There is None so Blind as Those that Will not See !

That saying, attributed to John Heywood (1546) paraphrasing Jeremiah 5:21 so aptly puts the reality of the Global Warming hoax as it stands today. The biggest story in global warming today is the lack of it!  There has now been 15 and half years of no warming of our atmosphere even as the culprit in this scenario, CO2, rose 100ppm over those years. And yet, Australia saw visiting eco-extremist David Suzuki on the ABC's Morning Show yesterday preaching his message of doom. And to add insult to our intelligence, the Australia Broadcasting Corp has welcomed him as an oracle onto to the set of the Q & A Show this Monday evening! As former ABC chairman Maurice Newman correctly observed: ''The ABC is not being frank and truthful about the way global warming is portrayed and the sense of imbalance is becoming more overt, I feel.... Like the BBC, there are signs that small but powerful group has captured the corporation, at least on climate change.'' And warmist idiot, Tony Jones will be hosting the show.

So how credible is he?  Here's just some fact-checking:
          He was quoted three times, two days ago, on warmist devastation in The Age, who complemented his message with this picture (left, below): 
 ''Half the coral on the Great Barrier Reef has disappeared in the past 27 years and its size could halve again in the next decade with the increasing frequency of cyclones.''

Reality: Australian Bureau of Meteorology states ''Trends in tropical cyclone activity in the Australian region...show that the total number of cyclones has decreased in recent decades. Two recent CSIRO studies show a significant decrease in tropical cyclone numbers.''
               Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority: ''Coral reefs can cope with natural disturbances like floods and cyclones.''
                Australian Coral Reef Studies (James Cook University) ''A number of coastal reefs have been obliterated by run-off sediment, dredging and pollution.''

           Suzuki: ''For more than 20 years the insurance industry has been telling us we have been paying more for changes in the climate. Why aren't we listening to these insurers?

Reality: Roger Pielke Jr., Professor Environmental Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder states: ''After adjusting for patterns of development, over the long term there is no climate signal of increasing damage from extreme events either globally or in particular regions.''

           Again: ''In British Columbia, where I live, a warming climate has allowed insects to destroy $65 billion worth of pine trees in just over a decade. For millennia the Mountain Pine Beetle has been kept in check by our minus 35 degree winter temperatures.

Reality:  Suzuki is cherry-picking because he has admitted elsewhere that poor forestry practices, monocultures and suppression of fires, not just warm weather, created an overabundance of the older trees those beetles love to eat, hence the population explosion.

           Again: ''This pine tree devastation event is unlike anything recorded in North American history, but it's not been enough to galvanise our government to get serious about acting on climate change.''



A Slight Cooling of Global Temperature over Last 2 Years

Reality:  Unprecedented? What about the blight that killed all the North American chestnut trees in just a few decades, starting around the turn of the last century?  Anyway, according to Scientific American, the plague is running out of steam, with the last two years seeing dramatic decreases in infestations. David, if you want to be a climate-change authority, you just have to keep up with the literature!

The Way I See It.....for years, most journalists in the mainstream media haven't just failed to question the global warming fear campaign. They have refused to even listen to any evidence against it, even from dissenting climate scientists, and have howled down those who dared present it soberly. This has been the most shameful collective failure of journalism in the past 20 years. Media journalists became propagandists, even witchhunters. The biggest Whore-to-Warmism, The Age, with its environmental writers and Gaia-loving editors, repeatedly tried to discredit Lord Christopher Monckton when he lectured here in Australia and now give credence to the industrial-grade fertiliser that is Suzuki's stock in trade.

But the warming pause (actually cooling in the past 2 years) kept going, and is now so undeniable and so contrary to global warming theory that it has blown up this stifling ''consensus''.  Many journalists must be taken-to-task by some publishing authority and asked why they never questioned an apocalyptic faith that thankfully is collapsing. There is a newspaper that is still actively promoting this obscene denialism, The Age, that now has a scientist-in-residence, a warmist, who Age staff have been encouraged to consult when reporting on the release this Friday of the IPCC's report. What's the odds that any truthful reporting will get through the Age filters?

         

Revealed: Brits Sold Nerve Gas Ingredients To Syria !

