Now we have President Barack Obama resembling Pee Wee Herman riding his bike/bicycle, only thing missing is his air horn, perhaps we can now call Obama’s foreign policy, Pee Wee diplomacy.

Never trust a man that cries on cue and certainly never trust a hypocrite that assails President Obama throughout the 2008 campaign for trying to appear like the second coming of Jesus Christ and then leads his own 100,000 man rally in D.C. in which he throws out God references as if Beck is Elmer Gantry or Joel Osteen or some cult leader with wireless mic prop.

War69.com listened to Glenn Beck during the 2008 Presidential campaign, Beck did an artful job of covering the media adulation of Barack Obama, Beck cogently mocked the various theatrical presentations the Obama campaign staged during his speeches in which Obama was propped up to appear God like and all powerful.

So why on Earth would Glenn Beck stage a rally in D.C. called “Restoring Honor” and go out on stage speaking in generic preacher talk looking as if he is some whacked out evangelical cult leader. Michael Savage said it best, know your place, you are a talk show host, nothing more.

Here is Glenn Beck speaking with Ben Stein about Obama’s DNC acceptance speech in the summer of 2008 in which Stein references Hitler and Beck references Mussolini, questioning Obama speaking outdoors in front of 75,000 people:

STEIN: I want — I’m glad you brought up this Denver thing. I don’t like the idea of Senator Obama giving his acceptance speech in front of 75,000 wildly cheering people. That is not the way we do things in political parties in the United States of America. We have a contained number of people in an arena. Seventy-five-thousand people at an outdoor sports palace, well, that’s something the Fuehrer would have done. And I think whoever is advising Senator Obama to do this is bringing up all kinds of very unfortunate images from the past.

BECK: Well, yeah, you know what? I’ve been — I’ve been saying that we’re headed towards a Mussolini-style presidency forever.

STEIN: Well, I think –

BECK: I mean it’s crazy.

STEIN: It’s a scary situation. I mean, I think he has to recognize some bounds on his own ego. I understand politicians are politicians because they have ego deficit problems and they try to cure them by having lots of worship and adulation and adoration. But 75,000 people screaming at an outdoor arena, that’s just too much. It’s just — it’s scarily authoritarian.

BECK: Ben –

STEIN: It’s like Juan Peron –

BECK: It’s not –

STEIN: — and Evita.

BECK: It’s not gonna make a difference.

And yet as one internet blogger aptly wrote, we now have Preacher In Chief:

I watched the whole Glenn Beck speech waiting for the red-meat politics to flow, but it never came. Instead what he delivered felt like the world’s largest AA meeting. Beck confessed his sins and asked us all to surrender to God and “Divine Providence.” He promised to listen with an open heart to his political opponents.

Either he had some Paul on the road to Damascus conversion in the last few weeks or this was a Glenn Beck impersonator at the Lincoln Memorial.

Weird.

Glenn Beck went so far as to build a stage much like Obama did with his Greek Temple stage at the 2008 DNC acceptance speech.

In 2008 Glenn Beck correctly pointed out the creepy cult like way in which the Obama campaign was presenting itself, yet Glenn Beck appeared as a creepy cult like leader on August 28, 2010 in Washington D.C. leading his Restoring Honor rally.

Michael Savage is the only major media figure reporting that former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates believes that death panels are a good thing and we shouldn’t waste money on end of life care. Is Bill Gates a Fascist? First he endorses China’s right to censor its citizens and shows no corporate leadership in taking any stand against a country that abuses human rights. Now Bill Gates deems that end of life care is a waste of money. Gates from his billion dollar ivory tower says saving ten teacher jobs is worth more than extending a human life three months. Has Gates seen the horrible public schools in this country. But that is not the question, the real question is what will Gates do when he is facing a major sickness? I’m sure that the billionaire Gates will spare no expense to elongate his life. You might say well of course, he has the right to spend as much money as he wants to extend his life, he is rich. You are right but Gates has no right to tell a middle class hard working American that he must die in order to save worthless teacher jobs.

