We have all heard the line "too big to fail" in regards economics.
Now consider those words when wondering why Obama is effectively safe from impeachment, and -- well -- you know that house of cards metaphor for our financial situation? Think of that as regards the advanced decay of our republic.
Anyone have an answer?
Tuesday, June 03, 2014
Monday, June 02, 2014
Upping the Cynicism Quotient for Democratic Candidates
White House gives its blessing to Senate Democrats who want to campaign against its new global warming rules.
H/T to AoSHQ
P.S.: Speaking of cynicism. Who expect the GOPe will allow the GOP to exploit this news?
Friday, May 30, 2014
The Prog War on Womb Man
is a war on humanity itself. Turn the table on the Progs. You who hold
human life as sacred own the moral high ground in this at least. Act
like you know you own it.
The point of this post was to get the pun out there.
Think about it. Understand all the implications. There is an ancient meme that connects woman to womb-man because it encompasses a role in which only woman may engage. Those who hate humanity (or fear it) have long sought to expunge as much as possible thoughts of providing another womb. Hence, the war on womb-man.
The point of this post was to get the pun out there.
Think about it. Understand all the implications. There is an ancient meme that connects woman to womb-man because it encompasses a role in which only woman may engage. Those who hate humanity (or fear it) have long sought to expunge as much as possible thoughts of providing another womb. Hence, the war on womb-man.
Sunday, May 25, 2014
Rodger Family Statement: All Hollyweird Should Be Sterilized
The above headline is a fantasy, as it could never be uttered by the guilt-ridden speakers.
However dear readers, this fictitious headline is a more fitting response by parents who were truly regretful of their son's rampage yesterday. Instead we read their chutzpah headline garnered to generate sympathy from their like-minded Leftist friends:
However dear readers, this fictitious headline is a more fitting response by parents who were truly regretful of their son's rampage yesterday. Instead we read their chutzpah headline garnered to generate sympathy from their like-minded Leftist friends:
"Rodger Family Releases Statement Supporting Gun Control"The story of how the film-maker father was envied by the son and the father did nothing to rectify it is not the headline. Nor is the fact that the sire provided his monster the opportunity to stab to death three of his friends before striking four others with his car was not even in the man's thoughts. But calling for gun control was.
Thursday, April 17, 2014
Wasting Time Exposing Court Jesters
I must admit I found Ace's title intriguing.
But before I could finish the explanation of the take-down of 'the esteemed" Paul Krugman I was awash with ennui. If that is the right label for the emotion. I'm not sure that ennui even comes close to the disgust I felt about wasting good logic on a complete hack like Krugman; or on any of the Progs that Krug fittingly represents. Self-satisfied, arrogant with not a scintilla of humility, and apparently paid well to provide red-herrings to opponents of Statism when they might otherwise be contemplating ways to effectively eliminating the tyrants.
The otherwise fine job that Ace and, if he's correct in his assessment, that Dan Kahan have attempted proves why writing about the bums and their pretenses is a complete waste of time. In my opinion the bums know they are wrong and it's simply their job to tie sane people up in knots attempting to demonstrate why the clowns are -- if one wishes to more accurately describe them -- well-paid liars.
After over two months of not writing a single word for this blog I think this bit might provide you an explanation as to why.
It is my opinion that committing murder or advocating commiting murder will not solve a thing. In fact it would only exacerbate our woes. However, I would find it hard to denounce people who feel that way today, even to my Maker. That our despots wish us to be thinking like that only further suggests that they may deserve to meet such an end so as to prevent the destruction of so many more people who are relatively innocent. I call myself agnostic only because I do not KNOW My Maker intimately. That He made the world work as it does -- beyond human calculation to make things happen that cannot happen -- I take wholly on faith. And it is because of that faith that I know -- I am NOT agnostic on this -- that today's tyrants seek the destruction of billions of people and the subjugation of the remnant.
In part I know this from the more complex evidence like that of the masthead above. But I know it even more from the tyrants' claims to be doing things that they could never ever do (e.g., 2+2 ≠ 5) but constantly lie that they are doing. This is wrong and leads to disaster and needs to be ended, but it is something that one mere man cannot bring an end to on his own.
I pray daily that He will achieve it much in the manner that Pharaoh was dealt with. Let His wrath pass over the decent human beings and fall on those who deserve it. It's a lot to ask of He with Whom I have no intimate contact; may it be enough that I ask it not for me.
Paul Krugman Gets Pwn3d Like a Loudmouth in a Woody Allen Movie
But before I could finish the explanation of the take-down of 'the esteemed" Paul Krugman I was awash with ennui. If that is the right label for the emotion. I'm not sure that ennui even comes close to the disgust I felt about wasting good logic on a complete hack like Krugman; or on any of the Progs that Krug fittingly represents. Self-satisfied, arrogant with not a scintilla of humility, and apparently paid well to provide red-herrings to opponents of Statism when they might otherwise be contemplating ways to effectively eliminating the tyrants.
The otherwise fine job that Ace and, if he's correct in his assessment, that Dan Kahan have attempted proves why writing about the bums and their pretenses is a complete waste of time. In my opinion the bums know they are wrong and it's simply their job to tie sane people up in knots attempting to demonstrate why the clowns are -- if one wishes to more accurately describe them -- well-paid liars.
After over two months of not writing a single word for this blog I think this bit might provide you an explanation as to why.
It is my opinion that committing murder or advocating commiting murder will not solve a thing. In fact it would only exacerbate our woes. However, I would find it hard to denounce people who feel that way today, even to my Maker. That our despots wish us to be thinking like that only further suggests that they may deserve to meet such an end so as to prevent the destruction of so many more people who are relatively innocent. I call myself agnostic only because I do not KNOW My Maker intimately. That He made the world work as it does -- beyond human calculation to make things happen that cannot happen -- I take wholly on faith. And it is because of that faith that I know -- I am NOT agnostic on this -- that today's tyrants seek the destruction of billions of people and the subjugation of the remnant.
In part I know this from the more complex evidence like that of the masthead above. But I know it even more from the tyrants' claims to be doing things that they could never ever do (e.g., 2+2 ≠ 5) but constantly lie that they are doing. This is wrong and leads to disaster and needs to be ended, but it is something that one mere man cannot bring an end to on his own.
I pray daily that He will achieve it much in the manner that Pharaoh was dealt with. Let His wrath pass over the decent human beings and fall on those who deserve it. It's a lot to ask of He with Whom I have no intimate contact; may it be enough that I ask it not for me.
Thursday, February 06, 2014
$200 Reward for a Verified Copy '82-'83 Reagan Speech
I've posted my recollection of this speech before. Too many establishment Republicans, including so-called friends of Ronald Reagan, apparently don't want the American people to hear this revised version of Reagan's 1964 stump speech.
On this 103rd anniversary of Ronald Reagans birthday, I am offering Internet readers a bonus.
Provide the world with the actual speech and transcript and details of where and when it was given, and I will gratefully provide you with a two hundred dollar bounty. And what is left of the free world too will be grateful too since it will demonstrate how the establishment so hated Reagan that they have been hiding it.
The following, published last year, should provide you with enough information to unearth this buried speech..
Today Is the 102nd anniversary of Ronald Reagan's birth.
Many revere the man not so much for his years in office but for voicing his vision of American ideals clearly and with enthusiasm. Among the best examples of that vision was elucidated in his 1964 stump speech "A Time for Choosing." Excerpt:
It was delivered on behalf of Barry Goldwater's run for president. But far more effectively, it established Mr. Reagan as a first-rate conservative voice in America.
Wait. Don't leave yet just because you think you have heard the 1964 speech before.
Some time in Mr Reagan's first term as president, circa 1982, while traveling in my car, I heard what I consider to be a very important expansion on that speech. I have repeatedly tried to find that later version, but I have not yet succeeded.
So I had a dilemma. Continue to search and wait to pass along what Mr. Reagan attempted to portray or pass along his words as best as I could recall. I made the decision a few years ago that until someone answers my request to unearth the last version of that speech and provide the man's actual words, I would on various occasions publish it. It is what I remember about Mr. Reagan's more detailed explanation of the political mechanism that Americans find themselves saddled with and he meant for you to know it.
