Now, I am not going to go into the history, Victorian politics or plot of the The Pirates of Penzance or the artistic tensions and musical rivalries between Gilbert & Sullivan here. That is for the curious to find out for themselves. So my apologies to Gilbert & Sullivan but what I am going to do is, in my own way, bring their satiric observation of Peter Principle leaders up-to-date:

Obama is the Very Model of a Modern Major Generalist

Obama is the very model of a modern Major-Generalist
He can’t be bothered with information unless it is minimalist
He hates the Queen of England, and holds grudges quite historical
From Indonesia to Kenya, in orders categorical

He’s very well acquainted, too, with communities organizational
He understands the shake downs, both lending and corporational
About leftist academics he’s teeming with a lot o’ views
With many cheerful plans to skew the US Constitution’s use.

With many cheerful plans to skew the US Constitution’s use.
With many cheerful plans to skew the US Constitution’s use.
With many cheerful plans to skew the US Constitution’s use.

He’s very good at bowing to and hugging leaders dictatorialist
He knows just how to grovel and in War on Terror is defeatist
In short, in matters informational minimalist
Obama is the very model of a modern Major-Generalist.

In short, in matters informational minimalist
Obama is the very model of a modern Major-Generalist.

He doesn’t believe in American exceptionalism, gets a fit of colic
He won’t answer the hard questions, has a petty taste for the histrionic
He reads in a strange cadence from teleprompters ubiquitous
In control-freak politics his socialism is historically iniquitous

He’s either vacation goofing off or teeing off with buddies
He boogies every Wednesday with a guest list that’s star-studdy
Then hums a call-to-prayer under cover of the West Wing’s din afore
And whistles all the airs from that foolish Paul McCartney bore

And whistles all the airs from that foolish Paul McCartney bore
And whistles all the airs from that foolish Paul McCartney bore
And whistles all the airs from that foolish Paul McCartney bore

Then he signs unread bills to socialize American medicine transform
And you must tell the IRS ev’ry medical insurance detail on your form
In short, in matters informational minimalist
Obama is the very model of a modern Major-Generalist

In short, in matters informational minimalist
Obama is the very model of a modern Major-Generalist

In fact, he knows what is meant by “sedition” and “treason”
When he can’t tell us his birthplace as proof of his usurpation
When such knowledge comes to light the country will go crazy at
And he knows precisely what is meant by “silent coup d’etat”

When he’s finally ruined America from socialist experiments
When he knows that jobless citizens are reduced to camping tents
In short, when he has achieved through Cap and Trade what Marx dreamed of as his own
You’ll say a better Major-Generalist had never sat a throne

You’ll say a better Major-Generalist had never sat a throne
You’ll say a better Major-Generalist had never sat a throne
You’ll say a better Major-Generalist had never sat a throne

For his political consolidation through ACORN of the Jackass Party
Has a plan for Amnesty to make illegal immigrants Democratic voters hardy
But still, in matters informational minimalist
Obama is the very model of a modern Major-Generalist

But still, in matters informational minimalist
Obama is the very model of a modern Major-Generalist

However, this type of decadent, inartistic slovenliness gets repetitiously boring after a while and a teen’s radar is exquisitely tuned to winnowing out the bogus from the merely banal. So what’s a poor teen looking for someone to pattern themselves after supposed to do? Our past heroes and heroines are either excoriated for not being politically correct, if they are even mentioned at all, or are considered so out-of-date as to be irrelevant. In fact, what with all this eco-greenie Gaia worship going on in our public schools, humans themselves are not only not held up as something worth while but actively despised for their respective and collective carbon footprints. Even that current socialist secular living saint, President Obama, is proving to have feet of clay for them because BP oil is still gushing into the Gulf of Mexico soiling US beaches, destroying Louisiana tide water ecosystems and killing untold numbers of marine and animal life all while he goes on yet another vacation and/or tees off at the nearest golf course.

One thing that I doubt anyone on the educational, environmentalist Left has bothered to remember, if they ever knew it to begin with, is that Nature abhors a vacuum whether it is in spatial form or between one’s ears. When one has nothing worth evaluating on the noodle, all types of silliness gets planted and takes root. Now socialism can’t really exist when the populace is actually educated so ignorance by humanity for Leftists is control-freak bliss. However, socialists NEVER seem to grasp that human nature is constant and therefore not perfectible within artificial, secular constructs.

Unfortunately for all of us, a folly of human nature is that it is prone to memes, the more nonsensical sometimes the better especially when one is no longer grounded historically, religiously or culturally and therefore adrift and bored out of one’s skull. It is how fads, crazes and cultural inanities get so widespread. It’s why some people anthropomorphize their pets into children, yearn to become blue skinned Na’avi, or reinvent the wheel when all they had to do was a little research.

