COLD AS LIQUID NITROGEN

In testimony by the outgoing Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee on the Benghazi attack, Americans finally heard information on our President’s level of command and compassion for our diplomats and soldiers in jeopardy. 

In a regular scheduled DOD meeting with the President that lasted 30 minutes only 15 minutes was devoted to the crises unfolding in Benghazi. Leon Panetta expressed to the President and defended the same argument to the committee that there was nothing the military could do to aide those in Benghazi. 

The President reportedly told Panetta to do what could be done and it was on to other routine business. According to Panetta there was no follow up conversations with the President, no contact with the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the military never secured or put boots on the ground in Benghazi to secure the compound because there was no request to do so.

The Obama administration has little shock value to those of us that have been reading the fine print of his administration while ignoring the mainstream media’s sound bite spin yet I admit to being stunned by the cavalier posture of both the President and his top military commanders.

 It was an “oh by the way” discussion at a regularly scheduled meeting?  It was only a 15 minute conversation? There was no statement such as “Mobilize all the available military assets we have and get to the Benghazi compound, I want planes in the air and boots on the ground ASAP.” No follow up conversation with the President at all beyond a 15 minute conversation by the Secretary of Defense Panetta that nothing could be done?

Panetta went on to testify that the military support in incidences such as this one is not to be used as “the 911” to call for support? What?

 

Okay now all Americans especially active military and veterans should be apoplectic with disgust at the Commander and Chief and his chief minister of defense of no defense. Obama’s cold distant and complete lack of engagement reaction is beyond digestion. Travon Martin received more attention by our President than Ambassador Chris Stevens, Tyron Woods, Glen A. Doherty and Sean Smith.

It is more than disheartening to know that our government watched these men undergo an assault through the use of a drone video and did not even try to move assets into place to help these men. There is no past President that I can imagine regardless of being a Republican or Democrat that would not have tried to move heaven and earth to at least try and save these men.

In fact Americans would be able to feel at least rested of unease had we mobilized the assets even if they were too late to save lives but showed our military presence in Benghazi out of respect of our men, to the military and to the Libyans, and to the world.

Instead, the President did nothing but head off to campaign to remain Commander in Chief for another term.

Instead, the President lied to the American people that the Benghazi attack was unclear as to being caused by a protest over a video or a planned act of terrorism.

Instead the President continued to claim on the campaign stump that by his killing of Ben Laden “Al Qaida was decimated”. 

Instead the President sent out Susan Rice Ambassador to the United Nations to puppet a myth that the Benghazi attack was a spontaneous uprising over protests of an anti-Islamic YouTube video.

Instead, the President lied behind the skirt of Candy Crowley in the presidential debate with Romney that he had called the Benghazi attack terrorism at the Rose Garden. 

Instead, of taking responsibility his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stepped up to take responsibility however, in the new definition of responsibility in the Obama administration that means no blame, no fault, no mistakes, no regrets, no shame and absolutely no adverse consequences such as losing their job.

Instead, of full disclosure to the families of the victims and the American public regarding all the continuing unanswered questions about Benghazi such as where are the victims that were saved by the brave soldiers who died that day, and who changed the “talking points” to claim it was a spontaneous uprising based on a video, we are still left with a silent and empty Executive Branch chair.

Cold as ice is not strong enough to describe a President that did not give a second thought (no follow up) to our Ambassador and the brave men that fought to their deaths for America and Americans.

Even liquid nitrogen is warmer than the heartless space and void chest cavity that characterizes this President’s actions and in-actions making the Grinch even on his most callous of days seem more caring than our Commander in Chief.

Americans should demand a non-partisan investigation because we have an administration covering up for the White House that did not provide cover for our diplomatic personnel. The more information that is exposed exposes a dangerously disengaged American government bureaucracy that has no accountability, credibility or soul.

LIES ARE NEW NORMAL FOR DEMOCRATS

Hillary Clinton stated months ago that she accepts responsibility over the failure to protect our diplomatic outpost in Benghazi. The problem with her seemly bold admission is that during the House and Senate hearings she admitted to absolutely no mistakes, errors or poor judgments.

In fact, she repeatedly danced between the factual truths and bold faced lies because most of our representatives chose to “smile for the camera” rather than hold her feet to the fire. For instance she repeated the lie (following Candy Crowley’s lead of CNN) that the President immediately called the attack at Benghazi an act of terrorism.

