Points to Ponder

By William L. Garvin

“An interesting aspect of the rumored treaty with Iran is that, at the very least, they will be able to pursue nuclear energy to their heart’s content, which is more than the liberals, taking their marching orders from environmental zealots, will allow us to do.  How is it we’re not insisting that Iran start relying on solar panels and windmills for its energy needs?  Although nuclear energy is cheap, available and safe, and would make us energy independent for the foreseeable future, we haven’t built a nuclear plant since the 1970’s.  Perhaps if America could go to Switzerland and negotiate with John Kerry, we too could start building centrifuges for peaceful purposes.”  Burt Prelutsky

Iran has an abundant supply of oil and it only costs about $4.00 for them to produce each barrel   As a result, gasoline is about $.25 per gallon so from a purely practical perspective, why is there such a need for nuclear energy?  Also why isn’t their production of intercontinental ballistic missiles being addressed at the negotiating table?  They already have rockets that will reach Israel and indeed, “wipe it off the map” if armed with nuclear warheads.  But pay no attention to all those “Death to America’ chants—they don’t really mean it.

Everyone should be very concerned about this “deal” which may not even be confirmed in writing!  Remember, the Obama-Hillary-Kerry administration has hardly left a track record of successful negotiations.  They couldn’t even successfully negotiate a “status of forces” agreement with Iraq.  Kerry’s mediation in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks was a miserable failure.  The missile defense system for Poland and Czechoslovakia was thrown under the bus.  Hillary couldn’t even spell her “reset button’ for Russia correctly let alone protect Crimea and the Ukraine.  Uncle Sam not only got his pocket picked in the START treaty but the Russian bear also ate his lunch!  The “deadlines” and “red lines” in Syria became and international joke.  And lest we forget, they recently traded five top Taliban terrorist commanders for a soldier now facing charges of desertion and misbehavior (which carries a life sentence).

Given that Israel’s very existence may be at stake, she is making use of every avenue available for survival.  Not too surprisingly, Mossad (the Israeli CIA) is monitoring every word and every action of the countries that are determining her future.  The Obama administration, increasingly hostile to Israel in general and her prime minister in particular, appear exceedingly vexed that Israel is looking out for her own self-interest.  Why they are even spying on the USA!  And how did the USA find that out?  By spying on Israel of course!  Oops!

On the national political front, the left is now doubling down on double standards.  Since Ted Cruz announced his candidacy for president, there is now much liberal hue and cry about a first term senator being qualified.  They even have a “birther” movement challenging his eligibility.  The media immediately branded him as “uppity, divisive, a flamethrower, a demagogue, rigid and uncompromising.”  When he said he grew fond of country music after 9/11 because of its patriotic themes, MSNBC’s Jamilah Lemieux idiotically brayed “Nothing says ‘Let’s go kill some Muslims’ like country music….”  Haters gotta hate even if their viewers dissipate and ratings tank.

Meanwhile, just as there were “Jordan Rules” in the NBA, there now appear to be “Clinton Rules” in presidential politics.  Somehow it is perfectly acceptable for Hillary’s foundation to rake in millions of dollars from foreign countries while she was Secretary of State.  It’s perfectly acceptable for her to continue to accept untold buckets of money from individuals and countries that won’t allow women to drive, will stone them for adultery, require four witnesses to a rape and allow husbands to beat their wives.  It’s perfectly acceptable for her to conduct our nation’s most sensitive business on her own private email accounts with her own private server.  It’s perfectly acceptable for her to destroy all the emails she chooses and to wipe her server clean even though congress has requested those documents for months.

But if you criticize her or point out the recent CBS News poll shows that only 26% view her favorably while 37% view her unfavorably, beware the wrath of the Clinton “Super Volunteers,” who notified the New York Times that they will carefully track the media for “sexist code words.”  So don’t you ever say that she is “polarizing, calculating, disingenuous, insincere, ambitious, inevitable, entitled, over-confident, secretive, will do anything to win, represents the past, or out of touch.”  Never dare to blaspheme their saint!  Prepare for the thought police and their cyber-bully tactics.  You must never dissent.  You will kiss your freedom of speech goodbye…or else!

IRAN AND HEZBOLLAH NO LONGER THREATS?

The following is from a Newsweek story written by Jack Moore today, March 16:  "An annual security assessment presented to the U.S. Senate by James Clapper, the director of National Intelligence, has excluded Iran and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah from its list of terror threats to U.S. interests, despite both being consistently included as threats in previous years.

The unclassified report, issued by Clapper on February 26 and entitled the Worldwide Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Communities, was published by the Times of Israel amid Israeli concerns that Iran was omitted simply because of Tehran’s efforts to combat ISIS.

