We all remembered the somber day when 911 occurred, and since then the America haters have rationalized why terrorists did what they did and continue planning to murder us. Many who rationalize wanton murder against innocents live here or will move heaven and earth to be here. I found it ironic that a couple years ago, when there was an earthquake in the Qom in Iran, that America sent supplies, which was received, notwithstanding we being the “Great Satan.” As I write, there were tragic floods in Pakistan, and of course, the bulk of the aid will come from these “satanic” shores. To all you America haters I have taken the liberty of listing why this country is special
It is a mark of greatness for a country that its citizens who were born impaired can become handy-capable because of the services said country provide. Somewhere in some baseball farm system, a poor immigrant young man will start the journey of becoming a highly paid athlete; in some park or mall, a little girl or boy will be discovered and become some future matinee idol; somewhere in a small town, someone will randomly choose numbers that will net him or her millions in winning the lottery; many across this country make a good living without breaking a sweat; and somewhere, some murderer will be given gratis a mouth peace advocate to defend him vigorously.
Somewhere, there is an immigrant berating the country or perhaps addressing someone in authority with colorful metaphors - something that would have gotten him or her incarcerated or killed in his native country; somewhere, there are Africans, Cubans, Haitians, Chinese, Arabs, and West Indians, are paying great sacrifices to get to these shores; somewhere, someone is putting lyrics to a beat, which will shortly be paying dividends because it will become an anthem; somewhere, there are those working in garages who will come up with some technological advent and change our way of living for the better; the coming fiscal years, much will be tabulated of the donated monies, that ended up in the coffers of various charities, which will worth more than the GDP of many a country.
For those who may hate America, look around you and probably all the amenities you see in your homes… were invented in America. The author of this blog, with many odds against him, came here, obtained a GED, joined the United States Army, and used his GI Bill to pay and go to college and then Law school; in addition, because of the education he received, which made him even more aware of the freedoms afforded here, he thank God through his Son Jesus Christ that he has the freedom to worship in peace.
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Not Too Subtle Warnings From Imam Who Wants Mosque At Ground Zero
In listening to the Imam on Larry king Wednesday, we are told that he could not and would not recommend changing the site of the scheduled mosque because it would put us in the cross hairs of radical Muslims… making us a target, so much. The Imam even chalked up his concerns and relegated the backlash to a matter of national security. The reporter, with her puppy-dog eyes, did not remind the Imam how come all of sudden America is against Muslims when the landscape is replete with mosques. We are to believe that the vast majority who oppose the mosque are racist… when no retaliation was taken against Muslims during the rawness of 911 – and rightfully so - but now we are a nation of raging racist people… engendering hard feelings against Americans by the radicals.
I have questions for the Imam and those who think that our actions caused the radicalization of some Muslims: what was it that caused radicals to blow up the Khobar Towers; the attack on the USS Cole; the destruction of the embassies in East Africa; the 2002 destruction of the Bali night clubs where dozens of innocent died; and the first attempted destruction of the World Trade Center where lives were lost? Perhaps, the intrepid CNN reporter should have asked the Imam about all these acts that were done prior to any American invasion of Iraq or Afghanistan… and underscoring that many of these terrorist acts occurred when President Clinton was in office. Preventing radicalization and anything we may do now is of little consequence - that ship seemed to have sailed.
I have questions for the Imam and those who think that our actions caused the radicalization of some Muslims: what was it that caused radicals to blow up the Khobar Towers; the attack on the USS Cole; the destruction of the embassies in East Africa; the 2002 destruction of the Bali night clubs where dozens of innocent died; and the first attempted destruction of the World Trade Center where lives were lost? Perhaps, the intrepid CNN reporter should have asked the Imam about all these acts that were done prior to any American invasion of Iraq or Afghanistan… and underscoring that many of these terrorist acts occurred when President Clinton was in office. Preventing radicalization and anything we may do now is of little consequence - that ship seemed to have sailed.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
It Is Not Easy Being Afghan President, Hamid Kazai
The last time Afghan President, Hamid Kazai visited Washington and he was toasted with state dinners and the like to impress, or moreover, to compel him to continue to assist us in our ongoing prosecution of “The War On Terror.” This was the proven diplomatic strategy of applying the “carrot and stick” approach to influence the Afghan leader to buy into our resolve… concerning our war on terror; in essence, we are quietly conceding the fact that the “stick” option has, obviously, failed.
