Motus Mentis

23 Comments

1. JK says

   “… Contemporaneous with ousting the pro-American Mubarak remnants, President Morsi assumed dictatorial powers. He indicated that he would unilaterally oversee the drafting of a new constitution. …”

   Hmmm.

   Posted August 19, 2012 at 9:59 pm | Permalink
2. Malcolm says

   ♩ ♪ “A-a-a-nd now it’s…

   Springtime… for Morsi, and E-Egypt…

   Dum-da-dum-dum!

   Winter… for Christians, and Jews…” ♫ ♬

   Posted August 19, 2012 at 10:28 pm | Permalink
3. Dom says

   “Winter… for Christians, and Jews…”

   There are some reports of crucifixions in Egypt, as a way of scaring off Christians.

   Posted August 20, 2012 at 7:42 am | Permalink
4. JK says

   While I’m certainly not considering the threats to out-sect religious groups are not under increased threats, I do have problems with Mr. McCarthy’s characterizations of Morsi’s actual power. It would seem I’m not alone.

   “On the evidence adduced to date, this looks like a face-lift for Egyptian democracy to satisfy American sensibilities and to attract investors, but without really changing the underlying power-sharing arrangement. Nothing indicates the Egyptian armed forces surrendered to Mursi their exclusive control of defense interests, internal security problems and military economic enterprises.

   It is all cosmetics with no substance.”

   http://www.kforcegov.com/Services/IS/NightWatch/NightWatch_12000154.aspx

   Posted August 20, 2012 at 12:16 pm | Permalink
5. Malcolm says

   Depends what happened under the hood. The political power having shifted from the secular toward the Ikhwan may well have emboldened Islamists in the military to move against Tantawi.

   Under Mubarak, there was harmony (so to speak) between the military and the center of political power. The ascension of the Muslim Brotherhood to power, while Mubarak-era secularists remained in control of the military, created dissonance, and tension. Perhaps now the harmony has been restored, in a different key.

   In other words, this isn’t necessarily about the military ceding power to Morsi, but about a shift of power within the military made possible by a change in the political situation.

   Posted August 20, 2012 at 1:03 pm | Permalink
6. JK says

   Could well be right Malcolm.

   I see the Egyptian military has moved anti-aircraft missile batteries into the Sinai. To my knowledge the insurgent Bedouins have no Air Force.

   Posted August 20, 2012 at 2:40 pm | Permalink
7. JK says

   Open source here:

   http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/159071

   Should know if the reports are accurate sometime later.

   Posted August 20, 2012 at 2:48 pm | Permalink
8. TheBigHenry says

   No amount of anecdotal evidence will sway leftist and/or racist Obama supporters. They are America-hating, Jew-hating, Capitalism-hating, know-nothing free-loaders and cowards.

   Posted August 21, 2012 at 12:06 pm | Permalink
9. Malcolm says

   Don’t sugar-coat it, Henry.

   Posted August 21, 2012 at 12:18 pm | Permalink
10. TheBigHenry says

    “Don’t sugar-coat it, Henry.”

    I have also heard rumors (from reliable sources) that they haven’t paid taxes in decades, and that at least half of them are pederasts.

    Posted August 21, 2012 at 12:31 pm | Permalink
11. JK says

    Like Mark Foley?

    Posted August 21, 2012 at 1:23 pm | Permalink
12. TheBigHenry says

    “Like Mark Foley?”

    No, I don’t. What’s your point?

    Posted August 21, 2012 at 1:54 pm | Permalink
13. JK says

    Pederasts TBH, pederasts!

    Reliable rumors and all that.

    Posted August 21, 2012 at 3:44 pm | Permalink
14. TheBigHenry says

    Well, JK, bringing up Mark Foley’s “congressional page incident” in no way refutes the generally accepted fact that given a crowd of 535 Congress critters, most, if not all of the leftist racists among them are likely to be pederasts.

    BTW, are you aware of the on-line allegation that the “lovable” Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid fathered two illegitimate werewolf cubs with an underage OWS girl?

    Posted August 21, 2012 at 5:45 pm | Permalink
15. JK says

    OWS?!!!

    Ain’t that a Mormon sect TBH?

    Utah march on Nevada to exact proper revenge?

    Reckon not – nobody marched on Strom Thurmond.

    Posted August 21, 2012 at 7:07 pm | Permalink
16. TheBigHenry says

    “OWS?!!!
    Ain’t that a Mormon sect TBH?”

    I don’t know much about Mormon sects, JK, but the word on the street is they are much better Presidential material than your ordinary Kenyan.

    I suspect OWS stands for those “Occupy Wall Street” assholes that Harry Reid favors.

    Strom Thurmond? Isn’t that a dead horse? If he’s still alive, he must be older than Methuselah.

    Posted August 21, 2012 at 7:39 pm | Permalink
17. JK says

    How’s ’bout next time TBH the Republicans go with a real honest to God non-RINO in the form of say, Warren Jeffs. There’s a sect you can Wiki.