Furious politicians have demanded Prime Minister David Cameron explain why chemical export licenses were granted to firms last January -- 10 months after the Syrian uprising began!  That's right, the Sunday Mail revealed that Britain allowed firms to sell chemicals to Syria capable of being used to make nerve gas.

Export licences for potassium fluoride and sodium fluoride (the same poisons foolishly put into many cities water supply erroneously to stop dental decay) were granted months after the bloody civil war in the Middle East began. The chemicals are capable of being used to make weapons such as Sarin, thought to be the nerve gas used in the attack on a rebel-held Damascus suburb which killed nearly 1500 people, including 426 children.

President Bashar al-Assad's forces have been blamed for the attack, leading to calls for an armed response from the West. I ask: What about the surrounding Muslim states doing something about it. During the past month, President Obama's remark about ''crossing a red line has consequences'' fell on deaf ears with British MPs voting against joining America in a punitive strike. Now the with President Putin's gambit to deflect a military strike with his proposal to take Assad's poison gas stash away, the Congress is off the hook in after saying it couldn't support Obama's plans for action.

The chemical export licences were granted by Business Secretary Vince Cable's Department for Business, Innovation & Skills last January. They were only revoked six months later, when the European Union imposed tough sanctions on Assad's regime. Besides the politicians, anti-arms trade campaigners urged Prime Minister Cameron to explain why the licences were granted in the first place. Labour MP Thomas Docherty ( left ), who sits on the House of Commons Arms Export Controls committee said in a TV interview, ''At best it has been negligent and at worst reckless to export material that could have been used to create chemical weapons. It's bad enough we gave the Syrian rebels a 20 million pounds weapons gift with no way of knowing into whose hands they ended up with.''

Mark Bitel of the Campaign Against Arms Trading (Scotland) said: ''The UK Government claims to have an ethical policy on arms exports, but when it comes down to practice the reality is very different. The government is hypocritical to talk about chemical weapons if it's granting licences to companies to export to regimes such as Syria. We saw David Cameron, in the wake of the Arab Spring, rushing off to the Middle East with companies to promote business.''  Some details emerged in July of the UK's sale of the chemicals to Syria but crucial dates of the exports were withheld.  The Government have refused to identify the licence holders or say whether the licences were issued to one or two companies.

The chemicals are in powder form and highly toxic. The licences specified that they should be used for making aluminium structures. Professor Alastair Hay, ( photo right ) an expert in environmental toxicology at Leeds University, said: ''They have a variety of industrial uses, but it is ludicrous as an avenue for human consumption via drinking water. When you're making a nerve agent, the addition of a fluoride element gives it its toxic properties. Fluoride is key to making these munitions and whether these elements were used by Syria to make nerve agents is something only subsequent investigation will reveal.''

Business Secretary Mr Cable said: ''The UK Government operates one of the most rigorous arms export control regimes in the world. An export licence would not be granted where we assess there is a clear risk the goods might be used for internal repression, provoking or prolonging conflict within a country, or be used aggressively against another country or risk our own national security. When circumstances change or new information comes to light, we can and do revoke licences where the exportation is not consistent with the criteria.''  U.N. weapons inspectors investigating the atrocity have since left Damascus and flew to the HQ of the Organisation for the prevention of Chemical Weapons with samples taken from victims of the attack, as well as from water, soil and shrapnel.

The Way I See It.....Ban Ki Moon has just let it slip, in a closed meeting, that the chemical test results are positive for Assad's use of chemical weapons. Russian president Vladimir Putin attacked Obama's stance on military action and in an Op-Ed in the New York Times last Thursday, in a classic case of one-upmanship, proposed to get Assad to relinquish his chemical stockpile without further punishment. ( see previous blog posting )  Russia and Iran are Syria's staunchest allies. The Russians have given arms and military backing to Assad during the civil war; a war that has claimed more than 100,000 lives so far.

Putin Pokes Powerful Presumptions at the President !

