2. Let them in, weapons get to the terrorists and the terrorists are emboldened.

3. Try to board and be attacked (update: see video below) and see how it escalates.

No matter what, Israel lost - which was the point of the challenges to the blockade - and the world press will only look superficially at the situation and buy the BS that is being sold them without looking at the reasons and ramifications. And even if 99% of the idiots on the boats were innocent they were being used by the 1%. Nukes and other WMDs surround Israel and Israel is supposed to let the terrorist supporters in or get closer?

The world will eventually pay for lack of stability and vision. Neville Chamberlain should have taught us the folly of appeasement.

Ignoring for now the stupidity of believing skin color or eye color or hair color is an indication of "race" - we're all part of the human race - what the Democrat defenders are saying is that "since the President is 'black' anyone who attacks him is a racist."

Now why is that relevant?  Simple.  President Obama's father was "black" from Kenya. President Obama's mother was "white" from Kansas.  Now to be labeled a "racist" for attacking the President's policies, one has to accept that President Obama is "black." Given that one parent was "white" and the other "black," one must accept the most repulsive, vile, and repugnant "one drop rule" from the Jim Crow era - which meant that "one drop of 'black blood'" essentially made one "non-white." In fact, it was much worse than that. In 1911, Arkansas pass Act 320, a.k.a. the "one-drop rule," making "interracial cohabitation" a felony and defining as "Negro" anyone "who has...any negro blood whatever."  The Supreme Court remedied this stupidity in 1967 when it over-turned the Racial Integrity Act of 1924, but now the racists in the Democrat Party want to bring it back.  (For an authoritative discussion, see the book "Who is Black" by F. James Davis, excerpts of which are available on the internet).

Are the people who say that attacks on the President's policies are racist really advocating adoption of the "one drop rule"? Are the racist Democrats really espousing the "one drop rule" for the President? They are making the argument that the most infamous racists in history were making: that one drop of "black" blood makes you black.  The "one drop" rule, infamous in the Jim Crow era.  Talk about the critics embracing the worst of the racist past and using it to call others racist!

Skin color is irrelevant, freedom and policies are the only concerns.  The true racists are those who think that one's skin color is relevant and that the "one drop" rule should apply to the President.  The President would get the same criticism whomever his parents were, just as President Bush did  for some of his idiotic policies.  Under the Jim Crow system employed regarding criticism of President Obama, a black mother can never have a white baby, while a white mother can have a black baby.  Is that rational?  Is it even relevant?  No, dividing people by skin color is a technique used to gather power by the divide and conquer mentality.  People have the right to be free no matter their eye color, hair color or skin color.  This policy means so much for Thurgood Marshall's insistence that "classifications and distinctions based upon race or color have no moral or legal validity in our society" and Martin Luther King's wish that his children would be judged not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

Family history and genealogy is a wonderful treasure, but it has no place in government policy.  "Race" is a bad concept who's time has long gone.  Everyone in the United States is "American" without any hyphens.  It is time that people started to behave that way.

"We certainly don't need to go back to the moon," Obama administration official.

"We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too."  President Kennedy

And more from President Kennedy:
Those who came before us made certain that this country rode the first waves of the industrial revolution, the first waves of modern invention, and the first wave of nuclear power, and this generation does not intend to founder in the backwash of the coming age of space. We mean to be a part of it--we mean to lead it. For the eyes of the world now look into space, to the moon and to the planets beyond, and we have vowed that we shall not see it governed by a hostile flag of conquest, but by a banner of freedom and peace. We have vowed that we shall not see space filled with weapons of mass destruction, but with instruments of knowledge and understanding.

Yet the vows of this Nation can only be fulfilled if we in this Nation are first, and, therefore, we intend to be first. In short, our leadership in science and industry, our hopes for peace and security, our obligations to ourselves as well as others, all require us to make this effort, to solve these mysteries, to solve them for the good of all men, and to become the world's leading space-faring nation.

We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people. For space science, like nuclear science and all technology, has no conscience of its own. Whether it will become a force for good or ill depends on man, and only if the United States occupies a position of pre-eminence can we help decide whether this new ocean will be a sea of peace or a new terrifying theater of war. I do not say that we should or will go unprotected against the hostile misuse of space any more than we go unprotected against the hostile use of land or sea, but I do say that space can be explored and mastered without feeding the fires of war, without repeating the mistakes that man has made in extending his writ around this globe of ours.

There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet. Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation many never come again. But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas?

1. I will no longer hear people who worry about whether someone is a "light skinned Negro" without a "dialect." Senator Harry Reid (D, Nevada). Racist!
2. I will no longer hear people who call their grandmother a "typical white person." Barack Obama (D-Illinois).  Racist!
3. I will no longer hear people who state "a wise Latina woman ... would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male." Justice Sotomayor (D).  Sexist and Racist!
4. I will no longer hear people who refer to people as "mongrels," were members of the KKK and would not fight "by Negros." Senator Byrd (D, WV).  Racist!
5. I will no longer hear people that have stated President Obama as electable because he is "clean and articulate" -- in contrast with what? - then-Senator Joe Biden (D, DEL).  Racist!
6. I will no longer hear people who say things like "A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee’ – Former President Bill Clinton (D).  Racist!
7. I will no longer hear people who refer to those of the Jewish faith as Hymies and "Hymietown." Jesse Jackson (D). Anti-Semtic!
8. I will no longer hear people who refer to people as the n-word. Jesse Jackson (D) when he thought he was off-air. Racist!
9. I will no longer hear people who say things like "I’m blacker than Barack Obama." Former Illinois Democratic Governor Rod Blagojevich. Racist!
10. I will no longer hear people who say that "African Americans and Hispanics" are "too busy eating watermelons and tacos" to learn how to read and write. - Mike Wallace, CBS (D).  Racist!
11. I will no longer hear anti-semites who refer to people as "diamond merchants." - Al Sharpton (D). Anti-Semetic!