He clearly was attempting to provide us with a new model that could be used to override the Marxist model that he rejected. In my opinion he was correct in rejecting it. When we stick to the mono-directional model made famous by Marx and promulgated by our media, we are playing on the field of their choosing. Mr. Reagan offered us an alternative, and we ought to have learned to listen to him by now.
Please forgive me my inabilities to be precise. It is more important that those who love freedom know the essence of his vision as I recall them.
Thank you.
As best as I can recall, Mr. Reagan referred to a political platform. He likened what he considered to be the Marxist political spectrum of left and right to a see-saw of a platform.
On this 103rd anniversary of Ronald Reagans birthday, I am offering Internet readers a bonus.
Provide the world with the actual speech and transcript and details of where and when it was given, and I will gratefully provide you with a two hundred dollar bounty. And what is left of the free world too will be grateful too since it will demonstrate how the establishment so hated Reagan that they have been hiding it.
The following, published last year, should provide you with enough information to unearth this buried speech..
Ronald Reagan's Political Model
Many revere the man not so much for his years in office but for voicing his vision of American ideals clearly and with enthusiasm. Among the best examples of that vision was elucidated in his 1964 stump speech "A Time for Choosing." Excerpt:
You and I are told increasingly we have to choose between a left or right. Well I'd like to suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There's only an up or down: up to man's ages-old dream, the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order, or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. And regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motive, those who would trade our freedom for security have embarked on this downward course.
It was delivered on behalf of Barry Goldwater's run for president. But far more effectively, it established Mr. Reagan as a first-rate conservative voice in America.
Wait. Don't leave yet just because you think you have heard the 1964 speech before.
Some time in Mr Reagan's first term as president, circa 1982, while traveling in my car, I heard what I consider to be a very important expansion on that speech. I have repeatedly tried to find that later version, but I have not yet succeeded.
So I had a dilemma. Continue to search and wait to pass along what Mr. Reagan attempted to portray or pass along his words as best as I could recall. I made the decision a few years ago that until someone answers my request to unearth the last version of that speech and provide the man's actual words, I would on various occasions publish it. It is what I remember about Mr. Reagan's more detailed explanation of the political mechanism that Americans find themselves saddled with and he meant for you to know it.
He clearly was attempting to provide us with a new model that could be used to override the Marxist model that he rejected. In my opinion he was correct in rejecting it. When we stick to the mono-directional model made famous by Marx and promulgated by our media, we are playing on the field of their choosing. Mr. Reagan offered us an alternative, and we ought to have learned to listen to him by now.
Please forgive me my inabilities to be precise. It is more important that those who love freedom know the essence of his vision as I recall them.
Thank you.
As best as I can recall, Mr. Reagan referred to a political platform. He likened what he considered to be the Marxist political spectrum of left and right to a see-saw of a platform.
It is my opinion that the Tea Party movement is the realization of Mr. Reagan's vision. We will no longer limit ourselves to the thinking that we must choose to accept a Left or a Right. We are trying to climb out of the Marxist/Statist pit dug by influential forces who've been incrementally overriding the restraints on their power. We are seeking freedom from the tyranny of those tired old partisans who claim to be working for our common good but are enthusiastically enslaving us and our posterity.The Left would gain control, and they'd pile up programs on their side of the platform. The foundation beneath the platform would begin to sink from the weight of their efforts. This resulted in the platform being tilted noticeably. It made the voters feel uncomfortable. So the voters would turn to the Right to straighten things out.
Well the right might try to prop up the left side a bit, and refill the foundation, but in doing so, they'd dig a hole under their side of the platform next. Those who gain power always have interests who want something back -- usually in the form of legislation that favors them or taxes their competitors -- for their support. Thus the weight of these efforts and favors repaid cause the platform to tip to the right this time. That sinking feeling leaves the voters uncomfortable again.
So the voters would then put the Left back into power. And the Left would begin to fill in the hole under the right, but pile up more programs on their side and drive their side of the platform even deeper into the foundation of America's liberties.
And so it would go on, back and forth, Left and Right, Left then Right. Pretty soon the citizens of this great nation would find themselves in a pit of despair; a pit dug by the machinations of those who built up the oppressive weight of government. Government has been built up incrementally, one law after another, ruling upon ruling, practice becoming entrenched policy. And it was all done under the guise of representing a left or a right side, but both headed in one direction -- into the pit of tyranny. All those vested interests would insist it stay that way. Worse, as they'd get more demanding they'd cloak it with fairness. They were owed all that they'd "earned" for their efforts to gain "their people" power in the past.
At some point the vast majority of Americans will insist on climbing out of the hole dug for them by this political machine -- that single minded and ruthless incremental see-saw of power-seeking achieved by eating away at the foundation of our liberties. Taxes and regulations and busybodyness that is in no way justified in a nation dedicated to individual freedom.
Americans were passed a birthright containing the fresh air of freedom. It is what our Founders had envisioned, and it is what our fathers fought to keep. And it's pretty much still been available to most Americans for around 200 years. If we do not stop the digging soon, somewhere along the way, Americans will demand to be let out of this pit. May God bless them then as He has in the past.
Monday, January 27, 2014
Consider the Possibilities
After you have finished reading my last post Statist Tools: Compliant Media Editing, I'd like you to consider the possibilities of the reaction at the Holder DOJ to this headline.
A: Anti-trust indictment here we come!
Then there is this in the text of the headlined story:
A: An anti-American conspiracy in dire need of eradication.
What has happened to America? Look deeply into your mirror.
Q: What do you suppose will be Eric Holder's first response should any of those political ads be critical of his boss, the Bummer?Rivals DirecTV and Dish team up to sell customized political ads.
A: Anti-trust indictment here we come!
Then there is this in the text of the headlined story:
"Dish and DirecTV said they would consider partnering with cable companies if it means they can reach a larger base."Q: In the unlikely event that all those subscription services suddenly begin acting as if larger government is a bad thing (when you stop laughing...), what will the SSM be calling such an agreement?
A: An anti-American conspiracy in dire need of eradication.
What has happened to America? Look deeply into your mirror.
Statist Tools: Compliant Media Editing
It is clear that those at the top of the influence peddling pyramid know full well that what I'm relating here is obvious to just about every American who is willing to pay attention. So it only goes to prove that you creeps at the top are seeking to provoke a reaction from one or more hotheads so your fascist preparations can finally begin in earnest. What you are ignoring at your own risk is there are many people who understand the dangerous game you are playing and may be even more ruthless than you. The next member of your cadre who dies prematurely in all likelihood will not be due to natural causes. But there will be no evidence to the contrary other than whatever your bunko agents try to invent. Think Andrew Breitbart. You may currently believe that your worst fear is what will happen if you cross your other club members. Reality can prove you wrong. Think about repenting while you still have time.
Two days before the State of the Union speech to be delivered by the President of the United States, that same president was charged with abuse of power by a news-making senator.
It was the kind of statement that news organizations once craved because such controversy helped them sell interest in their shows and gain them revenue.
But what would one expect from a "news" organization whose purpose was not to gin up interest in its shows but rather to promote another agenda even apparently more important than their revenue generated by viewership? You'd expect them to edit out the controversy.
Well, here are the facts of two videos. (You may want to save this page so you will have a record when the originals are dumped down the memory hole.) The first is what was extracted by CBS's Face the Nation when Bob Shieffer interviewed Senator Ted Cruz on Sunday Jan 26 2104.
What was edited out.
What was aired instead.
[Hmmm. The MRC embed code is strangely being ignored by Bloogger. Here it is with the brackets disabled with spaces so maybe you can use it: < iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="http://www.mrctv.org/embed/125154" title="MRC TV video player" width="480" >< /iframe >]
(Well maybe Newsbusters will be able to keep its version alive and safe of the memory hole for a while, so here is the link to them: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jeffrey-meyer/2014/01/26/face-nation-edits-out-senator-cruz-condemning-obama-s-abuse-power#ixzz2rZ167RcB )
It is blatantly obvious that CBS is trying to shield President Obama 2 days before his big speech. It, like Pravda and Izvestia before it, knows no shame when it comes to marching to the demands of the Party. MSM continues to live up to the Soviet-Style Media label. I do not recall what the major news organ was for the Nazis, but I'm sure it was little different from the Soviets, only it lived a shorter time.
