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  • Chris Christie

    I’m so sick of seeing lardbucket Chris Christie.  The only reason he’s being flaunted as some kind of hero by the liberal media is because he endorsed Obama, and the media is Obama’s voluntary lackey.  They pick up on anything they can to make that man look good, as if they were pagan worshippers trying to appease their god through acts of service.  It’s disgusting.  Oh yes, also because he has complained about Congressional Republicans.

    There is nothing good or admirable about this man.  In fact, I have the same level of respect for him that I do for obese people in 3rd world countries.  There is just something wrong about being obese in a country where the majority of people are skeletons, or close to it.  This one time I was on an airplane and these two fat African women came to sit on the other side of me (I was on the end).  Their bodies were too large to be contained in one seat (kind of like Chris Christie), so what happened is that the one I was next to was oozing into my seat, and I was only narrowly able to avoid physical contact by moving as far to the other side of my seat as possible and turning a little.  It was so gross.  They should charge those people double.

    But I digress, the thing is, if he’s so concerned about people in his state starving a little and not having everything they need, then he should 1) eat less and 2) give a little of his own resources to help them.  I’m sure he’s living nice and comfortable in spite of all the hardship that the normal people are facing.  But you won’t see him do that, because politicians are all about giving other people’s resources. 

    PS: I wonder if Chris Christie ate the Twinkies whole, or if he just sucked the cream filling out of them and reached for another…

  • Yahoo Censorship

    So I have been leaving comments on Yahoo for years, and apparently they have some automatic censorship that occurs there.  Whenever one types the F-bomb it comes out as @#$%(), or something like that.  Not that I have ever typed that before, but I have observed the different ways that people try to get around it, and I have been able to infer what the original words were due to context clues.  Now there are other “curse words” which are not censored, and then apparently there are some words which are not considered dirty but are still censored.

    For example, one time I tried to refer to Boehner as “Boner,” and Yahoo automatically replaced it with gobillygork.  Seriously?  Boner?  So they can put up articles with pictures of men making out with men, and Lady Gaga doing her weirdness, and they can talk about sex and all sorts of other things but they are going to blank out boner?  Why?  Now it is true that traditionally “boner” refers to an erection, but it has also come to be used to be used as a synonym for idiot or stupid person.  But, even if I meant it in the original sense, why sensor it?  That makes no kind of sense, and one of the reasons there are so many synonyms for sexual things is because people find it awkward to express certain things sometimes.

    A comment I left yesterday also got censored.  I was leaving a comment about some anti-Semitic politician or appointee (can’t remember which), and all I said was that the neo-nazis would be pleased.  I went back to check the ratings and comments on my comment and Yahoo had changed it to neo@&*()#*, or something like that.  So now they are censoring the term Nazi?  Things are looking more like Soviet Russia every day.

    “No comrade, you can’t say that.”

    “But what about for purposes of comparison and analogy?”

    “No comrade.”

    “But we are talking about history and stuff that actually happened.”

    “No comrade, there is no history except for what government says there is.  Now you shut up or we send you to goolag and you mine coal until teeth fall out.”

    I don’t care whose feelings get hurt, or whose delicate sensibilities they think they are protecting.  Sensoring words like that only mitigates the exchange of information.  But that’s what it’s really all about for these people.  They don’t want you to know anymore than they think is safe (for their leaders) for you to know.  This is like a little dose of “1984″ with “badspeak” and people working to reduce the amount of words that are used. 

     

  • Stupidity

    Hopes for the future:

    So according to a poll I saw on Yahoo, most people in the US have negative views about the future, and expect things to get worse.  People expect their children to have a lower standard of living and less opportunities.  I would expect the same for my kids, but I’m close enough to the bottom that things could go either way.  That being said, according to the same polls people had a high opinion of Obama.  Of course, since Yahoo and the polling agencies are both run by liberals the possibility of falsified data and biased data gathering cannot be discounted, but just in case they have not been I am going to say this:

    Word to idiots, Obama and his party are a huge part of the reason why things are getting worse, not better.  This just goes to show that the average person is incapable of thinking critically or for themselves.  Most people are capable of recognizing when things are bad, but incapable of stringing together causes and effects.  So we have people turning to the problem for the solution.  If people are too lazy to understand basic economics, or are more interested in voting with their body parts, then those people are not intellectually qualified to vote.  Instead of having campaigns to get people to vote we should start some campaigns to get people not to vote.