Thanks to Barack Obama's astonishingly weak and vacillating leadership over the Syrian civil war, Russia's Vladimir Putin now poses as the real leader in world affairs, presuming to lecture the United States and challenged Obama through the pages of the New York Times three days ago. Reaction came swiftly from politicians from both the left and right slamming Moscow's strong man for lecturing the U.S. about human rights, among other things. But all sides agreed it was a stunning propaganda coup for Putin with the Times itself saying that the 60 year old former KGB chief is now clearly the most powerful leader in the world.

Conservative columnist Michelle Malkin said it was no surprise that Putin had used the leftist New York Times to get his points across. ''It's galling for this strong man (Russia's head Bully-boy) to be wagging his finger at America about peace and international law,'' she said. New Jersey Democrat Sen. Bob Menendez told CNN, ''I worry when someone who came up through the ranks of the brutal KGB tells us what's in our national interest and what is not,'' then he described the editorial as ''very much in-your-face.''  Fox Network legal analyst Peter Johnson Jr. said, ''Joseph Stalin is smiling from the grave today, his disciple Putin did a full-throated attack on our president and our country.'' The New York Post's headline read, ''Putin twists knife in outfoxed Obama''.

The Russian president's sanctimonious op-ed arguing against American intervention in Syria contained many false, misleading and hypocritical statements. Here are seven (7) of them.

1. ''No one wants the United Nations to suffer the fate of the League of Nations, which collapsed because it lacked real leverage. This is possible if influential countries bypass the U.N. and take military action without Security Council authorization.''

Hypocrisy:   Putin led attacks against Georgia and Chechnya without United Nations approval.

     2.  ''A strike.....could undermine multilateral efforts to resolve the Iranian nuclear problem and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and further destabilize the Middle East and North Africa. It could throw the entire system of international law and order out of balance.''

Hypocrisy:   Russia has been supplying Syrian President Bashar al-Assad with weapons and has been helping Iran with its nuclear program. Putin seems less concerned that these actions would destabilize the region and ''throw the entire system of international law and order out of balance.''

      3.  ''This internal conflict, fuelled by foreign weapons supplied to the opposition is one of the bloodiest in the world.''

Hypocrisy:  Again, he complains about foreign weapons going to the opposition while he supplies Assad with tons of weapons.

      4.  ''From the outset, Russia has advocated peaceful dialogue enabling Syrians to develop a  compromise plan for their own future. We are not protecting the Syrian government, but international law.''

Misleading:  In public statements Putin has indeed advocated peaceful dialogue. In his actions, though, Putin is doing everything he cab to help Assad win. He blocks any action by the U.N. Security Council and continues to supply the regime with a wide-range of arms.

      5.  ''The law is still the law, and we must follow it whether we like it or not. Under current international law, force is permitted only in self-defence or by the decision of the Security Council. Anything else is unacceptable under the U.N.'s charter and would constitute an act of aggression.''

Hypocrisy:  Putin, indeed, does not follow international law when he does not like it, and has used his veto in the Security Council to prevent it from doing anything about Assad's violations of international law after Assad's army killed his own innocent civilians.

      6.  "No one doubts that poison gas was used in Syria. But there is every reason to believe it was used not by the Syrian Army, but by opposition forces, to provoke intervention by their powerful foreign patrons, who would be siding with the fundamentalists.''

False:  Every organization that has investigated this atrocity has concluded that it was the Syrian Army that used chemical weapons. Plus Putin himself acknowledges that Syria has chemical weapons.

      7.  '' I studied (Obama's) address to the nation on Tuesday. And I disagree with a case he made on American exceptionalism, stating that the United States' policy is what 'makes America different. It's what makes us exceptional.'  It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation.''

Hypocrisy:  During the ten plus years in his leadership, Putin has tried to build a greater sense of national pride among his people. He wants Russians to view themselves as exceptional while criticizing Americans for doing the same.

The Way I See It......Putin's dismissal of American exceptionalism was ignorant and tone-deaf.  He doesn't seem to grasp the ultimate kudos and respectful standing the United States has in the world. Read my lips Mr Putin: The United States brought the first DEMOCRATIC government into the modern world!  That is what makes it and keeps it exceptional, even though it seems President Obama barely believes in the idea and no doubt threw that into his speech the way he often throws things like that in at the end: He thinks Americans like. After 5 years into his ''imperial'' presidency you would think he would be proud to pronounce this to his people and the world. He must remind the world that America attempts to be a force for good in the world because it is exceptional!

