If you have ever been slightly intrigued about Obama’s constant use of “transformative,” then you might have considered that along with “transgressive” and “hegemony,” “transformative” is one of the are three very common words in the now somewhat passe literary criticism called deconstruction or just “theory.” This academic discipline was all the rage in the top-flight colleges and universities among the baby boomers and probably hangs on as an outlier in many English/Language/Literature Departments today.

Deconstruction developed after WW II as a reaction to the first world wars’ mechanized dehumanization, the horror of the Holocaust, and the colonialism of the defeated and worn-out countries of Europe in the mid-20th C. Jean Paul Sartre’s Existentionalism also influenced Deconstruction, with its amoral view that actions and choices had no moral value and any direction anyone took was equally moral in a world where nether good nor evil functioned.

On the pr level, Deconstruction became multiculturalism, where supposedly, all cultures and societies are equal in value, but in reality, in order to transform us from the hegemony of the West, particularly the British who had a huge oppressive empire and the US that after WW II had all the gold in the world in Ft. Knox, Western Civilization and Christianity had to be deconstructed and destroyed. Any and all other forms of culture were equal, or even superior, so debates about whether a slave diary rivaled Shakespeare or whether Lincoln was really a racist began to filter into teacher education and into public school education.

Obama talks like a leftover lit prof deep into transformative progress where Dante is relegated to one of the circles of his own Hell, while the transgressive radicals of the Muslim Brotherhood become the focus of light and learning that Egypt needs to change her from a relatively pro-Western Middle Eastern state to her true multicultural position of the now un-marginalized third world, or probably for Egypt, second world.

When the great museums of Egypt came under assault, unlike the furor that claimed Bush was allowing the treasures of Iraq to be raided and trashed in 2003, no one responded except local Egyptians and some of their army who linked themselves into a chain outside the Egyptian Museum in Cairo to preserve the 1000s of years of history represented by the artifacts and objects d’arte saved by years of research and archeology. You certainly didn’t hear Obama calling for cool heads and consideration of the vast vaults of scholarship Egypt holds, but every day he speaks of transformation, as he spoke of transforming America to adoring crowds back in the halcyon days of 2008.

Our esteemed president is even more radical than anyone the Limbaughs or Hannity and Beck have descried, because he sees enforcing the world into a view of dissolution of order and the promotion of chaos and deconstruction outside the laboratory of English lit but in the real world of all of our lives. While he flagrantly flies more often than most other presidents put together and has some fete at the White House every three days, enjoying all the fruits and prosperity of Western and American culture, he wants and expects the rest if us and the entire world to turn into an upside down Alice Through the Looking Glass where the suicidal and maniacal seize power and rule in some distorted belief that the dead (and living) white men will be paid back and social justice will transformatively prevail.

Today all the headlines are unemployment is more closely approaching 10 percent. My state and county are already there and could go beyond. Meanwhile, in the midst of Great Depression Redux, the Wall Street Journal reports that the vaunted Dept of Labor plans attacking business on two fronts, and sometimes at once: sending in OSHA to pick around the edges of safety and make sure all is shipshape according to DC bureaucrats and the EEOC to be sure hiring is all in sugar plum fairy land while plotting to use subpoenas, injunctions, and arrests instead of warnings and time periods to correct alleged infractions.

Surely, no one on the right wants people slaving in substandard working conditions or being hired under false pretenses (but no mention in the WSJ about using e-verification of illegals as a method). On the other hand, the O administration has hammered business since Day One, as was constantly repeated about attention paid to the BP oil leak, abrogated contracts a la the GM and Chrysler “save”–even though favored unions like the NEA and AFT were also stiffed in states like IL and OH for their pension fund investments in the auto industries and while poking bond holders in both eyes (agreed to the US Supreme Court of all institutions), and steamrollered the Gulf states’ employment through specious bans and moratoriums on Gulf drilling and energy production.

Gasoline is creeping over $3 again and heating oil will be up this winter because we are not pumping or refining our own oil , as the EPA sues Texas to shut 16 refineries (in good compliance with bureaucratic green drones for years until the rules were recently changed out of thin air). In PA, the EPA has been hectoring developers of natural gas there, and New York State, in order to solidify its indigo camouflage, has voted not even to consider a mammoth natural gas industry developing there, because of tender environmental sympathies. All these depredations perpetuated against domestic energy production leaves us that much more insecure nationally as we import more and more from many nations that openly proclaim they hate us.

Not only do we have a political class in DC that constantly issues “Let them eat cake” dictats but also a disinterested and hubristic White House that agrees “while they freeze in the dark.”

