7 thoughts on “Barack Obama”

  1. The Crusades (Starting with the first crusade in 1096) are what caused, in response, the Islamic invasion of what’s now Spain and Portugal in 711, and the Islamic invasions of Scicily in 831, and the Islamic sacking of Rome in 846.
    /Obama history mode

    2. Yep. The Crusades were a response to Islamic invasion of areas of the former Christian Roman Empire including Palestine, Iberia, southern Italy and more. Austria had to continue to fight the Ottomans for centuries and they came quite close to conquering Vienna. They were not the victims that’s for sure.

      I disagree with the article in one thing. The Crusades were not a waste of time. Besides reconquering southern Italy and Iberia thanks to the Crusades a lot of knowledge lost during the fall of the Western Roman Empire, but preserved in the Eastern Roman Empire, was recaptured and eventually it led to the Renaissance in Europe. The Knights Templar basically invented modern banking and even after they were persecuted by the Vatican a lot of them were protected by the kings of Iberia in recognition for their help. In Portugal they were folded into the Order of Christ. Which under Prince Henry the Navigator sponsored the sea voyages which started the Age of Exploration. The Knights Hospitaller in turn from their fortresses in Malta helped safeguard the Mediterranean from Sarracen marauders and helped stabilize that area.

      Even in England were it not for the Crusades and King Richards “waste of time” in the Crusades we would have never got the Magna Carta, parliamentary monarchy, and the cease of the belief in the divine right of kings with all that entails. Or had it happened it would have taken a lot longer than it did.

  2. Anyone that supports Obama is just as depraved. They excel at word wars used as a smokescreen for their depravity. That we let them is our sin. We should Breitbart the asses of every talking head, running them out of employment with howls of ridicule. We could practice now on Brian Williams. We should beat every useful idiot with a cluebat until they are absolutely and completely unwilling to open their mouths or show their faces for the shame of it.

  3. Whoa: http://benefitrevolution.blogspot.com/2015/01/senate-democrats-every-single-democrat.html
    The President, and Congress, admit that regulation hurts business growth.
    Pournelle has long been saying that an easy way to jump-start businesses is just to make a rule: Any regulation of business that depends on the number of employees, the number required for the regulation is now doubled. 10 to 20, 50 to 100, etc. Shouldn’t (hardly) cost a nickel to implement, goes into effect immediately, won’t even put the regulators out of business. Win-win.
    And it would give a neat test of how big the impact is. Fun idea: If you really want to make it an experiment, do it for half the states, chosen randomly.

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