Reluctantly Admitting the Truth, Sort of; The Farsical Iran Deal and the Hard Work of Refugee Settlement Watch; Orioles and Yanks In Important Three Game Set in Bronx, Beginning Tonight

BALTIMORE, Maryland July 21, 2015 -  Media Climbs in With Obama in Investigation of Tennessee Massacre
While the rest of the world and almost all Americans have realized that the Middle Eastern Man who massacred four Marines and a Naval Petty Officer and injured one other U.S. Marine is an Islamic Terrorist, the White House fell back into their tired and intellectually bankrupt mode of pretending they weren't sure who did the filthy deeds.  Finally of Tuesday they sorta kinda admitted that, despite their best efforts to the contrary, their investigation also is moving in the direction of Islamic Terror.  But they don't use that phrsase, "Islamic Terror" since Obama is fully sympathetic to their cause.    At the White House and in the mainstream media, the willling blindfolds are still ensconced on their faces.  Andrea Mitchell of NBC desperately trolled for evidence that the Kuwatii born Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez. 24, was a typical southern good ole boy who did things like shoot people all of the time.  CNN ran a headline on their we site that pretended that there was no clue as to the motive for the Islamic's deeds.  Because the Media pulled the trigger so quickly this time, it will be impossible for them to deny their lazy complicity with Mr. Obama.  And really, why should they bother.  Meanwhile, Obama spoke before a Veterans' Convention Tuesday and finally announced that Flags at the White House will be flown at half staff.  As far as calling the families, don't hold your breath.


 Who is it that Wanted a Nuclear Arms Accord with Iran? Only One Person.
At the height of the Cold War, the two primary antagonists, the United States and the Soviet Union, spent every penny they could get their hands on building new and more destructive nuclear weapons.  There was a working theory, called "Mutual Assured Destruction," that virtually compelled the profligate weapons spending.   When the two sides entered into negoiations to limit and eventually cut back on the stockpiles of nuclear weapons, it benefitted both sides on multiple fronts.  In other words, there were compelling reasons for the talks.  And as any student of history knows, the weapons spending did eventually settle the Cold War.  It seemed that the Soviets went bankrupt trying to keep up with the Americans.  When the Great President Reagan called his counterpart, Mikhail Gorbachev's bluf, and went ahead with the "Star Wars" project, which would have rendered all Soviet weapons useless, the Soviets went out of existence.  The Iron Curtain fell and the all of the nations mired in the Soviet's sphere of influence were allowed out.  Nascent Democracies flourished.  Democrats, never far-sighted when it came to matters military, quickly dreamed up ways to spend a "Peace Dividend" that never really existed.

We restate this historic episode in world history for one primary reason.  Where was the ground-swell of support for the just concluded negoiations that led to this really embarassing accord over nuclear weapns with Iran.  The support was limited to one person: a man whose Presidency has been such a dismal failure that he demanded this study in incompetence and capitulation so that his "legacy" would have something in the positive chapters besides blank pages.

Think about it.  Was Iran begging for negotiations?  I read a theory that the Mullahs came to the talk tables because of the damage done in Iran by American-led economic sanctions.  If that was the reason, what happened during these negotiations makes no sense at all.  Every single capitulation was by these United States and not by the smaller country supposedly desperate for economic relief.  Do you realize that under this ridiculous accord the United States is compelled to help guard Iranian nuclear facilities and keep them from being rendered useless by acts of sabotage?  What do you want to bet that the Iranians meant this as a promise that these United States will take aggressive steps to stop Israel from moving against these facilities.  If that is what it is, Obama should be impeached.  The inspections permitted by the deal are so useless that any future American administrations compelled to exist under the accord may just as well abandon them.

Obama has freed convicted murderers and they have murdered again.  Only now they are killing Americans in their homes and on the streets of their communities. He has traded five GITMO convicts for one known-deserter in his campaign to close a well-run and humane POW camp.  He has allowed bureaucrats a place in our decisions about what doctors we will see, and allowed these bureaucrats to decide whether we will even be able to get treatment for conditions that will kill us.  And there are many more equally serious abuses.  He is gearing up to ram this 'Give Iran Nuclear Weapons' deal through the UN Security Council so that the Congressional consideration of the brainless treaty will be moot.  As you know, we can go on and on about the one man in America who should never ever been allowed near the White House: Barack H. Obama.