An SSM living a shorter time. Has a nice ring to it, no?
What does Dr. Evil think of CBS News?
Two days before the State of the Union speech to be delivered by the President of the United States, that same president was charged with abuse of power by a news-making senator.
It was the kind of statement that news organizations once craved because such controversy helped them sell interest in their shows and gain them revenue.
But what would one expect from a "news" organization whose purpose was not to gin up interest in its shows but rather to promote another agenda even apparently more important than their revenue generated by viewership? You'd expect them to edit out the controversy.
Well, here are the facts of two videos. (You may want to save this page so you will have a record when the originals are dumped down the memory hole.) The first is what was extracted by CBS's Face the Nation when Bob Shieffer interviewed Senator Ted Cruz on Sunday Jan 26 2104.
What was edited out.
What was aired instead.
[Hmmm. The MRC embed code is strangely being ignored by Bloogger. Here it is with the brackets disabled with spaces so maybe you can use it: < iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="http://www.mrctv.org/embed/125154" title="MRC TV video player" width="480" >< /iframe >]
(Well maybe Newsbusters will be able to keep its version alive and safe of the memory hole for a while, so here is the link to them: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jeffrey-meyer/2014/01/26/face-nation-edits-out-senator-cruz-condemning-obama-s-abuse-power#ixzz2rZ167RcB )
It is blatantly obvious that CBS is trying to shield President Obama 2 days before his big speech. It, like Pravda and Izvestia before it, knows no shame when it comes to marching to the demands of the Party. MSM continues to live up to the Soviet-Style Media label. I do not recall what the major news organ was for the Nazis, but I'm sure it was little different from the Soviets, only it lived a shorter time.
An SSM living a shorter time. Has a nice ring to it, no?
What does Dr. Evil think of CBS News?
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| "Unbiased" |
Tuesday, January 07, 2014
Monday, January 06, 2014
A Shining Example
Given the inconvenient turn in climate outlook, this is much more fitting than the Jack Nicholson original.
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| Al Gore is finally a Shining example |
Sunday, January 05, 2014
CAGW Bunkos In the Bunker
Just when you think a format has run its course, someone finds a way to reinject new life into it. I will not make you any promises, but I found the What would Mawson do? segment hilarious.
Just so you know (I had to be informed by my Aussie friend KG) "Chris" is Australian climatologist Chris Turney. This Leader of ill-fated Antarctic expedition, Professor Chris Turney, defends voyage
tells you how much this embarrassment burns him. ["Don't worry. He should make a very good clown." LOL]
If it so moves you, for extended chuckles you will find a copy of the screenplay of the Mawson segment below the break.
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Just so you know (I had to be informed by my Aussie friend KG) "Chris" is Australian climatologist Chris Turney. This Leader of ill-fated Antarctic expedition, Professor Chris Turney, defends voyage
tells you how much this embarrassment burns him. ["Don't worry. He should make a very good clown." LOL]
If it so moves you, for extended chuckles you will find a copy of the screenplay of the Mawson segment below the break.
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Friday, January 03, 2014
What Are the Chances
that certain of you members of the Washington ruling class would have this happen to you?
H/T Drudge Report.
The distinctions as laid down by Angelo Codevilla a few years ago will become all the more contrasted this Happy New Yeah.
I suspect it must be in pursuit of evermore elusive sexual kicks that you hoity-toity experience* from knowing that your policies are killing us hoi polloi.
I have met you people. Any claims you make that your actions are in pursuit of the public good would be laughable were the results not so deadly.
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*Even greater kicks than disgraced former prosecutor and governor Elliot Spitzer got from play-strangling his hookers. His actions were mostly fantasy/play while the actions of you ever more brazen Ruling Class cretins are resulting in the real thing. And I think you still consider him one of you. You really have no normal sense of shame do you?
Given all the muck you helped create and that you love to wallow in, I know that whenever the option occurs to you, you see it would be a shame for you to leave it. But leave it you must if there is any hope remaining for you to save your soul.
| OBAMACARE: Doctor's Office Spends 2 Hours On Hold With Insurer For Surgery Authorization, Before Giving Up... |
H/T Drudge Report.
The distinctions as laid down by Angelo Codevilla a few years ago will become all the more contrasted this Happy New Yeah.
I suspect it must be in pursuit of evermore elusive sexual kicks that you hoity-toity experience* from knowing that your policies are killing us hoi polloi.
I have met you people. Any claims you make that your actions are in pursuit of the public good would be laughable were the results not so deadly.
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*Even greater kicks than disgraced former prosecutor and governor Elliot Spitzer got from play-strangling his hookers. His actions were mostly fantasy/play while the actions of you ever more brazen Ruling Class cretins are resulting in the real thing. And I think you still consider him one of you. You really have no normal sense of shame do you?
Given all the muck you helped create and that you love to wallow in, I know that whenever the option occurs to you, you see it would be a shame for you to leave it. But leave it you must if there is any hope remaining for you to save your soul.
Monday, December 30, 2013
Like a Bolt of Lightning
I had just completed some work on my house that required me to climb around on a ladder for several hours. And it fatigued me quite a bit; particularly my lower legs.
I remarked to a friend. "Ya know, my poor granddad was climbing around on those things until he was almost 70. I don't know how he did it." Of course he did it for a living and I just do it as needed. But still.
About an hour later it hit me.
I'm within two years of his age. Jeesh.
I remarked to a friend. "Ya know, my poor granddad was climbing around on those things until he was almost 70. I don't know how he did it." Of course he did it for a living and I just do it as needed. But still.
About an hour later it hit me.
I'm within two years of his age. Jeesh.
Saturday, December 28, 2013
Adults Needed for the Anti-Statist Movement
JWF posted the following headline from the Washington Examiner. It ought to be pissing the adults in the country off.
Hardly.
The American public is far less Statist than our Soviet-style Media wants us to believe. Hence the relentless propaganda against the TEA Party movement as far Right.
But SSM never even hints, let alone admits, how far Left the Dem Party (and itself) is today.
Meanwhile the GOP is filled with liberal Statists who would rather see a GOP candidate lose to a Dem than let any additional TEA party types win and thus have a chance to form a true anti-Statist party.
Bottom line is that too much of the GOP hierarchy are Progs throwing plays to serve the other team. They do it because Dem views and moneyed interests are much closer to their own hoity-toity position than the position of us members of what they call the hoi polloi (when they aren't calling us racist, homophobes or xenophobles; and it is only a matter of time before they are dehumanizing us as Goebbals did Jews).
This headline may not be a complete lie, but it is misleading. If the GOP remains obstructed because too many Karl Rove type picks get elected, we will only see more govt growth from maneuvers where the Hastert rule is ignored or the filibuster gets gutted without consequence.
Thus Dem losses in 2014 are not enough to turn things around. God help us.
"Democrats will pay political price for Obamacare in 2014"
Hardly.
The American public is far less Statist than our Soviet-style Media wants us to believe. Hence the relentless propaganda against the TEA Party movement as far Right.
But SSM never even hints, let alone admits, how far Left the Dem Party (and itself) is today.
Meanwhile the GOP is filled with liberal Statists who would rather see a GOP candidate lose to a Dem than let any additional TEA party types win and thus have a chance to form a true anti-Statist party.
Bottom line is that too much of the GOP hierarchy are Progs throwing plays to serve the other team. They do it because Dem views and moneyed interests are much closer to their own hoity-toity position than the position of us members of what they call the hoi polloi (when they aren't calling us racist, homophobes or xenophobles; and it is only a matter of time before they are dehumanizing us as Goebbals did Jews).
This headline may not be a complete lie, but it is misleading. If the GOP remains obstructed because too many Karl Rove type picks get elected, we will only see more govt growth from maneuvers where the Hastert rule is ignored or the filibuster gets gutted without consequence.
Thus Dem losses in 2014 are not enough to turn things around. God help us.
Sunday, December 15, 2013
Bush Lines
From Fox News we read:
The latest scion of one of America's most powerful political dynasties is trying to convince voters he's something other than what his famous surname suggests.
Right! /s
Recall that W told us he was more like Reagan than his dad.
How did that work out? Well, why not let W demonstrate.
