Ho-Hum … Romney’s In.

A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet

Well, Mitt Romney sealed the deal today.   He is officially in the race for the GOP nomination as the Republican candidate for President of the United States.  It is truly a shame that one person can delude himself as completely as Mr. Romney appears to have done.

Look, Mr. Romney may well win the nomination – but that is as far as he will go.

For any republican candidates to win against Obama in 2012 will require economic conditions so grim as to be practically unthinkable.  It will also take a humongous amount of money.  Plus, it will require the suspension of all doubt that Mr. Romney will stick to his positions after election.  Given his record of “flip-flops” there is more than ample reason for Americans to distrust his current position declarations.

Of course there is also ample reason t believe the national economy will, in the next few months crash and burn sending the US into a second, worse recession, or even a grinding depression.

We have a Congress scared witless.  One side is afraid that if they make the right decisions and take the necessary actions to save the American economy — they will not be reelected.  The other side believes that if they make the right decisions and take the necessary actions to save the American economy — they will not be reelected.  

See the conundrum here?  It smacks of a paradoxical problem, which is insoluble. — a Gordian knot, of sorts.  It presents the American people with a national unbelievable problem – a national dilemma. It is a complete meltdown of the legislative branch of the US government.

There is no solution on the horizon.  The Republicans have painted them selves into a corner, and the democrats have done the same.  What’s worse, they have entrenched within those static positions.  Any warrior will tell you that static positions are, by their nature, defensive. 

Frankly, the ongoing fight between the republicans and the democrats in the Congress reminds, very much, of two Bantam roosters fighting.  One is scared – and the other is glad of it!

All the while Obama is solidifying his grasp of victory in the 2012 elections.

Some will say I am being negative.  I would rebut by saying, I am looking at our national situation with a clear eye and I am conveying to you, as best I can, what I believe will be the results of the near total ineffectiveness of 535 grown men and women so wrapped up in themselves they have made a mockery of the legislative process in our government – and may, in fact, be the cause of the collapse of our system of government. 

Obama appears to believe much the same as I do concerning the total uselessness of our Congress.  He has made a fine art of simply by-passing the Congress to install his socialist/communist/environuts henchmen and henchwomen in to positions of power where their rules and regulations have the effect of law without ever touching the hoppers of the US House of Representatives or the US Senate. 

Obama has assumed the powers of a “Caesar.”  And it is precisely those powers that will ensure he is returned to his throne of power in the Oval Office in November of 2012.

It is times such as these when I fervently wish the US could call for new elections on the grounds of “no confidence” and clean the House and the Senate of the sycophants, the narcissists, the power-hungry, and the just plain corrupt.  But that is not our system of government.  Since Appomattox Courthouse, we Americans have had to live with our mistakes — or feel the weight of the mailed fist of the federal government and the cold steel of their bayonets as my Confederate ancestors did.

“…The times that try men’s souls …” have returned – with a vengeance!  The days ahead are going to call for courage above and beyond that which has been required of Americans in a very long time.  And, I firmly believe the period of America’s degradation will last at least a generation (approximately 30 years).  This generation of Americans will ultimately pay a price unheard of in modern times for our redefining of America’s mission to this world.  In my opinion, the Obama Administration is the vanguard of all the evil that is about to befall the people of America.  And, I believe we are stuck with him for another 5-1/2 years.

J. D. Longstreet

The Curse on America?

A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet

Just days after Obama insisted Israel must give up lands it won through military victory with its enemies, some 200 people were killed by a tornado in Joplin, Mo.

There’s a pattern here.

We saw it in Katrina, when George Bush forced Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza. In fact, as everyone from Israeli rabbis to U.S. senators have noted, it seems to happen every single time the U.S. pressures Israel to divide the land.

The phenomenon was best documented by Bill Koenig, author of “Eye to Eye: Facing the Consequences of Dividing Israel.”

