Delinquency

Sadly, we must start by defining the term, as it is frequently misused.

I told you that 'juvenile delinquent' is a contradiction in terms. 'Delinquent' means 'failing in duty.' But duty is an adult virtue—indeed a juvenile becomes an adult when, and only when, he acquires a knowledge of duty and embraces it as dearer than the self-love he was born with. There never was, there cannot be a 'juvenile delinquent.' But for every juvenile criminal there are always one or more adult delinquents—people of mature years who either do not know their duty, or who, knowing it, fail. 

Robert A. Heinlein LTJG USN(ret) 

Starship Troopers, Chapter 8 (pg 120)

I stand now to lay the charge of delinquency against B. Hussein Obama, the foresworn Presdient of the United States. Specifically, I observe that he has a duty to ensure he is briefed and conversant with the threats to national security which face our Republic. I charge, based on his documented record of failing to attend his National Security Briefings, that he is delinquent in that duty.

Report: Obama Has Missed over Half His Second-Term Daily Intel Briefings

A new Government Accountability Institute (GAI) report reveals that President Barack Obama has attended only 42.1% of his daily intelligence briefings (known officially as the Presidential Daily Brief, or PDB) in the 2,079 days of his presidency through September 29, 2014.

by WYNTON HALL, Brietbart National Security

The GAI report also included a breakdown of Obama’s PDB attendance record between terms; he attended 42.4% of his PDBs in his first term and 41.3% in his second. 

The GAI’s alarming findings come on the heels of Obama’s 60 Minutes comments on Sunday, wherein the president laid the blame for the Islamic State’s (ISIS) rapid rise squarely at the feet of his Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. “I think our head of the intelligence community, Jim Clapper, has acknowledged that I think they underestimated what had been taking place in Syria,” said Obama. According to Daily Beast reporter Eli Lake, members of the Defense establishment were “flabbergasted” by Obama’s attempt to shift blame. “Either the president doesn’t read the intelligence he’s getting or he’s bullshitting,” a former senior Pentagon official “who worked closely on the threat posed by Sunni jihadists in Syria and Iraq” told the Daily Beast. 

On Monday, others in the intelligence community similarly blasted Obama and said he’s shown longstanding disinterest in receiving live, in-person PDBs that allow the Commander-in-Chief the chance for critical followup, feedback, questions, and the challenging of flawed intelligence assumptions. “It’s pretty well-known that the president hasn’t taken in-person intelligence briefings with any regularity since the early days of 2009,” an Obama national security staffer told the Daily Mail on Monday. “He gets them in writing.” The Obama security staffer said the president’s PDBs have contained detailed threat warnings about the Islamic State dating back to before the 2012 presidential election. “Unless someone very senior has been shredding the president’s daily briefings and telling him that the dog ate them, highly accurate predictions about ISIL have been showing up in the Oval Office since before the 2012 election,” the Obama security staffer told the Daily Mail.

This delinquency is also a dereliction of duty rising to the level of a "High crime or misdemeanor" worthy of impeachment and removal from office.

It's a pity that impeachment is a dead letter after the Clinton debacle.

Cross Posted from Wizbang

Thank You Sir, Can I Have Another?

At this point, if you are pro-life, or Christian, and still watching network TV, you deserve the slaps in the face you get from it.

As I note here http://conservatariancudgel.blogspot.com/2015/11/so-i-guess-some-tv-show-thought-it.html … A network proudly celebrated a characters abortion, while playing a hymn.

A Christian HYMN, so brave. SO edgy.

They do it, expecting you to turn the other cheek , of course. Despite the rhetoric about how lunatic Christians and crazed pro lifers are as bad as Radical Islam, they know they can ridicule you with impunity. Networks executives know that in the end, you will decide your "stories" are worth more than your standards. "Are you not entertained", after all? Eagerly exchanging your principles for bread and circuses. Don't complain about the culture, you are sponsoring it's decline. At least Esau was starving, and the pottage was nutritious.

They played Silent Night, during a simulated abortion on network TV, They are laughing at you. They know you will just take it.

