Periodically, I am asked why I blog. Okay, I was asked this question once; but still, it got me thinking about my incurable obsession. And inasmuch as most, if not all, Elite members have pondered, if not voiced, this same imponderable, here is my most succinct explanation.
Why did Beethoven compose music even when he could not hear his own works performed? The creation of great sounds requires no justification other than the love of just the right number of notes, or in a blog, just the right words set well to paper in their original craftsmanship. Any plagiarism would be unacceptable Mr. Benny Avni. (A little inside baseball there).
The second, more enduring, if not more endearing, reason is that I see myself as a true citizen - not of the world, but of a gravely endangered Constitutional Republic. One in which even one shrill voice should help man the barricades to keep out the barbarians. A blog is, after all, just a modern day Thomas Paine pamphlet.
So, preamble in place, now on to blog content. President Obama: The resolution of the Malaysian Airliner shoot-down requires Russia to allow into the crash site our National Transportation Safety Board investigators. (Paraphrased). Say what? Does he mean only those NTSB employees who are also Navy Seal Team six members? You don't bring a knife to a gun fight and you don't send accident reconstructors to a live fire war zone. To determine who is responsible for this horrific act of barbaric terrorism all is needed is the American Intelligence community - as with Benghazi, Ukraine ain't no group of Arabs out for a walk who decided to kill Dutch citizens due to their having watched a anti-muslim video.
Secretary John Kerry: "The resolution of the current Gaza conflict requires nothing more than for Hamas to be reasonable." (Almost direct quote). Say what? Does he mean that Hamas should fire its thousands of lethal missiles at Israeli military installations only, and only during normal business hours? Does he mean that Hamas should refrain from launching its lethal rockets from Gaza schools, hospitals and mosques, and instead fire them from specially designated military installations?
Such Orwellian double speak would be humorous were it not uttered by the truly most powerful leaders of this Constitutional Republic, who apparently are seeking its fundamental transformation.
I am left speechless.
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