Locked out of the cockpit ... Thx Pidge F! This is really so analogous to the average citizen of the USA

  LOCKED OUT OF THE COCKPIT 
  

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You might find this to be an interesting analogy…

We are all "flying on the Germanwings plane", with a twisted pilot at the 
controls.  Will we just wait, and assume the "Crash Position"? 

The 'real' pilot was locked out of the cockpit.  . 

Lubitz, in his single-minded madness, couldn't be stopped because anyone who could change the jet's disastrous course was "locked out".  

It's hard to imagine the growing feelings of fear and helplessness that the 
passengers felt as the unforgiving landscape rushed up to meet them. 

Hard ... but not impossible. 

Because America is in trouble.  We feel the descent in the pits of our stomachs. 

We hear the shake and rattle of structures stressed beyond their limits. We 
don't know where we're going anymore, but do know it isn't good. And above all, we feel helpless because Barack Obama has locked us out. 

He locked the American people out of his decision to seize the national 
healthcare system.  Locked us out when we wanted to know why the IRS was attacking conservatives.  He locked us out of having a say in his decision to tear up our immigration laws, and to give over a trillion dollars in benefits to 
those who broke those laws. 

Obama locked out those who advised against premature troop withdrawals.  Locked out the intelligence agencies who issued warnings about the growing threat of ISIS.  He locked out anyone who could have interfered with his release of five Taliban terror chiefs in return for one U.S. military deserter. 

And, of course, Barack Obama has now locked out Congress, the American people, and our allies as he strikes a secret deal with Iran to determine the timeline (not prevention) of their acquisition of nuclear weapons. 

Was Andreas Lubitz depressed, insane, or abysmally evil when he decided to lock that cockpit door and listen to no voices other than those in his head?  Did he somehow believe himself to be doing the right thing? 

The voice recordings from the doomed aircraft reveal that as the jet began its 
rapid descent, the passengers were quiet.  There was probably some nervous laughter, confusion, a bit of comforting chatter with seatmates, followed by a brief period in which anxiety had not yet metastasized into terror. 

It was only near the end of the 8-minute plunge that everyone finally understood what was really happening. Only near the end when they began to scream.  

Like those passengers, a growing number of Americans feel a helpless dread as they come to the inescapable conclusion that our nation's decline is an act of choice rather than of chance. The choice of one man who is in full control of our 8-year plunge. 

Lubitz was a nutcase.  But now we are on a 'plane' piloted by a narcissistic 
megalomaniac who has locked everyone out of his cockpit.

Words we used to use ... Thx Paul C!

WORDS AND PHRASES REMIND US OF THE WAY WE WORD By Richard Lederer   About a month ago, I illuminated some old expressions that have become Obsolete because of the inexorable march of technology. These phrases Included "Don’t touch that dial," "Carbon copy," "You sound like a Broken record" and "Hung out to dry." A bevy of readers have asked me to Shine light on more faded words and expressions, and I am happy to Oblige:   Back in the olden days we had a lot of moxie. We’d put on our best bib And tucker and straighten up and fly right. Hubba-hubba! We’d cut a rug In some juke joint and then go necking and petting and smooching and Spooning and billing and cooing and pitching woo in hot rods and Jalopies in some passion pit or lovers’ lane. Heavens to Betsy! Gee Whillikers! Jumpin’ Jehoshaphat! Holy moley! We were in like Flynn and Living the life of Riley, and even a regular guy couldn’t accuse us of Being a knucklehead, a nincompoop or a pill. Not for all the tea in China !   Back in the olden days, life used to be swell, but when’s the last time Anything was swell? Swell has gone the way of beehives, pageboys and the D.A.; of spats, knickers, fedoras, poodle skirts, saddle shoes and pedal Pushers. Oh, my aching back. Kilroy was here, but he isn’t anymore.   Like Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle and Kurt Vonnegut’s Billy Pilgrim, we have become unstuck in time. We wake up from what surely has Been just a short nap, and before we can say, “I’ll be a monkey’s   Uncle!” or “This is a fine kettle of fish!” we discover that the words We grew up with, the words that seemed omnipresent as oxygen, have Vanished with scarcely a notice from our tongues and our pens and our Keyboards.   Poof, poof, poof go the words of our youth, the words we’ve left behind. We blink, and they’re gone, evanesced from the landscape and wordscape Of our perception, like Mickey Mouse wristwatches, hula hoops, skate Keys, candy cigarettes, little wax bottles of colored sugar water and an Organ grinder’s monkey.   Where have all those phrases gone? Long time passing. Where have all Those phrases gone? Long time ago: Pshaw. The milkman did it. Think About the starving Armenians. Bigger than a bread box. Banned in Boston . The very idea! It’s your nickel. Don’t forget to pull the chain. Knee High to a grasshopper. Turn-of-the-century. Iron curtain. Domino theory. Fail safe. Civil defense. Fiddlesticks! You look like the wreck of the Hesperus. Cooties. Going like sixty. I’ll see you in the funny papers. Don’t take any wooden nickels. Heavens to Murgatroyd! And awa-a-ay we Go!   Oh, my stars and garters! It turns out there are more of these lost Words and expressions than Carter had liver pills.   This can be disturbing stuff, this winking out of the words of our Youth, these words that lodge in our heart’s deep core. But just as one Never steps into the same river twice, one cannot step into the same Language twice. Even as one enters, words are swept downstream into the Past, forever making a different river.   We of a certain age have been blessed to live in changeful times. For a Child each new word is like a shiny toy, a toy that has no age. We at The other end of the chronological arc have the advantage of remembering There are words that once did not exist and there were words that once Strutted their hour upon the earthly stage and now are heard no more, Except in our collective memory. It’s one of the greatest advantages of Aging. We can have archaic and eat it, too.   See ‘ya later, alligator!

Dhimmitude ... in obamacare ... How sneaky! ... Thx Paul C!

Dhimmitude The word " Dhimmitude" is found in the new health care bill; so what does it mean? Thought this was interesting and worth passing on. Obama used it in the health care bill. Now isn't this interesting? It is also included in the health care law. Dhimmitude -- I had never heard the word until now. I typed it into Google and started reading. Pretty interesting. It's on page 107 of the healthcare bill. I looked this up on Google and yep, it exists. It is a REAL word. Dhimmitude is the Muslim system of controlling non-Muslim populations conquered through jihad (Holy War). Specifically, it is the TAXING of non-Muslims in exchange for tolerating their presence AND as a coercive means of converting conquered remnants to Islam. ObamaCare allows the establishment of Dhimmitude and Sharia Muslim diktat in the United States . Muslims are specifically exempted from the government mandate to purchase insurance, and also from the penalty tax for being uninsured. Islam considers insurance to be "gambling", "risk-taking", and "usury" and is thus banned. Muslims are specifically granted exemption based on this. How convenient. So I, as a Christian, will have crippling IRS liens placed against all of my assets, including real estate, cattle, and even accounts receivable, and will face hard prison time because I refuse to buy insurance or pay the penalty tax. Meanwhile, Louis Farrakhan (the Muslim) will have no such penalty and will have 100% of his health insurance needs paid for by the de facto government insurance. Non-Muslims will be paying a tax to subsidize Muslims. This is Dhimmitude . I recommend sending this on to your contacts. All American citizens need to know about it !! snopes.com: Health Insurance Exemptions Apr 13, 2010 ... Dhimmitude is the Muslim system of controlling non- muslim populations ... The ObamaCare bill is the establishment of Dhimmitude and Sharia ... www.snopes.com/politics/medical/exemptionsasp Keep this going. Every non-Muslim in the United States of America needs to know about it =   __._,_.___