I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,
And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker,
And in short, I was afraid.
-- T.S.Elliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
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1984, Anyone?
By T Blogger | June 1, 2009
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Coddle the Mass Murderers - Shoot the Pirates
By T Blogger | April 23, 2009
The left wing of the Democrat party are once again frothing at the mouth. They apparently want to make it a crime to be a Republican. Our apologist-in-chief, Prince Obama the Obsequious, in a rare attempt at rationality, said a few days ago that he thought it would be counter productive to try to prosecute officials of the previous administration for authorizing “torture” of al Quaeda bigwigs in our custody. He actually made some sense. It seemed too good to be true — and, of course it was. Perhaps our president’s backbone, which turned to spaghetti in front of the Saudi monarch, should be made of sterner stuff. Now he thinks he’ll leave the decision to prosecute members of the Bush administration up to his Attorney General. (Pontius Pilate washes his hands of it?)
Contrast, if you will, the following two situations:
1 - It is the aftermath of the deadliest attack ever carried out on American soil. In New York, two gleaming towers have collapsed into a smoldering pit, turning more than two thousand human beings into unrecognizable shards of protoplasm. We have managed to capture some of the people who helped plan this attack. Interrogators seek legal advice about what they can or can not do to extract information from these scumbags. Advice is given, and “harsh” methods are used. (They were mean to the poor mass murderers whose avowed goal was the killing of as many Americans as they could) These harsh methods were apparently successful, because there have been no more attacks.
2 - Fast forward to a couple of weeks ago. Four teenagers armed to the teeth board a merchant vessel flying the American flag. They take the captain hostage. These pirates have not taken blood oaths to kill as many Americans as they can. They are armed robbers in pursuit of money. After a few days our bold president finally decides to let the military handle the problem. Three young men have their heads blown off.
Please do not think that I disagree with president Obama’s handling of the pirate situation. He did the right thing. In fact I think action should have been taken even sooner. However, I am stunned by the duplicitous irony. The rabid rabble of Democrats calling for the heads of the Bush administration are “shocked and disgusted” because CIA interrogators pretended to drown some terrorist thugs to loosen their tongues. They were not drowned. They were not beaten to death. And, it seems, they sang like little birdies, and American lives were saved. The current president, he of the “let’s talk with them” persuasion, authorized the military to be judge, jury, and executioner in the matter of the Somali pirates. He did not authorize them to pretend to drown the pirates. He did not authorize them to deprive the pirates of sleep or threaten them with dogs or insect larvae. He authorized the military to shoot them to death. And they did. Good for him and good for them. However…. if Patrick Leahy is disturbed about terrorist being waterboarded and slapped around, why is he not disturbed about the instantaneous snuffing out of the lives of three Somali teenagers? Could it be the party to which the president belongs?
The United States has prided itself over the years for the periodic peaceful transfer of executive and legislative power enabled by free elections. George Soros, Pat Leahy and the rest of the dingbat wing of the Democrat party seem to want to emulate dictatorships in which the previous administration spends its retirement in prison cells or coffins. Our founding Fathers must be squirming in their graves.
©2009, Tom Weeks
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WELL, IT’S OVER
By T Blogger | November 11, 2008
The people have spoken. “The One” has been elected, and may God have mercy on us. How sad it is that the only hope for the country is that Obama’s campaign rhetoric might be typical political BS. If he actually attempts to bring about all that Messianic change and is enabled by the considerable Democrat congressional majority, the notion that we live in the “Land of the Free” will become a mere footnote to history.
The unholy alliance between Obama and the Democrats in congress will bleed this country dry. The recession they have been talking up for almost eight years has finally come to pass, and it will last for years. The Democrats will tax the producing class ruthlessly, and the producers, being intelligent people, will simply stop producing and invent new tax shelters out of self-defense. When the tax revenue from “the wealthy” mysteriously dries up, all the rest of us will feel the grip of the tax man around our collective throats.
Like Forrest Gump said, “Stupid is as stupid does.” Fifty-two percent of American voters have done something profoundly stupid. Hard times are coming, and they will be just as hard on Obama’s adoring throngs as they will be on those of us who voted against him. Welcome to the third world.
©2008, Tom Weeks
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IT AIN’T OVER ‘TIL IT’S OVER
By T Blogger | October 31, 2008
©2008, Tom Weeks
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A GAME OF INCHES
By T Blogger | October 22, 2008
In the movie Any Given Sunday the coach (Al Pacino) reminds his players that football is a “game of inches”. Lately, it seems that politics is also a game of inches. John McCain is not a conservative Republican, and I did not vote for him in the primary. He is probably the most liberal Republican to run for the presidency since Richard Nixon. That having been said, let me also say that he is more than a handful of inches more conservative than Barack Obama, and I intend to vote for him.
Given McCain’s liberal bent, I am dumbfounded by the Democrats’ attempts to paint him as some sort of right wing fanatic. The whole thing would be laughable if this election weren’t so important. The “politics of personal destruction” that Bubba Bill Clinton accused Republicans of have become the sole property of the Obama Campaign and its allies in the mainstream media. The New York (Obama) Times accused McCain of having an affair when there was absolutely no evidence to support such an accusation. When an Ohio plumber dared to ask The Anointed One a serious question about his tax policy, the media camped out at his house and accused him of not being a plumber and not even being registered to vote (both falsehoods). Obama tipped his philosophical hand when he told the plumber he thought it was a good thing to “spread the wealth around.” In stump speeches, Obama and Biden dismissed his question with an arrogant sneer. Obama yucked it up at a rally by saying that McCain was relying on a “Plumber” to bolster his tax policies. The curled lip condescension was thick enough to cut with a hacksaw. The Obama faithful laughed racously at the presumption of this mere plumber to question The Great One. Again — it would be funny if this country weren’t so close to electing this smug, socialist shyster lawyer president of our country.
I spent most of my life thinking of myself as a Democrat. I voted for Jimmy Carter in 1976 because the economy had become bad under the Ford administration. Things got very much worse under Carter, but, being a slow learner, I voted for the Peanut Farmer again in 1980. Thank God most of the rest of the country had the good sense to nullify my ridiculous vote.
The slide toward socialism has now become a game of inches, and John McCain is the last unlikely defender against Obama’s left side sweep toward the goal. The polls are actually narrowing, making the “inches” metaphor even more appropriate. We Americans have to decide if we want a liberal Republican, or a socialist Democrat at the helm of our ship of state. John McCain seems to be an honorable man, and he has suffered for his country in ways that most of us can’t even imagine. To my mind he’s at least a half-yard to the right of Obama, and in this game of inches, that’s good enough for me.
©2008, Tom Weeks
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