Columnist Acclaims Homosexuality

Sometime Lexington Herald-Leader columnist Roger Guffey, a retired math teacher, delivered a piece (18 May) insisting that homosexual geniuses should be celebrated and even quoted Bill Clinton, currently government’s best-known sexual deviant, to make the point. Guffey claimed that “many demonize gay people” as part of his rationale. Actually, according to the dictionary, to demonize (transitive verb) is to turn someone into an evil spirit, an impossibility, but Guffey’s field was not English so he gets a pass on that.

To make his point, Guffey furnished a list of 46 (give or take one or two) homosexual “geniuses” whose accomplishments should be celebrated. He furnished no documentation that these folks were actually homosexual (or maybe bisexual or tri-sexual or other-sexual) but cut him slack and accept that they were perverted, many if not most of them dead, anyway, and couldn’t care less. A huge number came from the entertainment field—Hollywood-types, ergo Obama’s rich supporters/friends currently—with many still alive and working.

Guffey’s way is to ask questions, as any math teacher would do, and so after each listing he poses the question as to whether or not the mentioned homosexuals’ offerings should be appreciated despite their strangeness. That method represents a “straw man,” of course, since most people appreciate what they do and would do so even if the homosexuals were purple and ate jellyfish for supper. Guffey’s target (he always has a target) in the column is Christians, many if not most of whom take a dim view of what the Bible condemns exorbitantly—homosexual behavior.

To make his point more valid, Guffey goes all the way back to Plato, the great Greek philosopher and even Alexander the Great, who conquered the known world, born in 428 BC and 356 BC, respectively. Oh yes, time-wise, “BC” is out and “BCE” is in as per current political correctness that defines Christ as a nonentity, but to each his own.

As the Population Reference would have it, 107.6 billion people have lived since 50,000 BC. In 2011, the National Geographic TV program put the figure at 110 billion since 10,000 BC. No one knows, of course, but suffice it to say that 46 homosexual geniuses out of 110 billion going at least as far back as Plato is a huge segment of the population, as any math teacher would know. Guffey is probably an evolutionist but didn’t mention any forbears such as apes and one-celled amoebae as geniuses—somewhat discriminatory—but Guffey doesn’t claim to be a retired anthropologist.

Of course, there are other types of homosexuals, too, but Guffey didn’t mention that. According to German historian Lothar Machtan’s biography of Adoph Hitler (Hitler’s Secret – the Double Life of a Dictator [2001]), der Fuhrer ordered the deaths of several high-ranking Nazis to prevent disclosure of his “secret,” among whom was Ernst Rohm, also a homosexual and head of the dreaded and vicious Storm Troopers. As a noted homosexual and probable syphilis-victim, Hitler was also a coward.

Or, there’s the interesting case of Yasser Arafat. In a book by Lt. Gen Ion Pacepa, deputy chief of Romania’s intelligence service, it is noted that Arafat’s quarters in Romania were bugged and so it was possible to listen to Arafat and his body-guard get it on, Arafat roaring like a tiger and the body-guard yelping like a hyena—interesting homosexuals to celebrate. The consensus (look it up) is that Arafat died of AIDS.

But back to the cultured and sophisticated Plato, Guffey’s prize example from antiquity: His homosexual bent was outdone only by his rampant pedophilia. In his Symposium, Plato advocated for an army of homosexual lovers (and there was such an army), and he also wrote this: “I cannot say what greater good there is for a young boy than a gentle lover, or for a lover than a boy to love.”

Greek culture (Plato) openly accepted both homosexuality and pederasty. Ah…the joy of a man depositing the terminus of his urinary tract into the terminus of an innocent boy’s intestinal system (perhaps with a drop of WD-40)! In Greek athletic games, the players sported in the nude. Imagine that in the NBA, with the seven-footers flashing even the tattoos on their private parts.

Homosexuality was culturally accepted in the Roman Empire, too. Both empires imploded—rotted out! Illiterate barbarians overcame the “cultured” Romans. Nearly one-fourth of U.S. states have approved same-sex marriage (deviancy), which furnished the context for Guffey’s article. This is an indication of this country’s destiny…move over Greco- and Roman-empires. The U.S is not far behind. Perversion as normal is even taught in many public schools.