The arrogance and cluelessness knows no bounds. Here is Gates being interviewed by Walter Isaacson in Aspen, Colorado, declaring that end of life care is a waste of money and endorsing death panels:

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said Thursday that the U.S. must get medical costs under control and re-examine its funding priorities to prevent its education system from further erosion.

Gates spoke at a packed house at the Benedict Music Tent in an Aspen Ideas Festival event.

He said medical costs are dominating state and federal budgets in the form of Medicare and other payments. Fewer funds are available for education. Tuition is soaring at many public universities, pricing out many would-be students.

“The access that used to be available for the middle class is just rapidly going away,” Gates said. “That’s a trade-off that society is making because of very, very high medical costs.”

The country has demonstrated an unwillingness to question if “spending $1 million on the last three months” of a person’s life is a cost-effective direction, especially considering the same amount of money can keep 10 teachers employed. Gates called for the nation to do a better job of examining the benefits of costly end-of-life medical care.

“That’s called the death panel and you’re not supposed to have that discussion,” Gates said, taking a jab at critics of the health care bill that Congress considered earlier this year.

But it gets even better, Gates actually believes that we (the ignorant, schmuck, serf, American idiots) should sign up with HMO scum organization Kaiser Permanente, yeah, I’m sure Gates and his family are long standing members:

He advocated more participation in HMOs such as Kaiser Permanente, but acknowledged that would be difficult to dictate. “Forcing people into HMOs, I’m told, is politically difficult,” he said.

Later Bill Gates attacks medical specialists:

In a fast-moving and broad-ranging interview with Aspen Institute President and CEO Walter Isaacson, Gates criticized the medical system for having three times as many specialists as general practitioners. That is uniquely American, he said. Germany has a one-to-one ratio of specialists to general doctors and has created one of the highest-quality and lowest-cost health care systems in the developed world, according to Gates.

In America, numerous specialists take care of “little pieces of things” and there is no incentive to keep a person healthy with preventative care. “There’s now some artificial thing where the sicker the patient is, the more money you make,” Gates said.

Someone should remind Bill Gates that America/U.S.A. has the world’s best cancer survival rates:

The data show that cancer patients live longer in the United States than anywhere else on the globe.

Overall Cancer Survival Rates. According to the survey of cancer survival rates in Europe and the United States, published recently in Lancet Oncology : 1

American women have a 63 percent chance of living at least five years after a cancer diagnosis, compared to 56 percent for European women. [See Figure I.]

American men have a five-year survival rate of 66 percent — compared to only 47 percent for European men.

Among European countries, only Sweden has an overall survival rate for men of more than 60 percent.

For women, only three European countries (Sweden, Belgium and Switzerland) have an overall survival rate of more than 60 percent.

These figures reflect the care available to all Americans, not just those with private health coverage. Great Britain, known for its 50-year-old government-run, universal health care system, fares worse than the European average: British men have a five-year survival rate of only 45 percent; women, only 53 percent.

Update: That Bill Gates interview in which he endorses death panels was in July of 2010 at the Aspen Ideas Institute but it is not the first time the media has ignored Bill Gates deeming that death panels are necessary.

Here is Bill Gates being interviewed by CNN’s Fareed Zakaria in which he also endorses death panels and rips our use of medical specialists:

ZAKARIA: And the only thing that would really change it, isn’t it fair to say, is — you can call them what you will, but some kind of PANELS (meaning Death Panels) that look at procedures and say these ones will not be paid for by the insurance.

GATES: That’s right. If somebody is 83-years-old and wants a knee replacement, that would have to be paid for privately. Or if the effect of proton therapy is very modest in terms of the extra months you get to live, that would have to be paid for privately. Those are tough decisions.

European countries have done better at making those decisions. They have avoided the huge number of specialists that our system has that creates difficulties. Right now, it’s as rewarding for a company to invent a chemotherapy drug that costs $200,000 a year and only gains months of life for the people involved. That is as profitable as something that keeps people healthy. And so we have to reorder the priorities of the innovation system to get it working on our behalf, and that’s the only way I see us making a change.

