Obama Nation: Last Week

Obama Nation: Last Week

The Founding Generation's Wisdom Has Proven True In Many Ways

"Those gentlemen, who will be elected senators, will fix themselves in the federal town, and become citizens of that town more than of your state" -- a warning from George Mason to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 14, 1788.

(Thanks to Larry Reed at FEE for this quote)

 

Soccer: The Perfect Socialist Sport

Soccer: The Perfect Socialist Sport

I found this to be an interesting read.  Although I enjoy all sport to some degree and I have even coached soccer in the past, it is not a sport that fires my imagination.  With that as a disclaimer then, I'll post excerpts from the article at American Thinker.  You can read the entire article at the link above.

The world's most popular sport? Puh-leeze. This is like saying that dirt is more popular than gold simply because there is more of it. Last time I checked, soccer was very popular where starvation, archery, and badminton were the alternative activities. Where soccer has to compete with the NFL, college football, and basketball -- not to mention WWE, the X Games, cheerleading contests, and cage-fighting -- not so much.

At its heart, soccer is the perfect socialist sport. That's why it will never catch on among Americans the way football or basketball has -- regardless of how hard ESPN or ESPN Deportes tries to force feed it to us. Soccer is a redistributive dreamer's delight, with most of the potential risk-reward strategy of the sport removed by rule. It is a self-esteem cornucopia, where a blistering rout of, say, 2-0 seems so close in the score book. No one's feelings get hurt at 2-0. And on and on the socialist feel goes.

Soccer is biggest where the "national teams" are the main sports focus of a nation. Hey, you can't get much more socialist than that. And everyone on every street and in every town pulls for the same team. Wow. Isn't that exciting? Whom do you pull for? Oh yeah, the national team.

And let's not forget the off-sides rule. Without getting buried in minutiae, suffice it to say that off-sides in soccer is like making the bomb illegal in football or the fast break illegal in basketball. This is a socialist sport. We can't be having any risk-reward equations here. You see, in soccer, it's not fair that you might take a chance to weaken your defense in order to spring a man deep downfield behind the defense. That would be unfair in a free-market, venture-capital-type way. No, no, no! You must let the defense be behind you. You cannot beat them downfield until you have the ball. That would be unfair and, no doubt, mean-spirited.

So ingrained is this into the soccer psyche that many of the world's best defenses employ what they call "the off-sides trap." In other words, they use the socialist rules to the hilt. Here, a defenseman gets beaten downfield on purpose to get a call against his opponent.

All I can do is reiterate that soccer just does not fire my imagination like other sports.  I do, however, respect the effort that it takes to condition to perform in a sport like soccer.  

The point is made well that the game has a lot of socialist tendencies in the rules; that would explain why the MSM is trying to force it into the mainstream.  

Read the entire article at the link at the top.  It is both interesting and amusing.

This video on this subject at PJTV is kinda funny as well.  I can't embed their video on the Blogger platform, so you'll have to click over to PJTV to watch. (You'll have to sign in or sign up for a free PJTV account to watch it).

Is U.S. Now On Slippery Slope To Tyranny? - Thomas Sowell At Investors.com

Is U.S. Now On Slippery Slope To Tyranny? - Thomas Sowell At Investors.com

When Adolf Hitler was building up the Nazi movement in the 1920s, leading up to his taking power in the 1930s, he deliberately sought to activate people who did not normally pay much attention to politics.

Such people were a valuable addition to his political base, since they were particularly susceptible to Hitler's rhetoric and had far less basis for questioning his assumptions or his conclusions.

"Useful idiots" was the term supposedly coined by V.I. Lenin to describe similarly unthinking supporters of his dictatorship in the Soviet Union.

Put differently, a democracy needs informed citizens if it is to thrive, or ultimately even survive.

In our times, American democracy is being dismantled, piece by piece, before our very eyes by the current administration in Washington, and few people seem to be concerned about it.

Just where in the Constitution of the United States does it say that a president has the authority to extract vast sums of money from a private enterprise and distribute it as he sees fit to whomever he deems worthy of compensation? Nowhere.

If you believe that the end justifies the means, then you don't believe in constitutional government.

I have been posting here and sharing my opinion elsewhere that this is indeed not a case of incompetence but instead a case of The Current President and those who agree with him operating to willfully destabilize the USA.  I have posted on the classic Cloward-Piven Strategy from the time this blog has been operational.  I have been derided from The Left and The Right for this observation.  Mr. Sowell, whose intelligence and insight is beyond question in my opinion, apparently sees some of the same problems that I see.  That does not make me a genius like Mr. Sowell; it simply means that I have been observant and honest with myself instead of trying to live in denial.  Read the WHOLE ARTICLE by Thomas Sowell.