And so it goes.
Jim Clark

Governmental Stupidity

The definition of stupid: 1a: slow of mind: OBTUSE: b: given to unintelligent decisions or acts: acting in an unintelligent or careless manner:  c: lacking intelligence or reason: BRUTISH.  3: marked by or resulting from unreasoned thinking or acting: SENSELESS.   All governments have a problem with this element, party-affiliations (or not) or other identifying factors not necessarily mitigating factors.  Neither are individuals, except for the very rare ones.

The Obama administration may have a corner on stupidity.  Its complete mishandling of the Middle East “crisis” is a case in point.  Its total obtuseness concerning the Benghazi massacre of four American officials last September by terrorists points up stonewalling carried to the nth degree, and everyone knows by now that it was designed to save the election—an effort built completely on LIES.  It was proven through e-mail activity noted in the current House hearing that Libya’s top-man indicated the day after the bombing that terrorists had carried out the murders and injuries to other Americans.

That was the day that Obama, off to a fundraising event, and then-State Secretary Clinton stopped by the Rose Garden to advance the weird notion that the massacre was a simple protest that had gotten out of hand (actually in Cairo, Egypt) over a U-Tube film criticizing Mohammad.  Despite the administration’s certain knowledge that this was not the case, UN Ambassador Rice—the fall-guy/scapegoat—went on TV to parrot that bit of nonsense days later and Obama brought it up in a UN speech weeks later but also weeks before the election.

The “whistleblowers” (people on the ground and/or with certain knowledge of what happened), who had been selectively shut-up heretofore, have now been allowed in the current House hearing to spell out the damning truth, though, of course, people with walking-around sense knew that mortars were not usually employed by protesters.  In the previous House hearing, Clinton raged, “What difference does it make …?” and that scene will be played over and over as she tunes up for 2016 and her expected presidential campaign.

In her 2008 campaign, Clinton made up and repeated an account of the sniper-attack she underwent in Bosnia in 1996.  Problem: There wasn’t an element of truth in it.  Now, she’s part of the current BIG LIE, a lie even worse than that one.  The most pathetic display of stupidity in the hearing was furnished by Missouri Congressman Clay, who attempted to connect Benghazi with the “sequester,” which, of course, hadn’t even gone into effect then.  He had to be reminded that a State Department official testified last year before this same committee that there was no lack of resources connected to Benghazi.

Obama and Clinton acted in an unintelligent or careless manner, first by thinking they could get away with such subterfuge, and also by their initial decision concerning Libya, which was to bomb it into the next universe in 2011.  In this, they displayed an almost unbelievable ignorance concerning what to expect in Libya—seven months of death and destruction with the end result being a Libya in far worse shape than formerly, all their condemnations of Qaddafi to the contrary notwithstanding.  Obama said the action would take days, not weeks, an indication of well-developed stupidity, especially for a commander-in-chief, a title he constantly reminds is his.

Apparently thinking it fashionable in 2011, Obama ordered heads of state to vacate their offices in Libya, Egypt, Yemen and Syria, the clear implication being that if they didn’t he would see to it.  This is called “mouth-flapping stupidity,” especially since those leaders knew he was in two wars and would do nothing.  Some went, under pressure of their people, who believed Obama, and those countries are now worse off and facing Sharia Law governance, one step below slavery.

Obama went further concerning Syria and announced a “red line” that couldn’t be crossed.  The red line reportedly is in effect now but the official word is that it will take time to discover all the elements surrounding that red line—when, where, how, who, why, what, etc., all to be done when the U.S. has no intelligence resources in Syria.  Unless he is hopelessly stupid, Obama will let the Syrians settle their own civil war their own way…or at least sit back and let the Middle Easterners deal with their own kind.

The Benghazi matter is not the only area of stupidity in which this administration is bogged down.  The big news recently has to do with rape in the military (3,374 reported in 2012) but according to the Associated Press perhaps 26,000 that were not reported.  The AP, actually a propaganda arm of the administration, didn’t explain how it knew there were up to 26,000 except that people not allowing use of their names said so.  Weird!