Earlier in the interview Bill Gates said that Americans had to make “end of life tradeoffs”, War69.com loves Gates use of the Orwellian term “end of life tradeoffs”, let’s hope that when Gates is facing a tough medical decision he doesn’t make an end of life tradeoff for himself.

Mad Men: Season 4, Episode 2, “Christmas Comes But Once a Year”: Roger Sterling is forced by his advertising firm’s number one client, Lucky Strike, to humiliate himself and wear a Santa Claus suit at the office Christmas party, basically because Lee Gardner Jr. the President of Lucky Strike has become Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce’s master, if the firm loses Lucky Strike’s business, they would be devastated and might have to fold. Roger pleads with Lee to cut him a break, nope, Lee wants to prove who is in charge.

Flashback to June 2009: Barack Obama is forced to wear a ridiculous looking gold chain/necklace given to him by Saudi Arabian King Abdullah. You see it is the same situation, the weak President Barack Obama knew he would look like a fool but he was helpless, Saudi Arabia is our number one client, we buy most of our oil from the thugs but the King wanted to prove something to Obama, he wanted to humiliate Barack and show the world Saudi Arabia is our master.

Here is President Obama looking like the ultimate tool of Saudi Arabia.

Here is Roger Sterling with the scared look as Lee Gardner Jr. of Lucky Strike is asking him to play Santa Claus.

Here is the stare down as Lee Garner Jr. refuses Roger’s pleas to cut him a break. Donald Draper looks on.

Hasn’t President Barack Obama caused enough damage, now the man wants to end summer vacation for American students, and now he has enlisted Time Magazine’s help in pushing the propaganda that summer vacation is a relic from the past when children worked on the farm in the summer months. Who cares how summer vacations became the norm in our school system? It has become an American institution, a time when our students can engage in free and unstructured time. But free time is always dangerous to a government/media bureaucracy that is drunk with power.

Heck (yes why not throw Hitler’s name into the mix, of course War69.com does not think Obama is Hitler, only a PC media fool would make the simplistic statement that throwing out Hitler’s name crazily implies that the two leaders are one in the same, but sane individuals use the Hitler comparison to make illustrations of what one of the world’s worst tyrannical dictators believed in and how a current leader, drunk with power, utilizes similar tools to achieve their own gains).

So even Hitler was against summer vacations, he found the time useful to train the Hitler youth:

The system worked in two phases; first one would be notified that they would be attending the camp, then came the actual call. This was convenient for the youth that held jobs, because with advanced notice they would be able to apply for leave. Those who attended high school would only be drafted during summer vacation, and students at technical schools performed the training during semester breaks. If the training was avoided the youth service law was enforced. This law forced compliance. The experience was intended to produce a meaningful contribution to a boyís readiness for combat and the hard life of a soldier (Rempel 185).

Doesn’t Time magazine realize their time in the sun is over, it is not the 1940’s/1950’s when the magazine could be used as a propaganda vehicle for American administrations. Their weak argument is that poor students are made worse by the lack of schooling during the summer. Nice try Time, look at the quality of schools in poor areas, the crap teachers that can’t be fired because of the crap teacher unions, the single parent homes in which education is not positively emphasized. Those are the real reasons poor students continue to suffer as they get closer to becoming a high school dropout, giving them more crap teaching in the summer is not going to benefit them.

UPDATE: In another tribute to George Orwell’s book “1984″ Obama and Time Magazine continue to spread the myth/lie that summer school vacation was born because of the need for our children to work on the farms, call it the Agrarian School Vacation Myth:

David Von Drehle’s TIME cover story on summer learning loss is interesting as these things go, and gives attention to both a serious problem and some praiseworthy initiatives to address it. But this line just about drove me bonkers.

