What Is the Best Answer?

During a brief verbal spat between myself and young woman, she proudly blurted out "I'm a socialist" as if that were proof of her moral superiority and greater intellect. Several retorts crossed my brain at once. I really did not take advantage of the moment to turn the incident more to the light side with a witticism.

So I've been playing with various quips that could be used for a whole slew of instances where some fool blurts "I'm a [blank]." Here are a few I like.

• What have your personal problems got to do with this?
•  I'm sorry. What's your Doctor's prognosis?
• Is that a play for sympathy?
• Oh, you're the one.

The one that crossed my mind, but I feared might be misconstrued given how ill-informed most young lefties are, was "Given that so many good socialists died in Stalin's Gulag, you should know that such an honest declaration won't save you from your own comrades."

Perhaps some of you can think of a few quips that are not too biting. Please add them to the comment stream.

Difficult Decisions

This photo accompanied the headline at The Guardian which reads "Decision to withdraw unflattering photo of François Hollande is criticised."

What I want to know is if this is considered bad, how do they ever run a picture of Nancy Pelosi?

It's Gonna Be Hard to Blame Bummer...

for the continuing crises in America, foreign and domestic, as his highness has now shown himself to be the wimp the grassroots conservative has known him to be.

What with Bummer now a laughing stock over his bungling his redline ultimatum to Assad, the real losers are those who have been cowering from the Bummer's media hyped invincibility -- John Boehner being the most craven of the Republicans. But what about the other members of the GOP who keep letting Boehner continuously cower to Bummer and his SSM?

The only ones fooled by the inactions to defund Obamacare, defang the IRS and EPA, and reign in all other departments caught in scandals, are those who prefer to appear foolish rather than complicit.

The revolt need not be bloody if enough people start taking advantage of the veil's having been penetrated. There are tactical openings here. I pray decent men rush in to fill the vacuum. I say pray, because all power seekers I've met or are familar with have hardly been trustworthy. The openings are there and getting wider. How much longer before the penny drops?

Help Instill Fresh Thinking at Breitbart.com

Once again I am disturbed by our side bashfully counter-attacking members of Establishment media.

This time it is this story: LA Times Claims 'Democrats Led Passage' of 1964 Civil Rights Act.

There is nothing wrong with this headline. It's the opening line that I find lame (emphasis added).

In a stunning historical error, Los Angeles Times reporters Kathleen Hennessey, Richard Simon, Alexei Koseff reported that "Democrats led the passage of civil rights legislation that marchers pushed for in 1963."

Here is the comment I left.

Never presume that such nonsense is an error. Declare it the brazen act of a media that models itself on the USSR's Pravda and Izvestia. It is a media that has used, and will increasingly use, the techniques of Joseph Goebbels.

You do not fight back by making excuses for your enemy. You demonstrate the pattern every chance they give you; build a mountain of evidence; and then convict them in the court of public opinion with the Preponderance of Evidence.

The LA Times is a major outlet of what people still call the mainstream media (MSM). It really is a major leader in getting us accustomed to a Soviet-Style Media (SSM). Our freedoms depend upon us calling them SSM each time they pass out mis- and dis-information.

Is Breitbart.com really the living testament to its founder? Then BE Breitbart. Be careful as you can, but DO NOT soften the charges.

As of this writing, it has garnered 2 votes. Please go there and add to it. Help me build some backbones there (if it is not already too late at that institution. So many of our institutions get co-opted quickly nowadays, it should not surprise anybody if it has gone over.)

Updated to note that a commenter there named Molly posted a similar idea 20 minutes after I did. I noticed because she was one of the thumbs up. She now has 6 thumbs up to my 3. I don't care really who gets the votes, just so long as more editors at Breitbart.com begin to approve more stories that sound like Andrew Breitbart and not Michael Medved.

The Soviet/Fascist Way Build-up

Setting up to apply Alinsky Rule Number 12 into a slick Orwellian Two Minute Hate during every hurricane, the Left-wing  "geniuses" at ClimateNameChange dot org are threatening all those who speak the truth: "fall in line with us fraudsters or suffer this."



Never forget that a favorite quote by more than one Prog organ is the infamous “Fascism will come to America in the name of anti-fascism” of the Depression Era demagogue, Huey Long.

I haven't tried to discover who is funding these apparatchiks, but I doubt I'll be surprised. I also bet they had no problem getting a 501 (c) 3 designation from the Obama IRS either.

Pass it on so that more people become familiar with the tactic. Hat tip to JWF.