"more please"

Trojan Sympathy

This crossed my social media feed this morning. It resonated because it affirms a sense that what we are seeing in contemporary issue oriented conversations, is indeed, malicius subversion wearing a mask of degredation and suffering. 

Christ, For Ratings, How Low

  So I guess a some TV show thought it would be an awesome idea to have a female lead get an abortion on TV. So cool! So edgy! Just about the only way to make it more edgy, would be have a hymn playing while it happens. So that's what they did.

 A hymn.

   Not just any hymn, THE hymn that means Christmas to Christians ( and non believers) everywhere, Silent Night. A song about a birth, THE birth, of the Christian Savior.

   Now I am sure their intent was not to offend, so perhaps next time they can dub over these words instead.


Silent scream
Terror dream
Woke by cold
Doctor's light
On the table
A mother and child
Lonely infant
So tender and mild
Worth more sold by the piece
Sleep in Heavenly Peace

Silent scream
Ended dream
Angels weep at the scene
Gory end to one with no voice
Outside chanting Hooray for our choice
Christ, for ratings, how low
Christ, for ratings, how low


http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2015/11/20/abcs-scandal-shows-abortion-set-silent-night/

Mid Day Mastication

* In the mind and vote of the Progressive Left, Government is the great provider and protector. How do   

  they square this with supporting an administration who refuses to provide the most basic 

  of protections, enumerated protections, when it comes to policies and practices in regards to

  National Security?

* How is it that when the State is used to force an individual into practices and acts that violate their religious principals, how is that not an establishment of irreligion? 

* The stenciled fist used as the logo in so many leftist causes; Black Lives Matter, Occupy, Raise The Wage, Organized Labor Rallies, etc.....cut and paste branding in activism.

* When did imposing weakness and inability upon the self and others become socially virtuous?

* How does eradicating any reference to ______ culture advance/respect that culture? Doesn't it just put it further down the road to obscurity, to being completely forgotten?

What They Really Really Want…

Palmer Pops Off

 “If you don’t do this thing, you are doing what ISIS wants you to do.”

 What kind of twisted mind uses that line as a political goad? The desperate fevered minds of the left, who see the ground they gained over the last part of last century crumble away to dust. People are taking a look behind the curtain and they do not like what they are seeing.

 What ISIS wants is for us to base all our actions or non actions based on what they want. If we walk about making life choices on what reaction a terrorist organisation wants, the terrorist in fact have won.

 "I cannot think of a more potent recruitment tool for ISIL than some of the rhetoric coming out of here in the course of this debate," is Obama signaling to the left to continue with the nonsensical talking point they were running with for the past few days. Anything that anyone says or does that they ( the left) do not agree with causes ISIS to gain converts. If you think refugees should be properly vetted, the terrorist win, if you vote Republican, the terrorists win, and so on.

In reality, if you are altering your thinking process based on the opinion of terrorists, the terrorist indeed have won. If your every thought and deed is preceded by What would ISIS want you to do in this situation, ( whether or not you actually do the opposite) they still have controlled you.

 Not only will they have won, they will have won a bloodless coup, solely based on potential casualties.

 This is of course, not to say ISIS does not harm the people that disobey them. They do. We all know they do. But who are they, that they should be obeyed?  

 What does ISIS want? They want us to submit. Approving or disapproving actions according to the wishes of ISIS is submission. Any time you ask yourself “What would ISIS do?” or point to person you do not agree with and accuse them of doing what ISIS wants them to do, you have submitted your thoughts and minds to ISIS.

 Is ISIS going to be the new liberal bogeyman to be used scare unprogressive children into better, more progressive thoughts? It certainly appears that way. ISIL Claus is watching you, sleeping or awake. A new Krampus that, instead of sticks and coal, leaves bombs and bodies. If only you had behaved the way ISIS wanted, ISIS wouldn't had to have punish you.

 The left is losing its tenuous hold on society. The dog whistles are working no longer. The bonds of political correctness are stretching to the point of bursting. Now fear is the weapon of choice to keep the unruly in line.