The top dogs in Congress have been howling with indignation over Vladimir's gloating op-ed article, where lectures to U.S. on its true place in the world (behind Mother Russia). This is the risible, hypocritical sound of the U.S. Congress starting to confront the mess of their own making. A mess that Mr Putin, as if house-training puppies, has certainly enjoyed rubbing their noses in. Because while Barack Obama's handling of the Syrian crisis has been startlingly inept, the fact is that Congress, by making clear it would not support him and cutting the President's leg off when he asked for backing, has created a world in which '' CZAR'' Vladimir Putin ( picture above left )  gets to run the show. I detect a new chill in the air for some time to come.

At this point, Benghazi DOES Matter and So Does Trust !

Republican Jeff Duncan (right) of the House of Representatives said it a Congressional Hearing on the Syrian issue to Secretary of State John Kerry, ''This Obama Administration has a serious credibility issue with the American people. I can't discuss the possibility of U.S. involvement in the Syrian civil war without also talking about Benghazi. There are questions still surrounding the Benghazi terrorist attack almost a year later. When you factor in the IRS targeting conservative groups, the Associated Press issue, Fast and Furious, and the NSA spying programs, the bottom line here is the need for accountability and trust building from this administration. To paraphrase Friedrich Nietzsche, he said, 'I'm not upset over you not telling me the truth. I'm upset because from now on, I can't believe you.' In my opinion, Benghazi is germane to the discussions about Syria, because as you stated Mr. Secretary, the world was and is watching for our response.''

Most people know the infamous line Kerry's predecessor, Hillary Clinton shouted at the Congressmen running the hearing about the cause for the murderous attack that killed the U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens and 4 Security personnel; ''At this point, what difference does it make now?''  Many of us were in shock for days over her callous statement, not to mention the outright lies she and all the others of this feckless administration, from top to bottom, showered upon the us for over a month before a crack of truth inconveniently leaked out. Of course the president lied like Pinocchio with a willing CNN accomplice in the debate for president and really never admitted to Benghazi being a terrorist attack (reminds me of the Fort Hood shooting termed ''work place violence''). (See posting ''Obama Denies Fort Hood Attack Was Terrorism!'' Oct. 30, 2012)

Rep Duncan added, holding up a photo of one of those killed, ''Mr Secretary, this is a picture of Tyrone Woods given to me by his father. The Woods family and Americans deserve answers before we send another man or woman into harm's way, especially in a civil war when there's no indication that there is an imminent threat to the U.S.A.'' He made it clear that until Americans get answers to Benghazi, Team Obama has no truth in accountability. It obviously shows that the president and his Cabinet have more outrage for the lives of foreigners than its own citizens. Duncan further reiterated with, ''How can we trust him with more of America's finest if they get caught in a perilous situation, like one of Syria's missiles hitting a U.S. destroyer. Limited and proportional strikes without an aim to change the projector of the civil war isn't a strategy we can trust. This is going to end badly.''

Kerry's condescending response to Rep Duncan was a clear variation of Hillary's reply...as in move along, nothing to see here. ''This is not about getting into Syria's civil war, this is about enforcing the principle that people shouldn't be allowed to gas their citizens with impunity!''  He stressed, ''Let's draw the proper distinction here, congressman, we don't deserve to drag this into another Benghazi discussion when the real issue here is whether or not the Congress is going to stand up to international norms!''  Kerry doesn't get it. Benghazi matters now more than ever. The credibility of  President Obama and the United States by default is a stake because he did nothing to back up his words that ''those that perpetrated this will be brought to justice.'' Yet a year later, insiders say he has done nothing. Those in his government that told the truth have been threatened because the truth matters and it will shatter his fairy tale. And on seeing this blatant disregard for justice, his enemies are emboldened. Words don't matter, actions do.

