EDITORIAL

MAY
Notes on stuff that happened in May, 2010.

(The Swamp) -- May 31, 2010
Unbelieveable! Obama has sold out Israel ! I don't know whether to laugh or cry.. Mr. Amateur has finally made a fatal mistake, and we take one more step toward the edge.

How stupid can one person be? Of course, he is familiar with the argument for the possession of firearms. And, if he knows any history at all, he knows that mutually assured destruction is the ONLY kind of protection in a nuclear world. He, after all the history, after all the precedents, just doesn't believe all the evidence. That's no longer amateurish. That's just plain stupid.

I don't need to remind you that Israel knows everything I've said is true. They are already recoiling from Obama's actions. We are in danger of losing an unbelievably faithful ally. If Israel goes off on its own, we could see a nuclear war in which Obama will bring us in on the side of Iran - don't think it impossible, now that this idiotic UN resolution has been agreed to. Were that to happen, armageddon is not an impossibility. God help us.

May 30, 2010
Rolling Thunder makes me proud to be an American. This year, there is an even more happy-sad bite to the Biker-Soldier Memorial Day remembrance event - Dennis Hopper, the Hippie- Conservative who died just as the bike ride began, made road freedom and the Harley a symbol of Eleutherian/Conservative values when he starred in Easy Rider (1969). Hopper, who defined the craziness of the Progressive-run Vietnam War in Coppola's Apocalypse Now! (1979), as the whacked-out photojournalist embedded with Col. Kurtz up the Mekong River in Cambodia. On days like today, I think of my late Dad and Brother, RIP, who served at their respective fronts, both lived through them and got purple hearts.

The Sestak thing is being dismissed as "business as usual." There are two others. At best, this means Obama is just a political hack. At worst, Obama is a crook. Don't look at me, I didn't vote him.

Day 42 of the oil spill in the Gulf, and the Army Corps of Engineers is still futzing around, like a bumbling inbred mountain-boy, making more damage than helping. "Biggest environmental response"?? This isn't Bush. As we said over a year and a half ago, it's Carter, all over, again.

Remember when we warned you about troop withdrawal time constraints in Iraq and Afghanistan snatching defeat from the jaws of victory? It's happening. Even left-leaning NPR's All Things Considered did a 15 minute story on it a week or so ago. All the Taliban and al Qaeda have to do, now, is wait for us to leave. They win, and our boys and girls have died for nothing. Think about that as you watch your Memorial Day celebrations.

The Debt Clock we use on SwampfoxNews.com is a WHOLE DEBT clock. That is, it subtracts any paybacks, clawbacks, tax influx, or adjustments, not just money paid out. It's sponsored by several think-tanks, from the Brookings Institution to the Heritage Foundation. That's why ours didn't rollover to 13T on Sunday. The ACTUAL DEBT is not knowable because of congressional debt obfuscation. A practice which goes back to Woodrow Wilson.

On the home front, Their Royal Highness, Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, née Edward Antony Richard Louis Mountbatten, third son of the woman who looks just like my mother, only taller, was in the Upstate this past weekend to attend the Greenville Scottish Games. As a member of the Royal Family of Great Britain, when he is not accompanied by an earlier-born sibling or the woman who looks just like my mother, only taller, Edward Wessex takes precedent over Clan Chieftans and Scottish Games Presidents.

Honestly, you'd think that this state's ancestors would kill themselves, had they not been already dead, at the sight of so many of their grandchildren bowing before an heir of England. History reminds us that our father's great grandfathers were given a choice after Colluden - be banished to America or be hanged as a Scot.

Then again, the Scots invented the idea of trust, but verify, so being nice is not necessarily an untoward thing. He was the perfect gentleman, too, so, all things being even, a good time was had by all. And, being Scots, we were glad to see it was a great fundraiser for the community. Congratulations should go to the whole gang who worked so hard, and especially Dee Workman Haymes Benedict!

Did anyone tell you yet that we are experiencing a winter weather pattern? All of this rain is the snow storm we were supposed to have this past winter. In fact, if the jet-stream was favoring us, instead of the western half of the country, we might just be seeing a snow storm in our mountains, instead of theirs.

May 29, 2010
Every time a crime is committed, the crook makes an average of 50 mistakes. A good detective can spot those 50 mistakes and thereby catch the crook. But what happens when the crook controls the detective? Usually, we would call that Chicago. But what happens when Chicago comes to Washington? We'd have to call that unfortunate.

The Sestak mess that we reported on, yesterday, has become a mix of differing tales from different sources. The technique is called "strabismus." You won't find it in an online dictionary, due to political correctness, unless you have the OED. ( The original meaning was a busy and spectacular display which causes the eyes to cross - Emperor Strabo was the "Cross-eyed" (strābō) Roman Emperor. Today, its politically correct meaning is the proper term for cross-eyed.) we're using the original meaning. The Obama administration is doing so much that lazy journalists can pick and choose what they WANT to cover, thus hoping to avoid the 50 elements buried in the Sestak story.

The most obvious mistake(s?) are the other two instances - Colorado and Illinois (Blogo may have been telling the truth about the quid-pro-quo senate deal!)