Remembrance Day

For all who served & all who serve, I can never thank you enough.
May Veterans Day (US) & Remembrance Day (Canada) fill our hearts with gratitude.



Remembrance Day - A Canadian Perspective

Remembrance Day is a time to reflect upon the sacrifices made by those who
served in Canadian Conflicts or peacekeeping roles. We remember those who served
on the front lines, those Canadians who work or worked diligently to help those
injured in battle and those at home who worked in factories. Soldiers, Sailors,
Airmen, Merchant Mariners, Nurses and Doctors, and the families left behind all
deserve acknowledgement.

A Veteran's Day Tribute

Veterans Day, November 11th, is a time to pause and thank our Veterans!

The Stench Of Appeasement.

In the wee hours of this morning, long before the sun rose, I wrote a comment to a post written by Snooper over at Pat Dollard.com, titled "Fort Hood"

Too many unanswered questions!!!

This guy had been on the FBI watch list for several months. Why would anyone who had been heard making derogatory and dissenting remarks about the US involvement in the AFG and Iraq and who had made gruesome internet postings about suicide bombers in Times Square, continue to be allowed on Army base?
How did he get his hands on weapons ON a base where even soldiers aren’t allowed to carry weapons??

Too many warning signs.. too many red flags. Something about this is NOT right. Something Stinks.

Major Kudos to the the Heroine civilian Police Officer Sgt Munley who took down Hassam. I am glad she survived her wounds.

But another victim has just died. My thoughts and prayers are for the victims of this massacre, and their families.

As I watched the the media coverage last night something about the initial narrative being put forward didn't sit well with me. Something stinks, I thought.

By morning, the narrative from the previous night had changed -----but as I watched the morning coverage, a stench still permeated my spidey senses.

"I seem to smell the stence of appeasement in the air "

No sooner had death and destruction been visited again upon our land brought upon us by the hands of our enemy - the ideology of radical Islam - then the stench of appeasement began to fill the air.

It doesn't matter that he's a Muslim. It doesn't matter that he yelled Allahu Akbar before executing his mission; never mind that he shared his hatred for all non Muslims on his website and aloud to some his brothers at Ft Hood.

Let's release the stench of appeasement by calling his actions the result of PTSD. Poor Hasan. He suffered from PTSD. That's what drove him to it.

It was not his well documented fundamentalist Islamic ideology nor his growing hatred for non Muslims that drove Hasan to kill Americans on American soil. It was PTSD.
That's the narrative the keepers of appeasement had filled the air with.

PTSD my ass!!!!! One doesn't get PTSD via osmosis.
The fucker never served in Iraq or Afghanistan, so what horrific event in his life brought on this alleged case of PTSD.

Had a "White Christian Male" committed the same act, you can be certain everyone in the MSM and on the left would be crucifying Christianity, but gawd forbid those on the left and their sycophants in the MSM should have the guts and integrity to acknowledge Hasan's heinous act was motivated by radical Islam---- NOT PTSD.

For heavens sakes, there are 3500 Muslims serving in the Military, and they serve honorably!
To call this act what it is and to identify its motivation honestly instead of attributing it to 'PTSD' is NOT to impugn the entire religion of Islam, nor all Muslims.

It is to speak the truth about RADICAL ISLAM. And it is this truth that those on the left are most afraid to speak. Because this truth TERRIFIES them. Because acknowledging this truth would mean that Pres Bush was right when he said the war we now face is an ideological battle that will not be won easily nor swiftly.

It's battle ground is not limited to foreign lands far from our shores where bombs can be dropped and good soldiers blood will be shed defending our freedoms, while we remain unscathed and go about our daily livesl its battle ground also resides in the hearts and minds of millions of people who not only live in those same distant countries but who also reside on our soil.

And it is on our soil that these small battles in this big war are being waged.

