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The First Lady said...

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Wednesday, May 20, 2009 1:15:52 AM

"..."wrong ideology" results in a political, economic, social and cultural control by the State all aspects of the American people's life and a final triumph of Socialism in America.- Boris Tiraspolsky



Michelle Obama
The First Lady said: “The arts are not just a nice thing to have. The arts define who we are as a people. My husband and I believe strongly that arts education is essential for building innovative thinkers who will be our nation’s leaders of tomorrow. The president and I want to ensure that all children have access to great works of art,”

Comment by Boris Tiraspolsky:

Mrs. Obama said trivial words that would not have drawn much of my attention if the very same day president Barack Obama would have not announced "strict limits on vehicle pollution that will set national standards across the US for the first time". In addition to that GM bankruptcy plan eyes quick sale to gov't.
 
I wrote some time ago about Obama's attack of administrative ardour. The latter when it comes to arts  actually means "strict limits" and "national standards across the US" as well.

In other words we may witness first steps of a vigorous intrusion of the State in what arts should or should not convey. There is no doubt that the "national standards" for the Arts will be set to support Obama's agenda and sustain Obama's cult. These arts are welcome unlimitedly. All other arts are a subject for limitations and restrictions.   
 
I cannot help it, but Mrs. Obama's words remind me of Nazi Germany where art was considered to be one of the most important elements to strengthening the Third Reich and purifying the nation. Political aims and artistic expression became one. The task of art in the Third Reich was to shape the population's attitudes by carrying political messages with stereotyped concepts and art forms.

Adolf Hitler linked art with the country life, with health, and with the Aryan race. "We shall discover and encourage the artists who are able to impress upon the State of the German people the cultural stamp of the Germanic race . . . in their origin and in the picture which they present they are the expressions of the soul and the ideals of the community." (Hitler, Party Day speech, 1935)

No further comments are necessary. However,  the First Lady needs to learn a difference between just "arts" and "useful Arts" as it is mandated by the Constitution of the United States.

Needless to say that "useful Arts" can introduce principles of Ethics and Esthetics of the Constitution, impact minds of the American people with "right ideology", and form role models necessary for combating ideological enemies of the Nation and their collaborators.

"... the Progress... of useful Arts” is to form advanced “communication system” between different parts of the Nation - governments, population, political elites, intellectual elites, business community, military, and etc. - for a joint effort in combating ideological enemies domestically and abroad." Useful Arts in American past and future
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The man who transformed politics in America

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Tuesday, May 19, 2009 10:43:24 AM
"Saul Alinsky was the man who transformed politics in America into all-out war mode.  Alinsky's tenth rule of the ethics of means:  "You do what you can with what you have and clothe it with moral garments."  All's fair in love and war, and politics, to Alinsky, was war."


Saul Alinsky (1909-1972)

Barack Obama, the Quintessential Liberal Fascist
By Kyle-Anne Shiver
"They fear that the development and building of People's (community) Organizations is the building of a vast power group which may fall prey to a fascistic demagogue who will seize leadership and control and turn an organization into a Frankenstein's monster against democracy."  - Saul Alinsky responding to his critics, Reveille for Radicals; p. 199

When Saul Alinsky began building his community-organization movement in 1930s Chicago, observers were watching Alinsky with one eye, while with the other eye observing the building of communist and fascist movements in Europe. It wasn't hard then to see in Alinsky's programs at home, elements of the people's revolution from Russia, as well as some of the same "in your face" tactics being employed by Hitler's Brownshirts. Continued...
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The threat is likely to continue evolving

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Monday, May 18, 2009 4:26:50 AM
"The threat posed by global jihadist groups is likely to continue evolving rapidly in the years ahead. In the United Kingdom's new counterterrorism strategy report, released in March 2009, the British project that the threat will look very different in three years than it does now. In the UK's view, al-Qaeda is likely to fragment and may not survive in its current form. Instead, smaller, "self-starter groups" will likely grow stronger and more prominent."



Assessing Progress against the Global Jihadist Threat
By Michael Jacobson

In April 2009, the U.S. State Department and the European U-nion released their annual terrorism reports, which paint a varied picture of international counterterrorism efforts to date, with clear progress in some areas and deterioration in others. The reports also illustrate how the rapidly evolving terrorist threat presents an ongoing and significant challenge to the United States and its allies, as terrorists continually adapt to international pressure. One positive aspect of the reports is that Americans and Europeans appear to have similar views on the threat posed by international Islamist terrorism, which may offer opportunities for the Obama administration as it attempts to improve transatlantic ties. Continued...
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Spoiled by too much success

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Sunday, May 17, 2009 2:23:06 AM
"As Oswald Spengler predicted, we are passing from capitalism to Caesarism. There is something natural in the logic of this passage. The reversion to the armed man as supreme arbiter is not preferable, but merely inevitable given that human nature becomes spoiled by too much success. We should be reminded that nations are born in blood and renewed in blood. We do not like this. We don’t want it. But everything we are doing plays to this tragic passage."



