Glorious Benevolent Federal Government is going after Evil, Dastardly, Ammunition Manufacturers...

This blogger lives in north central Idaho, which leads me to conclude the OSHA action is targeting Speer/CCI.  

http://blog.joehuffman.org/2016/02/04/ohsa-is-going-after-ammo-manufactures/ 

Expect silly warning labels like we now ignore on virtually all products.  

“WARNING: This product is hazardous to your health.  Do not eat, ingest or otherwise insert into other bodily orfices.  The US Surgeon General advises you to wear protective gloves and eyewear when handling or using this product, and to wash hands regularly.  Users are advised to use OSHA/NIOSH approved and professionally fitted personal protective respirators when using this product.  Using this product indoors can result in airborne lead; assure indoor use is only performed in areas properly ventilated and regularly tested.  Contents of this packaging include materials that are explosive in nature.  Do not place in a fire or near a open flame.  Do not disassemble components.  Alternate child tamper-resistant packaging is available through your retailer.  Do not discard the MSDS included with this product.  Read and understand the information included in the MSDS.  The pictures of injured and maimed people affixed to this product are examples of the consequences of incorrect use.”  

NATO

From Foreign Policy magazine…

Continental drift. Deterring Vladimir Putin is job No. 1 in U.S. European Command (Eucom), according to its latest theater strategy, but the combatant command says it’s having a few resource problems in the meantime. In the 12-page document, commander of Eucom and NATO forces Gen. Philip Breedlove laments that the 65,000 U.S. troops in Europe just aren’t enough to counter Russian aggression, and rotating more units in on a temporary basis to make up the shortfall doesn’t quite cut it.

“The size of the military presence requires difficult decisions on how best to use limited resources to assure, stabilize, and support the...mission in the new European security environment,” the paper says. Breedlove also calls for a “reformulation of the U.S. strategic calculus” on the continent.

Translated: NATO members are spending less and less (presumably the reduced spending is to use instead on domestic social programs).  If the US cannot carry the load should hostilities erupt, then do not bet on NATO as a whole to charge to the rescue. 

Russia is not what it once was during the Cold War.  And with the current Russian operations in Crimea, Eastern Ukraine, and now Syria, combined with the economic distress from revenue fall off from lowered oil prices, I think Russia is not likely to start something - now. 

My concern is that the bar is so incredibly low with conventional forces that the decision point to use nuclear forces (to counter a Russian campaign into NATO countries) is pulled too far forward in any potential conflict, for example should Russia decide to move on the Baltics or Poland. 

And current US political ‘leadership’ would not use nuclear forces to defend the Baltics (who are part of NATO).  With Poland however, this calculus is not so clear in this regard. 

During the Cold War, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) kept a metaphorical ‘doomsday clock' with the minute hand just a hair away from midnight, signifying Nuclear Armageddon.  When the Berlin wall came down, they should have moved the clock hands to 8:45 pm, but instead, have pivoted, and moved the clock back to three minutes to midnight because of… "Concerns amid continued lack of global political action to address global climate change…” among other “things” (I’m sure cisgendered heteronormative white privilege and rampant microagressions and hate speech are also indicated here). 

While I don't think the clock has any use today, it is moving closer to midnight, albeit not like the UCS say it is. 

Davos, Switzerland

US Secretary of State, John Kerry, told the rich and influential in Davos Switzerland not to believe the negative "hype" from nay-sayers; the world is changing for the better!!

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-22/kerry-says-don-t-believe-the-hype-world-changing-for-the-better-ijppq8al 

Russia is pilfering territory, and the Baltics are next in their sights, should they decide to poke NATO in the eye.  

Non-US NATO (excluding Poland and the UK) is spending just north of 1% GDP on Defense, less than half of what is required for membership.  

China annexed the South China Sea, and is building a military to make that stick.  

Israel distrusts us - fully.  

Germans (not the German elites), but Germans are deeply distrustful of the US because of the unfettered SIGINT of all things in Germany (counter to strict German privacy laws).  

Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia do not see a steadfast ally in the US, and are moving to realign the tectonic power shift underway with an ascendant Iran / Hisbollah / Quod’s / Republican Guard.  

Iran has thumbs in both our eyes, and I just know they are no longer pursuing a nuclear bomb.  

There is a thing called a “Caliphate” in Iraq, Syria, and now about 10,000 ISIL jihadists in Libya.  

Africa and the Middle East are exporting millions of countrymen (not so many women) to the West.  

Our border control is a joke, and there are 22-25 million foreign citizens in the US (not the 11 million that is part of the Party Line).  

The morale of the military has substantially declined, as we convert it into l lean, green, lesbian non-white cis-hetero-patriarchal pajama boy collective.  

Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia are unstable.  

We are fighting undeclared war “kinetic operations" in Libya, Syria, Iraq, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Cameroon, Chad, Nigeria, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Gabon, Afghanistan, and Waziristan, using a thing called a “kill chain” and “special forces"  

Western Europe ingested a slug of jihadists that make it a tinder house for terrorism rivaling the 1970’s.  

