Important Reading

I got this in an email.  I'm reprinting it here in its entirety. 

Rabbi Steven Pruzansky
Congregation B'nai Yeshurun
Teaneck, New Jersey

 This provocative article by a Jewish Rabbi from Teaneck , N.J. far and away the most succinct and thoughtful explanation of how our nation is changing. The article appeared in The Israel National News, and is directed primarily to Jewish readership. 70% of American Jews vote as Democrats. The Rabbi has some interesting comments in that regard.

"The most charitable way of explaining the election results of 2012 is that Americans voted for the status quo - for the incumbent President and for a divided Congress. They must enjoy gridlock, partisanship, incompetence, economic stagnation and avoidance of responsibility. And fewer people voted.

But as we awake from the nightmare, it is important to eschew the facile explanations for the Romney defeat that will prevail among the chattering classes. Romney did not lose because of the effects of Hurricane Sandy that devastated this area, nor did he lose because he ran a poor campaign, nor did he lose because the Republicans could have chosen better candidates, nor did he lose because Obama benefited from a slight uptick in the economy due to the business cycle.
Romney lost because he didn't get enough votes to win.

Nice, decent, albeit hapless man

That might seem obvious, but not for the obvious reasons. Romney lost because the conservative virtues - the traditional American virtues – of liberty, hard work, free enterprise, private initiative and aspirations to moral greatness - no longer inspire or animate a majority of the electorate. Romney lost because he didn't get enough votes to win.
That might seem obvious, but not for the obvious reasons. Romney lost because the conservative virtues - the traditional American virtues – of liberty, hard work, free enterprise, private initiative and aspirations to moral greatness - no longer inspire or animate a majority of the electorate. The simplest reason why Romney lost was because it is impossible to compete against free stuff.
Every businessman knows this; that is why the "loss leader" or the giveaway is such a powerful marketing tool. Obama's America is one in which free stuff is given away: the adults among the 47,000,000 on food stamps clearly recognized for whom they should vote, and so they did, by the tens of millions; those who - courtesy of Obama - receive two full years of unemployment benefits (which, of course, both disincentivizes looking for work and also motivates people to work off the books while collecting their windfall) surely know for whom to vote. The lure of free stuff is irresistible.

The defining moment of the whole campaign was the revelation of the secretly-recorded video in which Romney acknowledged the difficulty of winning an election in which "47% of the people" start off against him because they pay no taxes and just receive money - "free stuff" - from the government.

Almost half of the population has no skin in the game - they don't care about high taxes, promoting business, or creating jobs, nor do they care that the money for their free stuff is being borrowed from their children and from the Chinese.

They just want the free stuff that comes their way at someone else's expense. In the end, that 47% leaves very little margin for error for any Republican, and does not bode well for the future.

It is impossible to imagine a conservative candidate winning against such overwhelming odds. People do vote their pocketbooks. In essence, the people vote for a Congress who will not raise their taxes, and for a President who will give them free stuff, never mind who has to pay for it.

That engenders the second reason why Romney lost: the inescapable conclusion that the electorate is ignorant and uninformed. Indeed, it does not pay to be an informed voter, because most other voters - the clear majority – are unintelligent and easily swayed by emotion and raw populism. That is the indelicate way of saying that too many people vote with their hearts and not their heads. That is why Obama did not have to produce a second term agenda, or even defend his first-term record. He needed only to portray Mitt Romney as a rapacious capitalist who throws elderly women over a cliff, when he is not just snatching away their cancer medication, while starving the poor and cutting taxes for the rich.

During his 1956 presidential campaign, a woman called out to Adlai Stevenson: "Senator, you have the vote of every thinking person!" Stevenson called back: "That's not enough, madam, we need a majority!" Truer words were never spoken.

Obama could get away with saying that "Romney wants the rich to play by a different set of rules" - without ever defining what those different rules were; with saying that the "rich should pay their fair share" - without ever defining what a "fair share" is; with saying that Romney wants the poor, elderly and sick to "fend for themselves" - without even acknowledging that all these government programs are going bankrupt, their current insolvency only papered over by deficit spending. 

Similarly, Obama (or his surrogates) could hint to blacks that a Romney victory would lead them back into chains and proclaim to women that their abortions and birth control would be taken away. He could appeal to Hispanics that Romney would have them all arrested and shipped to Mexico and unabashedly state that he will not enforce the current immigration laws. He could espouse the furtherance of the incestuous relationship between governments and unions - in which politicians ply the unions with public money, in exchange for which the unions provide the politicians with votes, in exchange for which the politicians provide more money and the unions provide more votes, etc., even though the money is gone.

Obama also knows that the electorate has changed - that whites will soon be a minority in America (they're already a minority in California) and that the new immigrants to the US are primarily from the Third World and do not share the traditional American values that attracted immigrants in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is a different world, and a different America . Obama is part of that different America , knows it, and knows how to tap into it. That is why he won.

