Monday, December 4, 2017

On the Claim by Some that In the Middle of a National Crisis, Necessity Sometimes Overrides Law and the Executive Branch Can Do as it Pleases to Maintain Social Order, etc. (Including but Not Limited to Interference with the Other Two Branches and the Assuming of Powers Nowhere Mentioned In the Constitution)

Total bullshit in that as the esteemed historian, Clinton Rossiter, first pointed out decades ago, "The Constitution looks to the maintenance of the pattern of regular government in even the most strident of crisis." Of course being that we've had Republicans such as Lincoln, TR, Nixon, and the two Bushes and Democrats such as Wilson, FDR, LBJ, and Obama who have so repeatedly decided to eschew the Constitution, it only looks good on paper, I guess.

On the Fact that Eastern European Countries Like Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic Seem Very Hesitant to Bring In a Boatload of Muslim Immigrants

Maybe it's because they have a fresher recollection of what it's like to live under totalitarianism and being that Islam is a wicked and totalitarian ideology (as opposed to simply a religion), they are more than willing to take a pass on this "experiment". That would be my guess anyway.

Sunday, December 3, 2017

On Susan Sarandon Having the Audacity to Proffer the Obvious (i.e., that Hillary Clinton Is a Worthless, Corrupt, and War-Mongering Corporatist Swine) Only to Get Shamed Mercilessly by Her Fellow Hollywood Leftists

I don't agree with Sarandon on much (the woman voted for Jill Stein, a woman whose policies if we adapted them would result in the deaths of millions worldwide) but the fact that she had the balls to stare Satan in the eye and not blink, major props to the gal.

On the Fact that Even Though the Only True and Legitimate Reason for Waging War Is to Defend One's Homes, Churches, Graveyards, etc., from an Invading Force, the U.S. Hasn't Fought a War of this Sort In Over 200 Years (Concocting Instead Such Idiotic Rationales as "Preserving the Union", "Spreading Democracy", "Preventing the Spread of Communism", "Restoring the 'Legitimate' Government" to Places Such as Kuwait, South Vietnam, El Salvador, etc.)

It's sad and the fact that the leaders of these two corrupt and corrosive political parties of ours want to continue on this path makes me even more despondent.......From Thomas Jefferson to Dick Cheney.......Yeah, let that one sink in.

Saturday, December 2, 2017

On the Fact that (According to G.J.A. O'Toole's Masterpiece, "The Spanish War") None of the Rebel Cuban Generals Were Invited to Participate In the Surrender Proceedings of July 17th, 1898 (When the Spaniards Ceded Santiago to the U.S. and Cuban Contingents)

Yeah, what does that tell you? It tells me that the Spanish-American War had a shitload less to do with Cuban independence than it did with the spreading of American power and influence in the Caribbean (and ultimately in the Pacific)......and boy did it ever set the table, eh, folks?

On the late 19th Century Notion (and as Espoused by Such Imperialist Vermin as Teddy Roosevelt, Brooks Adams, Alfred Thayer Mahan, and Henry Cabot Lodge Sr.) that Absent a Robust and Expansionist Foreign Policy, America's Republican Institutions Would Shit the Bed and Our Prosperity Would Rapidly Vanish

So, is 120 years of abject failure (and, yes, I would consider WW2 a failure in that not only did we NOT liberate Poland, we essentially conceded all of Western Europe to 40 Years of slavery) sufficient evidence that this is pure bullshit............or do we need to keep killing people in order to "liberate" them?......Please, an answer.

On the Fact that One of President McKinley's Rationales for Occupying the Philippines Was to "Educate, Uplift, and Christianize" the Island's Inhabitants

Yeah, I'm gonna go with a) the Philippines was already largely Roman Catholic, b) it isn't our damned job to do any of these things, and c) how in the hell is slaughtering a quarter million Filipinos in any way "uplifting?......and simply leave it there.