The latest cultural wheel reinvention is happening right now in Texas schools where “wolf packs” of up to 20 teens come to school sporting fangs, slit iris yellow contact lenses and furry tails, yes, tails attached to their bumms. Influenced by Benicio Del Toro’s role and make-up in the movie, Twilight and The Wolfman, not to mention all the pro-werewolf comics, animated cartoons and TV shows that have inundated their lives these past years, Texas teens are howling with delight although they don’t want to be feared.

Evidently playing Hallowe’en dress-up year round gives them a feeling of “belonging” to a group as evidenced by what 15 year old “pack leader”, Deikitsen “Lupus” Manley of San Antonio’s Brandeis High School claims:

Human wolves have been around a lot longer than characters in Twilight. It gives us a sense of belonging. You gain friends and you belong and indulge your wild side.

And where are the parents in all this? Pam, Deikitsen’s mother, made excuses for her son’s childish play-acting lack of public dignity by saying, “As soon as he walks in the door, he is supposed to take out the fangs, and lose the lenses and tail. They’re good kids. It takes courage to stand up and be who you want to be.”

Uh…since when did “werewolf” become a career choice? Does that mean Deikitsen will father a litter with his future mate? Can he get a job without his rabies shots or drive a car without his dog license?

This werewolf craze is not just in Texas although the costuming seems to be confined to that state for now. A young teen of my acquaintance in Oregon is obsessed with lycanthropes and does nothing but draw them all day. At an age when she should be showing interest in the real world, she’s instead drawing such blood-curdling creatures that I expressed real concern about the state of her mental health to her mother, who replied, “Oh, she’s just allowing her internal rage to vent through her art.”

Say what? That kid utterly skates through life with everything handed to her on a silver platter. She is totally without any personal responsibilities or discipline and would forget to breathe if it wasn’t an automatic reflex. Is being stuck for years drawing the same Japanese-inspired manga style gothic horror cartoons a venting mechanism for a typical, government-controlled public school student bereft of all intellectual curiosity and desire for learning?

(British social commentator, prison physician and writer, Theodore Dalrymple, theorized that the normalcy of cursing in even what passes for normal speech now is a prime example of the inarticulate rage one experiences when confronted with complex emotions hamstrung by a limited vocabulary thanks to substandard, government-run state schools.)

So what looks on the surface to be another cyclic generational teen fad ala Michael Landon or Michael J. Fox has a troubling undercurrent of mental instability. Lest anyone think that it’s just teens that fall prey to this fad, young adults are joining in but with even scarier undertones. Someone calling herself “Wolfie Blackheart” found what she claimed was a dead dog, cut off its head and boiled it making sure to post her culinary skills on the web for all to see.

When her exercise in really graphic photo journalism came to the attention of the local police, Wolfie went in to that default mode as exhibited by the Texas teens about not needing to be feared because, “I would never kill a canine. I am a canine.”

BABE HUGGETT:

If you’re a liberal/socialist, you’ll be sneering, “Easter? That’s just a pagan holiday commandeered by Rome! Look at the goddess Ēostre’s symbols of rabbits and eggs! Hey! Who ate the ears off my chocolate bunny?”

If you’re an atheist, you’re grumbling about there, “…being no God, hence no meaning to Jesus – if he ever existed in the first place – and why the heck isn’t this a four day weekend like Winter Festival?”

If you’re a Muslim, well, you’re smirking along the lines of, “I can’t wait for Mohammed’s slave, Isa, to come back and destroy the Christians!”

In the spirit of religious diversity, I suppose it’s expected of me to go on to the other great religions and what their followers think of Easter but time, space and their lack of tyrannical political drive precludes me from saying anything other than while they think their religions are the true ones, everybody eats marshmallow peeps this time of year so why not have some fun?

While the Christian conservative has it right about Easter, he is missing and/or forgetting a key element of why the atheists and socialists and Muslims hate Jesus and His Message. Inherent within the teachings of Christ are two great themes: 1) You are free to have a direct, one-to-one relationship with God so therefore you do not need ritualistic, third party folderol to get between you and Him and 2) The men, who govern other men, are to be Christ-like good shepherds and Fishers of Men, who are true servants of the public for the good of men’s physical and spiritual wellbeing, hence the title Public Servant.

Yes, that’s right: Public SERVANT and not over-privileged Looters-in-chief or fat, boggle-eyed Caliphate imam princelings living a life of debauched decadence. We are constantly admonished by the established Church and State to be “meek and humble like sheep” but it’s the wolves, who have taken command of their respective flocks now. While they demand obedience, fast segueing into obeisance from us, they have no intention of honoring their position by keeping our welfare uppermost in their thoughts and deeds.