STOP Funding the Enemy

I received yet another email request for funds from the Tea Party "Patriots" Citizens Fund.

Here is the maddening segment of Jenny Beth Martin's reasons for her request for funds.

2) We need to bombard targeted Senators with ads. The constituents of every single wishy-washy “Republican” need to understand what is at stake. We just don’t yet have the funding we need to buy these ads. 

Someone this stupid has no business being in the business of fighting the Establishment. As far as I am concerned, she is essentially an antidisestablishmentarian. 

Hey, maybe I'm overly sensitive, but am I wrong is this? Speaking as a reluctant blogger, one who would rather be gardening and visiting his children among other things, my primary reason for blogging has been to provide counter-arguments, meager as they are, to the relentless propaganda issuing from the Soviet-style media (SSM).

I cannot see any gain in providing funds to run ads that will only provide those same rotten institutions material to editorialize against. But worse, if it is true that their ad revenue IS falling, why oh why would we help sustain them in any way? It's one thing not to storm their offices on a daily basis in protest, but it is another diametrically opposite thing to give them money. Sheesh -- this is NOT rocket science.

Ok. Tell me how to get through to this person allegedly on our side. If she is permitted to go on without the millions she is emailing hearing this perspective, that is potentially tens of millions of dollars she personally will funnel to our enemy for an ad campaign we already know our politicians will ignore because they listen to the people who actually give the pols money, not the SSM.

Rewritten:

If she is permitted to go on -- and the millions she reaches do not hear of this perspective I am warning about -- and then succeeds, that is potentially tens of millions of dollars she personally will funnel to our enemy. All for an ad campaign that we already know from bitter experience that politicians will ignore because they listen to the people who fund them far more than we do. And that is even assuming that those same politicians are not adhering to an anti-conservative, anti-constitutional agenda already.
It is worse than pissing our money away down a hole. It is giving our money to arguably our worst enemy, the SSM.

Parent's Job Is Never Over

Number 1 offspring is an advancing professional, mid 30s, who also engages is some very exuberant sports and recreation. This is someone who has been quite brilliant from the start, and tends to take good fortune for granted.

That "for granted" part always sits uneasy with me. So being told of the latest rather extreme hobby, I offered the following observation.

Papa: What with you having survived a near miss only last month, and now with you informing me of even riskier exploits, I guess you are still my acorn.

Eldest: ....

Papa: If you manage to survive your ever more elaborate challenges of death, I have no doubt you'll grow into a magnificent oak. But until then, you are just another nut.

McCain, Graham, et al: Radical Leftwing Republicans

No, don't rub your eyes.  This post's title exemplifies the kind of language you need to begin using in order to break the stranglehold the Left has on discussion -- and yes, even on your thoughts.

Be a good iconoclast and break that barrier that you did not construct but has been hamstringing you from really gaining the upper hand in the one political party that is allegedly pro-constitution.

I was spurred to action by an email I received this morning from the "Tea Party Patriots" (yes, those are scorn quotes until proven otherwise) as written by Sean Hannity.

It began (all emphasis in the original):

**A Special Message from Sean Hannity**

Dear Patriot,

Tea Party Patriots is going toe-to-toe with John McCain, Lindsey Graham and the rest of the moderate Republicans who don’t want to stop Obamacare.

These inside-the-beltway compromisers let Barack Obama exempt big business from Obamacare. Then, they exempted themselves. But they refuse to exempt you and me!

That’s why I’ve made it my personal mission to help Jenny Beth Martin and Tea Party Patriots raise the money they need to win this battle to Exempt America from Obamacare!

Sean Hannity, let me edit that for you:
Tea Party Patriots is going toe-to-toe with John McCain, Lindsey Graham and the rest of the moderate radical Progressive Republicans who don’t want to stop Obamacare.  To "not want to stop Obamacare" is not moderate sir, it is a radical position, just as were the congressional ploys used to pass it in the first place.

You can help forge a big change in the discussion and direction of the GOP.

Sean Hannity and all the rest of the "conservative" talkers need to be led, as usual, by their brighter listeners. I only wish I was bright enough earlier to have learned how to make the case clearer to more loyal Americans.

Well, it is not too late to do your part.

• Each time you call -- and refer to these GOP "Progressives" -- use terms that have no inkling of moderate in them. 
• If you know of others who call, convince them that this is true. 

These GOP pols have been and continue to be radicals in their aiding the Democrats' agenda and in slurring conservatives every chance they get.  They call you racist, xenophobic, homophobic, crazy every chance they get. That is moderate? Since when?