Koenig points out that nine of the 10 costliest insurance events in U.S. history followed dramatic calls by U.S. officials for Israel to make land concessions in bids for peace with its neighbors. He points out with startling detail how six of the seven costliest hurricanes in U.S. history followed such events. He points out how three of the four largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history followed such developments.
Earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, even terrorist attacks have hit America often within 24 hours of calls by U.S. officials for Israel to withdraw from Jewish land. “ (SOURCE)

I reside in infamous Hurricane Alley. Here, on or near, the NC coast, we call it the “The Catcher’s Mitt.” If you look at a map of the NC coastline you will quickly see why.
Hurricane season officially opens June first. Given the record of natural devastation in the past few weeks, I expect we will have one of the worst hurricane seasons on record with record-breaking damage to the eastern seaboard of the United States. Of course, I always expect that. But this year, I am sorely afraid that Obama has given me more than ample reason to believe it will occur, for sure, this year.

It matters not one whit whether you believe all this, or not. One’s belief has no effect, one way, or the other, on the occurrence of future events. On the other hand, one’s actions could mean life or death.

In 2008 America demanded a leader just like all the other nations had/have. As God did, when The People when to Samuel and demanded a king like the other nations around them, God allowed America to have Obama. It was a lesson.

Israel came to curse the day Saul was named King. America, far more removed from God than ancient Israel, will, it seems, have to suffer far more punishment before we wake up to confront our national error in judgment — and set it straight.

In the meantime, it is reasonable, I believe, to expect our national catastrophes to grow worse.

J. D. Longstreet

Has Romney Been Chosen To Lose To Obama?

A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet

It is becoming clear (at least to me) that Mitt Romney will be the GOP’s choice to lose to Obama in November of 2012.

OK, before you blast me for speaking ill of another republican (In the spirit of full disclosure – I AM a republican.) if you haven’t already figured it out – I do not care for Mitt Romney, as a candidate for President of the United States.  Its not a big stretch for me… as I also did not care for his father, George Romney, when HE ran for President way back in 1968 … right up til he dropped out of the Primary in late February, or early March. 

“Two weeks before the March 12 primary, an internal poll showed Romney losing to Nixon by a six-to-one margin in New Hampshire. Rockefeller, seeing the poll result as well, publicly maintained his support for Romney but said he would be available for a draft; the statement made national headlines and embittered Romney (who would later claim it was Rockefeller’s entry, and not the “brainwashing” remark, that doomed him). Seeing his cause was hopeless, Romney announced his withdrawal as a presidential candidate on February 28, 1968. Romney wrote his son Mitt, still away on missionary work: “Your mother and I are not personally distressed. As a matter of fact, we are relieved. … I aspired, and though I achieved not, I am satisfied.” ^(SOURCE)

The “brainwashing remark” referenced above in my opinion, underscores the old adage: “Like father; like son.”  Mitt’s father, George, had problems with “flip-flopping” just as his son does today.  It cost him any chance he might have had at winning the GOP nomination for President.  Here’s what happened:

“On August 31, 1967, in a taped interview with talk show host Lou Gordon of WKBD-TV in Detroit, Romney stated: “When I came back from Viet Nam [in November 1965], I’d just had the greatest brainwashing that anybody can get.” He then shifted to opposing the war: “I no longer believe that it was necessary for us to get involved in South Vietnam to stop Communist aggression in Southeast Asia.” Decrying the “tragic” conflict, he urged “a sound peace in South Vietnam at an early time.” Thus Romney disavowed the war and reversed himself from his earlier stated belief that the war was “morally right and necessary.

Eight other governors who had been on the same 1965 trip as Romney said no such activity had taken place, with one of them, Philip H. Hoff of Vermont, saying Romney’s remarks were “outrageous, kind of stinking … Either he’s a most naïve man or he lacks judgment.” The connotations of brainwashing, following the experiences of American prisoners of war (highlighted by the 1962 film The Manchurian Candidate), made Romney’s comments devastating, especially as it reinforced the negative image of Romney’s abilities that had already developed.” ^(SOURCE) 

(As a side note:  Mitt’s father, George Romney was born in Mexico.  Yet, George Romney was a candidate for President of the United States in the primary in 1968. He was born on July 8, 1907 to American parents in the Mormon colonies in Mexico; events during the Mexican Revolution forced his family to move back to the United States when he was a child.) ^(SOURCE)

Now, I realize all this dates me… and that’s OK.  If it has any importance, at all, it is that I feel as though I have been down the same road with Mitt Romney’s father, George, and I do not care to travel that same hilly, curvy road again.  Then Governor Jim Rhodes of Ohio said, “Watching George Romney run for the presidency was like watching a duck try to make love to a football.”

