Let Muslims Finish It

The much ballyhooed coalition that has been formed to fight what Obama calls ISIL (and others, ISIS) has strange features. State Secretary Kerry will take credit for whatever grouping takes place, but he is less an active player than his predecessors, not least because U.S. credibility has slipped and the fact that regional players in the Middle East have finally figured out that ISIL will take them over as soon as possible if they don't take action—survival of the fittest.

King Abdullah has finally understood that his 229 fighter-jets had better take to the skies, else he and the fat princes will be driven into the Red Sea. Other Middle East nations such as Qatar and the UAE, flush with enough cash to buy out ISIL if possible, have caught on. So...the bombing has started, never mind the fanatical religious considerations vis-a-vis Sunnis killing Sunnis (a no-no). Precious oil-wells are at stake, with all those greenbacks needed to buy girls from India to work as slaves and concubines.

Leading the bomb-fest is President Obama, knocking the bejesus out of Syrian targets. This is an act of war and governed by the U.S. Constitution, but he has no use for that anachronistic document, which plainly disallows him the privilege of serendipitously attacking anywhere, such as in Libya in 2011, without even a consultation with Congress, much less a debate. The ISIL thugs ravaged Libya in the total governmental vacuum left by Obama and are now in Syria and Iraq, where there's lots of oil for good fighting-income and plenty of women to ravage according to Sharia law.

Of course, the English will bomb only Iraq and no one knows exactly what the Mid-East gangs might blast, but one thing is certain, to wit, no one plans to put soldiers on the ground. Iraq's troop-strength stood at 271,400 boots this year, but ISIL dispatched it in short order, the U.S.-trained soldiers running for dear life and turning over their U.S.-built armor to the butchers, with probably a huge segment of the Iraqi soldiers joining ISIL.

Saudi troop-strength stands at 233,500 boots that can be on the ground in Iraq in a matter of hours. The Saudi capital, Riyadh, is only some 300 miles from the Iraqi border and ISIL strength is said to number only about 35,000 fighters, giving the king an advantage of about 7-to-one. The king also has 1,095 tanks; 7,202 armored fighting vehicles; multiple rocket-launch systems and 652 military aircraft, 229 of which are deadly, modern jet-fighters secured from the U.S. and Europe. Syria has borders with Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Jordan and Iran, which have troops numbering respectively, 233,500; 510,600; 100,500; and 523,000...for a total of 1,367,600 boots that can be put on the ground immediately to stop evil ISIL.

In other words, now is the time for the U.S. to pull out of this quagmire and let the Muslims settle the affair themselves. They have inordinately more than necessary in both air- and land-fighting capability to throw ISIL off the planet. Obama is spending $10 million a day at last count after squandering $1.1 BILLION on Libya with nothing to show for it but a devastated Libya and the ISIL butchers, who must laugh themselves silly in pondering how Obama helped them.

Obama can be glad he didn't bomb Syria in trying to dislodge Bashir Assad back in the day when he ordered Assad to step down. If he had, as Senator McCain would have had it, ISIL would have been in Damascus now as it will be in Baghdad soon unless the Mid-East leaders send in their troops. As for the threat of ISIL representing damage in the U.S. unless stopped, forget it. That threat will always be operative as long as Muslims are ordered to kill and /or enslave the infidels. They will train anywhere and everywhere when driven from one place to another.

As long as Muslims are fighting Muslims, they're leaving the rest of the world alone, so the rest of the world should leave them alone. When one faction or the other (Sunni, Shi'ite, Alewite, Wahabi, for instance) gets the upper hand, the other factions can combine to start the carnage all over, since Sunnis and Shi'ites (the main groups) hate each other. Think of the decade of the 1980s when Sunni Saddam (Iraq) gassed the Kurds and ravaged the Shi'ites in his own country and fought the Iranian Shi'ites to a bloody draw. The U.S. has lost enough blood and treasure.

And so it goes.
Jim Clark

Obama Cons the USA/UN...Again

All one need do to understand President Obama's disdain for white people is to read his book, Dreams from My Father (1995). In 2008, he referred to the grandmother who raised him as the “typical white person,” i.e., persons uncomfortable being in the presence of folks like him. His angst may derive from the fact that his mother was white, even though his Kenyan (black) father deserted both him and his mother.

