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Gene Lalor | June 11, 2009
“The essential feature of irony is the indirect presentation of a contradiction between an action or expression and the context in which it occurs,” according to Dictionary.com. Put more simply, it’s ironic when things happen that are the precise antitheses of what we would expect or wish to happen.
The world and the nation are awash in ironies today, some salutary, most depressing. A few examples:
Wartime Irony: Our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan are doing their damnedest to repel and defeat a ragtag bunch of turbaned psychopaths intent on mindless jihad and salivating for those 72 virgins promised by Allah. All they are asked to do is make the ultimate sacrifice and surrender their lives for Islam in the process of killing the infidel enemy.
Yet, though many live in the same primitive squalor in which their forebears lived hundreds of years ago, our troops have been contending with their modern weapons of limited but deadly destruction such as rpg’s, ied’s and other weapons of guerilla warfare furnished by Syria and Iran.
Now, lo and behold, they are upgrading, thanks to the United States. High-tech inclinometers, gyro chips, field-programmable gate arrays and GPS systems developed by our own military to battle their foes are being employed to more effectively cause havoc and kill our soldiers: http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=49354.
And why is that? “Technology that is legal to buy and sell within the U.S. but is illegal to export because of its potential military applications has been used to build weapons deployed against U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan because of loose export controls,” according to a GAO report.
So, because of lax enforcement of our laws and greedy exporters, the United States painstakingly and expensively develops technologies which are then illegally sent to our enemies to enable them to prolong the conflict and exact more punishment on America’s military. 
Clintonesque Irony: Virginia State Senator Creigh Deeds, campaigning on a relative shoestring when contrasted with his chief opponent, Terry MacAuliffe, trounced the former Democratic National Committee Chairman and Clinton confidante in Virginia’s gubernatorial primary contest.
Despite his meager funding, a mere $3.7 million, half of fundraiser-extraordinaire McAuliffe’s haul, Deeds was able to whup the former Clintonite and an extreme leftist, Brian J. Moran. He scored almost 50% of the vote in a primary in which only 6% of registered voters bothered to make their voice heard. Deeds was so strapped for cash that he drove himself to campaign appearances in order to save money for television spots.
The wealthy late-starter McAuliffe was considered a shoo-in earlier in the race and stumped the state with his ace in the hole, former President Bill Clinton, hoping that some of Bubba’s charisma would rub off. Instead, some of Bubba’s dirt may have rubbed off as Dems showed once again that they have no loyalty to the past and especially to the Clintons and their henchmen. 
Deeds, a middle of the roader, will face conservative Republican Bob McDonnell in 2010, to whom he had lost in 2005 in a run for Virginia attorney general: http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=49377.
His win over McAuliffe and Moran this time around is testimony to the fact that money and contacts count for little when it comes to Virgina voters. Those voters will have another shot at returning the state to the Republican column after 8 years of wild spending and wilder tax increases under Democrat Governors Mark Warner and Tim Kaine.
More ironically relevant, the Clintonistas have been handed their walking papers at the top of which it reads, “Your era and charisma have come and gone.”
Israeli Irony: The Jewish website Haaretz.com was almost giddy in its report on November 5th, 2008 that about 77% of American Jews had voted for Barack Obama over John McCain, according to exit polling. Alleging two years of smears, Jeremy Ben-Ami of the J Street lobby group said, “Surrogates and right-wing political operatives in our community stopped at nothing in their efforts to sway Jewish voters against Obama.” http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1034574.html
Well, obviously, any swaying was ineffective at best and Jeremy got his wish in the election of Obama with the help of a near-record number of American Jews. Jewish voters have long been ensconced in the bowels of the Democratic Party and are noted for supporting the underdog and liberal causes and, although Obama was never a true underdog, he was undeniably liberal, extremely liberal.
Less than 5 months into the Obamian reign, there’s something less than outright enthusiasm for him and his administration in Israel and among his Jewish-American supporters. Indeed, the sentiment more closely approximates disgust and fury, based on Obama’s reaching out to the Muslim world, advocating a Palestinian state, winking at a nuclear Iran, and bowing to an Arab potentate. 
In actuality, his reaching out to touch Muslims should be no surprise, even if his admission of his Muslim ties–something Barack Hussein Obama played down when he was in quest of Jewish votes–was a tad of a shocker, as was his absurd contention that America was the largest Muslim nation on the planet.
Israel and Jewish voters, as well as millions of other voters, were hoodwinked by Obama. He may still have a domestic approval rating in the 60th percentiles but, to their credit, Israelis are finally on to him as evidenced by this video. Caution: It has some bad words and racist comments: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1034574.html.
When one lies down with wolves at night, one should expect to become a breakfast treat in the morning.
Californian Irony: Situated way out there on America’s Left Coast, California has for decades been a proud and prime mover of America’s cultural changes. Something vile must have gotten into Californians’ water supply or into its electorate since the era of Governor Ronald Reagan (1967-1975) because the state has slid rapidly downhill in the intervening 34 years.
I suspect California’s decline can be related to its mania to launch new societal trends in an effort to assert the state’s national leadership in trend-setting. One of those ”advances” has been the homosexualization of its culture, an indulgent gay acceptance attributable to the mass media, Hollywood, and mostly its schools.
Like spinning the wheel of fortune, where it stops nobody knows. Last November Californians finally asserted themselves with the unexpected passage of Prop 8 which constitutionally declared the obvious: that the institute of marriage is reserved for one male and one female.
However, Prop 8 seems to have had no appreciable effect on slowing down California’s degeneration. It definitely has had no effect on the Alameda Public School District.
The Alameda district has determined that it is in the best interests of the cherubs in its charge to be taught that families can consist of virtually any groups. It is “adopting a curriculum that will require first graders to read literature that equates same-sex unions, [much like 2 male penguins hatching a baby penguin, 
] with a family made up of a mother, father and child:” http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=48866.
That article goes on to say, “Unlike for health and sexual education classes, the district will not allow parents to opt their children out of the LGBT curriculum–angering parents and pro-family groups.”
And there we have it, people. California parents are being hoisted on their own permissive petards. They were permitted to exclude their kids from classes which demonstrated the proper application of condoms on bananas and instruction on when and how to engage in sexual intercourse but they will not be allowed to keep their kids from learning how two, or three, homosexuals copulate.
To make sure that essential information sticks, six year olds will first be indoctrinated so that in their second through twelfth school years they will become experts.
Despite Proposition 8, Californians as a whole have for years been tolerating this garbage and electing the garbage mongers and now the rats in the garbage will be biting their children.
As with filched technology which kills our defenders, Virginians who defeated the Big Name, Big Money, Clinton interests, Israelis who learned too late the true nature of America’s new president, Californians are now reaping what they sowed.
It will be a bitter harvest.
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