Muslim Immigrants by the Tens of Thousands Being Recruited to Come to America

Refugee Resettlement Watch is the name of a web site that should unite all Americans, Republican and Democrat alike (save, perhaps, for the ultra -left, who are apparently hell-bent on instituting Sharia Law world-wide as a means for controlling who knows what for who knows what reason).  A woman by the name of Ann Corcoran is behind the site.  She was, we are told, a typical small-town American who was baffled and angry when a multitude of refugee immigrants were brought to these United States and then distributed in substantial groups around the country, almost always to places that were completely ill-prepared to take them.  .

At a talk in St. Cloud, Minnesota recently, Ms. Corcoran said, "

people are hesitant to speak up on the issue for fear of being called racist. But she believes residents have a "right to ask" who's coming, how many are coming, where are they coming from and how much government money is being spent.

"We're just too nice, it's ridiculous," she said. She identifies the tipping point as the U.S. becoming like Europe.

Get familiar with this story and Ms. Corcoran.  She's known for years that she has a tiger by the tail.  It's about time we did, too.

Orioles and Yankees In Important But Not Critical Series in the Bronx
The Birds and the Yanks are having at it again and as July ticks on relentlessly in the baseball world, the two AL East Combatants ready for a three-game set in the Bronx that will only be critical if one of the teams earns a sweep.  Going into the first game of the series tonight the Orioles trail New York by four clean games; i.e., the Yanks are 50-41 while Baltimore is 46-45.  The good news for the Orioles is that they are both healthy and clicking coming into New York.  They just took two out of three from the brutish Tigers in Detroit, and got outstanding pitching from Chris Tillman and a solid start from clutch Miguel Gonzalez.  In the series at hand, the Yanks are starting three righties against, in order, Wei-Yin Chen, Ubaldo Jimenez and Tillman.  I'd be stunned if the Orioles don't at least win two.

Obama and Iran Reach Agreement on Nuclear Weapons; Commentator Calls Deal "Pathetic"

BALTIMORE, Maryland July 15, 2015 - Bibi Netanyahu - wtthhout question the Bismarck of this age -  immediately blasted the so-called "nuclear weapons" deal that the USA reached Sunday in Vienna, Austria with Iran.  After years of what the Obama Administration calls "negotiations", the two nations reached the accord, then immediately raced to define what they had agreed to, which, if you listened to both, would have led you to believe that they had agreed to nothing at all.  Netanyahu used the exact same language to define the deal that he used before a Joint Session of the United States Congress in March.  "It is a bad deal," the distinguished Prime Minister of Israel said in the speech before Congress and again Monday.  Netanyahu gambled  his entire political career to make the March speech.  In it he pleaded with the United States not to enter the kind of deal that it now has agreed to.  In this disaster of a deal, the USA made concessions galore, including many it swore it would not make under any circumstances, all to get Iran's signature at the bottom of the accord's last page.  Iran's long and notorious history of financing Radical Islamic Terrorism defines is objectives and its world outlook, and this is precisely what dooms any outside chance this deal has of working.  Now, the only chance the United States has of stopping this absurdity before it opens the door to a nuclear holocaust is for Congress to vote it down.  But the Ding Dong leaders of the two legislative houses - Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell and Ohio Congressman John Beiner - have given away any real chance of that happening.  Under the U.S. Constitution, the Congress considers any international treaty and can vote it down and reject it by a simple majority.  No veto by the President is permitted.  But McConnell and Beiner, the Senate President and Speaker of the House, agreed to change the rules that will be used when the Congress takes up this accord.  Now, two-thirds of each house of the Congress must vote against the deal to stop it. While the GOP has decided margins in both houses, in neither do they have a two-thirds majority.  This means that to over-ride the certain Obama veto, some Democrats must vote with the GOP.  How many uber leftists do you know that are willing to do that?  (In case you don't pay attention to this kind of stuff, the answer to that question is 'there are no Congressional Democrats who are willing to put the good of the USA ahead of their devotion to Obama.

A commentator this morning called the deal "pathetic."  His was one of the most optimistic comments.  Michael Rubin of the American Enterprise Institute (a Washington Think Tank) told a radio interviewer that the accord illustrates the shortcomings of Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry.  He had especially harsh words for Obama, who he charged with being a congenital liar.  The bootlickers in the media, however, lavished praise on Obama.  You can tell what these weak and aimless souls are up to by carefully reading what they write.  They use first person language when praising the deal, but, if they even attempt to balance their story, they will quote from someone else to give the otherside of the story.  They never use first person to criticize Obama.   When the only substantive part of a story is the reprehensible methods of Obama, you can imagine how vapid their reporting is.  And it is absolutely vapid when it attempts of "cover" the accord and what it actually means.