In his United Nations “ISIL Speech,” Obama said on 24 September, “In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri -- where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. … So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions. And like every country, we continually wrestle with how to reconcile the vast changes wrought by globalization and greater diversity with the traditions that we hold dear.”

At least he didn't compare the U.S. to Nazi Germany and the republicans to the SS troopers or the Gestapo, Hitler's secret police. After six years he's still apologizing to the world for the evil United States but to mention Ferguson in the same breath as ISIL, where beheading people is an afternoon's entertainment, pushes the envelope too far and displays an attitude of hate for his own country that's palpable.

The jury is out on Ferguson. In fact, the grand jury involved in the Michael Brown death may not even bring the matter to trial. Brown, a black two-bit thief and pot-head who had just committed some petty thievery was gunned down as he apparently tried to finish off a white police officer he had already attacked in the policeman's patrol-car. The president and the attorney general played the race-card right after that happened, with neither of them knowing the facts. They had appointed themselves jury and judge and made it plain that Brown was murdered (another policeman acting stupidly?).

They fueled tension in Ferguson, and neither should have said anything, at least until the judicial system had done its work. Obama didn't mention this at the UN. Instead, he blamed the “problem” on vast global changes and the “greater diversity with the traditions that we hold dear.” What global change caused Brown's death in Missouri? Maybe it was Putin's rape of Crimea. The goons in Ferguson might have been traumatized by that and made looting and burning buildings a sort of therapy.

Should comparing Ferguson with the butchers of ISIL or any recent global “event” make one wonder if the president needs to see a shrink? Or...is he just mean-spirited? Could he possibly just be stupid or have stupid speechwriters? His racism is especially toxic because it's so transparent, and the knowledgeable folks at the UN must be wondering how someone so disdainful of his own country could ever be elected president.

In the Middle East, Muslims are killing Muslims by the thousands. If the president wanted to draw a “global” perspective he would have used his hometown—Chicago—where 1,224 murders have occurred in 2012 plus 2013 plus through 24 September of this year, nearly all of them as blacks killing blacks (well over one per day). Instead, he picked on Ferguson because of the difference in races of the main players. That's racism in action, and “greater diversity with the traditions” has not been an issue for the obvious reason.

In Dreams from My Father, Obama mentioned Marxist professors, structural feminists (whoever they were), and punk-rock performance poets as friends he chose carefully (pg. 100). On pg. 101, he wrote regarding campus life, “No, it remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.” Is that “hate-speech?”

In his UN speech, Obama said: “Islam teaches peace. Muslims the world over aspire to live with dignity and a sense of justice. ... No God condones this [Muslim-activated] terror. … it is time for the world – especially Muslim communities – to explicitly, forcefully, and consistently reject the ideology of al Qaeda and ISIL.” Islam is Obama's blind spot. Reared as Muslim in his childhood, he in those brief statements contradicted his own insistence that Islam means good for the world, knowing that a main premise of the Koran/Haditha (Muslim “holy” books) is that the infidel must be killed or enslaved.

As he did in completely destroying Libya without even consulting Congress, much less debating, Obama has begun another war, this time in Syria. But, of course, it's all the fault of George Bush.

And so it goes.
Jim Clark

The NFL Soap-opera & Female Victim-hood

The soap-opera called the National Football League still commands the media, with the world going to hell in a hand-basket and foreign-country reporters shunted aside to get at the juicy stuff, not tame things like genocide and beheading. Since the ladies got into the act big-time—National Organization for Women and multitudes of media gals, for instance—the plot has thickened to the point of no ignoring.

Ray Rice and his significant other got roaring drunk the other week, slapped each other around a bit and he whacked her after she spit in his face, all caught on tape. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell suspended Rice for two games, costing the player a cool $500,000 of a $4 million contract. Case closed! Well...not exactly. The NOW gang demanded that Goodell resign immediately even though he had nothing to do with the Rice mess, and the TV gals waxed eloquently sadistic vis-a-vis poor Ray...not exactly that he be shot at sunrise but maybe at least water-boarded, the cad.

Upon further reflection occasioned by the ladies' outrage, Goodell suspended Rice indefinitely. Over in St. Louis (NFL Cardinals), Daryl Washington is serving a year of probation for his domestic violence peccadilloes and the other day Jonathan Dwyer head-butted his wife into a broken nose after she bit his lip in a discussion about having sex or not. So, he is now suspended. Adrian Peterson of the Minnesota Vikings more recently managed to beat his four-year-old with some kind of switch or branch...needless to say, in excess. He's now on the bench, though the ladies think he should be in jail.