I don’t know if true, but last week some people alleged in NV that when they went to place early votes, their voting machines were already set for Reid and the Dem. ticket.

Today, in an email from my tea party coordinator, I received a forwarded message that someone in NJ had also been faced with an electronic voting machine already set for the Dem. ticket in his/her district. She(he) also said the touch screen was loath to change the choices, altho’ eventually it did, and was also reluctant to all allow the voter to push the “cast vote” button. A poll official had to help the machine accept the vote the citizen wanted.

I do not know if electronic machines can be tampered with so they are set to produce a preselected vote roster, but whether machine voting, or casting an old-fashioned paper ballot, every voter today should be extra vigilant in the voting process as the usual suspects will be unusually active in this particularly election, because they’ve seen the writing on the wall that the unemployment tsunami the rest of the US has experienced is waving their way (talk about mixed metaphors, but it works for me).

From today’s NY Post (Rasmussen polls):

Wisconsin–Johnson (R) 51%     Feingold (D) 44%

Ohio–Portman (R) 55%             Fisher (D) 35%

Connecticut–McMahon (R) 46%  Blumenthal (D) 51% (Cook calls a “toss up” and too close to call??)

New Hampshire–Ayotte (R) 51%  Hodes (D) 44%

Also:

California–Fiorinna (R) 48%      Boxer (D) 46% (Survey USA)

Whitman (R) 47%                    Brown (D) 40% (Survey USA)

Nevada–Angle (R) 42%             Reid (D) 41% (CNN/Time)

Forida–Rubio (R) 41%               Meeks (D) 23%               Crist (I) 30% (Rasmussen)

Ohio–Kaisch (%) 51%               Strickland (F) 43% (FOX)

Think your credit card debt is a problem? The federal government is on course to paying half your taxes into debt service by 2020, according to the Heritage Foundation.

Currently, debt service is $435,000,000,000 annually (2009), or nearly a billion a day. My granddaughter, born July 21, inherited a debt per capital of $42,000 just after she drew her first breath, and her portion will reach $150,000 by the time she is a pre-teen.

At the rate little o is proceeding, he will add $10,000,000,000,000 to national debt , if he has two terms and continues spending in the pattern established since he became president.

Maybe the federal government should apply to one of those “Debt Finders” web sites that promise to reduce your credit card obligations in ½ with no detriment to you or your credit ratings.

As it is Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security occupy nearly over ½  of the federal pie, and if debt continues to spiral, they will also be pushed out or severely slashed before all of the baby boomers qualify for senior entitlements, which will occur in approximately 20 years, 2030.

When Democrats and various liberals froth at the mouth over proposed changes in any of the three “third rails,” they MUST know the Ponzi system of pay-out as everyone pays-in for these programs is unsustainable and disastrous.

Candidates Rand and Angle are exactly right when they call for cutting cabinet secretaries and ending spendthrift  bureaus and agencies, because they are not affordable. Since the Department of Education was invented as a sop to the NEA by Carter, federal spending on education has doubled every year, even under Reagan and the Bushs. The Department of Energy, concocted to make us energy self sufficient, now oversees more oil importation than ever before.

If Congress and the administration continue in today’s pattern, defense spending and any other discretionary spending will shortly disappear under the present system. Of course, the radicals on the left hate the Pentagon and the military, but who will defend their free speech and right to rant when the Army dissolves?

Shortly, Greece’ problems will look like an after-prom party compared to the financial chaos fast approaching.

You can already see the enormous effects of these two-years’ profligacy on the population: a great decrease in the birth rate (for the 10% out of work and the 8% underemployed or outside the statistics for having given up looking  for work), having another mouth to feed at home is not an optimal choice.

My own community college reports it has the lowest percentage of enrollment for a fall semester since its inception. Classes are being canceled left and right due to lack of students.

The WSJ reported today the Federal Reserve officials are in a quandary about what to do for the economy, and my suggestion is they should stop doing anything. The Fed cannot save the nation or end this Great Depression II with any more of the manipulations it has already tried and found failing.

Anyone who can should get out of his or her own debt, buy gold or metals, and hunker down with his/her gun and Bible, because the future is already with us.

The Department of Education announced the second-round winners of the Race to the Top state awards of approximately $400 million (of money we don’t have), and they turn out to be Dem. 7-4, based on electoral college votes in 2008.

NJ lost by 3 points that were a clerical error that the Chris Christie administration thought it had corrected two weeks ago by oral communication, but the drones in DC are tone deaf as well as dumb and they did not make the adjustment to the New Jersey submission.

1st round winners were DE (Dem.) and TN (Rep).

