Keeping up with the news (or trying to!)

Wow!

The news is skating past so fast, every time I have what I imagine to be a bright idea for a blog post, it’s overridden by current events.

Let’s see…

In the past week or so, The Red Herring has essentially eliminated our missile shield in Eastern Europe, betraying our NATO allies and weakening America’s overall posture in the world. This is exactly the message to send to Iran’s Ah’m-a-madman when intelligence reports indicate that Iran is closer than ever to producing nuclear weapons.

Going back to his highly successful Manchurian Candidate mode, the president also showed up on four liberal news networks and the Latino UniVision entertainment network to tout his vastly unpopular health care program. Chris Wallace at FOX news was snubbed, because he is an objective journalist who asks tough questions that might demand answers, and Obama has none. Unlike the Clintons, Obama is not poll-driven; he doesn’t care what the public thinks. In his narcissistic haze, he is relying on his cult of personality to enable him to pull off any radical hijinks he cares to indulge in. Hence his appearance on David Letterman’s program the day following his “news show” blitzkrieg.

Watching his pathetic appearance before the United Nations, I got the impression a large number of the ambassadors from the America-hating nations were playing Solitaire on their laptops and waiting for him to finish so they could report back to their masters that America is continuing its downward spiral into fatal weakness.

Also, Congress seems to have de-funded ACORN, the election-stealing newcomers to the “culture of corruption.” Damn! There goes my plan to import several dozen pre-pubescent Mexican whores and set up a brothel in this area for all the illegal aliens working in the construction trades, carpet industry, and chicken plants here. Maybe I can still work something out with the Service Employees International Union [SEIU]; after all, prostitutes do perform a valuable service, don’t they?

At least next year’s census is safe from “creative tweaking” now that ACORN won’t be involved in determining who counts as a legitimate citizen of this country.

(By the way, whatever happened to Madame Botox’s pre-election promise to “drain the swamp” and eliminate that “culture of corruption?” Why has Nancy Pelosi not instructed Charles Rangel to step down from the House Ways and Means Committee, where he apparently found lots of ways and means to not pay taxes on all the swag he’s accumulated in his—too many—years in Congress?)

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, some of the president’s myrmidons held a telephonic conference call with 21 members of the National Endowment for the Arts. Sixteen of these “artists” have received taxpayer endowments of more than $2,000,000, and it’s time for the quid pro quo. It was strongly “suggested” to these paragons of creativity that they apply their dubious talents to producing propaganda for the administration’s policies in their respective mediums.

(The NEA has to be one of the most egregious federal agencies ever created. Here’s a hint: if you’re an artist, musician, or otherwise engaged in creating something that’s allegedly pleasing, if your work doesn’t sell in a free market to people who might actually desire to be stimulated by it, don’t quit your day job just yet. Beethoven had a patron; the Pope subsidized Michelangelo to do a bit of interior redecorating in the Sistine chapel. In both cases, the work of those artists was highly desired by the purchasers of the end products. If you can’t place your work in a gallery, or get a recording contract, or hawk your talents on the sidewalk for a few bucks, then don’t go sniveling to the government to underwrite your creative endeavors. I don’t want to see crucifixes submerged in urine, images of the Virgin Mary splattered with elephant dung, or gay men with bullwhips protruding from their nether regions. Stuff like that doesn’t inspire me to think, and if it’s reflective of an element of modern society, that’s not an element I’d care to exalt. An NEA endowment is your tax dollars at work, most likely funding something you’d just as soon not see. If you’re into scat-chasing, golden showers, or gay bondage, there is something for everyone on the Internet. Just don’t call it “art” and pick my pocket to pay for someone else’s cheap thrills.)

You have to admit, though, using tax dollars to propagandize the taxpayers into paying for a government program that few people want is a stroke of genius right out of the Third Reich playbook. Will we now be confronted with posters at government offices and the local supermarket that are eerily reminiscent of 1940-Germany’s Aryan supermen and Soviet Russia’s heroic workers?

I’m all over the place, so let’s consider for a moment President Obama’s latest unelected “czar”, Cass Sunstein. Here you have a man who has suggested that “hunting be outlawed, except for sport [sic]”, and posits that animals have the “right” to retain attorneys and sue…someone. (Who? Their owners? What if they’re not domesticated animals? If they’re wild animals, and subject to being hunted, do they get to sue the hunters? And what’s with the “…except for sport” business about outlawing hunting? “Sport” suggests wanton killing, while most serious hunters go by the maxim of “you killed it, you eat it.” Wouldn’t it sound wiser to advocate outlawing hunting “except to obtain food”?) In his fiefdom of “Regulatory Czar”, Mr. Sunstein is now in a position to wreak unimaginable harm on many aspects of our lives as we now know them. He is answerable to no one but the president. If his views on administration policy differed too much from his master’s, I doubt he would have received his sinecure.

(And yes, I realize that the “outlawing hunting” rubbish is just another back-door tactic to implement the seizure of all firearms not currently held by the military, the civil authorities, or the outlaws.)

I know I’m leaving stuff out here. That’s all I can think of for the moment, thanks to a total derailment of my thought process by the local EMC, who managed to lose power for the third time in 36 hours and destroy a more coherent draft of this post.

On the home front, the electricity is sporadic, telephone/Internet service has been disrupted by the weather, and it looks like the lower half of Georgia is underwater. Personally, I have been afflicted with chronic nosebleeds of unknown origin—no violent sneezing fits or nose-blowing, my blood pressure is consistently perfect, and I don’t go “gold mining”—and a severe, persistent headache caused by the ENT specialist probing my sinuses with a needle-like video thing.

There has also been some severe nausea today, but I know the cause of that. When I saw a tape early this morning of New Jersey schoolchildren being compelled to sing a song of praise to “Barack Hussein Obama…equal work for equal pay…mmm, mmm!” I became physically ill. Watching Hillary Clinton pimp kids’ welfare to advance her policies as First Lady was bad enough; now we’re into outright indoctrination. I refer you back to the concept of AmeriCorps, which is still looming as The Next Big Thing. We, as reasonable adults, can make our decisions on any given issue based upon empiricism and rational determination. When you raise a generation of children on a liberal mindset with no alternative—thanks to “political correctness”—you are going to have a power base with a specific outcome.

If you’re a liberal fascist with no aim but the accumulation of power, and no vision beyond the day after tomorrow, this is dandy. For the rest of us…well, pardon me. I have to go puke.