There is an excellant and extremely well-written opinion piece at the Fox News website by Peter Morici, which is entitled "Iran: Nuclear agreement will create an economic superpower with malevolent, anti-Western aspirations".  Morici is a literal genius.  He writes from the perspective that the deal will actually circumscribe Iran's ability to quickly build a nuclear weapon.  I do not agree with him, and I don't know if he believes that himself.  What his article does is explain why the deal will blow up in America's face, and when it does, why all of the usual avenues to address such a disasterous situation will be closed.  Read the article at: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/07/15/iran-nuclear-agreement-will-create-economic-superpower-with-malevolent-anti-western-aspirations.html

Intellectual Journals: Getting a Clean View of Current Intellectual Thought

BALTIMORE, Maryland July 12, 2015 - Amidst all of the thought and discussion about the hijacking of education by the uber left, there is still a place for scholars to go and loose themselves in the very best of current intellectual thought.  That respite is the many intellectual journals published by colleges and universities around the world.  One such journal is the "Journal of Early Christian Studies."  Below I have computer-copied a book review in a fairly recent edition of the the journal.  Some might think: why merely copy a book review?  Will you get in trouble for doing so?  

To answer the second question, I don't think so.  This particular book review is available to the general public to peruse if you go to the publications' web site.  I am doing so because I don't think a whole lot of people realize that these publications even exist.  They exist because people in the field; i.e., those whose life is spent doing research about the general topic and teaching others at the graduate level, need places where other experts can keep up to date and stay on the cutting edge of new developments.  These publications are the place to go when your interest in a field or topic is profound, and when you want to learn more.  

The publications or journals are exquisitely expensive.  They almost have to be because they have very low numbers of subscribers.  The universities and libraries that subscribe to the many journals pay dearly for the privilege, and the high fees make it possible for them to exist.  The law of supply and demand in action.  It is a beautiful thing.


Journal of Early Christian Studies 21:1, 137–145 © 2013 The Johns Hopkins University Press
Ann Marie Yasin
Saints and Church Spaces in the Late Antique
Mediterranean: Architecture, Cult and Community
Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009
Pp. xxi + 337. $99.

This is a substantive, original, thought-provoking, and dense book that employs the author’s technique of socio-spatial analysis, developed under the influence of archaeological evidence and anthropological theory, to explore the role of saints in elaborating the social function of spaces in fourth-to-seventh-century churches.  The strengths of the book are many.  It shows how a socio-spatial perspective moves away from a consideration of church architecture per se, toward an understanding of the social and communal function of churches.  It is learned, demonstrating an enviable command of trends in scholarship.  It is ambitious in scope because it is both interdisciplinary in approach - using literary and material evidence - and pan-Mediterranean in coverage.  It puts early Christian practice into context by emphasizing its Roman roots, effectively bridging the frequently observed Roman and early Christian scholarly divide.  Finally, throughout the book, the author makes new use of oft-cited inscriptions, by demonstrating the interaction of their texts, images, locations and even materials, which too often are considered separately.  The book’s organization into two parts, chapters 1-3 (14-150) and chapters 4-6 (151-285) clearly reflects its origin in the exploration of two questions (286).  The first, discussed at length in part one, is how church spaces functioned as settings for the sacred, communal and commemorative action of their communities.  The purpose of part one, in fact, is to demonstrate how the author’s socio-spatial readings, particularly of funerary and euergetic inscriptions, both fit into contemporary scholarship and yield results different from other scholars.  After a persuasive introduction about the new perspectives offered by socio-spatial analysis, chapter one consists exclusively of a discussion of the about-face of the mid-fourth century when Christian sacred space first became materially manifested in the joining of relics and altars.  As a result Yasin gives an early impression that the socio-spatial approach is least enlightening when discussing the sacred dimension of churches.  For reasons that are not entirely clear, the analysis of the interior arrangement, decoration and furnishing of churches do not figure in this chapter as evidence for the hierarchical sacrality of church spaces because that discussion is somewhat artificially withheld until chapter four in part two. In fact, aside from reliquary-altars, the author does not consider those large areas of the church inaccessible to the lay community where the action of the clergy took place.  Yasin’s focus throughout the book remains firmly on the lower end of the spectrum of hierarchical sacrality. The second question, discussed in part two, concerns how and where the saints, visually, textually and aurally represented in churches, bridged the divide between the Christian ly community and its clerical officiants.  Thus, the saints - the primary topic of the book’s title - except for a discussion of relics in chapter 1, appear only inthe second part of the book, where their role is expressed (one might almost say downplayed) as reinforcers of the churches’ sacred, communal, and commemorative functions. This is unfortunate, because the methodological frame in part one overpowers the more original picture it encloses in part one.  In fact, chapters four through six are the meatier part of the book, a more free-flowing and masterful socio-spatial analysis of inscriptions, images and prayers invoking the saints that need not have followed the sacred-communal-commemorative structure of part one. In the end, while the book’s two questions are definitely related, the work of interweaving them is left mostly to the reader since the brief conclusion (286-91) is a reiteration rather than an enlargement upon earlier material. The volume’s stubbornly bipartite structure and absence of a unifying argument gives it a kind of split personality.  Part one seems designed for a more general audience while part two speaks specifically to early Christian specialists.  Likewise two consistent stylistic choices seem targeted at different audiences. On the one hand, key ideas are restated and repeated often, especially at the outset and ending of every chapter. On the other end the book is heavy on footnotes in which the author makes substantive observations and exercises scholarly debates. These weaknesses, resulting from an attempt to incorporate many disparate ideas and materials into one book, are small by comparison with its contributions to early Christian studies, in introducing socio-spatial analysis and in demonstrating the physical presence of saints in churches beyond their relics, while placing a refreshing emphasis on the social and commemorative over the sacred dimensions of churches and focusing on the actions of the lay community in churches over those of the clergy. - Susan T. Stevens, Randolph College

