Extracted from the Weekly Standard

 

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Extracted from Jonathon Last, writing in:
TheWeekly Standard:
The Last Word
October 9, 2013

 



One by one, even the sophisticated media is meandering off the reservation. First it was the Economist last March, daring to notice that the prophesies of doom weren't being fulfilled and that the data shows we are about to fall out of the 95 percent confidence level of the prediction from Settled Science.

Now it's Der Spiegel, the bien-pensant magazine of mainstream German thought.

In the story, Der Spiegel looks at the unpredicted "pause" in global temperatures and investigates the internecine fight between researchers who want to acknowledge this empirical truth and those who do not. It concludes by asking:

The researchers' problem: Their climate models should have been able to predict the sudden flattening in the temperature curve. Offering explanations after the fact for why temperatures haven't increased in so long only serves to raise doubts as to how reliable the forecasts really are.

This is an astonishing reversal. Time was, the "climate change" movement was one of those unstoppable political forces which was going to remake American politics. Today, even the Europeans are beginning to have second thoughts.

It's yet another reminder that in politics, nothing is foreordained.

 

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    One is moved to suggest that Der Spiegel should have said....."...Their climate models should have been able to predict the sudden flattening of the Earth."

EGV

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      One of the main reasons this writer continues to be loyal to the notion that the Republic of Texas must shuck off its disguise as a sister State within the American Union and re-establish its independence as it did with Mexico in 1836 is because of these events of these past days.   The backdrop of it all is the looming disaster being brought on by the printing  of 85 billion dollars per month by the Federal Reserve in order to prop up a churlish poseur who cannot even act as if he is playing the role of a real live president.   And, consider that he has a supporting cast of ghouls, lackeys, thugs, and "journalists" that any real live tin-horn dictator would envy.

     Allow a very small point be made to prove a very large point.   The other day, down here on the frontier with Mexico, an apprehension was made by a local police officer in a small town near Brownsville.   The fellow who was detained and cuffed and hauled off was an illegal alien with an outstanding warrant and even a set of warrants out of Mexico.
    All Texas police officers, upon a stop to interrogate, request identification, by the way.  Illegal aliens are always detained and turned over to immigration officers who are associated with the central government's Department of Homeland Security.   This individual was dealt with in that manner.
    What is of interest is that Gary Holder, the pitiful, mendacious, corrupt, and useless Attorney General who befits an administration such as the Obama regime, files lawsuits against the State of Arizona and others to prohibit local police officers from detaining illegal aliens and/or even inquiring concerning the legal status of a detained person.
     But, as stated in the news of the day in the area of concern near Brownsville, it was pointed out that the officer detaining the illegal alien with warrants on two sides of the border was being subsidised by a central government funded program that re-enforces patrol efforts by local and State officers, accentuating the arrest and detention of illegal aliens.

     Yes, we know that it might even require a re-reading of the above.   That for which Holder sues one State, he subsidises another for essentially the same activity.   It is called grandstanding.  This particular contradiction is designed for the sake of the Obsolete Press to have an issue so as to endorse Obama and to confuse an electorate endowed with limited intellectual discernment.   It allows Obama and Holder to beat up on Arpaio in Phoenix, while buying votes of local politicians in Small Town, Wherever.

    This set of facts, coupled up with the debt, the deficit, the foreign policy and military lunacy, the unwillingness to adhere to Constitutional precepts that founded the United States of America, just keep reminding a fellow that  we probably are already beyond recovery as a viable American Union.   Texas, with all it peculiarities, is much more viable, even with the loons within our ranks.

It is all a heavy weight on the soul.
El Gringo Viejo

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An appeal from the lost Western Regions, sent to El Zorro

While this is not our fight, in a larger sense, it is our fight.  The anti-firearm forces who want to create a disarmed Utopian society know that if they can crimp substantially the ownership and use of firearms in California, it will have a significant impact on the overall American market.   Fees, penalties, arbitrary interpretations, imprisonment, annual possession taxes, inheritance suspension, and the cascade of interference that totalitarians rely upon to harass the innocent.   The never-ending effort to turn America pink will never end.   That's probably why they call it "never-ending".    

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CONTACT GOVERNOR BROWN TODAY!!