What is worse is that instead of the beloved sheep of a Good Shepherd’s flock, these modern day religious and secular closet dictators view us as mere cattle. They only think of us as sheep when it comes time to be shorn. That’s why you get people like the Obamas, Pelosis, Kennedys, Clintons and Reids of this world espousing spreading everyone’s else’s wealth around but theirs through grotesque and ever-increasing taxation demands. It’s why you get government agencies and unconstitutional laws demanding , and now forcing, you to buy crippling policies and inferior goods, services and medicines in order to keep money flowing to big corporations. It’s why you have to constantly toe the line from grade school through college in order to emerge over-debted, underemployed and underpaid as you compete with Third World workers through globalization.

And heaven help you if you so much as make a murmur of dissent or get past a certain age. Suddenly you find yourself thrown from what little safety you think you have in the communitarian, wolf-guarded flock to the real wolves of hunger, poverty and despair. Toss in the fear-driven social disapproval for your hard lot and it’s enough to make even the staunchest believer in individual rights cynical about the future.

Just remember the next time you hear about the lavish, Washington DC lifestyles of those who secretly think they are our betters that the difference between a pirate and a privateer is a government mandate. It’s why you get to eat budget-friendly ramen noodles three times a week while they have access to the finest wines and liquors, the choicest foods, and best living arrangements. It’s why you have no privacy left; even down to being exposed naked to the world through airport x-rays while they conveniently fly unimpeded on taxpayer-funded military and private jets. It’s why you had better fork over every penny you have left to the IRS while they blithely “forget” to pay their taxes.

And if you have enough energy left over to wonder about what is going on with the debasing of organized religion, then those, who are enjoying the secular benefits of cushy positions can use the threat of hell fire and damnation over your heads if you don’t follow their ritualistic rules from fasting, tithing and attendance right down to unquestioning obedience in blowing yourselves up in order to further “religious” goals of physical and political world dominance.

So what is a good Christian to do especially when Christ admonished us to render unto Caesar? First off, realize what is legitimately Caesar’s! Caesar, i.e. the State, does have claims and what the State is allowed to do is enumerated in our Constitution. Get politically active and let what we still laughingly refer to as our “representatives” know that they better start actually representing us or they will be voted out in the next election cycle. Then watch the ballot box like hawks to ensure fraudulent votes do not make for stolen elections. We keep hearing that we, “…get the government we deserve…” but stolen elections mean we are governed by frauds, and who deserves that?

Secondly, put your energy into spirituality and not religiosity! Your faith belongs in Christ and not fallible priests, ministers and definitely not hate-mongering preachers of any denomination! The Catholic Church claims that the Pope is infallible but he is only infallible when he speaks ex cathedra on matters of faith and a pope has not done that since 1950 when Pope Pius XII proclaimed on the Assumption of the Virgin Mary into heaven.

Thirdly, when Christ admonished us to “…turn the other cheek…” He did not mean that we are to become punching bags. Inherent within Christianity is the warrior spirit of the laity called to ensuring goodness prevails over evil through faith and good works. This notion found its highest earthly fruition through chivalry whereby men of arms vowed to use their physical strength and social standing for the good of all. They led by example and their high standards of conduct influenced those below them to emulate their actions.

And now I have brought you full circle back to the notion of the Good Shepherd and Fishers of Men. It falls on each and every one of us, who call ourselves Christian, to resist tyranny whether it comes from politics and/or religion because a triumphant Christ calls all of us to service. The beasts in control of our flocks know this and nothing frightens them more than rogue sheep. That’s ultimately why they are so intent on destroying Christianity. Remember this as you celebrate Easter this year and every Easter thereafter!

BABE HUGGETT:

In 2001 I wrote an editorial on what the socialists of the Labour Party in the UK would ultimately face if they continually accused concerned British citizens of parochialism, racism and bigotry when they spoke out against Labour’s gross mismanagement and malfeasance coupled with its obscene immigration policies encouraging massive and uncontrolled immigration into the UK from hostile, aggressive, alien Third World countries. I predicted that as Labour continually smeared people of good will, these same people would not only vote Labour out of office but would gravitate away from main political parties to ones that would offer them acceptance.

Unfortunately, the Tories, like our own GOP failing to forcefully defend the TEA Party patriots, are currently echoing elitist and racist accusations as defined by Labour, so the only political parties left for concerned, patriotic Brits is either the lackluster United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) or the truculent British National Party (BNP), which is campaigning on British national pride and stopping/reversing immigration especially from Islamic nations.