In all honesty, it is not easy being the Afghan president and this is not because Kazai still has to deal with those pesky Taliban fighters…who still want to keep Afghanistan in the Stone Age or the fact that the central front of our war on terror” is mostly in the Afghan theatre. No, it is not easy for President Kazai because politicians of all stripes, including Secretary of State, Clinton, are loudly calling for him to be more pro-active in fighting corruption and the lucrative heroin drug trafficking trade, ironically being allegedly perpetrated by his very own blood brother-What is a President to do?
The Biblical David wept for the death of his son, Absalom, even though Absalom tried to overthrow his him; let’s not even mention the blood letting, which rivaled the waters of Niagara Falls, done by many of the Caesars to secure the crown. Circa, modern Afghanistan, imagine a family dinner of lentil and lamb for the Kazai family… around a table with mother, father, and all the extended family sitting down, as is the wont in Afghan culture, but with President Kazai’s, alleged drug smuggling brother conspicuously absent because he was jailed or worst, killed. Also imagine the countenance of each member of the Kazai family, especially the matriarch and patriarch of the Kazai’s clan, saying to President Kazai, you were responsible for your brother’s demise by being a puppet of the “Yankee Imperialists” or an agent of the “Great Satan.”
Which one of us would be secure in our resolve to do what the American politicians and Secretary of State Clinton is asking of President Kazai… concerning his prodigal brother? Which one of us could sit around the dinner table and face a mother in a similar situation like that of President Kazai? Anyone familiar with the Biblical story of David and his son, Absalom, mentioned above, knows that it was one of David’s generals who carried out the execution of Absalom… resulting in David’s weeping profusely- this underscores the difficulty President Kazai wrestles with. Perhaps, President Kazai can gently remind the American politicians and Secretary of State Clinton that prodigal brothers have also been a problem for America too, maybe not to the extent of Kazai’s brother- but lest we forget, President Carter’s brother, Billy, and President Clinton’s brother, Roger… no need to rehash their respective problems with the law.
From the confines of cold objectivity, absent the warmth of filial emotions, it is easy for one to say to President Kazai: do what is right and arrest your brother or talk him out of partaking in trafficking heroin. One may even remind and show President Kazai the incentives of doing what is right - the fact that Afghan girls can attend school in relative safety; that women now enjoy relatively more rights than they were afforded under the brutal Taliban regime; and that Democracy, though a sapling in unfamiliar soil, has taken root, of all places, in Afghanistan… with the hope for all of its potential, positive attributes….
In all honesty, it is not easy being the Afghan president and this is not because Kazai still has to deal with those pesky Taliban fighters…who still want to keep Afghanistan in the Stone Age or the fact that the central front of our war on terror” is mostly in the Afghan theatre. No, it is not easy for President Kazai because politicians of all stripes, including Secretary of State, Clinton, are loudly calling for him to be more pro-active in fighting corruption and the lucrative heroin drug trafficking trade, ironically being allegedly perpetrated by his very own blood brother-What is a President to do?
The Biblical David wept for the death of his son, Absalom, even though Absalom tried to overthrow his him; let’s not even mention the blood letting, which rivaled the waters of Niagara Falls, done by many of the Caesars to secure the crown. Circa, modern Afghanistan, imagine a family dinner of lentil and lamb for the Kazai family… around a table with mother, father, and all the extended family sitting down, as is the wont in Afghan culture, but with President Kazai’s, alleged drug smuggling brother conspicuously absent because he was jailed or worst, killed. Also imagine the countenance of each member of the Kazai family, especially the matriarch and patriarch of the Kazai’s clan, saying to President Kazai, you were responsible for your brother’s demise by being a puppet of the “Yankee Imperialists” or an agent of the “Great Satan.”