[This is his notorious "Fool me once...." faux pas.]
Had W kept his word and governed like Reagan in most every other way, who thinks we would now be facing what we are today?
(BTW. Who thinks being like Newt sharing-the-couch-with-Pelosi Gingrich is a good thing?)
The next Bush says he’s more like Gingrich than presidential uncle, grandfather.
The latest scion of one of America's most powerful political dynasties is trying to convince voters he's something other than what his famous surname suggests.
Right! /s
Recall that W told us he was more like Reagan than his dad.
How did that work out? Well, why not let W demonstrate.
[This is his notorious "Fool me once...." faux pas.]
Had W kept his word and governed like Reagan in most every other way, who thinks we would now be facing what we are today?
(BTW. Who thinks being like Newt sharing-the-couch-with-Pelosi Gingrich is a good thing?)
Sunday, December 01, 2013
Projection: "Soviet-Style" Being Used by Media Itself
Regular readers know that I've been waging a campaign for new media to habitually label the Obama endorsing and protecting Mainstream Media (MSM) as Soviet-Style Media (SSM).
But now the media, itself recognizing that my charges against them are warranted, has decided to use the term Soviet-style as it sees fit. By applying the attribute to others they hope to avoid having the label applied to themselves.
Well, I hope you all understand my frustration here. With the notable exception of Nemesis, nobody else has taken on the media for their Soviet-style behavior by that name.
Ok, here's the evidence, both appearing today.
First Mark Levin (frequently a TEA Party supporter, but hardly one of us) tweeted his facebook entry (with the fb extra length included in brackets):
Then there was this tweet by Drudge of his headline Media attacks 'Soviet-style' publicity policy... but that happens to be the headline from and link to the mainstream Telegraph. So naturally, I repeated my challenge of Levin to Drudge "C'mon Matt...."
I repeat that challenge to the whole of the dextropshere. (If nothing else, go to those replies to Levin and Drudge and retweet them so that those guys get the sense that we are serious.)
Dare to be leaders. It is hardly difficult to state the obvious behavior of our pols and our media. I know that it is hard to be the first; but new nobility is needed. Many more of us can dare calling every twist and turn accurately so that others like us feel comfortable with calling things as they appear in reality.
The media has not yet gotten into full projection mode. If you delay, others will delay too. The media will shortly be calling others what they are themselves if you fail. They may do it anyway, but you can point to my blog entries and our side at least will know the truth.
But now the media, itself recognizing that my charges against them are warranted, has decided to use the term Soviet-style as it sees fit. By applying the attribute to others they hope to avoid having the label applied to themselves.
Well, I hope you all understand my frustration here. With the notable exception of Nemesis, nobody else has taken on the media for their Soviet-style behavior by that name.
Ok, here's the evidence, both appearing today.
First Mark Levin (frequently a TEA Party supporter, but hardly one of us) tweeted his facebook entry (with the fb extra length included in brackets):
Even government radio is frustrated with government propaganda. Obama manages the press the way the old Soviet [dictators did.]and my reply to him (unanswered) was:
@marklevinshow C'mon Mark. Go the full step. Relabel the MSM as the SSM -- the Soviet-Style Media. For some history: http://t.co/Z11XtCz5t8
— Pascal Fervor (@PascalFervor) December 1, 2013
Then there was this tweet by Drudge of his headline Media attacks 'Soviet-style' publicity policy... but that happens to be the headline from and link to the mainstream Telegraph. So naturally, I repeated my challenge of Levin to Drudge "C'mon Matt...."
@DRUDGE_REPORT C'mon Matt. Go the full step. Relabel all MSM as the SSM -- the Soviet-Style Media. Some history: http://t.co/Z11XtCz5t8 …
— Pascal Fervor (@PascalFervor) December 1, 2013
I repeat that challenge to the whole of the dextropshere. (If nothing else, go to those replies to Levin and Drudge and retweet them so that those guys get the sense that we are serious.)
Dare to be leaders. It is hardly difficult to state the obvious behavior of our pols and our media. I know that it is hard to be the first; but new nobility is needed. Many more of us can dare calling every twist and turn accurately so that others like us feel comfortable with calling things as they appear in reality.
The media has not yet gotten into full projection mode. If you delay, others will delay too. The media will shortly be calling others what they are themselves if you fail. They may do it anyway, but you can point to my blog entries and our side at least will know the truth.
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
The Tragedy of Consensus
What gets us into trouble is not so much our ignorance. It's what we know that just ain't so. -- Mark TwainThe regrettable reality is how many of us are susceptible to group think – the consensus understanding of anything that “everybody knows.”
We in the west like to think of ourselves as more civilized, more advanced and all that, but we’re just as capable of refusing to acknowledge reality and looking at facts placed in front of us. We’re not very different from the barbarians of old believing in potions, chicken bones and whatever hocus-pocus is shown to them. We’re susceptible to the same stupidity. -- Mathew in comment at Crusader Rabbit
I like Mathew's observation of our civility. Particularly our "intelligentsia" thinks themselves more civilized; they will see that there is hell to pay for anyone who dares suggest they’re not. Burn the evidence and the detectives who dared dig it up.
And it is not just our wannabe rulers.
Most of us react instantly negatively to anyone who dares violate our consensus. The reaction has been been described as having ones world turned upside down. Nausea is not an uncommon result. So it is not abnormal when all of us, as a general rule, hate to fight the consensus we find surrounding us lest we find ourselves on the receiving end of that reflexive negativity and emotional outbursts. That is tragic; only made more so by those who exploit it. Sociopaths are tremendously successful in tiptoeing past that minefield while condemning most of the rest of us to the mines they themselves placed. Yet even the harshest of realities may never burst the illusions in some people. The proof of that is found in the reports of the last words of communist true-believers as they died in Stalin's Gulags: "If Stalin only knew [what a faithful comrade am I]." It is quite apparent that consensus and the fear of transgressing is so strong that, were zombies real, it would be manifest in its victims after death.
If I ever stop procrastinating I will complete the series of screeds I've begun about how consensus has been a terrible factor in why we are so divided in how we perceive our troubles and our enemies.
Although there are many national stories and news outlets and major talk show hosts who traffic heavily in fostering and maintaining consensus views, I have a couple of anecdotal examples of defense of consensus views. One is from the Left. It is the rabbi with whom I differed over his new-age take on Genesis 22. He censored my rejoinders, and eventually deleted from his site that portion of our interchange he originally posted. However, his efforts are foiled by the wayback machine and copies of what he refused to publish. The second is from the Right. Tam did not delete our discussion, but her manner provides a fine demonstration of why the Right is no home for either principled conservatism or classical liberalism.
Neither example is of people influential enough to be considered significant members of the Downers. But their type sure as shooting aids the Downers by being so damned closed-minded and fearful of climbing out of the pit of despair and joining the Upsiders. That both will blindly continue what they've been doing and expecting different results is sad. That they are not alone is tragic.
More anon. Soon I pray.
Sunday, November 24, 2013
Art of the Moment
This artful pic was captured yesterday by one of my offspring while escapading.
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Friday, November 22, 2013
The Downer of SSM Openly Admitted by a Mediot
I just had to share this one line from a review of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.
Pray my friends.
The depiction of a craven television media's employing all its flashy insincerity in the service of power comes so close to modern-day reality that it's chilling. [emphasis added]From the mouths of the enslaved members of the outer party.
Pray my friends.
Thursday, November 21, 2013
How America Became a Corporate-Fascist Clone of the Soviet Union
That dear readers is the title of the epic I will never write. Surely someone will because it's aching to be told.
One complex question:
One complex question that I think leads to finding an answer to the question of my epic's title is this one.
Certainly the trustees that manage that those plans are all carefully vetted corporate men and unionists (corporatists and Leftists? -- R & L Downers at any rate) respectively, who vote each other onto corporate boards of directors when each new proxy is sent out.
They drink fine wine and eat caviar at annual shareholders' meetings as they battle amongst themselves:
How did America become a corporate-fascist clone of the Soviet Union?
One complex question:
One complex question that I think leads to finding an answer to the question of my epic's title is this one.
How many people with portions of their pay invested in 401Ks and union pension plans realize how their savings have enabled the trustees of those plans to make a mockery of the promise of "publicly held" corporations?Why is this question germane?
