Who's Surprised? - It's Déjà vu All Over Again!

"It's déjà vu all over again," said Baseball great Yogi Berra as he witnessed Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris repeatedly hit back-to-back home runs. Yogi was the 'King of Malaprops' who twisted sentences, got word syntax or meanings backwards that sometimes were in a world unto themselves. His malaprops were legend.

President Obama speaks not in malaprops but clearly in very awkward blends of moralizing riddles and vagaries rather than specifics. Obama serves up a salad bowl full of words at press conferences to fill up his press time with blustery rhetoric and with lengthy filibusters cutting into time for questions. In plain words, he is no more than an empty suit with no guts or backbone to stand up for America; a sad commentary for Presidential United States military readiness.

On August 28, 2014, when asked about his specific plans for fighting the Islamic State, President Obama stated, "He had no strategy." Jaws dropped in disbelief as Obama uttered that sorrowful admission by the President of the United States. Who does Obama think he is anyway, a banana republic W.H. Press Secretary, Josh Earnest.despot running by the seat of his pants? Both political parties took a Josh Earnest has a mess to wipe up; so, it's not over until the paperwork is done.deep breath, exhaled and needed time to revive their senses. Did they really, really hear this right? Obama looked more like Mayberry's resident idiot, Deputy Barney Fife as he side-stepped all around his own stinky rhetoric to sidled out the White House press room door. Obama left the stench behind as his poor press secretary, Josh Earnest stood by ready to clean up after it, Obama did another pooh.

Obama Makes You Feel Like a Yo-Yo!

Do you feel like a yo-yo on the end of a string that rises and falls tied to a finger as the hand moves up and down? How about affected by crises caused solely by international interventionist events? Do the words like "manipulation" or "being-used" come to mind here? I think so.

The ineptitude of the Obama administration to formulate, plan and execute a foreign policy has left the American public in eminent danger. As we come closer to celebrations by terrorist groups of September 11, a date marked by the infamous 2001 NYC twin towers and the 2012 Benghazi embassy attacks. The method of attack was the same in both instances and it was not 'box cutter' wielding airplane highjackers or heavily armed Islamist militants launching an organized attack on an embassy outpost. The worst possible scenario was the 'element of surprise', not knowing or suspecting anything until it was already happening; it's 'being caught with your pants down', that's the ultimate method of getting the upperhand to win any battle.

The rise over the past four years of the Islamic State, IS, was under Obama's watch, not prior to 2009 on George Bush. It was largely just ignored, downgraded and pooh-poohed as a 'jayvee team'. During the 2012 Presidential election his detractors were even scoffed at as Obama bragged, "...al Qaeda was on the run!" and "..the Russian Cold War was over twenty years ago!"

Obama's 'Red-Line' policies are delineated by ultimatums with no actionable punishment for noncompliance. His political identity is closely affiliated with no intervention in the Urkraine, Syria or Iraq, so it is his default option to ultimately avoid any major defeats or embarrassments. Hillary Clinton recalled Obama saying, "Don't do stupid shit" as his foreign policy approach which only allowed the IS threat to metastasize like cancer. This 'don't do anything and it will go away' mentality is no longer acceptable as this IS threat will not go away.

The Obama Middle East foreign policy contains unglued, disjointed confusion within the language of morality and platitudes rather than effective, specific, concrete goals to achieve predetermined quantifiable objectives. The policies are akin to setting zero as a goal--then no one can accuse Obama of overpromising and underdelivering. Thank God, we can hold our congressmen and senators feet to the fire by checking their promises with their roll call records.

So what can Americans do now? 

1. It is imperative to examine roll call records of our Senators and Congressmen on how they have voted for defense funding and troop deployment. Let's guarantee our own protection with votes for the representatives that really will support our troops to defend us. https://www.govtrack.us/.
 
2. Let the White House hear you, even President Obama listens to public opinion and watches polls. http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact .

3. You must VOTE in the November 2014 Mid-Term Election to elect representatives that will unseat politicians who do not support energy independence with drilling oil, gas fields and mining coal. This growing U.S. production will cripple the Middle East strangle hold on the world economy. http://www.rollcallvotes.com/oh/index_2012.html.   

Vote in November 2014 Elections!

