Rick Sanchez was fired this week after launching into a tirade that labeled Jon Stewart and “elite, Northeastern establishment liberals” as “bigots.” Rick believes because he is Cuban-American and was raised in Miami that he is treated like a “second-tier” person and anchor. Thank you Rick Sanchez, for pointing out publicly something we already knew: racism comes from the left too.
Koran Burning
Muslims everywhere are up in arms about this Koran burning Pastor Jones of Florida is organizing for tomorrow.
Let us strike a deal with them: We won’t burn their Koran when they don’t burn the Bible or the American flag.
There in lies the problem: It is always OK to destroy crosses and burn the Bible and condemn the Great Satan (note the date on that link is September 9, 2010). But it is never OK to burn the Koran, criticize how Islam treats women, or mock Mohammed. Muslims are an arrogant people who cannot stand any affront to their “prestige” and self-proclaimed “holiness”.
The reality is Muslims are just as blinded to their own stupidity and double standard on these issues as most religious and legalistic hypocrites are. They all know that mockery exposes who they really are. They must protect themselves from mockery by scaring everyone who may mock them into silence through intimidation (readfatwas and murder). Such savage ruthlessness and narcissism cannot be ignored.
We must mock Islam. ”But Jared, we may be threatened and killed!” Yes, it is a risk (one Secretary Gates understandably does not wish to take with the lives of American soldiers). Listen carefully: Narcissists have an elitist, egotistical, and grandiose view of themselves. This presentation of themselves is intimidating (ask anyone who is told by a fundamentalist Baptist that drinking alcohol is a sin and they’ll know what you are talking about) and completely exposes the goal of Islam: your submission to their rules.
So how to you repel and deflate a narcissistic bully? Mockery. What a Muslim really dreads, more than anything else, is feeling inferior. They lack any and all self-esteem (if you tend to think self-esteem is a load of bull, then translate “self-esteem” into “self-worth from being made in the image of God”) and cannot stand any humiliation. Submission only emboldens them. Humiliation awakens them to their real state.
That said, burning a Koran by Pastor Jones in Florida is a great thing for Islam. Their reaction to mockery exposes the stupidity of their beliefs and “nazi” reaction to this mockery. Mockery (and humiliation) will free them from this bondage by showing them what they have become.
8th Congressional District Thought
First, I want to congratulate Stephen Fincher on securing the Republican nomination for the 8th Congressional District of Tennessee. Second, I want to chastise voters in Madison County. Only 19,000 of you voted and there were more than 60,000 registered voters. Really? That is pathetic turnout.
Third, I want to chastise all of the 8th district voters who voted for George Flinn. The man spent $5 million dollars to run, including $4.6 million in advertising, but did not even move to the district. George Flinn could not vote for himself, why would you vote for him? This should have been a 2 horse race and even then, did anyone really think Kirkland would beat Fincher?
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Obama’s Presidential Problem
I want to direct you, my loyal reader, to a blog post Dr. Sean Evans recently wrote (also published in the June 25th edition of the Jackson Sun). In this post he reminds us that the Presidency is still, constitutionally, a limited office. He does not have the power to command (outside his power as Commander-in-Chief) and, as Richard Neustadt, the most famous Presidential political scientist points out, can only truly persuade.
Therein lies President Obama’s problem. He came in with high expectations and it appears the idea that the presidency was an office he could use to command his directives, such as health care reform, cap and trade, and more. What we have rediscovered (and the president has probably learned) is that the power of the President is not the power to command, but the power to persuade. He cannot command cap and trade and it come into being (which is why it is dead in the Senate), nor can he command the Supreme Court to rule like he wants them to (see Citizens United). The president can only try and persuade Congress (and the American people) to do what he wants (or he can hide the true contents of bills from them because he is afraid of what happens when people discover what is in the bill).
Which is why President Obama is in a huge bind, as Dr. Evans points out. His high expectations require him to be able to command, something the Presidency is not constitutionally able to do. Since he cannot command, he falls far short of expectations, and then finds himself where he is now: on the wrong side of public opinion and possibly on the wrong side of history.
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Where is the annual Social Security Report?
Sitting somewhere in President Obama’s desk, hidden away as far as it can be, is my guess.
Every year, the Annual Report of the Social Security Board of Trustees comes out between mid-April and mid-May. Now it’s July, and there’s no sign of this year’s report. What is the Obama administration hiding?
Obamacare’s impact on Medicare is most likely. This report details not only the condition of Social Security (which, let us be honest, it not taken out of your check to pay you back later, but for Washington’s own spending priorities) and Medicare, which Obamacare is going to thoroughly cripple. Obamacare made steep cuts to Medicare and the fact that this report is not yet out tells this voter everything he needs to know about what President Obama has done to the health care system.
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