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Little to cheer in first two years of Obama's Middle East policy

Friday, December 24, 2010

By John Bolton

(Washington Examiner) President Obama has had two bad years in the Middle East. Unfortunately, that means that America's friends and allies have also had two bad years, with every prospect that the next two will be as bad or worse.

Across the region's range of troubles, Obama's inexperience, naivete and strategic incompetence have all cost the United States dearly. Consider just a few key issues.

Relations between Israel and the Palestinians are now at their lowest point in two years, largely because of Obama's failed efforts to pressure Israel into making substantive concessions. By trying to force Israel to halt all Israeli settlement construction on the West Bank and failing, Obama has the worst of all worlds. He did not deliver up Israel, but he did undercut Mahmoud Abbas.

Accordingly, we have a Palestinian Authority with no authority, no legitimacy, and no hope except the vain idea that the United Nations will declare Palestinian "statehood." Obama has taken a complex, confused and dangerous environment, and made it worse.

Doing nothing would have been more conducive to progress between Palestinians and Israel. Now, ironically, Hamas radicalism, and its links to the Muslim Brotherhood, threaten more instability in Arab lands than in Israel.

Similarly, Obama has allowed Iran's nuclear weapons threat to become more serious. His naive belief that Tehran could be talked out of its nuclear program has cost the United States and its friends in the region, Israeli and Arab alike, precious time and opportunities. Iran continued to make progress toward obtaining deliverable nuclear weapons, and suffered only minimal economic sanctions as a result.

Obama's fallback is apparently that a nuclear Iran can be contained and deterred, similar to the Soviet Union in the Cold War. This is almost certainly wrong, since Iran's leaders do not see human life the same way that Moscow's atheists did.

Moreover, even if Iran could be deterred, the nuclear threat would not end there, since Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Turkey and others will almost certainly seek nuclear weapons once Iran possesses them. The Middle East could thus quickly see six or more countries with nuclear arsenals, a prescription for regional nuclear Armageddon.

Moreover, Obama has done essentially nothing to restrain Iran's support for terrorism. The president seems unwilling to criticize Iran's leaders for fear of being seen as anti-Muslim. This is curious, since Iran's leading critics are found in its Muslim neighbors. Read the State Department cables released by WikiLeaks if you have any doubts.

Obama's inaction has allowed Iran to rearm and resupply Hezbollah in Lebanon, and continue to support Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Iran aids terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan whose principle aim is to kill Americans, and the president seems unwilling to do anything.

The U.N.'s Hariri assassination prosecutor will shortly issue indictments against those who murdered Lebanon's former prime minister, almost surely naming senior Syrian and Hezbollah officials. Those indictments could precipitate a renewal of the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war, perhaps this time also involving Syria. Obama is simply absent without leave on this issue.

On Iraq and Afghanistan, Obama seems determined to withdraw U.S. and coalition forces according to rigid timetables. By ignoring the actual strategic situations, these withdrawals will lead to greater instability in both countries. This will enhance Iran's influence and the risk that Taliban and al Qaeda will resume power in Afghanistan and threaten Pakistan's democratic government. And if Pakistan, and its substantial supply of nuclear weapons, falls to the radicals, the risk of nuclear terrorism in the region and worldwide will rise exponentially.

Those who longed for Obama's election, and the end of U.S. "arrogance" and "imperialism," should reconsider. They may discover that what is truly provocative in the world is not American power, but American weakness.

Weakness inspires our adversaries, and dispirits our friends, invariably to our collective disadvantage. And in that sense, Barack Obama is truly one of the most provocative presidents in American history.

John R. Bolton is the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/print/opinion/op-eds/2010/12/little-cheer-first-two-years-obamas-middle-east-policy

Raising Up A Standard caused me to write this. I’m a secular humanist, one who promotes human values without specific allusion to religious doctrines.

I know a woman who voted for Obama. She depends on Uncle Sam taking care of her when she becomes a senior citizen. Is she dreaming? Her 65 year-old mother-in-law was given chemotherapy and radiation for lung cancer several months back. She died the other day of cancer of the brain.  It is often the case that this conventional treatment weakens the patient’s resistance to cancer enough to cause it to attack other parts of the body.  I told the woman that it was too bad that her mother-in-law didn’t know about alternative cancer cures. The woman said that she didn’t believe in that “stuff.”