Certainly the trustees that manage that those plans are all carefully vetted corporate men and unionists (corporatists and Leftists? -- R & L Downers at any rate) respectively, who vote each other onto corporate boards of directors when each new proxy is sent out.
They drink fine wine and eat caviar at annual shareholders' meetings as they battle amongst themselves:
- what is their most favorable course of corporate and governmental directions?
- who in government are most certain to advance their goals?
- who in government is most certain to obstruct their goals?
- who on K Street is the best choice to see their ultimatums get delivered?
How did America become a corporate-fascist clone of the Soviet Union?
Friday, November 15, 2013
Downers' Downers, No. 1
Yesterday I decided to take Ronald Reagan seriously enough to abandon the Marxist scale of Left and Right because there are too many Progs hiding out and influencing what we call the Right. While it takes some more than others to recognize that in the past they have influenced the Right to accept, incrementally, rule by the Left, they in the last dozen year or so have become more radical and have forced more aggressive compromises on all of us.
I have had enough. I do not think I am alone. So let me remind you again that Reagan said we do not have to accept the false notion of Left or Right; that we need to recognize there is really only an Up or Down.
Yesterday I labeled myself with the Ups. And I identified the enemy of us Ups and labeled them as the Downs.
Upsider is my label today (and may yet change again). Downers is what I may like for all time for all enemies of individual liberty.
That aside, here is today's news report exposing another of the negative effects on human life by the Downers. This time it was one life, tomorrow it could be more as we continue to let them run roughshod over all our values by force of arms.
LAX security officer bled for 33 minutes as help stood by, report says
How many ways was this one human death unnecessary and how many was it indeed necessary?
Necessary in that:
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I have had enough. I do not think I am alone. So let me remind you again that Reagan said we do not have to accept the false notion of Left or Right; that we need to recognize there is really only an Up or Down.
Up to individual freedom, consistent with law and order, or Down to the ant-heap of totalitarianism.
Yesterday I labeled myself with the Ups. And I identified the enemy of us Ups and labeled them as the Downs.
Upsider is my label today (and may yet change again). Downers is what I may like for all time for all enemies of individual liberty.
That aside, here is today's news report exposing another of the negative effects on human life by the Downers. This time it was one life, tomorrow it could be more as we continue to let them run roughshod over all our values by force of arms.
LAX security officer bled for 33 minutes as help stood by, report says
An airport security officer lay helplessly bleeding after a gunman opened fire at Los Angeles International Airport as paramedics waited 150 yards away because police had not declared the terminal safe to enter, according to two law enforcement officials.
It would be 33 minutes before Transportation Security Administration Officer Gerardo Hernandez, who was about 20 feet from an exit, would be wheeled out by police to an ambulance, said the officials, who were briefed on the investigation and spoke on condition of anonymity because the probe was still ongoing into the Nov. 1 shooting.
For all but five of those minutes, there was no threat from the suspected gunman -- he had been shot and was in custody, they said.
How many ways was this one human death unnecessary and how many was it indeed necessary?
Necessary in that:
- the Downers want and have used this death as an excuse to clamp down on citizens rights some more
- the Downers want more TSA armed despite the reports of their agents' unpunished misconduct.
- the Downers wanting the TSA to adopt even more of an Us versus Them attitude.
- the Downers undoubtedly want more than this, and I and my commenters reserve the right to call them on it yet.
- The help was not "standing by," they were prevented by the law officers compelled by Downer rules of engagement.
- Even armed volunteers were prevented from retrieving the bleeding man by orders of the Downers.
- Downers had offered no "medic" style training for rescuing wounded. Still don't. Disgusting.
- Downers have repeatedly hid behind their SSM built consensus that prevents non-felonious citizens from being armed in the first place.
- "Gunfree" zones are respected only by the law-abiding and sane Downers know this to be true.
- I reserve the right to add to this list as they occur to me or my commenters.
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Thursday, November 14, 2013
Envy As Admitted Federal Policy
Unbelieveably, the essence of Marxist class warfare, envy and its exploitation, was admitted today by "one of the prime architects of both the Massachusetts healthcare reform and the Affordable Care Act, Professor of economics at MIT, Jonathon Gruber." [source]
Sickening. Coveting the health of your neighbor is now fair game in contemporary America. Essentially this: 'If you are healthy, you deserve to be handicapped, and we have the power to do it to you.' You first Dr. Gruber.
Incidental report from the street:
I hear from soft-headed liberals who have been repeating the nonsense that gets aired repeatedly on SSM TV such as MSNBC declare that conservatives are anti-American because they disagree with President Obama. This revelation will not faze them in the least.
The real problem:
What is more of a problem are the conservative talkshow hosts who refuse to call this president a Marxist. And you know the old Leftist slogan -- "no enemies on the left." That would explain a great deal why talkers like Michael Medved and others at Salem broadcasting regularly call out others on the Right as traitors to the GOP before they'll call out Leftists as traitors to America. Or traitors to common decency. Or traitors to JudeoChristian ethics (thou shall not covet) such as this genius Gruber.
One Solution:
We of the TEA Party movement need to disassociate ourselves from the "Rightists" on the Marxist political spectrum of Left and Right. Let me repeat Ronald Reagan's vision for you.
I am not on the Right any longer. There are too many Downs over there. I'm with the Ups.
To Hell with Downs like Medved, Hewitt, Prager, and anyone else who thinks like them. They are unfit company for people who need to recognize and fight all the enemies of freedom.
"That means that the genetic winners, the lottery winners who've been paying an artificially low price because of this discrimination now will have to pay more in return."
Sickening. Coveting the health of your neighbor is now fair game in contemporary America. Essentially this: 'If you are healthy, you deserve to be handicapped, and we have the power to do it to you.' You first Dr. Gruber.
Incidental report from the street:
I hear from soft-headed liberals who have been repeating the nonsense that gets aired repeatedly on SSM TV such as MSNBC declare that conservatives are anti-American because they disagree with President Obama. This revelation will not faze them in the least.
The real problem:
What is more of a problem are the conservative talkshow hosts who refuse to call this president a Marxist. And you know the old Leftist slogan -- "no enemies on the left." That would explain a great deal why talkers like Michael Medved and others at Salem broadcasting regularly call out others on the Right as traitors to the GOP before they'll call out Leftists as traitors to America. Or traitors to common decency. Or traitors to JudeoChristian ethics (thou shall not covet) such as this genius Gruber.
One Solution:
We of the TEA Party movement need to disassociate ourselves from the "Rightists" on the Marxist political spectrum of Left and Right. Let me repeat Ronald Reagan's vision for you.
There is no such thing as a left or right. There's only an up or down: up to man's ages-old dream, the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order, or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism.
I am not on the Right any longer. There are too many Downs over there. I'm with the Ups.
To Hell with Downs like Medved, Hewitt, Prager, and anyone else who thinks like them. They are unfit company for people who need to recognize and fight all the enemies of freedom.
Monday, November 11, 2013
Australians Teaching Americans What to Seek
h/t Crusader Rabbit.
Somehow the Aussies were able to overpower the propaganda stream of the ABC, their govt funded SSM, and threw out the Leftist PM Gillard. Now they have elected a non-collectivist parliament and Prime Minister quite contrary to what we have here in America.
It proves what can be done if common people learn to band together -- no matter their other differences -- for the sake of their very lives.
Now, dear God protect the new movement and its leaders from both lethal enemies and the allure of, and traps set by, those who ply evil ways.
Saturday, November 09, 2013
Suitable Postscript for Much Contemporary News
While reading several bits of news, while in IMs with friends, and while reading commentaries at the blogs that I frequent, I remember this clip that I uploaded last year.
I think I may use it more from time to time after I comment on a contemporary story that was not possible in the America of the past.
The shocked American: "You mean there is nothing I can do in a legal way?"
The answer of the circumstance: "Mr. ____: this is not the United States... go back to America!"
Tuesday, November 05, 2013
Fatally Naive Americans
The Nov 3 WSJ has an op ed
You Also Can't Keep Your Doctor
I had great cancer doctors and health insurance. My plan was cancelled. Now I worry how long I'll live.
