Who the f%^* is John Galt!?!?!?!? I see it coming too but still hopeful it can be averted. Atlas SHOULD shrug!

Whiskey #27, Cadmus #28:

Excellent posts! Observation of the Iranian situation can provide good lessons. Thank Allah for 2ND Ammendment!

Salaam eleikum Y’all!

the Democrats are done with the two-party system, are done because they can be, because they’ve proved they can and will make the nation ungovernable otherwise.

The ones I know, here in NYC, are dead keen on eradicating any trace of opposition, and scoff at the idea of the two-party system being essential to preventing tyranny. They thirst for absolute control, and believe fervently that the opposition is “Evil.”

One said to me not long ago, “Our problem is the Republicans screwing things up [in the NY City Council]. When we get rid of them, we won’t have this problem any more.” I replied, incredulously, “WHAT Republicans??? There are only two out of 32 council members!!!”

She just pouted.

If the protesters really want to change they have to be willing to back that up with guns and a plan to take over the government. The protests are just children screaming and there is no real intention to back them up with real plans and guns.

The protesters should have taken over the communication centers. TV, Cell phone controls, that type of stuff. Instead they got Hamas and Hexbolla riot police.

I have been pleasantly surprised that the police have been as civil as they have been with tasers and tear gas.

“I’d rather be President than be right” –POTUS, Democrat, generic

“I’d rather be wrong and be President” –POTUS, Manchurian, current

The dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire after WWI terminated the reign of the last Khalifeh. Since then, Islamic radicals have been struggling to recreate the “rightful” rule of Islam. Without a focal point of power, much of the fighting turned into internal power struggles, but, they still did much harm on those in their immediate vicinity.

Sadly, the West never really understood this, and treated Islamic fanatics as local thugs that can be controlled, used and disbanded at will, which allowed them to actually grow with the help of the West. It was used to undermine the nationalist movement and to face off and undermine the Soviet Union. Now, we find ourselves face to face with a monster, partly of our own making.

The Shah was “our thug”, and was confronted by both communists and Islamists. A communist take over of Iran would have brought the Soviet Union to the Gulf shores and into control of the most vital oil supplies. The Shah, recognizing the importance of his position, was demanding more and more concessions from the West and becoming “uncontrollable”. So the West figured the Islamists – Khomeini – is the lesser of the evils. Big mistake that we are still paying for.

The biggest mistake of all has been the belief that somehow Shiite and Sunni fundamentalists can neutralize each other to our advantage. This is the worst foreign policy idea ever. They have both used it to grow stronger and become an even bigger threat. Some have not yet learned, and are now looking to Sunni fanatics to face off Hizbullah for example. What would that get us? Death on Sunni hands rather Shiite hands? Is that the objective?

Cadmus

Descarte before the hearse:

“I am, therefore, I think.”

Why has President Obama developed a general disregard for the truth, in a manner far beyond typical politicians who run one way and govern another, or hide failures and broadcast successes?

First, he has confidence that the media will not be censorious and will simply accept his fiction as fact. A satirist, after all, could not make up anything to match the obsequious journalists who bow to their president, proclaim him a god, and receive sexual-like tingles up their appendages.

Second, Obama is a postmodernist. He believes that all truth is relative, and that assertions gain or lose credibility depending on the race, class, and gender of the speaker. In Obama’s case, his misleading narrative is intended for higher purposes. Thus it is truthful in a way that accurate facts offered by someone of a different, more privileged class and race might not be.

Third, Obama talks more than almost any prior president, weighing in on issues from Stephen Colbert’s haircut, to Sean Hannity’s hostility, to the need to wash our hands. In Obama’s way of thinking, his receptive youthful audiences are proof of his righteousness and wisdom — and empower him to pontificate on matters he knows nothing about.

Finally, our president is a product of a multicultural education: Facts either cannot be ascertained or do not matter, given that the overriding concern is to promote an equality of result among various contending groups. That is best done by inflating the aspirations of those without power, and deflating the “dominant narratives” of those with it.

The problem in the next four years will be not just that the president of the United States serially does not tell the truth.

Instead, the real crisis in our brave new relativist world will be that those who demonstrate that he is untruthful will themselves be accused of lying.

Y’know, 100 million dead victims of communism is just a statistic, but a few commie insurgents getting beat up by the Shah’s police, now THAT calls for Human Rights Action!

We should be careful what we wish for. We may get something we dont want.