Which one of us would be secure in our resolve to do what the American politicians and Secretary of State Clinton is asking of President Kazai… concerning his prodigal brother? Which one of us could sit around the dinner table and face a mother in a similar situation like that of President Kazai? Anyone familiar with the Biblical story of David and his son, Absalom, mentioned above, knows that it was one of David’s generals who carried out the execution of Absalom… resulting in David’s weeping profusely- this underscores the difficulty President Kazai wrestles with. Perhaps, President Kazai can gently remind the American politicians and Secretary of State Clinton that prodigal brothers have also been a problem for America too, maybe not to the extent of Kazai’s brother- but lest we forget, President Carter’s brother, Billy, and President Clinton’s brother, Roger… no need to rehash their respective problems with the law.
From the confines of cold objectivity, absent the warmth of filial emotions, it is easy for one to say to President Kazai: do what is right and arrest your brother or talk him out of partaking in trafficking heroin. One may even remind and show President Kazai the incentives of doing what is right - the fact that Afghan girls can attend school in relative safety; that women now enjoy relatively more rights than they were afforded under the brutal Taliban regime; and that Democracy, though a sapling in unfamiliar soil, has taken root, of all places, in Afghanistan… with the hope for all of its potential, positive attributes….
Monday, September 6, 2010
One Sided Tolerance
CNN’s Rich Sanchez show is reporting that General Petraeus has chastised a church in Florida and its preacher, Terry Jones, not to carry out its scheduled September 11th burning of the Koran. General Petraeus believes that such an act of the burning of the Koran would put the troops stationed in the Afghan theatre in danger, but even if there were no troops in harms way, I would still strongly recommend that Pastor Jones not undertake or disrespect the Muslim bible and faith. This is what tolerance is about notwithstanding the church’s right to carry out this burning under our Constitutional First Amendment’s rights. What you did not conveniently hear from Mr. Sanchez is the obvious juxtaposition of the mosque scheduled to be erected in the vicinity of the Ground Zero to Pastor Jones’ scheduled 911 burning of the Koran.
This mosque scheduled to be erected down at Ground Zero is surely the right of Muslims to build it, as is their rights under the Constitution - but all that are convenient under our Constitution should not always be had. Where are the talking heads and pundits who have deemed everyone who opposed the building of the Ground Zero mosque as racist? It is their wont to be typically taciturn or loudly quiet when tolerance is asked of others, but they are vociferous if the proverbial shoe is on the other foot. Just like how Pastor Jones down in Florida should forgo his Constitutional right to protest - which includes his choice of burning the Koran - so too must the advocates of the Ground Zero mosque find another site to erect their place of worship.
Like Mr. Sanchez, the rest of the biased media will not make the obvious, academic juxtaposition of what is scheduled down in Florida to the scheduled erection of the Ground Zero mosque. I cannot wait to hear the tortured logic that will excuse the juxtaposition… but yet still give credence and deference to the advocates of the Ground Zero mosque… rationalizing why those who lost loved one on 911 should put their feelings aside for the Muslims First Amendment’s right to assemble and worship. I will say again that tolerance is a two-way street, notwithstanding the like of Rick Sanchez and the media in general bias.
This mosque scheduled to be erected down at Ground Zero is surely the right of Muslims to build it, as is their rights under the Constitution - but all that are convenient under our Constitution should not always be had. Where are the talking heads and pundits who have deemed everyone who opposed the building of the Ground Zero mosque as racist? It is their wont to be typically taciturn or loudly quiet when tolerance is asked of others, but they are vociferous if the proverbial shoe is on the other foot. Just like how Pastor Jones down in Florida should forgo his Constitutional right to protest - which includes his choice of burning the Koran - so too must the advocates of the Ground Zero mosque find another site to erect their place of worship.
Like Mr. Sanchez, the rest of the biased media will not make the obvious, academic juxtaposition of what is scheduled down in Florida to the scheduled erection of the Ground Zero mosque. I cannot wait to hear the tortured logic that will excuse the juxtaposition… but yet still give credence and deference to the advocates of the Ground Zero mosque… rationalizing why those who lost loved one on 911 should put their feelings aside for the Muslims First Amendment’s right to assemble and worship. I will say again that tolerance is a two-way street, notwithstanding the like of Rick Sanchez and the media in general bias.
