When Conservative and Liberal Philosophies Are Implemented By Humans Bent on Illogical Thinking and Empirically Unsound Actions Things Always Go Awry! HARVEY!

One day soon it will dawn on our feckless western leaders what they have known all along but were unwilling to admit - we are and have been at war with radicals who have co-opted a violent religion.

As these leaders begin to awake the question is, is it too late?

This from an Australian, Larry Pickering!  (See 1 below and the video is very graphic.)
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Then a message from Ed Lasky!

When it comes to assessing blame for where we find ourselves we find every leader of and politician in both parties point fingers and are just as guilty of what they accuse their counterparts - there is enough blame to go round.

We were warned early on by some of  our nation's Founding Fathers, political parties would ultimately be the destruction of our Republic.

I personally embrace the philosophical principles of Conservatism but am willing to acknowledge that some aspects of  Liberal philosophy have merit and smoothe the harsher consequences of literal Conservatism. That said, neither philosophy works when executed by those who stray from the message and implement what has proven illogical, empirically unsound and totally self-serving (See 1a below.)
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We have house guests this weekend. The husband is a dear friend of well over 20 years, spoke for me twice when I was doing The JEA Speaker Series.

I asked him to give a similar presentation to the parents of children enrolled at The Savannah Classical Academy.  He did so last night to an audience of about 100 or so parents and his presentation was not only well received but also probably an eye opener in many ways because Harvey believes once you learn the game of life you can become whatever your God given talents allow you to be if you make the  effort and then proceed to implement your choices.

After his presentation we had dinner and Harvey and I launched into a political discussion as we always do.

Harvey scans my memos, believes I would be more effective if I did not make personal attacks on Obama and simply explained why I disagree with many, if not all, of his actions and policies.  Harvey also believes I hate Obama.

Harvey praised my memo about our Norman Rockwell Trip To Alma, volunteered it was a classic and then said when I ended it with political commentary it all went down hill.

I plead guilty to his first charge but not the second. I do not hate Obama. I hate what he is doing to our nation, I hate the fact that he tells us one thing and proceeds to do another and I am in total disagreement with his leadership style which I find disingenuous.  I believe Obama's view of America is warped and misguided having  been shaped by previous associations with radicals and  a confused youth and family situation etc..

Harvey is black and has walked the talk.  He is compassionate but I also believe he lives in a time warp shaped by his earlier experiences when he personally fought for Civil Rights and it 'color' his thinking.  Harvey distrusts the wealthy and Conservatives. The wonderful thing about our relationship is we love and respect each other, have a lot of fun challenging each other's thinking and our friendship transcends any differences.  That said, Harvey knows he is wrong and Lynn tells him he can't possibly believe half of what he says and that he does so simply to be a burr under my saddle.

Thanks for coming Harvey, for always trying to make me a better person and I hope I live long enough for you to see the light.

As for Harvey's wife, Kita, she sits silently and just shakes her head when he gets on his soap box!

This afternoon we will renew our tennis association and I told him I cannot run and then tonight we will have dinner with friends from all walks of life and political persuasion. Should make for a fun evening.
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NOW CHOOSE YOUR ENEMY

...because your enemy has already chosen you

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Abbott’s eyes tell the story. It’s bad, it’s evil, it’s vile and abhorrent ... and it’s Islam. World leaders are slowly coming to realise what for so long they have desperately tried to deny. No longer can they refuse to accept the obvious. Islam feeds off weakness and it has grown stronger and bolder on our reluctance to face its pixelised atrocities.

Whether radical, extreme or moderate, it’s still Islam from the same Koran, taught by the same clerics from the same mosques and clerics don’t get to be clerics through moderation. It’s time we rejected the apologists for Islam.

No religion in history has contributed so little and taken so much, and now it’s time to take it back.

In 2001, there were 280,000 Muslims in Australia (1.5% of the population) 36% of whom were born here. In 2013 there were almost 500,000 with 85% having been born here and an incredible 44% aged 20 or under.

There are 373 mosques in Australia with many more under construction or awaiting Green infiltrated council approval, while the Left and Islamic leaders object to telcos being asked to hold metadata for a lousy two years. Why would that be? Do they not want to leave tracks?

Banks are embracing hideous Sharia law because of the billions of dollars pouring from oil-rich Islamic States like Saudi Arabia, but you cannot expect any less from banks.

Sharia is the pure form of Islam, watered down versions are simply biding their time, they are prepared to wait for the global caliphate they were promised.

Under an Islamic caliphate those Muslims who do not accept the pure form of Islam are slaughtered, as has been the case in Iraq. As with Christianity, competing variations of the same faith are the real enemy, apostasy and atheism are ripe for conversion.

Catholicism may covet your mind but it won’t slaughter its brothers to achieve it. Christianity will lose to Islam and only determined political will can destroy it.

Australia, per capita, has the fastest growing Muslim population of all developed nations. Last year, more than 10,000 of NSW students were enrolled in Islamic schools, four times the number enrolled in 1998.

