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Saturday, December 12, 2009
RULE 5 SATURDAYThe TCOTS Rule 5 Compliance Committee, in full compliance
with Stacy McCain's Rules & Regulations, has decided to spotlight a gal who has graced our lives for quite some time
and who has aged like a fine wine. Her smile has always been infectious and her laugh can make the bluest man beam like
the sun. She has played the gal next door and the seductress up the stairs and the sweetest singing widow.
She's another one of the great broads of entertainment and the original MILTMLT [Mother I'd Like To Make Love To]. Without
further adieu, it is with great pleasure that The Committee presents....
SHIRLEY JONES...
12 dec 09 @ 7:53 pm est
HOW ABOUT A LITTLE BREATHER...After getting so worked up in my last post, and considering its the start of Saturday
Evening, how about we take a little breather...
-As always, Paco provides some great music to take one's mind off
the idiocy surrounding us. Yesterday, he gave us Cab Calloway and his guys performing Geechy Joe [if this don't put you in a better mood, then, man, you ain't got no soul]. Today, he provides need relief
in the form of the Andrews Sisters swingin' to Gimmie Some Skin My Friend.
-Over at Three Beers Later, Richard classes up [as some old wise man once said: 'If
I wanted to be classy, I'd register for a night course'.] things a bit with Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe explaining
how they're Just Two Little Girls From Little Rock. Check it out, but be warned that you'll be seeing red for the rest of the evening if you do.
-Then,
to quiet things down a bit, Richard provides Denise Milani posing for a photo shoot in the tightest sweater you will ever see. After this, you'll know there is a God and that
he loves man.
-Finally...today is the anniversary of the birth of Francis Albert Sinatra and, so, it is only fitting
that we honor the man by showcasing his wonderful recordings and performances. Sadly, the Sinatra Family is very tight
with the copyright, so most of his videos in the interwebs can't be embedded here. However, I found two that can be...
The first is courtesy of Pundette's music page [check out what she's got by clicking here]: while only audio, its worth it just to hear Frank take the wonderful Cole Porter song I Get A Kick Out Of You
and make it so his that anyone else's attempt since has never even come close to excelling it:
No celebration of the birth of The Chairman Of The Board would be complete
without a duet by Francis Albert and his CBO [Chief Booze Officer] Dean Martin:
12 dec 09 @ 4:27 pm est
GIVE ME A BREAK!Jim Hoft pointed out something that many of us missed in Julius Obamacus Caesar's speech accepting the Nobel Peace Prize:
...It's also why the world must come together to confront climate change.
There is little scientific dispute that if we do nothing, we will face more drought, more famine, more mass displacement --
all of which will fuel more conflict for decades. For this reason, it is not merely scientists and environmental activists
who call for swift and forceful action -- it's military leaders in my own country and others who understand our common security
hangs in the balance.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. What 'military leaders', Mr. President? We
have a right to know their names. And a right to know their logic if they think this way. If there are any general
officers in the U.S. Military who think this way, then that means they've stayed way beyond their expiration date. 'Climate
Change' a national security issue? Give me a friggin' break, you fool!
You know what's really a national
security issue? You. Barack Hussein Obama: Gladly giving away our sovereignty to one-worlders out to impose one
world government and immanentize the eschaton. If you were a private citizen and not the elected President Of The United
States, you would be denied the lowest level of security clearance, especially considering that you despise EVERYTHING America
stands for.
SIDENOTE: In another posting, Jim quotes this dead-solid-perfect observation by Former Czech President Vaclav Havel on our Fearless Leader and his compromising
with tyrants:
When someone soils his pants prematurely, then they do not respect
you more for it.
Will the President heed this advice; it Depends® .
12 dec 09 @ 4:13 pm est
AN APOLOGYI must apologize for being so harsh on Tiger Woods. Professor Dan Collins,
PhD/ObGyn, has pointed out to me that I have been culturally insensitive [tip of the fedora to The Right Reverend R.S. McCain]:
...Americans have little understanding or tolerance for the Cablinasians
in their midst, instead preferring to attempt to impose their values upon this minority. Who is to say that in Cablinasian
society it is considered bad form to prefer buxom blondes, or to enjoy threesomes behind one's wife's back, fueled by booze,
Ambien and Cialis? One may argue that the latter are unlikely to have been historical components of Cablinasian sex, but then
there is no reliable document that I am aware of demonstrating that pre-Columbian Native Americans had keno or roulette parlors.
If indeed Tiger Woods
was attacked by his wife, caught up in her own cultural interpretation of wedlock, with a golf club, then that represents
the first time the MSM has reported on a hate crime against a Cablinasian. As deplorable as Scandi-on-Cablinasian violence
may be, however, it is fortunate that Tiger Woods is a high-profile enough Cablinasian that this is getting a good deal of
press coverage, and raising world-wide consciousness regarding this problem.
I swear I didn't know, but
that's no excuse for my not understanding the plight of Cablinasians in raaaaacist America. I must tell you I was beside
myself [which is hard to do because I'm rather wide these days] and wondered what ever could I do to make up for my failings
and insensitivity in this matter, Fortunately, Dan has announced the formation of the Internet Department
of Cablinasian Studies. To atone for my grievous sin, I intend to submit a white paper [is that raaaaacist
to say?] entitled: Misunderstandings Of The Cablinasian Habit Of Tapping Botoxed Women.
12 dec 09 @ 3:23 pm est
THE SPOT-ON QUOTE OF THE DAY......is awarded to Paco, Founder and CEO and Chairman Of The Bored at Paco
Enterprises, for his understanding of what's at stake and how time is running out to save America:
...I, for
one, frankly admit that these are troubling and, indeed, frightening times. If the headlong rush by Democrats to expand and
consolidate their power is not substantially halted in 2010 (and reversed in 2012), we are likely to see the ultimate creation
of a “Nomenclatura”, a self-perpetuating, parasitic political class that acts like a monstrous tick on society,
sucking out its lifeblood, and combining the power of the purse with a strategy of divisive political triangulation and ideological
intimidation (increasingly enforced through executive fiat) to prevent the creation of a genuinely effective opposition –
all in the name of “compassion”, of course.
Spot-on, Paco.
12 dec 09 @ 3:03 pm est
STEALTH FACISM IN AMERICA: LATEST ACTION & TACTICSIn the past week alone, I've written about three of the latest attempts of the
Leftists in power in Washington to covertly impose Fascism in America [here, here, and here]. Today, Stacy McCain has a very good posting up on one of the latest stealth moves and it reveals one of the tactics being used by the Leftists to slip things under
our radars [emphasis mine]:
You're not surprised by this, are you?
The House passed
the most ambitious restructuring of federal financial regulations since the New Deal on Friday . . .
The sprawling legislation would give the government new powers to break up companies that threaten the economy, create a
new agency to oversee consumer banking transactions and shine a light into shadow financial markets that have escaped the
oversight of regulators.
The vote was a party-line 223-202. No Republicans voted for the bill; 27 Democrats voted
against it. Hey, did you
catch that? The government could "break up companies that threaten the economy."....
...
Honestly,
this misguided legislation is about one thing and one thing only: Expanding government power.
In the Comments Section, Mr. K explains the tactic quite accurately and succinctly:
Its called "legislative
stealth", as lawmakers are passing legislation which is/will bring about the destruction of Capitalism, knowing full
well on any other day of the week - the American people will be outraged, however, this legislation received little attention
and the vote was on Friday afternoon.
Especially a Friday afternoon during the Christmas Holiday Season.
GatorDoug, over at The Daley Gator, is justifiably outraged:
If you laughed at this, as I did, you laughed because it is funny, but also
true, and yes, very depressing too. Like they say, unless you laugh, you will cry.
Why is it that our Congress cannot seem to do anything with
any common sense? Are they stupid? Uneducated? Well, they are certainly educated, perhaps that is part of the problem, given
the state of our education system. I believe, in studying our founders, that the founders had wisdom. Our Congress? Not so
much. Without wisdom in leadership, you get, well, Barney Frank and Chris Dodd, and Harry Reid, and so on.
QUIBBLE: Stacy wrote: Honestly, this misguided legislation is about one thing and one thing only: Expanding government
power.
 'Misguided'? Stacy's being too kind to the Bolshes. They know exactly what they're doing. No one should think for one blessed
second that they're doing this to 'reform' the free market and make it more 'just'. They are committed to destroying America
and everything she stands for without having to resort to a violent overthrow. Instead, they believe they can avoid the messiness
of such a thing by doing it via stealth legislation and executive orders. We are facing the gravest threat to our freedoms
and liberties since the 1760's [I would argue this is even worse, but that's a subject for another discussion].
Where
this will end, I don't know, but it looks like it ain't gonna be pretty. There are Questions We Can No Longer Avoid.
12 dec 09 @ 2:47 pm est
WOODS GIVES UP WOODIESLeave it to the New York Post to succinctly and accurately sum-up
the latest Tiger Woods's news:
SIDENOTE: One of Tiger's harem appeared on the Today Show yesterday and, I must say, I
was shocked 'cause I didn't know he'd had an affair with Meghan McCain!...