As difficult as it may seem to believe, for those who did not witness George Romney’s campaign back in the sixties, for those of us who did — there is reason to believe the campaign of his son Mitt will not be that different.

We need an assertive candidate, a candidate sure of himself, without a record of flip-flopping all over the map. I just do not see that in Mitt Romney.

Here in the South, the mention of Romney’s name tends to bring on “rolling of the eyes.”  He is a northeasterner, and a Mormon.  That is two out of three strikes for him before the first vote is cast.  If he ever gets to the Oval Office he will do so without the support of the majority of the southern states.  THAT is a near impossible. A number of religious denominations in the south will never vote for a Mormon under any circumstances the human brain can devise.  His campaign will be hard pressed to devise a winning strategy without the southern states.

I understand how difficult this is to read for Romney supporters, but there it is.

So, who can win against Obama?  None of the republican candidate announced, so far. But, I think it is interesting, and important, that the Obama campaign has begun digging into the past of Chris Christie, the current governor of New Jersey, and Christie says he is NOT going to run.  But – if Obama is concerned enough that Christie might change his mind and run, anyway, then that tells me the Obama campaign fears Chris Christie and I LIKE THAT!

J. D. Longstreet

There is No Palestine

By Alan Caruba

Despite a very forthright speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee on Sunday in which the President stated his “unshakeable” support for Israel and cited evidence of it, the greatest obstacle he must overcome with American Jews in particular and the public in general is a growing distrust of anything he says.

When it comes to the Middle East, Palestine, and the long history of Israel as a nation, past and present, President Obama doesn’t seem to “get it.”

Simply stated, there is no Palestine. In an effort to obliterate the nation of Israel, the Roman emperor Hadrian ordered that its name be changed to Palestine, a Greek word for Philistine, but other than this there never was a Palestine nation, nor is there one now.

To be a nation, it has to have been founded and it has to have specific borders. It has to have a capitol, major cities, an economy and currency of its own, and a stable government. It has to be recognized as a nation by other nations. None of these factors exists for the so-called West Bank and Gaza.

If the so-called Palestinians deserve their own state, why not the Kurds of Iraq and Turkey, and many other groups that could be deemed equally deserving?

What is referred to as Palestine is the wholly-owned creation of the United Nations through its UN Relief Works Agency, a strange invention that has existed solely to maintain the Arabs in the two areas mentioned as permanent refugees for generations. Sustained by millions in “relief” after the areas in question were lost in wars perpetrated against and lost to Israel in 1948 and 1967

There is never any mention of the hundreds of thousands of Jews who, over the course of the wars against Israel, became real refugees, forced to flee to Israel from Arab nations. In 1948, 140,000 fled Algeria, 75,000 fled Egypt, 135,000 fled Iraq, and 265,000 fled Morocco, along with others from Lebanon, Libya, Syria, Tunisia, and Yemen. They were absorbed by Israel.

The West Bank and Gaza, historically part of Israel, are myths created to regain territory lost in the wars waged against Israel by Jordan and Egypt. In the 1967 war, Jordanians were driven out of Judea/Samaria and out of Jerusalem. The Gaza Strip had been occupied by Egypt. The Golan Heights had originally been ceded to Syria by a British-French agreement and likewise was lost to Syria in war.

The suggestion that Israel “return” to its 1967 borders is ludicrous. Obama might just as well suggest that Texas, the Southwest and California be returned to Mexico. All were prizes of war. All constituted parts of the North American continent settled by British and European immigrants to the New World.