Obama also proved again that negative advertising works, invective sells, and harsh personal attacks succeed. That Romney never engaged in such diatribes points to his essential goodness as a person; his "negative ads" were simple facts, never personal abuse - facts about high unemployment,
lower take-home pay, a loss of American power and prestige abroad, a lack of leadership, etc. As a politician, though, Romney failed because he did not embrace the devil's bargain of making unsustainable promises.

It turned out that it was not possible for Romney and Ryan - people of substance, depth and ideas - to compete with the shallow populism and platitudes of their opponents. Obama mastered the politics of envy – of class warfare - never reaching out to Americans as such but to individual groups, and cobbling together a winning majority from these minority groups. If an Obama could not be defeated - with his record and his vision of America , in which free stuff seduces voters - it is hard to envision any change in the future.

The road to Hillary Clinton in 2016 and to a European-socialist economy - those very economies that are collapsing today in Europe - is paved.

For Jews, mostly assimilated anyway and staunch Democrats, the results demonstrate again that liberalism is their Torah. Almost 70% voted for a
president widely perceived by Israelis and most committed Jews as hostile to Israel . They voted to secure Obama's future at America 's expense and at Israel 's expense - in effect, preferring Obama to Netanyahu by a wide margin.

A dangerous time is ahead. Under present circumstances, it is inconceivable that the US will take any aggressive action against Iran and will more likely thwart any Israeli initiative. The US will preach the importance of negotiations up until the production of the first Iranian nuclear weapon - and then state that the world must learn to live with this new reality.

But this election should be a wake-up call to Jews. There is no permanent empire, nor is there an enduring haven for Jews anywhere in the exile. The American empire began to decline in 2007, and the deterioration has been exacerbated in the last five years. This election only hastens that decline.
Society is permeated with sloth, greed, envy and materialistic excess. It has lost its moorings and its moral foundations.. The takers outnumber the givers, and that will only increase in years to come.

The "Occupy" riots across this country in the last two years were mere dress rehearsals for what lies ahead - years of unrest sparked by the increasing discontent of the unsuccessful who want to seize the fruits and the bounty of the successful, and do not appreciate the slow pace of redistribution.

If this election proves one thing, it is that the Old America is gone. And, sad for the world, it is not coming back."

Scary shit, n'est-ce pas?  (The rabbi didn't say that, I did; rabbis don't talk like that, silly)

Wanna Comment?

          One of my loyal readers — okay; probably my only loyal reader, asked me the other day why he couldn't leave comments about a post.  Frankly, I hadn't even noticed that there was no mechanism in place with which to leave one's two cents.  Anyway, just so you know: Blogger (i.e. Google) has no live tech support available anywhere.  And I mean anywhere.
Somehow I got through to them the first time I called in about ten minutes.  The young lady gave me a support website to go to where, she assured me, I would be able to solve my issue. Right. I've tried to call back since then twice.  Friday and today (Monday).  I was on hold Friday for 47 minutes and today for roughly an hour and a half.  Come on; how much elevator music can one person listen to, for crying out loud?
          So I started futzing around with the blog on my own and guess what?  I discovered that you actually can comment!  All you have to do is click on the title of the post and a window opens up at the bottom wherein you can leave your own personal nugget of brilliance.  As long as you agree with me.  Just kidding.

Gratuitous Bikini Babe Photo

Why Obama Killed Osama

Obama

Osama

          Most people think that Obama killed Osama because it was politically expedient.  While I believe that that was certainly part of the reason, I think there were other considerations as well.  Here are just some of my theories.
1.  Envy:  While OBL was able to practice his faith in public, BHO has to be a closet Muslim in order to advance Allah's agenda.
2.  R-E-S-P-E-C-T.  As we know, now that Dipshit has been in office for six years or so, there's virtually nowhere in the world where people think he's anything more than a narcissistic empty suit.  World leaders (e.g. Assad, Putin, Netanyahu) have long dismissed him as either a bumbling clown or irrelevant or both.  He is despised by the right and the left ain't too crazy about him anymore, either.  Two places where folks still love him: among his base of Low Information Voters, and in the mirror.  Osama, however, was revered by Allah fans the world over.  Even the ones that wouldn't admit it.

