Leveling Limbaugh

The NFL punts to left-wing political intimidation.

The National Football League, in which each Sunday men weighing 365 pounds slam headlong into men weighing 245 pounds, has decided it can't handle Rush Limbaugh, talk-show host, age 58. C'mon guys, show some guts.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704322004574475681181683914.html

Limbaugh Targeted By Obama Official

The plot thickens on the media’s character-lynching of Rush Limbaugh. Of the four stories run on ESPN.com about Limbaugh’s bid for the Rams (October 6, October 12, October 15, and another October 15) none of them mention that NFL Players Association Executive Director DeMaurice Smith served as counsel to Attorney General Eric Holder and was a member of Barack Obama’s transition team.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/10/limbaugh_targeted_by_obama_off.html

Comment: Regardless of what you may think of Mr. Limbaugh, the last paragraph in the second story above is very telling and the story within a story. Particularly this one line: “never in American history has someone had so much power to pummel his political opponents as President Obama.” This is the very essence of Fascism; the goal is not leveling the playing field but clearing the opposition from it!

As long as they aren’t a convicted criminal, it certainly shouldn’t matter to anyone who wants to buy a sports franchise. The key thing shouldn’t be who they are but whether they have the financial means and are committed to make the club a success. What you don’t want happening to your favorite sports franchise is to have them bought one day by an individual or group and sold the next like a stock or commodity.

Another untold story behind the story is that one of the chief complainants in this little episode is none other than Mr. DeMaurice Smith whose involvement is also documented in the story above. As the NFL Players Association Executive Director, he will be instrumental in negotiating the next player’s contract with the Owner’s Association. Not having an influential personality with an anti-union stance like Mr. Limbaugh in the way should make negotiations a little easier, don’t you think?!

The NFL already has some colorful owners, Dallas and Oakland comes readily to mind. The list of celebu-tards who own a piece of the Miami franchise grows almost daily but they haven’t been put to such scrutiny. In fact, their participation is celebrated. What is in my opinion damning for the NFL and more importantly for the media in this instance is the case made against Mr. Limbaugh where the scrutiny placed upon him is based on hearsay and innuendo. The media didn’t do their duty to check the facts.

 

Note: This is a news and opinion blog on the happenings in Okinawa Japan and the Far East. The opinions expressed here are my own. I don’t comment on every article linked here but, ask that for the sake of context please read the articles, in there entirety, first.

Okinawa in the News:

Okada acknowledges U.S. ties, but cites need for talks

TOKYO — Japan’s new foreign minister on Wednesday again stressed the need for renewed talks about a long-term plan to realign troops on Okinawa.

http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=65252

Urasoe City anxious over Camp Kinser’s 2014 return

Camp Kinser’s a quiet, idyllic logistics base in Urasoe City, and it’s on the list of six bases the U.S. military would like to return to land owners in 2014.

http://www.japanupdate.com/?id=9840

Senior citizens getting more adept at stealing

The number of senior citizens arrested and prosecuted for stealing is up more than 10% over a year ago.

http://www.japanupdate.com/?id=9846

Comment: I would think given the economic downturn that the number of seniors doing this because they’re hungry is higher than the 17% number given. I would venture to say that a good portion of the 70% when asked were just too proud to say they were starving! Unfortunately this is an indication of shifting values in Okinawa and not for the better. This is a culture that has always prided itself on taking care of the elderly.

Hatoyama Cabinet confirms U.S. base relocation accord must be reviewed

Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's coalition government said Friday it will stick to its initial pledge to review plans to relocate U.S. forces within Okinawa, backtracking on earlier comments.

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20091010a5.html

Comment: It’s looking more and more like Japan got “Hope and Change,” the sequel! Just like all of Obama’s statements have an expiration date, so too it would seem does any statement coming from the Hatoyama cabinet.

DPJ's budget-waste watchdog: ¥3 trillion in fat just a start

The Democratic Party of Japan will pare wherever possible wasteful government spending and also attempt to enhance the quality of the annual budget, state minister Yoshito Sengoku said Friday in an interview.