I urge you to ignore these racists too and stop worrying about gender, skin color, and what they call "race." Embrace the human race, not the sexist, racist, dividers. (I'll wait until April 15th to worry about whether to get financial advice Geithner, Daschle, Rangel, all D who failed to pay taxes).

Should the North avoided "rancor" with the South in April of 1861?  Should Roosevelt should have avoided "rancor" with Japan on December 8, 1941?  Should the Africans who were being sold into slavery by their own people to the Europeans have fought or should they have avoided "rancor" in politics?

Anyone who is being sold into serfdom should fight back to preserve their freedoms.  Rancor is perfectly fine. Rancor is good, it means you are engaged and care about being free or being serf.  Rancor means not compromising when it comes to protecting your freedoms.  Rancor means that power-hungry authoritarians are not getting their way.  Rancor means that the line of liberty in the sand is drawn and defended.  Rancor means that the defenders of liberty are not willing to compromise their liberty away bit by bit.

Freedom implies free markets.  Freedom implies free minds.  Freedom implies the freedom to make good, and bad decisions.  Every compromise is a grain of sand dripping out of the hour-glass of freedom.  It may only seem like a single grain, but given enough time eventually the top of the glass will be completely empty.

"Canada is not Mexico, it doesn't have a drug war going on. It didn't have 6,000 homicides that were drug-related last year. Nonetheless, to the extent that terrorists have come into our country, or suspected or known terrorists have come into our country, it has been across the Canadian border."

The CBC reporter then asked whether she was referring to the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks and Napolitano answered:

"Not just those, but others as well. So again, every country is entitled to have a border. It's part of sovereignty."

Napolitano apparently missed the fact that the September 11th terrorists all entered through United States airports. Very comforting to see that level of knowledge displayed yet again in the Obama administration.

Spread my Work Ethic, not my wealth!

Change...giving freeloaders some of what YOU have worked hard for!

Help me Obama, They want me to work and stuff!

Cut taxes, not deals

What part of "limited powers" do you not understand?

It's my birthday, and all Obama got me was more debt!

It's my birthday, and all Obama got me was more taxes!

Why make a corrupt government even BIGGER?

Why should I pay for your bad decisions?

Party like its 1773

Obamanomics - Trickle up poverty

Term Limits for Congress!

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. George Bernard Shaw

No tax cuts for non-taxpayers!

Cut taxes, NOT more deal$

Freedom Works!

Freedom is all the stimulus we need!

Change is all we've got left!

Stop spending money I haven't earned yet (seen with a 10 year old)

Free speech is not extremism

You are not spending Monopoly Money!

I'll keep the freedom, you keep the change

Wall Street got a Bailout, Bailout, Bailout, all I got was the bill!

Don't tax me Bro!

Insanity is trying socialism over and over again and expecting a different result.

As government expands, liberty contracts.  Ronald Reagan, Jan 1989

"DHS Approved"

"Welcome Right Wing Extremists"

If we all paid taxes, we'd ALL be equal.

Get the Pirates out of Washington

Give me liberty, not debt

Wake up and smell the dictator

The worst Pirat is Obamunism

Pork for breakfast, not for Congress

If you think healthcare is expensive now, wait until it is free!

I'm not an ATM, Mr. President.

Right wing extremists: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin

Mr. President: FYI, we stopped BOWING to Kings after 1776

ACORN: Seed of the Obamanut Tree

SOS: Stop Obscene Spending

It's NOON, do you know where you Wallet is?

A society of sheep eventually begets a government of wolves.

The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money

Free minds demand free markets.

I am an American, NO and Extremist!

Free markets, not free-loaders!

My paycheck is NOT your piggybank

DHS warns about "disgruntled military veterans."  Is that how we support our troops?

"I think we can say that, ah, ah, the Constitution reflected a enormous blind-spot in this culture that carries on until this day, and, and, ah, and that ah, the Framers had that same blind spot. Ah, ah, I don't think that the two views are contradictory to say that it is a remarkable political document, ah, that paved the way for where we are now. And to say it ah, also, ah rep, ah, reflected fundamental flaw of this country that continues to this day."

See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11OhmY1obS4

1. One Second After by William R. Forstchen [2009] - EMP (Electro-Magnetic Pulse) hits the United States, what happens next?

2. Alas, Babylon, Pat Frank (1959) - Nuclear war in the 1950s-1960s

3.The Last Ship, William Brinkley (1988) - nuclear war, and the aftermath on a ship.

4. Lucifer's Hammer, Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle (1977) - disaster comes from the sky.

5. On The Beach, Nevil Shute (1957). Nuclear war.

6. Earth Abides, George R. Steward (1949) - disease

7. The Stand, Stephen King

8. Dies the Fire, S.M. Stirling

Have any that you would add?  Let us know below!