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IT'S A TERRORIST, NOT A TRAGEDIST

Here's to making history, thanks to the Attorney General Eric Holder:

The self-proclaimed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks Khalid Sheikh Mohammed along with four alleged co-conspirators are to be brought to New York City to stand trial instead of being tried as the enemy combatants that they are in a swift military tribunal.

Okay, never mind the 'swift' part because that ain't happening—remember the circus trial of terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui?

The 'greatest justice system' in the world, in the absence of a better one, will see to it that they drag this thing out and create a wild spectacle for all the world to see and for the American haters to spin and propagandize at tax payers’ expense. What I believe the Obama-Holder administration hopes to do is to put the Bush administration and the CIA on trial and create a spectacle that detracts from the administration's own woes at present. Why are we in any case, treating murderers with such benevolence and a rather indulgent air?

You can brow-beat the Bush-Cheney administration all day long and whine about how they are culpable that we are where we are, but at some point, you have to stand on your own accomplishments at least before the 2010 mid-term elections.

Here’s to the Obama administration, mere trifles, that the Nobel Peace Prize elite too intoxicated on “the magic of hope” juice missed: racking up a record of super high deficits; more reckless spending proposals; 10% unemployment; a deteriorating situation in Afghanistan bogged down by the president's signature indecision; an economic stimulus pack that cost billions but has done little if anything in stimulating the economy—Unless you are counting the government contract that is not self sustaining and shows up for three weeks, tweaks the job growth figures and quickly vanishes into thin air leaving behind a trail of dead private sector jobs; a deep commitment by the administration to call a clearly terrorist act by an Islamic fanatic Army Major Nidal Hasan that murdered innocent people "a tragedy", and at all costs obliterate the word "terror" when lives are being lost. Shouting "Allahu Akbar" before commencing a shooting murderous spree is a jihadist battle cry, Mr. AG...put that on a 3x5 for future reference.

When is the last time we had one of the scores of doctors and psychiatrists who deal with all kinds of pressure get up and murder innocent people because they snapped? And while we are at it, Mr. Joe Kleine of Time magazine, there are no "odious attempts by Jewish extremists . . . to argue that the massacre perpetrated by Nidal Hasan was somehow a direct consequence of his Islamic beliefs." Bashing the Jews always works doesn’t it? Let's keep an eye out for all those Hare Krishna suicide bombers in "ignoring the obvious 101".

I would counsel the House and the Senate to ask Virginia and New Jersey: the melting wax from the wings of Icarus may sting a wee bit much.

Taking this trial to civilian court and showering these terrorists with full constitutional rights which they are not entitled to is a flat out bad idea not to mention unnecessary and irresponsible. Of course they will milk this for all it's worth and with the aid of dishonest lawyers that I will pay for, bring from the dead all kinds of technicalities and you must know the ACLU if foaming at the mouth at this one. With lawyers who haunt Manhattan coffeehouses with no sense of war and no battle scars of anything, save the trauma of encountering an improperly labeled 'very hot' Starbucks caffè latte, throwing out some of the terrorists confessions due to a trifling thing like the fact that we did not mirandize the bastards, who are not entitled to Miranda rights neither do they deserve them, is but a sinister gesture of things to come.

If the Attorney General wants to find impartial jurors in New York City, he needs to have the trial at the studios of NBC News; that's where terrorists are treated with kid gloves and given every benefit of the doubt over the US military.

Mr. Attorney General Holder, here's how to make history that lives on in non-infamy...Read about the Nuremberg trials also known affectionately as tribunals—a word at whose utterance NBC, CBS, ABC and CNN anchors choke themselves into convulsions, oh! how un-nice we are. These tribunals prosecuted prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany after its defeat in World War II.

It's not about New York City being able to host the trials, New York City can host anything they want but majority of the New Yorkers don’t want this. It's about what is in the best interest of the country and the war on terror or as you would call it, the tragedy of the confusion of people whose religion I would rather not mention snapping and killing innocent people here and abroad. Ever noticed that the terrorists are never bashful about proclaiming their religion or taking responsibility for terror attacks that succeed or come close?

It's about what is in the best interest of those that tragically lost loved ones on 9/11 and it definitely is about not creating opportunities that will expose classified information that helped the Bush administration or any other administration before that in keeping this nation safe from extremists.

Nobody in New York, except at the NBC studios, wants to exercise their fascination with a terrorist at close range. There is sterling stuff in New York and throwing in a terrorist for good measure is a nebulous brave insult.

In this oh, so awkward struggle between common sense and reckless injustice, my desire to give this administration the benefit of the doubt is beginning to forsake me. The assiduity of this administration to heap insult on injury is becoming very difficult to rationalize.

As for the backpedaling and dire warnings to not rush to any quick judgments of actions by terrorists and tiptoeing around words and the fear of offending murderers, our fearless leaders sure have Sir Lancelot whipped to a custard.