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nb20091010a2.html

Comment: This is one of the areas in which I agree with the DPJ. There is far too much government waste. I further agree with the policy to end “amakudari.” But it’s probably pretty safe for me to say that every politician and party at every election since the dawn of democracy has vowed to end such practices. When parties in charge change, as we saw in the last election, history has shown us that what we usually end up with is a new fox running the hen house.

The DPJ is also using words like “transparency” to describe how they will govern. My sincere hope is they actually practice it. Transparency is precisely what the new American administration promised but they surely haven’t delivered on it. Nor, for that matter, have they delivered on any of the other promises they made. A recent Saturday Night Live skit addressed this rather appropriately. Is this what we have to look forward to here in Japan?

http://mashable.com/2009/10/06/snl-obama-accomplishments/

If Japan is to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent from 1990 levels by 2020 as targeted by the government, it would have to build one nuclear power plant every year, International Energy Agency Executive Director Nobuo Tanaka said Friday.

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nb20091010a6.html

Comment: This is a good example of the law of unintended consequences in action. People seem to forget that all actions/decisions have consequences. Going green means going nuclear if you want to maintain your present level of comfort and lifestyle. If you forget all about the problem of what to do with nuclear waste, it’s the cleanest and most reliable source of energy anywhere. If that gives you the willies, there is always option “B” which is akin to living in third world squalor.

This whole “going green” and Japan “nuking up” issue reminded me of a man off the street interview I saw recently where some housewife up in mainland Japan said she thought that we should all switch to all electric cars because they don’t pollute! That’s the problem with the whole “Going Green” scam. It’s the old shell game. You know the one where the huckster has three shells and you have to guess which one has the pea under it. By the time most people figure out there is no pea under any of them, it’s too late.

The problem with “all electric” or even hybrid cars for that matter that people can’t see is they do pollute and in some cases, much more! First of all, the electricity from which they derive their power has to be generated at a power plant. That means coal, gas, or nuclear fuel is burned to make the electricity that is put into the car batteries. That means that electric cars are not “carbon neutral!” The second thing is the toxic chemicals that are in those car batteries are not easily disposed of after they are fully spent and can no longer maintain a proper charge.

In addition to the heavy metals and toxic materials in those batteries, let’s not forget all those lightweight composite and synthetic materials that are used to make the car lighter and more efficient. Don’t forget all of that electronic stuff like your car navigator and the onboard computers. That is made with heavy metals too. These materials are extremely difficult to dispose of and in many cases, they are likewise extremely toxic. So you just can’t bury them in the ground or burn them. Leaving them in a junkyard could result in those metals leaching into the ground and poisoning the groundwater.  

Lastly, even with an “all electric” car, you just can’t get away from petroleum products. There are plastics used throughout the vehicle for a wide variety of different parts and just in case you didn’t know, plastics are made from petroleum. You’ll also need petroleum products for the different fluids to lubricate the moving parts of your “all electric” car. Then there is the synthetic materials that make your tires last longer and don’t forget that asphalt to pave the roads and your driveway are all made from petroleum derivatives.

Thank you “Greenies,” in addition to all of the other stuff that we already had, your zealous adherence to your faith in Gaia has given us a host of new and potentially more toxic poisons to worry about! Who’s going to save us from them?

The Democratic Party of Japan has finally revamped its internal leadership framework after arduous negotiations following its resounding victory in the Aug. 30 House of Representatives election.

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20091010TDY03105.htm

Comment: I wonder what Mr. Hatoyama will think when he finds out that he’s really not running the show? I find it funny that in eight years of George W. Bush, the press made fun about what a dolt he was and how Vice President Cheney was the power behind the throne. Here we actually see it happening in Japan (and most likely in the U.S. too) and nary a peep out of the press about it. At least nothing in a negative sense!