If the largest Military base in America can become a playground of destruction by one lone Muslim gunmen - where are we truly safe? Our malls? Our schools? Our churches? Our synagogues? Our movie theaters? Our cafes, restaurants, bars? Our offices? Hospitals? Our trains? Our buses?

Today on the streets of NY City there are a group of American MUSLIM celebrating what Hasan did. Yes. They. Are. In the city where the twin towers were felled by Islamic terrorists, MUSLIM AMERICANS are rejoicing at the act of terrorism perpetuated by Hasan.

Appeasement.

In America it is forced upon us by those who insist we remain politically correct about Islamic Fundamentalism and its adherents, while those same appeasers crucify Christians and Jews, Conservatives and Republicans, even as the Islamic Fundamentalists are KILLING us --- LITERALLY!!

Appeasement.

It sounds so beautiful to those on the left. The word rolls off one's tongue so easily. Makes one feel all warm and fuzzy to say it. And it feels so good to apply it.

Appeasement.

"the policy of settling international quarrels by admitting and satisfying grievances through rational negotiation and compromise;

"the policy of giving in to demands in order to preserve the peace"

"propitiate, quell, pacify,gain the good will of; To make quiet; to calm; to reduce to a state of peace; to dispel (anger or hatred)"

To dispel anger or hatred!! Hey lefties ---hows that working for you??

History has proven that the appeasement of our enemies has NEVER worked.

Appeasement failed Neville Chamberlain and millions of Europeans when in 1938 the feckless leaders of the West agreed to allow Hitler portions of land in Eastern Europe in order to avoid war.

Appeasement failed 2981 people from over 90 nations on beautiful sunny Fall morning in NY, DC, & PA on Sept 11, 2001.

Appeasement failed 57 Brits and wounded over 700 one sunny Summer morning on July 7,2005 in London.

Appeasement failed 100 people and wounded over 1500 one sunny Spring day in Madrid on March 11,2004.

And yesterday, November 5, 2009, on a sunny afternoon at Ft Hood, in the state of Texas, in the United States of America appeasement ONCE AGAIN failed 13 people ( 14 if you count an unborn child in the womb of its mother) and wounded 31.

But please... let's continue to appease radical Islam by blaming this heinous act of terrorism on 'PTSD'.

Take a deep breath. Can you smell that smell?? It's the stench of death is trying to be covered up by the stench of appeasement.

Appeasement --- the gift that keeps on taking lives; That keeps on giving us sorrow, instead of peace; anger instead of peace; destruction instead of peace; bloodshed instead of peace; war instead of peace.

Tonight, I mourn those we have once again lost to appeasement. And I wonder how many MORE nights I will have to do the same?

No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies. Dean Acheson

Health Canada Fucks Up HINI Rollout.

Ont. to receive 170,000 doses of H1N1 vaccine, fraction of million expected

The Canadian Press

Healthy people in Ontario are warned to stay away from H1N1 clinics, which will only be open to high-priority groups, because health units will receive just a fraction of the doses of vaccine they had been expecting from the federal government.

The province's Chief Medical Officer Dr. Arlene King said Friday the province will receive about 170,000 doses of the adjuvanted vaccine and 86,800 doses of the unadjuvanted vaccine next week -- a little over a quarter of the 722,000 doses it received in prior weeks.

"For next week we will receive a lower supply of the vaccine than had been originally anticipated due to reduced production by the vaccine's supplier," she said.

The federal government has rolled out approximately six million doses so far and Ontario's portion has totalled about 2.2 million. The province is receiving nearly half of the reduced quantities, around 400,000 doses of the adjuvanted version, and 200,000 of the unadjuvanted version, being shipped out to provinces next week.

Adjuvants are compounds that boost the immune response to the vaccine, allowing lower doses to be used.

Delivery of the H1N1 vaccine has been slowed across the country because the Quebec manufacturer was asked to make special unadjuvanted batches of the product for pregnant women.