The message seems clear enough to any terrorists that may be thinking of making an escape from the clutches of the Obama-Holder munificence: give it up. This is as close to Christmas as a terrorist comes. For now we watch with silent disapprobation at the actions of our Attorney General that seem to rip all sensibility into a million shreds whilst our dear president is out in Asia, safe from the backlash against his Attorney General and bowing to God only knows what.

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE......DID PEOPLE USE TO EARN THIS THING?

In a flurry of intentions, speeches, hopes, unsuccessful bids for Chicago 2016 and soft-ball press corp interviews all rising in crescendo to the Nobel Peace Prize. Now if we could just figure out how to build the ladder that was supposed to get us up there or perhaps we could just fly down.

1. Where's my Nobel Peace Prize? I am sure I have had some pretty off the wall intentions and I have given a couple of speeches too and I intent to give a whole lot more.
2. Mr. Obama was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize 12 days into his presidency: maybe he should be giving us classes on "how to win a Nobel Peace Prize in 12 days".
   
3. The new and improved Noble Hope Prize.
   
4. Let's hear it for all the armatures just about to be inducted into their 'hall of fame' of choice.
5. If CNN's Anderson Cooper thinks Obama's Peace Prize "was a joke" we really have problems.
6. Anybody whose last name is not "Bush", please send in your nominations: It's okay to nominate yourself.
   
7. You don't give people prizes before they have won them; Let's try this at the Olympics next time.
   
8. Our very own post-racial, post-accomplishment president judged on wishful thinking-Rush-
9. Next week is prizes for the people who intend to write a classical masterpiece.
   
10. Sunday night is prizes for those who intend on finding a cure for AIDS or whatever cure you really believe you will find.
    
11. Israel and Iran want to duke it out; China and Russia are emboldened; Iran's mad-man Ahmedinijad is on a joyride and North Korea's Kim Jong Il is dreaming up more nuke Ills.
    
12. This is so outlandish I have to laugh. I however wish the president well in all his intentions and efforts (how does one go about measuring intended effort?) but I am not betting on it. God save us all and help us all.
13. Oh, and the next guy in line to get this prize better step it waaay down. Let's keep the accomplishments down and step up the intentions and dreams and definitely on the the hope.
    
14. The president gets an award amidst his struggle over whether to expand the war in Afghanistan or not, preparations for a withdrawal of troops from Iraq, seeking the impetus to jump start the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, a way to get the world meaningfully involved in the task of stopping Iran's nuclear ambitions, a declining US dollar, an inordinately wanton increase in the public debt, a quagmire of the thousand page-plus unread health care legislation, pesky town-hollers and plunging poll numbers. The above is truly the stuff of hope and potential and betting, but out there in Oslo, they bet on nothing: they just go right ahead and give it to you!
15. I hope the president uses this unexpected gift of goodwill from whoever is supposed to have symbolically conferred it and rallies NATO, the Security Council and world to real action in defeating Islamic fanaticism in Central Asia and around the world, and a successful carryout to the finish of the eight year war against terror in Afghanistan. When the president chaired the UN Security Council last month, he neglected a golden opportunity to make the lives of the trigger-happy Iranian chief fraternity difficult. I hope he swings this peace pendulum momentum sharply, clearly and decisively and strikes while the iron is hot. Bottle up all this goodwill and give us some tangible, definable hope.
16. So, as the world sees hope in America's crystal ball in the hands of President Obama, and as the Americans at home find it preposterous and SNL it to death, we don't mean ill and it's not just in-auspicious; It's fatigue at the prospect sitting through yet another Obama speech, for the 200th time and listen to some more Nobel Peace Prize laced hopeandchange speech. It takes a lot more than grand oratory to vanquish in-auspiciousness. Action anyone?
    

The IOC Not Willing To Palter On Hopeandchange O'

Mr. President, America is not hoping for the Olympics in Richard Daley's Chicago for a chance to "inspire the world once more" as you said. Mayor Daley needs to focus his attention on getting Chicago out of the red and we are not holding our breath for the UN to pitch in and help fund the Olympics in the windy city.

The world is inspired by America being America every day. Freedom inspires one and all and America has not only demonstrated freedom but sacrificed and served millions of the world outside her borders towards the march to freedom from subjugation and despotism. It's not about you and your girls watching the Olympics from your backyard, Mr. President, and it's not about Oprah either.

This is a country that is proud and decent whether the world approves or not and we are tired once more of our president apologizing for only he knows what. This is not a country tenanted by smug conceited people, this is a fiercely egalitarian people; a fact that clearly bothers the president.

Mr. Obama's constant castigation of the American people and his magnanimity to the rest of the world seems to stir the former to renewed pugnacity. Maybe if we grovel to the IOC and the UN and the EU and the Iranian Ahmedinijad and Putin, maybe then, Mr. Obama will deem us worthy of his altruistic representation.

