Alaki, and the Wahhabi/Salafism Movement

This blog quiz is very disturbing because it is highly unlikely that any Americans could pass it as proposed.  As this bog makes clear, by not taking this virulent strain of the Muslim faith seriously, we in the U.S. are putting at risk our very survival.  Saudi Arabia and all those petro dollars are behind this movement and here we have been sucking up to the Saudis for how many administrations and how many decades?!  These people are not our friends; we had best come to grips with this fact.

Pictured below is Anwar al Alaki, a Wahhabi/Salafist member of Al Qaeda and the radial inciter of  the undie bomber and the Ft Hood massacre. among other accomplishments.  If he had access to a nuclear weapon, does anyone doubt he would use it on the West?  How many Americans could identify him and how many could tell you what his vision for the U.S. is?  We get no help from the MSM or the Obama administration in this matter as they both think terrorists attacks are rogue and therefore not orchestrated.  That kind of approach is going to result in another 9/11 or much worse.  Evil is evil and what you are looking at here is pure evil wrapped up in a nice clean white garb.

Global Debt Bomb

This article from Forbes.com has to be the mother of all stories on the subject of debt throughout the world.  It is long and it is scary.  My good friend Jim has been propounding this scenario for many years and should really write a book, as I have been encouraging him to do.  Jim studied the work of Fischer, a noted economist on the Yale faculty during the Big Depression years of the '30s and virtually unknown today, according to Jim, got the debt issue right in the end.  This article seems to be and extension of Fischer's thought, at least as I superficially understand it, on the role debt played in causing the '30s depression and every recession since including the one we are in now.  There simply doesn't seem to be the will to curb the growth of debt in the system until there is a crises, and then it is almost too late.  Meanwhile debt soars to the point in Japan where its sovereign debt is now almost 200% of GDP.  Ours is now slightly above 80%.  While the 80% figure sounds good compared to say Japan, the Forbes.com article talks about the work of two economist who have determined that the magic number for the debt to GDP ration to eliminate economic growth in the economy is 90%.  So, we are drawing close.  IMHO, while long this article is worth the time to read.

Fairness and Equal Outcomes

Here is an interesting, although long, thread on the subject of race, genetics, and cultural influence on achievement.  The thread deals with the "disparate outcome" pet theory of black liberals and their policy making allies in government and academia as they try, try, try to create a world where economic/educational/social outcomes for blacks are equal to other races.   This is a really interesting discussion.

CBC -- or the unofficial reparations committee

Somebody, anyone, needs to explain how and why we have allowed this Congressional Black Caucus committee to come into existence in the first place and why we allow it to continue polluting the political discourse in this country.  Finally. in a real bit of investigative reporting by the NYT  this article brings the CBC into the light of day.  It would have been nice had the Times challenged the very existence of this corruption rather than simply point out how it raises and spends monies, however with the NYT one takes what one can get.  It is outrageous that a caucus within the legitimate Democrat Party caucus operates in our system, although, to be fair,  the article points out there are multiple caucuses formed within congress representing all manner of causes or interests some as small as just a few members with an interest in Scotland, for example.  However the CBC is in a league of its own (BTW it owns its own  Georgetown mansion, worth at leas 4 million) taking fund raising for their allegedly charitable causes to new heights:  54 million dollars contributed to CBC over a four year period, largely by major US corporations.  No one presumes these successful multinational corporations contribute shareholders money without a quid pro quo in mind, and indeed the article provides several examples of these.  Where does all the money go?  Does anyone really know?  Is this just one huge black incumbency fund designed to elect and keep black members of the Democrat Party elected?  Not only that but the whole idea of a specifically black caucus strikes many as inherently racist in that it segregates membership by race.  Whites, Hispanics, Asians, need not apply, and what's more Republicans need not apply as maybe the one black Republican found out.  Based on the success of the CBC, when do we see the extension of identity politics with the formation of the Asian-American caucus, the whites-of-european decent caucus, the whites of latin decent caucus, and so forth and so on.

Further, of the 55 million in contributions to the CBC over the past 4 years, according to the article only 1 million went to the CBC's PAC for distribution to candidates for public office.  The rest of the 54 million went to parties and scholarships, intern programs, etc, designed to help young black people get involved in politics.  On other words the funds raised under the guise of a "political" association for the permitted activities of a PAC, such as funding campaigns, were largely spent on whatever the caucus deemed appropriate, like parties and scholarships and whatever.  Wasn't the idea of McCain Feingold to reduce the amount of money in politics?  Instead we have the 527s of George Soros, and the CBC raising money and doing what they want with it, political or otherwise.

The only way to eliminate this foolishness is to shrink the size and influence of the federal government.  Can we make this happen?