 

This year the California Legislature passed the most restrictive collection of anti-gun laws in decades ALL DESIGNED TO END GUN OWNERSHIP IN CALIFORNIA!!

 

Our last chance to stop these laws before having to spend millions to fight them in court for years is for Governor Brown to veto them. Governor Brown needs to be reminded that he has millions of constituents that are law-abiding gun owners, sportsmen and Second Amendment supporters and that Californians do not support outrageous anti-gun and anti-hunting legislation, like those in New York, New Jersey, Maryland and Connecticut or worse.

 

If we do not stop these bills NOW our children will never know the fundamental rights of self defense, hunting, self reliance and private ownership of firearms nor the freedoms this Country was founded on.

 

Below are the anti-gun/anti-hunting bills you need to call, fax AND e-mail and urge Governor Brown to VETO.

 

Governor Brown can be reached at:

Phone: (916) 445-2841

Fax: (916) 558-3160

Email web form: http://www.calguns.net/governor

 

SB374 - Bans the future sale or transfer of and classifies ALL semi-automatic firearms with a detachable magazine or holding more than ten rounds of ammunition as "assault weapons." Continued legal possession requires that you REGISTER and pay a FEE (TAX) on ALL your semi-autos newly classified as “assault weapons.”

 

AB711 - Makes California the first state to prohibit the use of all lead ammunition for hunting.

 

AB48 - Bans the sale of parts and repair kits capable of creating or converting a magazine to a capacity to hold greater than ten rounds.

 

AB169 - Limits the sale/transfer of all lawfully firearms that were never, or are no longer, on the California roster of approved handguns to two a year and redefines the technical provisions of single shot pistols.

 

AB231 - Expands the laws relating to firearms storage.

 

SB299 - Makes it a crime if a person does not report a lost/stolen firearm within 7 days.

 

SB475 - Would effectively ban the gun shows at the Cow Palace by requiring the approval of San Francisco and San Mateo Counties

 

AB180 - Repeals state firearms pre-emption by allowing the City of Oakland to enact gun ordinances that are more restrictive than state laws concerning the registration or licensing of firearms.

 

SB567 - Redefines shotguns to include any long gun with a rifled bore or a smooth bore, regardless of whether it is designed to be fired from the shoulder and bans the sale of shotguns with the revised definitions that have a revolving cylinder, and requires registration of these currently owned shotguns.

 

SB683 - Expands California’s Handgun Safety Certificate requirement to apply to all firearms, and prohibits anyone from purchasing or transferring any firearm without a firearm safety certificate.

 

SB755 - Expands the list of persons prohibited from owning a firearm, including persons who have operated cars and boats while they are impaired commonly referred to as DUI.

 

Permission to use freely is given, to download a printable version go to http://www.calguns.net/vetoflyer.doc

 

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    This was forwarded from California to El Zorro and then around the Republic of Texas through the network of happy subversives here. It might be resented by Governor Moon Beam should we dabble in his zone of prerogative, but....then again....who cares here?

 

El Gringo Viejo

 

So Many Windmills, So Few Magic Lances

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     After being out on the edge of civilisation for several weeks, one becomes a bit jaded while observing the macabre and forlorn nature of the American political scene.   There are a panoply of "Central Issues" each bearing upon the birth of social and fiscal problems that will, most certainly, destroy the American Republic.   It steadily becomes more and more of a really, really bad horror movie.

 

     There is a debt owed by the federation which will soon be in excess of 17,000,000,000,000 American dollars.   That is the amount of 56,000 dollars from each man, woman, and child within the Republic.  Lamentably it also points to the other sad fact that only the productive will pay this freight.  One-half of the population is productive by this point, and one-half is consumptive. Therefore, each of my granddaughters, are presently scheduled to pay at this time 112,000 dollars.  And that amount will likely be increasingly steadily as they journey towards adulthood.

 

      Two of the many Windmills and Blackhole Monsters that have caused this morass are payments to the beggar class that is involved in mulitigenerational welfare dependency, and to the crony capitalist class that depends upon its close relationship to the members of what has been called a "parliament of whores".

