself out in days to come. Front and center now is the question of the impact of the Williams affair on NPR, in which regard it might be useful to examine a couple statements; the offending one, made by Williams, and another, made after his firing, by the president of NPR, Vivian Schiller.Here’s Williams’ comment: “Look, Bill, I’m not a bigot. But when I get on a plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous.”And here’s Schiller’s: “Juan Williams should have kept his feelings about Muslims between himself and his psychiatrist or his publicist.”Under pressure, Schiller later apologized for her remark, but going forward that may not mean much. Put it this way, of these two comments which one do you think is the most mean-spirited and intemperate? And of the acts at issue — Williams’ comments or his firing — which one do you think does more damage to NPR?Yes, I think so too.”

Comment:  I hopo everyone will spend the time to witness Vivian Schiller’s performances in this matter on video.  Usually a company is a reflection of those who steer it.  

NPR is heavily seasoned with this Ms. Pinch-of-Salt, Schiller.  It is what she and Nina Totenberg are….foul, ugly, and lefty.  Remember:  “Handsome is as Handsome does.”

Roger Kimball’s “A Modest Proposal to the French”

Roger writes about the French at PajamasMedia:

“There they go again: blocking traffic, disrupting fuel supplies, marching in protest against . . .  against what? Why, against the draconian proposal by the French government that the retirement age be raised from sixty to sixty-two.

Yes, that’s right folks: the mean French government is actually asking French citizens to work for a living. Can you believe it?  The next thing you know, they’ll be wanting to overturn the law prohibiting people in France from working more than 35 hours a week. In la belle France, it is (with some exceptions) against the law to work more than 35 hours a week. Nice non-work, if you can get it!

But back to the current protests by students, so-called “workers” (who obviously do very little work), and assorted canaille. President Sarkozy is pulling his hair out over their childish tantrums, and I can’t blame him. I mean, it’s not even springtime, the traditional season of French strikes, protests, etc., and here the children are restless, disrupting air traffic, destroying private property, and generally making a nuisance of themselves.

I have a proposition for you, Monsieur le Président.  When the United States instituted its social security program back in the 1930s, normal retirement age was 65 and average male life expectancy for whites was somewhere around 68.  So the gap between retirement and one’s final reward was, on average, only a few years.

Now,  life expectancy in the U.S. has been creeping up. As of 2008, it was close to 79.  Retirement age has also been creeping up, only more slowly, doubtless too slowly. Your problem, Mr. President, is that the French retirement age has bee creeping down, not up, while your life expectancy has been marching forward.  According to the world bank it is now over 81.”

Comment:   At least we know what the priorities of the French are.  Why doesn’t the government start reducing  pensions pay  per person starting at age 65, by 30% a  year……just as a hint?

Powerline: Mantz on a Mission

This article at Powerline caught my eye and so I turned to the video to “meet” Captain Mantz.  Let us not forget the men who meet such peril in order to keep our democracy alive.

This article was written by Scott W. Johnson:

“We wrote about the incredible story of Army Captain Joshua Mantz in “Mantz on a mission.” Captain Mantz was patrolling in Bagdhad with the First Infantry Division on April 21, 2007, when he was hit by an armor-piercing bullet that killed Staff Sergeant Marlon Harper. Part of the same bullet that killed Sergeant Harper then exited, hit Captain Mantz and severed Mantz’s femoral artery. Captain Mantz bled out and went into a flatline condition for 15 minutes.

What happened next to Captain Mantz is something like a miracle, related by Thom Shanker in a New York Times At War blog post. Shanker also filled readers in on the story of Captain’s Mantz’s recuperation at Walter Reed and his return to service in Iraq with the same unit he was leading at the time of his injury.

On Fox News this past spring, Captain Mantz discussed the mission he feels he was saved to perform. Captain Mantz seeks to help get assistance to soldiers struggling with the emotional and psychological aftereffects of battle and injury. No funding for centers devoted to helping soldiers with such issues has been provided to fill a recognized need. He wants to do something about it. Shanker concluded his report with this view of Captain Mantz at Fort Riley alluding to his mission:

Captain Mantz currently is assigned as aide-de-camp to Brig. Gen. David C. Petersen, the deputy commanding general of the First Infantry Division at Fort Riley, and is expecting to return to Iraq as a company commander early next year. In the meantime, he has decided to tell his story as often as anyone will listen.

A few weeks ago, Fort Riley hosted a counseling session for spouses and parents of those killed in combat. Captain Mantz was approached by a mother whose son had been killed by a high-powered improvised explosive. She said the explosion had severed both of his legs at the waist, and she had been tormented wondering what her son, a hard-charging, type-A personality, had felt and thought in his last moments.

