My Beauty Best Teacher

Via the BBC comes word that Democratic President Barack Obama has ordered his executive officials to cut off all non-humanitarian aid to this poor nation, and is sending out signals that it may not officially recognize the result from Honduras's upcoming presidential election. In case you don't remember, recently Honduras democratically and lawfully removed its President, who was attempting to illegally remain in power and was actively fermenting a revolt that would have given him near-dictatorial power, much like his friend Hugo Chavez. Honduras's Supreme Court and Congress declined to cooperate, removed him, replaced him, and sent him on his way. They supported constitutional government. They were the good guys. I've written an earlier post on this (Obama on Honduras: More Evidence of a Bad President) that has a great summary link for the situation in Honduras.

But Obama's foreign policy punishes the good guys and attacks our friends in an attempt to curry favor with our enemies and bad guys around the world. Obama's foreign policy is to punish a nation that is attempting to be more democratic and follow the law, and reward nations like Cuba and Venezuela that support dictatorships and do not support the rule of law. As I wrote earlier-

I've hammered Obama about his domestic policy, where it appears as if he is trying to destroy the United States for no reason at all. Let's not forget Obama's foreign policy though, where he is attempting to hurt our best friends (British, Israel, Georgia) while attempting to give everything to our worst enemies. Not to make this oversimplify or black and white, but Obama appears to be helping the bad guys. That's why he is a bad President.

Much like citizens do at the townhall and tea party rally's, if you support Honduras, you should take action. Powerlineblog has provided some important information to do this. We can urge the State Department not designate the removal of the former Honduran president from office as a military coup- contact information for the US State Department is here. We can also support express support for the constitutional government of Honduras by contacting the Embassy of Honduras in the United States. Its address is 3007 Tilden St. NW, #4M, Washington, DC 20008-3008. You can contact it at: (202) 966-7702 (telephone), (202) 966-9751 (fax), and embajadadehondurasdc@yahoo.com (email).

A while back I wrote in Liberals See Evil Plots Around Every Corner that most liberals today identify the problems facing our society as conspiracies perpetrated by some group of evil people. To a good number of liberals, the problems with healthcare, the economy, the environment, etc are caused by some evil group of people. The name has changed with history- right now it is 'tea baggers,' but in the past it has been Big Oil, Big Business, Wall Street, the Jews, etc. The point is that when you press these liberals, inevitably they see an evil plot around every corner.

Many people I confronted at the latest healthcare townhall that I went to (see post Report from Peters Townhall Sept 09) would confront me personally and accuse me as being part of 'the plot'- they would say that I was paid by the Republican Party, that I was astroturfing, that I was a tool of insurance companies, etc. They couldn't understand that perhaps I was just rejecting their policies and ideas as wrong- instead they tried to attack me, as if discrediting me would discredit my logical, principled arguments.

The modern day Democratic Party, especially the far left version that people are actually putting in power when the vote Democrat, has an ideology- I discussed this before in The Religion of the Democrats. If you really want to understand why Democrats always see evil plots around every corner, I suggest you read that post.

If you don't believe me, here is one of the signs that I saw at the rally- there were a couple like this one, but I think it is a good piece of evidence to support my claim that liberals see evil plots around every corner and that they are following a religion. The sign reads "Fox Deceives, but Some Believe":

Founded by Nnaemeka Ikegwuonu, Smallholders Farmers Rural Radio intends:

To reach rural poor farmers living in rural Nigeria with sustainable agricultural, environmental management skills and daily market information derived from internet sources and established networks in the local Igbo Language. Generate feedback from them with advancement through interactive radio mobile devices. Boosting their agricultural productivity and income.

Watch Nnaemeka provide an overview of his organization here:

Founded by Nnaemeka Ikegwuonu, Smallholders Farmers Rural Radio intends:

To reach rural poor farmers living in rural Nigeria with sustainable agricultural, environmental management skills and daily market information derived from internet sources and established networks in the local Igbo Language. Generate feedback from them with advancement through interactive radio mobile devices. Boosting their agricultural productivity and income.

Watch Nnaemeka provide an overview of his organization here:

More on Poverty Porn in Aid Thoughts:

Aid Watch, after recently discussing the do’s and don’ts of intelligent charity advertising, have unearthed this new ad from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Take a moment and watch it:

More here
via Texas in Africa

More on Poverty Porn in Aid Thoughts:

Aid Watch, after recently discussing the do’s and don’ts of intelligent charity advertising, have unearthed this new ad from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Take a moment and watch it:

More here
via Texas in Africa

George Ayittey recently reissued a call for a Radio Free Africa Wikipedia describes a related effort SW Radio Africa as:

...an independent Zimbabwe radio station broadcasting from London in the United Kingdom. With the government of Robert Mugabe keeping a tight reign on the airwaves, the station produces and presents news and current affairs programmes for broadcast in Zimbabwe on short wave and medium wave. Staffed and run by Zimbabweans in exile it aims to promote democracy and free speech and to counter the mis-information and hate speech broadcast by the state media

Watch related video:

via SmartMobs