2nd round winners are DC (all Dem. all the time), FL (Dem. in 08), GA (Rep. in 08), HW (Dem. in 08), MD (Dem. in 08), MA (almost all Dem. all the time), NY (Dem. to the bone), NC (Rep. in 08), OH (Dem. in 08), and RI (Dem. in 08).

No surprise here.

So, for dispersion and dilution, you do the math. I think the leak, enormous as it has been (Santa Barbara’s spill that launched our anti-energy program in the US in 1969 was 3,000,000 barrels–but it  was just off shore) is probably analogous to a can of beer in the Great Lakes.

No matter. The media is on the situation like glue on false eyelashes, and reports that the Gulf oil has been siphoned off, dispersed, diluted, or just missed will be evaluated and analzyed until the appropriate environmental catastrophe can be declared. Heaven forefend that nature took care of itself and moved on.

The left is a cauldron of predicted chaos and disaster, of which their economic policies would qualify as a major contributior: these have  brought down a dozen nations from the USSR to all the Eastern European commie bloc to the faliures that are Cuba and Venezuela and the social and political prison that is China, even if its economy is going wild.

All environmentalism is a Romantic concept based on emotion and fear (horror–EA Poe was a Romantic writer), so it is fitting that Thomas Malthus predicted in 1798 (the same year as Romanticism officially started in England with the publishing of Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge) that agriculture would never keep up with the world’s population. He wrote in An Essay on the Principle of Population that human reproduction spurs agricultural production and stays ahead of the population curve or the result is famine, disease, and de-population.

The echoes of Malthusian economics are periodically sounded by radicals touting immediate global disaster, as in the 1970s when Paul R. Ehrlich (and he STILL gets published) warned of mass starvation by the turn of the millennium from famine and lack of fresh water. The 70s were a hotbed of lefty hysterical predictions like the world would run out of oil by 2000, a new ice age would force world-wide war over arable land and resources by 2000, and the earth would suffer de-population and deflation on scales never before imagined.

None of that happened.

When the Iraqis of Saddam Hussein retreated from Kuwait in 1991, they set the oil field on fire. Even a physicist with the standing of Carl Sagan predicted that those fires would burn for a century, their heavens-blackening clouds would obscure the sun and cool the earth into a nuclear winter, and, natch, we would have another ice age (just when the left was beginning to tout global warming, no less–I’m not sure how inconvenient that was).

Didn’t happen. The fires were out in 6 months.

The latest horror has been global warming, which has been debunked, but like lefty vampires of all kinds, refuses to recognize its own demise and keeps returning to feed. Al Gore just yesterday was moaning and groaning that not enough legislation has addressed global warming. Any legislation that has, like the Kyoto Treaty, applied somewhat in Europe, has proved worthless in preventing let alone lessening so-called green house pollutants–because people need jobs. want warm and cooled house, and like food on the dinner table. Although, the Weather Channel has orgasms about 2010 being the hottest summer ever on record, the fires in Russia and all, they’ve already forgotten that last winter was the coldest ever recorded in Central Park, and in the 1890s, there was a summer week of NYC temps in the 120′s of degrees, where horses keeled over in the streets.

Climate change is going to happen, but whether it is happening now or not is completely disputable, and we have not enough records or expertise to judge. It might have helped if the savants at the U. of East Anglia, who were keeping the raw date, hadn’t lost most of it somehow–because, as Dr. Phil Jones said in a UTube’d interview, he wasn’t very good at housekeeping.

For all the horror of the failure of the BP rig (none were  lost during Katrina, although Deep Horizon was not in place then, but it makes you wonder if you like conspiracies) and the 11 lives lost, oil tankers carry 2,000,000,000 barrels (3.2X1011) annually and lose at sea 16% of the oil, or over 700 metric tons (again, I don’t know the math equivalents here of cubic kilometers, barrels, and metric tons), but it’s a whole lot more than the 5 million barrels leaked in the Gulf.

Actually, oil leaks NATURALLY occur everywhere under earth’s own pressure. Tar called bitumen (or mumia) seeped out of the desert for thousands of years in the Middle East. When Alexander the Great paraded into Babylon, the conquered citizens lined the streets with bitumen and lit them in parallels of fire throughout the city. In an era when night lights consisted of the torch, such a display must have been dazzling.

These inexplicable eruptions so fascinated peoples of the ancient world that later Egyptian mummification used mumia in the process of preservation, and the mummies turned black as a result. Ergo, this petroleum stuff has been around forever, and we have survived as a species, although in the Middle Ages, physicians ordered mummy wrappings from Egypt and mixed them in elixirs for treatment of God knows what. How those disagnoses turned out is questionable.

But I digress.

