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The John Barleycorn Presidency

Posted by vonryansexpress on Thursday, August 25, 2011 11:33:55 AM
 Mr. Obama takes more leisure time than any other President in history.

The use of the White House for expensive Wednesday night parties where the President gets drunk and gets up late the next day are his social trademark. The booze, the conga lines and the expenditure of energy all add up a White House that is on a constant vacation.

When one adds up all the leisure time expended by Mr. Obama and his spouse, it so exceeds anything that modern CEO's and normal citizens do within their professional communities that Mr. Obama is way outside of the social norm.

When every Wednesday, you're going to bed well after midnight, you're not firing on all cylinders come 6 a.m. Thursday morning.

Mr. Obama is the most indulgent wastrel.                          
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Tall Cotton Texas

Posted by vonryansexpress on Thursday, July 21, 2011 7:42:01 PM
There was that moment in time when riding in a Continental Trailways Bus, across what seemed to be the King Ranch forever, the stenciled placard promise above the drivers head read, "Your driver, .... safe, reliable and courteous".

Texas was that way too.
Sure, there was the bad to accompany the good and the ugly to accompany the lovely but Texas was a State with towns where children rode Sting Ray bikes safely and families had the commitment of Sunday School, Mass or Friday Night Service depending on the name of their respective faith.

My bit of Texas was Houston and south into that magic Rio Grande Valley; what some old timers called the "Free State of 'Hydalgo'."

We prayed in the Catholic Schools & said Grace in the Public ones.
Lord I do remember.
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bin Laden wasn't first or last in Terror War

Posted by vonryansexpress on Saturday, May 14, 2011 12:24:29 AM

This Islamist war is far from done.

Consider Muhammad Shawqi al-Islambouli, the brother of Kalid al-Islambouli, the lead assassin of
Anwar Sadat.

Muhammad Shawqi al-Islambouli is a wanted terrorist and a leader
of the Egyptian Al-Gama'at al-Islamiyya. Muhammad al-Islambouli is also suspected of being linked to Al-Qaeda, and is probably hiding in Afghanistan or Iran.

Sadat died in 1981-twenty years before 9-11.

Muhammed al-Islambouli has been an active Islamic radical and jihadist since the early
1980's. Islamic terror has shelf life.

Our fight(s) go on.

                    
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He's not a Kenyan, he's a post colonial.

Posted by vonryansexpress on Wednesday, April 27, 2011 11:37:18 PM

You know, it isn't that Mr. Obama is a 'Kenyan'; it's that he should be.

 

He has all the post-colonial resentment of a fresh off the boat liberationist that wants to show his contempt for all things cultural and historical that he associates with the vestigial colonial experience.

 

Mr. Obama should just rail against the "white highlands" as did the Mau Mau and Kenyatta; for his is an inner angst against American culture and the power of the American quiver.   He's an American with the apartheid mentality and a 'let's set the sun' on America ethos.

Forget the birth certificate; it's the bias of the man that is relevant, his personal brand of 'allegiance.'

 

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Trump as opening act.

Posted by vonryansexpress on Wednesday, April 20, 2011 12:56:13 AM
I think the presence of Gov. Barbour is exactly what the country needs and
likely will run toward come 'law day' 2012.

Often, I chase ducks from my pool. I like their brash quacks and in your face pool antics but it’s a pool not a pond.

I like Mr. Trump's bleeding out of Mr. Obama like the Red Sea in a sieve because it's a freebie for us Republicans as long as Mr. Trump is a voice and not the valedictorian.

Trump is degrading Mr. Obama with each riposte and retort.
Trump is a truncator, a cleaver of men. He's doing the work of a Long Range Patrol-he's weakening the enemy and Mr. Obama's cadres know it.

Now, no citizen should become POTUS that hasn't held elective office-period, point paragraph. 
Gen. Eisenhower was so unique in the nation’s life that his election was an exception greater than the rule.  Mr. Trump has no elective office behind him and if he wants one, he can start with NYC's Mayorality where he'd be a back of the hand opponent to the lamentable 'Ish Kabibble Weiner'.