USA and Iran Said to Be Close to Inking Nuclear Weapons Deal; Agreement Said to Contain 'Snap-Back' Provision Which Would Re-Implement Economic Sanctions if Iran is Proven to Have Violated Pact

BALTIMORE, Maryland July 12, 2015 - If your critical thinking tools are working even just a little bit, you should be in the coldest of sweats right now.  Word is leaking out that the United States and Iran have crossed all critical hurdles and are on the verge of inking an agreement concerning nuclear weapons.  According to their sources, Fox is reporting tonight that the deal will include an emaciated "snap back" provision that would come into play when there is a credible allegation that Iran has broken its obligations under the agreement.  If such an allegation is proven true, the economic sanctions currently imposed on Iran, and scheduled to be eliminated upon the deal being signed,  would be 'snapped back' into place as a penalty for the violation.  The provision said to be in the agreement currently on the table is being openly lambasted because Iran itself has a seat on the group that will judge whether the alleged violation has, in fact, occurred.  According to John Bolton, one of the world's premier foreign policy authorities and a former USA Ambassador to the United Nations, Iran will use such a seat to prolong and frustrate any allegation of violation against it.  In fact, Bolton and many other observers are saying openly that this agreement is far far worse than having no agreement at all.  It is almost certain, for instance, that the United States would be forfeiting its rights to take military action against Iran as the latter's ability to field a nuclear IBM draws near.  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin (Binyamin) "Bibi" Netanyahu, whose eloquent and impassioned speech before a joint session of the USA Congress in March, 2015, galvanized world-wide opposition to the concepts sought by President Obama in a deal with Iran.  In fact, it is believed that the USA has made even further concessions to Iran in an effort to gain an agreement with Iran.  At one point it was revealed that the Obama Administration objected to Iran's leadership that its ambassador at the negotiations was spending too much time screaming at USA negotiator John Kerry, the USA Secretary of State.   Last week, Kerry made it "clear" that he was prepared to walk out of the negotiations if Iran would not agree to providing access to all suspected nuclear sites.  This week, sources say that the USA will ink the deal without access to all sites being provided.  

One critical weakness to the entire negotiations and the manner in which President Obama and Kerry have conducted them is that botm men are extreme 'uber' leftists who have made it clear that they are hell-bent on getting a deal, and Obama has even conceded that he considers such an agreement to be the key foreign policy accomplishment of his soon-to-be eight years in office.  Neither man has given any reason not to believe that these criticisms are anything but extremely accurate.  