    Idiot Russian arrested in Egypt:

    Andrei Pshenichnikov is a Russian immigrant to Israel, who settled there and even served in the IDF.  AP is a “Palestinian”/Fakeistinian sympathizer.  AP decided that he wanted to go to Gaza and live with the durka durkas there.  Of course, Israeli citizens are not allowed to just go to Gaza, so this guy decided to go to Egypt and from there go to Gaza.  On his way to Egypt he gets detained by the Israeli authorities who take both his Russian and his Israeli passport.  But later on he goes to Egypt anyways, and gets arrested while he’s there.

    I really hope that no one tries to expedite this man.  He is probably getting his teeth knocked out in a concrete room by some guy named Muhammad right now.  Yes I know, I’m being mean, but this guy put himself in that situation.  This is a perfect opportunity for this man to learn what kind of people the Muslims are.  No matter how much an infidel loves the Muslims, the Muslim is never going to love an infidel. 

    Israel really needs to be careful about accepting immigrants from Russia.  The Jewish heritage of the Russian immigrants is negigable at best.  Pschenichikov is not a Jewish name.  In the past there was a group of Asiatic barbarians in Russia called the Khazars who decided to convert to Judaism on a whim, basically because they thought monotheism was cool and wanted to join the club.  As a result we cannot be sure whether Russian “Jews” are really Jewish.  Their Jewishness is probably about as negligable as that of the Ethiopian “Jews” who are physically more negroid than the Semitic speaking Habasha people.  Some of those Russian immigrants are even white supremacists, such as those idiots a few years ago who went around attacking Orthodox Jews and spray painting swasticas in Israel.  Bunch of idiots.  Probably most of them just go there to freeload, and it’s probably the Labor Party or some other left wing party that lets them come in.  If Israel is so desperate for manpower they might consider letting in some American Christian Conservatives, who are all major Israel supporters and who believe in the Zionist cause.

    For example, if they let me in they wouldn’t have to ask me to join the IDF more than once, and I wouldn’t cause them any trouble once I got there, and I certainly wouldn’t sympathize with the durka durkas on any level.

  • Fiscal Cliff “Deal”

    I just have one question, where is Captain Obvious when you need him?  Can someone please send Captain Obvious to Washington DC? 

    I’m really tired of these jokers wrecking our country, economy, and way of life, and then turning around saying that it’s for the best.  Word to idiots, when you’re struggling economically you have to CUT SPENDING.

    So supposedly the Republicans and Democrats have struck some kind of deal over the “fiscal cliff.”  I almost dread to see what it was.  I have been disappointed with the Republicans on a mass scale recently.  Not only have the failed to in any way restrain or remove Obama, but they don’t even bother to resist him.  It’s all just a show, to make it look like they are actually doing something there, when really all they are doing is keeping a seat warm at tax payer expense.  Any show of resistence they put up is just that, a show.  It’s a sham.  They didn’t even try to win the presidential election in 2008, and they didn’t try that much harder in 2012.  Even with the media campaigning for Barack Osama and all the election fraud and ballot stuffing they still should have been able to nail him by a landslide.  No president has ever done more impeachable things than Obama.  They never should have let the birth certificate go, or Obamacare, or the various undeclared wars, including the war we are about to get in over in Syria.

    But I digress, we all know that the Democrats only wanted to keep the tax cuts to people with lower wages, FOR NOW, but apparently there were increases in government spending that were going to expire and the Dems have campaigned to keep those.  According to the article I read economic “experts” have stated that a decrease in government spending would hurt the economy during a recession.  Word to dumb twats, government spending is a drain on the economy not a boost.  If Washington were serious about fixing the economy they would massively slash spending and let that money actually STAY in the economy.  Government does not generate wealth, and putting the government further into debt doesn’t help anything.  Increased government spending during an economic recession means that inflation is going to happen. 

    I don’t understand this stupidity-insanity combination.  Who is it that seriously thinks you can spend your way out of debt and does that on a personal level?  When you’re in debt you don’t increase spending, you cut back.  I don’t know why these morons can’t understand that, UNLESS they actually do understand and are deliberately trying to wreck the economy here, because that is what they are doing.  Maybe that is what they are doing in order to fully institute communism, because Obama’s guy John Holdren was recorded saying that one of their goals was to de-develop America, and one of the best ways to turn a good country into a 3rd world craphole is to destroy the economy. People need to wake up and start recognizing the Democrats for the traitors and subversives that they are. They don’t have an ounce of loyalty to the US, they all like that internationalism/globalist filth, and of course the UN.

