Monday, November 9, 2009 Interesting Items 11/09 –
Howdy all, a few Interesting Items for your information. Enjoy – In this issue: 1. ObamaCare 2. Fort Hood 3. Solution 4. Muslims 5. Seward 6. Ares 7. McClatchy 1. ObamaCare. Pelosi’s House majority passed the 1,900+ page version of ObamaCare Saturday night. The vote was 220-215 with newly elected NY-23 democrat Owens voting for it. Owens had been on Capitol Hill less than 12 hours before casting his vote, and also campaigned against the legislation. That didn’t take long. But here are reasons that people are democrats, aren’t there? Pelosi also picked up a single Republican vote, Rep. Cao from LA, who represents William “Cold Cash” Jefferson’s old district with a significant democrat and black majority. One of the games Pelosi played with the legislation was passage of an amendment to strip out all pubic funding for abortion. Expect that amendment to get stripped in either the Senate or in conference (likely both places). This picked up a significant number of so-called pro-life democrats. Obama made a trip to Capitol Hill Saturday to lobby members for passage of the legislation. Make no mistake; this is one of the worst assaults on individual liberty and our future ever contemplated by congress. This, along with cap and trade will allow someone to control every single aspect of our lives. Should this pass, I would consider resurrecting the quaint American custom of tar and feathers for the perpetrators. Don’t ever give up. Whatever happens, don’t give up. 2. Fort Hood. A Medical Corps Major shot up an out-processing station at Fort Hood, Texas late last week, killing 13 and wounding nearly 30. This was the first significant terrorist attack on US soil during Obama’s term in office. The Major, named Maliki Nidal Hasan, was son of Palestinian immigrants. He was from Virginia and reportedly attended the same Falls Church Mosque as two of the 9-11 hijackers attended. Over the years, he became increasingly radicalized, and political correctness in the Army would not allow anyone to forcibly remove him from public service. Sunday, the Army Chief of Staff, General Casey, was on CNN warning against any backlash against Muslims in the Army and vigorously defending the ongoing political correctness in the armed forces today. Hasan reportedly was yelling Allah Akbar as he started mowing down the innocent. Over the weekend, reports surfaced that indicated he was under surveillance by the FBI for a vigorous radical Muslim presence on the web, making numerous blog entries in support of the Jihadi cause, and trying to get in touch with Al Qaida via the net. Apparently neither the FBI nor the Army Medical Corps was sufficiently interested in connecting these dots to take appropriate action. He had reportedly been counseled at least once for proselytizing Islam to other active duty troops while on duty. There is a YouTube video of him in a Killeen convenience store in full Muslim regalia. The obvious question with all this activity is why he was still on active duty and why had he not been mustered out of the service or prosecuted and jailed for violating his oath of office? The answer is political correctness. Some of the writers on various Milblogs note that the quickest way to stop your career as a military officer today is to complain about inappropriate behavior by a fellow military member who is a Muslim. There are potentially tens of thousands of these sleepers infesting the military at all levels today. Hasan was shot by a female rent-a-cop, who also took three bullets herself. Both survived the engagement. Hasan should stand trial under the UCMJ in a military Courts Martial for killing 13 and wounding the other 30 – 43 combined counts of murder and attempted murder. He also should stand trial for treason, as he intentionally opened fire on his combat unit as it processed out for deployment overseas. Once convicted, he should follow Timothy McVeigh into Hell via lethal injection. And like McVeigh, he will not be missed. Perhaps they can include a bit of pig fat in the injection and bury the body with a bag or two of pork rinds just to demonstrate our sense of humor. 3. Solution. If the Army is so under the poisonous spell of political correctness that it will not defend itself from wannabee Jihadis who are infesting it, at least allow the military members and their families to defend themselves on post. Today, the vast majority of all stateside military installations prohibit carry of firearms by all civilians, dependents, and off-duty military. The most common exceptions are the military police, which are always armed. Weapons are normally tightly controlled for the other active duty members. Essentially, military installations are free fire zones for Jihadis, not unlike public schools or colleges. DoD could order sidearms to be issued to ALL active duty military members and require those weapons to be fully loaded and carried at all times. Sidearm training wouldn’t hurt a lot either, making the entire force a bit more lethal. If the Jihadi vermin want to shoot up military bases, and political correctness does not allow anyone to remove them from military service for cause, the least we can do is to make their choices as difficult as humanly possible, for after all the Jihadi have demonstrated time after time that they are the ultimate in murderous cowards, as they prey on the innocent, the unarmed, and the unaware. This is not going to be the last time this happens. If it is to be open warfare on our soil, let us all be prepared to join that battle and prevail in that war. 4. Muslims. Major Hasan and the media / military / administration response to his actions will once again force us as a people to confront the fact that there is a subset of people living in our borders among us, who would just as soon see all of us either Muslim or dead. So far, we have been polite and deferential. But actions have consequences, and the action of allowing immigration from Palestine of people who have been raised for generations hating Israel and the United States, inevitably lead to people like Hasan running around planning and executing mayhem. The action of allowing Saudi-funded Wahhabi