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Friday, September 14, 2012
Gerard over at American Digest always seems to come up with this kind of stuff. Here is a Rudyard Kipling poem that pretty much expresses my feeling on the recent events in Cairo and Benghazi.
There must be rules for civilized people, and different rules for those who aren't.
These religion maddened beasts need to be spoken to in their own language, to feel the sting of revenge, and to know that the price to pay will never be worth the satisfaction of their mad actions.
There's a widow in sleepy Chester
Who weeps for her only son;
There's a grave on the Pabeng River,
A grave that the Burmans shun,
And there's Subadar Prag Tewarri
Who tells how the work was done.
A Snider squibbed in the jungle,
Somebody laughed and fled,
And the men of the First Shikaris
Picked up their Subaltern dead,
With a big blue mark in his forehead
And the back blown out of his head.
Subadar Prag Tewarri,
Jemadar Hira Lal,
Took command of the party,
Twenty rifles in all,
Marched them down to the river
As the day was beginning to fall.
They buried the boy by the river,
A blanket over his face--
They wept for their dead Lieutenant,
The men of an alien race--
They made a samadh in his honor,
A mark for his resting-place.
For they swore by the Holy Water,
They swore by the salt they ate,
That the soul of Lieutenant Eshmitt Sahib
Should go to his God in state;
With fifty file of Burman
To open him Heaven's gate.
The men of the First Shikaris
Marched till the break of day,
Till they came to the rebel village,
The village of Pabengmay--
A jingal covered the clearing,
Calthrops hampered the way.
Subadar Prag Tewarri,
Bidding them load with ball,
Halted a dozen rifles
Under the village wall;
Sent out a flanking-party
With Jemadar Hira Lal.
The men of the First Shikaris
Shouted and smote and slew,
Turning the grinning jingal
On to the howling crew.
The Jemadar's flanking-party
Butchered the folk who flew.
Long was the morn of slaughter,
Long was the list of slain,
Five score heads were taken,
Five score heads and twain;
And the men of the First Shikaris
Went back to their grave again,
Each man bearing a basket
Red as his palms that day,
Red as the blazing village--
The village of Pabengmay,
And the "drip-drip-drip" from the baskets
Reddened the grass by the way.
They made a pile of their trophies
High as a tall man's chin,
Head upon head distorted,
Set in a sightless grin,
Anger and pain and terror
Stamped on the smoke-scorched skin.
Subadar Prag Tewarri
Put the head of the Boh
On the top of the mound of triumph,
The head of his son below,
With the sword and the peacock-banner
That the world might behold and know.
Thus the samadh was perfect,
Thus was the lesson plain
Of the wrath of the First Shikaris--
The price of a white man slain;
And the men of the First Shikaris
Went back into camp again.
Then a silence came to the river,
A hush fell over the shore,
And Bohs that were brave departed,
And Sniders squibbed no more;
For the Burmans said
That a kullah's head
Must be paid for with heads five score.
There's a widow in sleepy Chester
Who weeps for her only son;
There's a grave on the Pabeng River,
A grave that the Burmans shun,
And there's Subadar Prag Tewarri
Who tells how the work was done.
--- Rudyard Kipling
There must be rules for civilized people, and different rules for those who aren't.
These religion maddened beasts need to be spoken to in their own language, to feel the sting of revenge, and to know that the price to pay will never be worth the satisfaction of their mad actions.
There's a widow in sleepy Chester
Who weeps for her only son;
There's a grave on the Pabeng River,
A grave that the Burmans shun,
And there's Subadar Prag Tewarri
Who tells how the work was done.
A Snider squibbed in the jungle,
Somebody laughed and fled,
And the men of the First Shikaris
Picked up their Subaltern dead,
With a big blue mark in his forehead
And the back blown out of his head.
Subadar Prag Tewarri,
Jemadar Hira Lal,
Took command of the party,
Twenty rifles in all,
Marched them down to the river
As the day was beginning to fall.
They buried the boy by the river,
A blanket over his face--
They wept for their dead Lieutenant,
The men of an alien race--
They made a samadh in his honor,
A mark for his resting-place.
For they swore by the Holy Water,
They swore by the salt they ate,
That the soul of Lieutenant Eshmitt Sahib
Should go to his God in state;
With fifty file of Burman
To open him Heaven's gate.
The men of the First Shikaris
Marched till the break of day,
Till they came to the rebel village,
The village of Pabengmay--
A jingal covered the clearing,
Calthrops hampered the way.
