Obama has laid out his agenda for the country; and that agenda is National Socialism. In his inauguration speech he clearly laid it out when he said, “Fidelity to our founding principles requires new responses to new challenges; that preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action.” The words reminded me of Adolf Hitler at the 1938 Nuremburg Rally, where he laid out his agenda for an adoring crowd, a rally captured by Leni Riefenstahl in her magnificent film Triumph des Willens, Triumph of the Will. One might think, Thank goodness he doesn’t have a Leni Riefenstahl, but he does, he has the American media, an army of Leni Riefenstahls, all bent to his will.

They lined up deep along the road

The flower throwing crowd

Their faces shining in their joy

The cheering long and loud

The motorcade, the blaring horns

The smiling savior come

The open car, the genial wave

The vibrant low pitched hum

Of forces stirring in the dark

The coming of the night

The jackboots ready at command

To set aside the light

And when it’s done and freedom gone

The flowers crushed and dried

We’ll wonder how it came about

That freedom here has died

After months of stonewalling, Hillary Clinton, soon to be ex-Secretary of State, showed up for questioning on the Benghazi affair by the United States Congress. The Democrats slobbered all over her, but when a Republican asked the question, “What happened at the Benghazi consulate the night four Americans, including the Ambassador, were murdered by Islamic terrorists?” she screamed, face contorted with rage, “WHAT DOES IT MATTER NOW!” The hearing went about as expected. Hillary Clinton told House Republicans what she thinks of them, and in a contemptuous, scornful tirade, tells them they’ll be sorry when she’s gone. A telling picture of the Obama administration and its hatred and contempt for the Congress in general and Republicans in particular.

A brittle stare

An icy glare

It matters not, she screamed

It matters not

One little dot

What such as you have deemed

To be unwise

Declare as lies

I know what’s best for all

The Arab Spring

I know will bring

Al Qaeda’s sudden fall

I am in charge

My burden large

But I will carry on

Until the day

That you will say

We’re sorry that she’s gone

Before I go

Just so you know

I’ll say this to your face

For what I’m paid

My work has made

This world a better place

Time does not exist. Reality does not exist. All is illusion. – Hanane Aghmati.

A thousand years, a blink of eye

Is all the same in dreams

In deepest night, in darkest sky

The stars but flick’ring gleams

We walk through life, our path defined

Set in our bidden ways

Not knowing that the path is lined

With sudden yesterdays

In prior times newspapers and news magazines were unabashed mouthpieces of a political organization. Everyone knew where they stood, and their readers agreed with them or they didn’t read it. People who don’t agree with Fox News don’t watch it, and people who don’t agree with Rachel Maddow don’t watch her. Newspapers were not named the Whosis Democrat and the Whatsis Republican for nothing. In this transitional period most of the MSM has already achieved this prior status, and is the mouthpiece of the Democratic Party and the liberal point of view. Apart from talk radio we have not yet seen the rise of an alternate and competitive MSM, but we will.    

Ed Murrow smoked his cigarettes

While Cronkite smoked his pipe

We thought that what they said was truth

But truth was over ripe

The press now leaning far far Left

The truth is what Dems say

And talking points from lefty pols

Are what is news today

We’ve lonely voices to be sure

Who broadcast from the Right

But most are smiling lefties who

Tell lies then say good night

Not so many years ago the IBM Selectric typewriter was top of the line, far surpassing the old manuals.  It had a ball with changeable type fonts in place of mechanically linked fixed type face arms that struck a ribbon when a key was forcefully struck.  But the day of the Selectric was short lived. IBM itself helped bring about its demise when it came out with magnetic card typewriters, and then magnetic tape machines, where you typed onto the card or tape which then produced perfect copies when the machine typed them back. But they didn’t last long either, being supplanted by the word processor and then the home computer and MS Word.  But I still remember my old Selectric.