Still, I'll be fond of him if he continues to take the point and keeps running it into Mr. Obama's left ventricle and then is sophisticated enough to stand back and know he served his nation well-as a
'Picador.'

Gov. Barbour however comes at the right time. Barbour is the small town man that grew into a resolute political presence with resume and the high regard of those that have voted him Governor twice.

You get the sense that Haley Barbour knows what a short block V8 means in American lore and
can tell you why the MX was inherently destabilizing.  Some Americans are leaders and citizens both and you feel their commonality with your own American experience.  Such is Gov. Barbour.

Let's enjoy Trump and ratify Gov. Barbour as our nominee.
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Tears for Bradley.

Posted by vonryansexpress on Thursday, March 31, 2011 10:30:23 AM

Mr. Manning is going to spend a life that is regulated and determined by others. This is the consequence of his acts.

Whether it is true that he's already been singled out for 'preferential' treatment as a high profile incarceree pending his trial, is yet to be determined.

Controlling the sleep behavior of prisoners is within standard corrections authority. It may be that Mr. Manning has exaggerated his plight of why he's compelled to be visible during his sleep when grousing with his counsel.

When Mr. Manning gets to Leavenworth Penitentiary, he's going to feel a cold wind that seems to emanate from the dead. He'll be properly garbed then for that lifetime of bitter climate and forgotten purpose. If he remains a danger to the country or himself, he'll end at SuperMax and his days at Quantico will be the best of a bad lot.

Mr. Crowley has his view. When he spoke, did he have knowledge of the needs at Quantico and the conditions of Mr. Manning's current mental state?

Manning has taken on the profile of a cause célèbre with some of the 'me too's' of the world's left. They might have picked a better candidate for their concerns. Mr. Manning is a self indulgent individual that stimulates only contempt with millions that know that a duty sworn is the opposite of betrayal.

All these Bradley Manning angst’s by men such as Mr. Crowley are just saccharine and pious declarations that curry favor with the fact that Manning is a known gay and as such merits a special concern because he's 'special.'

"How dare you" comes to mind easily when examining the indignation that comes from the 'we support Bradley' crowd. More interest group politics run amuck apparently.
It's not civil libertarians for Bradley, it's Ru-Paul's Bad Place for Bradley.

Perhaps, Oscar Wilde's famed verse is doubly stiched to Mr. Manning's prison doublet and suitable for Manning hand wringers as well:

"The vilest deeds like prison weeds
Bloom well in prison air:
It is only what is good in man
that wastes and withers there:
Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate
and the Warder is despair."

Inherit that cold wind now Mr. Manning.

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Qaddafi Past & Present

Posted by vonryansexpress on Saturday, March 19, 2011 12:44:58 PM

If the choices for Libya are the Benghazi fighters wearing the mark of sujood on the forehead or Qaddafi, we, (the west) are called upon to decide between the homicidal maniac in a costume that we know vs. the in mufti we don't.
Dangerous curves ahead.

If Qaddafi's past military experience in the Chad, which saw dramatic defeats in the 1987 "Toyota War" and remarkable loss of Libyan forces & materials to a light foe are a guide, then the Benghazi fighters need only do a shoot and scoot to the Aouzou Strip and wait to fight another day.

Francois Mitterand learned that Qaddafi lies when the truth would serve him better. Nothing has changed. The questions now are not if we should be sending Qaddafi a bullet, but who are the fighters in the rebellion?

The best outcome is not a precipitous death of the Qaddafi presence but a controlled removal where radicals in mufti are not the first in and the last out for the future of Libya.

This Libyan choice between the costumed beast or the rebellion is the quintessential double bind which in truth is really a false dilemma. Time is the best outcome. Time that allows the rebellion to survive and be distilled.

Qaddafi cannot survive any real military challenge. Look at his prowess in the Chad conflicts and you'll know he shouldn't be alive today.