“The question that bothered her for the last three years was, ‘I wonder if my son lost the will to live because he knew his legs were gone and knew he couldn’t walk ever again. I wonder if he gave up.’ I was able to look her straight in the eye, and tell her that I used to think the same thing. I used to think that I’d rather die than lose a limb in combat. But as soon as I was shot, that thought went completely out of the window. I couldn’t have said to the doctor fast enough, ‘Take my leg! I’ll figure the rest out later!’ As I answered her question, I could see it in her eyes that I gave her a little bit of closure. And that was a question that only I could answer.”

While others ask him questions, there is one he asked himself: Why am I still here?

“I never thought I’d get an answer to that question until that mother walked up to me that day,” Captain Mantz said. “Your experiences are valuable in ways you may not realize yet. I strongly encourage you to talk about them. You’ll never know who you’re going to help.”

Please click on to hear Captain Mantz explain:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBST69MikgY

And let us all do what we can to help our servicemen….our heroes.

Peggy Noonan’s “Tea Party to the Rescue” of Moribund Republicans

in Saturday’s Wall Street Journal.  She writes (without the “moribund” part in the title):

“Two central facts give shape to the historic 2010 election. The first is not understood by Republicans, and the second not admitted by Democrats.

The first: the tea party is not a “threat” to the Republican Party, the tea party saved the Republican Party. In a broad sense, the tea party rescued it from being the fat, unhappy, querulous creature it had become, a party that didn’t remember anymore why it existed, or what its historical purpose was. The tea party, with its energy and earnestness, restored the GOP to itself.

In a practical sense, the tea party saved the Republican Party in this cycle by not going third-party. It could have. The broadly based, locally autonomous movement seems to have made a rolling decision, group by group, to take part in Republican primaries and back Republican hopefuls. (According to the Center for the Study of the American Electorate, four million more Republicans voted in primaries this year than Democrats, the GOP’s highest such turnout since 1970. I wonder who those people were?)

Because of this, because they did not go third-party, Nov. 2 is not going to be a disaster for the Republicans, but a triumph.

The tea party did something the Republican establishment was incapable of doing: It got the party out from under George W. Bush. The tea party rejected his administration’s spending, overreach and immigration proposals, among other items, and has become only too willing to say so. In doing this, the tea party allowed the Republican establishment itself to get out from under Mr. Bush: “We had to, boss, it was a political necessity!” They released the GOP establishment from its shame cringe.

And they not only freed the Washington establishment, they woke it up. That establishment, composed largely of 50- to 75-year-olds who came to Washington during the Reagan era in a great rush of idealism, in many cases stayed on, as they say, not to do good but to do well. They populated a conservative infrastructure that barely existed when Reagan was coming up: the think tanks and PR groups, the media outlets and governmental organizations. They did not do what conservatives are supposed to do, which is finish their patriotic work and go home, taking the knowledge and sophistication derived from Washington and applying it to local problems. (This accounts in part for the esteem in which former Bush budget chief and current Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels is held. He went home.)

The GOP establishment stayed, and one way or another lived off government, breathed in its ways and came to know—learned all too well!—the limits of what is possible and passable. Part of the social and cultural reality behind the tea party-GOP establishment split has been the sheer fact that tea partiers live in non-D.C. America. The establishment came from America, but hasn’t lived there in a long time.

I know and respect some of the establishmentarians, but after dinner, on the third glass of wine, when they get misty-eyed about Reagan and the old days, they are not, I think, weeping for him and what he did but for themselves and who they were. Back when they were new and believed in something.

Actually, Maureen “Moe” Tucker, former drummer of the Velvet Underground, has done the best job ever of explaining where the tea party stands and why it stands there. She also suggests the breadth and variety of the movement. In an interview this week in St. Louis’s Riverfront Times, Ms. Tucker said she’d never been particularly political but grew alarmed by the direction the country was taking. In the summer of 2009, she went to a tea-party rally in southern Georgia. A chance man-on-the-street interview became a YouTube sensation. No one on the left could believe this intelligent rally-goer was the former drummer of the 1960s breakthrough band; no one on the left understood that an artist could be a tea partier. Because that’s so not cool, and the Velvet Underground was cool.

Ms. Tucker, in the interview, ran through the misconceptions people have about tea partiers: “that they’re all racists, they’re all religious nuts, they’re all uninformed, they’re all stupid, they want no taxes at all and no regulations whatsoever.” These stereotypes, she observed, are encouraged by Democrats to keep their base “on their side.” But she is not a stereotype: “Anyone who thinks I’m crazy about Sarah Palin, Bush, etc., has made quite the presumption. I have voted Democrat all my life, until I started listening to what Obama was promising and started wondering how the hell will this utopian dream be paid for?”