 

      The establishment of the business / welfare industrial complex, with all the tiers of bureaucratic labyrinths is the mortar holding the bricks that build the walls that become Detroit.   Its  Draculine Sustenance depends upon the  money that the central government extorts by force from the productive.  That money is quickly burned in the digestive and reproductive tracts of the consumptive.

 

     These are truths that when violated by long-term profligacy on the part of the ruling class always result in the collapse of the nation involved.   It is required over the years to supply the increasingly indolent dependent class with more and more until finally it is impossible to accomplish their provision.   Then comes the slaughter, the repression, and the darkness of civilisation.  The Jungle wins.

 

 

 

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     The Obama Administration's insistence upon forcing as much imposition and needless official meanness is the echo of disaster forecasted by the already forgotten scenes from "Sequester Disaster Movie"....George Bush remotely guiding airliners filled with minorities, Polar Bears, children into mid-air crashes, seniors keeling over from starvation, family pets going without reproductive rights from Planned Parenthood....we remember how that played out.

      But folks, let us now bluntly state the fact;  most participants in the activities of the American body politic are now either too ignorant, or too incapable of critical thinking skills, or too selfish to care or remember about the complex of lies produced by the Obama Administration at every critical climax and catastrophe and calamity it either causes or predicts.

 

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    We lament not moving more quickly on this, but Rush is on record at this hour (11:13 AM) in his exposure of  HHS Secretary Sibelius dumping out entire truckloads of bilge, mendacity, and rotting bloviation on John Stewart's comedy show.   El Gringo Viejo was going to give her the Gong Show Award of Lifetime Whatever last night....but he was simply too lazy and worn out from the drive up from our little place in the Mexican outback.

  

    Point being, this Sibelius woman has always been, and remains, a chronic, pathological liar as are all marxists.  It appears to be a requisite for employment in the Obama - Soros administration.   We remember forever her blurb about how she could not do a whole lot about the flooding going on in her State of Kansas since George Bush had sent her National Guard with all its heavy equipment and soldiers to fight in Iraq.   She was almost immediately contradicted by her own Adjutant General and commanding officer of the Kansas National Guard.

 

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     Instead of droning on uselessly, we shall draw this up with a comment about the shooting of that deranged woman in Washington, D.C.    The response was neither good nor heroic, but it certainly was a demonstration of the massive militarisation of what until recently was known as a civilian constabulary.   It seems a bit more than troubling.   And the response of the central government's park police agencies in the harassing of people "found on the grounds"  of Park facilities....closing access to private facilities indirectly associated with public parks....passing out tickets to runner / joggers at $100-a-clip fines....while then allowing a demonstration to set up on the National Mall, sponsored by the Council of La Raza, the SCIU - Soros labour union, the AFL - CIO,  and a general assembly of anarchist groups such as the Occupy Wall Street loons.   It seems that some people are subject to the "law" and others are not.

 

 

More Later.

El Gringo Viejo

    

Back in Town

We  have returned for a spell.  A lot of hard work transpired.....there was just a whole lot of rain.  More, after my bones limber up a bit.

 El Gringo Viejo

THOMAS DALE DELAY EXONERATED - Hooray, Hooray

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OF COURSE, IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT TOM WAS A MEANY-POO AND THOUGHT THAT DEMOCRATS SHOULD LOSE VOTES IN THE CONGRESS AND THAT REPUBLICANS and CONSERVATIVES SHOULD WIN THEM.  EL GRINGO
 VIEJO IS A MEANY-POO, ALSO.  THE TOMBSTONE OF THIS
REPUBLIC WILL HAVE THIS EPITAPH:


"America lies here, having died of Compromise"

 

 

     Then comes a reliable source saying: Thomas Dale DeLay was finally absolved of the ridiculous conviction for "money laundering"....due to a trial held with the centre-piece of the charge being a manoeuvre that was used by Democrats and everyone under the Heavens, and approved by the Federal Election Commission and attorneys who specialise in Electoral Law.   Six such attorneys testified at the trial of DeLay in the Peoples' Republic of Travis County.   They all agreed that DeLay's procedure was legally and morally correct.  A paper trail was made very obvious, specifically for the purpose of showing the pathway taken by the money.   That is how normal and non-illegal DeLay's process was.