Japan, China, S Korea discuss North Korea's nukes

Leaders of China, Japan and South Korea began talks Saturday in Beijing amid signs that pressure on North Korea to rejoin nuclear disarmament negotiations may be yielding results.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/politics/view/japan-china-s-korea-discuss-north-korea-nukes

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- The leaders of South Korea and Japan stood united Friday in saying North Korea should not be offered aid until the communist regime takes concrete steps to dismantle its nuclear weapons program.

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20091009p2g00m0dm003000c.html

Scientist: Carbon Dioxide Doesn't Cause Global Warming

A noted geologist who coauthored the New York Times bestseller Sugar Busters has turned his attention to convincing Congress that carbon dioxide emissions are good for the Earth and don't cause global warming.

http://www.usnews.com/blogs/washington-whispers/2009/10/07/scientist-carbon-dioxide-doesnt-cause-global-warming.html

Comment: Well Duh!

YOKOHAMA (Kyodo) Police have turned a case over to prosecutors on an Ehime Prefecture man who allegedly threatened to shoot Kanagawa Gov. Shigefumi Matsuzawa for setting Japan's first local ordinance that bans smoking inside public facilities.

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20091012b4.html

Comment: The above story is just a sign that things are getting stoopid on this side of the big pond too! The anti-Smoking Nazi’s have gone global and good intentioned though some of them may be, they are reaching farther and intruding more and more into people’s private lives. What should it matter to them if someone wants to smoke or not? In reality the only one being hurt is the smoker and it’s their choice as well as their responsibility for what happens to them as a result of their behavior.

I will readily admit that threatening bodily harm to anyone, regardless of whether that person is a public official or not, is something that the authorities should take seriously. Clearly the manner in which this man expressed his displeasure was over the line. Even if he isn’t prosecuted, this is Japan and he’ll likely lose his present job as well as his ability to find a new one as a result of this. There is an old Buddhist proverb that says “the nail that sticks up will be hammered down!”

Unfortunately that principle is not always practiced in equal measure across the board. When someone on the left makes idle threats against someone from the right side of the political isle, like making a movie about the assassination of a sitting President of the United States or wishing that the wife of a Supreme Court Justice would deliberately feed high fat food to give them a heart attack, this is too often excused by the press as a bad joke regardless if the person who said it was joking or not. But when the tables are turned, they don’t seem to be able to laugh quite so hard.

“Usually this prize is given to someone after a lifetime of achievement or at least after having some tangible achievements to their name. To give some idea, Theodore Roosevelt won it for having negotiated the end to the Russo-Japanese War. I have no doubt that there are worthy individuals and organizations who have toiled for much longer and achieved much more than Obama has been able to do in the past nine months. They have rewarded words over deeds and this is a bad precedent to set.”

~~~~~ Mr. Rick Blaine – Commenting to a blog thread in our Joke of the Week below.

“DingleBarry was given the Nobel prize for his excellence in handling the Skip Gates affair. Getting the professor and the cop together for a beer was pure genius and defused a potentially explosive situation. The prize money can be used to buy more beer to settle disputes in the future. All he is saying…… is give peace a chance.”

~~~~~ Mitch - Whose comment is immediately below Mr. Blaine’s in the afore mentioned thread.

“Shaken up the lines of cleavage”?? And this is worth the Nobel Prize? Did Regan and Thatcher get it for winning the cold war and liberating most of Eastern Europe??”

“Don’t make me laugh. I read that the closing date for nominations was 1 Feb – so go figure what Obama achieved in 11 days.”

~~~~~ Flightpath – Further down the thread.

“Never in the course of human events has one man done so little to have been rewarded so much!”

~~~~~ Me!

As usual, the real  joke of the week isn’t a joke but as always, the joke is on us!

Obama's won the Nobel Peace – WTF?!

Barack Obama has won the Nobel Peace prize and I’m still reeling at the shock. Most of us are, I should think.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100013074/obamas-won-the-nobel-peace-wtf/

There was a time when the Nobel Peace Prize meant something. It went to men and women who earned their stature with lives of courage such as Andrei Sakharov who openly opposed the oppression of the former Soviet Union and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who gave his life for the cause of equality in which he believed.