News From Circa 2012 And Beyond
The famous author Dan Brown, author of the Da vinci Code, whose plot centered on Jesus being married to Mary Magdalene, decided that it was only fair to give the Devil his due. As a consequence, Dan Brown has been trying to get an interview and photograph with former President George Bush, preferably with cloven hooves and horns. You may be salivating wanting to know whatever happened to the members of the troika Obama administration (Barrack Obama, Harry Reed, and Nancy Pelosi). Of note, all the faces on Mount Rushmore were replaced with that of President Barack Obama, but Harry Reed is now a professor... teaching revisionist history.
Nancy Pelosi didn’t fare so well under the socialized medicine she helped usher in; she has repeatedly sued the government for cutting back her psychotropic drugs. One only has to go down to Christopher Street in Frisco to see Nancy wearing her trade mark shirt with the caption, “Zoloft is a right, not a privilege.” Bin laden is now teaching Comparative Law, with an emphasis on Sharia Law, at Columbia University. The other members of al Queada are living it up at the Upper East Side with multiple wives; they successfully sued the government for the psychological harm attributed to water boarding and won millions - John Edwards was one of their attorneys. In a related story, some members of the Mormon faith claimed that if they had known that Bin Laden cohorts would be allowed plural marriages, they would have carried out Jihad in Utah.
You may ask what happened to Verily Prime…he was jailed for blasphemy. Apparently, he insisted in reading the original New Testament, and not the new version, which replaced the “Sermon On The Mount” found in the Gospel of Matthew, with Obama’s Inauguration 2009 speech. During the allocution of Verily Prime, the judge asked Verily Prime if he were contrite. Verily Prime answered no because President Obama appeared to be “flesh and blood” and, moreover, hadn’t walked on water during his tenure in office. The presiding judge admonished Verily Prime about being willfully blind and not paying attention to what took place between January 2009 and 2012.
After being convicted for blasphemy, Verily Prime begged the judge to be incarcerated in the best jail in the world at Guantanamo, but alas, he was turned down and sent to Fort Leavenworth. Incidentally, Al Gore, sometime in April 1st of 2012, went for a drive in his spanking brand new hybrid and was never seen again. Fox Moulder and Dana Scully from X-files fame were called in to work the case. It is said their findings were turned over to the authorities; one of the persistent rumors… or urban legend is that a thumb print belonging to Vice President Dick Cheney was found on Al Gore’s abandoned hybrid….
Nancy Pelosi didn’t fare so well under the socialized medicine she helped usher in; she has repeatedly sued the government for cutting back her psychotropic drugs. One only has to go down to Christopher Street in Frisco to see Nancy wearing her trade mark shirt with the caption, “Zoloft is a right, not a privilege.” Bin laden is now teaching Comparative Law, with an emphasis on Sharia Law, at Columbia University. The other members of al Queada are living it up at the Upper East Side with multiple wives; they successfully sued the government for the psychological harm attributed to water boarding and won millions - John Edwards was one of their attorneys. In a related story, some members of the Mormon faith claimed that if they had known that Bin Laden cohorts would be allowed plural marriages, they would have carried out Jihad in Utah.
You may ask what happened to Verily Prime…he was jailed for blasphemy. Apparently, he insisted in reading the original New Testament, and not the new version, which replaced the “Sermon On The Mount” found in the Gospel of Matthew, with Obama’s Inauguration 2009 speech. During the allocution of Verily Prime, the judge asked Verily Prime if he were contrite. Verily Prime answered no because President Obama appeared to be “flesh and blood” and, moreover, hadn’t walked on water during his tenure in office. The presiding judge admonished Verily Prime about being willfully blind and not paying attention to what took place between January 2009 and 2012.