Being a member of the Tea Party, I receive emails from NewsMax, who reports that the tax working people pay for their future retirement health care needs does not come anywhere close to their costs even today, and they are rising.  In fact, Medicare is bankrupt. It has zero money for future health care costs.  Why do you think the Democrats sneaked through ObamaCare? Like so much our representatives in Washington have done, it’s a shell game. You can’t find which shell the pea is under.

Being a member of Tea Party, I receive a lot of information on alternative medicine.  I’d heard that it was quackery. But with an open mind, I read the NewsMax reports. My curiosity was aroused enough to order Suzanne Somers’ book, Knockout.

In an interview with Oncologist James Forsythe, he explained to Somers how much he was disappointed in conventional cancer treatment and that he became interested in homeopathics because in Nevada they had homeopathic and naturopathic boards. He learned that alternative therapies were getting impressive results; that patients were doing much better than his patients, and without surgery, radiation and chemotherapy.  He felt that by becoming a certified homeopathic doctor he would be protected. He could push the envelope into the area of integrative oncology and do other things mainstream oncologists couldn’t do.

Somers: “When I look at orthodox oncology, I think about those doctors who worked and studied so hard to learn how to treat this, and they must go home everyday frustrated because of the dismal outcome.”

Forsythe: “It is very rewarding and energizing to go to an alternative medicine meeting as opposed to conventional cancer meetings. Conventional cancer meetings are dismal. You listen to the talks and you see their survival rates are two and three months longer than before, and they are all so proud of that. They never mention a word about alternative treatments; they are afraid to mention any vitamin therapy or any supplements. It’s just a terrible experience because you know they must know there is a better way.”

Now I know why Obama was elected President, and why he signs Pelosi’s and Reid’s bills.  It is M-O-N-E-Y.  It is M-O-N-E-Y that makes giant corporations too big to fail. It is M-O-N-E-Y that turns hospitals into death traps.  Money goes where money flows—in Washington, D.C., where tens of thousands of six figure scum bags pass out money to politicians, drug companies in particular.  Drug companies and the super rich have bought America.  Obama is a bought and paid for pawn, and as well America’s elected representatives in Washington.  Taking from the rich and giving to the poor is the biggest fraud of all times.  The American people are suckers for snake oil medicine; fake remedies of all kinds are the rule of the day.  In fact, for 2,000 years, the world has been suckered by a fraudulent orthodoxy.

“In earth as it is in heaven,” in the Lord’s prayer, Jesus crucified for telling us the truth, we’ve come to the end of the Age of Pisces, the symbol of which is two attached fish swimming in opposite directions.  Read about Pisces and you know where we’ve been for the past 2,000 years. When you think about the past ages and how we are linked, you have to know that we are here with increasing purpose. Augustine said, “Distinguish the ages and the Scriptures harmonize.” Read about Aquarius and you know where we’re going. 

“In earth as it is in heaven” is distinguished by this that Jesus said: “seek ye first the kingdom of God,” If you live a self-serving life, taking all you can and never giving back, what about your eternal soul?  The kingdom of God is not in some far-away place, or hidden within the atoms. God is not supernatural. God is personal.  Our souls eternal, and the kingdom of God exists in our souls, our immaterial essence, our animating principle, or our actuating cause of life, will you not pay a price for your sins?  We are all God’s children. You were created with reason and logic. Would God have you burn in hell, or will you not come back to undo the harm you have done?

We are here in the space-time consortium for a time to make changes. If not in fact, in spirit, Jesus’ prophecy is going to come true.  It is written in the stars.  Jesus will return to a people who have lived and learned.    

It appears that 2011 is going to be a very active year, and quite naturally. We are entering the Age of Aquarius. On the nature of our being, science has now decided that without consciousness nothing could exist. Interesting.  It took only a couple of years for a hundred million Tea Party members to be consciously aware that we’ve got little or no use for the Obama, Pelosi, Reid team.  That, in and of itself, is an enormous change.  It must be shattering to the above named.

What about those who worship the above mentioned threesome? First of all, they believe the U. S. Constitution needs to be interpreted in light of their needs; they don’t like it.  Secondly, they single out the white male as racist, selfish and uncaring. Thirdly, and as a result of the white male racist, they are against racial profiling. It reminds me of Nazi Germany.  The Nazis hated Jews. Revolutionaries always pick a scapegoat for their cause.