The whole thing must have really upset her 'cause it looks like she's been wolfing down the bon-bons.
I mean, this was her only eighteen months ago:
Man, the guy's leaving a trail of destruction [and in Meghan's case, crumbs] in his wake.
12 dec 09 @ 2:10 pm est
Friday, December 11, 2009
FORGETTING POLITICS FOR A FEW HOURS RULE 5I've been spending the past couple of hours trying to catch up with the latest
postings on the blogs of all the folks I follow on the interwebs. There's some damn fine commentary out there on a whole
host of issues, but, frankly, after reading and writing about so much of the awful things that are going on since early this
AM, I'm numb. This calls for a little Rule 5 and then for me to go spend time with my beloved bride.
I'll be back tomorrow for a bit, then I have to go spend four or five hours making our Christmas Card.
Since the
Album Rule 5 of Wednesday has generated some requests for more, here are three more...
11 dec 09 @ 9:30 pm est
KEVIN JENNINGS, CP C-IN-C
11 dec 09 @ 4:56 pm est
WHAT IS AND WHAT SHOULD NEVER BEOver at The Other McCain, Smitty published a very thought-provoking posting last night on where the blame lies for the current mess we're in [viz the Leftists running amok] and what curing the cancer
will involve. I don't agree with all of it, but it does focus one's thinking where it should be [I should point out
that none of my disagreements with him are major or would prevent us storming the Capitol together as comrades-in-arms].
In the course of his broadside, Smitty lists four of the solutions he thinks the TEA Party movement should advocate:
-Debt sucks. The Federal budget and hiring are frozen, the budget is run at an
interest rate plus X percent surplus until further notice or the national debt is eliminated, barring declared war.
-The following spectacularly bad Federal ideas are kicked down to the state level in Y years. They can be staggered
to give States time to figure out what they're doing with the data.
=Community Reinvestment Act
=Medicare
=Social Security Act
-The following non-hunting Federal dogs are to be put down:
=Amendments 16 & 17
=Federal Reserve Act
-The War Powers Resolution is overhauled. No more invasions w/out declaration of war. A high bar filters out the
casual high-jumpers.
Two points...
1) The CRA, Medicare, and SSA should just be dissolved, not
sent to the states. All three are unConstitutional and, more importantly, it should be left-up to each individual state
if they want to adopt such welfare programs [if their state constitutions permit it]. They should have no help from
the national government if they want to impose these fascistic programs on their citizens. All data collected by these
programs on the national level should be sealed for a half-century, possibly destroyed.
2) I would ask that we
seriously consider repealing the 19th Amendment as well.
There are some other very minor quibbles I have, but, all-in-all, these are the thoughts we should be
thinking [must be thinking about if we really want to restore America], so, I say, 'Yea, Smitty' for reminding us to seriously
consider them.
SIDENOTE: In the Comments Section of Smitty's posting, commentator Terry gave us this dead, solid, perfect Ayn Rand quote:
The goal of the “liberals”—as it emerges from the record
of the past decades—was to smuggle this country into welfare statism by means of single, concrete, specific measures,
enlarging the power of the government a step at a time, never permitting these steps to be summed up into principles, never
permitting their direction to be identified or the basic issue to be named. Thus, statism was to come, not by vote or by violence,
but by slow rot—by a long process of evasion and epistemological corruption, leading to a fait accompli. (The goal of
the “conservative” was only to retard that process.)
If she were alive, Ayn would kill me for
saying this, but God Love Her.
11 dec 09 @ 4:04 pm est
IMPLICATIONSThere are so many things that have happened since 20 January that, if someone
had told us any one of them would be happening before then, we would have said to that person 'Naw, you're crazy. You're
either a conspiracy nut or you're just being melodramatic'. My how times have changed. Who would have thought
we would all be on a Fascist Express Train hurtling down a high speed rail that only stops to pick up more power
for the government? Who would have thought in less then twelve months we'd be on the verge of losing most of our
God-given Constitutional rights? Well, we are. So, perhaps—just perhaps—Chris Muir is a prophet...
11 dec 09 @ 3:26 pm est
A CRUMBLING PILLAROne of the main pillars of ANY free society is property rights: the right to own,
sell, and distribute property. Lose the right to property and you lose a significant amount of your freedom. Slowly,
over the last one hundred years, all levels of government have been successful in eroding the rights of property owners.
This effort has now been kicked into overdrive by the Leftists in government. In his latest column over at The
Washington Times, Quin Hillyer chronicles six different ways that are being pursued. They're all insidious but the following two, in my mind, are, perhaps, the worst of the worst:
First, consider the moves in Congress to extend federal regulatory jurisdiction from "navigable" waters
to "all interstate and intrastate waters of the United States." Suddenly, if the so-called Clean Water Restoration
Act passes, your backyard fish pond could be subject to the dictates of commissars from the Environmental Protection Agency.
(See editorial on facing page.)
Enactment of the CWRA would surely spur massive court fights. The CWRA's regulatory
overreach would, by all logic, run afoul of the Constitution's "interstate commerce clause." How an "intrastate"
water of the sort affected by this bill would qualify as "interstate" commerce is beyond normal reasoning.
Indeed, both Justice Anthony M. Kennedy and Justice Antonin Scalia agreed in their controlling decisions in the 2006
Rapanos and Carabell cases (the most recent ones dealing with the existing Clean Water Act) that one of the key factors keeping
the existing law constitutional was its reference to "navigable" waters. (Or to what Justice Kennedy described as
a "significant nexus" thereto.)
The second erosion of property rights is more indirect, but stems from
an even more sweeping expansion of EPA authority. At issue is the EPA's decision this week that carbon dioxide presents an
"endangerment" to human health such that EPA can now regulate it without new legislative authority. The EPA's targets
supposedly are manufacturers that emit large amounts of carbon dioxide. But the agency easily could extend its regulatory
reach to the collective emissions from home appliances and the like.
As the Heritage Foundation's Ben Lieberman
has written, "even the kitchen in a restaurant, [or] the heating system in an apartment or office building ... could
cause these and other entities [to be regulated] - potentially more than a million buildings, 200,000 manufacturing operations,
and 20,000 farms." The ensuing devaluation of noncomplying small businesses is a back-door diminution of property rights.
All of these moves are motivated by a desire by Leftists to gain more power over our lives. They know that having
the right to property means having freedom of action. And, therefore, they hate property rights.
A nation
without protected property rights is a nation that is not free.
 Get up. Stand up. Stand up for your Rights.
11 dec 09 @ 10:48 am est
FIRST, THEY CAME FOR OUR SUV'SNow, they're coming for our arses. From William Teach, commander of The
Pirate's Cove, we learn:
The drum beat against toilet paper is continuing,
this time by those oh so responsible and respectable folks at Greenpeace, who are know for their rational actions The issue over tissue in the bathroom — the really super-soft stuff — is more like the fight about the big
SUVs loved by many Americans.
Anti-green, according to environmentalists. Politically incorrect. Why should Americans
use luxurious toilet paper made from old-growth trees when much of the world gets by with a far more basic and often recycled
product?
Why should we flush redwoods, so to speak?
So Greenpeace, the Natural Resources Defense Council
and other environmental groups have pushed manufacturers such as Kimberly-Clark (Cottonelle) and Procter & Gamble (Charmin)
to stop using wood from virgin forests to make tissue products.
But,
of course, they just can’t stop there....
He's got the rest of the poop here.
This comment by him sums it all up:
...Liberals want government
out of the bedroom. I want liberals out of my bathroom.
They'll get my Charmin when they pry it out of my
cold, dead, butt.
11 dec 09 @ 10:22 am est
EGGS OBAMADICTI've been asked 'Did you watch Obama's Nobel Prize speech?'. My answer was:
'Hell no, life's too damn short and listening to him makes me ill' [Mrs. B. starts retching]. I do usually read the
speeches and, so, I have begun to read the damn thing. Even though I haven't finished as yet [I need amber liquids and
prescription meds to go on!], I do think Clifton, over at Another Black Conservative, has one of the best
comments I've read so far:
I am glad to see that the Nobel Prize committee
has complete egg on their faces now that Obama has sent 30,000 troops to Afghanistan and has completely dissed the people
of Norway by canceling many of the Peace Prize events, including lunch with the King. This is what you get when you try to
make political snubs instead of awarding true achievement.
Hear, hear.
I shouldn't be surprised
at the level and depth of the arrogance of Julius Obamacus Caesar and his minions, but, man, the snubs dealt out to the Norwegians
are so brazen, it takes my breath away.
Please do take the time to click here and check out Clifton's full posting [tip of the fedora to the Left Coast Rebel].
11 dec 09 @ 10:10 am est
OH, THAT DAN RIEHL!He's come up with the best ideaI've heard to drive the Bolshes nuts:
What do you think? Palin/Bachman in 2012?? We could do a hell of a lot worse. What am I saying, we did do worse as far as
the top of the ticket in 2008. Heck, these two babes might even win. And even if they didn't, it'd be well worth it just to
watch the Left go so totally berserk! Heck, it's worth speculating for that, alone.