There is also this week a striking essay by Fareed Zakaria, no tea partier he, in Time magazine. He unknowingly touched on part of the reason for the tea party. Mr. Zakaria, born and raised in India, got his first sense of America’s vitality, outsized ways, glamour and crazy high-spiritedness as a young boy in the late 1970s watching bootlegged videotapes of “Dallas.” What a country! His own land, in comparison, seemed sleepy, hidebound. Now when he travels to India, “it’s as if the world has been turned upside down. Indians are brimming with hope and faith in the future. After centuries of stagnation, their economy is on the move, fueling animal spirits and ambition. The whole country feels as if it has been unlocked.” Meanwhile the mood in the U.S. seems glum, dispirited. “The middle class, in particular, feels under assault.” Sixty-three percent of Americans say they do not think they will be able to maintain their current standard of living. “The can-do country is convinced that it can’t.”

All true. And yet. We may be witnessing a new political dynamism. The tea party’s rise reflects anything but fatalism, and maybe even a new high-spiritedness. After all, they’re only two years old and they just saved a political party and woke up an elephant.

The second fact of 2010 is understood by Republicans but not admitted by Democrats. It is that this is a fully nationalized election, and at its center it is about one thing: Barack Obama.

It is not, broadly, about the strengths or weaknesses of various local candidates, about constituent services or seniority, although these elements will be at play in some outcomes, Barney Frank’s race likely being one. But it is significant that this year Mr. Frank is in the race of his life, and this week on TV he did not portray the finger-drumming smugness and impatience with your foolishness he usually displays on talk shows. He looked pale and mildly concussed, like someone who just found out that liberals die, too.

This election is about one man, Barack Obama, who fairly or not represents the following: the status quo, Washington, leftism, Nancy Pelosi, Fannie and Freddie, and deficits in trillions, not billions.

Everyone who votes is going to be pretty much voting yay or nay on all of that. And nothing can change that story line now.”

Comment:  For about three years I was a member of Republican gathering of party regulars in a Twin Cities (Minnesota) suburban state senate District.   They called themselves the Executive Committee of that Senate District.   They were supposed to oil the district business and assist its candidates for office to the best of their abilities.

They were nice people….Church people…..Many of the twelve or so who were supposed to be members had been around for a long, long time.  As with many somewhat successful volunteer groups, they earned their keep through there loyalty to do the paper work, the nuts and bolts of year to year party existence.

They were proud to say during the Obama-Hillary tussle for nomination to run to the “top” in 2008, that they wouldn’t waste their time watching the  “debates” between the two Democrat contestants.

One might say that their comments here showed that they were committed to their Party come-what-may, but that should not be in question.   The nation is in a civil war.  It’s previous Christian identity has been made to appear ugly by the nation’s academes and teacher corps who learned their ignorance in universities as a prelude requirement to work for the State to preach Marxism to the State’s children. 

Most had the basic concept of old time Republican Party concepts…..smaller government….pay your bills…..be personally responsible for your actions……and most would include, “in God I trust”.

But, they didn’t seem to be able to articulate it if they were caught to do so.  They would simplybecome upset….emotional…rather than to develop their skills to defend and explain their views.  

One can first of all, listen to ones opponents…..list the issues they might examine and even outline, and pay close attention them.  Examine the points made and imagine the tomorrow of these points.  What is the future of these points if they become policy or law?  Women are not good at this, by the way.   As a group there seems to be a romance for the immediate which over rides any picture of tomorrow.  They generally have a different set of priorities, starting with what offers them a sense of security…of being protected and financially able.

No one ever discussed issues of any kind in depth.   It wasn’t necessary.   The only thing that mattered was that they gathered as Republicans to ……..well, that was always rather unknown….gather and meet, gather and meet..etc.

Moribund, dead weight, circular, remote, tired, elderly, and more words of this kind you can think of….rather locals who had the same profile as the few folks they actually elected to go to the state capital or to Washington. …..and they were jealous of their “office”.

I agree entirely with those who believe the Tea Party has been a God send to the moribund GOP.  It has been a Party of the reactive.   It probably always will be to some degree.   The American Left claims it is Progressive….and always on the move…forward…we are moving forward….Obama’s health bill is a step FORWARD….always forward….TO WHAT END??????

TO THE NANNY STATE AND MARXIST DICTATORSHIP…That is the inevitable end of the FORWARD of the Progressive’s politics.  To the point where all (except the Marxists making the decisions of YOUR life) citizens are forced to be equal.   Since none of us are equal in ability and such, Marxism must enforce equality by law and therefore by POLICE POWER….usually in the form of a secret police along with the regular military and local law enforcement enterprises.

The Tea Party has indeed exercised the moribund to be less moribund.  We shall see at midnight at the end of the day, November 2, 2010, how moribund they are or aren’t.