By contrast, Israel became a nation in 1321 BCE, 2,000 years before the rise of Islam. Arabs only began to refer to themselves as Palestinians in 1967, two decades after the establishment of the State of Israel. The only period in which there was Arab control followed the conquest in 635 BCE and it lasted only 22 years. For 3,300 years, Jerusalem had been the Jewish capital. It is mentioned more than 700 times in the Torah, the Jewish Holy Scriptures and not even once in the Koran.

Until recently, the Palestinian Liberation Authority and Hamas were in a state of war with one another, the PLO was the creation of Yassir Arafat and Hamas is the wholly owned creation of Iran, as is Hezbollah. They exist for no other purpose than the annihilation of Israel.

Neither “Palestinian” group has ever accepted any effort to establish a separate state for self-rule, asserting instead that Israel must be destroyed. What has Israel done? It withdrew from its occupation of southern parts of Lebanon, only to be attacked again from there in 2006. It forced Israelis to abandon their homes and businesses in Gaza, ceding the land in an effort to encourage negotiations toward a two-state solution.

There is no Palestine and there never was. The name was imposed by a Roman emperor in retribution for the resistance of Jews against Rome’s control of their land. The name was adopted by Yassir Arafat as the self-proclaimed leader of the Arabs left behind by the wars and living, as is commonly asserted, in “occupied territories.”

Not once has any representative of the so-called Palestinians ever accepted a negotiated path to separate statehood. Instead, the “Palestinians” have sent suicide bombers and rockets into Israel and storm its borders to celebrate the “Nakba”, an Arab word for catastrophe, commemorating the wars waged against and lost to Israel.

The “Palestinians” and Arabs do not want peace. Whatever peace exists between their nations is tenuous at best and the citizens of many of those nations have been in full revolt against the dictators that ran them from Tunisia to Libya to Egypt to Syria to Yemen. The only thing that “unites” them is their irrational hatred of Israel, a hatred shared by many European Union nations and, of course, the United Nations.

In just over 600 days President Obama’s regime will end. He will no doubt link arms with former President Jimmy Carter to become another huge embarrassment to the United States of America.

© Alan Caruba, 2011

A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet

Well, Gaddafi is still alive and kicking — and fighting the so-called Libyan “rebels” to a stand still. Some refer to it as a stalemate, others as a quagmire.No matter what you choose to call it, it is a confounded mess! And it is as embarrassing (as all get out) to the Obama Administration, the political left, the leftist media,and to NATO.

As we have learned, all to often with Obama, rules and regulation — and much of the US Constitution — does not apply seem to him and his cohorts.

For the life of me, I cannot figure out how we missed that little shortcoming of US law.But apparently, we did.And, as a result, Obama just goes ahead and acts as a king would do and issues “commands,” “decrees,” and “edicts.” What’s worse – the Mainstream Media, which lays claim to “watchdog” status for the people, will not call him on it.They just look the other way, totally disregarding illegal and/or unconstitutional actions of the Obama Administration.

If the actions of the Obama Administration in the Libyan war were ever “questionable”it no longer matters.Now they are, under US law – ILLEGAL.

I refer to the War Powers Act of 1973. (You may read the entire act HERE.)

Under the law, Obama had sixty days to report to Congress on his actions involving the US military in Libya.He refused to do so.The Congress must now, by the law, take action.

The most often suggested action is for the Congress to simply cut off funds for US military activities in Libya.But I am betting that the current Congress hasn’t the collective cajones to carry out the law of the land and discipline the President by turning off the money spigot and forcing him to pull US forces and equipment out of that sand dune circus.

In fact here is a little known stipulation of the War Powers act:

“SEC. 5. (c)

Notwithstanding subsection (b), at any time that United States Armed Forces are engaged in hostilities outside the territory of the United States, its possessions and territories without a declaration of war or specific statutory authorization, such forces shall be removed by the President if the Congress so directs by concurrent resolution.”

Don’t hold your breath waiting for it to happen, though.There seems to be a strange shortage of testosterone in the halls of Congress today.

However, it seems to me now is exactly the time for the Congress to order President Obama to withdraw all US military assets out of the Libyan theatre of war. That would include the Hellfire missile equipped drones buzzing around over the Libyan sands.If for no other reason than the US simply cannot afford the cost of such a hair-brained operation.

