He 'R Us

We Have Met the Enemy
©2011 Ross Williams

Headline: Ex-al Qaida Terrorist Now Comic Book Hero

Article Synopsis: Nasir Abas, a Malaysian weapons expert with the terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah, has become a comic book anti-terrorism hero. Some of the hoodlums he trained blew up the night club in Bali, and Abas turned state’s evidence after he was caught. He has since become animated in “I Have Found the Meaning of Jihad”, a 137-page comic novella, which is given to school children in Indonesia.

A story as old as time: Abas grew up in an islamic boarding school of the same sort our very own National Savior attended, where Abas was schooled in the fine art of hesperophobia – “hatred of westerners”. Obama apparently signed up for the elective community organization class instead, though he seems naturally talented at undermining Western civilization in his own right.

Having no place to go after graduation, as hesperophobes refuse to work in Nike factories for five times the average wage he would otherwise earn, Abas wandered into a Jemaah Islamiyah recruiting center, signed on, and learned a trade. His trade was blowing things up.

As terrorist outfits go, Jemaah is very run-of-the-mill and generic. They have no presence outside the southeast Asian muslim world, and were virtually unknown except by the types of terror groupies that inhabit the dank and secretive bunkers of anti-terrorism agencies. Jemaah is essentially an Indonesian street gang looking for validity as they aimlessly mope around in their clubhouse.

And they found validity. In 1998 Osama bin Laden called a fatwa on everything western and particularly on the United States which is the most western of the westerns, and Jemaah Islamiyah said, “Hey, that sounds like fun!” As a result, Jemaah is described as an “al Qaida-related terrorist group” by that class of ideologue that seeks to make al Qaida more than it is. At the same time it is denied this al Qaida relation by that other class of ideologue which seeks to trivialize the essential sameness among all “terrorists” who share the pan-islamist ideology. ...which is to say, all of them. There are hundreds of these groups.

When the Bali nightclub was bombed we fell all over ourselves screaming “Al Qaida!! Al Qaida!!” “Jemaah Islamiyah” just doesn’t roll off the tongue of a panicky population.

Conclusion: Good for him; Abas has discovered “the true meaning of Jihad” after all, and his heart grew four sizes that day. Lucky him, he gets to carve the roast beast.


Headline: ‘Fast and Furious’ Guns found at AZ Crime

Article Synopsis: This is the third “Furious” weapon found in US crimes since Shyster General Holder’s cowboy plot was found out. There’s hundreds more where they came from. Holder has denied that he, or anyone higher than he, ever, ever knew of “Fast and Furious”. Pinky swear.

A Fistful of Dollars: So we have confirmed, once again, what we already knew: Mexican drug gangs use automatic weapons in their drug running activities, and those activities start in Mexico and leak across the US border where they affect Americans.

Also of note is that this gun – an AK-47 – was found not in a shoot ‘em up, but in a stolen truck being stopped by Arizona police. The driver of the truck attempted to escape and crashed into two cop cars doing so. This happened in March of 2010, and was only confirmed by embarrassed federal weenies this week.

Conspicuously absent from this Keystone Cop short is the federal civil rights lawsuit against Arizona for attempting to apprehend a criminal, simply because he was driving a stolen truck. The driver, Angel Hernandez Diaz, may have been a Mexican national, and stopping Hispanic-looking individuals in AZ has been deemed “racist” by those who believe that our southern border in Arizona should remain porous.

Conclusion: Follow the money. Mr Holder, what did you know and when did you know it. And before you answer, uncross your fingers.


Headline: NYC, DC on Alert as Feds Chase ‘Credible’ Threat

Article Synopsis: While our terror groupies in their dark basements are always vigilant, they have issued a warning to DC and New York police to be extra suspicious this week. Nothing tangible or specific; car bombs maybe. NY Governor Cuomo gave a “statement” suggesting there was no reason to panic so long as we stay paranoid – “cautious and aware” was how he put it. Doing this will serve our “spirit of freedom”. He didn’t specify how. Big Sis Napolitano prattled about “chatter”.

843rd verse, same as the first: Among the dopey things from the Bush era that Obama thankfully rescinded was the “terror level” color system. It was dopey not because it was a kindergartenish manner of attempting to get Americans to take terrorism seriously, it was dopey because it was the federal government continually crying wolf. The method employed by Barry Hussein only removes the kindergartenism from it; they’re still crying wolf.

This wolf will magically appear on Sunday, September 11th, the 10th anniversary of 9-11.

Crying wolf does different things to different people. Some people are capable of assessing for themselves the relative risk of a given activity by the rate of danger experienced in the recent past among those doing the same activity; if airplanes have flown for ten years without being commandeered into tall buildings, then chances are pretty slim that this plane today will be commandeered into a tall building ... and they don’t want to be pestered by paranoiacs who can’t do the math on that calculation for themselves.

Other people are rendered into sniveling, paranoiac blobs who rationally should never be let out of their own houses. This second group of people routinely do leave their homes, however, and thus annoy those of relatively sound mind with their twitching “safety uber alles” tirades. This is where the government comes in.

