Okay, so Obama’s fly swatting thing was pretty cool. It was translated into the ridiculous by PETA having to make a stupid statement about it.
North Korea has been even more aggressive in its puruit of nuclear capabilities. On the one hand, North Korea does this from time to time, making noise, trying to force the US and the rest of the world to the negotiating table so they can get something for nothing. It is not quite as serious as it may seem.
On the other hand, any country led by a dude who propagates a god-like myth about his own birth, and is not only a communist dictator but worshipped like an idol, he’s just crazy enough to use those weapons while he starves his own people into mass graves.
But we shouldn’t call him “evil” … that would just be mean.
Not sure how much of a coincidence it is, but Obama has had to deal with a much more aggressive North Korea than Bush did. Could be just timing of capabilities and other things (like a more conservative government in South Korea), and we probably shouldn’t make too much out of it, but interesting nonetheless.
Funny that Kim Jong Il is firing weapons at us with the nuclear capabilities given to him by his good friend, Bill Clinton.
One last ironic thought, and proof of Kim Jong Il’s craziness, is he keeps firing off missles at our allies (and possibly soon the United States itself) and then saying, “Don’t attack me.”
I think a diplomatic rolling of the eyes is appropriate.
Moving on to Iran, wouldn’t surprise me if Ahmadinejad rigged that election. That’s what dictators do, right?
Obama has gotten some flak, even from his own party, for not being supportive enough of oppressive-free elections in Iran. It is rather curious that he won’t make stronger statements in support of justice and freedom for all in Iran. Guessing at his motivations doesn’t really help, but it is curious.
One of the things that bothers me, though, is the hypocrisy of the front page headlines about the problems with elections in Iran and almost nothing for the last few months from the same media as to the widespread liberal voter fraud that happened in this country. ACORN was convicted of voter fraud recently, and the stories abound … just not reported by CNN and other major networks. In fact, they are marginalized. You know who got millions of dollars from Obama’s “stimulus” package? ACORN.
We’ll never know how much the liberal fraud affected the outcome of the presidential or even senatorial elections because the only one who will touch it is Fox News, and then that network gets the “conservative propaganda machine” name calling when they try to do something as inconvenient as report facts inconsistent with the liberal agenda.
I guarantee, if a conservative group had been convicted of voter fraud and Bush had passed a bill giving them millions of dollars, the outrage would have made Alec Baldwin blow a heart valve and been broadcast 24/7 everywhere, even Fox News, as the next Watergate. The journalists breaking the story would receive Nobel Prizes.
Obama signs the biggest anti-smoking bill ever in America. Okay. Fine. Anyone else think it’s weird that he won’t stand up and support freedom and justice in Iran, we can kill the unborn at will, but we’re gonna stop all that smoking of cigarettes, by God! I do.
A quick note on health care stuff. I was hoping to do a little more research to cover this more extensively, but basically I feel there does need to be some major regulation and restructuring of our health care system. Unfortunately it is left to the Democrats to overspend and mismanage to solve this problem since the Republicans keep repeating the mantra “free market!” and refuse to deal with the real issue.
Health care in America is not a “free market” now. And the major reason for this is the health insurance industry. Coupled with wasteful litigation, health care costs have risen out of control. We’ve got great doctors, providers, professionals and technology, but access is limited by cost. Even people with “full coverage” go bankrupt if they have a major health issue. It is very common.
So I would support a government run health care system that deals with those two issues well, insurance companies and wasteful litigation. Other countries have it and it works okay, but I am seriously pessimistic that the Democrats we have before us have the cahones to restructure our whole health care system when they financially indebted to insurance companies (anyone realize that AIG was the first bailout and that AIG insures Congressional pensions?) and most of those Senators, and our president, are lawyers. Putting all those people out of business during a major recession where unemployment is about to hit 10% probably won’t happen.
So what the Democrats will end up doing, I feel, is overtaxing to pay for a system that’s already broken instead of cutting it out at the root and redesigning it. This Democratic White House and regime has already proven that they will overpay for really bad planning. I hope they prove me wrong.
Peace.