So label them appropriately. They have thoroughly earned the radical label and our enmity.

Back to Fundamentals

Protect hearth and kin.

Form your wider blocs of the trusted.

As KG put it, If not now, when?

There are quite a variety of good comments at that link. So good that it inspired me to comment as follows. 

“Where are the fucking defenders of freedom in the US today? ” — Redbaiter

“What will be the Lexington Moment when we finally open fire on the Redcoats of DHS and start the Second U.S. Civil War/Revolution?” — Ronbo

Why does it take so long? The Left is cunning and understands its enemy better: that the Right most of all wants to be left alone. This is what RB is pissed about, and I don’t blame him. But hear me out so you can learn to do what was not done earlier.

See, as usual the Left has twisted normality. This time wisdom. They took Clausewitz’ maxim and came up with “Politics is War by other means.” And it worked spectacularly because, like Sun Tsu advised, they knew their enemy and their enemy (us) didn’t even know itself.

And because conservatives first and foremost want to be left alone, they turned for their defenses to professional politicians. But being professional means “he who pays the piper [the most] calls the tune.” Another way of saying they are members of the oldest profession.

So we are left having to defend our liberties ourselves. But you will have the odds against you doing that yourself. You must dare to ally with others. You need blocs.

But forming blocs, as should be so obvious by now, is contrary to our nature.

I’d like to provide a lesson, by way of example, that pointed up the need for blocs 20 years ago. This comment is already too long, so I’m providing a link instead.

That link is an html anchor to an anecdote in the middle of a longer essay. It demonstrates how the Left succeeded where they should not have. Our side would have prevailed had logic, backed by numbers, been in attendance.

Only logic was attendant, and it got bullied into silence because it did not anticipate the planning of community organizers, their agitprop, and their time-tested ways of getting masses to go along with them.

Follow the lead of KG, Redbaiter, and Ronbo, and work at convincing your trusted friends that war has indeed been declared. Convince them of the real maxim “War is the continuation of Politik by other means.” And that that war was declared by the Left. They have shed their anti-fascist cloak and revealed their own love of fascism. Their war is being waged against us now in the form of noose tightening.

Pray to God that it is not too late to form blocs of the righteous, because you all know the history of attempting to use logic on fascists.

Godspeed.

Scratch Overt; BRAZEN Fascism

Well past covert fascism; hasn't been overt fascism for long; now it's openly brazen.

Obama: I Didn't Just Suspend the Law of the United States on My Own Authority; I Suspended the Law in Consultation With "Businesses" (aka "My Donors")

Thanks to Ace, who adds:

There was one question on this, from Ed Henry, and no follow-ups from anyone else. 

The media, the alleged "Watchdogs of Democracy," apparently believes it is a fairly unobjectionable statement that the president may suspend the law on his own authority as he may see politically fit, so long as he has the blessing of what I'm going to call The Corporate Congress.

 
Do any of my readers recall my image of how the Progressives Incrementalists have advanced their agenda over more than a century? This is from November of 2009:

Altruistic ==►

Casuistic ==►

Craven ==►

Shameless ==►

Brazen ==► [TBD]

The Left's Successful Disguises

Aside from the often ignored coincidence that left and sinister share a common meaning, the very fact that the Left, particularly the moderate sounding Leftists, has long disguised its intentions with pleasant sounding labels... well that should automatically send our inborn instincts on edge that there has been something sinister going on over there.

So let us always be ready to review their history. The Left has a pattern that it consistently follows.

• They call themselves progressive; but their lust for power makes them regressive. Concentrated power comes at the expense of individual rights. There is no exception.
• They call themselves liberal; but more intolerance of others' opinion you will not find in any other group.
• They call themselves anti-fascists; but they really seek fascism with "the right people" in charge. Them.

Due to the lack of a unified opposition party and consequent unguarded deterioration of America's foundational "checks and balances" institutions, the Progs have nearly completely succeeded in seating America's first open dictator.

So my point is we all should remember those words of Huey Long -- "Fascism will come to America in the name of anti-fascism." -- because we now know them to have been providing the Progs their vision in their long march through our institutions. Arguably, their antifascist cloak has been their most successful disguise of all.

***** UPDATE*****

Welcome Free Republic lurkers!