The women don't seem to understand that this stuff is logically handled by law enforcement and not a sports organization, though when law enforcement officers came to the Dwyer's house to rescue the wife, she said her husband, who was hiding in the bathroom, was not at home. The next day, he beat her again, something that might have been avoided if she had been truthful.

The nation has entered the “women's century,” and the ladies are playing it to the hilt, not least because they're in the majority and thus control the vote. As a result, normally reasonable military leaders are placing them in combat where they drain the attention of soldiers from killing the enemy to protecting the ladies. The president is not a reasonable commander-in-chief, has zilch military smarts, and sees this matter as sociological rather than logical.

The women have misjudged themselves both physically and mentally. The ladies involved with NFL or any pro-sport athletes claim victim-hood but rarely mention their willingness to be live-in tramps for professional players, sometimes even marrying them and then screaming bloody-murder when their own stupidity has placed them in “inconvenient” circumstances. The good times with millionaire athletes can turn ugly, but harlotry beckons...and then there's always the protective orders and courts, now being taken over by women. Proceeds from a divorce or “domestic-split” can fix a gal for life if she's smart. Think Tiger Woods, for instance.

Because of female pressure, Pentagon pooh-bahs—with straight faces—claim there were 26,000 unreported rapes in the military in 2012 and—coincidentally—26,000 unreported rapes in 2013. There will probably be another 26,000 in 2014, especially since things that are unreported can be reported as anything. The current figure for coed rapes stands at one-in-five over a student's college years, though not because of bad guys jumping from behind bushes but by those evil boyfriends. According to the ACLU (February 2010), 95% of college rapes are not reported. Does anyone actually believe this stuff?

Remedies to female victim-hood are so obvious as to be insulting to be mentioned to a rational person. Start with the girls not getting drunk or high, not frequenting sex cesspools like frat houses and sleazy bars, and not being sex-obsessive (merrily leading on the guy, then screaming NO and then turning him in, especially if he's not particularly appreciative or pliable). Segregate college dormitories and military facilities gender-wise. Use plain common sense, like not wandering around drunk at three a.m. So Simple!

As for the gals who go for the NFL hunks, it's put up and shut up. A gaggle of these guys have wrecked their bodies and minds with steroids, HGH and other stuff. They aren't rational much of the time, not least because their brains are scrambled routinely. Women with any sense know this but for the love of money, both sexes sell their bodies. At NFL games the nearly-nude cheerleaders are examples of this. NOW probably thinks they're great (or maybe victims...who knows?) but they just look like hookers/groupies.

And so it goes.
Jim Clark

Washington Insanity

Now...let me get this straight. Congress has voted to have the prez select 5,000 “moderate” insurrectionists in Syria, transport them to Saudi Arabia and require U.S. troops on the ground to train them for a year, give them lots of hardware, and transport them back to Syria (or what's left of it) to take down ISIS. These “moderate rebels” (quintessential oxymorons) will promise not to use their new mean machine against Syrian President Bashir Assad, whom they've been battling since the Arab Spring blood-lettings of 2011 in order to take over the country.

BUT, the ISIS meat-cutters (Sunni by persuasion) in Iraq are an immediate threat...or so the propaganda says. One supposes the Iraqi army, trained for years by U.S. troops into a vaunted “formidable fighting force” before Obama's grand pullout of 2011, could easily have taken care of the be-headers, who take especial delight in also bodily dismembering Muslims of the wrong persuasion (Shi'tes) or—even more fun—Christians, Jews, and homosexuals with or without religion. Unfortunately/predictably, the Iraqi troops have taken a pass and even handed over their weapons (American issue) to their “brothers” in ISIS. Since virtually all international leaders are shocked and appalled at this outrageous conduct, gathering a large force should be easy.

Naturally—and because he claims George Bush started the whole mess back in 2003 anyway—Obama, as commander-in-chief (never lets anyone forget it, either), would be expected to already have troops on the way while State Secretary Kerry signs up the rest of the world. Fuggedaboutit! Both Prexy and Kerry have stated constantly and unequivocally that U.S. boots will not tread Iraqi soil, though U.S. planes and drones have been ordered to bomb ISIS back to its historical time-frame, the Stone Age.