The BNP is national-socialist, which technically makes it a later day version of the Nazi Party and is rapidly gaining in strength among British voters. It is leftist but it is identified as “right wing” in the media because of what is known as “The Brown Smear” that has been perpetrated on Western people ever since Stalin switched sides during WWII and threw his weight in with the Allies. The Soviets were international communists while the Nazis were national communists. It was inevitable for them to turn on each other but the Soviets cleverly got Western media to equate national patriotism with the BROWN shirted national socialists of Nazism.

The identification with American patriotism and Nazis went into full court press during the Cold War. It’s why American conservatives are constantly referred to as racists, bigots and Nazis. “Left” and “Right”, BTW, only means which side of the aisle one’s political party was seated on in Parliament. That British tradition is all pretty much forgotten now as is the color association with blue for patriots and red for communists. Only in America is that color code reversed and that came about during Bill Clinton’s 1992 US Presidential campaign when the Democrats abruptly switched from their normal red to blue and the MSM went right along with it. The GOP at the time complained but, hey, you repeat that lie long enough, it becomes the truth. And the MSM repeats it down to this day. Goebbels would be so proud…

As to the current smears…you and I know that they are lies and perpetrated by the Left but the MSM is dutifully repeating it even though the same MSM was remarkably silent over the actual death threats and vandalism the Democrats have perpetrated on Republicans and conservatives all along. How many “racial” incidents have there been over these last decades that were actually done by leftists themselves in order to inflame the nation? Like, maybe, 99.9% of them?

Projection of their own innate ugliness and evil onto us is what they are doing and it is what the Left does best because they are basically insane. Socialism is the denial of reality and human nature. Denial of reality is insanity hence syndicated radio talk show host Michael Savage’s comment that “Liberalism is a mental disorder.”

Next stop for the Obama regime is Amnesty in time for 30+ million illegals to register as Democratic voters come November. I have pointed out again and again in my BlogTalk Radio show, Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Conservatism, and in my writing that the Democrats have been acting like they will NEVER be out of power. I figured voter fraud was their game but I was praying that they wouldn’t follow the UK Labour Party’s game plan of flooding the country with colonizers whose very abuses of the system will get you labeled a “bigot” if you dare to speak out against the purposeful destruction of your country’s citizenship.

Anti-British Obama may be as disrespectful to the UK as he likes but socialists worldwide do play from the same game book. November 2010 is our last chance at the voting booth to return America back to a republic and away from socialism and the socialist elites in DC know it. Look for a rushed amnesty of the 30+ million illegals in this country to happen between now and then so that they will get full voting rights as “citizens”, oh-so-grateful to the Democrats for the legalization!!!

The Cat In the Hat was written by Dr. Seuss, (pen name of Theodor Seuss Geisel), in 1957 as a response to a challenge by the Life magazine writer, John Hershey, who specifically mentioned Geisel as an ideal illustrator for modern children’s books in a May 25, 1954 article titled “Why Do Students Bog Down on First R? A Local Committee Sheds Light on a National Problem: Reading”. Geisel’s publisher, Random House, asked him to write a new style of engaging children’s literature using a limited vocabulary of only 400 words, which the publisher’s estimated school children were learning at the time. Geisel cut the suggested list down to 223 and added 16 of his own.

Using the pseudonym of “Dr. Seuss”, Geisel’s The Cat In the Hat proved an instant hit and the story of the two rainy day bored young children first enjoying then panicking over the crazy, chaotic antics of a floppy red-and-white stripped hat wearing tuxedo Cat accompanied by his eagerly undisciplined partners-in-crime, Thing One and Thing Two still resonates with young readers 53 years later.

In fact, The Cat in the Hat is such a fondly remembered piece of American literature that it was recently quoted in the US Senate when, in 2008, Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, in complaining of a stalled immigration reform bill likened the problems on the Senate floor with the chaos caused by the Cat and read out from the book into the Senate record, “‘That is good,’ said the fish.’He’s gone away, yes. But your mother will come. She will find this big mess.’”

Reid went on to explain, “If you go back and read Dr. Seuss, the cat manages to clean up the mess.” A tip o’ the Cat’s hat to whichever analyst so succinctly commented about Reid’s failure to get the bill passed by saying “the Cat in the Hat did not have to contend with cloture.”

Now, considering that if Dr. Seuss was alive today as a cantankerous 106 year old watching the purposeful destruction of America through the Cloward-Priven strategy and Saul Alinsky formulated chaos, he’d want to revisit his The Cat In the Hat characters using the cadence of his Green Eggs and Ham with President Obama as the hammy Cat, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi as Thing One yegg and Harry Reid as Thing Two yegg:

I do not love the Rule of Law.
I do not claim citizenry from Paw.
I do not follow Constitutional rules.
I do not care if I hurt Democratic mules.

