President Ahmadinejad mouthing off.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, president of Iran and general irritation to the goals of the United States. The media always ignores how this blister came about in the first place. No one wants to talk about the Shah that the United States help put in place many years ago only to fester into something much worse. It was a gradual blister that came into place. The Shah tried to convert a Muslim monarchy into a western society overnight bringing about opposition and sowing the seeds for chaos. Many of the western ideals and philosophies, including female suffrage went against the grain of a traditional Muslim society. It simply was a bad fit for the traditional Muslim population. Many people grew dissatisfied with the Shah’s plan and were imprisoned and tortured for their opposition.  It was not long till chaos ensued and a handful of radical university students and an ousted Ayatollah Khomeini came to power. The hostage crisis of 1979 followed. When Ayatollah Khomeini finally passed away it wasn’t long before Ahmadinejad came to power. There is speculation that he was one of the original hostage takers from 1979. Aside from that he’s a menace that will have to be dealt with carefully.

Mahmoud has close ties with the Iran’s Republic National Guard and has his own secret police to quell dissenters within Iran. It is my belief that Mahmoud’s strategy is to incite martyrdom across the Middle East if the United States were to make the first attack. I suspect that if the United States does decide to make an attack that they will do it with Israel acting as a proxy. Either scenario will pop the Iranian blister that will spread the lymph of martyrdom throughout Middle East ensuing a very difficult situation for the United States to navigate.

Who needs another mosque in NY?

This a good example of Democratic waffling on an issue courtesy of the Clintonistas. Mr. B.O.’s knowledge of constitutional liberties sounds good, but his sense of discretion really veers to the left here. He’s has already groveled and apologized for United States stance against terrorism in the Middle East when he spoke in Cairo during the early part of his presidency. There is really no need for additional apologies and further compromise

The searing point here is that he implies religious freedom and extremism go hand-in-hand, therefore if a tiny minority of Islam are free to worship they are free to bomb and terrorize in the same breath. This has serious implications because this suggests that he condones a tiny minority of evangelic Christians that want to murder abortionist doctors. I make no apologies for my comparisons here as I feel that what Mr. B.O. is saying here would include this type of behavior.

I also think this issue also has undercurrents that go well beyond the presidency. I actually feel that Mr. B.O. is simply a puppet that is carrying out the directives that emanate from a more sinister group that is involved in the direction of economic and social policy worldwide. This issue of building a mosque near Ground Zero is actually meant to divide our nation even further so that in some point in the near future our nation will have to be rescued by a sinister organization that can collectively be called global government.

Another knucklehead judge

This is not the first time that a Supreme Court Justice with no experience as a judge has been appointed to the Supreme Court Bench. The lack of experience and qualifications of Elena Kagan as a Supreme Court Justice is only a slim veneer of the greater subterfuge motives that lie underneath.

During the course of her career as a the dean of the Harvard Law school she objected to military recruiters on campus due to their ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell.’ policy regarding gays in the military. She felt that the military’s policy was discriminatory against gays, but she quickly caved in and allowed the recruiters on campus knowing all well that the university received federal funds. This should tell the average person that she could not stand on her principles and was willing to play politics. Instead of picking a fight with the Federal government she hid in her ivory tower and stirred up an inexperienced student body to rally against the military’s policy. This is simply a subtle form of social engineering and mind control while in the meantime she pushes forward her political aspirations. If she truly stood on her convictions why didn’t she simply resign and let the students decide for themselves if they thought this policy were wrong.

Another facet of her political philandering according to this article at First Amendment Center. In the article Elena Kagan states, “Whether a given category of speech enjoys First Amendment protection depends upon a categorical balancing of the value of the speech against its societal costs.” This is just another example of how she is more interested in keeping her job and advancing her political career. She has no strong convictions about free speech is more interested in politics.

Elena Kagan has no intention to defend the Constitution as it was framed by our Founders, rather she wants to modify it to fit a politically correct global government.

If you take into consideration that the Affordable Health Care for Americans Act is a byzantine 2,000 page document decipherable only by aliens and demoniacally possessed lawyers it is no small wonder that anyone would dare speculate on what would happen in the case of medical emergency.

I also wanted to assure my readers that the cartoon is not meant to degrade the lifesaving work performed by the emergency medical service professionals but to merely paint a picture of how a smothering government  bureaucracy’s involvement might otherwise turn the courageous work of  these brave individuals into a bleak socialist nightmare.

No Table Dances on EBT Debit

Grab your wallet! If you don’t the state of California will. Those folks on public assistance wanting to spend their free time at the casino or strip club will not be able to withdraw cash on their EBT debit card at a majority of these establishments. The state is asking for voluntary compliance at these businesses to reject cash withdrawals on these EBT debit cards. In the eyes of the state these transactions are not considered essential for the basic survival of an individual or their family.