We made “nice” with Cuba, and Cubans are fleeing for the US in droves; no one is asking whether the prison population on Cuba has suddenly gone to zero.  

California is on the verge of banning all semi-autoloading firearms.  

We are in the 8th year of stagnant growth.  

Our US Federal public debt load has doubled in four years while the Federal Reserve has printed trillions of dollars, prompting the other central banks to do the same.  

China pilfered most of our manufacturing jobs, and all of out trade secrets, intellectual property, and the classified personnel security records of everyone connected to the US Government.  

Yep.  Things are peachy there John.  

Midshipmen

Now, in the last year of the eight year 'Reign of Enlightened Socialist Truth’, Glorious Benevolent Imperial Maximum Dear Leader and the compliant servile DoD PowerPoint apparatchiks have concluded that the language, nomenclature, lexicon, titles and traditions used in the military are an anathema to Progressive Progress (also known as Прогрессивная Прогресс).  

Therefore, the services are under strict orders to enact Gleichschaltung across the military, and scour the language of non-compliant instances where there exists white supremacist cis-hetero-patriarchal imperialistic oppression, endemic in US society.  

The venerable term, Midshipman, in use since the 1600’s, is a wretched anachronism which harbors everything wrong with America.  The mere existence of the term Midshipman is a blight on the US Naval Service, and has been identified as derogatory to female service personnel (we can also no longer call these people "service members" as this term has phallic connotations, and is therefore a virtual-pejorative).

Further, non-white and LGBTTQQFAGPBDSM service personnel see the oppression of the male-gender-normative titles and nomenclature, and are therefore in-turn "vicariously oppressed" (in sympathy), and thus this also interferes with their ability to self-actualize and professionally achieve in a diverse and inclusive work and social environment.  

The search for an androgynous replacement to the retrograde title ‘Midshipman' is now underway.  So, what are we to call Midshipmen now?  

Omnes Alienus? 

Gustatus Similis Pullus? 

I invite you to comment.  

Economics

6 Big Cities Find Out What Happens When You Hike Up the Minimum Wage

http://www.ijreview.com/2016/01/511635-6-big-cities-find-out-what-happens-when-you-hike-up-the-minimum-wage/ 

FYI - Minimum wage in Wisconsin is a paltry $7.75 / hour - enough for a high school student to make some spending cash, but not a job for an adult of need.  The $7.75 / hour is commensurate with the costs locally - in more expensive markets (NYC, SFO) the Wisconsin minimum would not fly.  

This article calls to mind recent strikes and protests by worker’s unions and fast-food workers clamoring for a $15.00 / hour national “living wage.”  My local Dane County passed a referendum in 2014 asking for the State of Wisconsin to  move minimum wage to $10.10 per hour.  

Interestingly, Panera Breads locally is currently preparing to implement "ordering Kiosks” reportedly in anticipation that minimum wage will increase (which is not currently likely in Wisconsin), and to maintain the profit margins (and not to attempt a price increase to cover the looming increased labor costs) Panera's will apparently either axe employees or reduce current hourly employee's hours downward once the Kiosk’s are on-line.  

My take on the sudden appearances of Ordering Kiosk’s at chain restaurants:

The NLRB issued a controversial ruling in 2014 that makes independent franchisers for McDonalds subject to union organization (for example, by the SEIU) and other workplace rules through the new legal concept of “Joint Employment.”  How “Joint Employment” will work is still being litigated, and whether it will apply to large corporation’s exclusive supply chain partners is an open question.  

At the time of the ruling, McDonalds did not even know the names of the franchisee’s employees, and has been moving to comply with the NLRB FATWA, and is developing a system of record keeping of the franchisee’s employees, which will in-turn be made available to the SEIU when they file to organize McDonalds through the corporate entity.  

Like it or not, the market is like a balloon - you squeeze on one area, and it pops out the other side.  Raise food prices, loose revenue, layoff employees, close stores - or, put automation in to avoid the labor increase.  They are all interrelated, and people change their behavior accordingly as the market reprices products in response to regulatory changes.  

Everyone should read Thomas Sowell’s Basic Economics.   

It’s a free country.  If $7.75 / hour workers can convince the legislature to raise minimum wage to $15.00 / hr (or more), then more power to them - but don’t be gobsmacked when the total number of jobs decrease (just blame it on George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Halliburton, and 'alien probing').  

Progressivism vs. Liberalism

Michael Savage pegged it: Liberalism is a mental disorder™†

Here in the People’s Republic of Madison Wisconsin, the Berkeley of the Midwest (I live nearby along with many of the remaining sane people in Dane County), the city council refused to take any action on instilling loitering ordinances.  They will “study” the “problem” further (this is the institutional time-honored Progressive delay tactic, wherein "when it is all said and done, more is said than done").  