Let's look and then avoid taking a leap.
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Memory 'taking flight from Egypt'.

Posted by vonryansexpress on Wednesday, February 02, 2011 12:33:58 PM
The memory of a bloodied Mubarak that infamous day, on a long ago October, when the Muslim Brotherhood sent a Lieutenant to lead the murder of Anwar Sadat, is non-existent now it seems.

Where are the journalists with recollection of the horror the western democratic states and some Arab states felt when it was realized that the bold Sadat was dead.

Where are the CNN broadcasters and producers that recall al-Zawahiri screaming from his cell, 'this dog, this Pharaoh, this Sadat.'

How uneasy the world was in those days, how much doubt was in the air that Hosni Mubarak would be able to step up to the place of the murdered President Sadat. Would he lurch leftward? Would he re-align with Moscow, the then USSR? What would happen?

What happened is that he carried forward. He became a successor. He was no poodle.

Now, he has the opportunity to leave his historic place and see his country transition a baton that comes through a time shift time-into a cyber age where all are aware that all can have voice.

Why deny those voices the chance to evolve into tomorrow? A yoke by the scruff of the neck is not transition; it is throwing the broken thermometer against a wall and expecting the mercury to reassemble easily.

Tens of thousands of angry citizens in a metropolitan Cairo of over eight million is not a vox populi, it is voices among many. Do the majority of Egyptians want Mubarak out tomorrow as opposed to in September? I doubt it. We have yet to note the voices of the counter-coup, the counter reaction.

Beware of the crowds bearing perfectly printed computer generated signs in English and French with phrases such as "GAME OVER".

Before your very eyes is the evidence of driven effort to create a spontaneous appearance of public will. Look again at those signs and ask, were these put together by an organized and educated political effort? If your answer is yes, then ask, in Egypt, what organization has the skill and resources to put such signs into manipulable hands?

What 'party' is in the background of Egypt that has organization and money?

Distrust the images and the reportage. Mubarak is more important to the world than the region alone.

His easy departure will auger better than a 'take flight from Egypt'.
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Open Letter to U of Ariz. President

Posted by vonryansexpress on Thursday, January 13, 2011 12:05:27 PM
Mr. Robert Shelton, President University of Arizona
 
 
How could you permit the hootenanny climate and raucous behavior at the event last night?
 
Where was the solemnity?  Is there no place for dignity at your University?
 
From the bizarre self-congratulating invocation/blessing by Carlos Gonzalez to the University President's kowtow to the President of the United States, the entire ambiance and staging was vulgar and low prole.
 
Sir, you would have had to reach below the door mat to find an environment where reverence and sorrow were more in absence than the event you structured and hosted.
 
Would you you want such a memorial for your dead?  Your wife, your sister, your Mother, cat-called and hooted into memory by thousands with no sense of the moment.
 
Are those that are slaughtered not worth restraint and probity ... could you not set the example for your students or did you?
 
vonryansexpress
Los Angeles, Ca
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The Stages of Treason.

Posted by vonryansexpress on Sunday, December 12, 2010 2:30:46 AM
 
Think shaved heads of collaborators at the liberation of Europe or the execution of Norway's Quisling in 1945 and you know that treason is a matter of gradation in any nation.

If you are with Wikileaks and Assange or a supporter of the Manning betrayal of oath and nation, then you are an enemy of the State and of mine and tens of millions of other Americans. In the words of Rev. Graham Sr., "be very careful now."

When this all shakes out-when we look at those in national life and those that used their right to free speech to give support to the document dumps, we'll be judging you on the gradation scale.
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Enemies and Citizens both?

Posted by vonryansexpress on Saturday, December 11, 2010 11:56:49 PM

Anyone trying to soften or excuse the Wikileaks document dumps has to explain why the release of the critical infastructure list wasn’t an act of pure anti-Americanism?

Assange and Wikileaks aren’t anti-war at their core, they’re anti-American first and foremost.

Associate with them on any level and you are an enemy of the state and my enemy to be sure.