Both Joint Chiefs Chairman Dempsey and VPOTUS Biden haven't caught that nuance, Dempsey claiming before a Senate committee that he would recommend sending American GIs in the event ISIS can't be annihilated. Biden agreed, saying in Des Moines recently that the decision would be based on how things go. Whether or not he meant that depends on his potential 2016 presidential aspirations, especially if he says the Benghazi massacre, refuting Queen Hillary, DOES make a difference and promises not to lie and be ready for a 3:00 a.m. international 911-call.

Since Assad is fighting both the “moderate rebels” and ISIS in Syria, this puts Obama on the spot. Obama told Assad in 2011 to “get outta Dodge” and turn Syria over to whichever “moderate rebels” could grab it and set up a government. Ergo, POTUS may be pulling a fast one. Since Assad told Obama to take a hike in 2011, the newly U.S.-trained-moderate-revolutionaries may have an understanding that its fight a year or so from now will not be against ISIS until it has upended Assad, though if it's trained like the Iraqi army, it will turn its weapons over to Assad or ISIS at the first scent of blood and run for the desert, leaving POTUS reconsidering red-lines.

Saddam was Sunni and kicked the Shi'ites whenever and wherever. The Shi'ites own the government (such as it is) now and have kicked out the Sunnis while totally degrading the Iraqi army. The largest Shi'ite population in the world is in Iran. Sunnis and Shi'ites have been killing each other for 14 or so centuries, so Iran would likely be Iraq's only ally, with its active troop-strength of 523,000, the largest military in the Middle East.

Syria has borders with Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Jordan and Iran, which have troops numbering respectively, 233,500; 510,600; 100,500; and 523,000...for a total of 1,367,600 boots that can be put on the ground immediately to stop evil ISIS. But ISIS is Sunni, so the first three are not about to kill their Sharia buddies and Iran might incur the wrath of the first three if it got in the fight and risk being whacked by them. So...what to do? Just as the Saudi king said recently—make the Americans do the dirty work.

The Congressional insanity is pathetic. ISIS, contrary to the “line,” is no immediate threat to this country and not one American should be put in harm's way by either training the non-trainable Muslim cowards or actually fighting in somebody else's civil/religious war. U.S. citizens are being jerked around. Let the Muslims settle each other's hash, and stay clear.

And so it goes.
Jim Clark

Jobs & National Defense

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, in August 2008 the non-farming civilian labor force (workers age 16 and older) numbered 154,641,000. In August 2014, it numbered 155,959,000, for an increase in six years of less than one percent while the population grew about four percent. If it had grown at the rate of population growth, the work force would number about 163,000,000, or about 7 million more taxpayers than contribute now, especially important since nearly half of all households pay no taxes.

In August 2008, the unemployed workers numbered 9,438,000. In August 2014, that number was 9,591,000, or an increase in the unemployed of 1.6%. The officially announced unemployment rate in August of both 2008 and 2014 was the same, 6.1%. Obviously, the facts give the lie to the current unemployment rate claimed by the administration unless, of course, either the books have been cooked or there are mitigating circumstances.

There are circumstances alright, but aggravating rather than mitigating. According to the BLS, in August there were 2,141,000 workers marginally attached to the work force, i.e., they want to work, are available and classified as looking for work for at least a year, but not for the last four weeks. There are 775,000 who are absolutely discouraged. So, the unemployment figure actually is not 9,591,000 but 11,732,000 (not counting the discouraged), or 25% greater than the unemployment number in August 2008. The official unemployment rate of 6.1% is fiction. It's at least 8%, probably much higher.

The constant drumbeat by the administration about all the jobs that have been “created” in any period since 2008 is ill advised in light of the figures. The practical concern has to do with job-loss as well as job-creation. The impact of job-loss since 2008 far outweighs that of job-creation. The bottom line has to do with with the net job-outcome. According to Bloomberg of 02 May 2014, only 62.8% of the eligible work-force is at work, with that rate matching the lowest since March 1978.

According to PBS of 21 February 2014, the BLS has determined that only 27% of jobs in the U.S. economy currently require a college degree (associate degree or higher). By comparison, the Current Population Survey, a monthly survey of 60,000 households conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau, showed that 47 percent of workers have an associate degree or higher. This amounts to huge personal education-debt for no financial reason.