Robin Williams' Gift of Time Just As His Ended

My longtime friend, Tess Barker, while growing up in Ventura County just north of Los Angeles was a performer in community theatre groups which encouraged her to further her interests. Since graduating college, Tess pursued her love of writing stories, stage and movie manuscripts, as well as a SAG performer in ensemble productions and films. Her quick wit and timing coupled with the purest and most immediate medium of live stand-up comedy offer her a venue for her original material to come alive on stage in her stand-up routines. Tess is currently a writer on a reality based comedy show on Mtv. She recently shared with me an insightful story about a comedy icon superstar. Her story is particularly poignant due to the timing of events that unfolded within just a mere seven days period.

The Throckmorton Theatre in Mill Valley, CA is a renovated 1910 Vaudeville Theatre which caters to music, comedy and theatre with an intimate seating for 320 people. It is a perfect venue for comedians like Mark Pitta's weekly comedy night and stars like Robin Williams, Dana Carvey, Richard Lewis, Mort Sahl, Arj Barker, Dick Gregory and Kevin Nealon. Tess Barker was invited back due to her prior comedy stage routine success.

Tess went on first that evening and left the stage to audience laughter and a round of applause. As Tess darted behind the stage curtains she dashed back to the dressing room to relax after her euphoric stage high. As Tess turned, she flew through the dressing room door running right into Robin Williams in which her first flustered words were like, "Hi, I'm Tess!". After apologies given were accepted, celebrity aftershock quelled, an enjoyable time followed in that small dressing room that night. It was quite magical, very special, a mellow tribute to a very kind man.  

©2014 Rovalocity, LLC. At The Throckmorton Theatre backstage with Tess Barker and Robin Williams - August 3, 2014.

It was reported that Robin Williams sent out on a social media site on July 31, 2014 his heart felt Birthday Wishes to Zelda Williams, his daughter, for her twenty-fifth birthday with a picture of Robin holding her as a small little girl. It was so typical of Robin Williams, a loving Dad.

It was ironic that a mere three days later that Tess Barker met Robin Williams at The Throckmorton Theatre and hung out with him and three other performers in their backstage dressing room. Tess said, "Robin was original, off-the-wall, hysterically funny." And yet, "He could get up front and personal sharing his ideas and opinions about our acts, of which he felt were very good, as we sat around and conversationally chatted." Tess continued, "He was super friendly, caring, polite and humble too."

At one point during the evening everyone went around the room calling out who they thought they looked like. Tess turned to Robin Williams and asked."Who do you look like?" Robin thought for a second, and gave a sly grin as he announced, "Bono!" He went on about why his choice as everyone agreed wholeheartedly too. 

Robin Williams died in his home in Tiburon, California, where he was discovered on Monday, August 14, just one week after he gave the gift of his life, three hours of his valuable time to that intimate group in nearby Mill Valley at The Throckmorton Theatre. Yet, there was so little time left, only a week. Computing 100% at 7 days, 168 hours, the three hours were 1.7%. If Robin had lived a year after that chance meeting, 8,760 hours, 1.7% would be 6 days of his time. It just goes to show how all time is relative like in Einstein's theory of general relativity that time is but an illusion. 

So, it's not how much we do with so little time that is important in the end, it's what we do; but then it's just so maddening not knowing when it all ends. Even though Robin Williams chose his method to die; he probably played that scenario out many times in his mind before he actually did it, but he still never chose the 'end time' as he simply ran out of his 'own time' which is something only God knows when for sure.

The day after meeting Robin, Tess recalled of sensing an unsettled feeling she felt about Robin's demeanor. It was almost like a sadness, a melancholy look deep in his eyes and about his face that was so imperceptible and yet so telling about a man who was mired in his own sorrows. In a 'coulda, woulda, shoulda' moment I mused with Tess about her saying something at the time, but would that have changed anything? We agreed, "Probably not!" Too sad. RIP Robin Williams.    

Obama Cries Wolf Again

Background Facts to date: After the shooting by the St. Louis police of Michael Brown, an eighteen year old, young black man that some preliminary evidence was released with witness accounts, anecdotal facts and then forensic findings were released. (The trial still has to be conducted to determine guilt or not.) 

• A convenience store video shows a 'strong arm robbery', a 'bully takeover grab', by Michael Brown stealing a $48.99 box of Swisher Sweet cigars from a small store clerk just fifteen minutes before he was taken down. Although this incident happened before the shooting, it is not known if the policeman knew of this prior to his confrontation with Brown. It certainly offers worthy conjecture on whether Brown thought the officer was alerted about his 'strong arm' store robbery and reacted to the officer because of guilt or the officer was actually aware of Brown's description and had been on the lookout for the suspect to arrest him. 