After being convicted for blasphemy, Verily Prime begged the judge to be incarcerated in the best jail in the world at Guantanamo, but alas, he was turned down and sent to Fort Leavenworth. Incidentally, Al Gore, sometime in April 1st of 2012, went for a drive in his spanking brand new hybrid and was never seen again. Fox Moulder and Dana Scully from X-files fame were called in to work the case. It is said their findings were turned over to the authorities; one of the persistent rumors… or urban legend is that a thumb print belonging to Vice President Dick Cheney was found on Al Gore’s abandoned hybrid….
Sunday, September 5, 2010
The Imperial Presidency
To our shame many of us were quiet when the employees of AIG were asked to give back the monies negotiated in legitimate contracts; moreover, when their wives and children were being threatened. What was their crime? They had the gall to have signed contracts which allowed them to be paid generous salaries and perks. No contractual conditional language was involved in the contracts for these AIG employees to give back the fruits of the contract, but many politicians and members of the public wanted the employees to give them back. We repeated that same moral indolence when we sat quietly by while bond holders of GM were relegated to second class citizens, while the union members were given primacy.
In the same vein, we have had a pay Czar who told private companies via presidential fiat, what they could and could not pay their CEOs. This happened under a president who claimed to respect the rule of law - it is even more grating because President Obama was a Constitutional Law professor. There are many in President Obama's administration and many in his party, if they had their way, would have Cheney incarcerated, not for any malfeasance vis-à-vis his stewardship of Halliburton, but for sanctioning water boarding of stone cold killers. These same champions of the rule of law had nothing to say while President Obama cast aside codified contractual law principles, which have been part of our Constitution and way of life for over 230 years.
Perhaps it is the Christian in me, but President Obama should place himself in others shoes. Our president recently signed a $5,000,000 contract to write a book; I supposed he will put pen to paper sometime in 2012 or 2016 to write his memoirs. Let us supposed that his popularity ratings are lower than they are now, should the publisher take back some of the millions, for the lack of popularity, if the contract is lacking this “conditional” language? Our President’s wife, Michele, once had a position at hospital in Chicago hospital that paid her $300,000, should the hospital board be able to come back and arbitrarily ask for the money back - again, without the contractual language support? I have searched to find a similar time in history to compare what it is we are now facing, but I only could come up with one similar epoch.
In ancient Rome, when the Republic was threatened, the Patricians (wealthy class) and the Plebeians (common folks) would agree to allow a dictator to take charge and combat the outside threat and then return the Republic to the Senate when the danger was gone - I supposed the recession is our outside threat threatening Rome (USA). Does anyone believe that the pay Czar, who was a lawyer, would have wanted someone to determine his generous partner pay at the prestigious white shoe law firm whence he came? Have you noticed that President Obama, via his pay Czar, has not told Lady Gaga, LeBron James, Derik Jeter, Alex Rodriguez, Tiger Woods, Tom Cruise, Will Smith, or Bruce Springsteen how much they should earn for their respective vocations? It is a wonder that President Obama’s pay Czar did not determine what the Green Bay Packers should pay its quarterback; after all, it is the only football team that is owned by the public….
In the same vein, we have had a pay Czar who told private companies via presidential fiat, what they could and could not pay their CEOs. This happened under a president who claimed to respect the rule of law - it is even more grating because President Obama was a Constitutional Law professor. There are many in President Obama's administration and many in his party, if they had their way, would have Cheney incarcerated, not for any malfeasance vis-à-vis his stewardship of Halliburton, but for sanctioning water boarding of stone cold killers. These same champions of the rule of law had nothing to say while President Obama cast aside codified contractual law principles, which have been part of our Constitution and way of life for over 230 years.
Perhaps it is the Christian in me, but President Obama should place himself in others shoes. Our president recently signed a $5,000,000 contract to write a book; I supposed he will put pen to paper sometime in 2012 or 2016 to write his memoirs. Let us supposed that his popularity ratings are lower than they are now, should the publisher take back some of the millions, for the lack of popularity, if the contract is lacking this “conditional” language? Our President’s wife, Michele, once had a position at hospital in Chicago hospital that paid her $300,000, should the hospital board be able to come back and arbitrarily ask for the money back - again, without the contractual language support? I have searched to find a similar time in history to compare what it is we are now facing, but I only could come up with one similar epoch.