The World Health Organization said Friday the adjuvanted vaccine could be given to pregnant women, but King said the WHO's July advice that pregnant women should get adjuvant-free vaccine was what prompted its production in Canada.

"The production of unadjuvanted vaccine was one of the reasons why there is not as much vaccine available now."

Local health units were making preparations Friday to implement more efficient waiting systems for what they thought would be a wider rollout of the vaccine Monday, after coping with an influx of flu shot hopefuls who lined up for hours in many communities.

But King said local health units agreed to overhaul plans when she told them about the reduced quantity of the vaccine. She advised them not to give out the vaccine to anyone who does not fall into one of six priority groups.

"Obviously, it would be desirable to continue to have the supply we had, but I think the strategy we agreed on is the best way right now to mitigate serious illness and death as result of infection of H1N1."

Priority groups of people most vulnerable to the flu include pregnant women, children under five, health-care workers, care givers for those who are vulnerable and unable to get the vaccine, people under 65 with pre-existing health conditions, and those who live in remote or isolated communities.

King said people waiting in queue will be questioned about why they are there to weed out members of the general public who are jumping the line.

The delivery slowdown compounded frustrations at Ontario clinics already overwhelmed by a higher than expected demand for the vaccine. Some had to turn away high-risk patients because lines were too long, others ran out of the vaccine.

Dr. Suzanne Strasberg, president of the Ontario Medical Association, said doctors are frustrated because they are being inundated with calls but have been largely removed from the rollout, adding that lines would be eased if public health units involved more community physicians. She said they could immunize tens of thousands of per day.

"If we're going to mass immunize people we need to get people into their doctor's office to get their shots there, that's how it's always done," Strasberg said.

Health officials and many waiting in line for the vaccine agreed the deaths of two young people in the province this week put a human face on the virus and spurred many people to get the shot.

"I'm sure the tragic deaths of the two children in the past ten days ago has frightened a lot of people and made them consider the vaccine when they may not have before," Strasberg said.

Premier Dalton McGuinty said the province is doing everything it can to get to as many people vaccinated as quickly as possible, adding the good news is that many more families interested in getting than even a few days ago.

Ontario Health Minister Deb Matthews abruptly left the Liberal party's annual general meeting in Windsor, Ont., on Friday and flew back to Toronto to speak with King about how the province will deal with the shortage.

"We will revise our plan," she said. "I think a lot of people are going to be very disappointed, and I am certainly one of them."

Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak called on McGuinty to "fix this mess" so people who actually need the shot don't lose confidence in the system or simply balk at the long lines.

Hudak said Friday everyone is disturbed by images of pregnant women and young children being forced to line up outside for hours.

Meanwhile, the rate of influenza-like activity in the province is above average for this time of year, and rising, King said.

Ontario's Health Ministry says there are 4,814 confirmed cases of H1N1 flu virus reported and 30 deaths reported among confirmed H1N1 cases.

King says the rollout of the vaccine is still weeks ahead of the original schedule, adding that the allotment is expected to increase again "within several weeks," and that everyone who wants to be immunized can expect to receive the shot by Christmas.

The Day We Were Forever Changed

I wrote "The Day We Were Forever Changed" on the first anniversary of 9.11. Eight years later I cannot forget!

“Time is passing. Yet, for the United States of America, there will be no forgetting September the 11th. We will remember every rescuer who died in honor. We will remember every family that lives in grief. We will remember the fire and ash, the last phone calls, the funerals of the children. “
- President George W. Bush, November 11, 2001

September 11th, 2001.
I will NEVER forget.
God Bless America. God Bless Canada.
God Bless our troops & our first responders.
God Bless the families of those died on 9.11.01

I've been there when the soldiers go to war, you can bet they remember what they are fighting for. Have you forgotten? (Darryl Worley)

I WILL NEVER FORGET.

