The state department and American foreign policy under obozo is at best an unmitigated disaster, at worst, a joke…!
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“Sixteen F-16s and 200 Abrams tanks are to be given to the Egyptian government before the end of the year”
The State Department has refused to cancel or delay the delivery…

operation fast and furious, i think
“More people know Beyonce than Benghazi” - Greg Gutfeld
And that my friends, is why Barack Obama is our president.
(via the-coonass-conservative)
Mark’s latest tome: After America: Get Ready for Armageddon [Amazon link]
Related:
It is now left to the international bond markets to bring discipline to American governance. In due course, they will.
(via mbrosen)
(via lalibertarienne)
There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.
Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men.
But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty once lost is lost forever.
— John Adams (via reparations)(via egalitarianscum)
On the endemic political cynicism of dying empire:
When civilizations start to die they go insane. Let the ice sheets in the Arctic melt. Let the temperatures rise. Let the air, soil and water be poisoned. Let the forests die. Let the seas be emptied of life. Let one useless war after another be waged. Let the masses be thrust into extreme poverty and left without jobs while the elites, drunk on hedonism, accumulate vast fortunes through exploitation, speculation, fraud and theft. Reality, at the end, gets unplugged. We live in an age when news consists of Snooki’s pregnancy, Hulk Hogan’s sex tape and Kim Kardashian’s denial that she is the naked woman cooking eggs in a photo circulating on the Internet. Politicians, including presidents, appear on late night comedy shows to do gags and they campaign on issues such as creating a moon colony. “[A]t times when the page is turning,” Louis-Ferdinand Celine wrote in “Castle to Castle,” “when History brings all the nuts together, opens its Epic Dance Halls! hats and heads in the whirlwind! Panties overboard!”
The quest by a bankrupt elite in the final days of empire to accumulate greater and greater wealth, as Karl Marx observed, is modern society’s version of primitive fetishism. This quest, as there is less and less to exploit, leads to mounting repression, increased human suffering, a collapse of infrastructure and, finally, collective death. It is the self-deluded, those on Wall Street or among the political elite, those who entertain and inform us, those who lack the capacity to question the lusts that will ensure our self-annihilation, who are held up as exemplars of intelligence, success and progress. The World Health Organization calculates that one in four people in the United States suffers from chronic anxiety, a mood disorder or depression—which seems to me to be a normal reaction to our march toward collective suicide. Welcome to the asylum.
- Me: Am I free to assemble a protest of peaceful peers?
- Government: Only with a permit.
- Me: Am I free to travel?
- Government: Only with a passport.
- Me: Am I free to pursue my own ideas of happiness?
- Government: Only within these constraints.
- Me: Am I free to start a business?
- Government: Only with a license.
- Me: Am I free to marry who I wish?
- Government: Only with my consent.
- Me: Am I free?
- Government: I'm legally obligated to say that you are.
- Government: Stop asking so many questions.
(via egalitarianscum)