White males pieced together the U. S. Constitution.  America, under the Constitution, became the most prosperous nation on earth, and under a free enterprise system, which, by the way, the enemies of the white male are against.  Again, I’m Reminded of Nazi Germany. Nazi stands for National Socialist Germany.

The cause of forbidding racial profiling divides the haves from have-nots, and the revolutionaries who want to transform America.  The haves makes revolutionaries a common cause with have-nots.  Have-nots, as a general rule, have not strong wills and determination.  They are the prey of control freaks.  Control freaks don’t like prosperity, which goes with free enterprise.  They like control and socialism, which goes with poverty.  Therefore, the control freak’s objective is to promote poverty by taking from the rich and giving to the poor. So, let’s begin by getting the record straight.  It is nonsense to think that taking from the rich and giving to the poor will help the poor.  Pretty soon there will be no rich. It’s like killing the goose that laid golden eggs.

Nature gives the male a stronger body and a stronger will than the female. America’s government has done much to encourage the female will. Along with the encouragement, has come a much higher rate of divorce, the welfare state, higher taxes requiring two worker families, and as a result less personal responsibility. The bottom line is weaker wills on the part of both male and female, exactly what control freaks want.

You could not have guessed that I’m a white male. Both my wife and I allow an independent spirit, but no question about it, I’m the leader. That’s the only way it can be. This makes it imperative that I be fair minded. The proof is in the pudding. My wife complains that I never take her advice (an exaggeration), but both my wife and I think that life doesn’t get any better than ours.

It is quite natural that Obama, control freak that he is, would pick for the Supreme Court a Latino woman who said a Latino woman makes a better judge than a white male; he would pick for the Supreme Court a white woman who doesn’t buy the notion the we have God-given rights. 

The Tea Party’s cause is to take back our God-given rights. Coincidentally, that’s what I want.  But what do you expect from someone with Obama’s background?  Look at who voted him into office.  It was not white males.  Obama and his judges believe in Obama rights. God help us if Obama’s women are going to be our judges. Again, I’m reminded of Nazi Germany.  Nazi judges followed their leader.

Medicare, we read here, is in a fiscal crises and totally unsustainable. How could that be?  The Tea Party has awakened to the fact that the American people have been taken to the cleaners. What is the Tea Party to do? My answer all along to seniors: “It is entirely up to you.  You should have been prepared.”

First, I’d like to bring to your attention that there is a member of my family, now in her fifties, who has never accomplished anything in her life worthy of mention. It galls the living daylights out of me.  She had a good background. Why is she is now jobless and currently living in a small trailer with a druggie, on welfare? In my youth she’d not have gotten a thin dime from government or family.  Tragically, thanks to government giving people a right to goof off, this woman with a pickled brain has three children, all with emotional problems.

Welfare is a growing cancer on society. It absolutely drives me up a wall.  This case I mention is not an unusual phenomenon in twenty-first century America. It happens in the best of families.  It is happening for a reason.  We Americans live in a hothouse environment, waiting for government to pull levers and turn valves.  One cannot help but notice the number of grossly obese young people. Sorry Michelle, it is not the government’s role to control the kind of foods we eat. It’s the parent’s job.

An oncologist, who also practices alternative medicines, was told by an FDA bureaucrat that he must first offer chemotherapy, with its dismal record, but being a $200 billion a year industry, money talks. Why would anyone want to commit suicide in a very painful way by subjecting themselves to chemo?  In many forms of cancer, chemo has little of no positive effect and can cause your cancer to spread.  I knew someone who died only yesterday. She had lung cancer and was put on Chemo. Unnecessarily, par for the course and a crying shame, a few months later she died of brain cancer in her sixties.  If she had only known, she’d more than likely be living a normal life. Alternative medicine is curing the terminally ill.

Talk about reducing health care costs, there are myriad ways, but first, get government out of health care.

A school teacher wearing a necklace with a small cross was told she could not wear it by reason that it might offend somebody. “That’s Obama for you. He’s as nutty as a fruitcake.”  American Muslims dress in garb that lets you know they are Muslim. It’s funny that it is their right. In all cases, it has been Muslims who bomb airliners out of the sky. Wouldn’t you be a bit concerned to see someone in Muslim garb on your airliner.  In order not to racially profile we must grope all airline passengers.  It doesn’t occur to Obama intellectuals that a little old American lady is not likely to be carrying a bomb in her panties, but she has to be felt. Whoopee Goldberg says if they want to feel her that’s O.K.  “It’s a heck of way to get your jollies, Whoopee. You are as stupid as you look.”