 

     The Travis County District Attorney has special powers under the Constitution of the Republic of Texas.   He (or it, as the case might be) has the authority to bring charges, especially against any elected official serving the electorate of the Republic of Texas.   This can be done so long as the Statute of Limitations is respected and so long as a duly empanelled Grand Jury indicts the individual who is supposed to have offended the sensibilities of the People or the Travis County District Attorney.
      If "double jeopardy" were to apply to Grand Juries, Delay could not have been indicted.   Delay's indictment was on the fourth trip to the Laundromat....and now we learn that the stain really, really was not removable.   Ronnie Earle, the District Attorney's stain that is.  Thomas Dale DeLay's conviction was overturned by the Texas Third Court of Criminal Appeals, apparently by a decision registered yesterday by the several judges sitting on the Texas Third Circuit.


We submit this cheerful anthem to the faithful, and we shall join the celebration upon our quick return!

http://youtu.be/IUjLE_N1Cuc

   

        

More later, as we prepare to leave for the Quinta Tesoro de la Sierra Madre in to-morrow's early grey.
El Gringo Viejo

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How Things Were Made Better by Obama's Outreach to Muslims (Alice Dreams Fitfully, looking furtively for that Cheshire Cat that keeps disappearing)

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     This will be brief.

     Liberal Democrats demand that we get rid of dictators.  But they love Fidel Castro.   Professors are brave to sport their Che T-shirts.   They still think that Allende killed himself, when in fact he was gunned down like a dog by members of the Maoist Communist faction of his own policy advisors.

     The New York Times loved Vlad Lenin...and after Vlad went to the big mausoleum in the sky, the Times loved Uncle Joe Stalin.   Think of all the good that he has done....free medical care for all Russians.   Amazing.

      They loved Ho Chi Minh...an agrarian reformer...a peasant seeking Jeffersonian democracy with lots of rice...Uncle Ho, they called him.  The generally pinko Wikipedia, whom we shall cite because of their generally "reasonable and moderate" posturing but, at times, they agree among themselves to tell the truth.

     This is the truth that is not taught:

     In North Vietnam during the 1950s, political opposition groups were suppressed; those publicly opposing the government were imprisoned in hard labor camps. Many middle-class, intellectual Northerners had been lured into speaking out against Ho's communist regime, and most of those who did were later imprisoned in gulags or executed; this became known as the Nhan Van-Giai Pham Affair. Some prisoners died of exhaustion, starvation, illness (often having received no medical attention), or assault by prison guards. Political scientist R.J. Rummel suggests a figure of 24,000 camp deaths during Ho's rule of North Vietnam between 1945 and 1956.
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     The government launched "rent reduction" and "land reform" programs, which, according to Steven Rosefielde, were "aimed at exterminating class enemies."^[55] Declassified Politburo documents confirm that 1 in 1,000 North Vietnamese (i.e., about 14,000 people) were the minimum quota targeted for execution during the earlier "rent reduction" campaign; the number killed during the multiple stages of the considerably more radical "land reform" was probably many times greater.^[56] Lam Thanh Liem, a major authority on land issues in Vietnam, conducted multiple interviews in which communist cadres gave estimates for land reform executions ranging from 120,000 to 200,000. Such figures match the "nearly 150,000 houses and huts which were allocated to new occupants".^[57]   A number of sources have suggested that about 30% of the "landlords" executed were actually communist party members.^{[57][58][59][60][61]} Landlords were arbitrarily classified as 5.68% of the population, but the majority were subject to less severe punishment than execution. Official records from the time suggest that 172,008 "landlords" were executed during the "land reform", of whom 123,266 (71.66%) were later found to be wrongly classified.^[62] Victims were reportedly shot, beheaded, and beaten to death; "some were tied up, thrown into open graves and covered with stones until they were crushed to death".^[63] The full death toll was even greater because victims' families starved to death under the "policy of isolation."^[64] As communist defector Le Xuan Giao explained: "There was nothing worse than the starvation of the children in a family whose parents were under the control of a land reform team. They isolated the house, and the people who lived there would starve. The children were all innocent. There was nothing worse than that. They wanted to see the whole family dead."^[65] Hoang Van Chi wrote that as many as 500,000 North Vietnamese may have died as a result of the policies of Ho's government.^[66] 6,000 peasants were allegedly massacred in response to a revolt against unbearable taxes.