1,000,000 barrels are estimated to seep into the Gulf of Mexico whether we ever drill there or not. The well(s) off Santa Barbara that have been moratorium’ed since 1969 sit on a dome that is slowly lifting the coastline and the city as it leaks 11 tons (another numerical accounting) of oil and gas bubblets DAILY, which could be pumped (rigs could be retrofitted within a year) by California to provide jobs, energy, and taxes for a state that is $19 billion in debt. To its credit, Santa Barbara itself has voted to restart its off-shore wells, but the Congressional prohibition from 1982 is still in place. (Also, Schwartzenegger has said he would not ever restart those drilling sites or explore for else–the more fool he.)

Unfortunately, for our resident evil in chief in DC, the coal mining disaster of last year and the BP failure of this spring/summer were not terror enough to drive a comprehensive krap and trade bill through both houses and cripple US industry and energy for a generation.

But if you watch the Weather Channel, it is still on the case of the Gulf oil problem and prospective global warming, although I notice it has not shut down and saved all those carbon emissions a cable channel must produce in televising its reports of nature’s misery and defeat on a 24/7 basis.

Drudge lists controversial mosque reps may be interested in talking up Gov. Paterson’s offer of state property (sticky issue there, too), but could break standoff between critics and Cordoba House intensity.

I don’t know if any one else has noticed, one of the better results of the downtown NYC mosque stories is that suddenly CBS and Drudge itself and other media are actually showing pix of the Twin Towers under attack and burning or collapsing.

Images of the Twin Towers on 9/11 are almost like porno in their obscurity and rareness of publication. The Dems. hate them. They feel every time 9/11 is brought to mind, the Reps. gain % points. The evident reason why last year, little o designated 9/11 reconciliation day or some such, in order to subvert the emotions and, heaven help us, even patriotism aroused by people viewing the most vicious attack on US soil since Pearl Harbor.

We should NEVER FORGET and the mosque dustup has at  least once again brought the pictures and emotions of that ignominious day back into memory, again. Semper Fi.

Although Federal Judge Bolton issued an injuction against the full implementation of AZ SB 1070, the famous state immigration law, parts of the law continue intact, and as of July 29, these parts will be in force (according to Human Events):

no more sanctuary cities–those polities (I believe Phoenix is one) will no longer be able to ignore immigration law or give criminals without legal immigration status a pass during arrests and processing;

no more failure to enforce the law–a $5,000 per day penalty can be invoked on those authorities who ignore their duties and do not prosecute AZ’s law; citizens can sue law enforcement on their own against any policy that restricts or abnegates the state’s law; State officials are required to report illegals;

businesses cannot hire illegals–and businesses are urged to use eVerify to validate a hiree’s immigration status; illegals may not wait on street corners to be picked up for day labor and employer’s cannot cruise the streets looking for hires; (a separate eVerify case has been upheld in District Court and by the Ninth Circuit and may go to the Supreme Ct.).

Pearce characterizes the illegal immigration problem as one of invasion and quotes the Constitution: “The United States shall guarantee that every State of this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion.” Estimates of the number of illegals in AZ range from CNN’s 500,000 to WorldNetDaily’s projection of 400,000, and some sources guess that 100,000 have left the state due to the law, whether fully implemented or not.

Doubtless, the US was founded on immigration, and until recently, entrance into America was often simply the ability to buy a ticket on a steamship. One Great-great-great-great uncle in my son’s family (on his father’s side) emigrated from Kadleburg, Germany, in 1857 and settled on a farm in Illinois. In 1862, with the support of two neighbors who swore Alexander Bercher was a decent person, he became a US citizen, immediately joined an IL militia, and died at Mursfreeboro, TN, to save the Union and free the slaves.

In Alexander Bercher’s time, the land west of the Mississippi was not primarily settled by European-descended homesteaders or businesses. Manifest Destiny had not developed and the nation seemed wide open and its opportunities endless. During the 20th C., a different attitude and approach circumscribed the earlier anything goes in immigration and various laws favored or restricted out-of-country settlement. The most infamous of these laws is maybe 1966′s Edward Kennedy “comprehensive” law that changed how the US addressed proportions of immigrants and set out to restrict white European entries while encouraging “third world” applications.

I have cousins in Scotland, who, to this day, cannot immigrate here. They can visit. They can get two-year visas for work/visiting/touring. But, they fall outside the Kennedy 1966 purview of preferred immigrants.

They could, were they so criminally inclined, enter Mexico or Canada and simply cross the border and stay. So many have followed that prescription that the total number of illegal immigrants is widely incompatible: the lower numbers (Census) are 7,000,000 and the highest (volunteer Minute Men) is 30,000,000. If the latter, then illegals, mostly from Central and South America, mostly unvetted, ill educated,  poor, and anti-assilimation are 10% of the US population. Now, there is a dreadful statistic.