In ancient Rome, when the Republic was threatened, the Patricians (wealthy class) and the Plebeians (common folks) would agree to allow a dictator to take charge and combat the outside threat and then return the Republic to the Senate when the danger was gone - I supposed the recession is our outside threat threatening Rome (USA). Does anyone believe that the pay Czar, who was a lawyer, would have wanted someone to determine his generous partner pay at the prestigious white shoe law firm whence he came? Have you noticed that President Obama, via his pay Czar, has not told Lady Gaga, LeBron James, Derik Jeter, Alex Rodriguez, Tiger Woods, Tom Cruise, Will Smith, or Bruce Springsteen how much they should earn for their respective vocations? It is a wonder that President Obama’s pay Czar did not determine what the Green Bay Packers should pay its quarterback; after all, it is the only football team that is owned by the public….
To My Liberal Colleagues In The Media: Treat President Obama Like He Is The President - Not The “Black” President
Juan Williams of NPR was called a “house negro” by someone this blogger went to law school with… simply because Mr. Williams dared to criticize President Barack Obama - ironically, Mr. Williams voted for President Obama and has never voted Republican in his entire voting life. The gentleman who unfairly deemed Mr. Williams by the racial stereotype is Black, but White Liberals who defend the President, even when objective critique is warranted, are themselves racist.
It may not be the kind of racist vitriol you hear spewing from a Klan member, but although subtle, it is just as devastating and patronizing - it is also call paternalism… and no different from the proverbial pat on the back of a Blackman…, which says, “good job, boy.” President Obama should be left to face the music like those presidents who were white – for when Liberals interfere with legitimate criticism and shut down dissent, when said dissent is supported by facts, they are, in essence, saying that he does not have the back bone to take the heat. How racist is that?
One of the greatest positions one can hold in law school is being the head of Law Review - one of the many positions our current President had in law school. Do you think that President Obama did not put in the time and study to achieve this position? What if the criteria were truncated because of his color… how isn’t that patronizing and racist? When White liberals interfere with legitimate criticism of our first Black President, they are in essence saying, here comes the good white liberal, whose help is integral, to help the Black President out of his predicament - how emasculating is that (it’s rhetorical).
When I was fifteen yeas old, I read the autobiography of Malcolm X, penned by the Alex Haley of “Roots” fame; there is one memorable sentence that’s apropos to the theme of this blog…where Malcolm opines that the difference between most Liberals and Republicans is that the Liberal will call the Black man the “N” word in the privacy of his or her room. The truth is that no matter how great a job President Obama does… there are those who will hate him because he is Black. I pledge that because I do not see the “truth” as being relative… I will call those people out too.
It may not be the kind of racist vitriol you hear spewing from a Klan member, but although subtle, it is just as devastating and patronizing - it is also call paternalism… and no different from the proverbial pat on the back of a Blackman…, which says, “good job, boy.” President Obama should be left to face the music like those presidents who were white – for when Liberals interfere with legitimate criticism and shut down dissent, when said dissent is supported by facts, they are, in essence, saying that he does not have the back bone to take the heat. How racist is that?
One of the greatest positions one can hold in law school is being the head of Law Review - one of the many positions our current President had in law school. Do you think that President Obama did not put in the time and study to achieve this position? What if the criteria were truncated because of his color… how isn’t that patronizing and racist? When White liberals interfere with legitimate criticism of our first Black President, they are in essence saying, here comes the good white liberal, whose help is integral, to help the Black President out of his predicament - how emasculating is that (it’s rhetorical).
When I was fifteen yeas old, I read the autobiography of Malcolm X, penned by the Alex Haley of “Roots” fame; there is one memorable sentence that’s apropos to the theme of this blog…where Malcolm opines that the difference between most Liberals and Republicans is that the Liberal will call the Black man the “N” word in the privacy of his or her room. The truth is that no matter how great a job President Obama does… there are those who will hate him because he is Black. I pledge that because I do not see the “truth” as being relative… I will call those people out too.
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