Oh, man,
I'd really enjoy watching the heads of the Andrew Sullivans, Chris Matthews, Maureen Dowds, et. al., explode. I'd even
pay to see it happen. Imagine: the blood vessels in the temples would burst, the eyes would expand and pop out
of their sockets...it would be like Arnold in Total Recall:
 Oh, yeah.
11 dec 09 @ 9:53 am est
THE SPOT-ON QUOTE OF THE DAY......is awarded to GatorDoug for his explanation of The Big Leftist Lie and its consequences:
Well, the great lie the Left
always pedals is that if we surrender our ambitions, our personal goals, and dreams we will be rewarded. We will see a Utopia
of equality, a wonderous world where all of us reap the collective benefits of each other's talents and labors. In reality
though, that dream scenario never reaches fruition. Instead, history shows us that wherever people have bought into, or have
been forced into accepting this Marxist lie, the people suffer, rather than benefit.
Their freedoms are soon gone, lost forever. Instead of
bettering the standing of all, Marxism degenerates everyone's conditions. Instead of creating equality, Marxism creates poverty,
despair, and the most cruel inequalities. Instead of realizing a society where all are the same, Marxism creates societies
where the very few reap the benefits, while the people suffer.
Spot-on Doug.
I believe it was Ayn Rand who said something to the effect that the Leftist seeks to make everyone
equal and to do that they have to drag everyone down to the level of the mediocre.
11 dec 09 @ 9:12 am est
THE SADDEST WORDS OF TONGUE OR PEN......are the words 'it might have been'. 'How true' I say after reading this alternative history of yesterday in Norway by Paco. A teaser:
The woman extended a hand. “Velcome tew Norvay, Meester
President! I am Helga Nordstrum, from de Office of Protocol. It is an honor tew meet yew!”
Obama, barely
suppressing an urge to say “hubba hubba!”, latched on to her slender fingers with both hands, and pumped them
slowly, as if he were jacking up a car in order to change a flat tire. In spite of himself, he actually giggled; then, recollecting
the need to uphold the dignity of his office, he cleared his throat and stammered.
“Heh-heh…It’s
…it’s…er…it’s good to meet you, too, Ms. Nordstrum. I…uh…gulp!…”
Damn! he thought to himself. Where’s that teleprompter when I really need it?
Bravo, Paco.
11 dec 09 @ 9:05 am est
STACY THE BLOGGING GUY
It took the non-malicious misinterpretation of his words by a friend that has led Stacy McCain to publish, as
far as I'm concerned, his best [and what should be, in a just world, final] essay explaining the thinking behind his statements
on race in a 1996 communication that has been used by foes and so-called 'fellow conservatives' alike to viciously smear his
reputation. The essay is a brilliant piece of reason that, if you retain any sanity and still are able to see with any
unclouded vision, will make you come away from reading it agreeing with his argument and having no doubt left that STACY
MCCAINIS NOT A RAAAAACIST.
The piece has to be read as a whole, so I will not quote from the main body
of it here. Please do take the time to click here and read it all.
However, I will quote this bit from his ADDENDUM:
There are
people who are, we might say, unconscious Marxists. They have been schooled in a particular worldview, taught to
view the world through a prism of oppression, exploitation and alienation.
Baptized by immersion in such beliefs
(which are nowadays widely promulgated in our educational institutions) these people are incapable of thinking outside the
schematic system of categories that has been instilled in their minds. Confronted with a phenomenon that does not fit their
schema -- e.g., a poor person who opposes socialism, a lesbian who rejects the dogma of the gay-rights movement --
these people must either ignore the obtrusive phenomenon, rationalize it, or attack and destroy it.
These unconscious
Marxists are everywhere, including in the comment fields of conservative blogs. Wise men should not allow such ignorant trolls
to go unrebuked.
I wrote this in his Comments Section:
Since Leftist [what you label ‘Marxist’]
thinking began to have an influence in this country, frank discussions of reality, life as it occurs, have more and more become
impossible. And this is for the very reason that you lay out in your ADDENDUM: Leftist
thinking has permeated our brains and, in a sense, effected how the neurons fire, so that they no longer fire in a reasoned
sequence [one causality: what we understand as ‘Common Sense’]. The meanings of words have
mutated into hideous distortions of their original meanings [see Dafydd Ab Hugh's brilliant explanation of the mutation of the words 'natural' and 'revulsion']. Like the false reality presented of harmony amongst
different types of people in the media, the Left has created a false reality of reality, of life as it occurs.
They have indoctrinated everyone to view life through the lens of a Funhouse mirror. A is no longer
A, but is now considered to be B. Trouble is, a thing is what it is and no attempt to say it is, in fact,
something else alters that fact that it remains what it is. A is always A; you can call it B, but it will
always and forever be A.
In a just world, this posting would end the argument ‘Is Robert Stacy McCain
A Raaaaacist?’ once and for all. Sadly, it’s a Leftist world, so I would highly recommend you
hire my law firm [and The American Spectator’s] Solitary, Nasty, Poor, Brutish, & Short
to represent you from here on [they've got a full bar in each office].
Thursday, December 10, 2009
A LITTLE HUMP DAY RULE 5A day delayed, but as promised...
LESLEY
ANN WARREN...
10 dec 09 @ 7:35 pm est
THE BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLICANSOn Monday, I awarded Erick Erickson THE SPOT-ON QUOTE OF THE DAY for this bit of truth:
Over the past few years, the establishment
GOP has become bloated, corrupt, greedy, inept, licentious, devoid of ideas, and weak. It has passed legislation to grow government
while talking about cutting it. Its leaders have excoriated the lobbyist culture while lining their pockets. It has bungled
campaigns and strategy to block Barack Obama's legislation. The problems extend from Washington into the states.
Today, Erick stated the reasons why the Republican Civil War is necessary. A highlight:
Across the board, the GOP Establishment is staying neutral between moderates
and endorsing moderates over conservatives. In some cases, it is endorsing liberals over conservatives.
The goal
is an intentionally orchestrated campaign to defeat conservatives in the GOP primaries and thereby have the establishment
take full credit for what we all know is going to be a good year for the GOP in 2010.
...
So yes, there
is a very necessary brewing Republican civil war. This should be a banner election year for conservatives. Sadly, it is the
GOP Establishment trying to prevent that from happening.
We must fight back. We know conservatives are the base
of the party. We know independents are moving our way. We know conservatives can win. We know from Maine to Florida to California
to Alaska a pro-entrepreneurial “leave me the hell alone” message can sell. And yet?
The Republican
Establishment in charge now is the same Establishment that was there in 2006. It never got replaced. For example, Mitch McConnell
has led us from 55 Senate seats to 40 and his record as NRSC Chairman was equally craptacular. Now this man is both trying
to beat conservatives in Republican primaries andoppose Obamacare with cute little messaging amendments. These people
are only winners because we let them. Not any more.
Dead. Solid. Perfect. I'm with you,
Erick. WOLVERINES!
We are in a two front war: on one side are the Leftists who are trying to destroying everything we hold
dear and on the other are their useful idiots who are the GOP establishment. Two front wars are always to be feared,
but, take heart and remember what the great Marine General Chesty Puller said: We're surround. That simplifies the problem.
10 dec 09 @ 2:49 pm est
CLEANING OUT THE CACHE Wherein I provide
links to postings
by my fellow bloggers that are well-worth
your time.
A semi-regular feature of TCOTS.
Here's the latest and some stuff I haven't had a chance to get to as we've been hurtling our way along to
perdition...
Just a quick one this time, but I wanted to git-r-done.
-On of the most colorful politicians
in U.S. history is Edwin Edwards. Former multiple term Governor of Louisiana, he's still serving time in prison.
Like any good scoundrel, he has contributed a sage piece of advice to all politicians seeking election or re-election: 'The
only way I can lose is if I'm caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy.' Pat Austin has information on a new and authorized biography that is being released.
-Stacy McCain is once again [will this BS ever end?]
having to defend himself against charges that he is a raaaaacist. The attack this time was launched from supposed conservative
Patterico. Stacy's published a number of postings on this latest smear attempt and they can all be found by clicking here. They contain links to all of Patterico's postings and what others having been saying. The two best of the others's
posting are this one by Dafydd ab Hugh and this one by Donald Douglas.
Patterico has a problem: he is a lawyer and, more specifically, an ADA. Most lawyers don't think like normal
people and parse things way too much [sometimes a revulsion is just a revulsion]. Add to that that he is an ADA, the biggest
abusers of the law through its parsing [ADA's wouldn't know original intent if it bit them in the arse]. Most lawyers have
been taught to think in a way that does not comport with Common Sense or reason.
I say it again: Robert
Stacy McCain is not a raaaaacist.
-Stogie, over at Saberpoint, believes he has unearthed a photo of Harry 'The School Marm' Reid's
body double and his theory makes damn good sense.
-I forgot about this one: Dan Riehl has the 411 and links to thirty-five fantastic picture of the landscape of Mars.