    The Republicans aren’t that much better. Can we please get an alternative to the Republican party? Worthless good for nothing sell outs they are. If I were in charge of the Republicans I would have told Obama and those Commiecrats that there wasn’t going to be any God forsaken deal. NO DEAL!  I would have told those villains that we keep all the tax cuts or nothing.  You don’t negotiate with terrorists and enemies who are out to destroy your culture, freedom, and way of life.  In fact, I would not have stopped there. I would have also demanded that we keep the tax cuts but let all of the spending cuts take effect, because basic common sense level reasoning says that when you are in debt you DON’T SPEND MONEY. 

    I know I’m tying in all caps a lot for this entry, but so many people are blind to the obvious, and I don’t know how to make it more apparant.

    Alright, I’m off to go try to do something that will chill me out for a while. I can only take so much of those traiterous idiots and their brown nosing media lackeys.

    Happy New Years guys.

     

     

    Source: http://news.msn.com/politics/update-white-house-gop-reach-a-deal-on-the-fiscal-cliff

  • Crackdown on Freedom of Speech

    http://start.lenovo.com/tv/3/player/vendor/Zazoom%2C%20LLC/player/fiveminute/content/christmas/asset/gnrc_18101153/

    So apparently a man was arrested for telling kids that there was no such thing as Santaclause.  Of all the stupid things to get arrested for.  Of course, they wrote it up as disorderly conduct, but the conduct was yelling out that there is no Santaclause in a public place.  I’m sure there will be lots of sensitive people and liberals who think this is a good thing, but this is actually a horribly bad thing.

    I cannot overstress that it is not the role of government to protect anyone’s feelings.  I don’t care who gets their feelings hurt.  My freedom of speech does not end where your feelings begin.  Newsflash: There is no such thing as Santaclause.  There was a Saint Nick at some point in time, but he died a long time ago, and the modern commercial construction of Santaclause is completely false. 

    “Oh but the kids feelings will get hurt!  They will get their hopes crushed!”  So what?  When were you planning on telling them that there was no Santa and that you lied to them for years?  Would they get their feelings hurt then?  How much credibility do you think you will have with your kids after having come out as a liar to them?  I don’t understand why anyone lies to their kids about Santa in the first place.  It seems absolutely sinister to lie to your children about anything for years.  Why would you want to convince your children to believe in something that you know for a fact to be false, and how can you expect to still have credibility with them after having outed yourself as a liar.  Great job.  I don’t understand it at all, especially coming from Christian parents.  The Bible equates lying with witchcraft, and says consistently not to lie.  “Thou shalt not lie” does not mean, “Thou shalt not lie to anyone except for your kids because you think it’s cute to have them believe in Santa or the Easter bunny, or whatever mythical commercial dieties your society may have created to exploit your wallet.”  Liars are also going to be among the first people into Hell.  When/if I have my own kids I would be terrified to lie to them deliberately for so many years.  I don’t know how people can do it.

    But I digress.  It doesn’t matter whose feelings get hurt.  Freedom of speech means that you can err any opinion or belief without having the state come down on you.  I’m so sick of this sensitivity nonsense which is being used as a means to neuter us and muzzle us.  I can tell you what is at the heart of all of these attacks on free speech, it is a way to silence criticism of the state.  First they start with small things, like some guy hurting a kid’s feelings, or some guy hurting someone else’s feelings and linking the hurt feelings to a suicide.  Then they work their way up to criticism of state policies, politicians, and particular ideologies.  You can kill a frog by boiling it to death slowly.  That is what they are doing with us.

    All the liberals who go along with this and encourage this sort of heavy handed statism are useful idiots.  The most important freedom we have is the freedom of speech, and bound up in that is freedom of religion, debate, and knowledge.  Learn to be less sensitive, you will have more peace in life that way.  The useful idiot of today is the slave of tomorrow.