For about three years, “homeless” people have been gathering at the city / county building at all hours.  As is the case in De Blasio’s NYC, San Francisco and Berkeley, the vagrants are accumulating and increasing in number because they are tolerated.  

It has gotten so bad, the workers at the City / County building filed complaints that the vagrants were urinating and deficating on the steps, walkways, meeting rooms, hallways, and also smearing fecal matter on handrails and doorknobs.  Some workers have quit.  

The building manager responded by installing sanitary hand wash dispensers in the building for the city-county workers to use.  

The vagrants then took to drinking the sanitary hand wash, as it is made up of mostly ethyl alcohol.  

The dispensers were then removed.  

Progressive Socialism demands that no one take personal responsibility for anything, and therein the power of the Progressive Left movement is derived.  Highly caring, educated, correct-thinking, Progressive Left “leaders” are proffered as 'the solution’ to any issue.  Public funds are earmarked, much study ensues, and there is much discussion (or, as Al Sharpton says, "talk we much”).    

The mayor (who is no right wing tea party libertarian) has been attempting to convince the city council to act, but to no avail.  One of the council members sits next to my wife and me at Sunday mass, but he and virtually every other member of the council refuse to have city vagrancy laws, because “homeless” people are generally viewed as victims of society’s failures.  Preeminent in the endless mind-numbing discussions and meetings about the “issue” is that the city council does not want to be seen as acting harshly, but rather wants to be seen to their fellow Progressives as having offered a cornucopia of services, outreach, and thoughtful programs to “transition” the vagrants in a caring and inclusive approach.  

Apparently, every vagrant so far has refused what has been offered.  Every.  Single.  One.  The vagrants are not single mothers down on their luck, or the downtrodden in-between jobs due to the harsh shrinkage of the middle class and the lack of jobs.  No, instead the vagrants are predominately beset with mental health disorders, and substance abuse addictions; the remainder simply prefer the lifestyle (and I presume, also being fussed over by plethora of local social services people fawning over this neutron-star dense collection of ‘humanity in need’, or as the Social Justice Warriors say “a need-rich environment").  

For example, Brittany Zimmermann was a UW Madison student who was murdered on April 2nd, 2008.  During the investigation, it was surfaced that the 911 call center mishandled her call.  After more time, it was revealed that the Dane County 911 call center was mismanaged, with dropped calls, two to four times the wait times other call centers, poor morale and training, high pay, and pedantic decision tree and data capture requirements for incoming calls.  It became a national issue in May of 2008, and ever since then, there have been study committees, audits, reports, plan rejections and the commandeering of the management of the 911 call center by the Progressive Left Dane County Supervisor, Generalissimo Joe Parisi.  Note: This is always the final act of Progressive Socialism.  Assume direct control and centralize power.  

The larger emergency management dispatch system in Dane county is sill fragmented, and the Police, Fire, and EMS professionals are livid that the county-wide system has not been fixed, awaiting the fix in the 911 call center.  

† I prefer to use the term Progressive Left in lieu of liberal these days.  Western liberal values include: civil liberties and due process of law, restricted government intervention in political, economic and moral matters, protections for speech, assembly and petition, free exercise of religion, decentralized vesting of power in the lowest governmental units to manage their affairs (excepting infringements on basic enumerated rights).  By this definition, I'm a liberal.  

Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH)

Of the three Supreme Court decisions this last term that I believe did not follow the letter of the law (but rather, invented it), the most troubling one (for me) was the Texas Department of Housing v. Inclusive Communities Project, where SCOTUS green-lighted a novel relatively new legal theory called “disparate-impact.”  While the case reasonably could have been decided either way based on the merits, the result is that the scope of the majority ruling was written in such a manner that it will vastly expand use of “disparate-impact” in all law, which is the troubling part.

Ordinarily, decisions (in my feeble opinion) should be written narrowly to settle specific constitutional issues raised through litigation for those with standing; what was done here was to anoint a heretofore unknown legal theory, and to do so in such a way that encourages the liberal application of “disparate-impact” throughout all government.

Bottom line: if there are racial and / or economic differences in communities, the Feds can now dictate a remedy to the locals.

To further accelerate this, Glorious Imperial Maximum Dear Leader announced (from the balcony of the White House?) the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) decree (no Act of Congress Required), shortly after the SCOTUS decision.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/421389/attention-americas-suburbs-you-have-just-been-annexed-stanley-kurtz

This means not only has it become vogue to erase national borders (like, you know, with Mexico), now we can erase local borders by nullifying local zoning ordinances when “non-homogenous” racial disparity results.  To “prove” the racial disparity, of course you need lots of data.  And this can happen over 50 years’ time (i.e. zoning ordinances set long ago can be amended to correct the disparity that evolved over time).  To me, this sounds a lot like the federal judicial bussing efforts of the 1970’s (that resulted in riots in Boston), and ultimately was dropped by the Progressive Left Social Justice Engineers.

