America's Callous P.C. President
Two noteworthy anniversaries occur in November, one observed by our vacationing president, one totally ignored by our vacationing president.
It’s odd, actually, since the regrettable anniversaries are linked: Both involve Islamic terrorist attacks, the first occurring on our own soil, the one Obama totally ignored, the second occurring thousands of miles away, the one he observed.
Speaking soon after his arrival in Mumbai, India, at the same hotel, the luxurious Taj Mahal hotel that was one site of Islamic terrorism two years ago, Obama somberly noted that the perpetrators of the Mumbai terror attacks must be brought to justice. One hundred and seventy people were murdered and 308 wounded in the Taj and in other locations in the Indian capital over the course of 3 days, November 26-29.
He offered ultra-politically correct, sincere solace to the relatives of the victims of what Indians refer to as “26/11,” as if that Islamic atrocity even remotely compared to America’s Islamic atrocity on 9/11.
To the relatives of the Mumbai terror attacks victims, Obama offered these words of consolation: ”We will never forget the awful images of the November 26 attacks, the flames from Taj Hotel that lit up skies on those four days of November, 2008.” He vowed, ”We today, U.S. and India are working together, more closely than ever to deepen counterterrorism (cooperation), to keep our people safe:” http://bit.ly/cqWj9L
Very touching, very presidential, very P.C.
As for the other attack, at Fort Hood on November 5th, 2009, the president and his administration have been preternaturally, unaccountably silent for almost a year, acting almost as if the murder of 14 innocents, including a pre-born baby, and the wounding of 30 others at the Texas Army base had never happened or, worse, didn’t matter.
It can’t really be said that he has forgotten that massacre, also at the hands of an Islamic murderer, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, since Obama has virtually ignored it, even during his pre-recorded Saturday radio address on November 5th, 2010 . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=2554)
Showing posts with label india. Show all posts
Showing posts with label india. Show all posts
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Obama's $600,000,000. Passage to India
Obama's $600,000,000 Passage to India
Only four years ago, New York Magazine was touting the implausibility of seeing New York City on a pittance of $10. a day.
Short of eating rat and Central Park squirrel meat and wearing out at least 2 pair of shoes, that figure was an unlikely pipe dream.
Two hundred million dollars a day, whether in New York or Mumbai, (formerly Bombay), would be a whole different story. That’s the amount our gadabout president plans to spend on his passage to India which starts this week.
That would be about 8,872,013,244.8 rupees.
Now, one wouldn’t expect the nation’s commander-in-chief to eat rat for the 3 or so days he will be conferring and vacationing and consulting and vacationing and meeting and vacationing in the Republic of India, sometimes known as Hindustan. Nor would anyone expect him and his entourage to stay at the Indian equivalent of a Red Roof Inn or travel around in Tata Indigos. Nor would we expect him to travel solo.
However, considering the economic straits America is in, even after “Recovery Summer,” not to mention the “shellacking” Obama and his Democrats took on Election Day, are 3,000 travel quests, (including Michelle, Sasha, and Malia, plus 200 White House staff and 150 journalists), 40 planes, 30 sniffer dogs, 6 armored vehicles including the Cadillac Barackmobile, and 3 Marine One choppers really necessary?
The plot thickens: . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=2493)
Only four years ago, New York Magazine was touting the implausibility of seeing New York City on a pittance of $10. a day.
Short of eating rat and Central Park squirrel meat and wearing out at least 2 pair of shoes, that figure was an unlikely pipe dream.
Two hundred million dollars a day, whether in New York or Mumbai, (formerly Bombay), would be a whole different story. That’s the amount our gadabout president plans to spend on his passage to India which starts this week.
That would be about 8,872,013,244.8 rupees.
Now, one wouldn’t expect the nation’s commander-in-chief to eat rat for the 3 or so days he will be conferring and vacationing and consulting and vacationing and meeting and vacationing in the Republic of India, sometimes known as Hindustan. Nor would anyone expect him and his entourage to stay at the Indian equivalent of a Red Roof Inn or travel around in Tata Indigos. Nor would we expect him to travel solo.
However, considering the economic straits America is in, even after “Recovery Summer,” not to mention the “shellacking” Obama and his Democrats took on Election Day, are 3,000 travel quests, (including Michelle, Sasha, and Malia, plus 200 White House staff and 150 journalists), 40 planes, 30 sniffer dogs, 6 armored vehicles including the Cadillac Barackmobile, and 3 Marine One choppers really necessary?
The plot thickens: . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=2493)
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Observations on . . . Mother Teresa
Observations on . . . Mother Teresa
After spending a great deal of time on and devoting a good deal of space to the two previous subjects in this series on recent anniversaries, 2005’s devastating Hurricane Katrina and the world-changing 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., I had looked forward to writing an innocuous, little piece on one of the two saints I have ever known.
