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Thursday, February 23, 2006

BACKDOOR PLAYS

INTRODUCTION
First of all, because we've done it this way before, we'll link to our most recent post:




The title of the current post refers to a common strategy in BASKETBALL, where the DEFENSE is drawn away from the baseline by skillful passing and cutting maneuvers by the peripheral players, and eventually some big guy is left unguarded in the vicinity of the basket for an easy score.


SOME POTENTIAL BACKDOORS
This time we're talking about a subject that has not been addressed before in these posts. While all our (i.e. that of U.S. Foreign Policy) attention seems to be on the MIDDLE EAST, there have been things going on (BACKDOOR PLAYS??) in LATIN AMERICA and the CARRIBEAN that seem to have been neglected. Here's a partial list:



  • HAITI

    • The election in Haiti of radical LEFTIST Preval, an Aristide surrogate. Aristide is already threatening to return to Haiti from exile in South Africa.



    Aristide/Lavalas supporting THUGS insured that there would be no runoff election between Preval and whoever came in second. The wimpy OAS (in spite of Jimmy KARTER not being part of the group this time) acceded to FUBARING vote counts (originally, Preval had less than 50% of the vote, and a runoff election would have been in order) but when the THUGS threatened trouble, some ballots were allowed to be created 'ex nihilo' to allow Preval to get over 50% and thus win outright and avoid a runoff.


    Meanwhile Haiti continues to be a miserably impoverished and corrupt THUGOCRACY.


  • BOLIVIA

    • The election in Bolivia, of LEFTIST Evo Morales, a patron of cocaine farmers and a USA hater.


  • ARGENTINA CHILE BRAZIL

    • The dominance of US hating LEFTISTS in Argentina, Chile and Brazil.


  • VENEZUELA

    • The dominance of CASTROITE TOTALITARIAN OIL BARON and USA hater Hugo Chavez in Venezuela.



    Incidentally, CITGO [formerly Cities Service] with 13,500 US retail service stations is owned by PDVSA-Venezuela, controlled by Hugo Chavez.




    That's something to keep in mind the next time you fill up at CITGO.


    Apparently, Chavez owning CITGO is OK. Apparently it's also OK that after Jimmy KARTER sold out the Panama Canal, both ends of it are now being run by RED CHINESE. The RED CHINESE also own some Los Angeles port facilities.


    What's more, it's also apparently OK that Lady Bird Johnson holds a bigger and more imortant financial interest in Halliburton than Dick Cheney currently does.


    At the same time DEMS and some GOPS engage in 'racial profiling' and JINGOISM at the corporate level vis-a-vis the UAE/Dubai buying some US port facilities from Great Britain (but it's OK to rely for a STRATEGIC COMMODITY... OIL on the likes of SAUDI ARABIA... more on them later).


    As in other US port facilities, the ownership is NON-US, but Americans still run the operation. Some say this is a case of NATIONAL SECURITY being used as a 'backdoor play' to promote PROTECTIONISM and other BIG LABOR agendas.


    Of course, blue haired old ladies continue to be strip searched by airport security, while 'middle eastern' looking types are given a pass or else it would be 'racial profiling'.


  • MEXICO

    • The possibility of a future FAR LEFTIST regime (if the mayor of Mexico City wins) in neighboring Mexico.



    We already have close to half a million illegals per year crossing into the USA now. With this guy in power, illegal infiltration into the US may well become Mexican National Policy (remember CASTRO and the Mariel Boatlift??). What's more, TERRORISTS and other foreigners who don't wish the USA well could easily be concealed in this flood of illegals.


  • CUBA

    • Our only CUBA policy seems to be: 'Waiting for CASTRO to DIE'. We currently ship back Cuban refugees interdicted at sea unless they first make 'landfall' on US soil. Seems like some variant of 'surf vs. turf'. Another KLINTONISTA legacy (remember Elian Gonzales??).