"Blame Bush"

I am still amused at President Obama supporters & sycophants, who keep insisting that 'poor Obama' inherited a bad economy and a "mess of a country" from President Bush, and as such, all his failed efforts to date should still be blamed on President Bush

None months into this failed Obama presidency, the "Blame Bush" mantra, like most of the lefts tired clichés, is becoming old & utterly irrelevant.

Edward Smith didn't build the Titanic, but he was 'chosen' to captain it.
When the "unsinkable" ship hit an iceberg and sank, the Captain went down with the ship.


Remember This?

Obama's Declining National Support

Positively Pickled

Free Speech Wins In Canada

Source: Ed Morrissey, HOTAIR.com

The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has finally declared what everyone already knew after the persecution of Mark Steyn and Ezra Levant. It ruled Section 13 of the country’s hate-speech law an unconstitutional violation of free speech, especially as applied in the Internet age. The ruling essentially ends the career of Richard Warman, who has been just about the only complainant to invoke Section 13 over the last ten years:

The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has ruled that Section 13, Canada’s much maligned human rights hate speech law, is an unconstitutional violation of the Charter right to free expression because of its penalty provisions.

The decision released this morning by Tribunal chair Athanasios Hadjis appears to strip the Canadian Human Rights Commission of its controversial legal mandate to pursue hate on the Internet, which it has strenuously defended against complaints of censorship. …

This criticism about a penal law masquerading as a remedial one echoes that of Richard Moon, a law professor hired by the CHRC last year to provide an expert analysis of their online hate speech mandate. In essence, his advice was that it could not be done fairly, and so should not be done at all.

Ezra Levant, who lost a lot of time and money fighting off spurious Section 13 complaints, noted six months ago that the CHRT had suspended penalties under Section 13, but not investigations and prosecutions. This appears to put an end to all of it. Warman can appeal to the courts, but they may be reluctant to reverse the CHRT’s eviscerating of its own jurisdiction.

Moon had this right all along. When government tells you what you can and cannot say in the political context, then free speech is essentially dead. Section 13 created an enormously intimidating device for anyone who wants to argue their beliefs in the public square in Canada. Even in just a “remedial” mode, it creates an atmosphere where people have to worry whether their speech will create a necessity to seek government approval, and the costs of defending speech become so onerous as to silence people.

The best cure for bad speech is more speech. Governments that have the power to silence speech for its offensiveness have the power to silence dissent. Canada took a big step in the direction of freedom today.

IT'S ABOUT TIME! Warman must be pissed!!! All the more reason to celebrate.

I am proud to be Canadian!

Can we please REPEAL Section 13 of CHRA in its entirety? Better yet, can we completely dismantle this joke of a "human rights" commission or at least get rid of that idiot Barbara Hall and her sycophants. SHE OFFENDS ME.

Just read this comment on the National Post website.

Athol, 02:53 PM EDT · Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

Free expression can often be offensive. Sometimes offense or opinion outside the main, causes people to think, push back and act. Let´s not be so so cavalier about the usurping of our rights so easily again. This is a good day and let´s make sure the act actually gets eliminated in law. There are a lot of courageous bloggers and journalists in Canada who deserve a lot of credit for trying keep the spotlight on this erosion of our rights. Thank you.

Amen!! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

Trapped In The Closet: Redux

Watching this episode of South Park online last nite reminded me of this post I had written in 2006 when it originally aired in Canada: "Trapped In The Closet"

Yes I'll admit it.

I heart South Park.

I am a South Park Conservative.

Tell "Americans United For Change" To Stop Lying

It should come as NO surprise that the liberal labor-affiliated group and member of HCAN, "Americans United For Change" are outright lying on behalf of President Obama.

Their attack ad on Facebook targeting Sarah Palin calls the massive Healthcare Bill the Obama administration is putting forward, "health insurance reform".

That is pure Bullshit!

The bill, which a majority of Americans, --Democrats & Republicans & Independents-- oppose, is aimed at completely overhauling the entire Healthcare Industry by creating a Socialized Health Care system operated by the Federal Government.