-In his second blogger interview, Aleister, proprietor
of American Glob, questions Dan Riehl.
-If you haven't read it yet, don't forget to read the latest adventure of Detective Paco.
KEVIN JENNINGS, CHILD PORNOGRAPHERFor background, please see my two previous postings on 'Safe' Schools Czar
Kevin Jennings, GLSEN, and their advocacy of child pornography here and here.
Pat Austin, over at And So It Goes In Shreveport, reports this morning:
Michelle Malkin was on Hannity last night to talk about Kevin Jennings and
his advocating porn as safe-reading for school children. I'm encouraged that this story is getting out into the main media
now and not restricted to conservative blogs. The Washington Times had an editorial about it yesterday which you can read
here. There is also a reportthat Congressman Burgess has written to Obama calling for him to remove Jennings from
his job.
Good. Let's hope this scandal will now reach a much wider audience. If you follow my
links above you'll be able to get to excerpts from GLSEN's recommended reading materials [Warning if you do: the reading
materials are explicit].
Pat has a video clip as well that is worth your time. I was glad to hear Michelle
Malkin mention Jim Hoft, the Gateway Pundit, who has done so much work to bring this issue to our attention.
Also, head on over to Mrs. Malkin's
site and check out a list of corporate and foundation sponsors of GLSEN with contact information for them [tip of the fedora to Pat].
10 dec 09 @ 1:58 pm est
BIG F---ING SURPRISE!From Todd Starnes, over at Fox News Radio, we learn:
President Obama and the First Family were planning a “non-religious Christmas,”
according to Social Secretary Desiree Rogers. Ms. Rogers reportedly told a gathering of former social secretaries that the
Obamas did not intend on putting the Nativity scene on display – a longtime East Room tradition.
The account
was reported in the Fashion and Style section of The New York Times. The White House confirmed to the Times that there had been internal discussions about
making Christmas more inclusive – but in the end – tradition won out – and the Nativity scene is once again
in its traditional East Room spot.
So...it was Barry and Michelle's desire to make Christmas at The White
House more 'inclusive'. And the way you do that in the Obama White House is to get rid of the Nativity scene?
Pardon me, but, HUH??? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!
The Little Oxford Dictionary defines
the word 'inclusive' as 'including; comprehensive'. It defines 'comprehensive' as 'including much or all; of wide scope'.
It defines 'Christmas' as 'festival of Christ's birth celebrated on 25 Dec.'.
So, it would seem, logic would dictate,
that any celebration of Christmas would have to include something about the birth of The Christ for it to be a 'Christmas
Celebration' at all. If you wanted to make it more 'inclusive', you could include symbols from other religions, but
if you eliminated THE symbol of Christmas [The Nativity] you couldn't call it a 'Chirstmas Celebration' any longer.
It seems neither Barry nor Michelle had the testicular fortitude [surprising in Michelle] to openly declare they
don't believe in celebrating Christmas [they don't give their children Christmas gifts].
Now we know that these
two are even more outside the mainstream of American culture. Heck, they're not only outside it, but over the
horizon from it.
You have to wonder why two people who hate nearly everything about the country they live in never
left America.
10 dec 09 @ 10:55 am est
A NOTE FROM BOB I don't know about you all, but some mornings its tough to muster enough energy to get going with the postings around here.
I feel like I've been in an boxing match since 20 January and, sometimes, I get a little punchy and I'm often mentally
exhausted.
You may have noticed I've been Rule 5 blogging a lot more lately. That's been happening partially
out of selfishness: amidst all the horrors of what the Left is doing, and trying to do, to this country, I need to take a
few minutes now and again to look at some beauty for inspiration [Why We Fight, as it were].
Oh well...onward and
upward as the swami said.........
 Barry don't surf!
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
ALBUM COVER RULE 5Due to circumstances beyond the control of The TCOTS Rule 5 Compliance
Committee, A Little Hump Day Rule 5is delayed a day. It will appear tomorrow evening.
Until then, The Committee hopes you will enjoy...
ALBUM
COVER RULE 5...
9 dec 09 @ 9:13 pm est
NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SONOver the past twenty years or so, I've heard many people complain about the way
parents are choosing to spell the names of their children when it comes time to legally state the names of their children
on birth certificates. I agree with them about how ridiculous the majority of these alternative spellings are.
As an example, in my line of work I had to make contact a few years ago with a gal at another agency who would be supplying
me with data I needed. She asked me to send her an e-mail with the specifications for the data and gave me her e-mail
address which was structured, like many organizations do, [first name initial][full last name]@[agency internet address].
She told me her first name was [traditionally spelled] 'Karen'. So, when I sent her the e-mail, I typed 'Dear Karen'.
In her reply, she, in a very nice way, replied that it was spelled 'Karyn'. This was not the first time I have encountered
this; I've seen it spelled 'Caryn', 'Caren', 'Karin', 'Carin', and, God help us, 'Kareren'.
I don't know if
this recent phenominum was inspired by some twisted part of the Baby Boomer desire to 'express individuality, man' or what,
but it is quite annoying. To avoid such misspellings, you find yourself seraching the interenet for something that contains
the person's name [quite the timewaster].
Those people I have heard complain about this practice seem to think
that it is a relatively new phenomenon. Actually, this is not the first time it has occurred, as John Derbyshire reminded me today when he quoted from am exchange between Jeeves and Bertie Wooster:
Bertie: Miss Pendleton is still proving obdurate, Jeeves. She wouldn't answer my telephone calls yesterday.
Jeeves: In my experience, ladies who spell
"Gwladys" with a "w" are seldom noted for their reliability, Sir. It gives them romantic notions. ...
I blame Alfred Lord Tennyson and his Idylls of the King, Sir. It also accounts for "Kathryn," "Ysobel,"
and "Ethyl" with a "y". But "Gwladys" with a "w" is a particularly virulent form.
Leave it to Jeeves to express my thinking much more eloquently.
SIDENOTE: I am, finally almost finished
with John's wonderful book We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism. It would make a great stocking-stuffer for that cynical SOB you love.
9 dec 09 @ 5:30 pm est
STEALTH FASCISM IN AMERICAI have warned in these Dispatches, and on other pages of this
site, on numerous occasions about the Stealth Jihad occurring in America. It is real and it is creeping-up on us.
There is also a Stealth Fascism going on as well.
While I have reported on it, I have never called it by
that simple, accurate, and elegantly succinct name. Under our noses and for many decades now, the Leftists in Washington
have been implementing more and more regulations and statutes which transfer control of the elements of private life and the
free market to the national government. Those Leftists in power in Washington now have gone from being turtles to hares
since 20 January. They've gone from firing single shots at the body of America to using a machine gun. I think
this is part of a new strategy the Left has implemented: throw so many pieces of their crap at us, that we'll become overwhelmed
and some of it will stick. Thank God for the bloggers out there, each with their variety of issue interests, who know
their areas well and tell the rest of us what is going on.
From the Left Coast Rebel [who got
it via one of his readers Chris Walsh], I learned today of a troubling [to say the least] report by Susan Anne Hiller, over at Big Government,
on the latest move by the Leftists in The White House and the Congress to violate and subvert The Constitution
and concentrate more power in the hands the Executive Branch. A highlight:
To achieve the goal of a universal, single-payer health system, the White
House must secure the power it needs by amending the Social Security Act to transfer pivotal controls from Congress to the
executive branch. This transfer of power would ultimately give the President and the majority party, in this case the
radical left Obama White House and Pelosi-Reid led progressive Democrats, the authority to frame and manipulate new policy,
coverage options, and reimbursements, ultimately reshaping the future US health care system into a something unrecognizable
in this country.
The deliberate setup for the White House power grab is built into the each of the health care
bills and, if they fail, little-known twin bills called “MedPAC Reform of 2009” are waiting in the wings.
The bills, S.B. 1110 and H.R. 2718, craftily amend the Social Security Act and transfer the Medicare guideline and rule
setting processes, from the legislative branch to the executive branch. These bills offer cover to one another in case
one doesn’t pass the House or Senate, respectively. Remember, Democrats need to gain executive branch authority
by amending the Social Security Act over Medicare regulations and physician fee schedules to transform the health care system
in a single-payer, socialized system.
More importantly, Medicare’s regulations and physician fee schedules
are the keystone to developing payer systems and reimbursement models across the entire health care industry. And where
Medicare goes, insurers follow.
To underscore the far-reaching power, a bulk of the states already reference or
utilize the Medicare guidelines and fee schedules in determining policy, coverage, and payment, which impacts certain state-specific
plans, including, but not limited to, self-funded plans, automobile insurance payers, and state workers’ compensation
funds and plans – affecting even Big Labor. For the executive branch to have such authority over Medicare
regulations with little oversight is alarming. This raises further issues of the powerful impact these federal mandates
could potentially have on the states in stripping them of their own management of their respective insurance industries.
Specifically, the language in the Reid bill intentionally places unlimited power directly in the hands of Health and
Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, including the ability to designate covered services, or rationing.