Mosques to operate with impunity, without monitoring, creating and radicalizing the young helps to create more wannabee Jihadis like Hasan. The Laws of Physics do apply here, as elevating radicalized Muslims here in the US to the status of perpetually aggrieved, ultimate victims is not going to work for long. Eventually there will be a backlash. Eventually there will be a reaction in the other direction. And it will be fast and thorough. I do not think that the Jihadis and their apologists will like it a lot. They either need to clean up their own house or someone else will do it for them. This is not my preferred solution; but it is one I fear that is building. Every event like we was at Fort Hood gets us just a little bit closer to that time. In this regard, some writing on The Belmont Club have suggested that we simply stop treating Islam as a religion and start treating it as an ideology. The rationale here is that religion is simply one facet of Islam, as it carries with it a form of government (Caliphate), a set of laws and justice (Sharia), and a vigorous military component (Jihad). 5. Seward. The southern terminus of the Alaska Railroad is at a coal shipment terminal in Seward. Coal is dumped into a conveyor and loaded into ships for transport to the Pacific Rim. We ship a lot of coal out of Alaska. This operation has been working happily and environmentally friendly since 1983 – over 25 years. Suddenly, it is no longer clean enough for local greens. The Sierra Club, Trustees for Alaska, Alaska Center for the Environment, and Alaska Community Action on Toxics filed 60-day notice to sue the operator of the terminal Aurora Energy Services for coal dust pollution into the surrounding atmosphere and into Resurrection Bay. No word from any of the green groups on what has actually been harmed over the last quarter of a century. This appears to be little more than another notch in the continuous war on coal and the war on energy production and jobs here in Alaska and elsewhere. 6. Ares. NASA got their latest white elephant off the pad midweek with the first successful test launch of the Ares I. This rocket is a modified Shuttle solid rocket booster with a fifth segment of solid rocket fuel stacked on the normal Shuttle stack of four. There will be a liquid fueled second stage and a payload on top. NASA intends to use this vehicle to launch manned spacecraft to the moon and places farther out. Like the Shuttle, this is an absolute economic disaster, one that because of its cost, will not allow enough of them to be flown on a regular basis to do anything but get more and more expensive. Estimated per flight cost of this white elephant is nearly a half billion dollars. NASA is essentially operating a single-payer manned spaceflight program here in the US. Nobody flies on their spacecraft unless they say so. And because they are operating a monopoly, up until recently there is no marketplace out there figuring out how to launch people into space regularly, cheaply, safely, with a fleet (or fleets) of robust, capable vehicles. If congress wants to create a marketplace for manned spaceflight (and given what this congress has done with other free market entities lately, that assumption is problematic at best), this program ought to be cancelled and contracted out to the private sector which ought to be figuring out how to get large numbers of people into space and make money doing so. If congress allows NASA to bring Ares into operation, it will set back manned spaceflight for another generation and further empower a taxpayer funded and supported monopoly that will kill the hope of people that would like to travel into space for decades to come. This is a mistake and ought to be immediately defunded. 7. McClatchy. Over the courts of last week the local McClatchy fishwrapper published a series of investigative reports on Goldman – Sachs and its connection to the financial meltdown last year. Goldman has been a huge player over the years and apparently has done quite well inflating various financial bubbles and profiting from their collapse. They are very well positioned to profit handsomely should cap and trade become law. Goldman has managed to stay in the background for decades. Now that everyone else has been destroyed or taken over by the Fed or the Obama administration, their heads are now sticking out above water. I have no idea why McClatchy went after them last week, but I do find it to be an interesting event. More later - - AG "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams, speech at the Philadelphia State House, August 1, 1776. Note: Interesting Items can be found at the following locations: The Alaska Standard http://thealaskastandard.com/ MatSu Valley News http://www.matsuvalleynews.com District 28 http://www.dist28.com/ subscriber and supporter Elbert Collins at http://thatselbert.wordpress.com/ and the home page: http://home.gci.net/~agimarc Rod Martin's The Vanguard site is also a long-time supporter of this column: http://www.thevanguard.org/ “Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.” - Vladimir Lenin This is what Blue Dog dems were told to tell their constituents to explain why they voted for the Progressive's Health Insurance agenda. http://www.theleafchronicle.com/article/20091108/NEWS01/911080355 This email is archived at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Slick_eZine/messages Washington is Broken Corruption Reigns Supreme UNDERWAY On the Road Again Oct 25 to Nov 11 http://teapartyexpress.wordpress.com/ November 10- Beaufort , SC Congressman Joe Wilson who called Barak a liar. http://www.teapartyexpress.org/tour-shedule-2/beaufort-sc/ Nov 14. 2009 TEA Parties Vs Amnesty http://www.againstamnesty.com/ Myrtle Beach Freedom Weekend Nov 14 & 15 http://targetfreedom.typepad.com/targetfreedom/2009/10/patriot-expo.html Tea Party Commercial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkFFwyyjZC8 Oath Keepers http://www.oilforimmigration.org/ Rich Martin . --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To join RichsRants, send email to: [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/richsrants?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
