And now, the Mark of the Beast

"Voluntary" of course.  For now, at least. 

See the article, pretty much a  puff piece, at

Wisconsin Company To Implant Microchips In Employees

A brief January note

There are those who are determined to worship before the altar of the false god called "Education".
Like any other cult, all issues are viewed through the lens of the cult and its belief system.  Worshiping more fully that god will, we are told, solve all problems.  Indeed, we are told, all problems really come about as a result of insufficient deference to, worship of, and sacrifice before that god and that altar.
Yeah, right.
Of course, those priests and priestesses of that cult have arrogated unto themselves the right and duty to interpret and re-interpret and even to re-re-interpret terms, words, and phrases so as to make their "system" seem inevitable.
Then we see contrary evidence.  Odd that they don't.
Here's an example.  A community college in the Peoples Democratic Socialist Soviet Republik of Portland Oregon, is going to devote its hoarded resources so as to spend the entire month of April in something called "White Shaming".  If it reminds you of "thoughtcrimes" in 1984, or the re-education camps of Pol Pot's Cambodia and Mao's China during the Great Cultural Revolution, you're not wrong.  Though the contrast is lost on these fools.
And these are the ones who have inexplicably gained control of the arena of ideas, the LameStreamMedia, much of the Congress, the judiciary, the "alphabet agencies", all too many churches, and the White House.

I warned you! Friday, 21 November 2014

back in January of 2013, I warned that we seemed to be seeing the sort of collapse that overtook the Roman Republic (and later, the Roman Empire) and Weimar.  Looks like I was spot-on.
The latest episode, with the President of the United State essentially donning the crown of an Imperator, and proceeding to rule by decree, is the sort of thing I never expected to see in this once-free land.
It ws a nice Republic, while we had it.  But that is, quite clearly, well in the past.

Today's Episode = January 3, 2014 Friday Globaloney

some things are just too funny.  So funny that the self-proclaimed cognoscenti that stink up the coastal areas of North America, and their mouthpieces in the media and academia can' t be troubled to notice them publicly.
One of the funnier ones right now is the ice-bound ship down near Antarctica.  People in the northern hemisphere frequently forget that the seasons are reversed, and it is early SUMMER there.  It seems that a crowd of Global Warming flaks decided to go down to show the awful effects of runaway global warming, with hungry penguins, drowning bears, clear water where they deem that ice "should" be, and all of that.  Problem is, there's more ice in that region than was reliably recorded a CENTURY ago!  More.  Much more!  So much more, that their ship got stuck in the ice.  And could not get out.  The Chinese icebreaker vessel could not get through either, and IT got stuck.  The Australian ice breaker could not get through either, and had to turn back.  Efforts to evacuate the Warmists via helicopter were stalled for days due to horrible cold weather.
Did you note the irony ofa ll of this?  If so, you did well.  The New York Times and it's co-liars somehow missed it.  So did some 94% of all the mass media.  Matter of fact, some flaks in the once-respected magazine Nature just came out at the same week with yet another apocalyptic scare story that global warming is in fact far worse than once thought.
That was right after the IPCC very quietly backed off some of their doom predictions.  Seems that "warming" has not been found in FIFTEEN YEARS!
How does one reconcile this?
Apparently, the would be rulers, the kakistocracy to borrow a term, have chosen to ignore the facts and conceal the matter.

Today's Winner

sometimes it is hard to comprehend just how badly screwed up things have become. And then, to realize that we have helped, via taxes, to finance the screwing-up, is to pour salt in the wounds still being opened.
the link above, in the title here, deals with the use of taxpayer dollars to finance lawsuits against the nation by all sorts of little tinpot fascisti, tree-huggers prominent among them.
But there is more, far more.
a hat tip on this to an article on Richard Ferndandez' great "Belmont Club' section of Pajamas Media, an article that gets into the matter of bureaucracy in general and federal government bureaucracy in particular, and dovetails that with the continuing reverberations from the Ruling Class essay that has gone viral. And a second hat tip to a poster whose contribution included a listing of some of the damage done by bureaucracies in general, not just at the federal level. Follow those links, and the discussion under the original posting, and wonder if the Washington's of the day could ever forgive us.

The Video that CBS Doesn't Want You To See

with a tip of the hat to Andrew Breitbart's Big Journalism site, here is an example of what the Lame Stream Media is trying to censor out of the public arena.

Survey of the World 27 December

Some days, I have to go over to Jerry Pournelle's site to be reminded that Despair is a sin. That inoculation works, for a while. Then I go out onto the 'Net and see
2009: A year of new lows by Frank Miele. Frank is a national treasure, though not so widely known as he should be. And he has hit quite squarely upon the matter.

Flight 253 terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab led life of luxury in London before attempted attack a report out of the NY Daily News. that would seem to refute the idiot notion that terrorists are driven by poverty and despair. An idiot notion, pretty much a lie in reality, that was once pronounced by Buraq Hussein Ubama. Odd, is it not, that the LameStream Media almost always overlook the Muslim connection in these deeds of evil?