Nothing in the bill is meant to simply "reform health insurance."

If you want to reform health insurance, then why not simply include the practice of denying health insurance to anyone, including the sick, the elderly, and the disabled for ANY reason, INCLUDING pre- existing conditions, to be deemed a violation of any and all existing anti discrimination laws, and subject to huge fines and jail time. Or create a separate law.

But "Americans United For Change" KNOW without a doubt that health INSURANCE reform is NOT the Democrats agenda. Their agenda, as clearly evidenced in the bill they intend to force through Congress regardless of how the majority of Americans feels, is to completely socialize the health care system, reducing it to a single payer system, that will render the same costly fiasco that is Medicare/Medicaid.

Rethinking Medicare,Medicaid

With Medicare (and let us not forget its younger sibling, Medicaid) dollars eating away at federal and state budgets and a looming surge in Medicare beneficiaries as baby boomers retire, there is growing evidence of Medicare's flaws, and the prospect that it needs to be scaled back is hardly unreasonable.

Apart from needing to rethink and reform Medicare/Medicaid, a program considered to be the 'gold standard" in public insurance option, we also have a badly run, badly administered, inefficient Government- run Veterans Health Care program, denying far too many vets the medical help they need, and The Federal Government's Social Security program is deep trouble: by 2017 Social Security will pay out far more benefits than it will collect taxes, and without major reform, The Social Security Trust Fund will be exhausted by 2041.

Does anyone other than left wing demagogues trust the Federal Government to manage a VASTLY larger program than the combined three I cited?

Here's my "ad" to the liberal labor-affiliated, labor-funded group Americans United For Change

“Health insurance reform" is NOT what the bill is about and the truth about this bill is too important for outright lies.

Send the liberal labor affiliated group Americans United For Change a message: tell THEM to stop lying about Palin, about THEIR agenda, and to stop denying the truth about ‘death panels" aka Section 1123 of the bill."

From The Washington Post

Section 1123 however, addresses compassionate goals in disconcerting proximity to fiscal ones. Supporters protest that they're just trying to facilitate choice -- even if patients opt for expensive life-prolonging care. I think they protest too much: If it's all about obviating suffering, emotional or physical, what's it doing in a measure to "bend the curve" on health-care costs?

Though not mandatory, as some on the right have claimed, the consultations envisioned in Section 1233 aren't quite "purely voluntary," as Rep. Sander M. Levin (D-Mich.) asserts. To me, "purely voluntary" means "not unless the patient requests one." Section 1233, however, lets doctors initiate the chat and gives them an incentive -- money -- to do so. Indeed, that's an incentive to insist.

What's more, Section 1233 dictates, at some length, the content of the consultation. The doctor "shall" discuss "advanced care planning, including key questions and considerations, important steps, and suggested people to talk to"; "an explanation of . . . living wills and durable powers of attorney, and their uses" (even though these are legal, not medical, instruments); and "a list of national and State-specific resources to assist consumers and their families." The doctor "shall" explain that Medicare pays for hospice care (hint, hint).

Admittedly, this script is vague and possibly unenforceable. What are "key questions"? Who belongs on "a list" of helpful "resources"? The Roman Catholic Church? Jack Kevorkian?

Ideally, the delicate decisions about how to manage life's end would be made in a setting that is neutral in both appearance and fact. Yes, it's good to have a doctor's perspective. But Section 1233 goes beyond facilitating doctor input to preferring it. Indeed, the measure would have an interested party -- the government -- recruit doctors to sell the elderly on living wills, hospice care and their associated providers, professions and organizations. You don't have to be a right-wing wacko to question that approach.