Should you be living at 66th and Bancroft in Oakland, or in Vallejo?  And so, if the government so decides that Vallejo is not racially homogenous vis-à-vis South Oakland, then the zoning laws can be unilaterally changed by a judge to force Vallejo development or redevelopment, and redirect the dearth of low-income section 8 housing grants into your neighborhood.

There is an aspect to racial disparity wherein people will self-segregate, but for non-racial reasons.

I choose to self segregate from areas where there is high crime, choosing instead to live in a suburb that has low crime.  The Texas Housing SCOTUS ruling and AFFH decree means now that I can be proven to be a racist (after-the-fact) if my neighborhood does not have the correct federally mandated “racially balanced” makeup.  The remedy could be high density Section 8 in my neighborhood, or zoning restrictions that disallow development in the corn fields next to my neighborhood, limitations on expanding county roads to force racially correct in-fill into large blue cities, driving the middle class people away from the suburbs (or further out into the wilderness with large commutes).

And of course, redirecting federal funds to the “big blue cities” who can better centrally plan your and my life choices for us.

Where this will absolutely, positively will, not be applied, is in Washington D.C.

Southeast DC and Northwest DC will somehow remain among the highest-segregated place in the US.

You see, the laws and social engineering are for the little people.

More from the Gulag

An article on planned discrimination in Virginia in the interest of diversity.   "Race discrimination, against Asians, is coming to Fairfax County." - Pat Buchanan

     http://www.unz.com/pbuchanan/diversity-or-meritocracy/

This whole business last week with the Religious Protection Law in Indiana and Arkansas seemed more like a opportunity for the Progressive Left to attack the biased and narrow-minded Christians in the relentless Culture War, than a discussion of fairness.  

It is like the Progressive Left has a network that plans these outrage parties, and when something enters the news, they erupt in indignant outrage simultaneously.  Dear Leader for the first time (that I recall) mentioned in a speech recently the need to protect LGBT citizens from this type of discrimination.

With the world falling apart, the Russians threatening nuclear action to protect the Baltic’s, green-lighting the Iranian Shi’a Bomb, the economy on life support and contracting, record unemployment (labor participation), a maddening influx of foreign nationals onto the welfare rolls with no serious background checks, we’re talking about sexual and gender deviation, and the Christians (and Jews, Muslims) who refuse to practice their religion only in a church building?

Think about this a moment; Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, and Trans-Gendered civil rights.  Take bi-sexual civil rights for example.  How would one outwardly know if someone is bi-sexual?  The President of the United States is saying that bi-sexual people are being immorally discriminated against.  Unless your partner is a hermaphrodite, this necessarily means that as a person, you therefore have multiple partners.  Is the leader of the country saying infidelity in marriage or a non-monogamous relationship is, what, needing equal protection to marriage?  

I’m sure Bill Clinton is down with that.

I gotta’ tell you, this Diversity and Inclusion stuff at work is wearing thin on me.  I’m scheduled for re-training (re-education) in May.  This will be the second treatment in two years (the first one apparently did not take - I did not know I was overly Homogenous and Exclusive).   Lost in these discussions will be any discussion of accomplishment or merit.    The touchey-feely’s in the crowd will be fully engaged, and this will be fun to watch (for me), as they extol the virtues of the diverseness of the Human Experience to the exclusion of any other business objective.  I kinda’ am old-fashioned, thinking that we were here to work together irrespective of our differences to get a job done, but silly me.  We’re here to celebrate the fact of our need to appeal to an enlightened non-judgmental ethos (except of course those who disagree with the party-line, which requires intense action and re-education).  

Going through re-education training, I will refrain from speaking the obvious, will be professional, but there is a part of me that pictures myself seated next to you in the re-education Gulag with my middle finger extended.  

Or perhaps I will instead have a "coming out."  Perhaps I will dress in a pink tutu, white hose with the line up the back, candy-cane 6" pumps, and a strap-on dildo affixed to my forehead.  

Diversity and Inclusion Re-education Gulag

I scanned a copy of a part of a presentation delivered to my company mail box while I was traveling; part of the Diversity Training being promulgated in my company.  

I can not share it with you, because the graphic image is conspicuously marked Proprietary and Confidential, and don't want to violate company policy.

In school, I was taught (and learned) Taxonomy, which defined all life on earth, and which included the following classifications: Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species.  

Our Species appears to be embarked upon a noble quest to expand the Human experience beyond traditional gender definitions (male, female, and hermaphrodite), and to educate the biased and narrow-minded unwashed masses as to how deviation from tradition is to be viewed in a social context in a business environment.  

As I gaze into the thought process at work to develop this graphic image, I (in only the twisted and warped way my mind naturally works) was struck by several vexing thoughts.

According to the Diversity Graphic, the primary dimension of diversity includes Gender, Gender Identity, and Sexual Orientation.  This (for me) opens up multiple lines of thought.

Gender – Definition: The biological sex you are born into this world with.  Socially, gender has been undergoing a radical change in definition (at least ever since David Bowie released The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars album in 1972) to include the biological sex you assume following a surgical procedure, which is called transgender (a.k.a. transsexual), but is not a type of gender, but merely the “reassignment” of gender through surgery and hormonal therapy.  