The Post-American Apocalypse
by J. R. Nyquist

In Fareed Zakaria’s book, The Post American World, we find some apt criticisms of American behavior (and Western behavior in general). “In past crises,” he wrote, “the West played the part of the stern schoolteacher rebuking a wayward classroom. The lessons they imparted now seem discredited. Recall that during the Asian financial crisis the United States and other Western countries demanded that the Asians take three steps – let bad banks fail, keep spending under control, and keep interest rates high. In its own crisis, the West has done exactly the opposite on all three fronts.” Here Zakaria brilliantly exposes our unwillingness to face the music. We think somehow that we are the exception to the rule. This is because our collective character has been spoiled. It has long been my contention, that because we are “spoiled,” our culture has become a process of leveling as described in Søren Kierkegaard’s essay “The Present Age.” Continued...
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If they don't like waterboarding...

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Friday, May 15, 2009 3:23:33 AM
"Since the party in power seems to have no problems with the use of Tasers on American citizens, surely they could have no problems using them on enemy combatants who are believed to have information critical to the nation's safety and security, right? If they don't like waterboarding, how about Tasers?"



Shocked about waterboarding?
 
I don't get it. The consensus in Washington these days is against coercive interrogations of even the most dangerous terrorists in the world – monsters who have knowledge of impending massive, deadly attacks on innocent U.S. citizens. The politicians who control the Congress and the White House say it would be "cruel and unusual punishment" to employ techniques like "waterboarding" – even though it causes no permanent damage, scarring or disfigurement. Continued...
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The Messiah of the United States of America

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Thursday, May 14, 2009 1:22:08 AM

"I, therefore, the Messiah of the United States of America, acting of my own volition, appealing to Myself for the rectitude of my intentions, do, in the name, and by the authority of Myself, solemnly publish and declare that the United States ought to be dependent states; that they are absolved from the Tenth Amendment, and that all political connection between them and the Federal Government, is and ought to be of a dependent nature; and that as subservient and dependent states and citizens thereof, they have no power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, or do any other acts and things without express permission from Federal Government thus represented by Me."



Barack Obama's Declaration of Dependence
By Pamela Meister

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one Messiah to dissolve the historic bonds that have connected his subjects with the fundamental beliefs of a bunch of dead white guys, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of Marx entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that I should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.  Continued...
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The purification of Islam through violence

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Wednesday, May 13, 2009 2:26:09 AM
"...the Department of Justice reported that the JF "has more than 35 suspected communes and more than 30,000 members spread across the US, all in support of one goal: the purification of Islam through violence."



Seeds of Afghan jihad bloom in two US towns
While recruiting for the war, Sheikh Gilani formed two groups in America now suspected of involvement in violent extremism

In the 1980s when small towns in FATA were turning into recruitment centers for the Afghan war, seeds of jihad took hold and bloomed in some unexpected places – in two small towns in the United States, where two groups formed by Sheikh Mubarik Gilani –arrested in connection with Daniel Pearl's murder in 2002 – are suspected of violent extremism. Continued...
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When Wrong Ideology Rules Us

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Monday, May 11, 2009 1:32:33 AM
"The problem of misunderstanding and misinterpreting the word IDEOLOGY by the American intellectuals and consequently by the majority of the American people results in a lack of general ideological awareness of the Nation. Consequently, it causes the current ideological defeat of the United States in battle with "wrong ideologies". - Boris Tiraspolsky



When Ideology Rules Us
By Bruce Walker

The unfolding spectacle of which leftist cipher should be appointed by Obama to replace departing leftist cipher, David Souter, on the Supreme Court underscores just how purely ideological justice in America has become.  At first blush, conservatives might have taken some hope from Obama's promise to look for "those on the outside" to be on the court:  there is no more underrepresented group in government or politics than conservatives, and there is no group more subject to the unfair application of the law than conservatives. Continued...
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The Taliban "jihadis," or holy-warriors

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Sunday, May 10, 2009 1:16:47 AM
"Since 1971 the unremorseful and bloody-minded ruling elite of Pakistan -- civil and military -- pushed Pakistan deeper into a dependency alliance with Saudi Arabia. It meant importing the Saudi version of Islam -- Wahhabism -- and its spread deep across the country through the rapid expansion of religious schools and mosques funded by money from the Gulf countries. The products of these schools and mosques are the Taliban "jihadis," or holy-warriors..."



Pakistan basically Taliban state
By SALIM MANSUR

There is frantic concern in Washington and elsewhere that Pakistan has reached its tipping point and might succumb to the Taliban forces entrenched barely 80 km (50 miles) from the capital, Islamabad. But the concern is misleading. A country of some 160 million Muslims is not about to be overrun by the Taliban. On the contrary, Pakistan is more or less a Taliban state shaped by its origin and history. Continued...
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Pearl Harbor was our fault

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Friday, May 08, 2009 12:51:37 AM
"Mr. Obama should apologize to the Japanese because we made them attack Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Pearl Harbor was our fault because we never bothered to learn Japanese language, culture, and history."


Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941

The President hasn't apologized enough
By Edward Bernard Glick
 
President Barack Obama has made abject apologies for the actions of his predecessors a cornerstone of his foreign policy. In his recent trips to Europe and the Caribbean, he apologized for the arrogance of President George W. Bush, and he sought forgiveness for the latter's treatment of terrorists captured after 9/11. But Mr. Obama should go further. Continued...
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To navigate the course of human history

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Thursday, May 07, 2009 9:24:06 PM
"...a vow of "Never Again" requires vision.  It requires the vision to navigate the course of human history by the bright stars of freedom, equality, and liberty, even in the darkest night.  It is the darkest nights which truly illuminate the stars of freedom that our humanity may have once taken for granted. 



‘Never Again’ Requires Consistency on Equality and Liberty
Jeffrey Imm

April 21, 2009 marks this year's Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah), where many around the world will pause and reflect on the tragedy of the Holocaust. At the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC, there will be an annual names reading ceremony and "the Museum will lead the nation in commemorating the six million Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust, as well as the millions of other victims of Nazi persecution." Continued...
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Decent or indecent art

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Thursday, May 07, 2009 12:57:48 AM
The article below had been published eight years ago. However, the problem still persists and "...the real debate is not one concerning decent or indecent art, it is a debate concerning the very foundation of our constitutionally limited government; the exercise of power not authorized by the Constitution; the misappropriation of Federal Treasury money; the willingness of Congress to abridge freedom of speech prohibited by the Constitution; and, the Supreme Court aiding and abetting in this tyrannical practice!"



Enemies of our Republic
John William Kurowski

A Washington Times Feb. 21 Editorial, "Yo philistines", is quite saddening because it focuses on the same old tired bread-and-circus debate concerning taxpayer funded art, and neglects to identify enemies of our constitutionally limited Republic, especially those in Congress embled  and those on the Supreme Court of the United States! Continued...
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The light from mankind's last best hope

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Tuesday, May 05, 2009 1:49:09 AM
"We need to have conservative philosophers and cultural icons that state the case for and epitomize the worth of traditional Western culture. More mundanely, we need to nurture conservative film makers, fund conservative law schools, build conservative foundations (like Heritage, but more of them), defend and expand talk radio, establish conservative newspapers (like the Washington Times, but more of them), concoct an organization to counter the NEA in the minds of the country's teachers, abandon the mainline churches and support religious institutions that champion traditional values, etc. … If we don't do this, then the America that we have loved and which has proven to be such a boon to the peoples of the world will surely — perhaps slowly, but maybe not so slowly — wither into one more Euro-socialist State. Then the light from mankind's last best hope will have gone out."



Conservatives in Retreat—On Many Tracks
Some painful lessons for the right
by Ron Lipsman

This is not a happy season for American conservatives. The executive, legislative and, to a large extent, the judicial branches of the federal government are almost completely under the control of liberal Democrats. Moreover, as conservatives feared, our liberal masters are pursuing a far left agenda that will catapult the United States much further down the road toward Euro-socialism. We are not doing any better in the culture wars. The media, academia, legal profession, foundations, public schools, libraries and virtually all other opinion molding organs of American society remain firmly in the grip of the Left and, thanks to their influence, perversion (e.g., pornography, infanticide, same sex marriage) is flourishing while traditional culture (e.g., religion, the family, patriotism) is under attack. When we pass from politics and culture to economics, matters do not improve. Continued...
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Nobody reads the signs

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Monday, May 04, 2009 1:17:50 AM

"I am amazed by those who think the U.S. economy is going to recover, that global peace is attainable, that American liberties are going to survive American barbarism. Look at our culture today: men are no longer men, and women are no longer women; capitalists no longer uphold free market principles; constitutional government no longer adheres to the Constitution; enemies are treated as friends. Nobody reads the signs. Nobody sees what is coming."



The Investment Climate in 2059
by J. R. Nyquist

While visiting the court of Attila the Hun in A.D. 448, a Roman diplomat named Priscus was greeted by a barbarian who suddenly began speaking Greek without an accent. Priscus couldn’t believe his ears. The man was dressed as a Hun, lived as a Hun and fought alongside the Huns. How could this possibly be? Continued... 
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Churchill knew this better than most

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Sunday, May 03, 2009 1:09:16 AM
"Wars are not won solely on the battlefield. Churchill knew this better than most. Wars are won in minds of the leaders first, who are willing to deploy brutality and destruction, deceit and psychological intimidation even indiscriminately, despite the occasional moral ambiguities. Intelligence gathered about the intent of the enemy is a precursor to battlefield victories. Sometimes timely and prescient intelligence can avoid battles altogether or at least assure victory sooner minimizing the death and collateral dismemberment."


Winston Churchill

War Ain't Beanbag
By Geoffrey P. Hunt

Perhaps George W Bush's most significant failure as president was not convincing enough Americans that the war on terror was a real war. From the vantage point of most Americans it had -- and still does have -- the look and feel of a police action, something far less. A bit like the "phony war" for Brits in 1939-1940, right up until the Battle of Britain and for Americans until Pearl Harbor. Continued...
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