Long summer holidays are the legacy of our vanished agrarian past, when kids were needed in the fields during the growing season.
This is one of those things that “everyone knows” but is just not true. As my former colleague Elena Silva has written:

Time in school has been added and subtracted in many ways throughout our country’s history, although not always for obvious reasons. School schedules varied considerably by locality early in our country’s history with some schools open nearly year round and others open only intermittently. In large cities, long school calendars were not uncommon during the 19th century. In 1840, the school systems in Buffalo, Detroit, and Philadelphia were open between 251 and 260 days of the year. New York City schools were open nearly year round during that period, with only a three-week break in August. This break was gradually extended, mostly as a result of an emerging elite class of families who sought to escape the oppressive summer heat of the city and who advocated that children needed to “rest their minds.” By 1889, many cities had moved to observe the two-month summer holiday of July and August. Rural communities generally had the shortest calendars, designed to allow children to assist with family farm work, but they began to extend their school hours and calendars as the urban schools shortened theirs.

Here is President Obama and his Education Secretary Arne Duncan spreading the agrarian myth of summer vacation and making their dictatorial push to end summer vacation for American students in October of 2009, call it The War On Summer Vacation:

The San Francisco Chronicle reports that earlier this year, Obama was entertaining thoughts of extending school years, and school hours:

“Now, I know longer school days and school years are not wildly popular ideas. Not with Malia and Sasha, not in my family and probably not in yours. But the challenges of a new century demand more time in the classroom.”
In an interview with the AP, Education Secretary Arne Duncan says our calendar needs to be up to date with the times, considering it was made when most of the U.S. was working the fields. Not many students work the fields anymore.

He also says that longer days would mean better test scores. While many schools have seen major improvements in their test scores — partially due to longer class times — in my experience, standardized tests aren’t a very good barometer for anything except how well someone can take a test.

The Seattle Post Intelligencer defends summer vacation:

In response I must climb the sunny ramparts and raise a defense in the name of unstructured time and family values because I believe summer is still one of the best things we have going for us in this great land.

Once again here is the Obama lackey Arne Duncan:

“Our school calendar is based upon the agrarian economy and not too many of our kids are working the fields today,” Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in a recent interview with The Associated Press.

Again the real reason our public school system is in shambles: Low quality schools, low quality teachers, low teacher pay, inability to fire crap teachers because of bully teacher unions, single parent homes, education not lauded as a way out of the inner city (just listen to rap music to see what values inner city youth hold up as important), inner city kids have no access to elite private schools because of teacher unions blocking school vouchers with their bully lobbying tactics, and sometimes American students just don’t give a crap about education and changing the above won’t change them, some students will never change no matter what opportunities are presented to them.

Fix the things above, don’t take away summer vacation, but it all doesn’t matter, only two more years before Obama is replaced in 2012.

UPDATE: One more myth buster:

While it is true that kids in many other countries have more school days, it’s not true they all spend more time in school.

Kids in the U.S. spend more hours in school (1,146 instructional hours per year) than do kids in the Asian countries that persistently outscore the U.S. on math and science tests — Singapore (903), Taiwan (1,050), Japan (1,005) and Hong Kong (1,013). That is despite the fact that Taiwan, Japan and Hong Kong have longer school years (190 to 201 days) than does the U.S. (180 days).

Inception Movie: Did director Christopher Nolan plant the idea of President Barack Obama being born in Mombasa, Kenya into his elaborate screenplay? In the movie entitled “Inception”, Leonardo DiCaprio playing the dream thief named Dom Cobb, travels to Mombasa, Kenya to hire the master of stolen identities and supreme forger of documents, Eames, played by Tom Hardy:

In Mombasa, Cobb meets Eames (Tom Hardy), who forges documents in the real world and his own identity in dreams. Eames has his own thoughts on inception. It’s not impossible, he says, “just bloody difficult.”

War69.com is not saying that President Barack Obama was born in Mombasa, Kenya, nor is it saying that the film’s director, Christopher Nolan believes this to be true. But it is possible that Nolan planted this in the movie Inception as an in joke for the conspiracy crowd

On a side note, in the movie Inception, the character named Fischer visits his dying father in a dream, there were pharmaceutical drugs at his bedside with the name “Connolly”, was this another in joke being that the actor Kevin Connolly is a close friend of Leonardo DiCaprio?