There are also others:



  • RUSSIA

    • Among other things, there is a possibility that they helped Saddam hide his (non existent according to the DEMS and MSM) WMD's. The SADDAM TAPES have not yet shown up on the MSM radar other than as a somewhat distorted version on ABC's Nightline, but there are already some interesting hints from the first cursory translations of what may show up in the future. We're sure the MSM will try to SPIN, FUBAR and SPIKE the SADDAM TAPES, pretty much as they did with the UN's 'Oil for Food' scandal.




    Putin has become an autocrat, though stylistically and institutionally probably closer to Mussolini than to Stalin. Either way, this EX-KGB man rules along with his EX-KGB THUGOCRACY, and free markets, property rights, a free press, the rule of law, and individual freedoms are quickly disappearing. What's more, Russia is starting to brag about its still existing nuclear arsenal, and is back to its old imperialistic tricks with regard to foreign policy.


  • CHINA

    • While we're inextricably being bonded to its robust economy (RED CHINA is as much of a factor in rising demand for oil and the subsequent higher oil prices as are US SUV's), China is building up militarily (and we seem to be helping along every step of the way). It's only a matter of time before the Taiwan shoe drops.


  • SAUDI ARABIA

    • Yeah, we need them for the oil. On the other hand, we can't ignore the fact that they seem to finance a great deal of RADICAL ISLAMISM and its propaganda machine via Madrassa schools and mass media. Some of the money also goes ditrectly to funding the TERRORISM that springs from this HATE PROPOGANDA.


Last but not least, there's HOME SWEET HOME. There is no need to confine our search for 'backdoor plays' and 'stabs in the back' to just foreign powers.


  • DEMS and the MSM

    • The BOLSHEVIK WING that's running the DEM party, as well as their lapdogs the MSM and Pundit Pukes seem to have their heart set on prioritizing their partisan and ideological goals over what's best for America.



    This is more than just politics. They want to harm the USA.


    A case in point is what's just happened at Harvard. The campus BOLSHEVIK WING forced the resignation of Larry Summers. This was apparently because he put empiricism and open discourse before identity group diversity and political correctness.


    Actually, we expected this to happen much sooner. Check out the references
    to the 2005 incident that apparently was the 'last straw' in this confrontation in these posts from last year (once each post is loaded, do a local search for Larry Summers).




    It's clearly a triumph of academic bureaucracy, intolerance, junk science, political correctness, 'identity group diversity uber alles' as opposed to a diversity of ideas. Doctrinaire ideology trumps free inquiry and academic freedom. The 'Veritas' in Harvard's logo has just been tarnished if not completely erased.


    Harvard today, the USA tomorrow.


    BE AFRAID.


  • BUREAUCRATS (State and CIA)

    • We've always maintained that the USA has a three party system, consisting of the Republicans, the Democrats and the Bureaucrats.




    The fact that Bureaucrat rhymes with Democrat is no accident. Bureaucrats are the 'snake eggs' that Democrats put into place to carry on their policies when they are out of power, as is currently the case.



    The scary thing is that bureaucracies that supposedly are there to carry out the business of The Nation, no matter who is President seem to have become POLITICIZED. Cases in point are the State Department and the CIA. That there may be some anti-Bushies in the SD and CIA (Wilson, Plame, Scheuer, Pillar etc.) actively pushing their ideology and their agendas from within, is truly scary.


    No President irrespective of party, should have to worry about a 'stab in the back' from such quarters. The implications for the rest of us and our resulting SECURITY, are truly discomforting.


    BE REALLY AFRAID!!!



So it goes.


THE PEOPLE SHALL JUDGE

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Monday, February 13, 2006

EQUATIONS PARADOXES and OXYMORONS

INTRODUCTION

When we started this POST 2004 election BLOG and/or COMMENTARY back in Jan. 2005,




we pointed out that in the midst of what seems to be a 'Groundhog Day' (the movie) like parade of recurring themes, the primary threads seem to be 'a lack of symmetry', 'double standards', and 'basic unfairness'. This in turn is driven by an uncompromising and virulent kind of 'viciousness and pettiness and STALINIST-like totalitarian bigotry' on the part of RADICAL LEFTISTS (who now control the DEM PARTY) and their Main Stream Media and Pundit Puke (hereafter referred to as the Mendacious MSM and PP) lapdogs and camp followers. This venom is directed against all those who dare to disagree with their POLITBURO'S DOCTRINAIRE AGENDA, i.e. mainly Conservatives in general and the BUSHIES in particular, and others (like BLOGGERS) who dare to speak out.