Giving the prize to Barack Hussein Obama has rendered it a joke.

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/15598

Obama wins the Heisman Trophy after watching a college football game!

Perhaps I should preface that question with what is a name in the first place! A name is merely a label we give someone or something. For example, most people know me as Keith, the name given me by my parents. But I’m also known to some as brother and other’s who I’ve served with in the military know me as “Doc” and there are others who know me as “The Chief.”

We also know things by the name we give them. For example, Kool-Aid is a delicious drink served up to kids on a hot summer’s day. Thanks to the Reverend Jim Jones it’s known as a poison. He made up copious amounts of it, laced it with cyanide and coaxed some of his Jonestown followers to partake of it. Those that wouldn’t drink freely, he forced them to drink it. As a result of Reverend Jones, the name Kool-Aid also became the label for a corrupt, rotten or doomed philosophy.

So we know from a historical context that a name is label or identifier that we give to someone or something. We know that someone or something can be known by several names and we know that sometimes meanings of names can be changed and they can be changed for a host of different reasons. Sometimes the course is natural like the progression of a person from son to husband then father, grandfather and so on. In some cases the name change can be manipulated.

This is especially true in the political arena. Take any of the current political dramas unfolding before our very eyes. It just depends on your orientation or point of view whether a person is a freedom fighter or a terrorist. A look at the current global economic crisis and government’s response to it, is it a stimulus package or pork. Other popular terms that are often bandied about in the political arena include words like partisan, non-partisan bipartisan and post-partisan.

We know that in political terms, a partisan is someone who strictly adheres to a political ideology. They hold to it tenaciously and apply it across the board to a host of issues. We use terms like conservative and liberal to label or name the two ideological camps. Bipartisanship takes the term partisan and gives it an interesting twist. The idea behind this label is that there is some sort of middle ground where the two opposing sides can compromise and work together.

In reality, this never happens. What really happens is members who have identified themselves as being of one particular stripe or another don’t really adhere wholeheartedly to the principles of their particular affiliation. For example, in America during the 1980’s there was a thing once known as a conservative democrat. They belonged by affiliation to one particular stripe but their personal ideology, or lack there of, was in conflict with the party affiliation. They forsook their affiliation and voted along with the Reagan Tax cuts and military build up. They became known as the “Reagan Democrats!”

In more recent times, the opposite has happened. Now in the name of bipartisanship it is the right of the political spectrum that has left its roots. These days we have what is known as the Republican in Name Only or (RINO). What they in fact are is non-ideological republicans who for the sake of that magic word “bipartisanship” have caved in to the other side’s way of thinking. In short, the term bipartisanship, which many believe to mean both sides meeting in the middle, in fact really means that one side, or enough members of one stripe forsaking their ideological or party affiliation.

That leaves us with an interesting term that is all the rage these days, post-partisanship. The current American President describes himself as being a post-partisan politician. But just what does he mean by the word? By dissecting the word, what it should mean is the end of partisanship or that the practice of partisanship is over. So post-partisanship does not mean the same thing as being non-partisan. However, that is the impression that most people have when this word is so loosely and carelessly bandied about. But if the new president meant he was going to be non-partisan, he should have just said so from the get-go, shouldn’t he?

So if post-partisanship is not the same thing as being non-partisan but, in fact means the ending of partisanship. That leaves us with an interesting question. Just how do you end partisanship? Because our education system is so lacking, I feel it important that we first review. Partisan means strict adherence to a set of political principles, non-partisan means no adherence to any or all principles and bipartisan means the capitulation of enough of the members of one affiliation to bring a victory to the opposition. Then naturally post-partisanship must mean that the ideological war is over and one side has defeated the other.