In a previous report from January 2014, Clapper included Iran and Hezbollah in the ‘Terrorism’ section, writing that both “continue to directly threaten the interests of U.S. allies. Hizballah [sic] has increased its global terrorist activity in recent years to a level that we have not seen since the 1990s”. Iran was also given its own sub-heading in the ‘Terrorism’ section of such assessments in 2011, 2012 and 2013."

So let's all get together and learn how to love the Iranian bomb now that we're not negotiating with terrorists!  If you believe this is a good move, then Bo Bergdahl, Bradley/Chelsea Manning, and Nidal Hassan are all patriots.

Bill Garvin

Double Troubling Inconsistencies

By William L. Garvin

This world is teeming with blatant double standards and glaring inconsistencies yet many in the general population are only selectively outraged.  The first examples must be an anathema to the veterans of the UC Berkeley Free Speech movement in the sixties.  It would be appalling for them to see swastikas painted on a Jewish fraternity at a sister campus.  It would be incomprehensible for them to hear Jewish students shouted down with cries of “allahu Akbar” as they attempted to speak against a resolution to divest all campus investments in Israel.  Their puzzlement would be compounded by another campus voting to remove all United States flags because they might be “offensive” to some.  They would also equally abhor and vigorously debate the foolish frat boy rap of the Oklahoma University fraternity.  Somewhere along the line, “freedom” and “responsibility” have been irrevocably rendered asunder.  Having the right to do it doesn’t always equate to it being the right thing to do.  Burning flags, misogynistic rap lyrics, and profane and offensive “art” abound in these times.

An offshoot of this theme is the irresponsible promulgation of the “hands up, don’t shoot” mythology.  Where are the apologies now that even activist Attorney General had to totally exonerate Officer Darren Wilson in the Ferguson shooting?  Let’s hear the NBA and NFL players apologize for helping ruin the life of Officer Wilson.  Let’s hear an apology from Hakeem Jeffries, Sheila Jackson Lee, Al Green, and Yvette Clarke, all Democrat members of the Congressional Black Caucus, for “acting stupidly” by holding their hands up on the House floor.  Let’s hear President Obama apologize for listening to the foolish race-baiting polemics of Al Sharpton.  Let’s hear the media apologize for perpetuating the “gentle giant” fraud and doctoring tapes and using prepubescent cherubic photographs of Trayvon Martin all the while giving comparatively scant attention to the assassination of two New York officers, to the shooting of two officers in Ferguson, to black on black crime, and horror of horrors, black on white crime.

Then there’s the “smartest woman in the world” attempting to gender morph from the perpetually dissatisfied Madame Bovary into President Ovary.  Even though she brags about having an iPhone, a Blackberry, a mini and an iPad, apparently she couldn’t figure out how to have two email addresses on a single device or use two devices.  Also, how does her State Department generate a billion emails but preserve only 61,000?  This makes the eighteen and a half missing minutes on the Nixon tapes look like a warm-up act.  If all those deleted emails had to do with yoga poses, prom dresses, funeral and wedding plans, there were far too many government employees doing personal business on official time.  Maybe if they had actually been doing their jobs, four Americans would be alive in Benghazi today!

Nonetheless, the Dems will rally around Hillary if no other reason than they don’t have anybody else.  They will continue to characterize her as a champion of women although even her most ardent supporters are hard pressed to list any concrete accomplishments (other than miraculously making a small fortune in cattle futures).  Given the sorry state of affairs in international relations, her only successful operation was the “nuts and sluts” character assassinations to cover up her husband’s bimbo eruptions.  (By the way, why are multiple complaints against Bill Cosby indicative of his guilt but multiple complaints against Bill Clinton so easily dismissed?)  And if a Republican candidate ever paid his or her female staffers at a lower rate compared to male staffers just as Hillary does, they would be pilloried.  That’s as bad as Clint Eastwood using non-union crews…oh wait—that was Michael Moore!

Speaking of acting, look at all the faux outrage Democrats exhibited regarding the speech to Congress by Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu.  Nancy Pelosi said she was “nearly moved to tears” by his presentation which she deemed insulting to her president.  Her childish pantomimes of displeasure (until she and the Black Caucus stormed out) was the epitome of disrespect to what she once called “our staunchest ally.”  With friends like that….  She and John Kerry continued their manufactured outrage by castigating a letter that 47 senators sent to Iran.  She had no such qualms about personally visiting Bashar al-Assad in Syria against President Bush’s wishes but of course, that was then and this is now.

Thanks to a lack of principles and utter disregard for the truth, inconsistency and double standards are the mother’s milk of today’s politics.  For those who continue to foolishly foment racial discord, division and discontent, here’s your new slogan:  “Bloody hands up; don’t drip!”