The stupidity connected to this is the purposeful mixing of the sexes in intimate quarters like training areas and aboard navy ships (the president has just included foxholes, too).  The integrated boot-camp experiment failed probably twice at least, though it’s bound to be used again since social engineers, using political correctness and diversity as primary philosophy/methodology, have adopted unisex as official, and these people are running everything now. 

A further example of military stupidity had to do with the erasure of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy over the objections of the commanders in the field (not the Pentagon politically-appointed crowd).  This will further erode military pride, morale and consequent capability.  This was Obama’s idea—stupid.  The commander-in-chief can correct these problems…but he won’t.

And so it goes.

Jim Clark

Department of Gender

Dear President Obma:

As CEO of the Institute for Modifying All Government Entities (known by its acronym IMAGE), I am writing to offer our services particularly vis-à-vis the rumor that you plan to institute a cabinet-level Department of Gender. As you can well imagine, there will be a need to make this department relevant to national needs, especially in California, where gender is generally what anyone says it is, notwithstanding the official opinion of the National Organization of Women that “gender” is a discriminatory term militating against unisex, the only politically correct definition of people or animals or birds or bees. Indeed, you have just enhanced this definition as commander-in-chief by ordering women into combat units, thereby adding the elements of reason and birth-control to the fighting, which until now has always been defined as simply breaking things and killing people.

Actually, this approach was engendered by IMAGE’s department Management of Orgiastic Ruminations on Nonchalance, known as MORON, for short. This is a new department recently instituted in view of your approach to sex, especially your approval of the after-morning pill or live-birth abortions, whichever comes first, for 12-year-olds and up. No girl or woman should have to worry about the ramifications of her God-given-right to hanky-panky, referenced in the Declaration of Independence as the pursuit of happiness. MORON does many things, among which are seminars designed to help anyone (even men) engage a proper rationale that “anything goes” in a democracy, which MORON defines as legalized anarchy, thereby allowing any and all kinds of sexual activity, short of murders deriving from lover’s quarrels, of course.

It is also rumored that a top candidate to be the department’s new secretary is Jason Collins, upon whom, as you know, you recently lavished your imprimatur for his being courageous enough to “come out.” I assume the rumor that you plan to award him a Silver Star is in error since that is usually given to a combat-veteran. Nevertheless, IMAGE has a department to help this appointee to become acceptable to the general public or at least not be cowed by it, especially in the Bible-belt states. It’s called the Program for Erogenous Reactions to Vindictive Erroneous Religious Tenets, or PERVERT, for short. Some homosexuals tend to respond to criticism of their sexual behavior by realizing despair and even—horrors—at least temporarily refraining from pursuing happiness. It is the business of PERVERT to help them through this psychological problem, using another new program entitled Groove All Year, or GAY, for short.

Mr. Collins has been well-documented as having dumped a girlfriend of eight years (actually leaving her at the altar) so the candidate, besides being homosexual, may be bisexual or even tri-sexual, making your choice ever so much more appropriate. This, however, could lead some maliciously minded folks into believing he does not honor monogamy in his loving relationships and, therefore, might even—horrors—be promiscuous. IMAGE has this eventuality covered, however, in its Laboratory of Venereal Erogenous Rx, or LOVER, for short. This agency keeps all participants in the know relative to when, how, why, why not, when not and if not with regard to sleeping around and the various remedies for the results of same. IMAGE is taking the liberty of suggesting Sandra Fluke as either the secretary or deputy secretary, not because of the just mentioned possibility but because she, with your esteemed help, has put Obamacare on notice that law-school coeds are entitled to government-furnished condoms, pills, machinery and other means of both birth-control and STD-prevention, the better to pursue happiness without the constant worry of needing to abort the little suckers or catching something.

