Obama: I'm Not the Cause of People Feeling "The World Is Falling Apart"

Obama: I'm Not the Cause of People Feeling "The World Is Falling Apart"

 

The artful dodger President Barack Hussein Obama recently explained at a Democratic National Committee barbecue in Purchase, N.Y. that social media and the nightly news–certainly not he–are responsible for creating what he called a common misconception that “the world is falling apart.”

Although he was totally wrong in charging that view is a misconception, Obama was absolutelycorrect in saying, “the world is falling apart” and that scary fact of international life is largely attributable to him.

Our president is fond of shamelessly playing the blame game as cover for his multiple, miserable failures, a ploy second only to his use of the race card as a defense, and he invariably pins responsibility on others for everything from the world’s disintegration to the abject disaster of his legacy issue of Obamacare to the utter failure of his multi-billion dollar stimulus boondoggle that didn’t stimulate much of anything.
There are obviously many problems associated with the titular leader of the Free World consistently hiding behind gross prevarications in order to maintain a semblance of his already-shattered credibility, a tactic that has always been a popular gambit among unethical politicians as an effort to cloud the truth.

However, when the President of the United States regularly trots out the blame card and effectively denies responsibilty whenever anything goes  wrong, he poses a clear and present danger to the safety and welfare of Americans and to the peace and tranquility of the rest of the planet.

As with the of moral of Aesop’s “boy who cried wolf” fable involving a fictional child shepherd who repeatedly deceives the townspeople into believing a wolf is attacking his sheep and, when a real wolf does appear and he again cries for help, the people assume the boy is still lying and the wolf ends up eating his sheep, Obama is endangering everyone he is supposed to be protecting.

One version of that fable concludes with the warning that it “shows how liars are rewarded: Even if they tell the truth, no one believes them,” the precise predicament facing our president today when all but his most stalwart idolators doubt virtually everything he says.

For example, in accusing the media of creating “misconceptions” about “the world falling apart,” Obama is attacking the very same institution, . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=38933.)

Ray Rice and Chris Brown Should Be Forgiven

Ray Rice and Chris Brown Should be Forgiven

 

Americans and the sports world have gotten all exercised over Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice after the release of a surveillance tape  showing his brutal knock out punches delivered last February to his future wife Lanay Palmer in an Atlantic City hotel elevator.

Prior to that release, the National Football League had suspended Rice for two games for conduct unbecoming to the League but, following a public uproar over the tape, Rice was summarily sent packing by the Ravens and suspended indefinitely by the NFL. 

However, in all fairness to Rice and other athletes as well as entertainers, especially black athletes and entertainers, none of them are wholly responsible for their criminal behavior since we now live in a society that selectively condones such violence and, in the case of blacks, many hail from a culture in which violent criminality often supersedes common decency.

Of course, celebrities of all colors tend to inordinately get involved in acts of violence against their spouses and others because they somehow feel entitled to do anything they want to do by virtue of their celebrity status and stardom which usually enables them to escape serious punishment and gain public forgiveness.

Thus, when Sean Penn smacked his then-wife Madonna with a baseball bat and Charlie Sheen beat up his ex-wife Brooke Mueller and shot his fiancee Kelly Preston. and Bill Murray assaulted and almost killed his ex, their careers  were unaffected and frequently even enhanced by their notoriety.  While similar acts committed by, say, a corporate executive or your average joe would get them fired on the spot and/or land them in jail, celebs pretty much escape both censure and condemnation.

Like Penn, Sheen, and Murray, Ray Rice and recording artist Chris Brown were raised in  fairly comfortable  households but, unlike the former trio, they grew up surrounded and immersed in today’s black culture that glorifies violence and general disorder.

For example, when repeat jailbird Chris Brown beat his girlfriend Rihanna to a bloody pulp in 2009, he was sentenced to probation and community service, an agreement he soon violated with his violent behavior, and the songstress actually reinstated him as her beau after he apologized to her. . .   (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=38935.)

Democrats, Global Warming, and Deceit

Democrats, Global Warming, and Deceit

 

Now that the presumptive 2016 Democrat Party nominee for president and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has seconded the current Secretary of State John Kerry in determining that climate change is easily the greatest threat to the future of the planet and America’s national security than all the other dangers confronting us and the rest of the world today, it might seem a tad impertinent to suggest that Democrats may be inhaling a lot of the mind-altering pot smoke that President Barack Hussein Obama once loved so much.