From William Jacobson, Associate Clinical Professor of Law, Cornell Law School:

These critics, however, didn't take the time to find out to what Palin was referring when she used the term "level of productivity in society" as being the basis for determining access to medical care. If the critics, who hold themselves in the highest of intellectual esteem, had bothered to do something other than react, they would have realized that the approach to health care to which Palin was referring was none other than that espoused by key Obama health care adviser Dr.Ezekial Emanuel (brother of Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel).

The article in which Dr. Emanuel puts forth his approach is "Principles for Allocation of Scarce Medical Interventions," published on January 31, 2009. A full copy is embedded below. Read it, particularly the section beginning at page 6 of the embed (page 428 in the original) at which Dr. Emanuel sets forth the principles of "The Complete Lives System."

While Emanuel does not use the term "death panel," Palin put that term in quotation marks to signify the concept of medical decisions based on the perceived societal worth of an individual, not literally a "death panel.

Tell liberal activist Brad Woodhouse, Communications Director for DNC & former President of the HCAN member, liberal lobbyist, labor-affiliated, labor-funded "Americans United For Change" to Stop Lying On Behalf Of President Obama.

Bizbabe: Redux

It's been a while since I 've had time to "blog" but in the past I've written about some of my personal experiences,working in Tinseltown: I am A Hollywood Refugee. and "We're Just Friends".

And how my work as a Hollywood Agent was about Stroking Ego's With One Hand, & Stoking Insecurity with Another.

I've shared what insiders have known for a long time, that this is a Risky Business, especially when you are Trapped In The Closet, and introduced you to a kindred soul, Emmy award winning screenwriter Robert Averch, A Hollywood Republican.


My job as an agent included making sure I met and knew everyone worth knowing and came with an expense account which I needed to use or it would imply I simply wasn't doing my job well; which meant I could often be found eating breakfast at The Four Seasons where studio heads, directors of development, and assorted celebs indulged in dealmaking over Cottage Cheese Lemon Pancakes and juice smoothies. I took clients,(actors, writers, cinematographers) development execs, producers, directors, publicists, managers and casting directors to lunch or dinner at the trendiest " see and be seen" restaurant du jour; walked down the red carpet to attend film premieres and every freaking award show imaginable, and attended three important film festivals: Sundance , Cannes, and The Toronto Film Festival, where one always comes across Celebrities, Suits, & Gawkers, Oh My!

I've talked about the Actor and the Mullahs not just once, but Twice!
And revisisted Hollywood History with The Actors and the Communists.
And discussed the on going battle of Hollywood Vs America

I've shared an insightful piece "Hollywood Elementary" about the Child Actor's Program which takes place at The Oakwood, Toluca Lake, where I lived.

There's more but until I get around to writing again, I suggest watching "Entourage"

Please.....pretty please.........

Of Thee I Sing

" I yearn for blind devotion - unthinking, unwavering - a cause,
a thing, a principle worthy of absolute loyalty.
A truth self-medicating, a love unabating, something - anything - to which I relinquish all personal responsibility.
Semper Fi, 'til Death Do Us Part, In Nomine Patris, Let's Go Mets.
To the true believers, the lucky few, of thee I sing.

Mary Shannon, US Marshall
In Plain Sight

KABOOM! Happiness Is Diggity!

KABOOM is KABACK....... kinda!

In his own words:

After the Washington Post article ran about Kaboom, I signed with Wm Clark Associates, a literary agency based out of New York. A few months after that, I signed a book deal with Da Capo Press, and the print version of Kaboom should be out in late 2009 or early 2010.

Kaboom was one of my fave milblogs . Written by Lt. Matt Gallagher ( Lt.G) during his deployment to Iraq from 2007-2008, it chronicled the day to day challenges and dangers faced by his platoon, a Stryker unit named "Gravediggers".

Lt. G's narratives were poetic, evocative, entertaining, frightening, infuriating and thought provoking - but never an indictment of the war.

First Impressions
Machine gun fire crackled in the distance as I sat down to type this. Fitting, in that “for real, dude?” kind of way. Yes, for real. Dude. Machine guns. And not the ones that fire blanks.