The Pelosi bill creates a Health Choices Commission and its “commissioner” is empowered to make the same decisions.
More alarming, both will have to take direction from the White House–and its unconfirmed czars–due to their executive
branch affiliation.
The Left Coast Rebel comments:
This stuff reads like a dystopian science fiction novel portraying a totalitarian
hostile takeover of a free country/industry. All of the framework is in place for total control. How can we not see this?...
I slightly disagree: what the Leftists are trying to do is put the framework in place that will allow them
to control whatever they want, whenever they want—by whim and at the point of a gun. They need to do this under
the our radar because they know damn well that any publicizing of their naked power grabs will cause loud howls of protest
and tons of pressure to be applied to prevent their succeeding.
Like the cowards they are [afraid to announce their
intentions openly], these Fascists must bury all of these accretions of power in the language of massively-sized legislation,
in language that only experts can decipher. A lot of the framework is already in place, but I think there is still time
to blow it up Hindenburg-style. But, (1) time is running out and (2) the Left is supremely committed and incredibly
determined. They believe, after all the years of having to compromise, that THIS IS THEIR MOMENT TO ACT and that they
can't afford to hesitate. They have to move quick before enough of us freedom-loving Americans catch on and take action.
The problem is, the Left is so entrenched in the bureaucracy and the elected Left is so committed that they will do
anything—anything—to achieve their ends, by any means necessary. This is the nature of
the Left—always has been, always will be. This evil power grab must be stopped before we wake up one morning and
find ourselves enslaved to the state.
As I've written many times before, the odds are against us for a whole host
of reasons, but we have to fight these kind of measures because (1) it is the right thing to do and (2) because, if we do
not stop them within the next year or so by peaceful means, our only recourse, if we want to save America, will be via rebellion.
9 dec 09 @ 4:51 pm est
THE REAL DANGER TO OUR CHILDRENIt's not just our public school children who are being indoctrinated to accept
homosexuality as normal and taught how to perform homosexual acts, as I reported this morning. Over at Moonbattery, Van Helsing reports:
Is nothing sacred to the militant moonbats bent on corrupting every aspect
of our society? The answer: that's right, nothing.
So who knew? Santa
Claus is a ho-ho homosexual. When the story goes public, it rocks the world. Well, at least in writer-performer Jeffrey Solomon's
"Santa Claus Is Coming Out," his newest one-man show exploring gay issues.
It gets worse:
What Solomon's really interested in is how to discuss gay sexual orientation with young children....
So-called experts tell us all the time that we have to keep our children safe from pedophiles and smoking and alcohol
and drugs and lead in toys and.....on and on and on. It seems to me the biggest threat to our children is from these
folks.
9 dec 09 @ 2:45 pm est
TWO DIFFERENT WORLDS.If you have any doubts as to the negative way the Left views our soldiers
and their generals, this quote from one of the top leaders of the Left should resolve any of your doubts...
From
Representative John Conyers, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee:
Calling
in generals and admirals to discuss troop strength is like me taking my youngest to McDonald’s to ask if he likes french
fries.
[Source*: The Hill, Molly Hooper reporting]
This is the Left's vision of an American general:
This is the Right's vision of an American general:
*I got the Conyer's quote from over at Piece Of Work In Progress, where Dan Collins has
up a damn fine posting of Milestones in the History of Simile & Insanity. Do go check it out.
9 dec 09 @ 2:17 pm est
DEPRAVITY 101Last Saturday I posted:
Jim Hoft [the Gateway
Pundit] and Scott Baker [Breitbart TV] have published a report, prepared by independent researchers, on the books being recommended by the Gay,
Lesbian and Straight Education Network [GLSEN] for reading by children and for use by teachers in the classroom.
GLSEN was founded and manned by Obama's Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings.
As I commented at the time:
The details of this story we even
make the hardest person sick to his stomach. I could only read a few of the numerous excepts before I had to stop because
I was getting physically ill and, at the same time, ready to go out a kill the people responsible.
As the
authors of the report reported:
We were unprepared for what
we encountered. Book after book after book contained stories and anecdotes that weren't merely X-rated and pornographic, but
which featured explicit descriptions of sex acts between pre-schoolers; stories that seemed to promote and recommend child-adult
sexual relationships; stories of public masturbation, anal sex in restrooms, affairs between students and teachers, five-year-olds
playing sex games, semen flying through the air. One memoir even praised becoming a prostitute as a way to increase one's
self-esteem. Above all, the books seemed to have less to do with promoting tolerance than with an unabashed attempt to indoctrinate
students into a hyper-sexualized worldview.
It is now nearly a week after the report with its extensive
number of excerpts was released and none of the MSM has covered the issue. The Washington Times has
published a scathing editorial [here] and Big Government is on the case [in other words, only the alternative right wing media is covering the
story] Most troubling [and disgusting] is that 'Safe' Schools Czar Kevin Jennings has not been fired. As Jim commented this morning:
It is a shame that our state-run media will run thousands of stories about
Tiger Woods and his adult extramarital affairs but will ignore the fact that a White House official was/is actively promoting a reading list for children 13
years old or older “that made the most explicit sex between children and adults seem normal and acceptable.”
You're being too kind Gateway: it's a scandal that should be the final nail in the coffin for the MSM.
Since
I published my posting on Saturday, the intrepid Jim Hoft has unearthed even more about the activities of GLSEN and Kevin
'The Fister' Jennings.
Warning:
it gets worse and I will be a bit graphic, but I think it important that I don't tone down so that you'll see just how
repulsive, perverse, and disgusting what they have done and are doing is.
From Jim's report on Sunday, we learned that, in 2000, GLSEN [with Jennings in charge of it], held a conference for fourteen year olds in the Massachusetts
public schools where the students were introduced to the primarily homosexual practice of Fisting. The event was sponsored
by the Massachusetts Department of Education, the Safe Schools Program, the Governor's Commission on Gay & Lesbian
Youth. A good watchdog group, Mass Resistance, infiltrated the event and recorded it. Here's an excerpt:
Woman: Question is: What's fisting?
Man: A little known fact is that you don't make a fist like this. When they do it, it's like this. This is a lot
easier than this. [laughter]
Woman:
You work your way up to it... [unclear] one finger, two fingers, three fingers ... Some people can take a hand, or they can't
take a hand.
When Mass Resistance got the story out, there was much controversy and Jennings was forced
to apologize, as the Gateway Pundit reports here. However, in 2001 GLSEN allowed Planned Parenthood to hand out 'Fisting Kits' to teachers and students that attended
their conference:
Founding Bloggers has more here.
Media Matters, funded by George 'The Meglomaniac' Soros and manned by John Podesta, defended
Jennings. Andrew Breitbart fought back via Twitter, as Jim Hoft reports here.
It gets even worse, as Jim reported this morning:
The children who attended Kevin Jennnings’ GLSEN 2005 Conference also
left with their own “Little Black Book – Queer in the 21st Century”.
This book exposes the young teens to–
Rimming – Fisting – Water Sports (Pi$$ Play) – Toys
It’s what
every teen needs to know…
The page titled “How safe is dat?” introduces young teens to fisting,
rimming, and watersports (pi$$ing on your partner). Shouldn’t every teen know this?
And in case any of the
teens got bored, GLSEN was also kind enough to include a list of the local gay bars in the booklet distributed to high school
students.
Keep up with the latest at Big Government by clicking here.
Message to all of our elected representatives in Washington and all reporters:
We're
talking children here!
Have you fallen so low in the morals department that you cannot muster even a scintiller
of interest in what our children are being exposed to?
Fisting, rim jobs, golden showers, sex between children,
sex between adults and children, prostitution encouraged, anonymous sexual encounters encoraged.
Are you
so lacking in morality, in a belief in right and wrong, that you do not care?
Are you that lost?
Are you that depraved?
9 dec 09 @ 11:07 am est
WALKING IN A FISKING WONDERLAND Its a wintry morning here in the Nor'East, and there's nothing more suited to breaking the fast on such a day as a righteous
Fisking. The Classic Liberal serves one up of Rich 'Twinkle Toes' Lowry and the Editors at the National Review.
Some highlights:
Although they consider
themselves to be a “conservative” magazine, the truth about the National Review is … they
love the State!
Here’s an example:
Sweating the Fed by the Editors Bernanke,
who is being sweated by senators soon to vote on retaining him as chairman of the Federal Reserve, is the principal architect
of the government’s interventions in the banking industry during the financial crisis. That intervention probably represented
the best available course of action in the circumstances, and it very likely averted a much worse recession than the one we’ve
experienced.
Sorry Editors, but “that intervention”
probably represented the worst of all available courses of action....
And...
The Federal Reserve doesn’t keep “a damper on inflation,” the Federal Reserve creates inflation! Given these delicate circumstances, it is no
time to go mucking about with the central bank. The question is not so much the particular one of Bernanke’s leadership
— he has been a very able public servant in our estimate but is by no means indispensable — but rather one of
the institutional continuity of the Fed and its mission. Even those who share Ron Paul’s suspicions of the independent
central bank must, if they are sober, conclude that a central bank in thrall to the short-term political needs of congressmen
would be a catastrophe.