Go Rio!

Outrage!

How is ridiculing those who disagree with you promoting civil discourse and democracy? Barack Obama and the Democratic National Comittee are now suggesting that those who protest their Nationalized Health Care Plan are an "Angry Mob". Angry Mob you say? Thanks to Rahm Emmanuel and the DNC, Americans are getting a taste of politics "Chicago Style".

Calling ANY dissenter an "Angry Mob" sound a tad totalitarian to me: How is it not? you disagree, you are maligned, ridiculed, called a tea-bagger, a part of the problem, and don't forget, you are not being optimistic. If you have ever lived in a Country where the government runs everything including medicine, if you have ever cued for hours waiting for free health care from doctors who have no incentive to hurry up and help your sick child, you will not be very optimistic about a system like that. Ask the Europeans and Africans at least; they've got socialized medicine.

Here's what one of the protesters had to say: "I am a registered Democrat: why would you guys try to stuff a health-care bill down our throat in three to four weeks when the President took six months to pick a dog for his kids?"

Democrats are chastising anybody with an opinion that differs from theirs: The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has released an Ad calling protesters of the Health Bill "an Angry Mob". This administration is now directly attacking the American People that disagree with them: demonizing their opponents and stifling descent. Another word for stifle is repress. Maybe it's just me but the word repression, being used to describe an American Political Administration just does not sit right. Did I mention Chicago Style Politics?

Mr. Obama and his peeps do not seem to understand that Democracy is not one way, it is not from the top to the bottom, it is both ways. Mr. Obama is also not a King who speaks and nobody can challenge him: He is an American President, hired by those called "the Mob". Many of these enemies of socialized medicine are just as disgusted with the Republican Party as they are with the Democratic Party. Mr. Obama does not seem to understand that this is an organic grassroots rebellion by the American People who think that Health Care run by the government is a bad idea.

The President has yet to tell us how he intends to pay for this massive healthcare overhaul without plunging generations deeper into debt. While Mr. Obama promised transparency, fiscal responsibility, ethics and change, he seems to be delivering a lot of "fits" at anyone who opposes him. An American president who has no stomach for the opposition is an embarrassment to say the least! The American people are not a belligerent people: on the contrary, they can be very understanding. You cannot bully the American People into submission to your plan: Mr. Rahm may ram his way through, pun intended, but sooner or later an implosion is bound to occur-Depend on it.

Mr. President's Healthcare Push Collapse?

Mr. Oreilly: "Mr. Obama does not understand that freedom trumps ideological legislation"
I bet they don't teach that at Harvard Law School!

KENYANS INDIGNANT OVER THE OBAMA SNUB?

June 10th 2009 President Obama embarks on a trip to Accra, Ghana and other Africans nations minus Kenya. The President praised Ghana as a role model in true democracy, and some Kenyans were just not going to take this affront sitting down.

With a human rights records that is abysmal at best, the Kenyan leadership should know by now that US presidents have a thing for human rights: just ask Sadam Hussein.

In a country where it is who you are descended from that matters rather than your abilities, I can see why there is a misapprehension...if you can call it that.

Kenyans danced and hailed Mr. Obama as the true son and representation of Africa. While Mr. Obama waltzed his way into the White House as the first African American US President, they hailed him mostly for who he was and not for what he had accomplished to get to where he was. Now that President Obama is calling on Kenya to 'shape up', the luster of the son of the motherland is beginning to wane: now he is not all that magical after all.

They did not know if Obama was for bigger government of smaller government; they did not know if he was pro or anti-abortion; they did not know if he was for cap and trade or cap and not trade or just trade or maybe just cap... and they sure did not know that he was going to declare himself champion of the gay cause in America: they would have choked on that one.

They knew hardly anything about the man, his beliefs, his political persuasions and they sure were not trying to find out. They knew one thing: Obama was their own and that was enough. They offered their support as a patronage; after all, one good turn deserves another. Who you are is something Kenyans do well: forget what you can do or what you know, but who you are and who you know is your only hope for a better existence.

They cried 'foul!' when Obama said 'shape up or I won't show up'. Why, how dare he? When they supported him not for what he believed or did but for who he was.

Obama must have missed the memo that listed down the expectations to help 'his people' of Kenya because he was one of them, and please don't anyone bring up their attainments, pursuits or record as a nation.

The cry went out, "Help us Obama, because we knew your father, and we know your grandmother and we even know what district your father belongs to". Unfortunately, Mr. Obama was looking at "What are you doing as a nation for the good of your citizens for me to stop by and give you all that positive PR?

