The Undecider

Obama and his lapdogs, the legacy media outlets, have put me in a rather strange dilemma... whether to laugh or to cry.

Obama had precisely nothing of meaning to say about the situation in Libya until the UN Security Council decided Ghadafi was bad. So they are going to impose a no-fly zone over a sovereign country, who it could be argued, is merely trying to quell a foreign funded insurrection. Which is not untrue.

I could detail the reasons why Ghadafi is evil incarnate, falling just short of Idi Amin in the way of evil, except Ghadafi has not been accused of cannibalism... yet. And I say yet because in order for the UN and the US media to complete their portrayal of Ghadafi as a complete misanthropic bastard they have to try to overcome the complete asinine decision to put Libya on the human rights committee.

Ghadafi is not a friend of the US, but aside from the Lockerbie bombing Libya has not been an enemy either. He feared the US, offering to turn over his entire nuke program to the Brits in exchange for the US not bombing his house again while they conducted GW2. Of course he later amended his offer for his nukes in exchange for British and US conventional weapons, which everyone thought was a fair trade.

But back to why Obama is an embarrassing non-leader... after the UN granted Libya a seat on the Human Rights Committee they authorized armed force against Ghadafi because of his human rights violations. So when was the UN right, granted the grandfatherly author of children's books a high prestige position in the UN, or when the UN decided the strong arm dictator was committing genocide?

Obama, basing his position on Libya based on the schizophrenic asshats in the UN, demonstrates that he cannot make any decisions that don't involve brackets for the NCAA tournaments (and even there he chose the 1st seed in each division to make it to the final four.. not exactly taking any risks there.)

Don't get me wrong, Ghadafi is a blemish on the world, but he had been a relatively harmless blemish. And since there is credible evidence that his insurrection is being orchestrated by Al Qaeda, fighting along side him, instead of against him, might be in the best interests of the US.

But the Undecider took the path of least resistance and drifted along with the current... but what if the current is forcing his rudderless craft towards the precipice of a raging waterfall?

From his first crisis while in office, when he backed the legally deposed former President over the constitutionally backed President Obama is always on the wrong side of things to when he waited until Mubarack was on the ropes then jumped ugly and the Saudi King publicly told him to back off and let his former ally save face. Lets hope this is not another one of those times.

Grandma is a union thug

I was flying through Atlanta last week returning from spring break when in the train that runs between the terminals the car I was in was suddenly half filled with a gaggle of elderly women wearing matching hi-viz green tee shirts with a flag and the words "good Bless America" on front and a message on the back saying: 1. I will remember 2. I vote.

I was amused as I knew that there was a union rally in Atlanta the previous day. But these union Grandma's were all flying out of the city without carry on luggage. So curiousity won and I asked the woman who was closest to me what union they were with, instead of answering she looked at her friend and the obvious Alpha Granny who growled (literally) why I wanted to know. I explained it was obvious they were going to a protest and as former union member I supported their right (I didn't add to wear ugly shirts in public). She gave me their local number, but didn't identify the union nor my next question of where they were going, my attempt at breaking the ice failed so taking a picture of the stampeding herd as the door opened at Terminal B was out of the question.

Taking stock of the situation as I waited 5 hours for my flight while some ersatz Romeo penetrated me with his eyes (he literally stared at my crotch for most of the time except when we escaped to the Fox Sports bar for some Bloody Marias) left me disappointed I could not drag more information out the union thugs. They were all white, on the other side of 60, all in matching shirts, obviously representing a union but did not want to disclose which one, were spoiling for a fight before even getting to where they were going, and aside from one woman who appeared to be in her mid to late 70s they were all heavy weights... obese to morbidly obese, and reluctant to tell me where they were going.

It is my contention that if they really believed in the cause they were about to board a plane to rally for they would be talking about it. But from the anger displayed by the group so early in the morning and before getting to the demonstration, and the uniform air of contempt as they stormed onto and out of the train car it occurred to me as though they may have been at a perverse sort of pep rally prior to coming to the airport.

It also occurred to me that none of these people likely had jobs that paid enough to pay enough for them to take a vacation outside the state so it had to be the union that was footing the bill. And they had no carry ons, just purses, so they either checked their luggage, or more likely, were taking a day trip.

Union demonstrations are the new astroturf. Pelosi fired off that invective at the true grassroots TEA Parties, but note how she and the administration are saying nothing about scores of union members being shuttled around the country for finely orchestrated rallies that, like the Town Hall counter protesters of summer 2009, are inciting violence to which the left and their monkeys in the media have chosen to remain blind and ignorant.