Two comments posted there so far merit duplication here.
posted by SMARTY

“Liberalism is nothing more than the ideological disguise of the will-to-power of SOME people, who could NOT themselves be less Liberal” -- Albert Camus

Posted by GBA

Marxism-Leninism is particularly effective on the semantic level where it exhibits a devastating duality. It lulls its adversaries to sleep, while at the same time it mobilizes its followers to revolutionary action. The Communist International's Seventh Congress concluded that open use of revolutionary terminology does not promote the Marxist-Leninist drive for world domination.
Therefore, "revolution" has been changed into "liberation," "world conquest by the proletariat" has been changed into "peace and socialism," "armed seizure of power and liquidation of the bourgeoisie" has been rephrased to read "peaceful and gradual transition to socialism.'' 

Even the word "Communism," which every revolutionary is so proud of, has been changed into "progressive, "anti-Fascist" or "liberal." Further, to confuse their adversaries, the Marxist-Leninists have devised a new language which uses old words in the basic vocabulary. When they say "imperialism arouses the wrath of the people and digs its own grave," they mean "through our manipulation of the local Communist parties, and with a vast auxiliary corps of dupes ; and sympathizers, we so arrange matters that the free enterprise system and democracy are destroyed from within. -- From "Where is your America?" by Libor Brom, IMPRIMIS; Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan, 49242 Vol 11, No. 8., August 1982

Overt Fascism, Explicit Projection

I purposely left out commentary about the last line of the link that prompted yesterday's post, Overt Fascism, the Projection.

I figured the agitproping bastard, should he follow the link back, didn't need to know easily that I understood why he ended his braggadocio with the following:

Louisiana Senator Huey Long, a mesmerizing agitator, once said, "Fascism will come to America in the name of anti-fascism."  

This quote is what prompted the "explicit projection" of today's title. Let me explain.

Every Progressive, Left or Right, always accuses conservatives of fascism. The implication is that they are anti-fascist.  -- "Fascism will come to America in the name of anti-fascism."

Their claim is that they form the vanguard that protects America from all those people they call fascist. This is their propaganda. Fascist. The media has long been in cahoots with that line of thinking. Fascist. The Progressive Republicans have always been the ones saving the party from being overrun by the far right wing. Fascist Big Lie.

Who is not aware that Bummer is in bed with many large companies and their CEOs? Jeffrey Immelt of General Electric was the most noted and involved of them, but need I list them all? Fascist.

The campaigns of attempting to make TEA Party look dangerous and all white? Do you recall that Arizona TEA party with the photo of the attendee with the scary looking assault rifle? But the photo had been trimmed to hide the fact that a black man was attending the gathering with a rifle and nobody there bitched. That instance was altered to fit the "anti-fascist" narrative. It just so happens to  match the very same formula Mr. Schechter used in his screed:  "The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial ethnic or religious minorities."

It just so happens, that in the real world, our Soviet-Style Media is doing exactly that, but the hatred and fear is directed at the white, European, Judeo-Christian minority. I say minority, because they really are excluded more and more from government (see Gresham's Law.) The model the Statists (masquerading as antifascists) are using is Lenin's where the minority Bolsheviks outmaneuvered the larger population Mensheviks.

And another thing here. I've many times in these pages pointed out the primary difference behind what drove the collectivist mentalities of the 20th Century, all of which had "Progressive" roots with its Malthusian and Eugenic ideas.

The Primary difference between the "socialist" ideology of Soviet Union and the Axis powers was this. That the former sought to enslave all the globes people and then pick and choose who should survive. The Axis powers were called national socialist, and they wanted to have their master races rule and survive.

You all know the bloody history of both. You should be shuddering to think of what Mr. Schechtor was bragging about. His International Social Progressives have accomplished what Huey Long said they would do if they pretended to be anti-fascists. They would achieve the power of fascists but still have the same megalomaniacal goals of the world government that the Soviet Union sought.

Will Khruschev's words come true "we will bury you?"  Mr. Schechtor was bragging like it had been accomplished in 2011 even before Bummer was reelected.

By the way, Mr. S is not the only Lefty telling his readers that "Fascism will come to America in the name of anti-fascism." That is, with "the right people" in control this time.  Do a web search and see for yourself.

One more thing for Mr. S and his comrades. It is long past time for you to read the consequences for yourself in this world for putting your faith in "the right people" instead of your Maker. Go read Gulag Archipelago while you still have some options.

Anyway, for the normal reader, the bottom line is this. By claiming the label "anti-fascist," the Progs have maneuvered themselves into nearly achieving the fascist control of America, with Bummer as their first dictator. With the official opposition to their dictator represented by two weak images -- the crying Speaker John Boehner and the compromised Chief Justice John Roberts -- you can see the need for a really cohesive TEA party movement. The next order of business it for you to seek out locally fresh and honest leaders.