(h/t JWF)
It has as its closing lines
For a cancer patient, medical coverage is a matter of life and death. Take away people's ability to control their medical-coverage choices and they may die. I guess that's a highly effective way to control medical costs. Perhaps that's the point. --emphasis added
Perhaps? This bespeaks the fatal naivety of all Americans constrained by PC from stating obvious truths.
What could pass as the Obamacare theme song is now 4 decades old. It has in its frankest of renditions the closing lines:
"Won't you give it a try?[Boom]
Live and let die!"
For several decades I have witnessed and reported upon the fear in so many to speak of the dark side of the Sustainability movement. It is doubly upsetting to see it in those who claim to be God fearing. God fearing implies you accept the premise that all human life is sacred. Turning a blind eye to reports of a mounting threat to that premise (most unsettling to me when I've witnessed it in clergy) is more understandable when the threat seems hypothetical, but not from someone like Ms. Sundby while suffering the repercussions.
Ms Sundby still wants to believe that the machinations to which she is victim are only her imagination. So she writes "perhaps." I guess it makes her feel better. [Or perhaps the addition of perhaps it was required by the WSJ editor. In a world where damned consensus rules are expected to be understood, I doubt the editor needed to make a direct request.]
In a way, this makes Ms Sundby a martyr to Political Correctness. That she in her present circumstances is found still kowtowing to the consensus (to not speak of the Susnuts) ought to be eye opening for the rest of us. The souls of people who martyred themselves in defense of innocent human life would not be amused.
Please enlighten me how to open the eyes of more while there is still time.
Sunday, November 03, 2013
Really Sad
From Ed Driscoll at PJMedia.
As I posted a few weeks ago, the surname similarity (Jean Sibelius vs Kathleen Sebelius) causes me to associate this cold martinet with the Finnish composer who gifted us with the beautifully elegiac tune "Valse Triste" -- sad waltz. Her being in charge of implementing death panels is as far removed from the nostalgic feelings that an elegy seeks to evoke as anything you might consider.
So it is with some satisfaction to see this picture where the insult implied by the title of the book she has just been handed has finally dented the phony smiling facade of this supremely arrogant public servant who, when asked if she would resign due to stupendous incompetence, snipped "I don't work for my critics."
The sad thing is how much damage she and her bureaucracy will have done to America before we have a chance to legally see that she is punished for her maliciousness. This roll-out has been so bad it could not have been worse had it been planned that way. Heads should roll for such enormous incompetence. The really sad thing is that they won't.
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| Look at the anger in her expression and be very afraid should she have any say in whether or not you get to see a doctor. |
So it is with some satisfaction to see this picture where the insult implied by the title of the book she has just been handed has finally dented the phony smiling facade of this supremely arrogant public servant who, when asked if she would resign due to stupendous incompetence, snipped "I don't work for my critics."
The sad thing is how much damage she and her bureaucracy will have done to America before we have a chance to legally see that she is punished for her maliciousness. This roll-out has been so bad it could not have been worse had it been planned that way. Heads should roll for such enormous incompetence. The really sad thing is that they won't.
Saturday, November 02, 2013
Fodder for Thought
My friend Paul emailed me this questionnaire that has not simply multiple choice answers, but opportunities to offer deeper thoughts on the questions raised.
I am sharing with readers all the responses submitted which were not one of the muliple choices provided. Five detailed responses in all.
I most certainly invite my readers to agree, disagree, or add and subtract to any of the answers I gave.
Additionally, you may find it useful to your own understanding of various issues to ponder these or other questions asked at the site; that is whether or not you submit your answers.
Think of it as a personal interview. Be careful not to be "push-polled" into giving an answer. An example of that is my answer to the question about Iran. At this point I do not know what should be done. Our national policy towards them was destroyed by Jimmy Carter. Every opening where we might have improved our relations were, in my opinion, bungled opportunities at best. All the worse ways of looking at how those opportunities were handled involve hidden agendas which invite open ended speculations which do little to solve the threats of Iran to the world today.
I am sharing with readers all the responses submitted which were not one of the muliple choices provided. Five detailed responses in all.
I most certainly invite my readers to agree, disagree, or add and subtract to any of the answers I gave.
Additionally, you may find it useful to your own understanding of various issues to ponder these or other questions asked at the site; that is whether or not you submit your answers.
Think of it as a personal interview. Be careful not to be "push-polled" into giving an answer. An example of that is my answer to the question about Iran. At this point I do not know what should be done. Our national policy towards them was destroyed by Jimmy Carter. Every opening where we might have improved our relations were, in my opinion, bungled opportunities at best. All the worse ways of looking at how those opportunities were handled involve hidden agendas which invite open ended speculations which do little to solve the threats of Iran to the world today.
Do you support the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)?
So many times tort reform has been discussed as the ultimate answer, but it falls flat each time. It may be due to Congress being so full of attorneys and influenced by the lawyer lobby. Also the media so in line with them that this discussion is never given a fair airing or a chance. Medical costs have risen directly proportional to out of control court awards (legal liability passed along to every patient as a natural part of the cost of doing business). Tort reform (in conjunction with a more punitive AMA for bad doctors) is the single biggest solution to the escalating health costs.
The nation would be better served with understanding the legal costs being a major portion of this problem if its media were not so filled with stupid or corrupt people.
Should the United States end its trade embargo and travel ban on Cuba?
If we keep it, those caught violating ought to be prosecuted. Not prosecuting undermines respect for the law. It's so bad, it is probably too late for that. As it stands, open contempt for law and selective (political) enforcement has become commonplace, which is unfitting for a republic of laws and more fitting of fascist tyrannies.
How should the U.S. deal with Iran?
I don't know now. Easier solutions were available in past opportunities. Much of the current problem stems from our political system not wishing to admit they failed to take advantage of those earlier and easier solutions.
Should the U.S. maintain a presence at the United Nations?
Should the U.S. continue NSA surveillance of its allies?
Wherever did the notion that we don't keep an eye on everybody become a common understanding? When Ronald Reagan said "trust but verify" that seemed to be a general statement of one of the purposes of any nation's overall foreign policy. When did it become considered to be the symptoms of some form of national paranoia to engage in surveillance? This has been around since the beginning of time, only in less technological forms.
Thursday, October 31, 2013
SSM Delenda Est
Drudge's Headline caught my attention.
EXORCIST AUTHOR: SEBELIUS BACKS 'DEMONIC ACTS'...
That links to an article published yesterday by a long-standing member of the Soviet-Style Media (SSM), the Washington Post:
William Peter Blatty, writer of ‘The Exorcist,’ slips back into the light for its 40th anniversary By Dan Zak,
[snip]
Guaranteed, the reporter has in his possession all those graphic details about the particular abortion procedure that Sebelius endorses. Whatever was in them that reduced Bill Blatty's voice to whisper "that's demonic," the WaPo editor censured from us readers. Under no circumstances will they permit any doubt be cast upon the narrative. Especially the unspeakable, demonic narrative of the death cults.
SSM delenda est before it does it to you.
That links to an article published yesterday by a long-standing member of the Soviet-Style Media (SSM), the Washington Post:
William Peter Blatty, writer of ‘The Exorcist,’ slips back into the light for its 40th anniversary By Dan Zak,
[snip]
Blatty has a gravity about him, and also, somehow, a lightness. An impishness. This is a man who is quick to laugh to the point of tears and also thinks that these may be “the last days.” This is a man who says, after a sip of coffee with Equal sweetener, “It’s a fallen world,” like he’s noting the weather.Those last 3 paragraphs should inform normal decent people why the SSM must be destroyed and the ground on which it stands salted so that nothing will ever grow there again.
Mere steps away from lunch is evidence of the fallen, in his eyes: his beloved alma mater, which he believes has drifted perilously into secularism. This month, Blatty submitted to the Vatican a petition with thousands of signatures and a 120-page institutional audit that calls for the removal of Georgetown’s Catholic and Jesuit designations if it does not comply with every little rule in “Ex Corde Ecclesiae,” John Paul II’s constitution for affiliated colleges. The university, for its part, says the “Catholic and Jesuit identity on campus has never been stronger.”
Bill, what are you doing? people have asked him.
Bill, times change. Let it go.
