"Diversionary Tactics"

Unless this is the first time you are reading my stuff, you already know I'm a huge Bears fan; and obviously, loved the 1985 Super Bowl team. I remember that Jim Mc Mahon, the quarterback, had incurred an injury to his buttocks during the NFC Championship game against the Los Angeles Rams. The week before the Super Bowl the quarterback's buttocks became the center of many newspaper and television writers and commentators. Jim played along for the entire week prior to the big game. In interviews done years later, he stated that he used his buttocks as a distraction to ease the pressure on the rest of the team as it took focus away from them and made preparation for the game easier. In the military, we called this a diversionary tactic.

Over the last couple of weeks or so, we have seen protests on Wall Street, and recently on LaSalle Street from some of the "great unwashed". They have been spouting the same warmed-over platitudes that communists and socialists have been ranting about for decades: "The rich have too much money, and they should give it to us!"; "Capitalism is evil!"; "Down with free enterprise"! This has now been augmented by SEIU union thugs directing these sheep into doing the bidding of the Obama administration, who is a huge friend of SEIU. Every American with common sense knows business drives the economy, and business creates jobs, not the government; but it does make for interesting television, and is a great diversionary tactic from bigger issues.

Unless you have been living under a rock, you already know about the SOLYNDRA scandal and the further connections to even more spurious loans to the "green initiative" that has been endorsed by Barack Obama, and his cronies. Billions of dollars of taxpayer's money has been tossed away on bad investments to buy support for the Obama administration. Currently, an Obama fundraiser has been connected through e-mails to the SLOYNDRA debacle. This fundraiser received $500,000 in a donation to the Obama campaign, and has also monitored the progress of the SOLYNDRA funding from its inception; this is, at least, curious! Now Darrell Issa (Re.-Cal.) is seeking more information on $4.75 billion in loan guarantees to more "green companies"; Antelope Valley Solar Ranch Inc. received a loan guarantee of $646 million, Desert Sunlight Sunpower got a guarantee of $1.24 billion! These aren't all that have received guaranteed money from the Obama administration.

Atop this is the "Fast and Furious" gun running scandal involving Eric Holder, and his alleged deceptive testimony to a government committee about his knowledge of the affair. Thus far, Mr. Obama says he stands behind Mr. Holder, but has said little else.

Those pseudo-hippies that are now chanting, crying, moaning and ranting will all be forgotten in fairly short order if the media will cover the actual crime that is going on in Washington by members of the Obama administration. A diversionary tactic will only work for so long!