With Two Games to Play Before All Star Break, Orioles Rally past Washington and Sit Only 3 Games Behind Division-Leading Yankees in AL East; Schoop Blasts Walk-Off Homer for Baltimore; Machado on Tear with .301 Average, 19 Home Runs and 48 RBI

BALTIMORE, Maryland July 11, 2015 - With two outs and nobody on base in the bottom of the ninth inning last evening, the many fans at Camden Yards in Baltimore were settling back in their chairs for the inevitable extra innings that would follow the final out.  If they are waiting for that final out, they are greeting this new day in their seats.  It never happened.  Jonathon Schoop saw to that.  His two out walk-off blast off of Washington National Relief pitcher Tanner Roark was the margin of victory for the rallying Orioles, who claimed at 3-2 victory after trailing, 2-1, after 7 innings.  After the game and the inevitable pie-in-face from teammate Adam Jones, Schoop told an interviewer that he told on-deck hitter Manny Machado he would hit a double and win the game when Machado drove him in.  He admitted, however, that Machado gave him a choice: hit a double or hit a homer.  His actions indicated his choice.  With two games to play before the Major League All-Star break - which will not be a break for four Orioles: Machado, Jones, and pitchers Zachary Britton and Darren O'Day - the Orioles are 44-42, good for second place in the AL Eastern Division Standings and just 3 games behind the Yankees (47-39).  Interestingly, the Orioles are only 2.5 games out of a wild card berth, even though the Birds are only 3-7 in their last ten games.  AL East teams had given up on the wild card earlier in the season when speculation arose that a team might win the division with fewer than 90 wins.  No AL East team currently sits more than 6 and one-half games off the Yankees' pace.  This is the current AL East picture:
 1. New York Yankees: 47 wins, 39 losses, .543 pct.
 2. Baltimore Orioles: 44 wins, 42 losses, .512 pct, 3 games behind
 3. Tampa Bay Rays: 44 wins, 45 losses, .494 pct, 4.5 games behind
 4. Toronto Blue Jays: 44 wins, 45 losses, .494 pct, 4.5 games behind
 5. Boston Red Sox: 41 wins, 46 losses, .417 pct, 6.5 games behind

Baltimore received a strong pitching performance from Chris Tilman, even though the Oriole ace did not figure in the decision.  Miguel Gonzalez gets the ball tonight for the Orioles.

Major League Baseball reports that Machado is amongst the 50 best offensive players in the game.  He is hitting .301 with 19 home runs and 48 runs batted in.  The last number is mind-numbing when one considers that Machado is a lead-off hitter.

Whither the Orioles? Poems, Scripture and Terp Soccer Schedule

BALTIMORE, Maryland July 8, 2015 - On Sunday, June 28 of this year, the Orioles swept a day-night doubleheader from the Cleveland Indians and, in doing so, took over sole possession of first place in the American League's Eastern Division.  Since June 28, however, the Birds have been front seat passengers on a down-bound train.  Texas came to Baltimore after Cleveland and whacked the Orioles three times in the four-game series.  Then the Birds flew off to Chicago, where they proceeded to lose two out of three.  The Twin Cities were next and, counting today's 5-3 setback to the Minnesota Twins, the Orioles managed to be swept in a place where even the worst Oriole teams of the !4 consecutive losing seasons sometimes managed to win a series.  When you add this run up, the Birds have now lost 8 out of their last 10 games.  

The Orioles lost even though Manny Machado and Chris Davis each hit home runs - back-to-back - to lead off the 8th inning, cutting the Twin lead to 2 runs.  But that was it.  Ubaldo Jimmenez pitched 5 scoreless innings, but gave way to Bud Norris in the sixth, and the Twins greated Norris with a two-run homer by Brian Dozier and a solo blast by Joe Mauer, putting the Twins ahead, 3-1.  The Orioles had taken a 1-0 lead in the 4th inning, with the run scoring on a double-play ground out by J.J. Hardy.  

For now, the Orioles are 43-42 and 2 games behind the Yankees, who play tonight in Oakland.  Baltimore is idle on Thursday before opening a weekend series at Camden Yards against the Nationals.  

Poems:

A Clear Midnight
by Walt Whitman (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892)


THIS is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless,
Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done,
Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou
lovest best.
Night, sleep, death and the stars.