  • Obama uses tragedy

    Nice to see Obama using another tragedy to push his left wing anti-American agenda.  I have a better solution: Let all the teachers bring guns to work, and let them wear the guns in class if they want, just like the wild wild west.  That’s the American way, not surrendering more freedom to an already bloated and overly invasive government.

    He’s talking about how he has to “change” America.  It really burns my rubber.  Disgusting subversive Kenyan Muslim village idiot.  Let’s change it back.  All this change is in the wrong direction, all aimed at neutering us.  Worthless man hasn’t had to work a day in his life.

    I hate everything this man stands for.  I don’t buy into any of his tears and weaping.  That man is the most disgusting political opportunist ever.  He is so fake, and it should be obvious.  Also, since when is it considered a good thing for any leader to weap and cry like a little girl?  I don’t want to see a grown man crying, it does not make him more relatable to me on any level.  It just makes him look like either a sissy or a faker, and neither one is any good.  If a man can’t control himself he certainly can’t be expected to control anything else.

    But I still think it’s all fake.  I’m only harping on it because I don’t know what kind of people all that crying and weaping bullcrap appeals to. 

    Anyways this is serious, again we see another attack on our freedom from this man.  It is absolutely disgusting that he would use a tragedy like this to advance a political agenda, especially one which is antithetical to our values and freedom. 

    “You just want there to be more shooters,” some leftist might say.  No way, but what everyone needs to understand is that if more people are armed there will be LESS incidences of shooting.  I know this is hard for the average leftist to understand, but let’s say that everyone is armed and some moron decides he wants to kill a few people.  He is going to get off far fewer shots before he is blown to pieces than he would shooting at a bunch of unarmed victims.  Giving away more freedom to big daddy government means 1) you are less capable of defending yourself, which means that the criminals can get away with more and 2) when martial law comes then there can be no popular uprising against it.  I said WHEN not IF.  And THAT is what all that gun control campaigning is really about.

  • Shootings

    So there was another random shooting, this time in Oregon.  There are two possibilities here 1) the amount of random shooting is on the rise, or 2) the coverage of such shootings is on the increase in order to promote gun control.

    I tend to believe that both factors are at play here.  Regarding gun control, I believe what we need is more guns and not less.  If we had a more traditional culture, closer to the original state of the US and colonial America, then many people would be carrying guns with them at all times.  Under such circumstances some guy that wants to randomly mow down a lot of people would perhaps get off one shot, maybe two, and then he would be shot himself by a bystander, perhaps riddled with bullets.  That is the answer, not more gun control.  What made America strong is the old practices and culture that used to be here, not all the socialism and statism which have been added in over time, mostly in the late 20th century.  Since the addition of those items we have seen more failure and decline than ever before.

    Now regarding the frequency of the shootings, I can definitely believe that they are on the rise.  The culture and values have changed, so the majority of people no longer place objective value on human life or personal freedom.  But the fact that this fellow killed himself in the end is very telling, and to me it indicates that suicide was his end goal, and the lashing out/mass murder was a stop on the way to that goal.

    My grandparents lived through the depression.  My grandmother told me that during the Great Depression it was very common for men to kill themselves.  There were many who shot themselves, and others who simply jumped off the tops of tall buildings.  Why?

    You have to understand male psychology, which the mainstream media, politicians, academia, and mainstream psychological profession is CONTINUALLY trying to deny and repress.  Men are validated by their accomplishments and self sufficiency.  Those are the things that men primarily draw their self esteem from, while for women horizontal relationships play much more of a role.  Men don’t care as much about being loved or well liked, or having lots of people to talk to and hang out with as they do about being able to survive on their own, and to provide, and to accumulate at least a little bit of wealth.  While there is some validation that can come from horizontal relationships, they are not at the core of it.  A man can have thousands of friends, and he can be in a relationship with the nicest and most attractive woman in the world, but if he can’t get a job or work then he is still going to feel 100% worthless.  Even under those circumstances a man might still consider killing himself, or at the very least long for death.

    The worst thing for a man is to feel useless and/or helpless.  A man doesn’t want to live off of someone else like some kind of child or invalid, he wants to work and be free.  Living off of handouts is psychologically and emotionally crippling for a man.

