BALTIMORE, Maryland January 30, 2014 - In today's surreal political nightmare, I throw my arms up in the air and wonder, aloud, if this is what happens to a leader locked in a prison of stale and rancid thought, all because of an unthinkable and nearly imbecilic devotion to a mode of political thinking that itself is at once vapid, intelluctually stunted and nearly stupid. I write, of course, of the dogmatic utterly far left mindset in which our President is willingly stuck in, to the longterm degradation of these United States.
There are no actual prison cells or twenty foot walls in his prison; there is no need for them. The souls incarcerated there, like obama, make their own shackles. These shackles convince them that the god-awful ideas they promote are actually working in spite of cold hard facts to the contrary. These shackles convince them that ideas like never lifting the burden of an overbearing central government from the backs of the private businesses that provide nearly every job is a worthy one. Business reels. Millions are unemployed. These private businesses, beset with team obama's weight and weapons, either go out of existence or pull in the arms of their existence and go into a kind of hibernation, hoping to survive until obama and company are no longer in place. Just imagine what happens to the businesses existing in these modes if somebody like obama succeeds him. Somebody like Hilary. Hilary and obama battled each other for supremacy back in 2008, but there was no actual difference in the way they approached reality. The only difference was their actual desperation for pure power. obama won. Now, he exercises his power to the absolute degradation of the folk he lords over. He seeks more power - people like him always do. He rails against those elements of government that would reign him in. Now the electorate has acted to further limit his power. They have elected the opposition to run the show in one of the legislative branch's two houses. The GOP has made it all but impossible for him to enact the pure forms of utter far left power he is comfortable with. More often than not, that is the way that America gets along. But obama cannot act within the limits of his power. He rebels against it with all of his might. He says during the State of Union that he will act unilaterally to implement his utter far left dogma. The question is whether the GOP or someone in his own party - perish the thought - has the courage of their convictions and will challenge him, in court, when he tries such an immoral stunt. In the halls of obama's Washington he is surrounded by a hoard of zombie bootlickers uttering mindless "praise". It is worth keeping this in mind because it is one thing that would explain why someone said to be intelligent continues such abhorent behavior in the halls of power.
Five futile years after obama assumed what he sees as the role of the American Caesar (and I've said it before: he is more like the American Nero), and obama is still unwilling to face reality. His backwoods ideas have not worked and will not work. The utterly far left reality that holds him prisoner apparently only permits a truncated view of the real world. Every single class of American Society has suffered. The poor are poorer. The middle class is shrinking with many former middle class folk now checking in below the poverty line. Blacks, for more than a century the class of society that always came last and prospered least, looked on obama's election with unrestricted joy. Now, they look at him and wonder how he could have disregarded their most profound needs. For the poor, for blacks, for the middle class, the worst news is that the bottom is not anywhere in sight. For two years obama had unchecked and unmoderated power. He forced a knuckleheaded redistribution of wealth thing - disguised as something officially called the affordable care act but more aptly named "obamashame" - down the country's unwilling throats, where we now gag and heave on the consequences. During those first two years he could have done real service to the poor and downtrodden. He could have done meaningful work for his nation. He had an unprecedented chance to do good. But he was schooled in the dogma of the utter far left, where children are taught that success is evil because success is achieved only by evil deeds. There were 200-plus years of examples of the total untruth of that stuff - and no, I know we are not perfect and I surely know we do not pretend to be - but of course, on the utter far left, reality is not something to be celebrated because it proves the ridiculous conclusions they have drawn to be so much vapid nonsense. What to do about someone on the utter far left when even the cold hard truth of reality convinces them of nothing?
So here comes obama on "State of the Union" night, not with a leader-to-country frankness we all yearned for, followed by some long-overdue about-faces. No indeed. Instead, we get the spineless and cowardley language of the brain-dead radical, the old stuff, the ridiculous stuff: he actually says: we can solve all of these tremendous problems (that he, by himself, caused) by blaming them on the people who were nowhere near power, people who could no more institute policy than the poor who keep getting poorer. There is no courage or nobleness is hiding behind some old gray radical nonsense that anyone with a wee bit of sense can only shake their head at. Throw money you really don't have at some scheme that can not possibly work. (I am forgetting here that the receivers of this money did give his campaign quite a bit. Silly me). So, the state of the union is thus, says obama: people out of power for years and years keep screwing me up. If I raise the minimum wage on top of the heavy taxes of obamashame, and the other tax hikes, and those god-awful rules and regulations my minions turn out by the thousands of pages, the business people who bear the burden of all of this will hire more people. Makes sense to me.
On Wednesday night in College Park, Maryland finally built up a working lead on Miami, and with only three minutes left, it looked like the long-awaited convincing victory this team needed. And then the lead disappeared. In three hectic minutes Miami ran off ten unanswered points to tie the game with 22 seconds left. Maryland got the ball up court as Coach Mark Turgeon signaled to run their offense rather than call time out. In their zeal, the Hurricanes were not in an optimal defense. Maryland star Dez Wells grabbed the ball and took matters into his own capable hands. He launched a long three-point shot as the clock ticked under seven seconds. It went in. By the time the Hurricanes could get time out, the clock was under four seconds. Turgeon had the Terps foul on the inbounds, further taking time from Miami. A poor shot was launched that was not close. Maryland, which blew a big lead, managed a narrow win. In the ACC, they even their mark at 4-4. On Saturday they go to Blacksburg to play the last place Hokies of Virginia Tech. A win would be huge. But then, how often have we said that in a season that has yet to reach February?
Burnley has slipped a season-high eleven points behind the Championship lead. On Tuesday, at Turf Moor, they played Brighton to a scoreless deadlock. Meanwhile, Leicester won. Queens Park did too. Now, the Claret go to Queens Park. The amazing thing, and it is amazing, is that if you look at the Championship table, Burnley has the fewest losses of any of the 24 teams. At the end of the sixth month of play, Burnley has only lost three times in league play. Three losses in six months. To say that and anything but first place seems ludicrous. But it is true. Burnley has played 27 games. They have only suffered three losses, none of them at Turf Moor. The problem is that they also have the fewest wins of any of the top four teams. Leicester, which even has a home loss, has won twenty times. Queens Park, in second place, has fifteen wins. Derby, in fourth place, has the same number: fifteen. Burnley has won fourteen times. So you know the answer is that Burnley has a tremendous tendency to draw matches. In 27 matches, the Claret have drawn ten times. You know that you get a point in a draw. You also know that one point is two less than the three you get with a win. Is Burnley playing it too close to the vest? They have a tremendous keeper in Tom Heaton, a keeper certainly worthy enough to play that position in the Premier. Maybe, just maybe, the answer is to trust Heaton more and send more pop forward, from time to time. A win Saturday in London ties the Claret with QPR for the second, automatic promotion position. But Burnley needs to get back to their early propensity for winning. Mixing in draws so regularly is not a formula for promotion. The Claret need to win very regularly. They can. They've proved that. But being able to win, and winning, are so far apart. Success is in the doing.
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