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DINOSAURS, DEMOCRACIES, AND THE DEEP STATE

Dr. Jack Wheeler July 10, 2013

Sofia, Bulgaria. Today (7/10) is the 27^th straight day of anti-government protests here in Bulgaria's capital.

If you look at the picture in the Euronews story about yesterday's protest, you'll notice that the folks marching down Vitosha Street aren't a bunch of Occupy moocher-hippies. These are regular middle-class folks of all ages, Bulgarian Tea Partyers, totally fed up with endemic government corruption that seems impossible to get rid of.

One of Bulgaria's neighbors is Turkey, where similar anti-government protests have been going on since early June as well. On Monday (7/08), police fired teargas and water cannons at protestors in Istanbul.

There have been massive anti-government protests for over a month in up to 100 cities in Brazil. We all know what's going in Egypt, where tens of millions demanded the removal of an Islamist sharia tyranny, and got it. But now what?

And now what for the US? Zero's Police State America expands exponentially by the day, we have the most corrupt and oppressive government in our nation's history by far - and where are the folks in the streets like here in Bulgaria, or Turkey or Brazil? I hear crickets instead. Yet there's no doubt the seething and frustration is reaching a boiling point.

Is there something in common, some universal irritation, that causing all of this? Perhaps. First, however, we need to get rid of a metaphor.

COMMENCEMENT 2010

Dr. Jack Wheeler June 2, 2010

[This commencement address was originally published five years ago. We rerun it annually at college graduation time. Feel quite free to send this to any recent college graduate you may know.]

Mr. Chancellor, Members of the Board of Regents, Members of the Faculty, Honored Graduates, Families and Friends:

It's funny that they call this ceremony a Commencement, for you've all reached the finish line: college, goodbye, we're outta here. Yet of course, "commencement" means a beginning, not an end.

But one is supposed to at least start - commence - a talk such as this by saying funny things. So I'll start by talking about Clark Gable movies. If you've heard of Clark Gable at all, you know he was the biggest movie star in Hollywood a long time ago. His most famous movie was Gone With The Wind.

He made a movie in 1955 called The Tall Men with Jane Russell as his girlfriend and Robert Ryan as the heavy. It's a pretty ordinary Western flick with outlaws and cowboys and Indians - and at the end, Ryan, the bad guy, and his henchmen get the drop on Gable, the good guy, and all seems lost. Suddenly, surprise, Gable outfoxes Ryan and triumphs. Gable makes his exit, and after he does, Ryan delivers a line that I want you to never forget.

Serendipity is funny, a very funny thing, finding something where you least expect it. Out of the blue, out of a movie awash with pedestrian dialogue, comes a line so profound it detonates inside your brain. Ryan turns to his men and says:

HELPING RAMOS AND COMPEAN HAVE A HAPPIER CHRISTMAS

Dr. Jack Wheeler December 20, 2007

For many conservatives, the most infuriating outrage of the Bush Presidency has been the prosecution and imprisonment of two Border Patrol agents, Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, for shooting a Mexican drug smuggler in the ass.

It is the drug smuggler, Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila, and the federal prosecutor, Johnny Sutton, who belong in jail, not them.

For defending our border from mass foreign invasion, Ramos and Compean will be spending Christmas in solitary confinement, rather than with their families.

It's hard to think of a more Christian, a more pro-American thing you could do this Christmas than send them a message of support and a donation to their wives and children.

Here's how:

THE AUDACITY OF APOSTASY

Dr. Jack Wheeler January 4, 2007

One of the most entertaining opportunities that will emerge in 2007 will be using Barack Obama to fight Islamofascism.

He is the product of a black Moslem from Kenya, Barrack Hussein Obama, and a white atheist from Kansas, Shirley Ann Dunham, who met at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu. That is why his middle name is the same as Saddam's: Barack Hussein Obama, Jr.

His first name is taken from the Islamic term in Arabic for "blessed," baraka, used in the Koran.

His father deserted the family when Barack Jr. was two and returned to Kenya. His mother then married another Moslem studying at UH, Lolo Soetoro from Indonesia. He moved with his mother and stepfather to Jakarta when he was six, where he attended a Moslem medressa (religious school).

That makes him a Moslem. That he denies that he ever was and is a Christian instead makes him, in Moslem eyes, also something much worse: an apostate. Apostasy in Islam is punishable by death.

IT’S THE TERRORISM, NOT THE NUKES, IN IRAN

Michael Ledeen July 7, 2006

This in from al-Reuters:

Iraqi and U.S. troops battled Shi'ite militiamen in a village northeast of Baghdad on Thursday...Iraqi security officials said IRANIAN FIGHTERS HAD BEEN CAPTURED IN THE FIGHTING (emphasis added)...The U.S. military had no immediate comment.