I was a single working on a minimum paying job. My employer deducted 20 percent of my income for Uncle Sam. It was very discouraging. My wages were withheld and the IRS confiscated my property. Think about that family member on welfare and me busting my butt trying to survive on my after tax income. I was locked out for non-payment of rent. The socialists in control of America are deliberately flushing us down the toilet. History gives us a record of what happens when the people don’t take action against government treachery.  I did not succumb. I took my tax case to the U. S. Supreme Court.  It’s all in the record.

I offer you Flast v Cohen, a taxpayer case. The Court speaking in Flast (1968):

“Federal judicial power is limited to those disputes which confine federal courts to a role consistent with a system of separated powers and which are traditionally thought to be capable of resolution through the judicial process.”

As to capable of resolution through the judicial process, in Butler, Justice Stone, dissenting on the redistribution of incomes question before the Court, “The power to tax and spend is not without constitutional restraints. One restriction is that the purpose must be truly national.  Another is that it may not be used to coerce action left to state control.  Another is the conscience and patriotism of Congress and the Executive. It must be remembered that legislators are the ultimate guardians of the liberties and welfare of the people in quite as great a degree as the courts.”  Does court policy on redistribution of incomes consider Justice Stone’s objection? Hardly. The IRS told me that Congress had unlimited authority to tax my income.

In Missouri, Kansas & Texas Ry Co v. May, Justice Holmes: “A tortured construction of the Constitution is not to be justified by recourse to extreme examples of reckless congressional spending which might occur if courts could not prevent expenditures which, even if they could be thought to effect any national purpose, would be possible only by action of a legislature lost to all sense of public responsibility.”  Do America’s courts consider congressional spending extreme? Hardly. The IRS, backed by the federal judiciary, as proven in my case, is a lying fraud.

Justice Warren in Flast: “Additional uncertainty exists in the doctrine of justiciability because that doctrine has become a blend of constitutional requirements and policy considerations.  And a policy limitation is not always clearly distinguished from the constitutional limitation.”

“The many subtle pressures which cause policy considerations to blend into the constitutional limitations of Article III made the justiciability doctrine one of uncertain and shifting contours . . .”

“As we understand it, the Government’s position is that the constitutional scheme of separation of power, and the deference owed by the federal judiciary to the other two branches of government within that scheme, present an absolute bar to taxpayer suits challenging the validity of federal spending programs. The Government views such suits as involving no more than the mere disagreement by the taxpayer with the uses to which tax money is put. According to the Government, the resolution of such disagreements is committed to other branches of the Federal Government and not to the judiciary.  Consequently, the Government contends that, under no circumstances, should standing be conferred on federal taxpayers to challenge a federal taxing or spending program.  An analysis of the function served by standing limitations compels a rejection of the Government’s position.”

“The fundamental aspect of standing is that it focuses on the party seeking to get his complaint before a federal court and not on the issues he wishes to have adjudicated. The gist of the question of standing is whether the party seeking relief has alleged such a personal stake in the outcome of the controversy as to assure that concrete adverseness which sharpens the presentation of issues upon which the court so largely depends for illumination of difficult constitutional questions.”

The taxpayer had standing in Flast, but, alas, the Court decided that the amount the tax took was too small to consider.  The taxpayer was complaining of his tax money being given to church schools, which amounted to pennies. What about my case? My tax case, in which thousands of dollars were lawlessly snatched by the IRS, why was my case  dismissed by the Supreme Court without a word?   Because it can get away with it. It can get away with it because if it isn’t you being ripped off it is none of your concern.

In the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure (rule 41[e], 18 U.S.C.A.) I was entitled to file suit. Huge corporations have. I was able to show existence of “special and extraordinary circumstances sufficient to bring a case within some acknowledged head of equity. My case demonstrated that the United States could not establish its tax claim.”  The IRS claimed in the Supreme Court that it made an “error,” and that it was corrected. It was not corrected. The IRS corrected the error and then made it again in violation of a Tax Court Order.   The facts and evidence showed that the IRS made many errors, including thumbing its nose at a Tax Court order. The IRS corrected its second error, after I filed a complaint in the District Court, corrected its error again, and then made the same error again. Yes, I could file a claim. It could file claims the rest of my life, but as a matter of policy, no court would hear me. It took public exposure to stop the IRS.