Most Frequent Types:  

Male, Female 

Less Frequent Types: 

Hermaphrodite (born with both male and female sex organs), 

Gonadal dysgenesis (the absence of sex organs), and 

Atypical genitalia (sex can not be determined at birth, typically resulting from birth defect or chromosomal disorder)

Gender Identity – Definition: This advanced social construct is defined as the sex you prefer to identify with, without regard to your birth gender or current transgender gender (which, I prefer to call gender du jour).  

Somewhat notable, a transvestite is a person who chooses to dress and operate in a manner consistent with a gender which differs from their actual gender (such as Milton Berle, Dustin Hoffman, or Robin Williams in a dress for a comedy skit or movie, or Dennis Rodman or RuPaul who assume these gender appearances for other reasons).  Being a transvestite does not necessarily identify your gender identity.  Only you know your gender identity, and others are left to infer from your behavior what your gender du jour is, unless you “declare” publically in some manner (I suggest that for the purposes of equity, the US Federal Government create under the EEOC, NLRB, HUD, HHS and other organs of government (pun intended) a National Gender Identity Registry (NGIR), so that we can declare our gender du jour in an inclusive and multi-cultural manner, in the safety and privacy of our own home – to make it hip and fashionable, we need to have an Apple / Android Mobile App to facilitate all citizens’ current Gender Declaration, as a basic human right).  

Sexual Orientation – Definition: Who you choose to have sex with.

Most Frequent Types:  

Heterosexual, Homosexual

Less Frequent Types: 

Bi-sexual (also known as AC/DC), and

Celibate (like the Shaker community, who built some really bitchin’ stone houses and awesome wood furniture, but are as extinct as the dinosaur)

So, in the New World Order, you can be a male at birth who received gender re-assignment and is currently female, who as a transvestite cross-dresses as a male, but declares gender identification as female, but is in fact sexually oriented as a lesbian, and appears outwardly to be a normal human being, except for the man boobies.  

Perfectly clear. 

The Progression of Speech Control, and US Immigration

I have been using the term 'Progressive Left’ to describe this cabal of Socialists, neo-Communists, erudite academics, bundlers and political operatives, and the obligatory useful slack-jawed touchey-feeley low-information types.  I used to think I was a conservative, but seeing how the Republican party leadership is more afraid of losing control to the Tea Party than of the effects on our Republic of the destructive influence of Progressive Left, this has all left me wondering what this Left-Right labeling is all about.  

Historically conservatives and liberals wanted free speech, a good public education, a protection of personal and public property, observance of due process, a de-militarized police, and a presumption of privacy.  I therefore must be an old-school liberal and an old-school conservative, because this is what I also want in my country.  

Here is an example of what I call the new 'Progressive Left’ working to change the operational definitions of the newspeak, 

FROM: Wetbacks (crude, but common up until the 1980’s)  TO: Illegal Aliens 

FROM: Illegal Aliens  TO: Undocumented Aliens (or, UDA’s) 

FROM: Undocumented Aliens  TO: Undocumented Immigrants (or undocumented workers) 

FROM: Undocumented Immigrants  TO: Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (or, DACA) 

FROM: Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals  TO: “Americans in Waiting” 

And now, today I see the latest in the Progressive Left’s abuse of the language,

http://michellemalkin.com/2015/02/25/obama-promotes-executive-amnesty-for-get-this-one-americans-in-waiting/ 

FROM: Americans in Waiting  TO: Reliable voters and entitlement dependents, and Cheap Labor 

The logical end-state to this progression was well-defined in concept in 2006, in Victor Davis Hanson’s book Mexifornia.  The Rockefeller country club Republicans want the cheap labor while the Democrats want the votes and permanent welfare dependency class.  Both of these goals diminish the US middle class.  

It seems to me that only the non-Socialist Independents, Libertarians and Tea Party Republicans want an immigration standard that includes traditional naturalization and security protections to reject bad actors, and numerical limits to assure a well ordered and functional assimilation.  The two parties seem to me to be identical in disregard to the desire of the US Citizenry.  

It used to be that a foreign national went through a quaint process to become a US Citizen, called “Naturalization,” as defined in law.  This has changed throughout time, but generally required a sponsor, a clear criminal record, no evidence of communicable disease, passing a rudimentary test about US Civics (that sadly many native born US Citizens can’t pass), and that you did not overstay your visa, or if your were in the country without permission you either departed or applied and were granted refugee status or asylum.  

At the end of this process, in an auditorium filled with misty-eyed friends and family, you swore allegiance to the US Constitution, to abide by the law, and received a flag, your flag, of the United States of America.  This was both right and just.  