Overt Fascism, the Projection

Recent events got me to thinking has anyone used the phrase "overt fascism" to describe the nature of the crony-capitalism which Bummer has exploited to further his Marxist take-down of America on behalf of his clients?

Well, I did a web search for the phrase. I find it mind boggling that there is a dearth of Right writers recognizing the fascism in Bummer's alliance with major business players and not calling him and them out for it. The foremost I found was this feverish projection by a Leftist rag's wag, published in 2011:  Is Fascism Lurking? by Danny Schechter of the Prog site Commondreams.org.  I recommend reading it. I think it fisks itself.

Here are some excerpts with my short fisks thoughts enclosed in brackets.

The Tea Party is not just after Democrats; it has started a campaign against the liberal Methodist Church. [Holy cow: the TEA Party has taken aim at the Progs of the GOP. But it's the Methodists he singles out.]

Already militias are forming because of fears of immigration [invasion is not immigration]... Gun sales went up after the recent violent incidents in Arizona.[What fascist regime permits private gun ownership? Oh, that's right. YOUR side is active in the gun confiscation efforts. See what I mean Schechter?]

The erosion of economic stability with the rise of foreclosures and the shredding of social services is already turning a financial crisis into a social one. [Your Bum actively did nothing for economic well-being while he spent his first years hobbling jobs with regulation and the Obamacare buildup.]

We already have sharp partisan divide and inflation of hateful rhetoric with vicious putdowns of the President and condemnations by members of Congress calling him corrupt, even a traitor.
According to set of the characteristics of fascist nations, there is "a disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights - Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of "need." The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of prisoners, etc. [Uh, huh. Declaring our veterans likely terrorists whilst denying al Qaeda is growing and infiltrating. And the surveillance increases plus Drone snooping and striking that your man is deep into. No fascism there buddy?]

"In place of human rights enemies are turned into scapegoats as a Unifying Cause - The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial [whites] ethnic [Euro] or religious [non-muslim] minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists [anti-]." This process is already far along in the USA. [Yep as I noted: Your projection is a long-standing Prog devise.]

Among the classical characteristics of fascism is a shutting down of debate and a focus on the state--which in our country is controlled by lobbyists and private interests. [Holy cow. The Educational system allows diverse opinions if they even suspect of being on the right? And what conservatives are allowed in ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, PBS? Fox is hardly even conservative judging by Rupert's known Left leanings on numbers of issues from CAGW to Open borders] Wall Street and the military-industrial complex have far more clout than elected officials.[As the military gets trimmed drastically, all haters of America would still say that -- no doubt.]

As the depressing news of last week continued into this week, I was hoping I'd find someone who'd try to awaken America to the real threats from the combined efforts of our two parties (no opposition in view). The best I could find was this mirror image of what is really going on. Sigh.

**Update**

1. Overt Fascism, the Projection became first in a series.
2. Overt Fascism, Explicit Projection
3. The Left's Successful Disguises
4. Scratch Overt; BRAZEN Fascism

M³ At the Core of It All

I must admit that saying M³ (Megalomaniacal Malthusian Misanthropes) is at the core of it all reads like one hell of an assertion. It is simpler to say that the hatred of all human life is at the core of it all, but that would not be sufficient to expose the alliance of the monster types involved as is done in the above link.

Well, the assertion is actually my soft-science theory. Its hypothesis was far less difficult to engender than was Einstein's Universal Field Theory which eluded him. Furthermore, as an explanation for the politics of the post-modern world, it still has not been proven wrong. Sad to say, it is a fact that too much of all three qualities can be found in the wannabe rulers of today.

Plus, the evidence in favor of the theory -- Let's call it Anti-humanism -- continues to mount.


Whenever anyone reads stories like the one Redbaiter posted at TrueblueNZ like Singapore- trend to gender equality drives need for immigrants, that contains evidence like this:

“The choice to take a hostile stance to immigrants is something that Singapore cannot afford to make. Like it or not, unless we have more babies, we need to accept immigrants,” concluded former Singapore PM Lee Kuan Yew.

What Lee is really saying is that the progressive social trend towards “gender equality” has stuffed Singapore’s traditional culture and its economy. Bet you can’t guess where else the same trend is having the same outcomes.

the thought ought to cross any sane man’s mind “Where did the idiotic notions come from that brought us to this crisis?”