Even if you torture the words and contexts of Obama’s Rose Garden comments after the attack to make the case that he called it terrorism, you cannot dismiss the CBS interview with Steve Kroft in which the President punctuated his remarks by claiming it was too early to know.

Hillary claimed she knew it was a terrorist attack early on and not as a result of a protest over a video. Yet, no one asked Secretary Clinton why she reportedly told Charles Woods father of Tyrone victim of the Benghazi terrorist attack that “We’ll make sure the person that made that film is arrested and prosecuted.” 

In a mind bending acrobatic twist Hillary and this administration want to deflect answers to questions based on an on-going investigation by the FBI yet Ambassador Rice, the President and the Secretary of State were willing to blame a video with no evidence to support its involvement.

Hillary might it seem have had a moment of candor during what otherwise was a well scripted and prepared testimonial performance. 

“With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans. Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night decided to go kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make?” Clinton asked the Republican Senator. “It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again.”

However, her false outrage and impertinent response was arrogantly planned to intimidate the committee and is as old as the hills a tactic to deflect blame. The “How dare you” and the “does it matter who did it” let’s just move on and focus on fixing the problem is a well worn way by many to avoid accountability.

If there is an ever increasing theme in the Obama administration and the Democratic Party it is to never blame members or supporters for corruption or ineptness and only always blame either the opposition party (Bush) or everyone. 

We heard Democrats once again blame a lack funding for the lack of security at the Benghazi consulate. We heard Democrats blame conflicting intelligence reports from CIA, or the fog of war excuse. Finally we hear Hillary tell us “What difference at this point does it make?” 

Right Obama won the debates and the election through lies, cover-ups and subterfuge and he was just sworn in to the highest office in the world. So what difference does it make? 

Regardless of whether you voted for Obama, are a loyal Democrat or one of us (wretched nasty) conservative voters do you accept that your government lies to you? If it doesn’t bother you that they lie about the deaths of brave Americans then do you really believe your “check is” and will be in the mail?

So shouldn’t it matter even more to those that are big government statist’s that this benevolent government you trust to take care of you is truthful?  

Conservatives understand that government is corrupt and the bigger government becomes the bigger and less accountable allows that corruption to expand beyond constraints. Smaller government will still have a measure of corruption but at least it makes those responsible for the corruption less able to hide behind a mountainous bureaucratic process.

All Americans should refuse the new normal that allows the government to lie, shield the truth and mock the truth seeker. Honesty matters to Americans and we still teach our children (I hope) not to lie, but rather to stand up and admit mistake or wrong-doing and vow to improve.

I ask Hillary Clinton and all Democrats, when did we ever decide as a culture that there was no difference between lies and the truth? When did the new normal become “What difference does it make?” When did you as a voter and an American decide that your government lies so let’s just move on?

Because the next question would be move on to what; trusting liars?

YOU CAN’T FIX STUPID OR CRAZY.

The tragedy that occurred in the Sandy Hook school in Newtown, Connecticut is depraved and senseless and conjures in all our minds the truth that life is precious and precarious.

All Americans are saddened and sickened by this slaughter of youth by a young man who obviously was consumed by an evil dark force. Others look to blame more than the evil doer opting instead to spread the blame to include everything from guns to our society’s values. 

Trying to deconstruct and understand his deranged motivation in the aftermath of this disturbing carnage seems both urgently necessary and pointless at the same time. Some feel that by understanding what instigated this predator we can somehow prevent him and those similar to him from acting on their sadistic twisted plans, but can we?

We hear psychiatrist and other mental health professionals make the claim that with proper intercession this killer could have been treated or confined in a facility so as to prevent their violent aggression. The question that remains however is how? 

How have we ever been able to both adequately diagnose the psychopath or the sociopath that walks among us acting completely normal while they hide their deep frightful secret that they have a complete void of empathic sentiment? The answer of course is no.

Have we the right to have officials lock up, an imprison free thinking human beings suffering  a mental disorder or not that express violent thoughts but claim they would never act upon them? The answer is both no and never should we consider that tyrannical an option. 

Have we ever been able to cure with either drugs or therapy the callous heart of the psychopath? The answer is no. 