According to Pew Research (Dec. 2010), 10,000 people turn age 65 every day and this phenomenon will obtain through 2029 (baby-boomers). According to Pew, the typical boomer considers old age to be 72, thus a reluctance by many to retire. There are roughly 3.1 million high-school graduates per year. The National Center for Education Statistics projected 1.6 million college graduates in 2014. According to ACURA, just under 66% of high-school grads enrolled in college in 2013, leaving 2 million to enter the work force. This means a total of abut 3.6 million young people chasing jobs currently.

In 2014, there's been an average increase of 215,000 jobs per month. If this is maintained, about 2.6 million new jobs could be expected this year, with at least 3.6 million young people people chasing them in addition to the 11.7 million unemployed. Even if the boomers all quit at age 65, that would present only 3.7 million additional job openings.

These discouraging statistics come at a time when the administration is actively, as promised, regulating many enterprises into downsizing, bankruptcy or otherwise going out of business, thus enhancing stagnation/regression at a time when a vibrant economy is urgently required and the nation plods (but for how long?) on borrowed/printed money.

The U.S. must have the financial resources to support both a civil and a military establishment—the latter now being dangerously depleted—that can protect the nation, especially in light of the Islamic jihad-threat. This means it must maintain a huge work-force turning out goods and services and thus earning wages to be taxed sufficiently to maintain national defense but not to the extent of killing incentive. The so-called middle class (if there is one anymore) will bear the brunt.

And so it goes.
Jim Clark

L'affaire de Rice

Has anyone besides me grown sick and tired of the Ray/Janay Rice brouhaha, which is sensationalized in the media—print and broadcast—on practically a 24/7 basis? Apparently not, at least not with the National Organization of Women, which has just called for National Football League head honcho Roger Goodell to resign immediately or—if possible—retroactively.

Now...let me get this straight. Ray and Janay, his significant other at the time, got drunk, got into a fight, made a terrible scene, with poor Janay out like a light from probably hitting her head on an elevator rail after Ray backhanded her after she spit in his face. This means that Goodell should resign? What could he have done to stop that from happening short of chaperoning the 20-somethings when they party?

I watched the tape. On their way walking (staggering) to the elevator, Janay seemed to hit Ray in the head (or tried, in her shape). In the elevator, she came at him but couldn't have harmed a hair of his head. If sober, he probably would have laughed it off. Instead, he introduced her to unconsciousness for a short time and handled her like a sack of feed. In doing this, he was dead wrong and there is no excuse for his striking her. Most fathers teach their sons that it's always wrong to strike a female.

So...there are civil laws to deal with assault and battery and Ray should probably have been arrested. As it was, he had to weasel out of some kind of legal problem. Rice copped a plea bargain, with the condition that he participate in some kind of anger-management thingy. He and Janay decided to get married (they already had a child, presumably his), so why not?

Goodell, soon after the mess happened, suspended Rice for two games, which meant the forfeiture of some $500,000, leaving him with only $3,500,000 of a $4 million contract to live on this season. The marriage was a big deal for Janay since if the marriage breaks up and she hires one of those tough female divorce lawyers she stands to collect more than “her part.” However, all the income is gone now account Rice's indefinite suspension.

Shepard Smith of Fox News wondered the other afternoon if the spat wasn't a reflection of some sort of cultural change...I'm not kidding but still laughing. This stuff goes on every day and has for centuries, the culture notwithstanding. And...since when does a third party like the NFL have to do what law enforcement is mandated to do, i.e., handle assault and domestic-violence cases? Goodell is no more responsible for Rice's behavior than the man in the moon.

It's not disputed that Janay was beating up on poor Ray (or trying, in her shape) but somehow the NOW nags consider that to be her right. Anyway, the president and the Pentagon directed last year that women are to be placed in combat now, another way of saying that they are fair game for violence from any quarter and should be able to protect themselves, notwithstanding that this directive represents stupidity of the nth degree. Poor Janay furnished the proof.

The NFL as well as other sports conglomerates like the NBA and major-league baseball are known for their extensive corruption. Expecting them to ride herd on their athletes is the same as expecting the Mafia to discipline its “soldiers” in the area of domestic problems or crime. Assault, rape and everything in between are fairly common in professional sports. The leagues are interested in handling high-profile abuses just like the Catholic hierarchy tries. First, sweep them under the rug. If that fails, make a big deal of punishment, real or imagined.