Here are a few additional, often unrelated, thoughts, after my first day spent in the combat zone of Iraq.

-- I’m not sure what this means in the larger socio-political sense, so I’ll just state the facts: Baghdad International Airport, the place that served as the epical climax of Third Infantry Division’s Thunder Run in 2003, and the place where SFC Smith earned a Medal of Honor in that same year, now has Subway and Pizza Hut. Take that however you see fit.

My platoon and I cannot get out to our combat outpost quickly enough. Even with the perks of the nigh-2008 Iraq War, the FOB is still bursting with Brass, 2-hour meetings that last 1-hour-and-45-minutes too long, mind-numbing regulations, and Fobbits. (See updated military terminology.) I’m not saying there’s not a place in the Army for those things, I’m just saying that that place isn’t where the Gravediggers want to be.

Kaboom had garnered a large following - tens of thousands of hits weekly- when in June 2008 it was abruptly and unnecessarily shut down by the Army brass over a post dated May 28, 2008 - "The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage " - which had not been vetted by a supervisor.

A Tactical Pause

Due to a rash posting on my part, and decisions made above my pay-grade, I have been ordered to stop posting on Kaboom, effective immediately. Though I committed no OPSEC violations, due to a series of extenuating circumstances I did not go through the normal vetting channels. It’s totally on me, as it was too much unfiltered truth. I’m a soldier first, and orders are orders. So it is.

"To much unfiltered truth" yet "no OPSEC violations." While I don't know this to be true, I suspect that Kaboom was likely shut down by the supercilious Officer whose ego had been bruised by a somewhat unflattering, albeit very honest, portrayal of himself in that dispatch of May 28th.

A year ago, I was saddened and angered by the silencing of Kaboom the blog.
One year later, I eagerly await the release of Kaboom the book.
Lt. G's voice is no longer silenced. And American's will be wiser for having listened to it.
I'm excited and very happy.

Whaddya know!! Lt. G is right!! Happiness is Diggity!!!

Don't Tear Me Down - Widget

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Please Sign The Petition.
Help Save the Mojave Desert Memorial Cross which honors WW1 Vets who paid the ultimate price.
FREEDOM IS NEVER FREE.

The Devil Looks After Himself

In observing President Obama these past few weeks --- from his all out war against the intelligence and military communities; to his date night in NYC meant to honor a promise to his wife made during the campaign but fulfilled when everyday Americans are losing their jobs, their homes, their dealerships, their shops, their companies; to his impromptu hamburger runs surprising his adoring fans; to his speech in Cairo, which served NOT to eradicate the darkest tyrannical forces in the Islamic world, but instead sold out the west by advancing the false meme of Arab victimization at the hands of outsiders; and to his visit to Normandy to commemorate the heroes of D-Day, a traditionally somber & dignified occasion which turned into yet another ego boosting event replete with adoring masses clamoring to shake his hand, take his photo, and just "BE" in his presence --- I am reminded of a Hollywood power player who I worked for at the time.

Replete with adoring fans who constantly clamored to shake his hand, take his photo, and just "BE" in his presence; surrounded by an entourage & pussy posse who shadowed him constantly; his effusive charm and unbridled charisma effectively concealed the darkness that lay within him. He was, at his core, sinister.

A man who had willingly made a Faustian agreement; selling his soul to the Devil in exchange for all the accouterments of power.

While attending an event where this power player was holding court and basking in his own celebrity, I watched him, yet again, easily seduce a room full of people convinced of their own moral fortitude and deep intellect while worshipping at the alter of personality.

As the bartender passed me the iced tea I had moments earlier asked for, he looked at me intently and whispered a prescient warning that sent a chill running through me.

" Remember, chica, El diablo se ocupa de él mismo. The devil looks after himself"



Must Read:

Obama The Humble
The Cairo Disaster