But is the war really over just because one side says so? In the minds of many today, it is! This way of thinking, or lack of it, goes back to the free love philosophy of the 1960’s and manifested itself most clearly in the popular “Suppose they gave a war and nobody came” antiwar slogan of the time. Recently we’ve seen this way of thinking resurface in the “debate is over” argument when it comes to the question of manmade global warming. Now we’re seeing it rear its ugly head again in the manifestation of this new term called post-partisanship. In the latter, it merely means that the liberals have claimed victory over the conservatives.

To be sure, they did win the election. But did they do it honestly? In places like the uber-liberal enclaves of San Francisco and Boston, the answer is yes but in the conservative rural areas of the Midwest, south and west, the answer is a resounding no. In the latter, the democrats won by outwardly behaving and sounding more conservative than the supposedly conservative republican candidates they ran against.

But back to the, is the war really over because one side says so. Not hardly! Just ask the Japanese and the Germans following WWII, how did the war really end? Did it miraculously conclude merely because the U.S. and their allies declared victory or did it end because the other side was utterly defeated on the field of battle. Now compare that with the never ending war between the Palestinians and the Israelis. Ask yourself why that war never seems to end? It’s certainly not because the Israelis declared victory and walked off the battlefield. It seems to me we’ve tried that tactic several times and we seem doomed to repeat it again.

Well the big day has come and gone and America has a new president elect. Not my favorite choice to be sure. For that matter and as I have posted more than once, the opposition candidate didn’t really grab me either. B Hussein Obama will be America’s 44th President. In reflecting back on the campaign, I feel it safe to say it’s not so much that Obama and the liberals won but rather that McCain and thus the conservatives lost.

I think the cartoon “Mallard Fillmore” said it best when he mused in a recent installment that now McCain can stop pretending to be a conservative and Obama can stop pretending to be a moderate. Clearly after the primaries were over, both candidates moved to the right in order to garner votes. McCain moved right to try and recapture the Republican base and Obama to fool the “Joe Six-pack” conservatives and independents.

More accurately I think McCain lost the election, not just because he was the worst possible choice for his party but because he let the opposition dictate the course of the election. Though the election of the first black to the nation’s highest office is historic and nothing short of monumental. Many people like me who voted against the Junior Senator from Illinois did so not because we’re closet racists but because we disagree with the candidate on the many issues on the basis of principle. McCain failed to distinguish himself and his party from the opposition on issues, instead choosing to become the “Demagogue-Rat Lite” candidate.

No one can deny that the Demagogue-Rats had the unabashed support of the liberal mainstream media. They, having lost the two previous presidential contests were hell bent on reasserting their relevance. I feel it safe to say they did so at the cost of their very souls. They ignored the shortcomings of the liberal candidates wholesale and went all out to destroy the opposition. I think it safe to say that never before in the history of American politics has the media sought out to destroy a private citizen the way they did “Joe the Plumber” simply because he had the guts to question their candidate the way they and the opposition refused to.

Oh, it’s true that McCain picked up on the issue after the fact but the truth of the matter had been known from the outset of the campaign that Obama was a far left radical. The man “CHOSE” to associate with criminals and Marxist radicals the likes of Rezko, Wright, Ayers, etc. Obama’s defense of the associations just doesn’t wash. They are more than just people who live in his neighborhood or happened to have business dealings with.

As Robert Knight noted “When the media chooses to ignore important issues, it is up to the candidate to raise them. But McCain was so busy distancing himself from Bush that his own (change) theme was barely distinguishable from Obama’s.” Furthermore he had numerous issues handed to him on a silver platter that he either ignored or pounced on far too late.

Chief among these is the current financial mess. The left with the assistance of their propaganda arm “the liberal mainstream media” pounced on corporate greed and McCain wanting to be a populist followed suit. But the real culprits in the mess are members of the Demagogue-Rat party who refused to investigate the looming messes at Fannie May and Freddie Mack. McCain never seemed to understand that the media was undermining him at every turn and his choice on how to handle the crisis is proof alone that he was not the right man for the job.

