A Nod To The Gods

It looks like we are going to help out the Assad regime in Syria now. Is it just me or wasn’t it not to long ago we were going to arm the rebels against Assad? Oh that’s right, they turned into ISIS.

The marijuana experiment in Colorado was dumb. It does not stop drug dealers, it does not stop crime, in fact, it increases blackmarket sales due to the 33% tax imposed by the state. Pot smokers may be high and not very ambitious but they are frugal.

In this light, taxation is seen as a blunt instrument of exclusion, driving precisely the groups most prosecuted in the war on drug further into the arms of the black market. In one Denver dispensary, a $30 purchase of one-eighth of the Trinity strain of cannabis includes $7.38 in state and local taxes – a near 33% rate. As Larisa Bolivar, one of the city’s most well-known proponents of decriminalizing marijuana, puts it: that $7 buys someone lunch.

“It’s simple,” she says. “A high tax rate drives black market growth. It’s an incentive for risky behavior.”

Forget the fact pot is a gateway drug. Liberal politicians sold you a bag of goods, (pardon the pun), that has done nothing it claimed legalization would do. Any revenue they thought they would get is wiped out in law enforcement, rehab programs, and the red tape associated with a government program. Idiots.

It’s not hard to see where the logic is going. The thing is, legalization does nothing for Red Team or Blue Team. Both need an angle so they can pretend to be different. My guess is Red Team is going to be the tax collectors for the weed industry. The Blue Team will go the social justice route demand free weed and subsidies for the poor. Two decades ago, the ruler passed welfare reform which was supposed to start kicking loafers off the dole. Today, one third of the population is collecting. How long before they are giving away free weed in the ghetto? keep reading…

Speaking of dumb, this one was worth millions and he threw it all away for what?

No shame, no clue, no character.

I think he enjoys the power, money, and fame…..hates the responsibility…..which is the most important part of the job.

ISIS has come to power because it is popular with a majority of muslims, and if you have the majority, your supply of potential jihadist is infinite. And it will continue no matter how many air strikes and special forces we throw at them, they have been at it for over a thousand years.

Hillary Clinton and John McCain can complain that we could have avoided the rise of ISIS if we had only armed the right sort of Jihadists in Syria. But if ISIS became dominant because its agenda had popular support, then it would not have mattered whom we armed or didn’t arm.

We learned nothing from history, who do you think is in possession of the arms we sent to the Libyan rebels and Iraqi army?

We armed the Iraqi military to the teeth, but it didn’t do any good because the military didn’t represent any larger consensus in an Iraq divided along religious and ethnic lines. 

I can’t tell you how much it irritates me when I hear terrorists have somehow acquired American arms and technology.

As ISIS has shown us, it has a vision for the future. The Caliphate, like the Reich, is a utopia which can only be created through the mass murder and repression of all those who do not belong. This isn’t a new vision. It’s the founding vision of Islam.  What is wrong with ISIS is what is wrong with Islam.

We can defeat ISIS, but we should remember that its roots are in the hearts of the Sunni Muslims who have supported it. ISIS and Al Qaeda are only symptoms of the larger problem. 

ISIS is an expression of the murderous hate within Islam. We are not only at war with an acronym, but with the dark hatred in the hearts of men, some of whom are in Iraq and Pakistan. And some of whom live next door. keep reading….

Next time you hear CAIR complaining about islamaphobe remember they have NEVER spoke out against a terror group of any kind, which means they don’t care about ISIS coming to America because….well…..they are muslim.

It turns out that Mike Brown was a thief, the innocent victim story has been shattered by the store video. None of this matters to the race baiters, the protestors, the looters, and apparently our DOJ head Eric Holder. It was Holders department who wanted to keep the video from being released when in fact, it should have been released immediately. It may have kept at least a few people with some common sense off the streets.

The white on black victim narrative reaches levels deeply rooted in America. The African-American community has claimed victim status for decades, this excuses them for not being responsible for their own well being. The right to pursue happiness is given to all of us in this country, but some refuse to take advantage of the opportunities afforded them through generous programs that Democrats have been throwing at them for generations. The road less traveled may be the more difficult path but that is why successful people take that road, if it was easy everybody would be doing it. The issue I have with the citizens of Ferguson is that they are not taking the high road on this, they are being manipulated like cattle by their officials and their perceived savior Barack Obama and his henchman Holder.

Why would Holder, (which is really Obama), want to get another autopsy? Why would Holder want to keep the video suppressed? Why would Holder send down his community outreach team, who were sent to the Trayvon Martin shooting to provide instruction on how to protest?

I wasn’t there so I don’t know the facts, but neither was Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Eric Holder, or Barack Obama. The only thing that we can do is let due process take it’s course, but the useful idiots in the media and the so called oppressed peoples of Ferguson won’t allow that to happen. Long after Jesse and Al have gone back to their comfortable lives far away from Ferguson, black communities will continue to spiral out of control and laws will be broken by aimless black youths which will lead to another shooting. All of this is precluded by liberal welfare policies that have put black America in this situation in the first place.
It’s hard for people to find the solution when they refuse to accept the fact the problem is staring back at them in the mirror.

As Obama vacations the world implodes. Obama is an empty suit elected (twice) by liberal elites, useful idiots, and tribal obligation.

Why did Obama finally decide to begin bombing ISIS? The New York Times quoted a senior administration official as saying that he was worried about the political impact of another Benghazi.

That’s not leadership, but it’s also nothing new from a politician who came up with ObamaCare out of a last minute need to have something to show off for progressives. Whether it’s gay marriage or illegal alien amnesty, Obama has a track record of suddenly committing to a culture war after years of pressure out of fear that if he doesn’t do something, everyone will realize that he has no idea what he’s doing. keep reading…