The Way I See It....if President Obama can't bring the full might of the U.S. of A. to bring to justice those whom his intelligence agency knows killed the Ambassador and the four other brave men who tried to save his life, what does that say to the world at large? That he speaks loudly and carries a small stick; he's impotent?  His words and fist shaking mean absolutely nothing. The terrorists and despicable dictators will carry on without impunity, since Bad-Ass Barry has only empty words and an unsharpened sword. Red lines have and will get crossed without repercussion and all the world's a stage for his mockery. His line-in-the-sand is purely political to take the heat off the growing scandals and debt ceiling debate which surely came from his cronies headed by David Axelrod.

Now California Democrat Loretta Sanchez strongly stressed to her fellow Congressmen, ''The minute that one of those cruise missiles lands in there, we are in the Syrian war. It's a civil war and we are taking sides with the rebels, so many of whom are still associated with al-Qaeda, and other groups that mean to undermine us around the world.''  Today, in what looks like an off-the-cuff blunder, Secretary of State Kerry might have accidently given Russian President Vladimir Putin the opportunity to muddy the international diplomatic waters. Kerry said that Assad could avoid American air strikes by giving up all his chemical weapons. Within hours, the State Department was forced to walk Kerry's new red line with Obama saying it could be a genuine option and be ''a potential breakthrough.''  With this, Putin pounces on his dithering, slamming Obama, saying '' he is someone who drew a 'red line' and then was embarrassed when it was crossed'', after which he announces that he'll talk with Assad.......thereby buying his Syrian friends some time.

Obama, Syria, Iraq and Afganistan: Any End But Victory !

Only now -- more than two years into Syria's civil war -- have the United States and some allies decided to Do Something. Strangely, they didn't have to Do Something while 100,000 Syrians were blown up, shot, beheaded or raped to death. And where the hell are the Muslim states that live in the neighbourhood of this pitiful conflict?  They just seem content to accept the thousands of Syrian refugees that had the wherewithal to leave, that's all -- no getting tough with a fellow dictator or reigning in the Islamic scum trying to topple Bashar Assad. But apparently we in the West have a reason to act, now that 1500 more have been killed in a chemical weapons attack that can be blamed on the Syrian government. The U.S. President Barack Hussein Obama now wants to kill a few Syrians himself to send a message that killing people with is bad!

House Speaker John Boehner called on the president to deliver a specific rationale for using U.S. military force against Syria as a growing number of congressional Republicans and Democrats expressed concerns about war with a Mideast nation. More than 100 lawmakers -- 97 Republicans and 18 Democrats -- signed a letter spearheaded by Rep Scott Rigell that urged Obama to seek Congressional authorization before any strike. The speaker also pressed the president to provide a legal justification for any U.S. military action. He said, ''Simply lashing out with military force under the banner of 'doing something' will not secure\our interests in Syria.'' The Congress are fully aware that Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron went to hid Parliament to ask for permission to join Obama and was refused.

The plans being floated by President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry for this growing unpopular military intervention in Syria are incoherent on any number of levels. Rather than identify an enemy and seek the enemy's defeat, the essential requirement for using military force, the Administration is unwilling to declare the toppling of the Assad regime as a goal -- despite Obama's own proclamation two years ago this month that ''for the sake of the Syrian people, the time has come for President Assad to step aside.'' Instead, according to one unnamed ''U.S. official'' quoted by the LA Times, the Administration wants a military strike ''just muscular enough not to get mocked.''  Churchillian, this is not.

Nor is it in line with what Obama, Biden and Kerry used to claim to believe. Once upon a time, Obama's expressed willingness to meet leaders like Assad made him popular in Syria. Then-Senator Obama argued in the 2008 campaign that ''the President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation'' (Senator Biden agreed). That's when he was ''sticking it'' to President Bush. Now, as in Libya, Obama had no interest in asking for Congressional approval, but it looks like the Congress is not going to let him get away with it this time. Obama and Kerry once venerated the need to get UN and international approval for the use of force.

 There are many good reasons to wish to be rid of the brutal Assad regime, long an Iranian proxy, sponsor of Hezbollah, supporter of the insurgency against the U.S, in Iraq, shelterer (and maybe even backer) of the culprits in the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing that killed 241 Marines, oppressor of Lebanon and assassin of its prime minister, enemy of Israel and perpetrator of serial massacres against his own people. But it seems increasingly likely that the alternatives to Assad would be even worse, ranging from domination of Syria by Al Qaeda and its Sunni extremist allies to splintering into an anarchic failed state. As it stands, the Syrian civil war is a proxy battle between Assad's backers (Iran and Russia) and the backers of the rebel resistance (Saudi Arabia and Turkey).