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Seeking Mr. Obama's failure.

Posted by vonryansexpress on Saturday, November 27, 2010 2:10:18 AM

 

Progressives casting about for explanations of the rejection of their policies remind me of alcoholics. You know that kind of heavy drinkers that become angry when a loved one tells them 'that the fault is not in the stars but in themselves.'

We, Republicans-Conservative Republicans and all others that realized what Mr. Obama was from the day we learned of his presence in Rev. Wright's Church over that defining twenty years, must be affirmative, pro-active even with our declarations, that yes, we want this President to fail.

We want him to fail because his success would be an anathema to the lives we crave and seek to carve for ourselves as Americans.

We want Mr. Obama to fail in the way we would have wanted Huey Long to fail, desired Curtis LeMay to fail, needed George Wallace to fail and sought to have Henry Wallace, Eugene Debs, Gus Hall, Lester Maddox and George Lincoln Rockwell fail. We always seek to see failure before success for those that are outside of a constitutional, pluralist, free enterprise, majoritarian America.

We are entitled to play prevent defense against leftist politics.

The left should be given notice, have it stamped on their doors and across their foreheads Quo warranto, that a majority of Americans will demand failure of socialist policies over their ascendancy-point, period, paragraph.

The left is petulant. We are determined.
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Manners define you.

Posted by vonryansexpress on Friday, October 22, 2010 5:24:45 PM
 
Anger & resentment are not exclusive to uptight politicians.

In our America today, there are many whose sense of self is so distorted or inner convulsed that bad manners is their first personality extention.

How you behave toward those that are polite with you is likely dispositive as to what you are at your core.
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Vandalism, Censorship and the American Left.

Posted by vonryansexpress on Saturday, October 16, 2010 2:20:59 PM
The 'church key' party. That's what the left and this second-third generation of radical chic are; the people that will scratch your car with their keys as they walk by.

Mrs. Huffington, Joe Klein, MSNBC, Mrs. Van den Heuvel, Paul Begala, Howard Fineman, call the roll.  All will take the low road & cheap innuendo as their first analysis. It's how they rise to any occasion.

Huffington Post is the blogosphere's content censorship paradigm.  HuffPo will eliminate any commentary that is sharp or intellectually savage against Huffington’s pre-fab positions but will razor up anyone on the other side with the cattiest commentary and call it analysis.

Take a look backward at Nora Ephron's remarks directed against Condolezza Rice. She started with discussions about the gap in Rice's teeth for God's sake and didn't even mention Lauren Hutton or Terry Thomas.  It was shop talk from the beauty shop meets real housewives of failed marriages.  We get it Arianna, you married a gay for money, we get it Nora, you hate your neck and black conservative accomplished Secretaries of State.

For conservatives the best place to park your car in the political community is under the security camera.
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Tommie Smith's ruined life

Posted by vonryansexpress on Thursday, October 14, 2010 5:58:53 PM
World Champion sprinter and militant photo icon Tommie Smith begrudges his 1968 medal, claiming it "ruined his life."
What ruined Mr. Smith’s life was the imbecility of a gesture that turned its back on the nation that gave him the chance to have the speed and the skill he demonstrated during those games.

He turned himself and his brand into an untouchable in the commercial sphere and the leftist radical welcome home of Stokley Carmichael and Eldridge Cleaver didn’t produce anything tangible that he needed or wanted for his life.

Mr. Smith was a dumb man that let the passions of the day ruin his life. Other winners during those games had great lives and have been on television sports shows ever since, Peggy Flemming, Al Orter, Bob Beamon, Mr. Fosbury-none of them now are so destitute that they need to ‘off’ their recognition medals to survive. 

Life was good for Mr. Smith, he had it made. He decided to play the fool, to go with what passed for edgy and cool one night long ago and since then has reaped the value of his theatrical gesture. A harvest of being a nothing and a disappointment to himself.

His chances of securing the value he wants for his spikes and medal are small to scratched in the blocks.

Another casualty of the radical chic in that wild ride year.
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