Doctors and medicine may be able to help and assists the patient that seeks cures but many chronic cases of both psychical and mental illnesses are only managed through drug and therapy. When a patient decides to stop taking their medications or lies and deceives professionals that they are taking their medications then all bets are off.

Psychiatrists also assume that after a number of tests and interviews they have the medical knowledge to ascertain the level of a patient’s violent tendencies and make a clear and correct diagnosis as to whether an individual poses a threat to society. Are they ever wrong? Yes.

We need only look at our parole system to understand that the criminal mind is smart enough to tell professionals exactly what they want to hear, knowing that if they honestly exposed their true thoughts they would never be granted their freedom.

Therefore, knowing how impossible it is to read the mind of any human as to their desire and capacity to visit this kind of sadistic hell of deadly violence on our society what do we do?

Sadly, we once again have small minds turning the blame to inanimate objects as the cure to these cursed events, or calls for gun bans. This notion that guns kill people seems to distance the crazy shooter from accountability. For those mass murders that don’t end up committing suicide why don’t their lawyers argue that the guns made them do it? 

Guns, knives, poisons, explosives are all lethal objects in one hand and protection, constructive tools, disease control and hazard clearing devices on the other hand, when used for good over evil. To those sick souls seeking mayhem and violence the list of destructive means and weapons for their sadistic intents is very long indeed. Banning guns will not stop evil from predating on the public just as more laws never deters the hell bent anti-social criminal it seeks to curb.

The real question all should be asking is how do we protect schools and public places from these compassion-less killing machines disguising themselves as human beings? 

The unarmed principal of the Sandy Hook school tried to grab the gunman’s weapon in a clear act of bravery. Imagine if she was instead armed. Perhaps in a blaze of bullets both the gunman and the principal might suffer the same lethal fate but then 20 children would have been spared death.

Perhaps science might be useful as well in designing a robotic security guard capable of taking on the shooting maniac so that no-one’s life is lost except the rabid human killer that deserves to be fast tracked to hell.

Blaming the mother for this deranged human being’s action isn’t fair. Blaming society for this deranged animal acting sociopath isn’t fair. Blaming guns for this deranged sicko is equally not fair. 

We are not telepathic, we cannot read the minds of these ticking time bombs of mayhem and therefore more of them will be born. More of them will appear normal until their acts of inhumanity. More of them will seem quiet and unassuming until they expose their secret empty hearted satanic plan that endangers us all. 

Therefore, the only answer is not to ban guns or lock up all those who have a mental illness but instead to have the public educated for quick reaction to crises. Since teaching fire safety and doing drills with children and adults the loss of life caused by fires has been significantly reduced in our society. Quick reaction during a time of danger requires a plan of action and egress planned in advance of a panic situation. Therefore, we need madman plans that result in a quick response to these devils of destruction.

Equipping our schools and public building with more emergency exits, along with having plans between ourselves and loved ones in advance of a threat works. Parents warn their children against fire and sexual predators so adding the gun shooting lunatic to their list of worst case scenarios should be included. Teaching the public how to best respond to this mass murder mayhem has been woefully lacking for too long.

Mall security should not be a lame comedy movie but a legitimately trained response force. Schools should have an armed security force as well that operate behind the scenes not scaring little kids by patrolling the hallways locked and loaded. Or making our schools seem like prisons to our children. We can do a far better job than just calling 911 and waiting for help to arrive while many people are slaughtered by suicidal psychopaths.

If the Sandy Hook school had emergency doors in every classroom that could be both blown open by a principal or teacher by pulling a switch, think of the lives that might have been saved. If closed circuit video showed the gunman to a school’s security guard who could drop the killer in a hallway before he killed or at least drop him to greatly reduce the number of his victims then we would be talking intelligently not stupidly about safety.

Banning guns and locking up all the people you think might be potentially violent is a fool’s rant. In the era of terrorism be it by religious zealots or sociopathic madmen we as a society need to think of ways to quickly react to neutralize the threat and save lives.

OWNERSHIP OF THE 99 PERCENT MYTHS

The President continues to campaign long after the turkey leftovers have been consumed and the turkey carcass has been thrown away. Apparently the President likes his teleprompter road show so much he is trying to sell his policies door to American door. 

His lack of leadership of a lackluster economy that is currently not producing enough jobs while the government’s debt continues to hold investments hostage reminds one of an old time barker.