However, as impertinent as it may be, the charge is well-founded.

Clinton and Kerry, like Obama, believe that no national or international crisis, not worldwide Muslim terrorism, not the ongoing economic doldrums and related unemployment, and not any of the other serious and multiple issues facing us today are more dangerous to peace and security than the perils of climate change.

That fixation explains a great deal about skewed Democrat positions and their flawed thinking.

Defending why the president has placed climate change at the top of his priority list, Sec. Kerry unequivocably declared in August that the global impact of climate change is “the biggest challenge of all that we face right now.” 

Kerry subsequently cited biblical imperatives to support his view that reversing those changes is critical to saving “Muslim-majority”countries from the consequences of their environmental impact.

And, echoing both Kerry’s and Grand Climate Guru Al Gore’s dire warnings, Hillary Clinton said last Thursday at Sen. Harry Reid’s annual National Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas that, “Climate change is the most consequential, urgent, sweeping collection of challenges we face.  The threat is real, and so is the opportunity . . . if we make the hard choices,” the last remark clearly an allusion to her underselling recent book of the same title.

There are so many ironies involving the Kerry and Clinton pronouncements that it is difficult to prioritize them. . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=38910.)

Let's Forget 9/11, For Now

Let's Forget 9/11, For Now

 

As the thirteenth anniversary of 9/11 approaches, Americans would have thought and hoped that all questions regarding that day of infamy visited upon America by Islamic extremists, its causes, circumstances, and perpetrators, would have been resolved.

Amazingly, while the United States impotently awaits the next Muslim attack presaged by dire warnings from our government that increased Internet chatter is indicative that even worse, deadlier destruction lurks on the near horizon than we witnessed in 2001, we still don’t fully understand everything concerning about how and why 9/11 happened.

And, as critical as the answers may be, we probably will never know all the answers.

As with the assassinations of Abraham Lincoln a century and a half ago, Pearl Harbor in 1941, and the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy fifty-one years ago, nagging doubts, confusion, and conspiratorial suspicions about 9/11 still abound.

Who knew what and when did they know it?

Did President Bill Clinton miss multiple opportunities to kill Usama bin Laden?  Was President George W. Bush aware of the severity of al-Qaeda’s threats yet allowed the attacks?  Did WTC Building 7 implode as a result of pre-planted explosives and not from shock waves from the nearby impacts of fuel-laden airliners?  Were Israelis gleefully and safely watching from a rooftop as the disaster unfolded?  Why did the North American Aerospace Defense Command fighter jets not respond in time?  Why did the 9/11 Commission neglect to interview pertinent witnesses? 

Was the whole sickening event actually orchestrated by maniacs in our government intent on instigating a national panic?

The causes of national tragedies tend to take on lives of their own but, in the case of the most horrific assault ever on American soil, there would seem to be little reason for the continuing debate on 9/11 since it has been exhaustively investigated like no other.

Based on the fact previous national tragedies have yet to be fully explained, at this point in time, none of that is relevant today . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=38731.)

Ebola Spreading Uncontrollably

Ebola Spreading Uncontrollably

 

If anyone really believes the Ebola virus that is spreading rapidly throughout areas of Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and now in parts of Nigeria will be confined to those western and central African states, they must also believe such epidemics can be readily controlled and eradicated today thanks to modern, medical technological advances.

That’s called wishful thinking.

By their insidious nature, viruses tend to change, mutate into different forms and sometimes with varying symptoms, a fact evident with Ebola which consequently make their outbreaks much more difficult to diagnose and treat. 

As a consequence, despite international interventions in Africa by countries equipped with all the latest medical technology, Ebola’s progress has yet to be prevented from spreading.

To suggest the Ebola virus could very well and not in the very distant future, reach and infect perhaps millions in America may be unnecessarily alarmist but such a suggestion could also reflect a reasonable doubt that Ebola researchers and physicians completely grasp its dangers or, for that matter, whether information as to its proliferation would even be publicized to suppress panic.