Then came September 11th, 2001, where Islamic Terrorists non-domestic non-right-wing violent extremists (from Saudi Arabia) overstayed their visas to kill a few thousand Americans, and 373 foreign nationals from 61 other countries.  This was a successful repeat performance of the unsuccessful attempt in 1993 to bring down North Tower 1 of the World Trade Center by radicalized Islamic Mormon missionaries Ramzi Yousef, Mahmud Abouhalima, Mohammad Salameh, Nidal A. Ayyad, Abdul Rahman Yasin and Ahmed Ajaj, that was financed by Khaled Sheikh Mohammed (or KSM, who we later water boarded for information while residing at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba which resulted in information assisted in locating and killing al Qaida terrorist chief Osama bin Laden).  

"Mohammed [also] admitted to decapitating Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl," CNN details. "He also took responsibility for the [airline] shoe bomb attempt, the nightclub bombing, the 1993 World Trade Center attack and a number of other attempted attacks that did not play out, according to the account offered by the transcript."

Mohammed will be tried before a military commission. He is currently being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. 

"He has been charged with conspiracy, murder in violation of the law of war, attacking civilians, attacking civilian objects, intentionally causing serious bodily injury, destruction of property in violation of the law of war, hijacking aircraft and terrorism," CNN further details.

So, it seems to me that it sure takes a long time to extract justice from KSM.  Maybe the case against him is flimsy, or perhaps when he was captured in Rawalpindi Pakistan, we failed to read him his Miranda warning, and he will walk, or otherwise be cut free from Guantanamo to, you know, keep a campaign promise to “close GITMO.”  

Projections in 2011 suggested immigration from Muslim majority countries would be inconsequential.  Today however, we are seemingly hell-bent to change the complexion of the United States by expressing an apparent preference for Americans in Waiting from Muslim faith countries, reportedly bringing between years 2010 and 2013 almost 300,000 Muslim immigrants into the U.S., more immigrants than the U.S. let in from Central America and Mexico combined over that period.  The US State Department reportedly recently said it will quadruple the number of refugees brought here from Syria, where the Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL?) is headquartered.  

I hope these refugees are vetted.  

I mean, unfettered immigration from Muslim majority countries has worked out pretty well so far in other Western Democracies, including Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, Netherlands, France (10% Muslim), Germany, and the United Kingdom, right?  Bombings, machine gunning Jews and offensive cartoonists, and killing those who blaspheme against the Prophet Mohammed are an epidemic as a back drop to the beheadings, immolations, machine gunning, rape and slavery unfolding across the Middle East.  

But I guess I'm just overly concerned, and should instead watch Entertainment Tonight on TV, relax and believe that "Our country is in the very best of hands."  

US Military Assessment

http://index.heritage.org/militarystrength/ 

It is now officially 1979.  We only lack dead US soldiers being dragged behind Iranian vehicles, hostages being held for 444 days.  

We have stagflation, the middle class is getting hammered, the U-6 unemployment rate is in the neighborhood of 11%, millennials are living at home and deferring child bearing and purchase of housing (the former American Dream), economic growth is anemic, debt is Epic and threatens the solvency of Republic, the Russian Bear is active carving up Eastern Europe by an ascendant Russia (the neo-Soviet reunion?), NATO is a paper tiger, Islamic cretins are committing genocide in the Middle East and unfettered terrorism in Europe and Africa, Jews are leaving Western Europe for Israel, China is unilaterally annexing the East and South China Sea, morale in the US military is at a low point on par with 1974, civil liberties and freedom at home and abroad are in decline as the government ignores the constitution and targets political enemies, taps all communications domestic and foreign and tampers with historical temperature data to enact changes in energy policy that will inflate costs for no net reduction in “global warming” (which does not exist), and ignores immigration law (and a court injunction) to cram as many foreign nationals (including Syrians) into the country as possible in the hopes of establishing a permanent Democratic majority, without the need for any pesky “naturalization’ process, all the while re-interpreting IRS tax law to grant deferred illegal aliens $25,000 of payments for Earned Income Tax Credits even though they have not worked in this country, or are US Citizens, all the while they hound US Expats overseas to the point that record numbers of US Citizens are renouncing their citizenship.    

And ISIS needs job training and community centers.  

Our country is in the very best of hands.  

Glorious FCC, and now the FEC

From the outskirts of Pindostan… 

On the heels of the edict by the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) redefining the internet into a TELCO  and issuing massive regulations to assure, you know, “fairness” in bandwidth distribution (or more correctly, bandwidth redistribution), Glorious and Benevolent Federal Elections Commission (FEC) now takes aim at internet abusers who post content from “uncontrolled and unspecified sources” who use “dark money” and spew counter-revolutionary disinformation and propaganda to influence policy and elections.  

This horrific abuse of the public trust must stop, and the abused citizens who consume this counter-revolutionary disinformation and propaganda must be protected by Benevolent Glorious US Federal Government.  