What Syria and its people don't need is more combatants who intend to show up, lob in a bunch of missiles and leave without resolving anything, and for the U.S. to control the post-Assad situation to its advantage would require a huge and for many reasons infeasible commitment of ground troops. The West should leave the locals to resolve these things themselves. Recent experiences in Egypt and Libya show that the public in the region hungers for change and a greater voice in how their countries are governed, but hardly inspire confidence that the results will be less anti-American or more respectful of individual liberty.

The Way I See It.....the sole peg on which Obama's Administration and its apologists rest the defensibility of a halfway military strike is the idea Assad should be punished for using chemical weapons against his own people -- just as Saddam Hussein once did. In my view, this is misguided as a sole casus belli (Latin meaning the justification for acts of war): the problem of rogue regimes is the regimes, not their choice of weaponry. I repeat: Why aren't the surrounding states being asked to wear the mantle of ''punisher ''rather than the West?  I suspect they are afraid of it spreading over their borders, so let the West act as al Qaeda's air force and strike from ships out at sea.

This let-the-U.S.-do-it attitude was true in Iraq, and it's a ridiculous argument coming from the same people who told us that this was no justification for the Iraq War. It's consistent with idea that the problem of gun crime is guns, not criminals -- another of this Administration's pet delusions. In fact, it does not appear that Obama can assure us that his planned strikes would disarm Assad of the weapons in question. We apparently plan to shoot at the king but carefully avoid killing him! Senator Jim Inhofe doubts that Congress will approve the use of military force and charged Obama with retreating on the issue. ''If you're going to huff and puff about it, you've got to back it up, and this president clearly has retreated from the position he took a week ago when he talked about a red line has been crossed. He's thrown this hot potato to Congress to decide so he doesn't get burned if things go bad,'' Inhofe said.

UPDATE:  It seems some Republicans are now in favour of Obama's intentions and are forgetting President Reagan's iconic motto ''peace-through-strength.''  Peace through strength means making sure the world knows if they mess with the United States it can wipe them out because of its strength. This does not mean firing missiles into Syria while signalling (1) American has no intention of ousting Assad and (2) it's not calling it an act of war. Right now, all the world sees is an effete liberal President and a Congress trying to help him save himself from further embarrassment. As a senior GOP aide commented, ''If we have to bomb Syria to show the world we are strong, the world already knows we are weak. If we are bombing Syria, it needs to be in our national security interest -- a real interest, not just to show the world our President dresses up at Halloween as Barry-Bad-Ass!  He knows from a recent poll that 80+% of Americans don't want this kind of action.''

It Sounds Like a Racial Hate Crime....Again !!

Last week, police in Spokane, Washington were on the lookout for two 16-19 year-old male black ''gutter-rats'' in connection with the random beating to death of  88-year-old Delbert Belton, an Army veteran ( right) who was wounded at the Battle of Okinawa in World War II. According to a press release from the Police Department, "Officers responded to an assault call at the Eagles (veterans) Lodge where they found Mr Belton in his car with serious injuries to his head. He was taken to the hospital where he died as a result of his injuries.'' Witnesses described the suspects as young African-American males of average build who assaulted Belton, known as ''Shorty'' to his friends, as he was about to enter the lodge at 8 pm to play pool, with large flashlights. Shorty's friends say he was a kind old man and ''full of life and loved working on cars and helping others out.''

The next day, released surveillance photos (it's amazing that punks in general rarely think of being watched by CCTV) one teenager, Demetrius Glenn, 16, (left) was arrested with a charge of first degree murder and robbery. After a four day man-hunt, another fugitive teenager, Kenan Adams-Kinard, 16, (right) was arrested and also charged with first degree murder. Several other people found with Adams-Kinard have been arrested for rendering criminal assistance to the teen during his time hiding in a basement apartment.

Here's an Editorial By Doug Giles on the Clash Daily Blog Site Yesterday:

        Dear Black Thugs: You're Making It Hard For Us White Devils to Believe You're Really Innocent Children !