Currently, as you are aware, governments on various levels produce laws regulating behavior, requiring that people know what and where specific activities are possible or not possible. Some of these laws have to do with acceptable restroom behavior, for instance – unfair laws, of course, but enacted, nevertheless. A Department of Gender should have and furnish guidance in this matter, guarding behavior that might seem to be illegal but is actually okay, especially depending on location. California is not Mississippi, if you get my drift. The IMAGE agency responsible for this matter is the Bureau for Elective Success Through Improprieties, Aberrations and Licentiousness, or BESTIAL, for short. BESTIAL will furnish information as to the what, when, and how with regard to strange but perfectly legal behavior. For instance, one may do things in a Gay Pride parade in San Francisco that would be reason for arrest in Alabama. This is very important, especially since political correctness and diversity are exponentially important now. BESTIAL is equipped to go to court in even the backward states such as Kentucky to protect one’s right to pursue happiness in frolicking absolutely nude, for instance, or even marrying one or up to four people of the same sex…or the family dog, for that matter. The Department of Justice would do well to follow its guidelines.

In any case, I will appreciate hearing from you or from whatever representative you choose. Incidentally, I hope you are improving your shooting ability and note that cigarette-smoking is not illegal anywhere you say it isn’t, White House or not.

Best regards,
I.M. Otherself, CEO
IMAGE

And so it goes.
Jim Clark

Obama/Collins—Odd Couple!

People do strange things sometimes—like killing folks or running around naked or writing garbage—to gain that traditional fifteen minutes of fame. Now, it’s fashionable to do strange things—like preferring anal and oral “intercourse” to the usual boring type—to gain fifteen minutes of shame…and to be the first to do it, in the instant case Jason Collins, the NBA player who has just (fanfare, please) “come out” to the public as the first NBA homosexual. To make it even better, he is the first BLACK NBA player to gain that fifteen minutes of shame. How much better could it get?

Well…that fifteen minutes of shame was good enough to elicit a phone call of congratulations (three fanfares and a drum-roll, please) from – you guessed it – President Obama, who may be hoping at this very moment that one of his daughters will be a certified lesbian, worthier than ever of his attention. He may even be playing matchmaker by now…looking for perhaps an NFL first-timer – red, yellow, black, white or otherwise – in the interests of a marriage made in TV-land just for Collins and whomever. One hopes that the prez – in his state of shared euphoria with Collins – does not conjure up the fortitude—matching that of Collins—to declare war not just on Syria but the entire Middle East. If Collins can cross a “red line,” why can’t he?

Collins said he wanted to be genuine and authentic and truthful. Well…okay, but who cares? He most likely has a liver and spleen no one has seen (but maybe a doc) so why does he believe anyone cares to know what sexual orientation he thinks he has. To air out an anomaly—being s-o-o-o proudly different—can have only one motive and it has nothing to do with being genuine and authentic and truthful. It has only to do with an in-your-face arrogance that’s deplorable. People like the president believe people like Collins (and a lot of Hollywood-types) have such a pronounced sophistication as homosexuals that their superiority (and courage…oh, yeah) simply must be recognized. Egad! One finds courage on a battlefield or in a burning house, not in a jock locker-room.

One hopes that Collins doesn’t have the same affliction as Tiger Woods, i.e., sex-addiction. If that should be the case, locker rooms all over the country will be wild places. Of course, Woods got help, though maybe he was just doing what comes naturally to folks like him and former NBA player Wilt Chamberlain, who claimed in his biography that he’d had sex with approximately 20,000 women, or 1.5 per day. Then, there was NBA star Magic Johnson, who gave promiscuity and adultery brand new meanings by taking HIV home to his family. That cost him his basketball career, but Collins has been awarded the president’s imprimatur, so what’s to lose? Maybe there’s something in the Gatorade at NBA games.

Collins is a cipher in this matter. He could claim to actually be a recovering transvestite with three sex-change operations and two aborted babies conceived with an orangutan and…so what! His act, but far more importantly the president’s act, marks a crudeness and coarseness that are taking over in this country and damning it to a hollowed-out carcass similar to ancient Rome’s. Obama is on the record as favoring partial-birth abortions (murder). He campaigned with Sandra Fluke of poverty-driven-condom-less-women fame (or at least law students), a patently stupid and condescending bid to gain the women’s vote, which he already had locked-up.