The number of Muslim children aged between five and 14 in NSW increased by more than 20% in the five years between 2006 and 2011, according to the most recent census data. Suburban Sydney is the political and religious centre of Australian Islam.

While some of Sydney's private schools charge up to $30,000 a year per student, Islamic school fees are between $1000 and $3000 a year with more than a dozen Islamic organisations receiving generous government assistance beyond normal education grants.

Islamic schools will benefit the most from Gillard’s Gonski funding, given they have a higher proportion of students with language backgrounds other than English.

The looming problem is the increasing number of terrorist related crimes which are invariably Islam-based and cannot be dealt with by deportation because they will be committed by home-grown Muslims.

If we were to stop all Islamic immigration right now, the problem will still become exponentially greater each year with the existing population.

What we can and must do is recognise the threat we face from Islam-based organisations and deal with them before they deal with us.

Islam has proved itself a dangerous cult world-wide. It infiltrates and seeks to destroy our way of life from within and under the guise of multiculturalism. It takes and never gives.

It should be no surprise that the murderer of James Foley has an English accent. Thousands of young Muslims from Europe have gone to join the Islamic State in killing their Shia brothers and Christian enemies. Over 150 from Australia, 900 from France, 200 from Belgium and over 1,000 from the UK have left their Islamic ghettos with the blessing and applause of friends and family.

Thousands more have joined the fight from Scandinavia and other European countries.

To do nothing is to allow a sophisticated Islamic terrorist State dedicated to destroying the West to evolve unimpeded.

In Islam, jihad is a religious obligation. It forms part of the duties a Muslim must fulfil. This instruction is repeated ad nauseum in the Koran. How much more evidence do we need?

The international solution is simple. A coalition of the willing must destroy the Islamic State immediately, preventing its entrenchment. It can be done quickly with ground troops supported by air strikes.

Arm the Kurds who, unlike Iraqis, will fight and not run. Drive the Islamic State back into Syria and stop arming them.

Stop trying to kill Bashar Assad and use him and his ally, Vladimir Putin, to continue to try to rid Syria and the Levant of these Islamic vermin. There is no other way.

Obama created this mess and now he must have the humility to join Russia and Syria in mending it.

Back home in Australia, Islam should be declared a dangerous cult, the proliferation of mosques must be stopped. Halal certification of our foods must be outlawed (it’s an illegal protection racket not even the Mafia got away with and it’s financing terrorism) the 87% of Healthy Muslims who are on disability pensions and welfare must be removed from the gravy train and clerics who preach violence (they all do) must be deported or prosecuted and jailed.

No Australian child should be educated in any language other than English.

No Islamic leader should be expected to, or asked to, “reform” Islam’s youth... it is they who created Islam’s youth. Don’t ask for their assistance, deport them.

There I’ve said again what I’ve been saying for six years and now it may be too late. But there is a belated tsunami of opposition welling up to defeat the Islamic cancer.

James Foley has become a catalyst and political parties are being formed but they risk charges of extremism from both major Parties who will simply preference them out of existence while encouraging flippant fools like Palmer and Lambie.

But you can smell the anger and when the Australian heartland is awoken from its “she’ll be right” slumber, prepare for a bitter fight to the end... we’ve done it before.

The Islamic State wants you to see this video because it wants to weaken your resolve. I want you to see it because as an Australian it will make you stronger.

http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/temp.html?i=bc1_1408481278

1a)  Obama and Reid's machine will damage us for decades

By Ed Lasky

The Democrats’ plan to dominate at least one key branch of government is rolling out fine for them.  When Harry Reid went nuclear and eliminated the filibuster for federal judges, Obama’s left-wing judicial nominees were readily approved by the Democratic-dominated Senate. These are judges -- some on key courts that rule on the legality of not just laws but regulations -- who serve life-time tenures. They will solidify the agenda of Obama for years after he leaves office.

I wrote about this ploy and other steps taken by Obama and Democrats to extend their rule in Obama and the Dems Plot To Control America. Burgess Everett reports on their progress to date in Politico:

Since Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) changed Senate rules in November to ease President Barack Obama’s approval of most nominees, Democrats have churned through confirmations of dozens of new judges — giving them lifetime appointments that will extend the administration’s influence for years to come. Over a roughly equivalent period during the 113th Congress, the Senate confirmed 36 district and circuit judges before the rules change and 68 after, according to

Senate statistics.

Republicans have fought Democrats at every step, using their remaining procedural tools to stymie quick approval of judges and many executive branch nominees whose sway over regulations are magnified by today’s congressional stalemate. But the days of epic confirmation fights are over now because all nominees — save for those to the Supreme Court — need only a bare majority for approval after Democrats used the unilateral “nuclear option” to change the rules.

Now, Obama is catching up to the judicial confirmation records of his immediate predecessors and recasting the balance of the courts. Far more important than the minuscule number of major new laws this Congress, Democrats say, will be the installation of liberal-leaning justices up and down the bench.

“The rules change has made a huge difference,” said Marge Baker, a vice president at People for the American Way. “The legacy of this Congress has been the impact that the president and the Senate have made with judicial vacancies.” (snip)

Republicans don’t dispute that some key nominees would have been defeated under the old rules. Instead they highlight changes in balance of power: The Senate had long stood as a counter to the president; now the chamber processes Obama’s choices with little scrutiny.