Look, the painfully plain truth is – we don’t have a clue WHO THE HECK THOSE “REBELS” ARE.

See, the nagging question is — are we providing military support for Muslims who will, at some point in the not too distant future, turn out to be terrorists training their weapons on the United States of America.I would argue there is more than an even chance that YES, that is exactly the threat posed by those we are supporting today in Libya.Does anyone remember when the US supported the Afghanis against Russia — only to wind up fighting them today in Afghanistan in a war we have no intention of winning?Does anyone remember that?

If this had been President George W. Bush pulling such a stunt, the mainstream media, Obama’s lapdogs, would be all over him with every issue and every broadcast.

But, alas, the leftist propaganda machine, which IS the mainstream media in America, is so biased it would be laughable if it were not doing so much harm to America.

Have you noticed the reduction in the coverage of the war in Libya by the press?Why, because it has rapidly become an embarrassment to the political left.They cannot risk this folly of Obama to actually taint him in anyway.Heavens, no!The Messiah, the savior of America, must be assisted in obtaining another four-year term in the Oval Office.

Rest easy, you folks in the leftist media.I don’t think you have much to fear from the GOP in the campaign against Obama over the next eighteen months, or so.I say that with great sadness. But it is the truth, as I see it. I am fairly certain America must endure six more years of Obama thumbing his nose at US law and the Constitution with no one willing to oppose him.

J. D. Longstreet

Isaac -vs- Ishmael Feud Continues

Obama Favors Ishmael

A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet

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“And so the family feud goes on. Nothing much has changed since Abraham booted Ishmael out of his camp and anointed Isaac, his son by Sarah, the birthright. The death and destruction we see today, in 2008, can be traced directly back to that incident, thousands of years ago.

It is foolish to even consider brokering a peace between those two half-brothers. It is the height of arrogance to believe one can bring peace between the descendants of Isaac and Ishmael.

As a gentle reminder we refer you to the scripture from The Bible: Genesis 17:18,19 “And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee! And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shall call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him”.

From the Koran:

Koran = 19:54 “Also mention in the Book [the story of] Ishmael: He was [strictly] true to what he promised, and he was a messenger [and] a prophet”.

And, again, from The Bible:

Genesis 16:12 “And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him.”

As we watch the continuation of this on-going struggle play out before our very eyes on the TV screens today, we must remember that this is only a continuation the feud between these two peoples who have fought for thousands of years.

No matter how this discussion(?) ends, the struggle will not end here. It will go on. No matter what the US does, or what the United Nations does, or what the European Union does, nothing will change. Only God can end this combat, which is fueled by jealous rage. The Jews and the Muslims have two different philosophies of life and religion. One leads to freedom and life and the other leads to bondage and death.”(Read the entire article HERE.)

Last week President Obama broke one of the cardinal rules of life. He stepped between two relatives fighting.Common sense dictates that one never does that!

As a police officer, back in my misspent youth, I dreaded a domestic violence call worse than any other type of disturbance.The police officer is required to insert himself into the fray, and get between the two warring parties.Not only is it dangerous, the officer will be perceived as “taking sides” no matter what the outcome.

Obama is, today, perceived as “taking sides” especially in Israel, and America is the loser as a result.

To put it frankly, and yes, bluntly, Obama’s “one upsmanship” just plain sucks!”

Rushing to get ahead of Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu, before Netanyahu could deliver his speech to a joint assembly of the US Congress was, well, infantile.It underscores just how incapable our President is when dealing with foreign powers.Especially, if that foreign power happens to be involved in a tussle with Muslims — as is Israel.Obama and his lackeys can dispute it and deny it as much as they like, there is simply no way they will ever be able to whitewash Mr., Obama’s empathy for Muslims.I mean — his middle name is that of a Muslim – Hussein.

Mr. Netanyahu is no pushover and Obama’s attempt to “roll” him will likely blow-up in Obama’s face.Rest assured, there will be a price to pay for Obama, and the democrats, at the polls.If nothing else good comes of this fiasco, then the majority of Americans, whose empathy DOES lie with Israel, will be pleased.