          According to the lame-stream Media, President Obama and the slick-haired Al Sharpton, we white devils are supposed to feel sorry for the plight of the black teen. I do believe Americans, by and large, do have sympathy for any person or group who've had life deal them a bad hand.

          However, young black thugs, you have got to work with us a little bit because you're kind of operating against the storyline the aforementioned are singing about y'all, and thus, making t difficult for us to soulfully commiserate. Of what, pray tell, do I speak ???

        Well, homeboys, it goes like this: For us to give a crap about your below-par existence we'd like to hear less and less about.....

         = Your ghastly grades in school                             = Your ridiculous dropout rates
         = Your colossal out of wedlock birthrates             = Your love affair with drugs and alcohol
         = Your #hatethem tweets at white people              = Your flash mobbing & robbing places
         =  Your ginormous, misplaced racial chip on your shoulder
         = Your audacity to blame everybody and their dog for your odious behaviour
         =  Your embracing of a musical culture (rap-crap) that celebrates the of shooting cops and doing filthy things to someone's daughter.

           Yes, if you could/would chill on some of that stuff, well...that'd be great. That would make us ''crackers'' think, ''Hey, maybe you're serious about getting out of the ditch you're in.'' But, another difficult thing that makes it hard to believe you're just poor, helpless victims of the ''machine'' is when a couple of deadshits from your cesspool gun down an innocent, twenty-two-year-old, white Aussie student just to spice up the inherent boredom which accompanies the dog-days of summer. Yep, that heinous stunt really makes all this ''poor you'' crap fly right out of our windows.

          And lastly, I hate to be negative, but there was one more disgusting incident perpetrated by two black teen scumbags this week that also unravelled the sweet story Sharpton and the President would have us believe. It was that beating to death of an 88 year-old WWII vet. That demonic deed, coupled with the murder of Chris Lane, (left) makes it impossible for anyone with a brain to feel anything towards your personal dilemma.

           Yes, the brutal murder of someone's grandpa and the senseless slaying of someone's son by black thugs does nothing but reinforce what the FBI National Crime Victimization Survey concluded, namely, that young black males are seven times more likely to commit murder than people of other races. And those assholes up in New York City are protesting the STOP and FRISK program since it profiles blacks and Hispanics. Suck it up people, that program significantly dropped NYC's crime rate since it started and your feelings be damned! Look...let's face it, we can't help being suspicious of young black teens, traveling in groups (packs), taking an unusual interest in our person, especially if they're dressed like gangbangers in their oversized Hoodies. The reality is too overwhelming.

The Way I See It.....Martin Luther King must be spinning in his grave to see how his ''dream'' of 50 years ago has been turned into a nightmare, by white Democrats, who have caused his people to grow lazy, promiscuous and feeling ''entitled'' by years of irresponsible welfare handouts.

Is America Twerking Towards Gomorrah !

Viewers of the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday night were treated to a bizarre dance routine from former Disney child actress Miley Cyrus, which CBS News described as ''one performance that won't be forgotten very quickly.''  Another news station commented that is was very much like ''soft porn, like you'd see at a strip club.''  Cyrus gave Robin Thicke a ''lap dance'' and paraded around in her flesh coloured underwear with dancing bears, ''twerked'' her butt off and grabbed her crotch a few times. Not to mention the tongue. we saw a lot of that. Thicke's mother, Gloria Loring, told OMG Insider, ''I don't understand what Miley was trying to do. I think she's misbegotten in this attempt of hers. And I think it was not beneficial for children to be exposed to this..'' She added, ''I didn't get what her point was. It was so over the top as to almost be a parody of itself.''

The word SLUT comes to mind. Anyway, if you're unfamiliar with term, ''twerking'' is a dance move that dispenses with all the other subtleties of dance to deliver pelvic trusts and butt wiggles. CBS left out the part where young Miley grabbed a form finger from an audience member and began rubbing it against her crotch. She wound up simulating a bit of anal penetration with Ms Loring's son, who was singing with her on stage. And the ''bears'' in the act were dancers dressed like children's Teddy Bears, adding a lovely touch of paedophilia chic to the show.