I party every Wednesday without fail.
I drink like a fish and dine on quail.
Everything revolves around me, me, me.
I won! I won! So let me be!

I’m off to golf instead of work.
I snub the Brits and Gordon Brown’s a jerk.
I grovel in front of every despot I can.
America needs to learn that I’m the Man!

Nancy Thing is always at my side.
To my star she’s hitched a ride.
Harry Thing makes quotes so snide.
Come November 2010 they’ll have no place to hide.

The three of us America want to socialize.
Socialize! Socialize! America we want to socialize.
Obamacare is our master plan.
To take America down the can.
Obamacare! Obamacare! We’ll ram it through!
With new taxes now but no healthcare due.

The sick and elderly will wait and wait.
Fate! Fate! Succumb to fate!
Death panels and abortions late!
The old the over-taxed young will come to hate.

ARE YOU A CITIZEN BORN AND TRUE?
ARE YOU OF THE RED, WHITE AND BLUE?

I keep my past full under wrap.
I will not, care not to my citizenship provide a map.

DID YOU NOT SWEAR UPON A BIBLE?
DID YOU KNOW THAT YOU ARE LIABLE?

I did swear upon a Bible.
I did not care that I am liable.
I did not dwell on my Kenyan family tribal.
I will not worry about birthers libel.

DID YOU INTERNALIZE KARL MARX?
DID YOU HOPE FOR CIVIL WAR SPARKS?

I did internalize Karl Marx.
I did hope for Civil War sparks.
I did not love America ever in my life.
I did not and neither did my wife.
I did not become President to bring you hope.
I care not; will not because I’m no dope.

I became President to bring you change.
With Communist failure that is destructive and strange.

Rodgers, a 25 year veteran of ABC Radio and a 15 year veteran at KSFO with his highly rated and profitable Lee Rodgers Show, was in the normal process of renegotiating his contract for renewal in July when he was fired last week. In a clear violation of his contract, Rodgers said that his leaving, “…was forced upon me, with no notice.”

Talk Show Host Lee Rodgers

ABC Radio is owned by Citadel Corporation and is in bankruptcy. Its move to terminate one of its highest rated and profitable hosts in a major metropolitan market seems counter-productive but is not unusual under Citadel’s current management. Earlier in the month Chicago sister station, WLS-AM 890 fired in mid-week the abrasive but entertaining libertarian, Mancow Muller, and his co-host, Pat Cassidy, for, as Muller put it, “no rhyme or reason.”

In an email sent to his fans, Rodgers wrote, “The top management of Citadel, led by a CEO named Farid Suleiman–widely regarded as the most incompetent executive in broadcasting–decided that I was making too much money after 25 years with ABC and fifteen as morning host on KSFO, taking no note of the fact that I’ve generated large sums of money for the company.”

Rodgers then went on to say, “I WILL tell you, in all candor, that thanks to Mr. Suleiman’s Citadel management, I could no longer proudly say that the company had never told me what to say or what not to say.  There was an obvious cave-in to some ultra-left and pro-Muslim groups, making it unlikely that I would have ever renewed my contract with the company, anyway.”

Rodgers’ co-host, Melanie Morgan, lost her slot in what ostensibly was a cost-cutting move on the part of KSFO in 2008. However, immediately before she was let go, Morgan was war reporting directly from Iraq and was one of the leading charity organizers in the nation for sending goodie packages to our frontline fighting men and women in the WOT. Morgan was pro-Bush and a major cheerleader on the Iraqi and Afghani fronts. Even though her husband, Jack Swanson, was then and still is the manager of KSFO, it was not enough to ensure that her contract was renewed.

Over the 15 years that Rodgers was morning host, he was famous for not suffering fools gladly and holding firmly to conservative principles. He repeatedly stated that the last, true President of the United States concerned with the actual welfare of America was Ronald Reagan and that the Islamic nation building conducted under President Bush II was a disastrous waste of American manpower and money. Rodgers advocated secure borders, reported on Islamic terrorism, cultural jihad and creeping sharia within the USA, and repeatedly hammered on the Obama Administration over its gross incompetence, corruption, conflicts of interest, bailouts and willful shredding of the Constitution.

Rodgers’ co-hosts, Melanie Morgan and Officer Vic (Tom Benner), followed his lead but Rodgers left them in the dust with his show preparation and research that was so extensive he operated on only four hours of sleep a day. Rodgers never accepted second-rate thinking from anyone including his guests and nationally syndicated conservative talk show host, Mark Levin, cut his radio teeth with Rodgers as a call-in debater when Levin was a patent attorney in the South Bay/Silicon Valley city of Sunnyvale.