NY Jets backup quarterback Michael Vick spent nearly two years in the Big House account conviction on federal charges of conducting dog-fighting. He's back in the game. Again...it's wrong for a man to strike a woman. But if he should strike a dog...

And so it goes.
Jim Clark

DNC Memorandum #16

From the office of the chairWOMAN, 05 September 2014

***Listen up! There are no apologies offered for the absence of memos since last fall. This has been a terribly busy time for the chairWOMAN account having to further deal with the IRS scandals, the Benghazi slaughter, Fast-and-Furious, Syria, ISIS, executive orders and Hillary Clinton since she’s connected to all of them and has told me she’s mad as hell, had nothing to do with them, and won’t take it anymore, especially in her run for Air Force One, speaking of which Hillary will be pushing 70 in 2017 while the chairWOMAN will only be late-fortyish. Both Biden and Kerry will be mid-seventyish, and Biden overdid it when he said he would chase ISIS to hell the other day. He's lucky to get out of bed. The wag who posted on the Bush dart-board that Obama will issue an executive order nullifying elections in 2016 will be shunted off to the Durbin Re-indoctrination Center & Gulag, with its particular emphasis on how to lie believably.

***There has been unjustified (and unforgivable) backlash to the chairWOMAN's public remark the other day that Wisconsin Governor Walker has given the back-of-his-hand to women and that he's been pulling them around by their hair. The chairWOMAN has applied for a restraining order disallowing him any entry to Florida and has suggested to the Congressional women's caucus that all members do the same for their states. It's high-time that the tea-party recognizes that balancing a state's budget and non-unionizing decent state employees to save money and make them actually work is not enough to give the governor the right to abuse women. The insensitive staffer who posted that note on the Obama golf-swing picture that the chairWOMAN's hair proves her point will be assigned to an Everglades precinct.

***POTUS is still considering instituting a Department of Gender and has requested another yellow/black/white/red paper on how to do this while still awaiting word from the LBGTQ group as to how many genders there are. This hasn’t been settled yet mainly because the American Conference of Transitioning and Ultimate Personhood (known for short as ACT-UP) still threatens to sue something or somebody if not included in the gender-count, but certainly not in the Q group. Also, a complaint from something called the Platonic Education Department Of Pleasing Habituations in Loving Eroticism (PEDOPHILE, for short) has been lodged with AG Holder, claiming gender-status and threatening action from some Catholic priests account violation of First Amendment rights. The DNC is preparing a summary of Plato's Symposium for all staffers in readiness for any sign that POTUS has evolved on this matter as he did regarding same-sex marriage.

***There is reason to celebrate the fact that women are gradually taking over both the reporting responsibilities and anchor chairs in TV-world. This means that evil misogynists (mostly republican peeping-toms) are losing their grip on the levers of power. The nasty rumor that women have resorted to flagrant exhibitionism in their effort to take over TV is unfounded although the girls on FoxNews are up for an award from the Harvard Glee Club on the amount of cleavage and thigh exposed. Everything off-the-shoulder is tour de force and everything off-most everything is seen as a possibility by MSNBC, taking into account the person involved. While men are still required to be covered from Adam's-Apple-to-toe, CNN is studying the possibility that Wolf Blitzer might appear soon in only boxer-briefs and beard. Fox may require O'Reilly, for obvious reasons, to interview his girls while using eye-patches in order to help him stay focused. Stay tuned.

***The DNC personnel committee is structuring a new program called the Society for Obviating Bonehead Erratic Rants (SOBER, for short) designed to help agency spokespersons refrain from misspeaking (euphemism for ignorance and/or lying), such as when the State Department spokesperson said recently that the FBI would chase down the ISIS be-headers or when POTUS spoke of red-lines and later compared ISIS to a terrorism junior-varsity. VPOTUS was accused of inebriation recently when he said he would leave the be-headers in hell (obviously Satan's purview) so an important part of SOBER will handle the drug situation. All staffers, as well as teleprompter-guys, will be required to attend a consequent seminar conducted by the Harvard English and Psychology departments. Rehab may be required for some.