Bill, why are you punishing the school you love, the school whose scholarship money rescued you from a childhood of restless poverty in New York, the school that made possible your life, that cemented your faith?
“If you truly love someone that you think needs to be in rehab, you’ll do everything you possibly can to get them into rehab,” Blatty says. The last straw, he says, was Georgetown’s invitation of Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, to be a commencement speaker in May of last year. Sebelius has a record of supporting abortion rights, and abortion is the issue that really sets Blatty’s nerves on fire.
He describes, his voice trembling, a particular abortion procedure in graphic detail.
He pauses. His voice is nearly a whisper.
“That’s demonic.”
Guaranteed, the reporter has in his possession all those graphic details about the particular abortion procedure that Sebelius endorses. Whatever was in them that reduced Bill Blatty's voice to whisper "that's demonic," the WaPo editor censured from us readers. Under no circumstances will they permit any doubt be cast upon the narrative. Especially the unspeakable, demonic narrative of the death cults.
SSM delenda est before it does it to you.
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Alinskyite Norquist?
Breitbart headline sent to my email
Grover Norquist Turns to Progressive Media in Crusade Against Ted Cruz
Is Norquist joining the burgeoning Alinsky rule number 12* campaign waged by the Dems and the GOP traitors against Ted Cruz?
Or could it be the beginning of a counter-alinskyite campaign led by Breitbart against Norquist? Given that Breitbart's current leadership displays to us nobody with the balls of its founder, we will see how long that lasts.
To add insult to injury, Norquist is funneling the money of conservatives to the one institution, SSM, that spurs on the mobs 24/7 to threaten all conservatives. However, he's got a lot of company there, including the TEA Party Patriots who continue to ignore grass roots complaints not to help keep SSM alive by paying it for anything.
*RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)
Grover Norquist Turns to Progressive Media in Crusade Against Ted Cruz
Is Norquist joining the burgeoning Alinsky rule number 12* campaign waged by the Dems and the GOP traitors against Ted Cruz?
Or could it be the beginning of a counter-alinskyite campaign led by Breitbart against Norquist? Given that Breitbart's current leadership displays to us nobody with the balls of its founder, we will see how long that lasts.
To add insult to injury, Norquist is funneling the money of conservatives to the one institution, SSM, that spurs on the mobs 24/7 to threaten all conservatives. However, he's got a lot of company there, including the TEA Party Patriots who continue to ignore grass roots complaints not to help keep SSM alive by paying it for anything.
*RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)
Sunday, October 27, 2013
Attacked Again By My Personal Demon
It is a demon that mocks me in my efforts to increase wider understandings, understandings that were made possible by God having gifted me with a mind that notices things, has a long memory, and quickly ties various and disparate events and things together.
The demon's damage is made worse by it knowing how how it bothers me and stymies in my efforts out of my fear that my efforts might increase misunderstandings inadvertently or clumsily. You cannot un-ring a bell, and it's terribly hard to rewind an untensioned spool that's slipped its retainer.
For those who do me the honor of coming here to read my blather, I am going to show you why I so often shut down and not write anything more than short comments at other sites for long periods of time. I have a fear of making large mistakes and missing them, then have those mistakes go on to proliferate to have a life of their own, spreading more misinformation.
Beginning with a simple comment I left at Gates of Vienna in hopes of alerting historian Seneca III to an unfavorable use of his famous name, I made my first mistake of going into details in a follow-up comment that I specifically chose to do in order to spell out the threat to the author's name (guilt by association that could be stemmed with what I was demonstrating) more concisely.
The second mistake, had it been made only once, could be written off to maybe a typographical one that the spell-checker fixed, but which I did not notice. Yet even then, because the word used so destroys the understanding of the sentence, I still should have caught it. Worse. I did it more than once!
Here is the mea culpa I left at GoV (edited due to more errors! in the one posted there).
Thank you too, dear readers, for putting up with my frailties.
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The demon's damage is made worse by it knowing how how it bothers me and stymies in my efforts out of my fear that my efforts might increase misunderstandings inadvertently or clumsily. You cannot un-ring a bell, and it's terribly hard to rewind an untensioned spool that's slipped its retainer.
For those who do me the honor of coming here to read my blather, I am going to show you why I so often shut down and not write anything more than short comments at other sites for long periods of time. I have a fear of making large mistakes and missing them, then have those mistakes go on to proliferate to have a life of their own, spreading more misinformation.
Beginning with a simple comment I left at Gates of Vienna in hopes of alerting historian Seneca III to an unfavorable use of his famous name, I made my first mistake of going into details in a follow-up comment that I specifically chose to do in order to spell out the threat to the author's name (guilt by association that could be stemmed with what I was demonstrating) more concisely.
The second mistake, had it been made only once, could be written off to maybe a typographical one that the spell-checker fixed, but which I did not notice. Yet even then, because the word used so destroys the understanding of the sentence, I still should have caught it. Worse. I did it more than once!
Here is the mea culpa I left at GoV (edited due to more errors! in the one posted there).
OMG. Several days late I have noticed that I made an awful error, and not just once.
In each instance where I typed “explicit,” the term I had intended was “extrinsic.”
I am not terribly prone to Malaprop, but this one being part of a quite esoteric subject with which I hoped to improve understanding of how the anti-theists without merit seek to exploit the name of Seneca, I find it terribly embarrassing.
However, my personal embarrassment by exposing it is less important than the stopping the propagation of misinformation just in case anybody is paying attention.
Extrinsic* (and not explicit) is the unwelcome parasitic property that seeks to attach itself to the intrinsic*.
The following line is the correct one:
I point to how Pascal was clearly irked by how extrinsic probabilism used by the Casuists seated at the Sorbonne crowded out all of the originals’ intrinsic substance.This is why I say I’m best in providing insights rather than details where, echoing S III’s words, the damnable creeps in. And it also demonstrates why I dislike writing so. This shows why writing is, for me, a form of penance. Penance for the propaganda delivery system that I helped make possible, yes. But also penance for mostly making a living in my pre-retirement years and not battling the Statists in a more proportionate level to that which they attacked what I hold dear.
Thank you for your understanding.
Thank you too, dear readers, for putting up with my frailties.
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Thursday, October 24, 2013
'Hypocrisy for Me; Silence Thee'
Today the CBS wing of the Soviet-style media (SSM) carries the headline "Hillary Clinton Turns Tables On Heckler In Buffalo."
Drudge. instead, chose to inform us how CBS thinks she turned the tables:
'THE FUTURE DOESN'T INCLUDE YELLING'
which implies that silence -- permitting only speech deemed pleasant and agreeable -- would be (God forbid) the Harridan in Chief's rule for the rest of us.
While I'm at it, and because the SSM (nor Drudge in this case) will not remind Americans, remember this for them.
In 2003, Hillary Clinton screeched "I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you're not patriotic. We should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration."
**Update**
I am please to discover that apparently JWF beat me by a few hours in connecting the dots.
I made a point of it because Drudge failed to do it. It is important to make sure that inconsistencies, like this of Frau Hillary's two opposing opinions, are recorded in one place. It is the kind of thing that will bind our anti-fascist forces together.
Drudge. instead, chose to inform us how CBS thinks she turned the tables:
'THE FUTURE DOESN'T INCLUDE YELLING'
which implies that silence -- permitting only speech deemed pleasant and agreeable -- would be (God forbid) the Harridan in Chief's rule for the rest of us.
While I'm at it, and because the SSM (nor Drudge in this case) will not remind Americans, remember this for them.
In 2003, Hillary Clinton screeched "I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you're not patriotic. We should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration."
**Update**
I am please to discover that apparently JWF beat me by a few hours in connecting the dots.
I made a point of it because Drudge failed to do it. It is important to make sure that inconsistencies, like this of Frau Hillary's two opposing opinions, are recorded in one place. It is the kind of thing that will bind our anti-fascist forces together.
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
More On How MSM is Now SSM
For those who still do not yet call the Main Stream Media (MSM) the
Soviet-Style Media (SSM), here's a few paragraphs from Slate to
demonstrate why it is so. And this particular example embodies the
gruesome, Utilitarian nostrums of what is deemed right and proper by our
ever more power-mad elite.