Rodgers is not registered with the Republican Party and, unlike many other conservative radio talk show hosts, refuses to carry water for the GOP. Rodgers could easily translate into national syndication and would give Levin and Rush Limbaugh major competition for listeners.

Coming just 28 years after the first Falkland War, when an expansionist Argentina invaded the sleepy, sheep farming islands only to have its head royally handed back to it by British forces, Tuesday’s move by President Kirchner is this time not seen as a demand for the islands so much as a grab for the oil beds that are within Falklands territorial waters and said to be potentially greater than the output of the 40 billion barrel North Seas oil fields. The arbitrary declaration demands that all ships wishing to operate within the waters between the Falklands and Argentina may do so only after getting a new Argentinean permit, effectively stopped the next-day delivery and start of the year-long construction of the Ocean Guardian oil rig to the Falklands offshore oil beds.

The Director of the Falkland Islands Company, Roger Spink, tried to make light of the confrontation by saying, “There has been an economic blockade of the Falklands from Argentina for many years. It’s something we’ve come to expect.”

Anticipating the controversy, Cabinet chief, Aníbal Fernández, commented, “Any boat that wants to travel between ports on the Argentine mainland to the Islas Malvinas, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. . . must first ask for permission from the Argentine Government.”

Tensions have been running high between the UK and Argentina because Britain refused to stop its oil explorations in what is its own Falkland territory. Argentinean jets actually trailed the Ocean Guardian oil rig all the way from its Scottish Highlands point of origin to its approach to the Falklands. Last week the ship, Thor Leader, was boarded and detained by Argentinean forces because that nation claimed the ship was “illegally” bringing in pipes for the oil crews already stationed on the Falklands themselves.

Besides the high seas heavy-handedness, Argentina is also putting in a complaint to the UN to stop Britain’s oil drilling. Argentinean Foreign Minister, Jorge Taiana, hinted darkly that his country was planning to take, “all necessary steps” to assert its claim over the islands.

However, if Argentina expects to go the military route, it will be facing British forces stationed on the island along with a destroyer the UK keeps in Falkland waters. Analysts in the UK think that Argentina’s aggressiveness over the Falkland oil fields is jingoistic saber rattling by President Kirchner to distract from her increasingly unpopular and corrupt government at home.

One angle not anticipated by these analysts is that it is Gordon Brown as the post-nationalist Labour Prime Minister now in the UK and not the nationalist Tory Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, in charge. Budgetary cuts have reduced British naval forces and its under-equipped troops are stretched thin in Afghanistan. Leftists are always sneering at going to war over territory or natural resources and a real “war for oil” may not be enough to get them to trade bullets with a failing nation-state like Argentina.

The Falklands are half a world away from the UK and represent the shreds of a once great empire that international socialists like Brown are anxious to forget. Meanwhile, Argentina, separated as it is by only 300 miles of ocean, looks with greed and envy on the Falklands. Their move at this time to reassert what they claim is their ownership is far more calculated now than it was nearly three decades ago. Considering that Gordon Brown just gave the go-ahead for the Port and White Cliffs of Dover to be sold outright to the French, what then would be his justification for maintaining control of the Falklands if national pride, territorial integrity and control of natural resources are not enough for the internationalists currently at the helm in the UK with which to defend Britain and her interests?

Brits Selling What GI's Defended in WWII

Although the UK already has sold off its other major ports to private hands through the 1991 Ports Act, the sale of Dover Port and the White Cliffs to France has generated anger and outrage among the general British population, a large percentage of whom have living memories of WWII.

Confronted by the historically inverted, proposed sale to the regional council of Nord-pas-de-Calais, Tory candidate for MP, Charles Elphicke had this to say of Calais owning Dover:

In trying to sell off our port and the White Cliffs, it’s clear Gordon Brown has no sense of the history of our nation or the pride of our town.

How dare he consider selling it all off to the French? Dover is the English border. We stood proud in defending our nation in times past.

We are the nation’s front line. The people of Dover have a clear message for him – hands off our port, hands off the English border, hands off the White Cliffs.

The sale of Dover is expected to generate between £350million and £500million and was initially prompted by the Dover harbor board’s request to be privatized to the UK Transportation Secretary in order to get construction money for port upgrades.

Earlier this year Calais already proclaimed itself as “part of England” and “the gateway to the UK” in order to catch some anticipated reflected glory and tourist dollars from the Olympics set for London in 2012.