    We use the above to exemplify the results of radical socialist revolutions and "cultural re-organisation" subsequent to obtaining the keys to the Main Palace and the Throne Room.  Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Fidel and Raul, Hugo Chavez, the Ortega brothers (limited by their stupidity).
     The Mexican extreme left tried it, somewhat effectively, when they began to slaughter hacendados and church people in 1920, and implemented "Agrarian Reform", essentially collapsing, then hamstringing Mexican agriculture for 60 years of demagoguery of the worst and least productive sort.
    The landlords issue is eerily similar to Stalin's "Agrarian Reform" in his native Georgia and in the Ukraine.  Echoes are heard in the form of the Ghosts of the Emperor's Gongs after Mao destroyed Chinese agriculture in three years.   In Stalin's case, as many a 7,000,000 Georgian, Ukrainian, and other traditional, private farmers and their extended families and related business people died,  while others went broke, and/or were essentially destroyed physically, emotionally, and financially.   Mexico and Russia traded their simultaneous notes on the "great successes'' of their mirrored image of "reform".  It was an "ape in the mirror show", and by the time it was well established, the purpose had been fulfilled.   Both nations were one-party states.   Russia a bit more totalitarian and Mexico a bit more authoritarian....but both decidedly one-party states.   Production was off by 90%, but...heck...progress has a price.

    We don't want any bad dictators.  We want reformers.   Out with the Shah, and in with the Ayatollahs.   No Samoza, but yes to the Ortegas.   No Batista, but yes to the Castros.   All great American foreign policy victories.   How do we know they were victories?  Because the obsolete press was happy with the changes, Democrats in Congress are pleased, and America is stained.

     Enter Barack Hussein Obama.  He picks up a Nobel Prize for Peace, tells the German Wasted Youth that he is the Messiah sent to put the trains back on their tracks, and then he tells the Arabian, Muslim world that he has come to Cairo to atone for the Arrogance of the Americans.    He returned to the United States, played some golf, had a concert or two at the White House, took a bit of a vacation, and then....we fast forward to the days that would end his first term and then start the second term.   He had spent the first term alienating the Hebrews in general, and Bibi Netanyahu in particular.  So he ended with a tacit backing of "democracy and democratic reforms" in Egypt.  Obama boots out Mubarak...found guilty of being nice to the Gringos and keeping the Muslim Brotherhood  at bay.   Egypt has elections, the Muslim Brotherhood wins and the progress that Egypt has made, in its own way, to establish a sane, faithful but secular and plural society...with considerable tolerance and millions of stunned and pleased tourists....collapses overnight.   The land of refuge of Jacob and Joseph,  the land that made the Jew Moses a Viceroy suddenly became the land of Ramses the Tyrant and torturer of the errant, the Jew, the foreigner, and those who follows creeds that are not approved.
    Egypt is reduced to further and deeper demonstrations, riots, and disorders.    Then in Tunisia....Arab Spring becomes Arab Bubonic Plague.  Next comes the dethroning of another tyrant, Kaddafi in Libya.  Even Turkey is having a confluence of protests...then Syria.   Before long all the bad tyrants are gone or are in the process of being removed, "within weeks",  and everything will be grand for the people who invented chess and algebra.

     But, like everything Obama, it doesn't work out quite that way.  In each case,  is now certain, the intent was to allow ultra-hard line Islamists to gain power.   Hezbollah, the Muslim Brotherhood, and various other radical factions of the Caliphate Crowd, some even affiliated with Al Qaeda, are swirling and milling, raping American female reporters, brutalising ancient Orthodox, Coptic Christians, closing touristic/academic archaeological sites, burning, looting, and generally turning everything into something not quite as filthy and littered as the aftermath of a Democrat or Occupy Wall Street Rally on the Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C.