Perhaps this will make you giggle, briefly. "Don't Say We're Violent, Or We'll Kill You" from John Hinderaker. An article worth reading, and backed up by the listing, 9-1/2 pages of single-spaced listings of MUSLIM terror attacks in just the last two months. Go look. 'Great Religion of Peace' my rump. A cult of demons, in fact. "Allah" is the name of a demon, just like Beelzebub, Asmodeus, and so forth. Islam is as much a false and evil religion as the cults of Dagon, Ba'al, and Asherah ever were, and in fact have some points of continuity. Hinderaker's story owes much to this one as well, also recommended: Headless Death Threat Sent to Leading Counter Jihad Website Just more of those fun-loving jihadists.

Changing gears a bit, how about a small issue of a state government FORCING owners of small independent businesses to 'join' (meaning pay tribute to) a union? Sound un-American? It is. Sound like something the Fascists, the Nazi's, or the Communists (and they are all pretty similar, actually) might do? Right again! Sound like, oh, Michigan? Ding ding ding! You win! Or lose. Whichever. Here it is: Michigan Forces Business Owners Into Public Sector Unions If you think that this was done with the active connivance of the organized crime mob of SEIU, a group with some very interesting ties to Ubama, you'd qualify for a bonus prize.

And some similar idiocy is going on at the national level as well. Hows that Hoax and Chains working out for you? Try this on. Obama union push stymies contractors

And if you want to see where this is all leading, go here and click on the video shown here. It's not for the squeamish, true, but it is worth seeing.

Conflict of Interest Carol Browner, czar

Odd, a fairly close reading of the U.S. Constitution reveals no provision for the office of ''czar''. I guess it is possible that I missed it, but it is more likely that such a thing was never imagined by the founders, nor by most Americans then or since.
Yet we seem to have acquired a number of them. The experience to date confirms my belief that this is the wrong way to go.
Case in point, one Carol Browner. You may have heard the name. Ubama stuck her into one of these 'czar' jobs, one long on power and short on accountability and ability to pass Constitutional muster. And, apparently, no more possessed of any ethical considerations, putting her in good company in that band of thieves.
Here's a story worth reading.
This is progress?

Headline of the Day --- 'Death Panels' redux

comes now a story out of the U.K., you know, the place with that 'wonderful' National Health Service that Ubama and Pelousy want to foist off on America. Can't do much better than the title, but go read it.

Elderly and disabled could be 'forced to commit suicide' under changes to rules

Of course, it could never happen here, right?

The New Tyrants

One old, and very good, definition of a tyranny is ''a state wherein everything is either mandatory or forbidden.'' It works pretty well.
One symptom of the trend towards such is that things are suddenly criminalized, and heavily so, that were never so considered before. And vigorously enforced too, by those we once called 'public servants' but who are now called ''public officials''. And act accordingly.

Here is an article with some pretty good examples. Who would have expected jack-booted Stasi types to be the U.S. Fish and Wildlife 'Service'? Not me, I always imagine the game wardens who were pretty good guys. That was then, and this is now.

Read it and weep.

Today's Evidence

Every so often we look around and think to ourselves, ''Just how in Tophet did we get into THIS mess?'' It's not terribly difficult to cause such a reaction, the latest economic reports, or the latest blatherings out of the White House, or Congress, or MSNBC, or the NY Slimes, or some other idiocy, will do just fine.
How did things get into this fix, after such a great beginning to the nation?
Some of this you can see if you look back at the path taken, compare it to what we were supposed to be going, and look for some veerings along the way.
Here's a book that does a great service along those lines. Living Constitution, Dying Faith: Progressivism and the New Science of Jurisprudence (American Ideals & Institutions) by Bradley Watson, available here.
And here is a better appreciation of the matter than I can give.

So Protesters Are 'Brown Shirts'? Really?

This is almost funny. Our socialist would-be masters referring to those of us who want our country back as ''almost brown shirts''. Forgetting, as is convenient, that the Brownshirts, the Sturmabteilung of the developing Nazi movement, were, like all the members of that movement, Socialists. That's what the title said, ''National SOCIALIST German Workers Party''. Socialist. Leftist. Not Marxist, true, but hardly conservative, or right-wing, or the like. Socialist. Like the leadership of today's Democrat Party in the USA. Like, in fact, Obama, Pelosi, Reed, and all the rest of that smelly assemblage.
And, sometimes, the peasants (that's us, by the way) stand up.
Here's a good example.

Don't forget to play the video. Worth the price of admission.

Obama's Dr. Mengele Approach with UPDATE

Any one who somehow believes that the notion of killing off those that the Elites deem to be worthless died with the National Socialist German Workers Party need to guess again.

Have a look here. The term ''useless gobbler'' was, incidentally, a term used by the leaders of that very same Socialist (though not Marxist) group. Sounds like Dr. Mengele et al are being 'rehabilitated' in absentia. Aren't you proud of ''Progressivism''??


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Update:
This is worth watching. It won't make you comfortable. But it will give you some needed background on the Useless Eaters term. Is it not interesting how often 'Progressivism' reveals itself as another term for mass murder? Jonah Goldberg was quite correct in his use of the term 'Liberal Fascism'.