A government which says “Everything is fine; there’s nothing for me to do” is a government that is irrelevant in the minds of those citizens who are scared of their own shadows. The main job of government in the history of human civilization is to make itself relevant. It needs to “do something”. Doesn’t matter what, usually, even if it’s counter-productive. As long as the government does something, the sniveling masses are appeased. Ergo: TSA, Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPPA, ...

… Obamacare …

Those with brains prefer that the government either do something effective or it do nothing at all, for this is a rational response. The rational are usually shouted down by those with monsters under their beds.

In order to be seen as relevant in this new age of terrorism, which has overlapped the New Age of Civility somewhat, the government is embarking upon a consistent pattern of scaring the pants off as many Americans as it can by telling those who should not leave their homes that there are not only monsters under their beds, but in the closets, cupboards, basements [or crawlspaces] and attics as well.

Conclusion: A frightened population willingly cedes power to the government. The government wants power. Do the math. One try should be enough and if it isn’t, do everyone a favor and stay home.

War of Words

What If They Held a War of Words and No One Spoke?

©2011 Ross Williams

Headline: Sun Unleashes Massive X-Class Flares

Article Synopsis: Our sun is emerging from the quiet period of its 11-year cycle with major solar flares, some of which have been accompanied by coronal mass ejections. This is the star juice that, when it hits earth or, more likely, our satellites in orbit, wreaks havoc on our electronic gizmos. They also make pretty northern lights. The flare on Monday was an M5, while the one Tuesday was a larger X2.1 with a CME heading to Earth. In August an X6.9 occurred but the coronal mass was ejected the wrong direction to make cell phones useless. This cycle’s peak is two years off.

Science in a vacuum: There isn’t a single mention in the article that changes in solar radiation affect the climate far more directly and far more powerfully than human activity, nor that the current solar cycle’s minimum coincided with the recent spate of Global Warming non-warming ... which also curiously coincided with the spate of Global Warming scientists inventing data to make their notions look good when the real data didn’t support it.

Not that every article needs to be given a gloss for the politicized science du jour, but ... many already are, particularly when the theme of the news article can be rendered into another scold that mankind has the power and ability and callous disregard of the planet to burn it to the cinder that 5 billion years of cosmic maelstrom could not manage to accomplish on its own. The net result of this subtle suasion is that the general public, which is scientifically illiterate to start with, comes away with the idea that everything mankind does creates Global Warming, and that nothing in the rest of the universe contributes to it or – Gaia forbid! – counteracts it.

And when the data is having the troubles it’s been having these last several years to prop up the idea at all, what we’re doing is making the general public less knowledgeable than they already were by giving them a one-sided simple answer. Simple answers are often simplistic. And ultimately useless when they are.

Conclusion: The ghost of science-whore Stephen Schneider comes back to haunt: “...we need to get some broad-based support, to capture the public's imagination ... loads of media coverage. ...we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have...”. Enjoy your rest in hell, Steve; you’ve earned it.


Headline: NM to Have Tech Ghost Town

Article Synopsis: A high tech company is going to build a small city in New Mexico for $200 million, of a size to hold 35,000 residents, and it will remain empty. It will be used as a testing platform for technological innovation in a ‘real world’ environment. Of specific mention is the testing of “green technology” solutions. It will make money by subleasing office space, selling power to the grid, and renting the city to other industries’ testing needs. The area between Las Cruces and El Paso is being considered for the building site.

Case in point: “Green technology” is touted as the “solution” to Global Warming and this article contains the subtle scold mentioned above. Yet “green tech” solutions are going bankrupt left and right. The darling of Obama’s Reinvestment and Recovery Act, for example, filed for bankruptcy two weeks ago, less than a year after getting a nine-figure federal grant to build solar panels.

Chinese solar panels are cheaper and it couldn’t compete.

But this project will be different! If, for no other reason, than because when it goes bankrupt it will leave the homes and businesses of a small city of 35,000 just sitting there in the desert waiting to be used.

Conclusion: Border-hoppers take note: There will be a fenced-in city pre-built for your latter-day underground railroad within a night’s hike from Juarez. The fences will discourage the prying eyes of law enforcement – which are notably near-sighted to begin with – and the office buildings in town can serve as headquarters for whatever cash-only economy serves your interests. Hola y bienvenidos!


Headline: Video Game Targets Tea Party, Foxnews

Article Synopsis: Another liberal entry into the New Era of Civility is a video game entitled “Tea Party Zombies Must Die” in which digital death is dealt to Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachmann, Rick Santorum, Sean Hannity, Mike Huckabee, Newt Gingrich and someone named “Factory Made Blonde Foxnews Barbie”. ...to name a few. This is the third such game by this computer-whiz, Jason Oda. In 2008 he made “Kung Fu Election” where Democrat candidates used martial arts weapons and moves to eliminate Republican candidates; in 2004 he made “Bushgame” in which the gamer would pick his 80s TV character persona to battle Bush Administration foes. Huckabee was flattered [and amused] to be digitized but notes the liberal hypocrisy.