Pope John Paul II was one, Mother Teresa was the other.
Not that I personally met with either the pope or the Catholic nun Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, later to be known as Mother Teresa, but I felt that a few words commemorating the anniversary of her birth in Shkoder, Albania on August 26th, 1910 were in order.
Agnes’ middle name, Gonxha, meaning Rosebud, may be somewhat difficult to pronounce in English but this woman who committed herself at age 12 to a life of religious, missionary work for the Catholic Church led a life of service that wasn’t difficult to evaluate.
I had an old Irish Uncle Mike whom my son labelled a saint and he might indeed have been one. With Agnes Gonxha Boxahiu, there was far less doubt and following her death in 1997 at age 87 she was beatified, made blessed, on her path to sainthood by Pope John Paul II.
There is no need here to detail Mother Teresa’s life or contributions to humanity which were recognized even by the Nobel Peace Prize Committee which awarded her its Peace Prize in 1979.
What is almost as remarkable as her selfless, almost half-century devotion to the poorest of the poor, the sickest of the sick in India is the controversy even such a life could generate among people who have contended that Mother Teresa was a dishonest fraud and an evil, immoral individual. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1873)
After spending a great deal of time on and devoting a good deal of space to the two previous subjects in this series on recent anniversaries, 2005’s devastating Hurricane Katrina and the world-changing 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., I had looked forward to writing an innocuous, little piece on one of the two saints I have ever known.
Pope John Paul II was one, Mother Teresa was the other.
Not that I personally met with either the pope or the Catholic nun Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, later to be known as Mother Teresa, but I felt that a few words commemorating the anniversary of her birth in Shkoder, Albania on August 26th, 1910 were in order.
Agnes’ middle name, Gonxha, meaning Rosebud, may be somewhat difficult to pronounce in English but this woman who committed herself at age 12 to a life of religious, missionary work for the Catholic Church led a life of service that wasn’t difficult to evaluate.
I had an old Irish Uncle Mike whom my son labelled a saint and he might indeed have been one. With Agnes Gonxha Boxahiu, there was far less doubt and following her death in 1997 at age 87 she was beatified, made blessed, on her path to sainthood by Pope John Paul II.
There is no need here to detail Mother Teresa’s life or contributions to humanity which were recognized even by the Nobel Peace Prize Committee which awarded her its Peace Prize in 1979.
What is almost as remarkable as her selfless, almost half-century devotion to the poorest of the poor, the sickest of the sick in India is the controversy even such a life could generate among people who have contended that Mother Teresa was a dishonest fraud and an evil, immoral individual. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1873)
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
What's a Mother to Do? Part One: Dealing with International Green Hypocrites
What's a Mother to Do? Part One: Dealing with International Green Hypocrites
Perhaps I shoudn’t ask the question, “What’s a mother to do?” since I’m a father not a mother. However, a male colleague used to ask that question not as a query but as an expression of frustration as to what anyone can do in response to the conditions and state of the world today.
The short answer is that a mother, or father, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, cousin, can’t do very much if anything but it’s nevertheless fulfilling to speculate on what we should do under certain sets of circumstances.
Would that we average joes and josies could do things, change things, or reverse things that, in our inexpert and humble opinions, called for doing, changing, or reversing based on a long-lost American skill and capacity, the application of common sense.
“Mother’s Commonsensical Solutions” will no doubt be attacked as everything from nonsensical and simplistic to naive and stupid but asi es la vida, tough apples. Readers are invited to offer better ideas.
Mother’s Problem Number One: Dealing With International Green Hypocrites
. “China, India, Indonesia, Brazil Can’t Estimate Their Greenhouse Gas Emissions–Latest Figures Are from 1994:” http://tiny.cc/81heh
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1863)
Perhaps I shoudn’t ask the question, “What’s a mother to do?” since I’m a father not a mother. However, a male colleague used to ask that question not as a query but as an expression of frustration as to what anyone can do in response to the conditions and state of the world today.
The short answer is that a mother, or father, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, cousin, can’t do very much if anything but it’s nevertheless fulfilling to speculate on what we should do under certain sets of circumstances.
Would that we average joes and josies could do things, change things, or reverse things that, in our inexpert and humble opinions, called for doing, changing, or reversing based on a long-lost American skill and capacity, the application of common sense.
“Mother’s Commonsensical Solutions” will no doubt be attacked as everything from nonsensical and simplistic to naive and stupid but asi es la vida, tough apples. Readers are invited to offer better ideas.
Mother’s Problem Number One: Dealing With International Green Hypocrites
. “China, India, Indonesia, Brazil Can’t Estimate Their Greenhouse Gas Emissions–Latest Figures Are from 1994:” http://tiny.cc/81heh
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1863)
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