In this post we employ the rhetorical devices of EQUATIONS, PARADOXES, and OXYMORONS to make our point. There has already been some precedent for this kind of approach.




Even for those of you who are not algebraically inclined, the use of EQUATIONS provides a way of illustrating a point that may be even more direct than a sound or word 'bite'.


THE NCAA THE NFL and THE OLYMPICS

Historically, vocal carping regarding officiating occurs (and in most cases is justified) in regular season and semi-final games. However, championship games are generally agreed to be cleanly officiated by team partisans on both sides.


Recently, this has not been so. In the 2005 'March Madness' College Basketball National Championship game, the Illinois coach complained about the officiating. Similarly in Super Bowl XL, Seahawks coach Holmgren opined that the officiating was less than 'fair and unbiased', in spite of threats of condemnation and fines for daring to question the 'officiating', from the Commissioner of the NFL. This kind of thing is not exactly unprecedented.




Of course this kind of stuff in the NCAA and NBA and NFL is 'small beer' compared to what has gone on in the Olympics since its modern inception. Among the more egregious incidents was the 1972 Basketball Final between the USA and the USSR.


The crooked refs added 3 seconds to an expired clock (at which point the USA would have won) on three successive occasions (extending the game by 9 seconds) until the USSR finally won. The scorekeepers who were apparently not in on the fix and had to alter the clock, protested. No one listened to them, and the final score stood unchanged.


More recently in the 2002 Winter Olympics, the French and Russian judges 'made a deal' that resulted in the Russian pairs skaters getting the gold while the clearly more deserving Canadian pair did not. After this 'fixing' was disclosed, both pairs shared the gold (the Russkis should have been disqualified) and the guilty official was 'suspended' for 3 years rather than banned from the Olympics.


The kind of pattern described here, if we substitute the Mendacious MSM and PP and/or unaccountable Judges for Referees and/or Officials, happens over and over. A generic equation for this kind of thing might be:




    CLOSE GAME + BIASED OFFICIATING = WINNING MARGIN



It works the same way in politics as it does in sports.




Whether you agree or not also depends on which 'team' you are rooting for. If your team is the victim of 'bad officiating', the only way to win is to be good enough to overcome this, as well as the opposing team. In closely matched 'games' this is not always possible. However, the BUSHIES were able to pull off wins under such circumstances in the Presidential Elections of BOTH 2000 and 2004.


The PARADOX in 2004 was that KERRY and the DEMS actually outspent the BUSHIES (in addition to this, the Mendacious MSM and PP flooded the airwaves with an additional $150 MM worth of pro DEM and KERRY stuff). Yet the DEMS in Congress and KERRY LOST. It was surely not a case of not getting their message out. Their message got out, and was rejected by a solid majority of American Voters.




This in turn brings up an interesting OXYMORON:




    (CORE DEM IDEOLOGY) and (BROAD POPULAR SUPPORT)



Fortunately for the GOP, the DEMS still can't seem to grasp this.


CARTOON INTIFADA and FREEDOM of SPEECH

This is actually a partial replay of something we've seen before. Back in 2005, Isikoff and Newsweek reported as 'fact', an unsupported and unverified allegation (KORANGATE) that Korans had been flushed down toilets in Guantanamo in order to humiliate and intimidate prisoners.


As a result, there were riots and people got killed. For more details, look for the subhead entitled THE KORAN FUBAR in the following post:




There are some differences between the Newsweek fabrication and the 'CARTOON INTIFADA'. The Newsweek stuff was WRONG yet was passed off as 'fact', with the implicit intent of causing the BUSHIES to look bad, never mind the possibility of collateral RIOTS and DEATH. Without even checking their sources, Newsweek could have looked at some simple 'popular mechanics' regarding these allegations.