In recent days there have been several stories further documenting the Iranian role in the terror war in Iraq, especially in the south, where Tehran has been working assiduously for several years to create a regional Islamic republic. So the al-Reuters report should not be a surprise.

But it gives us the opportunity to reflect on three serious questions, none of which has been sufficiently integrated into our national debate on the war:

A NEEDLESS CATASTROPHE

ttpn January 19, 2005

I troll Microsoft newsgroups regularly. It’s part of duties. Normally I troll development newsgroups, particularly those involving databases. However, now I’m doing a stint in XP newsgroups.

Last week I described a catastrophe in the making that I was able to avert. This week I’m describing one I ran across last night, but too late. Not that I have much sympathy. Just to save $39.95, the fellow I'm about to describe ruined his computer.

CHEAPER OIL IS GOOD NEWS FOR ALL

Matt Ridley October 22, 2014

So ingrained is the bad-news bias of the intelligentsia that the plummeting price of oil has mostly been discussed in terms of its negative effect on the budgets of oil producers, both countries and companies.

We are allowed to rejoice only to the extent that we think it is a good thing that the Venezuelan, Russian and Iranian regimes are most at risk, which they are, and which is indeed good news.

Yet by far the greater benefit of the oil price fall comes from the impact on consumers. The price of Brent crude oil in Europe has fallen from about $115 a barrel in June to about $86 today (10/22), while crude in the US is at $82.

That will make a tank of gas cheaper (though not by as much as it should, because of taxes) but it will also make everything from chairs to chips to chiropractic cheaper too, because the cost of energy is incorporated into the cost of every good and service we buy. The impact of this cost deflation will dwarf any effect of, say, a fall in the price of Exxon shares in your pension plan.

HALF-FULL REPORT 05/30/14

Dr. Jack Wheeler May 30, 2014

Before we dive into all the fun of this week, I really need to thank all of you who wrote such kind comments on the Forum regarding the completion of my Every Country in the World life goal. It's still sinking in that I've done this at last, and your words meant a lot to me...

By contrast, Zero's words certainly didn't mean very much to West Point graduating cadets when he spoke to them on Wednesday (5/28). His speech was an "icy" disaster as described by CNN. It was so bad that both the WaPo and the New York Times sneered at it...

As Americans celebrated Memorial Day last Monday (5/26), with soldiers being told by their Commander-in-Chief that he will "never forget" their sacrifices, US Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi is shackled in a pestilential Mexican prison cell with Zero not lifting a finger to get him out. Here's what to do...

I've regarded Eric Shinseki as an impossible jerk since he was Clinton's Army Chief of Staff - and by his unilateral decision decided to degrade the Army's elite soldiers by issuing black berets to every soldier in the entire army...

OK, humor break.

Question: How do you brainwash a liberal?

Answer:

THE “MONEY LAUNDERING” SCAM

Richard Rahn March 25, 2014

To whom would you be willing to trust with all of your financial and tax information: 1) close family members; or 2) the U.S. government and foreign governments, including Russia?

For the last several decades, global liberty-haters have dreamt that all financial privacy would be eliminated. They have sought out a variety of excuses to act as Peeping Toms peering into your bank accounts.

In the 1980s, their big push was to enact "anti-money laundering" legislation, with the claim that it would make catching drug dealers and other assorted criminals easier. The United States passed its first anti-money laundering law in 1986 -- despite the fact that no one could objectively define "money laundering", because it is not an action but an "intent" to act unlawfully.

As a result of all the global anti-money laundering regulations, total compliance costs for financial institutions are now in the hundreds of billions of dollars. Basic banking and other financial services have been reduced and even eliminated for tens of millions of people around the world. Have all of these regulatory costs done any good?

A MESSAGE TO WHITE AMERICANS

Allen West January 15, 2014

Every day I am amazed at the insanity I witness in our America and here is another example.

According to a report in The Hill, Attorney General Eric Holder is at it again with his racial preference policies:

Attorney General Eric Holder called upon the nation's school districts Wednesday to rethink "zero tolerance" disciplinary policies that he said disproportionately punish minorities and push too many students into the justice system. Alarming numbers of young people are suspended, expelled or even arrested for relatively minor transgressions like school uniform violations, schoolyard fights or showing ‘disrespect' by laughing in class," Holder said during a speech in Baltimore.

So now the US Department of Justice under Eric Holder will use its power to enforce "civil rights protections" in school disciplinary actions. In fact, the DoJ and DoEd are putting schools on notice that they are prepared to use their authority to investigate the claims of racial disparity in the punishment of students.