Subadar Prag Tewarri,
Bidding them load with ball,
Halted a dozen rifles
Under the village wall;
Sent out a flanking-party
With Jemadar Hira Lal.
The men of the First Shikaris
Shouted and smote and slew,
Turning the grinning jingal
On to the howling crew.
The Jemadar's flanking-party
Butchered the folk who flew.
Long was the morn of slaughter,
Long was the list of slain,
Five score heads were taken,
Five score heads and twain;
And the men of the First Shikaris
Went back to their grave again,
Each man bearing a basket
Red as his palms that day,
Red as the blazing village--
The village of Pabengmay,
And the "drip-drip-drip" from the baskets
Reddened the grass by the way.
They made a pile of their trophies
High as a tall man's chin,
Head upon head distorted,
Set in a sightless grin,
Anger and pain and terror
Stamped on the smoke-scorched skin.
Subadar Prag Tewarri
Put the head of the Boh
On the top of the mound of triumph,
The head of his son below,
With the sword and the peacock-banner
That the world might behold and know.
Thus the samadh was perfect,
Thus was the lesson plain
Of the wrath of the First Shikaris--
The price of a white man slain;
And the men of the First Shikaris
Went back into camp again.
Then a silence came to the river,
A hush fell over the shore,
And Bohs that were brave departed,
And Sniders squibbed no more;
For the Burmans said
That a kullah's head
Must be paid for with heads five score.
There's a widow in sleepy Chester
Who weeps for her only son;
There's a grave on the Pabeng River,
A grave that the Burmans shun,
And there's Subadar Prag Tewarri
Who tells how the work was done.
--- Rudyard Kipling
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Great article over at Al Fin on the monstrosity that the EPA has become, and how Obama will use it in the next four years to destroy the country's energy industries.
Even before Obama, the US EPA was an engine of demolition against US industry, jobs, and energy. EPA rules and regulations have been used to attack energy of all kinds, from oil to coal to nuclear and more. Obama is using the EPA to destroy the US domestic coal industry. He would have done the same to the shale oil & gas bonanza -- but the resulting jobs destruction would have assured his own defeat in the upcoming presidential elections.
The EPA was always bold, brash, and destructive. Under Obama, it has become even more so.
From further on in the article:
The shocking thing about Obama's EPA is that the destructive impact it is having is precisely the effect that Obama wanted to see. He promised to bankrupt coal companies, and seems to have always intended to shut down other fossil fuel industries as it became possible.
...
If Obama wins a second term, he will have no reason to hold back his EPA any longer. The islands of economic prosperity that have occurred across the US due to oil & gas fracking are likely to be submerged under a tsunami of Obama attacks -- via his EPA attack dogs.
And then, you might want to find a good, dry, warm, well-lighted place to hunker down.
Even before Obama, the US EPA was an engine of demolition against US industry, jobs, and energy. EPA rules and regulations have been used to attack energy of all kinds, from oil to coal to nuclear and more. Obama is using the EPA to destroy the US domestic coal industry. He would have done the same to the shale oil & gas bonanza -- but the resulting jobs destruction would have assured his own defeat in the upcoming presidential elections.
The EPA was always bold, brash, and destructive. Under Obama, it has become even more so.
The EPA gets away with it because rather than employing the actual U.S. court system, it has created its own internal system of “administrative courts” whose “judges” are employees of the EPA and subject to promotion, transfer, or discipline by the agency. Not surprisingly, these EPA courts find in favor of EPA prosecutors in nearly every case, and when they don’t, their verdicts can be set aside by the EPA administrator. And while it is true that subsequent to exhausting their resources within this rigged process, defendants can appeal to the real court system, the EPA process itself can take years, during which defendants’ property can remain confiscated, their liberty endangered, and their credit and businesses wrecked. As a result, most prefer to settle and submit. _Bob Zubrin
From further on in the article:
The shocking thing about Obama's EPA is that the destructive impact it is having is precisely the effect that Obama wanted to see. He promised to bankrupt coal companies, and seems to have always intended to shut down other fossil fuel industries as it became possible.
...
If Obama wins a second term, he will have no reason to hold back his EPA any longer. The islands of economic prosperity that have occurred across the US due to oil & gas fracking are likely to be submerged under a tsunami of Obama attacks -- via his EPA attack dogs.
And then, you might want to find a good, dry, warm, well-lighted place to hunker down.
Hey now, look who went on the air back in 2008 to politicize the deaths of Americans overseas!
It's our very own Barack Obama. Double standard, anyone.