So’s yer mother!: As compellingly creative – by which I mean trite and hackneyed – as it may be to satirize political opponents as goons and monsters it is just what Huckabee said it was: unadulterated hypocrisy. Democrat Congressman Giffords was gunned down in AZ earlier this year, and the left couldn’t wait to blame the “violent rhetoric” of the right for inspiring it. When asked what “violent rhetoric” that was, the left pointed to a map of the US showing targets on “key congressional districts” where the Democrats were seen as vulnerable in the midterm elections. The gunman turned out to be an a-political whackjob.

Never mind that Democrats had the same style map in ’08, ’06 and ’04. And probably ’02 as well.

The Tea Party is constantly being accused of racism and inciting violence; when asked for specifics, the accusers point at pictures of Obama as Stalin carried and displayed at Tea Party gatherings and other unflattering characterizations.

Never mind that Bush was shown for seven of his eight years as Hitler ... and with a rifle scope superimposed on his face. Everyone is caricatured as Hitler at one point or another – it’s boring and predictable and shows the imagination of a parrot. “Darth Cheney” was, on the other hand, a very clever satire, conspicuous by its lonesomeness among liberal swipes.

There is virtually no support to the notion that the Tea Party systematically endorses violence, racism, or even hyperbolic smack-talk; to the degree the Tea Party can be shown as being rude, they are no more rude, and usually considerably less, than those who are screaming at them. Yet Democrats have consistently – and it’s becoming constantly – described the Tea Party as “the enemy” [B Obama] who can “go straight to hell” [M Waters], presumably after they are “taken out” [J Hoffa, below]; “Tea Party Zombies Must Die” is the training simulator, it would appear.

Conclusion: Anyone who makes me to write the name “Huckabee” four times, let alone agree with him, in order to do justice to a news article criticizing him can only be politely described as an ass hole of the highest order. Mr Oda, you have far too much time on your hands and far too little to occupy your mind. I don’t often consider this to be terribly practical advice for anyone, but for you it may prove productive: try masturbation.


Headline: Hoffa Stands By ‘S.O.B.’

Article Synopsis: A Labor Day rally in Detroit featured an appearance by the National Savior; he was introduced to the crowd by Teamsters Union President Jimmy Hoffa [not that Jimmy Hoffa – his son] who declared that the Tea Party was to blame for everything wrong, and the unions need to “take those sons of bitches out”. The New Era of Civility has not inspired Hoffa to apologize, nor does anyone in the Teamsters Union suggest he should. The Tea Party vigorously disapproves of the comments, which Hoffa, the next day, expanded upon. A Whitehouse spokesman said, “Hey! Don’t look at me” for Obama.

Thou dost protest too much, by half: Hoffa is merely standing up for “all American Workers”, who are tired of “seeing good American jobs shipped overseas”. “It’s about jobs and rebuilding America”, Hoffa declared the next day.

And that’s perfectly reasonable. I don’t blame union laborers for one second for despairing of the American jobs being shipped overseas. And I don’t blame union leaders for wanting to voice that despair. [And having already covered the violent anti-Tea Party imagery of a liberal’s psychosis I’m going to concentrate on Hoffa’s other psychoses].

I would prefer, though, that the voice of despair, not to mention the despair itself, be somewhat more rational and introspective than has ever been seen coming out of the unions. A large part of the reason that those jobs are being shipped overseas is because the cost of American labor is too high. That is a direct result of the actions of unions. ...as unions continually inform non-union people every time the non-union people criticize unions as being out of touch or outliving their usefulness.

The scripted union response to criticism is to say, “If you have a living wage? thank unions. If you like the 40 hour work week? thank unions. If you like health benefits? thank unions. If you like safe working conditions? thank unions.” Et cetera.

The major problem with this is that ... no, there are too many problems with this line of thought [sic], all of which are nullifying, for just one to be singled out as a “major problem”. Of the several problems with this inane horseshit is that:
1] unions only secured benefits for themselves, the primarily unskilled labor force
2] no one else was subjected to the conditions that unskilled labor was subjected to for unions to have indirectly benefitted non-union labor
3] all of these benefits are now a matter of law and have been for between 60 and 90 years
4] which means that if unions went away tomorrow the 9% of American workers who are in a union would notice nothing different except that they don’t pay union dues any longer and they also don’t have Democrats fawning all over them
5] and it was all accomplished – not to belabor the point – between 60 and 90 years ago anyway, and the question “What have you done for me lately” is most honestly and accurately answered by “Not a god damned thing ... why do you ask?”

It is noble for Hoffa to want to want to rebuild America. And I would imagine that he’s not talking about the nothing-town in New Mexico for testing “green” “solutions” that are cheaper to make in China anyway, and so that’s where the jobs are.

The jobs are in China because of union labor at this point. If you want to rebuild America, then you need to pull those jobs back. There’s a reason that kids with no high school diploma can get a job in a union and make more than a putz with an MBA. And there’s a reason that the trained apes of TSA who don’t need education to do their job want to form a union.

Conclusion: Union labor, hire thyself. And take a long look in the mirror, while you’re at it. You have met the enemy and it is your political philosophy. Liberals are the only sons of bitches you should be worrying about for the foreseeable future.