I will live my life, as should you. Our government should govern, as it should, in our best interests. If our country is threatened, our country should respond to that threat accordingly, without regard to whether or not someone would or would not want us to do that

Obama is Ashamed of You

Palmer Pops Off

Yesterday, at a press conference, our President said some stuff. The kind of stuff no American President should ever be saying about his constituents in a speech in another country. The kind of stuff a person only says about a people he despises, our President said; about you, me and every other American citizen.

“We are not well served when in response to a terrorist attack we descend into fear and panic,”

“We don’t make good decisions if it’s based on hysteria or an exaggeration of risks."

(http://time.com/4117688/barack-obama-paris-attacks-republican/)

Our President is not implying that we are a bunch of cowardly ninnies.  He is declaring it boldly on the world stage, in full view of a known enemy. Our President is using SHAME to get us in line with his goals. "Look at these little babies, look at them; scared of a three year old girl. I am not afraid of a three year old girl. I am brave, compassionate, and wise. Join with me, World, to laugh at these frightened backward rubes." You can practically hear his eyes rolling.

Historically, past presidents have used exhortation, calling upon the fine qualities they have known America to possess, to meet challenges facing our nation. Not Obama. No, Obama does not have a basis to justify encouraging us, so he can only talk down. Obama thinks he represents a unenlightened backwards country that, frankly, he is embarrassed of. He is ashamed of Americans, and he wants the world to join him in shaming us into more progressive behavior.

That alone would be bad enough.  But as I said, he declared this on the world stage. He signaled to our enemy (an enemy looking for weakness) how weak and lily-livered we are. Terrorist do not go looking for hard targets to bring down; they seek weak ones. Obama,in his infinite wisdom, declared us one. Terrorists seek to create and exploit an atmosphere of fear (hence TERRORism). Obama, by his words, declared their actions effective - and by extension invited them to continue in the same vein. "It's working guys!"

As if that was not enough, our President went on to say this:

" When individuals say we should have religious tests, and only Christians, proven Christians, should be allowed, that’s offensive and contrary to American values."

(https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/11/17/obama-calls-gop-rhetoric-on-syrian-refugees-a-potent-recruiting-tool-for-isil/)

 Obama deliberately misses the point. He knows, as well as you and I, that ISIS has been targeting Christians in the region as a matter of course. The first refugees from that area were indeed Christians. Christians are being slaughtered for being Christians, and Christian refugees are in the most danger.  Putting them at the front of the list is not a religious test, but a test of who is in the most need of refuge. Triage, as it were.

Then, to make sure we, and the world, fully understood just how disappointed Obama was in us, he continued with this,"I cannot think of a more potent recruitment tool for ISIL than some of the rhetoric coming out of here in the course of this debate,"

Our country was founded upon many wonderful principles, one of the foremost being freedom of speech. Free speech includes rhetoric. If, as the president is implying, all it takes are people exercising their 1st Amendment rights, for Muslims to take that determining step to join ISIS, perhaps subjecting them to copious amounts of free speech would cause a mass conversion like no one has seen before. And his reasoning is that maybe we should avoid that.

Never before in our history as a nation has the one man tasked with the job of leading her said so much to disparage her in the eyes of the world.

The President, with his own rhetoric, is echoing the anti-West sentiment that pervades ISIS. He was elected to represent us, yet sets himself separate and above us when speaking for us. Like the parent of an unruly child at a fancy dinner, he makes his apologies for us, while agreeing with the hosts that our behavior is atrocious and will be dealt with at a later time. Or worse, the teenager paid to babysit us. His reputation is harmed just by our proximity to him, so he must distance himself from us as much as possible so he can still sit at the table with all the other cool kids, tomorrow at school.

Obligatory Introductory Post

In this intellectually challenged time of tumult and chagrin; where the senses are subjected to constant static, sensibilities battered about on a roiling sea of contrarian illogic, and daily events more resemble scenes from a typhoid fever induced hallucination than the workings of an ordered and civil society…well, some have come to the conclusion that the time to confront the molesters of reason in a darkened digital alley has come. Time to swing the Conservatarian Cudgel.