I SvD kunde man läsa igår om hur Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrish gillade Obamas tacktal när han mottog fredspriset. Palin:
Jag gillade det han sade.
Washington Post:
Grattis, herr president!
Obamas tal till försvar för krig är absurt. Han fick fel pris. Nobels krigspris hade passat bättre till det talet. Lek med tanken att Bush hållit ett liknande tal. Det hade gett upphov till ramaskri i vänsterktretsar.
Där ligger också den stora faran med Barack Obama. I vanliga fall är det just från vänsterhåll vi kan räkna med starkast (numerärt) motstånd till krig. Men nu när krigshetsaren själv är socialist är stora delar av fredsrörelsen tystad. Detta samtidigt som hökarna på högerkanten applåderar. Obama är en politiker som förenar det sämsta från vänster och höger.
President Barack Obama attempted to synthesize peace with war (two subjects that cannot be considered equivalents). The result was eloquently disgraceful. The implied insult of Dr. King was astounding. Overall, the President’s speech was a disappointment.
In his speech, the President referred to Martin Luther King, who was awarded a Nobel Peace prize in 1964. While the President mentioned Dr. King’s actions with regard to race, Dr. King’s Nobel Lecture also addressed poverty and war.
In fact, the President glossed over King’s lecture. What is key about the quote he selected is what he chose to cut—Dr. King actually opposes the view (war is a tool of and for peace) that the President presented in his Lecture. Dr. King’s Lecture also is prophetic.
Violence is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding: it seeks to annihilate rather than convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.
This is precisely the reason that the warcraft the President advocates will never lead to peace. War (or threat of warfare, which the President implies in his speech) never resolves problems. No matter how many troops are sent to Afghanistan, the conflict will not provide any humane resolution. Ultimately, the U.S. will leave Afghanistan without much progress, except that Afghanistan will be worse off for the experience.
At the root, soldiers train to kill, presumably in conditions where the adversarial force meets head on with the U.S. force. The last country to try (and fail) with this type of approach was Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. This is what the U.S. military is operationally setup to handle. The problem is that people have learned this and fight using guerilla tactics. The U.S. is not operationally setup to handle this with its hierarchical command structure.
Also, militaries destroy; they cannot rebuild. This is the weakness of the U.S’s approach.
Warcraft is encouraged when there are U.S. business interests tied to the rebuilding of a country after it is delivered to near ruin (that is, U.S. companies that profit from the destruction of war.
He quoted from the portion that addressed racial justice, but ignored the portions addressing poverty and war. Given what Dr. King addressed, I can see why the President did not mention these inconvenient facts.
The reader should study Dr. King’s Lecture in full and compare it with the President’s Lecture. I will offer some selections of Dr. King’s Lecture below.
Dr. King on poverty—
The time has come for an all-out world war against poverty. The rich nations must use their vast resources of wealth to develop the underdeveloped, school the unschooled, and feed the unfed. Ultimately a great nation is a compassionate nation. No individual or nation can be great if it does not have a concern for “the least of these”. Deeply etched in the fiber of our religious tradition is the conviction that men are made in the image of God and that they are souls of infinite metaphysical value, the heirs of a legacy of dignity and worth. If we feel this as a profound moral fact, we cannot be content to see men hungry, to see men victimized with starvation and ill health when we have the means to help them. The wealthy nations must go all out to bridge the gulf between the rich minority and the poor majority.
Dr. King on war—
So man’s proneness to engage in war is still a fact. But wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force, but the destructive power of modern weapons eliminated even the possibility that war may serve as a negative good. If we assume that life is worth living and that man has a right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war. In a day when vehicles hurtle through outer space and guided ballistic missiles carve highways of death through the stratosphere, no nation can claim victory in war. A so-called limited war will leave little more than a calamitous legacy of human suffering, political turmoil, and spiritual disillusionment. A world war – God forbid! – will leave only smoldering ashes as a mute testimony of a human race whose folly led inexorably to ultimate death. So if modern man continues to flirt unhesitatingly with war, he will transform his earthly habitat into an inferno such as even the mind of Dante could not imagine.
Some college students from the United States crashed a global warming skeptic seminar over in Copenhagen recently. It appears that the university system is doing a fabulous job at equipping the next generation to think critically…NOT!
1. Why hasn’t higher education taught these particular kids about respecting the first amendment and letting people speak freely about ideas (even if those ideas differ from the liberal agenda)? Well, maybe it’s because radical liberals (as opposed to civil ones) don’t believe in free speech. You either side with the left or they’ll shut you down. It’s the radical left way or the highway.
