Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden

Born in the early forties, my early life was formed around images of WWII. Then, as an adolescent, it was the images from the Korean War that shaped my views of world conflict and its consequences. In the mid-’60s it was my turn to be a participant in Vietnam, where I was able to view those events firsthand. In all those conflicts, some of the most searing images were those showing the effects of war on the civilian populace. There are millions of images from those years and those wars recording for posterity the sad plight of all those millions of refugees.

But you know what? I can’t ever recall seeing, either in person or in an image, a fat refugee. In my remembrance, they have all been gaunt, looking as though their very next step may be into a grave. These were people dispossessed of their homelands, fleeing political oppression and conflict, seeking the slightest glimmer of hope to regain their freedom and some semblance of normality in their lives.

And to my best recollection, the one trait they all shared was that they were all skinny as rails.

Don’t believe me? Go back and look at those historical images. One look at those people, and you can see quite readily that they were in severe physical distress regardless of their political pains.

Now take a look at any of the video coverage or other imagery of the poor Central American refugees seeking asylum at our border. One striking truth is immediately apparent: many of them are genuinely obese by the actuarial standards imposed on the rest of us Americans by the insurance industry and our federal government. Most of these refugees look like they’ve never missed a meal in their lives. Many of them look like they have lived with both front feet in the trough. It’s glaringly obvious that whatever they are fleeing, it’s not the malnutrition that is usually such an essential component of refugee status. In fact, I would suggest that, considering the norm, a skinny refugee should be flagged for extra health screening.

So while the Obama administration is bending-unto-breaking every law on the books to carry off this phony children’s crusade, I suppose it’s just a given that federal height/weight and body fat content guidelines will be bent as well to accommodate all these new lifelong Democrat voters and food stamp recipients. And since all these chubby border-crashers will most likely end up on Medicaid, it naturally follows that Medicaid will have to revise upward their obesity guidelines, which frees up all those already on Medicaid and food stamps to increase their caloric intake, leading to millions of fatter feet in the trough.

Good grief! What has Obama wrought?

Crossposted at American Thinker

Stars & Stripes reports that Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is telling us what we already know; that those Islamic Nation fellows, formerly known as ISIS and ISIL, are a threat to our own national security;

“This country should not make any mistake on this, nor anyone in Congress: This is a threat to our country. This is a force that is sophisticated, it’s dynamic, it’s strong, it’s organized, it’s well-financed, it’s competent… And it is a threat to our allies all over the Middle East, it’s a threat to Europe… and it’s a threat to us,” he told troops at a town hall at Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Ga.

He should tell us something we don’t know. So, here we are in the midst of our third deployment of troops to Iraq in twenty-four years – all because we weren’t willing to finish the job each time. This time it’s because we weren’t willing to “do something, anything” to prevent the juggernaut from Syria from making the advances to the gates of Baghdad. Simple things like supplying the Iraqis with the weapons to beat back the invaders.

If I didn’t know better, I’d think that this administration was intentionally creating crises. We definitely need some leadership, the world needs some leadership – but all we get is nimnils telling us what we already know so they can appear concerned. I don’t see any leaders on the other side of the political aisle, either. It’s as if the whole western half of the world have become Europeans.

In another S&S article, Hagel tells the same crowd that we need to shift focus onto the nuclear sub force;

“I think over the years we’ve let our focus on the nuclear deterrence aspect of our national security drift a little,” Hagel told sailors, Marines and Coastguardsmen at a town hall meeting here.

“That’s somewhat understandable when we understand that for 13 years this country has been at war in long, large land-mass wars. And because of that, priority has been put on those wars, both in funding, leadership, attention. So we need to get back and pay attention here and prioritize the importance of the nuclear enterprise.”

Mostly, because this crowd is well-versed in focusing on problems that don’t exist. While ISIL was marching on Baghdad, the president was talking about “green energy” and while telling the crowd that ISIL is a threat to our own national security, Hagel wants to talk about spending more money on submarines. It would be funny if we weren’t talking about the lives of Americans here. But, you know, “what difference does it make?”

TSO sends us a link from Fox News in regards to the arrest of US citizen 15-year-old Tariq Khdeir after his cousin 16-year-old Palestinian Abu Khdeir was found murdered last week following the murder of three Israeli teens. it looks like Tariq was arrested for shooting with his sling shot at Israeli police;

The State Department confirmed Saturday that American citizen Tariq Khdeir is being held by Israeli authorities in Jerusalem and called for an investigation into reports he was severely beaten while in police custody, amid escalating violence in the Middle East country.

As TSO points out, the dude has been in custody only a few hours and the State Department is looking into charges that he has been beaten by police. As far as I know, the US State Department hasn’t even mentioned to Mexican authorities the name of American citizen, Marine Sergeant Andrew Tahmooressi who has been held in Mexican prison for months and has reportedly been mistreated. And I don’t think Tahmooressi was throwing rocks at Mexican police.

I wonder why the disparity in the attention the two Americans are getting from the State Department?