What’s so special about being a pervert that it simply must be announced to the world? Should straight folks do the same, i.e., “come out” in magazines or press conferences? Naw…there would be no celebrity status in that since 99.99% of people are heterosexual, making them too unsophisticated to demand attention. The president, in his glorification of Collins, was telling all the eighth-graders to get hip and have real fun. The girls in Middle School are now doubly encouraged to fornicate prolifically and just sashay on down to the drug-store and get some pills. It’s all part of Planned Parenthood (otherwise known as Abortion Heaven) but actually encourages planned un-parenthood. This is the outfit the president has just acclaimed to the high heavens—his gang.

As for Collins…maybe he can go back to Massachusetts, the land of Barney Frank (pimp for “partner”) and Gerry Studds (RIP), who did congressional pages, and run for an office. He couldn’t lose, not in Massachusetts.

And so it goes.
Jim Clark

Three Dangerous Senators

Some people are dangers to society and doubly so when they hold positions allowing them to exert great influence—such as that of a senator. While in this corner most of their positions are appreciated and supported, Senators McCain, Graham and, at least sometimes, Lieberman seem off-the-wall to the point of being scary. Most of their weird approaches have to do with how to use the U.S. military establishment…and, conversely, how not to use it.

President Obama’s legacy, at least at this point, may have less to do with the miserable economy and intolerable high rate of unemployment than with how he’s used the military to great disadvantage to both this and other nations. Start with a look at the so-called Arab Spring uprisings in the Middle East in mostly 2011, including North Africa. Obama announced to the world that leaders such as Libya’s Qaddafi, Egypt’s Mubarak, Yemen’s Saleh and Syria’s Assad just had to go, with the clear implication that the U.S. would see that insurgents would get this country’s help, especially militarily.

Aiding and abetting Obama were the senators, who were gung-ho for his rape of Libya. One remembers McCain in the Benghazi area lobbying for weapons for the insurgents but, despite his claims to the contrary, had no better idea than anyone else just which insurgents could be trusted. As it happened, none of them could be and multitudes of them (and their weapons) have since left to join the insurgents in Syria.

Qaddafi warned of his fight with al Qaeda and now the three senators have helped the butchers take the country, as well as kill the U.S. ambassador and three others on 9/11 last, with the killers never apprehended. The country is much worse off today (ungovernable) than it was before Obama and the senators decided Libya was a patsy and could be had. The president said “days, not weeks,” but the bombing went on for seven months, with no accounting of the number of innocent Libyans killed.

In March 2012, the three senators came up with a “non-binding” resolution calling for the U.S. to arm Syrian rebels and establish “safe” zones inside the country. Problem: Even if Obama were to decide to do that, to whom would he give the arms? The situation is the same as that of Libya. How in the world would this country – without putting boots on the ground – establish any kind of zone? If the arms were to be funneled through the Arab League, they would wind up with the Muslim Brotherhood, which is currently accomplishing the ruination of Egypt.

Now, there are allegations that Assad is using gas on Syrian civilians. Actually, no one knows who is doing what in that benighted country. This is claimed by the pundits to be the crossing of Obama’s “red-line,” the marker establishing the use of troops. This would probably be fine with the senators, but what president in his right mind would send American GIs into a war-zone where gas is being used in a CIVIL WAR, which (sans the gas) is what was happening in Libya?

It’s especially outrageous to consider military action in light of the fact that the country’s been at war since 2003, with ground troops having been deployed multi-times to fight where their greatest fear is getting shot in the back by the people they’re supposedly helping attain democracy, an absolute impossibility in any Moslem-controlled nation anyway. Item: Interpol has a warrant for arresting the duly-elected Iraqi vice president, charged with supporting the CIVIL WAR actions of the Sunnis. He doesn’t dare show up at his own office.

None of the three senators has had ground-combat experience but Defense Secretary Hagel fought on the ground in Vietnam with distinction in another CIVIL WAR that cost this country 58,000 dead and accomplished nothing. McCain spent many years as a POW, Graham is yet a military lawyer and Lieberman has not worn the uniform. It’s doubtful that Hagel is interested in saving Syria militarily.