2. Why hasn’t the university system taught these children to scrutinize the policies that their current government is attempting to impose upon the people. These kids are brainwashed to the point that they’ll fight for a cap on C02 emissions, but won’t take a stand against government-run healthcare. Do these kids not read the Congressional Budget Reports and see how these policies (aka Cap and Trade and the Government Healthcare Option)are putting them further and further into debt?
The answer is no. They will never do so. After all, why bother when life’s a party, where you can drink all the beer and sex you want while in the dorm? Why do so when you live in a perpetual state of entitlement, believing that certain things like healthcare, education, and material possessions belong to you by right?
The senators also noted that researchers at Penn State University received $1.57 million to search for fossils in Argentina and that a liberal-leaning theater in Minnesota, In the Heart of the Beast, named after a famous quote by leftist leader Che Guevara, received $100,000 for socially conscious puppet shows.
firstly, it’s going straight to hell.that’s the directions it’s been for many centuries now.
then,
wtf is this shit? my blog top searches is www.shemale.com.my ????
FML time i think.
then
i realised, google really overtook microsoft and of course, google actually rules the earth cos, gmail works like this right? started out with a few people getting invites. also like wave. then they give them limited invites to invite other people.basically if you use google account as some sort of spam mail, eventually they’re going to catch up with you because it’s not a sign up email. it’s a 6 degree separation type of concept – send the invites out to friends and friends of a friends and then it just goes on….lol
best you stick to yahoo and hotmail but i think yahoo requires you to give in your address but alas, they are not foolproof. i dislike hotmail for a lot of reasons and even more i hate my domain or isp provided email. so i only ever use uni or work email these days…
alas, google actually rules the world. bwahahahah.
i’ve hold back on buying windows 7 since so many ppl complaining it’s a FML thing. i don’t need anymore FML stuff.
then the last thing i need to be reminded of is umm…i sorta forgot..crap..it was important!
i will update later when i remember. it was important!!!!! oh yeah i remember. so there is no such thing as a honest man/woman famous anymore cos i mean, the last good squeaky clean image man on earth who’s famous, ala tiger woods, has now a notorious reputation for being a philanderer, adulterer and keeps mistresses by the hoard and also, sex addict. lol hooray man….. his wife is way prettier than his mistresses…don’t fucking know what is wrong with wood’s eyes…like his dad say..career over when he gets married…….guess the dad knew he couldn’t keep his dick in his pants and eventually, that dark little secret would be outa the closet….came out to a nice bang to end 2009. but i’d stay with him if he’d give me 80million USD…heck i’ll smile and even play nice wife just as long as you keep the millions rolling. pwnage.
the last decent family man on earth’s image is shattered so there’s always a minor percentage, they’re gonna cheat…
which leaves barrack obama as the last decent men…hopefully no scandal..but i think he dare not scandal also cos i reckon michelle obama owns his ballz and if he strays, she’ll really make him regret for life….that’s the woman i want on my side in a bar brawl…she alone has the gaze to scare the crap of 236745632 guys 23645765 times my puny size.
so ladies,
i guess you gotta really train your man….and be blatantly honest to each other. no point trying to impress if you have to spend your whole life trying to impress and not be the person you are…cos once you drop your guard and relax and show your true colors, he’ll be outa that door faster than you can say hunnnnnn……
sigh
good night. : )
like they say
all the good men are either taken or gay.
i’m just talking bout some men, not all men ok?
If class were cash, Harry Reid, the personification of the Peter Principle at work in the Senate, would be as deeply in debt as he and his ilk have put the United States government (i.e., the American taxpayer).
In his latest political regurgitation, he is comparing those of us who oppose this health care reform bill to supporters of slavery. Never mind that it was the Republican Party that was founded as the anti-slavery party back in the 1850s. Never mind that it was a democrat (Strom Thurman) who failed in his attempt to filibuster the Civil Rights bill of 1957 and it was actually the Republicans who led the fight in support of the bill. Note: Thurman would later (1964) cross over the aisle to the Republican side.