Obama’s emboldening of the so-called Palestinians will only lead to more bloodshed in Israel.The deaths can only be laid at the doorstep of the Obama Administration.

To think we will have Obama as President for six more years should cause every freedom loving American to shudder.Especially now that we learn Pakistan has invited China to build a new naval base along Pakistan’s southwestern seacoast – AND — we learn that Vladimir Putin has decided to become President of Russia –AGAIN.Can you imagine how easily Putin can, and will, manipulate Obama?

With the US and China headed for an inevitable war do we really want someone who makes such “dumb” mistakes as Obama made last week with Israel?Surely, you don’t even have to think about it.God help us all if you do!

J. D. Longstreet

Obama Kicks Israel in the Teeth, Ambushes Netanyahu

America’s Betrayal of Israel

A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet

A few weeks ago I wrote:“For the first time in its history, America is on the wrong side.

Our President, with his loyalty to the world and not to the country that trusted him with the sacred duty to be leader of America and Commander-in-Chief of the mightiest military force in all of history, has gone over to the “Dark Side.” He has turned his back on the one nation, which occupies the most important piece of real estate on the globe. He has made it clear he favors the countries, which consider themselves Israel’s most ardent enemies. Israel now knows they stand alone.”(You may read the entire article HERE.)

On Thursday, May 19^th, 2011, Barack Hussein Obama, the President of the United States of America, sold Israel out.

Before going further – allow me to say, Obama does not speak for all Americans.In fact, he speaks for fewer and fewer Americans every day.With his call for Israel to return to its 1967 borders he has alienated millions of Americans, especially the American evangelical Christians.And, my fervent hope is that he has awakened America’s Jewish community to his anti-Israel policies.

Obama backhanded the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu today as Netanyahu was preparing to fly to the US to speak before the Congress.Obama’s speech was a well-planned ambush of Mr. Netanyahu.It was intended to shake Israel’s Prime Minister and weaken him before his address to the Congress. It was, plain and simple, dirty politics.But we have come to expect this kind of attack from this American President.Down and dirty!

With Obama’s public unveiling of his “Throw Israel to the Wolves” policy, he has now publicly declared, for all to see (who will allow themselves to see), that he, Obama, supports Israel’s enemies and their efforts to drive Israel into the sea.By the way, Americans should never — for one moment — forget that Israel’s enemies are AMERICA’S ENEMIES, TOO!

Obama just lit the fuse to the powder keg that will blow up the world.If Israel is forced to return to the 1967 borders, a nuclear Armageddon will follow.Israel will not able to defend itself with conventional weapons and will have no choice but to employ its nuclear arsenal to defeat its enemies.And it will use them with well thought out effectiveness.

If you think the Middle East is afire today … you ain’t seen nothing yet!

Let me be very clear here:ISRAEL WILL NOT LOSE.Its enemies WILL lose and America will suffer, incalculably, as a result of the Obama’s announced policy demanding that Israel return to the pre-1967 war borders.

For those of our reader who rely on scripture as their guide, and on the accuracy of Biblical Prophecy concerning Israel we refer you to these statements concerning Israel’s home FOREVER:

Amos 9:15 — I will plant Israel in their own land, never again to be uprooted from the land I have given them,” says the LORD your God.

Jeremiah 3:18 — In those days the house of Judah will join the house of Israel, and together they will come from a northern land to the land I gave your forefathers as an inheritance.

Jeremiah 23:8– but they will say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the descendants of Israel up out of the land of the north and out of all the countries where he had banished them.’ Then they will live in their own land.”

Jeremiah 33:7 — I will bring Judah and Israel back from captivity and will rebuild them as they were before.

Ezekiel 34:28– They will no longer be plundered by the nations, nor will wild animals devour them. They will live in safety, and no one will make them afraid.

Ezekiel 37:25 — They will live in the land I gave to my servant Jacob, the land where your fathers lived. They and their children and their children’s children will live there forever, and David my servant will be their prince forever.

Joel 3:20– Judah will be inhabited forever and Jerusalem through all generations.