Thus my message to white Americans:

THE GLOBAL THREAT OF OUR TIME

Dr. Jack Wheeler June 20, 2013

"Peace with justice means refusing to condemn our children to a harsher, less hospitable planet. The effort to slow climate change requires bold action... With a global middle class consuming more energy every day, this must now be an effort of all nations, not just some. For the grim alternative affects all nations -- more severe storms, more famine and floods, new waves of refugees, coastlines that vanish, oceans that rise. This is the future we must avert. This is the global threat of our time. And for the sake of future generations, our generation must move toward a global compact to confront a changing climate before it is too late. That is our job. That is our task. We have to get to work."

--President Zero, Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, Germany, June 19, 2013

There is a great deal of sniggering about Zero's pathetic Brandenburg Gate speech yesterday (6/19). The headline in the British London Telegraph summed it up: "Barack Obama Bombs in Berlin - A Weak, Underwhelming Address from a Floundering President."

Or, as the New York Post more pithily and succinctly described it: "Mush from the Wimp."

Chrissie Tingle-leg Matthews blamed it on the sun shining on the TOTUS.

The above quote from the speech does, however, serve a vital purpose: it focuses our attention on "the global threat of our time." Which is...

WHY SHOULD THERE BE AN AFGHANISTAN?

Dr. Jack Wheeler July 1, 2010

Last week, we learned that Afghanistan is The Doormat of Empires. Yet the ignorant myth of the mighty invincible Afghan keeps getting repeated - even by conservative writers who really ought to know better.

Washington Times columnist Jeff Kuhner is an example, who has proclaimed (6/24) that Petraeus is "doomed to fail," that "the jihadist iceberg is about to sink the American juggernaut," because:

Afghanistan is not Iraq. It is the graveyard of empires - a nation whose rugged terrain and collection of disparate warlords and tribes is ideally suited for guerrilla warfare. The vaunted Soviet Red Army was crushed in the 1980s. Imperial Britain was defeated - not once, but twice - during the 19th century. The reason: They got dragged into protracted wars of attrition. Eventually, the fierce, primitive mountains, caves and fighters of Afghanistan wore down much superior forces, slowly bleeding them to death.

This is ridiculously not true. Kuhner has obviously neither been to Afghanistan nor studied its actual history but is simply repeating memorized slogans. Thus he asks, "Who lost Afghanistan?" as if this is preordained. Let's ask a different question instead: "Why should there be an Afghanistan at all?"

Afghanistan is a problem, not a real country. It is a pain in the world's ass. The solution to the problem is not a futile effort of "nation-building" - that effort is doomed to fail - it is nation-building's opposite: get rid of the problem by getting rid of the country. It's a salvage operation - carve the wreck up and parcel it out to its neighbors. Here's how to do it.

REAGAN ON RUSHMORE

Dr. Jack Wheeler December 14, 2007

There is a growing movement among conservatives to have the image of Ronald Reagan carved into Mount Rushmore, joining George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln.

To facilitate this noble goal, former Congressman (and accomplished photographer) Fred Eckert and artist Ted Williams have created photo-art that realistically depicts what Reagan on Rushmore would actually look like:

They are offering gallery-quality prints that are display ready - no frame necessary, just put it up on the wall. The photo-art is good enough to fool a gullible liberal. "Haven't you heard? Reagan's on Rushmore now - there's the proof!"

PREDICTING 2007

Dr. Jack Wheeler December 28, 2006

I am expecting a lot of things to happen in 2007. Things that I won't be surprised by if they do happen. 2007 will be a wonderful year for the death of dictators - Castro croaking at last, Saddam hung at last, and with any luck Hugo Chavez will get himself assassinated.

Iran's Ahmadinutjob is not a dictator, as he serves at the whim of the ayatollahs. Their whim seems to be now that he is no longer useful, so we may soon be rid of him. With any luck, that will not prevent the Israelis from taking out Iran's nuclear facilities. With even more luck, the Israelis will be smart enough to accomplish this via sabotage rather than airstrikes.

China should be on its best behavior for 2007 with no saber-rattling at Taiwan. The Chicoms don't want anything to spoil their coming-out party at the Beijing 2008 Olympics.

However... I'm going to stop now and turn the tables. What I want is to ask you for your predictions. What do you think will happen in the world and in America in 2007?

THERE’S ALWAYS A MOSQUE

Michael Ledeen June 22, 2006

Some day we will be forced to deal fully with the war we are in, and when that happens we're going to discover a lot of very nasty problems about the future of America.

One of them has to do with, of all things, the First Amendment. Consider this story from Wednesday's (June 21) London Times about British jihadis coming to Queens to recruit Americans. And where did they recruit them? In a mosque, of course.

Because there's always a mosque, as my Italian friend Magdi Allam has been repeating for several years. Not all mosques are jihadi, but all jihadis come from a mosque.

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