***A DNC red/yellow/black/white paper is being prepared to debunk the new book 13 HOURS: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi, as well as the program based on the book that aired on Fox-TV on 05 September, featuring the contractors employed to protect the CIA annex at Benghazi and allegedly (insisted by them) told to stand down in protecting the consulate when they almost certainly could have prevented the massacre of four Americans. A preview of the paper indicates an insistence that the men are all suffering from PTSD, amnesia, dementia, Freudian-slips, hallucinations, drug-use, STDs and greed. POTUS-friend Bill Ayers of Weather Underground fame and now a distinguished professor in Chicago (otherwise known as the Illinois killing-field – little joke there) will edit the paper.

And so it goes.
Jim Clark

King Abdullah, the Hypocrite

The height of hypocrisy was reached the other day when Saudi Arabia King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz lectured the U.S. and European nations on the (gasp) ghastly impending threat to them of ISIS, the terroristic jihad mongers now ravaging much if not most of Iraq and Syria. The major thrust of the threat involves homegrown U.S. and European Muslims or converted Muslims joining ISIS and after bloodletting enough to establish the grand Islamic caliphate “over there” returning home to terrorize civilized Caucasians into submission.

The fat king's nation shares a 600-mile border with Iraq but has no stomach for battling the butchers. Instead, he attempts through scare tactics to goad the West into fighting a war to protect his oil, similar to the gulf-war of 1991, in which President Bush 41 managed a UN-sanctioned 100-hour war to save his bacon, throwing Saddam out of Kuwait, who actually was just testing the waters for taking over the entire Arabian peninsula, using his 400,000-man army to throw the fat princes into the Red Sea.

Save the tears! The Saudi troop-strength stands at 233,500 boots that can be on the ground in Iraq in a matter of hours. The Saudi capital, Riyadh, is only some 300 miles from the Iraqi border and ISIS strength is said to number only about 10,000 fighters, giving the king an advantage of 23 to one. The king also has 1,095 tanks; 7,202 armored fighting vehicles; multiple rocket-launch systems and 652 military aircraft, 229 of which are deadly, modern jet-fighters secured from the U.S. and Europe.

The king has a defense budget of 56.7 BILLION dollars and has just given Lebanon a cool billion to help the Lebanese with their Syria problem. In 2011, he sent Saudi troops into neighboring Bahrain to keep the minority Sunnis in power over the majority Shi'ites and maintains 1,000 troops there now to save that monarchy in a nation with a population of only 1.3 million.

So...why doesn't the king use his overwhelming military might to completely destroy ISIS, which will soon run out of military hardware as its vehicles and arms originating in the U.S. and seized from the cowardly Iraqi army degrades and disappears? ISIS is Sunni-dominated as is Saudi Arabia, so the king may not want to “offend” his brothers...much better to let the U.S. do that and be blamed anew for meddling.

ISIS would gobble up the king and the princes if allowed to win in Iraq and Syria, just as Saddam would have but for the actions of President G.H.W. Bush in 1991, so the king would be forced to either stand and fight on his own soil or make a losing deal with the devil. ISIS has no air capability, while King Abdullah could fill the air 24/7 with both missiles and planes to wreck ISIS now, and it's a better now then when ISIS butchers invade his paradise and start their animalistic stonings, amputations, beheadings and rampant rape.

Meanwhile, the warmongers in this country like Senators McCain and Graham should shut up. The king can put tens of thousands of boots on the ground in Iraq to wipe out ISIS by just ordering them to get in their tanks and armored vehicles and take an afternoon drive across the border toward Baghdad. The notion that U.S. blood and treasure should be expended in that benighted country is ludicrous.

President Obama is right in not extending the Iraq affair. This might not be the case (considering all that oil) if Saudi Arabia were weak, but the Saudis (furnished 9/11 hijackers) are strong enough to defeat any nation in the Middle East with the exception of Israel and possibly Iran.

The king's stakes are high and when the West's leaders have their imminent meeting, they should get on his case big-time. The Saudis produce 9.9 million barrels of oil a day and sell about 73% of it to the world at enormous profit. Their oil reserves amount to 268 TRILLION barrels. Obama, British PM Cameron, and the European leaders, instead of wringing their hands, should tell the king to shape up or be shipped out.

Cameron mentioned in his speech to Parliament on 01 September, that Britain has lost about 500 of its young Muslims to ISIS, with France and Germany contributing 700 and 400 more, respectively, as well as contingents from other European countries. All of these nations have tried to quell the jihad threat. Now is the time for the king to step up.

And so it goes.
Jim Clark