What Obama, and Israel’s other enemies, fail to understand (Or understand it and choose to ignore it) is this:That of all the dry land on this planet earth, there is only one tiny little piece of geography that God, Himself, has designated as belonging to a single people – ISRAEL.What the evangelical Christian Americans rightly understand is this:When God brought the people of Israel, His people, home and gave them a “state,” a nation, in May of 1948, God had already made it as plain as possible that Israel would never be moved from that land again — forever.

It seems so clear that anyone coming against Israel to drive them from that land will be subject to supernatural intervention from God — on behalf of Israel. That will insure the utter failure of those coming against Israel and, too, it will insure the utter destruction of Israel’s attackers.

I had not intended to climb into my pulpit in this commentary, but it is important that you, the reader, understand that it is not I making these predictions. And HE has a one hundred percent accuracy rate — plus a record of meting out justice, which is — complete destruction of Israel’s enemies.

On Thursday, Obama crossed the line and, in my opinion, will bring punishment to America such as we have never experienced in our history.

If there was ever any doubt where Obama’s sympathies lie — with Israel, or with Israel’s Muslim enemies, all doubt should have been erased by his revealing speech in which he sold out America’s only friend left in the Middle East and, very nearly, the entire world.

Pray for Israel… and pray that America’s punishment will not cripple her forever.

J. D. Longstreet

Is The World Ending Saturday, May 21^st, 2011?

America’s End Far More Certain

A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet

OK.  So the end of the world is coming Saturday, right?  Well, it might.  But frankly, I’ll believe it when I see it.

It is not that I doubt the world will end … it will, I just doubt that anyone – any man – can know when it will occur.

Even Jesus Christ, whom Christians recognize as the SON of God, when asked about the time of the end of the world replied that no one knows – not even the angels in heaven.   Hey, that’s good enough for me!

Predicting the end of the world is definitely not a new phenomenon. Men have wondered when it will all end since, well, since man began to question his reason for being.

It didn’t take early man long to figure out that, considering the other animals around him, man had it pretty darned good.  That’s when man’s curse of insecurity bubbled up to the surface and he began to wonder how long he could expect his good fortune to continue. 

The inscrutable among early humans immediately began to capitalize on that fear as a wonderful motivator of man from which he/she could gather unto himself great power.  Remember, before there was money, there was power.  Today MONEY ranks number one, with POWER an extremely close second, among those who wish to control human behavior.  (See: POLITICIAN.)

Down through the centuries man has predicted the end of the world many, many, many times.  Today we are only cognizant of just a few of the more spectacular predictions and the even more spectacular inaccuracies, and in some cases — the crazy things people do to prepare for the end.  

The end of the world was predicted for October 22nd, 1844.  Didn’t happen.  In fact it became known as “The Big Disappointment.”

I mention this particular prediction only because I expect there will be a heck of a lot of disappointed people about 8 PM Saturday evening.

There is an interesting post at religioustolerance.com entitled:  “44 failed & 1 ambiguous end-of-the-world
predictions that were to occur between 30 & 1920 CE”

I found it interesting and thought you might, as well.  You will find it HERE.

Nowadays, predicting the end of the world is pure folly.  At least, in our opinion, it should be. 

We live in an age when we have the libraries of the world at our fingertips… literally.  There is simply no excuse for being uninformed today. Having said that, I quickly add that we Americans are some of the worst educated people on the globe.  Lack of education leaves Americans wide open for use as pawns by those just a tad smarter.  Only a fool cannot see the evidence of that all around us today – especially in our government.

Ignorance is a powerful thing.  It will destroy a society.  It has very nearly destroyed the United States of America.   I say this to warn Americans not to be too critical of those who will prepare for the end of the world this weekend.  Those folks are no more guilty of ignorance that the millions of American voters who gave us the Obama Administration.  They were used (by those a tad smarter than they) and they are about to be used again.  I mean – the world may not end Saturday, but we are sure as heck approaching the end of America, (as she was conceived by her Founding Fathers, and those who gave their lives to protect her constitutional republic.)

