Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Skittles and Obama: Today's news for September 20th

Dumbest...controversy...ever...

Fox News:

It seems Donald Trump Jr. posted something controversial on Twitter:

Apparently, many people either get stuck on the concept of "analogy", or miss the point entirely.
Singer John Legend is exemplary of the idiotic replies:

No John, you wouldn't. Trump is referring to the terroristic intent of some of the Syrian refugees. As we saw over the weekend, that kind of intent can be carried out with knives and bombs too.

But why stop at one stupid remark?

Congratulations John! You have not only missed the point, but failed to understand the concept of an analogy. Wear your dunce cap with pride!

Naturally, Legend wasn't the only moron in the bunch, as the PC police took it upon themselves to miss the point too:

Because all Syrian refugees are orphaned children, right? I think not.

In defense of the morons, I will say the flaw in Trump's logic is he doesn't take the analogy one step further: The U.S., by becoming involved militarily in Syria, is helping to make the Skittles. That said, Trump is at least consistent with his hawkish views in recognizing that allowing refugees from a country where we are fighting a war is bad policy, because it allows potential enemy combatants into our country, to create any kind of havoc they wish. You can't have a war and a peaceful refugee policy. That is moronic. Then again, that is Obama's official stupidity.

Speaking of Obama, the following is from last weekend:

Grabien News:

From President Obama's speech to the Congressional Black Caucus on Saturday:
"There’s no such thing as a vote that doesn’t matter. It all matters. And after we have achieved historic turnout in 2008 and 2012, especially in the African-American community, I will consider it a personal insult, an insult to my legacy, if this community lets down its guard and fails to activate itself in this election. (Applause.) You want to give me a good sendoff? Go vote. (Applause) And I’m going to be working as hard as I can these next seven weeks to make sure folks do.”
I bring this up because of the following story:

Grabien News:
A Princeton professor [of] African-American studies, Eddie Glaude, is blasting President Obama for the "condescending" speech he delivered Saturday, during which he urged black voters to vote for Hillary Clinton... 
Glaude appeared Monday on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." Here's an excerpt:  
GLAUDE: “They’re getting a little wobbly but they’re still still sturdy. (Laughter) And part of — you know, I am really — I was really annoyed actually by the president’s speech.”
SCARBOROUGH: “Were you really? I thought that was inspiring.”
GLAUDE: “Well, you know, I think part of what we see is that the Clinton campaign made a bad decision. They spent most of the summer trying to court disaffected Republicans and taking their baits for granted. And I said on this show that how what would happen as she was getting the endorsement of Bush Republicans and the like, how would that excite those folks who were supporting Bernie Sanders? How would that excite Latino, how would it excite voters African-American voters? And so, now, what do we get? Instead of a series of rationale arguments from the president to black political — to black voters, we get, you know, don’t insult me.”
SCARBOROUGH: “Wow. OK.”
GLAUDE: “And I just find that condescending. And I know I’m going to get in trouble for it, I just founded it —“ 
Glaude nailed it. Part of the problem with Obama's speech was it revealed how self-centered Obama truly is. Obama sees Clinton's election as central to maintaining his flawed legacy.

Speaking of his flawed legacy...

The Weekly Standard:
As Barack Obama prepared to enter the final year of his presidency, he sat down for an interview with Olivier Knox to discuss a bold new policy change. He had announced a year earlier that the United States would be ending its decades-long isolation of Cuba and seeking rapprochement with the authoritarian Communists who run the island nation 90 miles from Florida. In this December 14, 2015, interview, Obama described his new approach in greater detail. The change he proposed dominated headlines for days. 
There was other big news in the interview—though this the media didn't treat as such. The president declared that he remained committed to closing the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, despite strong objections from Republicans and some Democrats. Obama had campaigned in 2008 on closing Guantánamo and as one of his first acts upon taking the oath of office signed Executive Order 13492 directing his national security team to shutter the facility within a year...
Naturally, that didn't happen because Obama had no place to put the Gitmo terrorists.

The story continues:
The news in the president's interview wasn't that he intended to make good on his promise to close Guantánamo, however belatedly. It was instead the president's attempt to mislead the American people to accomplish his controversial objective. 
"I am absolutely persuaded, as are my top intelligence and military advisers, that Guantánamo is used as a recruitment tool for organizations like ISIS," Obama said, endeavoring to create a national security rationale for closing the detention facility. "And if we want to fight them, then we can't give them these kinds of excuses." 
This isn't true. There is virtually no evidence that jihadists use Guantánamo as a significant recruiting tool, and national security experts from across the political spectrum who have tested the claim have judged it false. 
He wasn't finished. "Keep in mind that between myself and the Bush administration hundreds of people have been released and the recidivism rate—we anticipate, we assume that there are going to be—out of four, five, six hundred people that get released—a handful of them are going to be embittered and still engaging in anti-U.S. activities and trying to link up potentially with their old organizations," Obama said.
That wasn't true. When Obama made this claim, 653 detainees had been released. Of that group, 196 had been confirmed (117) or suspected (79) of returning to jihadist activity upon their release. Those numbers came from the office of the director of national intelligence and represent the U.S. government's official count of Guantánamo recidivism. Nearly one-in-three former detainees returned to the fight, not a "handful," as the president suggested.
As with most Democratic policies, it isn't what the facts say. It is all about what "feels right". If spitting in the wind feels right, the Democrats will let the loogies fly.
So, at a time of escalated threat levels from international terrorists, the president of the United States is releasing dangerous jihadists against the advice of the military and intelligence professionals who have studied the threat for years, and he's lying to the American people to downplay the threat. 
That's news. And yet a review of press briefing transcripts from the State Department, the Pentagon, and the White House over the two weeks after Obama's claims shows that his interview didn't generate a single follow-up question. Not one. 
Hence the president, having paid no cost for misleading the American people on such a crucial matter of national security, is moving forward undeterred. Vice President Joe Biden, at a press conference in Stockholm late last month, said his "hope and expectation" is that Guantánamo will be closed by January 20, 2017.
In recent weeks, the Obama administration has transferred from Guantánamo al Qaeda operatives who were working directly for the men who planned the 9/11 attacks. Obama's Periodic Review Board has approved for transfer a veteran jihadist who was identified in the 9/11 Commission report as an individual who "recruited 9/11 hijackers in Germany." The administration is preparing to release or transfer many remaining jihadists judged by U.S. military and intelligence professionals to be "high-risk" detainees who would almost certainly return to the fight if freed.
This goes beyond the bear award. Obama and Biden both get the shark for this:


Read the entire article. The stupidity present in this situation reminds me of the alleged quote by Albert Einstein:
"Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I am not yet completely sure about the universe."
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