Thanks to Edward III’s continental conquest, it could be argued that Calais was “part of England” from 1347 to 1558 but not since. Dover and Calais are only 21 miles apart and a major transport connection between the UK and the EU.

Other items on the UK’s asset fire sale are its Post Office, student loans, a major toll highway crossing the Thames, and its stake in a uranium processing company called Urenco.

The UK is apparently a Petri dish for socialist experimentation in the English speaking world so whatever is done to the UK will translate to American shores within three to ten years depending on how fast agendas are set in place. Considering the $12 trillion (and counting!) national debt of the US, what might the Obama Administration, seemingly bent on the destruction of the U.S.A., sell off in order to ease that debt?

Since France is already in a buying mood, would it like to take back the Louisiana Purchase? No doubt that would produce a few trillion dollars right there although Obama might have to throw in New Orleans “as is” to get Paris to take it off our hands. Spain’s King Juan Carlos already has dibs on the tolls to be generated by the stalled trans-Texas corridor but Florida is always up for grabs. Al Gore blindly handed over something like $40 billion to Russia during the Clinton years so they do have the dosh to buy back Seward’s Folly, a.k.a. Alaska, although Gov. Palin might have something to say about that transaction.

Mexico would just love to take back all of our Southwest but has no intention on paying back anything it received from us in the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo since it is currently using the demographics of its poor to flood our country with recolonizing illegal aliens.

Then there’s our Post Office system and schools although a quick glance at our universities and text books show Saudi money flooding in so they might as well stop fooling around and buy the US educational system wholesale. Japan might like to buy Hawaii if Hawaii doesn’t leave the Union first although considering that Japan has yet to recover from it’s economy going south in the ‘80s, that sale may just be tabled for the foreseeable future.

If all this sounds far-fetched, think again. Our bad bank loans were bundled up and sold as financial instruments overseas prompting a world-wide financial crisis that not only shows no signs of clearing up but of getting worse. Thanks to Jimmy Carter, we no longer control the strategic Panama Canal and thanks to the Bush and Obama administrations massive government bailouts and Weimar Republic-style running of our printing presses, our future and the futures of at least five generations of yet-to-be-born Americans have been sold off to the Federal Reserve and Wall Street. We’re indentured servants now and, since a nation’s greatest asset is its people, it wouldn’t all be that big a step to slavery at the auction block at the rate the Democrats and the Obama Administration are spending money.

Editors note: This is NOT placed in our Satire category. We’re not making this up.

However, women’s magazines in general and fashion commentary in particular are a surprisingly accurate means of forecasting who will be the winners in political elections. I’ve often written that if you want to know who will win American elections, look to the catwalk and check out the zeitgeist of the collections. When I saw even Madonna picking up the Wild West vibe of the runways by sporting her cowgirl hat and boots before the November 2000 elections, I knew George W. Bush would win despite the frantic efforts of the Al Gore camp to continue challenging the results until enough fraudulent votes could be manufactured by Democratic operatives.

It didn’t take a genius to discover that Obama was destined to win the 2008 elections either. All you had to do was see all the pro-Obama message tees on the runway to figure that one out. It was so blatant, it was depressing. The runways right now for Fall 2010 are full of Post-Apocalyptic wear featuring rips, tears, disjointed and mismatched patterns, and hard, funnel-necked leather jackets vying with cantilevered, architectural reinterpretations of the human form in such a way that has not been seen since the Mannerist fashions of the first Queen Elizabeth.

The models seem mostly to be sporting blackened, smoky eyes and ratty, messy hair. It’s like fashion has lost its collective mind and is simply waiting for the conservative triumph at the voting booth bombs to drop for the final touch to Mad Max fashion wear just right for that Saturday night punch-up in the parking lot behind Democratic Party headquarters.

A presage of what we can expect in November 2010 will be the elections over in the UK where Tory Party leader, David Cameron, will beat the pants off Labour Prime Minister, Gordon Brown in May of this year. How can I be so sure? Well, my fashion radar picked up a little blip the other day from the style magazine, Tatler, where David Cameron’s wife, Samantha, beat out France’s former high fashion super model First Lady, Carla Bruni Sarkozy in a celebrity survey for the best dressed woman in politics category. Evidently Tatler is picking up on the extreme disgust Brits have for the grotesque and ruinous mishandling by New Labour of the country over the past 12 years to the point where ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair’s “Cool Britannia” has now morphed into “Cruel Britannia”.

And, let’s face it: when an iconic and hip magazine like the Tatler titles an article, Is it rude to vote Labour…& other social dilemmas resolved, in its January 2010 edition, the jig is definitely up for the Red Rose socialists of the Labour Party.