And right here, you tell us what Sweating the Fed is really all about. Protecting central power and authority.
The
“delicate circumstances” we’re in today, were created by Congress and the central bank. By printing trillions
of dollars out of thin air, they created an Internet bubble, then a real estate bubble, then a credit bubble, and coming soon
to a theater near you … the Bailout Bubble!
Yet,
you’re worried about the “institutional continuity” of our ultimate central planner? The “institution”
that controls a complete monopoly on our money in spite of its track-record of losing 96% of our dollars value? … a
creature of the “progressive era?” … is what you wish to protect?
It seems that some conservatives
just like to conserve institutions and ideas just because they've survived for a decent length of time—no
matter who created them. Their attitude seems to be a kind of blind adherence to what it means to conserve something
['Conserving: Yup! That's what we do! Doesn't matter what it is. We'll try to keep it!'].
The
Federal Reserve System was conceived and designed by Progressives [the same folks who brought you the Income Tax and the New
Deal]. So, it is the brainchild of Leftists that Ricky and his minions are defending. Within two decades of its
creation it had managed to be a major player in helping to create The Great Depression [see Paul Johnson's Modern
Times]. As TheCL writes: There is absolutely nothing conservative about supporting the single most powerful
government central planning organization in America. A central planner who deliberately dilutes the value of the dollars for
which you labor.
Please do take the time to click here and read the rest; it's well worth it and the links are quite good.
And, now, for an ad...
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Tuesday, December 8, 2009
FASCISM, PLAIN & SIMPLE
Earlier today, I posted about the arrogant remarks made by the head of the EPA Lisa Jackson in which she dismissed the leaked e-mails about
the brazen falsifying of climate data by a good number of scientists. She was responding to the outrage of many over
the EPA's declaration yesterday that 'global warming, allegedly caused by mankind's burning of fossil fuels, endangers public
health.' I just read a succinct and very informative editorial in the New York Post about the implications
of this decision by Iain Murray and Marlo Lewis. A highlight:
The finding paves the way for a huge power grab by EPA bureaucrats -- indeed,
more power than even they think they can handle: The likely regulatory cascade will end up with the EPA having complete
control over the nation's energy supply and its use.
Large apartment buildings and hospitals would need EPA operating
permits to continue running their furnaces. Lawnmowers and aircraft alike would be regulated for fuel economy like automobiles.
And as the EPA orders a retooling or even closure of the nation's power plants, electricity prices would skyrocket, and blackouts
would become common.
This is, indeed, a monumental and nakedly bold power grab by the Executive that they
are trying to slip past us as our attention is on Christmas and our families. The EPA will now act without the consent of our elected Representatives in the Congress to exert enormous regulatory
control over private businesses, over our houses, over our health. The EPA has been a major thorn in the side of private
enterprise since its founding under Richard Nixon. It will now become a sucking chest wound on the American breast.
This declarartion by the EPA is fascism pure and simple: fascism is when a government allows private property
to exist, but controls and manages the use and disposal of property in all its forms. Citizens retain all of the
burdens and responsibilities associated with property ownership, but are not allowed to control and shape its use. That
is what this move accomplishes.
This is tyranny, pure and simple. No if's, and's, or but's.
THE BIG LIARWell, well, well...so Harry 'The Old School Marm' Reed thinks that Republican
Senators are acting like the slaveholding Senators in the years before The Civil War:
...Reid argued that Republicans are using the same stalling tactics employed in the pre-Civil War era.
"Instead
of joining us on the right side of history, all the Republicans can come up with is, 'slow down, stop everything, let's start
over.' If you think you've heard these same excuses before, you're right," Reid said Monday. "When this country
belatedly recognized the wrongs of slavery, there were those who dug in their heels and said 'slow down, it's too early, things
aren't bad enough.'"
Yea...why not throw in the suffrage and civil rights while you're at it:
He continued: "When women spoke up for the right to speak up, they wanted to vote,
some insisted they simply, slow down, there will be a better day to do that, today isn't quite right.
"When
this body was on the verge of guaranteeing equal civil rights to everyone regardless of the color of their skin, some senators
resorted to the same filibuster threats that we hear today."
As for the last charge, Fox
News [thank God for them] reminds us:
The Nevada Democrat, in a sweeping set of accusations on the Senate floor,
also compared health care foes to those who opposed women's suffrage and the civil rights movement -- even though it was Sen.
Strom Thurmond, then a Democrat, who unsuccessfully tried to filibuster the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and it was Republicans
who led the charge against slavery.
Richard, over at Three Beers Later, has a list of Democrat 'accomplishments' on the race issue. Here are two of them [tip of the fedora to Paco]:
Democrats created
the Klan.
Democrats created Jim Crow.
Perhaps William Jacobson had the best comment:
Sometimes the foolishness speaks for itself....
Trouble
is, Prof., there are enough foolish folks out there to believe what Thin Reid says without questioning it.
Paco
certainly wins the award for best Blog Post Title on this one:
Harry Reid Soars to the Heights of Outrageousness on Gossamer
Wings of Imbecility
Clifton takes this incident and goes on to make a more general [and spot-on]
observation:
I have noticed and I am sure you have too, that many on the left love to
compare every issue to the worst possible examples in history. For example, any recession under a Republican administration
is likened to the Great Depression or any war under a Republican administration is always like Viet Nam. Why do they do this
and who actually buys into these over the top comparisons away?
I may have an answer: the Left believes
in very unpopular things. They know this, but they also believe that the reason this is so is that most people are unenlightened
ignoramuses who cling to bad ideas [like freedom and religion]. The Left believes it has found THE ANSWER to bringing
about the immanentizing of the eschaton [heaven on Earth]. Trouble is, no one likes their solutions once they understand them. Therefore, the Left must
practice The Big Lie. They feel they are compelled, being surrounded by so many morons, to deceive the masses for their own good.
Because, let's not forget, they have THE ANSWER. A component of The Big Lie is The Big Deception:
The Left also practices a variation of The Big Lie that I like
to call The Big Deception which involves a Big Deflection away from the reality of the situation.
None of their policies or actions can survive direct questioning, so the Leftists must turn the tables on the questioners
and make it seem as though the inquisitors have bad or evil intentions. Overtime and after constant and unrelenting hectoring,
the Left's way of thinking triumphs. They successfully infect enough people so that this diseased mode of thinking becomes
chronic, deep-rooted, instinctual. If the Devil's greatest triumph was that he convinced people he did not exist, the
Left's greatest triumph has been to convince people that the Leftist way of thinking is normal. It is not. It
is a perversion of reason and a horribly mutant form of logic. It is antithetical to human life. Nothing but decay and
destruction are left [pun intended] in it's wake.
Therefore, in this case, those who aren't raaaaacists
are repeatedly denounced as raaaaacists.
Stacy McCain weighs in:
There are five A's in RAAAAACIST. For some reason, Michelle Malkin misspells (or miscounts) the word: Crying “RAAAAAACIST:”
Always the first and last refuge of left-wing scoundrels. Maybe
Harry Reid is angry because Bob Byrd has gone wobbly on health care?
The question with
Reid is, which came first, the scoundrel or the left-wing?...
8 dec 09 @ 2:39 pm est
WHO KNOWS?
8 dec 09 @ 1:40 pm est
AH...MARRIAGE.....Stacy McCain on the reality of love and marriage...
...Mrs. Other McCain was in my basement office when the news on TV said
Tiger had been linked to nine mistresses.
"I swear to God, Stacy, I'd kill you," she said.
That's
her interpretation of the "forsaking all others . . . 'til death do you part" vow. It's a multiple-choice thing,
see? I can either forsake all others or die. This helps me fend off the desperate advances of all those lovestruck blog groupies
out there.
"Please, Miss, you don't understand, you'd be signing my death warrant, and probably your own,
too," I explain, which usually scares them away. If not, I explain that I'm a father of six, which makes divorce a mathematical
impossibility. The child-support alone would ensure that I'd be living in a cardboard box under a bridge until 2024, at which
point I'd be eligible for Social Security.
One life, one wife -- that's my plan, and I'm sticking to it. To have
a happy marriage, you need to be committed....
Mrs. Other McCain is a softy compared to Mrs. Belvedere
[half-Sicilian / half-Irish Catholic]. If I were to do a Woods, Mrs. B. would not kill me. Nope, not
a chance in Hell for that kind of mercy. She would kill my family, my cats, my friends, my co-workers [not so bad],
my mailman, my accountant, my blogger friends, any conservatives I like, and on and on until she was satisfied. My death,
at that point, would be a blessing. So count your lucky stars McCain: Mrs. Other McCain would let you off easy.
SIDENOTE: The title of Stacy's posting is: Tiger Woods, 'graveyard dead'? If Tiger's misseus were to off him, I guess you could say that the junkyard dog was graveyard dead.