Now they say, Obama is not that extra-ordinary after all, he was just in the right place at the right time and we have thousands of other 'Obamas' in Kenya who are even more talented than 'the' Obama is. Furthermore, if this Obama doesn't work out, we'll just churn out another 'Obama'; we have more where that one came from. Yes, and so we can; We may if we can get rid of the crippling machine that is the corrupt system that suffocates everyone and everything and ties everybody up in red, green black and white tape.

Any admonition to do better as a Nation should not be a call to defensive arms, but a call to do better from those on the outside looking in.

According to Transparency International: the global coalition against corruption, Kenya ranks an appalling 147 out of 180, well behind Uganda, Ethiopia, Nigeria, India and Ghana which ranks 67. Well, some aide must have forgotten to alert Obama to remember not to look at such damning statistics and just come on out to Kenya and have a grand ol' time with the folks. Family is family right?

It is an indignity for millions to be subjected to an uncivil civil government whose wheels have to be greased by bribes else nothing gets done. It is unacceptable to dash the hopes of millions by promising change and delivering corruption and poverty decade after decade. It is the twenty first century in this brave new world and somewhere in Kenya, somebody has to fear for their lives for opposing a government that is a disgrace if not an outright sham.

So before coming down on president Obama for taking the Kenyan leadership to task for their horrid record on human rights, and before you write a scathing commentary on how you "Dont need Obama to show you how to make a great country"...yes, I read the Kenya Standard Newspaper July 10th 2009, thank you very much; Before you reprove him for articulating what is evident to the whole world, consider that Obama was not visiting to "show you how to style up"... He was asking a rather poignant long overdue question: What the hell is taking you decades to provide for your citizens a decent existence? This question has been asked by millions of Kenyans behind closed doors and many times in despair and even fear. Maybe it is a kindness for the President to ask it from the rooftops of the world. Maybe...just maybe he will shame you into 'styling up'.

The leaders of Kenya for decades have oppressed the average citizen who subsists on less than a dollar a day, while the members of parliament make more money than US congressmen.

Kenya is home to president Obama's father. Kenya is the land of Mr. Obama's ancestors... some of them at least; but Kenya is not the land of president Obama's work ethic. Barack Obama has had to work hard to become president of the United States of America, and making it through a grueling two years plus campaign across the US of A is no child's play. He worked hard and did not attain the presidency by wearing a T-shirt that says "I am from Kenya and I am brilliant". Whether you supported him or not, one would be overtly dishonest to say that Mr. Obama made it by chance or patronage. You get election landslides by hard work not tribal affiliations.

Pray, let the millions of brilliant Kenyans trapped in a decaying corrupt state and local government have the same opportunity that Mr. Obama had: the prospect to work hard and make it count.

After the 2007 disputed Kenyan election that was a display of greed, lust for power, a disrespect for basic human rights, cold blooded organized killings and a chilling reminder that freedom of anything in Kenya is limited to as long as you don't oppose a corrupt leadership too loudly.

In an interview not too long ago with allafrica.com, Mr. Obama said that Kenya's leaders "do not seem to be moving into a permanent reconciliation that would allow the country to move forward."

In Kenya the leaders are more concerned about being addressed as "Your Excellency", or "Honorable so and so" sheesh, even President Obama is not "His Excellency", he is Mr. President! And what excellency have you bestowed on 35 million people, O you few excellent ones?

The president also noted that the West Coast country of Ghana that he intends to visit "has now undergone a couple of successful elections in which power was transferred peacefully,"

Whilst president Bill Clinton's legacy in Africa was the Somalia Debacle and the abandoned Rwandan Tutsi to a hellish genocide, George W. Bush's legacy is extraordinary:

The 2003 launching of PEPFAR: America's initiative to combat the global HIV/AIDS epidemic.
$15billion was made available over five years with a goal of providing medical care for 19 million people with HIV mainly in Africa and the Caribbean.
PEPFAR succeeds by combining enormous amounts of money to fund drugs and broadens assistance beyond the individual with HIV by supplying medical equipment and training very many health care staff members and by helping put children from HIV homes through school.

By 2008 PEPFAR's budget in Kenya was about $535million. This supplied ARVs, food and microfinance so that people that are infected can still make a living.

The head of the PEPFAR programme in Nairobi, said of the distribution of this aid to the needy that resistance was NOT in Washington; "the people we have to push are the (Kenyan government)health officials".

President George W. Bush quietly tripled U.S. aid to Africa.

Another program in the Bush administration provided free bed nets in 15 African countries cutting malaria infections by half and saving the lives of millions of very young children. Malaria had been killing one million children under five years old every year.

Nobody danced on the streets of Nairobi and Kisumu, Kenya when George W. Bush was re-elected in 2004. Forget what George W. Bush did for Kenya: he was not 'one of us'...and forget what Obama intends to do or not do for Kenyans: he is 'one of us' and so the saga continues...

Mr. Barrack Muluka of the Kenya Standard: "Obama is only the latest custodian of American doublespeak"...Give me a break!