We all know that no one ever receives welfare payments that they are not legally qualified for. Riiiiiiiiiight!!! So, the trick is to get "legally qualified", no matter how absurd the reasoning may be behind your application. "Welfare Mothers" have been applying this principle for decades, here in America, often clouding the distinction between those who are legitimately qualified, and in need, from those who merely wish to take corrupt advantage of a thoroughly corrupt system, that doesn't track it's own trail of payments, because "it's only taxpayers' money, and not mine, so who cares?" This bureaucratic ambivalence is a direct consequence of a welfare state mentality, which sets up a "charitable concern" for those truly in need, when they are actually only interested in the permanent job creation of the bureaucracy that supposedly regulates the dispersment of benefits to the recipients. And the larger the bureaucracy (measured by the amount of taxpayer money expended thereon), the greater job security for the administering bureaucrats. The Obama administration has taken this practice to extremes, with the obvious reasoning being that the greater number of new bureaucratic jobs that are created by the Democratic administration, the more likely those new employees will perpetually vote for future Democratic candidates. In fact, you can bet that every new employee is carefully screened for their loyalty to the Democratic party.
We now see Russia's President Putin taking the most egregiously absurd position yet in demanding his "welfare", both from the U.S. government, and the governing bodies of international sport. While he is not screaming for his largess from the U.S., I'll bet it's only because he has enough confidence in the overall corrupt nature of our present government that he will receive his uninterrupted bailout money to fly our astronauts to the International Space Station, now that we have scrubbed the reusable Space Shuttle program, at least until we have developed the replacement system. This plan smells of corruption, but it's at least minimally defensible.
Then there's the flap over the International Soccer governing body (or F.I.F.A.), and the accusations of officials taking bribery money to award the future World Cup soccer championships to the highest bidder. Isn't it "coincidental" that Putin starts screaming "foul" as soon as the story breaks publicly, claiming that this is merely an American attempt to steal their World Cup award, for (I think) 2022. This may be true in part, but America could not even attempt to pressure for a re-vote on the issue unless it were easily proven that the Russian award was the result of such illegal bribery payments to the top F.I.F.A. officials, which would make their original awards null, and void. "Me thinks thou dost protest too much", Mr. Putin. That's how Hamlet would have viewed his clamoring. Shakespeare's original line was meant to convince the audience that the "protest" was tantamount to an admission of guilt! Is there some similarity here? I'll bet so! I've drawn the parallel before between Putin's behavior and that of an overgrown spoiled brat, and I think that description is most appropriate here. A brat screams his innocence the loudest when he knows he is caught "red-handed", and knows the punishment is unavoidable.
In an unrelated news item, today we have a story on Fox News that Wikileaks, the ...
[At this point, I experienced another great "koinkydink", as I like to refer to them. For the first time ever, I was interrupted (mid-sentence), and my computer began to shut down, on it's own, and then to force me to wait through a Microsoft Upgrade, with the necessary rebooting procedure, before I regained the use of my own computer. This would be normal behavior if I had tried to shut my computer down first, but it is not normal for Microsoft to interrupt my normal use to pre-empt it with their so-called "upgrades". I have to wonder if there might be some Russian "hacking" going on for all bloggers who dare to write something negative about their "Fearless Leader", to refer to the terms of "Boris, and Natasha" (from the "Rocky and Bullwinkle Show"). Ain't it pathetic how my mind works?]
As I was saying...Fox News reported today that Wikileaks was set to release some 500,000 new documents, that are supposedly Diplomatic messages from Saudi Arabian foreign missions. Now let's just pause a minute to consider a few facts... Wikileaks' founder recently fled the United States to the "safety" of Putin's Russia, in order to avoid arrest and prosecution for leaking American classified documents. Do you suppose Putin's pressure might be behind these new leaks??? We know he can't flee Putin's wrath as easily as he did America's. And why would he single out Saudi Arabia, unless the leaks would serve to embarrass their government, in the eyes of a potential Russian-Middle-East-nations confederation, like the one described in the Bible, in Ezekiel 38, & 39 (you knew that was coming, now didn't you?). I'll bet these documents will somehow serve to strengthen the forming of this confederation, though I can't imagine how. This has got Putin's fingerprints all over it. Why would Wikileaks' founder care about Saudi Arabian diplomatic messages, unless Putin were holding a Communist gun to his head. I wonder if Putin's guns are more comfortable than the threat of America's court system?
Perhaps the documents will show some behind-the-scenes negotiations between Israel, and Saudi Arabia, concerning their mutual fear of Iran's developing nuclear capabilities. In the sense that, "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" diplomacy, it may be that Israel is negotiating the permission to fly it's jets over Saudi air-space, in the event that they feel it is necessary to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities. They recognize that a nuclear powered Iran would attack Israel, first, then Saudi Arabia, second, and much to Obama's lunatic denial, America third!!! Somebody has got to do something to stop Iran, and we know we can't count on our Muslim President to be the one to do it!!!
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