And for those who really don’t know, I would point them to TrueblueNZ's sidebar where they will find this:

Critical Theory

The stuff we’ve been hearing about, – the radical feminism, the women’s studies departments, the gay studies departments, the black studies departments – all these things are branches of Critical Theory.

What the Frankfurt School essentially does is draw on both Marx and Freud in the 1930s to create this theory called Critical Theory. The term is ingenious because you’re tempted to ask, “What is the theory?” The theory is to criticize.

What Critical Theory is about is simply criticizing. It calls for the most destructive criticism possible, in every possible way, designed to bring the current order down.

And, of course, when we hear from the feminists that the whole of society is just out to get women and so on, that kind of criticism is a derivative of Critical Theory. It is all coming from the 1930s, not the 1960s.

Bill Lind

And what was criticized in this case? The role of Mother and the notion that it had any real value to society.

And the reduction of Motherhood to less than subhuman stature is in concert with the (Leftist) homosexual chide of heterosexuals as “breeders.”

Redbaiter, in response to my comment, added:

"Notice how no one talks about or acknowledges 'Critical Theory' Pascal?

That is the first pointer to what is behind the whole Prog movement."

Which brings us to the ultimate source of why these programs are driven by Progs. It’s all about Sustainability and its pagan moral code. The hatred of all human life is at the core of it all.

"Death Panels" Now Bipartisan Words

Some news today helps sustain my comments of yesterday. I wrote about why I shifted from being a Sarah Palin supporter to being skeptical.

I loved her looks; her dynamic personality; her origins; and the things she said. And if you hit my Palin label, you will see I may have been the first to understand PDS and to rail against it.

However, after learning of some of the things she had done while she was governor of Alaska (naming only two awful things: AGW policies and endorsing the UN Law of the Sea Treaty) I became disillusioned in her. 

And when she campaigned, in the CA GOP primaries, for two female SKUNCs (Carly Fiorina to oppose Boxer and Meg Whitman to oppose Brown) against real conservatives in the primaries, plus helping the despicable McCain retain his senate seat, I can only say that I hope the type of character that Palin represents is NOT disqualified as you [commenter Paul] suggest with "I doubt we see her equal again." Because I yearn to live to see the real thing.

Our enemies know what we like, and are clever enough to provide us facsimiles of the real thing. You will notice that Palin and family are today richer than they ever could have legitimately become serving in public office. A large part of her money came from people like me who wanted to help her fight the two-minute hate machine, which in the least would be the chivalrous thing for us to do. 

Never forget that Orwell made it clear in 1984 that the opposition to Big Brother was an institution taken over and run by the inner party.

So when Palin became the first to call out Obamacare's Independent Payment Advisory Board as death panels, I was perplexed. My readers know I was aware of these things long before she called them out. And I would have been delighted if any other national personality had called attention to them.  But Sarah Palin, having long been serving as our Soviet-Style Media's two minute hate object, pretty much made her the worst, counter-productive choice for sounding such an alarm.

So when the news comes out that Howard Dean, of all people, acknowledges that Palin was correct, Howard Dean admits Sarah Palin was right on ‘death panels,’ I hope you understand what I meant by "Our enemies know what we like, and are clever enough to provide us facsimiles of the real thing." 

It's been a liberal trick that was noticeable since Archy Bunker was created by the radical Leftist Norman Lear.  Bunker was given lines that spoke little truths now and then, but always in all the wrong ways. The character was created specifically to discredit anything he said because he said it. Thus Bunker provided liberal wags ways to avoid answering all conservative arguments by turning them into personal attacks "why, you sound like Archy Bunker."

Same thing here. "Death Panels? You sound like Sarah Palin, Haw haw." And no further discussion ensued. Until today.

And so what? Obamacare has been passed in part because the most antihuman part of it was laughed out of the discussion. It was there, but dismissed. The means of dismissing it was diabolical. And it worked.

So now you know how this was done disreputably, do we still have a chance to stop it? Yes, but it is a long shot.

The House of Representatives can, on its own, derail the ACA implementation by refusing to fund it. But whether House Speaker John Boehner is just another SKUNC or merely a weakling, it matters little. It will take some very loud voices to force him to comply with your wishes. If there were many more like my readers, the derailment might actually happen. But I just don't see it right now short of Divine intervention.

Still, do whatever you can. So many people you know who are still unaware are facing a very grim and unnecessary death.

Ace Is Almost There

The primary problem with the so-called elites is that they are not elite, and they are neither wise, nor intelligent, nor educated, nor enlightened, nor superior in any fashion save two, accident of circumstance and elevated self-regard.