    But actually TheBigHenry – my main thing about all these, “He’s a So and So” “She’s a So and So” haven’t, in my experience, achieved anything concrete in the way of putting anybody into office.

    Makes for some pretty good email forwards the faithful members of each of the Parties’ choirs can send to one another though. In much the same way handing a box of Crayons out to a kindergarten class with instructions to color the walls.

    Posted August 21, 2012 at 8:03 pm | Permalink
18. the one eyed man says

    Doubtless Henry’s fascination with pederasty comes from his many years as a catamite.

    JK: your point aligns with a foreign observer who noted that “the period which immediately precedes an election, and that during which the election is taking place, must always be considered as a national crisis. … As the election draws near, the activity of intrigue and the agitation of the populace increase; the citizens are divided into hostile camps, each of which assumes the name of its favorite candidate; the whole nation glows with feverish excitement.”

    Maybe things haven’t changed that much since de Tocqueville wrote that 177 years ago.

    Posted August 21, 2012 at 8:45 pm | Permalink
19. TheBigHenry says

    JK,

    If we can be serious just for a moment, I have lost all hope of treating the current election campaign with anything approaching the seriousness it cries out for. Sad to say, the majority of the electorate is approaching it with the mentality of a junior high-school popularity contest.

    I fear that when 99.3 percent of African Americans support Obama simply because his skin color resembles their own; when Jewish leftists support Obama because they are too proud to admit that they have been snookered into supporting a lying Jew-hater; when the vast majority of Holyshitwood celebrities are bound and determined to keep the jobless masses chained to the plantation of free lunch; when billionaires like Buffet pretend to support Obama’s wealth redistribution (which Buffet is virtually immune to) so as to keep those who are envious of his wealth from trying to lynch him; when all these elements of hypocrisy collude to keep Obama in office, he will be reelected.

    So don’t hate me for engaging in a bit of gallows humor …

    As for you, Peter, AKA the One-eyed Jack[ass], you can just go fuck yourself.

    Posted August 21, 2012 at 8:57 pm | Permalink
20. the one eyed man says

    Likewise, Henry. You are a hateful fool with nothing of interest to say.

    Posted August 21, 2012 at 9:13 pm | Permalink
21. TheBigHenry says

    “You are a hateful fool with nothing of interest to say.”

    I am honored to have won the enmity of an ugly jackass like you, Peter.

    Tomorrow morning, I’ll have interesting things to say.

    Posted August 21, 2012 at 10:35 pm | Permalink
22. JK says

    Your second paragraph Henry, from the comment posted at 8:57 pm should include perhaps;

    “Farmers” who rail against those who clamor for the government to cut the few hundreds of some of the most pitiable, least included members of the citizenry, yet when the environmental vagaries hit them, they are first in line at the public trough clamoring for the government to come through to pay thousands drilling them a well. Those who cry for subsidized public recovery of the cow which died whether for lack of water or bred two too many times over a most extraordinarily extended lifetime usually at a claimed loss of many thousands when in fact, had those “farmers” sold the poor died cow at the sale barn in normal times, would have been ecstatic had some fast-food chain simply taken the cow off their hands. The homeowners who purchased land three feet above sea level then spent too much building houses with yards big enough to rent as parking space for ten singly occupied Lexus’ bringing Perrier guzzling revelers to the Party’s party. Only to have a hurricane blow in, winds taking the houses down and waves tossing the cars into the ocean at which point FEMA is called on to remunerate at retail purchase cost the loss of the house and have the Coast Guard in to remove the newly laid jalopy reefs to recover the beautiful view they’d enjoyed since the previous year’s hurricane.

    Actually Henry, I rather enjoy gallows humor too – so long as the executed share the costs democratically. And, I’ll not be hating any of the “victims” – be they “Farmer” shore-dweller or sharecropper. So long as before their drop, all in their individual sense, confess each contributed, again democratically, to their collective demise.

    Posted August 22, 2012 at 3:13 am | Permalink
23. TheBigHenry says

    “Your second paragraph Henry, from the comment posted at 8:57 pm should include perhaps …”

    JK,

    The paragraph you refer to was by no means intended to be comprehensive. Of course, I agree with you that there are vastly more elements involved in what ails this once great Nation of ours; the sycophantic MSM is a major contributor that I failed to mention. But I don’t feel that commentary pursuant to a post should routinely exceed (by multiples) the original post in length.

    My purpose is not to present an exegesis for the state of our Union. Most of us realize that, currently and perhaps irreversibly, it sucks big time. I am but one individual out of roughly a third of a billion Americans, some portion of whom (I suspect a small minority) have an opinion about what or how our Nation’s status can be improved based on policy not on racist or immature popularity considerations. I am saddened but increasingly resigned to the the conclusion that the outcome of this coming election will be determined not by thoughtful consideration of government policy but by stupid shit like which candidate is more likely to fill up my gas tank for free.

    Posted August 22, 2012 at 11:25 am | Permalink