Sarge

The Immorality of War

I don’t understand the so-called immorality of fighting a war with the same intensity and conviction as those who’d wage war against us. This call to stand on a “higher, more moral Plain” and conduct as a nation really disturbs me. I guess it’s because I’ve witnessed man’s barbarism against his fellow man for no better reason than he doesn’t like the way you pray, who you pray to and what you want to result from those prayers. Morality is a concept susceptible to the interpretation of the individual and/or his tribe. Islam differs greatly from Christianity but both have moral codes.

Doing No Real Good

The Democrats have slipped another shiny object into the mix for the Republicans and the Press to fixate on. Diane Feinstein (D-California), Chairwoman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, has exposed to the world the inner workings of the CIA as it pertains to their alleged use of torture in gaining intelligence after 9/11. This in itself is an example of the Democrats’ cynicism, because, with only a month until the turn-over of the reins of government to the Republican Party, Feinstein feels the need to neuter a government agency ticked her off by hacking her computer systems against the law. This issuance of the report should have been in private or had names redacted and identities of foreign operatives shielded to ensure their safety. It’s blown apart the trust and faith our individual covert, allies had we’d keep their identities secret to prevent their deaths; NOT Senatorial sanctions, but the death of their families and them personally.

Time To Stand…

Yesterday, “Tortured Language” was written to point out the comedy of errors Congress is in the fact they allowed a massively expensive boondoggle like the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in the first place and now so many of them are “pig-piling” on Jonathan Grubber as being the villain in this mess. Make no mistake, he is a villain. But the real villainy is in the way Congress, both Democrat and Republican uses their particular form of sleight of hand to get things done and hoodwink us as voters.

Tortured Language

And so the circus comes to town. As I write this Darrel Issa, Elijah Cummings and the assorted members of the United States Congress, House of Representatives are gathered to say much and do nothing. With great fanfare and an organizational ability only Congress is noted for, the testimony concerning the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and Jonathan Gruber’s statements concerning the “stupidity of the American voter” will now play out as low theater and high comedy.

Eagles or Buzzards?

I went dark years ago. Going dark means a couple of different things. Some denote a lack of presence; others denote a sense of depression. In my case I simply decided to not get involved with a bunch of hackneyed and clichéd, moronic promises from politicians expecting us to believe every bit of manure they shovel in our direction doesn’t stink and we have to appreciate the fact they’ll produce roses where cactus thrives.

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

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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.”