Perhaps the general public that is not on public assistance thinks this is not a bad idea and in the short term it seems like a good thing. On the other hand the state and those salaried folks in our institutions of government are salivating at the chance to write some legislation to control this wasteful spending. They need a chance to justify their existence and look out for ‘the good of the people’. When this particular piece of legislation is ratified the general public will break out in a big hoorah and say good riddance to those scoundrels spending their hard earned tax dollars on a table dance or a pull on the slot machines. But we have such short memories.

Then we fast forward to the future that will come sooner than we think. Then one day the goody two shoes media, eager to sniff out a story of government waste, will announce one day across our televisions and say, “Looky there! There’s that scoundrel that hasn’t paid his parking ticket and his library fines. He is not on public assistance. Surely he has the means to pay. What can our government do about this?” Then the cronies that infest our government institutions will look back and say, “We stopped those scoundrels on public assistance with their EBT cards. We can just amend that law to include those scoundrels not on public assistance that refuse to pay their parking tickets and library fines. We’ll make them pony up those fines before they decide to fill up their gas tank, buy groceries, or pay their rent. That will teach them a lesson. The banks will be go along we bailed them out.”

This time there won’t be a big hoorah from the general public because they will suddenly be looking at their own debit cards and wondering where the money went.

Oilzilla!

Oh no! There goes the Gulf of Mexico. Go, go, Oilzilla… The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico reminds me of that Blue Oyster Cult classic with a little twist. If you do a little research with a search engine you can find information about a similar oil spill that occurred off the coast of Mexico in 1979. This drilling platform Ixtoc was owned by Pemex, an oil company owned by the Mexican government. This drilling platform was only in 200 ft of water. The accident followed the same script as the Deep Water Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico. The Ixtoc platform encountered drilling mud being pushed up by natural gas after the drill had penetrated the oil reservoir deep in the earth. The crew attempted to activate the blow out preventer.  It failed and a mixture oil and natural gas came up through drill pipe. The natural gas was ignited  by a spark and the platform exploded and sunk.

The Ixtoc engineers employed the same techniques tried by BP. They lowered a capture dome, and pumped mud into the wellhead.They also tried a junk shot consisting of lead balls. All these techniques ultimately failed. It wasn’t until 10 months later that a relief well was drilled and the engineers were able to plug the initial failed wellhead. Keep in mind that this well was only 200 feet of water as opposed to 5000 feet, yet took 10 months to regain control of the runaway wellhead.

Adding insult to injury after recovering a small amount of the oil. Pemex only paid for the clean up of the coastal areas of the United States that were affected. Pemex ignored all claims filed against it by claiming sovereign immunity, which essentially means the ‘king’ or ‘queen’ can do no wrong.

If you take into consideration that the deepest that a man can dive in standard scuba equipment is about 190 ft. At that depth there are problems with nitrogen narcosis and lighter gases boiling out of the blood resulting in the bends. At 5000 ft the task becomes pretty much impossible for man to work. If you take into account the lack of light at this depth and the pollution spewing from the wellhead the only way to to work at this depth is with a robotic submersible that is controlled from the surface. This makes for slow and tedious work with unproven and complex equipment.

This all means that we can pretty much look forward to Oilzilla running amok for at least another year. Perhaps the people that live along the Gulf of Mexico should invite the executive board of BP for a nice little swim along one of their fouled beaches. They want need suntan lotion it is already in the water.

McCadmium Happy Meal

McDonald’s latest social experiment in fast food corporate media tie-ins and profit margin maximization has resulted in the accidental poisoning of the public at large. It sort of reminds you of that big gooey mess floating around in the Gulf of Mexico doesn’t it? What does it take to make a $2 drinking glass with Shrek characters on them? That is a pretty easy question if you look to the Orient where the enslaved population is willing to make anything for a meager wage whether it is the hottest smartphone by Apple or American flag decal that you can place on the rear window glass of your mighty SUV.

It’s really no surprise that cadmium has wound up in the Shrek commemorative drinking glass sold by Mickey D’s. If you look to China where all or most of our recycled electronics are shipped to be recycled and the exotic and poisonous materials are extracted and recovered. It is no surprise that cadmium is one of things that shows up on our fast food palate. I did a little of my own research on cadmium and found it is a component of the old cathode ray monitors that most of the public has replaced with LCDs. No one really wonders where those old monitors go but a majority of them are shipped to China for recycling and recovery. This also includes the cadmium in Ni-Cad rechargeable batteries. I can’t say for sure whether or not the batteries are also shipped to China for recycling and recovery, but I wouldn’t be surprised!