So now B. Hussein Obama will be our next president. What will the results of an Obama presidency be? There is little doubt that he is a shrewd politician and just as he ruthlessly cleared the competition out of the way during the campaign, he’s more than likely to use the same tactics to deal with any problems he’ll face on the horizon. First of all, he’ll silence his critics. Just as he muzzled Hillary and silenced McCain, he’ll make it impossible for anyone to question his decisions or motives.

President Obama is an unabashed Socialist, if not an outright Marxist in his political orientation who will likely use the same bait and switch tactics to lay the blame for all the nation’s woes at the feet of his predecessor and the Capitalist system. He ran his campaign not so much against McCain as he did against his predecessor. As such, he will blame the outgoing administration for as much as he possibly can and for as long as he can. He should be able to get a few good years worth of press out of his allies in the media. As long as they are on his side, expect fawning press coverage no matter how much farther south the economy goes! I expect that will last at least through the mid-term elections if not beyond.

Those tax cuts he promised all through his campaign, forget about them. That was all smoke and mirrors. You can’t promise all the spending programs he has and not have a way to pay for it. As “Slick Willie” Clinton did only sixteen years before, expect an announcement sometime after the New Year that no tax break is coming! He’ll have the luxury of being able to blame it all on the Bush Administration. Add to that the “Bush Tax Cuts” expire in 2010. Don’t expect a renewal! All of our taxes are going to go up and sharply. The President Elect has a lot of people to pay off and it’s going to cost all of us plenty!

As taxes go up, expect productivity and the number of jobs to go down. Expect the stock market funk to continue on its wild ride for the foreseeable future and I expect it to go down more than it will go up. Furthermore, Obama's support for the unionization of businesses across the board without the use of secret ballot will add to the funk. As more and more small and medium sized businesses are forced to unionize, expect more and more of them to either go out of business and or move overseas to more favorable business climates. Prepare yourselves for a “quite probable” second Great Depression and soup kitchen America.

Lastly, the “Gaff Meister” and plagiarist extraordinaire, none other than the future Veep, Joe Biden has predicted that the Obama Administration will be tested by a terrorist attack or similar incident within the first six months of taking over. This prediction came only days after they had been briefed by the Bush administration on the potential threats the country faces. He’s also on the record as saying that they’re not going to be seen as handling it the right way, which probably means they’re going to appease the attackers! Somehow this too will be blamed on the Bush Administration. Perhaps the war stretched our military too thin to respond or something along those lines. His weak response will only embolden our enemies further.

My predictions for America’s immediate future are not based on having gazed into a crystal ball or by having consulted the stars or even a medium. They are based on common sense, a common sense that has for the moment, left the American people. Behold America; dark days are looming on the horizon. And that is not a racist pun! These are dark days with worldwide implications. As the American consumer pulls back out of necessity, so to will the global economic picture darken. Europe has been in an economic funk for a decade. Emerging economies in China and India are not yet ready to take up the slack. To put it simply, “We’re all in for a very bumpy four year ride!” Thanks for nothing John McCain!

I find it amazing sometimes how I start the week writing about one thing and end up posting something altogether different from when I started. This week was no different! I may still post that article later but with the election in the U.S. looming larger on the horizon with each and every passing day, I couldn’t pass on the opportunity to point out the hypocrisy of the left.

In a previous post, I mentioned how it was reported here in the Japanese media that Sarah Palin is a gaffer and hurting the McCain campaign (click here). Of course the Junior Senator from Illinois running mate, noted plagiarist and serial gaffer Joe Biden, has thus far been given a total pass by the media. The recent Japanese media silence on the matter only confirms my beliefs.

But all that may have changed just recently when the hero of our story stepped on his own privates again in public! Our hero, Senator Biden, admitted at a fund raiser over the weekend that if he and the Junior Senator from Illinois are blessed with a November victory, and America is so cursed, America will very likely be hit by a generated outside threat! Our hero didn’t allude to exactly what kind of threat but noted that there were several possible scenarios.