8 dec 09 @ 11:42 am est
A CALL TO ARMSA call to fight and be vigilant from Hogan over at Red State:
But, given
the pressure coming from the President, the lack of response from Senate Republicans and a building compromise among liberal
and moderate Democrats to hide (but not really eliminate) the public option under a “trigger” or an “OPM-managed”
plan – the Senate may well pass a bill which Speaker Pelosi could take up and pass “as is” and send to the
President to sign on Christmas Eve.
All of this is even more likely for one simple reason… it is Christmas.
The American people have a funny way of actually focusing on family, friends, gift-giving and – oh, I don’t know
– the birth of Jesus this time of year. In other words… all the good things – which means anything but
what the fools in Washington are doing.
This Christmas, however, we owe it to those generations before ours who
have passed down this great Republic to us, to those brave men and women fighting to protect our freedom overseas, and most
of all, to our children and the generations to come, to pay attention… and to fight this healthcare bill with everything
we have.
Have you called your Senator? Have you told a friend to call his? Have you called the office of Senators
Lincoln, Nelson, Landrieu, Webb or any others and told them you will contribute to their opponent in their next election if
they vote for the bill?
Failure simply is not an option. If this bill becomes law, it means:
Mandatory
health insurance – or face jail time;
Washington, D.C. bureaucrats have control over your healthcare and
the lives of your family;
Rationing of healthcare – including doctor shortages, waiting lines, and overuse
of “free” healthcare;
More expensive healthcare for everyone – especially the young and healthy;
Bankrupting the U.S. Government (to the extent it is not already);
Long term lower standards of care –
in other words… less progress, fewer life-saving treatments, less life-saving medicine, less innovation…
No – what I want for Christmas is for the American people to rise up and say no to socialized medicine - and
for Senate Republicans to have the courage to help them.
The Time To Not Waver Is Now!
8 dec 09 @ 11:23 am est
NOTHING TO SEE HERE....MOVE ALONG....The head of the EPA has got to be one of the most arrogant people in Washington.
From The Hill, Ben Geman reporting, we learn:
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson dismissed
GOP calls to delay a critical finding on greenhouse emissions in light of hacked e-mails from climate scientists.
EPA documents released Monday state that greenhouse gases threaten human health — a finding that is a precursor
to planned regulations controlling emissions from power plants, vehicles and other sources.
...
“There
is nothing in the hacked e-mails that undermines the science upon which this decision is based,” Jackson said in announcing
the finding this afternoon. She said the controversial messages dealt only with a tiny fraction of the strong evidence of
global warming.
1) Being one of the most arrogant people in DC is quite an achievement.
2) Our
Divine Julius Obamacus Caesar likes to surround himself with arrogant people.
3) THESE PEOPLE HAVE TO BE STOPPED...AND
SOON.
8 dec 09 @ 11:15 am est
Monday, December 7, 2009
ROTTING FROM WITHINMinisters and government officials in [Once] Great Britain have been instructed
not to use certain words like 'fundamentalist' and 'Islamist' and to not use the world 'Muslim' with the word 'terrorist'.
From The Sun, Graeme Wilson reporting:
The guide, produced by the secretive Research, Information and Communications
Unit in the Home Office, tell ministers to "avoid implying that specific communities are to blame" for terrorism.
It says more than 2,000 people are engaged in terror plots.
The guidance was branded "daft" last night
by a special adviser to ex-Communities Secretary Hazel Blears. Paul Richards said: "Unless you can describe what you're
up against, you're never going to defeat it. Ministers need to be leading the debate on Islamic extremism and they can't do
that if they have one hand tied behind their back."
The Home Office said: "This is about using appropriate
language to have counter-terrorism impact. It would be foolish to do anything else."
I heard about
this report from William Teach, commander of The Pirate's Cove [thanks Admiral]. He asks a very important question:
...how long till we start seeing the same thing coming from the Democrats
in our country?
I think we've already seen a bit of it with the renaming of the 'War On Terror' to the 'Overseas
Contingency Operation'. You know its just going to get worse the longer the Leftists are in control in Washington.
7 dec 09 @ 2:36 pm est
REMEMBERING THE GUSTO [Updated at 1707 hours]Over at SI VIS PACEM, Ran is thankful that Schlitz Beer is still around:
I found Schlitz the other
day while shopping ... hadn't seen it in decades. Brought some home. I like Schlitz! Simpler than Bass Ale, a tad lighter than Sam Adams Lager, - two of my favorites - but it's dry and crisp with aromatic
(Cascade?) hops. Yeah, it serves well at room temperature.
It is one of the best domestic beers every made.
I'm glad to hear that its still being made. It was my favorite as a youngster because it was so much more tasty than
Bud or Schaffer or any of the others. Served ice cold in the summer, it defined thirst-quenching. [I drank it
until I discovered my all-time favorite beer: Michelob.] Ah memories...
7 dec 09 @ 2:19 pm est
JIHAD IN AMERICA? ANOTHER ONE?
7 dec 09 @ 2:02 pm est
JIHAD IN AMERICA? [UPDATED at 1343 hours]It would seem I was not the only one who had a particular reaction when I heard
this news [I originally read about it in yesterday's New York Post]:
A Binghamton University [New
York] professor is dead tonight after being stabbed by an anthropology student.
It happened around 1:45 pm Friday in the Science 1 Building on campus.
...
A witness tells Action News that an older male graduate
student entered the office of professor Richard Antoun and then stabbed him.
The article I read in the Postpublished the murderer's name: Abdulsalam S. Al-Zahrani.
And then I remembered that I had heard of the professor before and that he was Jewish.
I gather you can
guess what thought crossed my mind at this point.
A little over twenty-fours hours after the murder, the DA issued
a statement that WBNG reported on:
The Broome DA says Al-Zahrani is a Saudi national
who is a graduate student in the Anthropology department at Binghamton University.
Al-Zahrani and Professor Antoun knew each other through work in the graduate program.
The DA says there is no indication of religious or ethnic
motivation.
On Sunday, WBNG filed this report:
His roommates
describe him as confrontational, anxious and financially unstable.
They
say he would create tension in the house, and behave strangely.
And
at one point, said he wanted to destroy the world.
"I
was cooking, he came out and asked me if I was afraid of death or not, without any context, when I went to answer he went
back to his room," said Souleymane "Jules" Sakho.
"He
would scream on the phone sometimes in Arabic and that was one of the things that kind of bothered me because he just moved
in and would leave his door open and just scream on the phone," said Luis Pena.
Hmmm.
From Pam Geller we learn that the Professor may have been an Islamic apostate. His grandfather was Muslim and he may have converted to the Jewish
faith via his wife. Also:
This comes fresh on the heels of the April massacre in Binghamton that took 13 lives and wounded 26 others (see here and here). My informants told me at the time that that too was jihad related, but shhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
We don't want to defame or insult Islam.
Tip of the fedora
to Mark Steyn who wonders 'Another Case of PTSD?' [great minds think alike, eh?].
UPDATE at 1343: Pam Geller published an update just a short time ago and quoted from a report in The New York Times [emphasis Mrs. Geller's]:
“I said he was acting oddly, like a terrorist,” said one of the roommates, Souleymane Sakho, a graduate student from Senegal. “When I informed them, it was for them to understand that the guy was violent or he may be violent.”
Mr. Sakho said that he told his academic adviser who is overseeing his dissertation about Mr. Zahrani, and
that the adviser referred him to the school’s counseling center. Mr. Sakho said that the head of the counseling center
told him to avoid interaction with Mr. Zahrani and said he should look to move out of the apartment.
A spokesman
for Binghamton University declined to comment on what university officials may have been told by Mr. Sakho
about Mr. Zahrani’s behavior, citing a continuing investigation by the district attorney of Broome County.
Maybe I should take the question mark out of the title of this posting.
Wake Up America.
7 dec 09 @ 11:51 am est
FSB A-OK?From The London Daily Mail, Will Stewart and Martin Delgado reporting,
we learn:
Suspicions were growing last night that Russian security services were behind
the leaking of the notorious British ‘Climategate’ emails which threaten to undermine tomorrow’s Copenhagen
global warming summit.
An investigation by The Mail on Sunday has discovered that the explosive hacked emails from
the University of East Anglia were leaked via a small web server in the formerly closed city of Tomsk in Siberia.
...
The Mail on Sunday understands that the hundreds of hacked
emails were released to the world via a tiny internet server in a red brick building in a snow-clad street in Tomsk.
...
A Russian hacking specialist said last night: ‘There is no hard evidence that the hacking was done
from Tomsk, though it might have been.
'There has been speculation the hackers were Russian. It appears to have
been a sophisticated and well-run operation, that had a political motive given the timing in relation to Copenhagen.’
And gazeta.ru news website, having received information about the Tomsk server connection, said: ‘Presumably
it was Russian hackers who broke into the servers of the university.’
Moe Lane comments:
Specifically, the Russian FSB, which is of course the successor organization
to the KGB. You know: the organization that Vladimir Putin used to run. And if you’re wondering why a slightly
institutionally paranoid nation-state that’s a major producer of fossil fuels might be interested in publishing compromising
materials involving groups trying to cut fossil fuel production… well, read that again until you work it out.