Maybe they ought to butt out or at least gin up some support from men who have fought on the ground, especially in Muslim territory, in which an anything-goes approach is okay, including wantonly killing women and children and back-shooting Americans, as is the case now in Afghanistan. If Obama had enough spine, he would be withdrawing Americans from Afghanistan NOW. The Russians, after spending the 1980s trying to subdue the Afghans, simply went home, with more than 13,000 dead and 35,000 wounded.

Does this country never learn?

And so it goes.
Jim Clark

Justice for Jihadists?

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the younger of the Boston “Brother Bombers” (the one still alive), is one unlucky guy. He is being charged criminally and will thus be tried or otherwise handled in the Justice system. This means that he can be brought to trial, no religious shenanigans available to deter that.

If he had been accounted a terrorist and turned over to the army (maybe a trip to Gitmo, even), he could have grown a beard and used the “Major Hasan Defense” to escape a trial altogether, i.e., his religious beliefs concerning a beard would have been violated. The army demands its people to be clean-shaven on duty, such as while being tried for murder. The Army Court Martial judge, a male, who initially ruled that his beard had to go has been replaced by a lady judge (December 2012) but the major seems to still have no trial date of substance.

The Fort Hood massacre happened in November 2009 but 3.5 years later—no trial for a man who lots of people saw gun down 13 soldiers and one civilan and wound 43 others before being himself shot. This compares to three dead and 264 wounded in the bombing and one dead policeman vis-à-vis the Boston Marathon massacre.

Of course, the official designation of the Ft. Hood matter is “workplace violence.” Tsarnaev’s court-appointed lawyers should look into this. Did the 19-year-old commit a terrorist act? After all, he didn’t scream Allah Akbar before the bomb went off, as did Hasan before he let loose on the innocent. Maybe Tsarnaev merely committed “workplace violence” since his method was used in a business-setting where gobs of people were at work in offices, restaurants, stores, etc.

President Obama and Attorney General Holder have unique positions regarding these pieces of scum. Hasan belongs to the Army (Court Martial only), so he is beyond the reach of Holder with respect to delays or anything else. However, he is totally in the hands of Obama, the commander-in-chief, who’s never worn a uniform but often reminds the great unwashed of his rank. Obama could have signed a piece of paper years ago facilitating the trial and Hasan would be paying for his crimes now (maybe even dead) instead of being paid his generous Major’s salary ($4,222 per month + room, board, healthcare and expenses) for doing nothing but dreaming of figs, eating well and hating infidels.

Tsarnaev is in the civil-criminal sytem so he’s beyond the reach of the president, who, ipso facto, has delayed the Muslim murderous major from coming to trial, especially while his defense team perhaps dreams up insanity pleas and plans for him a life of ease in some well-appointed federal booby hatch. Tsarnaev belongs to Holder, who could sign a piece of paper and have the little butcher paying the price in a matter of months…if he wanted to.

Hasan and Tsarnaev are Muslims—serious Muslims, translated as jihadists. However, to criticize Muslims now is a distinct NO-NO-NO, political correctness being more operative than ever. Indeed, the Cathlic archbishop who presided over the religious service the other day in Boston made it a point to indicate that the Muslims—whose holy book requires death for the infidels (Americans)—must not be frowned upon, criticized or otherwise called to account for what even the imams and ayatollahs admit—death or slavery for the infidel, as required by Islam.

This means that Tsarnaev should never be referenced as a Muslim, never mind his motivation for the bombing. At age 19, he also may not know that Muslims consider second in importance only to the killing of Americans the killing of each other, which is what Saddam did in 1991 (before Tsarnaev was born) in attacking Kuwait with the hope of invading Saudi Arabia, the land of Islamic-sacred Mecca and Medina. He may be ignorant of the actual history accruing to Afghanistan regarding 9/11 and the Iraq invasion.