Navy Seal

3.  Power:  One would think that the "Leader of the Free World" (God help us) would be able to do pretty much whatever his little black heart desired, right?  Like something really spectacular to cement his place in history as a mover and a shaker.  But Dipshit had to admit to himself that that whole World Trade Center Stunt was pretty cool, and something a man in his position would never have been able to pull off, Harry Reid's support notwithstanding ("The president's blue ribbon commission determined that because, according to public record, the Twin Towers were built on landfill which consisted of 27.4% non-biodegradable materials such as styrofoam, the buildings had to be dismantled for the greater good of saving the planet and the most expedient method of bringing them down was flying a couple jetliners into those suckers.").
4.  It was all a big misunderstanding.  The Navy Seals  were supposed to deliver three Stealth helicopters to Bin Laden to help in his quest to eliminate all infidels except Celine Dion (apparently he can't get enough of the Canadian songstress) and one of them crashed rather noisily, waking up the whole compound.  Achmed and Abdul, two of the guards on duty that faithful night, were not informed of the plan and consequently opened fire on the hapless intruders, and Osama was caught in the crossfire when he came out on his terrace, yelling "What the fuck?!  For Allah's sake, would you keep it down out here?  I'm binge-watching 'Breaking Bad'!"
5.  Jealousy.

Lookin' good, Monica!

Upon assuming the office of POTUS, among Dipshit's first Exectutive Orders was calling Monica Lewinsky, wanting to see whether she had the chops to handle a (half) black man.  He had heard that those Jewish girls went down like submarines, but he personally had not yet experienced the fellatiotic* expertise of a Zionist heathen.  Monica, however, had turned him down, stating that although the offer was quite tempting, she was previously occupied, just settling into her new position as spokesperson for the Hoover vacuum cleaner company.  When she mentioned, however, that she had been flown to Abbottabad to get a little taste (operative word "little") of Islam from OBL, it was simply too much for ol' Dipshit to bear.

* I don't know if "fellatiotic" is an actual word, but I needed it, so now it is.

Required Watching

Andrew Bolt is a commentator on Australian TV.  Please watch this video.  It's important.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc7JahRoQyY&feature=youtu.be

Andrew Bolt

Not Human

King Barak the Compassionate

King Barak the Compassionate

Y'know, the world has a hell of a lot of nerve intruding on King Barak's planned vacation in Martha's Vineyard!  And by the way, isn't it amazing that he loves going to Martha's Vineyard so much, maybe the whitest spot in the country?  Never see him vacationing in Detroit, do ya?  Anyway, ISIS is slaughtering Yazidi people, whom I never heard of, but probably deserve to live anyway, so he's gotta do something, dammit! Notice he doesn't do shit while about his buddies carry out an ethnic cleansing of Christians; wonder what Reverend Wright has to say about that.  So he's gonna drop a few bombs and then do what he's really good at: walk away.  After all; he may need a new five iron or something. Oh, and then there's the

Dying of Ebola

Ebola outbreak.  Some reporter had the nerve to ask him at a totally unrelated press conference to tout his new one-handed jump shot or some such thing why we're not sending this apparently miraculous anti-ebola drug that's recently been developed and hasn't yet been approved by the FDA but has been given to American Ebola victims.  Um, he answered her.  Kinda, sorta.  Click the link below; you'll agree that without a teleprompter the man turns into a blithering idiot who says absolutely nothing intelligle. Wanna know why he won't send any drugs?  Same reason he won't send any arms to Ukraine: he doesn't know how it'll play politically.  Will it help or hurt his agenda?  And when he doesn't know, which is almost always, especially in the area of Foreign Affairs, in which he has about as much expertise as a paraplegic platypus, cerebral inertia sets in and he does nothing.  Unless Israel's involved; then he's got time to condemn and make demands.  Omigod, how I detest this man.  How is it that so many of you out there don't see what I see?  Shit, I'm not even that bright!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9FtSMldCYA

Okay, okay...I'm a racist

Obama's Dad: Barak Senior,
a black Muslim from Kenya

Obama's Mom:
Ann Dunham from Kansas...
doesn't get much whiter than that.