    “Oh but there are so many men on welfare, and they like it, and we need to help them…”  Yes there are so many men living off of welfare, and no they are not happy.  Look at how much criminal activity they engage in, and check their self esteem level.  A lot of men have been trained to accept dependence on some level, but it doesn’t follow that they are happy, they just don’t think they can do anything to help themselves anymore, and they have a high level of contempt for life.  If you want to help them then 1) Stop trying to make men into women, and 2) Stop trying to destroy the economy.  We need more jobs not more handouts.

    Why is the male unemployment rate higher than the female unemployment rate?  That’s backwards and unacceptable.  I think that as the economy continues to deteriorate we will see more shootings, and more male suicide. 

    I don’t understand or condone the shootings, but my guess is that the shootings are a result of undirected anger stemming from a lack of opportunity.  My guess.  I don’t think the majority of these shootings are Columbine type incidents resulting from people getting picked on too much or any such rot.  In any case, personal hardship does not justify mass murder. There are plenty of ways to take yourself out without bringing others with you.

    As for the suicide, I can definitely understand that.  When a man is convinced that he has no future and that all of his best efforts are worthless then the only thing he really has to look forward to is death.  I have also suffered as a result of the economic decline.  We no longer have an environment of abundant opportunities, where if you work hard enough you can rise to the apex of your abilities and become successful.  Things have changed.  A lot of people will work hard and remain undermployed for their entire lives, just barely getting by rather than succeeding.  This is the new economy that the left has worked hard to create. 

    More men will kill themselves, and many will do so in spite of the fact that they have wives and children.  I’m not trying to be unnecessarily grim, but people need to wake up and realize what is going on and why it is happening, rather than listening to the mainstream/leftist propaganda which wants you to think that up is down and down is up. 

    I went through school twice, and the end result was that I worked a variety of odd jobs well below the level of my education before I found one that would allow me to GET BY.  That being said, I never killed myself, and I don’t reccomend suicide, but that is mainly because of my religious beliefs.  I always assumed that if I killed myself I would end up in Hell.  Every now and again if I burn myself or get sick for some time I think about Hell.  As awful as that pain is I can’t help thinking how much worse it would be if it were all over my body, and if there were never going to be an end to it.  That is something that should be avoided at all costs.  Even if I wasn’t sure about Hell, I would still hesitate with suicide because death is generally irreversable, and once dead, if you don’t like your destination then there is nothing you can do to reverse your situation.  So I figured I would just take it and see what I could do, and in the meantime avoid being a parasite on anyone else because parasitism is immoral, unless you are a child too young to take care of yourself.

    But not everyone shares my belief in Hell or respect for human life. The culture, values, and beliefs of the majority of the US have changed drastically. But, instead of more government oversight, Big Brother, gun control, and psychological warfare on men, what I would like to see is a realistic approach to the issues. Enough trying to make men into women. Enough pretending that being a man or a woman is a lifestyle choice while sexual orientation is not. Enough with the culture of handouts and dependency. Enough is enough already.

    Men need jobs, not handouts.

     

  • Nukes

    North Korea has a nuke, and Iran has a nuke.  I wonder who is going to try to nuke us first?  NK is now working on long range capabilities.  Why?  Does anyone care to venture a guess?  Is anyone stupid enough to not know why?  Is anyone stupid enough to think that the number one target is anything other than the US?

    But of course, no one is going to nuke us right?  We are all one big happy family right?  After all, Obama is working to reduce our nuclear stockpile, so it’s only a matter of time before everyone else turns in their nukes for flowers, and comes to bask in the warm light of Obama.  Deep down inside no one really wants to hurt us right?  All we have to do is talk nice to them, and love them, and give them lots of hugs, and sit down and watch Barney and Friends while drinking green tea on borrowed money from China right? 

    Why would North Korea want to develop a long range nuke in the post-Obama world?  It’s a world where everyone is nice (except for those mean racist conservatives), and no one wants to hurt each other because Obama says not too.  Big daddy Obama will make everything safe and good.

    And even if BDO is wrong, then there is still a bright side to this (a very bright one).  Anyone who is struggling to lose weight doesn’t have to worry about anthing else.  It will all melt right off, along with our eyes, skin, muscle tissue, and everything else, and your brittle charred skull is falling to the ground where it will shatter into a thousand pieces.  If you’re in the epicenter it’s even quicker, just POOF and then your’re gone.  That’s right, one second you’re doing your thing, and in the next second you’re in whatever afterlife you were headed for, and there you are before you even knew what hit you.