Your government is a liar and a fraud.  Because you have not been concerned, this I report could be your concern one of these days. By court policy, it is open season on taxpayers.  The IRS can and does by “mistake” put taxpayers on the street, and never pays for its crimes. I’m one of those the IRS put on the street.  I’d still be on the street if I had not fought.    

I’m not a taxpayer anymore. I receive a government check. The socialists in America are moving right along in their agenda, and I would not slap the hand that feeds the mouth.

After Hitler took over, in Nazi Germany’s courts, on record, government was permitted to murder 6 million Jews. The German gentiles didn’t make it their worry, and ended with their nation flat on the ground. I was there. What the German people did wasn’t too smart. I want to know what makes American judges, morally, any better than German judges?  

Threatening death is the best way we know to get the people’s cooperation. Take note that governments never know they can do wrong until the people tell them. A fitting Tea Party resolution in 2011 would be to take legal action to gain back the individual’s inalienable rights, lest, at government’s discretion, for the good of all, of course, we end dead.  

"The tea party's success has drawn hundreds of politicians and groups seeking to fasten themselves to the movement, steer it and speak for it. Millions of dollars have flowed in from corporations and rich donors, all of whom have their own ideas about  what the tea party should  be. This struggle for the soul of the movement has left many of its original activists facing agonizing  decisions: Do they, should they, still belong?" Washington Post 12/31/10

The Tea Party claims to be pro business and anti big bureaucracy, including big government. It believes that government stifles entrepreneurship and destroys creativity of its citizens. There is too much power centralized in government and thus diminishes the power and freedom of our citizens.

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"Jan Hatzius, the chief United States economist at Goldman Sachs, said the economy was likely to grow at an annualized rate of around 3 percent this quarter. Goldman projected last week that the growth rate would be 4 percent for most of 2011. Morgan Stanley, which raised its growth forecast for 2011 to 4 percent, is even more optimistic, forecasting a rate of 4.5 percent this quarter" New York Times 12/24/10

Is there really a Santa? Did he really deliver a sleigh full of merriment and optimism? Or were the reporters at the New York Times and several economists across the country taking part in too much spiked eggnog?

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            WE WILL SEE IN 2011

Looking at the birth of Christ, and the following 2,000 years of orthodoxy—authoritarianism—and at the current economic and moral decline in Europe and the United States, a significant clue of what is to come is unprecedented government intervention to ward off the domino effect, ending, ultimately, it can easily be predicted, in the collapse of western economies. In the meanwhile, China, having already gone through a socialistic dictatorship rampage under Mao, and now moving economically forward, with her gigantic cheap labor pool and western knowhow, a meteoric movement in economic growth in China is a continuing sure thing. What comes around goes around. A thousand years ago, while Europe suffered the Dark Age, Song China’s free enterprise system (960-1279) brought with it prosperity.

America’s federal judiciary has put government entitlement ahead of the inalienable right of life, liberty, and property. In the wisdom of socialist judges, busing poor children into affluent neighborhoods has a positive effect. This has not been the case. Socialist Obama speaks of collective salvation.  Socialists reason that do-good people have a positive influence on do-bad people. With America under George Soros’ Nazi socialistic model, impoverished—he’s pulled it off several times—and, naturally, authoritarian government, this is where America is headed.  

Out of love of my country, I became a combat rifleman in Nazi Germany during World War II.  Due to the fact that the individual comes last now in America, under socialist philosophy, the income tax put me on the street. It is all recorded.  I was a responsible family man. My children say they were happy children.  Irresponsible parents, under socialism, get the same treatment as responsible parents. The record proves that neither they nor their children become responsible.  Thanks to socialism, the irresponsible are a growing cancer on American society.  

Science has now acknowledged that nothing could exist without consciousness, and that the smallest subatomic particle is conscious.  Who or what determines the degree of conscious awareness in humans?  Is a federal judge or the President more consciously aware of my needs than I?  The law in practice says yes. Socialism does not give credit to the fact that we humans are created with reason and logic.  Man has never been successful in turning society into herd mentality.  The idea of doing for the good of all overriding the God-given rights of the individual has never worked and never will. But what I say counts for naught.  I’m forced to obey the laws socialists pass.

