Journalists, NOT

The press corps incident at a Romney interview showed the journalists attending had conspired together on one question to make sure it got asked no matter who Romney picked. During the interview, they asked the same question 6 times. Then we find out that collaboration is acceptable practice. The rest of us thought that these "journalists" had their own questions and fought each other to get their question asked. Evidently many of us were wrong. They are all on the same team and if they do not like you, then they will try to tear you down. The reporters are all in obama's pocket, so their only goal is to try to make Romney look bad, not report news, or collect facts.

Wrestling and Posing

So, all of a sudden the Libyan government comes up with four people that may have been responsible for the murders of our diplomats and servicemen. I find that very questionable. Unfortunately, U.S. leadership will probably accept that response and try to smooth things over. I suppose we will still give them 1.4 billion in tribute, not aid. This reminds me of wrestlers posing and ranting and raving, but it is just faking around for the audience.

Paying our Tribute to Islam

The last few days have been interesting and a disaster. Here it is September 13th and the atrocities keep going. I believe there are now 6 embassies in the middle east that are in the middle of being invaded, which is the same as invading this country. In Libya, we have four people dead. We have been fighting islam in one way or another for a very long time. Back in the 1700s, our ships were being attacked and looted by barbary pirates. Yhese pirates were really working for the sultans of the Barbary States. They would give back the people they kidnapped if paid. Most of Europe was sending them tribute each year in order to avoid these actions. The United States, being a new country, must have seemed like a new place to get profit and tribute out of. In 1784, they started attacking American ships. In March 1785, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams went to London to negotiate with Tripoli's envoy, Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdrahaman (or Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja). Upon inquiring "concerning the ground of the pretensions to make war upon nations who had done them no injury", the ambassador replied: "It was written in their Koran, that all nations which had not acknowledged the Prophet were sinners, whom it was the right and duty of the faithful to plunder and enslave; and that every mussulman who was slain in this warfare was sure to go to paradise." The only difference between then and now is that our leaders do not have the balls to fight back. They would rather pay tribute. When we send these nations money for aid, in their opinions that is not a gift from us to help them. No, it is tribute. Thomas Jefferson did not pay tribute, he eventually sent the marines. Now though, we pay.