• Dr. Michael Baden, a renown forensic coroner hired by the Brown family, conducted the second autopsy and found all of the multiple gunshots fired entered as frontal wounds exiting through the back of the body indicating Brown did not get shot in the back while running away as was alleged. Furthermore, his arms were shot while down as the bullets exited into the torso.

• Dr. Baden stated during the autopsy that marijuana was discovered in Brown's system. Further detailed drug toxicology tests to determine any other drugs are being conducted and will be available in about two weeks. 

• Dr. Michael Baden noted that six bullets entered Brown's torso consistent with witness accounts that Brown forced the policeman as he pushed the officer down on his back onto a seat and attempted to grab the officer's holstered gun. It will need further witness collaboration to determine if those shots were discharged in the car during that struggle.

• Detective Mark Furman, a former Homicide officer, in speaking to crime scene witnesses reports that a struggle occurred in a police car and that Brown apparently held him down with his left hand as he struggled with his right hand to wrest the weapon from the officer. Brown then jumped up, started to run and then double-backed toward the officer. The policeman had his weapon drawn and pointed it at Brown as he came toward him.  

LIGHTING MOLOTOV COCKTAILS TO THROW AT POLICE.Here’s some curious facts on the latest violence in St. Louis surrounding the Michael Brown shooting.

There’s a lot of talk on the ground about a communist group, The Revolution Club Chicago, that was bussed into Ferguson from Chicago joined by the New Black Panthers and their leader Malik Shabazz. They provoked the police with Molotov cocktails and looting the night of August 13th while the local protesters peacefully protested. That’s when police responded with gas and flash grenades.

The Revolution Club Chicago's reported goal is to make the protests go super-violent, spread across the region, and spark a revolution. They are said to visibly stand out from the local protesters in how they respond to police and intimidate reporters when photos and video are taken of them. 

LOOTER STEALING BOOZE.

The black community was outraged and was, sadly, pounced-upon by race-hustlers who were far less concerned about igniting a dialogue about race relations than they were about igniting hysteria and outrage. 

Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and the U.S. Department of Justice didn’t get the job done with the Trayvon Martin case, so these race hustlers have moved on to Michael Brown, their next racial martyr, to incite riots and violence. It furthers the Progressive agenda to take more individual rights away under the Federal laws by treating Ferguson residents at large as a population to occupy, not citizens to protect. Doesn't anyone see that dynamic?

Here are just a few questions that can be asked: 

1. Where are these 'outsiders' coming from and who is paying for their time and expenses? 
2. Why suddenly do cities need such firepower to quell civic unrest; especially with Federal intervention in local police matters?
3. Why has President Obama again stuck his two cents in and caused more consternation with half-baked comments? 
4. Why are the Federal agencies overstepping their authority again, except for the obvious grandstanding politics and further incursion into states' rights?  

Forgetaboutit: Islam Terrorists want No Peace!

 

The Islamic State is ascendant with burgeoning attacks and voracious killings of Christians and non-Muslims to terrorize the middle East while also threatening the United States too. Nearly two years of valuable time was idled with inaction and empty words by President Obama which has allowed the Islamic State to gain their strength and influence since his campaign rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin on November 1, 2012 where he declared, "al Qaeda is on the run and Osama Bin Laden is dead!" 

U.S. Congressman Eliot Engel (NY-D) the ranking minority member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee stated recently, "We have bad choices and the worst is doing nothing." His highly critical rhetoric is adding to the growing impatient voices of bi-partisan members of Congress that President Obama should seek Congressional approval for forceful military action against the Islamic State threat. Congressman Engel suggests some "boots on the ground" in order to crush the Islamic State to stem the violence while preserving integral infrastructures such as dams, power plants and roads too.

As victims of a broken ideology that is not a religion of peace, Muslim followers simply despise and curse other religions and unbelievers. Imams force a burden of guilt, a religious duty, into their culture onto Muslims who then compulsively seek to convert unbelievers or subject them to live under Sharia Law paying a dhimmitude tax or kill them. Jihadists, who struggle to be a good Muslims or believers as warriors for Islam while fighting to their own deaths are all promised an ultimate reward of seventy-five virgins waiting for them in heaven from Allah.

'Coexistence' will only happen when the radical Islamic State Caliphate is destroyed and a more secular Muslim population cools down the rhetoric and bellicose saber rattling. Still, they will be using the basic Islamic religious pejorative slur of 'infidel' for Jews, Christians and unbelievers. 

'Peace' will never happen within the literal context ever. Instead, it will be about 'getting along to get by' because the enormous Muslim population will not ever relent in its solemn duty to convert unbelievers to Islam; "There are no other Gods except Allah!"