     A YouTube video causes irate Arabs to kill four American State Department people.  Obama is shipping weapons to Al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood from the stores being kept in Benghazi, compromising the Turks in the process, and then lying about the failure to move to defend the American personnel in Benghazi.   Hillary is hung over the toilet, puking and wondering, "Who in the #%^^&@ could be calling at 03:00?"  when she's working on a stomach flu and a concussion and a broken jaw.   Obama is tossing fitfully wondering if Reggie Love misses him and how much money he is going to raise in Las Vegas among the poor, oppressed Democrat masses....from Hollywood.  Panetta is trying to remember if he spells his name with two "n's" and two "t's" or one of each or one of one and two of the other.....ah, phooey!  Whoever heard of anyone named Panetta anyway?

     Panetta means something like a small bread loaf.   Like a French roll or a Mexican bolillo.  Leon Panetta means a stonewalling lackey.   Leon is the guy, now, who can look into a camera and say, "These paper towels are so absorbent that you can use four times less than any other brand."

     "Uh...Mr. Secretary, how can something be used 'four times less' than anything?"

      "Well, it depends upon just what anything is,"

      "Would it not be better to say, for instance...'we can use one-fourth as much'?"

       "Around here, it doesn't really matter what we say because we just modify it the next day and deny that we said it and also that even though we never said it, it was also taken out of context."

     "Mr. Secretary, do you have any idea where the President was, or if he was aware of the situation in Benghazi, or were you with him?"

     "We spoke to the president when he called us from Tripoli.  He was frantic, as you might imagine.  We told him that we were going to arrest the Christian who made the YouTube Video and everything would be okay.  Plus, we made some progress on recovering five or six of those shoulder fired anti-aircraft missiles, so that only leaves about 650 or so...more or less...don't quote me on the number.   And, of course we made a lot of progress with the program to re-mark some of the highways in Libya with American roadsigns and distances stated in miles instead of kilometres"  Panetta  then stated that he had another appointment and stopped the in depth interview with the media.

 

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   Obama's friend Morsi,  the political leader of Egypt, has found out how to say "buyers' remorse" in the Egyptian form of Arabic.  He and all the people outside his window have learnt new names for the President of the United States as well.  The fickle mobs demand that the Egyptian Army remove Morsi the Pretender, and it is done.   Rather skilfully, the Generals manoeuvre a somewhat functional government into place, primarily by telling the American Embassy to tell Obama that he can take his suggestions and stuff them in Hillary Rodham's aeroplane.    Meanwhile, Bashir Assad of Syria, the most horrible dictator in the history of the world is still in power and the body count is so high now that they've run out of both Arabic and Roman numerals.   So they are asking Ben Bernanke for any quantitative amount he might be able to ease their way.

 

     The world has heard Obama say that, since he has been so suave in the handling of the YouTube mystery, and the sales of General Motors solar powered de-salinization plants for the Sahara, he is going to draw a red-line all the way through Arabia should Bashir Assad decide to take out the mustard gas "on his own people".     Assad has heard, and the Good Guys are Good Syrian Rebel Army has heard Obama say, "Red Lines are drawn when gas canisters are moved around!"   Later, of course, Obama reminds everybody that he did not say that.   It was that famous Frenchman "Tout le Monde" who said it.  And 152 countries signed a document saying that Tout le Monde had said it.   But the rebels and Bashir Assad had heard it...and one, or the other, or both began to move it around, until finally it was used, purposely, or through incompetence, or both.

    The one with the least reason to have used it, is blamed by Obama.   He says it is Assad.   The side with the best reason to have used the chemical, the rebels, also say that Assad did it.   A 26 year old Grand Master Authority tells both Sen. Col. John McCain and Obama that she is certain that Assad is at fault.   She also is caught, the next day, in a lie about her credentials and diplomas and there is no way she could ever be used as any kind of authority.   She and Margaret Mead join through the veil between life and death and celebrate the loneliness of Lance Armstrong and all those who have lied under oath.   After all, "What difference, at this point, could it possibly make?".

 

 

     And that, Virginia, is how Obama led the Arabs to the promised land full of suicide vests and beheadings and shooting prisoners in the back on film...so as to demonstrate to the world what fine people freedom fighters are, and how Islam is a religion whose very name means "peace".

    It always helps to have a really good community organiser and a really crack teleprompter and an audience with an average IQ of 46 when people really, really want to solve problems.  Next time maybe we'll try Uncle Omar and/or Auntie Zietuni.

 

El Gringo Viejo

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