Unapproved and unlicensed content deemed counter-revolutionary must be brought under strict review and US Federal regulation, with extensive filings to flush out and identify parties who fund this counter-revolutionary disinformation and propaganda.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/dems-on-fec-open-to-new-regs-on-donors-internet/article/2560099 

Прогрессивная Прогресс, товарищ

Maximum Dear Leader Grants Another Gripping Interview

The Post-Partisan President of the Purple Republic, Maximum Dear Leader, grants another gripping Interview, this time to the Extreme Right-Wing publication The Economist, inducing an all-pervasive soothing sense of harmony, comity and Global Tranquility℠...

SUMMARY:  CEO’s need to quit their complainin' 

"Last point I’ll make on this: If you look at what’s happened over the last four or five years, the folks who don't have a right to complain are the folks at the top.” (emphasis mine)

http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2014/08/barack-obama-talks-economist  

Climate Change 

"And the same I think goes for a whole range of other issues like climate change, for example.”

            [Note: The Ministry of Truth has necessarily changed the branding from ‘Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW)’ to 'Climate Change' because for the last 17 years and 10 months the global temperature is declining while the Carbon Dioxide has increased - don’t fret though, the NASA/NOAA/USHCN data monkeys are feverishly at work amending the NCDC TOBS / GISS source data retro-actively to include ’normalizing factors’ called in mega Science jargon as 'in-filling’ and ‘homogenization’ which shows a remarkable correlation of the 'amended 'source data temperature to the increase in Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere with an almost perfect statistical correlation (coefficient R2 = 0.9880), even though remarkably 97% of Carbon Dioxide is generated by 'other than man', and of the man-made CO2, the People’s Republic of China produces twice the Carbon Dioxide of the US]. 

"There aren’t any corporate CEOs that you talk to at least outside of maybe—no, I will include CEOs of the fossil-fuel industries—who are still denying that climate change is a factor.” (emphasis mine)

"They’ve got to know now are we pricing carbon? Are we serious about this? But none of them are engaging in some of the nonsense that you’re hearing out of the climate-change denialists. Denialists?”  (emphasis mine)

            [Note: Begrudgingly the approved branding changes from ‘climate deniers’ because the commonly used allied term "Holocaust Deniers" seemed to imply for the last 4-1/2 years the enlightened Democrat-led US Federal administration were having to contend with ruthless 'climate Nazis' - no doubt somehow a Jewish focus group somewhere must have finally alerted on this, and as an identified vote degrader leading up to mid-terms, prompted the change].   

I checked my pocket version of the US Federal Constitution, and was totally blown away to find it is ‘right' there in Article something, and one of the early Amendment(s); CEO’s, as a sub-set of US "Documented Non-Aliens" (or DNA’s) have no right to spew hateful counter-revolutionary polemics.  

Joseph Goebbels would be beaming at the mastery of the tradecraft. 

SCOTUS v. POTUS, and Remedy

Revenge of the SCOTUS

Two US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) rulings today, following two other rulings last week (regarding the so-called recess appointments by POTUS to the National Labor Relations Board, or ‘NLRB’, and government-prescribed standard “speech abatement” buffer zones around abortion clinics) will likely further irk Dear Leader and the regime.    

Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. 

http://spectator.org/blog/59806/supreme-court-throws-out-contraception-mandate/

Harris v. Quinn

http://spectator.org/blog/59805/supreme-court-rules-against-forced-union-dues-home-healthcare-workers/

What is disconcerting is that these last two court rulings today are both 5-4.  Ben Shapiro writes "We were one vote away from the Supreme Court of the United States declaring openly that business owners have no religious rights in America, and that the government can declare you a member of a union even if you don’t work for the government. This is pathetic."

With this crowd in the executive branch, when denied their objectives for fundamental domestic transformation, actions follow to accomplish same objectives “by other means."  The Progressive Left is like rust, they are relentless, and will take action whenever and wherever anything gets in their way.   

I was taken by the official spin today in the local and national media as the Progressive Left put the word out that FIVE MEN TODAY DECIDED TO SUPPRESS THE RIGHT OF WOMEN TO CHOOSE THEIR HEALTHCARE.

What Remedy?

I was following up on an suggestion a while back from a friend of mine that the House should impeach Dear Leader as a warning shot across the bow, even though the US Senate would not convict (you need 67 votes to convict). 

I concluded the current "Establishment Republican so-called Leadership” is purely feckless, and would not impeach the first so-called African-Ameican POTUS unless there are multiple authenticated pictures of Him in the act of murdering someone along with a bloodied corpseman as evidence.  

The presumption is that an impeachment would cause the chief executive to take heed and give pause - for Bill Clinton, who is a far better politician, this worked about to this effect, however our current chief executive is a pure ideologue who will not be dissuaded, and will not relent; not by facts or reason, not by reality, not by fear, intimidation or threat.  This is a True Believer.

Bill Clinton's legacy includes,

a strong economy,

a general sense that government was functional (following the tack to center after mid-terms, and if you exclude the fiasco in Waco TX),

a debris field of sexual impropriety,

and most importantly, a cohesive Democratic Party able to compete following Clinton’s exit form office.