The mainstream media did it’s best to ignore the story for as long as possible. The media here in Japan is still silent on the issue. If it weren’t for the alternative media, most Americans outside the venue of that speech would have never heard of this threat. If the Junior Senator from Illinois fawning press clippings thus far are to be believed, “the oceans will cease to rise, our planet will be healed and all the countries of the world will love America again!" Such a threat should be outside the realm of even the remotest of possibilities!

If such a possibility is outside the realm of the conceivable, where did our hero get his information? Well, we do happen to know that both campaigns transition teams did, only recently, receive the intelligence briefings from the Bush Administration. This is standard practice. With an election like this, too close to call, it only makes sense that the next administration, whom ever that may be, will have the latest information. But then the question has to be raised, why did he divulge the information?

What we also know about our hero is that he is a blow hard and apparently in addition to being a serial gaffer, he may also be a serial liar! Either that or he is just one of those people who no matter what and for whatever reason just cannot keep a secret. With the hero of our story, more likely than not, its probably all of the above!

After 30 plus years in the U.S. Senate, our hero is the consummate Washington insider. In addition to enriching themselves with multimillion dollar land deals ala Harry Reid and alternative campaign financing ala Barney Frank and Chris Dodd, we know that Senator’s deal in information. For members of the U.S. congress, in addition to sweetheart deals from lobbyists for Fanny May and Freddie Mack, information is the coin of the realm. We also know that Senator's, like Pat "Leaky" Lahey for example, like to leak information to stay in the news. Usually the jucier the better, at least it seems that way in most cases.

The really disturbing thing to me is that our hero, possibly the next Vice President of the United States, having received such intelligence, quite probably sensitive if not “Top Secret” in nature, would divulge or even hint at such a possibility in public, let alone private. Having served in the military and having once had access to such information, I can assure you that if I experienced a similar lapse in judgment while in uniform, I would most likely have been the unhappy recipient of an immediate Courts Martial. In many cases, divulging such information is not simply a lapse in judgement, it could even be considered treasonous! Is this the kind of man we want just one heart beat away from the presidency?

The attempted cover up by the press over his alleged "lapse in judgment" only solidifies the case of bias levied against the mainstream media. It was two full days before most outlets even mentioned the statements. One outlet in particular, NBC, went so far as to only air those parts of his lapse in judgment that sounded positive to our hero’s campaign efforts and totally ignored the damning statements until hounded by the McCain campaign to release the statements in their entirety and provide full disclosure.

I could go on and on with example after example to make my case against the mainstream media. The plain cold hard truth is that the vast majority of mainstream news outlets are in the bag for the junior Senator from Illinois. Why else would such lies about the real cause of recent the financial meltdown (talk about your October Surprise) be disseminated as fact and cover given to the real culprits, leaders of the Demagogue Rat party?

Fortunately there is hope out there. Searching far and wide, we were able to find one honest journalist left in the country. The man is a democrat and former supporter of the junior Senator from Illinois. Don’t take my word for it. I encourage you to read two of his articles posted (here) and (here). There is simply just too much at stake for you to pull that lever this November and be uninformed. This race is going to be a lot closer than what the mainstream media is telling us.

Less than two weeks out and this race is turning on a dime. Actually we should make that two of them. One dime was dropped by the junior Senator from Illinois when he accidentally got honest and revealed his economic plan for the country to a lowly plumber from Ohio whom we all have come to know as simply Joe the plumber. The other dime was dropped by his own running mate, our hero, who quite coincidentally also happens to be named Joe.

If you believe what you see and hear in the mainstream media, the election in the U.S. is over and the junior senator from Illinois has won it. From what I’ve seen on television, the press in Japan is pretty much excited about the prospect. After all, this will mark the moment when the sea levels begin to fall and the planet will miraculously start to heal.

In Okinawa, home to a major contingent of U.S. military personnel and a large number of U.S. bases, the interest is also quite high. Many who I’ve engaged with on the internet forums pertaining to the subject are convinced that this means the end of the “alleged” new bases, soon the U.S. military will leave their island paradise and all lands that have been appropriated for U.S. military use will be returned.

