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In Cicero’s Shadow

The Catiline Orations were speeches given in 63 BC by Marcus Tullius Cicero, Consul of Rome, exposing to the Roman Senate the plot of Lucius Sergius Catilina and his allies to overthrow the Roman government. (Wikipedia 2014) Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) offered a paraphrasing of the famed and classic orations of his predecessor and was published by THE BLAZE (a Glenn Beck publication and referenced on 11-20-2014) Now I offer it to those people who don’t subscribe to THE BLAZE, because what Cruz has done is priceless in its transcendence of time and circumstances to point out the nefarious acts unfolding today confirm the fact politics is a snake biting its own tail for all time.

What’s up with that?

The issue at hand revolves around the fact the United States of America is a government controlled by a system of Checks and Balances. That means no one part of the government separated into three constituent elements: the Executive, the Legislative and the Judiciary, shall hold ascendancy and power to negate the powers attributed to the others. This isn’t an idea. It’s not an ideal.

The vacuum that is Mary

Mary Landrieu showed the true value of her Chairmanship of the Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources: none. She couldn’t push, pull, shove, drag, prod, cajole, entice, coax, persuade, wheedle, sweet-talk, inveigle or compel her colleagues to pass legislation allowing for the XL Pipeline project.

Arthurian gusto

Years ago I addressed a popular politician conducting a Town Hall Meeting in my community. I took my son to introduce him to the type of small-town political action was famous in my New England village. We met at the Town Hall and regularly questioned, addressed and let our positions be known concerning the conduct of government. It was quaint and the subject of a Norman Rockwell painting. That image is powerful in its silent statement it’s the right of the people to have their voices heard, understood and respected by their representatives.

Reject this New Republic

We’re not as damned stupid as they all think we are. It’s time to take back our country.

Plot your own course

“The comments in the video were made at an academic conference,” Jonathan Gruber said Tuesday on MSNBC. “I was speaking off the cuff and I basically spoke inappropriately and I regret having made those comments.”

The TRUTH will out!

“This bill (The Affordable Care Act) was written in a tortured way to make sure CBO did not score the mandate as taxes. If CBO scored the mandate as taxes, the bill dies. Okay, so it’s written to do that. In terms of risk rated subsidies, if you had a law which said that healthy people are going to pay in – you made explicit healthy people pay in and sick people get money, it would not have passed… Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. And basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical for the thing to pass… Look, I wish Mark was right that we could make it all transparent, but I’d rather have this law than not.” Jonathan Gruber-Obamacare Architect The above is the exact, factual and video-recorded statement of the man who was one of Obama’s lead men on the writing of The Affordable Care Act. Gruber admits the ruse Obama has used since the beginnings of his campaign for president and his desire to have transparency in the development of legislation is purely for altruistic and honorable purposes is a sham and a lie.

Common ground

Well, it’s started. The tsunami the mid-term elections proved to be has shown America’s displeasure with Obama and his cult. I find it so much like his track record that he can spin the fact he lost a massive plurality of Senate seats he alone can read the thoughts of the two-thirds of popular voters didn’t vote. It must be a like a whistle only dogs can hear. He knows.

Liar's Poker

In an act of stupendous desperation, Mary Landrieu has stomped heavily into a pile of Obama (chickens#it). She pulled the race card, though tattered and torn from her repertoire and slammed it onto the table like a kid playing “Battle” or “War”. You know the kid’s card game where the highest card dropped takes the hand and you power slam cards to the table when both cards match. It could also be looked at as a game of “Liar’s Poker”.

I’ll take Netanyahu any day

So Benjamin Netanyahu is “chickens#it”. What does that make Obama and Kerry? I’d say whale s#it because they’ve dropped lower than any politicians I’ve known before or after them. For anybody in this feckless and demonstrably ineffectual administration to attack, berate and denigrate a Head of State having lived under the threat of armed encounter and having survived actual shooting wars on his territory and within his national borders is the height of stupidity.

The Water Moccasin

This blank page is causing me grave problems. I have an urge to simply get out a box of colored markers and scribble all over the massive expanse of polar whiteness and create something, anything other than the blankness assaulting my consciousness.

Mary Mallon’s Legacy

Miss Mary Mallon had a problem. I’m speaking of a woman immigrated to America from Cookstown, County Tyrone, Ireland, in 1883. She was a cook for affluent families in and around the area of New York City.

Vitter walks back his shame

KDSL RELEASES INAUGURAL WHITE PAPER ON AMERICAN CURRICULUM SCHOOLS IN DUBAI Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE): Today, Know.Do.Serve.Learn. (KDSL) released the first in a series of white papers that will highlight American curriculum schools in Dubai and related issues of importance to parents, students, and educators. KDSL is a global education company that specializes in collaborating with American curriculum schools worldwide. Its inaugural white paper is entitled "Three Things Every Parent Should Know About American Curriculum Schools In Dubai" and specifically targets parents of current students and those who are considering American curriculum schools for the future.

Common Core and Agenda 21

The Obama administration, Bill Gates, the United Nations, and the Obama administration have been trying with all they're worth to nationalize, along the lines of United Nations Globalization standards of education under the guise of Common Core. Many of the major schemas driving these very deeply disturbing "standards" was overlooked. It's noted, official UN documents and statements by top administration officials expose plans to indoctrinate American children, and students around the world, into cookie-cutter replicants as "global citizens" ready for the "sustainable new world order".

Local Control My Flying Red Butt!

“The 2nd Annual MENA Common Core Conference will provide professional development to American curriculum schools in the region on effectively employing Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in the classroom. Our mission is to unite for one common goal: To be the most successful schools and teachers for our students while implementing CCSS. On October 24 and 25, hundreds of schools, leadership teams, and teachers from across the region will gather in Dubai, to learn about the Common Core State Standards, share curricula and best practices, and network with each other. The event will unite administrators, teachers, and schools around improving teaching and learning for all of our students.”

And THIS is the news!

Satire Good morning, America, Ladies and Gentleman, and all the ships at sea; I’m Walter Brainwaste and THIS is the news!

Getting pithy

Pith: (noun) The central and most important part of something such as an argument or discussion. When I was in school I was pleasantly surprised to be given the task of gathering frogs for dissection in class. I managed to trap enough specimens to make my teacher happy and torture many of the lovely young ladies I wanted to impress. (It was a miserable failure as you might guess.) From the capture we moved on to the nastier element of learning how to euthanize the specimen humanely.

Kennedy got it right

John F. Kennedy said: “There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.” Once in a while I get stuck. Many call it Writer’s Block. I call it a bunch of aggravating schmutz stuck in my head. It’s mental constipation. You know there’s something there, you just can’t get it out, hence the quote. Obama has a history of walking on a political treadmill. He keeps walking but never understands he’s going nowhere. He goes through the motions of ambulation but has no idea he’s got no destination other than in his head and when he stops he’ll be the same sad excuse for a political with no real success to his credit.

Just ramblin’ and amblin’

So; where do we go from here? We have Obama actually cancelling junkets and in general confusing the bejeezus out of everybody because he’s paying attention to Ebola. Maybe it’s because he said his policies and administrative programs are going to be tested in the midterm elections.

Riding shotgun

Ebola is the latest episode indicating just what and who is the real enemy of the people.