However, don’t let the interchangeable title of Tory and conservative fool you for David Cameron. As much as the UK would be better off with a real conservative as Americans understand the term, Tory/conservatives in the UK are more akin to center-left Democrats here in the US. Occasionally the British version of a blue dog democrat within the Tory Party might sneak into office but if anyone is hoping for the return of principled men and women in the Thatcherite mode, well, leisure suits will make a fashion comeback before they will.

Cameron is an eco-greenie character responsible for switching the Tory Party’s traditional hand bearing the Torch of Liberty to a politically correct Ecology tree. His elitism is such that he refused a reporter’s request to use his powder room after his interview was over because he didn’t want the reporter to “dirty” the facilities. He’s all for the harsh Nanny State type legislature currently ruining Brits’ lives and thinks the most pressing thing facing his country is not the unrestrained and refusing-to-assimilate masses of hostile immigrants hitting UK shores but AGW.

Like Brown, Cameron will also be hamstrung by EU rules and regulations coming out of Brussels so if Brits think that things will change for the better under the Tories, they will be in for a sad disappointment. Disappointment is the name of the game in politics on either side of the Atlantic when you put, “…your trust in princes” as American conservatives learned when Republican Scott Brown’s Massachusetts election to the US Senate wasn’t even days old before he announced that he wanted to act in a bipartisan manner.

Oh, and remember that Tatler survey about the best dressed women in politics? Michelle Obama and her boob belts didn’t even place and if that isn’t a sign of things to come, I don’t know what is.

BABE HUGGETT:

Signs saying, “To avoid causing offence or embarrassment to others we ask that our customers are appropriately dressed when visiting our store (footwear must be worn at all times and no nightwear is permitted).” have been placed at the entrance to the store in what Americans will recognize as a variation on our “No Shoes, no shirt, no service.” domestic stores policy although here in open-carry Arizona, “No weapons allowed” signs give a regional variation that must make the Nervous Nellie crowd feel better.

Back at the St. Mellons Tescos, outraged customer, Elaine Carmody, was actually turned away when she tried to buy cigarettes because of her sloppy and routine PJ bottoms and slippers wear.

Calling the banning of PJs as “pathetic” and “ridiculous”, the 24 year old, said, “If you’re allowed to wear jogging bottoms, why aren’t you allowed to wear pajamas in there, that’s what I don’t understand? I think it’s stupid really not being allowed in the supermarket with pajamas on.”

“It’s not as if they’re going to fall down or anything like that. They should be happy because you’re going to spend all that money.”

Carmody added, “It’s not as if you’re making a show, if anything they should be happy because you’re spending your money in their shop, but obviously they’re not because you’re not allowed in with pajamas. So they’re going to lose their customers with people going to other shops to buy stuff and they’re allowed in with their pajamas on.”

Clueless shoppers like Carmody show a disturbing confusion between “the customer is always right” and a complete lack of personal self-respect and discipline. They are exhibiting, broadcasting actually, carelessness about themselves and ultimate contempt for others.

It used to be that whoever roamed about in their PJs was usually an escapee from a lunatic asylum. Now it’s SOP for slobs in the US and it’s worrying to see that the fad has spread to the UK. In fact, in California, they have “Come to School in your PJs” day which immediately makes one think that the school principal involved is a pervert of some type.

Our American TV version of What Not To Wear constantly takes on the PJs-as-outer-wear phenomena and the fashion disaster du jour routinely whines about how they, “…want to be comfortable.” Show co-host, Clinton Kelly, always snaps back with a, “…but we have to look at you!” comment about respecting one’s self and the venue one is in.

Jogging, track wear and sweat suits do show up as inappropriate Sunday wear in US churches and even at special occasions like Baptisms and funerals. While it can be argued that as long as you are in prayerful mode, God is pleased but the pastor and the rest of the congregation certainly aren’t. They are keenly aware of the insult even if the wearer is blithely ignorant of the message of disrespect that they are sending.

Going anywhere barefoot is just plain unhygienic and dangerous especially considering the preponderance of discarded hypodermic needles left by junkies at beaches and playgrounds. Broken glass is everywhere including the interior of supermarkets. Considering that many people do not bother curbing their dogs or scooping up the feces afterwards, an unshod romp in the park and stroll through the produce section afterwards is enough to gag a maggot.

No doubt multi-culti fanatics will start squealing in outraged defense of the national wear of Pakistan, a.k.a. “Pakistani pajama” outfits falling into the nightwear category but seeing foreign dress on residents of the US, UK or any other First World Western nation is a loud and clear indication of refusal to assimilate. And that is a whole different front in the Culture Wars.