The President and his dutiful Party of Democrats are pretending to be owners of a mythical elixir that will cure America of its fiscal woes with “just a spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down” that being (TTR) or tax the rich.

In typical side show fashion they hide the truth behind the curtain that this so-called curative solution only has a momentary positive effect of financial flush. The long term effect ranges from an ineffective placebo that only balances the deficit for a little over a week to a deep economic recession that creates small business sell- offs, corporate flight overseas and skyrocketing unemployment.

To understand the naïve and cynical mindset of the President and his Party of Democratic Munchkins one must understand that their comprehension of economics and business is even less savvy than a child with a piggy bank. 

Even the most selfish child understands that you don’t anger the benefactor that drops allowance coins in the ceramic container and expect to grow your fortune. A poor benefactor results invariably in a poor beneficiary.

The Democrats and the President speak of tax fairness when the truth is that the rich already pay the lion share of taxation while more and more Americans pay nothing to the treasury. Even a child knows that if they demand too much from their parents the giving dries up.

This envy driven class hatred that is fomented by the President and his party for the 1 percent versus the 99 percent is three times a wolf cry of nonsense. Yet should we be surprised that the President has no history of entrepreneurship? Or that most of the Democrats in Congress equally have no history of entrepreneurship? Or that like Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts many of them are both spoiled by rich spouses and hypocritical elitists that dock their 7 million dollar yachts in States with lower taxes? 

It is like trying to reason with a spoiled child to get the Democrats and the public to understand that wealth creates wealth, government doesn’t create jobs and that quarter under your pillow was not left by the tooth fairy so grow up and get real.

The fiscal cliff, the lackluster economy, the unsustainable debt and the failure to stop the spending of our children’s future opportunity is not solved by soaking the rich in greater taxation but instead it will contract the economic expansion we need to dig out of our financial hole.

Lowering taxes lowers risk that creates the incentive to invest in expansion and new ventures. Raising taxes not only limits spendable capital to invest it compels the wealthy to safely shelter their money or save their money. Businesses would not stay operational for very long if they invested in expansion without regard for expected profits. Why would any business expend capital to realize lower sales, lower profit and higher tax liability? 

Yet the President continues to campaign to the country that these rich fat cats can afford to pay more in taxes and his Party will dole out those collected funds to the rest of us waiting by our mailbox for our soup-line checks. 

He and his Party want us to believe in the new normal in America. That new normal is that a job is optional; self-reliance is over-rated so just sit in front of your television set holding your piggy bank and vote for Democrats who will fill up your jar.

Many Americans are buying this cynical selfish shiftless nonsense completely clueless to simple economic realities that even children understand. The child knows that the only way to fill up their piggy bank so that it overflows requires a two pronged approach. Save their coins rather than spend them and raise more coins. Getting a paper route or a babysitting job raises more coins especially when the tantrum to have their allowance increased fails to yield results.

Americans on the teat of Obama’s cash cow give-away government face two economic realities hanging over their economic ignorant heads. One, by continuing to rely on government they will never see their piggy bank grow. Two, when the 1 percent money dries up and more people are on the couch holding piggy banks there will be no more coins dropped into your Grecian urn. Worse, when you finally realize you should return to self reliant work ethics there will also be a desert of job opportunities.

Obama’s minstrel Occupy Wall Street show tours the country while the opposition (Conservatism) to this reckless policy is painted as bodyguards for the money vaults of the selfish wealthy by a corrupt media. What should the Republicans, hard working Americans and business owners do?

Stand tall on principles, conserve your money and continue to press your local representatives and neighbors to face economic reality. Self reliance always survives over dependency eventually albeit the road back from ignorance to enlightenment will come after some pain.

 

However, like the child that mourns their loss of naivety when they accept that the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus are myths but then quickly alter their tears of remorse into a prideful mindset that they have grown up and no longer need sugar coated lies.  American values will return when more Americans grow up and realize that the cookie jar is empty.

Half the country may be in the hypnotic spell of Obama’s “ho ho ho happy redistribution” myth but the real scrooge isn’t the conservatives or the productive Americans refusing the Democrat’s gifts. Rather the real scrooges are any Americans blind or aware with callous disregard for the enormous bill they are leaving their children and grandchildren as they watch and let the Democrats rob the treasury.   

Merry Christmas and May God Bless that sanity returns to 100 percent of Americans in the years ahead.