On the positive side, the energy is building in America to take the nation back—to put the individual back in control of his life. With China’s economy growing by leaps and bounds—the Chinese more in control of their lives—there is that commonality.  Thinking logically, while this is taking place, an unbelievably innovative free enterprise networking system currently in the works, causing the world economy to soar to never before dreamed proportions, logically, a rising tide of independence will be the result.  As for the too big to fail policy in place now, we are coming to the point that a thriving enterprise will suddenly be replaced by a better idea. No industry will be too big to fail.

When people all over the world have an abundance of the material things, what will the result be? Keeping in mind that science now admits without consciousness nothing could exist, based on the universe reduced to numbers logic, here’s what Astrologer’s Handbook says the numbers say. By the way, we are leaving the Age of Pisces and entering the Age of Aquarius. The ages have an influence on society.  If we link the ages, we can understand that we are here with increasing purpose.

“Pisces is a sensitive sign and those born under it are extremely responsive to the thoughts and feelings of others. They unconsciously absorb the ideas and mental outlook of those around them. They desperately want to do the right thing, but as a rule they do not have strong will power.  Therefore, they are easily influenced by external factors.  They must learn to stand alone and face the unknown with simple faith. . .”  

“The symbol for Pisces is two attached fishes, one swimming upstream and the other downstream, implying the drastic duality of emotions in persons born under this sign. Pisceans are unable to make up their minds. . . They are not combative. . .They are indecisive in thinking and acting. They will generally suffer injury rather than fight for their rights. . .”

Here’s what Astrologer’s Handbook says about Aquarius.

“Individuals born under the sign of brotherhood and fraternity have as their symbol the water-bearer, who spills out to mankind the life-force and spiritual energy.  Since the planet Uranus rules Aquarius, friendship and companionship are extremely important to Aquarians. Those whom Aquarians befriend have their unswerving loyalty.  .  . Born under a fixed sign Aquarians have eccentric temperaments and are determined and stubborn. . .”

“There is no affectation or snobbery in the Aquarian personality but a dislike of spurious imitation and hypocrisy in any form. Aquarians operate as equals among equals.  However, they are not dependent on their environments for their security, because they derive this from being in the company of others. . .”

“In earth as it is in heaven,” said Jesus. Jesus said we are our brother’s keeper.  Where does the collective consciousness of the universe begin?  Science has found that the smallest subatomic particle is conscious.  Man simply cannot change the Higher Law, the background of the U. S. Constitution.  We Americans need to prepare now for the hard times ahead socialism brings, so we can will ourselves, individually, a bountiful future.      

As I prepare for my 86^th year on Earth—my New Year’s resolutions: loose weight, exercise more, learn about the right foods to eat—I happened to find a note on my desk. I don’t know how it got there. It was a note my daughter Holly wrote to me several years back.

“To think about what it was like to be a happy child,” the note read, "I remember playing in the playhouse you built. I remember, especially, too, the flower garden, the large blue flowers against the house, and the patio you built. I also remember when you helped me learn to ride a bicycle.  I remember it wasn’t easy for me.”

“I think about how lucky I was to have parents who cared about me. I was a happy child. I really was. I loved playing in the trees, riding horses, coloring. Thank you, Dad.”

My daughter Shelley sent me a collage I treasure—photos taken when my girls were young children, captioned, “What Makes a Great Father.” Under the photos, “Comforting,” “Nuturing,” “Loving,” “Playing.”

In spite of my memory, the rulers of Iran look at the United States and Americans as the “Great Satin.”  Islam and Christianity have been at war since the Christian Crusades. They say all is fair in love and war. 

Do say! President Obama is a Christian when he’s talking to Christians and a Muslim when he’s talking to Muslims.  I guess I don’t know  what love is about.  I just thought I did.

Did man make a mistake when he created God or did God make a mistake when he created man. It’s when people in power get the notion that they represent God, and make laws that support that notion—the law of might makes right—everyone  doing his best to be the mightiest, that we go to war. God is on the side of the mightiest.