NYC Car Bomb Suspect Pleads Guilty, Calls It `War' - ABC News

NYC Car Bomb Suspect Pleads Guilty, Calls It `War' - ABC News

Calling himself a Muslim soldier, a defiant Pakistan-born U.S. citizen pleaded guilty Monday to carrying out the failed Times Square car bombing and left a sinister warning that unless the U.S. leaves Muslim lands alone, "we will be attacking U.S."

Of course they'll be attacking the US. 

"One has to understand where I'm coming from," Shahzad said calmly. "I consider myself ... a Muslim soldier."

The 30-year-old described his effort to set off a bomb in an SUV he parked in Times Square on May 1, saying he chose the warm Saturday night because it would be crowded with people he could injure or kill. He said he conspired with the Pakistan Taliban, which provided more than $15,000 to fund his operation and five days of explosives training late last year and early this year, just months after he became a U.S. citizen.

The Current President is not interested in the Constitutional proscription that the job of the Executive Branch includes the responsibility for National Defense.  The Current President and his Marxist...er...Democrat Party has already shown that it is more interested in allowing Muslims a "Religious Exemption" to the forced purchase of healthcare insurance because they believe that insurance is a form of gambling.

Yes, of course they will be attacking the US.  I'm not surprised at this threat at all.  Are you?

Like I've Said Before, The Republican Party Stands For Nothing.

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Chris Muir's Day-By-Day Cartoon 

The Republican Party has one Unifying Principle as far as I can tell: The fear of losing elections.  Due to this, they refuse to stand for anything.  Everyone that thinks a Republican win in the November 2010 midterms will change the direction that the USA is headed should consider the utter spinelessness of the GOP.

The GOP is AFRAID to be Conservative or principled.  Is there really no difference between Republicans and Democrats?  I think there is a difference.  The Democrats believe strongly in the principles of totalitarian government control i.e. Marxism.  The Republicans believe in Nothing, Nothing At All.  

Do We The People deserve better than that?  I can't answer that question, but on the present course, The Great Experiment in Constitutional Self-Government is headed off of the tracks.  

CHANGE! 53 Days Later Obama Administration Decides to Accept Dutch Offer to Help With Spill

CHANGE! 53 Days Later Obama Administration Decides to Accept Dutch Offer to Help With Spill

 Offered as a follow-up to a previous post.

Now that lots and lots of damage has been done, The Current President has decided to accept help that had been offered 72 hours after the first explosion and fire on the oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico.  Jim Hoft posting on Big Government:

Three days after the Gulf oil rig explosion, the Netherlands offered to send in oil skimmers to pump oil off of the surface of the ocean. The Obama Administration turned them down because they were not 100% efficient and small amounts of oil would be pumped back into the Gulf with the excess water. EPA regulations do not allow for residue water to contain any oil. So rather than use equipment that was not 100% efficient the Obama Administration chose to let all of the oil run into the Gulf.

This is not just bad policy, it is criminal.

Since the Obama Administration turned down assistance from The Netherlands at least 125 miles of Louisiana coastline has been ruined by the BP oil spill. Tar blobs began washing up on Florida’s white sand beaches near Pensacola days ago. And, crude oil has also been reported along barrier islands in Alabama and Mississippi.

 Hoft quotes a report in The Examiner:

One ton of oil is about 7.3 barrels. 5,000 tons per day is 36,500 barrels per day. 4 skimmers have a capacity of 146,000 barrels per day. That is much greater than the high end estimate of the leak. The skimmers work best in calm water, which is the usual condition this time of year in the gulf.

These systems were developed by the Dutch as a safety system in case of oil spills from either wells or tankers. The Dutch have off shore oil development and also import oil in tankers. Their economy, just like ours, runs on oil. They understand that the production and use of oil has dangers and they wanted to be ready to cope with problems like spills. The Dutch system has been used successfully in Europe.

The Dutch offered to fly their skimmer arm systems to the Gulf 3 days after the oil spill started. The offer was apparently turned down because EPA regulations do not allow water with oil to be pumped back into the ocean. If all the oily water was retained in the tanker, the capacity of the system would be greatly diminished because most of what is pumped into the tanker is sea water.

As of June 8th, BP reported that they have collected 64,650 barrels of oil in the Gulf. That is only a fraction of the amount of oil spilled from the well. That is less than one day’s rated capacity of the Dutch oil skimmers.
Turning down the Dutch skimmers just shows a total lack of leadership in the oil spill.

I believe that the delay in responding to the offer of help was not lack of leadership but instead a calculated response.  The Current President needed more damage to be done in order to exploit this crisis in such a way so as to further the agenda of the Criminal Left.  

Read the whole thing.

Ask Yourself: Is Your Country More Stable Now Than It Was One Year Ago?

If I am a Muslim, the son of a Muslim father, what do I do to support the oil industry in Muslim countries?  What if I am The Current US President?

Let's see, I could stop the drilling and exploration of oil in the US completely.  That would require the US to import oil from somewhere.  My Muslim brothers in the Middle East can supply oil to, and take the money of, the US, sort of like a jizya tax.