Whereas, in previous waves of immigrants from the Irish of mid-19th Century to the Eastern Europeans post WW I, newcomers looked to America as a promised land, found residences, took jobs, started businesses, sent their children to school, learned the language, and applied for citizenship. The newer wave being experienced in the more recent decades apparently sees the US as a temporary refuge full of goodies and handouts but not a place to owe allegiance and permanent alliance.

Mexicans send approximately $14.5 billion out of the nation annually. These monies affect our foreign exchange and reflect income almost exclusively not taxed by US states or the federal government. I do not doubt that illegals “pay taxes” in that they pay sales tax or “sin” taxes if they buy cigarettes or liquors, but as people without official body count, known residences, and/or legal employment, they also do not pay the costs to the government that citizens are expected to contribute.

On the matter of social services, 28% of California’s prison sysem is made up of illegals, 98% of gangs and gang-associated crime and violence, while 15% of CA’s public schools system is comprised of children of illegals and cost $7.7 BILLION–or maybe as high as $9–a year (at least half of what illegals are sending out of country to Mexico) (California’s North Country Times). And California is a state that is $19 billion in debt.

While Harry Reid claims no Hispanic would vote Republican, he represents a state with 14.4% unemployment, a cratered housing market, and estimated quarter million illegals with 130,000 in the workforce, or 5.5% of NV employees. And now, what are they working at? (Las Vegas Sun)

A 2009 National Policy Institute says illegals MAYBE cost the US a total of $338.3 BILLION, because who really knows? Just as a comparison, the entire public school system of the US with local,  state, and federal costs totaled is approximately $500 BILLION a year. Illegals’ unfunded costs include medical, educational, criminal, residential, and economic penalties agains the entire rest of the nation. Illegals also get Social Security and Medicare, although supposedly they don’t.

Perhaps little o and minions circulated a trial balloon about legalizing or giving amnesty to all current illegals through executive order at the start of this year because the “elected” representatives in this administration are really not too fond of legislative process and would rather sign edicts like kings and tyrants. The Department of Homeland Security, at the prompting by a letter from Congress, now denies it is interested in amnesty by fiat, but says it might offer “relief” (what relief?) to those who have overstayed their visas. Do they even know who they are?

Years ago, in 1967, a German cousin of my ex-dead husband (we’ll call him Garrick Bercher, not his real name) applied for a visa to visit and work in the US. He needed 1) to have a sponsor (my mother-in-law) and a 2) job (secured by his cousin) and 3) a place to live (our apartment). MONTHLY, he had to report to immigration in Newark. When, after 6 months of our hosting him, Garrick wanted his own place and found an apartment in Belleville (where Uncle Junior on The Sopranos lived), he had to get PERMISSION from the INS to change his residence. Whatever happened to that system?

Years of neglect and deliberate subversion of our border security and immigration law, such as it is what with two Kennedy laws 1966 and 1986 (when amnesty was granted but NEVER AGAIN), and leftist obfuscation and allegations of racism and bigotry (the trump card of the lame-now finally losing its power) have resulted in a border overrun by criminals, traffickers in human slavery, drug cartels, even incursions by Mexican helicopters and federales, all of which the federal government (under both Bushs, Clinton, and the current occupier of the White House) has devised and perpetrated against the legal and lawful citizens of America who must carry the costs and bear the depredations of illegals, seemingly without our OWN relief, would that DHS could grant it.

Florida is now supposedly considering its own AZ SB 1070, only “stronger.” I am sure sure what that means, and I would not for the life of me, detain or torment people visiting here or legally here or their families and children, but each and every state should have its own AZ law. Let the little o sue and waste taxes and time. Unless we wish to be overrun with  maybe a 10% illegal and unassimilatable population, we have to protect ourselves, our history, and our culture.

Presidents back to FDR have opened the Boy Scouts of America Jamboree, as all presidents are honorary heads of the BOA.

This year (yesterday) the White House informed the BOA that obamanation’s schedule conflicts with the king-elect’s last-minute plans to visit New Jersey and make traffic that much worse–while he samples subs (Italian sandwiches)–before he heads to NYC to tape “The View,” where I already posted he’ll be asked such hardball questions as whether he likes Martha’s Vineyard or Maine better for vacations and if Michelle dresses for herself or for him.

We have a very thin factual background on little o, but my guess is he never was a scout and certainly couldn’t make the scout’s pledge in all seriousness, as he seems not to pledge allegiance to the the American flag when the “Star Spangled Banner” is played and the flag processes.