Month: January 2012

Winning their hearts and minds …

Let’s see now … we’ve invaded without just cause, killed thousands of civilians, dropped bombs on wedding parties, used drones for random killings … what else can we do …what else can we do to help these people? Thinking …. thinking…
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PS: The War Department says that the four soldiers have been identified and that charges could be brought as early as today (Friday, 1/13). This sends a powerful message to all other soldiers in our various wars: “Dammit, you guys, would you poleeeeease fer Chrissakes look around as see if someone has a camera running?”
PPS: I don’t see any weaponry around the dead guys, probably stripped of guns, but then there is always the possibility that these are not soldiers. The War Department says they are “Taliban Fighters,” which roughly translated is like “Al Qaeda'” or a name we use to designate subhumans that are OK to kill or torture (killing being the easiest way out for them). For all we know, these could be perfectly innocent people, not even fighting back. The one on the left could even be female, or perhaps quite young.

Willing captive

Is it just me? First, Rahm Emanuel as White House Chief of Staff, William Daley and now Jacob Lew. What they have in common? Well, let’s say that they are ‘insiders,’ Wall Street variety.

What does the COS do? According to Wiki,

The duties of the White House Chief of Staff vary greatly from one administration to another. However, the Chief of Staff has been responsible for overseeing the actions of the White House staff, managing the president’s schedule, and deciding who is allowed to meet with the president. Because of these duties, the Chief of Staff has at various times been labeled “The Gatekeeper”, “The Power Behind the Throne”, and “The Co-President”.

So the question I pose is this: Is Obama even appointing these guys? Does Obama have any control over who is at State, Treasury or War? Or is he a willing captive, pretending to be the man behind decisions made by others? It’s been apparent some time now, perhaps since Watergate, that presidents can be taken down, so perhaps the culling process now yields weak men like Obama, willing to be the Monkees pretending to play their own instruments when we all know they are not. It’s just a show? Is the office completely captive now to what FDR called “economic royalists?”

Has it come to that? I suspect so.

Brain-dead journalism

We were traveling this last week and listening to radio and watching motel TV. It’s amazing! According to the mainstream media, the only thing going on is the presidential race. It’s a non-issue, as Obama has been ordained for a second term. He’s been a good servant.

But the phony race is used to fill up air time. We don’t get real news, but supposed journalists are doing their job if they are doing the back-and-forth that horse-race reporting requires.

I could assert that this is by design, but I think it’s more by default. American journalism is dead, and reporters are not allowed to go near or report on real news. So they fall back on those stories they know will please management, D v R, sound and fury signifying nothing.

It’s stone-cold Soviet, gray and lifeless. We are brain-dead.

The Death of Team 6

We were in Europe on August 6 when it was reported that a helicopter had been shot down in Afghanistan and that on it were members of Navy Seal Team 6, the unit that supposedly killed Osama bin Laden. I did not see the story, and only heard about it maybe two weeks ago. This week, while driving up to Montana, it seemed a good time to find out what happened there. The August story was widely reported with most saying that 38 men had died, maybe 22 from Team 6.

Right away my eyebrows rose to new heights. This is not only startling news, but highly coincidental. It was the largest single-day death toll for Americans in the ten years of that invasion/occupation. And it just happened to be Team 6.
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