Friday, June 20, 2014

BloggeRhythms

Found a couple of short, interesting items today, and received an eye-opening item from a friend.
 
Chris Strirewalt’s Fox column contained the following: “An irony: If the IRS really is the victim of its own shoddy IT department, this may be an even more consequential technological failure for the Obama administration than even the crashed launch of ObamaCare.”
 
I‘ve been making the same point here for the past four years.
 
Then there was this example of the incumbent’s consistent double-talk:
 
That was then - “Four years ago, I promised to end the war in Iraq. We did.” – President Obama, campaigning in Sept., 2012.
 
This is now - “Well, keep in mind that wasn’t a decision made by me. That was a decision made by the Iraqi government.” – President Obama asked by reporters Thursday if he regretted his  2011 decision not to leave some U.S. troops in Iraq.
 
Leading to another distortion of facts, anti-war activists have consistently claimed there were never any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Yet, news reports regarding the ISSA invasion say that “On Thursday, the group overran Saddam Hussein’s chemical weapons complex at al-Muthanna in central Iraq sparking heightened international concern.”
 
All of which goes to reinforce the case that this administration and its constituents continually put their own interests ahead of all others, regardless of costs and consideration. However, what’s happening now is that real world events are not only far too many, but are quickly demonstrating how consistently wrong these self-serving simpletons really are.
 
And that brings us to the following, sent by a friend this morning:
 
“In 1887 Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh , had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior: 
 
"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship."
 
"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the
beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200
years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:
 
From bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage."
 
In that regard, “Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the last Presidential election: 
 
Number of States won by:  Obama: 19   Romney: 29
Square miles of land won by: Obama: 580,000 Romney: 2,427,000
Population of counties won: Obama: 127 million Romney: 143 million
County murders per 100,000: Obama: 13.2 Romney: 2.1
 
Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory
Romney won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of the country.
 
Obama territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in low income tenements and living off various forms of government
welfare..."
 
Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase..
If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegals - and they vote - then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years.”
 
That’s it for today folks.
 
Adios

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