Via Hot Air
It's our very own Barack Obama. Double standard, anyone.
Via Hot Air
After his boat sank, a nineteen year old Alaskan fisherman has survived 26 hours in the frigid Pacific by jumping into a floating fish crate.
The other man on board made it to shore.
Here he is at the moment of rescue.
Via Lloyd Kahn
The other man on board made it to shore.
Here he is at the moment of rescue.
Via Lloyd Kahn
An incredible string of events, which even now continue, and which lead me to fear for not only our overseas people, but for the freedoms we should consider sacrosanct here at home.
1. Holder and his Feds id California man's role in the making of the film that has apparently set the muslim world into a fury of hate and violence. They are at least attempting intimidation, and perhaps prosecution, having forgotten about the first amendment rights he enjoys.
2. Marines "guarding" the Cairo embassy were not allowed, by order of the ambassador herself, to carry live ammo. What good is a Marine if you have taken away his weapons? This in and of itself should result in the immediate recall of this person.
3. After acting confused for several days, the administration finally decides that Egypt is in fact an ally.
4. Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey calls crazy Florida pastor to ask him not to support the film that is enraging the muslim world. Nothing like getting a phone call from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs to bolster your credibility. If you believe that the general did this on his own, you need to think again. Further, he took an oath to uphold the constitution, which includes the right to free speech, so he should have flat out refused whoever it was that put him up to it. Amazing that head generals are phoning crazy pastors to plead with them to shut up. What country do we live in, again?
5. For a week before the riots in Benghazi and Cairo, Obama blew off his daily intelligence briefing, and did it again the next day, instead spending his time on campaign events and fund raisers.
1. Holder and his Feds id California man's role in the making of the film that has apparently set the muslim world into a fury of hate and violence. They are at least attempting intimidation, and perhaps prosecution, having forgotten about the first amendment rights he enjoys.
2. Marines "guarding" the Cairo embassy were not allowed, by order of the ambassador herself, to carry live ammo. What good is a Marine if you have taken away his weapons? This in and of itself should result in the immediate recall of this person.
3. After acting confused for several days, the administration finally decides that Egypt is in fact an ally.
4. Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey calls crazy Florida pastor to ask him not to support the film that is enraging the muslim world. Nothing like getting a phone call from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs to bolster your credibility. If you believe that the general did this on his own, you need to think again. Further, he took an oath to uphold the constitution, which includes the right to free speech, so he should have flat out refused whoever it was that put him up to it. Amazing that head generals are phoning crazy pastors to plead with them to shut up. What country do we live in, again?
5. For a week before the riots in Benghazi and Cairo, Obama blew off his daily intelligence briefing, and did it again the next day, instead spending his time on campaign events and fund raisers.
Hey, how about a nice freckly face to start the day? That ol' rascal Irish sent a link that has a ton of them, so I got a bunch to post up, if Blogger will let me. Thanks, Irish!
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Check out this article on Obama's continuing war on the coal industry. Why any president in economic times like these would do something like this is just inconceivable.
The only real explanation is that he really does want to seriously damage the United States.
From the article:
The only real explanation is that he really does want to seriously damage the United States.
From the article:
Lest we forget that the Obama administration has made it their mission to forcibly change the face of American energy as we know it — most notably by removing the blemish that they’ve deemed the coal industry to be — House Natural Resources Committee ChairmanDoc Hastings has an informative op-ed in Politico today that describes the White House’s commitment to making it practically impossible for coal to succeed, all of the lost jobs and costly neighborhood effects be damned.
The nonpartisan U.S. Energy Information Administration has all but confirmed the president’s aggressive war on coal with a report detailing a record number of coal-fired power plants to be closed this year — largely because of burdensome regulations and other compliance costs. Worse, 175 coal-fired power plants are scheduled to be shut down from 2012 to 2016, EIA estimated, requiring 27 gigawatts of electricity — enough to power 27 million homes — to be replaced by more expensive forms of energy.The shuttering of record numbers of coal-fired power plants threatens thousands of the 555,270 direct and indirect coal-related jobs that help supply America with nearly half of its generated electricity and pay $36 billion in wages.
Highly convenient that the bulk of these new regulations won’t start kicking in until after 2012, but there you have it. Hastings goes on to argue that one of the most specific covert actions by the Obama administration has been their decision to rewrite a coal production regulation known as the 2008 Stream Buffer Zone Rule, which highlights the lengths to which they’re willing to go to flout the free market and accomplish their goals:
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