Of course, Obama, with no provocation of any kind, set loose the war against Muslim Libya in 2011 and reduced it to its present-day shambles. He is currently allowing U.S. operations/aid against Muslim North-Mali. He is meddling in Syria. What conclusion could anyone, even a callow youth, draw from the Libya-operation—seven months of bombing with not yet an accounting of the dead, not to mention the enabling of the al Qaeda that Qaddafi was fighting to keep out of Libya?

Will either of these Muslims be judged/sentenced any time soon? Of course not! Political-correctness simply would not allow it. They belong to a protected species.

And so it goes.
Jim Clark

Boston Marathon/Euphoria

Now that the euphoria is over (or is it?) regarding the killing/capture of the Boston Marathon bombers, perhaps some conclusions can be drawn, not the least of which is the almost total inattention to the tragedy vis-à-vis the fertilizer-factory explosion in West, Texas, that in terms of lives lost and damage was much worse than in Boston/Watertown, MA. It’s almost as if the town actually wasn’t virtually blown away and 14 first-responders didn’t die. 

The first conclusion is the same as the first every time, to wit, that for probably 24+ hours just about everything that was reported by all TV-media establishments was erroneous. This is so predictable that one should pay almost no attention to any of them – even in the midst of briefings by the appropriate officials. One can only wonder how the various stories are taken seriously by responsible reporters, who seem to feel that hearsay is the same as hard news. One remembers the Florida vote-count in 2000 or the various accounts of natural disasters as initially reported and then interminably “cleaned-up” after the fact, if at all.

One can gauge the importance of an event by the rush of the network “super-anchors” to the scene, as if no one else is smart enough to explain what happened. It was interesting to watch the various programs depicting the events given their own names, just like the Evening News that comes along every day…complete with the proper graphics and the over-the-top music and wild animation – the best show in town. This went on for days and nights, a 24/7 thing that the newsies (and commercial-gang) probably thought the public just couldn’t do without.

In the “official briefings,” the usual large amount of time was devoted to a regaling of the public with a list of all the agencies involved, how utterly well they performed and how the public should extol their agents and feel safe. This isn’t to disparage the first responders and all the others but just to mention that none of that stuff is actually important and, indeed, often sounds so boastful that it turns people off. People who do great things often say little or nothing about it. Everyone knows this is a great country and has great responders of every kind.

The most salient fact was that one teenager could hold a million or so people and thousands of businesses and other enterprises hostage for a whole night and day. Everything was ordered closed-down and people ordered to stay inside. Even Harvard was closed. One understands that the situation was fluid and that there could have been possible dangers, but neither New York City nor Washington was closed down on 9/11, and that involved a much worse catastrophe than Boston. Imagine such a protocol in Kabul, Baghdad, Amman or Jerusalem, which would be necessitated every day. People would starve. In fact, Chicago vis-à-vis murder is bad enough.

This fact alone told the Muslim jihad-monsters worldwide that this nation can be cowed to a standstill by nearly anything…the worst sort of message to be sending those cutthroats, an invitation to just pick an event and scare the U.S. to death, while shutting down all services. Egad! This should not happen again, all the bluster about the episode “bringing the people together and showing the world a thing or two” being just so much blowing-smoke. To cap off the euphoria, a Boston baseball player immortalized the day with a vulgar four-letter word spoken to the world. How utterly stupid…but Obama’s FCC chairman thought it was great!

The law-enforcement folks did their usual excellent work but it needs remembering that but for a couple or so well-placed surveillance cameras the bombers could still be in Cambridge, laughing. The airliner shoe-bombers would have been successful if, either through stupidity or cold feet, they hadn’t failed to make their bombs explode. The same can be said for the character who parked an SUV-loaded bomb at Times Square but merely started a small fire instead of igniting his bomb, which could have blown away much of the area. In short, it’s only a matter of time when, not if, something else happens.

The “sleeper cells” are in this country. The Boston bombers most likely didn’t work alone. For instance, no one has indicated any visible means of support for the Tsarnaev brothers or their automobiles. It’s doubtful that one’s being a (failing) student and the other a sometime boxer would cut it.

And so it goes.
Jim Clark