China is now mirroring Nazi Germany by walling off, locking, and installing gates around low income neighborhoods in Beijing. China of course uses Orwellian language and calls it “Sealed Management”, no doubt NBC and Fox News led by China apologist Rupert Murdoch will not be covering this story:

The government calls it “sealed management.” China’s capital has started gating and locking some of its lower-income neighborhoods overnight, with police or security checking identification papers around the clock, in a throwback to an older style of control.
It’s Beijing’s latest effort to reduce rising crime often blamed on the millions of rural Chinese migrating to cities for work. The capital’s Communist Party secretary wants the approach promoted citywide. But some state media and experts say the move not only looks bad but imposes another layer of control on the already stigmatized, vulnerable migrants.
So far, gates have sealed off 16 villages in the sprawling southern suburbs, where migrants are attracted to cheaper rents and in some villages outnumber permanent residents 10 to one.

But forget that NBC/Fox News and the majority of the government/media complex won’t report on this story in fear of pissing off China and their money, the real shock is that this started in 2008 during the Beijing Olympics, yet you didn’t hear a peep about it, the Olympics were making too much money for the NBC and Fox News pigs of the world:

“Sealed management” was born in the village of Laosanyu during the Beijing Olympics in 2008, when the government was eager to control its migrant population. The village used it again during the sensitive 60th anniversary of Communist China last year. Officials then reported the idea to township officials, who decided to make the practice permanent this year.

War69.com would like the money hungry Steve Jobs to live in one of these gated ghettos for one year. Don’t worry Stevie, you’ll be allowed to bring another American, the China apologist Tom Friedman, since Tommy believes that China does everything right, he won’t have a problem seeing how wonderful ghetto life is in wonderful 2010 China. After all, without the migrant workers China wouldn’t be able to produce such cheap goods for the world and Steve Jobs would not be able to suck every dollar out of the American public by overpricing Ipods and Macbooks.

Let’s see if Brian Williams gives one second to this story on the Nightly NBC News

UPDATE: No mention from Brian Williams on the Nightly News, another sad part of the article is this banner the Chinese Communist thugs place at the gates of the Sealed Management Prisons:

“Closing Up The Village Benefits Everyone,” read one banner which was put up when the first, permanent gated village was introduced in April.

China once again taking a page from Nazi Germany, their slogan was Work Makes One Free

Breaking news: A press conference has been announced for July 8, 2010 upon which the New York Knicks will welcome Lebron James and Amare Stoudemire to Madison Square Garden. War69.com has learned from exclusive sources that the Knicks are on the verge of shocking the basketball world. Both James and Stoudemire have agreed in principle to max contracts with the Knickerbockers instantly transforming them into Eastern conference contenders. War69.com will keep the readers informed as more developments are received.

UPDATE: One unnamed NBA executive is saying the above is a done deal while another unnamed NBA executive is saying that it will be James/Bosh.

Breaking news: A press conference has been announced for July 14, 2010 upon which the New York Knicks will welcome Lebron James and Chris Bosh to Madison Square Garden. War69.com has learned from exclusive sources that the Knicks are on the verge of shocking the basketball world. Both James and Bosh have agreed in principle to max contracts with the Knickerbockers instantly transforming them into Eastern conference contenders. War69.com will keep the readers informed as more developments are received.

For the record War69.com believes that General David Petraeus should run for President, he has an impeccable record and would probably defeat Obama in 2012 with ease, sadly though he should stay out of the Army infomercial propaganda business because these days the pseudo news stories are becoming so easy to spot.

To begin, weren’t you truth meter alarm bells going off when you first read and heard about this very positive story on Afghanistan. First we had Cheney and Wolfowitz telling us the oil money would fund the Iraq war, now we wake up on Monday morning and discover that Afghanistan will become the mining jewel of the world, highly valued minerals will flow out of the country at the same rate oil flows out of Saudi Arabia, well it certainly got the attention of the New York Times readers, as of Tuesday morning it still ranks #1 as the most emailed article.