Given today's 'ecologically friendly' smaller toilet tanks, it would have barely been possible to flush down one of ALGOR's or KERRY's biomass emanations on a single try. Even trying to flush down a whole issue of Newsweek all at once would have been equally challenging. There is no way anyone in their right mind would even TRY to flush a whole book such as the Koran.


In contrast to this, the infamous 'cartoons' appeared in an obscure Danish Newspaper in September of 2005. These 'cartoons' were clearly 'OP-ED' and were not represented as 'NEWS'. They were also not fabricated 'ex-nihilo' as was the case in KORANGATE. What's more, they were reprinted in an Egyptian newspaper in October 2005. Nothing happened.


Apparently, the RIOTS started only after some more POLITICIZED than RELIGIOUS Imams (one of them even added a crudely crafted cartoon of his own creation depicting Mohammed with a pig's snout... playing the PORK card just for added impetus??) and Secular 'agents provocateurs' SPAMMED the Muslim 'street' with these long forgotten cartoons and demanded a violent response. This happened in February 2006.


Syria and Iran using their henchmen, were complicit in circulating the cartoon, and providing both 'rioters and/or protesters to order' and supplies of Danish flags for burning (which we suspect most Muslims didn't even know enough to identify without 'help' from the 'provocateurs'). Did this have anything to do with detracting media attention from Syria's murder of a Lebanese politician, or Iran's nuclear ambitions (soon to be made manifest)??


Surprisingly, the EU Media responded by publishing copies of the 'toon', in an apparently courageous belief that 'Freedom of the Press' trumped 'Multicultural Sensitivity' and 'Political Correctness'. They knew there might be repercussions. Some of them and their families might be hunted down and killed by ISLAMO FASCISTS as was the case for Van Gogh in Holland, or would continually have to watch their backs like Salmon Rushdie, who still has a 'fatwa mandated' price on his head.


On a more mundane level and not so surprisingly, some of those responsible for publishing the 'toon' were reprimanded, disciplined and in some cases even fired for their trouble by their less courageous and more unprincipled bosses.


Meanwhile there is the apparent PARADOX that the American Mendacious MSM and PP showed less of this 'toon' than they did of Janet Jackson's 'wardrobe malfunction'.




    * JANET JACKSON in the SUPER BOWL... BARELY RELEVANT
    PART (1 of 1)



This happened in spite of the fact that the Mendacious MSM and PP are a lot like 'biomass' in cat litter in that they live in eternal fear of being SCOOPED. The only newspapers who showed the 'toon' were: The Philadelphia Enquirer, The NY Sun, and The Riverside Press - Enterpriser.


Never mind the usual conundrums of 'truth to power', 'the sanctity of the freedom of the press', and 'the people's right to know', that they invoke when showing cartoons of pedophilic priests, and showing and supporting 'alleged works of art' like 'pi$$ Christ' and a 'Madonna Batik' laced with obscenities and elephant dung. Mendacious MSM and PP were both WIMPS and of course, their usual HYPOCRITICAL selves.


One would think that for purposes of 'freedom of the press' this EQUATION




    PI$$ CHRIST = BOMBHEAD MUHAMMED



would be valid. But apparently NOT for our Mendacious MSM and PP. This of course leads to the obvious OXYMORON:




    UNBIASED MSM AND PP



We've said this countless times, but nothing has changed.


NSA vs FISA vs THE CONSTITUTION

This subject matter has been visited in the previous post but deserves additional attention.




As more heat and light emerges from various quarters, it's becoming increasingly apparent that the following EQUATION has a lot of plausibility:




    FISA = .81818181 ...



The numeric result is a repeating decimal. What is not immediately apparent is that this decimal is what you get when you divide nine by eleven. In other words, FISA + OTHER FACTORS = 9/11.


It's very likely that FISA was as much a contributing factor to 9/11 as intelligence failure.




Intelligence failure was partly a result of informational 'firewalls' erected between various agencies (SEE KLINTONISTA DOJ's Jamie Gorelick), and also as a result of FISA, and the need to rely on a single UNACCOUNTABLE JUDGE to provide warrants after extensive paperwork and arguments for 'probable cause' for interdicting atrocities that were yet to be committed. What's more, today as well as prior to 9/11, there are time and technology factors (like cell phones) that may not have been anticipated when FISA came into being on the heels of the killer of our intelligence capability, the Church Committee and was signed into law by 'Inspector Clouseau'... whoops, we mean JIMMY CARTER.