Side note: Since my high school days, I’ve been criticized for writing run-on sentences. Well, folks, prepare for the crowning achievement of a life dedicated to the fine art of the run-on sentence, as I attempt to put this into some perspective:
Harry Reid, the cowardly traitor who had the audacity to stand in the hall of the United States Senate and announce “The war in Iraq is lost” (bringing aid and comfort to the enemy) while our young men and women were winning the surge…
(let me catch my breath)
… the same Harry Reid who is part of the Congress that has enslaved our children and grandchildren as debtors to foreign powers for the next century (if we’re lucky it will only be that long) due to the ”tax and spend” spree that has tripled the deficit since Obama has taken office…
(one more breath and I think we’re there)
… now points his finger at those of us who are smart enough to see what his ignorance misses (the unsustainable debt he’s imposing) and is accusing us as being the ones supporting slavery.
Wow, Harry. You just never learn, do you? The government reforming health care is like asking the fox to reform hen house security. And I’m pretty sure the chance of success is about the same. And if this bill becomes law, it will without doubt push the United States economy beyond the point of no return.
This is not just theory. It’s the real thing! Let’s hear from the experts:
US billionaire & investment guru, Jim Rogers, influential former partner of financier George Soros (The World Today Dec 3, 2009) is advising investors to desert the greenback and put their money into commodities. He says the US dollar is a flawed currency that has no future.
Nobel Prize winner Dr. Paul Samuelson, hardly an alarmist, has characterised U.S. financial imbalances as so severe and “irreversible that we must accept that at some future date there will be a run on the dollar. Probably the kind of disorderly run that precipitates a global financial crisis.” . . . while other monetary experts now warn, “We’re in the terminal stages of the world’s most gigantic pyramid scheme.”
Or as Dr. Ron Paul, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, recently noted about the rampant, unprecedented money creation going on, “If we continue doing what we are doing right now, we will literally destroy the dollar.”
The first dramatic debt growth spurt of US debt-based approach financing system occurred with the Civil War. The debt was just $65 million in 1860, but passed $1 billion in 1863 and had reached $2.7 billion following the war, slowly fluctuating for the rest of the century, finally growing steadily in the 1910s and early 1920s to roughly $22 billion as the country paid for involvement in one war after another – wars which they never did win.
When compared to hard money backed by gold or silver, this debt-based approach has the advantage of making the currency elastic, giving the government a means of expanding or contracting the money supply in response to changing economic conditions. The disadvantage of this approach is inflation. The money supply must be continually expanded in order to finance interest payments on the debt by which it is issued. This devalues the currency, causing inflation.
All signs point toward the U.S. dollar – already down one-third against other world currencies since 2002 – heading at breakneck speed for a precipitous and historic crash.
While all global currencies are falling against tangible
assets, the US Dollar is falling faster.
Unmistakable warning signs reveal here point to a monetary crisis on the verge of spinning wildly out of control, leading to massive INFLATION and quite possibly, a sudden and catastrophic dollar collapse that will forever change US nation.
Mr. Obama, in a recent cable news interview during which he tried to rationalize his multi-trillion dollar spending spree, conceded with a chuckle,“we are out of money now. We’re operating in deep deficits…” This admission came only a few months into his term, and even before he committed upwards of $50 billion more in U.S. taxpayer funds to bailing General Motors out of the hole!
Major foreign investors such as China are quickly catching on to the hard reality of US insolvency. Inescapably, they’re concluding that the “only way Washington can keep its Ponzi finance going is by running the monetary printing presses non-stop.”
Mega-investor Warren Buffett recently admitted publicly that the frantic spending and money creation underway right now will trigger a currency-destroying inflation that will be much more severe than in the 1970s.
Big-time investment gurus such as Jim Rogers dispatched a strongly worded email offering this sobering assessment:
“The world at large does seem to understand innately that governments are bankrupting themselves and destroying paper currency.”
The sheer havoc unleashed by a dollar crisis will be nationally jolting on a par with Pearl Harbour, John F. Kennedy’s assassination and 9/11. And yes, the bottom could drop out in just a single harrowing day.
The coming dollar collapse will wreak economic and social havoc far beyond skyrocketing prices. Widespread fuel and food shortages, relentless crime waves and the government’s endless socialistic machinations will devastate the American way of life like a giant tornado.
US – Greatest Debtor Nati
With US main creditors & all the global supporters pulling out,
there will be a catastrophic tsunami unimaginable.
The senators also noted that researchers at Penn State University received $1.57 million to search for fossils in Argentina and that a liberal-leaning theater in Minnesota, In the Heart of the Beast, named after a famous quote by leftist leader Che Guevara, received $100,000 for socially conscious puppet shows.
US – Greatest Debtor Nati