Worry about this weekend if you feel you must.  Not me.  I worry about whether we will be able to rescue our country from the hands of the socialists/communists and progressives who have a strangle hold on America’s throat and are choking the life out of the liberty and freedom of the American people!

I am also worried about the coming establishment of a Palestinian state, in September, and the nuclear holocaust, which will soon follow.  

I worry that my country has made a conscious decision to forget its founding document, the constitution, and forsake its freedom and liberty and embrace a form of socialism that guarantees the utter destruction of America. 

Talk about the end of the world?  How about we talk about the “end of the world as we know it?”  THAT is not a prediction.  That is an on going FACT. 

Before we poke fun at those “end of the world folks” hadn’t we better consider our own ignorance as an electorate, as a people, as a society, as a country?

We had better get our house in order — or the end of America is certain.

J. D. Longstreet

The United States of Stupid

By Alan Caruba

In 1983, the National Commission on Excellence in Education released a report titled “A Nation at Risk” that documented nationwide failure in American schools. Not much has changed since then and the federal takeover of school curriculums and testing methods has mercilessly continued with the Bush administration’s No Child Left Behind and the Obama administration’s Race to the Top.

They are the top-down approaches to learning that have played a large part in the continual “dumbing-down” of American education. Once the province of local school boards, innovative schools, and individual teachers, the education of children has been taken over by Big Government.

Making matters worse, amid the confusion of federally mandated education requirements, state legislatures are now straying beyond their traditional roles to tinker with schools in unprecedented ways.

A recent example of this involves two bills making their way through the North Carolina legislature – House Bill 766 and Senate Bill 479 – which focus on testing in that state’s public schools. While the motive behind these identical bills may seem to be to “improve” testing, the bills serve only to further dumb-down education through legislative micromanagement.

In the case of North Carolina, the bills not only order schools to administer a specific college admissions test to all students in the 11th grade—the ACT—it also mandates “diagnostic tests” for students in grades eight and 10 that will “align” with the ACT.

In effect, the North Carolina legislature is using the force of law to compel classroom teachers to teach to the test rather than providing a solid education.

Since there is a long established, respected alternative—the SAT—it further reduces the element of choice for local boards.

It begs the question, when does a legislative body possess the requisite knowledge to decide which test is in the best interest of students and their education? Isn’t that a pedagogic, not legislative, question?

Even the uninitiated could be forgiven for thinking that this legislation was rigged from the outset and reflects the best bill writing that special interest money can buy, but it gets even worse.

The North Carolina proposal requires that “students who do not pass the tests adopted for eighth grade shall be provided remedial instruction in the ninth grade.” Using legislative fiat to push weak students from eighth to ninth grade and expecting them to learn new material when they don’t know the old material is a sure fire recipe for utter failure.

Common sense says that not all students at all ages learn at the same pace. Some learn faster than others. Some students come from lower income brackets, are raised by single parents or even their grandparents, and face other socio-economic factors that lead to greater obstacles and fewer incentives to study.

Rather than face this simple truth and deal with it through an effective, flexible policy, North Carolina lawmakers would let struggling students sink even further behind as they are pushed to the next grade level with a vague promise of remedial teaching.

The real problem with such top-down, one-size-fits-all legislation is that, once passed in one State, it spreads to others and, of course, it has its origins at the federal level. That makes it attractive to lawmakers beyond the Tar Heel State where politicians are juggling shrinking state budgets and teacher layoffs with their need for popular poll numbers and reelection.

Education has become highly politicized, providing opportunities for special interests to inject themselves into policy debate. This deliberate dumbing down of education and students has afflicted the U.S. since the 1960s. It shows no signs of being reformed.

Former Attorney General, Edwin Meese III, said, “We must always evaluate policy proposals in light of principles like rule of law and the logic of our constitutional system. The Education Department’s sponsoring and funding of national curriculum runs counter to both laws of Congress and the wisdom of the Founders.”

The Founders who wrote the Constitution, knowing that the best education was locally determined and directed education, did not even mention the word “education” in that document. If for no other reason than this, the North Carolina legislature should scrap these education proposals and make a fresh start.

© Alan Caruba, 2011

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