There is also the possibility that FISA is UNCONSTITUTIONAL. The President's powers are pretty clearly laid out by the First Article of the Constitution, and this is something that can't be trumped by Congressional Legislation (as in FISA), let alone the Judiciary in the person of an UNACCOUNTABLE Judge.


As pointed out earlier, there seems to be the PARADOX that in the much more serious situation of someone leaking the NSA surveillance activities, there is no call for an investigation of the 'leaker', while the 'non-crime' surrounding the 'Plame Game' has resulted in a Special Prosecutor. Libby was indicted because he allegedly 'lied' about a 'non-crime'.


The HYENAS of HYPE who seem to be yukking and screeching to the high heavens about privacy and government intrusions by the NSA, don't seem to give a hoot about Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald's 'fishing expedition' that resulted in Libby's indictment.


An appropriate OXYMORON for this situation might be:




    JUDICIARY RESPECT FOR THE SEPARATION of POWERS



Of course, Senators like Church from the 70's and Arlen Specter today don't help much either. If they have their way, then we will have to rely on the whims of UNACCOUNTABLE JUDGES like Colleen Kollar-Kelly for our NATIONAL SECURITY. Apparently 3000 victims was TOO FEW!


GOOGLE THIS

PARADOXES and multiple standards also happen outside the realms of the MSM and the LEGALISTAS. Apparently, GOOGLE seems to feel perfectly comfortable declaring themselves to be 'not EVIL', while collaborating with RED CHINESE CENSORSHIP in order to get its service used there.


In doing so, they are not alone (other firms like Microsoft and Yahoo and even Rupert Murdoch of News Corp. have also caved to various Chinese demands). There is no denying that the siren call of '2.6 billion armpits', as one Procter and Gamble executive described the potential of the Chinese market for its underarm deodorant products, will do crazy things to your thinking and ethics.


However, GOOGLE refused to cooperate with the US Government when the latter wanted to look into some of their data in order to ascertain how kiddie porn finds its way into the online search process. Apparently, Microsoft and Yahoo did cooperate regarding the same issue. At least they were consistent.


GOOGLE seemed to think that aiding and abetting kiddie porn was OK using its search engine because that was somehow a 'manifestation of FREE SPEECH', but AT THE SAME TIME also felt that CENSORING such search items as 'FREEDOM and DEMOCRACY' in deference to the Chinese Totalitarians was also perfectly OK and 'FREEDOM of SPEECH' did not matter in this case. Evidently more 'Chinese armpits' seemed to trump their self professed 'principles' such as 'not being EVIL'.


In so doing, GOOGLE did for 'FREE SPEECH' what Ben and Jerry did for rain forests (NOTHING), and bucket seats and pantyhose did for drive-in theaters. Perhaps it was a coincidence, but GOOGLE's stock price seems to have declined by about 10% since this happened.


This 'forked tongue' kind of thing in the information arena is also exhibited by the ALA (American Library Association). The bigwigs of the ALA contend that Homeland Security examinations of e-mails sent by their patrons from Library (and therefore 'anonymous') terminals connected to the Internet is out of bounds even if TERRORIST activity might be involved. At the same time, they refuse to condemn Castro and Cuba for jailing dissident Librarians.


In an online newsletter published by the ALA's rank and file, a recent survey indicated that about three fourths of the rank and file members support the notion of condemning Castro for jailing some of Cuba's Librarians. The ALA bigwigs have since then suggested that surveys in this newsletter should be shut down.


So much for the triumph of 'FREE SPEECH' vis-a-vis GOOGLE and the ALA. An appropriate OXYMORON here might be:




    (GOOGLE + ALA) and FREE SPEECH



To make things even worse, this kind of blatant HYPOCRISY gets very little traction among the Mendicant MSM and PP, while they continue to bloviate about FREE SPEECH in areas where it's barely applicable.


So it goes.


THE PEOPLE SHALL JUDGE



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