Sen. Boehner eviscerates Pelosi and Reid

In my opinion, House debates Friday regarding Pres. Obama and the War Powers Act separated speakers from the mediocre to the average to the brilliant! Palace intrigue at its best. The whole process was literally breathtaking and I found myself applauding salient points on both sides of the debates.

The way I saw the debates was through lens revealing the logical and progressive stages of the Boehner resolution vs. the not well thought out “got’cha” aspirations of the Rep. Dennis Kucinich resolution.

Mr. Kucinich had to have spoken with both Pelosi and Reid regarding his resolution who did not alert him to its one fatal flaw of requesting total withdrawal from the Libya conflict within fourteen days of its passage. I have never thought of Pelosi and Reid as being the sharpest tool in the shed, hence the resolution was gleefully placed on the House floor akin to a propped up scarecrow.

With the House and possible Senate passage of the Boehner resolution, Pres. Obama will have to provide information surely to be used against him when he is taken to the Hague with accusations of genocide and crimes to humanity due to the fact he hired Sec. Clinton and, unfortunately, has to take the blunt of the war she started and fostered in Libya with a note pinned on his butt, “From Hilary and Bill, with love.” (She will testify against him at the Hague!) Sad.

As always,
BB

At Long Last, House Debates and Votes on Libya War Powers
By Robert Naiman
Members of the House should hold the House leadership accountable to this 14-day deadline. As the situation stands today, passage of the Boehner resolution has done nothing about the fact that the Administration has involved the U.S. in a war of choice that was not authorized by Congress and is therefore illegal and unconstitutional. But if the Boehner resolution effectively pressures the Administration to seek Congressional authorization, to seek a diplomatic resolution, or to end U.S. participation; or if the Boehner resolution serves as a prelude to action in two weeks by the House to end U.S. participation in the war, it will have been a positive step.
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/06/03/981820/-At-Long-Last,-House-Debates-and-Votes-on-Libya-War-Powers-?via=siderecent

Pres. Obama; another rock, another hard place. (Yawn)

The President has said he will instruct members of the United Nations to not support a request for a Palestinian state.

It is my understanding there are two important bodies residing within the United Nations as follows::

The General Assembly has the brief to discuss and decide on issues of international peace and security. All members of the United Nations are represented in the General Assembly. It can make recommendations to promote international peace; international economic and social co-operation and it can promote human rights. The General Assembly is expected to meet on a regular basis and when a vote is taken it needs a two-thirds majority for it to be passed.

The Security Council consists of eleven members. Five of these are permanent (USA, USSR, GB, China, France). The General Assembly appoints another six members who are non-permanent members. The Security Council is given the primary task by the United Nations of maintaining peace and security at an international level. Each member of the Security Council is given one vote and a vote of seven members is needed for action to be taken. All five permanent members have to agree with the course of action. The Security Council can recommend the use of a blockade or other financial impositions for any nation that is deemed as breaking international law. If these do not work, then the Security Council can call on the United Nations to use military force to enforce its will. This is the major difference to the League of Nations – the United Nations has the ability to enforce its decisions as each member state has to pledge to provide a military component dependent on its national wealth and capability.
Read more at:

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/structure_of_the_united_nations.htm

It is further my understanding Palestinian authorities will petition both of the above bodies to establish a state for the Palestinians. If this is true, I do not know if one body has more weight than the other nor do I understand the sequence of events. I know one will occur this September. And also I does not know if one body can override the veto of another.

Whatever the case, America is pulling up the rope for Palestinians due to the fact it is common knowledge the United Nations created the state of Israel and bestowed statehood thereof as follows:

Nations General Assembly Resolution no. 181 of 1947 (commonly known as the Palestine Partition Plan) recommended the creation from all of the lands of Mandatory Palestine west of the Jordan River, representing 22% of original Mandatory Palestine, a Jewish state (comprising slightly less than 11% of the Land), an Arab state (comprising slightly less than 11% of the Land) and an internationally-administered greater Jerusalem.
Read more at:
http://www.rosenblit.com/CREATE%20ISRAEL.htm

And
The U.S. informed Arab governments Tuesday that it will support a U.N. Security Council statement reaffirming that the 15-nation body "does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlement activity," a move aimed at avoiding the prospect of having to veto a stronger Palestinian resolution calling the settlements illegal.
Read more at:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/02/us-set-to-betray-israel-at-un-security-council.html

Fighting for the dignity of my Ancestors,
God bless Bill Gates, WPFW, C-SPAN and the spirits of the unborn for the help,
BB
P.S. Inspiration
Who cares in the Middle East what Obama says?
By Robert Fisk
Read more at:
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/who-cares-in-the-middle-east-what-obama-says-2290761.html

Invisible man: Pres. Obama

We Blacks only become visible as needed. The need maybe from efforts to protect a fantasy to satisfying a powerful emotional thirst.

I strongly agree with others that we only become visible long enough to advance negative stereotypes i.e., when going into a store to shop or being interviewed as ‘Man on the Street’ for a television news story.

However, there are contrasting efforts, great and mighty ones to be sure but they often pale in the shadow of opposing endeavors.

My first strong and conscience experiences with being invisible was seeing the late Black Journalist Carl Rowan on a Sunday Talk Show hosted by Chris Wallace. The other panelist, including Nina Tottenberg and Charles Krauthammer, would never acknowledge anything he had to say. After Mr. Rowan would make a contribution to the conversation, the conversation would continue as if he said nothing at all, as if he were not there; invisible, if you will.

I would bet there are journalist and political pundits who pride themselves in never addressing the President as President Obama or Mr. President.

Excerpt from commenter Hamden Rice to a diary written by ThePlainsman at DKos:

To understand why, you have to have read Ralph Ellison's classic of African American literature, "Invisible Man." If you haven't read it, this may not make much sense.

And
Invisible Man is a surreal novel about an unnamed black man who grows up in the south and comes to New York and has a series of adventures.

And
Ellison's main metaphor for being black in America is being invisible. It's not that white people can't see us; it's that they see whatever they want to see rather than the flesh and blood person standing in front of them.

And
Barack Obama is the Invisible Man of American politics, for both the right and the left. Few American politicians have sketched out their backgrounds and beliefs in greater detail than Obama has. Yet both the right and the left make up elaborate fantasies about him.
Read more at:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/05/17/976969/-Professor-Harris-Perry-DESTROYS-Cornel-West?via=siderec

Fighting for the dignity of my Ancestors,
God bless Bill Gates, WPFW, C-SPAN and the spirits of the unborn for the help,
BB