It would make a lot of sense. I really hate to say this, but, if the story is true, the thuggish regime
in Moscow may have done the world a great service.
7 dec 09 @ 11:34 am est
THE SPOT-ON QUOTE OF THE DAY......is awarded to Erick Erickson for his description of what's wrong with the GOP at all levels:
Over the past few years, the establishment GOP has become bloated, corrupt,
greedy, inept, licentious, devoid of ideas, and weak. It has passed legislation to grow government while talking about cutting
it. Its leaders have excoriated the lobbyist culture while lining their pockets. It has bungled campaigns and strategy to
block Barack Obama’s legislation. The problems extend from Washington into the states.
Spot-on, Erick.
I keep writing about the need for we Americans to take our country back from the control of the Leftists who seek
nothing less than to overthrow and destroy and discard everything this country stands for, but we also have to take back the
Republican Party from the squishes, useful idiots, and fellow travellers who run it.
7 dec 09 @ 11:17 am est
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Let us make precise and clear-cut the terms we should be using.
Aristotle wrote that A is A; you may also call it B, but
it always remains A. A thing is what it is and, to say it is something else, is to deny reality. There is a lot of denial
of reality going around these days.
As John Adams wrote: 'Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes,
our inclinations, the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence'.
POINT 1: There is no "War in Iraq"
or "War in Afghanistan". Like the Pacific and Europe in World War II, Iraq and Afghanistan are
just parts of a larger war. Unlike them, they are not separate from each other. Therefore,
they are part of the Middle East Theatre of Operations [METO] as the Pacific was the PTO and Europe the ETO.
POINT 2: Many on the Left and some on the Right want to "end
the War". There are only two ways to end a war: (1) by achieving Victory or (2) by being Defeated.
A pullout, before Victory is achieved, is Defeat. They want Defeat. Pullout may
be the best policy―I am not arguing that here―but, leaving without achieving our objective is Defeat.
POINT 3: We are engaged in a War Against Islam.
The term is more correct than "War against Islamo-Fascism" or "War On Terror".
Islam has been at war with all non-Muslims since the
time of its founder, Muhammad [his name be cursed]. Like the Hundred Years' War, there have been periods
of peace in this long conflict, but the Muslim has never stopped believing that he is at war with all non-Muslims.
He can't: Allah commands that all of the world be conquered in his name and he must submit, in all things, to the
will of Allah [the word Islam means "submission", sometimes rendered as "surrender"]. Any
periods of peace we in the West have enjoyed have only occurred after we have dealt them such a devastating blow that they
have not been able to wage their jihad and then have pursued polices that have kept them subjugated. This
began to fade in the latter half of the 20th Century as we forgot the dangers posed by this militant religion and
as they regrouped under new and committed leaders.
If you
doubt that Islam is at war with all non-Muslims, keep in mind this:
Islamic apologists
often point out that Islam is not a monolith and that there are differences of opinion among the different Islamic schools
of thought. That is true, but, while there are differences, there are also common elements. Just as Orthodox, Roman Catholic,
and Protestant Christians differ on many aspects of Christianity, still they accept important common elements. So it is with
Islam. One of the common elements to all Islamic schools of thought is jihad, understood as the obligation of the Ummah to
conquer and subdue the world in the name of Allah and rule it under Sharia law. The four Sunni Madhhabs (schools of fiqh [Islamic
religious jurisprudence]) -- Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi'i, and Hanbali -- all agree that there is a collective obligation on
Muslims to make war on the rest of the world. Furthermore, even the schools of thought outside Sunni orthodoxy, including
Sufism and the Jafari (Shia) school, agree on the necessity of jihad. When it comes to matters of jihad, the different schools
disagree on such questions as whether infidels must first be asked to convert to Islam before hostilities may begin (Osama
bin Laden asked America to convert before Al-Qaeda’s attacks); how plunder should be distributed among victorious jihadists;
whether a long-term Fabian strategy against dar al-harb is preferable to an all-out frontal attack; etc. [Source: Gregory M. Davis, Islam 101, section
4g, found at http://www.jihadwatch.org/islam101/]
They have been at war with us for
centuries and we, therefore, have been at war with them. We are engaged in a War Against Islam whether
we want to say so or not. In an interview with a Pakistani TV network on 23 July 2008, Mustafa Abu Al-Yazid,
Al-Qaeda's No. 3 man and top commander in Afghanistan, has this to say: “Islam does not distinguish between the
American people and the American government, since both are in a state of war with Islam”. [Source: http://www.memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD200008]
POINT 4: The term "Islamo-Fascism" seems
to have been created by Leftists. Since (1) they wrongly place fascism on the Right, (2) they believe [rightly]
Muslims want to establish a theocratic regime on Earth, and (3) anything political that has any connection with religion is
bad and emanates out of rightwing thinking, the term makes sense to them. Therefore, the term is nothing
but a way to associate Islam with the right-wing. Muslims believe in a totalitarian way of governing; in
submission [that word] to an all-powerful Islamic leader or leaders.
POINT 5: As to the term "War On Terror",
it is just plain silly: how can you wage war on a thing?
POINT 6: What is fascism? It is when a government
allows private property to exist, but controls and manages the use and disposal of property in all its forms. Citizens
retain all of the burdens and responsibilities associated with property ownership, but are not allowed to control and shape
its use.
As an economic system, fascism is socialism with a capitalist veneer. The word derives from fasces, the Roman symbol of collectivism and power: a tied
bundle of rods with a protruding ax. In its day (the 1920s and 1930s), fascism was seen as the happy medium between boom-and-bust-prone
liberal capitalism, with its alleged class conflict, wasteful competition, and profit-oriented egoism, and revolutionary Marxism, with its violent and socially divisive persecution of the bourgeoisie. Fascism substituted the particularity of nationalism
and racialism—“blood and soil”—for the internationalism of both classical liberalism and Marxism.
Where socialism sought totalitarian control of a society’s economic processes through
direct state operation of the means of production, fascism sought that control indirectly, through domination of nominally
private owners. Where socialism nationalized property explicitly, fascism did so implicitly, by requiring owners to use their
property in the “national interest”—that is, as the autocratic authority conceived it. (Nevertheless, a
few industries were operated by the state.) Where socialism abolished all market relations outright, fascism left the appearance
of market relations while planning all economic activities. Where socialism abolished money and prices, fascism controlled
the monetary system and set all prices and wages politically. In doing all this, fascism denatured the marketplace. Entrepreneurship was abolished. State ministries, rather than consumers, determined what was produced and under what conditions.
[Source: Sheldon Richman, The Concise Encylcopedia Of Economics,
Liberty Fund, found at http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Fascism.html]
On the political spectrum, therefore, it is located between modern liberalism
and socialism.
POINT 7: What is socialism? It is when a government
allows no private property to exist, and controls and manages the use and disposal of property in all its forms.
Citizens are not allowed to control their lives and are subject to the whims of bureaucrats and officials. If they
retain freedoms and liberties, they do so at the discretion of them. On the political spectrum, therefore, it
is the next logical stage after fascism; some would argue that it lies between fascism and communism.
POINT 8: What is pragmatism? It is a tool used by Leftists,
or those operating under the influence of Leftist logic, to achieve Utopian ends—heaven on earth through social, political,
cultural, and spiritual engineering. It is merely a tool of ideology, part of the means to an end.
POINT 9:The Big Lie - When confronted with truths that reflect
unpleasantly on them, the Leftists deflect it buy claiming over-an-over ad nauseum that these truths apply to and are products
of the Right. This practice is known as The Big Lie. It has been successfully practiced by the
Left since, at the very least, the French Revolution. Thus, we have the now-widespread belief that the Nazis and the
Black Shirts of Italy were right-wingers when the reality-the truth-is they were both people of the Left. I suspect
the violent objections from the Left to conservatives use of the term 'fascist' arise from the fact that they have spent well
over seventy years trying to convince the world of The Big Lie that it is not and never has been a Leftist
ideology.
How does one practice this distortion truth and why is it effective? In a report issued during
World War II by the OSS, the author provided an explanation for all practitioners by describing how Hitler practiced it:
His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault
or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame;
concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than
a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.
By repeating
their lies over and over, the Left creates a false reality that supplements the real world. In this false reality, the
lie is the truth, the truth is the lie. A is not A. [But we know that A must always be A.]
The Left
also practices a variation of The Big Lie that I like to call The Big Deception which involves
a Big Deflection away from the reality of the situation. None of their policies or actions can survive
direct questioning, so the Leftists must turn the tables on the questioners and make it seem as though the inquisitors have
bad or evil intentions. Overtime and after constant and unrelenting hectoring, the Left's way of thinking triumphs.
They successfully infect enough people so that this diseased mode of thinking becomes chronic, deep-rooted, instinctual. If
the Devil's greatest triumph was that he convinced people he did not exist, the Left's greatest triumph has been to convince
people that the Leftist way of thinking is normal. It is not. It is a perversion of reason and a horribly mutant
form of logic. It is antithetical to human life. Nothing but decay and destruction are left [pun intended] in it's wake.
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