Cutural Equivalence and Diversity --- Lies, All

Does anyone else get weary beyond belief at these 'Diversity Pimps' that seem to clutter up the landscape wherever you go? The ones who preach a message that they call 'tolerance', or actually,

''TOLERANCE'',

meaning that

• all belief systems are equally true
• all cultures are equally valid
• all beliefs and opinions are equally worthy

except, of course

• if you don't agree with the above, in which case you are a dangerous heretic, an Enemy of the People, and must be liquidated or 're-educated', in no particular order

I have a problem with this crap, shoveled out by those who presume to be Our Betters, those Anointed Ones Whose Opinions Count.
Here are some examples of why.

The Norks.
Do you like children? Not everyone does; but most of us, and by that I mean those of us fortunate enough to grow up and live in the parts of the world once known as Christendom, and now simply called Western Civilization, recognize the human worth of children and the moral obligations that we individually have for them. You may recall some Biblical injunctions on the subject.
Not every one agrees, and not every nation and culture goes along with that.
What do you think of the practice of using children, primarily ill and disabled children, as test subjects in chemical and biological warfare experiments? It's being done, in the Marxist Socialist People's Paradise of North Korea.
Read up on it here.]
and remember

Celebrate Diversity!

Or


What's your opinion on forcible rape?
Good, bad, indifferent?

On children?
Good, bad, indifferent?

And good, bad, indifferent for who?
Did you realize that in some places, rape is not a crime?
Did you realize that in some cultures, a rape victim becomes an outcast?
Did you realize that in the name of Diversity!, savage heathens from benighted areas that hold to these beliefs are being imported, at taxpayer expense by the way, into these United States? (and Canada, and Britain, and elsewhere too).
What is your reaction to an 8-year-old girl gang-raped in her neighborhood, and now an outcast to her family?
Here's the story.
Why are these heathens allowed in the country? Why were they not deported, yesterday??

Celebrate Diversity!!????

Is Pravda More Honest Than the NY Times?

Is Pravda more honest than the Grey Lady? and I use the term ''lady'' reluctantly, regarding the ''Newspaper of Record'' as little more than a whorehouse.

But Pravda has had a more accurate take on Obamarama, and his co-thieves, than the Slimes has, or the rest of the American LameStreamMedia together. Take, as in this case, the use of the term ''czar'', a position and practice that is, politely, 'extra-constitutional'. Meaning the thing hated by those of us who believe in the rule of law, power without accountability. The Russki's had centuries to observe that, from beneath mostly. We are just starting to experience it.

Read up on it here. You won't like it, but read it anyway.

Miserable Failure

So, how's all that Hope and Change working out for every one? Been a lot of change, absolutely. Our country now kisses up to Socialist dicators, our president bows the knee to Islamo-swine of the House of Saud, trashes those sticking up for the rule of law in Honduras, turns a blind eye to the swine shooting the citizens of Iran, trashes the bankruptcy laws in the US, and generally acts much like Ernst Rohm's bronshirts.

Quite a series of ''accomplishments''. If wrecking the nation was your objective, of course.

Perhaps it is.

John Hinderaker of Power Line has put up a graphic that lets us take a good look at the Kenyan's successes to date. Take good look. By the standards established by Zero's people, the employment situation is worse, MUCH worse, than had nothing been done. Take a look here.

''Hope and Change''.

Idiocy in the Schools, As Usual

Just when you think the educrats can not get any more ridiculous, comes this.
So much of 'In Search of Excellence'', This is becoming a real Alice in Wonderland world.

This Week's Buffoons and Liberal Fascisti

A headline roundup to start

Stocks drop as FDIC chief hints government may start firing CEOs

I guess Obamaram and his co-thieves have ''discovered'' some hitherto invisible grants of power in the Constitution. Comparing them to the Sturmabteilung of the National Socialist German Workers Party is probably excessive, right?
or

WSJ: Gov't pressuring Bank of America board change

in like vein

Your Tax Dollars At Work

There is an interesting web site known as the Onion. Worth checking out just for the spoofs, the 'not quite true but interesting'' things. Recommended.
But then there are the stories that you wish had come from the Onion. Only, they didn't, they really are true. Here's one.
Whatever your attitude towards a lot of what government at all levels is meddling in, we generally like to imagine that there are adults involved, somewhere in the process and that there are limits to the silliness. Sadly, that's not always so.
Case in point,
how do you respond to a story with the headline of

U.S. Will Pay $2.6 Million to Train Chinese Prostitutes to Drink Responsibly on the Job

I don't know that one must be a limited government fanatic to wonde why US citizens are paying for the training of Chinese whores. Any ideas?

Kakistocracy in the Media

kudos to Doug Ross over at his DirectorBlue blog for a GREAT story that seems to show widespread collusion, at least an echo chamber, within the so-called Main Stream Media (a.k.a. the MSM) with an account of some 200 nearly identical news headlines. That includes both print media and a variety of TV outlets.
One might suspect collusion between these flaks for the Democrat Party, MoveOn, ACORN, SEIU, Families USA, and the Progressive States Network, and other known malefactors. And one might be right.

And the downward spiral continues.