A member of the team

We have a friend who considers herself to be a good left-wing person. What she really is, is a member of the Democrat and Obama team. She identifies with the team and wants them to win. She learns what the current talking points are and uses those to guide her speech and thinking. She doesn't care if the current team talking points violate her principles, because she is only interested in seeing the team win.

Ted Rall is a real left-wing hero. He is not a team member and he is principled and does not want to see his principles violated by politicians. I am surprised that Supreme Leader Obama (president for life) has not either sent Ted Rall off to a Gulag or else has had a drone fire Hellfire missiles at him.

Hey, the IRS business is no big deal

The IRS investigating conservative groups was no big deal. They were only doing what they thought that the president wanted them to do.

Supreme Leader Obama

If you don't think that Supreme Leader Obama (President for Life) is planning on being president in 2017 and beyond, you have not been paying attention. This morning, I was also convinced that he thinks that he is the Anti-Christ. I don't know that I even believe in that sort of thing, but I think that he does. He likes to have total control of the message on the television and radio news. That is why I would be surprised if Hillary Clinton was behind the State Department talking points on Benghazi that refused to call the attack on the embassy "terrorism". I think that if Hillary was involved, she was just carrying water for the president. Who knows, but that is my sense of what is happening.

Because of Greece's decline of a token British force, the British forces in North Africa were allowed to advance to Benghazi. The commanders in Britain also decided that British forces should take the island of Rhodes and other islands in the Dodecanese belonging to Italy. General Metaxis and General Papagos were unsure what lines to defend, partly due to uncertainty over what Yugoslavia would do. If they cooperated with Germany, Greek forces would defend a line along the Aliakmon and Venetikos Rivers. This was a short front that would face the Italians in Albania. While this was being decided, General Wavell was told to prepare four divisions for service in the Balkans, in event of a German invasion. By the end of January 1941, the Italians attacked that quickly failed. This is based on the account in Vol.II of the Australian Official History.

Obama apparently wants to put the Muslim Brotherhood in charge of Egypt

From the latest news. Obama is intent on removing Hosni Mubarak as president of Egypt. From reports, Obama has been in communication with the Muslim Brotherhood for some time. Obama seems to want to put them in charge, despite them being anti-American and virulently anti-Israel. I have a lot of sympathy for the people who liked the stability of the Mubarak government and who profited from peace with Israel. Our administration is apparently pursuing a policy which will end up destabilizing the region and bringing about increased violence and possibly warfare.

Clayton Cramer is blogging again

Clayton Cramer is someone that I used to link to in the past. He was recently the target of the Copyright Trolls, who are out for no good, and he was forced to shut down for a while. He is now back up and blogging at Clayton Cramer's Blog. Clayton Cramer comes across as a social conservative, but he is also a strong supporter of gun rights and writes about the mentally ill who commit crimes and who are failed by the system. He is a programmer, like many of us, and is interested in history.

The contested 2000 presidential election

Tonight on Sixty Minutes, the interviewer made some comment about how some people thought that the Supreme Court stole the election for George W. Bush. The truth is something else again. There was this circus going on in Florida, the aim of which was to steal the election for Al Gore. Al Gore legitimately came close to winning, but the left was not content to let the process proceed to its natural conclusion. Instead, they were intent on ensuring that Al Gore won by all possible means. The Supreme Court put a stop to the circus, which was the real attempt to steal the election.