I failed to check out the Christmas song list and found to my horror that I accidentally (no, really) put a Stone Sour song on the Christmas list. I blame an unstable laptop and attention focussed on reading about Mexicans killing other Mexicans. And global warming.
My bad.
Anyway, the list is vetted with broken links replaced and Stone Sour sent to my main music list.
It may happen again next year if I fail to look over the list, but until then, enjoy some Christmas music at the O-club.
h/t Gates of Vienna
If I were a psychiatrist I could find the perfect label for the depths of denial or the heights of delusion that manifest themselves in Frederick and Kimberly Kagan's latest declarations on Iraq published in the Washington Post as "opinion." "Fantasy" is a more like it. Their premise is that the American nation-building exercise in Iraq failed not because nation-building is pure academic utopianism (leftist cant) that withers in real-world conditions (Islam), but because the exercise didn't go on long enough.
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Nation-building might work if the previous nation can first be destroyed and you can start over. Japan and Germany come to mind. These wars were total wars; the will was there to continue until we won. Everyone had skin in the game. The war ended when the enemy paid too dear a price and they were beaten into submission.
Wars of attrition are costly in their own way--they bleed you. Trying to win the hearts and minds of people is an iffy, long-term process--it may never happen; sometimes the cultural divide is just too great to span. Maybe it's better to raze the country and move on.
Barack Obamas speech in Osawatomie, Kansas, has certainly made waves. Well-received by the mainstream media, The Baltimore Sun wrote that the President has finally found his voice while the ever-dour Bill Press said that Obama was channeling Teddy Roosevelt. Yet if talk-show host Rush Limbaugh is correct, the President was channeling someone also long-dead but a lot more red. The radio giant asserts that Obama has outed himself, in that he has announced to the world in no uncertain terms that he is a socialist, if not a Marxist.
What did Obama say that brought cheers from the Left and jeers from the Right? Among other things, he stated that our relatively free enterprise system not only doesnt work it has never worked.
The first thing to note is the blindness and ingratitude evidenced by this statement. Our nation enjoys wealth unprecedented in mans history, with its supermarkets stocked with thousands of products from the world over; and with how its poor people usually have cars, TVs, cellphones and other luxuries, as well as bellies that come out and greet you. So while never worked may describe Obamas constituents, it can hardly be said about our system.
So our system shouldnt be on trial here Obama should be. But is it really fair to suggest he may be a Marxist? Or was there evidence for it all along?
Well, consider the words of John Drew, a man whom writer Paul Kengor calls Obamas Missing Link. A contemporary of Obamas at Occidental College three decades ago, Drew says that he himself was a Marxist at the time and part of Obamas inner circle. And what does he reveal?
Obama was an ardent Marxist-Leninist who was in 100 percent, total agreement with [his] Marxist professors, said Drew.
In fact, Drew states that while he was a more nuanced Marxist who tried to convince Obama that old-style communist revolution was unrealistic in the West, the future President would have none of it and considered Drew a reactionary.
Drew doesnt believe the President has changed, either, and I agree.
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No surprise. Many suspected this before he was elected and for those a little slow like me, shortly after he got elected. When the statist policies started getting shoved down my throat and I was told to swallow hard and like it, light bulbs went off. When those around him started mouthing stuff that sounded communist and stating their admiration for Mao, I began to get the picture.
"To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully.The more politically active black students.The foreign students.The Chicanos.The Marxist Professors and the structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.We smoked cigarettes and wore leather jackets.At night,in the dorms,we discussed neocolonialism,Franz Fanon,Eurocentrism,and patriarchy.When we ground out our cigarettes in the hallway carpet or set our stereos so loud that the walls began to shake,we were resisting bourgeois society's stifling constraints.We weren't indifferent or careless or insecure.We were alienated." Bill Ayers on Barack 'Obama in Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance', first published in 1995
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I believe John Drew called in to Rush Limbaugh's show in 2009. The most frightening thing he said what that he and John had disagreed about peaceful change in the US. John Drew thought peaceful change was possible. Obama believed violence was necessary and desirable.
We are in so much trouble if this monster gets re-elected.
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Hence the call for a 'civilian service force' equal in power to the Military.
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Just for fun, take everything the Dems are (or will be) saying about any GOP candidate and apply it to Obama:
David Axelrod: "The higher a monkey climbs on the pole the more you can see his butt." Imagine the howling if any one said that about the Anointed One.
"Generally his practice has been to bet other peoples money, not his own."
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Look at it this way: the glass is half-full. That BHO has not done more damage over three long years is itself evidence that "the system works." Getting rid of him next year will be yet more.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
