Sarkozy and Obama have been facing similar issues lately. Both continually try to be seen as a populist while chipping away at constituent-rights, both rode the Haitian Crisis Wave with grand gestures of generosity, and both leaders are of the weakest ilk the globe has ever seen. But in France, the nation of ‘walking the line’, the leader appears to be giving the finger to political correctness and brings up Obama’s sacred cow, Muslim-anything, and says he’d like to ban the burqa. Can you imagine the uproar here if Obama banned an article of clothing, especially if it made sense?

Read ‘Guns and Burqas — The Afghan, Economic, and Wardrobe Wars of Nicholas Sarkozy’
by Susan Easton

Obama’s State of the Union last night was dissapointing. He didn’t say ‘Pakistan’ once. He DID say “I” 9,456,362 times. I found myself focusing on Biden and Pelosi more than Obama. I bet Pelosi HATES Joe Biden.

Denial can sometimes be a survival mechanism: like when walking on white-hot coals at a Tony Robbins convention, running a marathon, or being questioned by a Grand Jury. Denial can sometimes be suicide: like not getting off Mount Saint Helens when it’s belching ash towers into the heavens. Thought control works a bit like Pavlov’s Law- it counts on humanity’s ability to adapt and place one foot in front of the other, even in the face of impending doom. It’s human nature to blindly stumble on – we are all going to die and yet we still budget for a new TV, plan the trip to Disneyland, get excited about matching living room sets and play Pictionary. Humans have gotten good at living in the moment, we have to be because around the corner is death. We are perfect subjects for conditioning, as our survival DEPENDS on it. While the knee-jerk response is to blame a faction, garbage like this transcends factions. Liberals aren’t the only creatures that crave and wield power, although the Libs make excellent tools for furthering self-destructive agendas. Stockholm Syndrome much? And this “mind-numbing, will-stealing” agenda is not from the Right or the Left, it’s from those who are in power and those who are positioning for power. And not in some Dan Brown vein, but in an “every type/brand/model of government/denizens throughout our documented history” sort of way.
Conditional ignorance is as blissful as legitimate ignorance. Right?