They do not have any conception of what they're doing, of the history of this country, or of the disasters their stupidity visits upon the ruled every day of the year.

And they will be the death of us all. -- Ace of Spades, Obama: I Didn't Bother Asking a Lawyer If I Could Unilaterally Suspend the Law; All I've Done Is Merely Seize Plenary Power on Behalf of the People

Ace is almost where I have been for over 2 decades. Yet Ace does not see the errant connection between his second paragraph and his third. "They do not have any conception ... that they will be the death of us all."

Au contraire mon ami. Many of the "elites" do have the conception of what they do. It's just that the progressive/sustainability vision is so God-awful that they dare not speak it except in obscure journals published by radical nut-job institutions for which they provide tax preferences and to which they funnel taxpayer money.

This is the problem I have with all the top Dextrosphere bloggers. Because the Left, the phony Right Statists, and the enemies of humanity (but I repeat myself) will not say they are its enemies, the top bloggers fear being laughed at. That fear is not new. It lies at the heart of Hans Christian Anderson's tale The Emperor's New Clothes. Only the fool, yours truly, will speak of it nearly every day. The others are quite apt to go to their deaths muttering something like "if Stalin only knew."

Across the board. We. Need. New. Leaders.

Find them amongst those who are unafraid to call out the enemies of all mankind: the Prog megalomaniacs.

Fundamentally Change ... the Land of Opportunity

The truth of Obama's promise -- to "fundamentally change America" -- may not have been what many believed it was, but who can deny it was the truth?

Irony or not, the opening phrase of JWF's sarcastic sounding headline,  Another Obama Victory! 4 in 5 in U.S. Near Poverty, Can’t Find Work gets it literally correct once you understand the horrific prog/sustainability agenda: "Ending once and for all this land of opportunity and its God-anchored moral guidance."

Now we know what party under which the Obomber ran. We also know that the opposition party sure did not do all it could to prevent his elevation to power (No! He's a nice man." -John McCain). Furthermore, we know it has done worse than nothing to derail his agenda (Crying leader Boehner "fearing" government shutdown, and Deer-in-the-Headlights leader McConnell "fearing" not appearing senatorial), and has been actively targeting the honestly anti-Statist TEA party movement that began because the GOP was not doing its job.

As the fears continue to pile up (extorted into admitting to phony fears in order to not have real sins exposed), is there any longer any doubt that Gresham's Law has taken hold in all important national institutions? Like a real opposition party. Like a real independent media. Like once God-fearing religious organizations that have morphed into ones that only fear losing income enhancing tax exemptions should they oppose (or even expose; or even not endorse) governmental evils.

How many of the people have also succumbed? Maybe not entirely on their own, but because they fail to recognize and follow honest leaders.

What about you? What do you suppose your Maker will tell you?

**Updated with related news: The Environmental Lobby's Great Forest Con

Rid Yourself of Bush Defensive Syndrome

This is a written as a public service for a nation of conservatives who've had enough of being led around by the nose by elitist members of the GOP. 

On one hand they play up to you when they need your votes. But then, when the rubber meets the road, they mercilessly spurn you (and worse) when you expect them to represent you and, even more importantly, expect them to defend the Constitution and this nation from all enemies, foreign and domestic.

JWF posted this heart-warming story tonight: Bush 41 shaves head in support of 2-year-old cancer patient.

Now, this is a warm gesture coming from any President. Especially now that such warmth is totally foreign to the creature some grudgingly refer to as the pResident. In a world like this, such a story comes as almost a relief; a reminder of gentler times.

There is little question the Bushes* know how to show a humane side in addition to their elitism ("if you are for border protection you must be a racist" being one of their major, blindly bigoted flaws.)

However, without casting any aspersions, let me remind you that Stalin famously observed

“a single death is a tragedy; a million merely a statistic.”

And let me also remind you of Slick Willie’s slogan of

“once you can fake sincerity, the rest is easy”

was not invented by Slick.

As for those who would dare charge me with Bush Derangement Syndrome — your Bush Defensive Syndrome is far more irrational and untrustworthy.

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*All of them, right Jeb? Isn't it nice that Daddy would do what ever it takes to make it up to you for 2016 that you were passed over in 2000? Why, he even shaved his head. Being willing to take one for the team like that runs in the genes, doesn't it son? 

The Whole > Sum of All Corruptions

 

Heaven: We have a problem. The corruption is feeding itself.