In days of old

With typeface bold

And writers were not particular

We wrote to last

But not too fast

With paper perpendicular

We hammered keys

But not with ease

But got it done eventually

Each paper sheet

Got typed complete

And always typed sequentially

Piers Morgan, of CNN, has threatened to leave the US and return to Britain, apparently unhappy the United States has the First and Second Amendments, a threat that drew yawns from the few people who heard about it.  One of the reasons he is here at all is because he was involved in a phone hacking scandal in Britain, and this side of the Atlantic seemed a safer distance from Scotland Yard. CNN has become one of the lowest rated cable news services in the country, and Piers Morgan one of its lowest rated shows. There are many who think CNN’s ratings would dramatically improve if they scrapped the whole lefty news crew and ran old Thin Man movies.  Myrna Loy would be a vast improvement over Piers Morgan.

It appears that our Piers is about to say Cheers

To the land of Amendment the First

He was far from the top of the talking head tiers

And in fact he was one of the worst

And now that the Yard in old Blighty have looked

Into hacking the phones of the snobs

He may soon be arrested and possibly booked

And treated like one of the yobs

At which point he’ll sob, the good life beyond reach

As prison doors slammed shut and clanged

Reflecting had England the right to free speech

Lord Haw Haw would not have been hanged

One of the great movies of all time was made in 1943. It was clled Sahara, and starred Humphrey Bogart as Sergeant Joe Gunn trying to get his M-3 General Grant tank across the desert and back to his own lines. We seem to be having a reprise of that movie, with the French Foreign Legion being deployed to Mali to fight the invading al Qaeda forces.

The M-3 trundled up the rise

Sand crushed beneath each straining track

Until, at last, the crest was reached

And there, before them, dressed in black

Stretched lines of men all dressed in robes

Upon their backs AKs they bore

And seeing them, said Sergeant Gunn

You know, I think it’s the wrong war

The Middle East is crumbling into anarchy, and now the Sahel is under threat from al Qaeda fighters from Libya. The French are trying to restore order in Mali, but a better bet would be to restore the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Turks knew how to handle anarchy.

So Mali, Niger and the rest

Are gone then it would seem the best

That we can do is fold our tents

And shut our ears to the laments

Let’s turn over the whole damn works

To Suleiman and let his Turks

Put in some Ottomans to rule

And turn the place into the jewel

Of the Sahel with marble halls

Of diamond lights and golden walls

From Istanbul to Marrakech

They’ll throw a net with finest mesh

And haul it in and in the catch

They’ll find a fine upstanding batch

Of freedom fighters with AKs

Who only wish Allah to praise

The Turks though fancy empty nets

And in the dark redeem all debts

Alan Dershowitz and Ed Koch are now publicly bemoaning their naiveté in voting for Obama, claiming they were duped by Obama’s promises to retain the US traditional alliance with Israel, a promise that now seems a bit disingenuous, to say the least. Israil is now imperiled as never before, and Obama seems cheerfully unconcerned; indeed, there are those who say he is cheerfully looking forward to the extinction of the only democratic county in the entire Middle East. The problem for Koch and Dershowitz is that they are virtually alone, with most American Jews caring not at all if Israel is turned to molten glass by Iranian nukes.

Six million more

Koch knows the score

With Dershowitz he counts it

A Judas Goat

They cast their vote

And sob as they renounce it

While other Jews

Who chose to choose

The Left who want extinction

Of that foul State

At soonest date

Reject there’s a distinction

Between the free

With liberty

For their Israeli brothers

And those who will

One fine day kill

All Jewish kids and mothers

Al Qaeda fighters from Libya attacked Mali, a former French African colony, and were getting close to the capital and taking it over.  In response, the French decided to send in troops, and according to a French spokesman in the Elysee Palace, they were surprised at the military competence of the Al Qaeda fighters, surprised at the quality of their weapons, surprised at the quality of their training. Sounds a lot like Dien Bien Phu, where the French thought Giap had no heavy guns, thought that even if he did he couldn’t get them up into the hills, and even if he did French counter-battery fire would quickly take them out. Quelle surprise all around.

Mon Dieu! These Muslims want to fight

Attack all day and shoot all night

Their weapons shine as if brand new

Their training’s hard and first class too

There’s someone giving them their arms

They’re sure not growing them on farms

They grow in strength they grow in size

And Elysee says Quelle Surprise!