Ah, well, I’ve been doing some Spring cleaning of late, taking my time even, and I thought, oh yes, I was wondering where I put that. So I’ve been dusting off the old blog, cleaning it up a bit, and I thought well now lets take it for a little ride. No not a GM spin, nor even an Obama spin this is Jon’s Place after all.

How rich is your life, seems today’s question. And so musing on the question I found myself on this page of a book:

From Bolts of Melody, 233, Emily Dickinson.

Well yes it is true that from time to time we find what we are looking for, or close enough, on the first try, though I would have preferred a happier song, still, I can’t tell you how often I have been frustrated in my search, but anyway I thought you might like that.

Yes, it is true the variables (experiences, responses to experience, etc) in the life of the individual are nigh uncountable, so as to be functionally infinite, which puts into stark relief the intellectual insipidity, nay obtuseness even of this prepared speech’s, published paper, declaration:

“I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.”

Of course on the individual scale that statement is repugnant. To what wise and richness does she refer? Some presumed meaning? Undefined, unknowable, a personal fancy? To what study does she refer? Or is it merely convenient to declare the superiority of one population and the inferiority of another?

Any who it just so happens that she belongs to the population she has conferred superiority upon. Why she might even be possibly be the distilled essence of her own conceptual construction. Of course such constructions are repugnant.

That she somehow misspoke is a joke as Mr. Lowry so well puts to bull’s-eye. Her silence over the days of controversy is still further confirmation. Why so quiet? What dilemma? Hmm, how can she throw post-modern liberal intellectualism under the buss? as she would be throwing her own self under the buss and with herself the unmerited justification for multiculturalism and diversity as a legal and positive structure. How then would the left preserve Plessy vs. Ferguson, excuse me, I mean the legal construct for affirmative action

So instead she’ll throw the nexus of American Identity under the buss: blind justice, equality before the law, knowing a man by the content of his character rather than by the color of his skin. So under the buss we go, and she so tosses hoping no one will notice. So too does President Obama as she is a tossed reflection upon him.

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Now just because Obama declares a decree a day to keep our tranquility at bay doesn’t mean you and I have simply got to play. We can bemuse ourselves at our leisure with his baleful pronouncements. So lets tarry shall we.

Why yes I did hear that our President Obama said that Guantanamo Bay was a recruiting facility for terrorists, but really isn’t the whole massive military prison base thing a bit, I don’t know, expensive? When with just a little imagination, a printing press, heck with desk-top publishing, and voila we take a cue from the Danes and print a cartoon or two and recruit more terrorists then we know what to do with--and here’s the beauty of the thing, we do it on the cheap.

You’re not convinced? Well who said this?

No, not Attorney General Holder. No, not Stewart, or Colbert, no, not even Maher, well at least I’m pretty sure they haven’t. What’s that? Olbermann, hmm, wouldn’t put it past him, but I don’t think so--could be though. Anyway, that quote is from the estimable Dr. Aslam Abdullah.

Yep, the modern Islamic Terrorist is hard to recruit; is manifestly a picture of probity, restraint, stability even; is nigh impossible to provoke; except for Gitmo, except for such there never ever would have been 911, or Khobar Towers, or embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, or Spain’s train station bombing, or the attack in London, or the attack at the night club in Indonesia. Yes, the modern Islamic Terrorist was recruited and sent mad by Gitmo--so our President says.

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And one last destination on our brief journey. And what do we spy?

Why quite right. Water boarding. You know, just like the Spanish Inquisition, Japanese WWII stuff and so on--it’s all the same.

Well that’s it for now. Hopefully we can cruise along at our leisure in the future, but given the past few months can we afford to presume our continuing freedom to do so?