Stoppin by Woods on a Snowy Evening
by Robert Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963)


Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village, though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day
by William Shakespeare (April 26, 1564 - April 23, 1616)


Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to Time thou grow'st.
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

From the Bible (RSV), Romans 8, Verses 1-5
Chapter 8, Verse 1: I am speaking the truth in Christ, I am not lying; my conscience bears the witness in the Holy Spirit, Verse 2: that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.  Verse 3: For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brethren, thy kinsmen by race.  Verse 4: They are Israelites, and to them belong the sonship, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises; Verse 5: to them belong the patriarchs, and of their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ.  God who is over all be blessed for ever. Amen.

University of Maryland's 2015 NCAA Soccer Schedule

Exhibitions

Saturday, August 15 v.    Loyola,  Ludwig Field (College Park, Md)   7:00 p.m.

 Tuesday, August 18 v.   Bucknell, Ludwig Field (College Park, Md)   5:00 p.m.

  Saturday, August 22 v.  Providence, Ludwig Field (College Park, Md.)   1:00 p.m.

Regular Season
Adidas/Indiana University Credit Union Classic
Friday, August 28 v,  Notre Dame  (at Bloomington, Ind.)   5:00 p.m.

Sunday, August 30 v.  St. John's  (at Bloomington, Ind.)   11:30 a.m.

                                    __________

  Friday, September 4  UCLA    Ludwig Field (College Park, Md)   7:00 p.m.

  Monday, September 7  Akron     Ludwig Field (College Park, Md)   7:00 p.m.

  Friday, September 11   Michigan * Ludwig Field (College Park, Md)  7:30 p.m.

  Monday, September 14    Navy     Ludwig Field (College Park, Md)     7:00 p.m.

  Friday, September 18  Michigan State *  (at East Lansing, Mich.)      5:00 p.m.

  Wed,nesday, September 23  Georgetown  (at Washington, D.C).      4:00 p.m.

  Sunday, September 27  Wisconsin *  (at Madison, Wisc.)              1:00 p.m.

  Friday, October 2  Northwestern * Ludwig Field (College Park, Md) 7:30 p.m.

  Monday, October 5  Villanova Ludwig Field (College Park, Md)       7:00 p.m.

  Friday, October 9  Penn State *  (at University Park, Pa.)               7:00 p.m.

  Friday, October 16  Indiana * Ludwig Field (College Park, Md)       7:30 p.m.

  Tuesday, October 20  Delaware Ludwig Field (College Park, Md)  7:00 p.m.

  Friday, October 2   Washington Ludwig Field (College Park, Md)         7:30 p.m.

  Saturday, October 31  Ohio State *  (at Columbus, Ohio)                 7:00 p.m.

  Wednesday, November  4  Rutgers *  Ludwig Field (College Park, Md)  7:00 p.m.

* Big 10 Conference Games

More of Obama's Nonsense

BALTIMORE, Maryland July 6, 2015 - Even as Russian Strongman Vladimir Putin was talking on the phone with President Barack H. Obama, Russian Mig Fighter Jets were flying over Alaska in direct violation of United States' sovreign air space.  Was Putin concerned that such a stunt would prompt a response from the USA?

What do you think?

I think Mr. Obama should resign.  But the trouble with that concept is that he would be succeeded by Joe Biden.

In Vienna, the United States and Iran have agreed to extend the deadline to reach an agreement with regard to Iran's ability and right to build a nuclear weapon.  On Sunday, Kerry promised to walk away from the negotiating table if an agreement that safeguards the USA's interests cannot be reached.  Yet he remains at the said table, wearing out the knees of his suit pants.  Where did we get these people?

The other day the head of the USA's so-called "ICE" unit, charged with deporting persons illegally in these United States, told Congress that it needed to toughen up the laws and regulations under which her unit has to operate.  She was outraged at the senseless killing of a woman in San Francisco by a man who had been deported five times, only to sneak back in to these United States each time.  Congressmen at the hearing promised, joyfully, to comply.  That night she was taken to the proverbial woodshed by Obama and his functionaries - senseless killing or not - and the next day, rather than resign in protest, she walked her comments back.  So much for the rigidity of the spines of Obama's minions.  Even the uber left mainstream media concedes that the proposed "agreement" with Iran concerning nuclear weapons is the penultimate foreign policy accomplishment of the eight Obama years.  But it is not an accomplishment.  It is a disaster that may very well be a mass death sentence for Israel or even these United States.  Along with their work on nuclear weapons, Iran is working round the clock on their nascent Inter-continental balistic missle program.  The goal of that program is building a missle that is capable of carrying a nuclear weapon to these United States.  For such a program to reach its goal, Iran will need a nuke to put in the missle.  This is where Kerry and Obama come in.  Every other USA President has vowed never to allow Iran to attain a nuke.  Even Obama promised this.  But like so many other "promises" of this badly flawed man, this too is a lie.  He is said to believe now that Iran "needs" a nuke to offset the threat posed by Israel's nuke.  But Israel doesn't threaten anyone with their nuke.  They are a rational and peace-loving country.  Iran, on the contrary, is a pure war mongerer.