Meanwhile, I can make US citizens less independent and less self-sufficient by not only doing away with all of the jobs associated with oil drilling, but also by setting the stage for destruction of many, many small businesses through the imposition of government regulation under Cap-And-Trade by any name it may be called (to be passed in the lame-duck session after the November midterm elections). Possibly the collapse of the entire US economy could be the result of Government Energy Control which would impose expensive and impossibly draconian regulation and law, both directly and indirectly, on all US citizens.  If the latter should occur this would render the US vulnerable in many, many ways.

All that is needed is a propaganda machine (the Mainstream Media) and a large-scale disaster to work with.  The effects will come over time.  

I know many, many people who desperately want what I have written to be completely wrong.  They hem and haw and state that The Current President is only incompetent, that there is no purposeful agenda to destabilize the US by The Current President.  They want desperately to believe that they are correct, and that I am wrong. 

We will see what happens.

The Government Of The United States Does Not Want To Stop The OIl From Spewing Into The Gulf Of Mexico, At Least Not Yet...

The oil spill in the Gulf Of Mexico is something that I have not posted on until now.  It is literally everywhere and being looked at from every angle, both figuratively and literally. In the nearly two months since the well exploded on April 20th there has been much bloviation and little action.  There has been much planning and analysis at The White House as to how The Current President  and The Left can exploit this crisis to further their agenda, which is why almost 60 days have gone by without much progress in solving the problem.  

Simply put, the floating oil platforms are in 5000 feet of water because environmentalists do not like looking at them from the shore.  If the drilling platforms were close enough to shore for them to be seen from the beach, then the danger of a wide-ranging spill like we have now would be much less simply because a spill is easier to contain in shallower water.  

The technology exists to contain the current deep water spill and to stop the flow of oil as well.  Some of the solutions are unorthodox compared to those normally employed here in the US, but nonetheless solutions do exist.  The US Government has refused help in this area when it was offered by The Netherlands and by The UK; in addition, a US company was also turned down as a source of help.  This is technology that would have allowed the damage to be relatively localized in the area of the spill, even very possibly keeping any of the oil from reaching shore anywhere.

What you are going to see from The Current President and The Current Congress is the exploitation of this situation.  Already, the purposeful inaction has allowed the oil to head toward the Gulf Stream where it would be distributed northward along the Atlantic Coast.  As this happens, the crisis becomes national instead of localized. This sets the perfect stage for false justification of further government control such as the moratorium on oil platform drilling which is already in place. 

As Hollywood and the Mainstream Media ignore this situation, the Congress and Current President make plans to tighten down the screws of government tyranny. If The Previous President had been dealing with this situation in this way, he would have been labeled as an Environmental Criminal by Hollywood, the MSM, and The Left. The Current President has no such call to accountability.

What happens of the cost of gasoline and diesel fuel per gallon doubles in response to whatever The Current President does in response to this?  What if the cost per gallon triples?  

If citizens revolt when they cannot afford to even drive to work or buy food or make their house payments, what will the US Government impose in order to control the situation?  They wouldn't? Why not? 

None of these hypothetical scenarios are unreasonable simply given the outrageously deviant handling of this oil spill by the government, and nothing that is imposed from this government would be surprising to me in the least.  They effectively did away with The Constitution back on March 21, 2010.  

The process of Fundamentally Transforming the USA is well underway.

Obama Nation: Barry's Solutions To the BP Spill

Obama Nation: Barry's Solutions To the BP Spill

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Foreign Exchange

Foreign Exchange

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(White) House Party

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Ronald Wilson Reagan's D-Day 40th Anniversary Speech

Offered today on the anniversary of D-Day, in honor of all of our Military Veterans.

Useful Idiots: Oil and Water...It's All In Your Perspective

Useful Idiots: Oil and Water

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TEA Party Express III (TPX III) Rally in Berea, Ohio at the Cuyahoga County Fairgrounds on 04-11-2010: Picture Report (EXTREMELY belated picture report)

I know this event was a long time ago.  I promised the folks that I met that I would publish photos from the Tea party Express Rally in Berea, Ohio at the Cuyahoga County Fairgrounds which was held on April 11th, 2010.  I had just become involved with Dave Daubenmire and his campaign for the May 4th Republican Primary in the 18th Ohio Congressional District.  Of course, there's not a lot of time between April 11th and May 4th, and all of my time during that period was involved in the campaign.  I am posting these pictures late, very late, extremely late even.  (There are some videos of this event at my YouTube channel, TheGuyAverage.  I didn't include them here because the pics themselves make the post lengthy.)

My humble apologies to all whom I spoke with at this rally.  I am extremely belated in this post, and reticent as well that I have no captions for the pictures.  

Please do not lose focus.  There will be the illusion of comfort until after the 2012 elections, and it will be very easy to become complacent.  We have until then to re-establish The Constitutional Republic of The United States of America by peaceful means.  

May God have Mercy on The USA.