Let us look at three relatively small items making news today alone, providing us evidence of much much more going on than is good for a healthy republic.

Item 1:
At the Politico column with the name “Behind the Curtain” no less,we have The New Power Triangle from which we find the following money quote.

“We have been looking literally for years for someone we can cut deals with, and finally someone has stepped up,” a White House official said. West Wing aides say they now talk with McCain roughly every other day.

This is nearly admitting to the American equivalent of the 1st Triumvirate of ancient Rome. Well, at least Crassus, Pompey and Caesar appeared on the same stage as equals. Here is our version:

I know that after this photo, there can hardly be anything worse from McCain. However, I see worse yet in this item from the Politico.

It has the audacity to label it The "NEW" power triangle? New? How about McCraven and Bummer talking since the summer of 2008, where, in the alleged heat of the campaign for the most powerful position in the world, the former declared the latter "a nice man?"

Item 2:
Selwyn Duke in Total Recall: Why Recall Elections are a Must, sees the solution to the unresponsiveness of our pols as one where if only those serving us were subject to recall elections. He concludes his analysis with:

"If politicians knew that breaking an election promise or stabbing good Americans in the back would result in an immediate recall effort, they’d be more likely to mind their p’s and q’s. "

Among other things I left in my comment (including a sample proof of his wrong assessment of our current electoral process) -- to which he has not replied -- is that his solution might have worked in another day when the voting rolls had not been compromised and the numbers who get their funds for existence from gub handouts had not been super-expanded by the community organizer.

Item 3:
From Reason: Cop Fired for Speaking Out Against Ticket and Arrest Quotas.

After the arrival of a new police chief in 2010, the department entered an era of ticket quotas and worse.

“When I first heard about the quotas I was appalled,” says former Auburn police officer Justin Hanners, who claims he and other cops were given directives to hassle, ticket, or arrest specific numbers of residents per shift. “I got into law enforcement to serve and protect, not be a bully.”

Hanners blew the whistle on the department’s tactics and was eventually fired for refusing to comply and keep quiet.

Maybe you think we should wait for the locals to run the police chief out of town on a rail. However, we learn that he retired (claiming medical reasons). So who hired this man? And who looked the other way as the scheme -- undoubtedly seen as a "revenue enhancer" rather than as a public safety measure -- was rammed through? Indeed, in case you think I'm alone in my conclusions below, we have this quote.

“You have a policy that encourages police to create petty crimes and ignore serious crimes, and that’s clearly the opposite of what we want our police to be doing,” [emphasis added]

I added emphasis so as to pin-point the sovietization of small town America. It's the end result of the ends justifies the means mentality of cynical pols: "Everyone is guilty of something, so what's the diff?" That attitude is precisely on the road to what Solzhenitsyn told us of the operations of the Soviet system: They were not interested in the truth. They simply want to arrest us and then not let go.

Conclusion:
When you see little things like this come to the surface, you are pretty damn sure you are witnessing merely the tips of the iceberg. So you know the sum of what you do see is surely far less than the whole. Furthermore, Item 3 provides yet another example of why Gresham's Law Applies to American Institutions. The bad elements fired the good. And on it goes unless we speak up.

I urge you dear readers to discuss these developments locally. Take note on your own of the various tips of the icebergs that you see. Not just for your own sake, but for what this Nation was meant to represent and the opportunities it was meant to provide.

Help preserve what's left.

Help restore what's lost.

He will ask you what you did not try to do. I don't know about you, but I keep looking for whatever I may have overlooked.

Worthless Blog Fodder

I imagine many of my readers have had a similar reaction at some point in the last 4+ years to the following sort of headline posted today at JWF.

Scandal-Plagued Obama Plummets to 41% Approval in New Poll

Who here believes he gives a damn he's unloved? Let's see a show of hands.

I suspect that before I asked the question (the nature of which suppresses the total) that there were far too many hands. The proof is provided by how many times this sort of headline is published and talked about. Yet, it is worthless blog fodder.

Here is  Tocqueville on the subject:

a despot easily forgives his subjects for not loving him, provided they do not love each other.

And Bummer and his DOJ are doing their damnedest to provide those divisions.

I don't want to hear how low the bum's approval rating is, I want to know when the country is going to stop allowing itself to be divided. Our divisions provide opportunities for him to escalate his despotic behavior. Our loss is his gain. Grow up Americans.

If you like this sentiment, then consider blowing off some steam of your own at the link to JWF above. Maybe suggest that it's time we take heed of Tocqueville conclusion and think hard on countermeasures.