The Loyal Opposition are cowed, and Dear Leader and the regime are too well steeped in Saul Alinsky tactics, and the art of arms-length, exit-hatch, plausible-denial executive leadership to permit Dear Leader to be directly implicated with high crimes and misdemeanors.  And where there is target-lock (called “tone” by fighter pilots) on an egregious impeachable crime, the regime will conceal, destroy evidence, obstruct investigation, coerce witnesses, bribe implicated operatives for silence, and funnel preferential narrative to the US lapdog press, to eventually run out the clock on the issue, or the presidency.  

Impeachment looks to be a non-starter, as a Remedy in the case of the Obama presidency.  

Where from Here?

So, what is the likely course of the Obama presidency from now through to the elections, and then for the final two years until 2016?  

I don’t know, but I can hazard a guess. 

RealClearPolitics and Rasmussen Reports would suggest absent any significant change on to the November election, there is at least a 50% chance the US Senate will fall to the Republicans in November, unless the Republicans convene their pre-election circular firing squad.  The margin will likely not be large enough to command a filibuster-proof-majority (60), or a super-majority (67).  

There will be one of two outcomes in the US Senate; Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) will either retain his role as Majority Leader, or will become the Minority Leader.  

Regardless of outcome in the Senate, the executive branch will continue to carpet bomb America with continuous rule making through the many federal regulatory agencies, will amend rules relating to the so-called patient protection and unaffordable healthcare act that are inconsistent with the law, steer available federal money to green enterprises run by connected Democrat money bundlers, kill the Keystone XL pipeline in a quid quo pro for a $100,000,000 political donation from Tom Steyer, and POTUS will fundraise for his own narrow interest, golf incessantly, and make far too many speeches.  

OUTCOME 1: If Reid continues in the majority, then after the elections you will see an acceleration of the kinds of actions witnessed to this point; a flood of over-reaching and often illegal Executive Orders and Directives to achieve domestic Gleichschaltung, complimented with well crafted suppressive Schadenfreude on the part of Harry Reid and the Progressive Left against and the usual collection of hapless Republicans, ultra-right wing Tea-Party anti-government racists (a.k.a. Conservatives), and their related political organizations.  Business as usual, and faster please.  

OUTCOME 2: If Reid continues in the minority, then the blocking tactics he used controlling Senate rules (to successfully halt all legislation) will no longer be available to the Progressive Left.  The power to obstruct will rest partly in Harry Reid's ability to keep his coalition of Democrats together in the Senate, to deny a super or filibuster-proof-majority.  This will depend on the cohesiveness of the minority and whether sufficient numbers of democrats can be peeled-off on an issue-by-issue basis by the Republicans.  Slow and incremental change, much like water torture, or being trapped in an overturned van in Colorado with an 8-track tape of WHAM playing "Wake me up when you go-go" until you are rescued by state troopers.  

Any effort to defund specific executive branch activities will be met with a presidential veto, insufficient votes to override, claims this is prima facia evidence of the incessant deep disrespect for the president due to his ethnicity, and will be followed by endless canned harangue in the media.

So, regardless of outcome in the US Senate, same as it ever was.  

The Real Punch Line - "A Fundamental Transformation of America"

The "fundamental domestic transformation" appears to be Dear Leader's apparent plan to bring as many people from Latin America into the country as possible, and get them into the social care system, the public school system, the welfares system, and here in sufficient numbers to accelerate the demographic alteration of the country.

This is in order to further the change in culture required to achieve the Progressive Left objective to quell red-state influence in the fly-over Republic.  To do this, a permanent and institutionally needy dependent underclass is required.  The US is a country of 330,000,000 people.  A widely published 11,000,000 of these people are here illegally (the true number is not known, but could range perhaps as high as 20,000,000), and until recently were all subject to deportation.

A wave of illegal immigration is underway and has saturated the border, hastened by public comments and administrative rulings directing the Border Patrol not to deport "young" people.  Up to 128,000 undocumented aliens (or UDA's) have recently arrived from Central America at the southern US border, and the number is projected to be on track to achieve a half a million people by the end of this year.  If the flow is not arrested and remains constant, the number could swell to 2,000,000 new Democrat seed-voters by the end of 2016.

President Obama (Dear Leader) stated today he will effectively ignore the law, ignore the courts, and direct the government to address "immigration issues" because the obstructionist Republicans in Congress are held hostage by the right-wing Tea-Party ideologues, and therefore are forcing him to act.  What the hell this all means we are about to find out.

The Ultimate Take-Away

Unilateral action by Dear Leader on "immigration issues" will (in my feeble opinion) result in a popular backlash, will result in the Republican party being boosted in power, and will more seriously result in the Democrat brand being impaired, and hobbled for years to come.  This will be Obama's gift to the Party.  Because, you know, it's all about Obama.

I for one hope Obama is lawless and singularly unilateral as a president can be, violating due process, the rule of law, the Constitution, and faithlessly executing the laws of the office.  That will make the post-Obama correction even more pronounced and lasting.