Cadmium has always been known to the paint industry for its ability to make brilliant red and yellow hues when its compounds are incorporated in a paint base. The United States government has recently restricted and reduced the amount of cadmium compounds that the paint industry can use. The same measures have also been taken in Europe. China has no such restrictions on cadmium and Chinese manufacturers are known for the frugal use of resources and using anything at hand that it takes to get the job done, so if Donkey, Fiona, or old Mr. Shrek needs a little more brilliant yellow or red in his image cadmium is the ticket to making it look pretty regardless of the toxicity.

Terrorist Tinkering in

The current decade of the 21st century finds our Nation enshrouded with doom and gloom. But we are getting a bit of comic relief amidst the horror and disbelief that shakes us to our souls.  Al Qaeda Inc. has gone head to head with our blundering leader Mr. Obama by proving their incompetence in grooming citizen terrorists in the United States.

According to the information revealed to us by the media Faisal Shahzad was a pretty smart cookie and a fortunate one at that. He immigrated to America obtained two college degrees emphasizing computer science. He went out and got a really dandy job, got married, had some kids and financed a house. Some sources speculate that he might have been an Al Qaeda ‘plant’ like the guys who pulled off the Twin Towers job.

What doesn’t gel with me is that this guy with all this education can’t do the proper research to assemble a bomb. A computer science professional that can’t anonymously surf the Internet and gather the proper information to get the right kind of fertilizer to make an ANFO( Ammonium Nitrate Fuel Oil ) explosive device? What makes things even fishier is that according to the media that he was quite adamant to the real estate agent about his stance on Pakistan’s involvement in the war on terror. To really top it off he purchases an automobile on Craigslist with cash knowing all the time that it is monitored by law enforcement for all kinds of seedy activity.

If you believer what the American media has to say about this guy it just doesn’t add up. The Pakistani branch of Taliban tried to get a little propaganda mileage out of this incident, but failed to mention him by name, probably because they embarrassed by this knucklehead.

Immigration Reform? Too busy in Washington

I pondered doing a cartoon on all the hell going on in Arizona over their new state immigration law. I really felt it would be a difficult task to carry out tactfully. Besides I know the real issue behind the whole thing is really about money. It’s important that are borders be protected from intruders up to no good, but the clowns in Washington don’t really think it is important to hire real people with the proper training to do the job and pay them real money, instead they fritter money away and rely on egg-headed defense contractors to play with all sorts of fancy cameras and complex hardware and software. Real people on foot and a real fence would be more cost effective.

But what you really have to remember that war is money and when legislators pockets are dragging the grounds with all the money that is stuffed into them by egg-headed contractors and think tanks that build billion dollar stealth bombers that crash, 500 million dollar missiles that only kill a handful of people and usually the wrong ones.

Back on the home front the border is secured with rotten fence posts and rusty tin and outstretched miles of the border have no fence at all. The few border guards that are actually out in the field are stretched thin and overworked. They have wear the legal kid gloves if they ever really catch anybody because the ACLU is watching closely.

Meanwhile the fiends on Wall Street are coming up with all kinds of clever ways to play casino with the cash flowing like rivers through computer servers and the banking systems. Of course Wall Street needs a few good lackeys to work in this global casino. Someone to serve the drinks, shine the corporate executive shoes in the bathroom, and empty the drop boxes at the global dice tables on Wall Street. They are our representatives on Capitol Hill.

Who's enriched uranium is it anyway?

Mr. Obama is determined to set the pace for incompetence in world government by creating schemes that involve storing enriched uranium that belong to other nations in the United States. His motive is that if enriched uranium is kept in the United States it is less likely to be pilfered away from other nations by the so-called terrorists that are dying to get their hands on enough of the stuff to cobble together some sort of nuclear device even if they have to settle for something as simple as a dirty bomb.

It is not likely that Al-Qaeda and company could manage to get the people with the expertise and skill to assemble a fission nuclear device. It is also not likely that such a device could be assembled in a remote area or a cave. Assembling a fission nuclear device requires precision and rigid controls of the environment in which it is assembled.

Mr. Obama doesn’t delve into the details of how exactly this is being carried, but after digging into the issue and reading some other news articles it seems that this caretaker plan for the safekeeping of fissile material will be administered by the International Atomic Energy Agency which is a branch of the UN.  Nor does he mention that $50 million will be extracted from the American taxpayers pocket to support this effort. So far this appears to be the political magic mix of money and bureaucracy to safeguard us from terrorists playing around with enriched uranium or whatever they manage to get their hands on.

The quack premise of this plan also carries the assurance that the United States will not drop nuclear bombs on countries that don’t have the resources to build a fissile nuclear device. This sort of sounds like a guarantee carried out via blackmail.

This also brings to question whether or not other nations that already have nuclear weapons will be participants in this caretaker program. Will the monitoring by the UN and IAEA be enough? Will our enemies or rogue nations soon learn the ropes of this newly formed bureaucracy and find out how to wheel and deal to get the hands on fissile material anyway? Who will take responsibility if any of this material comes up missing? Can Mr. Obama answer for this?