We know about how fair war is. What about love?  Does God or man give us a right to good health care?  I loved my girls. I worked so they could have good health care. Does President love us when he “gives” us health care?  No, it is not fair to say he gives us all good health care. He doesn’t work so we can all have good health care.  And in any case, God doesn’t give us good health care.

What God gives us is inalienable rights, rights that can’t be taken or transferred.  What President Obama “gives” us is redistribution of the nation’s wealth, in the interest of what he figures is fair, taking the inalienable rights from working people and redistributing them.  It that love?  I don’t think so.  For the good of all is not love.  It’s a manmade construction.  A construction is not natural law, God’s law, or any kind of law.  In America, the law replaces the divine ruler.  President Obama says he has a problem with that idea. He wants to transform America—from what to what?  I guess I don’t know what love is about.

Obama so loves the world that he wants to do what is for the good of all, in a word, give us Socialism.  He wants to replace God-given rights with government entitlements.  In other words, for the good of all the individual has no God-given right to life, liberty, or property.  The same idea is in place in Iran.  My idea of love is other people’s idea of Satin.   It goes with the idea of all is fair in love and war. Look around and see how well man treats you under Obama’s idea of love.  It is essential that you make a distinction between God-given rights and government entitlement.  It the latter case, you give up your love of God; you turn your life over to government, to do with you—and your children—what it will.  

Two State assembly seats are up got grabs in California.

District 17 and District 28.

Filing apparently closes Monday. 03 January 2011.

Here is a link to the article if you are interested.

http://www.examiner.com/democrat-in-los-angeles/san-bernardino-county-to-have-special-primary-election-february

Not only is Obama a sneaky, underhanded something or other, with a missing link he hides from the public—unqualified to be our president—but his Obamacare, with his underhanded scheme in 2,400 pages aimed at making you think government is giving 30 million people health care at no cost, if it sounds too good to be true, it is.

The U. S. gives selected people health care with the idea that it is right, good, and proper.  It is proven in Canada and England that socialized health care does not give many needing health care the care they need. If it is right, good, and proper for government to give people health care, it is certainly right, good, and proper to give people food, clothing and shelter.  Guaranteed health care is but one cog in the wheel of cradle to grave security, compliments of government, government producing nothing. Government is merely people acting as redistribution agents.  What makes them more right than those who produce? Nothing.   It is people with the power to make might right, good, and proper.  

In order to reduce the cost of health care, so that the 30 million new recipients can get theirs, the U. S. is paying doctors to advise senior citizens to not take advantage of costly treatments, but rather to let their lives end.  Since senior heath care is responsible for most of the cost, and government is obliged to pay it, government should have the right to cut the cost, but the question: why should government be at all involved in the decision of whether we live or die?  Why should government be involved in our health care at all?  Since government’s involvement, the cost has skyrocketed. Because of government’s involvement in our personal lives, giving and taking at will, the national debt is out of control. Just since Obama took over, the debt has increased more than the total debt created since America’s beginning.

Enter the drug cartel.  The drug industry has bought government and medicine. Chemo medicine alone is a $300 billion a year industry in the U.S.  The results of chemo are absolutely dismal, with oncologists making millions, and Uncle Sam, the goon squad, protecting them.  There are cancer cures that work, and at a fraction of the cost. Chemo does not work.   The drug industry is putting out billions fighting sure cures.  

The way America’s government has heretofore paid its debt is mostly by controlled inflation, watering down the value of the dollar with printing press money.  The mighty, to keep inflation from hurting a weak economy, make printing press money. Monopoly money has reached an unprecedented amount. The mighty have the thought that it is better to loan money to the nations about to fold than to let the world’s economy go up in smoke.   

I’m not interested in control.  So I ask: why is it better to put off this manmade disaster?  The only assurance we have is the public’s confidence that this pie in the sky will not come down in flames.   Sooner or later, when people lose confidence in the dollar, we will have uncontrolled inflation.  We know what happens in uncontrolled inflation. The mighty take total control; the people become slaves. Obama is not an American. He is hiding his identity. A something or other Obama is part of a worldwide plan engineered by people who have convinced themselves that they have the answers for all of the world’s problems.  They start with a desired end and then force all the pieces to fit. We are in that process.  When we reach the point of moral, spiritual, and fiscal bankruptcy, desperate for the answer, the mighty will have their answer for the whole world. They think they can take the place of God.  We’ll see.  I say they don’t have a chance.