A nuclear bomb for Iran will be Obama's legacy.

BALTIMORE, Maryland July 2, 2015 - The Iranian Legislature, such as it is, has voted to codify the so-called national agenda.  What is the Iranian national agenda? Need you ask? It is, "Death to America!"  What does this mean?  It means that if Obama, Kerry and their band of leftist idiots in the Whitehouse go ahead and ink some kind of dorky "agreement" with the Iranians and their ruling Mullahs, they will be the laughing stock of the world community.  Fifty years from now, a real historian will lament the insanity that overtook a man who we are told received a wonderful education.  But education or not, the insanity continues.  If Iran gets a bomb and uses it, it will be Obama's fault and every drop of blood that is shed will be his legacy.

Why is he doing this?  He says it is our best chance of avoiding the possibility that Iran will get a nuke.  But there is no logic that leads to that conclusion.  It is a given that Iran will cheat on any agreement it signs.  It is a given that it will continue on a path toward nuclear weaponry.  The only way to stop Iran is to keep it, physically, from buildong a bomb.  That will require one of two things: military action or a blockade and economic sanctions that have teeth so sharp that they force Iran to backtrack in order to survive.  Obama's half-witted ideas will lead to neither potentially successful alternative.  When the great Bibi Netanyahu risked everything to come here and speak to Congress, he spoke clearly and concisely about the risks of allowing the Iranians to continue on the path toward nuclear arms.  What happened?  The idiots in Congress not only ignored him, they entered into a deal with Obama that allowed any agreement with Iran to be endorsed by our legislators unless the legislators can muster a super-majority.  We needed a Republican-controlled Congress to bow down to a leftist like Obama?  There are those who honestly believe that Obama wants Iran to have a nuclear bomb to level the playing field in the Middle East.  It sounds insane and it is, but in his twisted leftist logic, Obama is said to think that a nuke in Iran offsets the nukes in Israel.  Except that no one in Israel is threatening to use the bomb, while Iran's Mullahs are licking their chops at the mere thought of pulling the nuclear trigger.

I had the misfortune of hearing an interview with the old Mr. Sulu, who is now a gay-rights activist.  In real life, the old Sulu is the actor George Takei.  In this interview he used anti-black language that would make a sailor blush, but he'll get away with it because he was using the vile words on Clarence Thomas.

Clarence Thomas' mere existence is the ultimate commentary on America under the uber leftist, Obama.  Thomas is the smartest and best judge on the Supreme Court.  He is a giant.  Even when you disagree with him, you concede that his arguments are powerful, persuasive, and almost legally impenetrable.  But Obama and his band of fools in the White House can't stand him and miss no opportunity to say so.  In the very recent gay marraige decision, Thomas has spoken of the falacy that gays need legal marraige to protect their ultimate dignity.  Thomas says that government has absolutely nothing to with dignity.  Dignity clothes those who deserve it, regardless of what the government says.  The Roman Empire, for over 300 years, persecuted Christians.  It continued until Constantine made Christianity to religion of Rome.  Did Christians lack dignity until Constantine won at the Milvian Bridge? 

While we are on the subject of the Supreme Court, I would love to ask the sad Chief Judge, John G. Roberts, one question.  In upholding the embarassing Obamashame law for the second time, this mental misfit held that the Congress, when it said that only "the states" could offer subsidies to Americans who signed up for Obamashame, didn't really mean the states.  My question is, what language could the Congress have used if they only wanted the subsidies to be payable by the states?  

Somebody asked who Credible and Justice would choose if they could designate either Obama or Roberts to resign at once.  At first blush, Obama seems the obvious choice. But Roberts is the one who the law and the Constitution selects to protect Americans from tyranny.  Instead, Roberts facilitates tyranny.  It would be a hard choice.