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President Obama’s decision to not release photos of interrogation techniques, even though correct, is none the less remarkable but most glaringly hypocritical.  Prior to January 20th, his cries for such were consistent.  I applaud him for the realization that the release of such information does not fall under the auspices of the “right to know”, as well as the fact that any publication of such would create the very real possibility of putting our troops in greater harms way.   The fact still remains that a majority of folks will accept his decision now, even though it was the same decision of the previous administration, only now because it is Obama it’s O.K.   Every administration makes mistakes.  Bush made many but this was not one of them.  To suggest that terrorists should have the same rights as non-terrorists is ludicrous.  To suggest that we should not do everything possible to gather information to protect ourselves should be only common sense but unfortunately it is not.  The very nature of terrorism should trump any rights short of execution, which by the way, is the interrogation limit of our enemies clearly displayed by video.   The left has NEVER demonstrated the same indignation to those executions as it does now to Gitmo or any other practices we use, all of which are far more humane than our enemies.  Other than with the Moveon.org crowd,  President Obama’s decision will hardly cause a ripple.  If any conservative had made the same, it would be editorial fodder for weeks.  No bias in the press though.

Remember, during the campaign, how we were told that a more compatible approach to our enemies was what was missing in our reputation world wide and that a change would elevate our status around the world?  In one fell swoop, one lost week end, North Korea detonates a nuclear weapon the size of the Hiroshima bomb, Iran rejects the nuclear plan of the west and sends warships into neutral waters, and it is speculated that Hugo Chavez is sending Uranium to Iran, I’m sure for peaceful purposes.  Do you feel better about ourselves now?  Safer?  The kinder, gentler President’s joking with Chavez seems to have certainly moved him towards our side.  But of course we can depend on the toothless UN to bail the west out.  NOT!!

   There is no policy or approach that will get any of theses governments to have any respect for the U.S., none, they HATE us period.  The only approach to protect ourselves is to aggressively prevent these things from happening.  Do I want to see lives lost.  Absolutely not but the reality is, lives will be lost either way, so at least let us die fighting to save ourselves.  The announcement that a real, not imagined, missile terrorist plot was prevented, reported by Iran’s president no less, had better wake us up or 911 will seem like small potatoes in the loss of life of innocent non-combatants.  This is not a drill.  We are under legitimate attack and will likely be for the rest of time.  This President is not ready, is delusional about the non-threat and thinks if we don’t acknowledge that there are terrorists they will stop being such, forgetting that enemies don’t buy into rhetoric like people who will do anything to feel hope, even ignoring facts to feel better, like those who voted for him in the last election.  Our enemies believe they are honored by their God dying for their “just” cause.  If they are honored for killing us, what makes anyone believe that they are going to stop trying?  Wake up or die.  There is no grey area in between.

   Too many have forgotten the high pressure pitch that we were given to pass the stimulus package within the first three weeks of Obama’s administration or who knows what was going to happen.  Three and a half months later, over ninety-five percent of the money is still not being distributed, yet somehow the economy is showing some signs of recovery without the money!  This was the cry of every true conservative that spoke on the issue, the economy will recover with the passage of time because we have the greatest economy ever devised.  The needless money will be distributed, strapping the next ten generations with debt that they will never repay but of course, the Obama administration will take the credit, the news media will give him the credit and the One will have saved the world from destruction.  Absolute garbage. 

   The Republican bank plan is just as bad.  Banks that received TARP money are not lending it or they are spending it on bonuses for their wonderful administrators.  Money continues to be straight jacket tight and not accessible to most who need it, never mind want it.  As predicted by conservatives, it won’t do anything in a timely fashion to exhibit the change sold to Congress and the public.  But the housing market is still improving, financed mostly by banks who didn’t receive any TARP funds.  Who’d have thunk it!

   But now, let’s allow government to run healthcare because its track record past and present is so good.  I easily join the chorus that says it’s not going to work.  I have a successful Canadian business friend who says he is enjoying watching the once powerful U.S. attempt to implement the socialistic systems that their government did and now are trying desperately to get rid of.  Getting rid of something the government starts is like believing that a tax will disappear once the need it was created to meet is completed.  It’s not going to happen.  Add to the list, the Democratic claims of the past fifteen years that all conservatives are doing is whining to the wind when we warned that Social Security and Medicare will  be bankrupt.  Never happen they said.  We’ll borrow the money from Social Security.  It’s O.K.  We’ll be able to pay it back.  Now their own Democratic Reporting Bureaus say in four years they will both be out of money.  Wow!  Didn’t see that coming.  Four years is when the greatest number of baby boomers will be entitled, their term not mine, to receive these benefits.  Keep in mind, President Obama said emphatically, under my plan no one who makes less than $250,000 will experience one dollar of tax increase during my administration (paraphrase).  So, no one in that income bracket will pay the necessary tax increases to provide the aforementioned benefits, or none of them smoke so they won’t have to pay the taxes proposed on smokers, or none of them use electricity whose rates will go up dramatically with his Cap proposals?

  Who can you believe?  Likely no one whose been in government long enough to be initiated into the way things are done around here and if they don’t buy in, they are blackballed to obscurity.  Maybe term limits have some value after all.

About a month ago, ABC News committed a flagrant act of journalism, something you won’t hear me say very often, when they reported on the remarkable pork spending at the John Mertha Airport in Pennsylvania.  Literally millions of dollars of tax money have been spent on an airport that serves twenty passengers a day, no lie, an average of twenty passengers a day.  Despite this fact, this airport has a reinforced runway that is long enough and strong enough to handle any of the largest jets that fly in the continental U.S.  Of course, they never fly there but they could.  Don”t ask the obvious why, that would be requiring a common sense check.  It’s named after the Democratic Congressman, John M. Mertha, from Pennsylvania, who is arguably the greatest pork vendor in Congress.  Three flights a day to Washington D.C., with every ticket on every flight being subsidised by our tax money. 

   Despite this expose, yesterday the FAA approved $800,000 of stimulus money for this airport, to resurface an alternate runway at the sight.   Why do they even need an alternate runway?  Common sense again.  Stimulating the economy or buying more votes for Mertha?  About $50 million total during Mertha’s tenure and still counting.  I’m glad the Obama administration is monitoring stimulus dollars so closely that none of it is being wasted.  You and I will never know how much has just been flushed down the toilet in the time it took me to write this.  Transparency and responsibility promised but not being delivered.  What a surprise.