According to the United Nations’ World Health Organization (WHO), the Ebola death toll has already exceeded 1,900 as opposed to 1,552 dead less than a week ago and more people have now died than in all previous outbreaks of the virus combined, according to WHO’s director general Margaret Chan. . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=38871.)

Will St. Michael of Ferguson Join St. Trayvon of Sanford?

Will St. Michael of Ferguson Join St. Trayvon of Sanford?

 

They’re still demonstrating in Ferguson, Missouri three weeks after the shooting death by a white policeman of the black, unarmed, 18 year old ”Gentle Giant” Michael Brown, a six foot, four inch, 200+ pound “Big Teddy Bear,” and there are already signs that Brown may soon be elevated to virtual sainthood to reign with Trayvon Martin as the patron saints of all black teenaged martyrs of evil white people.

The unarmed, seventeen year old, black teen Trayvon Martin was killed in Sanford, Florida in 2012 with a bullet fired from the legally-owned weapon of Neighborhood Watchman, mixed-race George Zimmerman.

Numerous reports surfaced substantiating the truth, namely that Martin was a violent gang banger, after Zimmerman was  exonerated on the basis of self defense by an impartial jury of his peers.  Nevertheless, Trayvon Martin has been enshrined by his supporters as an innocent martyr to the cause of the African-American quest for truth and justice, a black saint who gave up his life to a hateful, white bigot.

If anything, Michael Brown revealed himself as an even greater low life than Trayvon during his aborted career as a rap aficionado.

In Brown’s case, his supporters have intentionally ignored multiple video and eyewitness evidence that the Ferguson police officer had also acted in self defense and in line with his enforcement duties but those realities and the fact that police and FBI haven’t even completed their investigations have failed to deter them from characterizing Brown as just one more innocent victim of white injustice worthy of virtual sainthood.

Lauded by his 2013 summer school English teacher as an aspiring rap song writer who “had a plan. It was his music, and then it was technical school. A lot of kids who think they’re rappers don’t have a Plan B, but Mike really seemed to.” 

But Wesley Lowery, while gratuitously praising Brown, described him in the Washington Post as a prolific rapper “who appeared to be one of those guys who was putting in the time, even if the skills didn’t quite match his aspirations.”

To advance his rap career as “Big Mike Luh Vee K,” Brown actually built a makeshift, basement music studio where he composed, sang, and recorded such lyrics as, . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=38835)

Obamacare Death Panels Are Alive and Well

Obamacare Death Panels Are Alive and Well

 

The former “Paper of Record,” the New York Times which enthusiastically endorsed virtually every feature of the greatest scam ever to be foisted on Americans and America’s health care system, is just as enthusiastically touting the glories of Obamacare death panels, the morbid process of  convincing our sickest and most elderly citizens that they are better off dead and shuffling off to the Great Beyond than draining any more of our precious resources.

And, preferably, shuffling off ASAP!

The Times, like other liberal-leftist proponents of President Barack Hussein Obama’s scheme to socialize America’s medical care and treatment in emulation of the UK’s failed, bankrupt National Health Service with all the attendant NHS documented horrors, didn’t see fit to mention those horrors nor did it mention the Times‘ oft-repeated denials that death panels were an integral facet of Obamacare.

After all, why confuse doltish Americans with ugly truths?

Besides, the 2008 GOP vice-presidential candidate, Sarah Palin, had raised a huge stink over Obamacare’s provisions for death panels and was roundly lambasted for her ignorance, so why give her credibility for being absolutely right?

To be sure, the Times‘ article published on Saturday, “Coverage for End-of-Life Talks Gaining Ground” by Pam Belluck, does not describe those conversations between doctors and patients now reimbursed by many Medicare and Medicaid plans as death panels.  

Nor does it attribute the ground-gaining to pressures from Obamacare administrators on doctors and medical facilities to curtail and/or radically increase charges for everything from annual breast exams to prescriptions.

Instead, Belluck credits the avid Obamacare supporter the American Medical Association and cost-conscious insurance companies for agitating in favor of death panels, now deviously and euphemistically called “advanced care planning” since the term “death panels” is so very unsettling and misleading.

Belluck anecdotally cites the sentiments of 80 year old Mary Pat Penell who allegedly told her doctor during her end-of-life discussion, . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=38820.)