It wasn't so long ago that I still remember my granddaughter adoring ''Hannah Montana.'' She's turned fourteen, still in that tender age in a young girl's life when liberals think she should be able to get morning-after birth control pills over the counter, without her parents consent. I can tell Robin Thickes mom what Miley was ''trying to do.'' Most obviously, it was a bid for attention, another jolt of cheap stimulus to the frontal lobes of a jaded culture that expects nothing from young people, and is therefore shocked by nothing they do. It's not easy to generate controversy in a society whose only standard is that there should be no standards. The only way for a barely-legal singer to get tongues wagging is to wag her tongue.

What would have been controversial is if she was supposed to sing and dance modestly, endorsing abstinence, traditional marriage and self-discipline, but the people marketing her music wouldn't like it. It's hard to squeeze cash from rebellious teenagers with  message like that, and all the wrong people would have applauded. I would also advise you not to underestimate the importance of the paedophile edge to Miley's routine.(See Posting ''The Agenda to Legalise Paedophilia'' (February 16, 2013) Sexualizing young people is an important mission of the Left. They want girls to jump right from Teddy Bears to Planned Parenthood. That helps dissolve the bonds of family, which is a fading bastion of independence, self-reliance, and decency against collective power. It's important for the ''Ozzie and Harriet'' crowd to feel utterly marginalized, as unwelcome in 2013 as the pilgrims of Plymouth Rock. We are supposed to accept that the world has forever moved on from those days.


You see, parents can't control their kids -- indeed, their influence is expressly unwelcome when it comes to sexual training, where the concept of ''parental consent'' has become as antique as the pocket watch or bustle. Liberal (read Leftist) culture defines wanton sexuality and the rejection of family authority as ''empowerment.''  It softens people up for hardcore government dependency when they're forced to stop twerking and face the consequences. Also, sexy children make a nice distraction for the older members of the Low Information Voter (LIV) community, who crave transgression and worship youth, working as hard as possible not to grow up.

Miley Cyrus was on the bill with Lady Gaga, who is supposed to be the second coming of the aging Madonna. Lady Gaga is said to have been ''upstaged'' by Miley's re-enactment of a Japanese schoolgirl porn video, because all poor Gaga could think to do was dress up as a nun. What kind of rebellion against authority is that? Nuns are so pre-ObamaCare. Religious conscience has given way before the power of the Almighty State . Nuns are just marking time until they're legally compelled to perform abortions.
It might seem pathetic to watch these ''edgy'' artists flaunt their defiance against thoroughly vanquished traditions, but maybe it's an encouraging sign. Their marketing gurus apparently think there's still a bit of milk in the old scared cows. The kids of 2013 can still savor a look of scandalized horror of Mom and Dad's faces. Someone apparently thinks ''family values'' haven't quite been beaten death. Which is good, because ''family values'' remain our only hop for pulling out of the social and economic dive the U.S. finds itself in. The upper class retains the ''secrets'' of decorum, respect, and fidelity that everyone else has been tricked into forgetting. Back when the Left set about turning the phrase ''family values'' into a post-modern joke, laughs were had at the expense of uptight squares who didn't understand the difference between safeguarding important principles and having a bit of fun. Well, the joke is on everyone else. We could see the pendulum of fate quite possibly swing the other way.


The Way I See It.....we never should have forgotten the potent connection between thought and expression, the importance of habit and ritual. It is difficult to treasure what a saturation media culture treats like trash. And it doesn't help that the law of diminishing returns obliges the people who dug our cultural pit to dig more frantically as the hole grows deeper, madly searching for whatever flickers of shock value might still be left to uncover.

Societies die from thousands of cultural cuts. Children are powerfully influenced by popular culture. They yearn for guidance and inspiration from the adult world. They receive the lesson transmitted by crap like the MTV Video Music Awards. Kids a bit younger than Miley remember what she used to be, and they see how she is now. They see the road stretching between those points, and they follow it. Unfortunately, they don't understand that if you want to live a hedonistic anything-goes lifestyle, starting before you are legally allowed to purchase alcohol, and avoid being destroyed by the consequences, it really helps to be a millionaire.