          So Juan Williams has declared me a racist.  On Fox News Sunday, he opined that all the folks calling for Obama's impeachment are racist.  "There's a lot of Republicans who think this man is a demon [personally, I wouldn't want to insult the demons].  This guy is awful.  We got to get this guy out of here any way we can.  He's breaking the law."
          Host Chris Wallace pressed him on the matter, asking if he was saying that the president's opposition was race based.  Williams answered, "Well, all I can do is look at the numbers.  If you look at the core constituency of the people who are in the Tea Party in support of impeachment, there's no diversity, it's a white, older group of people."
          Okay, let's examine this a little more closely.  There are other evil people in the Democrat Party who I wish would fall off a cliff.  Hatchet Face Pelosi, for one.  She's maybe the whitest member of Congress.  Is my hatred (yes, I admit it, it's hatred) of the bitch "race based?"  No?  Well, then, I must be part of the Republicans' well known "War on women," although frankly, I'm not sure she qualifies as female.
          Then there's Harry Reid, one of the vilest creatures on the planet.  If Harry Reid was swallowed by an Anaconda which in turn was devoured by a crocodile that was eventually cut up and used to chum the water for great white sharks, I would not hesitate to rent Tavern on the Green and throw a "Hallelujah, Harry's Gone!" bash for just about everyone I've ever met.  So what does that make me?  A self-hating old white guy?
          Did you know that 9-0 Supreme Court decisions are quite rare?  When a case lines up every single Justice — appointed by both Democrats and Republicans — the decision must be unbelievably clear cut.  Did you know that the Obama Administration has racked up...wait for it...twenty, count 'em, twenty unanimous Supreme Court losses in under six years?  When even Sonya Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, his two appointees, vote against him, how far from the Constitution must he strayed?
          Now let's examine the other side of this unfortunate coin.  In 2008 Obama received 96% of the black vote.  In 2012, after four years of unmitigated, indisputable failure, he garnered 93%.  He lost a fucking 3% in the black community.  Think race had anything to do this that?  Did you know that according to the non-partisan Pew Research Center, the percentage of blacks who have ever received Food Stamps is roughly double (31%) that of whites (15%)?  Ya think maybe all our brothers and sisters of color stuck with their man because they were scared shitless that those mean ol' Republican crackers woulda put the brakes on their gravy train and they might have had to (gasp!) get a job?
          The fact is that I loathe Barak Hussein Obama not because he's (half) black, but because I believe he is an evil, dangerous man.  I believe that he's a closet Muslim who would be perfectly fine with the US adopting Sharia Law.  Ever see the movie "The Manchurian Candidate?"  It's about a communist plot to get one of their own into the White House.  I believe that it's not too far fetched to think that Obama's our president because the murdering thugs of radical Islam whom the left portray as poor, misunderstood individuals representing a religion of peace, want a world-wide caliphate and he's just the man to help them make it happen.  Think I'm crazy?  God, I hope you're right.  But I don't think you are.

God help us.

Obama Makes Me Nauseous

          I voted for John McCain in 2008.  Not necessarily because I thought he'd make a great president, but because I knew so very little about the other guy.  Obama was presented to us as pretty much a tabula rasa, except for a few details that were quite disconcerting.  I was bothered by his relationships with "Reverend" Wright, Bill Ayres, and Bernadine Dohrn.  It was puzzling to me that he just appeared on the scene out of nowhere with virtually no credentials, except as a "Community Organizer" (read: rabble-rouser), a short stint as a State Senator in that den of iniquity known as Illinois, and an even briefer, particularly unremarkable stretch in the US Senate, where he distinguished himself by voting "present" 129 times.  Let's face it: we knew nothing about this guy except that his politics were radically left wing and he was a pretty good speaker.  So being the good Republican and faithful Limbaugh/Hannity/Levin acolyte that I am, I voted for McCain.

Hen's Teeth

          My point is that when Dipshit got elected, I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.  Hey, I have a sense of history, just like everyone else.  We actually elected a black president.  Never thought I'd see it in my lifetime.  People tend to think of the country as New York, Boston, Philly, Chicago, Detroit and L.A.  But there are thousand of little towns spread out in Nebraska and Wyoming and Idaho where blacks are as rare as hen's teeth.  But McCain was your typical weak Republican candidate, so history was indeed made.
          My nausea started shortly thereafter.  Here, in no particular order, are just a few examples of why I am convinced that Barak Who's Sane Obama is the worst president of my lifetime and probably of all time; he makes Jimmy Carter look like a statesman:
1.  "The police acted stupidly."
2.  The 700 billion dollar so-called stimulus bill that might possibly have given Hatchet Face Pelosi her first orgasm since the Clinton Administration ("Oh, bill, can I please just sniff the cigar?") and may or may not have stimulated Obama and Biden, but not much else.  Remember?  "Shovel ready was not as shovel ready as we expected."
3. Solyndra.
4. Non-prosecution of the New Black Panthers for voter intimidation.
5. Non-enforcement of deportation laws.
6. Non-enforcement of DOMA.
7. Attacking Libya without congressional approval.
8. Fast and Furious.
9. Benghazi.
10. IRS targeting of Tea Party groups and other Obama "enemies."
11. Culling the phone records of Associated Press reporters.
12. Monitoring James Rosen's phones and emails.
13. Eric Holder perjuring himself not once, but twice, before Congress.
14. The burgeoning VA scandal, which has undoubtedly led to the untimely and unnecessary deaths of countless of our brave veterans.
15. His Executive Action end-runs around Congress: "I've got a pen and a phone."  The incredible hubris and arrogance of this man!
16.  He traded five murdering terrorists for Bowe Bergdahl, a deserter responsible for the deaths of several members of his unit.
17.  And of course, the pièce de résistance:  OBAMACARE!
          I have so much more to write about our rabidly anti-Semitic, communist Muslim-in-Chief (no doubt about it), but I'm going to split my vitriol into a few more posts, just for the fun of it.  And by the way: is John Kerry not the absolute dumbest looking politician the world has ever known?