Before anyone gets too excited, let me remind you that the world’s economy has been brought to the brink by social engineering in the U.S. Congress. By creating policies and laws that made it virtually unlawful not to loan monies to people who otherwise couldn’t qualify, the Congress of the United States along with the Carter and Clinton Administrations have brought the Capitalist system to the brink of collapse. The recent bailout attempts, in countries around the world (not just in the U.S.) have compounded the problem by putting the very foxes who threatened the chickens in charge of the coop.

Furthermore, Obama and his minions intend to raise taxes in order to pay for more social engineering, not just in America but around the world. Common sense tells you that when people have less of their own money to spend, they will do their best to hold on to what little they’ve got. This means less money circulating in the economy purchasing goods and services. This means lower profits to businesses both large and small and at a minimum, means slower if not a complete halt in job growth.

The socialist solution will be to create make work projects to expand infrastructure. Just like the “New Deal” under FDR, in the “Raw Deal” of an Obama Administration, we’ll see the economy driven more by the government instead of the free market. But government has to have money in order to create such projects. In an economic down turn such as we are on the verge of, that probably means borrowing more money. If so, where will they borrow it from?

If the government prints more, that means inflation, if they borrow more, that means more debt (either foreign, national or both) or they can tax the people even more which means even less money in the domestic economy chasing goods and services than before. If the Obama team chooses the latter, and it’s a very good bet that this option is high on their list since that is what they say they will do, the economy will be further stifled. Can you say Jimmy Carter II? Is there anyone else out there as old as me who can remember the “misery index?” Heaven help us all!

So now you’re probably asking me, what the hell does all this have to do with the situation here on Okinawa? Lots! First of all, Okinawa isn’t even on the presidential radar screen. It’s a speck on the map that is only valuable to world security as a result of its strategic location. From this location, America can quickly respond to regional threats. For the Japanese, it serves as a buffer zone to protect the nation’s southern flank. Sadly, Okinawa is for the most part an afterthought to both the American’s and the Japanese!

So when it comes to changes on Okinawa as a result of an Obama victory, here’s my predictions of the probable outcomes.

-Regarding the reduction of U.S. troops here, no change.

-Regarding the proposed closure of the Marine Air Base at Futenma and the construction of the “alleged” new base at Camp Schwab, no change.

-Any other miscellaneous issue you can think of regarding the presence of U.S. forces in Japan, no change.

In short, for the people of Okinawa, don’t get your hopes up that an Obama presidency means the answer to your prayers. Senator Obama probably doesn’t even know where Okinawa is let alone the problems you face. He will be saddled with a lagging economy caused by the very policies he and his party espouse. With a great deal of luck, he may avoid turning a major market correction from a potential recession into a major economic depression. If you were betting on an Obama presidency as being your hope for salvation, you bet on the wrong horse and you made the mistake of listening to the talking heads in the media.

There’s still hope. The division in the electorate is a whole lot closer than the Democratic Party Propaganda Ministry officials, aka the mainstream media are telling you! The heavily skewed polls being released now are beginning to tighten just as they always do. Both Gore and Kerry were up at this point in past contests.
Even with all he has going for him in this election, the Junior Senator from Illinois hasn’t closed the deal. He fizzled toward the end of the primaries against Hillary and he’s showing signs of fizzling now. This election is going to be a lot closer than the media is telling us.

Lastly, should the undesirable thing happen and enough fraudulent ACORN generated votes put him over the top. We still have the teachings of great economic scholars like Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell to learn from and take that into the 2012 elections. Remember that it took a Carter to give us a Reagan.

Speaking for myself alone, I’m going to hope for the best and prepare for the worst. Admittedly, McCain was not my choice for the party nomination. But like many of you, I’m going to hold my nose and mail in my absentee ballot today. An Obama presidency will be an abomination. Not just for the U.S. but for the world.