    If we get nuked I’m blaming all you Obama-zombies, assuming I survive.

    http://news.yahoo.com/n-korea-launches-long-range-missile-015602333–abc-news-topstories.html

  • Liberalism is a Sickness

    Today I am terribly sick, more sick than I have been in the last 12 or so years, even factoring in the sickness I got when I was in India.  I will not go into all the particulars of my present affliction, but I will say that I have done something a few minutes ago that I have not done in the last 10 or 12 years, I threw up as a result of being sick.  It was a most unpleasant experience, and not just because of the pain, but primarily because of the lack of control.  Once the process started, there was absolutely nothing I could go to stop it.  It happened again and again.  It is a terrifying thing to lose control over one’s body.  When this happened I felt more like a passenger in a body, just along for the ride, rather than a man with a physical body.

    I began to think of how similar my affliction on an individual level was to the sickness that infects our country on a national level.  We have lost control of our country, and it is a frightening thing.  We have become less of a people with a country, and more of a people in a country that is increasingly less and less of a place we can recognize.  We are being taken for a ride.
    It suffices to say that I will not be lifting weights today, or running, or doing and sort of physical activity.  As long as I have this sickness I will be at less than my full strength, and I will be unable to take in any nutrients or engage in any activities that will make me stronger.  The same goes for our country.  As long as this disease of internationalism, political correctness, and socialism ravages our country it will not be at it’s full strength, and will only grow progressively weaker.  We will eventually spasm to death if this trend is not stopped.
  • I hope Assad wins

    I really hope Assad wins the conflict in Syria and smashes all the rebels.  I am really disgusted with how Obama and other left wing governments are trying to manufactor a reason to invade that country.  This is beyond stupid.  First of all, Syria has jack all to do with us.  Second, I don’t believe that Syria will be better off without Assad.  The rebels are all Islamists, just like in Egypt, and Libya, and every other one of those wackjob countries in durka durka land. 

    The rebels are not fighting for freedom, they are fighting for Islam.  They want to have an Islamofascist country where Christians get killed, and where women have to cover everything but their eyes and hands, and where they can’t work or drive.  The best sort of government any Middle Eastern country can hope for, aside from Israel, is a secular dictatorship.  The only people in those Muslim countries who want Democracy are the Christian minorities, but whenever the secular dictators get ousted then the Islamofascists come in and start killing the Christians.  I recently saw an article saying that women were being abused in Egypt.  I didn’t read the article, but of course women are being abused in Egypt.  Everyone with a functioning brain and any level of awareness knows what kind of people those people are, and should not be surprised by such things. 

    Obama should have supported Mubarrak, or at least stayed out of the conflict there.  I don’t care how many idiots are getting run over by tanks while they protest for more Islam.  I don’t care whether or not Assad uses gas on those idiot rebels.  Now we have a savage medieval child molesting wife beating terrorist regime in charge of Egypt.  If Obama has his way the same will exist in Syria. 

    Let Assad use gas on them.  The man has to do what the man has to do.  I’m sure that if the Islamofascists were in charge and there was a secular revolution then the Muslims would not hesitate to use gas and any other weapons at their disposal on them.  If the Islamofascists take over then things are going to be much worse for Christians and women in Syria, and much worse for Israel.  In fact, I think Obama might be trying to surround Israel with hyper-Islamic regimes on purpose.  It seems that the man loves his Islam.  The Iranian Green Revolution is the only major revolution in the Middle East that Obama did not support, and it also happens to have been the only secular revolution in that whole bloody region.  A free and/or secular Iran would be a valuable ally, and it would eliminate the threat of a nuclear Islamic Iran.  Now we have a nuclear Islamic Iran.  Obama didn’t do anything to help the Iranian people, he didn’t even mention one word about their revolution, but in the meantime he gives weapons to these animals in Syria.

    I wouldn’t be surprised if Obama or one of those left wing governments from Europe decided drop some gas bombs in Syria and then blame it on Assad as a pretext for invasion. 

    I really want Assad to win.  We don’t need to be sending any troops over there or bomb those people.  Let them be.  Also, all those liberals who have both anti-war bumper stickers and Obama bumper stickers on their cars need to take off either one or the other.  The man is at least as big of a warmonger on Bush, and he’s going to war on far more shakey grounds than Bush ever did.