War69.com was laughing too much at this article, yes the many options that we now have at our disposal renders stories like this less effective, much to the chagrin of the Obama administration, yet the mainstream media still has power as this story was trumpeted all over the news wires, the elite newspapers, the radio news breaks, PBS, NPR, you name it and they were heralding this story.

War69.com wondered, could it really be true that this is a new story, that nobody knew a very mountainous country had a vast mineral supply. Are we to believe that geologists just got around to Afghanistan in 2010? I think not, a two second Google search produced this conference from 2007:

Thursday, November 08, 2007
WASHINGTON, D.C. - You are invited to attend an event co-hosted by The Embassy of Afghanistan and the Afghan-American Chamber of Commerce where the U.S. Geological Survey will unveil a 2007 preliminary assessment of non-fuel mineral resources of Afghanistan. The assessment will provide policymakers and potential private investors with valuable new information on the identity, location and quantity of undiscovered non-fuel mineral resources, such as copper, iron ore, colored stones and gemstones.

The USGS was commissioned by the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to develop a preliminary assessment of Afghanistan’s non-fuel mineral resources. USGS scientists worked cooperatively with the Afghanistan Geological Survey of the Afghanistan Ministry of Mines, between 2004 and 2007, to compile existing information about known mineral deposits and evaluate the possible occurrence of undiscovered deposits of non-fuel mineral resources.

Even the Russians got in on the new news that really is old news story in 2002:

Russia Ready To Share Data On Afghanistan’s Mineral Wealth

Here is more information from 2007:

Afghanistan has significant amounts of undiscovered non-fuel mineral resources according to the U.S. Geological Survey’s 2007 assessment, unveiled today at the 3rd annual U.S.-Afghan Business Matchmaking Conference organized by the Afghan-American Chamber of Commerce in Washington, D.C.

fghanistan’s natural resources have a quality comparable to the highest-class minerals of the entire region,” said Afghanistan’s Ambassador to the United States Said T. Jawad. “We are grateful to the efforts of the USGS and our Ministry of Mines in allowing global investors an opportunity to receive the latest information on their assessment for more informed business decisions.”

The majority of information on Afghanistan’s mineral resources was produced between the early 1950s and about 1985. However, during the intermittent conflict over the next two decades, much of that data was hidden and protected by Afghan scientists. After 2001, this valuable data was returned to the Afghan government, and the USGS gathered new data and identified additional information in locations outside of Afghanistan.

Now let’s forget the fact that this is old news and the Army/Obama administration is desperate to counter all of the negative news coming out of Afghanistan. The key questions are how are you going to get the minerals out of the ground, you can’t even kill off Al-Qaeda, you can’t defeat the Taliban, yet a mining company is going to have enough security to get these precious minerals? The other question is that none of this wealth will fund our war effort, it will go to the dirty/corrupt Karzai government or fund more terrorist/Taliban/Al Qaeda operations.

But the kicker to the NY Times article has to be David Petraeus, a man that never uses strong over the top language, he is always measured even when he was speaking of positive results during the time that the surge was working in Iraq, but listen to the salesman on this mineral story:

“There is stunning potential here,” Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander of the United States Central Command, said in an interview on Saturday. “There are a lot of ifs, of course, but I think potentially it is hugely significant.”

“stunning potential” is Petraeus selling sham wows, or is it shamwows, or Dutch tulip bulbs, or mortgages with no money down. The budget must be getting low in the Army psy-ops department because that is one bad sell job.

UPDATE: How old is this story, try the 1950’s via this 1980 Sarasota Herald Tribune article:

In the late 1950’s, high quality, large-scale aerial photographs and topographic maps were produced for geologic exploration of the southern three-fourths of the country by an American group and the northern quarter by the Russians.

Oil and gas drilling by the Russian was successful in the north in the late 1950’s.

Millions of rubles then were poured into geological exploration and good deposits of coal, sulphur, iron ore, chrome, gold, silver, beryllium, copper, lead-zinc, and barite were discovered.

The chrome, copper and iron ore already discovered in Afghanistan recently have been listed as “world class”‘ deposits by a Canadian consulting firm.