The title published by this laughably insignificant member of the SSM tells you all you need to know about the SSM's penchant for the Death Cult agenda:
And the words of the article's second paragraph, and the last words of its third demonstrates how much like Pravda they are.
What I feel it is most important to highlight is that even after senior Democrat Party officials have admitted that Obamacare has death panels, and slate admits that it likes them, Slate has the brazenness to flat out lie, continuing the official SSM narrative that Obamacare death panels are imaginary.
Thus MSM is SSM. QED.
Oh. And take notice of one more thing, much more important than anything pissant Slate may publish.
Once again, as the warning in my masthead reminds us daily, none of our "rulers" utters a harsh word against notions such as 'Death Panels are a good thing.' The propaganda aim is to get Americans accustomed to death panels; even to welcome them (as it says "many" Canadians now do). All the while pish-poshing that death panels are real. Craven, lying bastards are words too good to describe these cretins who are greasing the skids for a wholly new-to-America death-on-demand institution disguised as "healthcare."
The title published by this laughably insignificant member of the SSM tells you all you need to know about the SSM's penchant for the Death Cult agenda:
Canada Has Death Panels
And that’s a good thing.
And the words of the article's second paragraph, and the last words of its third demonstrates how much like Pravda they are.
In other words: Canada has death panels.Go read the rest to see why they concluded that "Canada has death panels."
I use that term advisedly. Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin made it famous in the summer of 2009, when Congress was fighting over whether to pass Obamacare. As Republicans and Democrats continue to spar over health care, we should pause to wonder why millions of Canadians have come to accept the functional equivalent of an idea that almost sank health care reform even though, in this country, it was imaginary.
What I feel it is most important to highlight is that even after senior Democrat Party officials have admitted that Obamacare has death panels, and slate admits that it likes them, Slate has the brazenness to flat out lie, continuing the official SSM narrative that Obamacare death panels are imaginary.
Thus MSM is SSM. QED.
Oh. And take notice of one more thing, much more important than anything pissant Slate may publish.
Once again, as the warning in my masthead reminds us daily, none of our "rulers" utters a harsh word against notions such as 'Death Panels are a good thing.' The propaganda aim is to get Americans accustomed to death panels; even to welcome them (as it says "many" Canadians now do). All the while pish-poshing that death panels are real. Craven, lying bastards are words too good to describe these cretins who are greasing the skids for a wholly new-to-America death-on-demand institution disguised as "healthcare."
Monday, October 21, 2013
Of Valor and Metal Past
As the death cult alliance sets up to extend politics in a Clausewitz sense, you may find it beneficial to be knowledgeable of what is possible against overwhelming odds. One such can be read at Seneca III's account, in 3 parts, of the battle of Rhodes. Start here: The Cross and the Crescent: Rhodes, 1522 (Part 1).
...the Order would have ceased to exist, for the Knights, as they had done so many times before, would have fought to the death. Fortunately, as it eventuated, the Order survived to find a new home and rebuild its manpower, and the Monks of War and the armies of Suleiman would meet again in Malta some forty-odd years later with a very different outcome.
Friday, October 18, 2013
Oops -- Sorry
Our system of government was intended to thwart the rise of tyranny.
One aspect of the checks and balances was given to the press. The fourth estate.
They were given a great deal of power to be watchdogs. It was presumed that no party would be safe from them.
But what provision did our founders provide us to reign in a technologically advanced media that viewed itself as an integral part of the ruling class?
One that knows it is so aware and smart and clever that rules of decency need only be applied to common men with less smarts?
That they are the ones smart enough to know when the truth needs to be buried and when lying is a good thing?
Q: Founding fathers: did you anticipate that you had not given the common man a statutory way to remedy the growth of power in an entity outside of your government system?
A: Oops. Sorry.
Update: Oh -- oops -- thanks to Og for providing the jabs in "chat" that probed my mind to come up with the insight at this better-late-than-never date. As he notes, there are many connotations associated with the consequences of a what has been king-maker media and its allies. What I now call a Soviet-style media, or SSM (instead of MSM) whenever the opportunity arises and where it will not be misunderstood. The aim of writing SSM is to drive home the point and the dangers associated with Pravda and Izvestia.
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Capitulation
Capitulation
SYNONYMS surrender, submission, capitulation. These nouns denote the act of giving up one's person, one's possessions, or people under one's command to the authority, power, or control of another. Surrender is the most general: "No terms except unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted" (Ulysses S. Grant). Submission stresses the subordination of the side that has yielded: "Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission" (George Washington). Capitulation implies surrender under specific prearranged conditions: Lack of food and ammunition forced the capitulation of the rebels.
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
SHOCK! -- An Open Ended Survey
Dear Readers.
I received a survey request (filled in below) from the Media Research Center (MRC). Initially I was expecting just another multiple choice form that misses many of the key issues of the day. Much to my delight, this one actually had, in addition to MRC's preferred topics, "other" as choices. And what was even more special, MRC provided a space in which to spell out the other choice(s).
Burned out naif that I am, I have my doubts they will actually read what I put in the boxes. I know, many of you think I must be crazy again for even trying. But yes, while I still breathe, I will always try.
FYI: I have another post in the works providing evidence that MRC may not be all that it tries to convince us it is. They know how to ask money from us to do more of what they want; but when it came to answering the knocks at their door so they might listen to us, it seemed that, time and again, nobody was home.
Should they show some gonads here and actually respond as one expects of normal, decent human beings, I will have no need to publish it.
But right now, let me urge you to try to do what I did as shown below. Maybe, just maybe, we will actually affect Brent Bozelle's thinking, and he'll begin to listen to us more instead of simply telling us what he thinks is important. If you would like to participate, drop me a line and I'll forward you the email. Or if you don't want to hear more about while they want you to do this for them, just click this link.
Take advantage of it as I have.
I received a survey request (filled in below) from the Media Research Center (MRC). Initially I was expecting just another multiple choice form that misses many of the key issues of the day. Much to my delight, this one actually had, in addition to MRC's preferred topics, "other" as choices. And what was even more special, MRC provided a space in which to spell out the other choice(s).
Burned out naif that I am, I have my doubts they will actually read what I put in the boxes. I know, many of you think I must be crazy again for even trying. But yes, while I still breathe, I will always try.
FYI: I have another post in the works providing evidence that MRC may not be all that it tries to convince us it is. They know how to ask money from us to do more of what they want; but when it came to answering the knocks at their door so they might listen to us, it seemed that, time and again, nobody was home.
Should they show some gonads here and actually respond as one expects of normal, decent human beings, I will have no need to publish it.
But right now, let me urge you to try to do what I did as shown below. Maybe, just maybe, we will actually affect Brent Bozelle's thinking, and he'll begin to listen to us more instead of simply telling us what he thinks is important. If you would like to participate, drop me a line and I'll forward you the email. Or if you don't want to hear more about while they want you to do this for them, just click this link.
We Must Hear from You . . . Please Take This Survey!
With so many ongoing scandals and the outrageous media censorship we're seeing in response, the Media Research Center needs your feedback and advice more than ever. Thank you for taking the time to respond to this quick survey. It will be an integral part of our strategy moving forward.
Our lack of a unified, anti-Statist party
Media's role in misleading Americans
Showing all MSM does not provide or misinforms about
6. If you could send a message to the American media, what would it be?
Fix your tips & emails so it works! Enough with the mailer-daemons. You are leaving the impression you don't give a damn. Be more responsive!
Americans have overall had a better life than subjects or citizens of other nations because they have been more free.
Stop your disinformation campaigns that aids the destruction of our liberties (as Pravda & Izvestia abetted the oppression of Soviet subjects). We know why many of you do so. We've heard it. It is your elitist view that it is only right that common Americans should have a better understanding of how bad other peoples have it.
That sort of "equality" helps no human being other than the monsters who have risen to rule their peoples.
This is really something you can do without too much trouble. So please consider doing something similar. The MRC may simply ignore what you fill in, but please recognize that
we are rarely given such an opportunity.
Take advantage of it as I have.
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Others will repeat this sort of message until there will be no place you clowns go where your audience has not heard it.
We will pile the ridicule high enough and so that even the most brainless rent seekers among you will look for safer pickings. You will help bring sanity and adults back to proper prominence or you will lose to a Higher authority.