“It’s empowered Obama and has taken power away from elected representatives that could offer a check on Obama,” said a Senate Republican aide.

Liberals are pushing for the retirement of senior Supreme Court Justices so Obama and Reid can plant even more liberal justices to the highest court of the land.

Recent polls highlight a large majority of Americans oppose further executive overreach by Obama. Obama’s takeover of the federal judiciary would potentially be among his greatest grabs for power -- a power he will gleefully see exercised as he makes millions giving speeches, setting up a charitable foundation (a la Bill Clinton) and golfing after his second term is over.

Democrats worry that a Republican takeover of the Senate in January will derail their plans:

The focus on nominations underscores the fears that Republicans will win the Senate and close the confirmation door to Obama.

“I’m sure they will shut it down. That’s why we’re launching everyone through,” said a Democratic leadership aide. “Even if we’re still in the majority, we’ll probably spend a lot of time in the lame duck on the nominees.”

Democrats are anticipating that their legacy may be defined sooner rather than later. Reid has joked about the “simple math” that gives Democrats the edge on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, deemed by most legal watchers to be second only to the Supreme Court in legal impact and precedent.

That court was the focal point of Democrats’ decision to lower the voting bar from 60 to a simple majority after the GOP rejected three of Obama’s picks last fall for the then-evenly split court. Now, Democratic appointees are in the majority, which will affect legal challenges to the president on laws like Affordable Care Act.

This highlights the vital importance of winning the Senate to serve as a block on further Obama overreach.

Time to shut the Democrats down.

The Democrats’ plan to dominate at least one key branch of government is rolling out fine for them.  When Harry Reid went nuclear and eliminated the filibuster for federal judges, Obama’s left-wing judicial nominees were readily approved by the Democratic-dominated Senate. These are judges -- some on key courts that rule on the legality of not just laws but regulations -- who serve life-time tenures. They will solidify the agenda of Obama for years after he leaves office.

I wrote about this ploy and other steps taken by Obama and Democrats to extend their rule in Obama and the Dems Plot To Control America. Burgess Everett reports on their progress to date in Politico:

Since Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) changed Senate rules in November to ease President Barack Obama’s approval of most nominees, Democrats have churned through confirmations of dozens of new judges — giving them lifetime appointments that will extend the administration’s influence for years to come. Over a roughly equivalent period during the 113th Congress, the Senate confirmed 36 district and circuit judges before the rules change and 68 after, according to Senate statistics.

Republicans have fought Democrats at every step, using their remaining procedural tools to stymie quick approval of judges and many executive branch nominees whose sway over regulations are magnified by today’s congressional stalemate. But the days of epic confirmation fights are over now because all nominees — save for those to the Supreme Court — need only a bare majority for approval after Democrats used the unilateral “nuclear option” to change the rules.

Now, Obama is catching up to the judicial confirmation records of his immediate predecessors and recasting the balance of the courts. Far more important than the minuscule number of major new laws this Congress, Democrats say, will be the installation of liberal-leaning justices up and down the bench.

“The rules change has made a huge difference,” said Marge Baker, a vice president at People for the American Way. “The legacy of this Congress has been the impact that the president and the Senate have made with judicial vacancies.” (snip)

Republicans don’t dispute that some key nominees would have been defeated under the old rules. Instead they highlight changes in balance of power: The Senate had long stood as a counter to the president; now the chamber processes Obama’s choices with little scrutiny.

“It’s empowered Obama and has taken power away from elected representatives that could offer a check on Obama,” said a Senate Republican aide.

Liberals are pushing for the retirement of senior Supreme Court Justices so Obama and Reid can plant even more liberal justices to the highest court of the land.

Recent polls highlight a large majority of Americans oppose further executive overreach by Obama. Obama’s takeover of the federal judiciary would potentially be among his greatest grabs for power -- a power he will gleefully see exercised as he makes millions giving speeches, setting up a charitable foundation (a la Bill Clinton) and golfing after his second term is over.

Democrats worry that a Republican takeover of the Senate in January will derail their plans:

The focus on nominations underscores the fears that Republicans will win the Senate and close the confirmation door to Obama.

“I’m sure they will shut it down. That’s why we’re launching everyone through,” said a Democratic leadership aide. “Even if we’re still in the majority, we’ll probably spend a lot of time in the lame duck on the nominees.”

Democrats are anticipating that their legacy may be defined sooner rather than later. Reid has joked about the “simple math” that gives Democrats the edge on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, deemed by most legal watchers to be second only to the Supreme Court in legal impact and precedent.

That court was the focal point of Democrats’ decision to lower the voting bar from 60 to a simple majority after the GOP rejected three of Obama’s picks last fall for the then-evenly split court. Now, Democratic appointees are in the majority, which will affect legal challenges to the president on laws like Affordable Care Act.

This highlights the vital importance of winning the Senate to serve as a block on further Obama overreach.

Time to shut the Democrats down
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